[OPENING SCENE – SKYVAULT CITY – DAYLIGHT SHIMMERING]
The city breathes — floating highways curve between skyscrapers. Neon signs dance between translucent sky-bridges. Civilian drones pass overhead while civilians crowd at a floating mall plaza. Music plays softly in the background.
Children wear mock Vanguard cloaks, pointing at digital statues of Kael and Yuna.
Child:
"I'm Oathfire! Pew pew!"
Parent (smiling):
"Yuna would've healed your brain if she heard that."
Suddenly, gunfire cracks across the plaza. A firework display explodes — but it's not scheduled. Out of the vapor clouds, Savage Bratz burst forward on Rift-bikes and grappling jets. Dozens of them. Armed, laughing, throwing explosives into food stalls.
Civilians scream.
[SCENE – VAN HQ – STRATEGIC RESPONSE ROOM]
Echo-7 picks up alarms across multiple city quadrants. Smoke curls from Sector 2, 5, and 6 simultaneously. Each Bratz squad seems to be moving with unusual coordination.
Echo-7:
"This isn't random. This is patterned—almost... mapped."
Kael (rising):
"They're herding the civilians. But why?"
Tari:
"They're not taking anything. Not robbing. Just—disrupting."
Irion (mutters):
"Smoke screens. It's bait."
Yuna:
"Then we're walking straight into a trap."
Kael:
"We answer anyway. Suit up."
Veya (leaning against the wall, twirling her blade):
"Good. I was getting bored."
She loads her dual pistols with a smile.
Veya:
"Let's give 'em a show."
[EXT. SKYVAULT – CITYSCAPE BATTLE – MULTIPLE LOCATIONS]
—Jax intercepts a rooftop squad, delivering thunderous concussive blasts that collapse enemy lines.
—Tari snipes Bratz vehicles mid-flight, taking down enemy transports before they can firebomb a daycare tower.
—Irion maneuvers through alleyways, disabling Rift-bombs planted under transit hubs.
—Kael and Yuna charge through the main plaza, pushing enemies back and sealing the evacuation gates.
—Veya flips through a barrage of gunfire, landing gracefully behind a Savage Brat brute and delivering a stun round to the back of his helmet.
Veya (grinning):
"Sorry boys. Party's over."
She moves with precision, weaving through the chaos, guiding trapped civilians to safety while gunning down Bratz with perfect aim.
Jax (through comms):
"There's no leader in sight. Just chaos puppets."
Kael:
"They're waiting for something. Or someone."
[SCENE SHIFT – UNDERGROUND – SAVAGE BRATZ SUB-COMMAND BASE]
Inside an abandoned rail system, a Bratz lieutenant watches the Vanguard scramble through surveillance feeds. Behind him, deep in a Rift-infused pod, floats a humanoid figure — unnaturally still. Clad in bone-white armor, its face featureless.
Lieutenant:
"The Vanguard are reacting. We've pulled four out. Now. Wake it."
A scientist reluctantly turns a dial. Rift-liquid drains from the pod.
Lieutenant (chanting):
"Let the Nullborn walk."
[NULLBORN – EXPLAINED]
A synthetic organism born from Rift-reject DNA, Nullborn was forged in experimental voidlight — an attempt to craft a being immune to moral conflict, memories, and emotion. No past. No pain. Just function.
It cannot be reasoned with, and it is programmed to target only those with emotional resonance — the Vanguards' greatest weapon becomes its lock-on system.
Nullborn's Purpose:
A prototype weapon discarded by Mother Null years ago — hidden underground. Now reawakened to test SkyVault's champions before the true "Mother" arrives.
[SCENE – BACK TO PLAZA – NULLBORN ENTERS]
Smoke coils unnaturally around the main fountain square. Yuna stops. Her vines retract suddenly.
Yuna:
"Something's wrong. I can't feel... anything. Not even panic."
A tall, ivory figure walks from the haze. Skin gleaming, chest pulsing dimly. No face. No eyes. Just a slit where a mouth should be.
Kael draws his sword. Echo-7 glitches.
Kael:
"Name? File? Identity?!"
Echo-7:
"Null signature... Unknown. Code blackout. It's erasing my sensors—!"
Nullborn moves impossibly fast — it grabs Jax mid-charge and slams him into a building. The impact cracks the walls.
Jax (groaning):
"The hell is this freak?!"
Tari fires a starlight round. It curves mid-air — then disintegrates.
Tari:
"What?! It warped the sigil."
Yuna:
"It has no aura. No mind. It's a blank."
Veya (rushing forward):
"I've got it—"
She fires twin shots aimed at the figure's joints. Nullborn catches both bullets mid-air and crushes them without looking.
Veya (eyes narrowing):
"Okay. That's new."
[FULL BATTLE – VANGUARDS VS NULLBORN]
Kael swings with Ignition Protocol. The fire hits Nullborn's chest — and fizzles. No burn. Just silence.
Nullborn counters with a backhanded pulse of Rift-static, throwing Kael across the plaza.
Irion phases through Nullborn, trying to strike from behind — but inside the phased state, he sees an endless void. No thought. No echo. It stuns him.
Irion:
"There's… nothing inside."
Echo-7 tries to override it with digital projections — but Nullborn corrupts them, mimicking Echo-7's voice with eerie precision.
Nullborn (glitching):
"Emotion. Noise. Flawed pattern."
Yuna shields Jax, vines snapping violently to protect him. Tari fires two more sigil marks — all unravel.
Veya joins Kael at his side, covering his retreat with suppressive shots that distort the air around Nullborn.
Kael (bleeding):
"It's not fighting us. It's measuring us."
[NULLBORN'S ESCAPE – THE MYSTERY DEEPENS]
Nullborn suddenly halts. The Rift on its chest pulses bright white — then dims. It stops. Turns. And walks away, vanishing into thin mist.
Jax stands, coughing.
Jax:
"It left? After mopping the floor with us?"
Kael:
"It wasn't ordered to kill us. Just test us."
Yuna (softly):
"Whose test...?"
Veya (lowering her pistols):
"And why do I feel like it just passed?"
[TEASER – MOTHER NULL – FINAL SCENE]
Somewhere, far beneath SkyVault, a Rift chamber stirs. A throne built from fused bones and steel sits alone. A pale hand taps its armrest. A voice — calm, musical, terrifyingly kind — echoes.
Mother Null (off-screen):
"The data is beautiful. They fear absence. Let them learn what absence truly is."
A metal eye opens in the darkness.
TO BE CONTINUED…