Relationships

Relationships is the twenty-second episode of the series, Mutant Drake.

Plot
In a town, still for now, the sky is dark but its blue getting lighter as time passes by. There are various short buildings and shops lined up along the worn out street. The buildings looks old and definitely abandoned, with one of the windows on a building being broken and a door busted down for another. The town is quiet with only the wind howling softly.

The scene cuts over to a building with a receding side wall, creating a small area underneath. The rest of the wall is not receding and covers the small area; it is also supported by beams projecting upwards. The building, itself, isn't too tall, however. In the small area, the news van is seen parked, with its back doors open. John is seen sitting on the edge of the van's floor, his feet touching the ground as he examines his blaster. Kate enters the small area from the alleyway at the side of the building, her red satchel hung across her shoulder.

Kate, approaching the van: Still haven't seen Drake around anywhere. It's been about an hour now, John.

John, without looking away: I wouldn't worry about him too much. He is pretty durable.

Kate: You mean able to withstand pressure from others?

John: That. And the fact that he can walk away from an attack that can pretty much cripple an average person.

Kate: You don't think there are any Mutants out there, do you?

John: It's a possibility but I doubt it. Maybe a stray or two but nothing Drake can't handle.

Kate looks back at the alleyway, looking unsure of herself. John looks up from the blaster and looks at her for a short moment.

John, breaking the silence: So uh- what did you do out there?

Kate turns back to John, as if snapping out of something.

Kate: Oh, um- nothing much. Just checked the shops for anything we can use.

Kate reaches into her satchel and removes a tin can with a red wrapper around it.

Kate: Found a can of beans out there, among other things.

John: Great, we could use it. There wasn't much supplies in Rapid City- especially with all those stragglers.

Kate: Whatcha working on?

John: Huh? (looks down at blaster) Oh, just the MCA Blaster. (looking up at Kate) I kinda broke it when I took down that mercenary so I'm trying to get it to fire normally again... (looking downwards towards the ground) among other things.

Kate: No luck still?

John: Nothing. These Mutants, whatever they are, are practically untraceable. They use a science facility as some sort of base of operations then, as soon as we find it, they're gone in the wind. We're seriously running out of leads on this one and there's just nothing I can do about it.

Kate: Hey, don't beat yourself up about this. You're doing the best you can. I mean we've been here for about- what? A week? And you've been working practically everyday since we got here.

John: Still, I can't stop but feel like it's not enough. I guess I am working myself too hard.

Kate: Why don't we do something? Get your mind off of work.

John: But what about the Mutants?

Kate: We'll find them, together, all of us. But that doesn't mean we have to work nonstop without finding results.

John: Is that some news work advice you've got there?

Kate: Something like that. (smirks)

The sound of loud footsteps are heard approaching them. As Kate turns around to look, John looks up, gripping his blaster in hand. Drake then appears around the corner, running into the small area.

Kate: Drake? Is something wrong?

Drake: Yeah, we need to go.

John: Why? What's up?

Drake: I found something.

Title Sequence

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The scene is now focusing on an armored truck driving through a dry mesa, the sky is now brighter with the sun out but just after rising. There is a slight orange color mixed in with the sky as well. There are various rock structures around the mesa, some forming canyons while others are independent buttes and tent rocks.

The news van is seen driving behind the armored truck, as if in pursuit. Inside the van, John is seen in the driver's seat, driving, while Kate is in the passenger seat, holding onto the side as the van rocks along the surface.

Kate: How much further are we going to be chasing after these guys? We've been driving for nearly an hour already.

John, driving: I don't know but Drake says it's important and this is pretty much our only lead.

The scene shows the news van continuing to chase after the armored truck which appears to pull to the side and stop. The news van also stops; a good distance away from the armored truck. Men in grey armor wearing black helmets emerge from the truck, armed with advanced weaponry.

John: Looks like soldiers.

Kate: Not just soldiers. It's those Infinite Darkness guys again.

John: Not Mutant-related... but it's something. Come on.

John exits from the van followed by Kate. They make their way to the back of the van in which the back doors are already open and Drake emerges from the van as well, dressed in his Vigilante Suit.

Drake: What happened?

John: I dunno, they just stopped.

Drake: They must have found them.

Kate: Who's them?

Drake: I was watching from the roofs back in the town. Saw them chasing after someone. A Mutant, I think.

Kate: Look!

Drake and John go around the van where Kate is standing now and see a teenager wearing an orange jacket with black pants and white sneakers running away from the Infinite Darkness soldiers.

Infinite Darkness Soldier: Stay still, freak!

The Infinite Darkness soldiers fire at him with their weapons but he dodges and hides away a rock, although the laser fire starts breaking apart at the rock. The teen, now seen closer, has brown, drooped down hair but no eyes; just face where his eyes should be. His ears are also slightly big and pointy.

Mutant Teen, holding his head and covering his ears: Just leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone-

He gets up and turns to face the men still firing at him.

Mutant Teen, yelling: Leave me. Alone!

A large amount of energy then emits from the teen's chest, throwing him back slightly as the blast impacts with the ground around the men, throwing two of them into the air. One of the soldiers looks at another laying on the ground, groaning. He then turns back and lifts up a heavy-looking weapon into view, resembling a launcher of some sort. He then pulls the trigger and a small metallic, circular object is launched from the weapon and hits the ground, rolling slowly towards the Mutant Teen who looks down at it, still breathing hard, as if in recovery. Smoke is also seen leaving his chest where a hole is now seen in the center of his jacket. The object then quickly pops small speakers out of its curved sides and emits a high-pitched frequency that leaves the Mutant Teen dropping to his knees, covering his ears while yelling out. The scene cuts back to Drake and the others, watching from the distance.

Drake: I have to help him.

Kate: Are you sure you want to go up against these guys again, Drake? They fought pretty hard.

Drake: Someone has to. And there aren't as many as last time, Kate. I can handle this.

Drake runs towards them while both Kate and John remain by the van. The scene cuts to Drake running forwards, his fists clenched as his arms swing from side to side. He runs up the side of a big rock and jumps off the edge onto the back of an Infinite Darkness soldier. They both then drop to the ground. Another soldier turns to Drake who gets up.

Infinite Darkness Soldier: We've got another freak!

The soldier lifts his weapon upwards and aims for Drake who throws his arm out as he activates his blade-form. An energy blast then emits from the weapon and impacts with the blade which seems to contain the blast. The Infinite Darkness Soldier looks up, shocked. Drake then redirects the blast back at the soldier who is knocked back and falls unconscious. Drake lowers his blade-arm and looks around as more soldiers approach him. Drake then runs towards them and slices at one of the soldiers' weapon. The two seem to wrestle with control but Drake manages to knock the weapon out of the man's hands and elbow him in the face, knocking him out. The other soldiers then fire at him. Drake uses his blade to deflect the laser fire that hits it while a couple of stray shots hit his shoulder, leaving a small sizzle on the armor.

Infinite Darkness Soldier: We've got him now! Keep firing.

Drake struggles to hold the attacks off. He looks up slightly and sees a large rock structure behind the soldiers. He then tilts his blade-arm upwards slightly, reflecting the condensed laser fire at the rock structure, which weakens and starts to crumble. The Infinite Darkness soldiers then stop firing as a shadow overcomes them. He then turn around and see the rock formation crumbling down over them. They then run to avoid the oncoming rocks, some even dropping their weapons. Drake, himself, throws his arm down and gets behind a boulder for cover as smaller rocks fly past him. When the dust clears, Drake gets up and looks around and sees the soldiers running towards some of their armored trucks. Drake goes after them but a blast off-view impacts in front of one of the armored trucks, stopping some of the soldiers from getting there. They then turn back and go another way, towards more trucks which were hidden behind more rock structures. Drake turns his head and sees John pointing his unstable MCA blaster in which smoke emits from the end piece as if it was recently fired. The blaster then starts sparking up causing John to drop it on the ground. Drake turns back and sees the trucks already driving off. The scene then cuts over to the Mutant with no eyes still holding his head in pain as the device continues emitting a high-pitch frequency. A boot then comes down on the device, crushing it and silencing the frequency. The teen then lets go off his head and looks up slightly dazed, seeing Drake standing before him.

Mutant Teen, getting up: T-Thanks. Who are you?

Drake: I'm just trying to help. Are you okay?

Mutant Teen: Yeah. Those guys have been chasing me for days. I was alright then until one slip-up later and now this happens. I guess you're different too.

Drake: Yeah... (changing the subject) It looks like they got away.

Mutant Teen: I'm not the only one. I was them stuffing another kid inside one of their trucks. Like that. (points)

Drake turns around and looks at the armored truck by a small crater in front of it, still sizzling from the blast impact. The scene skips ahead later from inside of the truck. It's dark and hard to make out anything. The darkness is then overcome with light as Drake opens the flaps. He looks inside, with a more intense expression. Inside, there are various people bound by energy cuffs, some with distinguishing physical traits indicating that they're Mutants. The Mutants turn to Drake, some of them looking worried while the others turn to each other. One of them looks up at Drake and looks surprised. He's wearing an open blue, buttoned shirt over a grey t-shirt. His hair is brown and his eyes are also brown.

Teen: Whoa, it's the Vigilante.

The girl sitting next to him looks up. She's wearing a yellow jacket over a red shirt. She has brown hair and brown eyes too. Drake looks closer as he leans in slightly.

Drake: Fionna?

The scene then cuts to later on, with the Mutants now standing outside of the truck, unbounded. The knocked out Infinite Darkness soldiers are bound by the cuffs instead and leaning against the armored truck, still unconscious. Hands using a small key-shaped device are seen coming into the shot as they interact with the energy cuffs, creating small blue sparks until the cuffs are disabled. The view moves upwards, showing the now unbounded hands belonging to Fionna.

Fionna, holding her wrists: Ow.

John: Sorry, (lifting the device into view) this thing isn't really used for unlocking handcuffs.

Fionna: Well, thanks anyways.

Drake: Fionna, what are you doing here? I thought you had to stay with your people at Secret City.

Fionna: I did but it's stable enough for me to go after the men who took the ones that are missing.

Drake: By getting yourself taken?

Fionna: I needed them to take me to the place where they're putting Mutants like us.

Drake: What do you mean? There's a place where they put Mutants?

Fionna: I heard it from one of the other Mutants. Small talk going around about a facility.

Drake: Do you know where it is?

Fionna: Not really. I mean, that's why I wanted them to take me there. But maybe it was meant to be.

Drake: What was?

Fionna: For us to work together, to save the rest of the Mutants. Unless you have something else to do or something-

Drake: No. I said I would be there if you needed help so that's what I'm doing. We'll find the other Mutants, together.

Fionna smiles softly. The scene cuts again now showing the van, the sky is still bright but there are more clouds in sight this time. Inside the van, John is seen seated at the computer station, using the desk as some sort of workstation as he works on a small device. Drake and Fionna are seen seated on the bench while Kate is standing outside, looking inside.

Fionna: What are you working on?

John: Something that should help you with your powers.

Kate: How? We didn't even know she would be here. Right?

John: It's not exactly meant for her. It was just something I was working on for anyone with Mutant abilities. After all the ones we keep running into, I figured we could test it out. Call it a hobby.

Fionna: You met other Mutants?

Drake: Just a few but they had their own places to be.

Fionna: I guess I can understand that. These other Mutants, the ones that were taken, they don't have anywhere else to go. Me and Mother are the only hope they have at surviving out here.

Drake: How is she?

Fionna: She's- alright. Fine, actually.

Kate: So where do you think the Mutants were taken? You mentioned a facility, right?

Fionna: Yes. But I don't know where it is.

John, still working on the device: It has to be close. No way they would chase a Mutant to the other side of the country and head back.

The van shakes slightly.

John, still working but turning his head slightly: Can you guys not rock the van, please? (turns back to the device)

Drake, ignoring John's comment: Do you remember anything else?

Fionna: Nothing useful, I think.

John, still working on the device: I'll check some sources and see if there's any known facilities nearby.

Kate: Sources? From where?

John, stopping: Uh- y'know the database and scans.

Drake looks over from John to Kate who continues looking at John.

Kate, skeptically: Right. Okay then.

The van shakes again, more than before.

John, putting his tools down and turning to the others: Seriously.

Fionna: It wasn't us, man. Maybe it was an earthquake. We had to deal with that a lot, being underground and all.

The van shakes once more. Kate, nearly looses her balance, and holds onto the side of the van steadily. Drake gets up and puts his goggles on.

Drake, moving out of the van, to Fionna: Stay here.

Drake leaves the van and walks away from it, looking around. There is nothing in sight but the various rock structures in the badlands around them.

Kate: See anything?

Drake: Not yet...

Drake continues walking outwards until a figure lands before him, the impact creating a dust cloud around Drake. Drake extends his hand out, blocking the dust from hitting his face but it doesn't really appear to bother him. As the dust clears, Drake lowers his arm and takes a step back.

Drake: What are you doing here?

The humanoid figure steps forwards from the clearing dust and is shown to be Emmett in his Leviathan suit.

Emmett: Good to see you too, Drake.

Kate runs over to them, looking surprised.

Kate: Emmett?

Emmett: Hey, Kate.

Kate: You weren't kidding about dropping by. How did you know we were here?

Emmett: Oh I was around and heard some people talking about the Vigilante. I had a feeling it was probably just a rumor but I hoped it wouldn't be. Good thing I checked it out, huh?

Drake: Not really. We're looking into something right now.

Emmett: It doesn't have anything to do with Anton Reeves, does it?

Drake: What do you know about him?

Emmett: Uh pretty much everything since he's my main competitor. He's also been trying to merge with company.

Kate: I thought you were trying to get away from your company.

Emmett: I have but it's kinda hard when I see R-Corp stuff around here. Which is weird because-

Kate: He's based in Philadelphia?

Emmett: Yeah. I guess you guys are looking into that then.

Drake: This is different but Reeves has been working with a general. Giving him machines.

Emmett: That's his main export. It just doesn't make any sense why he's doing business out here.

Kate: You wouldn't happen to know where his business is done, right? Any facilities in the area?

Emmett: There is a facility close by. I heard some men talking about a site in Helena.

Drake: That must be where the other Mutants are.

Emmett: Other Mutants? You mean there are more people like us?

Kate: It's a long story.

Drake: Come on, we need to get there and get those Mutants out of there.

Drake heads back to the news van, entering through the back before closing the doors behind him. Kate turns from the van to Emmett who shrugs and goes to the van as well. Kate follows Emmett as the two of them move around the van towards the front; Kate getting in on the driver's side while Emmett gets in on the passenger side. A moment later, the van starts up and starts to drive out of the badlands. The scene then transitions over to a mountainous landscape with a river. The sky is now more blue, more bright and has more clouds around, even blocking the sun.

The news van is seen down a dirt road, approaching the mountain-like area. Inside the van, Kate is seen driving while Emmett is looking out of the windows, his expression in awe and his mask removed.

Emmett: Wow.

Kate, driving: What is it?

Emmett: Just the fact that I'm actually out here, looking at this. Sights I never thought I would be see; mountains, canyons, cities. I would've never gotten to see this if I stayed where I was. It's kinda hard to explain but uh-

Kate: Yeah, I understand. Leaving the city was hard for me but the experience is sometimes just- unbelievable.

Emmett, turning back to the windows: ...We're getting close, I think.

Kate: How can you tell?

Emmett: That kinda gives it away. (points)

Kate looks in the direction that Emmett is pointing. A gate of some kind is seen in which an Infinite Darkness soldier is seen standing in front of, as if guarding. The van then stops and backs up slightly before turning into the trees and disappearing into the forest. The news van then parks in a small clearing. The back doors open and Fionna emerges from the van, looking around.

Fionna: We shouldn't waste any time.

John, coming out of the van with something in his hands: Wait, can you at least try the device first?

Fionna: I don't need it. Never had to rely on machines. Just supplies and instinct.

John: It won't hurt to try.

Fionna looks at John irritated then exhales and snatches the device from John's hands.

Fionna: How's this work again?

John:

Major Events

 * Drake and the others learn where

Minor Events

 * Fionna gets a prototype suit piece

Characters

 * Drake
 * Kate
 * John
 * Fionna
 * Emmett Murphy

Villains

 * Infinite Darkness
 * Unknown Mutant Leader
 * Unknown Mutants

Forms Used

 * Stone Slicer (x

Trivia

 * This episode was viewed as a "big episode" during production with all the scenes needed to balance out all the characters evenly.
 * Anton Reeves was originally planned to be in this episode but was replaced because it didn't fit with the plot.

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