Alita: Battle Angel

In the once-great metropolis of Iron City, a desolate and polluted world on the edge of chaos, the skies are shrouded in perpetual grime and darkness. Amidst the devastation, a young woman with no memory of her past lies in an alleyway, half-buried in trash and rubble, her body - a hulking and battered cyborg shell - left behind by the uncaring streets. Ido, a skilled surgeon and inventor, is out scavenging for scrap metal when he stumbles upon the mysterious figure, her eyes long since frozen, her limbs mangled beyond repair. Yet, as he gazes at her, something about the faint scent of perfumed skin and the tender curves of her face strikes an unexplainable chord within him, drawing him in with an unwavering determination to uncover the truth beneath the surface. Ido is no stranger to the harsh realities of this unforgiving world. He lives in a one-room abode that serves both as his home and his makeshift laboratory, where he continues to tinker with innovative medical technologies to help those in need. When he notices the metal exoskeleton sprouting an unassuming set of facial features, the same resurfacing of emotions he experienced initially reappears, now firmly rooted within him. Perceiving a resplendent gem-like iris and an array of mangled human limbs, Ido deems the figure worth saving and makes his way back to his makeshift home, meticulously intent on reassembling the disheveled cyborg, not merely a discarded piece of machinery, but as if, unbeknownst to him, its internal systems were meant to provide proof of a far greater destiny. Hours passed, eventually turning into an interminable night filled with the wail of the scavenging hawks and relentless pounding of rain. Miraculously, somewhere, deep within the metal lattice of her body, something stirs, animating once-frozen limbs as Ido strains his considerable willpower into reviving, painstakingly implanting a series of electronic components gleaned from his scrap heap. After what seems to be an eternally long night, at last, when the cyborg, rearming her dying circuits, magically swings to life, its initial, eerie sputtering soon gives way to swift awakening, as if bolstered by the resilience of its incredibly resilient metalframe itself. The young cyborg, none the wiser about the past, revoltingly convulses within the limits of her fragile humanoid form. Eventually, however, she settles into awareness as pieces of Ido's mechanical genius harmonize, resulting in a fluid network that is both fragile and formidable at once, propelling unguided natural inclinations and aspirations, driven by emotions that would only seem to surface one by one as memories struggled to be brought back into cohesive remembrance. In that future where chaos lies within every shred, Alita, with her profound in-born talents, somehow displays a unique compatibility with Ido's newly-made cybernetic augmentations, and to him, she awakens to unheralded revelations about who, or what, she truly was in a life she knew not existed yet. As Iron City sits along the edge, anticipating an uncertain time ahead, no more than a scrap metal melting pool away from utter destruction, this cyborg prodigy falls under Ido's devoted care, their symbiotic bond nurturing an elusive and profound mystery of a lost civilization she barely knows anything about, when every moment passes swiftly into another opportunity for this human spirit trapped in cyborg garb - Alita - to take its very unambiguous steps towards claiming back her lost name and reason. Her once frozen memory stirs and stirs as other memories start rising even further from beyond her self-perceived realms. Each one may, over time reformatting a once imperfect metallic husk to a burgeoning, albeit inexplicable aura hint at more: love, power, a long lost empire whose ethereal past continues rising sharply to Ido's diligent eyes as they roam evermore beside her advancing feet.