The Necro List

***The Necro List*** is the first episode of the F/S Channel TV series *Mecha Hunter Cyberjack.*

## Plot

Private investigator Jack Callanga wakes up from a strange and violent dream.  He finds himself in his office, but he has no idea how he got there.  The last thing he remembers is following a lead on a case. He records a video log, trying to recount previous events to refresh his memory.

It all started when a hacker calling himself “Takatak Boy” releases a list implicating several people as being part of a criminal organization allegedly headed by Japanese businessman-philanthropist Daimon Hanzo.  However, the list is dismissed as a hoax because more than half of the people on the list are already dead.  Jack meets up with a client claiming to be Takatak Boy who says he has evidence that the deceased people on the list are actually still alive.  Unknown to them, their meeting is under surveillance by the police.

Jack notices a red dot on Takatak Boy’s chest, a light from the laser sight of a sniper rifle.  He pushes his client slightly out of the way; the victim is still shot, but not in a vital area.  Jack and police detective Diane Amante chase down the shooter.  He manages to escape, but not before he is recognized as Zito Zaragoza, a killer-for-hire who was thought to have died a long time ago. Takatak Boy is taken to the hospital under police protection.  Diane asks Jack to drop the case, but he refuses, reasoning that the client hired him, so he is obligated to finish the job.  Diane tells him they both know the real reason why he won’t drop it.

Jack breaks into Takatak Boy’s apartment and recovers a flash drive containing data on the supposedly dead suspects on the list.  He follows clues leading to what seems to be an underground clinic.  Finding the location, he spies a delivery truck unloading a cargo of frozen corpses. At the main laboratory, he sees a masked doctor performing a bizarre procedure. A series of mechanical implants and nodes are grafted onto a dead body, then the strange table it is bound onto is turned upright and transforms into a wheel-like apparatus, forcing the corpse into a human anatomy pose.  It faces a similar wheel-like machine, this one containing a mechanical representation of the human body.  Several tubes and cables shoot out of the mechanoid body and plug into the nodes on the corpse.

The dead body’s bio fluids flow through the tubes and into the mechanical body, while surges of energy from the latter pass through the cables and into the former.  The corpse convulses as it is being jolted back to life.  Then, the two wheels join together and enclose their respective occupants within a sort of high-tech cocoon.  It glows with a dim, unearthly light and hums in a low, ominous tone. Moments later, the cocoon opens, and from it emerges a new type of being.  A perfect amalgamation of man and machine, a cybernetic hybrid; a Cybrid.

Taken aback at what he just saw, Jack accidentally gives himself away.  The doctor orders his underlings, which includes Zaragoza, to deal with the intruder. The henchmen also turn out to be cybernetically-enhanced, while Zito reveals his full Cybrid battle form: a heavily-armed armored killing-machine dubbed as “Machinegun Z.”  Just as they have the detective cornered, another mechanized being, which the doctor identifies as a Mecha Hunter, comes to his rescue.

The Mecha Hunter takes down the Cybrid henchmen and faces-off against Machinegun Z.  The mystery doctor escapes, but Jack is able to apprehend the truck driver, Hedison. But to his surprise, Hedison’s head flies off from his own body, which turns out to be a bomb.  The Mecha Hunter is forced to leave Machinegun Z alone and runs towards Jack just as Hedison’s body explodes.

It is here that Jack ends his recollection, realizing that his weird dream did in fact happen, but still not knowing how he survived and got back to his office.  Then, he hears a metallic-sounding voice telling him that it brought him there.  He tries to find where the voice is coming from, when his left arm suddenly morphs into a mechanical one.  Jack screams in shock.