Outage

Outage is the tenth episode of the series, Mutant Drake.

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Plot
In the city, this evening, the buildings stand tall as the view of the buildings lowers from the view of the dark, starry sky to the street level. By the streets, the shops are seen as the people walk by on the sidewalk. Two cars pass by in opposite directions; one red, one blue. Among those people are Kate and Drake walking together. Drake is wearing his shirt only, no disguise or hood.

Drake: I still don't get it. You go to these "stores" and "buy" things.

Kate: Yeah. Money, things, buying, it's yours. Shopping in a nutshell. You like it so far?

Drake: Not really. It was-

Kate: Nice.

Drake: No the w-word.

Kate: Weird?

Drake: Yes. It was weird.

Kate: What's so weird about shopping?

Drake: We did go to that place with the uh-

Kate: The what?

Drake: The smells.

Kate: Oh. You don't like perfume.

Drake: No.

Kate: Typical boy. I still can't believe you never went to a mall before.

Drake: I've been locked up in a facility that focuses on containing Mutant threat so a mall wasn't the first place I wanted to go when I escaped. I do- like it though.

Kate: Ha.

Drake: What?

Kate: You actually like something.

Drake: I like things. Yeah. Isn't that what people do?

Kate: Yes. You're improving. So what things did you like?

Drake: Um- I liked the place with the bricks and the soft small Mutants.

Kate, correcting: Toys 4 U.

Drake, continuing: The place with the shirts with numbers and sticks and helmets. It was like a training room but it was more people-like.

Kate, correcting: That was probably Good Sports.

Drake, continuing: And then there was this place that made me um- (searches for the word) confused. It was a place with small cloths with spots that these females wore in the glass pictures.

Kate: Yeah let's keep you away from that store. It's meant to be a secret.

Drake: You never told me why we're shopping.

Kate: Holidays are coming up and I've been busy with reporting Mutant threats that I didn't get anyone anything. And by anyone I mean my Dad. And I guess you.

Drake: Why would you get me something?

Kate: Are you kidding? You've been there for me so many times. You deserve it. And don't tell me you don't busy you're a bad person or whatever. You're good in my book. (smiles)

An electric discharge is heard, zapping, coming from a streetlamp near by. The lights to the stores then go out, all together. The streets are in the dark now. Talking is heard starting up as well as small startles and screams. Drake and Kate look around.

Kate: Well that's odd. This never happens. Must be some type of power outage.

Drake: Is this good or bad?

Kate: Well it's not good.

The televisions in the glass behind them then turn on. A static image appears on the screens, making a static noise. Drake and Kate turn around, facing the televisions, as some people gather around the window with them.

Television: People of the city, your power is gone and soon this island will be mines.

The static then cuts off as the street lamp flickers on but then sparks up, shutting back off soon after.

Drake: I think that's not good too.

Title Sequence

The street is seen with a car stopped in the middle. The driver exits the car as its headlights flicker in and out. Drake and Kate cross the dark street as the civilians are seen walking aimlessly around on both pavements. Kate is seen on her phone.

Kate, trying her phone, walking forwards: My phone's still working but there's no signal. Can't reach out to Dad.

Drake, walking forwards: Communicator isn't working too. I'm sure it doesn't need a- what do you call it?

Kate, walking forwards: Phone line?

Drake, walking forwards: Yeah.

They both successfully cross the street to the other side, on the other pavement. They then walk down that pavement in the same direction they were going before.

Kate, walking: So what do we do?

Drake, walking: Nothing.

Kate, walking: Wait what?

Drake, walking: Kate, there isn't anything I can do.

Kate, stopping: Wait, no, shut up. What do you mean? Someone is threatening us.

Drake, stopping: It was a TV, Kate. Like you said, there's a power outage. I don't know what that means but I think it's not for a long time. I can't stop a TV from taking over the city.

Kate: You can't?

Drake: I mean I can punch it but-

Kate: Yeah. We should probably let the police handle it then since it's not a Mutant problem.

Drake: Yeah.

An crashing sound is heard followed by a car alarm. They turn to the noise. Drake then proceeds to run after the noise.

Kate: Or not.

Kate follows after Drake. The scene cuts to Drake looking down a street which holds two cars collided with each other. The traffic light is seen flickering, mainly on the green light. The cars on the intersection are constantly honking their horns at each other. Drake walks over to the traffice light and places his hand on the pole. He looks around then hacks the traffic light using his abilities which causes the traffic light to function normally again.

Drake: If there's no power, how come to traffic lights still work?

Kate: I don't know. Something about rerouting electricity. I didn't listen much to what my Dad when he was fixing the generator at the police station. (looks around) How big of the area is affected?

Drake: I don't know. Only one way to find out.

Kate: Which is?

Drake: Come on.

Drake runs off leaving Kate to follow behind. The scene cuts to an alleyway, focusing on a trashcan. Drake then enters the alleyway and throws the lid of the garbage can off. He then reaches into the garbage can and removes his black hoodie. The scene cuts again to the roof of a building, later on, where Drake flies past it, moving more upwards, with his wing form while carrying Kate.

Drake, flying: A lot of the lights have gone out.

Kate, looking down: Uh Drake?

Drake looks down. A view of the city below is shown.

Kate: I think the whole city is affected.

The scene cuts to the MCA Building. The Lobby of the MCA Building is then seen as Drake and Kate enter the building. The lobby looks pretty standard but the room contains pieces of furniture such as comfortable-looking chairs and glass coffee tables, a counter located in the center of the room towards the back, away from the door, and the walls are grey/blue while the titles of the floor are simply grey. The main doors are glass/metallic and automatic. At the counter, Agent Owens is seen leaning against the counter while a female member of MCA, judging from her outfit, is seen moving papers behind the counter. Owens turns his head and notices Drake and Kate entering.

Owens: Drake, what's the meaning of this? She's not allowed here.

Drake: I was going to have her wait here, anyways. That's not the problem right now though.

Owens: No, but it is still a problem.

Drake glares at Owens.

Owens: There's been a power outage throughout the city.

Kate: Obviously.

Owens: That may be the obvious thing, Ms. Wilson, but the not-so obvious thing is the fact that many neccessary devices that require electricity are now offline. The majority of MCA services runs on such technology.

Kate: Wait how did you know my name?

Owens: Like he said, that's not the problem here.

Kate: But it is still a problem.

Owens raises an eyebrow.

Owens, changing the subject: Anyways, we can't function properly without electricity. The unexplained element is that the technology affected isn't connected to a source of electricity but simply the electicity within the devices is drained.

Drake: How?

Owens: Like I said, it's unexplained. I assume our scientists are working on it as we speak considering they have no option. The access lifts to the facility are offline, our only way to the operations room and labortory is through the maintance hatches.

Drake: So this "outage" is an MCA problem.

Owens: It is now.

Kate: Oh my gosh. What about my job or the hospitals?

Owens: We're the Mutation Containment Agency. We contain Mutant threats and that only.

Kate: People could be dying right now.

Owens: ...I'll see what I can do.

Drake: How do I fix the power outage?

Owens: Apparently there's a new threat out there. I'm sure you've seen it. It's safe to assume he's responsible for the power outage and while we are unable to do anything on our end, you might be able to locate the source of the transmission with your hacking abilities.

Drake: Ok.

Owens: I know you just got back to MCA, Drake, but you're on your own again.

Drake: At this point, I'm used to it. (to Kate) Come on.

Drake then leaves the Building. Kate is about to follow him when Owens grabs her arm. She stops and looks at her arm, then at Owens.

Owens: Watch him.

Kate: Isn't that your job?

Owens: I have other jobs to do right now. I can't be everywhere... Obviously.

Kate glares at Owens then forces her arm out of Owens' grip. She then follows Drake by exiting the building. Owens then looks out at the main doors for a moment.

The scene cuts to Drake flying above the city,

Characters

 * Drake
 * Kate
 * Citizens

Villains

 * Dr. Victor Blank (First Appearance)

Allusions

 * In the beginning of the episode, Kate takes Drake to a mall in which he visits various stores including Toys 4 U, Good Sports and a "secret" store. These stores are references to actual stores found in malls.
 * Toys 4 U being Toys R Us, Good Sports being Modell's Sporting Goods and the "secret" store being Victoria Secrets.

Trivia

 * The concept of this episode was originally created by Sif.
 * He was meant to guest write this episode, being the first ever guest writer on the series, but he was dismissed from being guest writer.
 * Bat was then later meant to co-write the episode but, due to poor planning on the main writer's behalf, he was unavailable.