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Chapter 2 - The space shift

{Camera: behind sofa. Clive is sitting on the sofa and watching the news.}

Reporter: "Now I will say the date to choose Skyph fighters."

{Clive's heart is racing.}

Reporter: "The date is 27 August."

Clive: "Looks like it's so close."

Reporter: "So, that was the full news. Goodbye."

Clive (happily): "Goodbye. Goodbye."

{Clive turns off the TV, then sits on his bed and lies half down.}

Clive (whispering): "Huh… I think Delom was really serious…"

{Camera cuts to space, far from Earth. A half-damaged spaceship burns, fire scattered everywhere. An alien stands in front of it.}

{Camera zooms out from behind the alien.}

✨ Alien name: Nyx ✨

Nyx (whispering): "These humans will die here."

Nyx (loudly): "Because they don't deserve it…"

{Nyx laughs, clenching both fists. An invisible force crushes the spaceship.}

{Camera zooms in from the left, under the spaceship, inside the headquarters.}

✨ Head controller: Detro ✨

Detro (pressing earpod, loudly): "Madam… Our spaceship is almost 60% damaged!"

{Detro tries to control the ship. Numbers flash across the display in front of him as he calculates solutions.}

Detro (pressing earpod): "Madam… if Nyx deals 5% more damage, I won't be able to control the spaceship…"

✨ Head Lead: Seuph Lux ✨

✨ Vice Head Lead: Untras ✨

{Untras stands on the upper spaceship, his legs trapped in metal.}

Untras (pressing earpod): "Don't forget me."

Detro: "What!?"

{Untras extends his hand, and a sniper assembles from the pieces around him.}

Untras: "Huh… Nyx will get a great lesson…"

Nyx: "You are not enough p—"

{Untras charges the sniper; a soft green glow pulses at its center.}

Nyx (loudly): "Save your spaceship first!"

{Nyx clenches his fists again, crushing the spaceship.}

Untras: "So clever, but…"

{He lays his fists on the ship.}

Untras: "Deassemble…"

{The spaceship breaks into tiny blocks.}

Untras: "Reassemble…"

{The ship repairs fully.}

Detro (pressing earpod): "Sir, spaceship is 100% repaired now."

Nyx (whispering, then loudly): "If you saved your teammates… so, what about you?"

{Nyx closes one fist. Untras's body is crushed, almost at the edge of death.}

Untras: "Detro… there is no sadness after saving all fully, right?"

Detro: "Why did you do such a foolish act?"

Untras (trying to suppress his sadness): "I was just saving all of you."

✨ Code Student: Rote ✨

{Rote runs through the control room.}

Rote (pressing earpod): "Sir, at your command!"

Untras: "Rote, never forward. I order."

Rote: "I regret your order."

{Rote opens a door and steps onto the outside wall, grabbing the sniper that Untras made and stuck on an antenna.}

Rote: "Sir, you trained me a lot. But now it's time to use my talent."

{Rote locks the sniper on Nyx and fires at the center of Nyx's heart. The bullet hits below his chest. Untras's body crushes ease up.}

Detro: "Excellent!"

Nyx: "Little boy, how dare you…!"

{Nyx clenches the other fist. Rote's body is crushed and he falls from the spaceship wall.}

✨ Code Student: Era ✨

Era (pressing earpod): "Rote is always a fool."

Untras: "There is no permission to fight with an alien."

Era: "I understand, sir."

{Era jumps outside the door Rote opened, sending red ropes to seal the doorway. She catches Rote and brings him inside, his body still crunching.}

Nyx (angrily): "Little humans! You will die! I can't crush you harder in a second for just these suits!"

Seuph: "All I am here just a minute more."

Era: "Madam, why are you late?"

Seuph: "Nyx threw me so far, I was almost entering a mini black hole."

{Camera tracks as Seuph jumps plate by plate toward Nyx.}

Nyx: "Your main lead is so…"

{A yellow display plate hits his head. Rote and Untras are freed from crushing. Nyx releases them.}

{Camera behind Untras. Seuph stands a few meters from Nyx on two display plates.}

Nyx: "Uh… you again…"

{Seuph jumps and grabs Nyx.}

Rote: "What is madam doing?"

{Spikes appear from Seuph's body, sticking into Nyx.}

Nyx: "You deserve another throw."

Untras: "It's a special move of Madam, Rote."

{Seuph releases Nyx and returns to two plates. She takes a big laser gun from her back and charges it.}

{Camera cuts to Delom's house.}

Delom: "Mom, give me some money."

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