Enemy Mine, Yours, or Ours

TITLECARD-ENEMYMINE

TEASER


INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – NIGHT

A light on GBW’s computer console begins blinking.

Pull in on the light, we see a piece of masking tape with a name scribbled on it.

DOCTOR WHAT – BEACON

GBW looks at it, confused.

GBW
Hey, Grey…

EXT. – SOMEWHERE – DAY

Labored breathing.

We fade in on a wide shot of a jungle like area, thick plants and sunlight streaming in from heavy foliage from above.

A crashing sound, the plants shake. Labored breathing.

A figure bursts out of a wall of plants, stumbling and nearly collapsing. Pull in on the figure.

It’s DOCTOR WHAT. Dressed as he was when we last saw him, space suit and whatnot.

Now he looks about frantically and dodges off screen.

Behind him we here a noise. Barking of dogs and the sound of footsteps.

Camera stays still and a few moments later several dozen figures march into view.

Camera pulls in on them, they are short and stocky, they wear black armor and helmets. One of the figures pauses and removes it’s helmet. We see heavy dark hair, a thick wide face, and a heavy brow…

NEANDERTHALS!!!!

There’s a buzzing sound. The un-helmeted Neanderthal lifts a device to his head.

NEANDERTHAL MAN
Grunting Noise
(Subtitle: Report?)

VOICE ON TALKIE
Grunting Noise
(Subtitle: We’ve got him in our sights.
He won’t get away…)

NEANDERTHAL MAN
Grunting Noise
(Subtitle: Excellent.
Cut him off and capture him.)

VOICE ON TALKIE
Grunting Noise
(Subtitle: Yes, sir.)

The Un-helmeted Neanderthal gestures to the men and the dogs to follow him, they’re heft their weapons and move off screen.

EXT. – SOMEWHERE – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT burst through a wall of plants again and stumbles into a clearing. He looks about confused and begins heading toward where more trees are, stumbling.

Suddenly from the air there is a roar and a sleek black machine appears. We pan in and see a stocky figure sitting in a small cockpit. DOCTOR WHAT turns and begins running, then suddenly something shoots out and DOCTOR WHAT stumbles, falling to the ground.

The vessel continues to hover, raising a small cloud of dust. We pan across the sleek machine, taking it end. We come to an image painted upon its hull, a red stylized sun with a white hand in the center, upon the black hull.

Pull out

FADE TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

AH.COM: The Series


“ENEMY MINE, YOURS, OR OURS”


Written By : PSYCHOMELTDOWN


ACT I

OVER BLACK:

Grunting, guttural speaking.

The voices are loud and angry sounding.

They continue.

Suddenly what seems to be incomprehensible noise begins to be interspaced with familiar words.

It continues.

Soon the words begin to form sentences that are comprehensible.

Fade up from black.

INT. – GRAND PALACE – AUDIENCE CHAMBER – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT opens his eyes and blinks…

VOICE 2
Listen, I don’t know.
Maybe the damned thing evolved
on this planet or something.

VOICE 1
Evolved? Are you kidding me?

VOICE 2
Listen, I just kill things.
If you want and explanation,
go ask someone who cares.

VOICE 3
Quiet!
I think it’s awake…

DOCTOR WHAT quickly closes his eyes.

VOICE 1
It looks asleep to me…

VOICE 3
I saw it’s eyes open.

VOICE 1
Are you sure?

VOICE 3
Do you doubt me???

VOICE 2
No, Your Greatness.
I’ll wake up the damned thing.

THUMP!

DOCTOR WHAT lets out a strangled cry as he is kicked.

VOICE 1
Now, it’s awake.

DOCTOR WHAT scrambles back, looking wide eyed at the three gathered figures. All are thick, stocky, and short. Their faces are wide, hairy, with a thick brow. One dressed in rich clothing steps forward, this is PONTER the leader.

PONTER
(sneering)
Human!
How did you get here?

DOCTOR WHAT stares blankly.

PONTER
HUMAN!

DOCTOR WHAT stares blankly.

PONTER .
Adikor, kick him again.
Mayhaps that will jog his memory.

A thicker and bigger Neanderthal walks forward, grinning.

ADIKOR
Be my pleasure, Your Greatness.
(cracks knuckles)

DOCTOR WHAT
Hey! I don’t know how I got here!
I don’t know anything!
Don’t hurt me!

ADIKOR
(surpised)
The thing knows our language!

PONTER
Then it must be a spy or something.
We must destroy it!

ADIKOR
I’ll fetch my club and dispatch it, Your Greatness.
By tonight you can suck the marrow off it’s bones
and not worry about spies and such ilk!

The Third figure speaks, by it’s dress and voice, it’s a female, though still heavy, stocky, hairy, and thick browed.

ATTA
(scornful)
You asked it a question in our language
and you are surprised that it answered?

PONTER
Get back, Atta. This thing may bite.
The Gods only know what diseases it carries.

DOCTOR WHAT
Hey, I carry no diseases…
Not that I know of.

ATTA
What is this creature doing here?
I had thought this planet did not evolve its kind?

ADIKOR
That’s what we are trying to
find out, Your Second Greatness.

PONTER
This thing was found wandering
on the outskirts of the City.

DOCTOR WHAT
I was lost… confused.
I don’t’ know- Hey, where am I?

ADIKOR
Quiet, human scum!
You are in the presence of
the Great Lord of the Worlds!

DOCTOR WHAT
What’s that?

PONTER
Kick him.

DOCTOR WHAT lets out a yelp as he is kicked

ADIKOR
How did you get here human?

DOCTOR WHAT
(long silence)
I-I don’t know…

PONTER
Kick him.

DOCTOR WHAT
Really! I don’t know!

ATTA
I believe him.

PONTER
You believe a foul and disgusting human?

ATTA
Yeah.

PONTER
I am sickened!

ATTA
We have been scanning continuously
for as long as we’ve been here.
We have not detected any signatures
that might belong to any ships or
vessels that we know of.

PONTER
Then how did this creature arrive here?

ATTA
We shall question it and determine
what or who brought it here.

PONTER
(dismissively)
Do so.

ATTA snaps and waits impatiently.

ATTA
Well?

DOCTOR WHAT looks around

DOCTOR WHAT
Huh?

DOCTOR WHAT lets out a yelp as ADIKOR kicks him.

Fade out:

EXT. – LORD OF THE WORLDS CITY – DAY

A wide shot of a city, pale stone towers rising to the sky and buildings with rounded domes dotting the landscape. Flying machines and vehicles move about, along with thousands of people.

Pull in on the huge stonework palace the dominates the landscape.

INT. – INTERROGATION ROOM – DAY

We see DOCTOR WHAT strapped to a wall, a variety of painful looking objects set up on a table beside him.

ATTA walks in, pulling on a pair of rubber gloves.

ATTA
Now, Human.
You will tell us what you know.

DOCTOR WHAT
Look. I don’t know anything.

ATTA
Liar!

DOCTOR WHAT
I-I really really don’t.
Watch ask me for my name!

ATTA
What is your name, Human Scum!

DOCTOR WHAT
I don’t know!
I really don’t!

ATTA
Liar!

DOCTOR WHAT
Look. I woke up in the jungle out there.
I don’t know who I am, I don’t know where I am.
I don’t know why I’m here or how I got here.
I just woke up there this morning.

ATTA
Liar!

DOCTOR WHAT
(rolling eyes and muttering)
Oy, Vey.
(pause)
What does that even mean…

ATTA
Liar!

DOCTOR WHAT
What?

ATTA
I will not hear more of your lies!
Tell me how you got here!

DOCTOR WHAT
Look, man-

ATTA
I am a woman!

DOCTOR WHAT
Woman??
(long pause)
Oh…
I’m sorry…

ATTA
Sorry?

DOCTOR WHAT
Errr.. Is it possible that I could be let go?

ATTA snaps rubber gloves and grins.

DOCTOR WHAT
I don’t like the look of that…

INT. – GRAND PALACE – AUDIENCE CHAMBER -DAY

PONTER and ADIKOR are in the Audience Chamber, looking over a map.

A screaming is heard echoing down the halls, they both look up.

PONTER
Ah, Atta. She knows
how to make them scream.

They both laugh

EXT. – SPACE – DAY

A small ship with the sun and hand icon moves across the screen.

A moment later it is destroyed.

Something vast and dark dominates the screen, moving upon the planet below. Ominous music begins playing.

INT. – INTERROGATION ROOM – DAY

TIGHT on DOCTOR WHAT’s face. He looks a bit confused.

PULL OUT and we see him and ATTA in a tangle of clothing and limbs.

DOCTOR WHAT
Well…
(clears throat)
This was unexpected…

EXT. – SPACE – DAY

A blackness dominates the screen. Ominous music begins to swell.

INT. – INTERROGATION ROOM – DAY

The heavy wooden door is kicked open and ADIKOR and several burly guards barge in. They point weapons at ATTA and DOCTOR WHAT.

For a moment they stare.

ADIKOR
What the…

DOCTOR WHAT
Look. I can explain.
It seems I enjoy a bit of pain…

Silence.

ATTA
(pulling on clothes)
What’s going on!

ADIKOR
(sickened)
With a human?
Especially with this human?
Have you no shame!

DOCTOR WHAT
Hey. I’m not so bad…

ATTA
What is the meaning of this knocking
down of my door and barging into my
chambers? I will tell His Greatness
about this!

ADIKOR
We were sent by His Greatness!

ATTA
What is going on?

ADIKOR
A scout ship was destroyed in orbit.
We’ve been losing satellites and
we don’t know why. We believe
a ship is destroying it.

ATTA
(frightened)
A ship?

DOCTOR WHAT
What’s this mean?

ADIKOR
This means, that you, little human,
have some questions that need answering.
Get him!

The burly guards march forward and drag DOCTOR WHAT to his feet.

ADIKOR
Aggh! Gods!
Put some clothes on him!

GUARD 1
(muttering)
What did she see in him?
He’s so small…

GUARD 2
But did you see how
long his tongue is?

The two look at DOCTOR WHAT, who sticks out his tongue at them.

GUARD 1
(shuddering)
Disgusting humans.

INT. – GRAND PALACE – AUDIENCE CHAMBER – DAY

ATTA, ADIKOR, and DOCTOR WHAT all enter the Audience Chamber, PONTER is pacing about looking frazzled.

ATTA
Father, what is going on?

PONTER
Ah, Atta. My sweet child.
I fear we may be in danger.

ATTA
What’s going on?

PONTER
We have lost our communication satellites
and there seems to be a ship in orbit.

ATTA
Why did out scanners not spot it?

PONTER
We can only assume that the ship has
some kind of device that makes our
scanners useless.

ADIKOR
(pushing Doctor What forward)
Demand answers from this creature.
It knows what’s up there!

DOCTOR WHAT
Hey, look. I keep saying this, but
I. Don’t. Know. What’s. Going. On.

ADIKOR
Liar!
This human scum knows!

DOCTOR WHAT
Anyone else getting tired of
being called human scum?

PONTER
Tell us, human scum.
What ship is this?
What vessel did you arrive upon!

DOCTOR WHAT
Look I don’t know.

PONTER
Then you are of no use to us!
(to Adikor)
Kill him!

ATTA
(throwing herself upon Doctor What)
Nooo!
I can not let you!

PONTER
What is the meaning of this!

ATTA
I-I love him!

Shocked silence

PONTER
(terrible anger)
You what?

DOCTOR WHAT
Aw, shit.

PONTER
You love this human scum!

DOCTOR WHAT
Look, Atta. You’re a great girl and all.
And sure we had a good time…

ATTA
What are you trying to say?

PONTER
Adikor! Kill the Human Scum!

ADIKOR
Gladly, Your Greatness!

ATTA
NOOOOO!!!

PONTER
YEEESSSSS!

DOCTOR WHAT
Oh, Shiiiiiit!!!

BOOOOM!

The castle suddenly shakes.

PONTER
What was that?

EXT. – LORD OF THE WORLDS CITY – DAY

A vast ship is hovering over the city, raining down destruction.

INT. – GRAND PALACE – AUDIENCE CHAMBER – DAY

ADIKOR
We’re being attacked!

PONTER
To the defenses!
We shall repel these Attackers!
We shall win the day!

BANG!

PONTER gasps, looks down to see a burn mark in his robes.

PONTER
What??
(falls over dead)

Shocked silence descends upon the Audience Chamber and then a figure steps into view.

WARD.

He looks down at PONTER and grins.

ADIKOR
Ye, gods…
Help us…

DOCTOR WHAT
Who’s that?

ATTA
The Destroyer has come!
(faints)

People begin screaming in terror.

WARD
I love it when they do that.
(grins)

END ACT I



ACT II

EXT. – LORD OF THE WORLDS CITY – DAY

DRACONIS NOIR and DOMINUSNOVUS are riding in a huge mechanical tank, every now and then they stop, fire a shot and watch a building be destroyed.

DRACONIS NOIR
You know, this is kind of fun.

DOMINUSNOVUS
Beats nearly getting killed trying to play hero.

DRACONIS NOIR
Plus we get to blow shit up!

DOMINUSNOVUS
And we get our pick of all the hot chicks!

DRACONIS NOIR
Though, there’s none on this planet…

DOMINUSNOVUS
That’s where you’re wrong, my friend.
This planet is teeming with hot babes!

DRACONIS NOIR
(long pause)
Uh…

DOMINUSNOVUS
(points to a group of running people)
See? Just watching them run,
makes me want to shag ‘em!

DRACONIS NOIR
(long pause)
Uh…
They’re hideous creatures.

DOMINUSNOVUS
(staring at Draconis Noir)
Man, you’re so gay!

INT. COUNTERFACTUAL.NET SHIP – CAPTIAN’S READY ROOM – DAY

WARD is at his desk, when the door chime rings.

WARD
Enter.

GRIMM REAPER enters.

GRIMM REAPER
Sir. Looks like we’ve got all the local ruling
elite. The administrators and the “nobles”.

WARD
Good. Sound a recall and
prepare for ascent to space.

GRIMM REAPER
Gotcha, sir.

WARD
And bring the Doctor What alternate.
They’re so fun to kill.

GRIMM REAPER
(long pause)
Uh.. sir.
That’s not an alternate.

WARD
What???

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – DUNGEON – DAY

The gathered leaders and nobility of the PLANET are huddling and moaning in the dank chamber. DOCTOR WHAT is sitting near ATTA who’s rocking and sobbing, even ADIKOR has that deer in the headlights look.

DOCTOR WHAT
What’s going on?

ADIKOR
(rocking back and forth)
The Destroyer has come.
The Destroyer has come.
The Destroyer has come.
The Destroyer has come.

DOCTOR WHAT
Who the hell is the Destroyer?

ATTA
The Destroyer. The Creature who destroyed
our world and scattered the People….
Ward the Destroyer…

DOCTOR WHAT
That guy did that?

ATTA
Many years ago. We fought against a terrible enemy.
A relentless race that destroyed our fleets and
then turned our world into radioactive slag,
killing billions.

DOCTOR WHAT
Ye, Gods.

ATTA
Those that survived fled, to our colonies and
from there we prayed that we would be safe.
Eight years has passed and now the Destroyer
has returned to finish his work.
(begins sobbing)
We are doomed!

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – MED BAY – DAY

GRIMM REAPER
Quantum signatures match up.
This is no clone or alternate of Doctor What.
This is the real deal.

WARD
How can that be?

GRIMM REAPER
(shrugging)
Maybe he didn’t die in the explosion?

WARD
That boy’s got more lives than a damned cat.

GRIMM REAPER
What are you going to do?

WARD
Get the job done right.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – DUNGEON – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT
Maybe we can find a way out of here.
Escape.

ATTA
No. We are doomed.
We will suffer greatly first.
He will throw us out of the airlocks
and watch as we die. His hate for
us overwhelms him.

DOCTOR WHAT
Why?

ATTA
He is the Destroyer…

The thick door slid open and in walks WARD, flanked by GRIMM REAPER and NRED, both heavily armed. A wailing goes up among the gathered men and women.

WARD
(pointing to Dr. What)
You. Come with us.

DOCTOR WHAT
No!

WARD
Get him.

NRED pulls out a baton and shocks DOCTOR WHAT.

DOCTOR WHAT
Ouch!
Fine. I’ll come.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – MED BAY – DAY

WARD, GRIMM REAPER, and DOCTOR WHAT occupy the room. DOCTOR WHAT is chained to a chair, while WARD paces about.

DOCTOR WHAT
What are you going to do?

WARD
Kill you.
(continues pacing)

DOCTOR WHAT
What are you going
to do to those people?

WARD
(stops)
People? What people?

DOCTOR WHAT
The people in the dungeon.

WARD turns to GRIMM REAPER and they both begin laughing.

WARD
They are not people, you damned fool.
Even you should know that.

DOCTOR WHAT
I don’t know what you mean?

WARD
After what they did to our world?

DOCTOR WHAT
I don’t know what you’re talking about.

WARD
Don’t play stupid. These Bastards are murderers,
genocidal evil fuckers. Wherever we find them,
we destroy them.

DOCTOR WHAT
You can’t destroy them.
They haven’t done anything to you.

WARD suddenly stops. He looks at DOCTOR WHAT with pure disgust.

WARD
I’m tired of this game.
Tell me something, What.
Why the fuck are you
with these Bastards?

DOCTOR WHAT
Doctor What? Who’s that?

WARD
Don’t play games with me, boy!

DOCTOR WHAT
Damn it. I’m not playing game!
I don’t know who I am.
I don’t know what’s going on!
All I know is that I was captured by
those guys and now some old crazy
bastard has me chained up. So if you’re
going to kill me, do it! I’m getting really
sick of people demanding information
from me I don’t know.

WARD looks at GRIMM REAPER.

GRIMM REAPER
Could be memory loss?

WARD
Check it out.

MOMENTS LATER….

GRIMM REAPER
Looks like the Doc’s got a memory block
on his brain noggin. Should be easy to remove.

WARD
Who put it there?

GRIMM REAPER
Lords only know. Could be whoever
saved his ass from that fiery inferno.

DOCTOR WHAT
Someone’s blocking my memory?
Guess that would kind of explain why
I can speak the language of the other guys…
(pause)
What fiery inferno?

GRIMM REAPER
(pulling out a device)
Hold still. This will hurt like hell.
(sticks it to his head and hits a button)

DOCTOR WHAT
(flinches)
Ouch!

GRIMM REAPER
Just kidding on the hurting part.

DOCTOR WHAT
What happened?

GRIMM REAPER
I’ve just removed the memory block.

DOCTOR WHAT
What now?

GRIMM REAPER
We wait for your memory to come back.

Silence descends as they continue to wait.

DOCTOR WHAT
Mind if I go to the bathroom? I need
to take a piss like you wouldn’t believe…

GRIMM REAPER
Shut up.

WARD (in com)
Merry, engage Omega Plan.
It’s time we clean this place.

EXT. – CF. NET SHIP – SPACE – DAY

MERRYPRANKSTER (voice over)
Initiating Omega Plan. In:
3…
2…
1…
Initiating.

PULL BACK, we see a brilliant flash of light lance form the ship.

EXT. – LORD OF THE WORLDS CITY – DAY

Light flashes down upon the city. The remaining inhabitants scream in terror before everything is washed out in white.

INT. – CF. NET SHIP – MED BAY – DAY

A monitor shows the destruction of the city and the surrounding landscape.

DOCTOR WHAT
Ye, Gods…

WARD
They’re like cockroaches. They’ve
had thousands of years to spread out
and you run across them every
now and then.

DOCTOR WHAT
How could you…

WARD
Because they did it to us.

DOCTOR WHAT
Us?

WARD
Yes. Me. You. And Grimm there.

DOCTOR WHAT
I don’t…I don’t get it.

WARD
These Bastards turned our planet into rubble
and killed billions of our people. What we
do to them is merely interest due on the
payback they deserve.

DOCTOR WHAT
(shaking head)
But… you’re the Destroyer.

WARD
(grins)
Yes I am.
They nearly destroyed our world; we in turn
showed them how it’s done. We turned their
world into slag and we called it peace.

DOCTOR WHAT
How…

WARD just laughs.

SUDDENLY!

BOOOM!

The ship rocks and alarms begin blaring.

BULGAROKTONOS (on com)
Sir! We’ve got company!
It’s the AH.com!

AH.COM SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

GREY WOLF is sitting in the Command Chair, Weapon M is at the weapons station.

GREY WOLF
Show those bloody buggers
we mean business.

WEAPON M
Got it, sir.

GREY WOLF
G.Bone.

G.BONE
Sir!

GREY WOLF
How’s that Teleportation Tube coming along?

G.BONE
Just crack open their shields
and I can get the Doc out.

GREY WOLF
Weapon M…MATT.

WEAPON M
(grinning)
On it!

MATT
Kicking some CF.net ass,
is what we do, baby!

AH.COM SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

The ship rocks and shakes from the attack.

GRIMM REAPER
A bit late saving
the day, aren’t they?

WARD
They’re here for What.
(to NRED)
Secure him. Grimm, we’ve got
a fight on our hands…

GRIMM REAPER
Yippee.

The two head out of the Med Bay.

DOCTOR WHAT
(to NRED)
So. I’ve never fought a girl before.
Not that I can remember anything…

NRED
What?

DOCTOR WHAT suddenly launches himself forward, dragging chair and chain with him. He and NRED collide, the girl dropping her gun and bashing her head against the bulkhead. She falls to the floor unconscious.

DOCTOR WHAT
(panting)
Easy. Now.
Where are those keys…

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

WARD and GRIMM REAPER walk in, WARD take the command chair.

WARD
Report.

MERRYPRANKSTER
The AH.com is firing upon us, making evasive
maneuvers, they’re looking for a weak spot.

WARD
And they won’t find any.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

GBW
I’ve found a weak spot.

GREY WOLF
Pray tell.

GBW
I’ve been scanning the ship and it seem their
Port shield grid is weakest just before the
Vortex Array. If we hit that spot continuously ,
we can take out the shields and then
teleport Doc out of there.

GREY WOLF
Do it.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – CORRIDOR – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT stumbles down a corridor, weapon in hand.

DOCTOR WHAT
Damn. Need a map.

He stops and looks at a bulkhead. On it is a large sheet of paper marked: MAP OF SHIP – EMERGENCY USE ONLY. He looks about, shrugs and tears it off.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

The com buzzes.

WARD (into com)
What is is?

NRED (on com)
Sir, Doctor What’s escaped.

WARD
Damn it.
Grimm, take command.
I’ll deal with What.

GRIMM REAPER
Yes, sir.

WARD leaves the bridge.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – DUNGEON – DAY

The ship shakes and the gathered men and women moan in fear.

ATTA
What is going on?
Has our fleet arrived?

ADIKOR
I don’t see how.
We didn’t send out a distress beacon.

Suddenly the doors open and DOCTOR WHAT walks in, grinning.

DOCTOR WHAT
Rise and shine, boys and girls.
We’re getting out of here.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – SHUTTLE BAY – DAY

The heavy doors to the shuttle bay open and the Neanderthals hurry in. DOCTOR WHAT is firing at someone, there’s a yell and the firing stops. He scans the area outside the bay and then hits a button closing it.

ATTA
Where now?

DOCTOR WHAT looks about. Then he sees a shuttle, something flashes in his mind quickly.

Quick scenes, the Hub, GRIMM REPAER, Porn.

DOCTOR WHAT
(shaking head)
This way.

ATTA
We can’t escape in this. The Destroyer
will simply be able to shoor us down.

DOCTOR WHAT
(grinning)
No he won’t.

DOCTOR WHAT walks to the shuttle, we pan across it and see the words EXTERMINATOR upon it’s hull.

DOCTOR WHAT (cont.)
This one’s got a shift engine in it.

ATTA
Impossible.

DOCTOR WHAT
Trust me.

ATTA
(looking at Doctor What)
I do.

ADIKOR
Controls seem familiar.
I can fly this.

DOCTOR WHAT
Go. Flee.

ATTA
What about you?

DOCTOR WHAT
I’m staying. I’ll keep them off your back.

ATTA
Why?

DOCTOR WHAT
Because.
(looks at the gathered Neanderthals)
What Ward has done is a great and terrible evil.
He’s killed untold thousands on the planet below.
He was going to kill each of you slowly. If that
doesn’t describe something evil, then I don’t know
what does. My memory may be shot and I may
be doing something wrong, but I know this. I know
what is good and what is evil. And Ward is not good.

ATTA
Thank you.

DOCTOR WHAT
I seem to have a soft spot for the underdogs…

The survivors hurry into the shuttle.

DOCTOR WHAT looks around and smiles at ATTA.

Suddenly. DOCTOR WHAT drops to his knees and groans, his eyes clenched shut tightly.

Flashes, a Montage.

BLACK SHIPS RAINING DOWN DEATH

NEANDERTHAL STORMTROPPERS CUTTING DOWN CIVILIANS.

HUGE GLITTERING CITIES TURN TO RUBBLE.

THOUSANDS OF DEAD LYING IN THE STREETS.

NEANDERTHALS EATING HUMAN FLESH,

HUGE BLACK SHIPS DISGORGING THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF TROOPS.

THE BLACK FLAG, STYLIZED SUN AND WHITE HAND.

DOCTOR WHAT stumbles about, collapsing upon the floor.

ATTA
(running to Dr. What)
What’s wrong!

DOCTOR WHAT
(horrified)
Get away from me!

ATTA
What’s wrong?

DOCTOR WHAT
You! You’re murderers!
You nearly destroyed my world!
(lifts gun)
You killed billions!

The Neanderthals all stare at him, DOCTOR WHAT holds the gun, shaking.

DOCTOR WHAT
You’re the Invaders.
The Bastards!
The Killers who laid waste to my world!

ATTA
Please listen.

DOCTOR WHAT
No!

ATTA
That was not us.

DOCTOR WHAT
Lies!

ATTA
Our people waged war on your planet, yes.
But not us. We were not a warrior people.
We only wanted to live in peace.

DOCTOR WHAT
Lies!

ATTA
Our culture is divided into castes.
The Warrior Caste made war upon your planet.
We are not warriors.

DOCTOR WHAT and ATTA stare at one another. DOCTOR WHAT still holds his gun, hands shaking. Suddenly he lets it drop, looking tired.

DOCTOR WHAT
Go.

ATTA
What?

DOCTOR WHAT
GO!

The Neanderthals flee onto the ship.

WARD
Sentimental fool!

WHACK!

DOCTOR WHAT gets hit by WARD and stumbles to the deck, dropping his rifle.

He turns just in time to roll away from WARD’s kick.

WARD
You had a chance to destroy our enemy
and now you just let them run off?

DOCTOR WHAT
They were not the ones
who attacked our earth!

WARD
Bullshit, boy!
That hairy love monkey of yours
is filling your head with lies.
They’re all killers and murderers.

DOCTOR WHAT
(glaring)
The only one I see is you!

The two charge each other and collide in a fury of fists.

Behind them the Exterminator comes to life, ADIKOR at the controls.

INT. – CF. NET SHIP- CONTROL ROOM – DAY

BULGAROKTONOS
Sir. We’re reading an energy spike,
it’s interfering with our sheilds.

GRIMM REAPER
What is is?

BULGAROKTONOS
It looks like someone’s trying to
open a shift vortex within the ship…

GRIMM REAPER
Impossible…
(realization)
The Exterminator!

BULGAROKTONOS
The shift shuttle?

GRIMM REAPER
Get some people with big guns down there now!
If they open a vortex inside the ship,
they may destroy us all!
More power to the shields!

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – SHUTTLE BAY – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT shoves WARD against the bulkhead, they’re both bloody and beaten, but still fighting. DOCTOR WHAT punches WARD, bashing his head against the steel of the bulkhead.

The older man collapses to the deck as DCOTOR WHAT staggers back, equally exhausted.

WARD
This fight’s not over!

The two launch themselves at each other again.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

GBW looks at a monitor.

GBW
Sir. We’re reading fluctuations in
the CF.net’s shields.

GREY WOLF
Keep firing!

WEAPON M
Got it!

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – SHUTTLE BAY – DAY

WARD hits the deck with a wet splat, DOCTOR WHAT standing over him, equally beaten and bloodied.

DOCTOR WHAT
How does it feel to lose?
Come on, old man!

WARD rolls over and DOCTOR WHAT staggers back as WARD points the rifle at him.

WARD
Never take the time to gloat, boy.

DOCTOR WHAT
Hmm.
I’ll have to remember that..

INT. – CF. NET SHIP- CONTROL ROOM – DAY

GRIMM REAPER grabs the armrest of the command chair as the ship rocks.

MERRYPRANKSTER
We’ve just lost port shields!
Trying to divert power!

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – SHUTTLE BAY – DAY

WARD fires, but just as he does, DOCTOR WHAT vanishes in a pop.

Sparks begin to fly as the Exterminator’s Shift Engines finish charging.

WARD gets up, sees it, and begins running for the door.

There’s a loud explosion as WARD launches himself out of the Shuttle Bay. He clamors and hits a button, the huge doors slam shut.

EXT. – SPACE – DAY

A brilliant red flash is seen and a chunk of the CF.net ship vanishes as a vortex forms. For a brief moment it claws at the ship and suddenly vanishes. The CF.net badly mauled.

INT – AH.COM SHIP – TELEPORTATION ROOM – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT looks about and realizes he’s in the Teleportation Tube Room. G.BONE looks at him grinning.

G.BONE
Welcome back, Doc.

DOCTOR WHAT
(pats himself)
Good to be home…

He grins and then collapses to the floor.

EXT. – SPACE – DAY

The AH.com ship turns and vanishes in a vortex, leaving the CF.net behind.

TAG

INT – AH.COM SHIP – MESS HALL – NIGHT

A huge party is in the works, everyone laughing and everyone drinking.

INT – AH.COM SHIP – MESS HALL – NIGHT

WARD dabbing the blood off his lip with a piece of cloth while staring intently at a slide show playing. All is quiet then:

GRIMM REAPER
What are we going to do, sir?

WARD
(looking at blood on cloth)
We repair.
We hunt down Doctor What.
Then we kill him.
We make sure he’s deader than dead.

GRIMM REAPER slowly nods.

INT. – EXTERMINATOR – NIGHT

The glow of a monitor shows the face of ATTA.

ATTA
The Lord is dead.

Another face appears beside ATTA, ADIKOR.

ADIKOR
All hail the Mistress of the Worlds.
What is your bidding, my mistress.

ATTA
Gather the fleet. We
have found the Destroyer.

ADIKOR
Ye, Gods…
What are your plans, Mistress?

ATTA
We hunt him down and destroy him.
Then we find Earth and destroy it.

ADIKOR
The Empire will be reborn.

ATTA
And Humanity will be
erased form all Universes.

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS

5 comments

  1. Psychomeltdown says:

    Oh, the Neanderthals.

    I like them, even if a lot of people didn’t. It provided a boarder view of what’s going on in the multiverse, along with sort of building up an enemy for the AH.commers. Not to mention all the assorted stuff that occurs later.

  2. Thande says:

    Some people didn’t like the Neanderthals because they began some more serious storylines. I personally didn’t object to that, but my problem was that they seemed like a ripoff of the Kromags from “Sliders”, which had themselves not been too appropriate in their setting. Still, the storyline for this episode was interesting enough, with Doc What having his “I am Kirok!” moment…

  3. Dave Howery says:

    Heck, bringing in the Neanderthals was worth it just to have a Doc/Neanderthal hilarious making whoopie moment… :)

    • Psychomeltdown says:

      Well, the second season had an ambition to it that hasn’t been reattempted yet. With multiple story arcs, delving into Doc and Ward’s pasts, introducing enemies and newer enemies, and having all sorts of adventures, rising to a crescendo in a massive in of the season battle…

      And the Neanderthal storyline was finally resolved in the fourth season.

  4. Thande says:

    The second season’s still my favourite. A good balance of regular “writer chimps” and guest writers, overarching story arcs and one-off episodes, character introductions and departures, humour and drama…of course, the fact that we had 40 episodes to play with rather than 26 doubtless helped.

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