[Cheryl Cain]

Cheryl’s Hero Mission Track:

MISSION TRACK:

What is it about this Hero that will have them go straight into the face of overwhelming odds?

Mercury has an amazing self-survival mechanism and will attack anyone who attacks her and has the skillset to win.

What is the mission that would be an impossible goal?

Stay alive while keeping an inept scientist alive in a jungle that wants to kill them with many bad guys on their tail as they search for a way off the island.

What strong internal and external motivation could drive the hero?

Internal: She needs to redeem herself from a previous kill and saving the scientists life can help her do that.

External: She needs to keep him alive to keep herself alive.

Imagine that mission playing out across the story. What could naturally happen if this hero went on this mission against this villain?

Trying to keep it hidden that she’s infected with nanobots, then after destroying lab when they decided to kill him, escaping with inept scientist to the dangerous jungle as bad guys are pursuing them, having to break back into the compound as bad guys getting closer to find some way off the island before one or both are killed.

MISSION STEPS:

Clear Mission: To escape this island before the scientist is killed and therefore killing her.

Motivation: She’s been ignoring the pain of assassinating a good man in front of his daughter and needs to redeem herself by saving this inept scientist and also saving herself.

Inciting Incident: She’s ordered by the villain to torture the scientist to get him to do what she wants and to save himself he injects her and himself with the nanobots that link them.

First Action: After the scientist blows up the villains lab and they realize the only surviving nanobots are inside Mercury and the scientist, the villain orders them killed to harvest the bots so Mercury escapes with him into the jungle.

Obstacle: The scientist has botanophobia – fear of plants that causes him to freak out, which because she’s linked with him, freaks her out. So she has to knock him out even as they’re being chased.

Escalation: They’re attacked by a group of killers and whenever she gets hit, he feels it and vice versa which is impeding her ability to fight. And once the killers figure that out, they attack him even more.

Overwhelming Odds: Ember has offered any of the terrorists who’ve come to big on the nanobots auction twenty percent off if they bring in Mercury and the scientist so there’s even more bad guys on their tail.

New Plan: After almost getting eaten by a saltwater crocodile, Mercury knows they’re not going to make it so they need to get off this island and the only way off is to steal the helicopter back at the compound.

Full out Attack: But after the helicopter gets blown up, they know only have one boat left to get off the island but they have to make it through five teams of hit men without being slowed down by their link.

Success: They make it to the boat and sink the rest along the way. As they’re making it away, the nanobots finally degrade in their systems and they’re no longer linked.

[Cheryl Cain]

Cheryl’s Hero & Villain:

Concept: An assassin for hire must save the life of the scientist she’s supposed to kill after he infects her with nanobots that he shares – so if he dies, she dies.

Hero Morally
Right: Mercury must save the life of
the scientist, if she wants to save her own life.

Villain Morally
Wrong: Ember Fortin doesn’t care
who lives or dies in the world as long as she gets her paycheck.

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A. Unique Skill
Set: Hand-to-hand combat, martial arts, sniper.

B. Motivation: To
keep the scientist alive so she can stay alive.

C. Secret or
Wound: She thought she was doing
good for her country until she realized not all of the bad guys she was
assassinating were bad and she got out after she killed an innocent man in
front of his young daughter.

Villain: Ember Fortin – Billionaire biotech owner who sells illegal tech to the highest bidder.

A. Unbeatable: Has
killers at her disposal on her private island in the South Pacific where
her secret lab is located. The compound is surrounded by saltwater crocodiles.
No one gets in or out without her approval.

B. Plan/Goal: To kill the scientist and harvest the
only remaining nanobots from his experiments and sell them.

C. What they
lose if Hero survives: She’ll lose
billions of dollars and her life to the bigger, baddest terrorist she
promised to sell the tech to.

Impossible Mission: Mercury and the scientist needs to survive the jungle and find a way to get off this island before they’re killed.

A. Puts Hero in
Action: Mercury escapes into the dangerous
jungle with the scientist with the other killers in pursuit. They have to
stay alive long enough to figure out how to get off this island.

B. Demands They
Go Beyond Their Best: Someone who’s
trained to be a killer now has to switch her thinking to how does she keep
someone alive.

C. Destroy the
Villain: After barely keeping them
both alive, she needs to sneak them back inside the compound to steal a boat
to get off the island

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[Cheryl Cain]

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Cheryl’s Concept & Conventions:

This is a brand new idea because when I looked at my other story options, I realized they were more comedies with some action, so this should be interesting, brainstorming as I go. 🙂

Concept: A bodyguard who needs to redeem herself, is injected with nanobots that connect to her client’s nanobots and if she dies, he dies.

Hero: A female bodyguard, ex-military, who unintentionally led her team into an ambush where everyone died except her and now she’s got a death wish in how she protects her clients.

Demand for Action: After blowing up the lab, the only technology on the nanobots is in their bodies, so they need to keep away from the bad guys until the nanobots degrade in their systems and can’t be harvested.

Mission: Keep the nanobot technology away from the bad guys.

Antagonist: The Board of Directors on the company who will do anything to save the billion-dollar technology that this scientist has created, not caring who buys their technology and what it is used for.

Escalating
Action: With unlimited resources, the board
continues to send contract killer after contract killer after them, since they realized they don’t need them alive to harvest the nanobots.

[Cheryl Cain]

Hi, I’m Cheryl. Nice to meet all of you. I’ve written several screenplays but have realized this past year that I needed to up my game and my skills if I ever want to sell one. So I’ve been taking a ton of classes. I’m hoping this class will not only help my action skills but also help me be a better narrative writer on the page. My new obsession is Korean dramas. Super fun and some great writing.