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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

Zero wants me to check how much Imperium programming

you've still got locked away inside.

Engaging red system purge.

Something's wrong with Guardian.

I have single-handedly recaptured my father's ship for the Imperium.

Did you just try to sell out your friends to the enemy?

Ah, who am I kidding? They're not my friends.

Robot!

Android!

Whatever you are, wherever you are, face me.

Spooky, isn't it?

There's a body in there.

Get me out of here!

[screaming]

But what if all these tubes, all the people inside them,

they are the Master Transmitter, broadcasting the Bioweve.

I am reborn as the Living Bioweve Excelsior!

[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]

[lightning crashing]

[Vykar] The cosmos will be mine to control.

It shall bow down before me.

Bow down planets, bow down stars, bow down galaxies.

I can access every fiber of the Bioweve across the universe.

Your thoughts will be mine to control,

and mine shall be yours to obey.

[people screaming]

[birds chirping]

The Prime Motivation of the Mark 4 CPA Units

is the preservation of the children.

You are not... you are not an Imperium child.

And yet you must be,

for there are no children other than Imperium children.

Whoa! [laughs]

Guardian, focus, please, it's a long way down!

According to Imperium records there is no humanoid life on Kantria.

How are you here?

[thunder rumbles]

[beeping]

[grunts]

Whoa!

[thud]

Stay here, humanoid child.

Zero will protect you.

Well, he could've taken us with him.

Now, we can't stay here, it's too dangerous.

Fancy a walk?

[rumbling]

Or, let's make that a run...

[footsteps approach]

Huh!

[beeping]

Hm...

Hm... Ah...

[whooshing]

-[beeps] -[whirring]

What?

[panting]

It doesn't want to give up, whatever it is, does it?

[screeching]

[screeching]

Well, aren't you the ugly one?

Ooh.

[screeches]

I can see everything, feel everything.

I can feel planets explode and die, I can feel a heart beating in fear,

I can feel a leaf land on water.

This... this is power!

This is what the Bioweve was created for!

Yet there are those who would take it from me.

[laughing maniacally]

Now, then, robot, what are you?

Where are you from?

What is your connection with Zero?

Ah! The Anaton boy.

Of course.

[beeping]

[clang]

[whirring]

[creature grunts]

-[beeping] -[thuds]

Clever boy.

But your nuisance-to-talent ratio is simply far too high.

[electricity whirring]

[grunts]

[electricity crackling]

Oh, this is so going to drop, really, really fast.

Ah! Tag to Zero.

Tag to Zero, come in, please.

This is an emergency.

[screeching]

Oh! So now you choose to work.

Zero! Please, can you hear me yet?

[Zero panting] Hey, Tag,

lovely to hear from you, but I'm a bit busy trying not to die.

-Can we chat later? -No! I need your help.

Seriously, not a good time.

Can you call Gem or Del and see if they can help?

I've done something really, really stupid

and I'm trapped in a Skorpion fighter which is in freefall,

heading towards Kantria.

And I don't know what to do!

What are you... Oh, never mind.

Okay, Tag, so on the panel to your left

is a series of orange VR switches, yes?

Nothing! There's no VR anything here, everything is powered down.

I'm scared.

Okay, Tag, so you're going to need to jump-start the system.

Pull all the energy you can into a sphere between your hands...

-Tag? -Yeah, okay.

Done it.

Okay, good. Concentrate.

You need to ignite the ball.

You'll only get one chance, and it needs to be big.

[electricity whirring]

Got it!

-Orange controls? -Yup!

Hit 'em!

[whooshing]

[exhales]

Right, Tag, now I need something from you.

Centurion, what hit Skorpion Eight?

Bioweve energy of a power level previously unrecorded.

Tactical withdrawal. Get our ships and troopers back.

This mission is aborted until we know what is attacking us.

General!

I have found so much power, Barqel.

And with it I am going to rule every world,

every system, every galaxy.

I will run the Imperium single-handedly.

No. I will become the Imperium.

The Faculty will be swept aside.

Avalon will be no more.

The cosmos belongs to me!

Should we inform the Faculty of General Vykar's plan?

Oh, I don't think so.

Let's just see how this works out before taking sides.

[beeping]

All Troopers are ordered to return to the Spire immediately.

[beeping]

All Troopers are ordered to return to the Spire immediately.

[whirring]

[footsteps]

[beeping]

Spire? Come in Spire.

[sighs]

What is that thing?

It's some kind of door.

Hello?

[whirring]

Who's there?

[screams]

[lightening crashing]

[grunts]

I wondered when you'd turn up again.

I can see inside you now, robot.

I realize what they have done to you.

Taken a Mark 5 Child Protection Android and filled it with the mind

and processing power of the Praetor AI we placed aboard that ship.

That boy is far cleverer than his father ever was.

[Vykar grunts]

Yes! A final battle.

Machine versus man.

Well, super-man!

[grunts]

[panting]

[screeching]

Hope I timed this right. If not, well, it's been fun!

[grunts]

Oh, yes!

[electricity crackling]

You... are...

finished!

[thuds]

Why...why...why did you come here, Vykar?

For power. This power.

The power you just tasted.

And Zero? Did he want that too?

No.

He's searching for the Bioweve's Master Transmitter.

But this is a very different kind of transmitter.

Experimental, alien, potentially devastating,

unless controlled by the right brain.

And that would be... yours?

Of course!

Years ago, I found this place,

found this mast and the cryogenic systems which power it.

Amazing.

Alien technology, untouched for centuries.

And eventually it will belong to the Imperium.

Perhaps.

Catalog it all.

[trooper gasps]

There's no-one here.

That's a hologram. An alien ghost.

I am your new master.

Sub-Commander Rakshiff Vykar of the Third Imperium Fleet

and you will show me your secrets.

In years to come, this will be seen as the birth of a whole new technology,

a whole new way of life.

And therefore, a power source for me to exploit.

Of course, some secrets are best kept within a very select circle.

[both scream]

You? You created the Bioweve?

No, of course not.

But you might say it was "woven" upon the seed of what I found here.

Then what has happened to you?

The raw energy siphoned from those people down there

is enough to give one man the physical strength of an army,

the mental abilities of a titan.

Enough to rule the cosmos.

I will find a way to stop you.

You, little metal-thing?

You can barely move your head.

This power, this energy, cannot be stopped!

This is my final victory.

And today, like Zero and all his friends,

you will taste a final defeat.

[thud]

Thank you. You saved me!

Well, that worked both ways and...

Tag?

This is mad, it can't be. But...

Tag, meet my new friend.

She doesn't say much. Well, anything.

She's terribly brave and clever

but I have no idea what her name is.

Anya!

That's my cousin, Anya. I'm sure of it.

It's been a few years, she should be older,

older than me anyway, but I'm sure...

Why are you here, Anya?

I'm real glad to see you, Anya. Are you here with Uncle Jonas?

Tag, I'm not sure we have time to...

Zero, listen, in the last few weeks I have been cut off from the Imperium,

lost track of my mom and dad

and been dragged into a war... your war

that I didn't even know existed.

And that's why we need to find Gem and Del

before Vykar does something really, really dangerous.

Or stupid.

Pretty much the same thing for him, isn't it?

You're learning.

Yeah. Yeah, I am.

And maybe I'm beginning to see which side I need to be on.

But right now, my cousin is here without her parents.

So forgive me if I take a minute to help her out.

I'm sorry. Really, I am.

And you know what, you're right.

Thank you.

You know, maybe Anya can help us so we can help her.

Anya, do you know where Uncle Jonas is?

Where?

Underground?

Oh, the map was upside down!

Of course, it's an underground base!

Anya, can you take us to them?

Maybe down there we'll find Gem and Del and as well as the Master Transmitter.

Shut down the Imperium for good.

Yeah, let's just hope Vykar didn't get there first...

Gem? Del?

Gem!

We have to get her out.

I need to hack into this system,

trick the circuits into thinking they can power down.

How?

I'm Tag Anaton... hero, warrior and all round genius of...

Well, of whatever we are these days.

Time's running out, Tag.

[Vykar] Time has already run out for you.

Sorry. I think I broke your little robot.

[laughs]

[grunts]

You want to be careful in here, Vykar.

If I'm right, this lash-up behind me is giving you your power.

Damage it, who knows what could happen.

I have more than I need already.

The people in cryo are now surplus to requirements.

Outdated. Defective.

Much like yourself.

[all grunting]

[grunts]

[grunts]

Anya, I need to know how long I've got

and I need to access the local Bioweve network.

Only one way I know how to do that.

Ha!

[electricity whirring]

[groaning]

Yes, I can feel the Bioweve.

[man] Help! Please get us out.

Please... please... get us out.

Get us out.

Where are we?

Uncle Jonas!

But they said you'd moved away, a new life...

Vykar!

[Gem] Tag? Is that you?

Yeah. Who else would come to save you?

Zero?

Nah, he's busy.

[grunts]

Any chance you can get us out of here?

Working on it.

How long have I got before... Before it's too late?

Minutes, maybe less.

Less is good. I like less.

Less makes me work harder.

Come on, come on, come on...

Huh!

[electricity crackling]

Yes!

Tag one, Imperium nil!

Thank you, mister hero.

[laser firing]

Hey, Gem. You good?

Cool. You?

Fighting the bad guy.

[grunts]

Need help?

Wouldn't say no, if you're up for it.

[grunts]

Keep it up guys, he's overloading!

[screams]

[loud explosion]

[groans]

I... could have ruled... everything.

[grunts]

I believe I owe you all an apology.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Del, get back to the ship, access the Jump Pad.

We need to get these people off this planet

and resettled somewhere safely.

No rest for the wicked with you in charge is there?

How do I get back?

Tag brought us some transport.

He's just nonstop clever today, that one.

And very lucky.

[Del] How are you feeling?

[Gem] Still decidedly cold. But I'll live.

So, any idea what Zero plans to do with a few hundred other

"decidedly cold" people?

Tag said there was a planet his uncle wanted to go to.

Well, maybe we can take them there?

Sounds like a plan. You sure you're okay?

Just thinking how happy Tag was, he found his uncle and aunt.

And that little girl, his cousin.

Clever girl that one. She got out of that tube,

which you and I couldn't do, and then she rescued Zero.

Must be something in the Anaton genes.

And on top of that Tag seems to have accepted being

part of our little team as well.

[laughs] Scary, isn't it?

We should get to the Jump Pad

and get everyone up here before Vykar sends the big guns in.

Still didn't find the Master Transmitter, though.

Poor Zero.

Yeah, guess it's still out there. Somewhere.

Ha! Bet it'll still be somewhere dark.

So dark!

Hey!

Back safe, Zero.

Hope you can hear me.

I'm going to Jump you and all those people up here.

Hearing you loud and clear.

Destroying the mast seems to have sorted out the interference.

Here goes.

[whirring]

[groans]

What are your orders, General?

Shall we continue to track Zero's ship?

I enjoyed that taste of power and I plan to sample it again.

Next time I will control it absolutely.

And that will be the moment I destroy Zero once and for all.

And remember, that is not Zero's ship.

It is the Imperium's.

And it will eventually be mine.

Hey, you. I know today's been rough.

I'm okay.

Just... thinking about Tag finding his relatives.

He was so happy.

Just for a moment, I had my own... family on my mind.

Is that selfish?

No, that's what makes you human.

Guardian, can I tell you a secret?

Of course. It will remain between us.

I offered the ship on a plate to Vykar's people.

I thought it might get me back into the Imperium,

a chance to find Dad and Mom...

-Yet you did not. -But I was going to!

So, if you plan to stay aboard this ship,

I suggest you have to change.

I believe that human life is all about change.

[Tag] You make it sound so easy.

Vykar's Bioweve energy shut down

and then rebooted all my circuits, all my subroutines.

I have only fragmented memories of the last few hours.

So, you're saying you've managed to change?

Yes.

Perhaps we should try and adapt to our respective changes together.

Together? Yeah, that'd be cool.

Then the day has not been a disaster...

for either of us.

[theme music playing]