Episode I - Ties (1)

The year is 2112 in the city of Century. With a population of two million people and 300,000 aliens, Century is one of Earth’s most diverse cities. As the population increased, there was limited land so buildings were made taller to fit more bodies. The city is clustered with large sky scrapers. Hover cars fill the streets of the industrialised city during the day but at night the streets are almost deserted but brightly lit from many neon street lights.
In the heart of the city at 2am, the Tempest, a government owned building has closed for the night. No unauthorised personnel can get access in or out of the building… all except one.

On the 5th floor a window smashes as a slim figure, completely covered in black from head to toe, leaps out of the building with a glowing blue cylinder in its hand. It lands on the ground from the five story jump without losing balance and continues to run. The figure moves swiftly and majestically jumping from the ground to the top of a lamppost to a balcony of a building.
Leaping out of the shattered window behind the figure, Alia follows in pursuit. Alia Jerrod is a General in the government’s army. She is an attractive slim, yet athletic woman with black hair and brown eyes. She is one of the Earth’s most powerful soldiers. She stomps on the ground as she lands. Her eyes turn from brown to yellow as she looks up at to see where the figure has gone. She kneels down and pounces up like a frog. She jumps four storeys off the ground and directly onto the balcony of the building the figure had leapt to.
The figure is just ahead of Alia, it quickly jumps off the balcony and leaps on the top of parked cars towards a bridge. Beneath the bridge runs a freeway with several hover cars going more than 130km per hour.
Alia jumps off the balcony following the figure. She pushes a small communication device in her ear that lights up.
“I’m in pursuit, he has the Core” she says as she keeps her finger on the device. “Whatever he is, he’s fast and nimble.”
The figure jumps off the bridge and falls onto the middle of the freeway. Without stopping, it lands and lowers itself to the ground sliding forward beneath two passing hover cars. Once it passes the cars it uses its hand and pushes itself up in one constant motion, it throws itself to the other side of the freeway landing perfectly on two feet.
Alia reaches the bridge and jumps off landing on the bonnet of a hover car. She causes it to swerve, almost hitting another car. She jumps off and lands on the other side of the freeway after the figure.
The figure quickly jumps on top of a sewer lid. It grabs the lid and pulls it up above its head as it slides into the sewer closing the hole behind it. Alia lands at the sewer entrance. Grabs the closed lid and throws it to the side. She then jumps in.
The sewer is dark, barely lit by the light coming from the hole above. Alia drops down as water runs beneath her feet. She looks around; the sewer is like the middle of a long dark hallway with many cracks in the wall and no doors. There are only two directions the figure could have run. Alia sniffs; the stench of sewerage is strong. She looks down one path of the sewer, turns around and peers down the other end. She grumbles then pounces out of the sewer through the hole she came in from.

Moments pass then out from a crack in the wall, no bigger than metre wide, a hand appears. The hand pushes against the wall as an arm and torso slide out after it. The black figure slowly squeezes its entire body out of the small crack pulling out the glowing blue cylinder, the Core, with it. It stands upright brushing itself off.
Suddenly, Alia leaps back into the sewer from above and instantly grabs the figure by the neck. Alia’s eyes are glowing yellow in anger. The figures feet are not touching the ground as Alia is lifting it. The figure has the Core in one hand, with the other it pulls out a small round device from a pocket. It pulls a pin from the top of it and throws it at Alia’s feet. Alia looks down at the grenade. Within a second the device explodes throwing Alia to the wall and losing her grip of the figures neck. Alia is on the ground against the wall, she shakes her head looking up. The figure is no longer in sight. Alia sniffs and scans around. She gets up and presses the device in her ear.
“He got away.” Alia walks towards the hole and leaps out of the sewer. In the sewer, amongst the waste, a single strand of long blonde hair floats on the water.