BANG BABYES

VIREIL FLASHES BACK TO 2 WEEKS EARLIER

SETTING: THE LAB

The dark stormy sky sets the mood for the atrocities occurring somewhere you aren’t and thank God for that, only those profiting have the devil to thank for their success. In a warehouse just south of the east end, the cries inside are masked with the best technology nobody can buy. To mask out your voice is to take your power, cause to be heard by someone who can hear you is your strength. But cries are their last words, words that are unable to reach the ears that walk by the building. Sirens from the road rage drivers don’t make it better and the hose and mop cleaning up what’s left of you will be the only part to stay, stained in the pavement while the rest is disposed of. Inside the cries are louder. Cover your ears, the people shriek so loud they’ll make your ears bleed. The unfortunate souls inside have been rejected by men and women, only people who come here have already been forgotten. Footsteps drown out the sound as they walk away, The steps stop inside of a clean pure white marble room. Inside is Vireil strapped to a bed, he’s wearing a helmet clamping his eyes and mouth open along with a metal rod attached at the top. A man wearing a white coat is Dr. Sorry with his assistant Clare.

SORRY

...What at a CHILD?

CLARE

He has important abilities...

SORRY

I'm sorry, I didn’t expect the mutation to reach this far...

Clare passes Vireil’s chart to Sorry.

SORRY

Your exactly what I’ve been looking for, your able to conduct electricity I hypothesized that the mutation would create a human generator. I’m sorry but you are so valuable that I can’t sell you, your too useful to be auctioned off. You see we’ve been mutating humans, to replace a natural resource so that we can slow down the birth rate and let the resources triple. You know what’s unfortunate, our white subjects with the same mutation produce less than they’re melanated relatives, the math behind it is that it would take less of you than more of us. I’m sorry but your pain is for a greater good, I think it would be selfish of you not to think of us. After so much we do for you, after so much we’ve given time and resources the extreme overconsumption is killing the planet. You may not have known this but it’s the only one we’ve got, we’ve lost men to the stars and now for the greed of your nation I must force my hand to sin.

Clare passes the jumper cables to Dr. Sorry as they spark in his hand.

SORRY

This technology would evolve us to the point that within 3 generations they will inherit this information, and be able to use it to replace what was taken and make more.

Clare turns down the conductor as Sorry puts the cables on to the bar on the helmet, Vireil’s eyes are the only thing he can’t even close his mouth. Until Clare puts a mouthpiece in Vireil’s mouth.

SORRY

I’m sorry but we are going to have to jump start your mutation and push you to as high as you can go and start the calibration, so we can harness you at your fullest potential. We have never had one as young as you, what are you in high school? It's high school isn’t it. I tried to avoid these kinds of things, but we have to find out how long it takes you to fill up the generator. It’s a full adult 30 min to an hr based on the person's body type and background. We stopped being picky a long time ago so it’s all down to you, will you save the future?

Clare starts the machine “do-doo-dooo” Virgil’s body jerks as much as the restraints would allow. His eyes begin to roll backwards pulling the veins, then a small glow of red electrical energy emits from Vireil’s body.

SORRY

Interesting, Red electricity. TURN IT UP!

CLARE

I’m giving her all she’s got, captain(laughs) I’m joking.

SORRY

Oh, like that tv show I have never seen before..haha... you're fired... I’m joking. I love that show.

Clare turns the machine to its maximum level, Sorry looks over to the generator and it’s 95% full.

SORRY

Hey, turn it off...

A white flashes blinding the scene, the view comes from a prison cell belonging to Von who is blindfolded, bound with both arms behind his back. The crimson light spreads down the hall until complete silence takes over, the scene is red until darkness. Dr. Sorry arises from under the rubble his perfect face now destroyed revealing this Sorry as a mechanical puppet.

SORRY

CLARE? Are you there? Not another one, ...that boy is something special.

Sorry’s voice is distorted with static feedback. He looks up the information on a tablet.

SORRY

If you really want better, then can you help me. It’ll all be worth it in the end...

A bar from the prison cell is fixed into Sorry’s Robot head, the bar is so long it goes through a tablet destroying it. A flicker of Vireil’s face shows up and last name. Sorry’s body drops to the ground as the scene pans up the legs of an inmate, his body is scared and still on his face is the blindfold until he takes it off revealing Von.

VON

God I need a cheeseburger.

SETTING: HIGH SCHOOL - 2 WEEKS LATER

Von and Vireil back are having a conversation going in the classroom.

VIREIL

I don’t know anything I left as soon as I got there. I don't know what’s going on and I don’t need to know anymore. This is not my problem.

VON

You seriously thought you could walk away from this? If I found you then it’s possible they already found you.

VIREIL

Thanks but no tanks.

Vireil walks off into the hallway where his classmate E is waiting for him.

E

Sooo...

VIREIL

So what?

Vireil is frustrated.

E

So you're gonna tell me what happened and why you missed school for 2 days?

VIREIL

A guy can’t take some time off?

E

Yea but it wasn’t like you to miss school, you know you could tell me.

VIREIL

You wouldn’t understand I still don’t understand but when I figure it out you’ll be the first to know.

E looks over Vireil’s shoulder and notices Von looking in their direction.

SETTING: OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL BUILDING

E

Hey, you need a ride?

E notices Von is still insight.

VIREIL

Nah, I’ll be fine.

E

Aight you know my mom has no problem with it.

VIREIL

Nah next time.

Vireil walks off, he makes it only 2 blocks from his house until he notices someone on the other side of the street. Vireil looks around making sure there wasn’t anyone around, Vireil clutches his fist as red static surrounds his hand. Vireil surrounds the cars in front of him with red static, Von stands still waiting.

VIREIL

Alright your funeral.

Vireil throws the cars, in slow motion Von jumps on to the roof of the first car while twisting his torso lunging to the hood of the second car running on the roof crushing the top jumping onto the bottom of the third car. Vireil tries to smash Von by bringing the first car fast on the third, but Von jumps in time. Von is inches away from Vireil until Vireil hits Von with the second car going so fast It causes him to spin in the air. Von falls in front of Vireil, but catches himself landing on his hands knocking him through the concrete building behind him flying across the hall. A wall with a mirror breaks Vireil’s fall by smashing into it, he looks up to see Von hoping into the hole in the building on one hand as the scene expands showing Von’s contorted body. Von unravels his body and smoothly does a backbend onto his feet, Vireil picks up the glass and notices that there is metal on the back of the mirror. Vireil starts generating electricity surrounding the shards of glass, they start to levitate with red static surrounding them. Von stands waiting on Vireil’s next move, Vireil sends the broken glass spinning as they travel. The shards get closer and closer till the shards hit Von and go through his flesh making a popping sound that goes all the way through, a faint scream then a thud sound Vireil’s vision goes blurry until it gets dark. Von walks over and pulls him by the leg, Von pulls until he gets to the entrance. A sight so stunning that even Von’s icy heart crumbled at the sight, well just a little and only for a second before he started to dispose of what happened here. In the trash he put they’re problems, to Von we are more than flesh. Hopefully they find the smell before they dump the body in the trash compactor, but wait Von feels movement not from the woman but from inside her. He quickly reconsiders and places her out in the open so that someone can find her, hurry please for the child’s sake.

SETTING: TRAIN TRACKS

Von carries Vireil in his right hand by his shirt and belt with ease like a duffle bag, Vireil wakes up from his head hitting a track as he dangles looking at the ground noticing his location.

VON

try to run again and I’ll knock you out again.

Vireil tries to look up with his face, hair and clothes filthy.

VIREIL

Why? Don’t you care that people are dying?

VON

No not really but I have experienced death.

VIREIL

You died?

VON

I died but then I was reanimated by assembling the atoms around me making this body.

VIREIL

How did you die?

VON

My brother killed me, ...he didn’t like the person I was becoming.

VIREIL

Jesus

VON

He committed suicide and my mom got home and saw us the sight was so unbearable she did the same, as much as they acted as if they were living, happy or incontent with themselves. I wanted to meet them in the afterlife, but we were separated between heaven and hell. I was in heaven, but forced to watch from the comfort of God’s grace. I had no peace in heaven, it felt like I didn’t deserve it. I was about to join them until I was brought back, as only energy.

VIREIL

Is that why you're doing all this? Is that why you're helping them?

VON

Don’t be like that, at least you have something nice to look forward to, it doesn’t take much to please him. Believe me it’s like nothing you could ever imagine.

VIREIL

Why go through all this trouble? Just to bring them back or are you punishing yourself? You have something that makes you special in this world and once you learn to master it I’m certain you will make an outcome beyond the ideas of heaven or hell.

Von drops Vireil

VON

You're a child, what could you possibly know about anything? If there was a crack or a way out I would have found it by now. Even in heaven there are rules.

VIREIL

But if you came back, how do you know if you can die? Huh? That glass should have killed you, how are you going to die if you can’t get a scratch?

VON

NO! No no no! You're right this isn’t flesh, what do I do? what can I do?

VIREIL

We are in the same situation right? Help me free those people, and shut down the operation because there has got to be another way.

VON

I don’t know what you think your freeing, but not everyone has a cool ability like you and unfortunately not everyone can be freed. Most of us were disfigured beyond recognition: elementals, reality benders, regenerative... Most of those people need somewhere to be, they need a place to put they’re monsters. They're dirty little secret that so many see but look away out of fear.

VIREIL

...We have to ... we have to destroy it all.

VON

Oooh sounds evil.

VIREIL

It’s a necessary evil, those unfortunate souls don’t deserve this and they’re just going to make more.

VON

I’ll do it. I was planning on doing it alone after I gave you to them, but this works too.

VIREIL

we have to find out where the hide outs are and the headquarters.

VON

My abilities latch on to molecules, absorb them and amplify them. If you want we would become unstoppable if you merge your atoms with me.

VIREIL

...I’m good, we’ll keep that in our back pocket. But you know where these people are?

VON

Yea, I was just about to take you to one of them but I knew it was going to be a setup.

VIREIL

How?

VON

They have a pod at the dolly warehouse that neutralizes your powers, I was locked up there. It was a regular meat plant, but now use it as a liquidation chamber for the corpses they have sucked dry.

VIREIL

WOW! Anything else I need to know

VON

Dr. Sorry I wasn't lying about replenishing the earth, which is what the elementals are for; they force them to use their abilities and take everything until they’re a shell. Earth, fire, water, air get the least of it. All the psychics and any with mental powers get the worst of it, they never get to die.

VIREIL

What happens to them?

VON

They have their brains removed and put into a pod and absorb their telepathic abilities.

VIREIL

Jesus... we gotta put an end to this.

TO BE CONTINUED