Part Three - Undaunted Part Three

DATE AND PLACE UNKNOWN

A dark room, like a holding cell. Trevor is sitting, in a corner, tied up in ropes. His hair is messed up. There are bags and bruises under his eyes. A spotlight is focused on Trevor.

The Voice - "You have a power. Escape."

Trevor laughs gleefully, a step below the Joker. He looks worse, beyond tired.

Trevor - "Mogwai in the wall. Can't get me when I'm in the light. Want to eat me after midnight…"

[Gremlins]

The Voice - "You don't belong here."

Trevor - "Are you a butterfly? Or am I the butterfly?"

[Chuang-tzu]

The Voice - "They don't understand you."

Trevor - "Don't feed the jellyfish, there's a sign."

[Spongebob Squarepants]

Figure #1 - "He's not responding."

Figure #2 - "Heart rate. Blood pressure. Neurokinetics. All off the charts. The stress on his brain is destroying his body."

[Teen Titans, Season Three, "Haunted"]

Figure #1 - "Then he'll die."

Figure #2 - "Dammit."

[Red Herring]

Trevor - "One eye sees the past. Second sees the present. The third sees the future. Balance and unity to see all."

[Maharishi and the Sixth Primary Chakra, Hinduism]

The Voice - "Yes, that's it. Remember."

JUNE 8, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

James and Trevor appear in front of a sign - The Garden of the Gods.

[9th Wonders Board, Heroes Survival Game, Factions, Undaunted]

James - "Go straight to the end."

Trevor - "Couldn't you just take me there?"

James - "No, he prefers you to come on your own. There's the path, you must travel it."

Trevor - "That's so terrible, it doesn't even qualify as a cliché."

Trevor walks off. James nods in agreement. He teleports away. Trevor looks up and sees a yellow ethereal sky and walks. And walks.

Trevor comes to a field. He stops. Seal is on the other side. Trevor walks forward to up to him.

Seal - "You must be Trevor."

Seal holds out his hand to Trevor. To shake Trevor's hand or to read Trevor?

Trevor - "When was the last time you washed your hands?"

Seal - "Of course."

Trevor - "Based on this hideout, you're not an eccentric billionaire, are you?"

[Batman]

Seal - "She didn't say you were a comedian."

Trevor - "What did she say?"

Seal - "Not much."

Trevor - "She told me I should join your clubhouse. I'm late to the game but I'm a fast learner."

[Self-reference. Joined Heroes Survival Game in August 22, 2009]

Seal - "Yes, so I've heard. Enhanced Memory. That's a cool one to have."

Trevor - "Not really. I'd have picked teleportation. Cuts down on travel expenses."

[Self-reference. What power I would choose in a hypothetical situation]

Seal smiles.

Seal - "It's okay if you don't want me to read you. Since Ellen vouches for you, I'll let you join Undaunted. We don't have very much rules but when you do get a message, be sure to answer it. It could come every three hours, more than four hours apart, or randomly beyond our best prediction."

[Heroes Survival Game, New Messages]

Trevor - "I'm not much of a morning person."

[Heroes Survival Game, New Messages]

Seal - "I want you to meet the others but we'll have to wait until James comes back in a couple hours."

Trevor - "So you got a TV in those bushes? No? Monopoly?"

[Monopoly board game]

Seal is caught off guard. Trevor knows this from reading his file. Seal tries to change the subject to get a read on him.

Seal - "What'd you think of the sky?"

Trevor - "It's like a child grabbed a marker and tried their best to color in the lines."

Seal - "…I never got that answer before."

Trevor - "I've got a lobe dedicated to witty quips and one liners."

Points to his head.

Seal - "I think it's stardust."

Trevor turns.

Trevor - "What?"

DATE UNKNOWN

Trevor, tied up, is leaning on a wall like a ragdoll. The light is still focused on him. The rest of the room remains dark. The two figures are standing around him.

Figure #1 - "Are you ready to tell us anything?"

Trevor looks like hell.

The Voice - "Tell them to let you go."

Trevor - "Why are you still here?"

The Voice - "You came to me."

[The only clue to who the voice belongs to. Volume One "Seven Minutes to Midnight]

Trevor's head drops then rises back up. The figures are covered in stars.

Trevor - "I need help."

The Voice - "You need to help yourself."

Trevor closes his eyes and concentrates. The point of view shifts to Trevor's. At first there is nothing but black. Then the room and people are flowing with zeroes and ones, and then a white flash engulfs the room.

[The Matrix]

Close up to lower half of Trevor's face from the side view.

Trevor - "Thank you."

From off panel. White light oozing into the black and reveals glimmers of reality.

Figure #1 - "You're welcome."

Pan out. Trevor is in a white, padded room. The chief psychiatrist and an orderly surround him. Trevor is bound in a straitjacket.

Exterior: Bellevue Hospital Center - 462 1st Avenue, New York, New York, 10016

Trevor - "How long have I been here?"

Chief Psychiatrist - "Two years. It's 2004, now."

UNDAUNTED PART THREE: BOUND - in Heroes title font -

LATE SUMMER 2007

COSTA VERDE, CALIFORNIA

[Takes place within iStory Book Six, Chapter Five "Yesterday's Angels"]

Trevor is running down the sidewalk.

Trevor - It was just an illusion. Callum. Double agent. Must have been the accent that threw me. Classic. Too indirect of a strategy to be Thompson. One of the other factions? Mills was right. I have to handle this efficiently. I say this wrong, and fear spreads like wildfire between the factions. Alliances. Lines drawn. War.

Someone is following him. Trevor knows this. He stops at a corner, pulls out his cell phone, and starts a fake conversation. He laughs like the other person told a joke.

The figure pauses and looks around quickly. He hasn't done this before. Easy prey for Trevor. He looks up and Trevor is gone. The figure runs to the corner and frantically searches for any sign of Trevor.

Trevor jumps out at him. And with pinpoint accuracy, Trevor attacks him at memorized areas, each hit within a second of each other: He connects with a punch to the gut, a crushing left to the face, kicks down on his right knee, the man cringes and drops down, then Trevor connects with a drop kick to his jawbone. The man lays unconscious. Trevor looks at him but doesn't bother searching him. He was just another distraction.

Trevor lets out a steady breath. He turns to the street.

Trevor - "Taxi!"

TO BE CONTINUED - in Heroes font

NEXT: UNDAUNTED PART FOUR: OFFER

Trevor Tanaka parts ways with The Rebellion when Eric Thompson Jr. is nowhere to be found. He decides to make a visit to his past life before reporting back to Undaunted. However, something wicked this way comes…straight for Trevor! Coming Soon!