Use @[storyboard ref] as the director-approved storyboard blueprint. Treat each panel as a consecutive shot beat in one seamless hidden-cut long-take illusion. Follow panel order exactly. Do not render the storyboard sheet. Preserve framing, staging, screen direction, city geography, props, choreography, continuity, and escalation.
Do not make a strict one-shot. Use motivated hidden transitions: lava lens pass, body occlusion, upward motion blur, steam burst, debris wipe, forearm occlusion, fist wipe, and wall dust.
Characters never slide or glide; movement is footwork, pivots, steps, jumps, grabs, impacts, shadow-steps, and recoveries.
Preserve screen direction: Borg pressures from screen left toward screen right; Ash uses ground shadows to reposition without reversing the axis.
Use @[char ref] as ASH and @[char 2 ref] as BORG references.
ENVIRONMENT: Bright colorful daytime city lane: yellow taxi, blue bus stop, glass storefront, red awnings, white crosswalk, hard ground shadows, building facade.
EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE: Valence: intense rivalry. Arousal: calm lava threat -> sudden rush -> shadow reversal -> airborne punch -> lava counter -> missed ground impact -> close fistfight -> wall slam -> unresolved lava counter.
AUDIO: No music. Use city ambience, lava hiss, steam, concrete hits, heavy landings, wall impact, breath, debris, and witty fight banter; no subtitles.
PANEL BEATS:
P01: Macro close-up on Ash standing still; lava leaks from his fingers and gathers into short blades.
P02: Wide: Borg rushes straight at Ash; Ash sinks into the ground shadow just before contact.
P03: Rear low reveal: Ash appears behind Borg on the same attack line and catches both legs with lava hooks and a hard grip.
P04: Vertical follow: Borg uses Ash's leg grip as leverage, jumps anyway, drags Ash upward, and punches him midair.
P05: Ash twists through the throw and fires lava whips; Borg cross-blocks with both arms, steam rising only from Ash's lava, then the block creates a brief suspended pause. Borg: "Cute. Your hands come with a warning label?" Ash: "Only for people who can read."
P06: Camera follows Borg's high leap toward Ash's last shadow escape point; Ash shadow-teleports aside, and Borg breaks that ground shadow to deny reuse.
P07: Ash reappears and attacks with lava blades; Borg blocks with one arm and keeps advancing.
P08: Close orbit: they trade fast punches, parries, shoulder checks, and lava-blade counters. Borg: "You done showing off?" Ash: "I was warming up. You ruined the metaphor."
P09: Borg lands a heavy punch, sending Ash backward into a building facade; Ash hits hard but braces one hand on the cracked wall.
P10: Wide: Borg charges the damaged wall; Ash drops from the wall into a planted stance and fires twin lava streams from both hands toward him, ending mid-counter.
