John had seen the origins of the guardians. His father, Rose’s mother, Dave’s Brother, and Jade’s Grandfather. You are releasing at this point that the families are missing a few pieces. Though single parents and kin care are normal practice. There isn’t even a hint of the question, who’s John’s mom? Where are Dave and Jade’s parents? We just saw an important moment from the day John was born, but his father is with John’s grandma.

John had used the appearifier to get genetic data from the 4 guardians. Then a machine processed that data and created 4 baby paradox clones that look a bit like the guardians. The adorable 3 eyed kitten Dr. Meowgon (formally Vodka Mewtini) Hits a button on the console. John has no idea what these buttons actually do so he’d have likely done this himself.

The 4 tubes drop into 2 different vats. Tubes 1 and 2, John’s dad, and Jade’s grandpa go into one vat. In the other, Rose’s mom and Big Bro. Then the machine makes 4 more babies. John becomes an “Ecotobiolobabysitter”. John has just become his own father, and his own grandfather. He’s also the father of his friends. The kids are all biologically related.

We learned the guardians are connected by a mystery of meteors. They’d all met up at the lab that John is now in but have since left. We see Jades grandma, who isn’t dead yet, piloting a huge starship. The starship is a modern battleship but with his own theming. Grandpa also seems to know what is going on here. As he puts it he is just giving the others a ride before he returns home to die.

We see John’s dad return the pink scarf to Rose’s mom. This is the one he had found on the day a meteor destroyed his mother and her shop. They hold hands as the ship appears to fly towards Skaia.

Back to John and his babies. carcinoGeneticist [CG] reaches out to John. This conversation seems to be an early one from CG’s perspective. He is being an asshole and he’s confused about the timeline. He does know what’s happening though. He tells John he’s actually made himself and his friends. These paradox clones will be returned to their correct times. Time in the Medium views time in John’s world like we would view a recording. This is because the world he is from will be destroyed. Though so will the world he is currently in. CG reminds John that he is in a null session.

CG is somewhat sympathetic to John. In his session with 12 players he was the one to make himself and his friends. John also uses this opportunity to screw with CG. John mentions humans typically hatch from eggs into larva. We already saw the payoff of this.

Meanwhile John is trying to care for 8 babies. They’re crawling around a lab and playing with the random items the guardians had left. This includes maplehoof and some dueling pistols. CG comes back and John confuses him into explaining “The Reckoning ‘’. This is the event that causes the babies to go to time and unite with their guardians. The meteors that have fallen are the vehicle that get them from the medium to earth. John asks CG to contact him again in a few minutes. This of course pisses CG off, but it’s not like the guy has anything better to do.