Chapter 1 Hostile Visions

Episode 1
Hostile Visions

Wednesday Afternoon
Time: 2:25 p.m
U.A.C. Headquarters

Bruce and Margarita walked in the building and up to the secretary’s desk

Mrs. Johnson: "Mr. and Mrs. Inymota, you’ve arrived. Wait there and I’ll let him know you’re here."

Margarita: "Thank you Mrs. Johnson."

[Mrs. Johnson picked up her phone and dialed Comogata’s office]

The phone rings two times and then Comogata answered

Comogata: "Yes, Mrs. Johnson, what is it?"

His voice dragged giving off some hint of irritation

Mrs. Johnson: "Sir, Mr. and Mrs. Inymota are here to see you."

Comogata: "Good send them in."

Mrs. Johnson: "Yes sir, right away."

Mrs. Johnson hung up and turned her attention to Mrs. Inymota

Mrs. Johnson: "Margarita… he’s ready to see you now."

Margarita: "Thank you Mrs. Johnson. Come on Bruce, he’s waiting to see us."

Bruce got up from his seat across from the secretary’s desk and followed his wife through two large brown oak doors to Comogata’s office

Margarita: "You have it with you don’t you."

Bruce: "For the last time Margarita, I’ve got everything that we need. Relax, this presentation is going to be a success, I promise."

Margarita: "Good I just hope so."

Margarita and Bruce entered Comogata’s office and waited to be acknowledged

Comogata: "Come in and set up, unfortunately I can only give you fifteen minutes today."

Bruce: "That’s fine sir, fifteen minutes is more than enough time."

Bruce got his papers together, while Margarita set up using her laptop and flash drive

Bruce: "Are we all set Margarita?"

Margarita walked away from her laptop and over to the table where Comogata sat waiting

Margarita: "You’re all set to go. I’ll hold on to the remote so you tell me when to change."

Bruce: "Alright… go to the first slide then."

Margarita clicked a button on the remote and up came the diagram in front of Margarita and Comogata.

Bruce Narrating: "Alright Mr. Comogata, my wife and I have been working extremely hard on a revolutionary DNA enhancer." "That will not only improve the physical and mental capabilities of your assassins. But will also increase their endurance, accuracy, and effectiveness; when you send them out on missions."

Comogata: "Just how does this DNA enhancer suppose to work and how effective is it?"

Margarita clicked to the next slide

Bruce: "I’m glad you asked that sir, because my wife and I have different opinions on how the DNA enhancer will work. I think that we should inject the microbes into the bloodstream, as you see here, they will attach themselves to every major organ, joints, ligaments, red blood cells, adapt to the subject’s immune system, ect. it's pretty much like you're a human cyber, the microbes serve as your database telling the person what to, or what to memorize; be it security codes, types of weapons, important documents, what ever; Mr. Comogata, I can guarantee that you will not only have a perfect army of assassins. However, leave you ensured on any corporation take-over, hell why not have the world in the palm of your hand. So as you can see its pretty effective, and can never be detected."

Margarita stood up and clicked to the next slide

Margarita: What my husband forgot to mention Mr. Comogata is that instead of injecting them we can make synthetic suits that will adapt to them, and coat the suits with the microbes so that they absorb into the bloodstream. The process itself will take up to four to five days minimum perhaps more, because we want to make sure that everything works properly. The injection was just another alternative. However the other things that he said are very much true."

Comogata: "Which reminds me what are the side effects?"

Bruce: "So far we’ve discovered that if someone were injected with the microbes the recipient has to rest for a maximum of two to three days. If not then they run the risk of severe internal bleeding. Due to the strain of the organs and muscles."

Margarita: "However if you were to use the synthetic suit, their immune system would weaken and are more than likely to become a casualty."

Comogata: "Interesting is there anyway around these side effects?"

Bruce: "None that we’ve discovered yet."

Comogata: "That’s all the time that I have for today. But keep me posted understand?"

Bruce: "Yes sir, of course."

Wednesday Afternoon
Place: Habishia Middle School
Time: 2:25 p.m.
Setting: Mrs. O’Neal’s classroom

The dismissal bell rings signaling the end of the day. Shina’s classmates get up and leave the classroom.

Mrs.O’Neal: "Okay class, have a good day, I want those history reports on Monday, and Shina, and I want to see you before you leave it’s important."

Shina remained in her seat and slowly began packing up her things

Once the other students left the room, Mrs.O’Neal slowly made her way toward Shina’s desk

Shina abruptly stopped packing her things as Ronda approached

Mrs.O’Neal: "Shina do you know why I asked you to stay after school today?"

Shina: "No I can’t say that I do know why Mrs. O’Neal."

Mrs.O’Neal: "Well, I’ll tell you. I asked you to stay behind today, because I’m concerned."

Shina retorts with a smart remark

Shina: "Really… well you’re the 13th person today that’s concerned."

Mrs.O’Neal misses the hint of sarcasm in Shina’s voice

Mrs.O’Neal: "Yes, those other twelve should be, however… I’m concerned for a different reason."

Shina: "Just what would that reason be Mrs. O’Neal, not that I’m dying to know or anything."

Mrs.O’Neal finally catches on to Shina’s sarcastic remark

Mrs.O’Neal: "Well I think that you’ll change your mind when you hear, that your grades are slipping thanks to your falling asleep in my class; and what’s worse is that some of the other kids are following your example."

Shina rolled her eyes. She hated it when the teachers tried to use her. Just to make them look good. As if, she cared about a teacher’s reputation

Mrs.O’Neal: "Well don’t you have an explanation. As to why you’re falling asleep in my class Shina."

Shina: "What’s it to you, what my reason is; on top of that it can’t help that your class is so boring that the other kids are following my example by falling asleep."

Mrs.O’Neal holds back the impulse to slap Shina

Mrs.O’Neal: "Shina is there something going on at home; that could be the cause of you falling asleep in class."

Shina: "No, certainly not something that has anything to do with you."

Mrs. O’Neal: "Now… now Shina… I’m your friend… I’m only here to help you."

Shina: "Fine if you’re here to help me. You can start by letting me…"

Kyo: "There you are. I was just about to walk home without you."

Mrs. O’Neal turns her attention from Shina to Kyo. Who now stood in her doorway with an inpatient expression on his face

Mrs. O’Neal: "I take it, that you’re Shina’s brother."

Kyo: "What was your first clue?"

Ronda ignores Kyo remark

Mrs. O’Neal: "Well then, perhaps you can tell…"

Shina stands up with her things and walks toward the door

Mrs.O’Neal: "Shina where are you going! I wasn’t done with you."

Mrs.O’Neal grabbed Shina’s arm. However, she effortlessly jerked away from her

Shina: "Well too bad I’m done listening to you."

Shina and Kyo walked out of the classroom

Mrs. O’Neal thought to herself

Ronda: "Damn that brother of hers, I was so close to getting the information that I needed looks like I’m going to have to try again tomorrow."

Shina and Kyo walked down the three flights of stairs and out of the large brown oak door and walked down walked the marble stairs to the school grounds below

Kyo: "What took you so long?"

Shina: "Mrs.O’Neal wanted to see me after class today that’s all."

Kyo: "About what…"

Shina: "You heard her didn’t you; she said that my grades are slipping and that I’m falling asleep in her class a lot."

Kyo: "Well you have been staying up late."

Shina: "But that’s because of all of the noise downstairs."

Kyo wore an expression mixed with alarm and confusion

Kyo: "Noise… what noise."

Shina gives him a shocked look and yells

Shina: "WHAT NOISE… WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN WHAT NOISE IT SOUNDS LIKE A BATILLION RAMSACKING THE PLACE DOWNSTAIRS!"

Kyo waves his hands in the air

Kyo: I’m just saying… because… I don’t hear anything at night."

Shina gives Kyo a suspicious look

Shina: "Well then, I guess it must be your snoring then right?"

Kyo: "Uhh… yeah… wait a minute."

Shina laughed

Kyo: "THAT’S NOT FUNNY SHINA!"

As they walked home, Kyo thought to himself

Kyo: "… so far so good… for a minute, I thought she knew something. I wonder how mom and dad’s meeting went."

Shina waved her hand in Kyo’s face to get his attention

Shina: "Kyo… hey Kyo…"

Shina hits Kyo in his side

Kyo: "What was that for!?"

Shina: "To snap you out of your daydreaming. That’s what."

As Mrs.O’Neal watched them leave, from her classroom window; she pondered long and hard on her next move

Ronda: "I wonder… if the boy’s got something to do with this… either way he could be quite useful to me."

Place: Inymota Mansion
Time: 3:00 p.m
Setting: Family Room

Margarita: "Bruce I think that we should stop now. You know we can’t go through with this."

Bruce: "I can’t do that Margarita; you know what the consequences are."

Margarita: "Bruce, our daughter isn’t a…"

Kyo opens the door to the house

Kyo : "Mom…Dad we’re home."

Margarita: "We’ll talk about this later."

Bruce: "Fine, we’re in here kids."

Shina walks into the family room

Shina: "Oh, there you guys are… Kyo! They’re in here."

Kyo runs into the family room

Kyo: "HEY MOM… DAD, GUESS WHAT SHINA GOT…"

Shina kicks Kyo in the face and sent him crashing into the wall

Shina: "Another A on my project…"

Dad: "Nice kick honey…"

Margarita: "Bruce…!"

Bruce: "What she had perfect form, and the way she executed it, just like her old man."

Shina: "Thanks Daddy."

Margarita rushes over to Kyo

Margarita: "Kyo are you alright dear?"

Kyo gets up off the floor

Kyo: "Yeah mom I’m fine, she just caught me off guard that’s all."

Margarita walks back to her seat and sits down

Margarita: "What did you say that you got another A in dear?"

Shina: "It was just on a project that we had to do for English that’s all."

Kyo mumbled in Shina’s ear

Kyo: "An A for being an asshole, that’s the only A you got."

Shina balled up her fist, suddenly it started glowing purple, she turned sharply and hit Kyo in the stomach and drove him back to the wall

Margarita: "Shina Inyamota! Stop hitting your brother!"

Kyo dropped to his knees while holding his stomach

Kyo: "DAMMIT! That’s the hardest punch you’ve thrown yet."

Bruce noticed Shina’s fist as she lowered it

Shina walked over and mumbled in Kyo ear

Shina: "Maybe that’ll teach you to shut up."

Lydia comes into the family room

Lydia: "Are those my favorite kids’ home from school?"

Shina: "Hey Lydia…"

Kyo: "Hey Lydia."

Bruce studies Kyo for a moment. Sensing that he needed to talk to him about something; that apparently was bothering him

Bruce: "Lydia, we need to speak to Kyo about something, can you take Shina for awhile?"

Lydia: "Of course I can, come on Shina grab your things."

Shina: "Okay."

Lydia and Shina leave the family room and head upstairs to her room

Kyo: "Why did you…"

Bruce: "I sensed that you needed to talk to me about something that happened at school."
Margarita folded her arms and looked at Kyo in shock

Margarita: "School! What’s going on at school?"

Kyo: "I do, it’s about Shina teacher Mrs. O’Neal… I really don’t know but I’ve got a bad feeling about her."

Margarita: "When you say something’s not right, what do you mean?"

Kyo: "Remember when we got progress reports, and Shina’s and my grades were exactly the same?"

Mom: "Yes all A’s, but why all the suspicion Kyo."

Kyo: "I think that Mrs. O’Neal could be working for someone on the inside, and is dropping Shina’s grades on purpose so that way she would have a reason to get close to her; we all know that Shina’s smart but some of those grades were ridiculous and everything was well done."

Bruce: "That’s a big theory Kyo. Do you have some evidence of this?"

Kyo: "Almost, I caught some of her conversation with her today; she seems desperate, I have a feeling that she’s going to try again tomorrow."

Margarita: "Do you think that it’s possible that they would go as far as the school systems to draw us out Bruce."

Bruce: "Well based on what Kyo just told us, it would seem so."

Margarita: "But it’s not even finished…"

Kyo: "I don’t think that it’ll even matter to them, all they’re doing is biding time until they think it’s safe to make a move."

Margarita: "Very well then, you just be careful Kyo, don’t do anything foolish."

Kyo: "Alright, how long do you think it’ll take to finish anyway?"

Bruce: "Around four or five days… but hopefully that will be enough time."

Kyo: "I know, but the only thing that I’m worried about is; if it’ll be ready in time."

Margarita: "Oh I believe so…but for now we just have to be patient."

Bruce: "You’ve got that look in your eyes again, is there something that you know about that I don’t?"

Margarita: "No… but for now all we can do is wait."

Bruce: "I don’t mean to change the subject or anything… but did you see Shina’s fist when she hit Kyo?"

Kyo: "No I didn’t why?"

Margarita: "I didn’t either what about it?"

Bruce: "It was bizarre, I mean since when could she channel her powers to do that?"

Margarita: "I’m not sure. I didn’t know that she could do that either."

Meanwhile in Shina’s room

Lydia: "So what did you do at school today…"

Shina sits on her bed

Shina :"Nothing special, just the regular routine."

Lydia: "So you still, haven’t found that special person that you like yet?"

Shina: "No… to be honest I just haven’t been looking."

Lydia sits next to Shina

Lydia: "You haven’t been looking or you don’t want to look."

Shina: "It’s kind of both, I just haven’t found anyone that I like; and I don’t intend on looking, I just want it to be like one of those unexpected things you know."

Lydia: "Smart answer Shina, you’re getting more and more like your mom every day aren’t you."

Shina: "I guess so…"

Lydia: "Well I think that you’re the exact image of her."

Shina: "Sometimes she says that too… hey Lydia have you ever got the feeling that something was going to go wrong one day…"

Lydia: "Like what, what do you mean?"

Shina: "Like something terrible was going to happen, and that there would be nothing you could do to prevent it."

Lydia: "No, I haven’t why had you?"

Shina: "…No it was just a thought that’s all."

Shina thought to herself

Shina: "I would tell her… but she’ll get just as worked up as my parents; I can’t afford to risk it right now."

Lydia: "Shina something the matter dear?"

Shina: "Oh no, not at all."

Lydia: "But I have a feeling that you are going to find somebody sooner then you think; just you wait and see."

Shina walks over to her bedroom window and stares outside

Shina: "… maybe…"

Lydia: "Now I’d better finish getting dinner together."

Lydia walks out of Shina’s room and closes the door behind her

Shina lay on her bed and let her mind roam freely

Shina: "I… I have a terrible feeling about this… but I’m not sure if now is the time to bring it up, but what happens if I don’t bring it up at all; no… no… I can’t think that way."

With that thought Shina closed her eyes and turned over on her right side

Margarita: "SHINA… DINNER’S READY!"

Shina opened her eyes again but didn’t budge

Margarita: "SHINA! Kyo run upstairs and get your sister will you?"

Kyo: "Okay."

Kyo goes upstairs and knocks on Shina’s door

Shina: "Come in…"

Kyo opens the door and peeks in

Kyo: "Mom told me to tell you that dinner’s ready."

Shina: "Kyo come in a minute, I have something that I need to tell you."

Kyo came in and sat in a chair next to Shina’s bed

Kyo: "What is it?"

Shina: "Well… it’s about the nightmare that I had last night."

Kyo: "Okay, what about it…"

Shina: "I don’t really know how to explain it; it all seemed so real…"

Kyo: "Tell me, what happened."

Shina recalls her vision

Shina Narrating: "Well it was late at night, and you had went away somewhere, I was asleep in my room then the alarm goes off in the house; in the vision I’m thinking that it’s no big deal or anything like that, so I get out of bed to go and turn it off. Mom and dad were downstairs at the time, so I go to the top of the stairs and I see that Four S-Elites had broken into the house, mom and dad were fighting them and they were winning or so it seemed… and then…. They… they take out these huge guns, I couldn’t tell what type they were… and they gunned down… they gunned down mom and dad right in front of me."

Shina starts crying

Kyo: "Why didn’t you tell mom and dad about this?"

Shina: "Tell mom and dad… are you joking? you know how much they worry about my visions, besides what am I supposed to say… hey mom and dad I had a vision that you were going to die right in front of me."

Kyo: "Well, that makes sense, I had somewhat the same vision the night before; but you do realize that you’re going to have to tell them."

Shina: "Maybe… you’re right."

Kyo: "Come on let’s go get something to eat now and we’ll talk more about this later."

Shina: "Okay…"

At the dinner, the room was tense and quiet

Margarita: "Shina, you hardly touched your food, what’s wrong."

Shina: "Nothing, I’m just not that hungry, that’s all."

Bruce: "There’s got to be something wrong if you’re making a face like that."

Kyo: "Shina just go on and tell them…"

Margarita: "Tell us what?"

Shina: "Kyo?"

Bruce: "Don’t make your mother ask again; tell us what."

Shina stayed silent Kyo stared at her hoping that she would say something but she wouldn’t

Kyo: "It’s about Shina’s vision dad…"

Margarita turned to Shina

Margarita: "You had vision and didn’t tell us!"

Bruce: "What were you thinking, not tell us."

Shina slammed her fists down on the table and got up

Shina: "I was thinking about protecting your butts that’s what!"

Shina starts shaking uncontrollably, her hair slowly starts changing for purple to white and in an instant, food, utensils, and chairs started flying everywhere in the dining room; Margarita, Bruce and Kyo duck under the table

Margarita: "Bruce what’s going on, what’s happening to her?"

Bruce: "I don’t know."

Kyo: "It’s incredible her powers are above mine like this. But how… where did all of this power come from?"

Folks and knifes swirled around Shina

Shina: "THAT’S ALL YOU DO IS WORRY ABOUT ME, BECAUSE OF ME YOU GAVE UP YOUR DREAMS; BECAUSE OF ME, YOU’RE STUCK IN THIS MESS, AND BECAUSE OF ME YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!"

Margarita: " Die…Kyo what is she talking about?"

Kyo: "She was talking about the vision that she had earlier."

Bruce: "Well would you mind telling us about it so we can stop her from DESTROYING THE HOUSE!"

Kyo: "Okay, okay you didn’t have to yell you know."

Bruce: "I’m sorry son, but it just couldn’t be helped."

Margarita: "Right sure it couldn’t be helped."

Dad: "What that supposed to mean Margarita?"

Kyo: "HEY! Can we stay focused on the situation at hand please; dad’s right it’s only a matter of time before Shina destroys the house."

Margarita: "He’s got a point dear."

Dad: "Yes he does, I’m proud of you son."

Kyo: "Yeah, yeah be proud of me later, anyway while we were upstairs she told me about the vision that she had last night."

Kyo Narrating: "She said that she was asleep in her room when the alarm went off. She figured that there must have been a glitch in the system so she goes downstairs to turn it off."

Margarita: "Okay but where were we at the time."

Kyo: "In the living room or something I guess I don’t know; she said that I wasn’t there. Anyway, she said that she goes to the top of the stairs and sees that four S-Elites broke into the house and you guys fighting them. No doubt that they had come for the project. Nevertheless, that is not the worst of it, she said that once they could not find it they gunned you two down right in front of her. She’s been freaked out ever since."

Margarita: "You guys stay here, I know now what I must do."

Margarita crawled from under the table

Kyo: "Where is she going, there’s no way she can get close enough to Shina to stop her."

Margarita jumps on the dining room table, dodges a couple of knives, jumps into the air and gets hit with a dining room chair, but lands close enough to Shina to grab her into a tight hug

Margarita: "Shina! It’s alright; you have every right to be angry with us. We shut out when you were the main person that needed to know; and for that we’re sorry but you have to understand that this was for your own protection."

Shina: "Mom help me… what’s wrong with me?"

Shina calms down as a stream of tears start to fall

Dad: "Come on Kyo. We have to get her to bed."

Bruce and Kyo crawled out from under the table and rushed over to Shina and Margarita

Lydia bursts in after hearing all of the commotion

Lydia: "IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINING ROOM!"

Margarita: "It’s alright Lydia. She’s fine now."

Margarita starts crying

Kyo: "Mom… are you alright?"

Margarita: "Where… just where… did I go wrong… I knew from the very start that something like this was going to happen; I’m so sorry Shina… please forgive me."

Shina lay unconscious in Margarita’s arms

Bruce: "Margarita, come on and let’s get her to bed."

Bruce gingerly placed a hand on Margarita’s shoulder and helped her off the floor

Bruce Kyo and Margarita went upstairs and laid Shina on her bed

Then trudged into the master bedroom to discuss their next move

Margarita: "We can’t finish the project now, some reason anyone who gets either injected with the manobots or puts on the suit winds up in the hospital."

Kyo: "I know what you mean. It’s like they need a person with a certain blood type in order for the manobots to function properly."

Bruce: "That’s true. The manobots will not function without a rare blood type. But are you sure you want to do this… we all know that Comogata isn’t going to happy about you terminating the project."

Kyo: "Which brings me to asking how was the project meeting anyway."

Margarita: "It was alright. Except there’s one big problem. "

Kyo: "What big problem are you talking about?"

Bruce: "Out of everyone in our family Shina has the rarest blood type needed for the project to work… Comogata wants to use her as a test subject."

Kyo: "WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS? THERE’S JUST NO WAY!"

Bruce: "Kyo just calm down. We know exactly how you feel. This is why we terminated the project without Comogata knowing. However, we could try it out here at home, like a trial an error run… the manobots full capabilities haven’t been tested out yet."

Margarita: "WHO CARES IF IT HASN’T BEEN TESTED… the fact that you would go as far as putting your own daughter’s life on the line!"

Bruce: "I’m just thinking about what’s best for us, the family."

Margarita: "Thinking about the family, what kind of bullshit excuse is that?"

Bruce: "DO YOU HAVE ANY BRIGHT IDEAS! BECAUSE IF YOU DO PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME."

Kyo: "No dad, mom’s right we can’t afford to go any further. This is Shina’s life on the line, and personally I don’t want to lose my sister."

Kyo walked out of the master bedroom into his room

Bruce walked over to Margarita and put his arms around her waist

Bruce: "Margarita, I’m sorry, I just… I don’t know what I was thinking… it’s just that I don’t want anyone else to get hurt."

Margarita: "You don’t want anyone to get hurt, but you were all too willing to give up your only daughter, and for what… only to live with the shame and regret for the rest of your life."

Bruce: "I know… I should feel ashamed. But we’re running out of options… it all just seems hopeless."

Margarita removed Bruce’s arms from around her waist

Margarita: "You know as well as I do. What will soon happen… will happen. But we have to rest with the fact that in the end, the decision we made was the right one."

Bruce: "You’re right. I’m a terrible father."

Bruce sighed as he walked over to a nearby window

Margarita: "Don’t say that , you’re a wonderful father."

Bruce: "Really? What kind of "wonderful" father, would want to use their only daughter in an experiment that would probably kill her."

Margarita: "Bruce, we’ve tried… but there’s nothing else that we can do. But to protect them… now come on we should get to bed and get some rest, it’s been a long night for all of us."

Place: Ronda’s Condo
Time: 12:45 p.m
Setting: Ronda’s Bedroom

Ronda paces up and down her bedroom thinking

Ronda: "I can’t work like this. There have been far too many distractions. Comogata isn’t going to like this at all."

Ronda’s phone ring

Ronda: "Yes sir."

Comogata: "What’s your status on collecting information?"

Ronda: "Well sir, there’s good news and bad..."

Comogata: "BAD NEWS! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BAD NEWS…? BAD NEWS BETTER NOT BE COMING MY WAY NOW!"

Ronda: "Well Shina-"

Comogata: "JUST SHUT UP I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT."

Ronda: "But sir-"

Comogata: "I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOUR ACCUSES ARE. I SENT YOU THERE TO DO A JOB BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT YOU COULD HANDLE IT. NOW GET IT DONE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, FAIL AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PUNISHMENT UNDERSTAND?"

Ronda: "Yes sir, understood. But I need-"

Comogata: "YOU NEED WHAT?"

Ronda: "I need someone to help me break her."

Comogata: "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME. THAT YOU CAN’T HANDLE A 13 YEAR OLD. WHAT THE HELL AM I PAYING YOU FOR, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROFESSIONAL."

Ronda: "Getting her to talk is like somebody stabbing you in the back."

Comogata: "You know that’s impossible."

Ronda: "Right, exactly."

Comogata: "Alright I’ll send the help. But, you had better get her to crack by next week."

Ronda: "Yes sir, thank you."

Ronda hang up