[Environment: Destroyed city outskirts, broken buildings, fog in the air]
Shintaro (serious tone):
"Follow behind me. It'll take around 20 minutes from here to the port."
Ziro:
"Ok, we will do as you say."
---
Sudden
Shintaro vanishes in the air
Wooshh!!
Ziro (panicking)"Ghost!!!!!!!!!!!"
Jamal (eyes wide) "I told you! It wasn't human—we're fucked!!!!!!!!!"
Ziro (crying)"Mommy help ??!?!?!!??!!!"
Jamal (screaming)"HELL NO—I DON'T WANNA DIE—I NEED TO DELETE MY SEARCH HISTORY FIRST!!!??!!"
Ziro (confused)"Heh?"
Jamal (awkward) "Heh?"
"What?"
Jamal (looking away)"Nothing..."
"I did hear something though."
"I said—I don't wanna die..."
Ziro (annoyed face)"You little...."
---
Shintaro, jogging effortlessly through debris-strewn roads
[Internal Monologue]
"I've already lost too much time in inspection... I didn't think I'd get tangled up with survivors. My task was to eliminate the surroundings danger and report to the Corps Commander."
[ close-up of his face—calm, calculating]
"I should apologize to the commander for the delay..."
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Shintaro (thinking)
"Why are they so silent... Are they afraid?" Yeah, this environment isn't normal they must be lost of words I should say something to make them comfortable.
Shintaro (turns)
"Hey...."
(Beat)
"Ah—where are they?"
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[Inside Kamal's house—dim light]
Ziro (sitting, tense)"What should we do now?"
Jamal (tired)"How should I know?! That ghost guy was probably lying—we're really fucked!"
Ziro (shaking)
"But... what if this isn't real? What if we're just hallucinating?"
Jamal (hopeful eyes)
"Then... we just need to search for others, right?"
Ziro (voice cracking)
"You think so too, right? It must be a lie... that everyone's dead..."
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[Door swings open—Shintaro enters]
Shintaro~
"Stop with your imaginary reality and can you guys just come with me it's getting way too late now."
Jamal (shrieks)"AHHH!!! GHOST!"
SLAP!
"Shut up, will you?"
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Ziro (troubled expression, nervous chuckle)"Oh well, where did you go? We were looking for you..."
Shintaro (stern)
"Stop with those faces. You know what reality is now. Didn't you guys checked the mail that we published in the earth network?? Why are you two so dumbfounded???Why weren't you running?"
Jamal (tongue-tied)
"Y-you just van—how sh-we fol—"
Shintaro:
"What?"
Ziro (translating)
"He said you just vanished! How could we follow you?" And we didn't get any mail though but we did saw some welcoming stuff...a bloody welcome...
--
ahh, those lunatic must have done something but there should have been a mailbox for information about present situation and [Shintaro (coldly)]
"Did you guys really not realize you're survivors?"
"This planet was swallowed five hours ago. Many beings that survived are roaming around—and you two can't even run?"
Jamal:
"It's not that we can't run... It's you who's too fast to even see!" If you didn't came back we are sure about that you were a ghost .....
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Ziro:
"We just woke up and saw something was wrong... It was night time. How would we know when things went wrong?"
[Shintaro stares at them disappointedly]
"Listen carefully. You're survivors. You're not normal humans anymore. You should've realized that by your body muscles by now..."
Ziro (looking at Jamal)
"Well, I think you're right. This fatso wasn't this slim before..."
Jamal (insulted)
"Hey! Talk for yourself! You were a candy stick before, now I can't tell what tablet you took to bulk up!"
"What? I was always muscular!"
Jamal opened his phone's front camera -
Ziro - I think I was little thin before hehe...
"Stop. Can you two focus?"
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Ziro & Jamal (saluting comically)
"Yes!!!"
Shintaro:
"You've learned your bodies have changed. Your senses and capabilities too. Push your limits—you'll feel it."
"Let's just get out of here."
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[Outside, broken city road. Debris, wind, dead silence]
Ziro - holly shit!! I won't be surprised if some zombie came out of somewhere now..
For real man... This whole town is like some zombie apocalypse..
Shintaro:
"Try this. Run—as fast as you can."
Ziro & Jamal (excited)
"Okay, sir! Here we go—don't blink!"
Ziro:
"Haaaa!!!!!!!"
Jamal (laughing)
"I feel like I have superpowers now! Look how fast I am!"
---
[Shintaro's POV watching them—slow motion. They are comically slow.]
Shintaro (deadpan inner monologue):
"They're slower than a snail..."
Ziro (panting)
"Sir... did you... huh... see us? How fast were we?"
Shintaro (dry tone)
"Yeah. I'm just thinking how to apologize to the commander."
---
Shintaro:
"I'll just walk fast. You two run behind me. Don't get too far."
Ziro:
"Ah... Ok..."
[They continue running, clearly exhausted but trying hard and shintaro was walking and scouting the surrounding ]
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ziro(inner thought) fuck man!! I'm at my limit now I think I will just collapse at any moment but what the hell is this monster guy just walking?? Is this the power or evolution gap between us??
Jamal (about to faint)
"Sir... can we take a small break?"
[Shintaro glares like death itself]
"...Yeah. You two should rest a bit."
Ziro (panic)
"No no sir—we are youthful! We can run day and night if you want, hehe! Right Jamal?"
Jamal:
"Yes sir! I was just checking if you were tired walking with us! Let's continue—like Usain Bolt!"
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BOOM!!
[A building collapses violently in the distance. Dust cloud rising.]
Shintaro (tense)
"Stay here. I'll be back."
Fwoosh! (Shintaro vanishes again.)
jamal here he goes again well I will just rest man. ugh..my leg..
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Ziro (wide-eyed)
"What was that sound? What happened there?"
Jamal (sitting)
"I don't know, man. I'll just rest... I'm too tired of running..."
[Ziro thinks silently, looking toward the destruction.]
---
[collapsed building—mutated monster appears, like a massive regenerating lizard]
Shintaro (narrowing eyes):
"That thing... I expected a mutant, but this? Like a lizard... survived through regeneration."
"well Not my problem. The research team will figure it out."
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Ziro (hiding far, peeking)
"I was curious to see what was it but What is that... It's terrifying! I'll die if I get close or even make eye contact... I need to run...run I need get out of here but I can't move a single muscle..."
---
Kyaaaaaa!!!
[A girl's scream. A silhouette visible under debris.]
Shintaro (eyes widening)
"What !? There's a woman underneath! It's dangerous I need to save her."
(Notices movement)
"Ziro?!! HEY—DON'T RUN..HEY YOU HEAR ME DON'T RUN TOWARDS IT! IT'S DANGEROUS!"
---
[Ziro's body trembles—but he started running not in the back but front, he charges forward]
"Ziro was freezing but when he suddenly heard the scream and saw the girl."
he moved...!
"Not in backwards but Infront... towards the monster. He didn't think about a monster was Infront of him ... "
(Internal Monologue)
"I need to go—I need to save her—I need to save my friend... Riya..."
---
[In past flashback Younger Ziro laughing with school friends. Smiles, warmth, joy.]
"He is a loner, he didn't enjoy life that much.
In family he didn't standout much as other kids. He lived an introvert life but it wasn't the same always..."
"He did enjoy his past where he had friends to share, to laugh, to have fun,to care for each other."
He never ever thought of his friends as friends .He made bonds that are even closer to blood related brother and sisters..."
"But time separated them. After school, they hardly met again..."
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Ziro (expression fierce, heart pounding)
"I never thought of them as just friends... They were my brothers and sisters."
"Now, I've found one of them again."
Thud thud thud (his sprint growing louder)
"He ran like crazy to save the precious one friend Infront of him.
When the world got swallowed he lost hope of seeing anyone he knew previously
but
it's an opportunity to say ,
"hi" again to a person he knew.."
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[TO BE CONTINUED]