[Yan Lin is travelling on Mount Thanos holding a bouquet of roses. She sees a graveyard. She walks up to a grave]
It has been too long, Cassidy, my dear friend. [She puts the roses onto the grave] I promise to see you again soon.
[She teletransports away]
NNerissa
[voice] Perhaps sooner than you think.
[The two gravestones on either side of Cassidy's grave transforms into Nerissa and Shagon]
[Shagon picks up the bouquet and hugs it]
NNerissa
I have business I must attend, and the Guardians must not interfere.
I'll drive them to distraction! Will, especially. [Picks the flowers] She hates me, she hates me not. She hates me, she hates me not. Who am I kidding? She really, really hates me. [He rips the flowers in half from the stem]
[Nerissa uses the Heart to teletransport Shagon away and unleashes lightning on Cassidy's grave]
[A blast of air comes out from the grave and the ghost of Cassidy rises]
[whispering] Nerissa. [not whispering] Wow! You look awful.
NNerissa
Welcome back, Cassidy.
You haven't aged a bit. [Flies around her] You've aged many bits. Draining our life force for power are we? Granted, you have the sad disadvantage of having to live in this world, while I...
NNerissa
I apologise for any role I might have played in...your accident.
'"Might" have played? That's like me saying I might have missed curfew on prom night. [She laughs] Oh, oh, but were I just was, we don't hold grudges. Now, if you'll send me back?
NNerissa
Cassidy, I didn't raise you simply to apologise. We were Guardians together. I...feel a responsibility to show you all that you have been missing.
Really, Nerissa, that's not...
NNerissa
Oh, but I insist. And since I've bound you to the Earth Plane with the Heart of Meridian, we will stick to the plan. [softly] For your own good.
A field trip you can't get out of, that's good for you? Wow, even the afterlife's like high school.
[Nerissa has teletransported herself and Cassidy to Shell Beach]
Shell Beach! My favourite spot! Oh, what a perfectly lovely, and [She flies through Nerissa] totally transparent gesture. [She flies down to the water]
NNerissa
You shouldn't look a gift beach in the mouth. [She flies down] Don't you miss this?
Oh, sure. I'd love to feel the sand between my toes. Breath in the [she walks on the water] salt air and [Nerissa joins her] swim and swim and swim. [She stands still] Maybe even kiss a lifeguard or two.
NNerissa
All that is possible. If you say you want to live.
This may surprise you, Rissy, but I've sort of let go of the whole material world thing. Besides, [she turns to face Nerissa] I know you. There's got to be strings. I've hung onto my soul this long, I'm not selling it now.
[Nerissa has teletransported herself and Cassidy to Heatherfield General Hospital, the Children's Ward]
NNerissa
Heatherfield General Hospital, the Children's Ward. Ah, I recall you dreamt of being a paediatrician.
Yeah, and I once dreamt of eating a marshmallow the size of Jupiter. So, where's my giant sticky treat?
[A child coughs, Cassidy places her hand on his face and rubs his hair]
NNerissa
It's a shame you can't help these poor children. Comfort them. You have so much compassion for every living thing.
Except I'm not a living thing.
NNerissa
Aww, but you could be again. [darkly] Simply by admitting you want it.
I don't. Life people are so catty.
[Nerissa teletransports herself and Cassidy away]
[Nerissa has teletransported herself and Cassidy to outside a house, where a woman is tending to her garden]
Come on Rissy, give it up! We've toured Heatherfield up, down and sideways! It's not gonna happen! So send me home!
NNerissa
If home is where the heart is. [she points to the woman]
[The woman - Emily Chacon, Cassidy's mother notices Nerissa]
ECEmily Chacon
Hello? Is someone there?
NNerissa
It's Nerissa, Emily. I didn't mean to startle you. Oh, the garden looks lovely today.
EEmily
Thank you, Nerissa. And don't apologise, dear. You know Cassidy's old friends are always welcome here.
NNerissa
Thank you, Emily. Ah, that locket, is there a picture inside?
EEmily
Oh, my! Your memories are worse than mine. I've shown you this before. [She opens the locket]
[The picture is revealed to be Cassidy, Emily looks at the picture]
EEmily
It's Cassidy, of course.
[Cassidy flies over to join them]
EEmily
Now you wait here. I'll get us some lemonade.
[She turns around and starts to walk off, and Cassidy reaches out and touches her arm]
NNerissa
She misses you terribly, Cassidy.
Oh, I'd give anything. Anything!
NNerissa
There's nothing to give. Just show some mercy to your mother. [She holds out the Heart of Meridian, which emanates dark purple swirls, as Cassidy appears in a lilac aura] Just say the words. Say you want to live!
NNerissa
[The Heart is emiting green waves] Compassion is a powerful thing. Especially when it fuels desire. The desire for something you cannot, should not have is the chink in the armour of your soul and all I need to make you mine!
[Cassidy opens her eyes, which reveal that she is being mind controlled]
NNerissa
You will live again...very soon!
[She teletransports herself and Cassidy to a mountainside where the Knights of Destruction are]
NNerissa
Once your service to me...is complete.
What have you done with the real Mage?
NNerissa
I've been the only Mage for years.
NNerissa
[darkly] Change your tone, Julian. [lightly] The Mage was my dear friend. Took me in after a stray portal freed me from my cell on Mount Thanos.
Why would The Mage help you ?
NNerissa
She wanted to...save me. Wanted me to see the bigger picture. Which I did...to her regret.
Your bigger picture is the dream of every petty tyrant. Phobos was no different. We beat him and we'll beat you, too.
NNerissa
Ha! You'd never have vanquished Phobos without me. Wouldn't you agree, Julian? Or perhaps you both require proof? [to Julian] Remember Magenzian Falls? [pause] Good. Then remember this, also. Numbers don't lie.
[She drops them from the electrical constraints and walks through the fold]
NNerissa
You must have questions.
Just one, Mom: how do you live with yourself?
NNerissa
By making the universe a better place.
NNerissa
I'm quite serious. When Meridian was under Phobos's thumb, someone had to take charge. To unite the Meridianites and save their world.
NNerissa
And you were created by me, entirely for that purpose. Someone had to have a vision, Caleb. On Meridian, that was you. But I play on a larger stage. Only I had the vision to create a perfect universe. All worlds will be united under my rule. [Cassidy, still controlled, levitates down, slowly] No more war or conflict. No injustice or suffering. If I demand obedience, it is only for the greater good. To create a new order!
NNerissa
Cassidy. Or rather, her ghost. But soon, she will live again. Even death bows to my will!
NNerissa
[to Caleb] Then I will destroy you!
You won't harm our child, Nerissa! If our love could create this magnificent son, there must been some good in you... once.
NNerissa
Then, just this once, I'll let you both go, but cross me again, and there will be no mercy. Now escape.
Gee, Mom. Most kids just get grounded.
[Nerissa has teletransported Yan Lin into her old cell in Mount Thanos, and walks up to it with the still controlled Halinor, Kadma and Cassidy]
NNerissa
Finally! All my old friends together again. The Original Guardians Reunited. What do you say, Yan Lin? Ready to join our...world tour?
NNerissa
Oh, well. We'll see.
[Nerissa has used Quintessence to transform Yan Lin to her youthful Guardian self]
NNerissa
Join me. And I will give you back your youth. [whispered strongly] Your beauty.
[Yan Lin stands up]
Youth overrated and I'm still one hot old broad.
[Nerissa transforms her back]
NNerissa
[sighs] You try my patience, old friend! [quieter] Know that I will let nothing stand in my way. Including your precious granddaughter. [louder] Hay Lin's only hope is for you to join the Old Guardians!
Eh! Old Guardians are so over. My money's on the New ones.
[Nerissa gives a frustrated groan, walks away from the cell then walks back]
NNerissa
You seem to be incorruptible and I'm running out of time.
NNerissa
[sighs] DON'T YOU EVER GIVE UP?!
[She fires a lightning bolt from the Seal of Nerissa at Hay Lin, but the Guardians fly out of the way. Hay Lin flies back down]
I took relentless lessons from you!
[Nerissa continues to fire at her and Hay Lin carries on dodging. The other Guardians fire their powers against Nerissa and the Old Guardians. Hay Lin unleashes a whirlwind at the rock wall of the cell, freeing Yan Lin. Blunk goes to her]
[Hay Lin walks over]
Never doubted it for a minute.
ZZacharius
Oh, goodness! My girlfriend's beast, isn't she?
YLYan Lin, Hay Lin
Girlfriend?!
[Yan Lin hugs Zacharius]
Mmmm, like the sound of that! The girlfriend part, [A swishing sound is heard] not so much the beast.
[Zacharius is frozen]
[She waves her hand in front of his face] Zacharius?
[She looks over and Hay Lin and Eric are frozen]
NNerissa
You won't like the sound of this.
[She walks over to Yan Lin]
NNerissa
You are not the real Yan Lin. You are... an altermere.
[Yan Lin wakes up in her bedroom]
NNerissa
[voice] A dream come true.
[Nerissa walks out from the shadows]
NNerissa
You are an altermere. A living duplicate. Created on Mount Thanos.
[Flashback, all the Old Guardians are there]
NNerissa
You seem to be incorruptible. And I am running out of time. So, let's see if I can't find a suitable replacement. [She uses the Seal to unleash lightning bolts, which trap Yan Lin within it]
NNerissa
We'll just hide you away. And create someone more... [She creates an altermere in the cell] accommodating.
NNerissa
[voiceover] The Guardians [The scene plays out as per the previous episode - she fires a lightning bolt at the Guardians who fly out of the way] rescued you as I planned. Only you aren't you.
[Flashback ends]
NNerissa
Nothing, now. [She walks back into the shadows] Enjoy her life. Have a moo shoo. But reveal who you are to anyone and I will absorb you back into the Seal... and oblivion!
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