1 Manila Noir
Manila is agitated and excited as the clock nears 10PM. People are inside their home watching the news and expecting the vigilante to strike at another criminal.
The news station and their scouts are constantly patrolling the streets as anticipate another terrorist attack or so they say. The first scoop gets the biggest views.
Criminals are restless from their home as they constantly checks on their windows from the boogeyman's glare.
The cops are on the prowl having their finger on the trigger at all time for anyone who wears black leather suits.
Down on a street, a glorious mansion sits quietly with the Politician drinks merrily without a care in the world.
Politician
This "hero" wants to be one? Let him. I don't give a fuck if goes here. My men will shot him down and ill feed his corpse to the dog. In fact, I can be the HERO in this scenario. Boys, kill any suspicious person in the vicinity. Are we clear?
Men in the mansion roar and raise their weapon in unison. Outside, the dogs continuously roams the ground as the camera pans the area around.
As the clock ticks to 10PM, the clock rang as it gave the silent mansion its first noise of the night.
A security sees one of the dogs asleep on the corner in the garden. He approaches it and didn't think it as a big deal. As he approaches the sleeping dog, a pair of arms pulled him into the bushes near the sleeping dog. Crack can be heard from the breaking of the security's neck.
Then a figure emerges from the bushes. The vigilante has arrived.
The vigilante wears overall black leather armor like what is being used by the military. The vigilante's face is covered what looks like a black gas mask with metal contraptions where his eyes would be with reinforced mirror that can deflect bullets.
The vigilante then opens his phone. He taps into it and selecting an option to "PARTY". As he taps every camera within the mansion turned off. He runs toward the mansion.
The dogs are nowhere to be found as all of the dogs are sleeping. Drug as if the vigilante gave them sleeping drug on their food.
The security on a patrol then notice the dogs are all sleeping and one of them decides to alert their chief. The chief notifies the all of the security to stay alert as something seems off.
In the camera room of the mansion, they noticed every camera in the room glitches for a second. Then as they check one of the cameras, they saw one camera by the pool the vigilante standing behind the tree and messing with their electric power switches.
Camera Guard
The vigilante is spotted on our electrical box; there should be a security team there the vigilante but us there. Security hurry!
Security responds with armed men checking the area. They arrived and saw nothing, no vigilante but only bloodied bodies of their comrades. Their comms lit up yelling from the security team on the first floor calling for back up, the vigilante has entered the mansion and they began shooting
The camera guard is confused as the camera on the first floor of the mansion shows no vigilante.
As the security approach the electric box for inspection they explode into pieces! The explosion takes out the electric box with it and causing the whole building to go dark. The camera room is running on backup power; despite the power outage they can still see their camera.
That was felt and even the street nears it definitely heard it.
The Politician heard it from his room. He seems rattled but he shakes it off. A minor setback he thinks.
Camera Guard
Attention, we heard the explosion near the electric box but our camera still shows the vigilante near it. Our camera is hacked. This is a loop. Use the comms!
Chief of Security
You heard the man! Use comms at all time. I'll stay here with the Politician. We get paid to do this so you boys crush this fucker up. No lights so use your body flashlights!
The vigilante was shooting his way into the building with his .45 magnum when he notice the number he is facing is large than he anticipates.
He found his way in the middle of the first floor. Behind him are the guards from the gate running into the door of the mansion. Infront of him are the security team and sees another batch running from the stairs.
Under the cover of darkness, the vigilante then hides into the shadow and turned on his night vision.
The vigilante runs behind pillars that support the mansion. As he takes cover, he takes a knee and assembles a grenade launcher from his pouches. The vigilante taps on his phone and plays Infinite Ammo - Le Castle Vania. As the song blazes in his ears he taps another program from his phone. Then a loud stinging sound vibrates from all of the comms on the ears of the security at max volume.
All of the security are stunned from the loud noise, the vigilante runs from his pillar and starts blasting with his grenade launcher. His shots the hit the men on the first floor and turned them into minced meat. The next shot lands on the men from the stairs and turned into red mist. The third shot goes to the men from the gate, as they are still stunned from the sound in their ears, the vigilante shot overhead and hits the entrance of the mansion. The rubble crushed them like bugs.
The vigilante proceeds to waste the other security as they are wildly shooting at him while distracted by the noises in their ear. Sadly, none of them survived and the only shot that the vigilante got is caught by his Kevlar vest.
The vigilante then proceeds to the second floor. He peeks around the corner and saw another wave of security recovering from the noise he made. He notices the security removed all of their comms and are now using their flashlight and bodies lights to illuminate the darkness.
Then vigilante pull outs his phone and configures something into it.
Back at the camera room, the monitors flashes and shows the first floor now bloodied and drenched.
The camera guard gags as he tries to keep himself composed. Then he sees the entire monitor shows the vigilante in different positions. The camera guard felt useless since all of the cameras are down, and then he thinks to himself.
Camera Guard
I need to be useful. Our men our dying, no useless of fighting the vigilante, we need the cops.
The camera guard calls the police and asked them to bring heavy weapons as the vigilante is killing everyone in the mansion.
The vigilante readies himself; he then threw smoke grenades around the corner. As the smoke fills the area, he calmly walks into the smoke. The security on this floor got their own gas masks and wore it as it fills the room. They heard walking and they started to open fire into the smoke. Panic, distress and fear sets. This vigilante will take no prisoners alive and this is their chance to kill it before it kills them.
They unloaded all of their ammo into the air and they stop as they heard a thud, like a body hitting the floor.
The security teams walks into the darkness and smoke, as the approach slowly into the sound the smoke clears and see a, torso of a man with torn limbs. Then it exploded and makes a quick work of them.
They didn't take account the vigilante was just fooling around with his calm demeanor. The security is scared shitless as they heard this vigilante kills already 2 big politicians with their own private militia and even killed an ex-president just to show his some hot shit.
As the dust settles in the second floor, on the end the hallway a door open and the vigilante sees the camera guard with the phone in his hand and a gun on the other.
Camera Guard
YOU! You will get it now! I called the police and they will be here any moment!
The camera guard then proceeds to tell to the vigilante to run or the police and SWAT will kill him. The vigilante will not have none of it and shot him with the last of the grenade launcher ammo, catching the camera guard off guard as he dies with the grenade shot into his mouth.
As the vigilante runs to the third floor he was shot in the head with a gun. He stumbles down back to the second floor. As he is rolling, the Chief of Security keeps shooting at the head of the vigilante.
Good thing his mask his metallic and the mirror of the gas mas is bullet proof but the vigilante sees crack appearing.
The Chief of Security keeps firing until the last bullet then he throws the gun into the face of the vigilante and proceeds to unsheathe his combat knife from his side pocket and slashes furiously to the vigilante.
The vigilante was distracted by gun thrown at his face and dodges the last few slashes but the first one got his arm.
Chief of Security
Huh, so you do bleed. I thought I was fighting a terminator back there. Well, now I know you can send you to your god when you die.
The chief then proceeds to lunge at the vigilante with all his might but manages to dodge at the last minute. The chief was much larger and imposing compare to the vigilante. The vigilante might be muscular but this man was a fast brute.
As the vigilante got himself a good distance from the chief, he proceeds to get his phone and proceed to extend his arm into the chief as if he was taking a picture.
Chief of Security
Do you have some death wish, punk? Taking a picture of me before your death? Are you a fucking joke? I fought many battle overseas and I won't be disrespected by a punk like you.
As the chief prepares to lunge at the vigilante once more, he felt a heat from his phone on his leg pocket then explodes and he trips.
The vigilante didn't pose to take a picture, he extends his arm to transfer some malware to the chief's phone and make it overload, heat it up and explode in the process.
The vigilante then walks toward the combat knife and proceeds to stab him the back of his head.
As he climbs the stairs again he hears choppers and police cars arriving at the entrance. The vigilante peaks on window and sees SWAT team preparing their assault as police barricades the vicinity.
TV new helicopters in the air then lights the mansion. The light gives the illumination to the windows and just enough for them to see the vigilante.
The vigilante then enters the room. Inside he sees the Politician is there gripping his handgun. Shaking in fear and trembling badly in his dark office. The vigilante knows from the stance of the Politician and the way he is shaking, wont him from that distance.
Politician
What do you want? You trash my place, killed my men and even killed other politicians for what? Fame that you're killing the corrupt politicians? I'll let you know that I never did such heinous acts. I am a clean public servant.
Vigilante
Honestly, I'm here for money. You see what I did out there? You can see that I can hack any cellphone and devices out there. My experience on the battlefield also gave me an advantage on war.
The politician looked confused as if he is still living in a nightmare. The vigilante speaks in broken chopped up auto text to speech voice.
Vigilante
Think of this as protection money. I will not kill you as long as you pay me. Let's say, 1 Million USD work for me. What say you? Give me the money and I will not kill you, I will even protect you from other assassin's out there.
The politician stops sweating. He lowers his gun and then he sits on his chair.
Politician
How would I know if you are not fooling me? Give me a reason why I should trust the man who killed my men and trashed my house.
Vigilante
I can kill you easy as I entered the room but I didn't. I need money Mr Politician. And since you are irritating me, Make it 1 Millions USD. . . IN CASH. Give it to me now, or we are getting a bit messy here.
The politician scrambles as he begged for his life. He then opens a vault near him and inside money... lots of money.
Politician
Here are is the money! That's all I got from the tax payers money. . it's roughly 1 Millions USD. That the leftover from the "help the poor" projects, build a home and feeding program we did from the last typhoon. TAKE IT ALL AND SPARE ME!
The vigilante stood in silence and proceeds to walk outside of the office. He taps his phone and the TV within the office opened. The politician sees the news and in it the TV reporter in front his mansions is reporting live.
The crowd near the TV reporter is overpowering the TV reporter from their booing and shouting: "KILL HIM!", "Hang the thief!", "He stole from us! Vigilante kill the politician for us!"
The politician looks at the vigilante and ask what did he do, how did they know they were just talking right. The vigilante laughs and taps his phone.
Vigilante
For a politician, you aren't smart. I just said I can hack any cellphone and device. I tapped into your phone and scatter all of your emails, text, and video about your corruption to the internet. Oh and this conversation recorded and being sent directly to the chief of PNP for proof of your crimes.
Then the vigilante runs outside the room. The Politician is stunned. He felt regret and fear. He knows he can won't escape this one. No amount of money and connection will get him off hook from all of the information leaked. He gets his gun and shot himself in the mouth and his brains colored the stolen money red.
As the police enter the scene, no vigilante is found. They thought it was impossible for him to escape since they got the area locked down. The police are at a buzz again as they are puzzled how the vigilante escape their grasp.
By the following the morning, the people of Manila celebrates the death of another thief.
