The Avenger (India)

A Story by Abishai100

A resurrected Indian policewoman and her allied heartbroken high-school sweetheart challenge an evil blood-diamond dominion in modern Delhi.

A modern adaptation inspired by the amazing film The Crow (Alex Proyas), set in modern Delhi. Hope you like it,

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Esha Shah is a vigilant policewoman on the rough and troubled night-streets of modern Delhi. She's been a policewoman for about 2 years, and she's been tracking a nasty gang of blood-diamond smugglers led by a nefarious crimelord named Shiva. Esha is determined to put this madman behind bars and his cronies in a lunatic asylum, so the troubled people of Delhi can shop safely again.

The police commissioner and chief-woman are concerned Officer Esha Shah looks too much like an 'active' vigilante, taking very daring matters and methods to deal with Shiva's blood-diamond clan in modern Delhi. They'd advised her to take more modest approaches and perhaps recruit someone to help her. They're sincerely worried about this amazing modern female Delhi cop. They continue debating about her.

ESHA SHAH: My mission as an officer and policewoman in Delhi is to stop the blood-diamond reign of insanity now.

Fortunately, Officer Shah does indeed have a secret ally in her pocket, and it's her long-time high-school sweetheart Amlan Satan, an Algerian-Indian who's been helping her study blood-diamond motions from Africa/Europe. He studied in the USA and came back to India to be with his sweetheart. He's an excellent sharp-shooter and has thief skills, like a ninja. He wants to marry her.

Meanwhile, a great Hollywood-Bollywood movie drive-in festival is planned in Delhi that summer, but it's precociously co-sponsored by the very wealthy businessman and dark-man Shiva, whose ties to the underworld have unfortunately not yet been proven, giving him a special 'opportunity' to be a great socialite. The drive-in movie festival is to see two incredible American celebrities visit as well, requiring Officer Esha Shah to provide special arena security patrols with her fellow policewomen.

EVENT EXECUTIVE: We're thrilled to have incredible celebrities arriving at our drive-in arena for this East-West media!

SHIVA: I want my ruffians to exterminate Officer Shah, with prejudice --- rape and kill the woman!

The next week, Esha's body surfaces in the river, having been raped and murdered, and Amlan Satan, her heart-broken beau, discovers this when reading the headline in a very important Indian newspaper. Who can stop Shiva's gang now amidst all this dark news?

Amlan has Esha buried in a Delhi cemetery and visits her tombstone every dawn, hoping for a miracle-prayer to restore his lost faith in Indian justice. However, the voices are empty and all he hears are his own grudges.

That's when a strange crow-bird lands near the cemetery and appears every dawn thereafter when Amlan Satan visits Esha's tombstone. The black-crow seems to be staring at Amlan as he drops flowers to Officer Shah's tombstone every dawn. Amlan starts believing this is a magic-bird of justice resurrection. He's right.

Meanwhile, a Delhi vigil is held in memory of Officer Esha Shah and all she tried to do to fight Shiva's blood-diamond night-gang in Delhi. They wonder who'll save them now, now that Esha's gone...forever.

AMLAN: My God, you're alive, Esha!
ESHA: The black-crow brought me back to life and out of my grave, my love.

AMLAN: What'll you do now, Shah?

ESHA: With your help...destroy Shiva.

Esha/Amlan collect dozens of toy water-uzis and fill them with corrosive acid and Amlan procures a separate toy water-rifle for himself, complete with see-thru inner-working gears and also fills it with acid! Esha/Amlan are now a resurrected cime-fighting duo in Delhi, using 'acid-guns' to deal with Shiva's evil night-gang ghouls prowling the streets on bikes and scooters.

SHIVA: We're as alarmed at Officer Shah's rape/murder as any other responsible citizen in fair Delhi, folks!

Shiva meanwhile is using his bike/scooter night-gang riders to transport drugs along with blood-diamonds and storing his terrorism-financing gems in the powerful ICICI bank in Delhi. However, Esha/Amlan are now hot on the trail, and justice approaches that autumn!

Esha/Amlan hit the streets in costume and wielding their water-uzis and spray these scooter-riding hellraisers working for the crimelord Shiva. Their acid-sprays destroy their bike-tires, hurling them and scattering them like leaves in front of a stunned populace thinking Shiva's gang, once ominous, now seems truly vulnerable!

SHIVA: I want a retaliation-riot in the streets of Delhi, to chase away these masked 'vigilante' angels from heaven!

ESHA: We're going to rob the ICIC bank where evil Shiva keeps his blood-diamonds.

AMLAN: I'm with you, avenger.

Esha marches into the bank dressed and veiled as a Muslim customer seeking a new account to deposit her (fake) diamonds, and Amlan follows into the bank some time later costumed as a acid-rifle wielding 'terrorist' who wants Esha's diamonds inside the safe-box area.

While inside the safe-box area with Esha held as a (fake) hostage by himself, costumed Amlan burns a hole into Shiva's safe-box instead and switches the crimelord's blood-diamonds for the fake gems in Esha's purse, meant to be stored in her new account safe-box. He then carries Esha out as his enduring hostage claiming to the crowd, "This woman worked for Shiva!"

BANK MANAGER: We have no idea what the hell is going on here!

It was Amlan in his costume that performed this media-scattering smearing Shiva's criminal prestige. The media/populace now believe there's a 'single avenger' who tried to usurp crimelord Shiva's subversive attempt to use Esha as a fake-customer for a diamond-deposit with future finance-transaction activity designed to disguise his own blood-diamond activity. The press calls Amlan the costumed vigilante a modern-day Robin Hood, and meanwhile, Esha's vanished of course (safe with Amlan!).

INDIAN POLICE: This dastardly Robin Hood left behind his toy acid-rifle as a media memento!

The Indian police decide to host a special United Nations mission linked to South Sudan missionary efforts to stop blood-diamond traffic. Esha/Amlan's nifty media-trick has succeeded in creating a clever social reform for anti-terrorism!

Over the course of the next year, numerous Shiva crime-gang ghouls are detained and imprisoned or simply disappear, and underground folk-tales in haven-centers emerge suggesting that it's the resurrected spirit of Officer Shah and perhaps an ally she keeps secret who's behind this new daylight in Delhi.