Glacier Mech Hunt — Ice Shelf Stalker Duel

10-second arctic mech short, 16:9, 35mm anamorphic. Night on an Antarctic ice shelf: a white hunter mech stalks a limping scout mech under the aurora — and the ice cracks beneath them both.

0-3s: Vast white-out wide. The aurora ripples green overhead; pressure ridges glow blue in the dark; the ice groans, deep and organic. The hunter mech moves through it — white armor, thermal optics burning red in its visor, each footfall placed with predator patience. Ahead, the scout mech limps, trailing black hydraulic fluid that steams on the ice, one leg dragging, its running lights flickering.

3-7s: The turn. The scout reaches a crevasse — a black split in the shelf, blue depths below — and turns to fight, cornered. It raises its last railgun and fires: the spike leaves in an orange muzzle bloom, streaking across the ice, and gouges the hunter's shoulder, white armor bursting. The hunter doesn't slow. It breaks into a run, ice shattering under its feet — and the shelf answers: a crack splits between them, racing, forking, the groan rising to a scream.

7-10s: Low ice-level pass as the shelf splits — the camera skims the widening black water, blue-lit from below, the two mechs on either side of the growing divide, the hunt suspended by the ice itself. The aurora ripples on, indifferent.

Craft: the hunter in white arctic armor with red thermal optics, the scout in damaged gray with a dragging leg and steaming fluid trail; the ice shelf with pressure ridges, the crevasse's blue depths, the aurora's green curtains. Camera: vast white-out wides, the low ice-level pass for the split, anamorphic with aurora flare. Lighting: green aurora as key, blue ice glow from below, orange muzzle bloom. Atmosphere: lonely, predatory, frozen. Style: arctic sci-fi realism, ice volumetrics, blue-green grade, fine grain, photorealistic, 24fps.