The Highway Trap 🛣

🎬 EPISODE 6: THE UNDERGROUND HEIST

[INT. ABANDONED MOTEL – NIGHT]

The sound of dripping water echoes through broken pipes.
Antoinette, Tasha, and Maya hide in Room 9 — lights flicker, sirens wailing faintly outside.
Blood stains the window curtain. Antoinette checks her reflection in the cracked mirror — her veins glow faintly gold.

Tasha (low voice):
“Bestie… your skin’s glowing again.”

Antoinette (focused):
“It’s not glow, it’s warning. They’re close.”

Suddenly — the TV turns on by itself.
Static clears to show Christian on the screen, speaking from an underground club.

Christian (on TV):
“Come find me, if you want the truth. Bring the child. Don’t bring fear.”

The TV explodes into sparks.

[EXT. HIGHWAY – NIGHT]

Antoinette and Tasha race in their car, headlights slicing through fog. Maya sits silently in the backseat, clutching her teddy bear — which suddenly blinks.

Antoinette (noticing):
“Maya… where’d you get that bear?”

Maya:
“He gave it to me. Said it keeps bad things away.”

Antoinette’s eyes widen — Bill, the old highway worker, gave her that bear.

[CUT TO: UNDERGROUND CITY – “THE VAULT DISTRICT”]

The camera pans across a massive cavern filled with neon-lit clubs, black markets, and reptilian guards.
Humans walk around dazed, like hypnotized shoppers — not realizing they’re inside the feeding grounds.

At the center: THE BLOOD BANK CASINO — where vampires gamble with vials of blood instead of money.

Christian sits at a poker table surrounded by vampires.
He’s wearing a black jacket, half-human eyes glowing faintly.

Dealer (vampire):
“Bet your soul or fold.”

Christian smirks, pushes chips forward.
Christian:
“I already sold half.”

[INT. CASINO ENTRANCE]

Antoinette and Tasha sneak in disguised as waitresses.
They move past dancers, flashing lights, and hypnotic music.
Maya’s hidden in a laundry cart, peeking out.

Tasha (whispering):
“Bestie… why they got a DJ if ain’t nobody human in here?”

Antoinette:
“Because evil likes a good beat too.”

They smirk — tension eases for a split second — before chaos hits.

[INTENSE ACTION SCENE]

A reptilian guard sniffs the air —
Guard: “Human blood. Pure.”

He lunges.
Antoinette flips a tray of silver glasses into his face — acid burns his skin.
Tasha grabs a metal pole, knocking out two vampires with one swing.

Antoinette (shouting over chaos):
“Find Christian! He knows the exit!”

They run through strobe lights and gunfire — everything turns slow-motion — blood, smoke, and neon blur together.

[CUT TO: BACK ROOM – UNDERGROUND LAB]

Christian meets them, pulling a lever that opens a steel vault.
Inside are hundreds of blood pods labeled with human names — the victims from the highway traps.

Christian:
“This is where they store what they can’t finish. People like you.”

Antoinette (furious):
“You helped them?”

Christian (guilty):
“I built the machines. Didn’t know they were draining souls.”

The lights flash red — alarm triggered.
They’ve been found.

[THE FINAL BATTLE SEQUENCE]

Antoinette, Tasha, and Christian fight their way through reptilians and vampires.
Antoinette’s body begins to emit golden light, burning through dark creatures on contact.

Tasha (shocked):
“Bestie, you the weapon they been tryna create!”

Antoinette (gritting teeth):
“No. I’m the reason it ends.”

She slams her hand on the ground — the entire vault shakes — the blood pods burst open, releasing light and screams of freed souls.

[CUT TO: THE AFTERMATH]

The underground city collapses.
Smoke and fire rise through the cracks of the highway above.
Antoinette, Tasha, and Maya emerge from a manhole at dawn — dirty, exhausted, but alive.

Maya (quietly):
“Are they gone?”

Antoinette:
“For now. But this town got more secrets than graves.”

A black SUV pulls up — tinted windows roll down — a mysterious woman with white eyes smiles.

Woman:
“You made quite the mess, Miss Johnson. The council wants to meet you.”

Antoinette stares, gun still in hand.
Antoinette:
“And who’s the council?”

The woman’s smile widens.
Woman:
“The ones who decide who lives… and who doesn’t.”

[FADE OUT — TO BE CONTINUED]