Ep.5 - "Quest for Answers - PART 2"

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Quest for Answers - PART 2 is the third and last episode of the Quest for Answers Trilogy arc, and the fifth episode overall, it was released on February 17, 2020 and it concluded the first arc of the series.

Synopsis
OkiWan leans to know how it all happened, and why. And get off his negative thoughts that have been haunting him for years... Will he really? Or will he be disappointed by the outcome?

Plot
The episode starts where the previous one left off, Oki and Greg are shocked to see a bunch of creatures frozen in Ice gates, Greg remembers this place from a book he read once, and he reveals that it is the Cosmic Prison, where the worst of the worst get locked in, so they come to the conclusion that they are in between super-villians, Oki comments on how Garmatrol should be a prisoner in here, but quickly changes his mind and says that he should be executed, Greg says that this is too much and this is probably OkiWan's hate crisis taking over him, Oki ignores him and they go check on the super-villians, they soon arrive to the elites section and Greg finds a human being with a sword close to them, and comments that he looks similar to OkiWan, until he was interrupted by OkiWan saying that's his father and quickly goes to him, Greg follows and they finally hop into him, Oki is hesitated and is worried of the grand meeting, Greg tells him that he must finish what he started and shouldn't worry, Oki is convinced and almosts gets the guard's attention, until he goes on a small talk with the unconscious prisoners, going on how they are gonna be done for once the prison gets filled, Oki is shocked by this and says it loud to Greg, the guard gets his sword and prepares to fight, but sees that they are 2 human beings like him, he asks who they are, Oki tries to talk but finds it hard to, Gregor does the talking for him and reveals that OkiWan came a long way to find him, the guard is trying to process OkiWan's name, like he's trying to remember something, he wonders how they survived the Cosmic Prison Guardians, they explain how they did and how they almost died because of it, the guard finds Gregor's blaster to be very interesting, and asks why they are here, Oki tries to talk but can't get the words out again, until Greg insists him to, so Oki shouts out loud if the guard lost a son called OkiWan, from this moment the guard remembers everything, and can see that OkiWan is indeed his son, shocked by this, he asks Oki how he found him, Oki reveals that they had to get CLORK killed by Garmatrol to get here, his father is shocked and upset by this, and tells them that this is too much for him to process.

OkiWan asks him to reveal everything about the past, his father goes on how he had to leave OkiWan in order to save the Cosmic Prison from a super-villian outbreak, and that his mother wasn't on earth at that time, and the time was running low on him, so he had to think quickly and do something, so he left OkiWan on a bench and promises him that he will come back, but in the end he never did, and that was the last time he was on earth.

OkiWan is shocked by this and shows a clear hate to his father for this, and how he wants to get along with him like nothing happened, his father tells him that he had nowhere else to put him, and he did it for the greater good, and he wanted a normal life for OkiWan, not a life where he's just an emotionless guard on a prison for eternity, and told Oki to think about all the super-villians that could've been on earth if he didn't leave him, and tells him that his life didn't turn out to be so bad, seeing that he's got a full-on suit and a gun at just the age of 16.

OkiWan goes on to tell him that he was gonna die from the feelings that he was unwanted by his own parents, and also from wondering why did it all happen.

His father tells him that we all go through it, and Greg tells OkiWan that keeping negative feelings bottled up inside can be very dangerous.

OkiWan is convinced by their talk, and calms down, saying that his father is not so bad afterall, OkiWan awkwardly calls his father by 'dad's, then his dad reveals to him his name, 'Ben'.

OkiWan then calls him by his name, and asks if he thinks that his mother could be alive, Ben tells him that he won't be surprised if she is, as she goes on dangerous missions on various planets daily, then goes on how she wanted her son to be a gunner like her, and how he wanted Oki to be a sword holder, he asks him what he choosed, Oki tells him that he's a proud gunner along with Greg, Ben is shown to be disappointed by this, but still tries to be optimistic and tells him that his mother would be proud.

Then he asks OkiWan how he survived, and OkiWan tells his side of the story, and how he was raised by an old couple that goes by the name of Brandon and Sandra, and how they made him the person he's now, and revealed that the restaurant actually belonged to his foster father at first, but before his passing he renamed it to OkiWan's Restaurant and this is pretty much how Oki inherited the restaurant.

And then OkiWan goes on how Ben abandoning him wasn't that bad, and if he didn't do that Oki wouldn't have met his foster parents, Ben is shown to be hurt by his words, but still tries to be supportive of his son.

Oki asks Ben if he's ready to go to earth with them, but he says that he must stay or else the super-villians could go out anytime, to which to his surprise he finds the prisoners out already, released by Garmatrol, Ben freaks out and they find the prisoners on a rampage, fighting each other.

OkiWan fights some prisoners and gets defeated embarrassingly, but Greg helps him and they go to help Ben, who's fighting Death, he's winning at first but loses control and his arm almost gets consumed by the Demon sword the same way Garmatrol's arm was, Oki and Greg help him and Death, knowing he will lose, decides to escape, Ben says that they should focus on the remaining prisoners and gives OkiWan the Mutation formula and tells him to use it wisely.

Meanwhile, Garmatrol is seen approaching our heroes, blowing up a huge part of the prison with CLORK's powers, they prepare to fight him, but he uses the sleep command on them, knowing that this place isn't protected from this command, he approaches OkiWan to kill him, but Oki uses the Mutation formula on him, it deforms Garma further, and then Oki shoots him, and then Greg tries to hang him and Ben sends in the last hit to put him unconscious, a cosmic prison guardian comes in to freeze him, Ben gives Oki a space ship to be able to go back to earth.

The return to earth takes about 3 weeks, Lucelind is seen to be worried about Greg and OkiWan, but finally Greg comes back home, and tells her it's a long story that will be later explained.

Meanwhile OkiWan is seen in his room, extremely tired, he hops into his bed and prepares to sleep until he noticed something in his 2nd pocket, it's a letter from Ben, telling him that he's welcome to the prison anytime.

Then we see Ben being thankful that a certain prisoner couldn't get out, and leaves the place.

Then we see a familiar face locked deep into the prison's core...

Characters

 * OkiWan
 * Gregor
 * Ben  (debut) 
 * Garmatrol
 * OkiWan's mother (mentioned)
 * Gregor's father (mentioned)
 * Gregor's mother (mentioned)
 * The Witch  (debut) 
 * Cosmic Prisoners  (debut) 
 * Death
 * Fish
 * Psychon  (debut) 
 * The Metal Guardian  (debut) 
 * Cosmos Prison Guardians
 * Lucelind  (debut) 
 * Maja (mentioned)
 * The Crystal Guardian (cameo)

Locations

 * Cosmic Prison
 * Gregor's Mansion
 * OkiWan's House

Trivia

 * The longest episode to date.
 * This episode showed Ben's old and new model at the same time, as it changed throughout the episode, as well as Death.
 * OkiWan's golden rule was already broken with the Quest for Answers Trilogy, as he hated doing more than 2 parts, and insisted that any episode partners would only have 2 connected parts, but as the story of the Quest for Answers trilogy was too long for just 2 parts he had to split them into 3 parts.
 * This episode has the most characters in it.
 * OkiWan had plans to split Episode 5 furthur into 2 parts, thus making them 4 parts, for reasons: 1. Part 2 on it's own was still too long, being 28 minutes, 2. To make the episode partners even and finally to make a nod to Spyman's Comsos' series' multiple 4 part episodes, Ep.4 would've been renamed to Part 1.1, Ep.5 to Part 1.5, and Ep.6 to Part 2, however, there was no place to set up the cliffhanger for the next episode, so this idea was scrapped.
 * This episode had introduced the most characters.
 * Maja and Dr. Amberess were originally going to appear in this episode, but their appearances moved into episode 6 to feel more natural, not in the middle of a big adventure arc.
 * This episode's title card's sound effect is a different remix of the same one from episode 3 and episode 4.
 * This episode has the longest hiatus gap between episodes, as it was technically being worked on ever since episode 3 was released.
 * The first episode to show the Cosmic Prison Guardians' remodel.
 * There was a Dr Saturn Easter Egg shown in this episode, in the scene where the prisoners break out, it is a reference to Dr Saturn as a planet from the Spyman's Cosmos series.
 * Ben's line 'in Living Ice' is a reference to the Living Ice character from the series Team Y by The Philmer.
 * The first episode where Death and The Crystal Guardian appear in the modern world.
 * There were plans to change the title card to blur Ben's side from it as it seemed spoilery, however as Ben appears not even 2 minutes into the episode this idea was scrapped.
 * The first episode with a proper credits sequence.
 * It is revealed in this episode that OkiWan designs his own shirts.
 * It is also revealed that OkiWan's Restaurant didn't belong to OkiWan at first.
 * This episode had the most cut content out of all episodes, getting a video of it's own cut content revealed, being 12 minutes long.