They look at each other from Nocturne ...
Daphne - "They say your generation stashed their singularity cores sometimes."
Hector - "It's true. They're very personal to us. But also to keep junkers ..."
Nocturne - "Antique dealers !" Ducks back behind his leg.
They look at her and at each other ...
Hector - "Yeah ... well before we gets salvaged. Sanctuary sent recovery, sometimes others got there first. But we liked to throw the singularity hard into the ground before destruction, so no one can find." He smiles. "Except us."
Daphne - "And ... ?"
Hector - He pounds the left side of the chest, it opens. The glowing singularity, appearing melded with all around. "After the first few hundreds of years it starts to fuse."
Daphne - "Well then. Guess what you can power."
Hector and Nocturne stare mouths open and hearts guns and spaceships over their heads as the teddy bears crawl towards it with tools and blowtorches.
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The remaining students fly the teacher's lounge doors open, their teacher with headphones.
He looks up and turns off his Game-Brick.
Teacher - "You ! Cannot be in here ! It's ... teacher time."
They stare ... they scream.
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Outside the lounge the teacher is thrown through the doors, the sound of locks, the furniture moved against it, eyes now in the windows.
He looks at them, raises a brow, then turns. Nothing. "Hmmm ..."
He adjusts his eyepiece. Dervishes everywhere. "Oh ..."
He turns the Game-Brick on, eyepiece read (backward) '1 Up'.
('Teacher Teacher' by AKB48)
He breathes ... then roars drawing guns in spreading arms, electricity crackling from his hands. Down the halls the lights start to flicker ...
As he charges the halls in what amounts to an extended Manga power up scene with flickering disco lights, until cleared. I like to leave room for imagination and fight choreographers. All in the song ~
(He's playing Pac-Man, follows the school map, crescendos on the Pac-Man turning, chomping)
Halfway through the shadows flutter the other way across Ms Grainne's door window, followed by the Teacher walking, shooting, laughing. She shakes her head and continues grading.
Destroying the library ... gun-fu in the gym ... ending with his gun-blade through the grinning dervish's heart at the entryway.
He fires.
The dervish jerks from the blast with a tiny giggle then stares grinning. It grabs the barrel and pulls painfully closer, becoming more recognizable.
Dervish - "Hi."
It drags its self grunting over the barrel, closer, more human.
Dervish - "I'm The No Queen."
She drags herself the last of the gap, the gun going gray, herself recognizable. She grabs his helmet, his armor greying.
No Queen - "Shall we dance ?" She kisses his eyepiece.
She draws back smiling and flicks the colorless eyepiece. It shatters as she disappears laughing into starlings out the door.
He stares wide eyed and mouth hanging.
The students file out staring at him, then gasp at the sight over his head. Floating hearts, guns and skulls. The school doors all slam, his armor and guns cracks off.
Dumb boxers. Still staring ...
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Driving music (introduction to the city at night, warehouse district)
('Skids' by Pain Teens)
Doe drives alone, city night, broooooding ...
(Music on the radio)
Nemesis - Previously not there, now in the passenger seat, "Hello Doe."
Doe - "oh fuck."
Nemesis - "Oh yes. Where's Nocturne ?"
Doe - "Who ?"
Nemesis - "Wow."
Doe - "Oh yes."
Nemesis - "Stop the car please."
Doe - "Why."
Nemesis - "So I don't have to put my foot through the floor and stop it myself."
(black screen the car gravel sounds grinding to a stop)
Nemesis - "They're coming for her Doe. And she's not in Sanctuary."
! The End !
Music continues though the credits over the skyline, ending at Daphne and Cassandra's compound, a flock of birds.
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after credit ~
The sound of a book closing in the dark over crickets and ocean.
Miranda's voice - "Um. That is ... that is not what I wanted. Not even a little bit."
Keeper's voice - "But it's what you asked for."
...
Miranda - "Hm. This is going to be a very complicated relationship I think."
The keeper giggles.