Second Chance

We open up on Adhara Bonnet, a tough-as-nails Marine Sergeant, as she holds her own in an arena fight. As she leaves the arena victorious, she is greeted by a brawny, violent man, Gunnery Sergeant McKinney. He informs Adhara that she is being assigned the first marine in her squad. Adhara goes to meet the new blood, Jared Carter, at the barracks. She shows him the Cryner Chamber, where futuristic weapons, repairs, and 8-foot tall killing machine robots are held. As the two become acquainted, we learn Adhara’s father was a Gunnery Sergeant but was killed mysteriously. McKinney assigns new blood a covert mission to test their skills, giving Adhara access to her full squad. We meet Johnson – a massive, intimidating guy with a scar across his face – and Draxler - a skinny, brainy outsider type. The squad begins their mission and is taken to a warehouse to retrieve items. However, as Adhara tries to locate a missing girl in the warehouse, we learn that McKinney has designed the mission as a trap, and he tries to kill Adhara, shooting her down. However, Jared walks in on the action and seemingly takes out McKinney in retaliation. We cut to a hospital room, where a groggy Adhara wakes up to Jared watching over her. We lear father originally wanted to use the robots, and mech suits to help humans colonize space. Adhara begins to learn how to use mech suits and meets the rest of the team Jared’s put together. The team begins to raid warehouses where robots are stored to try and uncover McKinney. We cut to McKinney as he is grilled by one of his superiors, Sergeant Donaldson. He makes it known that he is becoming suspicious of McKinney, and that he expects the newly rogue group taking out robot warehouses to be dealt with. McKinney begins to plan how to strike back at Adhara’s unit. Adhara and the squad go to take down another warehouse and discover it abandoned. While suspicious of ulterior motives, they take a chance and take all of the robot gear to their base. Back at their base, the group celebrates. Adhara and Jared go off on their own, and Adhara thanks Jared for saving her life. We learn more about their backgrounds and discover that McKinney was a sort of father figure to Adhara before he betrayed her. The two begin a romantic affair, and make love, possibly losing their virginities to one another by the looks of how passionate the lovemaking is. Meanwhile, McKinney decides to make an attack on American soil to bait Adhara. McKinney’s squad of robots begins attacking monuments in DC but avoids actually hurting anyone. Adhara and the unit show up to de-escalate the situation, but Jackson’s identity is discovered, and his photograph taken by one of McKinney’s spies during the conflict. McKinney overdubs a threat to the UN and the US over the footage of Johnson, and formulates a plan to spread the footage to media outlets, and label the unit as having connections to a multinational terrorist group. Knowing they need to respond before the media is keyed in on their identities, Adhara’s unit decide to strike another monument in hopes of drawing out McKinney himself. Meanwhile, Draxler works on a program that has the capabilities of potentially taking control of McKinney’s robot units. Adhara’s unit arrives at Times Square and begins destroying property, being careful to avoid any civilian injuries. McKinney brings a unit of Marines to respond to the attack, and a massive conflict ensues. In the chaos, Johnson is tragically killed. However, Adhara’s units begin to take the lead, and Adhara takes the chance to face McKinney one on one. They fight with all of their might, and McKinney ends up in a prone state where Adhara has the chance to kill him. McKinney taunts Adhara that she will change if she kills him, but Adhara simply lets Jared take out McKinney, knowing that she would regret pulling the trigger herself. With the chaos died down, the remaining units and soldiers begin cleaning up the streets and helping the wounded. Donaldson meets with Adhara and Jared, thanking them for exposing McKinney, and helping to potentially save the world from his diabolical plans. Donaldson tells Adhara about her father and gives her a non-combat job in research and prevention so she can work on helping her father’s dreams of a better future a reality. Donaldson salutes Adhara and Jared and leaves the room. As soon as they are alone, Adhara and Jared celebrate their victory with a deep, passionate kiss.