Chapter 2

Season by season, we’ll uncover not only the true name and purpose of the Island's controllers, but also their sprawling facilities under this new world, which is much bigger than what they had expected.

First, every new Island needs a new map, so the observers dispatch their best ground team to discover what’s above and report back: EGO, featuring Journey, Rippley and others.

SEASON 2
TOP SECRET

Every new Island is at the center of conflict, and this one’s center has an Eye Land — a small patch of land with a cabin. Couches, TVs, and toilets inside have become gold, marking the presence of two spy factions that will soon break into an all-out war: Ghost & Shadow.

A battle for control of the Island takes place throughout the whole Season, making us pick our allegiances to either Ghost or Shadow in newly established hotspots, such as the Marigold Yacht, the Rig, the Grotto and the Shark, which later becomes a prison for traitors. Both factions are led by Midas — a crime boss with the namesake touch to turn things into gold.

From his empire, Midas also brings Brutus, his right-hand man, and Jules, his daughter. She became a brilliant engineer with no wishes to follow in her father’s footsteps, even though they both still care for each other — as shown by Midas’ portrait of Jules at his desk in the Agency.

Yet, the further Midas grew from his days of espionage in Shadow, the more he questioned his legacy — what does one do with a world of spies? Something more: Ghost.

One of Midas’ first measures to contain his golden curse — before embracing it — was a suit that would hold his power and even make use of it: Cyclo.

Jules rigs the suit up with a sample of the Storm. Midas believes that by defying the Storm and pushing it back, we would be freed from the Loop. An open journal in his room at the Agency shows drawings of an orb, the Storm inside the emblem of Ghost, and Oro’s sceptre.

These three combined make his true stand against the Storm: the golden touch amplified by a massive Device.

A strong enough push for us to glitch into the office of Agent John Jones. He’s surprised we’re even there, let alone that we can hear him, too. Midas has shown us who's responsible for the Loop and our endless fighting.

However, no good deed goes unpunished. The Storm — or rather, our enemy — takes revenge against Midas by unleashing a towering wall of water that circles the entire Island, frying the Device and forcing it to retreat.

At the Island’s center, in the ruins of the Agency, Midas takes the mantle of Shadow once more in the face of his victory.

Other vehicles drift into the Island as the water level starts to drain, giving enough road space for cars and even revealing the once-hidden Coral Castle, a city lost to the Island’s oceans. Newcomers to the Island, such as Ocean, fight the remaining henchmen for their loot.

Amid the summer chaos, a spaceship crashes with Deo and Siona, cosmic wanderers from far away. Our quest is to help with the retrieval of their ship’s parts, which have scattered throughout the Island’s bay, so that their ship can be functional again. After that, the siblings fly off thankful, leaving us with yet another challenge.

SEASON 4
NEXUS WAR (Read the prelude)

A crack in the ground reveals Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor, the Asgardian god of thunder. He arrives on the Island to retrieve his weapon to stop a great evil, only to lose his memory to the effects of the Loop.

Alongside Captain America, Thor was one of many from his world — designated as Reality 616 by the Island’s controllers, who stay in the shadows this Season — to arrive in hopes of preventing the Island’s total destruction.

After spies, astronauts and a flood, our Reality has cracked enough for beings like Galactus — the Devourer of Worlds — to slip through from another world. His hands are the size of the entire Island, and he seeks the power that's buried beneath it: the Zero Point.

Thor was reluctantly serving as Galactus’ herald to guide him into doomed planets, so that he could consume them to sustain his existence. However, something had made his hunger insatiable. The Black Hole had sent shockwaves throughout every Multiverse, and whoever was capable of sensing its power had been drawn to it.

Before Galactus, however, the heroes and villains from 616 must face the Island’s own challenge. Any sentient being, no matter their power, has their abilities and memory locked away when entering the Loop. To remember who they are, they must fight their own instincts to survive. After Thor and Storm reawaken their thunder, just as the others also recover their powers and past — the Nexus War begins.

Quickly after his arrival, Stark had reverse-engineered the technology of the Loop we fight in as well as how the Island was made: chunks from different worlds that converge for the Zero Point’s own protection. And so, he brings a city-sized chunk of his own industries from Upstate New York onto the Island, by making beacons similar to the Scientist’s from last Chapter.

As a response, Galactus unleashes Gorgers on the Island to weaken the resistance against him. The heroes gather on the Helicarrier — the flying headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D. brought in with the Bifrost. Inside the ship, they can simulate Galactus’ arrival on the Island as well as deploy Quinjets to provide us resources to battle Gorgers. Yet, the battle for reality is already nearing its end.

Galactus targets the ruins of the Agency in the middle of the Island, revealing that it was indeed the hidden location of the Zero Point, which gets ripped straight from the ground by Galactus’ energy tendrils. He senses its power and now, he may take it.

The Zero Point protects itself and the Island from being absorbed by Galactus by bringing us to the In-Between, the nexus of all realities, just as it did before. There, Stark reveals the upgraded Battle Buses, now equipped with laser cannons, for us to drive. Galactus deploys attack drones to stall us from getting near him while he consumes the Zero Point; but with the heroes’ help, we make it just in time.

A billion exploding Battle Buses straight to the face force Galactus to retreat forever into his own world, where he will meet his own fate. Now, away from the In-Between and back on the Island, we remain in the aftermath.

The IO has safely observed us from under the Island for millennia, believing that if the Zero Point were harmed, it would heal itself with time — no matter if the Island and its people survived.

After nearly being consumed, the Zero Point floats above the new scorching tunnel that connects to The Bridge from which it was taken — the underground headquarters of the IO first mentioned in the Scientist’s tapes. As a response to its harm, the Zero Point has turned the entire center of the Island into a crystalline desert.

The sand eventually tumbles and covers the tunnel, blocking us from any access to the IO.

• Reese wishes she’d been here to see the Devourer, as a monster hunter with experience chopping beasts of that size. Her adoptive father, Cyprus Nell, was her mentor.
• The Mandalorian followed a strict dogma of helmets and honor, until a cute Child fell upon his care.
• Lexa hails from Y-Labs, where her genius father equips her with the latest in bounty hunting. Her brother Orin later arrives to save her, thinking that she’d been abducted instead of hired.
• Menace is a champion gladiator fighting at Colossal Coliseum, alongside his successor: Sica.
• Mave is the Wildheart of her jungle, a powerful shapeshifting protector long respected by all.
• Mancake brings the Butter Barn, his syrup-slinging diner for outlaws.
• Kondor is a vengeful spirit passed down for generations. A weapon made by alien forces soon to come.

SEASON 6
PRIMAL

Jones has betrayed the Imagined Order (IO) and stolen their research regarding the Seven, turning his past enemies into allies in a time of crisis. He had served the Order for centuries, as all agents are immortal on the Island; now, he sees the IO for what they truly are.

After ignoring his boss' warnings, furious at his disregard for the IO's oath, Jones aligns his portal device to the last-known location of the Seven and throws it into the Zero Point, hoping for a sign — and they reply.

A meteor strikes into the desert below the crackling Zero Point, which is now surrounded by strands of light, all lashing onto the ground and creating portals to the Island's past. From inside the meteor, a life-support pod opens to reveal The Foundation: leader of the Seven.

To make matters worse, the unstable Zero Point sends out pulses that change the landscape of the Island, bringing chunks from other worlds in Reality Waves. One even turns Jones into a familiar butterfly temporarily.

Yet, even after closing the last portals, the Zero Point is too weak to bloom. With the imminent threat of its collapse, Foundation is forced to take the same stone that makes the Island to encase the Zero Point in The Spire — made of interdimensional matter to sustain its power — for it to realign back into the Bridge so it may heal itself.

BATMAN/FORTNITE: ZERO POINT¹

To regain their control of the Zero Point in secret, the Order's Island Team works remotely, planting another world's greatest detective into the Loop: Batman. If he were to escape, he would need the Zero Point — just like they do. And so, the IO manipulates Batman by also bringing Catwoman, his long-time ally and sometimes partner, for him to fight to regain consciousness in the Loop so that both could escape; all in the IO's behalf, without Batman ever knowing.

Batman succeeds and frees the Zero Point, furious at the IO's manipulation of himself and the Island, something that motivates him to join Foundation and the Seven in their long battle against the IO.

Meanwhile, echoes of Foundation's sacrifice can still be heard from the Spire's towers: "Jones knows."

The former IO agent had been Looped many times before while on missions given to him by Dr. Slone, and each time that anyone escapes the Loop, a Snapshot of them is made — variants with no memory of their past for the IO to research forever. Jones' variants were the first to notice the Spire's darkness — a familiar one to them.

Now, the primal age comes to an end, as such darkness has seen the opportunity to strike again. This isn't the first time that the Island's faced darkness — once, by the Cube's command to drain the Zero Point's power.

After the Cube's explosion, the IO had stored its remaining pieces inside their facilities in the Bridge — the same facilities that were wrecked by the Spire's formation.

SEASON 7
INVASION

The Imagined Order (IO) has fully returned to the Island, which is now under threat by an alien invasion. Raz’s discovery of the darkness that had invaded the Spire beckoned a different kind of evil than the Cubes — resulting in people and places of the Island being abducted, symbols burnt into corn crops, and a strange shortage of cat snacks.

Kymera are now stationed across several landmarks; genetically perfect soldiers spliced from the DNA of all the worlds once invaded by their army, such as the Pluxarians. Other forces that are patrolling the Island include the Trespassers, androids modelled after the Kymera, and Zyg & Choppy, an unlikely duo of another android and a telepath.

BATMAN/FORTNITE: FOUNDATION²

Meanwhile, the Spire’s creator — Foundation — is still alive after being ejected from the Zero Point the moment that it was hit by the Mothership’s laser. He remains unaware that his attempt to save reality was corrupted by an alien invader. Foundation’s current location is the harbor of Gotham City, home of the Batman and the last location that the Zero Point was aligned to after the hero’s escape — designated as Reality NF-1935 by the IO.

The rift used by them to return to the Island was opened in the middle of Gotham, leaving the city vulnerable. However, the Justice League is quick to respond to Lex Luthor's band of villains causing madness, including the multiversal threat of the Batman Who Laughs — a version of the hero that's gone mad.

The IO doesn’t wish to protect the Island, but they end up doing so by protecting themselves. However, Jones — their former agent — does want to save us and has disguised himself as a cow, to be abducted intentionally.

As we infiltrate their ranks, the alien army needs some reconnaissance of their own, and the stage is set for a Rift Tour — a flashy music attraction for the people of the Island as an attempt to disguise a probe into our memories. If they learn about the Island from our past, they’ll know how to end it; thankfully, our guardian Butterfly pulls the plug in time to save us — just as she always has.

Slone betrays us out of fear from witnessing an old enemy’s return — to the IO, any life is expandable in the name of science — as a Cube slowly rises from the elevator taking us deeper inside the Mothership. After losing some fellow Loopers to the Cube's strikes of lightning, with our combined effort — maybe the Butterfly's, or even the Zero Point's — we cleanse this Cube's darkness and turn it blue; making it a new ally to our upcoming war.

While we escape pure obliteration, the bombs explode, just as planned. The Mothership is destroyed and becomes sky fire. Hundreds of Cubes that were hidden inside the ship fall upon the Island to steal what the first Cube never could — the power of the Zero Point — while the rest of the ship crashes into the ocean aflame.

Aboard the Island’s Mothership, beyond the countless purple boxes, was a golden leader for them to follow. After the “success” of Operation: Sky Fire, each and every Cube crashed on the Island and began their search for the Zero Point.

However, in the present, the golden Cube calls upon its subjects to roll into the center of the Island and build The Convergence, including the Cube of our past, which — after being taken from time moments before its explosion — had since been powering Kevolution Energy.

The Convergence is a pyramid of Cubes with the golden one as its top, meant to create a portal for alien forces from beyond — built on top of the aftermath of the Zero Crisis, where the desert that was once there had been overtaken by alien flora. The aliens' use of sacred geometry, such as the symbol of the pyramid, is what powers them.

Leading our fight against the hordes is J.B. Chimpanski — a space chimpanzee turned general — who rallies Bars to help us build the strongest weapons from our past, such as the IO’s BRUTEs and Sgt. Winter’s Stormwing planes.

The final piece of our new resistance is the converted Blue Cube that zaps away any nearby monsters.

THE END

The Seven arrive to save us with a plan to flip the Island and throw the Convergence into the ocean, so that the portal to the Last Reality can be closed and the alien forces, stopped. Our mission is to fight and save as much of the Island as we can; yet, to save us, the Blue Cube sacrifices itself while defending us from Caretakers.

The hordes arrive in waves through a Sideways infection that spreads through the entire Island — all powered by the Cube Queen, who now floats above the Convergence to keep their portal open, giving us a glimpse into the Last Reality's army of thousands of Motherships and the Cradle that leads them.

A curious Caretaker finds us in the depths of the Island's ocean and breaks the pressure chamber that houses the Zero Point, flooding it and taking us into the open seas. Still, we successfully disable the Bridge and even take some of the IO's intel with us. Now, as we brace for the flip, the Cube Queen screams in agony — having failed to take her greatest prize once again.

The flip reveals a brand-new Island while our past one sinks into the sea. The snowy landscape of our new home is Cube-free — just a calm and lush paradise protected by the Seven, whom we'll fight alongside with until the IO is gone for good. Now, the calm before the storm begins.