🌵 Scene 1: Fallen Texas
The town sign hangs crooked:
WELCOME TO RED ASH, TEXASPopulation: ——
No bodies.No birds.No wind.
Takashi Loki Kazuya, Hikari, and Usagi walk through the cracked streets, weapons ready.
Buildings sag like they're exhausted.
Hikari (quiet):"This place feels… watched."
A sudden groan echoes.
A shape shifts behind a storefront window.
🩸 Scene 2: Carter Jones
Behind an overturned truck lies Carter Jones, bleeding heavily, clutching his side.
His eyes flutter open.
Carter:"Don't… don't stay here…"
Takashi kneels.
Takashi:"What happened?"
Carter coughs blood.
Carter:"The town woke up."
The ground trembles.
Windows shatter inward.
Something moves beneath the asphalt—like veins under skin.
Usagi draws her blade.
Usagi:"We're not alone."
🎠Scene 3: Area 51 — The Watcher Laughs
From a distant ridge overlooking Area 51, a figure stands under flickering stars.
Jablonski Jesteer.
He holds the massive hand of a monster, fingers twitching like they're dreaming.
The monster does not move.
Jablonski tilts his head, smiling.
Jablonski:"Look at him…chained like a joke with no punchline."
Inside the base, Nkumkani strains against glowing restraints.
Jablonski's shadow stretches unnaturally long.
Jablonski (whispering):"Don't worry, king.The audience always arrives late."
The monster's hand tightens slightly.
🚆 Scene 4: The Train — No Escape
Inside the magical train—
Tiago, Elijah, Park Go Hwan, and Kane Kato fight back-to-back.
The creature lunges again—its limbs splitting mid-air.
Go Hwan smashes it into the wall.
Go Hwan:"It's adapting!"
Kane slashes its spine.
It doesn't die.
Instead, it peels itself off the metal and crawls upside down along the ceiling.
Elijah (breathing hard):"Tell me this train isn't alive."
The conductor's eyes glow briefly.
The doors lock tighter.
🧍‍♀️ Scene 5: Hyde & Ashton — Something Is Wrong
Ashton and Hyde sprint down a ruined street.
Behind them—
A Brandless monster lumbers forward, skin splitting open to reveal glowing muscle.
Hyde turns, fists clenched.
Nothing happens.
He tries again.
Still nothing.
Hyde (panicked):"NO—NO—COME ON—"
The monster roars.
Ashton grabs Hyde's arm.
Ashton:"RUN!"
They duck into an alley.
Hyde stares at his hands—shaking.
Hyde:"My abilities… they're gone."
A faint glow flickers on his wrist—then dies.
Narrator:A soul displaced weakens the Brand.Power follows the body… not the memory.
The monster sniffs the air.
Closer.
Closer.
🧠Scene 6: Red Ash Awakens
Back in Texas—
The town itself shifts.
Streetlights bend.
Doors seal shut.
Walls bleed dust.
Carter grips Takashi's sleeve.
Carter:"It feeds on movement…if you run, it knows."
A house across the street turns its door toward them.
Loki smiles thinly.
Loki:"Then we don't run."
The ground splits.
A town-sized monster womb pulses beneath the street.
🧪 Scene 7: Area 51 — Eyes Everywhere
Inside the base, Limpey tilts its head.
Limpey:"ANOMALOUS PRESENCE DETECTED."
Cameras flicker.
For one frame—
A painted grin.
Jablonski hums.
Jablonski:"Let's see who breaks first."
⚔️ Scene 8: Train — Blood on Steel
The creature finally screams as Tiago drives his blade through its core.
It collapses—
Then melts into the floor.
The train keeps moving.
The walls stop breathing.
Kane:"That wasn't the threat."
The conductor turns around slowly.
Smiling.
🩸 Ending Montage
Hyde stares at powerless hands
Ashton drags him into darkness
Red Ash Texas fully awakens
Jablonski tightens his grip on the monster's hand
Nkumkani looks up, sensing eyes on him
Narrator:Some towns eat people.Some trains never arrive.And some clowns don't need a stage—only patience.