The Juveniles - Segment 2

Chapter 1 - Izanami's Welcome

EXT. APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS NOVEMBER 20, 2019 - 7:57 AM

The forest surrounding the headquarters are quiet, coming back to the serene landscape of the Appalachian Mountains. A herd of deers frolic around the grass, finding food to provide for themselves and their young ones. This forest has been preserved by forest rangers and environmentalists who love to sustain nature to prevent climate change. The headquarters remain standing tall and wide, covered by advanced cloaking systems just make the forest less suspicious, like an old scary house in the middle of a peaceful neighborhood.

The mother deer, or doe in a scientific term, picks up the fresh red berries and gently gives it to her daughter, a fawn. Abruptly, their peace is interrupted by a pack of wolves. The young deer cower behind her mother, still carrying the berries with its mouth. The mother stands in front of the young deer in hopes of sacrificing herself to give the baby some time to run.

The wolves prowl in a straight horizontal line, cornering them with no way to run and ready to pounce. The alpha wolf, having black fur orders the charge altogether. Then came a blue bolt flies straight into the wolves then crashes on a nearby boulder, killing them in one-hit. The light dissipates, showing a knocked down Alo, getting up on his feet. He cracks his knuckles and summons his shock gloves, then sprints towards the unknown threat.

The mother deer and the baby deer look each other in confusion.

EXT. COURTYARD

Johan takes cover behind a perfectly created wall, under fire by Com-Bots. She takes an arrow and cuts an opening within the wall and start shooting the robots one by one with extreme accuracy on her arrows. Two turrets sneakily pop behind her, only to be ripped apart by Alo, grabbing their guns and walks up to Johan. "How many?"

"25.", she fires another arrow, landing a hit on one of the robot's explosive core, destroying other robots with it. "18. 6 on all fronts. We're surrounded.", she informs him before a shot lands on her forehead, knocking her out.

"Shit!", he peeks over at the side, the bots approaching the wall. Firing the turret guns on his hands but could not aim properly because of the alcohol already consumed his body, one of his weaknesses. The robots, however, destroyed it rendering the boxer gun-less.

"Let's see if they can adapt this.", he knocks over the wall, becoming a clear target for all the 18 bots, but generates the same barrier he did back at the airport unconsciously, but instead of kicking it towards the bots, he wraps himself around it, making a makeshift armor, although his body could only take so much electrocution as it harms him as well.

He charges forth and destroys the robots entirely, bits and pieces flying towards Tatiana, who's watching the fight, but plucked off mid-air by Johan's arrows. She turn to the archer, still recovering from the headshot blast.

"That wraps it up! Good job, you guys!", he raises for a high-five, but realizes he's still a hologram, so he quickly puts it down instead. "You, uhh, didn't see anything?",

Alo heavily pants, "What see?"

The hologram whistles casually away from them, going to the headquarters. "Nothing. Stop by the Central Command, it's time.", he ended before walking inside.

Alo and Johan exchanged looks and nod accordingly, with the latter going in first to prepare. The brawler gets his back straight and walks up to Tatiana, his little sister now as an amateur mechanic for the team. "Enjoying so far?", he asks.