Bubble Boy

EXT. EARTH – GROUND ZERO

Dravus laughed like a god drenched in chaos.

"You always try so hard..." Dravus said mockingly.

He cocked back his fist... BOOM!... and drove it straight through Jace's gut.

CRUNCH.

The Starbreaker suit shattered like glass. Blood sprayed.

Jace's eyes widened. He coughed, choking on crimson. His legs gave out. Dravus hoisted him by the throat, his arm still buried inside him.

"And you always fail." said as he smirked while looking in his eyes.

He ripped his arm free...

SHLICK.

Jace collapsed, limp and dying.

TROY blinked awake, dizzy, blood trickling from his head. He tried to move.

He saw Jace's body convulsing.

Troy heard his heartbeat... stop.

BEEP. BEEP. BEEEEEEEEEEEE...

His mentor. His brother. Gone.

@TruValor: "...he's dead. SHADOW IS DEAD?!"

@DeathComet: "This is genocide. Not a battle."

@RisingHope: "NO. No, please no..."

TROY'S POV, FOGGED, DISTORTED, UNTIL,

SILENCE.

Then, rage.

A low growl escaped him, barely human. His bubbles shimmered crimson. His eyes blazed with grief-fueled hatred.

TROY

"You killed him..."

He snapped. And something broke inside.

BOOOOOM!

The sky ruptured as Troy launched into Dravus smashing him through mountains before hurling him into orbit.

SPACE – BLOOD-RED TRAILS

Dravus hurtled through a moon, bones cracking.

Troy followed, punching with such force that space itself warped around each blow.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Dravus tried to swing but Troy caught his fist and ripped his fingers apart with a scream.

He grabbed Dravus's head

"Feel it." Troy said bloodlusted.

..and slammed it through a comet. Then another. Then...

CRAAACK...!

Troy snapped Dravus's arm backward in a grotesque angle.

@BattleNetLive: "HE'S BEATING HIM ACROSS SPACE. THIS IS INSANE!!"

@KillerQueenV: "That's not Troy anymore. That's retribution."

@GutsAndGlory: "I think... Dravus is scared...?"

INT. DRAVUS'S MIND – BRIEF GLIMPSE

He felt it.

FEAR.

The unrelenting, primal violence radiating off Troy the feral grief of a broken soul.

SATURN – THEN PLUTO – THEN DARK SPACE

Dravus tried to flee. Troy propelled faster than light with his bubbles, appearing ahead of him.

Dravus' face twisted, he tried to speak...

CRUNCH!

Troy kicked his jaw off. Literally.

Dravus screamed, gurgling through his throat tissue. Troy bit into his shoulder, ripping out tendons like a rabid beast.

BLACK HOLE RIM – LATER

Dravus, beaten, his organs exposed, floating helpless as Troy dragged him by the hair.

"You took Jace from me." Said with hatred.

He turned to the galaxy, watchers stunned.

"Now they'll see who you really are."

Troy raised Dravus, now barely alive, and drove a final uppercut that shattered stars and flung him into a giant meteor and stood above him.

Troy looked at him then up towards space he raised his hands and conjured a gigantic bubble engulfing millions of meteors and shrank it to the size of a marble and at the tip of his finger as he held his hands as a gun.

And as he aimed the bubble towards Dravus. He looked in Dravus eyes like a wild animal and roared. "Multiversal Bubble Blast!!!!" Then fired the bubble.

The bubble Force flew into Dravus and pushed him away from Troy and then exploded like a supernova leaving nothing but dust.

The force send Troy flying back to earth like a rocket , he crash landed back in the crater causing it to become bigger.

@FinalWitness: "He avenged him. Oh my God... he avenged Shadow."

@BubbleKingFan: "TROY IS HIM. TROY IS THE GOAT. PERIOD."

@FearDravus: "Dravus begged. I saw it. He begged."

@VillainOrHero: "What do we call this Troy now...? That wasn't Bubble Boy..."

@JaceForever: "That was Shadow's revenge."

He stood up and the camera feed cut out.

EARTH – CRATER – MOMENTS LATER

Smoke and ash swirl. Troy's body steams in the center of the crater, unconscious… but rising. He staggers forward, bloodied but alive. Dravus is GONE.

Across the cracked battlefield...

STARMAN bloodied, bruised, his cape in tatters, crawls, trying to lift himself up… only for TROY to grab him by the collar and DRAG him upright.

"You were supposed to be the strongest…" Troy furious spits blood as he speaks.

"But you let him die. Jace is dead. Because of you."

Starman trembles."Troy… son, I..."

"You're nothing but a fake." Said while glaring at his father.

Starman's gold eyes dim. The unshakable symbol of peace… falls to his knees in shame.

"I… I'm sorry. I'm so sorry… I never meant for..."

But Troy doesn't listen. His eyes roll back. His legs give way.

Troy collapses to the ground with a thump.

TROY!

He catches his son before he hits the ground and places him softly on the ground but then...

BEEP. BEEP... faint...

Starman's eyes widen. He hears it. A heartbeat.

"Jace…?" Starman looks at Jace's body.

He turns, JACE'S BODY. Crushed. Bloody. Barely breathing. But… ALIVE.

"Hold on."

With a sonic boom, he rockets into the sky He picks up Jace. He FLIES EAST, across oceans, continents...

KAZAKHSTAN – ICE MOUNTAINS – NIGHT

Buried beneath the frost… a hidden facility hums faintly.

INT. ICE MOUNTAIN LAB

The door is blown open with a burst of frost. STARMAN stumbles in, carrying Jace's body inside. Inside: clutter, wires, frozen panels… and a man in nothing but polar bear boxers and goggles...

DR. VLADIMIR.

"How did you find me here?! I erased all coordinates!" While he looked shocked.

"Save. Him."

He sets JACE down on the table. Blood spreads fast.

"Save him or I swear on the stars I'll..."

But his voice breaks. He slumps into the corner like a broken thing. Eyes wide. Hands shaking. Rocking.

Dr Vladimir softly looks at Jace.

"This boy… he should be dead. He is dead..."

"But he's not. Please..." Said as he rocked in the corner.

The great Starman, Symbol of Peace, Destroyer of Worlds, sits in fetal position, sobbing.

Dr. Vladimir sighs and slaps on a pair of surgical gloves.

"Then let's bring back a shadow."

He flips a switch. Lights flicker. Machines whir to life.