We open on the campus of JOREN SECONDARY School.
Instead of the hustle and bustle and joviality we're used to seeing at the campus, this feels different. The air is heavy. There are students outside, but they aren't laughing and carefree.
This isn't the present. It's the past.
The gate with the crest on it is shown and the three gems aren't there. Just the whip and the torch.
In the distance we hear muffled screams of pain.
The group of students and staff on the athletic field are ignorant to the sound. They are gathered around a hole that's been dug and they are each holding an item.
It's the day the time capsule was buried.
We see MALTRY standing off to the side, the coin dancing between his fingers. His eyes dart away and we know he can hear the screams.
The headmaster is talking to the students and we see CENO EL marching toward the group, his face hard and unfeeling. If he hears the screams, he isn't affected by them.
When the cadet guard, who have been standing around lazily see their CAPTAIN, they rush to attention. Missing from the formation are ISYS, JAMES, and ARLO.
The screams grow louder.
MALTRY and CENO EL share a look.
We follow the screams to a building that looks oddly like the medical building from the last episode, but as we get closer, we see it's just a makeshift dwelling. It's barely on the campus, but we can't say it's off campus either.
The screams grow louder. Now there are tears accompanying them.
INT. MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL
On a stretcher, in the middle of the room with a humanoid droid standing over her is ISYS. She's on her back and her torso is covered in a blood soaked cover.
Her hands grip the sides of the stretcher as the drone lifts up her cleary fractured arm and resets it.
A sickening crunch echoes through the room.
ISYS' screams finally stop, but it's because she's in too much pain to scream.
The droid moves to her lower body and does the same thing to her right leg.
The blood on the cover increases.
DROID
Shoulder and tibia reset manually.
ISYS
[whimpers]
P-Please-
DROID
[places hands on each of ISYS' hips and rocks them. We hear the sound of her bones grinding on each other.]
Her pelvis is broken.
ISYS
[eyes flutter and turn green]
DROID
Pelvis fracture confirmed. Subject is no longer audible.
ISYS
[eyes return to normal]
ISYS sits up suddenly. The cover falls. On her back we see two bleeding holes. Not bullet wounds, but something penetrated her. The holes are perfect circles.
ISYS reaches for the droid and grabs the closest thing to her. Its arm.
GREEN energy shoots from her hands and the DROID is consumed by it. It freezes and then falls over, a useless hunk of metal.
FEMALE VOICE (o.s)
TEMPEST, are you -
ISYS
[swings her legs over the stretcher]
What am I?
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Hunters & Gatherers
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