[The kid, Hydro Undergrove draws HOME-MADE STREET ART NAME-TAGS at a desk, headphones on, singing along to a song he's too young for ("Can't Do It Without You"), but he doesn't quite know the words yet. A PHOTO of a YOUNGER HYDRO with his PARENTS and his UNCLE visible in the background--]
HEATHER: Hydro! Hydro, time for school!
DEXTER: --Hydro! Hydro! HYDRO!
[--Hydro WHIPS OFF his headphones--]
HYDRO: Yeah?!--
DEXTER: Are you finished packing for school?
HYDRO: Yeah! Just putting my notebooks and school supplies on my bag!
[Reveal his EMPTY BAG. He is NOT PACKED. He's been AVOIDING IT.]
HEATHER : Anak! Bilisan mo!
[--He FLIES around the room, tossing VARIOUS ITEMS into the suitcase, throwing on a WHITE UNIFORM JACKET, the camera catching other childhood details-- ]
DEXTER: C'mon, you a grown man now! Let's show these teachers that. Let's go!
HEATHER: --Hydro!
[INT. HYDROS' APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM]
[BAM! The door flies open. FAST-PACED, Hydro enters the living room, where his parents get ready for the day.]
HYDRO: Mom! Where's my phone
HYDRO: Bakit naman ma?
DEXTER: --If you want me to drive you we gotta go now--
HYDRO: [edging away] --No Dad, I'll take the tricycle!--
DEXTER: Personal chauffeur going once- -
HYDRO: [continuing] --It's ok--
HEATHER: Ay Maria, This baby drives me crazy!
[Hydro grabs food. Mom and dad frantically cross behind him.]
HEATHER: [impatient] Zed, gotta go!
HYDRO: IN A MINUTE--
[EXT. STOOP - MORNING]
[Heather gives an embarrassed Hydro with kisses. Hydro rolls his eyes, hates it/loves it.]
HYDRO: Mom. I gotta go...
HEATHER: [kissing him] In a minute...
[Hydro rolls his bag down the steps as his mom calls out:]
HEATHER: Papá! Hydro! See you in 1 Month!
HYDRO: Okay, mami. I will!
[Hydro gets into the car. The POLICE CAR moves through the neighborhood. Hydro is in the back seat. The car drives up right under the Tungkil Bridge, to a school overlooking Jingu, which LOOMS across the water. Hydro gets out of the car and opens the front door to get his bag Jefferson staring through his rearview mirror--]
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Kairiki: Before the Nightmare
Adventure(This is a Prequel to the Comic: Kairiki) Hydro Undergrove was just an ordinary high schooler in our world until the Temporal Prism caused global chaos, leading to his and his family's death. However, he is mysteriously revived by an unknown presenc...
