Runtime: 60 minutes
ACT 1 — PRAISE AND PARANOIA (0:00 – 10:00)
CRC Main Briefing Room
- Dr. Ezra praises the Vital Five: “You’ve made this city safer, piece by piece.”
- Captain Trask, arms crossed: “Still not impressed.”
- Ezra hands them full-access security badges.
- Trask flips: “I DID NOT authorize this! This is MY jurisdiction!”
- Ezra walks off coolly. Vital Five bursts into laughter.
Celebration Dinner
- The team relaxes. Schema even laughs (once). They toast with sparkling juice. Trask pouts in the corner.
- Rose: “You all deserve this night.”
ACT 2 — PORTAL BREACH (10:00 – 20:00)
Nightfall — CRC Dormitories
- Alarms blare. The building trembles.
- Everyone rushes out. The Innerverse Portal Room glows violently.
- Rose checks the monitors: “Something is activating the portal… from the other side.”
The Vital Five step forward, prepared.
- Suddenly, The Hollow emerges, lunges at Solace.
- Anxietron & Cyclone follow, attacking Kairo.
- EchoMind & The Repeater descend upon Schema.
- Scatter and Backlash ambush Pax.
- Fracta strikes down Vita.
The team is bound, overwhelmed, and subdued.
ACT 3 — THE FINAL VILLAIN (20:00 – 30:00)
- The villains sneer.
- Hollow: “You think you saved us? You buried us.”
- Cyclone: “You never understood the storm inside.”
- Repeater: “You left me in my loop.”
Then… a figure of shifting shadows walks in.
- Oblivion: “All of this… was me.”
The heroes resist.
- Solace: “We’ll never give up.”
They break their bonds—launch a counterattack!
- But Oblivion activates his power:
- Emotional Nullification — the heroes go blank.
- Identity Erasure — they stagger, whispering, “Who… am I?”
They collapse, lifeless shells.
ACT 4 — NO HOPE (30:00 – 45:00)
- Oblivion laughs: “Your hope… gone. Your purpose… forgotten.”
- Sends the villains into Serenvale to spread destruction.
- Rose, Ezra, and Trask remain tied.
- Rose: “Why hasn’t Oblivion left?”
- Trask: “Maybe… he’s afraid.”
- Ezra: “Or maybe… he can’t leave the Innerverse’s tether.”
They break free.
- Ezra: “I’ve been working on a portal pulse—to send Rift-born energy back in. It might work. Or kill us.”
- Trask: “Sounds like a plan.”
They race to activate it.
ACT 5 — FINAL PULSE (45:00 – 55:00)
- As they activate the device, Oblivion turns.
- “NO. I refuse to lose.”
- He attacks.
- Rose and Trask are hit with his Silence Pulse—they drop.
- Dr. Ezra, bruised, hits the emergency trigger.
The portal flares—a vortex of energy sucks at Oblivion.
Oblivion screams. “I AM THE VOID!”
- He releases a final blast—like the initial Rift.
A shockwave pulses through Serenvale.
- All villains collapse unconscious in the streets.
- The Vital Five—human again, drained, unresponsive.
ACT 6 — EMPTY VICTORY (55:00 – 60:00)
Back at CRC.
- The heroes lie unconscious in recovery chambers.
- Rose, teary: “What now?”
- Ezra, quiet: “I don’t know. But without them… we have no other hope.”
The camera pans in on Solace’s face, twitching faintly.
Cut to the Innerverse Shadows.
- Oblivion, weak but grinning.
- “If not for my limit… I’d have won.”
- “But don’t worry… that won’t be a problem much longer. Hahahaha.”
END SEASON.
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