Erased

Erased is the second episode of the first season of Star-Forger and the second episode overall. It features the origin of Star-Forger.

Synopsis
Scott tells Matt his origin, while being hesitant to accept his help.

Plot
The episode opens with Scott rejecting Matt's offer of help, with Matt asking why. Scott makes a deal with Matt, stating that if he tells Matt everything that happened to him, then Matt has to leave his hideout. Matt accepts.

A flashback is shown at Cobalt High, as Scott narrates. Scott tells Matt of his episodes of narcolepsy in class, and visions of an abandoned house.

Scott arrives at the abandoned house, slipping and falling into a crater that contains the Star-Forger Device. The device attaches itself to Scott, covering him in a white armor. The device tells Scott that he has been randomly selected by the Kyresian Star-Forgers to safeguard the device.

Scott finds himself unable to deactivate the device, trying several mental triggers, before calming himself and freeing himself from the armor, which is called Combat Mode. Scott finds the symbol of the Star-Forgers burned into his shoulder. Scott says that the dreams and visions stopped after that.

Scott begins to test his powers a few days later, infusing a tennis ball with kinetic energy and smashing through a glass bottle. He also discovers his enhanced speed and agility granted by the device, leaping between entire buildings by draining the energy from some batteries.

Scott then stops a robbery at a convenience store, unsuccessfully, as the thief assumes he is being mugged. Scott then finds an abandoned self-storage facility: Jefferson Self-Storage and converts it into a hideout over the span of a few weeks. He begins to design a new blue costume.

Scott then heads home, receiving a text from his mother to come home. As Scott starts to head home, his phone begins to glitch out.

He sees a giant wave of black mass approaching him. A taxi crashes in front of him before being swallowed by the wave, exploding into a mass of particles. The Star-Forger Device activates, forming the armor around Scott and protecting him before he is also swallowed by the wave.

Scott then wakes up in an alley the next day, with no contacts in his phone. He returns home, finding that it doesn't exist anymore. Scott soon finds out that he has been effectively erased from the timeline, with no record of his existence remaining.

Back in the present, Matt is confused, saying that people would have heard about the wave of black mass if this was true. Scott tells him that nobody remembers that anything abnormal happened except for him, stating that the only reason he is around is because of the Star-Forger Device protecting him.

The Star-Forger Device tells Scott about the wave, calling it a "surge of dimensional energy" with an alien origin. Scott reasons that if he finds the Kyresian Star-Forgers, he can put everything back to normal. The device tells him that the Kyresian Star-Forgers are all dead. Scott then transforms into Combat Mode and destroys a wall in rage, starting to cry.

Back in the present, Scott tells Matt that moment flipped a switch in him. Scott finally finishes a new design, as Combat Mode changes into a blue and gold costume based on his sketch. Scott then renames Combat Mode into "Forger Mode", after the Kyresian Star-Forgers.

Scott then saves a baby trapped under a car wreck in his new costume. A police officer asks who he is, but before he can reply the police radio tells him that a hostage situation is unfolding at Third National Bank, perpetrated by the DEMON Gang.

Scott awkwardly arrives at the bank by breaking in through a window, as the DEMON Gang members begin to laugh at him and his costume. They ask for his superhero name, to which he replies "Star-Forger", making the gang members laugh even harder.

The gang members then attempt to shoot at him, but Scott forms an energy construct of a blade, slicing one of their guns. He then creates a hammer, knocking out two more gang members. The final gang member grabs a hostage, pointing his rifle at him.

Scott is frozen, not knowing what to do until a police officer enters and shoots the last gang member in the shoulder, freeing the hostage. A couple of the hostages are then interviewed by a news crew, with one of them stating that he is only alive because of Star-Forger.

In the present again, Matt asks Scott if he ever wanted to find out what happened to his old existence. Scott tells him that the Chimaera Scout Ship was the only lead he's had in 6 months, but with the incident in Pat's Diner it feels like it's all been for nothing. Matt then leaves, giving Scott a piece of paper with his address on it, telling him to find him there if he ever changes his mind.

Scott then visits Pat Robinson in the hospital, who is happy to see him. Pat tells Scott to stop doubting himself and to stop being alone.

Matt then opens the door to his apartment, seeing Scott standing there with a giant sack of all his belongings from his hideout. Matt asks him if he's going to move in, to which Scott replies yes. Matt tells Scott that he has a spare room. Scott sticks out his hand, asking if they're partners, to which Matt accepts.

Meanwhile, Egos Pr'awn is in outer space, as one of his mechanical servants tells him that the Star-Forger Device has been located. Egos watches footage from the perspective of a Chimaera at the diner, before putting out a bounty on Scott. 5 wanted bounty hunters are shown responding to it.

Modes
Star-Forger
 * Combat Mode/Forger Mode