Fortnite Season 8 comes to an end on December 5, meaning we're just a few short weeks away from another epic finale. This time, the chaos of a season-ending event may be magnified tenfold, as credible rumors suggest that Fortnite Chapter 3 is just around the corner. For now though, we'll deal with only what we saw this season. The end of Season 8 is approaching. Here's everything that's happened in the war with the cubes.

Slone's betrayal

During Operation: Sky Fire, IO boss Doctor Slone recruited loopers to help end the alien threat once and for all. The uneasy feeling about Slone's season-long alliance with players proved to be merited in the end; after she felt she had dispatched the aliens for good by arming a massive bomb, she turned on players, leaving them to die in the explosion.

Instead, the alien Mothership was revealed to be some sort of storage facility for countless cubes, a sentient race of beings we first saw in Fortnite way back during Chapter 1 when Kevin The Cube was introduced. Even today we don't know exactly how these cubes work, but we know they saved loopers on the Mothership that day, even as that seems to have been a byproduct of their true intentions: to take over the island.