[The Null Void: A teal-skinned humanoid in a Plumber suit stands proudly on the edge of a lonely isle.
Another Plumber pats a hand on their shoulder from behind.]
The third one is coming up alongside Max Tennyson. Behind them are yet three more cadets.]
He points beyond to the pocket dimension’s variant of the infamous Incarcecon prison facility.
Max puts an arm around the third Plumber.
The third Plumber shoves Max’s arm away.
Max and the six cadets activate boosters that send them over the prison. While up there, Max spots a commotion starting in the outside recreational area. At the same time, he watches a number of guards from each side of the building rush in.
Several blasts are shot through the ceiling of the Null Void Incarcecon. A ship then bursts through, attempting to take off. One Polymorph security guard within latches onto it from below, melting through a wing and forcing it to spiral into a landing outside of the front entrance.
The brave (or stupid) cadet attempts to rip off his helmet, simultaneously transforming into a Sludgepuppy within his suit. Max hits a button that locks cadet’s helmet, causing his mucus form to get too packed and deflate. He returns to his human form.
In spite of his handicap, he heads down towards the energy barrier around the prison. Hugging it, he can watch a battle unfurl. The forced landing let out a cowboy-looking being. His entire physical form is robotic – the half of it that isn’t broken, revealing a deep black, rough body. The Plumbers rush the broken bot to dogpile on him.
What proceeds is the entire dome being caught in a dense fog. Somehow in the mayhem, the cowboy latches onto the ceiling of the dome, right where Howitzer is. He begins clawing his way out, using a sharp, fingerless, spider-like arm where his left hand once was. Howitzer backs up, as Max places one hand each on holstered gear: a weapon to one hand, a Null Void projector in the other.
The half-spider creature cuts through, diving Howitzer. Max draws and fires in the same instant, not even slightly harming it. It tosses some kind of capsule at the group which, before Max can react, bursts, releasing a blue cloud into the air. Max, with his view obstructed, pulls out his projector and attempts to use it to create an exit for the kids, but he finds himself separated from them.
He moves around with his hands out, trying aimlessly to grab them one at a time, but fails to catch them all. Before long, he hears the kids screaming. He looks for the shadow of the cowboy-spider in the ocean-hued fog but fails to make out something he can shoot clearly.
The screams subside.
A shadow leaps out at him, but he is too uncertain to fire. As luck would have it, it’s Tack. His helmet is scratched entirely.
The creature, having sloughed off his whole robotic arm to reveal an arachnid body twice the size of a human, lurches out from behind Max, snatching his arms and legs. He’s quick enough to shoot a leg before he is captured. A blue spattering of its oddly colored blood escapes, but the injury is not debilitating enough to shoo it off. It knocks the weapon out of Max’s hand. The creature uses one well-aimed leg to cut right into Max’s helmet with one hit, but he catches it with both hands.
Max hears a moaning sound, turning around to see Tack’s eyes suddenly rolled over from white into a black haze.
Smash.
In that moment, the creature shatters Max’s helmet with another leg. It pulls back another leg to go in for another blow, but Max draws his projector gun and fires straight into its core, pulling the giant spider into itself. He puts his hand near the dial to close the rift, but his hand stops in place. Looking at his eyes, they too have glossed over and devolved into a deep haze. He is frozen in place, just floating there.
The blue cloud wanes, revealing the same haze on each cadet's face. Plumbers from the prison below spot this.