Season 5 Episode 12 - God Fearing Child

Xena and Gabrielle are visited by an old friend, Hercules. But as soon as they have greeted each other they are attacked, they manage to fight them off but when Xena kills one they all get a power boost. After a struggle they knock all the creatures out. Hercules reveals that they are Zeus's creation and goes to Zeus to find out what he is doing. Zeus tells him that Xena's unborn baby will bring about the twilight of the gods and so all the gods are trying to kill her and her baby. Hercules tells Xena and so they decide that Xena and Gabrielle will go to the underworld and steal Hades's helmet of invisibility so that Xena can hide, while Hercules goes to find the rib of Cronus, which can kill a god. After a big swim Xena gets to the underworld but gets a shock when she finds her dead son Solan is in Tartarus. She is going to put Solan in Elysian Fields before they leave. Meanwhile Hercules has been attacked by Ares, who has Zeus's permission to kill him. Hercules gets into a bit of trouble when fighting him but then his father's wife, Hera, turns up. Hercules thinks he has to fight them both but Hera actually helps him and then leads him to Cronus's rib. Xena and Gabrielle have found Hades's helmet and fight to get it out of the underworld but things go wrong and Xena has to choice over the Hemet and her son. She helps Solan get into Elysian Fields but loses the helmet, they know they won't be able to get it now and go back to the normal living world. On the way Ares meets Xena and tells her he loves her but Xena doesn't believe him and leaves. When they get back Xena has gone into labor and Zeus is trying to kill her. Hercules fights Zeus and kills him while Xena has her baby. In the end everything works out OK, except Hercules feels bad for killing his father. Xena names her baby Eve, which was suggested to her by Solan when they were in the underworld.