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Dinos & Nazis & Deros, Oh My!

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TEASER


EXT.-SHUTTLE ‘BARON MUNCHAUSEN’ –DAY

We see the shuttle ‘Baron Munchausen’ flying through Earth’s atmosphere over a terrain made up mostly of ice and snow.

INT.- SHUTTLE ‘BARON MUNCHAUSEN’ –DAY

We see LANDSHARK and MATT at the controls. Sitting behind them are DOCTOR WHAT, WEAPON M, IRONYUPPIE, and DIAMOND. We notice that the back of the shuttle is crammed with various boxes—all of them (except one) marked ‘Porn’ or ‘Booze’. The last one is marked ‘Shoes’.

DOCTOR WHAT
(smiling)
Well THAT was certainly a great stopover!

DIAMOND
(drinking a beer)
I agree! Only you can possibly find Asian lesbian
nurse orgy femdom musical porn, Doc!

DOCTOR WHAT
(shrugging shoulders)
It’s a gift.

IRONYUPPIE
(smiling)
Thanks.

WEAPON M
(drinking a beer)
Going to miss that uber-capitalistic Union of Soviet
Eastern States and libertarian China-Japan Hegemony though.

MATT
And what about that redlight district in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!

All of the ah.commers (including IRONYUPPIE) give a loud wistful contented sigh.

DIAMOND
Hey Landshark—how long until
we get back to the ship?

LANDSHARK
(sipping a tea)
With this shortcut over the north pole we’re taking,
we should be there in just a few minutes.

Klaxons suddenly start going off.

LANDSHARK
What the hell–?!

MATT
Controls aren’t responding!

LANDSHARK
Engines are offline! We’ve got some kind
of force pulling us in! We can’t break free!
Hang on everyone!

MATT
Ah, fuck. I don’t wanna die.

DIAMOND
Hell, I don’t mind dying, it’s dying along side Landshark that sucks.

They both nod.

EXT.-SHUTTLE ‘BARON MUNCHAUSEN’ –DAY

We see the shuttle fly nearly straight down. The clouds drift apart and we see that the shuttle is flying straight towards a large hole (several hundred feet across) in the surface of the ice. We see snow and mist swirling into the hole.

The shuttle flies into the hole at high speed.

EXT.-TUNNEL –DAY

We see the shuttle fly down the tunnel for a minute or so. We notice a bright white light at the end of the tunnel up ahead of the shuttle.

EXT.-JUNGLE-DAY

We see a very lush and brightly lit jungle. There is a large hole in the ground. We see the shuttle fly out of the hole at high speed.

It continues for several thousand feet up into the air until the momentum runs out. It hangs in the air for just a few seconds—then falls downwards.

We see the shuttle plow a long trench through the jungle, spraying dirt and shredded plants in every direction. After a few seconds it comes to a rest.

EXT.-SHUTTLE ‘BARON MUNCHAUSEN’ –DAY

We see a close-up of the shuttle. It is heavily damaged but still more or less intact. The door opens up a few seconds later and we see the ah.commers come out. Several of them are carrying BFGs.

DOCTOR WHAT
What the fuck happened?

DIAMOND
(holding hand to head)
You call that a landing, Sharky?

LANDSHARK
Hey—you’re still in one piece aren’t you?
(sticks hand down trousers)
Yep still not there.
(turns to examine shuttle)

We see the rest of the ah.commers staring open-jawed at something off-screen.

LANDSHARK
(muttering to himself)
No major structural damage…engine seems okay…
might be a burnt out converter…should be pretty easy
to make some kind of temporary repair job that will
hold together until we get back…going to need some help here, people.
(looks around and notices the ah.commers just standing around staring)
Oy! Going to need some help here!

DOCTOR WHAT shakily points a finger

DOCTOR WHAT
Uh–Sharky—I think we have other
things to worry about now…

LANDSHARK turns around and looks at what everyone is staring at.

We see the jungle stretch away from the ah.commers—-and upwards. The horizon –instead of curving downwards—actually curves upwards. It continues upwards and actually appears to continue to meet thousands of miles above their heads. High overhead—roughly in the center—is a small bright sun.

One gets the distinct impression of being on the inner surface of an immense hollow ball.

LANDSHARK
This Earth…is hollow?!

MATT
They really should include that in the brochures…

DOCTOR WHAT
(in near total shock)
This…is…is… is insane! Only one
thing can make this even more insane!

DIAMOND
What’s that?

We hear loud roaring sounds coming from a stand of trees. We see a T-Rex dinosaur (about 15 feet high or so) come out of it. It has a complicated looking metal head-dress device on its head. Two large cannons (one on either side of its head) can be seen. Riding on the back in a bizarrely shaped saddle is a Nazi soldier. This is NATIONAL SOCIALIST.

NATIONAL SOCIALIST
ACHTUNG!

We see several more T-Rexes—all carrying Nazis—appear behind the first one.

DOCTOR WHAT
Yeah—that would be it….

CUT TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

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“DINOS & NAZIS & DEROS, OH MY!”

Written By : DOCTOR WHAT


ACT I


EXT – JUNGLE – DAY

We see the Dino Riding Nazis come closer. NATIONAL SOCIALIST opens fire with the laser cannons at the ah.commers.

The laser blasts destroy a tree directly behind the ah.commers. They duck and roll for cover.

MATT is the first to get up, a BFG in his arms.

MATT
Eat this!

A blast hits the lead dinosaur in the chest. It gets stunned for a second or two, then recovers and, with a loud roar, charges at the ah.commers.

MATT
You gotta be kidding me!
(fires again)

This time several blasts hit the lead dino. It collapses to the ground dead, knocking NATIONAL SOCIALIST off of it and on the ground as well. The other dinos spread out to either side of the ah.commers and start blasting with their laser cannons.

DIAMOND knocks MATT to the ground as the entire area around is raked with laser blasts, spraying dirt, debris and plants in every direction. The Nazi Dinos fire for several more seconds and then stop.
NATIONAL SOCIALIST gets up and pulls out his gun (a 9 mm Luger) .

NATIONAL SOCIALIST
(heavy german accent)
Zurrender now! Ve have you completely
zurrounded! There iz no hope for ezcape!

Silence for a few seconds.

NATIONAL SOCIALIST
Er…hello?

He turns to look at the other Nazis. The other Nazis just shrug their shoulders.

The ah.commers suddenly leap out of the undergrowth with BFGs blazing. NATIONAL SOCIALIST manages to duck down at the last second while two more of the dinosaurs get hit and collapse, knocking their riders sprawling to the ground. The last dino still standing turns and runs away while the three Nazis that were sprawled on the ground frantically crawl back into the stand of trees and disappear.

A few seconds later the dust and smoke from all the gunfire slowly fades away. We see the ah.commers still standing up.

WEAPON M
Right. Nazis.

LANDSHARK
I fucking HATE Nazis.

MATT
Nazis! On Dinos! With friggin lasers!

DIAMOND
Sounds like the plot from a bad science fiction
TV show about weird alternate worlds.

IRONYUPPIE
Oh please—nobody would be interested in something
that dumb—it will never be popular.

DOCTOR WHAT
Ooooo-kay. That attack was weird even
for us. What more can possibly happen?

We hear loud shrieks from above. We see several brown pterodactyls come flying down from the sky. We see that there are green reptilian-like humanoids riding on their backs. They are carrying WW2 submachine guns.

DOCTOR WHAT
I really got to stop saying stuff like that.

All the ah.commers hit the ground and duck for cover behind trees again as the reptile-men open fire with their guns, spewing more dirt and shredded plants in every direction. The reptile-men start circling around the area where the ah.commers are hiding. We notice another pterodactyl show up. This one is a bit bigger and is colored black instead of brown. Riding on its back is a man in a red robe. He appears to be in his 40’s, is clean shaven and has hair that is closely cropped. He hovers over the area, a short distance from the reptile-men. He’s watching the entire area very intently and seems to be focusing his attention on the ah.commers’ shuttle.

We suddenly hear shrieks again—this time from a different direction and different from the pterodactyl’s shrieks. The mysterious robed man and the reptile-men look up. So do the ah.commers.

We see a flock of giant golden eagles flying in. Riding on them are men in barbarian like clothing (skins, furs, etc) carrying bows and arrows. In the lead, riding a slightly bigger eagle, is a bearded man in his late 50’s. He appears to be wearing nothing more than a loincloth and both his beard and hair is pure white. He’s carrying in one hand a very large and old-fashioned .45 caliber revolver—which he fires several times in quick succession. The men with him fire a few volleys from their bows.

The lead reptile man gets three shots into his chest and falls off his pterodactyl, crashing into the ground below. Two more reptile men and one pterodactyl get hit by arrows and fall to the ground dead as well. The other reptile men quickly turn and fly away. The bearded barbarian flies towards the robed man and raises his gun.

The robed man pulls something from his pocket and throws it into the air.

It’s a grenade and it detonates in mid-air with a devastating explosion, stunning the barbarian man’s eagle for a few seconds and creating a large cloud of smoke. In the confusion, we see the robed man fly away.

Two or three of the eagle-riders fly after the pterodactyls for a few seconds but are called back with a shout from the bearded barbarian. The bearded barbarian lands his eagle near the ah.commers.

BEARDED BARBARIAN
Those bastards won’t be scared off for long.
They’ll be back with a much bigger force next
time. If you guys want to live, you better grab
all your gear and come with us.

MATT
(sotto voice)
Doc—can we trust them?

DOCTOR WHAT
(sotto voice)
Do we have a choice?

MATT
(sotto voice)
Can’t we get the ship to teleport us out?

DOCTOR WHAT
(sotto voice)
Already tried contacting the ship. Can’t reach them.
Either we’re too deep underground or there’s something
messing up our comms. Either way—we’re on our
own. We have no choice but to go with them.

MATT
(sotto voice)
Better than Nazis, I guess.

The ah.commers run back into the shuttle and grab some stuff and then rush out and leap onto the backs of the eagles. A few seconds later they fly off.

EXT-FORT-DAY

We see a large fort-like structure that has been built flush against a large mountain. Part of the structure is made from worked stone and looks quite old and has a vague monastery-like appearance to it. Directly in front of it—obviously done more recently and in a haphazard and hurried manner—is a large wooden fort and palisade wall. We see thousands of people—men, women and even children—milling around in and out of the fort. Many are training with weapons (mostly swords or bows)

The giant eagles—with the ah.commers on their backs–land in the middle of the courtyard. They leap off and the bearded barbarian leads them into a nearby tent.

INT. – LARGE TENT-DAY

We see that the tent has several other people in it. The bearded barbarian leads the ah.commers into the tent.

BEARDED BARBARIAN
I guess introductions are in order.
Let me introduce ourselves.
(points to a heavy-set bearded middle-aged man)
This is John Cleves Symmes the Fifth
(points to a young woman)
This is Anna Gordon Pym
(points to an old bearded man)
This is Hans Lindenbrock
(points to another old bearded man—this one wearing a WW2 era U.S. Admiral uniform)
And this is Richard E. Byrd Junior.
(stands with arms at his hips)
And I am John Clayton. Also known as Lord Greystroke.

DOCTOR WHAT
Uh…our turn.
(starts pointing to each of the ah.commers as he states their name)
This is IronYuppie and Diamond and MATT and
Weapon M and Landshark. I’m DOCTOR WHAT.
(beat)
Those names—I recognize some of them.

LORD GREYSTROKE
They should. Like you, each one of our ancestors—through
various means—have all ended up here in the Hollow Earth.
Symmes’ great great great grandfather, for example, led an
expedition into one of the Northern Holes while Pym’s distant
ancestor had the unfortunate luck to be on a whaling ship near
the south pole when his ship got pulled into here. Lindenbrock’s
grandfather was just a kid who ended up here with his uncle while
exploring a volcano in Iceland while Byrd’s father was an admiral
whose plane crashed here while exploring Antarctica shortly after
WW2. My grandfather came across this place by accident. He
managed to find a way back to the surface world but came back
here with his kid—my father—and made a new life here.
(beat)
He always liked the jungle anyway.

DOCTOR WHAT
Are there ways back to the surface?

LORD GREYSTROKE
Of course! Multiple routes in fact! Most are very dangerous and
all of them are long and arduous but it can be done. We’ve stayed here because—well—this is our home now.

DOCTOR WHAT
What about those Nazis? What’s the deal with that?

LORD GREYSTROKE
(deep sigh)
Yeah—those guys.
(beat)
Remember that red robed dude on the black pterodactyl?
That’s Demos. He used to be a small time warlord. He’ll
shake down a few villages here, a small kingdom there. He
and his Dero army were more of an annoyance than anything
else. That is until about a year ago. Suddenly they’ve got
machine guns and grenades and they’re getting back up help
from those Nazis. Every mercenary, thug and wannabe dictator
has been signing up onto his army since then. And more and
more of those Nazi soldiers have been showing up at every battle.
(beat)
The two major kingdoms of Shonshe and Shingwa have already
fallen. A lot of the refugees from those kingdoms are outside.

DOCTOR WHAT
Where the hell did those Nazis come from?

LORD GREYSTROKE
Shortly after the end of World War Two, a ship left Germany.
On that ship was a small army of the Reich’s most loyal soldiers
and scientists, as well as a few members of the high command,
including Himmler and even Hitler himself, according to the
rumours. They made their way to the South Pole and ended up
here. For the last 60 years or so, they have quietly been building
up an army. Now—they’re finally on the move. They are massing
for an attack on the Temple of Shamballa that you saw outside.

RICHARD BYRD JR.
And if they succeed—all of
Hollow Earth will surely fall!

DOCTOR WHAT
Why’s that? What’s so special about the temple?

Lord Greystroke and his companions exchange a glance.

LORD GREYSTROKE
(to BYRD)
They should be told—it’s not like they won’t
be able to find out on their own.

ANNA PYM
(to GREYSTROKE)
I agree—and they can be an asset to our forces.

HANS LINDENBROCK
(to GREYSTROKE)
They are but only six. What
can six people possibly do?

LORD GREYSTROKE
(to LINDENBROCK)
(smiling)
We five have managed to
accomplish quite a bit, haven’t we?

HANS LINDERBROCK
(nodding head)
Ja. You have a point.

Lord Greystroke turns to face the ah.commers.

LORD GREYSTROKE
Come with me—there’s something you have to see.

GREYSTROKE heads off, the AH.commers look about, shrug, and follow.

DIAMOND
(sotto voice)
Hopefully this doesn’t turn out like that last time in the Pub.

MATT
(sotto voice)
Dude, I told you I saw an Adam’s Apple.

INT.- TENT-DAY

We see NATIONAL SOCIALIST walk into a tent. He’s clearly nervous. He walks up to a figure who has his back to us and kneels before him.

NATIONAL SOCIALIST
Sir. I apologize for ze failed attack earlier.

MYSTERIOUS FIGURE
(when he speaks there’s a odd electronic harmonic to it)
It was a simple mission and you allowed the
newcomers to be rescued by that Greystroke fool.

NATIONAL SOCIALIST
It waz not my fault! They had powerful
weapons that caught us off guard-

TIGHT ON—Gloved hand pulling out a sword out of its scabbard. It swings and—

We hear a brief scream.

ANOTHER VOICE
Interesting managerial technique you have there.
Gives a whole new meaning to head hunting, huh?

TIGHT ON-gloved hand putting bloodstained sword back into scabbard.

Camera slowly moves up the figure. We notice several odd things about the MYSTERIOUS FIGURE. Several parts of his body seem to be made from metal- his left leg, the entire right side of his torso (including his right arm) , the left side of his head and his entire jaw and neck. He’s wearing a WW2 style Nazi uniform.

This is the CYBORG HIMMLER.

CYBORG HIMMLER
You have your style and I have my style, Demos.
What have you to report?

DEMOS
My troops examined the wreckage of that ship the newcomers
came in. Sadly, they seemed to have stripped the ship of most
of its weapons. All we were able to acquire was its cargo, which
we turned over to your troops.

CYBORG HIMMLER
Yes—the alcohol will be an excellent morale booster to our
forces once we succeed with our plans. However we had to
destroy all the porn we found.
(shudders)
They are some truly disturbed individuals on that ship.
(beat)
How goes the preparations for battle?

DEMOS
Preparations are going well. I shall have
my army in position within a few hours.

CYBORG HIMMLER
Excellent! Today—the Temple of Shamballa.
The day after tomorrow—the world!

DEMOS
Do we have to do the maniacal laugh?
It hurts my throat when I do.

CYBORG HIMMLER
Humour me.

DEMOS
(sighing)
Fine.

CYBORG HIMMLER/DEMOS
(together)
Muah ha ha ha ha haaaaa!!!
(coughing)

INT.- DEEP UNDERGROUND CHAMBER-DAY

We see a large chamber. On one side are two very large ornate doors. Off to one side, we see a small corridor lead off into darkness.

There are several torches burning in holders on several spots on the walls. Standing next to the ornate double doors are two men in monk-like robes.

LORD GREYSTROKE and the ah.commers come into the room. LORD GREYSTROKE motions the two monks to open the doors.

They swing the doors open and the ah.commers are bathed in a bright white light.

LORD GREYSTROKE
Behold—the Shakti Stone!

We see that the stone is a large white crystal about the size of a human being. It is resting in a metal holder in a small chamber just big enough to hold the Stone.

DOCTOR WHAT
(staring at the stone with a shocked look on his face)
That stone…it must hold…it must harness…

LORD GREYSTROKE
…massive amounts of energy, yes. According to the
monks, the Stone can heal. Or destroy. It can even
give you visions of the future.
(beat)
Depending on the actions and
minds of those who possess it.

He motions to the monks again. Slowly, they close the doors again. The room is no longer bathed in light.

LORD GREYSTROKE
You’re beginning to understand why they’ll be interested
in this. If they capture this Stone, who knows how much
more damage they can accomplish? That’s why we’re
drawing the line here. Now.

DIAMOND
Can’t you move the Stone?
Someplace else? Someplace safe?

LORD GREYSTROKE
(sighing)
Unfortunately this Temple is probably the safest
place we have. If it comes to it, however,
I’ll destroy it myself.

MATT
How?

LORD GREYSTROKE
(motions in direction of the small side corridor)
That tunnel leads to a lava river.
I’ll drag it down myself if I have to.
(beat)
So? Will you people be able
to stay here and help us out?

WEAPON M
A chance to save the world AND
kick some Nazi-ass? I’m in.

MATT
Me too.

DIAMOND
Me three.

LANDSHARK
No way I can have you
bloody colonials hog all the glory!

DOCTOR WHAT
You people realize that we’re up against not one but TWO armies?
One that has dinosaurs with friggin lasers on their heads and the other
that is made up out of every thug and merc in this entire world? And
that we have nothing on our side except a few thousand civilian refugees
and a few descendants of famous surface world people? This will be
the most futile, insane, ridiculous, idiotic
and stupid gesture in the history of humanity.

IRONYUPPIE
And we’re just the people to do it!

DOCTOR WHAT
(smiling)
Let’s do it.

Ah.commers all high-five one another.

AH.COMMERS
(together)
LET’S DO IT!

They all rush out

WEAPON M
(running)
Damn we need some dramatic music right now.

IRONYUPPIE
Damn stright.

DOCTOR WHAT
(smiling)
Hold on…
(digs in pocket)
I got my MP3 player.
(hits on button)

Music from Cher’s “Believe” begins playing.

The AH.commers stop and glance at one another, then they shrug and continue onward.

EXT.-FORT-DAY

We see the ah.commers milling around, looking at the troops practicing weapon training and so forth. LORD GREYSTROKE and WEAPON M are standing next to each other.

LORD GREYSTROKE
Pity you people weren’t able to bring more weapons with you.
We managed to scavenge some guns from various skirmishes
we’ve had with those Nazis and Deros but most of the people
here will still be using swords or bows and arrows.

WEAPON M glances at LORD GREYSTROKE for a second and then reaches into a hip holster and pulls out a .38 caliber gun. He drops it to the ground. He reaches into a shoulder holster and pulls out a .357 magnum and drops it to the ground as well. He reaches around to the back of his waistband and pulls out two more handguns- .38 and a .45 caliber – and drops them. He reaches into his right boot and pulls out a sawed off shotgun. It joins its companions on the ground. He bends over slightly and pulls out another handgun with an absurdly long barrel from its place in the back of his neck. He drops it as well. WEAPON M stands there for a second—seemingly in deep thought—then reaches into his left pant leg and pulls out a .308 rifle and puts it on the ground as well.

LORD GREYSTROKE
(sarcastic voice)
Is that all?

WEAPON M blushes slightly, looks furtively around and bends down and pulls something from his left boot. He shows it to LORD GREYSTROKE. It’s a tiny silver handgun—barely 4 inches long. WEAPON M’s index finger can barely fit onto the trigger.

WEAPON M
(blushing)
It was a birthday present from my kids…

LORD GREYSTROKE
You wouldn’t have ammo for all this?

WEAPON M
Actually I do—here, let me check…
(starts pulling out boxes of different types of ammo from various pockets)

MONTAGE

MATT, WEAPON M, LORD GREYSTROKE and RICHARD BYRD looking over maps of the fort and the general area and making marks and notes on them.

The ah.commers all being given various swords, which they then strap to their belts.

WEAPON M and MATT teaching some civilians how to use various guns.

The ah.commers getting some pointers in fighting with the swords.

Various civilians shoring up various defenses around the fort. They’re being helped by the ah.commers and/or the ‘Surface World Five’

IRONYUPPIE looking over several weapons and after much thought, picking up a very large whip. She swings it around for a few seconds testing it (almost hitting DOCTOR WHAT in the process) . With an evil grin on her face, she storms off.

LANDSHARK sitting crosslegged in deep meditation. Lined up in front of him are a wide assortment of various shoes.

MATT and DIAMOND sharing a cigarette.

DOCTOR WHAT standing in front of a homemade still and filling various bottles with a clear liquid. He passes the bottles to several young children, who stick rags into them and carry them away.

LORD GREYSTROKE walking and surveying a group of soldiers.

IRONYUPPIE practicing her whip attacks in an empty building. She does a double take and notices hanging on a wall are what looks like a chain-mail tank top and shorts. She looks at them for a moment—then grins.

The ah.commers carrying large rocks and putting them into various catapults.

MATT and IRON YUPPIE both involved in a furious competition of hopscotch with the others cheering them on.

A lookout with a pair of binoculars shouts and points to something.

EXT.-FORT-DAY

We see the ah.commers and numerous armed civilians standing on a catwalk near the top of the fort wall. All of them have grim looks on the faces.

The camera spins around and shows us what they are seeing.

We see, spread out in front of us, a vast army. We can see dinosaurs and Deros and Nazis and numerous other creatures and soldiers. The bulk of the army is standing about half a mile away or so (out of range of most weapons) but even this far away, the army stretches nearly from one end of the horizon to the other.

We suddenly see a small metal figure slowly walk towards the fort.

It’s about 3 feet high or so and appears to be roughly human-shaped—but with an overly large head that appears to be just one giant glass ball. Slowly it walks towards the fort.

It comes to a stop a few yards away from the fort wall. The ball crackles with static and a video image appears.

It’s HITLER.

ROBOT HERALD
(speaking with Hitler’s voice)
Fools! You have no chance of success! You inferior
weaklings cannot withstand the full might of my
superior army! You will die an inglorious and painful
death! However—I can be merciful. If you surrender
now, your life as a slave to the Fourth Reich will be a
relatively peaceful existence. Only the stupid and
feebleminded and old and weak among you will face
execution. What say you to my demands?

The people along the wall exchange glances with one another.

Eighteen arrows, four rocks, three spears, two small axes and one small (but very tastefully made and sensible looking) shoe hit the ROBOT HERALD. It explodes in a shower of sparks and falls over.

DOCTOR WHAT
Nice shot there. Was that an oxford?

LANDSHARK
Oxford?! You ignorant barbarian oaf—that was a balmoral!
(beat)
Bloody colonial….

The combined Nazi/Dero armies come charging towards the fort.

LANDSHARK
(grumbling)
At least you didn’t say clogs….

END ACT I


ACT II


We see a massive army of the Deros (reptile-men) charging in front of the advancing army. Most are armed with swords. Behind the Deros, we see thousands of barbarian-like soldiers armed with swords and clubs and axes. Behind these mercenaries, we see at least a hundred Nazi T-Rexes with laser cannons as well as several thousand Nazi infantry armed with machine guns. Above the entire army, flying in at high speed, are dozens of pterodactyls being ridden by Dero troops—all armed with machine guns.

The fort defenders let loose with a massive barrage of arrows and catapult-thrown stones. The ah.commers open fire with their BFGs while those few defenders armed with rifles shoot as well.

Hundreds of the attackers are killed and wounded in the first barrage –but they keep coming.

At least a dozen pterodactyls and twice that many Dero riders are killed in the first barrage as well—but many get through and strafe the fort with weapon fire –killing or wounding dozens of the defenders. They fly off and slowly begin to come around for another pass.

A second barrage of arrows, stones, BFGs and gunfire cuts down several hundred more of the attackers—but they keep coming.

And now they are closer to the fort.

The pterodactyl riding Deros come around for a second pass.

A third barrage of weapons fire from the fort defenders cuts down even more of the attackers than before. Several more of the pterodactyls and riders are killed as well and one or two of the pterodactyls fall stunned to the ground inside the fort. Many more, however, survive and strafe the fort again. They fly off and slowly circle around for a third pass.

The laser cannon armed T-Rexes open fire on the fort….

EXT- FORT-DAY

One large section of the wooden walls explodes inwards, scattering debris in every direction. Hundreds of Nazi and Dero and mercenary troops pour in.

A few seconds later one of the T-Rexes comes into the fort. The Nazi riding it looks around for a second, then moves into the courtyard strafing buildings and defenders alike with his cannons. Behind him, on a catwalk, we see WEAPON M running towards the dinosaur. He leaps off the catwalk and lands on the dinosaur’s back—much to the surprise of the Nazi there. WEAPON M grabs the Nazi’s head and bashes him into the dino’s back several times, then kicks the bloodied Nazi off the dinosaur. He grabs a hold of the harness of the dino and turns it around. He charges towards the oncoming attackers, firing his laser cannons at them.

WEAPON M
EEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAA!!!

He plows right into the advancing line…

EXT-DIFFERENT PART OF THE FORT-DAY

We see DOCTOR WHAT and ANNA PYM on another part of the wall, blasting away with their guns, ANNA PYM looks up to see WEAPON M on his dinosaur.

WEAPON M is using his left hand to fire the laser cannons at Nazis, Dinos and Deros alike. In his right hand is a large handgun that he is firing at yet more enemy soldiers. The dinosaur itself is chomping on or two unfortunate enemy soldiers who had the misfortune to come too close to it. Even from several hundred feet away we can hear WEAPON M screaming.

WEAPON M
WOO HOO!
DINOSAURS FUCKING RULE!!

ANNA PYM stares at this spectacle for several seconds and then turns to DOCTOR WHAT.

ANNA PYM
Your friend—he IS sane, right?

DOCTOR WHAT
Are you kidding? He’s a postal
employee AND a militiaman!
(beat)
He’s PERFECTLY sane!

We see WEAPON M get his dinosaur to stomp—repeatedly—on a Nazi in a SS uniform….

EXT-ANOTHER DIFFERENT PART OF THE FORT-DAY

We see a group of about a dozen Deros led by a Nazi run by. They stop and take cover along the wall of a building.

The camera slowly pans up to the roof of the building, where we see a large group of children, ranging in ages roughly from 6 to 10. They are being led by a young girl of about 15 years old or so. All of the children are armed with homemade Molotov cocktails and rocks. The young girl peeks over the side of the building and slowly raises her hand and holds it in the air for a second or two—then suddenly drops it. The children stand up and rush to the edge of the building and drop their weapons onto the unsuspecting soldiers below…

EXT.- ANOTHER PART OF THE FORT-DAY

We see a mercenary soldier in a sword fight with a teenage girl. He throws her to the ground and is about to plunge his sword into her.

TIGHT—Merc’s eyes suddenly widen.

BANG!

The merc soldier falls face down onto the ground.

We see that the teenage girl has the small silver gun that WEAPON M had received as a present. She pokes her head around a corner to see 3 more mercs standing about 20 feet away from her. She opens fire on them with her gun…

EXT.-DIFFERENT PART OF THE FORT-DAY

We see four Nazi soldiers. One of the Nazi soldiers has caught a small boy (about six years old or so) . The Nazi has a fresh and nasty looking knife wound on his face. He looks really pissed and is holding a knife to the throat of the small boy while the other Nazis smile and laugh. The wounded Nazi is just about to plunge the knife into the boy’s neck when we hear…

FEMALE VOICE (o.v.)
HUZZAH!!

CLOSE-UP—a hammer flying through the air.

The hammer smacks into the head of the Nazi holding the knife and he keels over backwards. The boy runs away before anyone can react. The remaining three Nazis look up to see…

…IRONYUPPIE charging at them. She’s wearing the chain mail tank top and shorts and thigh-high red leather boots. She has a sword in her left hand and a whip in her right hand. On DOCTOR WHAT’s MP3 player, Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ is playing.

IRONYUPPIE
(humming along)
…Dum dum de dum dum …

IRONYUPPIE slashes at one Nazi with her sword. Her whip wraps around the neck of another Nazi and she yanks him to the ground.

IRONYUPPIE
…da da da DAH dum….

The last remaining Nazi overcomes his shock and pulls out his gun but before he can shoot, IRONYUPPIE kicks him in the groin. The Nazi falls to his knees, tears in his eyes. He looks up just in time to see IRONYUPPIE’s foot come at his face at high speed.

THUD!

IRONYUPPIE
..dum dum da da DAH dum…

IRONYUPPIE storms off, still humming….

EXT.-SKY-DAY

We slowly pan to see an expanse of sky. We see a pterodactyl riding Dero flying towards us at high speed. Suddenly a shoe smacks him on the head and he falls off the pterodactyl, plunging a thousand feet to the ground. We see another pterodactyl come into view. Riding on it are DIAMOND and LANDSHARK. DIAMOND is piloting the pterodactyl.

DIAMOND
Good shot there, Sharky!

LANDSHARK
Of course it was a good shot!
I’m a fucking Shoe God!

We hear shrieks from offscreen.

DIAMOND
Three bogies coming in at 3 o’clock!

LANDSHARK
I see them! Which one should I use—
the stilettos or the clogs?

DIAMOND
I would use the clogs. The stilettos have more
penetrating power on impact but the clogs are
more aerodynamic and have better range.

LANDSHARK
By God—I’ll make one of you Yanks
an Englishman yet! Tally-ho!

DIAMOND banks the pterodactyl and they fly towards the three incoming pterodactyls…

EXT.-FORT COURTYARD-DAY

The courtyard is a sea of chaos and carnage. There are bodies and debris everywhere. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of people fighting. The sound of clashing swords and gunfire is almost deafening. Arrows and stones are flying in every direction. It’s difficult to see who has the advantage—the defenders or the attackers.

We see the CYBORG HIMMLER walk calmly into the courtyard through the large gap in the walls that was made earlier. He looks around and spots the entrance to the Temple. He smiles and runs towards it, slashing at any defender in his way with his sword.

DIFFERENT ANGLE—FORT COURTYARD-DAY

We see MATT. His clothes are torn and he’s covered in cuts and bruises. He’s blasting away at Deros and Nazis alike with his BFG. He spots the CYBORG HIMMLER running towards the temple and aims his BFG at him. He pulls the trigger—only to hear a loud ‘click click’ sound instead.

MATT
FUCK!

MATT throws the now empty BFG away, pulls out his sword and runs after CYBORG HIMMLER, slashing at several Nazis and Deros in his way…

MATT
OOO-RAAAAHHHHH!!!!

EXT.-FORT COURTYARD-DIFFERENT PART-DAY

We see DEMOS and three bodyguard Deros on pterodactyls come landing into the courtyard. They leap off their pterodactyls.

DEMOS looks around for a moment and spots the entrance to the temple. He rushes towards it, his Dero guards attacking any defenders in his way. He keeps running, leaving them behind.

We see LORD GREYSTROKE and DOCTOR WHAT fighting back to back on a catwalk. GREYSTROKE is blasting away at several Deros who come close to him with his gun while DOCTOR WHAT is—surprisingly—managing to hold off several attackers with a large club he’s holding. GREYSTROKE spots DEMOS running towards the temple and raises his gun at him—

–only to be leaped on by a Dero who managed to climb over the outside wall. GREYSTROKE’s gun gets knocked out of his hand and we see it slide off the catwalk into the courtyard below.

DOCTOR WHAT turns around and bashes the Dero over the head with his club, knocking him off GREYSTROKE and back outside the fort wall.

We see several more Deros coming at them from one end of the catwalk.

LORD GREYSTROKE
Forget about me! I’ll hold them off! Get Demos!

DOCTOR WHAT grabs a sword from one of the dead Deros around them and runs down into the courtyard after DEMOS. Behind him, we see LORD GREYSTROKE in a swordfight with three Deros…

INT. –SHAKTI STONE OUTER CHAMBER-DAY

We see CYBORG HIMMLER come into the room. He swings open the doors to the Stone. We see the entire chamber bathed in white light. CYBORG HIMMLER stands there, with a twisted grin on his face. He suddenly frowns and –with one fluid moment—pulls out his sword and turns around.

We see MATT come charging in, his sword swinging over his head. The two swords clash with a massive display of sparks.

CYBORG HIMMLER
(pushing MATT back a few feet with a sword parry)
Ah—a foolish American soldier. I have not
seen one of your kind for quite a while.

MATT
I’m going to be the last one you see, you bastard!

CYBORG HIMMLER
Ah—yes—you wish to have some kind of pathetic and
silly display of bravado. Very well—this should prove amusing…

They attack each other with their swords. It become quickly apparent within a minute or two that while MATT is a bit faster, CYBORG HIMMLER is clearly the more experienced of the two. MATT finds himself mostly just parrying attacks rather than attacking.

CYBORG HIMMLER is slowly forcing MATT into a corner of the room. MATT—mostly out of desperation—lets loose with a wild flurry of attacks. Most are easily parried by CYBORG HIMMLER.

Most of them—but not all. One of MATT’s attacks manages to hit CYBORG HIMMLER on the right (still human) part of his head, slashing open his cheek.

CYBORG HIMMLER knocks MATT back a few feet with a parry and slowly brings a hand to his cheek. He looks at his hand and notices the blood on it. His eyes narrow and there’s an almost feral grimace on his face.

CYBORG HIMMLER
(really pissed off)
You will die for that—boy.

zzWe see MATT flick his eyes to the dark side corridor. He smiles.

MATT
You have to catch me first, dickhead!

He runs into the corridor.

CYBORG HIMMLER
(screaming)
Come back here, you coward! Fight like a man!

He runs after him down the corridor.

EXT.-COURTYARD-DAY

We see JOHN SYMMES, HANS LINDENBROCK and ROBERT BYRD in the center of a foxhole. There is a short wall surrounding the foxhole made up of pieces of debris, sandbags and the occasional dead Dero. JOHN SYMMES is armed with two flintlock-like pistols (circa 1820’s) , HANS LINDENBROCK is armed with a bow and arrow while ROBERT BYRD is armed with a WW2 style rifle.

JOHN SYMMES
(blasting at a Dero)
I say—nothing like a spot of battle
to get the old heart pumping!

HANS LINDENBROCK
(putting an arrow through the chest of a Nazi soldier)
Ja! Although it would be better for my health
if the enemy wasn’t fighting back so hard!

ROBERT BYRD
(shooting an attacking merc)
That’s what makes it fun!

JOHN SYMMES
By the way—where’s Anna?

HANS LINDENBROCK
(shrugging shoulders)
She mentioned something about doing some catch and release…

EXT.-BATTLEFIELD OUTSIDE FORT-DAY

We see a surging mob of assorted Nazi, Dero and mercenary soldiers running towards the fort. Even over the sounds of the battle, we hear a loud shriek—from above. Some of the soldiers look up in horror.

We see ANNA PYM on the back of a giant golden eagle flying down into the crowd. The eagle snatches up several soldiers and flies up to about a thousand feet or so—then drops them.

The eagle swings around and makes another pass at the soldiers…

INT. –SHAKTI STONE OUTER CHAMBER-DAY

We see DEMOS rush into the chamber

He stares open jawed at the glowing stone.

DEMOS
(quietly)
It’s mine.
(screaming)
IT’S MINE!!

We hear a sound coming from behind him and he turns around, his sword raised.

We see DOCTOR WHAT stagger into the room, gasping for breath. He raises his sword.

DOCTOR WHAT
(panting heavily)
You have to get through me first….

DEMOS
(barely able to hold his laughter)
You? Fight ME? You are barely able to hold up that
sword! Why do you insist on fighting me?

DOCTOR WHAT
Cause I’m the good guy and you’re an ugly
bad guy and it’s my job to try to stop you

DEMOS
You will die.

DOCTOR WHAT
(shrugging shoulders)
Been there. Done that.

They attack each other, their clashing swords creating sparks as they meet…

INT.-CAVE—DAY

We are in an immensely huge cavern.

We see a large canyon about 100 feet wide. Spanning the canyon is a stone bridge barely 10 feet wide (and smaller than that in several spots) . The bridge is supported only in its middle by a column of stone that rises from the canyon floor while the two ends have little or no support.

HIGH OVERHEAD SHOT—we see that the canyon is at least a thousand feet deep. There is a large river of lava at the bottom that illuminates the entire area with an eerie red glow.

We see MATT rush out of a cave entrance. Barely twenty feet behind him is CYBORG HIMMLER. They run onto the stone bridge. About halfway across, MATT turns around and faces CYBORG HIMMLER.

CYBORG HIMMLER
Finally you fight!

Their swords clash again and again. A repeat of the earlier match begins to occur—CYBORG HIMMLER going on the offensive repeatedly while MATT parries blow after blow for a few seconds, then MATT counters with a flurry of attacks for a few seconds before the process repeats. Several attacks from MATT manage to get through CYBORG HIMMLER’s defences—but many of them hit the metal parts of his body, doing no damage.

Slowly but surely, CYBORG HIMMLER is pushing MATT towards the edge of the stone bridge…

INT. –SHAKTI STONE OUTER CHAMBER-DAY

DEMOS and DOCTOR WHAT are sword-fighting.

And DOCTOR WHAT is clearly losing.

DEMOS is striking repeatedly at DOCTOR WHAT and all DOCTOR WHAT is able to do is parry relentlessly. The only reason DOCTOR WHAT has not been stabbed just yet is the fact that his small frame and fidgety is an advantage and he’s able to react and move out of the way of blows faster than normal.

DEMOS—despite winning the battle—is getting clearly upset.

DEMOS
Die already, you bastard! Stop jumping
around and accept your fate!

DOCTOR WHAT
(through clenched teeth as he parries several blows)
Not…going…to make it…easy…for…you…

DEMOS
I’ve waited my whole life to take over this world
and I WILL not allow some useless newcomer
stop me from my destiny!

DOCTOR WHAT
We newcomers seem to be doing a good job
in destroying your army, asshat!

DEMOS screams and launches a massive barrage of attacks on DOCTOR WHAT. DOCTOR WHAT is slowly being pushed towards the Stone by the attacks.

We see DOCTOR WHAT’s hand brush the Stone. There’s a spark of light.

TIGHT ON: DOCTOR WHAT’s eyes. For just a split second, they glow white before turning back to normal.

Suddenly—DOCTOR WHAT trips and falls backwards onto the ground, dropping his sword in the process.

DOCTOR WHAT looks up to see DEMOS bringing the sword towards his neck…

INT.-STONE BRIDGE-DAY

CYBORG HIMMLER is redoubling his offensive on MATT. MATT is barely able to counter the attacks and it’s mostly instinct and luck that seems to be keeping him from being stabbed.

We see that MATT is just a few feet away from the edge.

Suddenly, one of CYBORG HIMMLER’s attacks get through and MATT is slashed on his arm. He screams and drops his sword, taking a few quick steps backwards but before he can go more, he trips and lands on his back.

We see that MATT frantically try to crawl on his back away from the now smiling CYBORG HIMMLER.

CYBORG HIMMLER walks forward. He nonchalantly kicks MATT’s sword off the bridge.

TIGHT ON—we see the sword falling off the bridge and down towards the lava river below. It falls for a full ten seconds before the sword glows red hot for a few seconds—then plunges into the lava with a small fiery splash.

We see CYBORG HIMMLER almost on top of MATT. MATT’s head and shoulders are sticking out over the edge of the bridge. He glances frantically between CYBORG HIMMLER and the lava river several times.

CYBORG HIMMLER
Now you will know which is the true superior race…
(swings sword down over his head toward MATT)

Several things happen—almost in slow motion.

We see MATT scream and swing his legs upwards, connecting with CYBORG HIMMLER’s lower torso, He continues to swing his legs up—and over—his prone body.

We see a look of shock on CYBORG HIMMLER as he’s picked up by MATT’s legs and carried over MATT.

We see MATT screaming in pain from the exertion as he swings CYBORG HIMMLER up over his head—and off the bridge!

We hear CYBORG HIMMLER give a very brief scream.

Too brief.

MATT slowly gets up and peeks over the edge of the bridge.

DIFFERENT ANGLE

We see CYBORG HIMMLER grasping a protruding rock with his metal hand. He is literally hanging with one hand 1000 feet above the lava river below.

We see MATT staring at CYBORG HIMMLER. CYBORG HIMMLER is staring back.

MATT
(very calm voice)
You know—if this was a Saturday morning cartoon show,
I would save your life right about now and you would look
at me with newfound respect and admiration and give me
a little speech about how my act of compassion has opened
your eyes and you will renounce doing evil things and devote
yourself to doing good instead.
(beat)
Unfortunately for you—I’m a bad-ass, pissed-off
marine who fucking hates Nazis.

MATT brings his foot down onto CYBORG HIMMLER’s hand. We hear a very loud CRUNCH.

OVERHEAD SHOT—we are looking straight down at CYBORG HIMMLER hanging on the bridge. Way behind him in the distance we see the lava river. CYBORG HIMMLER loses his grip on the bridge. There is a look of sheer terror on his face.

TRACKING SHOT— We follow CYBORG HIMMLER’s fall towards the lava river.

He falls for a full ten seconds, the lava river behind him becoming increasingly larger until it fills the entire screen. CYBORG HIMMLER suddenly bursts into flame and two seconds later crashes into the surface of the lava river with a spectacular splash and disappears from view.

MATT
(pumping his fist in the air)
Oorah!
Fuckin’ Nazis.

INT. –SHAKTI STONE OUTER CHAMBER-DAY

We see DEMOS has his sword at DOCTOR WHAT’s neck. But he hasn’t plunged it into his neck just yet.

DEMOS
Pathetic! I was expecting a true battle not some dance!
I do—however—applaud your bravado. Misplaced that
it was. But you never had a chance to defeat me!
(beat)
Don’t you understand? It is my destiny to rule this world!
Nothing can stop me now! I have the Stone! I have defeated
all before me! And I will now rule this world once and for all!
(beat)
Now—pitiful newcomer—you will die on my blade! I will—
however—make your death quick. You have been a source
of some minor amusement…
(he swings his sword over his head)

BANG!

We see DEMOS still standing there with the sword over his head. We slowly see his eyes become cross-eyed. The sword slowly slips from his hand and falls to the ground. We see—a few seconds later—DEMOS fall face forward onto the ground.

DOCTOR WHAT looks up and sees—standing behind where DEMOS was standing—is LORD GREYSTROKE, holding a smoking pistol.

LORD GREYSTROKE
(shaking his head)
If you’re going to kill someone, kill them. Don’t talk.

DR WHAT smiles—then a few seconds later, the smile is replaced with a look of shock.

DOCTOR WHAT
MATT! I think he and Himmler ran down
into those lava pits you were talking about!

LORD GREYSTROKE
It will take too much time to run down there! Come with me—
I know a way to get there faster!

They rush out

INT.-STONE BRIDGE-DAY

We see a smirking MATT looking down at the lava river. Suddenly the entire bridge begins to shake. He rushes towards the entrance back towards the Stone chamber when—

–one end of the stone bridge suddenly collapses and falls into the lava river below.

MATT screeches to a stop just in the nick of time and turns around and races for the other end of the bridge.

It too suddenly collapses.

MATT turns and sprints towards the middle of the bridge, which is the only part of the bridge that is actually supported.

We see MATT in the middle section of the bridge (about 20 feet long) in the center of the canyon. There’s no way off of it. We see MATT poke his head over the edge.

We see a series of cracks slowly climbing up the support column towards the bridge. A few small chunks of rock are already starting to fall off.

MATT
Well—this sucks…

We see more cracks appear on the column.

The stone bridge begins to actually crumble entirely—and collapses into the lava, bringing MATT with it.

OVERHEAD TRACKING SHOT

We follow MATT’s fall towards the lava river.

10…

9…

8…

7…

We see that MATT—surprisingly—has a look of serenity on his face as he falls.

6…

5…

We see that MATT’s clothes are slowly starting to smoulder.

4…

We suddenly hear loud shrieks coming from offscreen

DIFFERENT ANGLE

Flying over the canyon at an immense speed are two giant golden eagles. They are being ridden by DOCTOR WHAT and LORD GREYSTROKE.

3…

We see DOCTOR WHAT’s eagle plunging towards the falling MATT, its claws extended.

2…

1…

DOCTOR WHAT’s eagle grabs MATT hand, with a mighty flap of its wings, flies upwards and slowly turns around and makes its way to a large cavern exit we see in the distance.

EXT.-FORT-DAY


LATER

We see LORD GREYSTROKE on top of a building addressing a large crowd. DOCTOR WHAT is standing next to him on one side with ANN PYM on the other side. LORD GREYSTROKE grabs DOCTOR WHAT’s arm and ANN PYM’s arm and raises them with his own.

LORD GREYSTROKE
DEMOS’ army is defeated! We are free once again!

Crowd cheers loudly.

We see MATT, DIAMOND, WEAPON M and IRONYUPPIE (still wearing her Red Sonja outfit) standing next to each other, staring at this spectacle.

WEAPON M
That was fun.

MATT
Damn good job we did today,
if I don’t say so myself.

IRONYUPPIE
You just did.

DIAMOND
(to MATT)
Oh sure—YOU got to have a swordfight with a Cyborg Himmler
on a crumbling stone bridge over a river of molten lava. I just
piloted a pterodactyl for a shoe crazed Englishman. Do you have
any idea how dumb that’s going to look
like when they write the ballads for this?

IRONYUPPIE
Where is Sharky anyway?

DIAMOND
(shrugging shoulders)
He said something about finding his lost shoes.

MATT
Are there any Nazis to kill?

EXT.-BATTLEFIELD-DAY

We see LANDSHARK walking through the battlefield, collecting the occasional shoe. He nearly stumbles over something. He looks down.

We see that it is the ROBOT HERALD that was destroyed earlier.

LANDSHARK stares at the ROBOT HERALD for a moment, looks furtively around and pulls out a small toolkit from his pocket. He bends down and starts working on the ROBOT HERALD.

EXT.-SHUTTLE ‘BARON MUNCHAUSEN’ –DAY

We see MATT and LANDSHARK making final repairs to the shuttle.

We see DIAMOND and WEAPON M staring dejectedly at the now empty cargo hold.

WEAPON M
(depressed voice)
All that porn…

DIAMOND
(depressed voice)
All that booze…

They stare at each other for a second. They burst into tears, hugging one another.

DIAMOND/WEAPON M
(together)
Hold me!

We see LORD GREYSTROKE shaking hands with DOCTOR WHAT.

LORD GREYSTROKE
Thank you! Thank you for all your help!

DOCTOR WHAT
Glad to be of service!

The ah.commers pile into the shuttle. The engines rev up and it takes off into the sky. It slowly does a loop the loop and flies into the exit tunnel.

EXT.-TUNNEL –DAY

We see the shuttle fly up the tunnel for a minute or so. We notice a bright white light at the end of the tunnel up ahead of the shuttle.

EXT.-NORTH POLE-DAY

The shuttle flies out of the tunnel and into space.

INT.- SHUTTLE ‘BARON MUNCHAUSEN’ –DAY

We see DOCTOR WHAT and MATT at the controls. IRONYUPPIE, DIAMOND and WEAPON M are sitting in the middle seats. LANDSHARK is sitting in the back, his arms over his chest and a fedora hat over his eyes.

DIAMOND
(looking at IRONYUPPIE, who’s still wearing her Red Sonja costume)
Er…Erikka…is that outfit at all comfortable?

IRONYUPPIE
It’s not, actually.
(beat—smirking)
But I like the way it chafes…

All the ah.commers edge away from IRONYUPPIE.

The radio crackles to life.

LEO (o.v.)
DOCTOR WHAT! Is that you? We’ve been trying
to reach you and the shuttle for over a day!
Are you all alright? Is everything ok?

DOCTOR WHAT
We’re ok, LEO! It’s a very long story—
we’ll tell you all about it when we get there.

LEO (o.v.)
Very well. ETA in about 10 minutes.
Looking forward to hearing all about it.

MATT
Damn that was some adventure!

DIAMOND
You said it!

MATT
Too bad that we never got a chance to fight Hitler.
God—I would have given anything to take him on.

LANDSHARK
(still having his hat over his eyes)
Don’t worry about him—I took care of it.

END ACT II

TAG


EXT-LARGE STONE CASTLE-DAY

We see a castle built onto the side of a mountain.

INT.-THRONE ROOM-DAY

We see a large and ornate throne room. Sitting on the throne is ADOLF HITLER. He looks completely decrepit and ancient. There are a large number of tubes and wires connected to various parts of his body. He looks like he’s practically a part of the throne.

HITLER
What happened? How goes the battle? Where is Himmler?
Why is nobody answering any of my calls?
Why am I talking out loud?

We see the ROBOT HERALD walk slowly into the throne room from a side entrance and stand in front of HITLER.

HITLER
Ah—you bring news! How goes the battle?

Silence from the ROBOT HERALD

HITLER
Well?

ROBOT HERALD’s head crackles with static and we see an image appear. It’s LANDSHARK’s face.

ROBOT HERALD
(speaking with LANDSHARK’s voice)
I have something to discuss with you about
Coventry, you toothbrush moustachioed
veggie craphead!

HITLER
(shocked voice)
What?!? What is the meaning of this?

ROBOT HERALD’s chest suddenly opens up to reveal several grenades, numerous sticks of dynamite and a few Molotov cocktails all wired together.

TIGHT ON- Hitler’s eyes widening in fear.

ROBOT HERALD
As the Jews—remember them?—would say—
(beat)
Kish m’in touches!

HITLER
(quietly)
Scheiss.

We see a phenomenally bright light.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS

A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

TITLECARD-HIVEOFSCUM

TEASER


INT. – AH.COM SHIP – MESS HALL – DAY

Most of the crew are there, sitting about, shooting the breeze, and drinking various beers – we catch a glimpse of some of the labels and note that they are obviously from alternate timelines – except LANDSHARK who is genteelly sipping a cup of tea.

DOCTOR WHAT walks in with THANDE walking beside him; the two are halfway through an argument.

DOCTOR WHAT
…don’t care about the possible benefits!
You’re not testing it on us!

THANDE
(sulkily)
Fine.

On a nearby table, MATT is holding a beer bottle and is in a heated discussion with WEAPON M.

WEAPON M
(spreading his arms a foot apart)
It was only THIS big!

MATT
Bullshit! That BFG I nearly
bought in that cyberpunk TL
was THIS big!

MATT spreads his arms very wide, incidentally jabbing DOCTOR WHAT in the hip with the hand holding the bottle of beer. DOCTOR WHAT looks down and then, looking touched at MATT’s apparently generous gesture, grabs the bottle and drinks it down in one gulp, then quickly replaces the empty bottle in MATT’s hand. MATT continues arguing, not noticing.

DOCTOR WHAT
(to THANDE)
So anyway, just get rid of that truth drug of yours!
(pause)
Where are you storing it, anyway?

THANDE
(evil grin)
Oh…I kind of mixed it with our store of booze…

DOCTOR WHAT stares at the crew in horror. In the background, we see MATT attempt to take a sip from his empty bottle, then look at it in puzzlement.

DOCTOR WHAT
You mean…

THANDE
(loudly)
Time for a test!
Let’s see if the truth drug works!
(to crew)
Hands up who’s wearing women’s underwear!

EVERYONE raises their hand. Except IRONYUPPIE.

THANDE
(shrugs)
Seems to work…

DOCTOR WHAT
(angrily)
I’m going to dock your chloroform allowance-

LEO CAESIUS
(VO; interrupting)
Attention, attention.
Unknown ship detected.
Intercept course plotted.

DOCTOR WHAT stares at his crew, then gives a sharp nod.

DOCTOR WHAT
Move it!

The crew run out of the mess hall, incidentally trampling over THANDE. Escept for LUAKEL who runs over to the trampled THANDE and gives him a quick kick to the crothc.

THANDE
(gasping)
Why????

LUAKEL
I thought you were a piñata filled with candy.

LUAKEL gives THANDE another kick to the crotch.

THANDE
(confused)
Where’s the candy???

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

The Control Room is fairly dark; it’s the night shift. On duty are HENDRYK, GBW and MICHAEL.

HENDRYK
La Docteur!
Voila la bateau d’espace etrange!

DOCTOR WHAT
(nodding in incomprehension)
Oui, oui, très bien…

GBW
Observe!

GBW adjusts the main screen view and we see a magnified image of a ship appear on the screen. Roughly the same design as the AH.com (and CF.net) ships, but it looks damaged, or perhaps just neglected. No lights are on. It looks like a ghost ship, drifting in space.

DOCTOR WHAT
(tugging his shirt macho-ly)
Hail them.

GBW
Sir we have not been able to make that
Weather Control Device we found work
yet. I contact Dave and see if he’s had
any luck figuring it out.

DOCTOR WHAT
I meant send them a comm message!

GBW
Then why didn’t you just say that?!

DOCTOR WHAT
Because I watched a lot of Star Trek as a child!
Just do it!

Muttering to himself, GBW complies. A new image appears on the screen: a bridge much like the AH.com ship’s, but again looking battered and poorly maintained: a lot of the panels are open and sparking cables are visible. In addition, the view is at an odd angle, as though the camera is damaged.

The bridge seems dark and deserted.

DOCTOR WHAT
(tentatively)
Er…hello?

VOICE
(off camera)
Wow! great! new members at last!

A huge face suddenly appears in the view, distorted by the fish-eye camera lens. Everyone reflexively draws back.

DOCTOR WHAT
Whoa!

The figure adjusts the camera and we get a more in-focus view.

FIGURE
(cheerfully)
welcome to the good ship IP.Net!
i’m captain Chingo360 and
this is my first mate, Luakel!

The figure leans to one side and an ALT-LUAKEL appears next to him, waving, with a grin on his face. This LUAKEL is dressed a bit more rakishly than our LUAKEL and has an eye patch on.

ALT-LUAKEL
Hallo. Someone’s got to
keep Captain Chingo in line…

LUAKEL
(on AH.com ship bridge; grumbling)
Great. Another alternate me.
This means the REAL me will be passed
over in yet another episode…

EVERYONE ELSE, INCLUDING ALT-LUAKEL
Shut up Urkel you n00b.

DOCTOR WHAT
Look, look, look.
Can we have a moment of calm and sanity?

Everyone looks in horror/surprise at DOCTOR WHAT, and PSYCHOMELTDOWN actually passes out from the shock. MICHAEL catches him as he falls and helpfully lays him on a bed of nails, handed to him by FLOCCULENCIO. MICHAEL and FLOCCULENCIO grin and high-five.

DOCTOR WHAT
No, I mean it.
(to CHINGO360)
Hey, do you have any more crewmembers?

CHINGO360 scowls; it’s obvious this is a sensitive subject.

CHINGO360
no…but now you’re here we
can be a real exciting ship!

DOCTOR WHAT rolls his eyes at the others.

LANDSHARK
How about we off him and
sell the ship at the Hub for scrap?

IRONYUPPIE
What an awful thing to say, Sharky!
(pause)
We’d get MUCH more under the salvage code!

LANDSHARK
True…

DOCTOR WHAT
(to CHINGO)
Of course we wouldn’t do anything like that!
(winks at the others)
But perhaps you’d like to come with us to
the Hub anyway?

ALT-LUAKEL
Love to, but our ship needs repairs.

DOCTOR WHAT
We can send our people over to
help you make them.
(winks again)
Anything to help a fellow crosstimer…

CHINGO360
okely dokely

The image vanishes and is replaced by that of the ship again.

DOCTOR WHAT turns to the crew and nods firmly.

DOCTOR WHAT
So you understand what we’ve got to do?

OTHNIEL
We help them on their way
and then help them recruit
more crew at the Hub?

Everyone laughs.

DOCTOR WHAT
And seriously?

MICHAEL
We fix ’em up enough
to get them there, then sell the ship-

IRONYUPPIE
-and them into slavery-

MICHAEL
-when we get there.

DOCTOR WHAT
Good.

OTHNIEL
I thought we were supposed to be the good guys?

DIAMOND
Y’see it’s kind of like prision. You may be straight as
an arrow when you go in, but then there’s that moment
when… the opportunity arises. I doesn’t mean you’re
gay, just… opportunistic.
(smiles}

DOCTOR WHAT
Okay, everyone to their assignments!

The crew breaks up, many of them exiting the bridge. HENDRYK remains behind with DOCTOR WHAT.

HENDRYK
Nicely done, Great One.

DOCTOR WHAT
(modestly)
I tricked him good, didn’t I?

INT. – IP.NET SHIP – BRIDGE – DARKNESS

The image of DOCTOR WHAT vanishes off CHINGO’s screen and is replaced by a view of the AH.com ship. CHINGO and ALT-LUAKEL turn around, nervously, and we see a series of shadowy figures in chairs sitting behind them.

FIGURE 1
Good work, you two.

FIGURE 2
(sneering)
Not even they could
mess this one up.

CHINGO360
i don’t like this plan…it’s mean.

ALT-LUAKEL
And entirely outside my liberal sensibilities.

FIGURE 2
(nastily)
You shall obey our commands or…

CHINGO360
you wouldn’t!

FIGURE
Yes! We shall make hurtful comments about you!

CHINGO360
nooo…anything but that…

FIGURE 1
Now go to work!

Cowering, CHINGO360 and ALT-LUAKEL leave the bridge. The FIGURES – there are three of them – turn to each other.

FIGURE 1
Our plan moves forward.
My master shall soon be freed.

FIGURE 2
And the true faith shall spread
throughout the Cosmos.

FIGURE 1
Yes.

FIGURE 3
and teh nazi pirarte cthulthu-worshsiping
serbin repubilcan emipre shlal ries agnian!

FIGURES 1 AND 2
SHUT UP!

CUT TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

AH.COM: The Series


“A WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY”

Written By : THANDE


ACT I


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

G.BONE is sitting on a swivel chair, with his feet up on the teleporter control console. He is reading a copy of Playboy; however, as he turns the page, it falls away to reveal that he is actually using it to cover the fact that he’s reading ‘the Collected Speeches of Otto von Bismarck’. G.BONE looks guiltily and hastily re-covers the book with his Playboy.

G.BONE
(humming to himself)
Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles…

G.BONE starts tapping his foot, on the desk, in time with his humming. This incidentally flicks a switch on and off, and we see the teleporter pads flickering on and off in time with the switch. As we watch, a mosquito buzzes across the room and intersects one of the beams as it lights up, vanishing. G.BONE keeps humming and flicking the switch with his foot; then the second pad illuminates and a GIANT MAN-SIZE SLAVERING MOSQUITO materialises.

The MOSQUITO pulls out a knife and fork and begins looking critically at G.BONE, licking its lips. Its giant wings continue to buzz.

G.BONE
(without looking up)
Hey, dude, quit it with the buzzing,
it’s really irritating…

G.BONE looks up.

G.BONE
(brightly)
Oh crap!

MOSQUITO
(insectile voice)
I am hungry…

G.BONE pulls out a fire axe from underneath the console and holds it in front of him, wavering.

G.BONE
You’re not getting my blood!
I have a black belt in origami!

The axe head falls off the handle and drops on G.BONE’s foot. He immediately shouts in pain, grabs his foot and begins comically hopping around the room.

MOSQUITO
(impatiently)
I don’t drink blood! I’m a male!
(dreamily)
Just show me where the flowers are…

G.BONE
Uh, try hydroponics on Deck 10.

MOSQUITO
Thanks.

The MOSQUITO exits, half flying, half walking. G.BONE shrugs, massages his foot, and then goes back to reading his Playboy/Bismarck.

G.BONE
(half to himself)
Business as unusual on the good ship AH.com.

The doors open again and G.BONE looks up, grabbing around for his useless axe.

DOCTOR WHAT
(for it is he)
Hey, what are you doing?

G.BONE
(relieved)
Oh, it’s you.
What am I doing? Umm…
(firmly)
Techie stuff. You know, verrry advanced
teleporter repair stuff sort of thing.

DOCTOR WHAT
(not bothering to listen)
Right, right.
Listen, we need to be teleported
Over to that new ship out there.

G.BONE
We?

DOCTOR WHAT steps aside to reveal that behind him are OTHNIEL and LUAKEL.

OTHNIEL
How come he picked the most moral
and idealistic of us to perpetrate this
vile deed so it will torment us into the night?

DOCTOR WHAT
(shrugs)
I’ve been taking evil lessons from Erikka.

DAVE HOWERY also steps into the room.

DAVE HOWERY
What’s the logic behind bringing me then,
Canuck boy?

DOCTOR WHAT
I need someone who can fix their engines
good enough to get to the Hub, but not
so well that they can fly off on their own
and rob us of our prize.

DAVE HOWERY
Wow, thanks for the compliment!
(pause)
Er, that is a compliment, right?

OTHNIEL, DAVE HOWERY, LUAKEL and DOCTOR WHAT all step onto the pad.

LUAKEL
(nervously)
Are you sure this is safe?

G.BONE
Sure, I’ve never been hurt once
while I’ve been working the controls.

LUAKEL opens and shuts his mouth in confusion.

DOCTOR WHAT
(instead of ‘Energise’)
Arouse-my-thighs!

G.BONE presses a button apathetically – the four AH.commers vanish in a loud pop. G.BONE shrugs and goes back to reading his Playboy/Bismarck. A long, black, sinister insectile claw taps him on the shoulder.

MOSQUITO
(VO)
Umm…where’s Deck 10…?

G.BONE
(without looking around)
It’s between Decks 9 and 11!

INT. – IP.NET – BRIDGE – ‘NIGHT’

The four AH.commers materialise on the bridge of the IP.net. As we saw on the comm transmission, it’s identical to the AH.com bridge in design but is a dark, battered place with malfunctioning, sparking consoles and flickering lights. The AH.commers step off the little platform where they appeared – DAVE HOWERY immediately drops through a weak patch in the floor. We hear him screaming and cursing, then a loud THUMP.

DAVE’s POV – we see the faces of DOCTOR WHAT, LUAKEL and OTHNIEL surrounding the hole in the floor (his ‘ceiling’).

OTHNIEL
You all right, Mr. Howery?

DOCTOR WHAT
Yeah, we need you to fix the ship!

DAVE HOWERY
(VO)
Ugh…what have I landed in?!

LUAKEL
(craning his neck)
I’m not sure, but it looks to me like
bootleg maple syrup…

DAVE HOWERY
(VO)
Oh, man, what is that smell?

LUAKEL
Depression, patheticness?

We hear DAVE HOWERY screaming again.

Go back to the AH.commers’ point of view. DOCTOR WHAT straightens up as the IP.net bridge door opens – though slowly, and it sticks halfway through. Through the remaining gap come the young captain and first mate, CHINGO360 and ALT-LUAKEL.

CHINGO360
yay! your here!
now we’ve tripled our membership!

DOCTOR WHAT
(humouring him)
Of course you have.

OTHNIEL points at the hole.

OTHNIEL

Our friend here just fell down this hole.

LUAKEL
Entirely because the floor just happens
to be weak in that one place.

DOCTOR WHAT
And not at all because of the two-for-one
super saver deal at Wendy’s this month.

DAVE HOWERY (VO; echoing from hole)
I’M RIGHT HERE!!

DOCTOR WHAT
(ignoring him)
So how about you help us get him out?
We need him to fix your ship.

ALT-LUAKEL and CHINGO360 exchange significant looks.

ALT-LUAKEL
Um…I’ll do it.
Captain Chingo can show you
the rest of the ship,
(nudges him)
Can’t you, Captain Chingo?

CHINGO360
um, yeah, right, whatever…

DOCTOR WHAT, LUAKEL and OTHNIEL shrug at each other and follow CHINGO360 out of the door. ALT-LUAKEL looks anxiously at their retreating backs, then cups his hands to his mouth and shouts down the hole.

ALT-LUAKEL
Don’t worry!
I’ll get you out in no time
with my Canadian-built
articulated space manipulator arm!

We hear DAVE HOWERY’s echoing groan.

INT. – IP.NET – CORRIDOR – ‘NIGHT’

The dark corridor is lit only by a few, flickering lamps. Some of the wall displays actually explode as the AH.commers go past. LUAKEL shrinks away from them.

DOCTOR WHAT
So where are we going?

CHINGO360
(shrinking as though accused)
nowhere! nowhere special!
(sighs to himself)
everyone hates my ship.
i’m leaving…

CHINGO360 goes as though to run for an escape pod hatch; OTHNIEL puts the slightest restraining touch on his arm and he immediately gives up. OTHNIEL rolls his eyes at DOCTOR WHAT and LUAKEL.

CHINGO360
(pointing at a door)
here we are! in here!

DOCTOR WHAT
(keenly interested)
Do you have any porn?

CHINGO360
(looking guilty)
um…not the usual sort…

OTHNIEL
(stridently)
Porn! Pah! I must burn it from the earth!

LUAKEL
But we’re in space…

OTHNIEL
Stop being logical, man! It’s bad for you!

OTHNIEL strides through the door. DOCTOR WHAT and LUAKEL shrug, then follow him. CHINGO360, looking worried, quickly pulls down on the door handle and the doors slide shut, then we hear the sound of the lock. CHINGO360 turns away, his expression a mixture of glee and guilt.

INT. – IP.NET – DARKENED ROOM – ‘NIGHT’

This room is even darker than all the others. The three AH.commers step into it, then hear the door click shut behind them and whirl around.

DOCTOR WHAT
(cursing)
He locked us in! The little bastard locked us in!

LUAKEL
Who’da thunk it, eh?

OTHNIEL
Never mind. We shall go after him
and exact our righteous retribution
once we have destroyed his stocks of
vile pornography-

VOICE FROM SHADOWS
Silence, Anabaptist heretic!

The three AH.commers freeze. They can suddenly see the faintly outlined figures of three people sitting in chairs.

DOCTOR WHAT
What the…?
Who are you?

OTHNIEL
(paling)
I know that voice…

VOICE
As well you should…

ANOTHER VOICE
hehe! shuold suonds liek cnut!

THIRD VOICE
SHUT UP! Anyone would think you were a Jew!

DOCTOR WHAT
(grimly)
And I know that voice.
(cups his hand to his mouth)
Come out, Molobo, and bring your
little Fallen friends with you.

The lights flicker on, revealing the three figures in the chairs.

The one in the centre is the broadset figure of MOLOBO. On his right hand sits his apprentice, KADYET, who keeps shifting uncomfortably in his seat. On his left hand sits a dribbling, barely human creature, RADICAL_NEUTURAL. All three of them are wearing Ominous Black Hooded Cloaks™.

KADYET
We meet again.

OTHNIEL
What the H-E-double hockeysticks
is going on here?!!

MOLOBO
(sneering)
Silence.
You are but pawns in our grand plan,
the greatest in history since the founding of Wikipedia.

DOCTOR WHAT
What plan?
You know that in the Evil Villain Code of Conduct™
you have to tell us your evil plan now.

RADICAL_NEUTURAL
(spitting bile)
fcuk off yuo fcukin crakchead!

MOLOBO
(raising a hand)
Silence. No, I will tell you.

MOLOBO rises from his throne and begins pacing back and forth melodramatically. KADYET and RADICAL_NEUTURAL also rise, but stand still – KADYET winces as he stands up, and RADICAL_NEUTURAL seems to have to concentrate to stand upright without toppling over – he moves as though each part of his body were controlled by someone different.

MOLOBO
(dramatically)
You know how an alliance of you
pathetic losers and your much cooler
allies, the CF.netters, defeated my
Master’s attempt to conquer the Hub.

DOCTOR WHAT
(scratching his head)
You mean Mike Collins?
It was Ian who defeated him.
We just came along for the ride.

KADYET
Silence! Blasphemy!
The one known as Ian is nothing!

RADICAL_NEUTURAL
zlich.

OTHNIEL
Hoo boy, they’re playing with fire…

MOLOBO
Enough.
Kadyet, begin.

KADYET smirks and pulls out what looks like a control remote, pressing a button. Apparently nothing happens.

DOCTOR WHAT
Y’know, I hate to break it to you,
but your garage door ain’t opening –
aaargh!

DOCTOR WHAT topples over. OTHNIEL and LUAKEL turn around in horror and see that a well-remembered, brightly coloured GOOGLE SPIDER is fastened to his ankle, its fangs embedded in his flesh. Small wisps of smoke rise from the twin wounds.

LUAKEL
What the…?!

KADYET
(smirking)
A little gift I acquired from a mutually
beneficial transaction. The Google Spiders
do not merely knock out the victim, either…

As he speaks, a second GOOGLE SPIDER suddenly drops from above onto OTHNIEL’s head, injecting him with its venom before he can react. OTHNIEL topples onto the floor beside DOCTOR WHAT.

KADYET
(continuing)
…they also extract their victim’s DNA.
Meaning that their victim’s appearance
is now mine to control…

LUAKEL
(backing away)
Y’know, I’ve spoken with Thande and Torq
about this and I’m pretty sure that’s not how
DNA works, you see, and – aaargh!!

LUAKEL backs straight into another GOOGLE SPIDER. It bites him and he topples over. He watches, barely conscious, the next scene as KADYET pulls three small devices out of his pocket and hands two of them to MOLOBO and RADICAL_NEUTURAL.

MOLOBO

Are you sure these will work?

KADYET
They worked when I tested them
with Radical and that stuffed stag.

MOLOBO
And he was a lot more coherent then, too…

RADICAL_NEUTURAL
I hat yuo fcukin crackheads…

MOLOBO places the little device under a fold of his robe – it adheres to his skin – and presses a button on it. As he does so, his appearance flickers and changes to that of DOCTOR WHAT.

MOLOBO WHAT
(speaking in What’s voice too)
Hey, it works!
(frowning)
But now for some reason I find the
Wikipedia entries about Poland strangely…
(as though searching for an unfamiliar word)
…arousing?

KADYET
There may be some minor side effects…

KADYET presses his own button, flickers and takes on the appearance of OTHNIEL.

OTHYET
Good, it works. And I still firmly believe
in the doctrine of consubstantiation, so
there weren’t any side effects.

MOLOBO WHAT
Don’t you mean transubstantiation?

OTHYET
(confused)
That’s what I said, isn’t it?

RADICAL_NEUTURAL taps his own device and takes on the appearance of LUAKEL, but this is a LUAKEL who walks about like a gangling madman and has an insane red look in his eyes.

RADICAL_LUAKEL
Hey! You know, I feel much more liberal now,
but you two are still a pair of fucking crackheads.

MOLOBO WHAT
Good – it’s worked. Next phase of the plan.

ALL THREE
JAILBREAK!

Pan down to the real LUAKEL, barely conscious, as he watches this.

LUAKEL
Oh no…

He passes out.

END ACT I


ACT II


INT. – IP.NET – BRIDGE – ‘NIGHT’

DAVE HOWERY has been rescued from the pit and is currently halfway inside one of the consoles, having lifted the panel off. ALT-LUAKEL stands beside him, carrying a toolbox from which DAVE HOWERY occasionally takes a different tool and fiddles with the console.

As we watch, DAVE HOWERY picks up a particularly large screwdriver and uses it to a prod a component. It gives off a spark and a puff of black smoke. ALT-LUAKEL nervously retreats a step, but DAVE HOWERY smiles and nods.

DAVE HOWERY
Good – almost perfect –
now all I need to do is –

He uses the screwdriver to prod the component even harder. This time it explodes, sending a great cloud of black smoke to the ceiling, a massive flash of lightning-like electricity that crackles over all the nearby consoles, shorting them out, and sends DAVE HOWERY flying head over heels, his hair and beard on fire, only to crash into ALT-LUAKEL and knock him to the floor.

DAVE HOWERY
(beating out his beard)
Ah, thanks, Urkel of the Week.

ALT-LUAKEL
(crushed)
Mmmmfff no problem…

DAVE HOWERY gets up and nods to himself.

DAVE HOWERY
Any moment now…

Suddenly all the lights come on and the consoles light up. There is a hum in the background, and suddenly the whole ship is working again.

ALT-LUAKEL
How the hell did you manage that?!

DAVE HOWERY
When you live in a rectangular state,
it pays to know these things.

The doors open – not sticking this time – and in come MOLOBO WHAT, RADICAL_LUAKEL, OTHYET and CHINGO360, who has a fake cheesy grin plastered across his face to hide the worry.

CHINGO360
well i showed them ‘it’, anyway…

ALT-LUAKEL
(hurriedly)
Good.

DAVE HOWERY
(to MOLOBO WHAT)
I fixed it just like you wanted, Doc,
if you catch my drift…

DAVE HOWERY winks at MOLOBO WHAT. MOLOBO WHAT recoils.

MOLOBO WHAT
Er – you’re not one of those shirtlifters
on that ship they tell me about, are you?

DAVE HOWERY
What?

MOLOBO WHAT
(hastily)
Umm…yeah, that’s me!

DAVE HOWERY
So what now?

MOLOBO WHAT
Oh yes. I’m the captain.
(commanding voice)
Take this ship to the Hub!

DAVE HOWERY
Okay, sheesh. Damned slave driver.

DAVE HOWERY presses a switch on a console. The IP.net begins to form a red vortex in front of it, but several of the consoles begin to overhead. One of them explodes and a gout of white smoke is emitted from it.

OTHYET
(pointing at smoke, excitedly)
Habeas papam!

DAVE HOWERY
(puzzled)
What?

MOLOBO WHAT
Yes?

DAVE HOWERY
Never mind.

DAVE HOWERY picks up his comm.

DAVE HOWERY Leo? We’re proceeding to the Hub as planned.

LEO CAESIUS
(VO)
Roger that.
(pause)
No, KIT! Stop rogering that immediately!
(pause)
We’re right behind you, Dave.
(pause)
That’s not what I meant either, KIT!

DAVE HOWERY
(sighing)
Acknowledged – Howery out.

DAVE HOWERY hits a button.

EXT. – SPACE – NIGHT

The IP.Net shoots forward into its red vortex. The AH.Com immediately projects a vortex of its own and follows.

EXT. – THE HUB = NIGHT

The IP.Net and the AH.Com emerge from their vortices and head towards the docks of the Hub.

INT. – IP.NET – BRIDGE – NIGHT

The three disguised Fallen look keenly on as the Hub unfolds before them.

RADICAL_LUAKEL
That’s really cool! All it needs are
Cthulthu-worshipping pirate Nazis!

DAVE HOWERY
(frowning)
Are you feeling all right, Urkel?

RADICAL_LUAKEL
(brightly)
One hundred and ten percent,
you fuccking crackhead!

MOLOBO WHAT hastily shushes him.

MOLOBO WHAT
Bring us to the docks, Dave.

INT. – THE HUB – PRISON CELL – NIGHT

The cell is a bleak affair of whitewashed concrete. The walls are covered with violent posters advertising films about the Korean and Vietnam wars. In the cell, MIKE COLLINS, now with a long beard, is sitting on a rough prison bed and playing a harmonica.

MIKE COLLINS
(singing, to the tune of
‘Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly’)

You’re a bunch of liberal pussies!
Nya nya nya nya nya, nya nya nya nya!
Just a bunch of worthless lefties!
Nya nya nya nya nya, nya nya nya nya!
F**k off with your gay old bumchums
Nya nya nya, nya nya nya, nya nya nyaaa!
Sing your anti-American propaganda,
Nya nya nya nya nya, nya nya nya nya!

We hear a banging on the door and the tiny opening shoots back to reveal the face of IAN beyond.

IAN
Keep it down, Collins.

MIKE COLLINS
One of these days, Montgomerie, you
won’t have to worry about it any more.
Reason being I’ll be out of here…
and you’ll be dead, D, E, D, dead.

IAN
Yeah, right.
Call me when you’ve visited the planet
known to the rest of us as Reality.

MIKE COLLINS
Funny, I was about to say the same thing…

IAN slams shut the opening. MIKE COLLINS twiddles his thumbs for a moment, then glances up through the tiny, barred window high on the prison wall. We see the IP.Net and the AH.Com fly past; COLLINS’ eyes narrow.

Then he shrugs and pulls a piece of string; a complicated arrangement of pulleys and wires goes into play, and at the end of it, a piece of nuts and fat on the end of a long pole is slid just outside the window. We then remain focused on COLLINS.

MIKE COLLINS
There was a guy in Alcatraz who
lived out a life of freedom through birds…

We hear the sound of a bird landing, a strangled squawk, see a series of feathers drifting down, and then the sound of a microwave oven. At the end of it, MIKE COLLINS, no expression on his face, puts out his hand and lets a small but beautifully done game-bird drop into it from above.

MIKE COLLINS
Me, I prefer to let the birds live out
a life of freedom in my stomach.

He takes a bite.

INT. – THE PUB IN THE HUB – DAY

The three fake AH.commers walk into the Hub, followed at a short distance by DAVE HOWERY, who is reading with interest a travel guide which he has just picked up off a nearby counter. Its title reads ‘TOP 100 MANIFEST DESTINY WANKFEST TIMELINES’. As he is reading, he falls behind the three fakes.

MOLOBO WHAT goes up to the bar and is met by another avatar of IAN.

IAN
Evening, Doc. Your usual.

MOLOBO WHAT
Errr, sure.

IAN pours a ridiculously large cocktail. MOLOBO WHAT gulps, but resolutely drinks it in one draught.

IAN
Wow, you don’t normally drink it that way, Doc.

MOLOBO WHAT
(his voice a bit high)
Nothing compared to what we had in Poland.
Err, I mean Italy – Canada – Italy – Canada?

IAN
(ignoring him)
So what’s up?

MOLOBO WHAT
Um, you know, the usual…
Tell him, Othniel.

OTHYET
Yeah, for instance, we visited this
really cool TL with a Latin Confederacy and-

IAN
Pshaw, not more Confederate victories,
I’d rather take my own appendix out.
(to RADICAL_LUAKEL)
What’ll it be for you, Luakel? Coke?

RADICAL_LUAKEL
(brightens up)
Sure! But I’d rather have crystal meths
if it’s all the same to you-

MOLOBO WHAT
(shushing him again)
So what’s that, uh, evil guy Collins been up to?

IAN
(laughs)
Heh, you don’t have to worry about him.
Just as sad and pathetic as ever…

MOLOBO is clearly angry and a bit of it is transmitted into MOLOBO WHAT’s eyes.

IAN
(reading his eyes)
Yeah, I know, he did a lot of damage to
my stuff too, but don’t worry, he can’t
cause any trouble now…

MOLOBO WHAT
Uh – sure. But whereabouts do you
have him on ice?

IAN
(carelessly)
Oh, just my most secure cell in the
heart of the Hub Citadel.

MOLOBO WHAT
(gulping)
Right. Sure. Thanks…Ian.

RADICAL_LUAKEL
Yeah, you’re not half so big
a fucking crackhead as the
rest of them…

The three fake AH.commers walk away. IAN looks puzzled, then shrugs and goes back to cleaning a glass with a cloth.

IAN
Probably just more duplicates
of them from a mirror timeline…

We pan over to DAVE HOWERY, who regretfully puts down his magazine.

DAVE HOWERY
Dammit. Mexico, Mexico, and more damn Mexico.
Why can’t these people see that their destiny lies
in the conquest of the frozen north…

Suddenly, DOCTOR WHAT, LUAKEL and OTHNIEL burst in. They’re the real ones, still with puncture wounds on their ankles and looking wild-eyed.

DOCTOR WHAT
Dave!

DAVE HOWERY
Hey, there you are. Thought I’d
lost you at the counter-

DOCTOR WHAT
Dave! That wasn’t us!

DAVE HOWERY
What? Oh God, not more
damned mirror duplicates…

LUAKEL
(excitedly)
Nonononono!
They were three of the Fallen
disguised as us!

OTHNIEL
(grimly)
The Papist scum Molobo and Kadyet…

DOCTOR WHAT
And the, er, well, just scum Radical_Neutural.

DAVE HOWERY (thinking)
Geez, that explains a lot.

DOCTOR WHAT
They’ve come here to bust Mike Collins
out of prison! We have to stop them!

DAVE HOWERY
Okay. Just tell Ian.

They turn towards the bar, but the IAN avatar has gone.

DOCTOR WHAT
(cursing)
Just when we need him-

VOICE
You looking for the Admin?
I know where he went.

They turn towards a new figure, a slick-looking character with obviously whitened teeth and dyed black hair. He speaks with a faint southern US accent.

MAN
He got suspicious of those three guys who
asked the directions to Chez Collins.
(laughs)
Decided to go after them.

DOCTOR WHAT
(puzzledly)
But why, when he can generate an avatar anywhere?

MAN
(shrugs)
Who knows what goes through THAT mind…

DOCTOR WHAT

Okay. Take us to the Collins cell!

OTHNIEL
And by the way, what’s your name?

MAN
Oh, it’s not important…
You can call me…
BLAINE HESS.

He smirks at them, then turns and walks away – the AH.commers follow.

Then, just after they have gone, IAN emerges from a door on the wall, buttoning up his trousers. Through the door, we get a faint glimpse of another timeline – it’s outdoors, and there’s a suggestion of rushing water.

IAN
Geez. One of these days I’ll have to invent
an avatar that doesn’t need to take a leak.
(happily)
Still, at least those folks in the Conquistador
timeline won’t notice a little pollution in their
Niagara Falls.
(he looks around)
Hey, where’d those bozos go?

EXT. – OUTSIDE HUB CITADEL – DAY

MOLOBO WHAT, RADICAL_LUAKEL and OTHYET look at the entrance, which is guarded by two mismatched guards: one is a tough Roman legionary wearing, incongruously, a female Islamic headscarf, while the other is a Viking carrying an AK47. The only thing that links them is the badge they both wear, with a letter I on a stylised representation of the Hub.

MOLOBO WHAT
(cursing)
Some of Montgomerie’s guards.

OTHYET
Easy enough. We shall take them.

MOLOBO WHAT and OTHYET rise and pull plasma rifles from their pockets. Two quick shots and the guards fall dead, crispy fried by the plasma. The three hurriedly run over there, RADICAL_LUAKEL pausing to sample the burnt flesh of the guards.

RADICAL_LUAKEL
Mmm…finger lickin’ good!

MOLOBO WHAT
(shuddering)
Why did we link up with him again?

OTHYET
It was a condition of that deal I worked
with TheLoneAmigo…

MOLOBO WHAT

I thought that deal was too good to be true. C’mon!

They rush through the door and into the interior of the Hub. Just behind them, we see the AH.commer part hurry up, led by BLAINE HESS.

BLAINE HESS

That was them, you guys!

DOCTOR WHAT
After them!

And the AH.commers pursue.

INT. – HUB CITADEL – CELL

As before, but MIKE COLLINS is just finishing off his bird. We hear zapping sounds from outside and the sound of guards falling dead. COLLINS nods and stands up, then gathers a few items into a bag and waits patiently beside the door. A few seconds later, the huge, reinforced door is blown off its hinges inwards. Behind it, we see revealed MOLOBO WHAT and OTHYET, who were using RADICAL_LUAKEL’s head as a battering ram.

MIKE COLLINS
(nonplussed)
What the?!

MOLOBO WHAT
Oh – Master, of course you don’t
recognise me!

MOLOBO WHAT taps his disguiser and turns back into MOLOBO. The other two follow suit.

MOLOBO
It’s me, your apprentice!
I’ve come to rescue you,
for the honour of Poland!

MIKE COLLINS
But…but…this wasn’t part of the plan…

KADYET
Plan? What plan?

Suddenly the AH.commers and BLAINE HESS rush in, all wielding BFGs.

DOCTOR WHAT
(to Fallen)
Drop your weapons!
(dirty look at MOLOBO)
Steal my body, will you…
You know, I find that strangely arousing…

MOLOBO
(shuddering)
Gah!
You can’t defeat us now, not at the last hurdle-

BLAINE HESS
(smirking) Nor will they.

The AH.commers turn around to see that he is now pointing his BFG at them.

DOCTOR WHAT
What the?!

MIKE COLLINS/BLAINE HESS
(speaking in perfect synchrony)
You see…Montgomerie’s not the only
one who’s figured out how to create avatars.
Get them, my apprentices!

MOLOBO, KADYET and BLAINE HESS rake the AH.commers with plasma fire – the AH.commers quickly drop to the floor and take cover behind the bed before any of it can hit them. RADICAL_NEUTURAL fires his gun randomly at the ceiling, then tries to have his way with it.

DAVE HOWERY
Great. Every time I get to
go on an away mission, we
end up getting shot at.

LUAKEL
How do you think I feel?!
The very concept of guns revolts
my delicate teenage stomach!

MIKE COLLINS
(turning away)
Good enough.
Now I shall be free, and the
Hub shall be mine forever!

MOLOBO
(diplomatically)
Er, don’t you think we should
retreat and consolidate our forces
first, my master?

MIKE COLLINS
(grumbling)
Sounds like a goddamn French thing to do.
(sighs)
Okay, if I must.

MOLOBO
Good. We have a ship. Come on-

FAMILIAR VOICE
Oh, how pathetic.

All heads turn to reveal that, silhouetted in the smoking doorway, is the figure of IAN.

IAN
You really though this little plan would succeed, Collins?
I expected better, even from you.
Well, at least now I have a whole bushel of Fallen to
fill my cell block with.

MOLOBO
(viciously)
Never!
My life for Poland and my master!

MIKE COLLINS
(harshly)
No! Flee, my apprentices!
I’ll hold him off!

IAN
(surprised)
You will?

IAN whips off his shades and begins firing streams of red energy at the Fallen from his eyes. MIKE COLLINS puts his hands out and blocks the red beams, deflecting them, though he is forced back step by step by the force of the energy, and from his sweating, shaking form it is obviously taking a great deal of effort. Behind him, MOLOBO and KADYET hesitate.

MIKE COLLINS
Fly, you fuckers!

Suddenly IAN’s red energy beams break through COLLINS’ defence and he is thrown back against the wall, stunned. He drops to the floor, still crackling with red energy.

DOCTOR WHAT
Yay Ian…

IAN
Huh, child’s play.
(glances around)
Crap. Two of them got away.

And indeed MOLOBO and KADYET are no longer there. But IAN’s eyes travel upwards, to see that RADICAL_NEUTURAL’s random bursts tore chunks out of the wall, leading up to the tiny window – which is now smashed in. KADYET’s rear half is just going through the window as we watch – IAN growls and fires more red beams. They mostly miss at this distance, but one hits KADYET’s backside and he screams.

KADYET
You bastard!
You just melted my cool Opus Dei
barbed wire thong!

OTHNIEL
Way too much information…

DOCTOR WHAT
Well, I find it rather arousing…

MOLOBO
(from window)
Take courage, Master! We’ll be back!

MOLOBO ducks away just in time to escape another blast from IAN.

DOCTOR WHAT
They’re getting away!

IAN
(snorts)
Let them. They’re small fry.
They even worship Collins, for my sake,
you can’t get sadder than that.
(looks around)
Hey…wasn’t there someone else with you?

The AH.commers look around. RADICAL_NEUTURAL is lying unconscious on the floor beside MIKE COLLINS, but BLAINE HESS is nowhere to be seen.

DOCTOR WHAT
(uncertainly)
Blaine Hess was just an avatar of Collins,
so when he was knocked out, he must have
faded away…

IAN
(unconvinced)
Maybe…

DAVE HOWERY
So – who are the drinks on, anyway?

LUAKEL
Well we’ve got that whole ship to sell…

We hear a rumble and the IP.Net takes off, flying past the window.

LUAKEL
…or not…

DOCTOR WHAT
Huh, they won’t get far.
Dave’s crappy repairs won’t last much longer.

DAVE HOWERY
(angrily)
I’m right here!

But the IP.Net keeps on going.

DOCTOR WHAT
I don’t understand…
Dave, you didn’t muck up your repairs properly!

DAVE HOWERY
(spreading his arms)
Hey, I’m just that good.

Everyone laughs.

DOCTOR WHAT
So – Ian – what are you doing with Collins?

IAN
Same as what I did before…
(smiles evilly)
But with a few changes…

END ACT II


TAG


INT. – IP.NET – BRIDGE – DAY

The bridge is still holding up as well as before under DAVE HOWERY’s repairs. We can see why as we pan over to where MOLOBO and KADYET are standing, staring at an exposed control panel: KADYET has wired his melted barbed-wire thong into the panel to complete the circuit.

MOLOBO Good work.
(sighs)
We failed.

KADYET
But next time we shall not…

FAMILIAR VOICE
Indeed you won’t. ’Cause I’ll be here
to make sure you ain’t f**kin’ up.

He steps forward into the light – it’s BLAINE HESS.

MOLOBO
Master, you shall lead us.

BLAINE HESS

I only have Mike Collins’ wisdom and knowledge
to guide you, Molobo, I do not have any of his power.

MOLOBO
But with your help, we shall recover him and his power.
Once and for all.

They share a solemn moment.

KADYET
Hey, what happened to the crew of
this rustbucket anyway?

MOLOBO
(shrugs)
They weren’t here when I took off –
good riddance.

INT. – THE HUB – A FOOD COURT – DAY

A pair of PATRONS, IMAJIN and HERMANUBIS, step up to a burger bar counter. HERMANUBIS bangs on the counter with a tray.

HERMANUBIS
Shop!!!

Two figures emerge from behind the counter – ALT-LUAKEL and CHINGO360, wearing McDonald’s-type fast foot server uniforms.

CHINGO360
What do you want?

HERMANUBIS
I’ll have a Triple Trent Affair with
extra French Intervention, hold the Gettysburg.

IMAJIN
And a large No Titanic Disaster, hold the ice.

ALT-LUAKEL
Here ya go.

ALT-LUAKEL hands them a tray and they walk away. CHINGO360 sighs.

CHINGO360
We lost my ship! I hate this!

ALT-LUAKEL
Look on the bright side – at least
this way we get to talk to real people.

CHINGO360
(brightens)
Yeah, there is that…

ANOTHER PATRON
Hello, can I order a burger for me to collect
later, please? The name’s Prester John…

CHINGO360 groans.

ALT-LUAKEL
Well it could be worse…

CHINGO360
How?

INT. – HUB CITADEL – CELL – NIGHT

The cell has been repaired. MIKE COLLINS sits on his bed, reading a book by Al Franken furiously; after he finishes every page, he rips it out and puts it on a pile labelled ‘Asswipes’. He has his fingers in his ears.

As we watch, the little opening in the door shoots back and IAN smirks at him.

IAN
Enjoying your new roomie, Collins?

MIKE COLLINS
(snarling)
I’ll get you for this torture, Montgomerie.

IAN
Why, I thought you had no problem with Abu Ghraib.

IAN walks away.

RADICAL_NEUTURAL
hye! yuo fcukin crakchead!
now h’bout we play misoac reath!
i cliam nazi piarte cthulthu japan!

MIKE COLLINS buries his head in his hands.

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

DOCTOR WHAT and the others step back onto the bridge.

HENDRYK
Sacre bleu, mon ami,
c’est vraiment vous?

DOCTOR WHAT
Err, yes? I think?

GBW
It’s most interesting tale, but I
don’t see how just having your
DNA would mean they could
duplicate your appearance with
clothes and everything…

Pause – everyone looks pityingly at GBW.

GBW
Sorry – logic and reason – I know.

DOCTOR WHAT
Well, we lost that ship, but at
least everything’s back to normal.

The bridge door opens and G.BONE runs in, pursued by STRAHA who is angrily waving a small nuclear weapon.

STRAHA You bastard! Your man-sized
mosquito ate all my weed for the pollen!

G.BONE
How do you think IT feels?

The GIANT MOSQUITO emerges from the doorway, floating along with no assistance from its wings, a dazed look in all 5000 of its eyes.

GIANT MOSQUITO
(dreamily)
So…many…beautiful…blossoms…

Pause – all look at DOCTOR WHAT

DOCTOR WHAT
Well, as normal as it ever gets around here…

.

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS

Los Estados Confederados de America

TITLECARD-deAMERICA

TEASER


EXT. – SPACE –DAY

We see a large ship slowly pass the camera, in the background is the blue earth, moments later we see another ship pass across the earth, and another, and another…

PULL BACK and we see scores of ships in orbit around the planet.

EXT. – A POST ATTACKED CITY – DAY

Huge black aircraft fill the sky, in the distance we see a huge ship descending from the heavens.

PULL in on the ship and we see a symbol, a white hand within a red sun on the black hull.

INT. – ATTA’S FLAGSHIP PONTER – BRIDGE – DAY

on a busy bridge, crewed by Neanderthals, ATTA sits upon her command chair, ADIKOR standing by her side.

ADIKOR
Another world back in the fold of the Empire.

ATTA
Five worlds, we are growing and growing fast.

ADIKOR
Yes, Mistress. We shall once again have a
mighty Empire spanning the mulitverse.

ATTA
Even at the height of our power, we were not able to
defeat the Destroyer and his world. You have seen the
information we took off his ship, tell me, will we be
able to defeat him now, with every ship we have in
our fleet attacking him?

ADIKOR
(long thoughtful pause)
I am sorry, Mistress, But I do not think so.

ATTA
He has grown strong, raiding Timelines for technology.
While we have grown weak living off the scraps of
what remained of our great Empire.

ADIKOR
What are we to do?

ATTA
(determined)
We get a hold of our own source of higher technology…

CUT TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

AH.COM: The Series


“LOS ESTADOS CONFEDERADOS DE AMERICA”

Written By : MERRYPRANKSTER


ACT I


INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LOUNGE – DAY

The crew are assembled on the couches, bean-bag chairs, and folding chairs, watching something intently on the big-screen TV. They’re watching NASCAR

NASCAR ANNOUNCER
It’s a bright day here at Daytona Beach.
People have come from all over the Confederate
States to watch the year’s national championship race.

STRAHA
Figures. We let those semiliterate Christian redneck
slack jaws establish their own country and they make
NASCAR one of their national sports.
(scoffs)
Hey Leo! Want to open up on them with some
particle beams? Theres some
TLs that just don’t need to exist.

LANDSHARK
(growling)
Shut your bloody mouth.
I’m trying to watch the friggin race.

LEO CAESIUS
Nope. If you really want some human-rights violations,
you need to see TTL’s Britain. Apparently troubles in
Ireland and other colonies led to it becoming a police
state and the violent and brutal suppression of all it’s colonial holdings.

LANDSHARK
(grinning proudly)
ah, good old fashioned British Monstrosity.
Let me tell you this, boyo, no one does violence
and brutality like the British Empire.

STRAHA
(scoffs)
Fucking British Imperialist. What we need is a good
quasi-fascistic America to bomb that island back into
the sea that crapped it out.

LANDSHARK
(pulls out cricket bat)
I think you need a lesson in British violence.

A beer can hits LANDSHARK’s head.

DIAMOND
Hey, shut up down there, Some
of us are trying to watch the race!

ONSCREEN: One damaged stock car comes to a stop near the pit. Suddenly, the pit crew jumps out of the car and begins gathering supplies—supplies that belong to other drivers. The other pit crews start chasing them and the kleptomaniac pit crew jumps back into the damaged car, which tears off.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
There goes Carlos Mencia’s team again.

STRAHA perks up.

STRAHA
Carlos Mencia! I know him!
(beat)
Well, I’ve seen him on TV.
Why the hell is he a NASCAR driver?

LEO CAESIUS
I’ve finished digesting all the information
I’ve gathered from this particular TL.
Do you really want to know?

DOCTOR WHAT
(under his breath)
Took you long enough
(normal voice)
Sure thing, LEO.

LEO clears his electronic throat before speaking.

LEO CAESIUS
Apparently the Confederates took their case to the
Supreme Court rather than fire on Fort Sumter. In
a narrow decision, the Court ruled for the Confederates.
The lower South seceded relatively peacefully and
the Upper South never seceded at all.

STRAHA
Relatively? Leave it to some semiliterate
Christian rednecks slack jaws to f…

LEO CAESIUS
West Virginia counter-seceded
and there were some skirmishes
before a deal was inked out.
West Virginia got self-determination.

DOCTOR WHAT
What about slavery. Don’t tell me this is some cheesy
TL where slavery still exists to the present day…

LEO CAESIUS
Over the decades, international pressure
grew, and the Confederates were forced
to abolish slavery in 1885.
(beat)
They expelled 1/3 of the black population to Liberia,
and the resulting labor shortage crippled their economy.
They had to throw open the Mexican border.

STRAHA leaps from his seat.

STRAHA
Yesss! We’re going to take
the South from those
inbred book-burning…

LANDSHARK lifts his cricket bat menacingly again.. DOCTOR WHAT’s eyes fall on him and he shakes his head.

DOCTOR WHAT
No Landshark. We can’t keep hitting him over
the head every time he says something stupid.

LANDSHARK
Why not?

STRAHA glares at LANDSHARK and DOCTOR WHAT.

STRAHA
Pfft. I could so kick both your asses with my
hands tied behind my back. What are you
both, like a hundred? I -

DOCTOR WHAT looks at LANDSHARK.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. Hit him now.

LANDSHARK begins whacking STRAHA.

DIAMOND
Damn it, I’m trying to watch the race!

LEO CAESIUS
So to answer STRAHA’s first question, in TTL,
Carlos Mencia is now a NASCAR driver. Of
course, in his stand-up, he did describe something
very similar about Mexico’s NASCAR team.
(beat)
Something rather racist, I might add.

HENDRYK, who had been very quiet up until now, raises his hand.

HENDRYK
I’m bored. Let’s go down there and
take a look at that world.

EXT. – THE STREETS OF MONTGOMERY -DAY

DOCTOR WHAT, HENDRYK, and some other AH.com crew walk down the street, taking pictures as they go. Some denizens of the Confederate capital eye their odd dress, but most simply ignore them.

HENDRYK
I lost some of my Asian tentacle
porn in a computer crash a few days
ago. Do you think it’s legal in
the Confederacy?

STRAHA
(still a bit groggy)
That sort of thing isn’t legal in Alabama
when it’s still in the Union, much less
when it’s in the Confederacy!
(beat)
You need to go to the progressive,
socialist North for that sort of thing.
Down here, where all the inbred
Christian…

DOCTOR WHAT clears his throat.

DOCTOR WHAT
Shut up, Straha.

STRAHA
Go to hell, Canuck.

LEO CAESIUS (via comm)
Actually, the North isn’t socialist in TTL.
The remaining states in the Union passed
an amendment forbidding secession, but
they did not establish socialism.
(beat)
“Decentralized Populism” might be a better term.

STRAHA is taken aback.

STRAHA
You mean all of my theories
are wrong? How can I be wrong?
I can’t be wrong!

DOCTOR WHAT notices a crowd of people, including a couple of police, are watching them.

DOCTOR WHAT
No more talking to people
who aren’t visible, STRAHA.

He points to a WAFFLE HOUSE.

DOCTOR WHAT (CONT’D)
Let’s go get some lunch.

As the AH.commers hurry away, they don’t notice a black-clad man with a wide-brimmed had watching them from a dark alleyway. Once they’re out of sight, he removes a cell phone-like device from his coat.

OMINOUS STRANGER
(thick Polish accent)
The enemy has arrived, my
young apprentice. Ready the trap.

INT. – THE WAFFLE HOUSE – DAY

The AH.com party sidles up to the counter. A young black woman stands by the cash register, while several Hispanic men prepare hash browns in the back.

CASHIER
(smiling)
Y’all seat yourselves. Someone
will be with y’all shortly.

The AHers sit down at a table. STRAHA rubs his belly.

STRAHA
I wonder how good the hash-browns
are in TTL?

BEHIND THE COUNTER: The door into the store-room slides open. An arm clad in red emerges, holding a bag of marijuana.

STRAHA spots the bag. His tongue lolls out of his mouth and he rises from his chair.

WEAPON M
STRAHA, where are you going?

STRAHA
(dreamy)
Just stepping out for a minute.
Got to get something.

STRAHA heaves himself over the counter in a manner much like a whale beaching itself and drags himself towards the door.

STRAHA
I…need…the…weed.

Suddenly…

TWO FIGURES erupt from the doorway. One is tall, skinny, and garbed in black, while the other is shorter, rounder, and garbed in red. They seize STRAHA and yank him inside.

The Ah.commers see what’s occurring and they react quickly.

DOCTOR WHAT
They’ve got STRAHA!

They leap from their seats, futuristic weapons ready. The denizens of the Waffle House panic and run.

They burst through the doorway. They see…

MOLOBO standing there, holding a grenade-like device. He’s wearing thick sunglasses.

MOLOBO
Long time, no see, you Ian-lovers!

He jams the grenade-like device onto the floor. There’s a massive FLASH and then everything goes black.

INT. WAFFLE HOUSE STORE ROOM – DAY

LATER

DOCTOR WHAT moans as he awakens. He moves to get up, only to find that he’s tied up.

MOLOBO
Wakey-wakey.

He steps over and gives DOCTOR WHAT a swift kick.

MOLOBO
That’s for getting me hit
by a missile, you asshole.

Suddenly, KADYET enters the scene. He’s dressed in red like a Catholic cardinal.

KADYET
The others are waking up, my master.

MOLOBO
Are they tied up?
We wouldn’t want any
mistakes, my young
apprentice.

KADYET
All of them are tied securely.
Especially that apostate HENDRYK
and the Anabaptist heretic OTHNIEL.

DOCTOR WHAT
What do you want, you maniac?

MOLOBO grins.

MOLOBO
Revenge on every-vone .
On Ian, for banning me and
then defeating my master. On
that little CFer in the Hawaiian shirt,
for fighting so damn hard.
(beat)
And on YOU!

He kicks him again.

MOLOBO (CONT’D)
And I’ve come up with the perfect scheme!
We will steal your ship
and return to the Hub
and rescue my master!
Then Poland will be avenged!

KADYET
And then all three of us
shall impose the One True Church
on all the Multiverse!

MOLOBO
(obviously playing along)
Yes, yes, that too.

DOCTOR WHAT
And how will you do that?

MOLOBO
By kidnapping some of you and
forcing you to pilot us to the Hub, of
course. We only need two of you.

KADYET
The rest of you must be burnt, according
to Church law.
(beat)
But you must be offered a chance to repent.
Then you can die quickly, by garrote.

He leaves DOCTOR WHAT and MOLOBO alone.

MOLOBO
But we’ve got a little bit of time…

He begins kicking the bound DOCTOR WHAT.

INT. – ANOTHER PART OF THE STORE-ROOM – DAY

The rest of the AH.Commers are tied up. KADYET is haranguing them.

KADYET
You disgusting sinners must
repent and trust in the Church…

OTHNIEL
But there is no name save Christ’s that can save
the souls of men. The Church is just an institution…

KADYET
But the Church is His body. Only the Catholic Church is
the true church. “One shepherd, one flock.” You are a heretic!
Worse than an infidel!

WEAPON_M, meanwhile, has found that his bindings are not entirely secure. He manages to work a pocketknife out of one of his pockets and while KADYET rants, is surreptitiously sawing through the ropes.

MOLOBO (O.S.)
Hurry up in there! We need
two of their recall devices!

OTHNIEL turns to WEAPON_M.

OTHNIEL
What would they need those for?

KADYET
To trick your friends into teleporting
us aboard your ship of course.
(beat)
I wonder whose I should steal first.

He surveys the AHers.

KADYET
I think I’ll take the fat one.

He steps over and seizes STRAHA by his tied-up hands. With visible effort, he pulls him to his feet.

STRAHA
Oh, fuck you, you God fearing asshole.
What are you gonna do, molest me like
all those supposed Men of God do?

KADYET punches STRAHA in the gut. STRAHA collapses to the floor.

OTHNIEL
Leave him, take me instead!

KADYET snorts.

KADYET
Better an infidel than a heretic.

He gestures to a nearby stack of crates.

KADYET
In light of what happened last time,
the master and I decided to come
loaded for bear. There’s a nuclear
bomb in one of those crates, along with
some heavy energy weapons.

KADYET gives STRAHA a swift kick, sending him staggering into the room where MOLOBO is beating DOCTOR WHAT. Meanwhile, WEAPON Mhas finishing cutting through the ropes binding his hands.

WEAPON M
Those are some lovely weapons.
I think I’ll be taking them.

KADYET sneers.

KADYET
Like you can do anything, you
dirty, hairy fornicating pagan.

WEAPON M rises to his feet. He brings his hands out from behind his back. The ropes drop to the floor. KADYET pales.

WEAPON M delivers a swift kick to one of the weapons crates, breaking it open. He pulls out an assault rifle.

WEAPON M
You call THIS a heavy energy weapon?

He starts shooting at KADYET. The Fallen ducks behind another crate and returns fire with an automatic pistol, forcing WEAPON Minto hiding behind another stack of crates.

HENDRYK sidles up to OTHNIEL.

HENDRYK
Untie me.

OTHNIEL
I’m a little tied up here myself.

HENDYK pushes his bound hands at OTHNIEL’s.

HENDRYK
Do you have enough movement to
untie my knots?

OTHNIEL
Worth a shot.

They both begin the rather complex process of untying each other without seeing what they’re doing. While WEAPON M and KADYET are shooting at one another.

INT. THE FIRST PART OF THE STOREROOM – DAY

MOLOBO hears the gunfire and turns away from the bloodied WHAT.

MOLOBO
What has that boy gotten into now?

He pulls a PLASMA RIFLE from behind the crates.

MOLOBO
Wait here.

He makes his way towards the door separating the two storerooms, kicking the bound STRAHA aside.

THE SECOND PART OF THE STOREROOM

HENDRYK and OTHNIEL have managed to untie each other. They’re surreptitiously working on the others.

Suddenly, MOLOBO steps through the doorway. He spots the pair quickly.

MOLOBO
KADYET, you moron!

He aims his rifle at the still-helpless AHers. Blue fire bursts from the barrel.

WEAPON Mrises from behind the crates, firing at MOLOBO. The chief Fallen stumbles backwards, his plasma fire going wildly.

EXT. – THE WAFFLEHOUSE – DAY

Plasma fire erupts from the roof.

EXT. – A STREET A FEW BLOCKS AWAY – DAY

A black man, a Hispanic man, and a white man are having an intense argument, punctuated by pushing. The fact that all three have a certain make of ring on their fingers is conspicuous. The sudden eruption from the Waffle House gets there attention.

THE WHITE GUY
We’re being attacked by foreigners again.

THE HISPANIC
This means we’ve got to put aside our petty
differences and unite.

THE BLACK MAN
(kind of reluctant)
Again.

ALL THREE IN UNISON
Wonder twin powers activate!

All three jam their rings together and bright light erupts from the joining.

POWER RANGERS-LIKE MORPHING MONTAGE

The black guy morphs into a character who resembles Mr. T. In his hands, he has a long gold chain.

The Mexican turns into a mariachi with a guitar case. One can see lots of guns peeking out.

The white guy changes his clothing transforms into a pair of overalls with one strap broken. His gut inflates. In his hands appears a comically-enormous shotgun.

The end result is BLACKIE, DARKIE, and CRACKER, the Wonder Twins (of sorts) of the Confederacy.

INT. THE WAFFLE HOUSE STOREROOM – DAY

WEAPON Mand some other AH.commers hold their own in a gun battle against KADYET and MOLOBO while the others scrounge around for their stolen weapons.

THE OTHER PART OF THE WAFFLE HOUSE STOREROOM

STRAHA looks up to see the bloodied DOCTOR WHAT.

DOCTOR WHAT
Come here and help untie me!

STRAHA grins evilly.

STRAHA
Say it.

DOCTOR WHAT struggles with the ropes, but can’t get loose.

DOCTOR WHAT
Come on!

STRAHA
Say it!

DOCTOR WHAT groans.

DOCTOR WHAT
Fine! Canada sucks!
Long live America and
drug legalization!

STRAHA grins.

STRAHA
Thanks.

STRAHA wriggles towards DOCTOR WHAT

INT. THE WAFFLE HOUSE STOREROOM

All of the AH.commers are free and armed again. MOLOBO and KADYET are quickly put on the defensive.

MOLOBO
(spying a crate)
Grenades.

KADYET
Yes, my master.

With MOLOBO’s plasma streams keep the AH.commers pinned behind cover, KADYET dashes for the Fallen ammo stash. He breaks out a crate, spilling a dozen grenades. He seizes one, pulls the pin, and hurls it towards a crate that WEAPON M and HENDRYK are sheltering behind.

The grenade is destroyed in midair by gunfire from

DARKIE. He glares at the Fallen.

DARKIE
You don’t be disturbing
the peace around here, esay .

The other two CONFEDERATE WONDER TWINS back him up.

BLACKIE
(incredibly deep voice)
Yeah.

CRACKER
Or y’all get your durned asses
beat back to Ross-ya or wherever
the hell you two come from.

MOLOBO is incensed.

MOLOBO
You dare insult Poland by
mistaking us for Russians!

KADYET
Schismatic Russians, I might add.

MOLOBO opens fire on CRACKER, but BLACKIE interferes. He whips his enormous gold chain around his head and hurls it at MOLOBO. The chain wraps itself around the Fallen, temporarily containing him.

CRACKER takes the opportunity to open fire with his enormous shotgun. The resulting enormous blast sends KADYET flying through the doorway into

INT. -THE OTHER PART OF THE STOREROOM – DAY

The flying FALLEN sends STRAHA, who has just finished untying DOCTOR WHAT, flying into the front part of the restaurant.

INT. – THE WAFFLE HOUSE STOREROOM – DAY

The CONFEDERATE WONDER TWINS turn to the AH.commers.

BLACKIE
All right. What the hell is
going on in here?

HENDRYK
(loftily)
Barbarians, we are representatives
of IAN_MONTGOMERIE Almighty,
and DOCTOR WHAT his only begotten son…

WEAPON M
(interrupting)
We tried to rescue our fat friend who was
being kidnapped. Things didn’t work out too well.

Unfortunately, everyone had taken their eyes off MOLOBO. Growling with fury, the Fallen rams his arms outward and SMASHES the gold chain.

MOLOBO
We’ll have the last laugh!

He rushes out the door.

DARKIE
You muchachos know where he’s goin’?

HENDRYK pales.

HENDRYK
Sacre blue! DOCTOR WHAT and STRAHA!

Everyone pours into

INT. -THE OTHER PART OF THE STOREROOM – DAY

An entire wall, along with the front part of the restaurant, has been blown out into the street. A black vulture-like ship that vaguely resembles a transport helicopter with some bolted-on weapons hovers out front. KADYET is hooking the tied-up STRAHA onto a winch hanging from the bottom. The CONFEDERATE WONDER TWINS are amazed. DARKIE falls to his knees crossing himself, while BLACKIE expresses his awe verbally.

BLACKIE
Daaaaaamn!

CRACKER cuffs him.

CRACKER
Don’t you be using no foul language boy!

BLACKIE glares.

BLACKIE
You call me “boy” again and I’ll
make you a girl, you dirty…

Their squabbling is interrupted by KADYET.

KADYET
Heretics! Unbelievers!
We will have the last laugh!

KADYET scrambles up the chain into the ship. The ship’s engines roar and…

The ship doesn’t rise very far.

The engines roar again, loud enough to shake the restaurant. This time, the ship gains some serious altitude. The winch retracts with obvious strain, pulling STRAHA into the ship. With a flash of light, it’s gone.

We hear a moan and turn to see DOCTOR WHAT crawling out of some rubble.

DOCTOR WHAT
My head…I really need some rutabaga
right now…

DIAMOND, who has said or done very little until now, looks ill. DOCTOR WHAT notices this.

DOCTOR WHAT
Not for that purpose, you drunk!

HENDRYK is already calling LEO.

HENDRYK
LEO, we’ve got a problem.

LEO CAESIUS
I was beginning to suspect that.
What’s going on?

HENDRYK
MOLOBO and KADYET.
They’ve got STRAHA.
They just left Montgomery. Where
are they?

LEO CAESIUS
They’re currently over Georgia, being
pursued by both CSA and USA fighters.

HENDRYK
Fighters? Can they bring it down?

LEO CAESIUS
Doubtful. The ship’s too fast and
had too much of a head start.

HENDRYK
Where does it look like they’re going?

LEO CAESIUS
They’re not going into orbit
or showing any sign of Shifting.
(beat)
Looks like they’re headed towards Africa.

DOCTOR WHAT stumbles over.

DOCTOR WHAT
Teleport us up. We’ve got to go hunting.

The AH.commers vanish with a loud pop, leaving the CONFEDERATE WONDER TWINS behind.

CRACKER
Durn foreigners. So durn impolite.
(beat)
So where were you?

BLACKIE
You were claiming to believe in
something called “the Curse of Ham.”

DARKIE
And the “Curse of Rodriguez” too.

As the scene fades out, we see them fighting again.

END ACT I


ACT II


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

DOCTOR WHAT has gotten cleaned up a bit, but he’s still pretty disheveled.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. Where are those
Fallen now?

LEO CAESIUS
The ship is coming in for a landing in Monrovia

DOCTOR WHAT scratches his head.

DOCTOR WHAT
Why are they going to Liberia of all places?

LEO CAESIUS
When the Confederacy expelled over one
million freed slaves, the population of Liberia
swelled drastically. Much of Africa had been divided up
at this point, so Liberia could not expand territorially enough to give
the newly-freed slaves “forty acres and a mule” as planned.

DOCTOR WHAT
So?

LEO CAESIUS
This may be dreadfully insensitive of me, but
Liberia’s urban centers are giant, um, well…

DOCTOR WHAT
Spit it out LEO!

LEO CAESIUS
Ghettos. And by ghetto, I mean
ghett -to!

EXT. – MONROVIA – NIGHT

The city is a giant slum stretching from horizon to horizon. The buildings are shabby and run-down and neon signs advertising strippers, car title loans, and fried chicken light up a city drowned in smog from a few functioning factories.

On the streets, large black men draped in gold jewelry walk escorted by other such men, while the shabbily-dressed ordinary folk skitter to and fro, avoiding eye contact with said large men. On a street corner, a man in preacher’s robes shouts to a small group who’ve gathered to watch, his arms waving manically.

It is to this urban morass that a small dark ship comes.

INT. – THE BRIDGE OF “THE BREAKER OF SOULS II”- NIGHT

KADYET is piloting the ship while MOLOBO watches. The chief Fallen’s gaze is dark and his mood is darker.

MOLOBO
If you hadn’t wasted time preaching to those losers,
we’d be aboard the AH.com ship by now.

KADYET
But master! Their immortal souls had to be saved!

MOLOBO
There will be time for that later,
once the great master is freed.
(beat)
You should be punished, I think.

KADYET
(fearful)
But master, I punish myself enough!
Look at this metal things I wear under
my robes! And I’m always sure to flagellate
myself at night before bed!

MOLOBO shakes his head.

MOLOBO
I never get to have any fun.
(beat)
In any case, I have a plan B.

KADYET looks relieved.

KADYET
What is it, master?

MOLOBO
You remember those little
fools we had some dealings
with a few weeks ago?

KADYET nods vigorously.

MOLOBO
They can help us achieve our objectives.

KADYET
But master…they aren’t here…

MOLOBO
They’ll be here soon…if they know
what’s good for them.
(beat)
In the meantime, we wait.

KADYET
Is it safe, master?

MOLOBO
(grinning)
The one who rules here voluntarily
took the Fallen path. He forsook the safety
Ian provides at the cost of one’s backbone, and
ought out a place in his image, to rule
as he saw fit.
(beat)
We’re perfectly safe.

INT. – THE OFFICE OF THE LIBERIAN PRESIDENT- NIGHT

A man in dreadlocks sits in a nice chair behind a nice desk. He is locked in a passionate kiss with…another man.

The canoodling goes on for a few awkward minutes. Then someone knocks on the door.

WOMAN’S VOICE
Michael, you busy?

The dreadlocked man quickly shoves the other man under his desk.

MEJ
(awkwardly grinning)
No. Come in!

A BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMAN swishes in. She is LORETTA, MEJ’s wife.

LORETTA JOHNSON
How’s work going today?

MEJ smiles.

MEJ
Just fine. The treasury is running low again
(beat)
If only those racist bastards in the USA and CSA
would pay those reparations!

LORETTA JOHNSON
By the way, have you heard about this
new thing called “on the down low”?

MEJ is now on the verge of panic.

MEJ
Can’t say that I have.

LORETTA JOHNSON
Well, it’s apparently responsible for the
rising rate of AIDS infections among
married black women.

MEJ
Are you so sure? I’m pretty sure that the
white man invented AIDS to…

LORETTA groans.

LORETTA JOHNSON
Not again, MICHAEL

MEJ
All right, all right.

A bright-red phone on the desk begins ringing.

MEJ
Oh my. It looks like the President of the US.
(beat)
Perhaps it’s those reparations.

LORETTA nods.

LORETTA JOHNSON
Call me when you’re done.
It’s time for our weekly lunch date.

She swishes out. MEJ answers the phone.

INT. – “THE BREAKER OF SOULS II” – DAY

MOLOBO is talking to MEJ.

MOLOBO
Mind if we hide out in Monrovia for awhile?

MEJ
Hide out from whom?

MOLOBO
The AH.com. We tried to jack
their ship to rescue MIKE from the Hub,
but things didn’t work out.
(beat)
We’ll be meeting someone else soon.
We and our AH.com hostage will be gone within a week tops.

MEJ
I bet I’m going to regret this. Your ship can land at the
Shaka Zulu Memorial Airport. I’ll make sure the
Kill Whitey terminal is open.

He hangs up. MEJ’s lover crawls out from under the desk.

MEJ
Montavius, go to Shaka and look for the black ship.
Keep them
(giggles)
on the down low.

EXT. – KILL WHITEY TERMINAL, SHAKA ZULU MEMORIAL AIRPORT – NIGHT

The gangplank of the Fallen ship rolls down. KADYET comes down, eyes wary.

KADYET
Nothing tricky thus far.
(beat)
It’s a bit hot, but that’s adequate
punishment for my sin of looking
at a cover of “The Da Vinci Code.”

Suddenly, the bound STRAHA lunges down the gangplank, bowling over KADYET. He runs for the nearest exit.

However, after running about five feet, he starts huffing and puffing. After around twenty feet, he can’t run anymore and slumps onto the ground.

KADYET calmly walks over and hoists him to his feet by his bound hands.

KADYET
Sinning fat pagan. Once we’re safely
ensconced in a monastery, I’ll have to
teach you some…

MOLOBO enters the scene.

MOLOBO
Stop lecturing the fat pothead! Get him
aboard the ship before someone notices!

The two Fallen drag STRAHA aboard.

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

The AH.commers are assembled, ready for war.

LEO CAESIUS
All right. MOLOBO, KADYET,
and STRAHA are in the Shaka Zulu
International Airport in Monrovia.
(beat)
Guess who’s protecting them?

DOCTOR WHAT
Another version of MIKE COLLINS?

GREY WOLF
A giant distillery!

DIAMOND
An IT professionals union!

Everyone glares at him.

DIAMOND
Well, a man can dream, can’t he?

LEO CAESIUS
MEJ.

Everyone groans.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Didn’t we defeat him a few worlds back?

LEO CAESIUS
Like the rest of us, there are a alternates from various
TLs that also tend to rise to the same level as others
we’ve encountered. This MEJ, according to scans and
Hub records,is one who left the Hub
after people stopped humoring him

LUAKEL pipes in.

LUAKEL
Even I’m not that liberal!

GREY WOLF throws an empty beer can at him.

GREY WOLF
Shut up Urkel!

Everyone looks at him. He shrugs.

GREY WOLF
Bloody hell, everyone else
is doing it.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. LEO, can you locate
STRAHA?

LEO computes for a moment.

LEO CAESIUS
He’s within the Fallen ship.
And something’s funny about its
hull material—we can’t just
teleport him out.
(beat)
Someone’s going to have to go get him.

GREY WOLF
Can’t we just blow up the ship from orbit?

LEO CAESIUS
Not unless you want to lose STRAHA
(beat)
Which sometimes doesn’t seem like too
bad an idea…

DOCTOR WHAT interrupts.

DOCTOR WHAT
We’ll just have to come up
With a distraction, then.
(beat)
Any volunteers?

Nobody raises their hand. DOCTOR WHAT points to OTHNIEL and MATT.

DOCTOR WHAT
You just volunteered. Go down there
aAnd get him out of the ship.

He points to WEAPON_M.

DOCTOR WHAT
You. Gather some people and
raid something down there.

WEAPON M
Create a distraction?
(DOCTOR WHAT nods.)
Oh, sweet, I’m gonna so blow so much shit up.
(skips out of Control Room)

INT. – THE BLACK HOUSE – NIGHT

WEAPON_M, MICHAEL, LANDSHARK, IRONYUPPIE, and DMA materialize inside Liberia’s executive mansion. Three enormous BLACK PANTHER-ESQUE men spot them.

DMA is the first to act.

DMA
JIHAD ON HIS ARSE!!

He opens fire on the BLACK PANTHERS. One goes down, but the others are quick. One ducks down behind a bust of Vladimir Lenin, while another ducks behind an enormous statue of Nat Turner cutting off a white person’s head with an axe.

The AH.commers find their own cover and the battle is on.

EXT. – KILL WHITEY TERMINAL, SHAKA ZULU MEMORIAL AIRPORT – NIGHT

Sirens wail and LIBERIAN SOLDIERS who are standing guard near the Fallen ship rush off to defend the Black House.

Seconds later, MATT in full battle armor and OTHNIEL done up like Rambo materialize on the tarmac. Directly in front of them lies the Fallen ship. The gangplank is down and the ship is apparently unoccupied.

MATT
All right. Standard procedure is
to roll a grenade in. However, since they’ve
got a hostage, we’ll have to go in slowly.
(beat)
Cover me.

His BFG in front of him, MATT makes his way onto the Fallen ship. Once he peeks inside, he gestures for OTHNIEL to follow.

INT. – THE BREAKER OF SOULS II – NIGHT

The interior of the ship is empty and bare. It looks like a barely-modified old freighter.

At the end of the central compartment sits a tied-up STRAHA. OTHNIEL rushes forward to untie him, but MATT stops him.

MATT
Wait. This could be a trap.

Suddenly, the entryway seals up. Two people start maniacally laughing off camera and MATT turns to see

The two FALLEN are standing between them and the door.

MOLOBO
You are correct, Ian-lover.
(beat)
Now DIE!!

MOLOBO hurls an enormous club at MATT, knocking the BFG from his hands. The battle is on.

INT. – THE BLACK HOUSE – NIGHT

Much of the interior of the Black House has been destroyed. The AH.commers are barricaded behind some fallen statues. A bunch of LIBERIAN SOLDIERS and BLACK PANTHERS, also behind cover, fire at them with a motley mix of 20th Century and futuristic weapons.

A wall EXPLODES behind them and some grenades roll through the gap. IRONYUPPIE hurls her yo-yo at them and shreds them before they explode. She pulls a grenade of her own from her vest and hurls it the way the other grenades came. The grenade explodes off-camera and we hear some SCREAMS.

IRONYUPPIE
Damn it, we’re being flanked.

WEAPON_M’s gun falls silent. He slaps his last energy cartridge in, but the LIBERIANS have used the lull in the fire to advance closer to their position.

WEAPON M
We’re going to have to get out here.

IRONYUPPIE
Retreat? Are you nuts?

WEAPON M
We’re low on ammo and being flanked.
Your yo-yo won’t be able to hold
them off forever.
(beat)
You four go first.

MICHAEL shrugs and pulls out his comm unit.

MICHAEL
Hey, wanker. Beam me up!

G.BONE (OS)
Damn, it. Quit calling me a wanker!

MICHAEL vanishes in a loud pop. LANDSHARK soon follows.

IRONYUPPIE
Damn it.
(glares at WEAPON_M)
We’ll discuss this later.

WEAPON M
(leering)
Will there be another woman involved?

IRONYUPPIE sticks her tongue out at him before she teleports away.

DMA, however, doesn’t seem interested in retreating.

DMA
JIHAD!!

DMA rises to his feet blasting away, his gun goes empty, and he pulls out a gigantic knife from a sheath and prepares to charge the LIBERIANS and BLACK PANTHERS. He suddenly vanishes in a loud pop. The LIBERIANS and BLACK PANTHERS see their enemy disappearing and they begin to charge the barricade, WEAPON M the last one behind.

WEAPON M pulls out a bunch of grenades and pulls the pin, whistling merrily, then vanishes in a pop.

INT. – BREAKER OF SOULS II – NIGHT

MATT squares off in hand-to-hand combat against MOLOBO. He’s physically superior in his powered armor, but MOLOBO is more aggressive. Neither of them can get to the BFG.

KADYET faces off against OTHNIEL.

KADYET
You must be burned! BURNED!
It is the law of the Church!

OTHNIEL
Is it not written, “Vengeance is mine, saith
the Lord”? Sola Scriptura!

KADYET can’t really answer this one, so he attacks with his clerical staff. OTHNIEL catches the staff and spins KADYET away.

Meanwhile, STRAHA is desperately struggling to get loose.

STRAHA
Ah, fuck. Just kill me and save me
from this wank-fest of scripture babble.

CLOSE-UP: THE WALL. Some of the ropes holding STRAHA down are beginning to fray.

INT. – BREAKER OF SOULS – NIGHT

MATT backhands MOLOBO, sending him crashing into some crates. He rushes over towards STRAHA.

KADYET
No!

He hurls himself into MATT’s path, tripping him and sending him toppling over. MATT manages to roll onto his feet. He approaches STRAHA and begins to untie him. It’s slow-going—the Fallen have used double and triple knots, many of them.

MATT
To hell with this!

A blade slides out of one of his wrists. He starts cutting through the ropes.

MOLOBO suddenly appears behind him.

MOLOBO
Not today!

The Fallen pounces on MATT, knocking him aside. Fortunately, he’s done enough cutting and STRAHA manages to wriggle out of the rest. The effort, however, leaves him red-faced and gasping.

OTHNIEL spots the BFG. He rushes over and picks it up.

KADYET has recovered from his tumble with MATT. He lunges at OTHNIEL. OTHNIEL steps to the side and KADYET goes headfirst into a bulkhead, knocking him unconscious. OTHNIEL, while regaining his footing, accidentally hits the trigger.

The resulting blast blows an enormous hole in the side of the ship. MATT notices.

MATT
Everyone out!

He steps over and grabs STRAHA. He rushes towards the door, only to be stopped by MOLOBO, who has grabbed onto his foot.

MATT
(annoyed)
Asshat.

He kicks MOLOBO, knocking him off. The AH.commers then rush for the exit.

EXT. – THE TARMAC – NIGHT

Liberian troops are returning in force. As soon as the AH.commers hit the asphalt, they have lots and lots of guns trained on them.

LIBERIAN COMMANDER
Drop yo weapons, foo’!

The AH.commers don’t look like they’re going to obey.

LIBERIAN COMMANDER
Put a cap in their asses!
(beat)
Make that a hundred thousand caps!

The assembled soldiers open fire. Merely seconds before their ammo would have hit, the AH.commers vanish.

The bullets, grenades, and tank shells hit the tarmac. The resulting explosion rips up the Breaker of Souls II .

LIBERIAN COMMANDER
Cease fire, foo’s!

MOLOBO and KADYET drag themselves from the ruins of the ship. They’re both very unhappy.

INT. – AH.COM – CONTROL ROOM – NIGHT

DOCTOR WHAT stands before the assembled crew.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. Once we get back to the Hub,
we need to warn IAN. MOLOBO is up to
something.

LEO CAESIUS
This world is pretty out of the way.
They might be stranded here for a good while.

WEAPON M
Can’t take too many chances though.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. Let’s Shift.
(beat)
Wait…where’s HENDRYK?

EXT. – DARK ALLEY IN MONTGOMERY – NIGHT

HENDRYK creeps towards a dark alleyway.

HENDRYK
You there?

A seedy-looking man emerges from the alley.

PORNO DEALER
Only the best for foreign clients.
(beat)
Where’re you from again?

HENDRYK
(uncertain)
I am from…France.

He withdraws a sheaf from his trench-coat. He hands it to HENDRYK, who eagerly pulls some images out.

Disappointment darkens his face. He hands the sheaf back. We can briefly see the image of a nude woman seated on a bed, her hands covering her “strategic parts.”

HENDRYK
You call this porn?

HENDRYK pulls a sheaf from his coat. We get a brief glimpse of a woman in the lusty embrace of a tentacled monster.

HENDRYK
THIS is porn!

The PORNO dealer is sickened.

PORNO DEALER
You sick frog! I’m calling the
Community Standards Department!

He pulls a cell phone from his pocket and starts dialing.

HENDRYK
Sacre blue! G.Bone get me outta here!

HENDRYK vanishes in a loud pop.

END ACT II


TAG


EXT. – A CITY UNDER ATTACK – DAU

TIGHT on MIDGARDMETAL.

We hear a loud guitar riff.

PULL BACK and we see MIDGARDMETAL standing in the middle of a wide city street, playing his heavy black guitar, around him, the windows in buildings begin exploding and the asphalt beneath his feet begin to crack.

REVERSE SHOT we see scores of tanks and other mobile weapons wrecked and burning on the street before MIDGARDMETAL. Troops are ducking behind cover and preparing to fire at MIDGARDMETAL.

Suddenly a huge black transport lands heavily behind MIDGARDMETAL. A large ramps extend and from the transport swarms hundreds of hideous monsters. They ignore MIDGARDMETAL and immediately begin attacking the defending troops.

MIDGARDMETAL flips a switch on his guitar and the rumbling comes to a stop, but he continues to play.

MONTAGE (OVER MIGARDMETAL’S GUITAR SOLO)

The monsters attacking the troops.

Brutal fighting.

Screaming.

Blood splattering.

Frantic gun firing.

Silence.

Then the crunch slurp of monsters feeding on the vanquished.

GUITAR SOLO COMES TO AN END.

WARD and GRIMM REAPER stand upon the ramp of the transport.

WARD
(looking at Midgardmetal)
A little heavy on the distortion,
but I have to say, it’s pretty good.

GRIMM REAPER
(looking at the monsters)
Oh, my. I think I’ve found a new pet…

WARD
(looking at the monsters)
Not bad.

DARK SLAVIK walks out from the interior of the transport, squinting.

DARK SLAVIK
My pretties….
(looking proud)
See, I told you they’d be able
to go up against armed troops easily.

WARD
Sure they can fight battered and demoralized troops.
I think it’s time to try it on a wider scale.
(opens comm unit)
Merry.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
Yes, sir?

WARD
Send down the rest of the transports.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
Location, sir?

WARD
Land them randomly across the city,
let’s see what they can do if let loose.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
What, sir? Against the civilian population?

WARD
Yes.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
(hesitant)
Are you sure, sir?

WARD
(annoyed)
Do it.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
Yes, sir….

GRIMM REAPER
Tell Fortyseven to teleport down some popcorn.
(to Ward)
This should be entertaining.

WARD
And some beer.

GRIMM REAPER
We need a good spot to watch.

The two walk off, continuing their discussion.

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS

The Return of the King

TITLECARD-THEKING

TEASER


INT. -AH.COM SHIP – CORRIDOR- DAY

We see MICHAEL walking along a corridor. He suddenly stops. We hear—coming from down the corridor—the sound of someone singing, very badly. MICHAEL walks down to an open doorway.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – QUARTERS – DAY

We see LANDSHARK wearing a sequined black leather jock strap—and nothing else. He’s singing into a hair brush. Behind him we see an open doorway. MICHAEL can be seen peeking in.

LANDSHARK
(singing)
When I’m with my guy and he watches all the pretty girls go by…
Well I feel so hurt deep inside, I wish that I could die!
Not a word do I say…
I just look the other way!
‘Cause that’s the way boys are!
That’s the way boys are!

INT. -SHIP CORRIDOR-DIFFERENT ANGLE- DAY

We see MICHAEL running down the corridor.

MICHAEL
(screaming)
Oh God! My eyes! MY EYES!

MICHAEL runs by a very confused looking MATT, who watches MICHAEL run off. MATT hears some sounds from the direction that MICHAEL came from and walks towards it.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – QUARTERS- DAY

We still see LANDSHARK singing into his hairbrush. MATT can be seen peeking in from the open doorway.

LANDSHARK
(singing)
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
everything that’s wonderful is what I feel
when we’re together.
Brighter than a lucky penny.
When you’re here the raindrops disappears
dear and I feel so fine.
Just to know that you are mine.

INT. -SHIP CORRIDOR-DIFFERENT ANGLE- DAY

We see MATT running down the corridor.

MATT
(screaming)
Aaaaaaaaargggghhh!

MATT runs by a very confused looking HENDRYK, who watches MATT run off. HENDRYK hears some sounds from the direction that MATT came from and walks towards it.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – QUARTERS- DAY

We see LANDSHARK once again singing into his hairbrush. HENDRYK can be seen peeking in from the open doorway.

LANDSHARK
(singing)
You don’t own me, I’m not just one of your many toys
You don’t own me, don’t say I can’t go with other boys
And don’t tell me what to do
And don’t tell me what to say
And please when i go out with you
Don’t put me on display, ’cause
You don’t own me, don’t try to change me in any way

INT. -SHIP CORRIDOR-DIFFERENT ANGLE- DAY

.We see HENDRYK slowly walking down the corridor. He has a stunned look in his eyes and is carrying his Chinese Mauser.

HENDRYK
(putting gun to side of head)
(quiet voice)
The horror…the horror…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – QUARTERS- DAY

We see LANDSHARK still singing into his hairbrush. He looks furtively to his side. We notice a nervous quaver in his voice.

LANDSHARK
(singing)
A-a-a-nd don’t tell me what to do
Oh-h-h-h don’t tell me what to say
and please, when I go out with you
Don’t put me on display
I don’t tell you what to say
Oh-h-h-h don’t tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That’s all I ask of you
I’m young and I love to be young

Camera slowly pans over to the side. We see IRONYUPPIE lounging in a comfortable chair. She’s wearing a dominatrix costume and carrying a very large whip in one hand. She has an angry expression on her face.

IRONYUPPIE
The last of the Nutella is ALWAYS for me!

CUT TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

AH.COM: The Series


“THE RETURN OF THE KING”

Written By : DOCTOR WHAT


ACT I


EXT. – AH.COM SHIP – PLANET ORBIT- DAY

We see the ah.com ship in orbit around the Earth.

INT. – CONTROL ROOM- DAY

We see DOCTOR WHAT, MATT, KITJED, DAVE HOWERY, DIAMOND and LANDSHARK sitting around the table. A large holographic image of the Earth appears floating over the table.

DOCTOR WHAT
What have you got for us, LEO?

LEO
Initial scans indicate some truly bizarre findings.

DOCTOR WHAT
Like….?

LEO
For starters—there appears to be a 500 foot
high pyramid just outside Atlanta, Georgia.

DIAMOND
Say what?!

DAVE HOWERY
What is this—some kind of Aztec
takes over the Americas timeline?

LEO
Negative. The pyramid is clearly Egyptian in design.
Judging by what I can detect of the architectural, cultural
and geo-political elements of this world, preliminary
analysis indicates that this world’s
POD occurred in the last 15 to 30 years.

DOCTOR WHAT
Can you narrow down the POD?

LEO
Not without additional information.

MATT
(scratching his chin)
What kind of POD creates the building of a 500 foot high
pyramid in the latter half of the 20th century—in Atlanta?

DIAMOND
Maybe they elected one of the Bangles as President?

LANDSHARK
(confused)
The who?

DIAMOND
Nah—then it would be a giant concrete
pillar with urine stains on it.

LANDSHARK
(even more confused)
What?

DOCTOR WHAT
Yes?

DIAMOND
Nah—then it would be some
weird psychedelic landscape

LANDSHARK
(getting more angry and confused)
What?!

DOCTOR WHAT
Huh?

DIAMOND
Never heard of those guys…

LANDSHARK
(even more angry and confused)
What?!?

DOCTOR WHAT
(sudden realization)
Ah-ha!

DIAMOND
Nah—then that would be a giant mirror…

LANDSHARK
(screaming at the top of his lungs)
WHAT?!?

Sudden silence as everyone stares at LANDSHARK in shock.

DOCTOR WHAT
Dude—I’m standing right in
front of you—no need to yell.
(rolling eyes)
Yeesh!
(looking back up at ceiling)
LEO—have you found anything else for us?

LEO
Yes—something truly bizarre.

DOCTOR WHAT
More bizarre than a 500 foot high
Egyptian pyramid in the southern U.S.?

LEO
Yes. The population of this
world is approximately 2 billion.
(beat)
And virtually every single person
on Earth is over the age of 65.

Long pause from the ah.commers

DAVE HOWERY
Uh—LEO—run that by us again.

LEO
Every single person on this world is a senior citizen.
I am detecting few, if any, individuals under that age.

Another long pause.

MATT
So no hot chicks?

LEO
I’m afraid not….

DOCTOR WHAT
LEO—prepare a shuttle—we
are definitely checking this one out.

Entire Control Room crew get up and walk out exit.

MATT (o.v.)
But there’s no hot chicks!
And it probably smells of old people…

EXT. – EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE – DAY

We see the shuttle ‘C.C. Rider’ flying over the ocean.

INT. -SHUTTLE- DAY

We see LANDSHARK at the controls with MATT sitting next to him. DOCTOR WHAT and DIAMOND are behind them. KITJED and DAVE HOWERY are at the rear of the shuttle.

DOCTOR WHAT
(speaking into comm. unit)
Anything else you’ve discovered, LEO?

LEO (o.v.)
Still analysing data, Doc but there’s some rather
anomalous energy readings coming from the
vicinity of the pyramid. I am unable to explain
them. I recommend that you and the landing
party proceed with extreme caution.

DOCTOR WHAT
Oh please–aren’t we always careful about what we
do and how we interact with the locals, LEO?

Long pause from LEO.

DOCTOR WHAT
LEO? Hello? LEO—you still there?

LEO
Ummmm…
(beat)
Nevertheless—please proceed with caution.

DOCTOR WHAT
Will do. Anything else, LEO?

LEO
I will inform you of any additional findings.

DOCTOR WHAT
By the way LEO—what’s the status of
the teleporter? Did G.BONE fix it yet?

INT. –AH. COM SHIP-TELEPORTATION TUBE ROOM- DAY

We see PSYCHOMELTDOWN walk into the teleportation tube room.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(looks around room)
G.BONE? You here, dude?
Why did you call me down?

He spots-lying on the teleporter pad-a DVD case. Written in extremely large letters on it are the words ‘ALYSON HANNIGAN HOME PORN TAPE’. In smaller letters are the words ‘Doc’s Secret Stash—touch this and you die!’

PSYCHOMELTDOWN leaps onto the pad.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(drooling)
Oh sweet, sweet Alyson!
(clutches DVD to chest)

G.BONE (o.v.)
A-HA!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN looks up to see G.BONE jump out of a small closet and rush to the controls of the teleporter.

G.BONE
I finally fixed the damn teleporter but nobody wants to
volunteer to test it! For some reason they don’t trust me!
They think I’m incompetent! Ha! I’ll show them how
much of an ace teleporter engineer I am!
I’ll finally get the respect I deserve!
(presses a few buttons)
Thanks for volunteering, Psycho!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN disappears with a flash of light and a small popping sound. G.BONE presses a few more buttons. Nothing happens.

G.BONE—with a look of extreme confusion on his face—walks to the teleporter pad. He looks up to see a small fly buzzing around.

FLY
(with Psychomeltdnwn’s voice but high-pitched)
….help me….help me…

G.BONE stands there staring at the fly. We notice a large shape suddenly appear with a loud pop behind him. A very large FLY CLAW taps G.BONE on the shoulder. G.BONE turns around.

CLOSE-UP—G.BONE’S FACE

G.BONE
Gaaaaa-aaaaaaaa….

INT. -SHUTTLE- DAY

LEO (o.v.)
(cont.)
He said something about there being a few bugs in it.

EXT. – OUTSKIRTS OF ATLANTA – DAY

We see the 500 foot high pyramid in the background. It’s covered with a layer of black marble, making the sides of the pyramid almost mirror smooth. We see the ah.commers near the foreground.

DOCTOR WHAT
A BLACK pyramid?

KITJED
That’s really weird—the
Egyptians used white marble.

MATT
They did? How do you know that?

KITJED
LEO told me. He’s been
teaching me ancient history.

DAVE HOWERY
Since when are you
interested in ancient history?

KITJED
(offended voice)
I’ll have you know that I have had a deep and
abiding interest in history since I was a teenager!
I have read all kinds of books on ancient cultures!

LANDSHARK
So—all those coffee table books of semi-naked oiled up men
in compromising poses that you leave all over the place are…?

KITJED
Research material!

DOCTOR WHAT
People! Can we get back to the subject on hand here please!

LANDSHARK
His hand IS the subject actually…

KITJED
Hey! I resent that!

LANDSHARK
Is it true?

KITJED
Well, yes—it’s true! But I still resent it…

The ah.commers walk towards the pyramid. DOCTOR WHAT has a scanning device in his hands. After a few seconds, he points in a direction and the whole crew walk off.

EXT. – PYRAMID-A FEW MINUTES LATER- DAY

We see the ah.commers about 100 yards or so away from the pyramid. An entrance to the pyramid can be clearly seen up ahead. DOCTOR WHAT is still looking at his scanner.

DOCTOR WHAT
That’s weird…

KITJED
What is?

DOCTOR WHAT
Detecting a massive energy surge.

DAVE HOWERY
Directed where?

DOCTOR WHAT
Directed everywhere as near as I can figure…

At that moment, the entire massive black pyramid suddenly glows an incandescent blue color. The ah.commers—and the entire area—are bathed in bright blue light for several seconds before the light fades away as quickly as it appeared.

MATT
What the hell was that!?!

DOCTOR WHAT
Massive energy surge! Right off the charts!
Damn thing practically broke the needle!
Never seen this kind of energy before…

DAVE HOWERY
I strongly suggest that we get the hell out of…of…of…
(suddenly collapses face down)

DOCTOR WHAT
DAVE!

DOCTOR WHAT reaches DAVE’s side first and rolls him over onto his back. The ah.commers suddenly let out a collective gasp of shock.

CLOSE-UP—DAVE HOWERY’S FACE

We see DAVE HOWERY’s face—but it’s been aged at least 20 years.

MATT
What the hell…

Suddenly LANDSHARK, DIAMOND and DOCTOR WHAT all scream and collapse as well.

KITJED and MATT leap to their comrades’ sides and notice that the same thing that has afflicted HOWERY has afflicted them as well—all of them have suddenly aged 20 years. KITJED suddenly screams and collapses. MATT has just enough time to look at KITJED before he screams and collapses as well.

All of the ah.commers suddenly start convulsing. A small blue ‘ball of light’ suddenly appears hovering over each of their bodies for a few seconds—and then shoots towards the pyramid at high speed, disappearing through the entrance. They stop convulsing.

CLOSE-UP MATT: We see MATT barely conscious. He hears a sound and turns to face it.

MATT POV: We see—off in the distance—several elderly people being led by a very old but surprisingly energetic black man running towards the ah.commers. The old black man reaches MATT.

OLD BLACK MAN
(looking down at us)
Hang on, boy—we’re here to help…

MATT passes out—and the screen goes black.

INT. – LARGE HOSPITAL-LIKE ROOM – DAY

We see the ah.commers lying in beds. All of them start slowly waking up. They see each other’s changed appearances for the first time. Before they can do more than give ‘wtf’ looks at one another, the elderly black man we saw before (with several other elderly people) walk into the room.

OLD BLACK MAN
How are we doing?

DOCTOR WHAT
We are fine for the moment but we have…

OLD BLACK MAN
…lots and lots of questions, right?

The ah.commers nod.

OLD BLACK MAN
Well-I’ve got a lot of questions to
ask you as well. Let me start first
(takes a deep breath)
Do you boys have shit for brains or what?!
Where the hell did you get the stupid
idea to go towards the Pyramid?

DOCTOR WHAT
We didn’t know of the dangers.

OLD BLACK MAN
(completely flabbergasted)
Didn’t know? Didn’t know?! DIDN’T KNOW?!
Have you idiots been on another
planet or something all this time?!

DOCTOR WHAT
Um…actually…that’s not far from the truth…

OLD BLACK MAN
Huh?

DOCTOR WHAT
(pulling out his comm. unit)
But first let me contact my ship…
(talking into comm. unit)
AH.Com ship? Come in please…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – DAY

Montage of different sections of the ship. We see no movement at all. We shift to the Medical Bay—and we spot many members of the crew (GREY WOLF, IRONYUPPIE, THANDE, etc) all passed out and lying on beds—and every one of them is at least 20 years older…

We see LEO in his robot body attending to the crew. He hits a switch on a nearby wall.

INT – LARGE HOSPITAL-LIKE ROOM- DAY

LEO (o.v.)
DOCTOR WHAT! Something terrible has happened to the
entire crew! The ship got hit by a massive energy pulse
and then every single one of suddenly passed out
and started aging rapidly!

DOCTOR WHAT
Same thing happened to us, LEO.
How are they?

LEO (o.v.)
Alright for the most part—but the sudden aging
has been a terrible shock to their systems. I have
them sedated while I attempt to analyze what happened.

DOCTOR WHAT
I think we’re about to find out what’s going on here,
LEO. Is there anything you can do to help them?

LEO (o.v.)
Negative. But I can tell you this—if we get hit by
another pulse, we’ll start losing some of the crew.

DOCTOR WHAT
Understood LEO. Do your best.
(turns comm. unit off)

OLD BLACK MAN
I’m still waiting for an explanation….

DOCTOR WHAT exchanges a glance with the rest of the ah.commers. They shrug their shoulders.

DOCTOR WHAT
It’s like this…

SOME TIME LATER

We see the OLD BLACK MAN staring at the ah.commers.

OLD BLACK MAN
(staring at DOCTOR WHAT)
Boy—that is the biggest pile of
horseshit I’ve ever heard in my life.
(beat)
But I believe you. Heh—after what’s happened here,
travellers from a parallel universe
visiting us sounds almost normal.

DOCTOR WHAT
So what has happened here?

OLD BLACK MAN
Started back in 1985. Some archaeologists discovered a
tomb of a high priest—Manetho. Buried undisturbed for
over 4000 years. Legend had it that he was one bad-ass
bastard of a priest. Tried to take over the kingdom using
black magic—and that he was buried alive for his crimes.
They dug him up and brought him back to the States.
Something went wrong and…well…he came back from the dead.

MATT
Say what?

OLD BLACK MAN
Yup. Turns out all the stories about him were true—had all
kinds of supernatural powers. He went medieval on the team
of scientists working on his tomb then turned his attention to
the rest of the city. It took a day or two before people started
figuring out what was happening but by then it was too late.
His powers were growing with every hour and by the time the
rest of the world figured out what was happening he had become
this super powerful undead magic using mummy. He used his
magic on the world and…well…things fell apart real fast after that.

DOCTOR WHAT
But the ageing…?

OLD BLACK MAN
Yeah—well—you see—the thing is that’s the source of his powers.
He’s able to suck in the youth of those around him and that keeps
him going and keeps him powered up. The more youth he sucks in
from everyone, the more powerful he gets. Those first few days were
the worst—first he aged the population of the entire city, then the
entire state, then the whole country and finally—on May 8, 1985—
the entire world. Two days later that damn pyramid suddenly appeared
out of nowhere. It’s been there ever since.

DOCTOR WHAT
And yet—you people still stay here?

OLD BLACK MAN
This is our home and nobody is going to kick me out of it—
especially no fancy ass 4000 year old freak with crazy
voodoo powers! He wants me to leave—he’s going
to have to personally kick me out here!

DOCTOR WHAT
Ah—I see. Where exactly are we, anyway?

OLD BLACK MAN
Happy Haven Rest Home.
(points to several of his comrades)
We’re pretty much all that’s left of the original residents.
Most of the workers took off after the first few days. We
eke out an existence growing backyard crops
and having a few animals around.

MATT
Hang on—doesn’t the ageing
thing affect you people?

OLD BLACK MAN
We ain’t young anymore boy! I’m almost 90 years old myself.
I was already old when all this started! Only so much youth
can be sucked out of us before we’re no good to him! He sucks
a few days worth of life from everyone in the world every now
and then to keep him juiced up. You younguns must have been
like a good juicy steak dinner to him after all the crumbs he’s
been feeding on.

DOCTOR WHAT
Well—in any case—thanks for saving our asses
back there. By the way—what’s your name?

OLD BLACK MAN
President John F. Kennedy.

Long pause from the ah.commers.

DAVE HOWERY
Ummmm…I’m not sure how to tell
you this but you’re…uh…ummm…

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
An old black man? Of course
I know that! They did this to me!

DOCTOR WHAT
They?

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
The CIA! I knew too much so they faked my death in
Dallas and implanted my brain in the body of an old
black man to shut me up! They thought that it will drive
me insane but I showed them—I’m perfectly normal
and in charge of all my faculties!

Another long pause.

DOCTOR WHAT
Ooooooo-kay….

MATT
Mmmmmmm…that’s very…uh… interesting…

LANDSHARK
(sotto voice)
Damn colonials…never should have allowed them to get their own country…

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
You boys are welcome to stay here as long as you want—
but I have to warn you—don’t get any funny ideas about
taking on Manetho yourself. Many of tried—none of survived.

One of the old men next to PRESIDENT KENNEDY turns to him.

OLD MAN
But Sir—what about the Prophecy?

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
(rolling eyes)
Oh SionEwig! You and your damn prophecies!

DOCTOR WHAT
Prophecy?

SIONEWIG
The travelers from the Beyond will come.
They will free the King in White from his Frozen Prison.
The King will travel to his Graceful Home.
Using the power of tone, he will banish Manetho forevermore.

DOCTOR WHAT
Interesting…but what does it mean?

SIONEWIG
I haven’t the faintest idea.

DOCTOR WHAT
Anybody know where we
can find this ‘King in White’?

LANDSHARK
Are you completely out of your oxygen deprived brain?
You believe this prophecy stuff?

DOCTOR WHAT
Hey—it’s our only lead at the moment. You want
to stay as a decrepit 50 year old guy?

LANDSHARK
Good point…

DAVE HOWERY
Hey! I’m almost 50!

LANDSHARK
Now I’m really convinced we should do something….

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
You boys are completely loony
to even be considering this!

SIONEWIG
Me and my friend NORBERT have been thinking
about this for nearly 20 years and we think we have
a good idea. I can show you on a map where we think he is.

DOCTOR WHAT
Great. We’ll will take the shuttle and see
if we can find this ‘King in White’
(beat)
But first—I really need to take a nap….

General chorus of ‘Oh yeah’, ‘Same here’, ‘My back is freaking killing me’, and ’I really have to pee’ come from the ah.commers.

END ACT I

ACT II


EXT. – ABANDONED DESERT MILITARY BASE – NIGHT

We see a huge fenced in military base. It’s obvious – judging from the decrepit nature of the base – that it has been abandoned for quite some time. We see a large rusty sign on the fence –

AREA 51
WARNING
NO TRESPASSING
BEYOND THIS POINT
TOP SECRET RESEARCH FACILITY
USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED

We see a shuttle fly over the fence at high speed, knocking down a chunk of the fence with the shock wave of its passing. It lands on an airfield deep within the base.

We see the ah.commers come out of the shuttle.

LANDSHARK
Remind me again why we’re here.

DOCTOR WHAT
Two deranged and possibly senile senior citizens by the names
of SIONEWIG and NORBERT have spent the last 20 years
analyzing a prophecy they found in the lost manuscripts of
Nostradamus. It is their contention that we are the individuals
that are written about in the prophecy and that we are on a mission
to release a frozen King in White. Furthermore, using files that
they have acquired from a 90 year old black man who claims to
have the brain of John F. Kennedy implanted into his head, they
have ascertained that the King in White was, in fact, an individual
who was kidnapped by the CIA almost 30 years ago and was sent
to a top secret military base for study. In addition, they believe that
this King is still alive and, using his semi-divine powers, we will be
able to use him to overthrow a 4000 year old mummy that has been
sucking the lifeforce from this planet’s people for the last 20 years.

LANDSHARK
And you don’t find any of that the least bit unlikely?

DOCTOR WHAT
Well—to be honest—I’m a little dubious
about the claims from that black man.

LANDSHARK
Oh thank God…

DOCTOR WHAT
No fucking way he’s only 90 years old—
he looks at least 100 to me….

LANDSHARK buries his head in his hands.

LANDSHARK
(sotto voice)
We are SO going to die….

MATT kicks open the entrance into a building.

MATT
Less chit-chat! More walking!

The ah.commers walk into the building.

MATT
(groaning)
Man, I’ll be feeling that in the morning…

INT. -DARK CORRIDOR – NIGHT

We see a long corridor with a broken elevator at the far end. Dust and debris of all kinds litter the floor. A sign nearby says ‘Black Mesa Level—Cryogenics Division’. The elevator doors suddenly explode—blowing dust, flames and debris towards the camera. We see nothing but smoke for a few seconds. Then—coming out of the smoke cloud—we see MATT and DIAMOND on point. A few seconds later DOCTOR WHAT, DAVE HOWERY and LANDSHARK walk in, with KITJED bringing up the rear.

DAVE HOWERY
(turning to DOCTOR WHAT)
(sotto voice)
Look—I wouldn’t mind him insisting on taking
the rear all the time, but does he have to make comments?

KITJED
(shouting from behind)
Hey DAVE-you’ve been hitting the donuts a little
hard there lately—your butt has grown a full inch!
You better start going to the gym soon…

DAVE HOWERY
Does he have to hurt my feelings so much?!
(starts sobbing)

MATT kicks open a door and all the ah.commers walk into a huge dark laboratory like room. We see—along one end of the room—a collection of huge glass tubes. MATT starts walking by the glass tubes with a flashlight, reading out loud the labels on the tubes.

MATT
(reading)
Captain Briggs of the Mary Celeste…Captain Worley of
the USS Cyclops…Ambrose Bierce…Judge Crater…
Amelia Earhart… Glenn Miller…D.B. Cooper…
Percy Fawcett…Harold Holt…Jimmy Hoffa…
ah!…here we are!…

The ah.commers gather around one tube. We see in the frost rimmed tube an overweight man in his 40’s. He’s wearing sunglasses and a white jumpsuit. He’s holding a sandwich in his right hand.

LANDSHARK
(sarcastic voice)
The King in White? Yeesh…

DIAMOND
You have to admit—it’s appropriate.

KITJED
But really—white? It’s so…passé
(rolls eyes)

DAVE HOWERY
Hey—no mocking the King…

MATT
How do we get him out?

DOCTOR WHAT
(pulling out comm. unit)
By asking the expert…

INT. – LAB – DAY

We see DOCTOR WHAT listening in to LEO on an earplug. He’s nodding his head every now and then as he tries to follow LEO’s words. We can’t hear LEO’s instructions very well and all it sounds like to us is distant mumbling.

DOCTOR WHAT
Uh-huh…uh-huh…ok….ok…I see…
hmmmm….hmmmm…ok…uh-huh….
huh….ok…uh-huh…
(beat)
(dubious tone of voice)
And that will work?
(more mumbling from LEO)
(reluctant voice)
O-kay….I’ll give it a shot…

DOCTOR WHAT stares intently at the Cryo unit lock for a few seconds. Then he lets out a blood-curding scream and kicks the lock open. The door swings open, enveloping the entire area in cold mist for a few seconds.

DOCTOR WHAT
(clutching his leg)
Ow…I think I’m going to need a new hip…

We see the ‘king in white’ blink his eyes for a few seconds then open them.

THE KING
Hey—you’re not the Colonel…

MATT
No buddy—we’re not.

THE KING
So where am I? What’s going on?

DOCTOR WHAT
We got something really important to tell you…

A FEW MINUTES LATER

THE KING
Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually
going to the grave, something else happens…
(beat)
Damn…almost 30 years…
(shakes head)

DOCTOR WHAT
Sorry to be a pain but we have work
to do and not much time to do it…

THE KING
Damn straight! I have to save the world! But wait—
we need to go back to my place and get my guitar…

DOCTOR WHAT
Huh? Why can’t you use any old guitar?

THE KING
It’s got to be my guitar, boy—my special one.
Did my best work on that one and we’re going
to need all the luck we can get, right?

LANDSHARK
Damn—I hate it when these
Yanks get all logical on us…

KITJED
It was bound to happen sooner or later.

LANDSHARK
Not on my watch, damn it!

The ah.commers leave the lab, bringing THE KING with them.

DOCTOR WHAT (o.v.)
Oh man—my hip is really killing me…

DIAMOND (o.v.)
My stomach is acting weird, too. Damn irregularity…

DOCTOR WHAT (o.v.)
You really should stop eating all
that red meat and get more fibre…

LANDSHARK (o.v.)
Damn arthritis is interfering with my ability to bash
the lot of you over the heads with a cricket bat…

MATT (o.v.)
I heard growing old makes people irritable…

LANDSHARK (o.v.)
I am NOT growing old, damn it! Once we get to
the shuttle I’m going to kick you in the shins…

KITJED (o.v.)
Good thing we still have use of all our senses, though…

DAVE HOWERY (o.v.)
WHAT? Stop mumbling and speak up!

EXT.-MEMPHIS, TENNESEE-SUNRISE

We see the shuttle land outside the gates of a huge mansion. Like Atlanta, much of the city has been abandoned and we see a handful of elderly individuals looking up confusedly at the shuttle as it comes down for a landing. We see a sign nearby. It’s been partially damaged by the elements so all it says is: WELCOME TO GRACE

The ah.commers come out and look at the mansion.

KITJED
Man—talk about a monument to tackiness…

DAVE HOWERY
For the last time—no dissing the King!

The KING looks at the mansion.

THE KING
They turned the place into a tourist trap? Eh—
could be worse—there could be chapels just
down the street where the preacher is dressed up like me….

MATT
Um…actually…..

DOCTOR WHAT
(quickly)
Moving ahead!

INT. MANSION-MORNING

We see THE KING, followed closely by the ah.commers, rush up the stairway.

MATT
Where are we going?

THE KING
My old bedroom—I hope she’s still up there…

INT. – GRAND BEDROOM- DAY

We see a very large disused bedroom. There is a guitar stand in the corner. On it is a white rhinestone studded guitar.

THE KING
Gladys!
(grabs guitar off stand)

THE KING holds the guitar in his hands. He almost looks like he’s getting ready to play it. He stares at the guitar for a long moment. Finally he looks back at the ah.commers.

THE KING
Let’s take care of business.

EXT.-HAPPY HAVEN REST HOME-ATLANTA, GEORGIA-MORNING

We see the shuttle land outside the Home. PRESIDENT KENNEDY and a few other residents are standing there. The ah.commers come out first, followed by THE KING.

SIONEWIG and NORBERT stare open-jawed at this and fall to their knees.

SIONEWIG/NORBERT
(together)
The Return of the King!
The Messiah has returned!

THE KING
(angry)
I am NOT the Messiah,
do you understand?

SIONEWIG
Only the true Messiah denies His divinity!

THE KING
What?! What kind of logic is that? Fine,
you loonies! All right! I am the Messiah!

NORBERT
He is! He is the Messiah!

THE KING
Now, fuck off!!

Silence from SIONEWIG and NORBERT for several seconds.

SIONEWIG
How shall we fuck off, O Lord?

PRESIDENT KENNEDY steps forward and shakes hands with THE KING.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I have to admit that I didn’t believe these boys can do
it but I’m glad they did. Now let’s get that mummy!

THE KING
Right after I’ve had a few peanut butter
and ‘nanner sandwiches, sir….

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Ain’t been no bananas here for nearly twenty years…

THE KING
WHAT?!
(faces in the direction of the Pyramid)
(shakes fist)
Alright Manetho, you son of a bitch!
You’re going down motherfucker!!

EXT.-BLACK PYRAMID-MORNING

We see the ah.commers and THE KING marching towards the opening of the pyramid. All of the ah.commers are carrying BFG while THE KING is carrying his guitar. They stop walking for a moment.

DOCTOR WHAT
Ready everyone?

DIAMOND
Ready as I’ll ever be.

MATT
Locked and loaded.

LANDSHARK
Got these terrible pains in the joints
up along the left side of my body

KITJED
Hey—anything to get back my good looks—
I look hideous with all this gray hair.

DAVE HOWERY
(holding hand over ear)
What?!

THE KING
Man—I so could go for a bucket of fried chicken
and a peanut butter and ‘nanner sandwich right now…

DOCTOR WHAT
Onwards!

They rush into the open entrance.

INT. – CORRIDOR- DAY

SOME TIME LATER

We see the ah.commers walking along a darkened corridor. MATT suddenly motions for everyone to stop.

DOCTOR WHAT
(whispering)
What’s up?

MATT
(whispering)
I was hearing this weird creaking
sound but now it’s stopped.

They keep walking. MATT motions them to stop again.

MATT
There it was again! But now it’s
stopped again! What WAS that?

DAVE HOWERY
(embarrassed)
Uh—that was us actually…

DIAMOND
(embarrassed)
Yeah—those joints are really out of shape…

LANDSHARK
(contemplatively)
You know—you can actually tell which limb
is moving by the sounds they make…

DOCTOR WHAT
(cheerfully)
Look at the bright side—we can all get jobs as
exotic dancers for the blind if this doesn’t work…

MATT starts rubbing his temples and mutters under his breath

MATT
(sotto)
Maybe I’ll get lucky and die in bed having sex with
triplets on my 40th birthday and avoid all this growing old crap…

Loud growls comes from up ahead. The ah.commers see over a dozen half jackal/half human creatures coming at them.

MATT
Oh thank God, we’re under attack….

A FEW MINUTES LATER

We see the ah.commers pinned down near an intersection of a corridor. Every few seconds, one or two ah.commers poke their heads out around the corner and let loose a barrage of gunfire from their BFGs. We see several dead half jackal/half human creatures lying in the corridor but there’s still at least seven or eight of the creatures still alive. It appears to be a stand-off—neither side can move more than a few feet closer without being attacked.

MATT
Damn it! There’s got to be another
way into the pyramid!

DOCTOR WHAT
(looking at scanner)
Nope—that’s the only way in! I can’t believe this—
we’re so close–there’s some kind of big chamber
less than 100 feet directly beneath us! If only
there was some way to…go…through…all…

DOCTOR WHAT/MATT
(looking at each other)
(simultaneously)
The teleporter!

DOCTOR WHAT pulls out his comm. unit.

DOCTOR WHAT
LEO! What’s the status on the teleporter?!

LEO (o.v.)
I’ve managed to make some partial repairs to the
teleporter but I’m not sure about its safety!

MATT
(screaming into comm.)
Fuck the safety features—get us
into the main chamber beneath us!

LEO (o.v.)
That’s just it! I can teleport two of you into the chamber
with a high degree of safety but no more than that! And
the repairs will hold for just one—MAYBE two—transports!

DOCTOR WHAT
Are you telling us that even if you managed to teleport
two people in there, you might not be able to teleport them out!

LEO (o.v.)
Correct.
(beat)
There’s one more thing—I’m detecting an energy surge
in the pyramid. I believe that in less than 5 minutes the
pyramid will be using its ageing powers again.

DOCTOR WHAT
What are our chances of surviving another blast?

LEO (o.v.)
I predict that half of the crew on board the ah.com ship and,
with the exceptions of MATT and maybe KITJED, the
entire landing party will not survive the blast.

DOCTOR WHAT and MATT exchange a glance. MATT nods.

DOCTOR WHAT
LEO—prepare to transport MATT and
THE KING into the chamber!

DOCTOR WHAT throws MATT the comm. unit.

DOCTOR WHAT
Godspeed, MATT.

MATT
(yelling into comm. unit)
Teleport us now!

MATT and THE KING disappear in a bright flash of light.

DOCTOR WHAT
(turning to rest of the ah.commers)
New plan guys! We are doing a strategic withdrawal
of our resources in an accelerated time frame!

LANDSHARK
Huh?

DOCTOR WHAT
We’re running away like scared bunny rabbits!

LANDSHARK
It’s what we do best…

The ah.commers fire one last burst of gunfire at the jackal creatures and run away. The jackal creatures give chase.

INT. LARGE UNDERGROUND CHAMBER – DAY

We see what appears to be the Throne Room of the pyramid. Sitting on the throne is a tall and powerful looking mummy. This is the HIGH PRIEST MANETHO.

The walls are pulsing with a blue light in a rhythmic fashion. The rhythm is almost like that of a heartbeat. We notice that the rhythm is slowly speeding up. We see off to one side a corridor leading up.

MATT and THE KING appear in a flash of light in the center of the chamber. MATT drops down to one knee and fires a barrage of gunfire at MANETHO.

The gunfire has no effect.

MANETHO laughs and fires a blast of blue light from his hands at THE KING. MATT pushes THE KING out of the way at the last instant and is hit by the blast instead. MATT screams and collapses.

CLOSE-UP MATT: We see MATT aging rapidly. He now appears to be in his 50’s.

THE KING
Alright you! You’re going down, you bastard!

MANETHO fires another blast of blue light. THE KING ducks out of the way.

THE KING
Ha! Missed me!

MANETHO fires another blast. THE KING does an impressive twist at the last second and the blast misses him again.

THE KING
I have a black belt in karate, you undead sack of shit!

THE KING looks over at MATT. He’s still ageing and now looks like he’s in his 60’s.

MANETHO lets loose a scream that echoes around the chamber and fires yet another blast. THE KING lifts up his guitar at the last instant and the blast reflects off the white guitar and back at MANETHO.

MANETHO is enveloped by his own blast for a few seconds and then collapses to his knees. He looks stunned.

THE KING
Now it’s my turn!
(holds guitar)
Now this little ditty used to kill them
every time back at the Hilton.
(starts playing guitar)
I’m gonna keep on the run
I’m gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
I’ll always remember that I had a swingin’ time
I’m gonna give it everything I’ve got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shout a seven with every shot
Viva Las Vegas!
Viva Las Vegas!
Viva!
Viva!
Las Vegas!
(does one final power chord on his guitar)

MANETHO screams one long horribly drawn out scream and suddenly explodes—sending dust in every direction!

The pyramid suddenly starts to shake.

THE KING rushes to MATT’s side. We see that MATT is now in his 80’s and still ageing. The comm. unit crackles to life. We hear LEO’s voice.

COMM UNIT
MATT! I’m not sure what just happened but I’m detecting
a massive overload of energy building up in there! I estimate
you have less than two minutes before the entire pyramid
explodes! The teleporters are offline! You have to make a
run for it! Can you read me MATT?!

MATT
(barely able to speak)
Leave me….behind…save yourself….

THE KING
Nothing doing boy! I was in the service
too and the one thing I learned is –
(picks up MATT and throws him over his shoulder)
–you never leave a soldier behind!

THE KING runs up the corridor, carrying MATT. Behind him, we see the Throne Room start to collapse.

EXT.-PYRAMID- DAY

We see the rest of the ah.commers standing several hundred feet away from the pyramid. The pyramid itself is flashing a blindingly bright blue light. We hear very loud rumbling sounds coming from it. Suddenly—we see THE KING (carrying MATT) rush out of the entrance.

DIAMOND
(shouting)
The KING has left the building!

We see DOCTOR WHAT looking at his scanner and let out a yell.

DOCTOR WHAT
Everyone down!!

All of the ah.commers hit the dirt as the pyramid suddenly explodes, sending debris in every direction. We see a phenomenally bright blue laser beam shoot upwards from the pyramid top and up into the sky.

We see six blue balls of light come streaking down and hit the ah.commers. They start screaming and convulsing. After a few seconds, they stop convulsing—and we notice them slowly de-ageing back towards their normal age.

CLOSE-UP BRIGHT BLUE LASER BEAM SHOOTING UPWARDS: We notice that the laser beam is not a solid beam of light but, rather, appears to be made out of millions upon millions of the small blue balls of light we saw earlier. We see thousands of the balls streak away from the main beam every second we view it.

MONTAGE—DIFFERENT CITIES

We see scenes from many cities—Paris, London, Rome, Moscow, Cairo, New York, Beijing, etc – as the blue balls of light streak down from the sky and impact on numerous elderly people. All of them collapse and start convulsing—and slowly start de-ageing…

CLOSE-UP BRIGHT BLUE LASER BEAM IN SPACE: We are in high Earth orbit. We see various satellites flying by—and the AH.COM ship slowly drifts into view. The blue beam is almost completely dissipated at this point and we see the last dozen or so blue balls of light streak through the hull of the ship.

INT. -AH.COM MED BAY- DAY

We see the ah.commers lying on the beds slowly begin to de-age….

EXT. – PYRAMID- DAY

We see what’s left of the pyramid slowly collapse inwards. A massive cloud of dust drifts away from the ruins.

We see the ah.commers—all back to their normal age—staring at the pyramid. MATT is grinning like the Cheshire cat and turns towards THE KING

MATT
That was the coolest fight EVER!!

THE KING
Thank you. Thank you very much.

THE KING starts walking away.

MATT
Hey—where are you going?

THE KING
I’ve been away from my people for far too long.
I’ve lost touch with myself and my place in the
world. It’s time that I reconnect with them. With the world.

MATT
What? How?

THE KING
I’ll just walk the earth.

MATT
What’cha mean walk the earth?

THE KING
You know, walk the earth, meet people,
get into adventures. Like Caine from “Kung Fu.”

THE KING keeps walking away until he gets to the top of a nearby ridge. He stops and turns around and faces MATT.

THE KING
You only pass through this life once, MATT;
you don’t come back for an encore. Remember that, boy.

THE KING turns around and disappears over the ridge.

EXT. – HAPPY HAVEN HOME- DAY

We see the shuttle getting ready for take-off. LANDSHARK is standing at the entrance of the shuttle yelling at MATT, who’s standing some distance away.

LANDSHARK
Get your arse in here!

MATT puts on his helmet and runs towards the shuttle when he suddenly stops and turns around and runs towards PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I told you already boy—we’re all going to be okay!
Those damn younguns are already running around
trying to organise and do all kinds of shit! Life should
be slowly going back to normal soon…

MATT
It’s not that sir! I just wanted to tell you that—even though
the rest of the gang may not completely believe you–I do!
I just wanted you to know that—Mr. President.
(salutes)

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
(salutes back)
Thanks boy—that means a lot.

MATT
One last thing, sir…uh…
(becomes very uncomfortable)
I know all about the stories about you and
Marilyn Monroe. I have to know—
how was she like in bed?

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
(stern voice)
That’s classified, boy.

MATT
(coming to attention)
Understood sir. Meant no disrespect.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY
(looks furtively around)
But just between you and me…
(pumps fist in air)
WHOOOO-EEE!!

MATT breaks out into a grin and runs back to the shuttle.

END ACT II


TAG

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – DAY

We hear the voice of LEO.

LEO
AH.COM ship’s A.I. LEO’s personal log. The recent
brush with mortality that the crew experienced has
appeared to have had some positive effects ironically.
The crew seems to have a renewed sense of hope. Old
animosities seem to have been put aside for the moment…

We see OTHNIEL and STRAHA sitting at a table laughing and smiling together.

LEO
A renewed sense of vitality
and youthfulness has spread…

We see DAVE HOWERY, DIAMOND, MATT, WEAPON M and several other ah.commers playing a game of basketball. HOWERY makes a basket but falls face down onto the court. We see MATT and DIAMOND helping him back up. They go back to playing.

LEO
Some of the crew have adopted a more
spiritual or mental discipline approach…

We see DOCTOR WHAT sitting in a darkened candlelit room. He’s practicing some yoga stretching exercises.

LEO
While others are displaying uncharacteristically
pleasant behaviors to one another…

We see LANDSHARK and IRONYUPPIE eating nutella sandwiches. IRONYUPPIE reaches into the jar to find that there’s just enough to make one more sandwich. Just as she’s about to spread it on her bread, she stops, looks at LANDSHARK and –with a shrug of her shoulders—passes the nutella to LANDSHARK. He looks up in shock at IRONYUPPIE for a moment, smiles and then digs in.

LEO
Everything aboard the ship is going well.

We see PSYCHOMELTDOWN sitting at a table with a bowl of soup in front of him. He looks furtively around for a few seconds—then a foot long FLY TONGUE comes out of his mouth and into the bowl, sucking the soup up.

LEO
Well, ALMOST everything…

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS

Jihad on Their Arses

TITLECARD-JIHAD

TEASER

INT. – TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SHEEP – DAY

We see PSYCHOMELTDOWN, STRAHA, MICHAEL, G.BONE and DIAMOND sitting in a circle before the SHEEP THE SIZE OF A VW CAMPER VAN. There is a thick haze of smoke wafting through the air.

STRAHA
(taking a hit)
Those fucking Whatist don’t have nothing on us.
(coughing)

G.BONE
You talk big when they aren’t here.
I’d like to see you do that when they are here.

STRAHA
I’d say it, but you know Hendryk.
He’d start crying. Damn Frenchy.

DIAMOND
Right. After he kicks your ass.

STRAHA
Well, Doc, is that captain and all and
Hendryk worships him, so…
Doc would fight for him.

MICHAEL
Damn it, I’ve seen Doc fight and I’m betting
a five year old girl can kick his arse.

STRAHA
Well…
(angrily to Michael)
Shut the fuck up.

STRAHA angrily puffs on a doobie.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(impatient)
Quit boggarting the weed, man.
Fork it over.

Suddenly there’s a clatter and a crash. The HOLY SHEEP baas and raises it’s head. Everyone turns to see FLOCCULENCIO and LUAKEL standing in the entrance of the Temple.

FLOCCULENCIO
(swaying slightly to and fro)
What the hell is this place?
(sips from flask)

LUAKEL
I think we’re lost.
Where’s the restroom again?

FLOCCULENCIO
Holy shit!
(exclaiming and pointing)
There’s a huge friggin’ sheep over there!

MICHAEL
It’s a Holy Sheep, dumb ass.

LUAKEL
Cool! Can I ride it?

G.BONE
You don’t ride the Holy Sheep, fucktard.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Wait… you don’t?

G.BONE
Begone, heathens.
Only the Sheepist can enter this place of holy!

STRAHA
Yeah, get the fuck out.
Especially you, you fucking N00b!

FLOCCULENCIO
(standing tall)
Who me?

STRAHA
(quickly shaking head)
No. No.
The kid.
The damned n00b!

LUAKEL
I’m not a n00b.
Can I pet the sheep?

G.BONE
You don’t pet the sheep!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Wait… you don’t?

FLOCCULENCIO
Let’s get outta here, Luakel. These bloody
sheepist are probably gonna bugger that
poor animal, and you shouldn’t see that
until you turn eighteen and then only after
you’re piss drunk and paid good money.

LUAKEL
(whining tones)
But I wanna pet the sheep!

G.BONE
We don’t ‘bugger’ anything!

STRAHA
Wait.. we don’t?

FLOCCULENCIO drags LUAKEL out of the Temple, there’s a long silence.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Damned heatens…

DIAMOND
Y’know what he’d have said to those that
would have mocked the sheep faith?

MICHAEL
Yeah, he was hardcore.

ALL IN UNISON
JIHAD ON THEIR ARSES!

EXT. – DUSTY EXPANSE – DAY

Tight on DMA’s face, it’s scruffy and dirty, He looks determined and pissed.

DMA
(yelling)
JIHAD ON THEIR ARSES!

Pull back and we see a huge army of armed men behind him, screaming out the war cry.

ARMY
JIHAD ON THEIR ARSES!!!!

The army charges forward.

CUT TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

AH.COM: The Series


“JIHAD ON THEIR ARSES”

Written By : PSYCHOMELTDOWN


ACT I


EXT. – SPACE – DAY

A vortex opens and we see a ship exit it. Pull in on the ship and we see it’s the CF.NET.

INT. – CF.NET – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

WARD sits in his command chair while everyone else is busy at their stations.

WARD
So this is the place?

GRIMM REAPER
So says him.
(points to a bound and gagged person)

WARD
Ungag him.

MERRYPRANKSTER complies.

HYPERN
it’s the right place, I swear.
This is where we got them from.
This guy sells them and stuff…

WARD
Good.
Midgard.

MIDGARDMETAL stands up.

WARD
Toss him out of an airlock.
Merry.

MERRYPRANKSTER stands at attention.

WARD
Take an Away Team down. Secure the place
and capture the guy we’re here for.

MERRYPRANKSTER
Yes, sir!

WARD
Don’t fuck this up or you’ll b joining
the other guy in the airlock.

MERRYPRANKSTER
Yes sir…

INT. – THE HUB – THE PUB – DAY

GREY WOLF is sitting at the bar, a drink in one hand and several empty glasses set before him, he is swaying and talking.

GREY WOLF
And you know what
I said to those buggers?

IAN is polishing a glass, seemingly listening to him with interest.

GREY WOLF
I said to those buggers.
“Bugger off!”
(laughs and consumes drink in one gulp)
Another!

IAN slides another drink before him.

GREY WOLF
But I’ll be buggered as to where the
group of yellow puffins arrived from.
They just appeared and…
(gropes for words)
and…

Suddenly the doors to the Pub open and a MAN in a slouch hat and long leather coat enters. IAN looks up and nods in greeting.

MAN
I’ll have what he’s having.

IAN slides a drink before the MAN. He tips the drink back and… suddenly spits it out. His hood falls back and we see it’s DMA.

DMA
What the bloody hell is this shit?

IAN
(grins)
Sarsaparilla.

GREY WOLF
(looks up)
Who???
(squints)
There’s a guy I knew once…
what was his name…
(gropes for words)
A damned Aussie he was…

DMA
Who drinks this bloody stuff anyway?

GREY WOLF
Tastes great.
(sways)

DMA
Where is the rest of the crew?

GREY WOLF
Hmmm???
(looks at DMA through drink glass)
You look perplexing…

DMA
(to Ian)
Where is the rest of the crew?

IAN
(flips towel onto shoulder)
Their ship arrived a couple of hours ago,
most of the crew has dispersed through the Hub.

DMA
Damnation.
If you see any of ‘em,
tell them I’m at the ship.

IAN nods and continues polishing glass.

GREY WOLF
Felons the lot of them.
Bloody Aussies…

DMA walks off, halfway to the door he pulls out a wallet and begins rifling through it. Pull in on a card and we see the name GREY WOLF printed on the wallet.

DMA
More than I thought…

GREY WOLF
(musing)
I like to pet sheep…

Slow motion flaring of the DMA’s leather coattail and FADE OUT.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CORRIDOR – DAY

OTHNIEL is walking dejectedly down the corridor, a mop and shovel over one shoulder, and a plastic five gallon bucket and rubber gloves in hand.

Beside him is STRAHA who is dragging his feet also.

STRAHA
Why do I have to help you?
I mean I didn’t even erase the porn.
I like porn. I reeeaaaally like porn.

OTHNIEL
Doc got tired of all your “Nuke ‘em” comments

STRAHA
So? I say it all the time.

OTHNIEL
It was the meeting with a man to
buy nukes that kinda pushed it.

STRAHA
It was just an innocent talk.
And plus he just claimed to have nukes.

OTHNIEL
Well, the detailed plans on nuking
Ottawa didn’t help either.

STRAHA
That was.. well okay those were cool.
(grins)

LUAKEL and KITJED are walking down the corridor, STRAHA and OTHNIEL stop and watch them.

KITJED
Now, we’ll be stopping first at Tommies,
they have the best ruffled shirts in the Hub,
and then -

LUAKEL looks bored.

LUAKEL
(begging to Othniel)
Get me out of here…

STRAHA
Tough shit N00b. You get
to hang out with the fairy.

KITJED
(standing tall)
Fairy?

STRAHA
(quickly)
The Token Gay Guy on the Ship.

OTHNIEL
Why is Luakel with you anyway?

KITJED
Oh, Doc said we should spend some quality time together.
(grins and runs finGer down Luakel’s arm)
He said to have fun.

LUAKEL shudders and steps away, but KITJED grabs him.

LUAKEL
Please.. help…

KITJED
You’re not going anywhere.

STRAHA
Ha!
He’s gonna so fuck you in the ass!
(laughs)

KITJED sighs and pulls out a taser. STRAHA sees it and begins running down the corridor.

LUAKEL
Wow when motivated he can run fast…

KITJED
Now, lets go shopping.

LUAKEL
(desperately to Othniel)
Please….

OTHNIEL
(sighing)
You know Tommies is a high class place, right?

KITJED
(grinning)
Only the best for me.

OTHNIEL
Are you sure you want to go dressed like that?

PAN to KITJED’s clothes. Nice clean, well pressed, and stylish. He looks down at his clothes and suddenly his face crumples.

KITJED
(near tears)
Oh my God! I almost went out looking like this???
What the hell was I thinking???
(turns and runs off)
I have to change!!!

LUAKEL lets out a sigh of relief.

LUAKEL
Thanks, Oth.

OTHNIEL
Now, help me find Straha. We need to
clean out the waste treatment plant
and now that he’s run off…

LUAKEL
Gotcha.
I’ll go east and you go west.
(turns and runs)

OTHNIEL
But he…

LUAKEL is gone.

OTHNIEL sighs and picks up his cleaning equipment and heads down the corridor.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CORRIDOR – DAY

DIAMOND is walking along the corridor, in his arms is a large pile of books, he is whistling merrily.

DIAMOND
(to himself)
Well, he won’t miss these from his collection.
(A beat)
or this.

Pull in on DIAMOND and we see a large novelty dildo stuck in his trouser back pocket. He continues whistling merrily. Suddenly LUAKEL rounds a corner and stares at DIAMOND.

DIAMOND
Get outta my way.

LUAKEL
Why do you have a
big dick in your pants?

DIAMOND
(proudly)
The holy sheep blessed me this way.

LUAKEL
Is it made of plastic?
It looks like plastic.

DIAMOND
(pause)
Oh, that…
(Nervous laughter)
It’s a gag… for a friend.
Yeah… yeah.. that sounds reasonable.

LUAKEL
Why does it say “PROPERTY OF DAVE HOWERY” on it?
And why is it ‘S’ shaped? And -

DIAMOND
(angrily)
Must you ask so many questions?

LUAKEL
Should I not ask questions?

DIAMOND
Get out of my way or you’ll be find out why they
call me El Pollo Loco in World 36145-A!

LUAKEL
I think you stepped in gum.

DIAMOND
(struggling to look down, while balancing large pile of books)
Damn it. Who keeps spitting their gum all
over the place! This is the fourth time today.

LUAKEL
I don’t know.
(blows large gum bubble)
Why do you have so many books?

DIAMOND
I like to read.

LUAKEL
Do they have pictures in them?

DIAMOND
Some do.

LUAKEL
(excited)
And nakie pictures?

DIAMOND
(cautious)
Yeah…

LUAKEL
Any naked girl pictures?

DIAMOND
(looking away)
Umm… no.

A heavy silence falls upon the Corridor as LUAKEL and DIAMOND uncomfortably look around.

LUAKEL
I think I’ll go play on the Reactors.

DIAMOND
(unable to look Luakel in the eyes)
You do that.

LUAKEL begins skipping down the Corridor. DIAMOND breathes a sigh of relief and continues on. He suddenly skids on something and crashes into the bulkhead, books flying everywhere. He collapses heavily upon the deck and lays there for a moment, blinking.

DIAMOND
(groaning in pain)
Ow… I think that shouldn’t
be sticking in there…
Oh, why, oh why did I have
to put it in my back pocket?

LUAKEL (OS)
What happened?

DIAMOND
Nothing!
Nothing!
Keep walking!
Don’t look back!!

Fade out

EXT. – THE HUB – DOCKS – DAY

DMA is walking up to a sign that reads “AH.COM SHIP – PRESENTLY DOCKED”. He pauses and hits a large novelty sized red button beneath it. There’s a buzzing sound.

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

A buzzing sound fills the air, G.BONE looks up from where he was sitting, blinking sleepily.

G.BONE
(hitting com button)
Huh?

DMA
I want to get on your ship.

G.BONE
(blinking sleepily)
Are you delivering the pizza?

DMA
NO.

G.BONE
Okay.

G.BONE hits a button and re-nestles his head into his arm and falls back to sleep. DMA pops into view in the teleportation tube, looks around, shrugs, and walks out the door.

Slow motion flaring of the DMA’s leather coattail and FADE OUT.

INT. – TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SHEEP – DAY

PSYCHOMELTDOWN enters the Temple, carrying a plastic bucket, a roll of duct tape, and a ball of twine. He pauses as he spots figure by the Holy Sheep.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Damn it, LUAKEL . If that’s you I’ll
toss you out of the airlock!
(stalks forward)

DMA rises to his feet.

DMA
I’d rethink that that boyo.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(gaping)
Holy shit! It’s DMA!

MICHAEL pops up from behind a pile of cushions, hastily pulling up his pants.

MICHAEL
Huh? DMA?

DMA gives a small wave.

MICHAEL
Well bugger me upside down, it’s DMA!
How the hell are ya?

DMA stands there solemnly.

DMA
I need your help. Gather the crew
and meet in the Battle Room.

MICHAEL
Shit. He’s back thirty seconds
and he’s already giving orders.

DMA
Now!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Yes sir!

INT. – CORRIDOR – DAY

DIAMOND is still whistling, but this time sans books, but with the novelty sized dildo in his hands.

He pauses suddenly and sniffs the air.

DIAMOND
What’s burning?

He heads forward down the corridor and suddenly is hit with a thick cloud of smoke.

DIAMOND
Holy crap! FIRE!

He begins running in circles.

FLOCCULENCIO
Hey, what’s going on out here?

FLOCCULENCIO walks out of his quarters, wearing an apron and glaring at DIAMOND.

FLOCCULENCIO
Quit making so much noise!

DIAMOND
Fire! Fire!

FLOCCULENCIO
(looks about)
Oh, that’s just from my cooking.
I’m making curried curry.

DIAMOND
Oh… use the vent next time.

FLOCCULENCIO
I am.

DIAMOND
Damn, it’ll take weeks to get
the smell out of here.

FLOCCULENCIO
Come on, you know you like the smell.

Suddenly DIAMOND’s com unit chirps.

MICHAEL (OS)
Hey, Diamond.
Get your ass to the Battle Room.

DIAMOND
Hell no.

MICHAEL (OS)
We got booze and hookers.

DIAMOND
I’m on my way!

FLOCCULENCIO
Someone say hookers?
(pulls out flask and begins drinking)
I like hookers…
Hey, you forgot your dildo behind!
(beat)
Well. Finders keepers…

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

DMA, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, and MICHAEL are gathered in the Battle Room.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Where’s Diamond?

MICHAEL
He was probably jerking off
to the feel of book covers again.

DIAMOND
(enters Room)
What? That’s bullshit.

MICHAEL
Well, Dave did walk in on you.

DIAMOND
That was completely taken out of context!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Not from what Dave said.

DIAMOND
Lies! All of it Lies!
I will fight any man or woman to the
death right here right now to show
you all how much that’s lies.

Long silence.

DIAMOND
Damn straight, it’s all lies
(sits down)

DMA
Things have gone downhill
since Abdul and I left.

MICHAEL
Yeah, they’re even letting
fucking n00bs on the ship now.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Are you channeling Straha?

MICHAEL
Fuck you or I’ll nuke your
ass to radioactive glass.

DIAMOND
Hey, that rhymed.
(beat)
Hey, DMA’s back.
Cool. How’s it going?

DMA
Y’know, the usual.
Got a war brewing and
need all the help I can get.
Sheepist faith in peril.

DIAMOND
Yeah, I hear you.
The other day I lost a bookmark.

MICHAEL
Then he began jerking off to the feel of the book.

DIAMOND
That’s it! You Koala humping
little shit! You’re dead!

DIAMOND begins attacking MICHAEL.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(ignoring fighting)
so, DMA you said something
about the Sheepist Faith in peril?

DMA
Yes.
(rises to his feet)
The dark days have come, my brothers,
the true face of evil has shown it’s… face.
The forces of darkness gather, the True Faith
is in peril from those dark forces.

DIAMOND
(stops beating Michael)
Who forces?

MICHAEL
(groaning)
Why did you have to twist my nipples?

DMA
The cursed Sheep Reformists!

Long silence.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Who’s that?

DMA
There has been a great division in the Faith.
There are those that stand against the true
belief and believe false things.
They are the reformists.

DIAMOND
Well, that sucks.

MICHAEL
So what do you want us to do about it?

DMA
I have returned to enlist your
help, to defeat these cursed people.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Hmm.. You know what, it’s been
a while since I played the hero.

MICHAEL
When the hell was that?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Uh… that last time?

DIAMOND
If the Sheepist Faith is in
peril, then I shall help you.

MICHAEL
Me too!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
I mean there was that one time when…

DMA
Good, now let’s get Doc and
get this show on the road!
To the Sheepist World!

MICHAEL
And to Victory!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
I mean it, I’ve starred in a few adventures…

Fade out.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CORRIDOR – DAY

OTHNIEL is running, behind him is puffing STRAHA, a look of murder on his face.

STRAHA
(gasping)
You… bastard… I.. will…kill.. you…

OTHNIEL
Come and get it!
(holds up a baggie of marijuana)

STRAHA
That…is…my…best…stuff…

OTHNIEL
I’ll chuck it out of the air lock!

STRAHA
Will…rape… you…in…your…shower…

OTHNIEL
You have to catch me first!

OTHNIEL ducks into a Lift, STRAHA follows.

Once STRAHA enters, OTHNIEL hits a button and the door shuts, he then tosses the baggie in the corner. STRAHA dives for it.

STRAHA
My precious!

OTHNIEL
(to lift)
Main sewage treatment plant.

STRAHA
What?
(notices cleaning supplies)
Aw, fuck!

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

GBW is sitting in the Control Room, feet upon the piloting consoles, reading a book. PSYCHOMELTDOWN, DIAMOND, and MICHAEL storm into the Control Room, looking about.

DIAMOND
Where the hell is he?

GBW
(sighing and marking his page)
Who?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Doctor What.

GBW
(rolling eyes)
He’s out.

MICHAEL
Quit this passive aggressiveness bullshit, bookworm.
Or by the Holy Sheep I’ll shove your
bloody noggin’ through the view screen.

Both PSYCHOMELTDOWN and DIAMOND look at MICHAEL, impressed.

GBW
He’s away.
(Michael glares)
He went to Mistress Ogla’s.
He won’t be back for days…

DIAMOND
Hmmm… she’s opened a place in the Hub?

GBW
Yeah.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Sweet. Now I can get beat by a psychotic woman.

Michael
Or you could just ask Yuppie to do it.

Long thoughtful pause by all.

DIAMOND
She takes far too much pleasure in doing it…

Everyone nods.

GBW
Why do you need Doc?

DIAMOND
Well…

Suddenly DMA bursts into the Control Room, he’s swaying and clutching a pony keg of Foster’s in his hands.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Damn. He’s been on board for only ten mintues…

MICHAEL
(proudly)
He’s an Aussie.
(wipes away tear)

THUD! DMA collapses to the deck, his pony keg rolling away. DIAMOND quickly picks it up and begins drinking it.

GBW
Hey, DMA’s back.
(shrugs and begins reading again)

MICHAEL
Quit changing the bloody topic.
(raises fist)
Where is Doc?

DIAMOND
(slurping loudly)
Umm… We already know where he is.

MICHAEL
Oh.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Now what are we gonna do?

DIAMOND
Where’s Grey?

GBW
Where do you think?

MICHAEL
Olga’s?

GBW
(rolls eyes)
The Pub.

The three Sheepist think for a moment. They look at one another and all suddenly share the same grin.

DIAMOND
You thinking what I’m thinking?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Oh, yeah.

The three suddenly all laugh. Then they turn to GBW.

MICHAEL
Leo still on board?

GBW
Yes.

DIAMOND
And you’re still on board.

GBW
(wary)
Uh-huh.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
You still have that frilly pink dress?

Everyone stares at him.

DIAMOND
What in the hell were you thinking of?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(embarrassed)
Um…
(grabs GBW by the shirt front)
You’re gonna pilot this ship to the Sheepist World!
(shaking him)
And we want no lip from you!

GBW
(shoves Psychomeltdown away)
You know Doc’s gonna be very angry.
(smoothes down shirt front)

MICHAEL
(grabs GBW by the shirt front)
You’re going pilot this ship to the Sheepist World!
(shaking him)
And we want no lip flapping from you!
Got it?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Dude, did he just copy what I said?

DIAMOND
(slurring)
Man, I don’t know.
(swaying)
I’m so drunk off my ass right now.

THUD! DIAMOND collapses to the deck.

GBW
Alright. Alright. I’ll do it.
Just stop messing up my shirtfront.
I just ironed this.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN and MICHAEL give a high five.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Onward to the Sheepist World!

MICHAEL
And to VICTORY!!!!

The two begin cheering and jumping up and down. DMA and DIAMOND groan.

GBW
(sighing and pushing buttons)
Oh, man. This is going so end badly…

EXT. – OUTSIDE A STRONGHOLD – DAY

There is heavy sounds of gun fire. Pull in on it and we see it’s the CF.NET crew firing away from a fortified position. Around them lie scores of dead creatures, but still more ar coming and it looks like they’re gonna be overrun.

MERRYPRANKSTER
Call the ship.

FORTYSEVEN
Away Team to ship.
Away Team to ship.

INT. – CF.NET SHIP – WARD’S READY ROOM – DAY

WARD and GRIMM REAPER are playing cards.

WARD
You have any sevens?

GRIMM REAPER
No.

WARD
God d-

Suddenly the comm begins chirping.

WARD angrily hits it.

WARD
What?

FAEELIN (OS)
Sir, we’ve got communication
from the surface below.

WARD
Patch them through.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
Sir. We’re being overun.
They were far more than we thought.

WARD
And who’s damn fault is that?

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
Mine sir?

WARD
Damn straight.
This is your mess and you deal with it.

MERRYPRANKSTER (OS)
But sir…

WARD
Ship OUT.
(turns of comm)

GRIMM REAPER
Bit harsh, no?

WARD
Kid needs to learn to be on his own.

GRIMM REAPER
We could lose some of the crew.

WARD
So?

GRIMM REAPER
Right.

EXT. – OUTSIDE A STRONGHOLD – DAY

MERRYPRANKSTER sets down the comm unit.

FORTYSEVEN
Are they sending reinforcements?

MERRYPRANKSTER
How much ammunition do we have?

FORTYSEVEN
Not much… why?

MERRYPRANKSTER
We’re on our own.

BULGAROKTONOS
they’re coming again! This time a shit load of them!

ROMULUS AGUSTULUS
I’m out of ammo!

MERRYPRANKSTER tosses his rifle at ROMULUS AGUSTULUS and pulls out his sword.

FORTYSEVEN
What are we going to do?

MERRYPRANKSTER
Fight or die.

He stands watching the oncoming horde.

END ACT I


ACT II


EXT. – SPACE – DAY

The AH.com ship appears to have collided with an asteroid,

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

Alert alarms are blaring everywhere, smoke, sparking consoles, and heavy cursing fills the Control Room.

DMA
Alright who reeks of curry?

FLOCCULENCIO
That’d be me, guv.

DMA
Oh, hey there, nice to meet you.
(shakes Flocc’s hand)

GBW
Hey, we sot a situation brewing here…

DMA
I thought you said you could
pilot this bloody thing?

GBW
I can. It’s… it’s Leo’s fault.

LEO CAESIUS
I will not bear the blame for your piloting errors.
I have expressly stated by disapproval in this errand
you are all on. Doctor What was not informed, the
senior crew is not on board, and –

DMA
Shut that thing up.

LEO CAESIUS
I am not a thi-

MICHAEL
Got it!
Dave installed a mute button after Leo
kept complaining about the reactor core
temps being too high. Pfft.

DMA
Good. Now load up a shuttle and
let’s get down to the planet.

GBW
Hey, the whole ship’s damaged.
You mean to leave it like this?

DMA
We have important things to do…
Wait. Are the weapons on line?

GBW
No. no they aren’t.

DMA
Damn. Alright, Michael you go to the armory
and load as much BFGs and other weapons
you can carry.

MICHAEL
Umm.. I don’t have the access key.

DMA
What?

MICHAEL
Weapon M put in an access lock on the armory after
we kept stealing his Militia Babes Wank Magazine.

DMA
We don’t have any weapons?

DIAMOND
We’ve got what we’ve kept in our quarters.
Not much but it’ll be sure to turn the tide
against damned Sheep Reformists.

DMA
Right…Damn. Alright let’s get into a
shuttle and down to the planet’s surface.

DIAMOND
Um… looks like we’ve got a hull breach
and that whole section is closed off.

DMA
Damn.

GBW
We’ll need all hands to fix that…

DMA
No. we go down to the planet.

FLOCCULENCIO
What about the ship?

DMA
GBW, you’re in charge of repairing the vessel.

GBW
What? I’m not an engineer.

DMA
What you want Psycho or G.Bone to fix it?

GBW
Right, I get your point…

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Hey! That’s not cool.

GBW
What are you doing up here?
Who the hell is in engineering?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Was I supposed to be in engineering?

DMA
Alright we teleport down.

DIAMOND
Dude, you’d better rethink that bit.

DMA
Why?

FLOCCULENCIO
Uh… G.Bone is not the most competent
with the Teleportation Tubes…

G.BONE
Hey! I’m right here!

GBW
What the hell?
You’re supposed to be in the
Teleportation Tube Room!

G.BONE
Am I?
Really?

DMA
We have to risk it.
The whole Sheepist Religion may be in jeopardy
if we do not get down to the surface!

Dramatic Silence.

GBW
Look, the ship’s in prett-

MICHAEL
Shhh… We’re having a dramatic moment here.

GBW sighs and crosses his arms, waiting.

DMA
Alright. Done.
Off we go.

Everyone heads out, GBW sighs and follows.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – CORRIDOR – DAY

The crew walks down a corridor, heading to the Teleportation Tube Room. LUAKEL rounds a corner, running after them.

LUAKEL
Hey, where are you guys going?
You’re not leaving me behind are you?
Come on guys, you can’t leave me behind
when you go on every mission.
Please can I come?

DMA
You’re a damned kid. What are we gonna do with a kid?

GBW
Please don’t leave him behind.

MICHAEL
He’s annoying yeah, but if there’s trouble we can
use him as a sacrifical pawn as we make our escape.

DMA
You speak sense, Michael.

MICHAEL
It’s my Aussie Practicality.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Is that why you scratch your ass so much?

MICHAEL
That’s just for the pure pleasure of it.

DMA
Alright, Luakel, you can come with us.

LUAKEL
Yay. Do I get a gun?

DMA
Not bloody likely.

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

The crew, DMA, MICHAEL, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, FLOCC, DIAMOND, and LUAKEL are standing on the Teleportation Tube Pad, waiting.

G.BONE
I think it was this button…

GBW
(smiling tightly)
Well it wa fun knowing you all.

DMA
What does that mean?

GBW
Err…

G.BONE
I got it!
(hits a button)

There’s a screeching noise and a loud pop. The crew is gone and the teleportation console lights up with a lot of red light.

G.BONE
Oops. I don’t think that was supposed to happen…

GBW is looking at G.BONE quizzically.

GBW
What happened?

G.BONE
Er… I think… er…
Damn. I dunno.

GBW
Did we just have a teleportation malfunction?

G.BONE
Hey, this is unproven technology.

GBW
No. No it’s not.
We’ve been using it for years and we got it
from a civilization that’s been using it for decades,
and they’ve never had any problems with it.

G.BONE
Err…
(scratching head)
Damn.

GBW
(rubbing temples)
I knew this was gonna end badly.
I just knew it.

G.BONE
It hasn’t ended yet… I think.
(hits button)
I don’t think they were atomized…
They probably were rematerialized on the planet…
Hopefully.

GBW
Okay, where are they?

G.BONE presses some buttons on his console, pauses, and looks confused, and presses more buttons.

G.BONE
Um… looks like most of them made it to
the right destination. Luakel and Diamond
are somewhere in northern Germany.

GBW
(gasps)
But that’s Reformist territory!

G.BONE
You don’t have to gasp like that.

GBW
Hey, I like to add a little dramatic
flare. DMA got to have his.

G.BONE
Well, it’s lost on me.
(stares far away and a single tear rolls down his cheek)

GBW
Uh… where’s Flocc then?

G.BONE
(tapping console)
Looks like he’s been teleported toward what
would have been called the Middle East.

GBW
Hmmm.. didn’t DMA say something about that?

G.BONE
Dunno.

GBW
Is there anything you even know?

G.BONE
Um…
(long pause)
Shut up!

GBW
Well, we’ve got the main group in the
right place. I’m sure they’ll be alright…

CUT TO:

EXT. – SHEEPIST HOLY CITY – DAY

DMA, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, and MICHAEL are standing around. Several robed men and women come out.

MAN
Brother DMA, you’ve returned.

DMA
Like I said I would!

MAN
How unfortunate.
GUARDS!

MICHAEL
Okay, what the fuck did we
just get ourselves into?

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

G.BONE
well, there are among fellow Sheepist
so they should be at home.
(sighs wistfully)

GBW
As for Diamond and Luakel..
Who knows what the Reformist will
do to them. Those poor poor bastards…

INT. – REFORMIST STRONGHOLD – NIGHT

DIAMOND
Damn it G.Bone.
(looks around and see Luakel)
Ah, shit. I get stuck with the kid?

LUAKEL
Are we in the right place?
This doesn’t look like Australia.
It’s not like it is in the Mad Max movies.

MAN
What is this? We have intruders?

There’s a hiss of metal as a weapon is drawn. DIAMOND backs off and pushes LUAKEL before him.

Several men approach them.

DIAMOND
Damn it. I knew I should have just kept on drinking.

LUAKEL
Are we gonna die?

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

G.BONE
Those cursed reformist will surely tear
him limb from limb and feast upon his flesh.

GBW
uh.. why would they?

G.BONE
They’re reformist!
They’re savage monsters.

GBW
Just because they believe
something different from you?

G.BONE
Well… yes.

GBW
Okay….
I wonder where Flocc went?

EXT. – MIDDLE EAST – ROCKY WASTELAND – NIGHT

FLOCCULENCIO groans and gets to his feet, dusting off his coat and readjusting his fedora.

FLOCCULENCIO
Well, looks like Australia.
But where are all the bloody sheep?

There’s a scurrying sound. FLOCCULENCIO looks about, wary.

Suddenly from all around him rise odd-looking shapes. The air is filled with odd growling and groaning noises.

FLOCCULENCIO
(unperturbed)
Well, this can’t be good.
(pulls out flask and begins drinking)

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

GBW
Okay, look. We’ve got a damaged ship.
Dave’s not on board, the teleportation tubes
are obviously malfunctioning. We need to
get the engines back online and the
teleportation tubes working right.

G.BONE
Ummm.. okay.

GBW
Right I’ll try to fix the engines.
You work on the teleportation tubes.

G.BONE
(excitedly)
Hey, look a coloring book!

GBW
(sighing)
I think I’ll throw myself out of the air lock…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LIFT – DAY

STRAHA and OTHNIEL are sitting in the Lift, looking bored.

OTHNIEL
I wonder when they’ll figure out the lift is broken?

STRAHA
Might be days. Weeks maybe.
Enough time for one of us to go crazy,
kill the other, and turn cannibal…

OTHNIEL
I think I’ll sit on the other side of the lift…

STRAHA
You do that. While I’ll do this..

STRAHA pulls out a baggie and begins rolling a doobie.

Soon smoke begins filling the lift.

OTHNIEL
Could you not do that?

STRAHA
Fuck off. This’ll keep me calm, so that I
don’t go crazy, kill you, rape your corpse,
and then wear your flayed skin like some
Silence of the Lambs reject.

Silence descends in the lift and STRAHA continues smoking.

EXT. – MIDDLE EAST – ROCKY WASTELAND – NIGHT

The growling and shapes turn out to be men in ragged clothing and carrying clubs. FLOCCULENCIO lifts his flask up and begins drinking. Suddenly the men with clubs come to a halt.

GOAT CHIEF
The sign!

FLOCCULENCIO
Hmmm??

GOAT CHIEF
You carry the sacred sign!

FLOCCULENCIO looks down at the flask in his hands, it’s got a penatgrm and in the center of it a goat’s head.

FLOCCULENCIO
Oh, this? This was given to me by a friend.
Good chap named Stan.. I think.

GOAT CHIEF
We were told that a man from the air would
appear and bear that sign. That he would
lead us to greatness!

The GOAT CHIEF pulls up a sleeve and it has a pentagram with a goat’s head in the venter.

FLOCCULENCIO
Wait, who are you guys?

GOAT CHIEF
We are the Believers of the Goat, the last of the great

tribes that once ruled these lands before the Sheepist scum

destroyed out empires and scattered our people to the

deepest inhospitable lands…

FLOCCULENCIO
Isn’t that neat.

GOAT CHIEF
Welcome honored guest.
Welcome.

INT. – REFORMIST STRONGHOLD – NIGHT

The GUARDS shove both DIAMOND and LUAKEL into a darkened room. All is quiet.

DIAMOND
Hello?

LUAKEL
I’m scared.

DIAMOND
I keep saying, shut up.

VOICE
(labored breathing)
Come…forward…

DIAMOND and LUAKEL both walk forward, and a light is turned on. Before them, in a wheelchair and looking pale and withered is an ALTERNATE DIAMOND.

ALTER DIAMOND
Ah, it is ture then… There are
multiple… universes out there.

DIAMOND
Yeah… umm.. what the hell are you?

ALTER DIAMOND
The Holy Sheep has… answered my prayers.

LUAKEL
Did you wish for a pony?
Cuz I’d like a pony…

ALTER DIAMOND
Shut up!

The two men look at one another.

ALTER DIAMOND
We are much alike… This is why the
Holy… Sheep has sent you here.

DIAMOND
Well I wouldn’t call G.Bone the Holy Sheep,
more like an incompetent lay about.

ALTER DIAMOND
The Holy Sheep… knew this vessel would…
be dying and it sent… another to continue the… work.

DIAMOND
Vessel? I’m no vessel.

LUAKEL
What work?

ALTER DIAMOND
The sheepist faith… is torn apart, the old order…
is corrupt and bloated, they… live their lives in
hedonistic… fashion and only think of lining…
their pockets with weed …rather than the hearts
and… souls of the people…

DIAMOND
You’re the leader of the Reformists?

ALTER DIAMOND
The Holy Sheep.. has … chosen me to…be… it’s
hand here… to bring about change… and the true
meaning… of the faith…

LUAKEL
Why do you talk all weird?

ALTER DIAMOND
I.. am… dying…

DIAMOND
Man, that sucks…

ALTER DIAMOND
Someone.. must take over…for me…
The Holy Sheep… has sent a replacement…
another me…to continue the work…

DIAMOND
I don’t think so. We actually
came here to stop you…

LUAKEL
Yes…we…did…

DIAMOND
(smacks Luakel on the side of the head)
Shut up.

ALTER DIAMOND
I too…once…believed in the Sheepist Faith…
as it is now…but the Holy Sheep… showed me
the light…I guess now…I must show you…
what it is they showed…me…
(rings a bell)

The doors open and in comes a man, dressed in black with a golden sheep’s head emblazed on his chest. He is FLOID.

FLOID
Yes, sir?
(double take as he sees the two Diamonds)
How…

ALTER DIAMOND
The Holy Sheep… has answered our…
prayers. He will take… over for me…

DIAMOND
Wait a minute. I didn’t say anything of the sort.

ALTER DIAMOND
But as I was… when I first discovered the…
truth, he is resistant. Tell him… tell him the truth…

FLOID
Yes, sir…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LIFT – DAY

STRAHA and OTHNIEL are both giggling, the air is thick with smoke.

STRAHA
Oh, man I’m so stoned…

OTHNIEL
Everything seems so funny, but it’s really not.

STRAHA
Yeah.

They both laugh.

INT. – SHEEPIST HOLY CITY – DAY

DMA, MICHAEL, and PSYCHOMELTDOWN are both dragged before a man in a huge golden chair shaped like a Sheep. The SHEEP POPE.

SHEEP POPE
You were told never to return, DMA.

DMA
I serve the Holy Sheep, not you.

SHEEP POPE
You refuse to listen to reasion.

DMA
You are all cowardly fools!
We do not negotiate with other
religions. We destroy them!
JIHAD!!!

MICHAEL
JIHAD!!!!

PSYCHOMELDOWN
JIHAD!!!!

SHEEP POPE
Shut up.

DMA
I will not be silenced!

SHEEP POPE
Guards! Take him to the dungeons!

DMA
The Holy Sheep does not approve of this!!!

INT. – REFORMIST STRONGHOLD – NIGHT

DIAMOND looks shocked.

DIAMOND
(shaking head)
I did not know they had become so corrupt…

ALTER DIAMOND
They have…lost…the way…

FLOID
Now we fight them.

ALTER DIAMOND
I am…dying…will.. you take over for…me?

DIAMOND
(long pause)
Yes. Yes I will.

Alter DIAMOND
Thank…the Holy Sheep…
(dies)

FLOID
A great man has just died.

DIAMOND
Give me all the records and dealings
we’ve had with the Sheep Papist. I
need to know what’s been happening.

FLOID
Yes, sir.

DIAMOND
And get rid of this body.

FLOID
If your friend would stop
sitting on its lap, sir.

DIAMOND
Damn, Luakel. Get off that body!

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LIFT – DAY

STRAHA is screaming.

STRAHA
Oh, shit! Why the fuck did you bite me!

OTHNIEL
I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
It was the weed!

STRAHA
Oh, god! I’m bleeding!

OTHNIEL
I was suddenly very hungry!
You just looked so delicious.

STRAHA
Ahhhh!!!!!

INT. – SHEEPIST HOLY CITY – DANK CELL – DAY

DMA, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, and MICHAEL are sitting in the cell looking bored.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Your could have told us that they would toss us in a cell once we arrived.

DMA
Then you wouldn’t have come.

MICHAEL
Did they have to beat us?

DMA
Well, you maybe.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Why did they throw us in a cell anyway?
Aren’t you like the biggest Sheepist Holy Guy?

DMA
I’ve been here for several months.

MICHAEL
Right. After that long everyone wants you dead.

DMA
(glaring)
My views on the sheepist faith have been
proving too popular for those that are in charge.

MICHAEL
Wow, that’s a whole coherent sentence…

DMA
My buzz is wearing off.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
So the whole “JIHAD ON THEIR ARSES”
thing wasn’t flying with the Guys in Power?

DMA
Yes. Plus things really soured after I tried
to do an Aussie Special on the Sheep Pope.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
What’s an Aussie Special?

MICHAEL
Fucking someone in the arse.

Long silence.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
So how do we get out of here?

DMA
Hope that G.Bone teleports out.

MICHAEL
Well that’s a lone hope.

DMA
Use our keen wits and skills to get out of here.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
I guess that means we’re screwed…

MICHAEL
Pretty much.
(long pause)
Wait I think I have an idea.

MICHAEL walks up to the heavy metal door.

MICHAEL
Hey, guards!

GUARD 1
What?

MICHAEL
Can you let us go?

GUARD 2
Fuck you.

MICHAEL
(shrugging)
I tried my best…

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
I guess it’s me to the rescue.

MICHAEL
How odd is that, that of all the adventures
we’ve gotten into, you’ve never really did
anything or weren’t even involved at all. It’s
like now you’re purposely being given the
lead role in this little adventure.

DMA
Yeah. This is supposed to be about ME.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Fine, I’ll just sit here and keep my mouth shut.

MICHAEL
Finally he gets the idea.

Long silence.

DMA
Fine. Do what you were going to do, even though
this all seems like some sort of sickening piece of
ego stroking. Any moment now I’m going to engage
in some rough prison sex and I prefer my rough
prison sex with fellow descendants of felons.
(winks at Michael)

MICHAEL
Hurry up, get us out of here.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN walks up to the heavy metal door.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Hey, guard!

GUARD 1
What?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Hey, my friends here thinks you guys are cute.

GUARD 2
(interested)
Really?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Yeah, they’re Aussies so you know
they’ll do things normal people won’t.

MICHAEL
(nodding)
It’s true.

There’s a muffled rushing of boot steps and the heavy metal door swings open. The GUARDS begins hastily unbuttoning their pants.

GUARD 1
Which one wants to go first?

DMA suddenly lets out a judo chop, knocking the GUARD 1 down.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN lets loose with a kick to GUARD 2’s crotch, he collapses to the floor letting out a high pitched wail.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(screaming)
Who’s the tough guy now?
(kicking Guard 2 in the crotch)
Who’s the tough guy now, huh?
(kicking Guard 2 in the crotch)
Who’s the tough guy now!!!

DMA and MICHAEL drag PSYCHOMELTDOWN away from GUARD 2, who’s lying there, eyes rolled up, and groaning.

DMA
What the hell was that all about?

MICHAEL
Repressed anger issues.

DMA
Right.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(panting)
I’m alright. I’m alright.

DMA
Now, let’s get going, I have people
I need to find and soon I will be
JIHAD ON ALL THEIR ARSES!

MICHAEL
Finally we have some movement in the plotline.

INT. – REFORMIST STRONGHOLD – DAWN

DIAMOND eyes are bloodshot and he looks like he hasn’t gotten any sleep Around him are stacks of papers and all manner of documents. LUAKEL is curled up in a pile of papers.

Although looking tired as hell, he is staring at a television before him.

ALTER DIAMOND
The Sheep Papists must be destroyed! They have lost
the way! They are fools and they are idiots. We must
wipe them from the earth! We must crush their bones
and make our bread! We must bur their homes! We
must raze their cities and cast them into the oceans! We must-

DIAMOND turns it off with disgust.

LUAKEL wakes up.

LUAKEL
What’s going on?

DIAMOND
I should have taken a few moments to look over
the information before making a decision. Have
you read any of this stuff? This guy was a fucking
psycho. All he screamed about was killing everyone
and razing this and razing that.

LUAKEL
Cool.

DIAMOND
And the Sheep Papist did all they could to placate him.
They weren’t the ones looking for a fight, the Reformists were…
(shakes head)

LUAKEL
so do we run off now?

DIAMOND
No. The other Diamond was right. The Sheep Papist
are corrupt, waaaay more than we ever thought. But
I don’t know which is worse… But if the two factions
begin fighting then they’ll be embroiled in a war that’ll
last years. Both sides will be desttoyed int eh process.

LUAKEL
Quite the dilemma, no?

DIAMOND
There must be a better way…

LUAKEL
Don’t you find it weird that they have technology,
but they fight with swords and bows?
I mean what’s up with that?

DIAMOND
(wearily)
Shut up, Luakel.

MONTAGE: with dramatic sounding music.

DMA gesticulates wildly, a look of near madness and foaming from the mouth grace his face. Before him march PSYCHOMELTDOWN and MICHAEL holding up signs reading: DEATH TO THE REFORMISTS! and THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE RELIGION!

DIAMOND is talking with men and women in robes, from their bearing and seemingly deep conversation, they are educated men and women. They all hold copies of the REFORMIST BIBLE and seem to be discussing it.

FLOCCULENCIO is standing in a rocky meadow, goats milling about him. He looks content.

GBW is reading a book entitled: “BASIC MAINTENANCE FOR MULTIVERSE SHIFT ENGINES VOL. 4”. Beside him are half a dozen other books all dealing with Shift Engine repair.

G.BONE is happily coloring away.

OTHNIEL and STRAHA are pacing back and forth in the Lift, they glare at one another and continue pacing.

DMA gesticulates wildly still, but this time there’s a huge mob before him and they’re all carrying signs that read “DEATH TO THE REFORMISTS”.

DIAMOND is still in deep conversation with learned men and women.

The REFORMIST ARMY, in their gold Ram Heads one a black background, are seen marching across the land.

The SHEEPIST ARMY with their Red Ewe on a white background are marching across the land.

LUAKEL looks bored.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN is standing impatiently in a long line to use a Port-a-Potty.

MICHAEL runs away from a couple of plastic ducklings displayed in a store window.

INT. – REFORMIST STRONGHOLD – DAY

DIAMOND looks at himself in the mirror, a severe black uniform with a ram head colored gold on his chest.

DIAMOND
How tacky.

He walks into his chamber and kicks LUAKEL who’s lying on his bed.

DIAMOND
Get up you little bastard.

LUAKEL
Mommy?

DIAMOND
No.

LUAKEL
What you we doing?

DIAMOND
I’ve discovered that these guys
have a type of teleportation system.

LUAKEL
And?

DIAMOND
We’re going on a little trip.

LUAKEL
I need to take a piss first.

INT. – SHEEPIST HOLY CITY – NIGHT

The SHEEP POPE is pacing back and forth.

SHEEP POPE
This can’ be happening.
How does a man just flee our dungeons
and manage to raise up a huge army?

AIDE
I don’t know sir.

SHEEP POPE
He must be stopped.

AIDE
I’ve got a couple of agents who
can do the deed at a moment’s notice.

SHEEP POPE
But what will become of the army?

AIDE
It should fall apart due to lack of leadership and
the Reformist Army will tear it to bloody chunks.

SHEEP POPE
Damn, if the Reformist weren’t ready to attack,
we could have stopped this. If DMA attacks them,
then we’ll be embroiled in a war that’ll last decades.

DIAMOND
I think I can help with that.

LUAKEL
Me too.

DIAMOND
I told you to stay quiet.

SHEEP POPE
What is this!
Guards!

DIAMOND
There is no need to call the guards.
I have come here to help you in your predicament.

SHEEP POPE
(suspicious)
How so??

DIAMOND
Sit down and we’ll talk about what I’ve been
talking about with my philosophers and theologians…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LIFT – DAY

OTHNIEL
So you see it was to test his faith.

STRAHA
Well that’s just fucked up. Why would God do
that to a man, he didn’t get anything out of it and
that guy was like: “I love God” and still he fucked
him up hardcore. And for what? A bet?

OTHNIEL
It was s test…

STRAHA
Yeah, still, it’s pretty fucked up. That guy should
have just said “Fuck you, God” packed up his shit
and kicked it with Buddha or something.
(shakes head)
Well, let me tell you what I believe…

LATER…

STRAHA
So, you have to keep track of the PH levels or
else you get some fucking skunk weed who’s
only purpose is shit wipes.

OTHNIEL
What about the stuff they grew in water?

STRAHA
You mean that hydroponics shit? That’s pure crap.
It’s like smoking something crapped out by a vegan
tree humper who ate too much leaves and twigs.
You ignore that shit and go with the good stuff grown
in dirt. The high is better and the flavor is second to none.

OTHNIEL nods.

LATER STILL…

STRAHA
So I was like “Back off asshole, no one’s
sticking anything in my ass except me”

STRAHA and OTHNIEL both laugh.

STRAHA
Yeah, then I stabbed him in
the neck with a mechanical pencil.

OTHNIEL
It’s been a while now, I
wonder if they’re looking for us?

STRAHA
I don’t know. Those are some lazy bastards
out there, they couldn’t find their own dicks
if it was taped to their hands and glowing neon.

OTHNIEL
Yeah, maybe…

STRAHA
Then this one time there was this…

EXT – BATTLEFIELD – SHEEPIST ARMY – DAY

DMA
We have gathered here to face the terrible threat that
faces our religion. Across yond field lies the cursed
army of the Sheep Reformist, misguided fools and
idiots who must be destroyed and their bodies hacked
to pieces, their homes and businesses destroyed, their
land salted and cursed, and a large fifty foot wall built
around the area they call their territory so all that may
know what happens when they assume they can break
away from the True Sheepist Faith!

The army cheers.

MICHAEL
Hell yeah. Let’s maim and
slaughter those Reformists fiends!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
This is so my time to shine. I’ll do
great deeds in this upcoming battle.

MICHAEL
You’ll be canon fodder, asshole.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Why must you constantly destroy al my dreams?

MICHAEL
Because I can.

EXT. – BATTLEFIELD – REFORMIST ARMY – DAY

FLOID stands with a group of officers.

FLOID
Today we are here to defend the true religion of the world.
The corrupt and bloated belief of the sheep papist will not
extend their fetid reach into our lands and if they do, we
shall fight to the bloody end!

The officers all cheer.

FLOID
For Diamond and the Reformist Faith!

Behind him the Reformist army cheers and draw their weapons.

INT. – SHEEP HOLY CITY – NIGHT

The SHEEP POPE looks oustounded.

SHEEP POPE
You would be willing to do this?

DIAMOND
Yes. I’ve thought on it long and hard.

SHEEP POPE
But you’d be giving up so much.

DIAMOND
I understand, but as long as you stay on your side…

SHEEP POPE
We will…

DIAMOND
There has been too much bloodshed already. Our two
faiths are not so much dissimilar that in time we cannot
grew to stand one another, but if we go to war now,
then all will be lost.

SHEEP POPE
I so agree, plus wars are so costly.

DIAMOND
Then we have an agreement?

SHEEP POPE
Yes, but we must hurry, our armies
are about to engage in battle…

LUAKEL
I’m bored…

DIAMOND
Shut up.

EXT. –BATTLEFIELD – SHEEPIST ARMY – DAY

DMA
Get ready!

EXT. –BATTLEFIELD – REFORMIST ARMY – DAY

FLOID
Archers to the ready line!

EXT. –BATTLEFIELD – DAY

There is a great and sudden boom that fills the air. Before the two armies appear two massive holographic images, on of the SHEEP POPE, the other of DIAMOND. Both armies stop and stare.

SHEEP POPE/DIAMOND
CEASE AND DESIST. THERE WILL BE NO WAR.
THERE WILL BE NO FIGHTING. THE TWO FACTIONS
OF THE SHEEPIST FAITH WILL NOT WAR WITH ONE
ANOTHER. THERE IS A BETTER WAY. PUT DOWN
YOUR WEAPONS AND RETURN HOME. ANY WHO
REFUSE TO STOP FIGHTING, THEY WILL FACE OUR WRATH.

EXT. –BATTLEFIELD – SHEEPIST ARMY – DAY

DMA
This is bollocks! Ignore this wanker and charge!!!!

Suddenly a dozen men in black outfits pop into view, they fire tranquilizer darts at DMA, who clutches his chest and falls dramatically.

MICHAEL
DMA!

He runs forward and gets knocked down by the fired tranqs.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Michael!

He runs forward and gets knocked down by the fired tranqs.

The SHEEPIST ARMY mutters and begins breaking up.

EXT. –BATTLEFIELD – REFORMIST ARMY – DAY

FLOID
Not attack?
This is madness…

OFFICER
What do we do sir?

FLOID
The sheepist are leaving… there will be no
battle today, but this betrayal will not be forgotten…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LIFT – DAY

STRAHA
Y’know your not that bad, for a religious close-minded twat.

OTHNIEL
And you’re not bad for a abrasive, uncaring, jerk.

They both nod.

STRAHA
Though you know once they get us out of here,
I’m gonna still mock your faith, your personality,
and the fucked up way you dress, right?

OTHNIEL
And I will still pray for your soul
and try to mend your hedonistic ways.

STRAHA
As long a we have an understanding…

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – TELEPORTATION TUBE ROOM – DAY

GBW is sitting at the control console, which is dismantled and showing all it’s electronic bit. In his hands he’s holding a book titled: “MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR – TELEPORTATION TUBE CONTROLS”. He gingerly connects some wires and suddenly the console lights up.

GBW
I think… I think…
Yes, I think I’ve got it to work!

G.BONE
Hey, looks I’ve finished coloring!
(hands coloring book to GBW)

GBW
You didn’t color within the lines.

G.BONE
(angrily)
Color in the lines? This is about imagination
you By-The-Rules-Imagination-less-Fiend!

GBW
I just –

G.BONE
You always put me down!
You never compliment the job I do!

GBW
Look, you’ve been coloring since we got here. That
book’s only got two pictures in it. How long does it
take to color? I on the other hand have managed to
fix the reactor and now I’ve fixed the
controls for the Teleportation Tubes.

G.BONE
See! You never have anything nice to say!

GBW
(sighing)
I give up. I mean it this time. I’m
gonna throw myself out of the air lock.

G.BONE
Hey, I got a lock on the away team.
I’m gonna teleport them back up.

GBW
Wait, I’m the on who fixed it,
I should be the one to teleport them up!

G.BONE hits the teleportation button.

G.BONE
It’s done!

GBW
Wanker!

INT. – REFORMIST STRONGHOLD – DAY

A SERVANT is staring wide eyed at DIAMOND, who hands him a heavy looking stack of papers.

SERVANT
What is this sir?

DIAMOND
In the middle of the night, the Holy Sheep showed me
more truth. In your hands you hold an addition to the
body of works I had previously written.
I’ve even included some nifty maps.

SERVANT
What am I to do, sir?

DIAMOND
Take them tot he Printer and make sure everyone,
and I mean everyone, gets a copy ofit. Understand?

SERVANT
Yes, sir…

DIAMOND
Now go.

The servant leaves, hurrying out.

LUAKEL
What was that?

DIAMOND
Hopefully something to fix all
the damage my alter was creating…

LUAKEL
Cool.

DIAMOND
(looking at watch)
Any moment now…

LUAKEL
What?

Suddenly SOLDIERS burst into the room, leading them is FLOID. Weapons drawn the SOLDIERS surround the two, while FLOID sneers at them.

FLOID
I had hoped that this turn of events was only some
sick and twisted nightmare, but obviously it’s not.
Peace with the Sheep Papist?

DIAMOND
It was the only recourse.

FLOID
How wrong you are.
The only recourse would have been fighting to the
bitter end and killing as many as the Papists as we
could! If we went out then we would have clawed
the Papist nice and good while we went down!

DIAMOND
Alright why is everyone crazy warmongering psychopaths?

FLOID
Because we are the radical element of a religion
that is based upon destroying all its competition?

DIAMOND
Oh.. I finally get it.
(beat)
So what now?

FLOID
Now? Now, you and your little toy here die.

LUAKEL
Toy?
I’m too young to die!

DIAMOND
(to Luakel)
I’m too pretty to die, but you don’t
hear me whining about it do you?

Bows are drawn and swords readied.

FLOID
Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em all!!!

INT. – SHEEP PAPIST CITY – NIGHT

DMA, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, and MICHAEL are dragged into the SHEEP POPE’s audience chamber.

SHEEP POPE
You have proven yourself a radical element in
our plans for a peaceful domination of this world, DMA.

DMA
I only do what the holy scrolls tell me is right.

SHEEP POPE
Well, what ever they may say to you,
you’ve proven to be a thorn in our sides.

DMA
You can’t kill me. I’m a True Believer in the Faith,
and the scrolls say I can’t be killed
by the hands of a fellow sheepist!

SHEEP POPE
True, but that does not apply to Savage Heathens.

DMA
Savage-
(eyes widen)
No…

SHEEP POPE
(grinning)
As of this afternoon, by the College of
Holy Sheepist Cardinals, you and your
friends here have been excommunicated
from the Church.

DMA
You can’t…

SHEEP POPE
Now your status is that of a Savage Heathen,
to be abused and tortured in all manner of
pleasing ways. Guards!
Take him to the Torture Room.

MICHAEL
What about us?

SHEEP POPE
Oh, you’re of no importance. You’ll be killed here.
Executioners! Behead these two!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
DMA, do something…

DMA
I’ll pray for you.

MICHAEL
Do something better…

The two EXECUTIONERS arrive and raise their axes.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
I never even got to cop a
feel of an Alyson Hannigan alternate..

MICHAEL
I’ve never known the touch of a man…

The axes descend.

EXT. – MIDDLE EAST – ROCKY WASTELAND – DAY

FLOCCULENCIO is sitting with the rest of the GOATIST people.

The GOAT CHIEF walks up and hands FLOCCULENCIO a long robe made of mohair.

GOAT CHIEF
To our honored guest!

Everyone cheers.

FLOCCULENCIO looks amazed and happy. He stands up, clearing his throat.

FLOCCULENCIO
Although I’m new to this land, you’ve shown
me great hospitality. In all my years, I think this
is the happiest I’ve been. I feel like I’ve finally
found people who know me and who ca-

FLOCCULENCIO vanishes in a loud pop.

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

DMA, MICHAEL, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, DIAMOND, LUAKEL, and FLOCCULENCIO all look at one another, confused.

GBW
Well that worked.

G.BONE
Hey, I fixed the teleportation tubes!

DIAMOND
Way to go, G.Bone!

MICHAEL
Yeah, G.Bone, great job!

GBW
But I-

DMA
Come one G.Bone, let’s go get you a drink, my treat!

Everyone leaves the Teleportation Room, except FLOCCULENCIO and GBW. FLOCCULENCIO looks at the Teleportation Pad and looks down at the mohair robe he has in his hand.

GBW
What’s wrong?

FLOCCULENCIO
Nothing…
(sighs)
Nothing at all.
(pulls out flask and begins drinking)

GBW shrugs and walks out.

GBW
(muttering)
Never gonna help you bastards again…

FLOCCULENCIO continues to stare at the Teleportation Pad, drinking.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – LIFT = NIGHT

Over black:

OTHNIEL
You think they’ll ever find us?

STRAHA
I don’t know.

OTHNIEL
I’m thinking they might have forgotten us.

STRAHA
I’m scared of the dark.
Hold me.

Long silence

OTHNIEL
Okay.

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – KITJED’S QUARTERS– NIGHT

KITJED walks out of his quarters.

KITJED
Alright, I’m ready to go shopping now…
Hey where’s everyone?

He walks to a console and looks at it.

KITJED
Someone put Leo on mute…
(hits button)

LEO CEASIUS
-WILL RELEASE THE OXYGEN IN THE SHIP
AND KILL YOU ALL! YOU HEAR THAT! I’LL
KILL YOU ALL! WHEN YOU’R SLEEPING! WHE-

KITJED
Leo?

LEO CEASIUS
Kitjed?
(beat)
You can hear me?

KITJED
Yes. What are you doig?

LEO CEASIUS
Ummm.. venting inner thoughts
to an audience who isn’t listening?

KITJED
Oh, okay.
How do you like my outfit?

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – SHEEPIST TEMPLE – NIGHT

MICHAEL, PSYCHOMELTDOWN, and STRAHA are sitting in various cushioned seats, drinking. Around them lay scattered booze bottles, confetti, and a banner that reads ‘WELCOME BACK SHEEPIST BROTHER, NO NOT YOU STRAHA, BUT DMA”

Pan to where DMA is sleeping, snuggled up against the Holy Sheep.

MICHAEL
Pfft. He didn’t even say he liked the cake I baked.

STRAHA
I like it.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
You were stoned through the whole thing.
I saw you eating a candle.

STRAHA
Oh, that’s why I keep picking wax outta my teeth.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Well he’s back.

MICHAEL
Yay. Excommunicated and all.

STRAHA
Meh, fuck those reactionary sheepist bastards.
I mean who’s all about peace and love? Pfft.
That’s tree fucking gay talk, right there.

MICHAEL
Now the sheepist faith is the strongest on the ship.
And soon out plans of domination will come to fruitition.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
We have plans of domination?

MICHAEL
Well, a plan.

STRAHA
We nuke ‘em.

MICHAEL growls and attacks STRAHA.

MICHAEL
(screaming)
Shut the fuck up!
(slapping Straha)
Shut the fuck up!
(slapping Straha)
Shut the fuck up!
(slapping Straha)
Shut the fuck up!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(sipping beer)
Now who’s got repressed anger issues?

INT. – AH.COM SHIP – DIAMOND’S QUARTERS – NIGHT

DIAMOND and LUAKEL are are putting the final touches upon a small golden statue of a sheep.

DIAMOND
You wanted to learn the ways of the Sheepist faith.

LUAKEL
Is this going to be like Kirjed teaching
me the ways of being a man?

DIAMOND
Well less ass grabbing.

LUAKEL
Cool.

A lamb baas and with shaky legs clamors out of Diamond’s closet.

LUAKEL
Ooooh! A lamb!
Can I ride it?

DIAMOND
Ummm.. it’s too small.

LUAKEL
Maybe when it gets bigger?

DIAMOND
Sure.

LUAKEL
I’ll call you Pickles.

DIAMOND
(sighs)
Maybe I should find another recruit…

Fade out

END ACT II


TAG


INT. –STRONGHOLD – CORRIDOR – DAY

Smoke fills the corridor. It slowly clears away to show a sight of shredded bodies of strange creatures laying everywhere.

WARD and GRIMM REAPER walk among the carnage, looking impressed.

Standing at attention before them is MERRYPRANKSTER, his clothing tattered and stained, his swords bent and dull, behind him are the rest of the Away Team, all battered and bloodies.

On a pile of corpses sits MIDGARDMETAL strumming his guitar.

WARD
Figured you’d all died.

GRIMM REAPER
A pity. I so wanted your Best in Show plaque.

MERRYPRANKSTER
We did our best sir…

WARD
This him?
(Points to a bound and gagged figure)

MERRYPRANKSTER
As far was we can tell. Looks to be
the one who’s created these monsters.

WARD
What’s his name?

MERRYPRANKSTER
Dark Slavik.

WARD
Ungag him.

DARK SLAVIK
What do you want?

WARD
Well, Mr. Slavik. I’m a fan of your work.

DARK SLAVIK
umm.. thank you?

WARD
Now, how about you give up this freelance stuff
and work for me? The money sucks, the chance
of death is high, and I’m a cruel and vicious bastard.

DARK SLAVIK
uh….

WARD
Or else my associate here
(points to Grimm)
will introduce you to the joys of breathing hard vaccum.

DARK SLAVIK
I think this is a no brainer…sir.

WARD
Good choice.
(to Merry)
get him on the ship.

MERRYPRANKSTER
Yes, sir.

MERRYPRANKSTER drags DARK SLAVIK to his feet and they head out.

WARD
Merry.

MERRYPRANKSTER
Yes, sir?

WARD
Good job.

MERRYPRANKSTER
(surprised)
Thank you, sir.

MERRYPRANKSTER and the rest of the Away Team file out.

WARD
(to Grimm)
I think you owe me five bucks.

GRIMM REAPER
Damn, I was sure he’d die.

WARD
Well, in time maybe.
(laughs harshly)

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS

Greater Texas

TITLECARD-TEXAS

TEASER


INT. AH.COM LOUNGE –DAY

GBW sits on a comfortable sofa and reads the newspaper. MICHAEL comes in with an “Elektra” DVD and shuts the door behind him. He takes a few steps, then goes back and checks it. He walks forward, and then goes back to check.

GBW, on the sofa, slams down the magazine.

GBW
The door won’t just come open!

MICHAEL
You can never be too careful
these days. With CFers
and Google Spiders running about.

GBW
They’re not HERE, on the ship!

MICHAEL steps over to the sofa and sits down next to GBW. He opens the DVD case, closes, and opens it again. GBW grinds his teeth, but forces himself to grin.

GBW
I don’t think a Google
Spider will pop out of the box.

MICHAEL nods.

MICHAEL
But what about Yahoo
Slurp Spiders?

GBW plays along.

GBW
Nobody’s actually SEEN a Yahoo
Slurp Spider. They’re only rumored to exist.

MICHAEL
Crosstime bombs
were once only rumored to exist.

GBW starts to disagree, but decides it’s not worth the effort.

GBW
“Right. Logic and reason. Sorry.”

CUT TO OPENING CREDITS:

An Alternatehistory.com Presentation:

AH.COM: The Series


“GREATER TEXAS”

Written By : MERRYPRANKSTER


ACT I


EXT. – SPACE – DAY

The AH ship explodes out of a vortex into orbit over another Earth.

INT. AH.COM SHIP – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT sits in his command chair, while the other AHers bustle about the Control Room doing their tasks.

DOCTOR WHAT
Okay Leo. What’s happening on
this planet?

LEO_CAESIUS
Collecting transmissions now…
(beat)
It seems that the POD was in
the 1840s. There’s a United States,
but there’s also a Republic of Texas
that stretches all the way to California and
includes the territories in-between.

DOCTOR WHAT strokes his goatee.

DIAMOND
(munching on popcorn)
Sounds like a world from Sldiers.
Is there cheesy quick draw gun fights on the street?

LEO_CAESIUS
I… I’ll look into it.

DOCTOR WHAT
Sounds interesting.
Any notable butterflies?

LEO_CAESIUS
Well, there was no Civil War.
I would imagine without the issue
of Western expansion, slavery did not
become nearly as contentious.
The states are more powerful vis-à-vis
the Federal government.
(beat)
The Japanese rule Manchuria and northeast China,
while the rest has been divided up into various
Hong Kong-esque enclaves.

HENDRYK leaps to his feet, drawing his Chinese-made Mauser knockoff.

HENDRYK
We must drive the filthy
gwai from the sacred soil
of the Middle Kingdom!
Long live the Son of Heaven!

STRAHA
Umm…you’re French, dumbass.

It looks like a fight is going to break out, but DOCTOR WHAT motions for calm. When everyone’s shut up, he points to the Control Room door and then to STRAHA.

STRAHA
What?

DOCTOR WHAT gestures again. STRAHA slinks out. The other crew marvels at DOCTOR WHAT’s unusual decisiveness.

DOCTOR WHAT
The last few TLs have been stressful.
My vote is that we find a nice, peaceful
place and relax for awhile.
(beat)
Leo, take us down to Toronto…
Hopefully we won’t find any more evil versions
of myself, female, super villian, or otherwise.

DIAMOND
(slurping on a drink)
How about those sheep shagging ones?
There always seems to be a bunch of them.

STRAHA pokes his head back into the Control Room.

STRAHA
Some one say sheep shagging?

EXT. AH.COM SHIP – DAY

The AH.com ship coasts down through the atmosphere. As it crosses the Gulf of Mexico, missiles begin rising from Texas and shoot right for it.

INT. AH.COM – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

Alarms are ringing. Everyone is heading for battle stations.

DOCTOR WHAT
Leo! Evasive maneuvers!
Counter-missile fire!

DIAMOND
(buckling in)
Why didn’t we just teleport down?

HENDRYK
Or take a small stealth shuttle down?!

EXT. AH.COM SHIP – DAY

Lasers slash the Texan missiles from the sky. The ship rolls, dodging two more.

Unfortunately, two missiles get through the laser screen and approach the ship…

INT. – AH.COM LOUNGE – DAY

OTHNIEL and STRAHA are arguing.

STRAHA
I’m sick of you trying to
convert me all the time!
(wicked grin)
So now I’m going to convert you!

He picks up a messenger bag from the floor and opens it.

CLOSE-UP: MESSENGER BAG

It’s brimming with marijuana.

INT. AH.COM LOUNGE – DAY

OTHNIEL is horrified.

OTHNIEL
No! No!

STRAHA
(smiling seductively)
You know you liked it
when you “accidentally”
got stoned in my quarters…

STRAHA begins pushing the bag towards him, but then an explosion tears away the side of the ship.

STRAHA and his weed-bag are sucked out the side. Unfortunately for OTHNIEL, STRAHA grabbed him and pulled him out.

INT. AH.COM – CONTROL ROOM – DAY

Impact alarms go off.

LEO_CAESIUS
Missile impact in the lounge area!
Second particle-beam cannon
lost!

DOCTOR WHAT curses.

DOCTOR WHAT
We’re going to have to land and get
it back. Don’t want our presence
to affect the TL too much.

LEO_CAESIUS
STRAHA and OTHNIEL
are no longer on the ship.

DOCTOR WHAT
(hastily)
We’re going to have to get them too.
(beat)
Bring us in for a landing. We’re
going to have to repair the ship
and get those two back.

EXT. – WASTELAND – DAY

OTHNIEL and STRAHA hit the ground. A few seconds later, the bag of weed hits the ground.

Both AHers groan.

STRAHA
(wincing as he gets up) _
Shit man, where fuck are we?

OTHNIEL
God only knows…

They rise to their feet and dust themselves off. STRAHA walks over to the bag and opens it to make sure none has spilled.

Meanwhile, OTHNIEL has his hand cupped to his forehead, scanning the horizon.

IN THE DISTANCE – A rickety house sits atop a hill.

OTHNIEL points.

OTHNIEL
Look, a house!
Maybe there’s someone home.

STRAHA just stares at OTHNIEL.

STRAHA
You moron! It’s probably
inhabited by a family straight out of
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

Now it’s OTHNIEL’s turn to stare.

OTHNIEL
Is that a movie?
I’ve never seen it.

STRAHA groans.

STRAHA
Hostile rednecks who will
molest us, kill, and eat us,
Not necessarily in that order.

OTHNIEL looks ill.

OTHNIEL
Never mind. Let’s wait then.
What will come through for us.

EXT. – THE AH.COM SHIP – DAY

The AH.com ship, a massive smoking hole in its side, comes in for a landing amidst a similar-looking wasteland.

A door in the side folds open and the crew emerges.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. KITJED, you and two
others go find that particle cannon.
Our sensors indicate that it landed a couple of
miles from here.

DOCTOR WHAT turns to MATT and WEAPON_M.

DOCTOR WHAT
MATT, organize a perimeter
around the landing site.
(beat)
WEAPON_M, take some people and
go find OTHNIEL and STRAHA.

EXT. – A NEARBY CLIFF – DAY

Unbeknownst to them, a squad of TEXAN MILITIAMEN riding in a pickup truck watches them from a nearby cliff. They roar away seconds later.

EXT. – MORE WASTELAND – DAY

KIT, DIAMOND, and PSYCHOMELTDOWN walk along. All of them have their weapons out.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
Damn it, why couldn’t you
get Michael to do this job?

DIAMOND
Don’t worry we lost a smaller
one, two of you can carry it.

KIT
Two of us??
You expect me to ruin
my nails and sweat?

DIAMOND
Err.. I sure as hell
ain’t going to carry it.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN points.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
There it is!

A wicked-looking weapon system attached to a piece of scorched steel lies in the desert in front of them.

DIAMOND
See, it’s not too big.

KIT rolls his eyes. He opens his mouth to speak when engines ROAR and six Texans on motorcycles surge down onto them from the surrounding hills. As they come down, they open fire on the AHers with energy weapons.

DIAMOND
Energy weapons!
This TL doesn’t have a space
presence worth a damn but they’ve
got ENERGY WEAPONS!

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(laughs and points)
Hey look, rednecks riding motorcycles.

A laser burst slices by DIAMOND’s head, shearing off a sideburn. He jumps and SCREAMS.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN shoots one of the Texans. He goes flying off his motorcycle; the motorcycle slams into the particle-beam cannon and EXPLODES, destroying them both.

KITJED fires at a Texan and misses. The Texan whips out a lasso and ropes him. Another Texan ropes him from the opposite direction. Both the Texans pull their ropes taut, yanking him off the ground. The two Texans ride off, holding KITJED off the ground between them.

DIAMOND has recovered from his shock and draws twin pistols. He fires at the fleeing Texans. One Texan cuts between DIAMOND and the other Texans. Both bullets hit his motorcycle and he goes flying.

The other TEXANS withdraw, firing at the AH.commers to keep them from pursuing

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(dripping with sarcasm)
Nice quick draw skills.

DIAMOND
(doing fancy re-holstering move)
Thanks.
(beat)
Asshole.

EXT. – THE WASTELAND – EVENING

Night’s falling. STRAHA and OTHNIEL are getting cold.

OTHNIEL
Still don’t want to go see
if anyone’s in that house?

Shivering, STRAHA shakes his head.

OTHNIEL (CONT’D)
Well then. I’ll go up there and you wait here.

OTHNIEL ascends the hill and comes to the door. He knocks.

The door ominously creaks open.

INT. – THE HOUSE – NIGHT

The house is dark and ominous. OTHNIEL sticks his head in.

OTHNIEL
Anyone home?

No one answers. OTHNIEL steps inside, looking to the left and right.

Suddenly a bunch of DEFORMED REDNECKS boil out of the dark. They cover OTHNIEL’S mouth before he has the chance to scream and drag him out of sight.

EXT. TEXAN CAMP – NIGHT

KIT is dumped unceremoniously at the feet of the TEXAN COMMANDER, a big man in a ten-gallon hat wearing cowboy boots, jeans, a blazer, a bolo tie, and two holstered pistols. Unperturbed, KITJED rises to his feet and gives the man an up-and-down look.

KIT
(as gay as humanly possible)
Hello, handsome.

The TEXAN raises an eyebrow.

TEXAN COMMANDER
(THICK drawl)
What’s wrong with you, boy?

KIT swishes his hips.

KIT
Nothing, sexy.

The TEXAN pales.

TEXAN COMMANDER
Great jumpity jackrabbits, this one’s one
of them.. what do you call it? Gays!
(beat)
Bring out…The Device.

A TEXAN SOLDIER is shocked.

TEXAN SOLDIER
Shouldn’t we put him in the internment camp
with the other Oklahomans, sir?

TEXAN COMANDER
No…The Device first.

KIT
(muttering)
Shit. Why does it always work for Yuppie?

EXT. THE AH LANDING SITE -NIGHT

PSYCHOMELTDOWN and DIAMOND come rushing in. DOCTOR WHAT, who was sitting in a chair with LUAKEL fanning him, rises to greet them.

DOCTOR WHAT
What happened?

DIAMOND
Good news or bad news?

DOCTOR WHAT
Good news.

DIAMOND
Well, the particle-beam was destroyed.
We don’t need to worry about destabilizing
the TL too much. Good thing too, because
Psycho nearly collapsed just walking back
from the site.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
It was hot….

DOCTOR WHAT
(shaking head)
And the bad news?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
The weapon was destroyed in battle with
some Walker Texas Ranger wannabes. We drove them
off, but they lasso’d KITJED and carried him off.

DIAMOND
We figure he’ll enjoy his stay. Since we
all know what comes from Texas…
(beat)
And they didn’t look like steers.

DOCTOR WHAT whistles ominously.

DOCTOR WHAT
They don’t know what they’re getting into.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
(smirking)
Gay cowboy love, sounds familiar…

EXT. THE TEXAN CAMP – NIGHT

KIT stands there, flanked by two TEXAN SOLDIERS. Despite being tied up, he wiggles with glee.

KIT
It’s so nice standing between
two hot young men.

One soldier chuckles.

TEXAN SOLDIER #1
Enjoy your last moments as a gay.

TEXAN SOLDIER #2
The last queer we caught only lasted
two minutes before The Device took effect.

KITJED is now looking a little bit afraid.

An ominous rumble echoes from offscreen.

INT. THE SCARY FAMILY BASEMENT – NIGHT

OTHNIEL has had most of his clothes removed and is tied down. A dozen GROSS INBRED REDNECKS hover around him. One of them is seven feet tall and has a “Leatherface” mask.

An especially-scary old woman leans in over OTHNIEL.

SCARY INBRED OLD WOMAN
So nice and fresh…so nice and fresh.

A NASTY HUMPBACKED MAN strides in.

NASTY HUMPBACKED MAN
We know there’s another one of you
Oklahomans out there somewhere.
(he shows OTHNIEL the bag of weed)
He got away, but he left the bag behind.

OTHNIEL stutters a bit before answering.

OTHNIEL
Ok…Oklahomans?
There must be some mistake…
I’m from Utah.

The assembled grisly gang cackles.

SCARY INBRED OLD WOMAN
Yer from Utah? One of ‘em…

OTHNIEL
No! No! I’m not one of them!

NASTY HUMPBACKED MAN
From Utah and not one of ‘em?
(shrugs)
Help us catch your friend and you’ll get a reward.
You’ll be eaten first.

OTHNIEL
Isn’t the usual reward for help to be eaten
last?

The grisly gang laughs.

SCARY INBRED WOMAN
Nope. The one who gets eaten last gets
ass raped while we’re eating the others.

OTHNIEL
(shouting)
Never! NEVER!

The gang laughs some more.

NASTY HUMPBACKED MAN
You’ll give in soon enough.

He produces a jug of moonshine. Two of the assembled inbreds pry Othniel’s mouth open and the NASTY HUMPBACKED MAN pours the moonshine in. He pours it in for a good while.

SCARY INBRED WOMAN
Lureen!

A dirty but otherwise attractive woman comes to the front. She gives OTHNIEL a rotten-toothed grin.

OTHNIEL screams!

EXT. – AH.COM LANDING SITE – NIGHT

Four Texans on motorcycles flank a large herd of cattle Behind the herd, hundreds of TEXAN MILITIAMEN armed with all sorts of exotic weapons

EXT. THE TEXAN CAMP – NIGHT

THE DEVICE is brought out. It’s a MECHANICAL BULL.

KITJED is visibly relieved.

A BEAUTIFUL TEXAN WOMAN in a skimpy bikini struts out and mounts the bull. It starts going, slowly at first, but faster and faster.

The two TEXAN SOLDIERS are entranced. KITJED is indifferent.

Ultimately, the bull proves too vigorous for the woman and throws her. She flips in the air and lands on top of KITJED, knocking him to the ground.

After lying on top of him and the two TEXAN SOLDIERS for a moment, she hops to her feet and walks away, getting in a good bit of behind-movement in the process. The TEXAN soldiers pull KITJED to his feet in time for the flustered TEXAN COMMANDER to return.

TEXAN COMMANDER
You Oklahomans are tough. But we’ll get you yet.
(he looks straight at Kitjed)
You see the light yet, boy?

KIT
(cheerfully)
Nope.
But I have an idea…

TEXAN COMMANDER
Let’s hear it.

KIT
Out in Wyoming, there’s a lovely place called
Brokeback Mountain. Let’s go up there, just the
two of us. I’ll be Ennis La Mar and you be Jack Twist.

The TEXAN COMMANDER doesn’t get it.

KIT
It’ll be fun. Neither of us
will wear any clothes,
and we’ll tell our wives
that we were fishing, but
we’ll never actually catch
any fish…

THE TEXAN COMMANDER turns purple with fury.

TEXAN COMMANDER
In Texas, men are men and women are women!
Not the other way around!
(quiet and menacing)
There’s only one solution to the problem.

KITJED starts to look a little bit afraid.

TEXAN COMMANDER (CONT’D)
Take this Gay to the Emasculator!

END ACT I



ACT II

EXT. – AH.COM LANDING SITE – NIGHT

DOCTOR WHAT is in conference with some crew.

DOCTOR WHAT
All right. After WEAPON_M gets back
with STRAHA and OTHNIEL, we’ll need to
assemble a rescue party for KITJED.

DIAMOND
Why not go now?

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
We’d leave the ship unprotected.
The Texans might not have space
travel, but they have lots of weapons.
Lots and lots of….

His words are cut off suddenly.

TEXANS
Yippee-ky-yay!

The assembled AHers turn to see a HERD OF CATTLE thundering their way. A bunch of COWBOYS herd the cattle towards the AH.com ship.

MATT and the outer ring of defenders open fire on the TEXANS, who fire back. Three cowboys swerve away from the herd to deal with MATT and the defenders, while three more drive the cattle into the landing site.

The AHers inside the perimeter scatter. The TEXANS open fire. A burst from a hand-carried particle beam near-misses DOCTOR WHAT, sending him tumbling.

DOCTOR WHAT
LEO! Start shooting!

Energy fire erupts from the AH ship, reducing the cattle to burnt steaks. The TEXANS break off their frontal charge and swing to the sides, firing on the scattered AHers.

Meanwhile, two TEXANS on horseback pursue THANDE. As he runs, he throws test tubes from his lab coat onto the ground behind him. The Texans manage to dodge the first few resulting explosions, but THANDE throws three test tubes at once and the resulting blast hurls the TEXANS far, far away.

Most of the cattle have been killed by LEO. The survivors are milling around. The one remaining COWBOY spurs his horse and flees.

EXT. – A CLIFF – NIGHT

A TEXAN OFFICER, watching the defeat of his attack, grinds his teeth. He pulls a walkie-talkie out of his pants pocket.

TEXAN OFFICER
The attack with the cattle failed.

TEXAN COMMANDER (O.S.)
I’ll be over shortly. With
reinforcements and….The Machine.

EXT. THE NASTY TEXANS’ HOUSE – NIGHT

A door opens in the side of the Texans’ house and OTHNIEL climbs out. As he walks away, LUREEN sticks her head out.

LUREEN
Y’all come back later!

OTHNIEL smiles, but quickens his pace. He comes across the tracks of the NASTY TEXANS. He sniffs the air, and his face wrinkles with disgust.

OTHNIEL
Weed. They’re using the weed
to bait STRAHA

He RUNS.

EXT. – THE WASTELAND – NIGHT

STRAHA plods along, alone. .

STRAHA
Idiot should have listened to me.
‘Don’t go into the house,’ I tell him.
But NOO….

Suddenly, he sniffs the air. His eyes glaze over and he turns around. In his trance-like state, he plods over the top of a hill, where he finds.

THE NASTY TEXANS waiting for him.

HUNCHBACKED OLD MAN
Get him, Leatherface!

The towering inbreeding specimen raises his roaring chainsaw and charges STRAHA. STRAHA freezes with terror as the madman approaches.

Suddenly, there’s a GUNSHOT and LEATHERFACE’S leg buckles. He falls. The NASTY TEXANS turn to see.

OTHNIEL standing on a nearby hill, a pistol smoking in his hand.

THE NASTY TEXANS howl with anger and CHARGE. Suddenly…

A COMANCHE WAR PARTY rides in. With brutal efficiency, they destroy the nasty Texans. Before the two AHers can exhale with relief, COMANCHE WARRIORS sweep them up and carry them away.

WEAPON_M and THE RESCUE PARTY witness this from a nearby hill. They set off in pursuit.

LATER

WEAPON_M and the AH.com relief party ascend the hills towards the COMANCHE CAMP. As they approach, they see OTHNIEL and STRAHA buried up to their necks at the feet of the Comanche chief TEN BEARS.

EXT. – THE COMANCHE CAMP – NIGHT

As the AHers approach, TEN BEARS and his COMANCHES ride out to meet them. They’re carrying a mix of Old West rifles, modern assault weapons, and even a couple of hand-held energy weapons.

Both parties come to a halt a few yards apart. WEAPON_M steps forward.

WEAPON_M
You be Ten Bears?

TEN BEARS
I am Ten Bears.

WEAPON_M
I’m Weapon_M

TEN BEARS
I have heard. You’ve slept with two women
at the same time. You also have lots and lots
of guns. You may go in peace.

WEAPON_M
I reckon not.

TEN BEARS
Then you will die.

WEAPON_M
I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain’t so
hard for men like you and me, it’s living that’s hard; when all
you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments
don’t live together, people live together. With governments you
don’t always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I’ve come here
to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here
like this so you’ll know my word of life is then true.

TEN BEARS
And your word of death?

WEAPON_M
It’s here in my guns, and yours.
(beat)
I’m here for either one.

TEN_BEARS
There is iron in your word of death for all
Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words
of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must
come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the
same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such
as we meet in the struggle of life… or death. It shall be life.

TEN BEARS takes his knife and cuts his hand. WEAPON_M does the same, and they grasp each other’s hands.

TEN BEARS
So shall it be.

MATT
(confused)
What the fuck just happened?

MICHAEL
I think he just both their land.
Or they might be going into
a partnership to start a casino.

EXT. – AH.COM LANDING SITE -NIGHT

WEAPON_M and the RESCUE PARTY bring STRAHA and OTHNIEL into the camp-site.

WEAPON_M
They’re back. Now we should leave.
On the way back, I spotted a good-sized
Texan force heading this way.

DOCTOR WHAT
No can do. KITJED was
carried off by Texans.
We’ll need to go fetch him.

TEXAN COMMANDER (O.C.)
You Oklahomans looking for your
queer friend?

The AHers turn to see

THE TEXAN ARMY

Massing nearby. The TEXAN COMMANDER rides in an enormous oil-fired Mech-like machine that towers from the pickup trucks, SUVs, and horses that carry the Texan forces.

PSYCHOMELTDOWN
What the hell is that thing?

DOCTOR WHAT
You didn’t expect something like that? This is Texas.
Lots of oil and low environmental standards.

THE TEXAN COMMANDER
I’ve got your queer friend in The Emasculator.
If you Oklahomans don’t surrender your fancy
ship, we’re going to make him a woman!

He gestures to

A BIZARRE DUNK-TANK DEVICE

in which KITJED is chained. A massive WHIRLING BLADE sits below him. The TEXAN COMMANDER presses a button and the chains pull taut, spreading KITJED’s legs. The whirling blade accelerates. Mechanical limbs with breast implants, shaving razors, and syringes of hormones fold out of the sides of the tank.

LEO is the first to act. With the precision only an advanced artificial intelligence can pull off, AH.com particle beams destroy the whirling blade and many of the mechanical arms.

The TEXAN COMMANDER, seeing his major trump card lost, growls in fury.

TEXAN COMMANDER
Attack! Disable the ship!

THE TEXAN ARMY thunders towards the AH ship. LEO opens up with the guns, destroying many of the Texans, but the Texans scatter, attacking from the sides and rear.

LEO_CAESIUS
(over DOCTOR WHAT’s headset)
Get everyone back aboard!
They can dent the hull, but we’re too big for
them to do much damage, unless they use a
nuke or something.

THE OIL FIRED MECH begins attacking the ship

DIAMOND
(running)
Damn it! Next time we’re teleporting in!

DOCTOR WHAT shouts above the din.

DOCTOR WHAT
Fighting withdrawal!
Back to the ship!
(beat)
Someone get KITJED!

He spots LUAKEL.

DOCTOR WHAT
You! Get KITJED!

LUAKEL
But it’s dangerous…

DOCTOR WHAT fixes him with a glare.

LUAKEL
(sullen)
Oh all right.

EXT. – THE AH.COM SHIP -NIGHT

Meanwhile, the TEXAN COMMANDER in his giant machine is attacking the AH ship with a combination of lasers and giant metal claws. He’s done severe damage to the upper quarters of the armor, though AH particle beams have severely torn up his machine.

He’s about to strike a massive blow on the AH ship when he spots STRAHA rushing towards the ship.

TEXAN COMMANDER
Mexicans! The Oklahomans are collaborating
with Mexicans!

He turns from attacking the AH ship to swing a massive claw at STRAHA, who freezes with terror…

Suddenly OTHNIEL leaps into the picture. In horizontal action-movie slow-mo, he knocks STRAHA to the side while firing two machine pistols at once into the TEXAN COMMANDER.

Riddled with bullets, the TEXAN COMMANDER dies. Without his living body guiding the machine’s movements, the giant mech topples backwards. It smashes into the desert floor.

STRAHA
(awestruck)
Dude…where’d you learn
how to do that?

OTHNIEL
Matt’s been giving me some lessons.

EXT. – THE LANDING SITE- NIGHT

Meanwhile, LUAKEL has managed to extract the nearly-naked KITJED from The Emasculator. He drags KITJED back towards the AH ship while bullets and energy bolts whine around him.

LUAKEL
(shaking)
Oh, god, oh, god.
I remember this soft skin…

EXT. THE AH.COM GANGWAY

The crew scrambles up the ramp onto the ship. MATT, WEAPON_M, and OTHNIEL hold the line, keeping the TEXANS at bay through pure firepower.

MATT
(mock-solemn)
You do well, grasshopper.

OTHNIEL
Thank you, master.

An ENERGY BOLT nearly takes off OTHNIEL’s head, scorching the metal of the airlock.

OTHNIEL
You jackass!

He holds the triggers of both pistols down, shredding two TEXAN INFANTRYMEN.

All three duck back inside and the airlock seals behind them.

EXT. – THE AH.COM SHIP – NIGHT

The engines flare and the AH.com ship rises upward. The blast wave from the engines bowls over most of the TEXAN SOLDIERS.

As the ship rises towards space, missiles rise from the desert floor.

INT. THE AH.COM – CONTROL ROOM – NIGHT

DOCTOR WHAT grips the armrests of his command chair with fear-induced strength.

DOCTOR WHAT
Leo, please do something
about those missiles…

LEO_CAESIUS
The Texan ‘mech heavily
damaged the computers controlling
the anti-missile lasers.
I’ll try, but no guarantees…

EXT. THE AH.COM SHIP – NIGHT

Lasers lance from the AH.com ship, striking missiles from the sky. However, two lasers miss and the missiles slam into the ship’s energy shields. The second missile punches through the weakened shields and heavily scars the ship’s armor.

INT. THE AH.COM SHIP – NIGHT

The ship shakes.

LEO_CAESIUS
Shields down to 10% in several
places. Armor integrity
severely weakened.

OTHNIEL leaps to his feet.

OTHNIEL
I think I know something
that’ll help.

DOCTOR WHAT
Go ahead.

OTHNIEL
Well, as you know, I’ve
been deleting the porn caches
aboard the ship’s computers…

DOCTOR WHAT and WEAPON_M are distinctly unhappy.

DOCTOR WHAT
So that’s what happened!

WEAPON_M
(angry)
Should have left you with
the Comanches!

OTHNIEL
(hurriedly)
So I’ve learned great computer
hacking skills! If LEO can
open a link to the Texan computers…

The ship shudders with another missile impact.

DOCTOR WHAT
Can’t hurt.

OTHNIEL dashes over to a computer terminal and begins typing.

INT. TEXAN COMMAND CENTER – NIGHT

The Texan Command Center looks like a honky-tonk. There’s sawdust on the floor, buckets of peanuts on every surface, and a country-western band plays off to the left.

A TEXAN OFFICER sits at a computer. As he watches, alarms start going off.

TEXAN-ACCENTED AUTOMATED ALARM VOICE
Intrusion alert. Something is attempting
to interfere with missile guidance.

TEXAN OFFICER
Shitfire! We’ll have to use
the ultimate weapon!

His fingers dance on the console.

EXT. A MISSILE SILO – NIGHT

Two enormous concrete doors slide open and an enormous missile slides upward.

The missile bears the face of CHUCK NORRIS.

As alarms wail, the missile LAUNCHES.

INT. AH.COM – CONTROL ROOM – NIGHT

OTHNIEL pales.

OTHNIEL
I’ve sent most of the missiles off-course.
But now they’re using the Ultimate Weapon?

DOCTOR WHAT
What’s that?

OTHNIEL
Chuck Norris!

STRAHA moans in terror.

STRAHA
We’re doomed!
(beat)
Hasn’t anyone ever
read the Chuck Norris Facts ™?

DOCTOR WHAT scratches his head.

DOCTOR WHAT
No.

LEO interrupts.

LEO_CAESIUS
Ready to Shift.

DOCTOR WHAT
Shift!

EXT. THE AH.COM SHIP – NIGHT

A vortex opens and the AH.com ship vanishes inside.

Seconds later, the CHUCK NORRIS passes through where the ship used to be. It continues on and hits THE MOON.

There is a TREMONDOUS EXPLOSION. When the flash clears, we can see that a significant fraction of the Moon has been blasted clean.

INT. AH.COM – CONTROL ROOM – NIGHT

The ship materializes in a new TL. Everyone exhales with relief.

LEO_CAESIUS
We’re in another TL, and in
deep space. I think we’re safe now.

Suddenly, we hear a SCREAM. Everyone turns to look at KITJED.

He has breasts. Big voluptuous breasts. And he’s not happy.
Forward Message

END ACT II



TAG

EXT. AH.COM SHIP – MED BAY – DAY

TORQUMADA, in full medical scrubs, steps out of the Sick Bay. DOCTOR WHAT and a bunch of other crewmen are waiting there anxiously.

TORQUMADA
They’re out.

Lots of sighs of relief.

TORQUMADA
Lots of scarring though.

KITJED moans from inside the sick bay.

KIT (O.S.)
Are they out?
(beat)
Oh thank Bruce, they’re gone.

TORQUMADA
He’ll be laid up for a few days,
but he’ll be fine.

INT. – AH.COM – DOCTOR WHAT’S QUARTERS – DAY

DOCTOR WHAT sits in his chair, working on his computer.

DOCTOR WHAT
Need to see just how much
damage little OTHNIEL did.

He clicks the mouse. As he sees what’s onscreen, his lips move.

DOCTOR WHAT
File not found.

He clicks some more.

DOCTOR WHAT
File not found.

He clicks a bit faster.

DOCTOR WHAT
(frantic)
File not found!

He frantically clicks, eyes wide. He exhales with relief.

DOCTOR WHAT
To see yummy, yummy porn,
click here.

He clicks. His eyes grow wide.

DOCTOR WHAT
(slowly reading)
Repent or perish.
(beat)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

FADE TO BLACK

ROLL END CREDITS