Sebastian V.O: I can’t remember the exact date let alone what year it began to happen. I know that my mind was young though because the world had just begun to teach me things. There were things that I didn’t understand but I still had that passion to learn.

Sebastian V.O: One night there was a play playing in Sector eight of the slums. My parents took that opportunity to show me what the people were raving about. The play was called “A plan to breakout”. It symbolized then what was going on in the world and more important our city….nowhere.

Matthew: Jack Gibson, wasn’t he amazing?

He walks over to Sebastian who is staring at a poster of the show. Their parents are not far from them and are talking.

Sebastian: The entire production was amazing. There was never a dull moment throughout. I’m getting goose bumps right now thinking of the things I want to write down in my notebook when I get home.

Matthew: You’re a writer? Have you read any work by Khel from Hesselink? Sebastian: I read the poems he posted in the national newspaper

Matthew: My friends tell me he is the greatest writer that has ever walked this planet. I would read some of his work if I could read.

Sebastian: That’s where I meet Matthew Summers III. I always wondered if chance encounters actually happened like that….you know the way they happen in the movies. One causal day you accidentally bump into a person that is going to form your entire future. A future you probably could have avoided if you were not that clumsy or decided to sleep in on that day

The camera fades to black

Sebastian V.O: It was not long that same night when our lives were changed forever. I was never sure of why my parents and his were murdered. An apparent robbery? An attempted rape? Or another common “Just because I can” killings. Those were very common in the slums.

Sebastian V.O: It was not long that we had found the people responsible and extracted our revenge upon them. Along with Matthew and are two best friends, Raphael and Basian

The camera fades to the quartet in an apartment building. Sebastian walks down a narrow hallway, eyeing the numbers of the doors. Matthew, Raphael, and Basian are close behind him. He stops on the door with the number 911.

Sebastian leans his ear against the door. Brings one of the glock up out of his coat and bangs on the door with it. The others now pull out their guns from their jacket. A man opens the door and the gunfight begins.

Sebastian unloads four shots into the man’s stomach and then tackles him to the ground, opening the door for the rest of his team. Matthew somersaults into the apartment and lands on his back, with a gun in each hand he fires away with reckless abandonment killing two guys.

Cut to Sebastian with guns extended left and right. He fires upon men trying to get their weapons out, killing them. He seems to be walking to one specific man who is nervously trying to draw his gun

He is then looking down the barrel of Sebastian’s gun. A hesitation….

Man: I did it for survival. They had something my son needed I took it….I had to take it….

Sebastian blasts a hole in the man’s forehead and unloads his clips into his chest. Raphael yells of a threat of an intruder and Sebastian quickly turns around, his black coat swirling in slow motion, and blows the intruder away who has come through the open door.

The camera dissolves into a close-up of Sebastian. He breathes hard and closes his eyes tight. The group now out of targets makes their way to the exit. The camera slowly booms upwards from the man’s body to reveal a sea of dead bodies.

Sebastian V.O: The job felt so good and the job was so easy that it slowly turned into our profession. We became in demand. The innocents of the slums grew tired of the slumber the gangs and drug lords had put upon the slums. We had become mortal superheroes.

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