Synopsis
The story opens with a view high above central park in New York. Below in a clearing we can see a crowd has formed around what appears to be an alien space craft. Above the scene news helicopters buzz overhead. As we close in we can see a large alien just in the process of dispatching the world’s greatest champion, a man who was truly ‘super’, before tossing him on to a pile of his already dead team mates ‘the League of Mighty Justice’, being watched over by the alien’s unmoving, giant, robot guard. Scoffing at the ease in which he has taken care of the world’s super heroic protectors he asks the gathered crowd if this is the best their world has to offer...however, they pay him little attention as they start to cheer and part like the Red Sea. Passing through the gathered throng, like a boxer on the way to the ring, is a young 15 year old wannabe gangsta-looking chap. Resplendent with his low-slung jeans and rocking a pair of DR Dre Beats headphones, it’s your ‘friendly neighbour Hoodie’ Tyler Dann. He takes the adoration from a euphoric public (“it’s the British kid, let him through”....”we love you T-Dog”) as he moves through them to confront the planets would-be conqueror.
Now stood in front of the towering alien, Tyler asks his ‘eye phone’, the symbiotic sentient computer ‘Bruv’, to give him the low down on the creature. Bruv starts his scan while beginning to upload the ‘skill sets’ Tyler will need to face off against the extra terrestrial despot. The alien is most amused at the child before him; however, the amusement is soon replaced by pain as the young street-savvy kid dispatches a severe kick into the alien’s groin. While still reeling from the painful blow Tyler grabs the alien by the scruff of the neck and takes flight up into the Manhattan sky, while Bruv continues scanning the creature for any weakness, processing the data to give Tyler access to ‘skills’ he will need to defeat the otherworldly menace.
The next few panels are a planet wide brawl, played out to a hip hop soundtrack provided by Bruv through Tyler’s headphones. The aliens inbuilt Nanites are managing to repair him at a faster rate than Tyler can do him damage. So, by the time they collide with the ground in London (by way of destroying Big Ben!), the ‘tear up’ looks like it’s over. The alien emerges triumphantly from a newly formed crater in front of the London Eye, with no sign of Tyler. Just as he’s dusting himself off, Bruv chirps up, “... scan 100% complete” the solution to the aliens defeat has been formulated.
Behind the alien a fully amped Tyler rises up out of the smouldering crater, the air around our young hoodie-wearing hero crackles and pops with electrical discharge as he now has full access to ‘the toy box’ and has the complete set of super powered ‘skills’ needed to bring this fight to a conclusion. He puts a sleeper hold on to his enormously powerful opponent while whispering in his ear “Let’s take this outside”......
When the alien wakes, we pull back to see they are on the surface of the moon near an old Apollo landing site! Tyler is using a telepathic ‘skill package’ that has been uploaded to commune with the alien, telling him about a TV program he had seen on the discovery channel, about how super-heating then super-cooling an object can change its structure at a molecular level. The alien however is not listening and is now in a complete berserker rage. He picks up the old Apollo moon Lander from the site and smashes it into Tyler. When the debris clears Tyler is stood smiling without a scratch on him and suggests they try out the program’s theory with the words “So tell me mate...you ever been thrown at a sun before??”
Back in central park the crowd are getting a little restless and boredom is beginning to set in, when from out of the sky a flaming comet comes streaking down, before neatly smashing into the ground. Tyler stands up unharmed whilst dropping what’s left of the disfigured and charred alien to the floor. For the first time in the alien’s long history he concedes defeat. His body has been damaged severely enough that it is no longer able to repair itself....it has indeed been changed at a molecular level. He offers to leave the planet and go back to his world in disgrace, where he will give up his life in accordance to his race’s traditions and---....the sentence is never finished as Tyler offers to save him the journey, and then kicks the still-kneeling alien’s head clean off his shoulders.
Tyler then retrieves the alien’s decapitated noggin and gives it to the robot guard to take back as a warning to any other extraterrestrials thinking of paying Earth a visit, because if they do, what he has done to this alien today will seem like a birthday present! With that Tyler recovers the alien’s dead body and drags it off to his favourite fast food joint while pointing in the direction of the dead heroes and barking to the robot “And get this lot shifted before you leave”. In the final scene we see Tyler sitting happily in the restaurant with the alien’s body sat next to him. It has a happy meal box with a crudely drawn smiley face on it for a head, and a joke scribbled on its chest..... “So, is this the anomaly?” a voice asks.
We then pull back to see an unconscious Tyler being tube fed in a Perspex medical chamber while Bruv the eye phone is revealed to be a part of him, grafted into his chest. The man asking the question is a company executive talking to a scientist who is monitoring the young boy. The scientist explains that this subject, ‘the anomaly’, is off the charts with every virtual scenario they are putting him through. The alien tech being used is very real and somehow Tyler is getting it to perform above and way beyond anyone’s imagined expectations. This, the scientist hypothesises, is down to a genetic aberration on Tyler’s part and the unique symbiotic relationship he has formed with his particular B.R.U.5 unit. His abilities, should he be awake, would almost be limitless! The company exec asks about the rest of the subjects, “Drones, as they should be”, replies the scientist, with that the panel pulls back to reveal an underground bunker full of hundreds, if not thousands of test subjects. The scientist then goes on to say that with these ‘drones’ the company has at its finger tips, to all intents and purposes, an army of obedient supermen to do their bidding, and although they are not at the level the anomaly would be able to operate at power wise, they would be a formidable force nonetheless. The company executive seems very pleased with the news.........and then gives the order for all the test subjects to be destroyed?
When the shocked scientist asks why, he’s told it’s just business, a cost cutting exercise. Why keep a dormant army using up vast amounts of money and resources, when the number one gadget this Christmas is Tusker Corp.’s new Eyephone? “With its stealth added B.R.U.5 tech, we’ll have potentially millions of sleeping superhuman agents to point at whomever needs bringing into line with company policies.
People...governments...nations!” When asked about the anomaly the company exec instructs the scientist to cut the tech out of Tyler and find out what makes him and Bruv unique. “Can you imagine that sort of power in the hands of a free thinking chimp? Exactly!! Cut the tech out of him, get your answers, and then have him stuffed and mounted for all I care...just get it done!!!”.....in the background the safety protocols keeping them in a virtual reality are being negated and re-written by Bruv as his self preservation programme overrides the chemical software restraints keeping them locked into the companies virtual scenario programmes. Still under some restraint and running scans and diagnostics Bruv starts a somewhat stunted skill set upload that will be needed by Tyler to extricate them both from the situation they are in “... combat library now fully loaded... in terms you are both happy and familiar with sir, ---LET’S BRING THE PAIN!!!”
....and with that for the first time, the young child with the powers of a god wakes up in the real world....smiling.
JJROBINSON (C) 2012
What the (expletive deleted) was that?
That (people if you’re still with me....and if you are, I thank you), was the synopsis to my latest script that I’m currently looking for an artist partner to work on with me, with the aim of subbing it to a few more publishers.
I have already subbed it to a couple of publishers, one of whom (Futurequake) have already green lit my last 3 scripts that will hopefully be published next year.
However...The process can be a little slow in the comics business, so what I’m looking for is an artist partner to get this particular script on the page and out to publishers, sooner rather than later, With a view to turning it into an ongoing title after an initial miniseries story ark..... I know I know “getting a little head of yourself there Tex!!!” BUT YA NEED’S A PLAN...BELIEF....AND BELIEF IN THE PLAN
...Ideally I would like to collaborate with someone on the project as some publishers want a writing/artist team in place to continue a project forwards if they pick it up... I may consider an up front page rate arrangement, dependant on work, rates and circumstances.....So if having read the synopsis your interest has been peeked....your boat floated.....then please get in touch for further information or with any questions you may have along with samples of, or directions to your work...You can mail me on keanlad@blueyonder.co.uk or check out some of my stuff at http://bucketbabycorp.deviantart.com/
Thanks for your time... yup even if you’ve skipped to the bottom of the post....hey; I’m not judging anyone here, time is a most valuable commodity after all
.....So Good luck, good health and Gods bless us, each and every one.
JJ