Lt. Hobbes is sent by the military into their virtual reality world of "Harsh Realm" to assassinate rogue-soldier-turned-game's-dictator Omar Santiago, but Hobbes' rogue predecessor, Mike Pinocchio, warns Hobbes that the game is a trap.

Bounty hunters capture Hobbes and Pinocchio. Sophie searches for the truth after being told Hobbes is dead.

Hobbes and Pinocchio seek out an ID chip forger in hopes of accessing a portal used to bridge both worlds.

Hobbes and Pinocchio find themselves trapped in a looping World War II battle simulation, where the German and the US units are forever fighting over a small bridge in the Ardennes. They soon meet another real player stuck there.

As his real mother dies of cancer, Hobbes meets and nurses her dying counterpart in one of Santiago's forced labor camps in Harsh Realm. Pinocchio tries to come up with an escape plan.

Hobbes finds himself trapped in a minefield with one of Santiago's soldiers. A holy order of female healers cares for Pinocchio after he loses his leg and becomes suicidal. Florence is captured by a bounty hunter who's after the healers.

Hobbes and Pinocchio attempt to stop Santiago as he attempts to kill the leader of the Native American uprising.

Hobbes and Pinocchio get involved with a priest and two families feuding over a treasure of buried gold.