During an early migration, after being separated from his colony, Shade ends up on an island and meets Marina, who explains that her colony banished her after she was banded. Shade suggests that Marina should meet Freida.
Orestes frees Shade and Marina, and they escape from the group of owls. After Orestes forces the bats to leave the power station, Goth gets electrocuted and falls unconscious.
Shade and Marina meet Ursa and suggest that she defend the animals from the wolves after a bear cub's mother is murdered. Goth kills a crow, while regaining consciousness.
At the mountains, Shade and Marina save a group of banded bats from Goth and Throbb, who steal the rest of the bands. Meanwhile, the colony arrives at the airport.
After Romulus banishes Remus at the junkyard, Shade and Marina reunite with Orestes. As the colony and Bathsheba leave, Ariel, Frieda and Mercury escape from the airport.
As Shade, Marina, and Orestes arrive at Hibernaculum, Shade reunites with his colony. Goth and Throbb recruit the wolves. And Bathsheba asks Brutus to remove Shade from the colony.