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[Zero] Previously on Prisoner Zero...

Hello, Zero.

The Nessus Gamma system will ignite its supernova.

I'm gonna use it to end the Imperium.

With your help, I can turn off the Bioweve.

[Gem] Who are these guys?

I serve Parker.

Parker.

Time to complete the code.

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

We just need to find the key.

Stop going on about keys,

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

The supernova is nearly due.

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

-[electricity buzzing] -[groaning]

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

Then...we wake the dragons.

[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]

[panting]

[Parker] Nessus Gamma system will ignite to end the Imperium.

I can turn off the Bioweve.

The crystal woke me up.

One by one,

they all woke up.

Time to complete the code.

Time to complete the code.

Zero, let's find the key.

[groans]

The power of the crystal belt must be contained before it's too late.

And how do we do that?

That answer will be found in the heart of the crystal.

Dragons! It's gotta be!

Tag? Zero, do you read me?

Gem Coll? Del Rev?

Can anyone hear me?

-Can anyone hear-- -Great.

The one time comms work!

[rumbling]

Guardian, you need to get us out of here.

Oh, come on! Do your thing! [groans]

[rumbles]

[gasps]

Never leaving the ship again!

[Parker] It's okay, Zero.

Soon I'll find the key.

I'll complete the code,

and with the supernova's solar wave,

smash that code into the Bioweve.

We will end the Imperium together.

So, do we wake the dragons up now?

Are you armed with the facts?

-Yes! -No, we're not.

I always say the best way to learn is through stories.

Do we have time for this?

I'm not sure we have much of a choice.

[thumping]

Long ago...

before either of your worlds were even thought of,

the dragons were already as old as it's possible to be.

Yes, Tag, even older than I.

So, these ancient dragons were very tired.

They came here to rest, and one by one tried to sleep.

But although it was very, very quiet,

every breath, every whisper was an agony of noise to them.

Even here, on the edge of the cosmos, they couldn't find rest.

Do you know why?

[thumping continues]

Their heartbeats?

Exactly.

Lost 'em. [grunts]

But you have found me. You must be so pleased.

[both grunting]

Really?

Come on, you stupid thing!

Now, now. Play nice.

I wasn't talking to you.

[grunts]

This is a new low, Vykar.

Oh, trapped in a crystal cave by an idiot, with an idiot.

Yes, I rather agree.

Zombie troopers.

The guys with the green eyes, those are people.

Yes.

I never thought even you would go this far.

To do this to your own troops.

Oh, don't be so melodramatic.

This has nothing to do with me, or the Imperium.

In fact, I'm here to play the hero.

If you're not making zombies, who is?

His name is Parker.

Made the mistake of getting in my way once.

He had a job to do. He failed.

I'm sure the scars remind him of that failure every day.

I didn't want it to be like this. But I have no choice.

I must have the key.

And there's only one place to get it.

[groaning]

No. No, no, no! Wait, Parker, s-stop. I don't have the key!

[screaming]

[whirring]

[rumbling]

-What did you do? -What?

Oh, no!

We've got to get out of here, now!

You can use your scepter weapon thing, blast our way out!

That "weapon thing" is powered by plasma-neutron fuel!

If I fired it in here, we would both be killed.

Oh. Right. Well then,

I guess we'll just have to stay here till we're crushed to bits!

Fix the dial! It's the only way.

I am trying to fix the dial!

Great.

The dragons wanted genuine rest.

And when a dragon wants something, he usually gets it.

Genuine rest? As in no lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub?

"Lub-dub"?

Was that meant to be a heartbeat? "Lub-dub" is not a heartbeat.

-What? -Ba-boom...

-Of all the things to worry about... -...ba-boom, ba-boom.

-...this is what you focus on? -That's a heartbeat.

-Sound effects? -You're awful at this.

Librarian, back me up!

Neither of you are particularly good at heartbeat sound effects.

Oh, come on!

[laughs]

Let's move on, shall we?

The dragons wanted sleep,

so they removed their own hearts.

So the statues...

They are living dragons. Yes.

They have been asleep a long time,

and they have been careless.

A dragon's heart is a dangerous thing to leave unguarded.

Is this a piece of a dragon's heart?

[Librarian] Only a fragment.

But even that is a powerful tool.

This is how the zombie troopers control the crystal!

Each dial must have a fragment of a dragon's heart in it.

It's got to be the scary guy!

He called us, wanted us here before the supernova.

The supernova! Right!

[beeping]

Well, ladies and gentlemen, looks like that star's ready to go bang.

I'm guessing that's not what we want.

Indeed. I fear "Scary Guy" plans to use the solar wave

to bring darkness down upon humanity.

One chance to end the Bioweve.

Not sure I want it to end his way.

Come on! Let's make sure it doesn't.

Let's begin.

I need to find the key. It's here somewhere.

I don't have any key!

Yes, you do!

Maybe you can't find it yourself,

but with the power in this crystal, I can.

It's locked away deep inside your mind, but I can find it.

-And once I do-- -You need to stop this.

Stop whatever your planning!

You of all people should get what I'm doing, Zero.

I'm going to make the universe a better place.

No more anger, no more hate.

People will be happy!

You sound just like them!

No...I sound just like you.

What? [screaming]

There it is! The key!

Oh, Zero, this is a good day to be alive!

What are these things?

[explosion]

I'll be taking that.

Oh, dear, Parker,

I think I found your hide-out.

[whispers] How many dragons do we have to wake up to stop Scary Guy?

Once we pull this one back to consciousness,

the power of the crystal, their power,

will be beyond the reach of humanity.

Meaning Scary Guy can't do whatever it is Scary Guy wants to do?

Precisely.

[Gem] So what do we do?

You give the dragon back its heart.

Zero, trust me, this is for the greater good.

I can fix everything.

Everything will be better!

Everyone will be better.

[laser fire]

The key! No!

[Vykar] I'm sorry, but that information is off-limits.

As I think I told you once before, a long time ago,

only I'm allowed to play with Zero's mind!

Vykar.

Destroy him!

[dramatic music playing]

Oh, what a shame.

Your plan to rule the cosmos gone wrong, has it?

Such a tragedy.

You always did think you were the smartest person in the room.

[rumbling]

Parker, you...

[voice muffled]

Let's not ruin this moment by talking about it.

[whirring]

Sorry, Zero, we've got to do that all again.

[Zero screaming]

Guardian, if you can hear me, you have got to get us out of here!

Oh, this crystal!

I can't even get a lousy message back to the ship!

Wait a second, Del. Parker's message.

Advanced Imperium tech.

He has to have more of those VR message spheres!

Bingo. Okay, okay.

Guardian, you've got to get us off this belt

before something worse than what's already happening happens.

I got to say, it's nice to have the whole gang back together again.

Well, nearly the whole gang, but you know what I'm saying.

[grunts]

Well, I guess you don't know what I'm saying, do you?

There it is! The key!

You can't do this.

If only you could remember your past, Zero,

you'd know "can't" isn't in my vocabulary.

[laughs]

I did it! Zero, we did it!

Everyone is free. The Imperium is finished!

The supernova is only a heartbeat away.

The solar wave will follow seconds after!

We're about to change everything!

Looks like whatever it is Scary Guy's planning, it's happening now.

And the supernova's happening now.

[beeping]

Quickly, return the fragments of the dragon's heart.

[heart beating]

[heart beating faster]

[growls]

No! It's gone!

My control!

[rumbling]

Uh! No! No! No, this can't happen!

[Zero] And I thought "can't" wasn't in your vocabulary.

Use this VR sphere to stabilize the signal.

When the four of us...five of us are together, jump us off this rock.

It's beautiful!

[dragon growling]

Yeah, yeah, it's gorgeous. Move!

It was all perfect.

Now...it's finished.

But I won't go back.

I won't let Vykar get me, not again.

Zero!

[explosion]

[grunts]

The two of you can't imagine what I'm capable of.

What I could have done!

We don't have to imagine, you stupid man! We know.

You turned your people into mindless monsters.

You tried to wipe out humanity.

Oh, that was your plan.

Turn them all into... what, less than humans?

Everyone? All of us?

Oh, oh, oh, I do apologize.

I didn't realize Zero was so blinded

by his own desire to end the Bioweve,

that you didn't know you were working with a monster.

You always were a soft one, Zero.

This man is a monster.

All the worlds we protect, all the freedoms we give them.

He would've destroyed it all. And made you his accomplice.

There is no alternative to the Imperium.

We are humanity at its best.

And I will not let anyone corrupt it.

I'm done taking orders from you, Vykar.

It's done, over. Finished.

Everything I could have been, everything I could have done.

You took it from me. Me!

The man who wielded the power of the dragons!

[Vykar scoffs] They're statues, Parker.

You always were one for fairy tales.

[Parker] I was nothing when I woke up. I didn't know who I was.

It was like trying to remember a dream.

But then, when I found them, found the dragons, well...

it all came back to me.

And I knew I could be more.

More than anyone ever thought I was capable of being.

With that power, their power, I knew no-one could stop me.

Not even Vykar.

And now that power's gone,

and so is any chance of using it for good.

[dragon roars]

[screeches]

Well, hello! You've missed all the action.

That I very much doubt.

As soon as we get Zero, Guardian's going to jump us out.

Where is Zero?

-[dragon screeches] -What's that?

That is a dragon.

Come on!

Dragons? Really?

[dragon screeches]

Of course it's dragons.

Well, this has been charming, but it is time we finished up.

You! You were working against me. Both of you!

Oh, I wouldn't dream of siding with Zero.

Besides, you know I work best on my own

or has our last meeting slipped your mind?

Did you forget?

[groans] Forget? How could I ever forget what you did to me?

[laser firing]

[rumbling]

Not good.

-[dragon screeches] -[gasps]

Dragon.

Excellent.

[dramatic music playing]

[Gem] Zero!

Guys, I'm so sorry for getting you all into this!

Time to go home?

[grunts]

No. No!

I didn't mean any of it.

Take it back! Take it back!

[screams]

Guardian, jump us all out now!

[beeping]

You said it. We're the trap guys.

There was a trap, a bad one, and we took it apart.

Del, I don't know what I'm doing.

I know I keep acting like I do, but everything I touch...

Something really, really bad almost happened today.

And it would have been because of me.

It's okay. That's why you bring me along and the others.

We can do good things, Zero.

You do good things.

Just, uh...you know, next time, let's figure out a way to break the trap

that doesn't involve me nearly getting eaten by a dragon.

He knew me, Del.

Parker knew me

before I was Prisoner Zero.

Do you care? About who you were?

Of course I do.

Wouldn't you?

It seems like everywhere we go,

the man I was keeps getting us in over our heads.

I want to not care.

But I think I need to know.

Zero, someone told me that it doesn't matter who we were,

it matters what we do.

And what we do is help people.

So let's keep helping people.

Sure.

Thanks.

Thank you.

You know, I'm serious about the being eaten thing.

I really don't want to do that again.

[whirring]

Huh. I feel like...yeah. Yeah, I feel like that was exciting enough.

Yeah. Good on the excitement scale.

Wouldn't want more of it. Could've done with less.

I don't think the dragons wanted us to wake them up.

[Librarian] Oh, 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.

You're saying the dragons hate us now?

I'm saying because of you the dragons are awake.

But, wait, what "dragons"?

We only woke one.

[Librarian] And that one will wake many.

We once more live in the age of dragons.

[dragons roaring]

[theme music playing]