User:ZeVikingSif/PilotPt1

[Young Man's Voice]: Does this look familiar to you?



[Voice]: I'm told it does. It did, at least.

(Cut to a panning shot of a landscape.)



[Voice]: I'm told it was so full of... wonders. Sights you only thought you could see in heaven.



[Voice]: I'm told it was full of life... life that developed, adapted.

(A shot pans through present-day Earth.)



[Voice]: Those who did make something out of life, also made something out of the rest of world. It's said that "we" advanced to a level generations ahead... in such little time.

(Another aerial shot of the city watching several speeders pass back and forth.)

[Voice]: Pioneers, they called them.

(A slideshow of grainy images flashes rapidly past in epileptic fashion including those of Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Beethoven, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abe Lincoln, Nikola Tesla, The Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, Gandhi, FDR, Walt Disney, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Neil Armstrong, JFK, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Barack and Michelle Obama, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg... it starts to move into a number of unknown, fictional faces, a few cyborgs in suits, a few robots...)

(Cut to shaky-cam shot of a mysterious-looking set of futuristic skyscrapers built upon a Senate Building-like structure.)

[Voice]: But we apparently also never found a... a balance in this world.

(The Earth is shown vibrating from space...)

[Voice]: All we knew... was to follow a philosophy. That there is no light without dark, no dark without light...

(Cut back to the building, which is crumbling and sparking. The scene goes silent...)

[Voice]: (Whispers) No death without life.

(KABOOM!!!!! A surge of electricity is unleashed from the middle of the city, splitting most buildings in half and crumbling the ground.)

(The music resumes while a part of the Earth's landscape, from space, is literally seen caving into itself, as if "hollowing out" the planet.)

(Greenish blotches of forests are wilted and grayed while the seafloor collapses and the ocean water turns acidized, simultaneously sinking and burning away at the surrounding environment. Mountains crumble like sand and hilly fields of greenery fall and tumble in a mess of grass, leaving craters of mud behind.)

[Voice]: I was told that the inhabitants of this planet lived up to the curse bestowed upon them in the coming ages... that mankind was eating away at itself. And so it did.

(A timelapse shot shows the bloodstained ground gradually dry up with human remains becoming disintegrating fossils, while the water of tides sliding over it becoming little gusts of dirt and dust.)

(Cut to black and silence.)

(A shaky first-person shot shows the viewer desperately running around the city during its initial destruction, where a large skyscraper falls sideways and dominos two others. Loud gusts of wind, screaming, and rumbling sounds are heard alongside a slowly increasing bass sound.)

[Voice]: I WAS TOLD THAT-

(A loud screech cuts him off, followed by static and another cut to black.)

(Cut to a pitch-black silhouette of a destroyed city. An extremely distorted, static-filled recording whispering "where are we" loops over and over again, fading away...)



(Ambient white noise and jet-engine squeals tatter the silence of a black screen.)

(Static.)

(We see some extremely distorted outlines of tables and windows being pieced together in pixelated fashion. The image goes all blurry like tunnel vision and random whispery voices echo here and there. Numbers and letters slide by rapidly and the camera zooms out, as the image warps and twists into a circular shape... we zooms out more and the camera phases through a closed eyelid covering this circle.)

(BAM! A deep blue eye open up with images of fire and lightning surging inside it...)

(A first-person camera shows the viewer jolting out of a bed - everything looks all fiery and distorted until the viewer blinks several times, and the image becomes normal. We are in a hospital room - the curtains to the side block out the bright white light of a cloudy morning. The tables, chairs and equipment look a bit dirtied up but nothing out of the ordinary.)

(The viewer looks down and to the left. Panting is heard. We see a man's arms, Caucasian, barely any hairs to be found. His left arm is wired up to some kind of machine alongside a blood pressure meter wrapped around his bicep. The wires are cut off with reddish-brown stains.)

(The man leans forward and looks at the floor beside the bed - the wires lie in a mangled mess full of bloodstains. The man groans in disgust. Still panting, he slowly, painfully gets up and removes the sheets - his legs have burns all over them. He gasps, startled.)

(He looks at the blood pressure meter. It has a fork-shaped logo on it alongside the words "DONATION DRIVE". The words look all jumbled and "dyslexic" to the man until he shakes his head and sees it properly.)

(He's barely able to stand - he pulls off the casts and wires and limps over to the sink. He sees a mirror there, and steadies it - the man's face looks almost identical to Nathan Drake (from the Uncharted series). He's slightly taken aback as though he recognizes nothing.)

[Man]: (Groaning) Bloody hell...

(We finally exit first-person mode. The man finds a clipboard saying "Room 4-E: Patient List". The latest patient is named "Rivers". The man gasps and hears a young male voice in his head echoing "Mig". He finally remembers his name.)

[Mig]: (Panting, gasping) Mig. (Puts hand on chest, nods, exhales) Mig.

(He speaks with a slightly Australian accent.)

(Mig goes over to the sink but when he turns on the faucet, a little bit of smoke comes out and that's it. He puts his hand underneath to see if any water is there but a small spark appears on his finger. He shakes it off.)

[Mig]: What the hell...?

(Mig walks over to the door...)

(BEEP BLOP BEEP BOOP!!)

(Mig wheels around, startled. The heartbeat monitors near the bed start up and the blood-transfer machine activates, spilling more blood everywhere. Some blue LED's lining the ceiling light up briefly before sparking and coming crashing to the ground.)

(Mig opens the door behind him and backs out, and looks behind...)

[Mig]: AAAH!!

(Beneath him is a void of pure blackness. Some of the sparks from the broken light catch fire on the hems of his pants and he kicks the smoke away - however, he loses balance.)

(THUD. Instead of falling into a bottomless pit, Mig falls on a concrete platform. He rolls around to get up but instead goes tumbling down a flight of stairs.)

(Screaming in panic, he tries to grab onto a ledge but it sparks and smokes. He grabs onto another one but more sparks explode and crumble the platform while a large fire suddenly catches on top of it. Mig finds himself falling through what appears to be an elevator shaft. He grabs a wall but it's a wire, which also lights on fire, sending sparks and flames madly racing up the shaft. Debris begins to crumble.)

(Mig hits the ground, creating a fiery area effect around him. Down come the rocks...)

(KABOOM.)

(More pixelated blurs of tunnel vision against black. However, this time we see the outline of a bright light. The eyes of the camera open up and a blinding white shaft of light awakens the viewer inside a deep, rocky pitfall.)

(Exit first-person mode. The light from above illuminates the confused and shocked face of a shirtless man played by Aaron Paul. The man gasps and looks around confusedly at the darkness before staring up into the light - nothing but cloudy skies.)

(Panting impatiently, the man angrily punches the wall behind him, but instead of hurting himself, he cracks the wall. More interestingly, he finds his knuckles grayed and hardened.)

(Looking utterly dumbfounded, the man screams and hits the wall harder - a chunk of it falls off. He pants and stares at his hands...)

(With a loud grunt, he leaps up and digs his fingers into the concrete, his legs dangling from below and kicking at the wall to achieve grip. Powdery pieces of the wall crumble away as the man begins his ascent...)

(Suddenly, when he stares into the light, he hears a strange electric crackling sound. Startled by the noise and blinded by the light, the man suddenly shuts his eyes. We see images of lightning sparking and eyes opening before the man himself opens his eyes, lets go, and falls.)

(CRASH!!! Several chunks of concrete collapse as the man tumbles backwards into a gap near the pit he's in - a loud metallic CLANG is heard as the man collides with a dusty steel wall. Panting and grunting in pain, the man's back is seen having turned shiny and grey-black while his upper torso and arms become a mix of stone and concrete.)

(Becoming anxious, the man feels his temples and hears some strange hissing voices in his head. He shakes them off, looks up angrily, and lunges out of the gap, leaping up onto the wall again. Screaming, he begins to climb fiercely, except the force of his hands on the walls begins to break them even more. He frantically looks for more ledges but his feet slide and scrape parts of the wall away. He hears some rumbling inside while flecks of dust and stone fall into the pit from the light. Looking around desperately, the man lets go and jumps up, grabbing the edge of the pit's rim...)

(CRRRACK... everything begins to collapse and crumble. The man is caught in the landslide and the rim of the pit gives way for a landslide of rocks, metallic debris and concrete. It piles up atop the camera and fills the scene with black.) (Five seconds of black.)

[Echoing Voices]: (hiss) (wind) Rashard? Rashard? Rashard! Rsshrd! Rshreed! Rssh! Rheeee... hee.. (static) Eeew! (static) Phew! Meow! Meow! Meow...

(Cut to a zooming shot of the collapsed debris. The cat's meow is heard drowning out the voices saying the name "Rashard"... BOOM! A concrete/metal hand pokes its way out of the rocks. Rumbling, crackling and grunting is heard from underneath until the man, Rashard, climbs out, unfettered except for a few bruises, cuts and some thick blotches of dust on his body.)

(We can't see much of the surrounding environment except for cloudy daylight. Rashard is looking around totally stunned, ignoring the cat's meows as something else catches his eye in the distance...)

(The sound of a burning fire is heard alongside some strange breathing. Mig's eyes open through the camera, and in front of the faint sight of fire and a thick dust cloud above him, is a dog., licking his face. A small brownish-yellow lab with scars on its back and near the ears. It softly whimpers while Mig groans groggily and gets up, gasping in shock at the inferno around him.)

[Mig]: Shit... (slightly mouthing) What happened...

(The dog barks twice and shakes the dust off.)

[Mig]: (Panting) Hi there... (lifts cracked tag) ...Milo. (looks around confusedly, gets up, pats dust off) Okay, this... this is new.

(Milo barks more and jumps near Mig's legs. Mig steps back, a little uncomfortable, before looking at one of the damaged walls ahead. Beneath a collapsed room is a shaft leading to a door.)

[Mig]: (Still looking at door) Hey Milo... (looks down, Milo looks back) Wanna get outta here?

(Cut to a fiery outline being cast around a door before it collapses and dust flies everywhere. Mig, crouching through an extremely compact space, is carrying Milo with him - they find another staircase.)

[Mig]: Hang on a second buddy...

(He places Milo on the floor and heads over to a collapsed wall, trying to find a weak point that can clear the way without destroying anything else. He knocks on the wall adjacent to the collapsed one before punching through it with a flamed fist. The wood above it falls.)

(Mig unleashes a fireball at the woodpile, but that floor is actually supporting a broken scaffold. The pillars collapse - Milo runs up the stairs while a large section of the walls and windows fall into a pile barricading Mig from the dog.)

[Mig]: NO!!

(He hears Milo's muffled barks up above. Frantically looking about, he blasts flames at the collapsed scaffolding, but the floor below it gives way.)

[Mig]: I'm coming, bud, just hang in there!

(BOOM! He jets out another blaze. KABOOM! The debris bursts and the scaffolding starts to slide out of a gap through the window, revealing a bright light through the side. Loud creaking is heard in the lower floors while the scaffolds above start to lose balance.)

[Mig]: SHIT! Milo! Milo?!

(The entire section of the building starts to tilt and fall out the broken wall. Milo suddenly appears, running atop a falling ceiling, straight towards the cracked outer wall.)

[Mig]: NO! Milo, come back!

(He jumps up, but the platform he's on finally cracks and catches fire from the blaze in the elevator shaft. Debris begins to rain down through the outer wall, whose windows shatter while the concrete starts to burst. Milo leaps off another piece of debris but misses Mig's arms.)

(Mig, gasping, instinctively jumps off, grabs the dog midair, and blasts a gigantic fire at the outer wall. KABOOOM!!!! It finally explodes and four floors' worth of rooms starts falling out of the building. Mig and Milo go crashing through a window...)

(...And out into the open air. They've been on the side of a giant skyscraper all this while and jumped out through the collapsing side - they're now falling hundreds of meters down in front of a gigantic city that looks like this while they're falling...)



(Cut back to Rashard - what caught his eye in the distance was the burning skyscraper with two silhouettes plummeting down from the side.)

(Rashard is on a street between a public park and a row of abandoned, destroyed shops housed in rather tall structures. The park has been reduced to patches of dirt. He walks to the side to get a better view of the building.)

[Cat]: Meow!

(Rashard looks to the side. He can't see a cat, nor does he appear to be able to recognize the fact that the sound he's hearing is indeed from a cat. He follows the sound while frequently turning back to look at the building in the distance.)

(Meow!)

(Rashard grunts, somewhat irritated. The meows keep going while he follows the noise, unable to locate the cat.)

(Cut to another street, where Rashard has been jogging around for sometime, the maddening sound constantly audible somewhere nearby. He screams in frustration.)

(KABOOM!!!!!!! The ground starts to slightly tremble. Rashard clears a corner where he finds a street full of broken cars and speeder bikes. Another explosion is heard and a fire erupts behind some buildings.)

(Meow!)

[Rashard]: AAH!!

(He sprints after the noise, which appears to be coming from near the fire. He covers around five blocks before finally reaching the burning building. From inside, another fireball comes flying out, igniting the building across the street.)

(BEEP BEEP!)

(Rashard turns around. Three speeder bikes, all driverless, come charging straight at him with sparks spewing from their sides. The scene goes all slow motion - Rashard, completely startled in the moment, reflexively jumps in the air, front-flipping over the vehicles. He lands on his side, completely clueless as to how he just did that.)

(Mig is completely blinded by clouds of ash and dust. He's wildly waving his arms and starting fires everywhere, while groaning "Milo" in his daze.)

(He crashes into a wall and a fire ring travels up the wall, to the ceiling, and begins to collapse the building. Mig dives out a window while the building's structure crumbles in half. A larger flame is started on the ground while Mig runs into an alleyway.)

(Rashard turns around and sees this a block away. Turning back to the road, five more speeders come in while cars from the perpendicular roads charge at him as well. Rashard waits, while looking at the burning building, before jumping in the air and letting them all collide. He buries his knuckles into one of the cars' windshields, turning his arms into bluish, reinforced glass. He reaches inside the car and yanks out its wires.)

(Meow!)

(Rashard sees the cat. A black, scrawny-looking cat timidly standing near the fire of the building Mig just collapsed. Rashard runs over, and the cat sees him, responding by sprinting even faster.)

(Rashard lets out a cry of rage, rolls on the ground to make his fists concrete, then jumps and lands with a slam that creates a crack down the road. The cat trips.)

(Mig clears his eyes and gets away from the wreckage.)

[Mig]: MILO?! MILO!!!

(He pants, falling against a wall in despair.)

[Mig]: (Sigh) Not again...

(He sits there panting, looking around at the city in total confusion as he hasn't yet gotten the chance to comprehend his surroundings.)

[Mig]: (Exhale) What the hell is this place...

(Suddenly, he gasps and remembers something. Cut to a blurry, glowing flashback sequence to when Mig and Milo were falling - they crashed through a glass ceiling into an old bed store. Mig scorched the mattresses while Milo, afraid of the fires, ran away. The scene cuts away to later when Mig found the energy to get up, escaping the place and landing in a street with a sign that said "Silverlake Ave.")

[Mig]: Silverlake Avenue!

(He gets up.)

(CRASSH!!!!!!! A loud spark of lightning rings out through the sky... in daytime. Mig looks up, startled, as a faint honeycomb pattern crackles across the sky before disappearing.)

(Rashard, startled, looks up as well and witnesses the same thing, remembering the lightning sound he heard the first time he tried to climb out of the sewer. The cat tries to get up but Rashard, with a look of rage on his face, grabs it. It meows.)

(Mig stops looking at the sky and begins to run off, chanting "Silverlake Avenue" to himself.)

(Rashard, panting and exhausted, looks around at the wreckage before walking over to the debris. The cat is hissing and meowing loudly... Rashard grunts and throws it into the fire, watching it uncomfortably as it wriggles and writhes inside the flame and the fur burns off.)

(Mig is sprinting like an Olympic athlete down a long road neighboring a park containing a pond, which has been reduced to a sandy crater.)

(He grits his teeth and blasts fire into the ground, propelling himself upward. He does it again, leaping forward at least twenty meters.)

(Rashard grabs a lamppost nearby and his arm hardens into metal. He places it in the fire while scraping it against the ground to "forge" and "sharpen" the edge of his hand. He pulls the skinned and charred cat corpse out and raises his "blade".

(The next few scenes keep switching between Rashard and Mig's perspectives. Mig continues to sprint down the street, nearing Silverlake Avenue while Rashard's sharpened hand cuts into the flesh of the cat. Even Rashard appears somewhat disgusted but continues to cut it up. Mig screams "Milo!" as he has arrived at Silverlake. Rashard throws the cut-up pieces into the fire to cook some more.)

[Mig]: MILO!!!!!!!!!

(He arrives at Silverlake and frantically looks around.)

(Rashard, meanwhile, is seen taking a bite out of the cat meat. He suddenly hears Mig's voice echo from afar. He drops the meat and begins walking towards the sound...)

("MILO!!!!")

(KABOOM!!!! Another automatically-moving speeder comes crashing head-on into Rashard, hitting him in the back and sending him tumbling forward. It stopped on impact, but electricity surges through it as it begins to speed up. Rashard weakly gets up and wipes the bloody flecks from his mouth, before stabbing his blade-like hand into the speeder's headlights. He hops into the driver's seat and yanks the blade out.)

(The speeder revs up - Rashard attempts to drive it but it's constantly veering out of control, sparking with electricity and swerving left and right.)

(VROOM!!!! It suddenly speeds forward through a weak wooden wall. Rashard takes a hard left to follow the sound of Mig's voice. The speeder goes straight for a few seconds before veering out of control. Rashard loses balance and falls, finding himself hanging onto the side seat by his wrists while his legs dangle on the road. CLANG! His left foot smashes against a lamppost, becoming dented metal and causing Rashard to scream in pain. Sparks light on the ground while Rashard is dragged through the street.)

(Mig blasts another jet of fire and launches himself onto a rooftop. Several small apartments nearby have caught fire due to his propulsions. Mig looks about.)

[Mig]: MILO?!!

(Meanwhile, Rashard and the speeder bike come drifting into the avenue. Rashard is standing atop the speeder bike in pain, and tears out the main engine controls. The vehicle sputters and spins out of control before bursting like a firework. Rashard goes tumbling down the street.)

(Mig hears this and begins running, but a weak wooden support ceiling collapses. He falls into an old-looking apartment and climbs back onto the rooftops.)

(Rashard gets up, severely bruised. Behind the smoke, he sees a small labrador retriever coming running. He walks towards it slowly, somewhat confused.)

(Mig continues running across the rooftops, nearing the street where Rashard is.)

(Milo comes running over to Rashard, barking wildly.)

[Rashard]: What the...

(Milo keeps barking.)

[Rashard]: (Groaning) Quiet! (Milo keeps barking) Quiet, damn you!

(Mig arrives at the rooftop corner.)

[Mig]: Milo?

(He and Rashard spot each other, Rashard rather startled to see another human. Milo keeps barking, and Rashard suddenly grabs him forcefully.)

[Rashard]: QUIET!

(Mig's eyes flare up, and without thinking, he blasts a fireball at Rashard. Rashard goes staggering backwards while Milo falls out of Rashard's hands, running away and hiding in a shop.)

(Mig jumps down and rushes Rashard, tackling him and punching him with fiery fists. Rashard screams and swats Mig away with his blade, getting up.)

[Mig]: You stay away from him!

[Rashard]: I..I-Is it... Does it belong to you?

[Mig]: His name's Milo. Only thing alive around here, and you... you wanted to kill it?

[Rashard]: There... there was another... another creature here...

[Mig]: WHERE?

[Rashard]: (Panting) I... I needed food, I... (looks up at him, distraught)

[Mig]: (Panting softly) ...Are you mad?

[Rashard]: I didn't... I...

(Rashard, still confused, looks up and suddenly turns angry.)

[Rashard]: You.... you've been sending these machines at me, haven't you?

[Mig]: What?

[Rashard]: Don't lie!

[Mig]: Wait, I'm not-

(Rashard, still in a headache-like state, starts approaching the shop where Milo is hiding.)

[Mig]: No, come back- you stay away from him! (Backhands Rashard in the face)

(Rashard looks back up and punches Mig, bruising his eyes. Mig clenches his fists and lets out a roar while setting Rashard ablaze. Rashard rolls on the ground and turns parts of his body to stone, leaving Mig rather surprised. Rashard gets up and swings his blade. Mig catches it and grunts while burning it, but the blade hardens. Rashard shrinks it into a blunt object and pummels Mig in the face with it.)

(Mig goes staggering back and blasts fire at a building, tearing down its corner and blasting scorched debris at Rashard, who blocks it. Mig charges at Rashard and lands three hard punches to the face before Rashard returns with a stone-clad hook to the abdomen.)

(BOOM! Another speeder bike shows up and crashes into Rashard. Mig takes advantage and shoots a sustained jet of fire at the vehicle, causing it to spark and explode, weakening Rashard. He runs over, but a car crashes into him and explodes on impact. He gets up and limps over to Rashard, but can't find him.)

(BAM!! Rashard strikes him from behind. Mig grabs him and throws him over, jumping up and kicking him in the face. Suddenly a car comes in from behind. Mig shoves Rashard into the car and blasts it, but Rashard picks up the car and throws it to the side - the burning car is now sitting next to Milo's hiding-spot shop.)

[Mig]: Oh, shit...

(Three other speeders come zooming in. Mig runs over, but is too late.)

(KABOOM!!!! The speeders go off-course and collide with the car, causing an almost mushroom cloud-like explosion which sets fire to the entire building, crumbling it.)

[Mig]: NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(KABOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! More speeders come in and explode on impact. A domino-effect of explosions and flames sends both Mig and Rashard barreling over a fence.)

(Cut to black.)