Ruv wakes up the next morning in an unfamiliar bed on the only floor of a small studio apartment in Bastion. He looks around in confusion, muttering to himself, "What the hell did I drink last night..." His brain is a jumbled mess of memories and dreams. Images of bees, honey, flower pollen, and a small, shovel knight flash through his mind as he tries to process what happened and where the hell he is. Realizing he is grasping things in his hands, he flinches and drops them to the bed. A deed of ownership to the apartment flutters down alongside a paintbrush and a vial of shimmering paint.

The camera transitions to a series of blinking vignettes from Ruv's perspective of the previous day.

A giant plant monster grapples with Xoreos, the lion man, as Ruv buzzes through the air as a cloud of bees. The vision is fractured as if through a million lenses, each getting up and personal with the chunks of pollen oozing off the monster. The sounds of Clement, the wizard, casting a spell, followed by the plant suddenly splashing to the ground as an inert painting.

The vision shatters as the thousand lenses of a swarm coalesce into the singular stereo vision of Ruv. Beside him, a small shovel knight pulls itself out of a hastily drawn painting. Nearby, Xoreos grapples with a much larger knight as Rohan gores the knight with the massive horns of the famous Bloose.

The scene fades to black before an arc of lightning breaks through the very air molecules themselves, grounding itself through the shovel knight. Xoreos's words to the knight echo, "Your sacrifice will be legend". Ruv turns to look at what he is doing, as he and the rest of the team attempt to quickly scub away yet another painting. The battle to contain the lightning and reactivate the protective city pylon is intense, as both Clement and Rohan are bloodied as they try to absorb the power of the lightning.

Xoreos and Rohan yell to Ruv and Clement to finish the job as they run off. Ruv is too focused to check, as he and Clement finally save the Pylon from certain destruction using some elbow grease and powerful magic.

Ruv's memories start getting fuzzy... the rest of the memory appears in barely understandable flashes. Xoreos comes flying off a roof and crashes to the ground, carrying a mysterious woman... a paintbrush and a vial of paint seem to disappear...

Ruv looks back at his bed, once again seeing the paintbrush and vial of paint. "Well, that's one mystery solved, I guess. But what the hell have I gotten myself into?" He wonders aloud. A bee alights on his shoulder. He absently pets it before jerking away and turning around.

An entire wall of his apartment is covered in layers of honeycomb and thousands of bees. They all pause as one as Ruv turns his attention to them. Then they start buzzing low and ominously as the camera fades out.

"So you turn into bees?" Reggie says to Ruv in the train car after the heist.

Ruv thinks back on the events of the last hour, shaking his head in wonder. "I'm just as confused as you are..."

It was only a few days ago that Ruv arrived in Bastion, with nothing to his name, his home destroyed by the bloom. The train job was supposed to be easy. Just a ride out to Highcliff and back.

"It's never easy," Ruv mutters to himself as Reggie looks up to see Sal walk past, shaped like a Gorilla.

Soon, Ruv is sitting alone at the Two Silvers Inn, nursing a beer and thinking about bees. Did he really turn into bees? How the hell is that possible! He remembers the moment that the Bluewater thug punched him, hanging off the side of the train. His body seemed to disincorporate around the thug's fists. If it weren't for that explosion, Ruv's not sure he would have ever turned back into himself... Shaking his head, he drains his cup and looks around to see if Sal or Reggie are in the tavern. Maybe they can help him find some answers...