Setting: It is the down-town area of Compass City, which is a large bustling city of skyscrapers and busy streets. It has a clean, new and modern look with mountains to the North, a bay to the south, parks, lakes and monuments. It represents an ideal American City.
A bounty hunter is perched on the roof top. He is dressed in green BDUs with a mess of military equipment, gadgets and tools. He has a helmet equipped with night vision goggles, and he is fitted with bullet proof vests and high quality gizmos. The red spider (the symbol of the Anakboot Terrorists) is found all over him. (Imagine a spy, Batman or Ninja gone bad, as that is how he looks and fights.) He loads a chemical filled dart into a gun and aims it. Alloy is on an adjacent roof. He catches Alloy in the crosshairs. Before he can shoot, however, he finds his gun is jammed and stuck to his arm by a mass of pite.
Sketch: “Rennek, Alloy, over here!”
The bounty hunter sweeps a kick, tripping Sketch. He falls off the tall building, only to be caught by the flying Rennek. She heads to the roof-top nearby where Alloy had been and sets Sketch down.
Rennek: “Careful Sketch! We need to stick to the plan. Regroup with Alloy and wait for my signal.”
Rennek leaps into the air and soars toward the bounty hunter.
Sketch shrugs and turns to Alloy.
Sketch: “It’s one of your old friends from the Anakboot Terrorists. I’m guessing he’s trying to take you alive. You have this right?”
Alloy pulls out a couple of large daggers.
Alloy: “He won’t be a problem, but don’t go anywhere.”
He runs and jumps, embedding the blades into the frame of the other building. He starts to climb up to where Rennek and the Bounty Hunter are. Sketch sees him, and takes an elevator to lower levels, nonchalantly.
Rennek faces the man with her fists up bravely.
Rennek: “You are not going anywhere near Alloy, he’s one of us now!”
The bounty hunter jumps to the side and throws a grenade which bursts into a net. Rennek charges into it and becomes partially transparent and it phases through her. She smirks.
Rennek: “Is that your best shot?”
The bounty hunter (with an expression showing his disbelief) pulls out a cross-bow with his free hand, aims and fires. Rennek is too slow to dodge it, but the flash of blades whip through the air. The dart and cross-bow are now in slices on the ground. Alloy returns his swords to their scabbards and blocks a punch from the hunter. He also dodges a kick and cleverly twists both of the hunter’s hands behind his back.
Alloy: “Sketch, I could use some pite to cuff his hands together.”
Rennek: “Sketch?”
Both heroes look for Sketch, but he is nowhere in sight. Sketch is actually on the street, buying a hot dog, with a carefree attitude.
Sketch: “Look, what kind of hot dog stand doesn’t have sauerkraut?”
Back on the roof, the hunter lunges and head-butts Alloy, breaking free. He pulls out another gun and darts toward Rennek, who blasts him with a shot of anti-energy from her hands. This causes the hunter to fall onto the roof, asleep.
Rennek: “I can only keep him asleep for a couple of minutes, but we did it.”
Rennek smiles, and dusts off her hands. Alloy, however, is upset.
Alloy: “No, he came too close that time Rennek…” He turns and speaks to her over his shoulder. “If Sketch keeps this up, I will find a new team.”
The bounty hunter is next seen in hand-cuffs and surrounded by police men, who escort him into a police van. The three heroes don’t seem to be getting along very well. Inaudible conversations with the police and news reporters give way to Rennek’s abstract narration.
Abstract: “My name is Rene. But to the world, I’m Rennek.”
A few people cheer and shout as the bounty hunter is driven down the street. Sketch parades like a rock-star, Alloy hunches and avoids the public attention. Rennek folds her arms offering the occasional wave.
Abstract: “I wasn’t always a super hero. One year ago, I was in my room, doing homework.”
A sepia colored flash back reveals the room of a wealthy teenage girl. Rene is sitting on her bed. (She is really reading a love letter from a classmate.) She looks over her shoulder, curiously. Without warning, she finds her room completely destroyed by strange blue waves. Debris is thrown everywhere, including books, building materials, shredded clothes, etc. She is seen in a dramatic struggling pose.
Abstract: “My Father calls it a space-time tsunami. Ripples in the fabric of reality had converged, and I was caught in the middle.”
From the street, Rene’s parents rushed to their mansion in San Diego, California. Half of it was torn, as if by an explosion. In her front yard, election picket signs reflect her mother’s campaign. They are seen from the back. Her father is dressed in a lab coat.
Abstract: “Sometimes people are just at the wrong place at the wrong time. I was just minding my own business, and in the blink of an eye… My life changed forever.”
From a hospital bed, Rene looked at some visitors. She was bruised and injured looking. They were tall men in black suits and sunglasses. Each of them had badges. One is seen close up. It is the badge for the American League of Heroes.
Abstract: “I was offered the chance to make a difference, to lead the life of a true hero.”
Rene smiled. (Possible Close-up on her face.) At a training facility, she stands across from large targets. She is now in full uniform, being coached by the men and women in black suits. The facility is clean and welcoming, with a United States Military feel. It looks similar to an Air-Force hanger. She takes a shot at them with a blast of purple and sky-blue rayed anti-matter.
Abstract: I can’t change what happened to me, but now…”
Back in full color, Rene flies to her high school. She is next seen leaving a locker room in her normal clothes with a back pack.
“Now I can change the world. My name is Rennek, and I am a Renegade.”
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