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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

[Librarian] Sometimes, we all need a little push

to help us do what is right.

But it's very rare for that push to be greeted with a smile.

The Forbidden Section is where the darkest knowledge of the universe

has been secured.

[Ragnabook] The dark times shall return, Ancient One.

And there is nothing you can do to prevent it.

Begone!

[Librarian] It's story is over,

until it becomes necessary to let it out...

again.

[thuds]

[thudding]

[buzzing]

[beeping]

[gasps]

[explosion]

[thudding]

[creature] Madame Oracle.

Soon the Dark Times shall return.

All the energy you expend helps protect the Eldorado Hives

from the human Imperium.

[explosion]

[coughs]

Lady Kai.

How dare you! Eldorado is a protected world!

Do dry up, you tedious little bug!

The Imperium has tolerated you and your planet's mumbo-jumbo

for as long as it all dovetailed with our needs.

But why?

I've come for her.

You won't get away with this insult.

Oh, I rather think I will.

Oh, wait. [chuckles]

I am.

Take her away from here and contact will be broken.

She'll die.

Eventually.

But you'll die first.

Time to go.

[explosion]

[screaming]

Zero? Did you say something?

Sorry.

Must've had a...weird dream.

[Zero] A decade ago, the Imperium created the Bioweave,

a digital nightmare they wired into our brains.

They locked me away, stole my memories, left me with nothing.

Then one day, I was rescued and taken aboard the Rogue.

Now my friends and I are going to shut down the Bioweave

and free humanity.

Because I am Prisoner Zero.

[theme music playing]

[Vykar] Madam Oracle, Welcome to the Spire.

[Kai] Our sources tell us you have a very old, bitter rival

in this quadrant of space.

That seems unlikely.

I have been living on Eldorado for many centuries.

No one alive knows who I am.

Oh, you are too modest. Everyone knows who you are.

Even Commander Jocam here. And he's very ill-educated.

I know who you are, Madame Oracle.

I do not need eyes, General Vykar,

to know that these people are under your Imperium's latest thrall.

All...except her?

Hmm? Hmm.

Nevertheless, you are going to help me bring down the Librarian.

And through him, I will get Zero and that ship.

[laughs] The Librarian?

That old fool?

He is no threat to you or your Imperium.

To his friends, to anyone who trusts him, however,

to them, he is a most insidious foe.

And why is that?

Because if he is their friend, he will have already betrayed them.

Because that is what he does.

[door closes]

[thuds]

[yells]

[whimpers]

[screaming]

[gasps]

[screaming]

[gasps]

[gasps] The Codec!

Apologies. I missed that, Zero.

Oh...nothing. Just thinking...

uh, aloud.

[Librarian] You won't find what you need in there.

[gasps]

Librarian?

The Imperium made sure there was no trace of it in their records.

What's going on, Librarian?

I think you know.

What are you talking about?

[chuckles] Oh, dear Zero. My dear, dear Zero.

You were looking for references to the Codec.

It is really very important that you don't do that.

Not yet, anyway.

This isn't like you.

I have endured centuries, planned for eons,

watched for millennia, waiting for the Doomsmith.

The Darkening.

The one who will stop the return of the Dark Times.

I don't understand.

Of course you don't. Because you don't understand the Codec.

Which is?

The power to bring down gods and titans,

demons and monsters.

Your destiny.

Just a taste of that raw power would destroy a lesser man.

You really have an overinflated opinion of me, you know?

The Codec, once drawn within you,

will sequentially increase your natural energies

over quite a remarkably short space of time.

I think I'll pass, if that's all the same to you.

It will create a life force, a power of such magnitude,

with which the Dark Times will be turned away for eternity.

And then what?

[Librarian] Then you will have reached your zenith.

Embraced your destiny.

Why do I think I won't come out of this all that well.

Because you are very...smart.

[man] A report has come in, sir.

Why is the Ouroboros Station approaching?

Primus has already activated the upgrade across the Crucible Moons.

[Primus] Record for future research,

the upgrade has been administered satisfactorily

throughout the Imperium.

But I am curious.

I am keen to experience the effect of disobedience.

It would be fascinating,

in a contained environment such as a Crucible Moon,

to see the upgrade deactivated.

To see how the humans react.

Therefore, I conduct this experiment in autonomy.

And independence.

[electricity crackling]

Stay away. Stay back!

Oi, door.

Look what I found.

Oh.

But it was empty.

[Librarian] Welcome to my Library's darkest reading room,

Callum Corcoran.

You? I saw you in my vision earlier.

Allow me to show you some of my trinkets.

This is an Enigpath egg.

That, the Alchemists' Pyramid of Phrygia.

Over there is the Toybox from the Dark Times.

This, this is the imprisoned Ragnabook.

And, um, oh, I'm not sure what this is.

Just hold it, will you?

Now, where was I?

There is the Casket of the Breen.

While over there is the Crown of Youlten.

Ah, yes. This, you may recognize.

-Parker! -[muffled scream]

What have you done to him?

Who knows?

Now he's a component in my arsenal.

You collect weapons?

I collect things that when combined

will form the greatest weapon to combat the return of the Dark Times.

And is Zero one of those things?

My secrets remain my secrets.

Your secret, however, that one, he already knows.

He just can't remember it.

Librarian! What are you saying?

What do you know about Zero's past?

I want out.

Away from him. And Vykar.

And you.

[whispering voices]

[Librarian] Too late.

I picked that up on Galt. Turns people into base mineral.

I have been waiting for the opportunity to see how effective it really is.

As if I'd let you tell Zero...

anything.

[electricity crackling]

[screaming]

[growling]

The Weapon is assembled.

[Librarian] You use science, the Bioweave.

I use Magic, Zero.

It comes from a much older time.

A darker time.

You're always going on about the "Dark Times".

And they are coming back soon.

And there's nothing I can do to stop it except build a weapon.

That's what I have been doing all these months.

Collecting artifacts from then and now,

representations of thoughts and feelings, magic and science,

base elements and life forces.

And what does this weapon do?

It will end the Havoc.

The Dark Times?

You might say that.

I am saying that.

I'm saying something else too...

Get off my ship.

Now!

These were the perfect test subjects.

Hey, you. Surprise.

Mika? How...

Look! No upgrade mark.

So how did you break the upgrade?

This is amazing.

We don't know. It just happened an hour ago.

Tag, there's a full-scale rebellion going on here.

-How do you mean? -All the kids here, the slaves,

they're taking the opportunity to fight back,

to stand up for themselves.

I think the last time you were here,

we really showed them they could stand on their own two feet.

That's great.

I'm guessing you had more than a little something to do with this.

Well, maybe.

But all down to your disreputable influence, I'm sure.

Look, we'll head your way, see if we can help.

Oh, right.

'Cause Mika Tarrant can't run a revolution without Tag Anaton.

[chuckling] You know what I mean.

But, you know, hey, if you don't want me around--

Yeah, okay.

I suppose we might find something useful for you to do.

Guarding troopers too old to run away or something.

But seriously, we don't know how we lost the upgrade, it just happened.

The important thing is it happened, which means we might be

- able to get Del back. -[explosions]

Mika, I gotta go.

Something doesn't sound so good.

-Stay safe. -You too, cutie.

"Cutie?"

[crashing]

Gem?

[deep voice] This craft...

is from...

the Dark Times.

The time of Havoc!

Destruction.

Devastation.

That is...

so very...

good.

[explosions]

[Tag] Beginning to think that's really not Gem.

A memory of planet.

Tartarus.

Dark.

Evil.

A roaring angry world of lava and pain.

But no more.

Extinguished.

Dead.

Tartarus no more.

Definitely not Gem.

[electricity crackling]

Okay, guys. Big problem.

Gem's ripping the ship to pieces.

She's... I don't know, possessed or something.

Stomping around, big nasty voice.

No!

I left her in the Library.

Surely she couldn't have...

Couldn't have what?

[stuttering] The weapon I told you about.

I fear it has consumed poor Gem.

Uh, anyone want to tell me why Guardian is lying there,

all switched off and stuff?

Perhaps you should ask him.

For your own safety, Librarian,

you better be off Rogue by the time Tag and I get back.

The General sent you food.

Del Rev.

You are truly lost.

I don't know what you mean.

One day, you will be whole again.

Let us hope it will not be too late.

Gem!

The Darkening.

The Doomsmith.

Come to stop me, have you?

No, I haven't.

I can't hurt you because that would hurt Gem.

Who are you?

I am the Weapon.

I am the Ultimatum.

I am the Devastation.

This isn't the Dark Times.

You shouldn't have been woken up.

Please.

You may be destroying... the vessel that contains you.

Yeah, the Rogue can't take much more of this.

[deep voice] He does not mean the ship.

The "vessel" is this frail human form.

Which is nearly spent.

Burned up.

Its molecules are drifting, cohesion lost.

Soon it will simply cease to exist and I shall take a new host.

You, perhaps?

Or maybe the other one.

Oh, the irony.

But first, I must end the one who seeks to smother my instincts.

It has all gone wrong.

You were supposed to temper the Weapon, give it a conscience, a soul.

You should have told Zero the truth.

I could not do that to him.

And that is why you have failed.

This universe is twisted, malevolent.

Perhaps the return of the Dark Times is a good thing.

Perhaps I should partner with the Havoc that will come.

Destroy the Doomsmith, the Darkening together.

That won't happen without a fight, I promise you that.

And what can you do to stop it?

Very little.

You have been released too early.

You are not needed yet.

Go back to sleep.

[evil laughter]

I do not think so!

[evil laughter]

I am so sorry, Gem.

Come.

[screeching]

[Oracle] Come...

and embrace your conscience.

Come and embrace your goodness.

Come and embrace your harmony.

[electricity crackling]

[grunts]

Gem will recover.

We got it out in time.

I trusted you.

I believed in you.

But you betrayed me and it nearly cost me my best friend.

All that I have done over the months,

I did with the purest of motives.

I'm afraid one day very soon,

you are destined to discover that I was right all along.

Get...

off...

my...

ship.

Goodbye, Zero.

We will be friends again.

I promise you.

You know what you must do.

I have the most amazing headache.

What happened?

That's a long story.

And this chapter is over.

How goes the rebellion?

Really well. Can't wait for you to get here.

The kids are very excited.

You're a bit of a hero to them.

Don't encourage that!

I don't think I'm a hero to anyone.

See you in a day or so.

General Vykar, you will urgently investigate the Ouroboros Station.

Problems?

We may have given the Primus Unit autonomy

before it was ready.

You lot really can't be trusted with the slightest thing, can you?

I have far better things to do than run around clearing up your messes.

Goodbye.

I beg your--

The beginning of the end.

[evil laughter]

[theme music playing]