Transition in: Storm, Astrid, and Raven appear inside Storm's apartment.
Raven: Wow… lovely place.
Camera pans to show absolute destruction: clothes everywhere, chair on top of the fridge, cereal on the floor.
Storm: Thank you… now how the fuck do I fix this? Because if we don't, we're probably getting hunted down and cooked alive by bounty hunters.
Astrid: I don't think we can do anything.
Storm: Okay… so we fight them. How many?
Raven: The ones chasing us? Ten.
Astrid: But now that they found you?
Raven: Like… twenty.
Storm: Cool. Cool. And you're telling me there's nothing we can do?
Astrid: Yep. Nothing.
Storm: So this is how I go out? To some discount Terminators led here by two gay bitches.
Raven: We're standing right here… and anyway, I have a plan. But it's… dictatorship-level bad.
Storm: Lemme guess — you two wanna go to the Universal Government.
Astrid: Yeah! Good guess. How did you know—
Storm side-eyes him.
Astrid: Okay… rude.
Raven: Very rude.
Storm: Can we just get going?
Raven: Hold up… I'm hungry.
Astrid: Yeah, you got snacks?
Storm hears footsteps on the roof. More outside. Heavy boots.
Astrid: Are those…
Raven: Bounty hunters.
Astrid: You know what? Fuck the food. Let's dip.
Storm: How we getting there?
Raven: Through a portal.
Storm: Oh, so y'all just come with the DLC pack.
Astrid fires a portal gun. The brothers run through. Storm follows.
Portal closes instantly.
Cut to the bounty hunters breaking in: melting windows, lasers cutting the roof, gas grenades rolling in. The final man enters — the robot commander.
Robot Hunter: Fuck! We just missed them!
Hunter grunt: Uh… boss? My scanner says they portaled out.
Robot Hunter: So they could literally be anywhere in the galaxy.
Hunter grunt: Yeah. Basically the entire universe—
Robot Hunter: Then why the fuck are you standing here? FIND THEM.
Cut.
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Storm appears in front of massive golden gates guarded by armored soldiers. The structure looks like a sacred palace floating in white clouds.
Storm: Well… now I know heaven exists.
Guard: State your business.
Raven: We have an appointment with the governors.
Astrid whispers to Storm: We don't.
Guard: Are you lying to me again?
Raven: No.
Astrid whispers: Yes he is.
Storm: Yeah, I figured.
Guard: Fine. You may enter.
Storm: Man… how dumb are these guards?
They walk into a massive throne room with eight chairs, each representing an element. At the highest throne sits the Blood Wielder — calm, cold, and sharp-eyed.
Storm: Damn… huge room.
He notices Astrid and Raven kneeling. Storm does not.
Storm looks at the Blood Wielder.
Storm: I assume you're in charge.
Blood Wielder: What makes you think that?
Storm: Your chair is higher.
The Earth Wielder stands.
Earth Wielder: We are the Universal Governors — second only to the Unknown. Since he is gone, what we say is law.
Blood Wielder rises slowly.
Blood Wielder: Kneel to your kings, Storm.
Storm doesn't move. Guards inch closer.
Storm: How the hell you know my name?
Blood Wielder: Everyone knows you. You are the boy who killed the strongest being in existence.
Storm: Then why aren't you kneeling to your king?
Blood Wielder: Because you couldn't kill all of us if you tried.
Storm raises an eyebrow.
Storm: You sure?
Astrid: HEY let's not fight the government. We need help.
Storm: Right.
Blood Wielder: What do you want?
Raven: Bounty hunters.
Water Wielder: Oh hell no. They're trouble.
Lightning Wielder: Yeah, there's nothing we can do—
Blood Wielder: Shut up! I am the only one who speaks.
Lightning Wielder: My bad, God damn, mosquito—
Earth Wielder: He told you shut up, wannabe Zeus.
Storm: Are y'all gonna help or nah?
Blood Wielder: No. You three are guilty of multiple crimes. We cannot associate with you.
Raven: What did we even do?
Earth Wielder: Theft. Murder. Destruction.
Astrid: Oh right… yeah that's fair.
Storm: So how do we fix it?
Blood Wielder points at Storm.
Blood Wielder: You cannot. You must be executed.
Astrid: That escalated QUICK.
Storm: Why?
Blood Wielder: Your power is unstable. Capable of destroying a planet on accident.
Storm: Yeah… no. We're not executing me.
Blood Wielder snaps his fingers.
Guards grab Storm.
Raven: We NEED him.
Astrid: He might be the only one who can stop the hunters!
Blood Wielder: Or the one who accidentally kills us all. Take him to the execution chamber.
Storm: I'm not going anywhere. And I said I'm not dying.
Purple lightning erupts from Storm's body. Every guard touching him drops dead instantly.
Storm stands in a crackling aura.
Storm: That was a WARNING.
Blood Wielder: God damn… he's fast.
Water Wielder whispers to Lightning Wielder: We should've given his chair to Storm, not you.
Lightning Wielder: Okay everyone in here can shut the hell up now.
Blood Wielder sighs.
Blood Wielder: Fine. Take your friend and leave before this becomes a war.
The brothers and Storm exit.
Cut to them returning to Storm's trashed apartment.
Astrid: I think that went well.
Raven: HOW? We needed them!
Storm: Bro… they tried to kill me. What choice did I have?
Astrid: You're gonna have to die for us eventually.
Storm: Yeah… no.
Storm opens his door.
The apartment looks like a full warzone.
Storm: The hell happened here?
Raven: Hunters.
Astrid: I thought it was impossible for this place to get dirtier.
Screen fades black.