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Chapter 57 - PROTOCOL IN THE DARK

BLACK SCREEN

Breathing...Measured...controlled...

Split audio...THREE HEARTBEATS...

UNCLE(COMMS)

Naira...remember...

Beep...

EXT.ABANDONED COLONY-NIGHT

Naira glides through shadows...

UNCLE(COMMS)

...Always corner

Remember...threats hide where confidence dies...

Naira follows without question...

EXT.ABANDONED HOSPITAL-NIGHT

A massive structure...

This place was meant...to be erased,Yet...it stands...

UNCLE

Entry point confirmed...

Thirty seconds...

UNCLE(COMMS)

Naira...

I'm entering an old medical facility...

NAIRA(V.O)

Copy...Stay safe...

INSIDE ABANDONED HOSPITAL

Dark corridors...peeling paint...collapsed ceilings...

A hospital that...stopped saving people...

UNCLE(COMMS)

Found them...survivors, Civilians...Hidden in a sealed ward,

Weak...dehydrated...Alive...

UNCLE(Soft, Human)

Stay quiet...I'll get you out...

BIDU

Fluctuation detected...

UNCLE

Seven seconds...

Run towards the exit...

GUNFIRE ERUPTS...

Not warning shots...Disciplined bursts...

The wall sparks, Glass explodes, people scream...

NAIRA(COMMS)

Uncle?!

PARITRAAN(Raised voice)

...are you okay?

Smoke floods the corridor... Dust... fire... screams...

Through the haze...A Shadow stands...Still...

Not running...Not retreating...

The gunfire slams into him...Rounds tear into the smoke...

But...the Shadow does not fall...

He steps forward...and block the exit...with his body...

Bullets strike...sparks flare...

SILENCE BREAKS THROUGH THE COMMS

UNCLE(COMMS)

A soldier's job isn't to win every fight...

Another bursts of gunfire...

UNCLE(CONT'D)

It's to make sure others survive...

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