Shade#233 (S11): Do or die

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CUT TO: RIVER MARKET ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT

EXT. MARRIOTT PARK - NIGHT

SHADE DODGES A COUPLE OF PROJECTILES THAT MODUS THROWS HIS WAY. SHADE THEN GETS A RUNNING START, DIVES ONTO THE GROUND SINKING ONTO IT, THEN SCALES THE GROUND TO GET IN CLOSE AT MODUS. SHADE THEN JUMPS UP TACKLING MODUS INTO THE SIDE OF A BRICK WALL THEN TRIES TO ELBOW MODUS IN THE HEAD. MODUS EVADES THE ATTACK THEN CATCHES A ROCK THAT FALLS DOWN OUT OF THE AIR. MODUS THEN HITS SHADE OVER THE HEAD WITH THE ROCK AND KICKS HIM IN THE STOMACH. SHADE DODGES AS MODUS THROWS THE ROCK AT HIM THEN DOES A COUPLE OF BACKFLIPS TO PUT SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND MODUS. SHADE THEN FEELS HIS HEAD AND SEES THAT HE'S BLEEDING. SHADE THEN LOOKS AT MODUS WHO WAVES BECKONING SHADE TO CONTINUE FIGHTING. SUDDENLY THERE THE SOUND OF POLICE SHOOTING AT SHADE AND MODUS. SHADE DODGES THE BULLETS AND MODUS THROWS SOME ROCKS AT THE COPS. SHADE BEGINS TO SHOOT SANDCLOTS AT MODUS WHO SLOWS THEM DOWN AND EVADES THEM. SHADE THEN SCALES UP TO WHERE THE POLICE ARE AND STAYS A GOOD DISTANCE AWAY FROM THEM.

[Shade]

Would you guys get the hell outta here?

[Police Officer#1]

Sorry, Shade, but we don't take orders from you! Elder wants you and Modus and we've gotta take you in. Just give up.

SHADE SHOOTS A SANDCLOT AT A PROJECTILE THAT NEARLY HITS THE COP THEN GLARES BACK AT MODUS.

[Modus]

What's the matter Shade? If they want to stay I say let 'em, it's been a long time since I've had pork skins anyway.

[Shade]

You are all jackasses!

SHADE CREATES A COUPLE OF SHADOW CLONES THAT CHOKE OUT THE COPS AND PUT THEM BEHIND COVER. SHADE DODGES SOME MORE BRICKS THAT ARE THROWN HIS WAY. SHADE THEN JUMPS DOWN TO WHERE MODUS IS AND  ATTEMPTS TO SHOOT MODUS WITH SOME SANDCLOTS. THEN CREATES A CLONE THAT GRABS HIM SPINS AROUND TWICE AND THROWS HIM OVER MODUS. 

[Modus]

I thought I told you that you didn't have me figured out!

MODUS DODGES THE SANDCLOTS THEN TURNS AROUND TO SEE SHADE LAND ON THE GUARD RAIL NEAR THE RIVER. SHADE THEN JUMPS AT MODUS WHILE CREATING A CLONE UNDER HIMSELF THAT ACTS AS HIS SHADOW. AS MODUS GOES TO SLOW SHADE DOWN THE CLONE JUMPS UP AND PUNCHES MODUS IN THE STOMACH. SHADE UNRESTRICTED THEN PUNCHES MODUS IN THE FACE. MODUS IS THROWN BACK THROUGH THE AIR AND SKIDS ACROSS THE GROUND. SHADE THEN STARTS TO WALK OVER TO MODUS' SEEMINGLY MOTIONLESS BODY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN MODUS THROWS A PIECE OF GLASS UP AT SHADE. SHADE CATCHES THE GLASS SHARD, DROPS IT OVER MODUS' LEG THEN STEPS ON THE GLASS SHARD STICKING IT INTO HIS LEG. MODUS YELLS OUT IN PAIN AND THEN JUMPS UP.

[Modus]

You—!

SHADE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING.

[Modus]

Heh, this is getting more and more interesting!

MODUS TURNS AROUND AND RUNS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION.

[Shade]

Get back here!

SHADE CHASES AFTER MODUS, WHO PICKS UP THINGS ALONG THE WAY AND THROWS THEM AT SHADE. SHADE EVADES THE PROJECTILES THROWN THEN FLASHSTEPS TO WHERE MODUS IS. AS SHADE TRIES TO GRAB MODUS, MODUS SLOWS HIM DOWN, GRABS HIM BY THE ARM, AND THROWS HIM TO THE GROUND THEN KICKS HIM IN THE CHEST.

[Police Officer#3]

There they are!

[Police Officer#4]

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