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RISE OF THE GENETIKONS

RISE OF THE GENETIKONS
By Don Coulson

GENRE: Romance, Sports, War, Horror, Historical, Crime, Experimental
LOGLINE:

A rich, hedonistic, NFL all-star falls in love with a Romanian blonde goddess, with a dark secret, as they party in the French Quarter of New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina.

SYNOPSIS:

As the wrath of Hurricane Katrina devastates the city of New Orleans on August 29th of 2005, a top secret military project is freed from an old tomb house at St. Louis No. 1 cemetery. The armed guard stationed at the gate of the tomb has left the cemetery for the safety of his own life as the storm rages. Minutes later an old, metal trash barrel, driven by the hurricane force winds, ricochets off a headstone and smashes into the door of the secret project tomb house, ripping the door from the hinges. Three human figures emerge from the tomb in the absence of any human being and seek shelter over the cemetery wall in the Iberville housing project next door to the cemetery.

Theses genetically altered humans, named by the German soldiers of World War II, Genetikons, are known as Sonja, her lover, Nicholas, and their lover and childhood companion, Andrea. They are now free after years of torture and captivity. Invigorated by the raging wind and radical weather they are very, very hungry. They break through the window of one of the buildings to seek shelter from the storm. Once inside, they smell the scent of a living human on the second floor who has stayed behind to weather the storm. Old Curtis, hears strange noises down the hallway as he leaves his apartment to see what's going on. "Who is that, is anybody out there?" asks Curtis as he becomes fearful of intruders. Strange, high pitch laughing with a mixed growling sound is heard by Curtis as he shakes his wooden baseball bat, Betsy, in the air and says defiantly, "You come on out now. I ain't afraid o' your punk ass," as Curtis shakes from fear. Instantly the three vampires, morphed into kill mode from their human form, attack Curtis and begin devouring his body. He screams and swings Betsy in defense, but to no avail. The ravenous, flesh eating genetikons, sink their sharp teeth deep into the succulent flesh of his back, arms and thigh muscles as they rip large chunks of blood filled flesh from his body. His screams can be heard by no one as the raging wind and debris beat against the building and windows where Curtis lays dying on the concrete floor of the dark empty hallway.

Nicholas, the alpha male, is a handsome man at six foot two and a sturdy two-hundred pounds with green eyes and spiked white hair. Sonya, his lover since childhood, is an artistic woman with long red hair which contains unusual streaks of white hair winding through the mix. She is very attractive at five foot eight and one-hundred-twenty pounds of voluptuous beauty. She has a dramatic and some what theatrical nature with a wicked, and keenly dark sense of humor as a human. Andrea, looks like she could be, Nicholas', sister with her white spiked hair as well. She has a centerfold type body supported by a six foot frame and one-hundred-forty pounds of sculptured muscle and attitude. She is the daughter of a brilliant Romanian scholar, engineer and scientist with an intelligence level of 145+ and a temper to match, when threatened.

Thrust into the French Quarter night life after years of persecution at the hands of the Nazi war machine and the American military, special sciences division after the war, these three, genetically altered, human vampires must make their way in the world of day to day humans, of which, they know very little. One thing they do know, is the extent of their powers, strength, acute senses, and desire to live free of persecution by an ever present military who would use them as weapons in the never ending war machine. These three share a bond of allegiance to one another that surpasses the understanding of most humans. Whether they love, laugh or hunt together to survive, it is them against the world.

While enjoying their freedom, Stoli vodka as they party like rock stars in the French Quarter one night, Andrea, becomes the subject of lust of a well known local celebrity, NFL all-star and wild-man, Bubba Bordelon. Bubba is a creole boy who made it in the NFL as a one man wrecking crew playing defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons. He played college ball as a two time, all American at LSU up the road a bit at Baton Rouge. He is extremely handsome with his boyish looks and smile and a six-foot-five-body that supports two-hundred-seventy-five pounds of hard muscle and bone. Bubba is rich, funny and usually gets whatever he wants and right now he wants, Andrea. Andrea has a fondness for Harley Davidson motorcycles. She notices Bubba is wearing his black riding leathers and his Harley head-band as he stares at her like a deer in the headlights. Never shy, she has no reason to be, she walks over to Bubba to introduce herself. After a plethora of mutual flirting Bubba convinces, Andrea, to take a ride with him on his big Harley through the French Quarter and she agrees, the romance is on.

In the beginning, this series follows Andrea, Nicholas and Sonja from the time they are born in a rural valley outside of Sighisoara, Romania, birth place of the house of Dracul and Vlad the impaler, through their journeys as young vampire children under the protection of Andreas' scientist father, through World War II and their capture by the Nazis' to their internment by the American military as potential weapons of war through their escape during Hurricane Katrina into the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Later, lead male character, Bubba Bordelon, befriends the genetikons, becomes business partners with Nicholas in the shrimp and ice-house wholesale business. He also becomes the lover of, Andrea, in a torrid and sensuous love affair as she becomes a very popular cock-tail server and later, an international marketing icon for Harley Davidson motorcycles. It is several weeks into the relationship with Andrea before Bubba realizes what type of humans Andrea, Sonya and Nicholas really are. Andrea has received a Harley motorcycle courtesy of Bubba and Vintage Viper Motorcycles at this point. The truth becomes clear on a joy ride on night as Bubba, with Sonya on the back of his bike and Andrea, with Nicholas on the back of her bike, go riding one night up north not far from the prison at St. Gabriel.

Bubba is attacked by an ex-con in a mom and pop grocery store as he stops to buy a six pack of beer on their ride. Andrea, standing outside the store, looks through the window to see Bubba standing still at gun point. She morphs into genetikon kill mode and quickly comes in through the back of the store attacking the ex-con from behind. She rips her talons across his face and tears the throat out of his body as he fights for life right in front of Bubba. Bubba, in terror, runs to his bike to escape but Andrea morphs back to her beautiful female form before Bubba can get his bike started and pleads for him not to leave her and to listen to her story. She cries, she begs on her knees for Bubba to listen. As his fear subsides his love for the beautiful Andrea convinces him to at least give her a chance to explain the situation. Later, at Bubba's hunting lodge in the forest near St. Gabriel, Louisiana, Bubba and the three genetikons have a very candid conversation about who they are and why they are in New Orleans. They reach an understanding with Bubba and their lives together continue.

Back in the Quarter, as the weeks go by, Sonya, becomes a, "must see," exotic dancer at Jungle Fever, gentlemen's club on Bourbon Street wielding power and influence through the international jet set crowd with her Hungarian boss and owner, Sandor, from the "Old Country" as they refer to it.

The three genetikons build, what they laughingly refer to as,"The Supreme Collective," of wealth and power in business as they influence their ways into the hearts and minds of their adoring public through the "Quarter," Meanwhile, Captain Jackson, of the NOLA, police department is baffled as to why the muggers and felons that prey on the tourists are turning up missing and as victims of horrific murders and mutilations in the far reaches of the Quarter.

After a strange and unusually horrific murder/decapitation, Captain Jackson, of the eight precinct, homicide division, receives a call from a Doctor Richter from Munich, Germany about a corpse posting of a mutilated body on an international forensics web site. The doctor explains to Captain Jackson that he has seen this type of mutilation decades ago when he was a young doctor working for the Nazis in an experimental hospital located outside of Salzburg, Austria. He warns Captain Jackson that if this is what he thinks it could be, he is dealing with one of the most proficient killing species on the planet earth. As the doctor begins to explain, the telephone line suddenly goes dead on the international call. The scene changes to Herr Kliest of the Gestapo in Germany as he speaks of the impending demise of the very senile, Doctor Richter, and his guilt from his participation in Nazi war crimes and how he is a threat to all, still living, from the Third Reich.

The series takes an international turn as the affable, Dr. John, of Tulane University genetic fame, notices a distinct specie modification trait common to Nicholas, Sonya and Andrea while partying heavily one night at the Tidewater Tavern. The Tidewater is a college kid and locals, dive bar, hang out that Bubba owns just out of New Orleans in La Place, Louisiana. Dr. John approaches Bubba after an in depth conversation with Andrea and Sonya as he analyses their bone structure and intellectual acuity traits as they converse and interact with others. Doctor John is also a leading genetic scientist on the board of the international pharmaceuticals company, Provaris, a multi-billion dollar company active in tissue regeneration and cloning research based out of Switzerland. As the story progresses, Andrea, Sonya, and a very reluctant, Nicholas, make a very secret deal with Provaris to under go physical tests to help Doctor John in his research to advance and find cures for the human specie for a very large sum of money with Bubba acting as their fiduciary agent. Bubba has become one with, The Supreme Collective, at this point and has been adopted into their tribe, so to speak. The end of the third season (S:3 E:10) episode ten, ends with a moody, Andrea, crying as she speaks to a concerned Sonya, Nicholas, and Bubba as she says with tears flowing from her eyes, "Bubba, I, I, I am pregnant with a child." Bubba looks at Nicholas and says, "Nick, I thought you said you were sterile and unable to reproduce, man?" Nicholas replies, "I am Bubba, but apparently, you are not."

This series, as written to date, can produce thirty episodes of sixty minute screen time. The possibility of an additional thirty episodes exists as the story evolves more to an international story with aggressive international military involved. The evolution of the genetikons continues as they unite with big Pharma, Provaris, both financially and as allies against world war. Andrea produces twins, one boy and one girl, as the children balance their human powers of Bubba and with those powers possessed by the genetic influence of their mother, Andrea. The boy, tends to be good hearted and a protective warrior of his mother and father, while the girl tends to gravitate towards evil as her powers evolve.

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