[OPENING SCENE — SKYVAULT CITY, DAYBREAK]
Alarms wail. Emergency lights flicker. Drones scatter above the West Skyrail.
A police drone is engulfed in flames. The Savage Bratz have struck again—this time in broad daylight. They've hijacked a cargo tram packed with high-grade tech.
Citizens run screaming as masked thugs mount hoverbikes, firing crude energy pistols into the sky. One carries a plasma torch; another lugs a container marked SHIELDCORE: COMPRESSION TANK.
Brat Leader (shouting):
"Clear the road! Bratz own the Vault now!"
A Brat fires at a news drone. It explodes in a burst of light.
[SCENE — VAN HQ, COMMAND FLOOR]
Kael (shouting):
"Deploy. Now."
Aurix:
"You've got full authority. Capture is priority—especially Krakk if he shows."
Tari:
"I'll set up from the high line. Starfield pattern locked."
Jax:
"Oh it's a Bratz day? Someone hand me a playlist."
Echo-7:
"Uploading chaos map. Intercept routes preloaded."
Kael:
"Let's move, Vanguards."
[SCENE — WEST SKYRAIL BRIDGE]
The Vanguards descend like thunder. Kael leads, cloaked in heat shimmer. Yuna rides vines of psychic bloom. Echo-7 glitches through streetlights. Jax lands with a sonic quake.
Tari positions on a distant spire, already locking targets with her Nova Lance.
Kael (igniting Inferblade):
"Scatter. Clean and fast."
Jax:
"Let's rattle their bones."
[FULL BATTLE SEQUENCE BEGINS]
Kael slices through two Bratz, his fire pulsing with resolve. One tries to shoot a hostage—Kael intercepts, scorching the barrel mid-air.
Yuna forms blooming shields around fleeing civilians, vines lashing out and binding a thug to a pillar. Her eyes flash violet as she senses residual trauma in the air.
Yuna:
"These people were bait. This isn't just a robbery."
Jax charges through a row of crates, using sound punches to knock down four thugs. He throws one off the bridge — safely caught by a hovering police net.
Jax:
"Thank your lucky beats!"
Echo-7 jumps between vehicles, projecting a digital clone to bait fire while hijacking the gang's hoverbikes mid-motion.
Echo-7:
"Bike's mine. Helmet's mine. Face… ew, no thanks."
Tari rains pinpoint cosmic bolts from above. Every sigil-marked shot cracks with stellar force. She tags a brute trying to lift the Shieldcore tank.
Tari:
"Target neutralized. Confirming containment."
[SCENE — BRIDGE CENTER, KAEL VS BRAT CAPTAIN]
Kael confronts a larger Brat — cybernetically enhanced, wielding shock batons. The two clash in brutal melee, sparks and flame swirling.
Brat Captain:
"You're just dogs of the floating palace!"
Kael (dodging):
"And you're roaches playing king."
Kael drives the Inferblade through the brute's chest plate, disables him, and cuffs him to a railing.
[SCENE — BACK ALLEYS NEAR BATTLE ZONE]
Veya watches from above, sniper rifle holstered. She's not needed—but she records every move.
Veya (comms):
"Team performed flawlessly. Still no Krakk in sight. This was a decoy."
[SCENE — KRACK'S HIDEOUT, UNKNOWN LOCATION]
Krakk watches footage of the failed heist, furious.
Krakk:
"They're stronger. Faster. Coordinated. But I've got something they don't."
He slams a button. A monitor displays a schematic of VAN HQ — detailed floorplans, weak points, encrypted channels.
Krakk:
"We break their home. Then we break them."
[FINAL SCENE — VAN HQ BRIEFING ROOM, EVENING]
The team returns, bruised but victorious. Civilians are safe. The tech is recovered. But Kael stands silently at the window, watching the skyline.
Kael (low voice):
"This wasn't their real move."
Yuna:
"They wanted our attention. And they got it."
Tari:
"Next time, we go hunting."
The camera pans to a flickering light near the edge of HQ — a blinking red mark no one notices yet.
[TO BE CONTINUED]