Episode Two: Fury Unleashed
Setting: Queens, New York — October 1987 New Character: Ryan Maocrow, age 16 — mutant with the power of fury
🌪️ Scene 1: The Riot Child
In a crumbling warehouse lit by flickering halogen lights, Gideon hears the chaos before he sees it. Screams. Metal bending. Walls cracking. He finds a boy surrounded by overturned crates and shattered glass—his fists glowing red, eyes burning like coals.
Ryan Maocrow.
A foster kid with a violent past, Ryan was taken by VIREX weeks ago. They tried to suppress his emotions. Tried to bottle his rage. But rage doesn't bottle. It explodes.
Gideon steps forward, cloaked in Phantom mode. Ryan senses him anyway.
"You with them?" Ryan growls. "No," Gideon replies. "I'm with you." 🧪 Scene 2: VIREX's Harvest
Elsewhere, VIREX expands its reach. Children across the city are vanishing—orphans, runaways, anyone who won't be missed. They're being turned into experiments. Some survive. Most don't.
The agency's goal: weaponize emotion. Rage, fear, sorrow—each one a trigger for mutation. Ryan was their prototype. Gideon was their accident.
Now they're both fugitives.
🧙♀️ Scene 3: The Witch of Red Hook
Rumors swirl of a woman in Red Hook harbor. A witch. Not metaphorical—real. Her name is Morvena, and she's ancient. She feeds on emotion, twisting it into illusions and madness. VIREX tried to recruit her. She devoured their agents instead.
Ryan and Gideon track her down, hoping for answers. Instead, they walk into a trap.
Morvena appears as Gideon's mother. As Ryan's abusive foster father. She warps their minds, dredging up pain, guilt, fury. Ryan nearly loses control—his body ignites, the air warps around him.
But Gideon reaches him. Grounds him.
Together, they break the illusion.
⚔️ Scene 4: The Pact
Morvena vanishes into smoke, but not before whispering:
"Eighteen flames. One will burn the world."
Gideon and Ryan escape, shaken but bonded. They're not just survivors. They're brothers now. And they know VIREX won't stop.
The Magnificent 18 are being hunted. But they're also awakening.
Want to meet the next member in Episode Three? Or dive deeper into VIREX's twisted experiments? You call the shots—I'll build the world. 🌌