So we’ve got the A-story, the plane of reality with Douglas, the army of Franklin Clones with the Anti-Cerebral Control Unit, Lord Kumquat, and Valdra Muinthel. Lord Kumquat is keeping the gang in dream/Matrix-like simulations for unknown reasons. Douglas (who at the time of writing has been captured) claims that Valdra Muinthel wants to capture Peter’s Time Lord Essence to power a Doomsday Device. We know nothing about Muinthel outside of this information; all we know about Lord Kumquat is that he is a floating, giant, sentient kumquat with extremely powerful telekinetic abilities and that he is extremely concerned with making sure Peter remains in a dream-Matrix state. Peter got only a quick glance at the “real” world and it’s unclear why one of the Franklins helped wake Peter up and revealed his cerebral powers to him. Peter has since been put into a different simulation, the Hotel. It initially was meant to be a place where Peter would be kept in comfort but as that illusion started to break, the ACCU created a bunch of Vampire-Goblin type creatures to wear him down and fatigue his subconscious with so much fear that he would go insane. This plan also doesn’t work, with Peter still questioning his reality, so when we last left off the simulation was then designed to appeal to Peter’s hero fantasies by suddenly giving him power over his situation and people to save.
Meanwhile, we have two other villains: The Phantom and Kristen. I don’t remember what made Kristen evil other than the fact that various people just liked writing her into the story as a villain. That part needs to be filled in. The Phantom was formerly known as “Oliver,” and he was deformed at birth. He became an outcast and decided to wear a mask to cover his face. He is extremely attracted to Kristen, who is also a “TOPHAT Time Lord” or something, I have no idea. He can also teleport and disable powers on people through the use of purple necklaces (although it’s only been shown to stop shapeshifting powers).
It’s unclear if these other two villains are also trapped in one of the simulation or if they’re also a part of the ACCU or if they’re computer algorithms meant to keep the simulations policed (ala Agent Smith from The Matrix).
Also, Kye is a shapeshifter, there was something going on with Dawn, and there was a talking Lama who wanted to play music in the big city that got left behind about 15 pages ago from the time of writing this.
