FADE IN:
INT. HOUSE - HIGH-TECH LAB BASEMENT - NIGHT
SUPER: MANHATTAN 1998
Plastered with action figures.
Running feet clash against the ceiling.
Covering a wall is a "Upper Lower" painting of a busy ocean city on top with a busy human city on bottom.
Robotic arms attached to a high-tech table work on a bulky exo-armor suit.  A Sector Black badge is imprinted on it. 
Running feet clash against the ceiling.
DR. NICK POWER (30) works on the suit's helmet.
JUNIOR POWER (8), cape around neck, bolts in through a splitting door.
He reaches for a hero and villain toy on a table, but a shield surrounds it.
JUNIOR
Dad.
Nick pushes a red hologram button on the table.  
The shield goes down.  Junior grabs the toys.
He laps Nick, toys clashing, sound effects roaring.
JUNIOR (CONT'D)
Dad, look!  I'm saving the world!
DR. NICK POWER
Oh, really?  Seems like your toy hero is the savior.
JUNIOR
No way!  He's just helping!  I'm the real hero!
DR. NICK POWER
Well, he's gonna have to do without you.  It's time for...
Junior brakes.  Sighs.
JUNIOR
Bed.
INT. HOUSE - JUNIOR'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
More action figures than the lab.
Nick busts in, carrying Junior like a flying Superman.  
DR. NICK POWER
Does Superman ever crash land?   
JUNIOR
No!
Nick crashes him to the bed.  Junior becomes a giggle box.
JUNIOR (CONT'D)
Joke time!
DR. NICK POWER
Well...
JUNIOR
Dad!
DR. NICK POWER
One joke.  And I mean it.  I'm not telling you ten jokes to wake up with your toy in my mouth again.
JUNIOR
(cracking up)
K.
DR. NICK POWER
Alright.  Let's see. 
(thinks)
What did... ok, what did the tiger say to the lion when the lion told him it wasn't going to rain today?
JUNIOR
Rawr!
They crack up.
DR. NICK POWER
No.  Silly.  The tiger said, "No, you're lion".  Get it?
Beat.  Junior laughs up a lung. 
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Glad you like it.  The adults call it a word that resembles corn.
Junior's laughter dies.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Night.  Up early for our "Fun Fun Day" tomorrow.
Moving in to kiss Junior's forehead, he notices his frown.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
I promise the lab'll let me free for a day.
JUNIOR
Not that.
DR. NICK POWER
Then what?
Junior plays with his toys.  
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
(re: villain toy)
See this guy?  He'll be your first foe.
Junior punches the toy to show a KO.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
(kissing Junior's forehead)
Count stars.
JUNIOR
You love me.
DR. NICK POWER
You love me, too.
INT. HOUSE - HIGH-TECH LAB BASEMENT - DAY
Nick sleeps at the table, suits helmet in front of him.  
Junior bolts in, cape around neck.
JUNIOR
Dad!  Fun Fun Day!  Get up!
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY
Junior, giant smile, cape around neck, sits on Nick's shoulder, feeding the ducks bread.
Nick takes a pack of Skittles from his pocket.  He hands Junior a Skittle, then eats one himself.
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
Nick ties the ice skates of an impatient Junior.  
JUNIOR
Dad, hurry!
DR. NICK POWER
(finishing)
Alright, Flash.  There, go.
Junior hurries with cautious steps onto the ice.  
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Not that fast!  Hey!  Wait for your dad --
SECTOR BLACK AGENTS, federal type agents, surround him.
SECTOR BLACK AGENT #1
(showing black police badge)
Dr. Nick Power.  Sector Black.
Junior skates alone on the ice.  He can handle himself.
DR. NICK POWER
Ok.  One second- Junior!  I said wait for me-
SECTOR BLACK AGENT #1
You know how this goes, Doctor.
Junior goes farther on the ice.
DR. NICK POWER
Alright.  My son- Junior!
Junior almost falls, but catches himself.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Junior, stop skating!
Junior stops.  He's miles from Nick.
JUNIOR
What, Dad?!
DR. NICK POWER
Stay right there!
He pushes through the agents, but they pull him back.
Junior turns to skate.  
Nick breaks through the agents.
Junior loses his balance.
Nick hops on the ice, stumbling and turning.
Junior slips.
Nick crashes belly first to the ice.
Junior falls backward.
Nick yells out.
The back of Junior's head strikes the ice.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - SPEECH STAGE - DAY
SUPER: TWELVE YEARS LATER
Crowd gathered in front of the stage.  Behind it...
Molecule Defense Shield Generator, a towering turbine aimed at the sky.  Four scientists work fiercely on it.
Sector Black agents guard the generator and stage.
DR. KATIE POWER (38), drinking coffee, bosses the other scientists.  She's a wreck.  Baggy eyes.  She wears a gold oval necklace.
DR. KATIE POWER
Power levels!
SCIENTIST #1 checks the power levels.  All 50%.
SCIENTIST #1
50% captivity.
DR. KATIE POWER
Crystalline ores!
SCIENTIST #2 checks the four crystal ores inside the generator's glass belly.
SCIENTIST #2
All four in position, Dr. Power.
SCIENTIST #3, clumsy stutterer, bumps the MDSG, knocking crystal ore #1 loose.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - SPEECH Stage - LATER
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SARAH MOORE (40's), shy, defenseless, and Katie sit on the stage.
DIRECTOR JACK WAVE (60's), head of Sector Black, is up to speak.  Sour war general.  Walks with cane.
DIRECTOR WAVE
On behalf of corporate engineer, Sector Black, I present to you world renown contriver, Dr. Katie Power.
Crowd cheers.  Katie steps up to speak.
Nick, face stretched by sorrow, and JR (20), Junior's older image, stand in the crowd.
Nick, wearing lab coat, holds two dozen glowing blue lilies.  He and JR share a pack of Skittles.
DR. NICK POWER
(re: Katie)
She looks nice.
JR
Foes don't receive compliments.
DR. NICK POWER
It was a brotherly compliment.
DR. KATIE POWER
(into mic)
New York citizens who stand before me, and proud American viewers across this great land.  The extraordinary creation you are observing is my MDSG;  Molecule Defense Shield Generator.  When accelerated to its full capacity, a shield casing will be delivered over this country which will incinerate any possible nuclear attacks from other world powers and make obsolete all terrorist activities.  It is time for America to ensure America.
Crowd cheers.
DR. KATIE POWER (CONT'D)
(into mic)
Full power.
Scientist #1 raises the power levels to full capacity.  
Scientist #2 hands Katie an advanced remote.  She motions the generator's laser to a group of clouds.
DR. KATIE POWER (CONT'D)
(into mic)
Generator locked onto designated target area.
She hits a button.  Fire away.  A beam impacts the clouds.  A shield morphs with the sky.
On the MDSG's screen, the shield covers America. 
Scientist #1 gives Katie a high thumbs up.  She gives the crowd a victorious smile.  They cheer.
Nick stares at Katie.  Director Wave hawks Nick, disgusted.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - LATER
Reporters interview Secretary of Defense Moore, Director Wave and Katie.  Secretary of Defense Moore stumbles over her words.  Katie drinks coffee.
NEWS REPORTER
Dr. Katie Power.  Congratulations on your victory here today in Central Park as well as your continued success in the science community.
Katie notices Nick and JR approaching.  Nick kindly fans away reporters asking for an interview.
DR. KATIE POWER
(to reporter)
Twenty-five seconds.
The reporter steps aside.
DR. KATIE POWER (CONT'D)
(to reporter)
Twenty.
She holds her wrist out to Nick.
DR. NICK POWER
No rubbing in, Kate.  
DR. KATIE POWER
But?
DR. NICK POWER
None.  You were... entertaining.
The reporter sneaks her mic close to Katie.
DR. KATIE POWER
Yes.  Well, if I am correct, which I am, that puts me above you.
DR. NICK POWER
I'll read about it in Times.  Mom and dad have this event party planned for you.  It was a surprise, but the only real surprise would be if you showed up.  It's in an hour- 
DR. KATIE POWER
If they want to provide me with a festivity, tell them to set it up in my office.
DR. NICK POWER
At Secret Black?
DR. KATIE POWER
Sector Black. 
She darts him a look.  She turns, bumping into the mic.
DR. NICK POWER
Read about it in Times.
Ashamed, she storms off.  The reporter and camera man purse.
Walking over, Secretary of Defense Moore is bumped by someone.  She apologizes.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
(to Nick)
Pleasure.  As always.  Hi, JR.  
(to Nick)
How, how is your father?
DR. NICK POWER
A looney engineer's splitting image.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
Yes.  Um, are you prepared for your presentation?
DR. NICK POWER
That's why we have two weeks prior.
EXT. CITY SIDEWALK #1 - DAY
JR orders a bottle soda from a hotdog cart.
A MAN (30's) and his son (8) approach Nick.
MAN
Dr. Power.  This is my son.  He was in a wreck two weeks ago.  He's here cause of you.  Cause of your Cotton Titanium airbag.
The son hugs Nick.  Nick replies with a stare at him.
JR sees a homeless woman with a cardboard sign that reads "END OF WORLD", but what it really reads is "WILL STOP END OF WORLD FOR $10".
JR hands her $20.  She marvels at it.  Wanting to thank him -
JR
None needed.
She shoves the board in his hands and circles "WILL STOP END OF WORLD" with her finger.  She points to his chest.
JR stares at the board.  Nick watches.
EXT. CITY SIDEWALK #2 - DAY
Thunder storm approaches.
Nick and JR past a flower shop where glowing lilies and new breeds of plants and flowers are for sell.
MRS. LONG
(flower shop owner)
Nick!  JR!  Hi!
JR
Hi.
DR. NICK POWER
Mrs. Long.  
MRS. LONG
Anything new for my garden this month, Nick?!
DR. NICK POWER
Constructing a watering rose prototype.
MRS. LONG
That's great!  Could you bring it by when you're finish?!
Ext. ALLEY - DAY
Nick and JR past.  A DIRTY MAN (40's), not homeless, jumps out with a pocket knife.  Drug eyes.
DIRTY MAN
(rough voice)
In here.  Come on.  Move!
Nick and JR enter.
DIRTY MAN (CONT'D)
Money.  Jewelry.  Anything valuable.  Hand it.  Quick!
JR, upset, steps towards him, fist balled.  The dirty man draws the knife back to strike him -
DR. NICK POWER
(stopping JR)
No!...  no.
He takes money from his pocket.  The dirty man looks at him sideways.
DIRTY MAN
Nic-Nick Power?
DR. NICK POWER
Yes.
DIRTY MAN
Oh, man.  O-Oh, man.  I, I'm so sorry.  I... I was suppose to die from cancer... on my heart.  Three years ago.  Bu-but your cure.  It stopped it.  It, it saved me.
He looks at the knife, then throws it down.  
DIRTY MAN (CONT'D)
(backing up)
Sorry.  So sorry.
Nick holds out the money.  The dirty man takes it and hurries off.
DIRTY MAN (CONT'D)
Sorry!
JR hawks the dirty man.  Nick pulls him along.
EXT. CEMETERY - DAY
Light rain.
Nick and JR stand at a grave covered with tons of new breed flowers from the shop.  
Nick's coat morphs into a dress suit.
TOMBSTONE: "CHERRY POWER" LOVED BY ALL. LOVED ALL. MARCH 18, 1967 - MAY 26, 1990
A rain drop lands on JR's lip.  He tastes it.
JR
Saline.
Nick doesn't react, eyes locked on grave.  Getting the hint, JR takes a dozen of flowers from him.
JR (CONT'D)
Gonna place these on my grave.
He steps off.
Nick places his flowers on the grave.  Wedding ring on finger.
His coat morphs back.
A rain drop lands on a glowing lily pedal.  The light reveals an alien creature egg inside the rain drop.
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
Raining stones.  No skaters.  
The rain coats CLIVE (60), homeless man, who scans the ice from the sidewalk.  Dirty coat.  He grips an empty cart.
Nick and JR approach.  JR holds the cardboard.  They give Clive the food they brought.  JR hands him the bottled soda.
DR. NICK POWER
Chicken Lasagna and cake.
CLIVE
Birthday?
DR. NICK POWER
Celebration cake.  Party for Kate's victory sky thing.  The MDSG.
The mention of it snatches Clive's attention.  
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Of course, mom was left to cut it.
CLIVE
Katie.  She's blessed with such a caring family.
DR. NICK POWER
She would if she came equipped without a brain.
Clive thanks them.  He pushes his cart along.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Room's paid for.  Just have to ask for the key. 
Clive doesn't react.
Nick and JR stop in the center of the ice.  Their shoes are slip proof.  
Nick looks at where Junior fell.  
JR looks around, impatient.
Nick closes his eyes.  JR does the same.  They're sucked down...
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
They appear on an advanced back wall platform.  Other than that, the room's empty, capable of being advanced.
Nick's coat dries his clothes.
JR
Going to finish my painting.  Extra paint and brushes.
DR. NICK POWER
Not now.  But let me check your reactors to make sure they're not out of wack.
JR takes his shirt off.  His chest skin fades away, revealing two red glowing reactors encased in shiny marble steel.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
LC, online.
His coat transforms into a red computer screen, streaming with data and displays; Red Mode.
LC (O.S.)
(little girl voice, from lab coat)
Online.
DR. NICK POWER
Red Dust.
LC (O.S.)
Yes, Dr. Power.
Red Dust, holographic red dust, forms two laser needles that stick in JR's reactors.
JR's body image and vital signs appear on the coat.
JR looks over the cardboard.
LC (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Both reactors stable.
Skin covers JR's chest.
He leaves through a wall that's jelly like.  He looks over his shoulder at Nick before exiting.
Nick's coat returns to normal.  He wipes his baggy face.
DR. NICK POWER
LC.
LC (O.S.)
Yes, Dr. Power?
DR. NICK POWER
Shower.  Hot.
Steam exits his coat, smothering him.  It dissolves.
LC (O.S.)
Shower complete.  You seem stressed.  Perhaps completing your watering perennial shrub and figuring its freshwater production problem will lower your exhaustion levels.  Or perhaps sleep.
DR. NICK POWER
Sleep.  Sleep is good.  LC, construct the rose to multiple its water output.  Make each drop replicate itself.  See if that's the key to the city.
LC (O.S.)
(as Nick leaves out)
Lab, construct.
The room transforms into an advanced lab that comes up from the floor.  Action figures plaster it.
A watering red rose sits on the same high-tech table from the basement. 
A water drop falls from the rose. 
EXT. CITY - DAY
Raining stones.  Low flood water covers the sidewalks and streets.
EXT. FISH PIER - DAY
A granddad (70's) fishes with his GRANDSON (8).  They share headphones to a IPod that plays old doo-wop.  They're the only fishers out.
The grandson gets a bite.
GRANDSON
I got a bite!
They pull the large fish up together, smiling.  It's still alive.  
Their smiles turn to horror.  
The fish drops to the pier.  It has strange bite marks that go clean through its belly.  It leaks green ooze.
EXT. TROPICAL RAIN FOREST - DAY
A Sector Black Ops fires grenades like bullets from an advanced Gatling gun at attacking rebels.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
Lights turn on.
The battle was a simulated presentation on a table where the prototype gun and the Sector Black Board sit.
DR. KATIE POWER
(coffee in hand)
And that, Board Members, is the Hell Gun.
The Board Members and Katie's scientist team clap.  Director Wave doesn't react.  The Board leaves.
DIRECTOR WAVE
Stock quotes and our reputation has knocked down doors we were never able to open before.  All because of your machine.
DR. KATIE POWER
Thank you, Director.  That is exceptional.
DIRECTOR WAVE
Impressive, yes.  Exceptional... perhaps.  Barely Nick Power.
Katie smiles through her confusion.
DR. KATIE POWER
Excuse me, I-
DIRECTOR WAVE
One month.  Finish it.
He leaves.  
Katie sips her coffee to suppress her anger.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY 
Lab setup.
Nick sits at the high-tech table.  He feeds Mosquito, organic mosquito cyborg, a green Skittle.  Its belly grows large, filled with green Skittles.
DR. NICK POWER
Greedy bug.
He sits back.  Thinks.
He pushes a hologram button on the table.  The lab spins so the watering rose is in front of him.
He watches a water drop fall from the rose.  It hits his hands, replicating itself.
JR (O.S.)
Finished my painting.
He stands across the table.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - JUNIOR'S BEDROOM - DAY
A "Boy of Prodigy" painting is the centerpiece:  Baby boy in mother's stomach that's a Sci-Fi world.
JR and Nick enter.  Nick morphs the rose to his coat.
JR hangs his painting beside the other.  The "Damaged Savior", damaged, armored man holding a damaged Earth on his shoulders.  Black background.
JR
(smiling proud)
Does Cherry's painting justice.
Nick surveys it more.  JR eyes him, anxious.
DR. NICK POWER
She would've liked it.
His reply wipes JR's smile away.
EXT. CITY - DAY
Raining stones and low level floods still. 
EXT/INT. NY COASTLINE/FISHING BOAT - DAY
The CAPTAIN watches a wacko WEATHER MAN on a portable TV:
Weather man
Looks like we have another week of great salt rain along New York's coastline!  Now, although some are concerned, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has shown no signs of worry!  Just do me one favor.  Don't drink the rain!
(laughs)
The boat rocks hard.
EXT. NY COASTLINE/FISHING BOAT - DAY
The Captain rushes out. 
CAPTAIN
What's rocking my boat?!
The crew doesn't reply.  They stare overboard.
The Captain storms over.
CAPTAIN (CONT'D)
Damn it!  I asked what's rocking my...
He sees what they see.  His soul jumps out.
The top of an extended, scaly green sea creature is wrapped around the boat.  Its acidic body burns it.
CAPTAIN (CONT'D)
...Boat.
The creature tightens its grip, taking the boat under.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Nick, coat in Red Mode, checks a shirtless JR while popping Skittles. 
DR. NICK POWER
Nervous?
JR
Of humans?
DR. NICK POWER
Of government.  LC.
LC (O.S.)
Taking you there now.
The room morphs into...
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
SUPER: PENTAGON
Pentagon officials gathered.  Secretary of Defense Moore stands on stage.
Nick and JR appear as if they were actually there.  Nick's coat is in Red Mode.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
(into mic)
Our presenters.
Claps.
DR. NICK POWER
(into mic)
Pentagon.
His coat spreads to the back curtain, displaying JR's details.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
What you are seeing is- well there's no scientific name for him.  I named him JR.  A highly advanced, technical, cybernetic endoskeletal being supported by powerful reactors... 
(pointing to JR's chest)
Here.  And here.  He is merely a creation, not a weapon as flying rumor goes.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
Is this the prototype?
DR. NICK POWER
He is the first and last of his kind.  By my hands anyway.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
Are you saying that other engineering companies such as Sector Black may be able to produce a similar being?
DR. NICK POWER
I don't put limits on anyone's ability even weapon manufacturers such as Secret Black.
The crowd gets a chuckle from his half humor.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
What other key roles do you play in his operation aside creator?
DR. NICK POWER
His helmsman.  JR's endoskeletal features allow him the ability to pilot an exoskeletal pod-
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
What about his father?
Nick takes a pause.  Swallows hard.
DR. NICK POWER
Come again?
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
His father.  Do you see yourself as his father as opposed to just his creator and helmsman?
Secretary of Defense Moore takes a step to say something, but she crawls back in her shell.
DR. NICK POWER
(pointing to official #3)
Next question, please.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
(to Nick, interrupting official #3)
Do you feel this new being... 
DR. NICK POWER
(to official #3)
Next question.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
...That you have constructed...
DR. NICK POWER
(to official #3)
Next question.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
...In your son's image... 
DR. NICK POWER
(to official #3)
Next question.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
(to official #2, like a scared child)
Please-
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
...Has replaced your son in any way?
DR. NICK POWER
No more questions!
Silence.  A raged Nick hawks his audience.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
Dr. Power-
DR. NICK POWER
LC, back to Control!
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Nick and JR are back.
JR stands in silence.
Nick paces, whispering to himself.  He storms to the platform...
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
He's sucked up.  He storms across the ice.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY
Empty.
Nick sits on a bench, throwing bread from a loaf to ducks who don't eat it.
Red Dust from his sleeves forms Junior's hero and villain toys.
JR takes a seat beside him.  He notices the toys.
JR
Shouldn't be out when it's raining like this.
The toys form a shield around them, blocking the rain.
DR. NICK POWER
(re: ducks)
Don't seem to like wet bread.
JR
Or maybe they're just ducking it.
Beat.  Nick cracks a small grin.
DR. NICK POWER
(handing JR the bread)
Leave the jokes to me.
JR rockets into the air.  He lands by the ducks and feeds them the bread.
He lands back in his seat.
JR
Leave the ducks to me.
They laugh.
The clouds swirl.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - MONITOR ROOM - DAY
The floor is a monitor that displays the MDS around the US.  
A SECTOR BLACK WORKER sits in a hovering chair that laps the room.  He surveys the monitor.
The shield shrinks down to covering only Manhattan and the waters around it.
SECTOR BLACK WORKER
(into earpiece)
Director Wave!  We have... shrinkage!
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Better get back to Control.  Think we've punished the Pentagon enough.
They stand to leave.  The rain cuts off.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
New York.  Weird climate capital.
JR
The clouds.
The clouds gyrate where the MDSG was fired.
EXT. CITY - DAY
Pedestrians and vehicle operators focus on the sky.
PEDESTRIAN #1
What is that?
PEDESTRIAN #2
Global warming.  I told everyone this would happen.
PEDESTRIAN #3
It's not global warming.  What, are you nuts?  It's something to do with the stars probably.
PEDESTRIAN #2
What stars?
PEDESTRIAN #4
No, no.  I've heard of these new type of storms over the West Coast.  Must be one of those.
They all agree on the last theory, blind to the truth.
Supersonic thunder cracks, making everyone cover their ears.
PEDESTRIAN #2
(to pedestrian #4)
I've got a new found respect for California having to deal with storms like this!
Lighting rails from the swirl, spreading over the clouds.
Massive winds flood the city, kicking everything over.
The storm ceases.  The cloud swirl tightens to its limits.
PEDESTRIAN #5
(joking)
That's it?!
Everyone laughs.  They move along.
The thunder comes back in short, quick bursts.  The cloud swirl rips open.
Everyone waits, curious.  Nothing happens.
PEDESTRIAN #5 (CONT'D)
No wonder people fear tornadoes and hurricanes more!
Everyone laughs.
The cloud swirl spits out huge coral meteors.  Everything is impacted.
Chaos covers the street.  A rolling meteor crushes two cars.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY
Nick and JR watch in terror as the sky falls.  
JR grabs Nick and rockets into the air.  A tumbling meteor stampedes the bench.
They land, ducking another meteor that rails by their heads.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The sky stops falling.  The city's wounds are fully open. 
EXT. CENTRAL PARK - DAY
Nick examines the second meteor.  
It leaks water.  JR touches the water and tastes it. 
JR
Saline.
DR. NICK POWER
Coral reef structure.
They hop back as the meteor spits out loads of ink.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The meteors spit out ink.  It gets on the people who examine them, but it's not harmful.
Like lighting, the ink crawls to...
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
The water, turning it into an ink pool.  The water gurgles.
A big ink bubble pops up.  Another.  Another.  Hundreds pop up.  Beat.
Too fast to make out what they are, black beings shoot from the bubbles to the sky, blocking out the sun.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The beings land.
Cephalos: Octopus face aliens in bulky, black armor suits.  Heavy breathers.  Ink leaks from their face tentacles.
The humans wait for the invader's next move.
CEPHALO #1
(electric wave, subtitled)
Formation!
A squad forms circles in a row.  A squad sticks to the buildings.  A squad takes to the air.
Ink from their hands form advanced rifles.   
Attack!  The ground squad marches in turning circles.  The crawl squad attacks people in the buildings.  The sky squad is lookout.
The ink bullets turn people into ink statues, neck down.
Police show up, but they should've stayed at the station.
EXT. CITY (DIFFERENT AREA) - DAY
Nick and JR hurry down the sidewalk with a scared crowd.  
A Cephalo lands in their path.  It holds its palm out.  A green beam charges.  JR rushes it.
DR. NICK POWER
JR, no!
The Cephalo fires, hitting JR's right shoulder.  He uppercuts it over a building.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
(checking JR's wound)
Are your reactors acting up again?! LC, online!
His coat goes Red Mode.
LC (O.S.)
Online.
CROWD MEMBER #1
Cool coat, man.
DR. NICK POWER
(to LC)
Damage check!  Right shoulder!  Reactors check!
His coat scans JR's wound.
LC (O.S.)
Damage, 5%.
It scans his reactors.
JR
(upset)
My reactors are fine.
LC (O.S.)
Correct.
CROWD MEMBER #2
(to other members)
Hey, he's not human!  He's like... super!
DR. NICK POWER
(to JR)
Then what's your malfunction?!
JR
Nothing!
CROWD MEMBER #2
(to JR)
If you're super then you can save us!  Right?!
JR
Yes.  Yes I can.
DR. NICK POWER
(to crowd, not looking)
No, he can't.
(to JR)
Something must be malfunctioning!  That move better had been just a prototype!
CROWD MEMBER #1
(to Nick)
Hey!  If he wants to save us, let him!
DR. NICK POWER
Thank you for your concern, but he's not.
JR
(to Nick)
Why not?!  Is it wrong to help?!  You help!
Heated stare.  Nick looks at the helpless crowd  
A glossy ink ball shoots past Nick's face, landing at the crowd.  A Cephalo ahead threw it.  
JR'S HYPER SCREEN
Analyzes the ink ball as "WEAPON".
He grabs the ball and hurls it at the Cephalo.  It explodes, trapping the Cephalo in ink.
The crowd cheers.  JR smiles, proud.  Nick hurries him along.
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
Chaos, destruction and screams ring in the distance.
JR and Nick land on the ice.
Nick hurries JR along.  JR snatches away.
JR
Why the hurry now?!  You've never been in one before!
DR. NICK POWER
(watching sky)
Junior, we can talk about this in the lab-
JR
I'm not Junior!  Junior died!
DR. NICK POWER
Don't.
He grabs JR.  JR pushes him down.  Neither believes it.  Nick stands up.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
You're pushing me now?
He grabs JR.  JR punches him across the ice. 
The back of Nick's head strikes the ice.
FLASHBACK: The back of Junior's head strikes the ice.
Nick grasps for air.  Blood runs from his mouth.
JR is broken by his actions.  He bolts over and helps him up.
JR
I'm sorry-
Nick pushes him, not moving him an inch.
DR. NICK POWER
Not the only one who can push!
Pushes him again.  No movement.
He storms to the center.  Closes eyes.  Sucked down.
Clive watches from the sidewalk.  He pushes his cart along.
EXT. SKY - DAY
Four jets approach.  Jet #1 explodes.  No sign of attack.  
PILOT OF JET #2
Eagle One down-
Jet #2 explodes.  Jet #3 fires its guns.  The MDS over Manhattan appears, malfunctioning electricity courses it. 
They pull back.
PILOT OF JET #3
Eagle Three to base.  MDS is blocking our entrance.  Reason, unknown.  Eagle One and Two are down.  Eagle Three and Four returning to base.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The National Guard arrives at various points.  They're attacked by Cephalos.
EXT. CITY (DIFFERENT AREAS) - DAY
Cephalos snatch up human ink statues.
EXT. SKY - DAY
A Cephalo flies into the MDS, hitting its head.  It punches the shield, hurting its hand.
It holds out an ink ball that morphs into a screen of Earth.  The salt water sources are outlined in green.
EXT. CITY - DAY
Squads of Sector Black Ops are helicoptered in. 
SECTOR BLACK OPS #1
(into earpiece)
We've touch down-
The sky snatches his attention.
EXT. SKY/WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
A massive ink bubble squeezes through the cloud swirl into the water.  It sinks.  The entire pool gurgles and boils.  
A giant bubble surfaces with massive octopus tentacles; Cephalos seacraft.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The Cephalos cease attack.  They regroup to one street; On standby.  
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
Coral structure with green lit walls.  Cloudy salt water fills the ship.  Ink floor ports.  Wall bowls hold their food; Green Skittle like candy with blue dots.
The Cephalos with the human ink statues torpedo though.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DEEP WATER PRISON - DAY
The humans are dropped through the ink floor ports.  
The ink on their bodies are gone.  They wear ink masks over their mouths/noses to breathe.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - LEADER'S CHAMBER - DAY
No water.  Huge ink pool.  
BEARER, 4ft tall Cephalo, enters.  It's light enough to walk on ink.
BEARER
(electric wave, subtitled)
Leader, contact has been made.
The ink rises.  LEADER surfaces.  Near giant.  Slimy green skin.  Two of its face tentacles are sliced off.  Milky eyes.
LEADER
(deep electric wave, subtitled)
Saline solution?
BEARER
(electric wave, subtitled)
Yes.  Much.  But...
LEADER
(deep electric wave, subtitled, roaring)
BUT?!
The roar knocks a scared Bearer on its butt.
BEARER
(electric wave, subtitled)
A boundary of some kind is blocking our advancement to the major sources of the solution.  The technology of this world's beings. 
Leader thinks.
LEADER
(deep electric wave, subtitled)
We will wait... for It.  Until that time approaches...
EXT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DAY
The bubble's top spits out an ink wave to... 
EXT. CITY - DAY
It hits in front of the Cephalos.  It forms into Leader with a surrounding ink cloud.
A REPORTER and camera man record behind a turned vehicle.
A Cephalo rockets into the air.  It returns with the reporter and camera man.  It throws the reporter to Leader.  The ink catches.  Her eyes turn milky.
The Cephalo pushes the camera man to move.
He steps in front of Leader.  He aims his shaking camera at the reporter.
REPORTER
(possessed, into camera)
I offer our evacuation from your world if you deliver to me your saline solutions.  All of them.  Deliver and live, or deny and die.
The reporter is thrown into the camera man. 
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - LEADER'S CHAMBER - DAY
Leader surfaces.  Four huge Cephalos push in a monstrous bowl filled with their food.  Leader pigs out.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
Arguing and finger pointing.  Secretary of Defense Moore and a SECTOR BLACK SPOKESPERSON stand on stage.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
(into mic)
Please.  Remain calm.  Lower your voices.  Please sit.
She's a mute to everyone.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
The Board, Director Wave, Katie and her team watch the briefing room report on a table projected image.
Director Wave grins, humored.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE (CONT'D)
Please, we all just need to settle down and talk about our options.  Please, everyone.  Settle...
(to herself)
They're not listening to you.  Yeah well, I know they're not.  I can see that.  Look at you.  Everyone was right.  You are too soft to be the Secretary of Defense.  You're too soft to be a pillow.  You're a fool to believe you have the guts to stomach anything other than muffins.  I could go for one right now.  You're so weak it's sad.
(pause)
Everyone!  Tails in seats!
Silence.  They stare at her.  
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE (CONT'D)
Tails in...
She demonstrates with a chair on stage.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE (CONT'D)
...Seats!
Everyone sits.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE (CONT'D)
Ok.  Alright.  Ok.  Here is the deal they have given us and the options we can give them.  They would like us to hand over all of our saline water supplies.  As for options-
SECTOR BLACK SPOKESPERSON
As spokesperson for Sector Black, we have no options.  Local, state, military, government forces.  All have failed.  We can not fight them.  The MDS will not allow us to run from them.  Handing over our oceans is out of the question, so we can not give in to them.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
Then what do you suppose we do?!  Lay down and die for these, these... octopus things that your agency has brought here!
SECTOR BLACK SPOKESPERSON
We are hardly the cause of this-
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
Liar!  That shield!  It drew them here!
Everyone agrees.  They uproar.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
Seats!
Everyone sits, still raged.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE (CONT'D)
I understand your concern and displeasure, but we do have one option which is all we need.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - LATER
Nick stands on stage, thinking, considering.
DR. NICK POWER
(into mic)
I have to decline.
The room uproars.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
DIRECTOR WAVE
What did they expect?  An inventor to save them?
Katie eyes him, envious.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
Secretary of Defense Moore pulls Nick to the side.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
We need you, Dr. Power.  I have this new found bravely that is like a dead fish in water without your help.  I need it.  This entire sad planet needs it.
DR. NICK POWER
Secretary-
DIRECTOR WAVE (O.S.)
(to Nick)
Timid are we?
Director Wave's image stands on stage.
DR. NICK POWER
As much as you are.
DIRECTOR WAVE
Is that why you quit?... twelve years ago.
Nick steps towards him.  Secretary of Defense Moore and two Pentagon officials stop him.
DR. NICK POWER
I quit because I have morals.
DIRECTOR WAVE
Morals which keep you behind laboratory windows where you are free to work in laboratory coats-
DR. NICK POWER
Coat.
DIRECTOR WAVE
Inventions that help instead of harm.
DR. NICK POWER
Since when has that been a problem?!
DIRECTOR WAVE
In war, there is no help!  Only the ones who stand!  When have you ever stood?!
Silence.
DR. NICK POWER
You have my answer.  Build a plan around it.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
What you think is right is wrong. Nick.
Katie's image stands with Director Wave. 
DR. NICK POWER
When did you learn to separate the two?
He dissolves into Red Dust.
Director Wave grins.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
Bearer torpedoes through.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - LEADER'S CHAMBER - DAY
Leader surfaces.  A scared Bearer lowers its head.  Leader's eyes tighten. 
EXT. CITY - DAY
The waiting Cephalos look fatigue.  The street shakes...
A huge, two-headed Cephalo with a mile stretched belly stomps through, spitting replenishing ink on them.
They deploy on the city in formation.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Nick sits at the high-tech table.  His coat forms Junior's cape in his hands.  He ties a knot in it.  
Something snatches his eye.
JR stands at the table.  He holds a bulky, advanced machine cannon.
DR. NICK POWER
Can't believe you kept that thing?
JR
At least Katie encourages me to-
DR. NICK POWER
Die?  To die?
JR
Humans die.  Creations malfunction.
DR. NICK POWER
Until they short circuit and die.
JR
...Junior had a dream... 
He points to the cape.  Nick fans it away, dissolving it.
JR (CONT'D)
...You didn't have to program me to want the same.
DR. NICK POWER
I didn't.
JR
Exactly.
DR. NICK POWER
He was a little boy!
JR
Who wanted to save the world.  
Nick hawks him, empty eyes.
Jr (CONT'D)
I wasn't programmed to wave farewell...
He takes a step towards the platform, waiting for Nick to stop him.  He doesn't.  
JR steps on the platform.  He closes his eyes.
DR. NICK POWER
If...
JR's eyes open.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
If you want to save this sad planet, you do it on two terms.
JR
First?
Nick walks to him and holds his hand out to shake.
DR. NICK POWER
Joint action.
JR looks at his hand.
JR
Second?
DR. NICK POWER
LC.  Exo-armor.
Ceiling opens.  The exo-armor from the story's start lowers, supported by cables.  Its ports and eyes light up red.
JR reaches to shake his hand.  Nick hugs him instead.
Nick hawks the Sector Black badge imprinted on the exo-armor.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Few upgrades wouldn't hurt, either.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The Sector Black Ops and National Guard get manhandled by the Cephalos.  Their weapons do minimum damage to the aliens.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
National Guard tanks fire at the seacraft.  A force field protects it.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
The room watches a news report of the attack being recorded by a news helicopter.
A Cephalo appears in the cockpit doorway...
INT. NEWS HELICOPTER - DAY
It scans the scared passengers.  It leaves.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
The silence turns to conversation.  
Secretary of Defense Moore hawks the TV.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL
(holding hand over cell phone speaker)
Secretary Moore.  The President.
She takes the phone, puts it to her ear, and closes her eyes.
REPORTER (O.S.)
(on TV)
A man has stepped into the street as if to, to fight the invaders!
Secretary of Defense Moore's eye open.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The news helicopter records a man in the street.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Nick's coat is in Red Mode.  He talks into a Red Dust earpiece:
DR. NICK POWER
Alright, JR.  How's the armor feel?
EXT. CITY - DAY
The man is JR in the exo-armor that's shiny like marbles.  The Sector Black imprint is gone.
JR
(looking over suit)
Heroic.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
(checking data on coat)
All systems seem to be online.  
LC (O.S.)
Correct.
DR. NICK POWER
Joining the team, LC?
LC (O.S.)
I have always been a member.
DR. NICK POWER
That you have.  JR.
EXT. CITY - DAY
JR scans the ruins through his hyper screen.
DR. NICK POWER (o.S.)
JR, activate your Cotton Titanium layering.  The exo-armor won't infringe, but it could impel you.
JR
Look at what they've done.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
JR, did you hear me?
JR
This place isn't the best, but it doesn't deserve this.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
JR!
JR
Yeah?
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
A team.
JR
A team.
Two Cephalos exit a store a ways behind JR.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Ok.  Team's assembled.  Let's get a better view of the city.
He throws his arms forward, morphing the room into...
EXT. CITY - DAY
He stands behind JR.  
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
The room is gathered around the TV.
Secretary of Defense Moore holds the phone to her ear, staring at the news.
US PRESIDENT (O.S.)
(from phone)
Hello?  Secretary Moore?
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
A SECTOR BLACK AGENT calmly enters and turns the table projected TV on.  On it is Nick and JR.
Katie sits up in her seat, alert.
Director Wave tightens his fist.
EXT. CITY - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
(surveying)
No pedestrians seem to be out.
JR
Make for a safer duel.
He sees the Cephalos jetting at them from behind.
DR. NICK POWER
(ducking)
Six o'clock!
JR
I don't think it's that late.
DR. NICK POWER
Behind you!
JR turns.  He slams his foes with glowing red fists, knocking them back.
The Cephalos, suits sparkling, spit ink balls into the sky.  The ink spreads.
Beat.
Cephalo swams ride down the buildings, combining.  The massive swam bullets at Nick and JR. 
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Um, we could run.
JR
We can't run!  We're the ones fighting!
DR. NICK POWER
Well, run to a bigger area then!  The intersection!
They bolt away from the swam tornadoing after them.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
(into phone, proud)
Mr. President.  We have an option.
EXT. CITY - DAY
Nick spots a city bus.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Bus!
JR
And?
DR. NICK POWER
Throw it at the swam!
JR rockets the bus at the swam, missing by far.
Nick shoots him a look.
JR
Warm up.
Reaching intersection, JR fires rapidly at the swam with red finger tip lasers.  The swam swams them.
DR. NICK POWER
LC, weapon.
LC (o.S.)
Which would you like?
DR. NICK POWER
Um... something funny.
LC (o.S.)
Equipping Funny Missile Projector.
It forms from his coat.  A mask forms over his mouth/nose. 
DR. NICK POWER
Gonna need some type of heroic slogan for this one.
JR
How about... let's share a laugh.
Nick fires.  Orange smoke explosion.  The swam drops to the street, cracking up.
DR. NICK POWER
Let's share a laugh.  You really heroize that one.
An electric roar snatches their attention.  The two-headed Cephalo stampedes to them.
Gundam Wing cannons form on JR's arms.  He explodes the Cephalo, painting the street with green blood and ink.
The laughter wears off.  The swam laps Nick and JR.  They turn with it.
The swam fires ink at them.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
LC, shield!
His coat forms a shield around them.  The ink smothers it.
JR rockets up through the shield, shattering it.  
He hovers, firing palm lasers at the swam, exploding it.
He lands.  Mission complete.  He notices Nick hawking him.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Did you have to shatter our shield?
JR
At the time.
Arguing, they don't notice the darkness covering the sky.
DR. NICK POWER
I guess that outweighs the fact that you showed them... 
(pointing above his head)
...our shield's vulnerability.
JR
It doesn't matter.  They can't report to the others- Why did it get so dark?
They look up.  A perpetual swam crashes down on them.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
Katie hops up, worried.  Director Wave notices.  He looses his fist and relaxes in his chair.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The swam has formed a dark mountain.
Beat.
A red beam appears through it.  Another appears.  Hundreds.  The mountain glows red.  A blast crumbles it.
JR stands with his arms out, chest high.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
Cheers.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
Katie sits down, collect.  She grabs the coffee in front of her and sips, hiding her nerves.  
EXT. CITY - DAY
The Cephalos have repainted the city with their dead bodies.
A damaged Cephalo crawls to the sidewalk.  It's turned over by JR's foot.
CEPHALO
(electric waves, subtitled)
Death!  Death to your world for what you have done to ours!
Through JR's hyper screen, he analyzes its voice pattern.
He holds his palm out, beam charging.  The Cephalo turns its face in fear.  JR lowers his hand.  The Cephalo looks at him.
JR
(electric waves, subtitled)
Go.  Tell your kind who I am.
It's surprised.  It gets up.  Its suit sparkles electricity and leaks green blood/ink.  It backs from JR.  
Its suit unfolds into its helmet that it throws off. 
It spits ink on itself, healing the wounds.
It crawls up the building behind it to the roof.
JR picks up its helmet...
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
It dingles from his hand.  He's sucked under.
The suitless Cephalo watches from the side of a building.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
Bearer torpedoes through with the suitless Cephalo...
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - LEADER'S CHAMBER - DAY
Leader feeds.  They enter.  Leader cuts its eyes to them, making Bearer jump.
CEPHALO
(electric wave, subtitled, afraid)
Leader, forgive us.  We have failed you.  They have a warrior who is mighty.  Mightier than you I fear.
Leader knocks the bowel over.  It tightens its fist.  The Cephalo grabs its neck, choking.
CEPHALO (CONT'D)
(electric wave, subtitled)
It knows our language!  It spoke to me!
Leader considers it.  It releases the Cephalo. 
Leader sinks into the ink.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Nick, coat in Red Mode, runs a diagnostic on the Cephalo helmet.  He's boxed in by red screens. 
He picks up the helmet.
DR. NICK POWER
LC, construct manikin.
Red Dust breaks off his coat and forms a manikin that he puts the helmet on.  Nothing happens.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Try an extraterrestrial manikin.
It morphs into a Cephalo manikin.  The suit unfolds over it.
JR (O.S.)
Taxonomic ID.
JR approaches, still in exo-armor.
DR. NICK POWER
(working on suit)
Yeah.  Putting it on and sneaking in their seacraft is out of the question.  Shocking how their technology towers ours still it's simple enough for me to figure. 
JR
Most wouldn't label you simple.
DR. NICK POWER
(re: exo-armor)
You can take that off now.
JR
I don't have anything better to put on.
(pause)
Has anyone called about our interference?
DR. NICK POWER
Everyone but the aliens... yet.
He scans the suit's tail with his coat.   
The suit's eyes project an image of a beautiful water world with low water levels.  The creatures are sick.
JR
(stunned)
It was us.
DR. NICK POWER
What was?
Realizing the answer by looking at the image, he turns his face, disgusted.  His earpiece flashes red:
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Yeah?... give me a minute.
Call over.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Not the aliens.
He moves from the suit.  The scan leaves its tail, killing the projected image.
Nick returns to the suit diagnostic, still disgusted.
JR
It was great.  Helping.
DR. NICK POWER
It was helpful.
The exo-armor separates vertically.  JR steps out.  Unsatisfied with Nick, he leaves.
Nick sees a strange glitch in the diagnostic.  He touches the screen, widening the glitch.
His eyes spread...
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
He appears on stage.  The room ambushes with him questions.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE
One at a time.  One at a time- Seats!
Everyone sits.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MOORE (CONT'D)
Dr.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
On TV:
DR. NICK POWER
I've found data on our guest that-
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
What is the armor that man was wearing?
DR. NICK POWER
The name?  Um... the MTA; Marble Titanium Armor.  The Marble Suit.
Director Wave cuts his eyes to Katie.  She notices.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
As I was saying, I've found prominent data-
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
(to Nick)
Who's in it?  The armor?  JR?
DR. NICK POWER
My son...  Junior.
The room roars with more questions.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
This data is important-
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
Are you ensured with the fact that your son may be injured and face an ill fate against the invaders?
The room dies down.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - JUNIOR'S BEDROOM - DAY
JR stares at the two paintings. 
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
It's what he wants.
The room roars into questions.
Nick looks to Secretary of Defense Moore.  She grabs the chair she stands beside.  Everyone sits.  Silence.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
While out fighting, JR recovered this...
He points to the screen on back curtain formed from his coat.  On it is the Cephalo suit.  
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
...Their own armored exoskeletons.  When damaged, they escape from these dark pods like a pilot ejects an aircraft.  Running a diagnostic I found that we're the cause of their... coming.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
Are you saying this isn't an invasion?
DR. NICK POWER
This is a collection.  They want their salt water back that rained to our world the past two weeks.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #2
That's outrageous.
The screen changes to an advanced blueprint of an alien MDSG.  Simulated, it fires at the cloud swirl, opening it.
DR. NICK POWER
In three hours, it opens.  Again.
PENTAGON OFFICIAL #1
Then?
REPORTER (O.S.)
(on news)
The seacraft is standing!  The seacraft is standing up!
EXT. CEPHALOS MOTHERSHIP - DAY
The tentacles lift the bubble up. 
An interior object pushes against the bubble's top.  It gives birth to their MDSG, coursing with green electricity.  Its beam rams the cloud swirl.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
Secretary of Defense Moore looks to Nick.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
JR enters, hands on his left side like he's tired.  Nick runs a diagnostic on the Marble Suit.  
JR
I'm going back out?
DR. NICK POWER
They need you to.  
He notices JR's hand on his side.  He goes back to work.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
If you need rest... 
JR
I'm fine.
LC (O.S.)
Diagnostic check complete.
DR. NICK POWER
(to JR)
Jump in.
JR enters the suit.  It closes.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
I added a detection censor so there won't be any more six o'clocks.
JR
A Spidey Sense?
DR. NICK POWER
Each is own.
The suit opens.  An uneasy look plays on JR's face.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
What is it?
JR
...Nothing.
The suit closes.
EXT. CITY - DAY
Nick leads JR through the ghost town.
JR
(re: alien MDSG)
Maybe they saw we were too much and withdrew to focus on that.
Nick thinks.
DR. NICK POWER
LC.
LC (O.S.)
Dr.
DR. NICK POWER
Contact Kate.
LC (O.S.)
What will I be saying?
DR. NICK POWER
Tell her to figure a reversal for the MDSG that'll seal the wormhole.
LC (O.S.)
Dialing her now.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
Director Wave stands at the window.
DIRECTOR WAVE
He's making a fool of us...  we're the ones working behind windows now.
A phone with a sonic ring sounds.
DIRECTOR WAVE (CONT'D)
What is that sound?
SCIENTIST #1
Dr. Power.  Your necklace.  It's illuminating.
Katie looks at her red glowing necklace.
DR. KATIE POWER
(into necklace, half believing it's a phone)
This is Dr. Katie Power?
LC (O.S.)
Hello, Dr. Katie Power.  I am...
DR. KATIE POWER
Me as a child.
LC (O.S.)
Correct.  I am also Dr. Nick Power's central control.
DR. KATIE POWER
Nick?
LC (O.S.)
Correct.  He asked that I inform you.
DR. KATIE POWER
About?
EXT. CITY (DIFFERENT STREET) - DAY
Nick scans the city for Cephalos with a screen device.
Inside his suit, JR moans in pain.
An interior red light scans his bruised left ribs.
LC (O.S.)
Dr. Power.
DR. NICK POWER
Yeah?
JR
No, LC.
LC (O.S.)
Sorry.
DR. NICK POWER
What is it?
JR
My left rib.  It's-
DR. NICK POWER
(upset)
Injured.
JR
Yes.
DR. NICK POWER
I told you to make sure your Cotton Titanium layering was activated.
JR
Don't jump down my circuits about it.
DR. NICK POWER
LC.
LC (O.S.)
Bodily injury repaired.  Cotton Titanium layering activated.
Nick gives JR the look.
JR's entire helmet flashes red.
JR
What's that?
DR. NICK POWER
Your Spidey censor.
On his screen device, a swam of black dots closes in fast ahead.  They look.  Nothing's coming.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
LC, your screen has a glitch.
LC (O.S.)
You created it.
Earth shaking footsteps come from ahead.
The screen device beeps fast.  A swam of black dots speeds towards them.
DR. NICK POWER
Swam-
An ink wave coursing with green electricity busts up from under them, lifting them over the buildings.
They crash down onto vehicles. 
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Nick is back.  He looks around.  
EXT. CITY - DAY
The ink wave morphs into a six-legged Cephalo Beast that dwarfs JR.  It growls, green electricity coursing its body. 
It bolts at him.  He grabs a vehicle and strikes it.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
Red screens all over.  Nick courses through them. 
DR. NICK POWER
LC!
LC (O.S.)
I can't pinpoint the interruption.
DR. NICK POWER
Try again, then try again!
EXT. CITY - DAY
The Beast circles JR who turns with it.
Its face tentacles spread, revealing a million teeth mouth.  It sucks JR to it with hammering winds.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
LC (O.S.)
The only interference capable of blocking the Red Dust is-
DR. NICK POWER
Excess electric charge.
EXT. CITY - DAY
JR struggles against the wind.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
Junior?
JR
Yeah?!  Where are you?!
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
Control.
JR
Why aren't you out here?!
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
I can't until-
The wind sweeps JR off his feet towards the Beast.  
He sees a pothole.  He punches through it, hooking his arm.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Junior.
JR
I hear you!
DR. NICK POWER (o.S.)
Its massive electric charge is blocking my reception. 
JR
Give me a sec!
He pulls himself to the pothole.  He's pulled back, losing his grip.  
He grabs the pothole with his free hand.  He pulls himself to it.  He's pulled back.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
What's taking so long?
JR
Patient!  Please!
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
Fine.  Ok.  Take your time.  I'll grab some Skittles while I wait. 
JR
Dad!
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
JR's reply is a surprising slap to Nick.
JUNIOR (V.O.)
Dad!
EXT. CITY - DAY
JR pulls his upper torso into the pothole.  A red light glows inside.
The street under the Beast erupts with red energy.  The Beast explodes.
JR stands.
Nick appears, firing an advanced .50 rifle past JR's head.
DR. NICK POWER
Blame the coat.
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
JR lands.  He sees the suitless Cephalo ahead. 
JR aims his palms, beams charging.  He looks around.  Cephalos surround him.
CLIVE (O.S.)
Junior.
Clive stands on the sidewalk.  He motions his thumb upward.  
JR rockets up.
In Clive's cart an advanced machine appears from being invincible.
He punches the button.  Energy shoots out, knocking the Cephalos into the clouds.
INT. UNDERGROUND STATION - CONTROL - DAY
JR and Clive step off the platform.
DR. NICK POWER
Clive?  
(to JR)
You brought Clive here?  No one's suppose...
He moves to Clive and gently rushes him onto the platform-
CLIVE
(serious, war vet voice)
I'm not Clive.  I don't have time for chatter.  Grab what you need.  We transfer locations T minus now.
DR. NICK POWER
Who are you?
CLIVE
No time.
DR. NICK POWER
Relocate where?
CLIVE
Grab whatever and move!
Nick, upset, snatches up the Cephalo helmet.
Clive and JR move onto the platform.
DR. NICK POWER
But we're not walking.
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
They're sucked up on a three-seated, high-tech hovering motorcycle.  It resembles JR's suit.  
Nick seems to go for the pilot seat, but he takes center.  JR climbs in pilot.  Clive takes rear.
Nick checks his screen on the cycle.  Blank. 
JR
Where to?
EXT. CITY - DAY
They undulate in silence. 
DR. NICK POWER
(to Clive)
Ever check into the room? 
CLIVE
Couldn't.  It was under Clive's name.
DR. NICK POWER
Good one.  Who are you?
CLIVE
Eagle Kent.
Nick's face shifts.
DR. NICK POWER
Eagle died in Operation Black Water.
EAGLE
Eagles doesn't kill easy.  Black Water was Director Wave's cover up for my screw up. 
The three screens flash red.  A black dot pops up.  No one notices. JR's helmet flashes red. 
JR
My censor's flashing.
DR. NICK POWER
(to Eagle)
Screw up with what?
EAGLE
To master what your sister managed to. 
The screens flash faster.  Black dots pop up fast. 
JR
My censor's flashing.
DR. NICK POWER
(to Eagle)
You've known this entire time about Control?
EAGLE
Since Junior's cessation and your hibernation inside the ice, your father asked me as a friend to keep owl watch.
Dots shadow the screens.
JR
Look at your screens!
Nick and Eagle look at their blank screens.
DR. NICK POWER
(to JR)
Reactors-
JR
(upset)
They're fine!
Cephalo swams explode from building windows circling them.
DR. NICK POWER
LC, Mach 3!
Zoom.  Gone.  The monstrous swam matches their speed.  
EXT. CITY (DIFFERENT STREET) - DAY
The cycle's booster torches the swam, but they keep coming.
EAGLE
Here is where I secede.  Get to Sector Black.
DR. NICK POWER
Don't be a hero.
EAGLE
There are some things science can't change.
JR smiles inside his suit.
Red Dust comes from Eagle's dirty coat, forming a similar one-seated cycle beside them.  Nick looks at Eagle.
EAGLE (CONT'D)
I invented it.
He hops onto cycle #2. 
DR. NICK POWER
LC.  Forward dad a message for me.
LC (O.S.)
Saying?
DR. NICK POWER
Secrets.  Outmoded from now on.
Eagle speeds past JR.  Time stops it seems as they lock sight.  Heroic nod from each.
Eagle zooms ahead, busts a U-Turn, brakes.
He jolts over cycle #1 into the swam.  It engulfs him.
Cycle #1 turns right...
EXT. CITY (DIFFERENT STREET) - DAY
It hovers, facing where they left Eagle.  
A sonic explosion mixed with a red light overwhelms the city.  
JR rockets the cycle away.
The alien MDSG fires at the cloud swirl in the distance.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - FRONT LOBBY - DAY
Glass everything streaming with data.
Nick and JR enter by a dropping staircase as the front door.   Nick, stone face, totes the Cephalo helmet.  
The workers marvel at them.  No telling who they're more impressed by.
VARIOUS WORKERS
(loud whispers)
"It's him". "Phenomenal uniform". "Pure genius".
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Nick slugs through.  Something bothers him.
He takes the Skittles from his coat.  Eats a few.  Puts the pack back.
He leans over a table where the Cephalo helmet sits.  He stares into its eyes.  
Katie enters, coffee in hand.  She stays in the doorway.
DR. KATIE POWER
Not quite your obscure laboratory, but it will do.
He turns his back to her, envious eyes fixed ahead.
DR. NICK POWER
Homely.
Katie smiles, soaking up the insult.
DR. KATIE POWER
JR is down the corridor-
DR. NICK POWER
Junior.  His name is Junior.
Katie forces a smile.
DR. KATIE POWER
Yes.  Junior is down the corridor.
(pause)
Will you at least face me?
He does.
DR. NICK POWER
Sorry.  I saw the knife in your hand.
Katie sighs.
DR. KATIE POWER
My team has attempted to reverse the MDSG so we can confine the cavity in our atmosphere.
DR. NICK POWER
It's not a cavity.  A cavity is hollow.  Meaning nothing inside. 
DR. KATIE POWER
And what do you suppose is in this cavity?
DR. NICK POWER
(grabbing helmet)
This!
His coat constructs a Cephalo manikin under the helmet.  The suit unfolds.  The water world image appears. 
Katie grasps at the sick creatures.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
(raged)
The only cavity is what sits on your shoulders.
He turns his back to her.
Looking over his coat, he snatches it off and hurls it into the wall, killing the projected image.  
Katie eyes the coat.
Nick flops on a stool and puts his head on the table.
Katie scoops up his coat, sneaky.
DR. KATIE POWER
I may have done things I keep in the dark, but at least the dark is a place I dwell.
She leaves, Nick's coat cradled like a baby.
Nick hawks the floor.  Closes eyes.
BLACK SCREEN:
Sound of running feet clashing against the ceiling.
JUNIOR (V.O.)
Dad!  Fun Fun Day!  Get up!
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Nick wakes.
Running feet and rushing come from the hall.  
Katie bolts in with coffee and Nick's coat.  She hands him the coffee.
DR. KATIE POWER
Coffee.  You need to be up for this.
She puts the coat on him.  He stands, hands the coffee back, and takes command of putting his coat on.  
DR. NICK POWER
(re: coffee, attitude)
Two months off the drug.  More should try it.
Katie suppresses her temper.
DR. KATIE POWER
A situation outside needs our attention.
DR. NICK POWER
What situation?
DR. KATIE POWER
Your miscalculation.
EXT. SKY - DAY
The alien MSDG rips the cloud swirl open at speeds too fast to calculate.  The beam is larger.  
The same news helicopter records.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Nick and Katie watch on a wall projected TV.
DR. NICK POWER
How long?
DR. KATIE POWER
Twenty, twenty-five minutes.  Their molecule output has tripled.  They seem to be getting impatient.
DR. NICK POWER
(sour)
Or tired of being sick.
He studies the news coverage.  His eye spread.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Where are you on the reversal? 
DR. KATIE POWER
The beginning.
DR. NICK POWER
Scratch it.
DR. KATIE POWER
What?  Why?
DR. NICK POWER
New idea.  They're opening your shield with their generator...
DR. KATIE POWER
We open theirs with mine.
DR. NICK POWER
And burst their bubble.
DR. KATIE POWER
What after we success in penetrating their shield if we can even do so?
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - LATER
JR
(not in Marble Suit)
You can't go!  I'll go instead!
Nick, ignoring him, runs a diagnostic on the Cephalo suit.
Katie stands at the door.
Nick doesn't find what he's searching for.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
No interior blueprints.  Have to wait till I'm inside to figure their arrangement.
JR
Now you want to play hero?!
DR. NICK POWER
No one's playing hero, Junior!
Heated stare.
JR
You said we were a team.  Joint action.  You and me.  Me and you.
Nick removes the Cephalo helmet from the suit.  He shoves it in JR's hands.
DR. NICK POWER
We are.  That's why I need you ready to attack anything green that comes out the bubble when I blow it.
JR's heated stare turns into a grin.  Katie remains as she is.  It's no use.  JR laughs.  Katie smiles.  
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Blow it up.  That's what I meant.  Blow it up.  I was trying to be funny.  A joke.  It's been a while.
JR cracks up.  Katie looks at her feet, blocking her smile.  Nick notices anyway.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
(serious, to JR)
Just be ready.  No one makes it to the third round.
EXT. SECTOR BLACK - DAY
Nick and JR, in Marble Suit, exit what seems like a normal skyscraper.
JR
(re: alien MDSG)
How are you going to destroy it?
DR. NICK POWER
Not sure, but...  
(pointing to head)
...something in here will fuse.  
JR
You sure that's a good idea going in planless?
DR. NICK POWER
We'll see.  Don't make a move until you see falling green men.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Katie leans against the table Nick stood, toying with her necklace.
A SECTOR BLACK WORKER enters.
SECTOR BLACK WORKER (O.S.)
Excuse me, Dr. Power.  The Board awaits.
Katie looks around the lab, then her necklace.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick steps to the pier edge like a suicidal man.
DR. NICK POWER
LC.
LC (O.S.)
Here.
DR. NICK POWER
Thank you.  
LC (O.S.)
For?
DR. NICK POWER
Being the best coat a man could wear.
LC (O.S.)
A man, Dr. Power?  My apologies.  I have always viewed you as a grown boy.
Nick smiles, needing the humor relief. 
A Cephalo swam disembarks the top of the seacraft's bubble.
DR. NICK POWER
Junior would've loved that one.
JUNIOR (O.S.)
(played from recorded voice on coat)
Joke time!
DR. NICK POWER
Well...
JUNIOR (O.S.)
Dad!
DR. NICK POWER
One joke.  And I mean it.  I'm not telling you ten jokes to wake up with your toy in my mouth again.
JUNIOR (O.S.)
(cracking up)
K.
The swam gets closer.
DR. NICK POWER
(fighting back tears)
What did the mouse say to the baby cat when the cat promised not to eat him if he came out of his hole?
JUNIOR (O.S.)
Rawr!
DR. NICK POWER
No.  Silly. 
The swam reaches him.  He clears his throat to finish:
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
The mouse said, "You've gotta be kitten me".
Junior's laughter comes from the coat.
Nick shuts his eyes, at peace.  The swam smothers him.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
Two Cephalos torpedo through with Nick, an ink statue.
He observes the structure.
He notes the food in the wall bowls.  He looks at a glass ceiling where the food pours from.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - LEADER'S CHAMBER - DAY
The Cephalos drop Nick in the ink.  The ink on him dissolves. 
Bearer pops up from the ink.  It pats him down.
DR. NICK POWER
I'm not armed.
Bearer growls at him.  It pops under the ink.
Leader rises, a true terror to Nick.
LEADER
(deep electric wave, subtitled)
Welcome.
DR. NICK POWER
Sorry.  You and me.  We talk different.  Different languages which means you don't understand that we talk different languages.
Possessed people surface from the ink, wrapped up by tentacles.
POSSESSED PEOPLE
Who are you?
DR. NICK POWER
Nick Power.  Dr. Nick Power.
Possessed #1 shakes uncontrollably.  Shaking stops.
POSSESSED PEOPLE
Dr. Nick Power.  Inventor of many things that have helped your world.  Help ours.  Help repay what you have taken.
DR. NICK POWER
I'm aware of what we did to your world, but-
POSSESSED PEOPLE
Help ours!
Nick surveys the possessed.  Hundreds it seems, and they're all staring at him.
DR. NICK POWER
We can't offer you our water.  If we do, our world will...
(searches for right words)
Subside.
POSSESSED PEOPLE
Our world is subsiding!
Leader roars.  The possessed are lifted of the possession.  They cry and scream.  They're sucked into the ink.  
Leader slams his fist on the ink, sending a wave at Nick who can only wait for it.  He's taken under.
He surfaces, fighting, ink mask over his mouth/nose.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DEEP WATER PRISON - DAY
He drops through the ink floor port.  
He notes the people sitting to the bottom, afraid to move. 
EXT. CITY - DAY
JR stares at the cloud swirl too giant to give measurements.
He gets impatient.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - TEST ROOM - DAY
Katie and her team race to get the MDSG running.  Its diagnostic screen shows it's 100% functionable.  
Katie, frustrated, strikes it, knocking around the loose crystal ore in the glass belly.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DEEP WATER PRISON - DAY
Nick's coat goes Red Mode.  He pulls Mosquito and the Skittle pack from it.  Mosquito tries to get in the pack.
Nick takes a laser pen and pad from his coat.  He writes something and shows it to Mosquito.  It nods.
Nick searches through the Skittles and gives it a green one.  Its belly grows large, filled with Skittles.
Nick swims to the people and shows them his pad.  They agree.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DEEP WATER PRISON - LATER
The people dig at the ink port ceiling...
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
Their arms stick through the ink port.  
A patrolling Cephalo sees the arms.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DEEP WATER PRISON - DAY
Nick, ear to ink port, hears the Cephalo land.  He motions his hands.  Everyone scatters.
The Cephalo drops in, rifle aimed.  
The people sit to the bottom.
Nick appears behind the Cephalo.  Red Dust from his coat forms an exo-armor under it.
The Cephalo turns and receives a surprise KO.
Nick takes the rose and a test tube from his coat.  He gathers some salt water.
The rose's freshwater turns the salt water into freshwater.  He hands the rose to Mosquito.
It has a hard time squeezing through the ink port.  Nick pushes it through.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
Mosquito rockets through.
The rose changes the water into freshwater.
Mosquito sticks its mouthpart in the tube that drops the alien food.  The Skittles shoot to the ceiling, mixing.
Mosquito, normal size, bolts away as Cephalos fill the hall.  
They pig out with the food.  
A Cephalo coughs.  They all cough.  They imbibe the water.  Their suits crack.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DEEP WATER PRISON - DAY
Mosquito enters and nods to Nick.  He morphs it and the rose to his coat.  He bolts up...
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CORRIDOR - DAY
He rockets through, searching for a room.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Tubes pump freshwater to a dried ink sphere.
Nick's laps the sphere, scanning it with his coat.  No data appears.
He grabs it, shocking himself.  He pulls back.
He pulls the laser pen from his coat and slices through the sphere.  Its water spills out.
The room's water drains.
EXT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DAY
The arid tentacles crack.  The alien MDSG shuts off.
Suitless, dried Cephalos fall from the bubble's top into the water.
The seacraft flops into the water.  The tentacles regain their health as does the Cephalos.
EXT. CITY - DAY
Through JR's hyper screen he sees the falling Cephalos.
He takes to the air.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Kate.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Katie works on something with extreme focus.
DR. KATIE POWER
(into necklace)
Read you, Nick.  The MDSG is at full capacity, but a malfunction remains.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Keep at it.  I'll come up with some other way to pop this bubble.
EXT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DAY
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
Junior.
JR
(approaching seacraft)
Falling green men.  I see them.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Is the shield down?
EXT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DAY
JR fires a laser at the bubble.  Shield still up.
JR
Shield's up.
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
The craft must be a shield itself. Ok.  Remember our shield and how-
He's punched in the back.  His armor dissolves.
EXT. CEPHALOS MOTHERSHIP - DAY
JR laps the bubble.
JR
What about our shield?
INT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Leader holds a hurt Nick out front by his throat.  
Leader's face tentacles spread, revealing a mouth of spinning teeth.  It puts Nick to its mouth.
DR. NICK POWER
LC.
His coat fires an outward explosion.
EXT. CEPHALOS SEACRAFT - DAY
JR laps the seacraft.
JR
(to himself)
Shield.  Remember our shield.  What about it?  Remember our...
(pause, thinks)
Shield!
He hovers above the seacraft.  A colossal cannon forms from his shoulders to his hands.  Single blast.  
The seacraft implodes, killing the Cephalos in the water.
INT. PENTAGON BRIEFING ROOM - DAY
REPORTER
(on news)
The seacraft is destroyed!  I repeat, the seacraft is destroyed!
The room celebrates. 
Secretary of Defense Moore pumps her fists to show a combo KO.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
The news displays on the table.  
Director Wave sits villain like with the Board who have grown impatient.
The worker that delivered the message to Katie enters alone.
Director Wave slams his fist on the table.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Sector Black Ops and medical officials help the prisoners from the water.  An injured Nick is with them.  He holds the rose.
JR lands.  Everyone cheers, catching him off guard.  He waves.
DR. NICK POWER
(to medical official assisting him)
My son.
Something leaps from the water and lands in front of JR.  
Leader's true form; LEADER 1-4, four Cephalos in a circle connected by horse backs.  Drained out skin.  Each one coughs, sick.
JR fires fingertip and palm beams at Leader 1-4, but no damage is done.  
Leader #4 slaps him into the water.
Leader 1-4 stomps towards Nick, turning in a circle.
The people retreat.
Nick pulls the test tube from his coat and puts the rose stem in it.  It sucks up the water.
He limps up to face the monster.  He holds out the rose.
DR. NICK POWER
Take it.  Give your world its water back.  Leave ours alone.
Leader #2 wave its hands.  Everyone but Nick becomes possessed.
POSSESSED PEOPLE
I will take your world so that I have both.
DR. NICK POWER
That's going to be a problem.
POSSESSED PEOPLE
You can not stop me?!
DR. NICK POWER
Not alone, no.  With help...
JR lands beside him.
JR
(pissed)
Yes.
Leader #2 waves its hands.  The possessed stampede at Nick and JR. 
DR. NICK POWER
I can actually say I saw this coming.
The possessed surround them.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
LC, Funny Missile.
No reply.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
LC?
He checks his coat.  It sparkles. 
JR forms the Funny Missile Projector.  He hands it to Nick.
JR
Make 'em laugh.
DR. NICK POWER
What happened to "Let's share a laugh"?
JR
It was semi-heroic.  This one's better.  Make 'em laugh.
He forms a mask over Nick's mouth/nose.  
DR. NICK POWER
Make 'em laugh.
He fires.  The orange cloud spreads over the possessed.  
They laugh.  They direct it at Leader 1-4.  It roars.  
The possession is lifted, but the laughter remains.  It fades when they see Leader 1-4.  They scatter.
Leader 1-4 stampedes at Nick and JR.
JR steps ahead.  His suit morphs into molten steel.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
The suit's not equipped to handle those temperatures!
JR pushes on.  His suit becomes a fireball.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Junior, reduce temperature!
JR's suit becomes lava like.  The steel cracks.
Leader 1-4 reaches them.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Reduce temperature!
JR bullets through each Leader, leaving magma holes. 
Leader 1-4 drops dead.
Leader #1, half alive, looks to the cloud swirl.
JR lands.  His suit, critically damaged, cools.  Parts, including his left mask, are burned off.  Nick bolts over.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
I didn't program you to be suicidal!
JR
Whatever it takes.
Wind, people and vehicles are sucked into the cloud swirl.  Giant tentacles reach down to the water.  
A Suck, giant Cephalo with eight back tentacles that stretch ten miles, drops to the water, shaking the coast.
It stands and roars, green electricity coursing its body.  
It spits ink at the city, melting the buildings.
JR starts for the Suck, but Nick stops him.  Their stare says enough.  JR rockets up...
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
He delivers two sledgehammer hooks to the Suck.  
INT. SECTOR BLACK - TEST ROOM - DAY
Katie's team goes over the MDSG.
Scientist #3 bumps the generator.
SCIENTIST #2
(to scientist #3)
The generator is useless to us in pieces!
Scientist #1 hurries to the glass belly and spots the loose crystal ore.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
JR dodges the Suck's crop field of back tentacles.  
His hyper screen malfunctions.
A back tentacle rises behind him.  His helmet flashes red.  The tentacle smacks him...
EXT. UNDERWATER - DAY
He decelerates fast.  
His suit short circuits.  He bangs on it.  
All types of alien sea creatures swim around him. 
The extended, scaly, green sea creature bullets past, knocking him around.  
He sinks in dismay.  
The creature wraps him up, burning his suit.  It tightens its grip, but the suit resists.
The creature drags him into the dark.
Something rockets into the dark. 
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
That something rockets from the water and lands.  
An unconscious JR drops to the pier.  
Nick limps over and falls over his body.  He pushes JR's steel chest with his hands.  It's no use.  Still, he pushes.
DR. NICK POWER
LC!
(into different parts of coat)
LC!  LC!
He pushes once more on JR's chest.
The Suck, making its way to the city, roars.
The back of a water covered exo-armor with black ports opens. 
Katie steps out, lab coat in Black Mode, Black Dust version of Red Mode.
DR. KATIE POWER
(to Nick)
You can yell at me about it later.
Nick lays the rose on JR.
He stands, a man baptized by anger.
The Suck nears the ferry.  It's pulled back by Nick.
He hooks it with combos, finishing with an uppercut.
Its face tentacles reach out for Heaven.  It sucks a resisting Nick towards its canyon mouth.
The water, being sucked into its mouth, hammers Nick, making it hard to resist.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - DEPORT AREA - DAY
Sector Black Ops lock the MDSG down with heavy latches.  Katie's team assists.
DIRECTOR WAVE (O.S.)
Unlatch it.
SCIENTIST #1
Di-Di-Director-
DIRECTOR WAVE
Unlatch that machine.
SCIENTIST #3
But, but, but-
DIRECTOR WAVE
Unlatch-that-machine.
He hawks everyone, wanting them to snap back.  None do.  He heads for the exit.
SCIENTIST #3
N-N-N... No.
Director Wave brakes.  He approaches scientist #3 who avoids his death stare.
DIRECTOR WAVE
No to my orders but yes to public recognition of our company's unmasking?!
SCIENTIST #3
I, I, I-
Katie's image appears between them.
DR. KATIE POWER
(to Director Wave, upset)
Signed up for weapon development.  As did I.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
People hide behind whatever they can.  Katie's projected image is one of them. 
The Suck sucks in a ferry.
EXT/INT. OVER WATER/MOUTH OF THE SUCK - DAY
The ferry crashes into Nick, knocking him into the mouth.
He grabs onto a slimy tooth.  He's sucked to another tooth.  
DR. NICK POWER
LC!  Get me outta this mouth!
EXT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Lab coat in Black Mode.  She speaks into a Black Dust earpiece:
DR. KATIE POWER
She has grown up.
INT. MOUTH OF THE SUCK - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Don't tell me I have to die hearing your voice.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Do you need my assistance or not.  You're the one inside the mouth.
DR. NICK POWER
Could use you in here.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
I can't.  Some type of interference is bounding me from advancing beyond the pier.
DR. NICK POWER
The creature's electric charge.  What kind of weapons does this thing have?
Hundreds of weapons appear on the hyper screen.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Talk about a million ways to die.
DR. KATIE POWER (o.S.)
I like to have variety.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
Katie searches through the weapon list on a wall screen.
DR. KATIE POWER
How about... the Wind Gun?
INT. MOUTH OF THE SUCK - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Lay it on me.
A Wind Gun, advance machine cannon, appears in his hand.
He searches for the trigger.  There is none.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Where's the trigger?!  And the bullets!  There's no bullets!
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Use the wind.
DR. NICK POWER
Use the what?!
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Do you need a manual?  Turn it on and use the wind!
He locates the start button and hits it.  It vacuums the wind in, making him drop it.
DR. NICK POWER
Kate.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
You dropped it.
DR. NICK POWER
Another weapon, please.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
DR. KATIE POWER
I could use this as a live-action field test for the Hell Gun.
EXT. MOUTH OF THE SUCK - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
If it kills it, fine.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
I'm not sure.
DR. NICK POWER
What do you need to be sure about?!
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
It's a prototype, so according to SE Code 13299 --
Nick looses his grip.  He hooks onto another tooth.
DR. NICK POWER
Equip the weapon!
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Just because you're older you've always figured you could yell at me.
DR. NICK POWER
Me yell at you?!  You've always been the yelling jealous one!  Even in the sand box!
Katie doesn't reply.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Ok, I'm sorry.  Sorry for casting such a large shadow over you.
EXT. CITY - DAY
A large air carrier totes the MDSG over the city.
INT. MOUTH OF THE SUCK - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Kate?
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Don't drop this one.
A Hell Gun forms in his hand.  
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.) (CONT'D)
And the shadow wasn't that large.
DR. NICK POWER
Something a jealous person would say.
He fires down the throat.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
He's spit out by a massive explosion.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Ok, I confess.  I keep jealously around my lab.
The Suck roars through a burned throat.
Nick descents fast towards the water.
DR. NICK POWER
Admitting is the biggest step.
A big mouthed sea creature surfaces, mouth open to catch him.  He bolts through its mouth, missing its closing jaws.
DR. NICK POWER (CONT'D)
Close.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
What happened?
DR. NICK POWER
Ugly fish.
The acidic ink from the Suck drops on him, burning his suit, mainly his legs and crotch area.
NOTE: As they talk, Nick dodges the Suck's tentacles.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
My censors indicate that you're burning.  Chiefly between your legs.
DR. NICK POWER
I'm aware.  Anything on here to put it out?
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
You tell me.  I replicated it from...
DR. NICK POWER
My design.  Between you and dad- family meeting after this.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Fine.
He stops mid-flight.
DR. NICK POWER
(surprised)
Fine?
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Don't turn this into brother-sister bonding.
DR. NICK POWER
You already have-
A tentacle knocks him into another tentacle.  It wraps him up.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Nick, my censors-
DR. NICK POWER
I know.  Deformation.  At least the burn's gone.
The tentacle crushes him.  He yells out.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
DR. KATIE POWER
Nick!
The MDSG arrivals with Sector Black Ops and Katie's team.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Kate.
INT. SECTOR BLACK - HIGH-TECH LAB - DAY
DR. KATIE POWER
I read you.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Generator ready?
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
DR. KATIE POWER
Yes.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
I'm sure it can't fire itself.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Scientist #3 hands Katie the MDSG remote.  Director Wave grabs it.
A heated stare.
Director Wave motions to hit the remote button.  Leader #1, detached from the others, bulls through them.
The remote drops.  Leader #1 crushes it with its foot.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
(from Katie's coat)
Kate, bonding's over.  Fire it!
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
The tentacle lowers Nick to the big mouthed creature.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
A Hell Gun forms from Katie's coat.  She targets Leader #1, but he rams her, knocking her through the air.
JR catches her.
DR. KATIE POWER
Junior.
JR
Katie.
DR. KATIE POWER
Aunt Katie.
He sits her down and takes her gun.  
Leader #1 charges at him.  A red laser beams from his right eye, exploding it.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
The tentacle drops Nick.  He reaches the creature's mouth.  He's snatched up by -
JR
Does Superman ever crash land?
DR. NICK POWER
No!
JR rockets him to...
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
He crashes.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
The Suck turns its back to JR, allowing its tentacles to attack.  He damages them with the Hell Gun.
He throws the gun down, grabs a tentacle, and slings the monster only a few feet, struggling as he does.
JR
Thing weighs a world.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Katie hits the remote button.  The MDSG fires...
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
The Suck gets to its feet.  Roars.  The MDSG beam hammers its chest, clawing a hole through.
It crashes to the water, creating a massive wave that rises over...
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick stands his ground against the wave.  Katie steps in front on him.  He steps beside her.
They create a shield.  It expands as the wave hits.  
They struggle.
JR lands behind them.  
JR
Drop it!
Nick and Katie drop the shield.  
JR, shield around him, takes the wave back to the water.
He hovers above the water.
A beat up Nick steps from the suit.
DR. NICK POWER
Just cause he's a hero doesn't mean he has to rub it in.
DR. KATIE POWER
I would.
DR. NICK POWER
You do.
Katie's eyes spread.
JR turns.  He's swallowed by the Suck.
It slams its hand on the terminal, ripping it apart.  
People crash to the water. 
Katie, climbing from water, sees her exo-armor on a broken pier.
Nick swims to a pier.  
An extended sea creature pops up behind him.  He looks back.  Nothing's there. 
The creature surfaces over Nick, a colossal horror.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Nick!
Katie, in exo-armor, extends her hand to him.  
He looks at the creature.  
He sees the rose on a floating board.  He dashes for it.
DR. KATIE POWER (CONT'D)
Pure insanity!
Nick grabs the rose.  He turns.  The creature strikes at him. 
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
The Suck's belly glows red.  The light bolts upward to its throat, out its mouth.  It's JR, covered in lava.
Weak, he hovers above the water at the monster's legs.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Katie helps a green ooze covered Nick onto the pier. 
DR. NICK POWER
(re: green ooze)
You shot it just so this could happen.
DR. KATIE POWER
Be grateful I shot.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR rockets into the monster's belly.  He uses every drop of might to lift it.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
(speed walking)
Junior.
Katie speed walks to catch up with him.
DR. KATIE POWER
Nick.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR lifts it.  He struggles to lift it higher.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick jogs.  Katie jogs.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR gets it over his head.  He grinds his teeth.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick runs.  Katie runs.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
An extended sea creature wraps JR's legs up.  
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick runs faster.  Katie runs faster.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
The Suck's tentacles crash against JR.  The extended creature tightens around his legs.  He keeps his position.
JR
Dad.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick motions to leap into the water, but Katie grabs him.
DR. KATIE POWER
Nick!
DR. NICK POWER
(to JR)
Hey!  Wait for your dad-
DR. KATIE POWER
(showing him her coat)
Nick, listen!
Nick sees JR as Junior skating alone on the ice.
DR. NICK POWER
(to Katie)
Ok.  One second- 
(to JR)
Junior!  I said wait for me-
DR. KATIE POWER
Nick, listen!  Please!
DR. NICK POWER
My son-  
(to JR)
Junior! 
(to Katie)
I just need-
DR. KATIE POWER
(shaking Nick)
You can't save him!  He doesn't want to be saved!  
DR. NICK POWER
He does! 
(to JR)
Stay right there!
DR. KATIE POWER
Damn it, Nick!  Listen!  Listen, damn it!
Like a bleeding stone, Katie drops tears.
DR. NICK POWER
(into Katie's coat)
...Junior?
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR
I-
A tentacle slams against his back.  He yells out.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
Junior, you don't have to save us!  You don't have to save anyone!
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR
It's what I want.  What I was created for.  What else would I do?  Be a comedian?
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick smiles through tears.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR
You love me.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
DR. NICK POWER
You love me, too.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR closes his eyes.
His reactors glow red.  
He lets out a victorious cry that rings to...
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick.  He tries for the water, but Katie grips him.  He ceases struggling.
EXT. OVER WATER - DAY
JR holds the monster on his shoulders like in his painting.
He rockets to the cloud swirl, staring down at...
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick stares at him.
Katie takes the rose from him.  She rockets up. 
Ext. SKY - DAY
JR gets the monster through the cloud swirl.  He explodes.
The released energy rocks the sky.  
Cracks the shield.
EXT. WHITEHALL TERMINAL MANHATTAN (SOUTH FERRY) - DAY
Nick flops to his knees.
Ext. SKY - DAY
Katie tosses the rose into the cloud swirl as the shield crumbles.
EXT. CITY - DAY
The wounds remain open, but the city is back to normal.
The sky is normal again.
Customers buy watering roses from Mrs. Long's shop.
EXT. ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK - DAY
Nick, non-lab apparel, stands in the center.  Ice skates on.  
He surveys the skaters.
A BOY (8) skates away from his parents who are neck high in conversation with other parents.
The boy slips.
The parents look around.
The back of the boy's head stops an inch from the ice.  
Nick holds him.  He stands him up.  
BOY
Thanks.
Nick hands him Junior's two toys.
The parents rush over.  They thank Nick.
DR. NICK POWER
Keep an eye on this guy.  Might have to save the world one day.
EXT. CEMETERY - DAY
Nick stands at a grave covered in toys, new breed flowers and Junior's cape.
TOMBSTONE: "JUNIOR POWER" LITTLE HERO MAY 26, 1990 - AUGUST 6, 1998.
Katie, with the Sector Black Director badge on, walks up with a front page newspaper and a watering rose.  
She hands the newspaper to Nick.  He places it on the grave.  Katie follows with the rose. 
Nick rubs his thumb across Junior's name on the tombstone, more rejoice than sorrow.
DR. NICK POWER
You were the real hero.  He was just helping.
They leave.
The front page article is a picture of JR, in the Marble Suit, hovering, waving.  Headline:  DAMAGED SAVIOR.
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Hungry?  My treat.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
Do they serve lunch at Starbucks?
DR. kATIE POWER (O.S.)
Your humor astonishes me.  I'm off that drug now.
DR. NICK POWER (O.S.)
Good.  Skittle?
DR. KATIE POWER (O.S.)
Thank you.
FADE OUT.