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Chapter 8 - Hi Helena

The Episode starts with: 

A Hippo in 

A dark lake. 

Still water. 

Eyes barely visible. 

A boat entering territory. 

It's eyes fixed on it. 

As it slowly approaches the boat, 

Camera pans to its legs below, as it briefly touches a cage below. 

Camera panned to Hippo as it is startled and suddenly turns itself inside the lake. Water explodes. And large bubbles form. 

The boat is still passing. 

The water is now completely still 

Absolute silence. 

Scene changes: 

Backstory: 

Daniel's face hidden, his mom's face blurred, as a 9-year-old boy wearing white clothes in a white room, playing with a spoon and ball. Angle shown from behind. 

As his mother approaches him, and a doctor stands aside them. 

Doctor: "Evening, Hope. Your boy is doing well. We have a little problem." 

Hope: "What is the problem doctor? Please let me know." 

She caresses Daniel's hair while he plays. "He is only 9 years old; I understand that he isn't the smartest boy in the room. I'm sorry, doctor, if he couldn't live up to your expectations. He is just a normal child. My baby..." 

Doctor shocked: "What.. Are you saying ma'am?.... His l-limiter is..." 

The doctor shows a biometric graph of the inherent threshold. 

The red line portrays the threshold. 

And the Green line portrays the child's fluid intellect. 

Hope astonished. 

Hope: "I d-don't see the g-green line...." 

Doctor & Hope gulps. As Daniel behind them says, "Mama look!..." 

As he throws the ball with a spoon aiming it like a catapult. The palm sized ball swings in air, and it disintegrates on the floor, like a blast. 

Doctor: "He chose to destroy the ball. There is a small hole nearby which could fit the ball. Yet he didn't" 

Hope's eyes light up upon seeing child Daniel's actions. 

Hope: "Aww... my baby..." 

She goes to hug him. 

Scene cut before she reaches him. 

Scene changes to Baelyn and the Cyborg's fight below the hospital. 

The Cyborg keeps pushing her away to get to the hospital's 3rd floor, where the baby is. 

But Baelyn keeps pulling his leg down and punching him. 

The Cyborg: "You witch! Get out of my way!" 

Baelyn (excited & rageful): "Oh yeah?!" 

She swings her dual glaive towards his head. The cyborg dodges panting, and backflips; his machine guns aimed at her at full speed starts. 

Baelyn dodges his attacks with her spinning glaive; she has held in front of her. 

Daniel suddenly peeks from the corner of the hospital wall. Baelyn glances at him while the machine gun bullets hit her glaive. She is surprised, and whispers like she asked a question. 

Daniel elongates his mouth while whispering funnily, eyes wide open. 

Baelyn looks confused while rotating her glaive from the machine gun hits: "Uh.. Yes.. It has reached the dumpster area." 

Daniel goes behind the wall, while his hand shows a thumbs up. 

Baelyn confused: "Why.. Just why?" 

The cyborg suddenly appears in front of Baelyn and blows a punch to her face, she falls on the ground with a thud. Her cheek red. 

The cyborg: "Stop trying to save that boy! He's worthless!" He turns to jump up towards the 3rd floor again. 

Then Baelyn grabs his leg while coughing blood. "Stop!! I won't let you go!" 

The cyborg annoyed looks at her with wide pissed of eyes and face: "YOU GODDAMN-" 

Scene cut. 

Scene changes to the hospital room: 

Rebex has the box Daniel gave him to hold in his hand as he is tense, holding it in his arms. 

Then Cleo gets out of Jessica's hospital room and is confused to see Rebex standing with shaking legs at the same place for such a long period of time. 

Cleo: "Bro what is wrong with you..." 

Rebex: "Don't come close to me!" 

Cleo just looks at him disappointedly. 

Cleo sighs. Rebex: "And he told me, to tell you something!" 

Cleo nods. 

Rebex shocked: "Uhm! We need to get the stethos-" 

Cleo suddenly realizes. 

Flashback: 

Daniel, Rebex, Cleo, Aura, Arrow and Baelyn running towards the hospital as the cyborg looks at them from the 3rd floor. 

Cleo from below sees the cyborg. Then the camera zooms into the cyborg's earpiece. 

Return to the present. 

Before letting Rebex complete the sentence: "Got it." 

Rebex: "What? Already?" 

Cleo smiles and hugs Rebex. 

Rebex: "WOAH BRO BE CAREFUL!" 

Scene changes to the hospital room- 6PM: 

Jessica is holding the baby in her arms, while her other daughter is in the hospital room asking Arrow questions. While outside alot of machine gun and metal striking sounds are heard. 

Her daughter: "What about daddy... where is he? He hasn't called us for a long time.." 

Aura, Arrow and Briana look sad now. 

Aura: "Honey.. He is just on the way... he must be on his way to help us! Don't worry sweetie." 

She pats her head. 

Then suddenly Daniel enters burstling through the door. 

Daniel: "Ma'am.... Please... give it to me." 

Jessica shocked, holds it even tighter: "WHAT?" 

Aura, Arrow and Briana protest: "What? Why do you need the baby?" 

Daniel grins menacingly: "Ohhh! So you guys want to die huh... Baelyn is injured! The cyborg is taking everyone out of his way to get the child! We don't have time for backups! Give it to me now!" 

Aura, Arrow and Briana pull their weapons out immediately. 

Daniel: "Guys! Please just hear me out... I need you guys to stay safe... I can't risk your lives in this!" 

Briana hesitatingly: "Whatever you say Daniel, but you're NOT taking the baby!" 

The group is tense now. 

After a while, the girls are all tense, gulping and standing in different positions in the room. What? How? Why? What the hell? 

Jessica sobs in her bed. The baby is nowhere in the room to be found. 

The daughter: "Oh God.. Mom please don't cry..." 

Briana: "You have gone too far Daniel..." 

The camera zooms in to a nurse scared sitting in the next room near Jessica's admitted room. Only her from behind wrapped in curtains camouflaging the wall, hugging herself, trembling and terrified, while other doctors in the room are lying on the floor dead. 

Scene changes to: 6:30pm. 

Helena being confident while sitting on top of a roof. 

Helena on earpiece: "Is everything alright? I do hope so.. No human can survive such a plan. I'll reward you with praises from Lord Achlys too! Now that I've destroyed the factory, we finally have set up our secret base." 

The cyborg calling her from the secret base in the jungle: "Yes Miss Helena, our secret base has an impossible location. Noone can track this area." 

The cyborg: "Wait Miss... Helena. THE ROCKET WE SENT FROM OUR JUNGLE... IT-IT-" 

Call cuts. 

Helena's eyes wide with terror, clenches the floor, and destroys the tiles. 

Episode ends.

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