Ciem - Anarteq: Kahoopiliana

Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana (roughly Hawaiian for "Before the Cinders Fall") is...

Plot
It's now March of 2016. Miriam has had her adventures as Sniperbadger; but the whole Flippo family is still dealing with the fallout of the Hebbleskins' attempt five months prior to capture Gerosha.

No one seems to have suffered for it worse than Candi. To save her family from the diabolical Kirby Act, she had to be the fall girl in court. Still in juvie, and still agonizing over the miscarriage of her daughter, Candi prepares to enter the SCALLOP Mission Furloughs Program - to resume her Centhuen Prototype hero work should the situation arise that the world needs her to be Ciem again.

To make matters even worse for Candi: Darius Philippine has reneged on his promise to leave her family alone if she agreed to go to prison! Imaki can still get his green card; but he and Erin have both lost custody of Candi. Erin risks also losing custody of Miriam and Marina, as her past acts of negligence have been exposed to CPS.

Candi will need to find a new family to adopt her - somehow - if she wishes to ever get out of prison before age 19, per IDOC policy for juvenile inmates. Worse: she will need to have her cellmate Nancy communicate with Imaki, since Candi and Imaki can no longer contact one another directly!

Madison Juvenile has sivler linings, however. Nancy has developed a new "Forfica" suit and some long-range and armor-dissolving equipment for Candi, in the event of upgraded enemies making her dart shooters ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;

To become Ciem again officialy, and quasi-legally, Candi needs to go to court and sign some paperwork. Meanwhile, she and Madison superintendent Bruce Almin try to keep hidden from other authorities the fact that corrections officer Paul "Goatgruff" Driveway has seized her old equipment from her "Proto" suit in lockup, and is now using it to become a more effective vigilante on the side.

Not all the action is concentrated around Madison, however. In a bid to get parole for Jissika, Izzy has been sent on a mission from SCALLOP to take a flash drive of data to Hawaii. The Sodality Church has managed to infiltrate an Icy Finger info center, and stolen a list of plans. Problem: they're encoded, in Hawaiian! To decode the drive, and discern what Rappaccini's real plan is, Anarteq must travel to Hawaii, and convince Pakulihi "Kamohoalii" Lekaho to offer his insights.

What the old shark lord fears most: that the real plan may be Ka Kaiakahinali'i Lua: the Second Great Flood (of Fire)! Rappaccini is willing to nearly destroy the world, just to conquer the multiverse!

The Order of the Oraphim believes that Prontchika, a demonness and rival of Cherinob on par with Astirnah, is the Manifest that is hiding deep in the volcanoes of Hawaii: the one the ancients worshiped as Pele! Worse: several Volcanist's Rubies have gone unaccounted for by the Order, and it's believed the Icy Finger has them!

There are rumors that a necklace has been seen near an eruption in the Pacific, being wielded by what was believed to be a Screwworm agent. That necklace? The "Heart of Pele." But if unleashing Pele's wrath is Rappacini's goal, then where? Worse: The Screwworms have figured out that there's a Sodality Church operation near Madison, and are hungry for revenge! And to make matters worse yet: there are rumors that several Icy Finger baddies impersonating Hawaiian deities have been spotted on the islands, out to set a trap for Kamohoalii! While Anarteq and Nemara have to save Hawaii with the old shark lord's help, it will take Ciem and Goatgruff to defend the Sodality Church near Madison - as it helps them try to learn where Rappaccini intends to strike with the Heart of Pele - and through whom! But can the last part of this mystery be discerned before it's too late?

What the Order, the Sodality Church, and the Last Legs all know for certain is this: they are now in Kahoopiliana: the time before the cinders fall!