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Ayden: Rise of the Divine Beings

After the mythical oval, the Heart of Saros detects Ayden 'The Exceptional,' who was hidden among humans as a child by his mother, four divine beings with superhuman abilities from the planet Memnon are ordered to earth by their Lord to execute the vigilante crime fighter.

The planet Memon ruled by Lord Nuru, sits in a faraway galaxy. After witnessing the destruction of the planet's Kryton and Belzar, wiped out because of war, overpopulation, and depletion of natural resources, he implemented a new order, stating that only one in every three women will have the right to bare a child through a lottery system.

Elio, the watcher and historian of Memnon, informs Commander Draven that the mythical oval, The Heart of Saros, has detected a Memnonian born out of the planetarian birth law living on earth. A perplexed Commander Draven was sent to earth twenty-seven ions ago to retrieve Dhara, who fled with her newborn infant son born out of the Memnonian birth law. He followed Dhara, found her hiding in a hospital with her deceased child, and brought both back to Memnon, where Dhara was tried for treason and locked away. He meets with Lord Nuru and briefs him on what has happened. They conclude that she switched the deceased child with an earthling, and her son is alive and thriving. Lord Nuru orders Commander Draven to form a team with his security guard, Thrust, to travel to earth using discretion to find and eliminate the Memnonian because his existence threatens everything he has built. Lord Nuru meets with Dhara and tells her that Commander Draven has formed a team to go to earth and eliminate her son, and upon his return, she will be retried for treason, and this time no leniency will be shown.

Commander Draven recruits two powerful Memonians, Mesha and Vealock, to join himself and Thrust to travel to earth to eliminate the deserter detected in Colossal City, California. They are both skeptical because it is against the bylaws to harm a fellow planetarian. He tells them that the bylaws don't protect traitors and deserters. Elio powers on the ascension portal and sends Commander Draven, Thrust, Mesha, and Vealock to earth. They arrive and take in the unfamiliar territory. As they scour Colossal City, they meet Lefty, a wise-cracking street kid who tells them of a vigilante that has run most of the major crime figures out of town or underground. Lefty helps facilitate a meeting with crime boss Stacks. Stacks and his crew double-cross Commander Draven, and a fight ensues. Commander Draven and his team leave bodies sprawled out in the warehouse. Ayden crashes the party and battles with Commander Draven and his team. Ayden is shocked at the power of the Memnonians. They tell him of his origin and why he is on earth. Ayden eludes their capture after police intervene.

After the bodies of criminals pile up, Detective Jamison, who had a previous run-in with Ayden, tells his superiors that he might be a super soldier or alien being because of the speed he saw him move. He is almost fired because of the ludicrous statement. His captain tells him to back off and that a special team of black ops has been formed to kill Ayden. Doctor Samuel Emerson meets with Stacks at the hospital and discovers that four powerful individuals have come in search of Ayden. Samuel concludes they must be divine to defeat a being as powerful as Ayden. Ayden is distraught hearing that he was born on Memon and abandoned on earth by his birth mother. Commander Draven devises a plan to capture Ayden using the humans he protects.

Samuel meets with Lefty, and he tells him of the beings he has befriended. Samuel meets with Commander Draven and his team. Commander Draven scans Samuel's body and sees that he has been encoded with Memnonian DNA. He questions why and Samuel explains that he always knew powerful beings existed. They spare Samuel's life in exchange for helping capture Ayden. Nina, a close friend of Ayden, is kidnapped by the black ops hired by Samuel.

Samuel tracks down Ayden and informs him he knows of the four divine beings from another galaxy searching for him and that they have Nina. An angry Aydens threatens Samuel for her whereabouts. Samuel gives him a location of her possible whereabouts and tells him if he can elude the web of black ops at the national Train Yard, it will lead him to her exact location.

Ayden arrives at the National Train Yard and goes to war with the highly trained black ops sitting and waiting. He kills them all and finds the note of Nina's location. Ayden arrives at the abandoned mental hospital where the four divine beings await him. He cautiously makes his way through the maze of halls in search of Nina. Relief comes over him as he finds her alive and well. The divine beings step out of the shadows and battle with Ayden. Seeing Nina's life in danger, Ayden drops his weapon but requests Nina's freedom and a visit to Memnon to visit his birth mother, Dhara, before meeting his fate. A sympathetic Commander Draven, tosses his weapon to the floor. Thrust tells him that he is disappointed that he disobeyed a direct order from their Lord and is relieved of command. Thurst fatally stabs Vealock, injects himself with a vail of stemtrosite, and transforms into a hulking monstrosity. Commander Draven asks Ayden to stand with him and Mesha against Thrust, and he will honor his request to stand before the council and see his birth mother, Dhara. They battle with Thrust and defeat him after a bloody battle. Commander Draven tells Ayden that he will return for him when it is safe for him to travel to Memnon. Commander Draven and Mesha return to Memnon and get arrested for conspiring to overthrow the ruling body.

Script Excerpt
Written by:
Format:
Screenplay
Budget:
Mid
Starring Roles For:
Stephan James
Michael Jai White
Taraji P. Henson
In the Vein Of:
Unbreakable
Blade
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Posted:
03/08/2023
Updated:
02/16/2024
Author Bio:
My name is Arthur Demetrius Glenn, and I am a screenwriter/producer/director currently living in the Washington, DC, metro area. I have written twelve screenplays and one half-hour sitcom, with eleven finishing Honorable Mention to Finals of screenwriting competitions. I plan to shoot my first feature film in the Washington, DC, metro area in the late fall of 2023 or early spring of 2024.

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