Volkonir, season 2

Synopsis
Gwirmalesh immediately starts taking Hoshijo's advice after the respite is up. He plants a female spy into HanomCorp, and attempts to use her to seduce Hanom and expose Team Volkonir's operations. However, she is revealed to be a monster in disguise and is later defeated in battle by Volkonir. Gwirmalesh turns a determined runaway drug runner from the Modi Crime Family into a dragon, in order to tear apart Bozeman; and he hopes this will force Team Volkonir to expose themselves. However, Vantina sacrifices herself to prevent this. The team begin recovering more relics, including a Cortascian spear that was hidden in the Deep South.

As the finishing touches on the merger are being made, the team must make a trip to Japan. However, not everyone is entirely pleased to meet Hanom and his three underlings. The founder of Sorisenshi has his own underling: Masato Yoneda. Masato and Vinny are encouraged to get to know each other, given they serve "similar purposes." Hanom also learns that his Japanese business partners have found their own way to combine things with the Tapestry. In spite the exercises, Vinny and Masato don't entirely trust each other at first.

Gwirmalesh realizes that some of the equipment that could be most critical to his success is now in Japan, and sends the monster Seirsionnach to impersonate a Japanese kitsune and lure a curious Masato into a trap. Masato's confusion about Cortascian politics is further revealed when he discovers where Tarantrum is hiding. Believing Tarantrum is still evil, Masato mogrifies into the Spectral Hare Cortascian Samurai and confronts the half-reformed monster. Volkonir assumes his Golden Lion Knight armor and attempts to be a mediator between the two - preventing Masato from needlessly murdering Editrab.

However, Editrab is confused as to why Volkonir would act as a friend; especially since Editrab had previously brought Volkonir only misery. Editrab uses Masato's anger, confusion, and all-out arrogance as an opportunity to escape to Canada to hide, while Volkonir attempts to explain the situation and calm down the misguided Masato. Still initially resentful of Volkonir, Masato comes around to Volkonir's point of view after the latter saves him from Seirsionnach's trap. Seirsionnach, having become sensitive to the Percolation Wave, uses it to send himself and his newly-allied adversaries back in time in a Dromedeverse pocket dimension. Seirsionnach recruits the power-hungry and vain mayor of an ancient Chinese city to be his ally, bestowing EccentriaCore power links to the mayor to make him think he's become a god. In order to undo Seirsionnach's magic and return home, Vinny and Masato have to win over the townsfolk to resisting the mayor. They do this by convincing local exorcist Ki-Cho not to commit suicide, in spite the mayor having bullied him and publicly humiliated him into considering it. Ki-Cho is hesitant to trust a Japanese man at first, but gives in when Volkonir uses Selshon to generate an ice shield and stop the mayor from kidnapping Ki's fiancee Lan. Lan follows up by summoning plant life to attack the mayor, while turning some of his guards into flowers. She reveals that she has been bound to a "Fae Core" since she was a toddler, when she was visited by a terrifying purple demon. With the mayor defeated, Seirsionnach tries to take over all of China - with plans to conquer Japan next. Ki and Lan team up with Vinny and Masato to thwart Seirsionnach, as Hanom teams up with heads of Sorisenshi to reconstruct the energy wave patterns of Seirsionnach's access to the Percolation Wave in order to invent a device that will allow them to send reinforcements and recover their friends. Kayla is able to arrive with some Sorisenshi personnel to supply modern weapons and vehicles, taking out Seirsionnnach's minions. Ki and Lan ultimately sacrifice themselves to weaken Seirsionnach. This enables Vinny, Kayla, and Masato to finish him off. They return home confident that the merger of Sorisenshi and HanomCorp will be successful, and that Gwirmalesh has suffered a major setback.

Editrab sends Team Volkonir an e-mail from Canada, informing them of his intentions to lay low. The alliance formed between the Golden Lion Knight and Spectral Hare Samurai effectively seal the business deal between HanomCorp and Sorisenshi, making new Hanom Sorisenshi Global LLC an umbrella organization comprised of the two companies. Sorisenshi is given the option further to eventually become the singular name of the conglomerate in five years' time.

News of Volkonir and his allies growing larger in number (and more powerful) does not sit well with a frustrated Gwirmalesh. He grabs what he can from Japan, then has most of his forces pull out and return to Chestnut Mountain. Back home, Team Volkonir find that their old and familiar problems still await them in spades. Slaughterquin proves an evasive enemy, one who makes it extremely difficult for Volkonir and his friends to maintain their cover.

A team of US Marshals in the area begin connecting the dots, and conclude that HanomCorp is hiding the Golden Lion Knight. Making matters worse, Marzwhatti's sister Ezhnelli returns to avenge him. The Marshals recruit a team of intelligent cons to assist in the capture of a psycho killer named Darrien Typeray, but the killer captures several members of the team. Realizing that Kayla used to know Darrien, the remaining team blackmail Team Volkonir into replacing the cons on the mission to capture Darrien. However, Darrien sells his allegiance to Gwirmalesh in exchange for the power to crush all of his and Gwirmalesh's common enemies.

Gwirmalesh turns the fugitive into a monster called Sluggien, whose reign of terror in Bozeman puts both HanomCorp and the team of Marshals in jeopardy - along with everyone else. Sluggien eventually steals Selshon and uses it to commit seppuku on himself, after Volkonir briefly gains the upperhand in battle. He activates the "Burn" mode on Selshon to ensure that as he jumped off a ledge and hit the ground below, he'd explode and destroy whatever else was down there. Volkonir is able to recover Selshon and repair damage to the sword; but the heroes' operations are nearly blown wide open to the FBI.

Gwirmalesh suddenly realizes that exposing too much of what HanomCorp and Team Volkonir are doing in this fashion too soon could backfire - by exposing the Gwirdons' own operations beneath Chestnut Mountain. He decides to risk things without Hoshijo's help one more time, by sending Strumpule to destroy Bozeman where Sluggien failed. Strumpule is eager to resume his reign of terror, still boasting of having slain Reelo Rumastik long ago.

It takes most of Volkonir's upgraded arsenal to finally defeat the dragon. However, this defeat produces a massive amount of explosions and a dragon corpse in the streets of downtown Bozeman. The team of Marshals that worked with Team Volkonir once before are forced to recant a promise made to keep what they witnessed with Team Volkonir a secret, as they feel it is no longer even possible anyway.

Realizing that their ability to operate covertly through HanomCorp might be at an end, Vinny and Kayla become officially engaged. They decide that if nothing else, they at least can ride out the upcoming storm in the knowledge that they have each other. In spite praying for direction earlier that evening, the two of them become overly charmed in each other's presence. In the heat of the moment, they consummate their relationship. Meanwhile, Hoshijo begs an audience with Gwirmalesh. He promises the Gwirdon king a deal that will allegedly finally destroy Volkonir and his friends once and for all - and guarantee Gwirmalesh's conquest of the multiverse.

Episodes

 * 1) Golden Lion, Take Flight!
 * 2) Of Vampires and Dragons
 * 3) Office Romance
 * 4) Sorority Spear
 * 5) Knight and Samurai, Part 1
 * 6) Knight and Samurai, Part 2
 * 7) Knight and Samurai Part 3
 * 8) Onryo of the Opera
 * 9) Voluntary Mannequin Slaughter
 * 10) Breakout Kayla
 * 11) Sluggien's War, Part 1
 * 12) Sluggien's War, Part 2
 * 13) Return of Strumpule
 * 14) Right Timing