EPISODE 14: "DISASTER"
FADE IN:
INT. KEISE'S CAPTIVE TENT - NIGHT
ERETT is holding the stone in his hand. The tent is burning, flames engulfing everything.
METE HAN looks confused at the stone and at Erett.
ERETT
(determined)
Bilge Kağan. End this right now. Otherwise… this stone will vanish along with all your hopes.
BILGE KAĞAN suddenly doesn't listen—he TELEPORTS behind ERETT just like Erett did to the creature in the dungeon earlier.
Just as he's about to grab the stone—
BAMMM!
METE HAN blocks him.
METE HAN
(grinning)
Bro… you forgot about my copy ability, didn't you?
KEISE
(shouting)
Erett! Come on! The tent's on fire! Hurry—grab the stone and let's get out!
SETSUKO opens the tent flap.
SETSUKO
(urgent)
Move!
ERETT, SETSUKO and KEISE rush out. Erett glances back once.
METE HAN and BILGE KAĞAN are clashing at full speed.
CUT TO:
EXT. OUTSIDE THE TENT - NIGHT
The team bursts out.
The surroundings have turned into a BLOODBATH. Soldiers with the same armor, same emblem, are slaughtering each other.
KEISE
(panting)
Come on! Let's go!
Just as they're about to run—
BILGE KAĞAN
(from behind, yelling)
STOP!
BAMMM!
METE HAN crashes to the ground in front of them.
Wounded. Unconscious? Dead? Unknown.
BILGE KAĞAN's left eye is injured, blood dripping from his mouth. That filthy smirk is still plastered on his face.
BILGE KAĞAN
He will teleport.
But he CANNOT teleport.
A sharp NEEDLE-like pain pierces the center of his heart. The echo has ended. Smonir, the dungeon, everything piling up.
For the first time—he is LOSING.
ERETT realizes the echo is over.
ERETT
(firm)
Kağan… it's finished. Accept it. You destroyed your own headquarters with your own hands. You destroyed your own brother with your own hands.
He drops the stone to the ground.
ERETT (CONT'D)
Now… I'm going to SHATTER this stone.
Just as he raises his foot to crush it—
BILGE KAĞAN
(with his last strength)
STOP!
Erett freezes.
BILGE KAĞAN
(gasping)
If you break it… right now, we will all be dragged into a CATASTROPHE. We will go to THE ISLAND.
KEISE
(stunned)
What… island, man?
BILGE KAĞAN
(slowly)
The Island… SV Island. Even we don't fully know what it is. Every soldier I sent there—even Kağans stronger than me—none of them ever came back.
ERETT
(shocked)
You want to do this?
KEISE
(to Bilge Kağan)
Hey, Keise. Then… was it right to destroy everything you knew, everything you saw, for something you don't even understand?
BILGE KAĞAN
(harsh)
Was it right? No. But you did it too.
BILGE KAĞAN
(smirks faintly)
But there is one thing we do know about that place… and it's what took us there.
He pauses, eyes drifting far away.
BILGE KAĞAN (CONT'D)
At the very end of the island… those who survive are granted SV. 7SV. Creator SV. Who the user is, who the creator is—we don't know.
ERETT
(stunned)
Your teleportation power…
BILGE KAĞAN
(cuts him off)
It came from there. I never went. I took it from the ones I sent.
BILGE KAĞAN slowly removes his ARMOR.
From his abdomen up to his left shoulder, covering his entire chest… FADED, ROTTING tissue.
BILGE KAĞAN
(voice filled with pain)
Look… here it is. If I can claim that SV… I would abandon the title of Kağan. THE ENTIRE WORLD would have been mine.
Silence.
Everyone stares. The mighty, fearless, invincible Bilge Kağan… has been rotting from the inside for years.
KEISE
(whisper)
What… is this?
BILGE KAĞAN
(with a bitter smile)
The price of the echo.
BILGE KAĞAN (CONT'D)
I never reached it. If that stone is destroyed… this entire place will turn completely INTO THE ISLAND.
At that moment—
METE HAN opens his eyes. Covered in blood.
METE HAN
(with his dying strength)
Don't stop! BREAK THE STONE! It's gathering the echo!
A wide grin spreads across BILGE KAĞAN's face.
BILGE KAĞAN
(whisper)
Well done.
ERETT lunges toward the stone.
BILGE KAĞAN teleports.
Time seems to SLOW DOWN. Everyone freezes.
ERETT's hand reaches for the stone.
BILGE KAĞAN's hand slams down on top of ERETT's. Pressing hard.
And—
CRACKKK!
THE STONE SHATTERS.
FADE TO BLACK.
[END OF EPISODE 14]