COLD OPEN
EXT. YORKNEW OUTSKIRTS — DEAD INDUSTRIAL DESERT — NIGHT
A wasteland of rusted pylons and half-buried concrete. Wind combs sand through metal skeletons like it's trying to erase the place.
The electrical HUM is the only "music."
Not loud.
Not comforting.
Just… constant.
KILLUA ZOLDYCK (post–Chimera Ant arc; older, sharper around the eyes) walks alone with his hands in his hoodie pockets, casual like a lie.
He doesn't look lost.
He looks like he picked this spot because nobody can watch him do something stupid.
CLOSE ON KILLUA'S EYES — calm surface. Exhausted depth.
It's the look of someone who already survived the worst part
and is still paying interest on it.
KILLUA (V.O.)
Gon's… still Gon.
But not the same.
Killua stops beneath a leaning power pole line — a tired giant with veins exposed.
KILLUA (V.O.)
If I can't fix what happened…
then I can at least be strong enough
to protect him.
Killua scans the horizon.
No people. No cars. No lights.
Nobody to get hurt but him.
He climbs the pole with the ease of a bad habit.
CLOSE ON HANDS — bare fingers bite metal. Tiny sparks pop against skin.
SFX (TINY): tsk— tsk—
Killua finds a live line and — without ceremony — SNAPS it loose with precision.
The wire WHIPS like a snake, furious it got touched.
He wraps the LIVE WIRE around both wrists like ritual bandages.
A beat of stillness.
The wire HISSES. A distant transformer WHINES, thin and unhappy.
SFX (DISTANT): wweeeee—
Killua's mouth twitches into a half-smirk.
KILLUA
(under his breath)
Stupid…?
He doesn't finish. He closes his eyes instead.
He inhales. Exhales.
The air around him shifts like heat shimmer — not visible yet, but wrong in a way the body notices.
Aura rises.
Electricity CRAWLS up his arms. His hair lifts slightly. His hoodie flutters against nothing.
SFX (LOW, CRAWLING): krk—krk—krk—
KILLUA
(whisper)
Godspeed.
The world DROPS A GEAR.
Sound MUTES like someone turned the universe's volume knob down a notch.
Dust hangs in the air like it forgot gravity.
Killua LAUNCHES forward—
SAND EXPLODES behind him in a detonated cloud.
SFX: FWOOOMP!
He accelerates. Faster. Faster.
Footfalls become a stuttered DRUM, then a BLUR, then NOTHING.
SFX (FOOTFALLS): d-d-d-d-d—
(then gone)
The wire around his wrists GLOWS.
For a moment it looks like control.
Then it looks like too much.
A jagged ARC leaps from wire to sky—
—then bends SIDEWAYS like it found a crack in reality and decided to pry it open.
SFX: KRA-KK—!!
Killua's eyes SNAP open mid-sprint.
KILLUA
—What?
ZIP.
A thin seam of light cuts across the air — not a portal, not a technique — more like film being sliced between frames.
SFX (TINY, WRONG): …snk?
Killua vanishes into it like a thought getting interrupted.
SMASH TO BLACK.
Silence.
Then—
TITLE CARD: KILLUA ZOLDYCK VS. SASUKE UCHIHA: SHOCKING ANTIHEROES – ASSASSIN IN THE LAND OF FIRE!