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Chapter 6 - The Inherent Threshold

The scene starts with Pash sitting in his small minimalistic music studio, and his friends are a bunch of junkies sitting on the couches and talking to him.

Friend 1: "Pash bruzz, you're too good! Your music tingling my earzz!"

Friend 2: "Yea bro we smacking that shi wit youz singing bruz."

Pash: "I want to be the greatest singer on the planet... one day..."

Friend 1: "For reall bruz youz the-"

Pash throws a book at their face in the funniest way imaginable like a windmill: "But. I want to save people! Protect my parents too! How do I do both?!"

Pash gets up from his seat and poses like a bodybuilder leaning sideways pointing towards the ceiling. "Here we gooo!"

The ceiling starts showing a hologram visual on the floor of X-DOT. A 6 foot 2, sharp, manly, heroic dude with a Techno YoYo swinging in his finger. Standing looking like a Greek God. Straight hair flowing.

Friend 2: "BrAUH! YOu admire diz dude?"

Pash: "How could I not?! Techno YOYO!! HEEEYEAAAA!"

Friend 1 smokes a cigerette: "You got diz Pash brutha. Just don't forget your broz when yous on top!"

Pash gets normal and puts his fist up for a fist bump. His friends both do it while sitting.

Then scene changes to outside and the rocket missile still flying in the sky looking for its target (the father) then we see it going at full speed approaching the car from previous episode then the scene suddenly transitions to a guy holding hammer pumping a nail into a futuristic dome's ceiling, in it's interior.

Zoom out to see a muscular built dude, defined chest and biceps pumping the hammer in again and again. Wearing a construction cap and clothes.

Someone from below calls him: "Ethan! Come down. Fast!"

Ethan: "At your command sir!"

Later Ethan stands with his hands behind his back, 6 foot 4. His clothes and his face are covered with dirt marks, stands politely. Other works working behind him

The man wearing specs: "You have done a great job here Ethan! We'll likely promote you the next time."

Ethan smiles with slightly visible frustration: "Heh! Sir.. I have been spending 16 hours every day, keep this building stable."

The man: "Don't sadden up Ethan, this time the employee of the year is actually Iris!"

Ethan (growing even more frustrated but calmly smiling): "So you're saying.. That this guy-!"

Ethan points towards a scrawny guy barely able to pick up a hammer.

Ethan (smile slowly turning into a grin): "...is the employee of the year! He only comes here on weekends! That too for 30 minutes!"

The man: "Calm down Ethan! You know how it is! We cannot just give this opportunity to you yet!"

Ethan clenched fists then it opens up.

Scene cut.

After 10 minutes,

The whole dome fell apart.

Ethan stands outside calmly with his hands behind his back looking at the destruction, that he just caused?

Ethan has an unreadable expression, calm yet composed.

Then he slowly turns back walking with his hands behind.

Then screams suddenly: "I'M UNEMPLOYED AAGAAAAIIAIIINNN!!!!"

Scene cut

A crash accident on the street, barricades surrounding the crater caused by the destroyed car on the ground. Cyborg hunters and Cops standing there to examine the attack. The students of CH Horizon School arrive. Baelyn and the students standing near the scene. As she turns back towards the students.

Baelyn: "This is a highly hazardous area for students. Your life's first demo case. Do not be idiots and get out of line to fight cyborgs. You do remember what happened last time, right? If it wasn't for this cutie (pointing towards Daniel) you wouldn't have survived!"

Daniel (distracted again looking at the sky): "A flying hippo....."

His friends, Rebex, Cleo, Briana, Aura, and Arrow look at him confusedly.

The cop walks towards Baelyn with pen and paper, like he had just arrived.

Cop: "Welcome Ms. Baelyn."

Baelyn: "So how did this happen officer?"

Main Cop: "Car got hit by a rocket... its trajectory is still unknown, where it came from. Man is in his late 20s, 5 foot 8, had a deep voic-"

While Baelyn and cop talks, Daniel walks towards the man in the car bleeding, dodging the other cops in his way.

Baelyn interrupts: "What about where he was going?"

Main Cop: "That is still unknown. It's hard to tell. There is no clear evidence."

Then Daniel hugs the dead body of the man.

The Main Cop turns back and notices Daniel: "Hey! Stop! What the hell are you doing?"

Daniel's hands up and he goes back: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Baelyn holds the cop's collar, eyes wide blank expression: "He. Can. Do. Whatever. He. Wants. Got it?"

Main cop: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Rebex: "Daniel! Stop stealing evidence!"

Cleo: "Yeah! Stop doing what we can predict already!"

Briana, Arrow and Aura, go "wtf".

The cops and cyborg hunters all immediately gather around Daniel and inspect him.

Daniel looks at Cleo and Rebex with sad eyes. Like asking why? Just why would they do this to him?

Baelyn stands quietly and annoyed.

Cleo smirks. "I got it Rebex."

Rebex grins: "Well done."

Briana tears up, thinking to herself: "Rebex and Cleo!... Why would you interrupt his plan? You cannot betray him! Not him" She tears up.

Backstory:

Daniel, Cleo, Rebex, Briana, Aura and Arrow in a shelter, wearing white rugged clothes running around as kids, but Daniel's face isn't shown, others are, he is only interpreted from the side or back. Then they run outside the shelter into the garden around it, beautiful scenery, and sunrise.

Daniel runs outside and falls on the ground cutely. Daniel: "Ow."

Rebex: "Hahahaha!"

Cleo walks behind Rebex and pushes him too on Daniel. Daniel opens his embrace.

Rebex falls. Cleo: "Hahahaha!"

Then Cleo falls over both of them.

Briana: "Hahahaha!"

Then skip to:

All the small kids lying on top of each other, And Daniel suffocating cutely. They all laughed.

Later:

Small Rebex smiling while throwing rocks that glide over the lake nearby, everyone sitting near the lake together.

Briana: "You guys are so amazing! We can come here again if our moms agree!"

Daniel: "Definitely Briana!"

Briana leans over Daniel. Daniel caresses her hair.

Briana blushes and eyes wide, then leans closer.

Cleo looks at Briana and then looking at the lake: "He sure has everyone's attention."

Daniel smiling lovingly pulls out a Frisbee from his pants to give to Cleo and says: "This is for you Cleo!"

Rebex: "Dude! I am the one throwing here!"

Daniel throws the frisbee down like a discarded toy.

Cleo: "Hey what are you doing? You bought it for me right."

Daniel smiles. Then get up to pick it up. Baelyn pouted because he got up.

Daniel: "Then earn it!"

Then Daniel throws it upward and flat, sliding away from them and the lake. "Swing swing swing swing then come back and ta!" Caught by Cleo by jumping.

Daniel and the others clap. Rebex's eyes light up.

Rebex then picks up a rock and throws it exactly like Daniel did. It glides tapping the water a couple of times then vanishes in the lake. Rebex screams: "You imitated me in your first throw! I imitated your second throw! Hah!"

Daniel eyes wide with satisfaction claps for him too, while the other 3 girls clap harder now.

Return to the present.

Briana hides her face with a sad look while looking at Daniel being surrounded by cops then turning her head away. Rebex looks at Briana with a confused look.

Rebex: "Why are you crying?"

Aura: "You betrayed him! You retards! How can you!"

Cleo and Rebex both have a funny, confused look.

Cleo: "But we got the evidence stolen just like Daniel told us to do."

Arrow, Aura, Briana have blank face wide eyes.

Scene cut.

The cops are surrounding Daniel, and they all keep searching for his pockets while he is absent minded. Daniel's expression is blank, unreadable looking at Baelyn with deep thought.

Baelyn removing the hoard of cops in her way. "Get out of my way you bastards! Get away from him!"

Daniel's eyes wide as he keeps looking at her, still face blank.

Daniel internally: "I have heard... that before..."

Zoom in on Baelyn's eyes, as she moves, black and white lips of some other woman are shown, then Baelyn's lips are on the screen, then black and white pair of eyes, of a different woman. Beautiful. Pure. Hope full.

Daniel says: "Mom?...."

Baelyn punches the cop holding Daniel, Baelyn walks towards Daniel: "All clear."

Cleo, Rebex, Aura, Arrow & Briana arrive and Cleo gives Daniel the broken photo shards; Daniel takes the bag absent mindedly.

Scene cut to:

Daniel putting the pieces together of the broken photo frame, but the pieces are missing, Daniel looks at it while sitting on the ground, his face inches to the broken frame.(the same way he did in ep 2). It has many pieces missing to complete the picture.

Baelyn: "Why does he have to be THIS close..."

Daniel gets up silently, and he looks down, while clenching his fists.

The students and Baelyn look at him, confused.

Daniel points towards a massive hospital, a few kilometers away from them.

Scene cut to hospital:

The doctor's face while holding a newborn baby in hand: "Congratulations! His inherent threshold has surpassed since birth!"

The scene cuts to black.

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