3. Arrears in Science

Complete story — includes the ending

The man in the Blue Morpho costume reveals himself to be Vendata and the shaking of the tower causes the Venture logo to fall onto the entrance, sealing everyone inside. The shaking stops when Vendata plugs himself into the PROBLEM light so he can talk to Jonas. Various parties recount the story of the Blue Morpho. Blue Morpho obeyed Jonas because he was blackmailed with a sex tape, and Jonas had his wife "swing by my compound" when she was having trouble conceiving. When she became pregnant, Jonas took Kano as payment. After Blue Morpho died in a plane crash, Jonas made his remains into a cyborg, but Kano was forced to kill him after he tried to strangle Rusty while malfunctioning. Dr. Z found him and reprogrammed him into the evil Vendata, who was taken by Red Death to hijack a movie night on Gargantua-1, where Jonas caught him trying to broadcast the sex tape. He told Vendata that he was the Blue Morpho, prompting Vendata to open the bay doors, killing Jonas. After Brock beat him up in Don Hell's club, he regained fragments of his memory and walked to Newark, putting on his old costume and seeking out Jonas. Back in the present, the Action Man has a stroke and Pete uses the lobby's shrink ray to get Team Venture out of the tower. The Monarch breaks in, planning to kill Blue Morpho to clear his name. His presence distracts Blue Morpho and he addresses him as "Malcolm", prompting Jonas to seize him with the light's tendrils. Blue Morpho engages his thrusters and they fatally crash. The Monarch addresses Blue Morpho as "daddy?" and claims he killed both men when the Guild arrives. Post-credits scene: At the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Team Venture discusses the health of the Action Man, who is in a coma. A balloon of a young Rusty gets loose and flies away.