Slipstream Dream

Slipstream Dream is Volume 4 of Accel

Summary
Professor Schmitz is briefed on Daniel's arrival to the research facility where Daniel questions the possibility of the Stream killing him. After a very technical explanation of what the Stream is doing to his brain, they simplify it as the Stream is slowly taking over his body starting with his brain.

Mister Glazz continues to rally the troops against George to find out who George is.

Meanwhile, George finds himself in a meeting with Kobe, Maceface and Barrage where George orders them to kill Daniel.

Monica and Buzz are at a bar talking about the breakup as Monica implies that she knows that George is trying to become the next big criminal.

Daniel is hooked up to a machine so the research facility can see what's wrong with him. During the research, Dr. Schmitz gets a heart attack and during the defibrillation, the Fuzz makes it's return from Schmitz pacemaker, killing Schmitz. Althea remembers the Fuzz from Antarctica and aims to take it down again only for the Fuzz to have gotten bigger since then.

Taking the Fuzz down again with a frequency blast, it retreats back into Schmitz pacemaker, possessing his corpse and chasing Daniel. Althea tells Daniel to lure the Fuzz/Schmitz into the vaccuum on level 3 where it's destroyed but not before Danny finds himself in the Stream yet again.

After the Fuzz is destroyed, Althea notices Danny's body glowing.

Monica encounters Arthur and apologizes for their last encounter where she accosted him for spying on her when Arther explains to her that George wants Danny dead now that they've broken up.

Back at the research facility, the researchers and Althea try to talk about what they're going to do now that Schmitz is dead. Althea mentions to Danny (who's now starting to display pieces of the stream floating around his body) that she's going to have to run more tests to understand specifically what's going on with him in which Danny runs out of the building and back to his job in hopes to get away from everything.

In order to hide the floating stream, he wears a hoodie at work that gets him fired from his job. Buzz gets fired after saying he has a problem with it and while trying to hide out at home, his grandmother barges into his room to look for him. After a discussion between his mother and grandmother, they leave while Danny hides in a pile of clothes.

Maceface, Barrage and Kobe kill a diner full of people to draw out Accel, it doesn't work and while eating, they discuss what their plans are for when they find him.

Mister Glazz finds out about George Hayes and plans to go on the attack.

Althea encounters Daniel who's slightly getting more in tune with the stream before Maceface, Kobe and Barrage show up on TV demanding to be recognized as "the new face of crime" while holding some accountants hostage.

Danny intervenes and during the fight, he almost becomes completely in tune with the stream which slows him down during his fight with Kobe after Kobe incapacitates an overzealous Barrage, however, Althea indirectly assists Danny for a second wind which causes Kobe and Maceface to retreat.

After the fight, Glazz discusses Hayes getting tried and arrested for his conspiracy to the events that happened prior complete with footage by Monica of George admitting everything to Arthur.

George ends up in prison with Barrage and Mister Glazz rejoices in his victory with Maceface and Kobe.

Meanwhile, Danny and Buzz hang out at the beach before Danny looks back on everything that happens and is just happy it's all over for the time being.

Characters

 * Dr. Schmitz
 * Althea Morrison
 * Daniel Dos-Santos
 * Mister Glazz
 * George Hayes
 * Maceface
 * Barrage
 * Kobe
 * Monica Hayes
 * Buzz
 * The Fuzz
 * Arthur Bell