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EARTH 2308: Streets of Hate

SUMMARY: Follows a group of vigilantes living on some of the Earth's lowest levels in their quest to push the Maulers, Drowned and Tyrants out of their neighborhood. Eventually develops into a greater overarching story with a character-driven plot when one of the group's members falls in love with an android and struggles to find a way to keep her alive past her "expiration date."

CHARACTERS

**Dash**: De facto 'team leader,' a normal human who grew up on the streets, raised by a homeless woman with a surprisingly robust mind for strategy. She instilled in him both a sense of personal justice and an understanding of social engineering and other criminal tactics used for theft or for breaking and entering. The calm rationale of the group. Enters a romantic relationship with Chibi after she's rescued from MTI Biotechnology labs.

**Chime**: Team hacker, tinker and infiltrator, a normal human who grew up in foster care after her parents died in a political riot when she was a child. Extremely hateful towards gangsters and the government alike, she is prone to acts of extreme cruelty and mercilessness towards members of those groups.

**Dominic**: Extreme athlete and a good friend, a mutant who was raised on the Earth's lower levels in a mutant commune. His mutation is superhuman leg strength. He can run, jump and kick many times faster, further, higher and harder than a normal person. He set out on his own as soon as he was old enough, and has luckily remained undiscovered by the government since. His upbringing taught him the importance of cooperation and teamwork. The moral compass of the group.

**Chibi**: Strong fighter with a unique view of the world, an android who was grown in a laboratory on Earth and used as a weapon. She had her memories wiped after each mission, and is rescued by Dash and Dominic after one such wipe. Though quite adult physically, she has the mind of a child - a child taught to kill. She enters a romantic relationship with Dash after she's rescued from MTI.

OUTLINE

1. Opening scene. Dash, Chime and Dominic wake up in their shitty apartment and take turns using the refresher unit while discussing the recent killing of an acquaintance. Chime suggests going to known Mauler territory and starting a fight; Dominic and Dash disagree and implore her to use her hacking skills to find information about Mauler arrests, arguing that locating and destroying Mauler safehouses and taking out Mauler lieutenants would more effectively cripple the organization than simply killing footsoldiers in the streets. Chime does so and discovers the location of a detective in charge of investigating a Mauler crime at a hotel 30 levels up. Scene ends with the trio heading out.
2. Streets / Hotel entrance scene. The trio walks past several obvious gangsters on their way to the vacuum lift. Scene skips forward to them standing outside the detective's hotel, trying to figure out a way to get into his apartment on the 14th floor. Chime decides to climb up the fire escape and uses a rug from a garbage can to get over the barbed wire fence. Dominic and Dash decide to enter the hotel to use the inside elevator.
3. Hotel interrogation scene. Dash and Dominic reach the detective's apartment first and knock on the door, pretending to be hotel service staff. They push the door open and threaten the detective after entering. Chime climbs in through a window while Dash questions him. He gets information about the location of a known Mauler Lieutenant on the lower levels who the police lacked sufficient evidence to charge with a crime. Dominic stares at the HoloTV advertisements. Chime climbs back onto the fire escape and trains a gun on the detective while Dash and Dominic exit. After they enter the elevator, she heads back down herself, and the scene ends.
4. Lieutenant's House, Scene 1. The trio arrives at the Mauler Lieutenant's house during the day to find it empty. Dash recommends they stakeout the place, Chime replies that doing so in person is "old fashioned." She proceeds to break into the house by picking the lock on the front door and then places bugs throughout. The vigilantes watch and listen for a week until they have the lieutenant's schedule down.
5. Lieutenant's House, Scene 2. The trio shows up at the Mauler Lieutenant's house at night, making sure to arrive early so they can enter and ambush him. Unknown to them, the Lieutenant had planned a party that evening and arrives at the house with a group of additional gangsters. The Maulers enter the house and are ambushed from three sides. A long firefight ensues, with all participants traveling throughout the house. In the end, Dash has Chime videotape him executing the captured lieutenant and post it online as a threat to the Maulers. None of the trio are seriously wounded, but Dash and Dominic both suffer bruises and cuts. Before leaving, the vigilantes search the house and take the Lieutenant's PC as well as his stash of drugs, weapons, credits and ammunition.
6. Slums House, Scene 1. The vigilantes arrive home exhausted and throw their stuff everywhere. Dash asks Chime to break into the laptop the following day; Chime responds that she'll do it now and stays up all night working on it. The scene skips to Dash and Dominic waking up in the morning and finding Chime passed out on the couch, with a brute force password cracking application window open on the pocket computer reading "COMPLETE." Dash looks through the laptop's contents and discovers a great deal of information, including data about an android the Maulers were planning to illicitly purchase from a MediTech subsidiary, MediTech Industries Biotechnology Laboratories, and the locations of several Mauler safehouses and gathering spots. Dash decides to focus on the Android first. Chime uncovers information about the building, but says she can find little of worth. The scene ends.
7. Slums House, Scene 2. Days have passed and the vigilantes have rested, recovered and prepared for their next mission. The scene begins with the three of them standing by the door as Dash opens it. They head over to a rented van and enter, then use the inter-level highways to reach their destination.
8. MTI Labs Scene. Chime disembarks from the van and sneaks around the side of the building, then disappears from view. Meanwhile, Dash and Dominic enter the building through the front door. They reach a second door at the end of a long hallway with two guards in front, and Dash enters into a conversation with one of them. Before the talking goes anywhere, Chime disables the building's main power and the inside falls pitch black for a couple minutes before the auxiliary generator turns on. In this time, Dash and Dominic use nightvision displays to knock out and kidnap the two security guards, then change into their clothes and wear their IDs. Dash executes them in the bathroom to prevent them from waking up and alerting the rest of the staff. Dash and Dominic make their way through the inside of the building to Chibi's location in the basement. Their disguises fail when they reach the entrance to the cloning laboratory and are recognized by one of the guards as intruders. A firefight ensues. It looks like Dash and Dominic are about to be overwhelmed when Chime suddenly appears and rescues them by stunning their enemies with a flash grenade. They open the tank holding Chibi and she slowly comes to. Dash tells her that he has come to save her. Chibi does not understand, but does what he says anyway. Together, the four of them fight their way out through the building's underground parking lot and steal a security patrol's SAV. The scene ends.
9. Slums House, Scene 3. The foursome arrives back at their house with the stolen SAV and android. Dash and Chibi have a long conversation about what Chibi knows and doesn't know. Dash promises to help her acclimate to the "outside world." Meanwhile, Chime learns about Chibi's "expiration date" after researching her model. She takes Dash aside and tells him. Dash solemnly acknowledges the inevitability of his new friend's death. Dominic and Chibi become fast friends, both impressed with one another's athleticism.

EARTH 2308: Streets of Hate

SUMMARY: Follows a group of vigilantes living on some of the Earth's lowest levels in their quest to push the Maulers, Drowned and Tyrants out of their neighborhood. Eventually develops into a greater overarching story with a character-driven plot when one of the group's members falls in love with an android and struggles to find a way to keep her alive past her "expiration date."

CHARACTERS

**Dash**: De facto 'team leader,' a normal human who grew up on the streets, raised by a homeless woman with a surprisingly robust mind for strategy. She instilled in him both a sense of personal justice and an understanding of social engineering and other criminal tactics used for theft or for breaking and entering. The calm rationale of the group. Enters a romantic relationship with Chibi after she's rescued from MTI Biotechnology labs.

**Chime**: Team hacker, tinker and infiltrator, a normal human who grew up in foster care after her parents died in a political riot when she was a child. Extremely hateful towards gangsters and the government alike, she is prone to acts of extreme cruelty and mercilessness towards members of those groups.

**Dominic**: Extreme athlete and a good friend, a mutant who was raised on the Earth's lower levels in a mutant commune. His mutation is superhuman leg strength. He can run, jump and kick many times faster, further, higher and harder than a normal person. He set out on his own as soon as he was old enough, and has luckily remained undiscovered by the government since. His upbringing taught him the importance of cooperation and teamwork. The moral compass of the group.

**Chibi**: Strong fighter with a unique view of the world, an android who was grown in a laboratory on Earth and used as a weapon. She had her memories wiped after each mission, and is rescued by Dash and Dominic after one such wipe. Though quite adult physically, she has the mind of a child - a child taught to kill. She enters a romantic relationship with Dash after she's rescued from MTI.

OUTLINE

1. Opening scene. Dash, Chime and Dominic wake up in their shitty apartment and take turns using the refresher unit while discussing the recent killing of an acquaintance. Chime suggests going to known Mauler territory and starting a fight; Dominic and Dash disagree and implore her to use her hacking skills to find information about Mauler arrests, arguing that locating and destroying Mauler safehouses and taking out Mauler lieutenants would more effectively cripple the organization than simply killing footsoldiers in the streets. Chime does so and discovers the location of a detective in charge of investigating a Mauler crime at a hotel 30 levels up. Scene ends with the trio heading out.
2. Streets / Hotel entrance scene. The trio walks past several obvious gangsters on their way to the vacuum lift. Scene skips forward to them standing outside the detective's hotel, trying to figure out a way to get into his apartment on the 14th floor. Chime decides to climb up the fire escape and uses a rug from a garbage can to get over the barbed wire fence. Dominic and Dash decide to enter the hotel to use the inside elevator.
3. Hotel interrogation scene. Dash and Dominic reach the detective's apartment first and knock on the door, pretending to be hotel service staff. They push the door open and threaten the detective after entering. Chime climbs in through a window while Dash questions him. He gets information about the location of a known Mauler Lieutenant on the lower levels who the police lacked sufficient evidence to charge with a crime. Dominic stares at the HoloTV advertisements. Chime climbs back onto the fire escape and trains a gun on the detective while Dash and Dominic exit. After they enter the elevator, she heads back down herself, and the scene ends.
4. Lieutenant's House, Scene 1. The trio arrives at the Mauler Lieutenant's house during the day to find it empty. Dash recommends they stakeout the place, Chime replies that doing so in person is "old fashioned." She proceeds to break into the house by picking the lock on the front door and then places bugs throughout. The vigilantes watch and listen for a week until they have the lieutenant's schedule down.
5. Lieutenant's House, Scene 2. The trio shows up at the Mauler Lieutenant's house at night, making sure to arrive early so they can enter and ambush him. Unknown to them, the Lieutenant had planned a party that evening and arrives at the house with a group of additional gangsters. The Maulers enter the house and are ambushed from three sides. A long firefight ensues, with all participants traveling throughout the house. In the end, Dash has Chime videotape him executing the captured lieutenant and post it online as a threat to the Maulers. None of the trio are seriously wounded, but Dash and Dominic both suffer bruises and cuts. Before leaving, the vigilantes search the house and take the Lieutenant's PC as well as his stash of drugs, weapons, credits and ammunition.
6. Slums House, Scene 1. The vigilantes arrive home exhausted and throw their stuff everywhere. Dash asks Chime to break into the laptop the following day; Chime responds that she'll do it now and stays up all night working on it. The scene skips to Dash and Dominic waking up in the morning and finding Chime passed out on the couch, with a brute force password cracking application window open on the pocket computer reading "COMPLETE." Dash looks through the laptop's contents and discovers a great deal of information, including data about an android the Maulers were planning to illicitly purchase from a MediTech subsidiary, MediTech Industries Biotechnology Laboratories, and the locations of several Mauler safehouses and gathering spots. Dash decides to focus on the Android first. Chime uncovers information about the building, but says she can find little of worth. The scene ends.
7. Slums House, Scene 2. Days have passed and the vigilantes have rested, recovered and prepared for their next mission. The scene begins with the three of them standing by the door as Dash opens it. They head over to a rented van and enter, then use the inter-level highways to reach their destination.
8. MTI Labs Scene. Chime disembarks from the van and sneaks around the side of the building, then disappears from view. Meanwhile, Dash and Dominic enter the building through the front door. They reach a second door at the end of a long hallway with two guards in front, and Dash enters into a conversation with one of them. Before the talking goes anywhere, Chime disables the building's main power and the inside falls pitch black for a couple minutes before the auxiliary generator turns on. In this time, Dash and Dominic use nightvision displays to knock out and kidnap the two security guards, then change into their clothes and wear their IDs. Dash executes them in the bathroom to prevent them from waking up and alerting the rest of the staff. Dash and Dominic make their way through the inside of the building to Chibi's location in the basement. Their disguises fail when they reach the entrance to the cloning laboratory and are recognized by one of the guards as intruders. A firefight ensues. It looks like Dash and Dominic are about to be overwhelmed when Chime suddenly appears and rescues them by stunning their enemies with a flash grenade. They open the tank holding Chibi and she slowly comes to. Dash tells her that he has come to save her. Chibi does not understand, but does what he says anyway. Together, the four of them fight their way out through the building's underground parking lot and steal a security patrol's SAV. The scene ends.
9. Slums House, Scene 3. The foursome arrives back at their house with the stolen SAV and android. Dash and Chibi have a long conversation about what Chibi knows and doesn't know. Dash promises to help her acclimate to the "outside world." Meanwhile, Chime learns about Chibi's "expiration date" after researching her model. She takes Dash aside and tells him. Dash solemnly acknowledges the inevitability of his new friend's death. Dominic and Chibi become fast friends, both impressed with one another's athleticism.