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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

This time, Zero will not escape his fate.

[Zero] We have a mission to complete.

Yeah, and that mission better include finding Bowi.

Your time aboard this ship is over. And I'll have that data cube, too.

Tag Anaton. Exemplary cadet.

Hacked your own Bioweve.

No one has ever done that before.

Mom! Dad!

The Imperium turned on us.

Say goodbye to Ma and Pa Anaton. You won't see them again.

Bowi!

[Vykar] Well, no, not so much anymore.

I warned you there would be consequences.

Give me back that ship

and maybe you can save just one of these people.

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

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 Bioweve

and free humanity

because I am Prisoner Zero.

[theme music playing]

[guns firing]

[glass shattering]

[Zero] If your battle cruisers bring this building down, Vykar,

it'll destroy all of us.

I think I'll take my chances, Zero.

You are incredible.

Thank you.

It wasn't a compliment. I actually mean you're insane.

All of this, just to get at me?

Not you! That ship.

You were a bonus...

alive or dead.

Seriously? You thought I couldn't hear you behind me?

[Kai] Oh, I was counting on it, Gem.

You and I have unfinished business.

Maybe this is the time to sort that out.

[Gem] After what you did to me? To my planet?

That can never be "sorted out", Kai.

[firing]

Argh!

[grunts]

Argh!

Ah.

[yells]

I congratulate you, little girl.

You have learned a lot since Dalzarius.

If your friends and family all had fought as well as you,

they might still be alive.

Don't you dare mention my family.

[intense music plays]

[explosion]

When General Vykar learns you've been keeping us here, Barqel--

Oh, my dear Isla.

Who do you think placed you and your very disgraced husband in here?

Who do you think asked me to find your charming little Tag?

No! He wouldn't!

General Vykar is my family's best friend.

[Barqel laughs]

Bless.

[Tag] Guardian, now!

[upbeat music playing]

Have you free in a sec, Dad.

Guardian will cut you out.

What did you do to me, General?

-I'm sorry? -On Tartarus, in prison.

How much do you remember?

Where you came from? What you did?

Do you even remember your name?

I remember they called me Prisoner Zero.

The name's kind of stuck now.

How many times did we wipe you, Zero?

Do you even know that?

I know nothing!

I remember nothing! I understand nothing!

But I'll tell you what I do know, Vykar.

Enlighten me.

I don't care.

Whatever my past was, who I was,

I'm really quite happy with who I am now,

because Prisoner Zero has a mission.

Which is?

Shutting down the Imperium, the Faculty and, above all, you,

for good.

[grunts]

-[grunts] -[explodes]

[grunts]

[screams]

[sighs]

-[fires] -[grunts]

[continues firing]

[grunts]

[groans]

[shattering]

I gave you a chance to save this world, Zero.

A chance to save the likes of that child, even.

All I wanted was that ship.

But, no, pious, rebellious Zero knew better.

Destroy this world. Now!

[Gem pants]

Don't call me "little girl" again.

-[blows raspberry] -Gem!

Gem, you okay?

Hey, turtle-head. Good to see you.

I suppose telling you that taking her on was really stupid

won't mean you listen to me, right?

Right. That felt really good.

She wanted to steal this

to stop us tracking down the hacker that took over the ship.

So what?

Well, Zero wanted to use it to find the hacker.

So I think we should.

Right, because we always have to do what Zero says.

Nope. But you do have to always do what I say. Now come on.

Silly little girl.

Who are you?

What are you?

[intense music playing]

Centurion.

You cut pulling me out of that battle with Zero a little too finely.

Apologies, General.

And I want to talk to Kai about her ability to mindwipe people.

That associate of Zero turned on me

because her process simply didn't work.

The Lady Kai is not currently aboard the Spire.

[sighs] You just can't get the staff.

Issue her a first formal warning, Centurion.

I told you to fire, Jocam.

Destroy Arkadia!

[Zero] Hey, you. How do you feel?

You saved me, Bowi.

Even their best attempts to wipe your mind couldn't stop that.

Thank you.

Now let's get you back to Del and the Rogue.

Sort you out.

Don't worry, I'll reunite you with her as soon as I can.

Right now, I have to help my friend get home.

Oh, Bowi.

No.

Right. Zero's Bioweve is Omega Level, yeah?

So, if we use the Jump Pad to filter out everyone who isn't Omega Level,

it'll only bring aboard people that are.

-Like Zero. -And probably Vykar.

Oh, come on. One little flaw in the plan.

[sighs] Okay, all the Omega signals selected.

But if Vykar turns up instead,

I have the right to say "Told you so."

General, all those people and our own battle cruisers

are still in the upper atmosphere.

I'm glad to see the new uniform

brought a conscience with it, Commander.

Oh, no, wait. No, I'm not!

Now get out of my way!

[powering up]

[electricity crackling]

[fires]

That can't be good.

That can't be right.

Guys?

Guess I'm dealing with this then.

-[gun fires] -[groans]

I'll take that, thank you.

I need to use it to locate that hacker

and get him back to Vykar before you lot do.

Won't take long, Mom. Promise.

[Zero] Praetor! Praetor!

Did they get off? Did the Arkadians get away in time?

Praetor?

Gem, why isn't the computer online?

I think Praetor's gone, Zero.

He was badly damaged when Kai was here.

Hi, boys.

This data cube was created by Zero to track you down.

I hope you don't mind, but I used it to bring you here.

I'm rather glad, Kai.

I don't think I'll be General Vykar's most popular guest right now.

Bringing you here was a complete accident, actually.

I only wanted the boy.

I want my parents back now!

Don't you realize who you're dealing with? My family--

Aww, sweet child. Does it have an off switch?

Your anger is aimed at the wrong people, Tag.

Don't you know where you are?

This is what should have been the Imperium's flagship, the Imperator.

The ship your father lost control of.

The ship now run by Zero and his silly friends.

If you want revenge, Tag, help us take it back.

Lady, you have a deal.

[Gem] It's horrible.

This is so futile.

Why are we doing this, Gem?

Is this all we're achieving?

I couldn't save them.

I tried, but I couldn't.

I couldn't save them or...

-Or... -Or?

Zero. "Or"?

-Gem, I'm so... -Bowi. But he can't be.

What am I going to say to Del?

[Del] Hey, guys, could use some help down here. [grunts]

We have company, including a very big android.

Give this ship up. It belongs to the Imperium.

We plan to get it back.

Yeah? Well, we plan to shut the Imperium down.

Permanently.

So I guess we've all got plans.

How are you going to do that?

You have no idea where the Master Transmitter is.

The Master what now?

-Seriously? -Hm, I thought they knew.

Way to go. Why not go tell them more secrets?

-[gun fires] -[explosion]

I don't think this was such a good idea.

But I have a plan to get us out of this.

We can keep this BAM fight up all day, you know.

Me, too.

Maneuverer 101, right?

[grunts]

[explosion]

Nice trick shot.

I'm impressed, little girl.

[groans] Where's the Anaton boy?

Don't know. Probably vaporised.

That was quite a blast of BAM the robot took.

Not sure I can do that again in a hurry.

How did you do that?

[whispering] By being clever. Jump Tech is very useful.

Now Kai conveniently thinks I'm dead. Unless you tell her otherwise.

That's a standard Mark Three CVA.

I know they can absorb a certain amount of BAM energy,

but why does it have Jump Tech built in?

For the same reason you dragged me to Dymok in the first place.

I am very smart. And you're not.

What makes you say that?

You could have got me on side.

I don't care less about this Zero guy. They can all...

[footsteps approach]

I'm heading back to the Jump Pad. Calling Vykar to take me back.

-Nice friend. -She's not a friend.

He's an android, by the way.

-What? -Guardian.

He's an android.

You really should apologize for calling him a robot.

Calling 'him'? It's an it, Tag.

A lump of metal.

[thump]

If they can repair Praetor and actually stay aboard the Rogue,

we're pretty defenseless.

Yeah, they could switch off life support for good,

open a cargo bay door, vent all the air out, whoosh.

-They could-- -Do lots of things. I get it.

But I thought Vykar wanted Zero alive.

Him, yeah.

But you, me, Bowi, wherever he is, we're nothing to them.

Ah! I accept it.

He... He may be more than just an ordinary ro... Android.

Especially as he can jump.

Perhaps we could both get away from here.

You owe me, Anaton.

And how do you figure that?

Lady Kai will tell Vykar that you're dead.

You're safe to go parent hunting, eventually.

Eventually?

Oh, you will work for me for a while.

We make such a delicious team,

your brains, my brains,

your android's big, punchy hands.

Guardian? Mr. Barqel wants us to leave the ship.

Do we have a deal?

Zero, Del Rev, they're never going to accept you here.

And as for that girl, Gem Coll...

What about her?

Didn't you realize?

She's the one who disgraced your father.

She stole this ship single-handedly from under Daddy's nose.

Did she? Thank you for that.

Do we have a deal, Tag?

You and me? Working together?

Not a chance.

Dump him on the Spire. Now!

Gem Coll.

You destroyed my family.

My name is Tag Anaton.

-Where are the others? -Barqel is back on the Spire.

I don't know where the Lady Kai went,

but I don't think she wanted to hang around.

Tag Anaton?

The same Tag Anaton who hacked Praetor's systems, right?

-The one and only. -Son of Cav Anaton?

Yep. My dad had this ship before you guys, I guess.

Why? Did you know him?

-Uh...I vaguely heard of him. -What do you want?

Just give me and Guardian somewhere to hang.

I'm not going to be any trouble.

Okay, Tag.

The cargo bay is empty.

We're not friends, believe me.

And we never will be.

General Vykar, a request has--

I give orders, Centurion. I don't do requests.

Where have you two been?

We were aboard the Rogue. I mean, the Imperator.

I think the General knows that.

He means what have we been doing.

[sighs] I have an AI that wants me to take requests

and two lieutenants who think they can read my mind.

I wonder if my day can get any better.

[Centurion] General Vykar, an order has been--

Not now!

Kai, I want to know everything you learned aboard that ship.

I want to know who those people are with Zero

and I want to know what state the ship is in.

Yes, General.

Now?

No, not now! Go and prepare me a report.

-Barqel? -Yes, General.

You are my Prime Tactician and thinker.

Mm-hmm.

I really hope you are going to give me some good reasons

as to why Cav Anaton's son is not here, working for me.

Well, General, sir, I think the Lady Kai's actions may be--

Now hold on a moment.

General, if Barqel was properly trained, by yourself,

as you trained me, then--

Cease!

On that ship are a couple of untrained men and a little girl

who I don't particularly like.

Although marginally less than I dislike the two of you right now.

Don't worry, Guardian. This won't be for long.

So let me get this straight.

Somehow they managed to defeat the plans

you both assured me were infallible

and now here you are squabbling about it.

I dislike failure dramatically.

Now, listen very carefully.

The two of you will come up with whatever it takes

to get me on that ship, and Zero back.

Barqel and I will work together.

We will? Oh, that should be thrilling.

You will have the ship back, General.

I stake Barqel's reputation on it.

Right. What? Wait!

Neither of you currently have reputations at stake or otherwise.

Just do it!

And, Centurion?

Put that communique you are so anxious I listen to

through to my ready room.

Stake my reputation? How dare you?

You're the schemer, the planner.

Plan and scheme.

Now, listen, there is a weak link aboard that ship,

something I can exploit to bring Zero's team down.

Isn't that delightful?

Prime Tactician Barqel, I am the Spire's Artificial Intelligence.

I have no opinions on anything.

Well, aren't you just a bundle of laughs?

All those people.

I had no idea Vykar would go that far.

I am going to shut down this Bioweve Master Transmitter,

get everyone out from under the Imperium's tyranny.

Are you in?

Yes, I think so.

You're thinking about Bowi.

I'd understand if you wanted out.

No, I'm in.

But I have to think about Del, how this will affect him.

What are you going to say?

I don't know.

I don't even know where to begin.

But I do know I have to do it now.

We are greatly disturbed, General.

We received a frankly shocking report.

And don't even begin to pretend

you don't know what we are talking about, Vykar.

My dear Faculty Members, I...

I assume you mean the appalling destruction of Arkadia.

Your orders were to recapture Zero and the ship.

At no point were you instructed to slaughter billions.

However, in the interest of the Imperium,

we have erased all records of today's actions.

Indeed, there is no evidence

that a planet called Arkadia ever existed.

Therefore, today's actions never occurred.

Please ensure in the future

that the Faculty do not have to amend any additional records.

Every day you are still out there, you damage my Imperium.

Every day you have my ship, you damage my reputation.

Your days are numbered, Zero.

I will capture you and crush you!

[clinking]

[sparking]

Oh, come on! Bowi could fix this in 30 seconds flat.

Where are you?

[footsteps approach]

Zero, Bowi's been gone for two days. Where is he?

Why haven't we heard from him?

What are your plans for getting him back?

Del, I...

He's not coming back.

No.

[shatters]

[theme music playing]