MUTANT: Embers of Dawn EPISODE 3: “WANTED”

Ohhh we’re really cranking up the tension now 😤🔥 This episode will feel like a turning point — where Ren and Aya stop being just street survivors and start becoming threats to the world order.

🌆 MUTANT: Embers of Dawn

✴ EPISODE 3: “WANTED”

🧾 SCENE 1: JAMS Headquarters – “The Labyrinth”

JAMS — Japan Anti-Mutant Security — a powerful post-war agency formed to control or eliminate dangerous mutants.

Inside a cold, grey command room, a wall of holographic screens light up.

A scientist with purple hair and silver goggles speaks to the Commander:

Dr. Mizora: “Subject 2-9A and 2-9B. Spotted in Fukuro. Target profiles updated.”

Two posters appear on screen:

📜 WANTED POSTERS

Name: REN (aka “The Ember”)

Power: Unknown flame abilities (awakening in progress)

Status: Evolving – Observe or eliminate

Name: AYA (aka “The Flash-Step”)

Power: Spatial Mutation (Teleportation)

Status: High Risk – Capture alive

JAMS Commander: “Release the hunters. Starting with the Reject Queen.”

🦾 SCENE 2: Rooftop – The Hunter Appears

A tall man stands shirtless on the ledge of a ruined skyscraper. His body is lean, covered in visible metal cables, reinforced joints, synthetic spine, and a glowing eye lens scanning the city.

🦿 NEW CHARACTER:

Name: Shiro Jinn

Codename: “Queen”

Type: Human (Full-body biomechanical upgrade)

Abilities:

Muscle-enhancing hydraulics (super jumps & speed)

Internal sensors to detect nearby bio-energy signatures

Built-in plasma cannon in left palm

Bone-shattering punch power

Shiro (smirking): “Found them.”

He leaps off the rooftop, crashing into a lower building, then starts sprinting, leaping rooftops, closing the gap like a heat-seeking missile.

🍦 SCENE 3: Ren and Aya – Ice Cream Break

Ren and Aya sit on a bench in a relaxed area of town, licking ice cream cones.

Ren: “This vanilla? So basic.”

Aya: “Try that again and I teleport your cone into the trash.”

Ren turns his head and suddenly freezes.

On a public screen nearby, a news bulletin flashes:

“JAMS ALERT: TWO UNREGISTERED MUTANTS IN FUKURO. PUBLIC IS WARNED. DO NOT APPROACH.”

Their WANTED posters appear.

Aya bursts out laughing.

Aya: “They really went with ‘The Ember’? You haven’t even burned anything good yet!”

Ren (laughing): “Why does your picture look cute and mine looks like I stabbed someone?”

💥 SCENE 4: AMBUSH

Suddenly—

BOOM!!

A red-hot plasma bolt pierces the chest of the ice cream vendor, sending the man flying back, blood spraying. His cart explodes.

Ren: “NO!”

They turn to see Shiro Jinn standing in the middle of the street, left arm still steaming.

Shiro: “One mutant down. Two to go.”

🔥 SCENE 5: FULL BATTLE BEGINS

Ren charges first, flames sparking from his fists — but Shiro blocks his punch with a metal arm.

Shiro grabs Ren and throws him into a wall. Aya teleports to his side, helping him up.

Aya: “He’s not mutant. He’s enhanced.”

Ren: “I’m gonna rip his circuits out.”

Aya teleports above Shiro and throws a barrage of metal beams down on him, but he dodges with quick robotic agility. His palm cannon charges again, and he blasts her mid-air — she barely ports out before impact.

Ren gets back up, unleashes his partial Flame Aura. His fists glow red, igniting as he punches the ground and sends a shock of fire at Shiro’s legs.

Shiro jumps mid-blast and crashes through a building.

🌊 SCENE 6: ESCAPE

Aya teleports near him, aiming to grab his shoulder — if she can touch him, she can teleport him into a wall.

But Shiro smirks.

Shiro: “You were close.”

He throws a mini-grenade that explodes into smoke and dives into a river nearby, vanishing beneath the surface.

Aya’s hand misses his shoulder by inches.

Aya: “DAMN IT. Missed him!”

🧊 SCENE 7: AFTERMATH

Ren kneels beside the dead ice cream man, fists clenched.

Ren (quietly): “He didn’t deserve that…”

Aya puts a hand on his back.

Aya: “It’s only just beginning. JAMS just declared war.”

They look up at their own WANTED posters again.

Ren: “Then let’s give ‘em a real reason to fear us.”

🧨 END OF EPISODE 3 — NEXT TIME:

“The Man Who Fights Without Powers” – A mysterious masked mutant offers to train Ren in hand-to-hand combat. But he has one condition: Ren can’t use his flames for 3 days.

Want the next episode breakdown? Or we can jump to a training arc, flashback arc, or even introduce another hunter from JAMS like a mutant sniper or a speedster. What vibe you feeling next?

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