Ray is woken by Tiffany who tells her that the door to the hut is locked. She realizes that Ty or Adam had put her in the hut with Jerome and Tiffany and locked the door from the outside. From opening the window curtain, she can see and hear the red team barging onto blue team camp. They claim their two missing members but Adam tells them that Tiffany and Jerome came to them for help. Both teams decide on a 1v1 battle with a member of each team. Whoever gets their opponent on their knees wins all three: Ray, Jerome, and Tiffany and the Feather. Adam chooses Ty, which stuns Ray, and Jordan chooses Mitch. At this point, she wishes for a way out. The teams put Ty and Mitch into the mini-dome for a short battle. eventually Ty gets Mitch on his knees and explains in brief detail why he needs to kill his opponent. Ray, who is watching the battle from a television screen, realizes that Ty thinks Mitch kidnapped her and now he wants to get revenge. She smashes a window, crawls out, and unlocks the front door for Jerome and Tiffany. They run to the mini-dome but not before they encounter Preston who threatens to put them back in the prison cells. When Ray escapes and continues toward the mini-dome, Preston sends soldiers after her. She finally reaches the mini-dome just when Ty is about the slice Mitch's head off. Even with Adam's disapproval, Ray rushes into the mini-dome and commands that Ty does not go through with his action. She admits that it was not Mitch who captured her. Although blue team is announced victorious, Jordan and Preston request last words with Ray. Adam refuses and forces the red team back to their camp.
Ray and Mitch sneak off to the edge of the border. They find a secret ravine on the blue team, more accessible to Ray and not impossible for Mitch. Brice finds the couple and asks Mitch if he can help him with trouble outside the dome. The trouble comes with a rebel group called the Raiders, currently led by SethBling (Seth), his deputy NoahCraftFTW (Noah), his war leader PeteZahHutt (Pete), his technician TheCampingRusher (Brayden), his soldier trainer PerpetualJordan (Jordan), and his soldiers TheKleinBagel (Sam), ajaX (Matt), boxx3r (Ed), and AussieDard (Dard). Mitch accepts Brice's request and heads back to red team camp, but not before being stopped once again by Brice who tells him about a "king" of the Raiders who almost never shows up with the rest of the group. This one "king" is the worst of them and would do anything to get what he wants. When Mitch leaves, Ray follows Brice back to his home outside of the dome. Brice notices her when he opens his front door but allows her to stay with him as long as she can go home the next morning. Ra falls asleep on Brice's couch.
When she wakes up, Brice is nowhere to be found. There are loud knocks on his door but Ray stays on the couch and listens to the noises outside. She peeks out a window and sees nine boys circled around the front door. One of them, most likely the leader, demands Brice to lead them to the entrance of the dome. This is when Ray realizes this group is the Raiders. As soon as she tries to find an exit from the house, she hears a familiar voice. One of the other Raiders calls this voice "king." Ray takes another peek out ht window, lands her eye on Preston, and in shock, closes the window as fast as she can. Preston confesses indirectly that he is a spy for the Raiders and that they want to take over both sides of the dome. He has been climbing his way to that top and once he kills Jordan, he will take over the red, blue, and eventually lead the Raiders into victory. Ray hurriedly finds a =n escape route in the floor of Brice's house and climbs down its ladder. She finds herself outside the dome and sneaks inside, only to notice that she is on the red team side.
Ray finds Jerome, who had returned to the red team for Mitch, and tells him that something is wrong with Preston. She explains about the Raiders and Preston's plan. Jerome gets notified by Ryan that there was a stranger on red team territory and the soldiers have caught him. Ray is worried that the stranger is Brice but Jerome assures her that if it is, he would give her a vibrating device. When it vibrates, it would tell her that the red team has Brice. She leaves and returns to blue team camp. Because everyone is collecting resources, Ray sneaks into her personal hut and and goes to sleep, only to find the device shaking in her hand several hours later. She exits the hut and finds Jason, who is preparing for yet another battle dome, this time to get their rightfully-won Silver Feather. Ray convinces Jason to let her participate and eventually he has no choice but to accept. She and Jason meet up with Adam, Kermit, Gizzy, and Dan (the other battle dome players). Adam can no longer argue with Ray because he always ends up losing, so he does not complain about her entry. Kermit, on the other hand, warns her of the dangers but she informs him that she'll be fine.
Meanwhile on the red team, Jordan gathers his six-person battle dome group which consists of Ryan, Preston, Mitch, Jerome, Seto, and Rob. Jordan himself decides not to face Adam another time for the moment. Mitch is worried that he'll be the first one to go out but Preston unexpectedly comforts him. Jerome, watching from afar, notices Preston slip him a mis-labeled poison bottle into Mitch's inventory. He figures out the Preston plans to kill his best friend and fool everyone, saying that the other team killed him. That way Jordan will go into a real war, elating Preston to bring his Raiders into the dome. Jerome then sees Ant with an unfamiliar man who says his name is Brice and that he did absolutely nothing. He notifies Ray via the vibrating device and lets Bice escape only on certain conditions: inform Mitch of Preston's plan, exchange the poison for another harmless sleeping potion, and sneak him out when he is supposed to die. Brice accepts, takes Jerome's fake potion, and sneaks away. Jerome adds that no one should know of this back-up plan except him, Brice, and Mitch.
Ray receives another vibration and remembers that the red team has Brice. She decides to ignore it and ask for him once the blue team wins battle dome. The game starts and only Dan gets an out for trying to mine the opponent's base. Gizzy is able to rush the red team's obsidian back to blue team base. At the sam time, Seto brings an obsidian block to the red team base. Although Kermit and Ray notice their obsidian still at base, they ignore it and agree to a tie. This tie includes a random diamond block that has been placed away from spawn. All of the members of the team have to stay together and receive a stack of stone swords, bows, and arrows. Adam leads Jason, Kermit, Gizzy, and Ray (Dan had to stay out) to the edge of the mini-dome to search for the diamond block. On the other side of the dome, Ryan leads the red team toward the center. Rob sees the block but not before Jerome notices Jason looking at the block as well. Both Rob and Jason run to it at the same time. In order to keep his opponent away, Jason shoots an arrow for warning. Preston makes Mitch drink the fake poison and pretends that Jason's arrow hit Mitch. As soon as Preston and Jason get into conflict, Brice, hiding in the bushes, drags Mitch's body outside the mini-dome. Still conscious and alive, Mitch is led by Brice out of the dome to his house. Even though he tries to struggle to tell Ray about the plan, Brice wins. Back in the mini-dome, everyone is still in shock, especially ray. The red team is declared winner because tone of their members was lost in the process. Jordan, watching from outside the mini-dome, enter sand pushes through his team to inform Adam of war. Jerome tries to interject by Jordan does not allow. Adam agrees and reminds the blue team that they did nothing wrong and that Mitch died to other causes. Everyone exits the mini-dome and goes to their respected camps. Jerome sneaks out of the red team camp and finds Ray mourning at the blue team territory ravine. He does not have time to tell her about Mitch and Brice because right next to the ravine, Tiffany, Juice, and Matt are having a secret meeting with Swift, Ian, and Kermit about putting a sop to the war. They have suspicions about Preston and Jason. They also don't know if their team is evil or not. Kermit calls out Jordan as being evil and Tiffany disagrees. She forces the rest sam group back to camp. Swift tries to tell Tiffany, who he has a crush on, that Kermit apologizes for what he said, but Ian takes Swift and Kermit to blue team camp. Ray says goodbye to Jerome and leave the ravine. Dawn worries about Ray leaving camp so often and tells Adam to take extreme measures with her.