INT. THE POOL – SAME
The bright white light fades as the warped-sounding music gains momentum, until it becomes a rap beat.
EXT. ABSOLUTION ACADEMY SCHOOL – DAY
Richard and the other three boys leap out of the water and onto dry land. Now, they were all teenagers wearing the school uniform for ABSOLUTION ACADEMY: School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.
They stand side by side in unison, as if they were a heroic superteam ready for battle.
A mob of protestors approaches them, holding up anti-witchcraft signs and chanting angrily. The fight was on! A battle for their school and the soul of Menzai Island. A manmade Island off the coast of New York. Was the Island going to be deveoted to mysticism or science? The four child soldiers who gaurd the school would help decide it's fate.
PROTESTORS
Hell no! Witches, GO! Hell no! Witches, GO!
Suddenly the ground trembles. The 4 boys almost lose their footing as a giant shadow stretches across the courtyard.
SETH BYNUM is this super team's fearless leader. He's fearless because he's pretty much out of his mind.
There's an enchanted guitar on his back, and he swings it around and starts playing it.
SETH
Head up! A big bad vibe this way comes!
The heavy stomping grows louder until a shiny, all-white, mecha robot stomps into view, towering over the protestors like divine judgment.
Inside the cockpit, teenage mech pilot, ADAM KIRAGE, grins like a televangelist with a missile launcher.
His voice booms through the loudspeaker in the cockpit of the metal beast.
ADAM
That's RIGHT! Tell these witches to hit the bricks! Menzai Island is my family's property, and we created it for real supernatural studies! Under a good, God-fearing, paranormal technologies firm called SOMNIX INCORPORATED!
ADAM
We put SCIENCE over SHRUNKEN HEADS! Join the winning team, LOSERS! All that witchcraft malarky died at the hands of science once and it will die at the hands of science again!
Seth continues playing his guitar.
SETH
Bro loves to hear the sound of his own voice, don't he?
EDDIE BON MOON, known as "The Genius," has dreadlocks cascading from beneath aviator goggles.
He dances to the rhythm of the protesters' chants.
Subtitles appear on the screen whenever Eddie speaks Japanese.
(The subtitles don't always match what Eddie is saying exactly; they match more "the spirit" of his words)
EDDIE
Sore o eru, Kurisuchan! Sore o eru!
(SUBTITLES: Get it, Christians! Get it!)