Planet Despotism, page 16
SHAGREE
Why did you do this to me?
Hadaccious gives no answer then fires at Shagree.
The rear hatch of the ship closes shut and the ship powers up, lifting off the ground as the Emperor turns around, staring at it in shock.
Shagree's mother, sister and wife run out of the back of the temple doors and across the desert when Corydon rushes out of the temple when he hears the thundering of the craft's engines. He looks on in amazement, running toward the Emperor as the ship sails into the sky.
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INT. SPACECRAFT. EPSILON FLIES THE CRAFT. --DAY.
Epsilon navigates the craft through the sky while Corvus 22 assists.
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INT. OUTSKIRTS OF GENNAEUS. MOUNTAINS/BUNKER. --DAY.
A team of several Corvus Antares push carts of nubuck leather luggage down a long white-walled tunnel carved in the foothills of a mountain range. A Corvus opens the door, allowing the robots to push their carts down the hall as Governor Algethi and his wife walk behind them. They pass by the doorway of a staff of chefs and cooks as they prepare meals in a commercial grade kitchen.
Corvus opens the next door and they pass by the hot waters of a bath house as a few of the Governors lounge within the steamy water. The Corvus speaks to the other robots and they carry on down another hall with their carts of luggage. And Corvus directs the Governor and his wife down another hall. And it shows the Governor and his wife their immaculate suite as the doors slide open and they walk in.
MEETING HALL.
The Governors of the former Parthenon and their immediate families mingle with one another. Corvus Antares fill their glasses with wine as they walk around the hall. Governor Kaitos lounges on a sofa near the bar area with a grail in his hand when Algethi enters.
GOV. KAITOS
Algethi, where have you come from? We've been watching the front doors carefully.
GOV. ALGETHI
We had to get things in order before we left. And so we came in through the back.
GOV. KAITOS
I asked everyone to come in through the northern entrance. It's more discreet.
GOV. ALGETHI
No one saw us. And if they had, would they survive long enough to make it up here!?
Governor Algethi carries on to the bar when the sound of dishes crashing into the floor stuns all in the meeting hall. A chef runs into the meeting hall, grimacing with a machete in the middle of his back. He falls to the floor in pain when the raucous crowd of Claymoulus rebels seize control of the sprawling underground bunker with flying bullets. The Governors and their families scatter as a hundred rebels, bundled in clothing and metal sheets run through the hall, shooting at them.
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EXT/INT. SECUNDUS REGION. OPEN FIELD. --NIGHT.
The spaceship touches down on the open field. Epsilon walks toward Rajairus' pyramid and enters through the back door. Samair, Narellia, Hadiya, and their children lay hunkered down in the living room floor, buried under layers of clothes and blankets when Epsilon bursts in, commanding them...
EPSILON
COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!
Corvus walks out of the livingroom area. Rajairus and Ausnah walk in behind him covered in layers of clothing wrapped around their faces and bodies.
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INT/EXT. TUNNEL. UNDERNEATH THE IRIJAH OCEAN. --NIGHT.
Dr. Hasina's shoes crunch across the gravel as she walks along the side of the train tracks. She picks up speed, then jogs up the elevation toward the light at the end of the dark tunnel. She runs up the side of the tracks and walks out of the tunnel. Dr. Hasina repeatedly swipes her arm and hand across her face as she walks. A burning sensation jolts her in anguished frown and she blows on her forearm when the bright lights of spaceship race above the tracks toward her. She looks up at the approaching spaceship while pulling back her sleeve and she discovers a reddish blistering welt across her forearm. She jumps up and down, yelling and waving her arms as the craft sails towards her. She turns around, yelling at the top of her voice as the spaceship floats over her head. The large ship slows, turning around in mid-air over the ocean. She yells out, waving her arm over her face and the ship approaches. And she guards her eyes from the lights when the bottom of the ship opens up and ladder made of rope and steel flings out and the doctor climbs up.
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EXT/INT. SPACE. COLLIDER. CONTROL ROOM OF SPACESHIP. --NIGHT.
Once inside the ship, Dr. Hasina is greeted by Samair with a hug and Narellia and Hadiya welcome her as well. Astounished to see them, they escort her to the control room of the spaceship. Rajairus sits in the Captain's chair as Epsilon and the Corvus Antares flight the ship. Samair and the others hurry into their seats and fasten their seat belts as Ausnah takes a seat next to his wife, Hadiya.
The spaceship rockets above planet Arcadia and races to a giant collider orbiting within the planet's gravitational pull. Rajairus slides to the edge of his chair. A storm of dark matter and dark energy rages inside the collider as he looks through the windshield. Blue streaks of lightning and thunder boils the space inside the ring. The team of robot pilots guide the giant ship into the collider. Epsilon tilts up the control wheel, veering the rattling ship over a bumpy road of air pockets and turbulence as they begin to enter. The ship flies into the eye of the collider as Rajairus sits back and straps himself into the seat. Bracing in the chair he speaks to himself....
RAJAIRUS
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
THE END.
T.D. Walker, Planet Despotism
