Banyan went to talk to Sequoia. She was refusing to go to the Spoon side of the Fork with him. 'Well, that went nicely' he thought. What am I to do now?
He tried to sleep, but something kept him up. That was a vision of Sequoia dying in childbirth. He now had to go to President Ponderosa to save Sequoia.
He went with him, but when he came in, he saw him looking at Weasel stuff. So he was the mysterious Black Maple.
"You are Black Maple! You are a Weasel Lord, you work on treachery!"
"Anyway, it doesn't matter, does it? Do you want to save Sequoia?"
"Yes."
"Then come with me to the Spoon side of the Fork." Banyan Foxtail bowed and he was then named Black Oak.
"Come to Texas. I will meet you there."
"Yes Master."
Meanwhile, Tamarack was looking for his ship when he got back report from the Council.
"Master Tamarack Subalpine?"
"Yes, Master Osage Osier?"
"DO NOT COME BACK TO NEW YORK. WE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING. THE LARCHES HAVE TURNED BACK AGAINST US. GO TO TEXAS. THERE YOU WILL FIND BANYAN FOXTAIL. HE IS ON THE VERGE OF GOING TO THE SPOON SIDE OF THE FORK. RESCUE HIM. YOU ARE THE HOPE OF THE ALLIES. DO NOT FAIL US, GORILLA MASTER TAMARACK SUBALPINE. YOU ARE OUR ONLY HOPE."
Could this be true? The fox he had been training for the past 18 years was going to the Spoon side of the Fork? This was impossible he thought. But he was wrong. All of that training, lectures, missions, practices, rescues, and times together really meant nothing at all. Banyan Foxtail was going to the Spoon side of the Fork, unless Tamarack Subalpine could turn him back. He was the only hope. Would it work? Could he turn him back?