After discovering the former laboratory site of Dr. Mitchell Carter, Sheena and Dr. Robert Devine work hard on his time dilation project. Through experimentation ups and downs, Mendelsohn joins the team helping them along. While Sheena deals with bad dreams and traumatic flashbacks, she makes a commitment to her new love before venturing into a portal to save Cutter.

Portals keep opening up in the LaMistas. Kaia artifacts are getting stolen left and right. Matt and Sheena investigate to find science abused for greed by a mercenary, and one of them will fall victim when a scientific experiment goes awry.

A year has passed since Matt Cutter fell through a portal opened by Dr. Carter's time dilation accelerator. Mendelsohn is trying to keep Cutter Unlimited afloat after Matt's disappearance, which he faults Sheena for. Sheena, guilt-stricken, has moved to a new life in the Mitumba Mountains. Dr. Devine enters with a prospect that gives hope to possibly retrieving Cutter.

A king who has been asleep for centuries wakes up, and Sheena and Matt Cutter confront him, only to both be cursed.

N'Akili returns to the LaMistas with a plan to restore his home village and help other victims of its original demise, and asks Sheena and Matt Cutter to help him. Matt is hesitant, and Sheena picks up on it. In the meantime, Matt gets a new client that is surprisingly connected to the story.

Sheena: Cutter overhears Mendelsohn telling Sheena about a true hero. Drabble.