#major synapse

In what probably shouldn’t be a routine occurrence, Team Magic is fighting Phantom Blot and Pepper after coming across them trying to drain the portal to the magic evil kelpie golf realm, this time with May, June and Boyd helping. However, partway through something makes Webby and Pepper stop dead in their tracks, blank faced, before running off. Blot and the kids quickly decide to put aside their differences to go after their friends, but are unable to stop them as whatever force is making them leave also prompts them to fight off their pursuers and steal a helicopter.

The group is forced to stop and figure out what to do next both by that and by the fact that Sora and Riku show up, saying the same thing happened to Kairi. Thankfully, Kairi had her phone on her and Boyd is able to use that to track them.

Meanwhile, Webby, Pepper, Kairi, and a duck who looks a lot like Donald make their way into some sort of facility, where they come to their senses just in time to be at the mercy of a long missing missing, thought to be dead FOWL agent by the name of Major Synapse, who says he has big plans for them that he’s been waiting a long time to put into effect.

The heroes and Blot reach the outside of Synapse’s base, which is deep in a forest and is guarded by a pack of massive, fiercely territorial magic-eating rodents called Woozles(yes, from Winnie the Pooh. fite me) that they have to fight through. After they get past those and the lair’s security system, they find Synapse and his prisoners, with Blot being surprised that the other agent is still alive after the SHUSH raids that led to Beakley finding Webby and FOWL being presumed destroyed. As it turns out, Synapse was the head of FOWL’s deep cover division and its psychic division, possessing psychic powers of his own that were amplified by an early version of Gandra’s nanotech.

What Blot wasn’t aware of was that Synapse was also the one who came up with Project 87. Originally, it was meant to be an elite squad consisting of twelve clones of the greatest warriors they could find, all programed with psychic triggers that would give them access to various skill sets and put them under FOWL control, then adopted out as infants into normal lives so SHUSH would never find them until it was too late. Only four clones were ever made; Dapper Duck, aka January, who was based on Donald after a premonition from one of the psychic agents that Donald would one day be the greatest adventurer of all time(he’s also apparently one of Daisy’s exes and kind of a snobby jerk). Pepper and Kairi, who are February and March respectively and were both based on SHUSH agents. And of course Webby, who’s creation prompted Bradford to change the plan of Project 87 so he could use her as the heir of Scrooge McDuck and claim the Papyrus of Binding.

This prompted Synapse to leave FOWL during the raids, believing correctly that even if the organization did survive, Bradford’s obsession with McDuck and denial of his true nature would be FOWL’s eventual downfall. As a result, he wasn’t there to program May and June when they were created.

This happens every time a F.O.W.L agent fails their mission. Based off this vine

Bonus: now he's stuck