Army of Monsters

PROLOGUE — NO WAY BACK

There is no normal life left to return to.

Rachael Hawkins and Derrick Holloway drive north from Sacramento in silence, the weight of everything behind them heavier than anything ahead. The road bends toward the coast—and there it is: Tyler Holt’s yacht.

Onboard are Tyler, Christian Cutter, Layla Connor, and Lena Watson, now carrying a bow like a soldier carries a rifle. No one smiles. No one jokes.

Tyler tells them the truth. Abraham Van Helsing has called them to San Francisco. Prodigium is about to end the world.

ACT I — THE LAST BRIEFING

They dock at the Embarcadero, Pier 39. Security demands all weapons surrendered—everything except knives.

Waiting for them is Van Helsing, older, bloodied, exhausted, but resolved.

San Francisco has already been quietly evacuated. Sightings. Cult activity. Disappearances. Something massive is being prepared. This is not containment. This is extermination.

Van Helsing splits them into teams:

• Tyler & Rachael

• Christian & Derrick

• Layla & Lena

They fan out across a city that feels like a corpse that hasn’t realized it’s dead yet.

ACT II — A CITY OF THE UNDEAD

Layla & Lena — San Francisco National Cemetery

Every grave is open. The earth moves. Reanimated corpses claw their way out—stitched together with Victor Frankenstein’s stolen knowledge. William Barton is alive.

Christian & Derrick — Golden Gate Park

They are ambushed by invisible cultists, forced into brutal hand-to-hand combat. No bullets. Just bone, breath, and blood.

Tyler & Rachael — Westfield Mall

Civilians hide in darkness. Families shaking. Children silent.

Tyler and Rachael remember who they might have been if monsters never existed. They organize an evacuation using still-running BART trains. The last civilians escape the city.

San Francisco is officially lost.

ACT III — EVERYTHING FALLS APART

Layla and Lena are ordered back to the Embarcadero to retrieve Molotovs—fire still scares Frankenstein’s original creation.

Christian and Derrick, wounded but alive, make it back too.

Then— Tyler’s yacht explodes. No escape. No fallback.

The dead flood the streets. The Molotovs fail. These corpses were trained. They do not fear fire.

Van Helsing finally speaks the name they’ve all dreaded. Vazec.

Location: Golden Gate Bridge.

ACT IV — BARTON’S CONFESSION

On the way, they stop at the San Francisco Police Department.

Barton is there. Armed. Laughing.

He fires indiscriminately until Layla sneaks behind him and knocks him unconscious cold.

Tied to a chair, Barton breaks under Derrick’s interrogation—no mercy left in him.

The truth is revealed: Vazec intends to use Rachael Hawkins to grant worldwide immortality. Her blood. Her lineage. She is descended from ancient Egyptian royalty. A living key.

Lena executes Barton with a shotgun. No one objects.

ACT V — THE BRIDGE

The hunters steal police vehicles and tear through an apocalyptic San Francisco. Invisible cultists die screaming when run over, becoming visible in death. Reanimated corpses collapse into parts.

Van Helsing arrives in a military Humvee, Christian on the mounted gun.

The Golden Gate Bridge is sealed. Vazec waits. No firearms allowed. This ends by hand.

ACT VI — THE LAST FIGHT

The battle is savage. Cultists fall one by one. Vazec stands alone. And he is more dangerous than all of them combined.

He disarms, breaks, and outmaneuvers every hunter.

He takes Rachael. He tells her the truth: She is a princess. Her blood can make humanity eternal.

Rachael signals the others. She goes willingly. Then stabs Vazec in the back. He stabs her in return. Her blood coats the blade. Immortality is seconds away.

Van Helsing fires—shooting the blade from Vazec’s hand. Tyler catches it before it falls into the sea. Vazec weakens.

Van Helsing is critically wounded. Christian patches Rachael, hands shaking.

ACT VII — THE SACRIFICE

The hunters throw Vazec over the bridge. He lands on the suicide barrier.

The Humvee drives forward—rigged to plunge. Vazec dodges.

Too late. He is latched to the vehicle and dragged into the Pacific.

Van Helsing crawls forward. Drops a grenade. The ocean explodes. Vazec is gone. The Humvee is gone.

Van Helsing collapses. Dying. Smiling. He thanks them.

“You saved the world… and proved monsters don’t own it.”

He dies.

EPILOGUE — A WORLD WITHOUT MONSTERS

The world knows now. The hunters are heroes.

Van Helsing is buried with honor.

The Brotherhood disbands—not in failure, but completion.

Where they end:

• Rachael Hawkins discovers her royal lineage… and rejects the throne.

• Tyler Holt’s film premieres. He and Rachael are married.

• Christian Cutter becomes Captain. Lawrence Talbot, cured, becomes Lieutenant.

• Derrick Holloway is reinstated at Concord High. He proposes to Rebecca at graduation.

• Layla Connor rebuilds her shop into a runway fashion house. She and Mona headline the show.

The weapons are put away. The nightmares fade.

FINAL TAG — ONE YEAR LATER

New York City. Broadway.

The former hunters sit together, unnoticed, watching a new musical:

CITY OF HUNTERS

By Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Opening number: “Fear Takes Us All”

• Finale: “Our Battles Do End”

They listen. They remember. They smile.




Based on:
- Characters by ZM26

AND THUS ENDS THIS FRANCHISE.