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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

I know how your Bioweve works.

Billions of nanobots unwittingly breathed in,

wrapping the Bioweve around the nervous system.

-It's criminal. -Choice is so overrated, Zero.

Let people decide, have some concept of free will and anarchy follows.

Demonstrate to them that the Imperium knows what's best

and happiness will prevail.

[rumbling]

-Prisoner Zero has a mission. -Which is?

Shutting down the Imperium, the faculty and, above all, you.

[whooshing]

[Gem] Come on! Gimme the hat!

[Tag] Way too slow!

[laughs]

And it's Tag Anaton nearing the winning line.

The crowd go wild!

[Gem] Oh, yes!

I'm not a fan of this new game.

Del, Del, Del, I won this hat fair and square.

The fact that it's yours is just a technicality--

[screams]

[beeping]

Hello, Zero. I need your help.

We all need your help. Humanity is bound and broken.

The Imperium have turned us into slaves.

In three hours, the Nessus Gamma system will ignite in supernova.

A solar wave will cross half the galaxy, reaching my base just seconds later.

I'm going to use it to end the Imperium.

Meet me in the Belt of Crios before the wave arrives.

With your help, I can turn off the Bioweve.

Coordinates follow.

Turn off the Bioweve? Yeah, right. Course he can do that.

Hang on a second, let's not write our mystery man off yet.

Guardian, what do you know about the Belt of Crios?

The only planet, a gas giant, situated in the A-13 Alpha system,

the only habitable areas are the hundreds of crystalline satellites.

Some are kilometers long and are laced with tunnels.

Good place for a secret base, then.

Dragons!

There's no such thing as dragons.

Are there such things as dragons?

Just looks like a statue to me.

Zero, you're not seriously considering this?

We don't even know that guy's name. It's a set-up.

That was an Imperium transmission.

An advanced Imperium transmission.

With all our sensors, we didn't know what it was

till it was spinning in front of Gem's face.

-An end to the Bioweve? -I know!

But imagine what else they could have waiting there for us.

Seriously, is no-one else seeing the word "trap" in 6m-high neon letters?

Flashing letters?

Well, there are dragons.

And the scary guy in the cloak.

Yeah, apart from those things.

Decision made.

Guardian, take us to the Belt of Crios.

This is going to be exciting.

[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]

Communications from Avalon.

Clear the bridge. Now!

General Vykar.

Faculty members, my lords, my lady,

how good it is to see you.

From the bottom of my heart. Honestly.

Be silent! We have a task for you.

You will rendezvous in the Belt of Crios.

You will apprehend a monster.

You will stop him before the Nessus Gamma supernova.

And who is this monster?

Someone from your past, General.

I recall you once referred to him as "the one that got away...just."

Parker.

So, General, do exactly as we tell you...

Or you will find yourself unable to do anything ever again.

[whirring]

Get to your positions as quickly as you can.

Nobody get eaten by a dragon.

We've only got an hour till those stars go nova.

Let's do it.

Librarian?

If you seriously think I'm going to let you go off

gallivanting with dragons without me, you are sorely mistaken.

-Statues of dragons. -Indeed.

Do it, Guardian.

[engine revving]

It's all right, off you go. I have my own business to see to.

Like we didn't have enough to worry about without him wandering around.

Oh, Del, your endlessly positive attitude

never fails to get me through the day.

This is going to end badly, Zero.

Coming here is the worst idea you've had since the last one.

Well, that's why I brought you!

You see me get jumped by a load of bad guys,

you come save my skin.

Yeah?

And I guess that's our rendezvous point.

And I guess that's our trap.

-You think I'm kidding? I'm not. -Del...

Can you please, for once,

just stop and think before you go and jump off a cliff?

Del, if you're going to--

But with you, it's just decision made and off we go.

We're going to end the Bioweve.

And I'm telling you I've heard that before.

Look, Zero, I trust you.

And there's no-one else who's got a better chance

to do good, to help people,

but we're not going to do any good for anyone if we're...

We can't keep walking into traps.

Yeah, you're right. Sometimes we walk into traps.

And every time we do, we take the trap apart.

And no-one else gets hurt.

So you're saying it's fine if we get hurt?

As long as other people, people we've never even met,

don't get hurt?

-Is that what you're saying? -I'm saying that...

I'm saying that what we're doing, what we've done, it's worth the risk.

We save people, Del. You save people.

We're doing what other people can't.

The kids, us, Guardian, we're helping.

We're the trap experts.

Are you going to help me take apart this trap?

I still get to say "I told you so" when it all goes wrong.

Deal.

[engine whirring]

-Everyone in place? -Ready.

-Del? -Ready as I'll ever be.

[laser fires]

[explosion]

Well, trap or not, at least we're punctual.

Can we just take a moment to note that Zero is standing alone

in the middle of an Imperium city dome?

An abandoned Imperium city dome.

Brilliant, Zero, you're a real genius.

-See anything? -Ha! Zero's been stood up.

Guardian, get ready to jump him out of there.

Your signals to the jump pad are compromised.

Hiding Rogue inside a gas giant will do that, I imagine.

I am attempting to reroute power to establish a stable signal.

[Zero] Oh, I've never seen anything like this.

It's not just crystal.

It's partnered with a photosynthetic composite.

What are you going on about?

Alert, an Imperium ship has entered the system.

Okay, now I'm feeling a little exposed.

Guardian, get us back to Rogue. Now!

Guardian? Okay, we've lost Guardian.

Zero, you've gotta move now!

You.

General.

My, my, you've wandered from the path today, haven't you, Zero?

All the way out here on the forgotten Belt of Crios.

Just taking in the sights, I suppose?

-Something like that. -[sniggers]

Oh, Zero, you never fail to disappoint.

Then I must be doing something right.

Delightful.

Well, now, if you're here,

your wonderful little friends will be here as well.

Where are they?

Don't make me guess.

Jealous of the company, are you, Vykar?

Not exactly.

[whirring]

[softly] Guys, any chance of a distraction?

A distraction. Think.

[bell tolls]

Someone's up there!

[laser fires]

[explosion]

[explosion]

[sighs]

[laser firing]

[whirring]

Oh, I do so look forward to the day you are nothing but a faded, bad memory.

And I'm very happy to see you too. [grunts]

[grunts]

Only a coward runs away from a fight!

No, no, no, no, it's nothing like that, I just really don't like being near you.

Locate and capture the traitors.

Who are these guys?

[engine revving]

Oh, nice one. Now we're trapped!

[rumbling]

[both screaming]

[thuds]

-[laser fires] -Hey!

[crashing]

[Gem] You can thank me later. Right now, let's find a way out of here.

[sighs] "It's a trap," I said.

[laser firing]

"Let's rethink it," I said.

"It's going to be exciting," he said!

[rumbling]

-[electricity crackling] -[grunts]

[explosion]

[gasps]

[laser firing]

It's so sad your troopers aren't getting along.

-[rumbles] -Ah!

[whistling]

Um, Gem...

Hi. We, uh...come in peace?

[Zero whistling]

Prisoner Zero, you will come with us.

Well, isn't this a little awkward?

I mean, you know my name, but I don't know yours.

And I do hate being rude.

You will come with us.

Now.

[claps]

Prisoner Zero,

welcome to the end of the Imperium's oppression.

Welcome to freedom.

Sorry about my troops.

The name's Parker. And we need to hurry.

Uh, hang on, where are Gem and Tag?

Oh, and Del?

They're being brought to my base for safety.

You attracted General Vykar.

We can handle Vykar.

After today, you won't need to.

Oh? Now, that I like the sound of.

How entertaining.

Vykar to Spire.

General.

Centurion, we were sent here to capture an outlaw

and on arrival I find that Zero is in collusion with him.

His ship must be nearby, find it.

-Is that understood? -General.

No-one leaves the belt.

[rumbling]

This is some serious tech.

And that is some even more serious tech.

Where'd you get it?

Leftovers from the Imperium mostly.

But we salvage anything that touches down here.

I've had to customize it all.

The local crystal's not technology friendly.

In less than an hour...

Nessus Prime goes bang.

And we get our one chance to change the lives of billions.

Are you...

[gasps] Oh! You're programming the crystal!

They're programming the crystal!

This is amazing!

I've also realized you're not shooting at me.

[laughs] And why would I be shooting at you?

Just a wild guess, but you're an Imperium trooper

and I'm the Imperium's least popular problem.

Mmm. The crystal woke me up.

When we first arrived, it was all normal.

No questions, no worries, nothing.

Just did as we were told.

And then the dreams started.

It was so alien to me to dream.

When it began, it hurt.

I was the first.

It was like waking up really slowly.

I had feelings I didn't have a name for.

And when they told me to do something, I didn't want to do it.

And then I saw the sunrise

and it changed everything.

I was alone, but I knew it wouldn't take long.

Stay here and it happens.

This crystal, one by one they all came to me.

Here, they all woke up.

The crystal! Extended exposure.

[laughs] Not technology friendly?

It's interrupting the Bioweve. Yes!

It's the photosynthetic composite.

It's...beautiful!

Look at this! Oh! This is good.

This is so good.

Bye-bye, Bioweve.

[Gem] You guys know the best thing about being captured by the Imperium?

-No back chat. -[chuckles] It's true!

I mean, if this was reversed and you guys were captured by us,

well, we'd be teasing you, laughing, but you guys...

Yeah, for starters.

And this isn't my best line, but, hey, if I was to capture you lot,

I'd say something like, "What's the difference

between an Imperium trooper and Del Rev's socks?"

Their socks don't smell quite so bad.

-Phew! -[coughs, clears throat]

But you guys, you're stand-up fellas.

[grunts]

[grunts]

Except for the invasions and the imprisonment.

And the "We are the Imperium.

We are here to destroy everything you care about."

[glass shatters]

So, apart from those things, I think we'd get on just fine.

[shatters]

Gem, it's okay, I've got my hands free now, so I can...

"Yeah! Quick! Help me, Tag, I'm a poor defenseless girl!"

Okay. [chuckles]

Let's go save everyone.

[Parker] This is our target, the Imperium's Bioweve network.

-No-one can say you don't aim high. -Because we only have one chance.

We project the crystals' code from within the belt and then...

[Zero] Piggyback off the solar wave

to ram the code right into the Bioweve network, overwriting it.

That is fantastic!

Poof! Gone. No more Bioweve.

There's only one step left. Want to see it?

The Nessus Gamma system's about to go nova.

When that shock-wave gets here, we need to be ready.

Time to complete the code.

[gasps]

[Zero] Oh! So it's not complete?

Not yet. But with the key, we can finally--

It's not complete!

There! There, there, there!

That's a big hole in the code, Parker.

It's a big key-sized hole, Zero.

And this key is...

The reason you've come here.

Oh! What? You think I have a key?

Not a key, the key.

But I'm key-less. I am free of keys.

You don't...you don't know what I'm talking about.

-You don't remember anything about-- -I remember zero.

Clue's in the name.

Well, we've got 10 minutes to find it.

[sighs] Why is it always me getting tied up?

Next time, I'm staying on the ship.

[grunts] Huh?

[creaks]

Oh! [screams]

[grunts]

[laser fires]

[grunts]

[gasps]

Ah! This is a handy little gadget.

[footsteps receding]

I wonder if you really know who and what you've become involved with, Zero.

Hmm, interesting.

Using the crystal to rewrite the Bioweve.

Wake up! Whom do you serve?

I serve Parker. I'm free.

I serve Parker.

Parker.

Yes, of course you do.

There's always one bad apple.

[shatters]

[Gem] Oh, great, zombie troopers crawling out of the crystal.

But do any dragons come out to play? No.

Tag, think the universe has got it in for us?

[Tag] No idea, but just don't slow down!

What did I just say?

[shatters]

Oh, they are no threat to us.

[rumbling]

How did you...

-[dial creaks] -[rumbling]

Quickly now, no time to lose.

-[beeping] -[Parker] You can do this, Zero.

Okay, if I...

No! That won't work.

I'm sorry, I can't just pull your missing code out of my head.

Everything you need is here. We just need to find the key.

[sighs] Stop going on about keys.

I'm telling you, I don't know what you're talking about.

And now we're out of time, the supernova is nearly due.

I'm... I'm sorry, I can't do it.

You can.

But I can see you genuinely don't realize it.

I wanted this to work, Zero. I really did.

-[electricity crackling] -[screams]

Take him.

[Librarian] We must get to the center of this crystal.

There is too much power to leave to unwary hands.

What power are you talking about?

The crystal, of course!

What else is turning troopers into, I don't know, worse than troopers?

I know that. I'm asking what we do now!

First you must arm yourself with facts.

Okay, well, let's say hypothetically we've done that.

What do we do then?

[Librarian] Then we wake the dragons.

[theme music playing]