The Hidden Light

The Hidden Light

By Jamie Folk

Black Screen

Narrator:

Just as in the world of plants and animals nothing ceases to exist, but continually changes its form.  From the manure into grain, the grain into a fowl, the tadpole into a frog, the caterpillar into a butterfly, the acorn into an oak.  So man also does not perish, but merely undergoes a change.  The story of this change began as a gift of love from a father to a son. 

Space:  The camera opens on a shot of a shimmering diamond planet with a massive drill with huge diamonds on the drill tip.  Thousands of Droids fly around and catch the diamonds and collect them.  The drill continues to work until a man on the bridge of a massive transport ship holds up his hand and yells halt.  A droid flies down the massive shaft and reemerges with a massive beautiful blue diamond.  The diamond is flown to the bridge of the massive ship and handed to a tall thin, man of 45 with dark hair and a dark beard who stares deeply at the object and smiles a

Interior:  Futuristic luxury home.
There is a birthday party for a young boy and he is surrounded by fantastic futuristic presents.  One large box in the middle of the room remains unopened.  When all the guests leave his father, the man from the ship at the diamond planet brings the box over to the boy and sets it down in front of him.

Father:

This is your most important gift.

Son:

What is it father?

Father:

It is power…

The son opens the gift and inside is a large perfectly round shimmering diamond sphere.

Father:

Close your eyes and put your hands on it.  It is now one with you.

As the son puts his hands on the sphere, it begins to tremble.  The father looks on and smiles.

Narrator:

It was against the law to give a gift like this to children so young, but the boys father knew he was no ordinary boy and these were not ordinary times.  The forces of repression were spreading all over the galaxy.  As system after system fell to the never ending slavery of the Xentax clan.  An evil hoard of brutish beings who knew only might and repression.

A montage then rolls of massive space and land battles being waged between the armies of various planets and evil pig looking creatures who wear heavy armor (the Xentax).  They fire on innocent civilians, capture them and force them into bonded slavery.  They take the riches of these planets and meld them into gold bars.

Narrator:

The wars made the Xentax rich and powerful.  When the herds came to the boys planet, he was now a grown man and ready to use his deep imprint on the indestructible diamond sphere to save his planet.

Massive ground troops land on the boys planet, he stands on a cliff with his sphere floating next to him.  He gives the sphere a glance and it nods back at him and in a flash it rips off at an incredible speed towards the mass of horde invaders.  While the young man keeps his eyes closed the sphere wipes out the all the forces, speeding in and out of the troop lines transforming into various shapes and forms as it dispatches tanks, troops and artilerity.  Twenty war planes come flying onto the battlefield firing their plasma missles at the sphere.  It separates into twenty smaller spheres and rockets towards the planes, destroying them all.  It then returns to the young man who walks away silently.  There are nothing but dead Xertax and wrecked equipment left on the beach.

Narrator:

The people embraced the boy as a hero without ever thinking that their protector and repressor could ever be one in the same.  Victory after victory was won and soon the Xentax were pushed back to their home planet.  On the eve of the decisive battle of the war to end all wars, the young man was given high command of all the systems that rallied to his power.  He then took on a new name…Krull.

In the quarters Krull’s massive battle cruiser, he studies the battle plan for the invasion of the Xentax’s home world of Zur Hölle.  Two men walk into the quarters, one a handsome dark haired man of about ten years older than Krull (general Will Sommeil)  the other an older stern looking Japanese man of about 50 (General Kang).


Krull:

Are your troops ready?

Kang:

Yes commander, have you arranged your plan of attack?

Krull:

Yes, the invasion begins this evening.  Will, you and Kang will cloak yourselves, drop down in gliders and land your forces behind their lines.  Once on the ground regroup and attack Gythium from behind.

Will:

What will you do?

Krull:

I will bombard the planet from orbit, when their defenses are weakened, I will land and crush them.  I want to ensure the Sultan suffers for his oppression.

Kang:

What of the innocent civilians Krull?  Such a bombardment will surely mean tremendous loss of life.

Krull:

These vermin mean nothing general.  It is their complacency in the face of their government’s repression is what nearly enslaved the galaxy.  What concerns me is their bloodlust and desire to control the universe.  I want to bring these scum to their knees.

A strange clicking noise can be heard in the background.  Suddenly a man melds himself together from small pieces all over the room.

Krull:

There you are Mara.  I thought you would have been in their palace by now.

Mara, when melded together has an angelic face but it is stiff from all the melding he has done over the years.  He can take anyone’s face and meld it to his own by just concentrating while his hand is on his victim’s face.  This has left him with the look of a man with moving eyes but no facial expression.  He is a silent assassin and he just looks at Krull and breaths deeply in and out.  He is eye’s without a face.

Kang:

Every life has meaning Krull.  If we are to be truly right in this fight, the preservation of life needs to be our only priority.  I was hoping you and your psychotic assassin would come to that realization.

Krull:

Our priority is victory or have you forgotten Kang?  Stop bothering with your ideals and meet me in the detention zone in 20 minutes.  I have some recruits for your mission.


The two generals walk out of Krull’s quarters and down the hall of the ship.  Mara looks disapprovingly at Krull.

Krull:

He is serving his purpose.  I suggest you do the same.

Mara bows his head, melts apart and his pieces slink out of the room.

In the hallway out side of Krull’s quarters, Will and Kang stop to talk.

Will:

God Mara just freaks me out.

Kang:

He has focused his light inward and kept it there.  True freedom is sharing your light with the world.  He is a deceiver, tempting everyone with his ability to control everything within his own body while distracting us from life’s true purpose.

Will:

Do you honestly believe that their citizens are more important than our troops?




Kang:

I never said that, I say their citizens are equally as important as all of our troops.  I say that because it is fact.  You need to embrace that reality Will.  You are extremely powerful, you can connect with objects faster than any being I have ever known, but all that means nothing without sound moral reasoning.

Will:

You talk about morality in war?  They try to kill us, they don’t care about morality or the lives of anyone but their own people.  They have enslaved half the galaxy for god’s sake!

Kang:

And how are we different?  We fight wars, decimate planets and their civilians.  In order to make the galaxy truly free, some system has to respect all life.  Even the lives of the enemies that mean to kill us.


Will: 

I wish I knew what you guys were smoking on Satyagraha, but I would love to get some.  Why do you fight then?  Why defend something so terrible?

Kang:
                                                           
My mission is to preserve all life.  To my great shame, I do not always succeed.

Will:

Well we aren’t going to win either way so I say go with the guys who or the lesser of the two assholes.

Kang:

You have much to learn young Will.  Are you prepared for the task that lays in front of us?

Will:

Almost.  I need to find a way to cloak about 500,000 orbital gliders.  After that trying to avoid being vaporized by the wonderful beings you want so desperately to protect.

Kang:

You are very cleaver Will Sommeil.  It will take a very gifted Xentax to kill you.  When in doubt always trust in the incompetence of your enemy.  Usually you will not be disappointed.


Will:

Awesome.  Thanks for the words of encouragement.

Kang:

Be well.

Interior:  The Detention Zone

Krull is standing in the hallway of the detention zone with his diamond sphere hovering around him in a circle.  There are sliding walls on each side of Krull with men banging on the doors demanding to be let out.  Kang enters from the one door in the back and walks up to Krull.

Krull:

That was a nice speech you gave up there Kang.

Kang:

You know I meant every word of it.  The lives of these beings aren’t yours to be played with Krull.

Krull:

What about the lives of murders and the slave profiteers?  Surely you don’t oppose punishing them to and bringing them to justice?

Kang:

It is our duty to do whatever we can to rehabilitate those men.  Killing them only brings more death and destrucion.

Krull:

Well I will give you your chance.  Here are twelve creatures, sentenced to die.

Krull hits a button and a door slides open to reveal 12 tough looking humans and aliens in electric chains.

Krull:

You see I can be merciful too.  All of these men are sentenced to die, but your little morality play gave me pause.  What if I was just wasting these men’s lives?  They were worthy foes once.  Who’s to say they won’t be useful.

Kang:

If you pardon these men fully, I can assure you they will fight for this cause.

Krull:

How can you be so sure?  You’ve never even met these men.

Kang:

If it is true that they are all condemned, then why not?  Give any man a chance like this and they would seize it.

Krull:

Or they will run away and leave you defenseless.  Very well.  Take these men as my gift to you, your life is in there hands.  I hope your confidence in the wisdom of forgiveness is not misguided, for your sake.

Krull deactivates the prisoner’s chains and turns to leave the room.  The largest alien prisoner goes to lunge at Krull but Krull’s diamond sphere springs into action and goes after him.  Kang takes out his defensive weapon and stops Krull’s sphere.

Krull:

Do try to have a little more control over your pets Kang.  They might get themselves hurt.

Krull walks out of the detention zone.

Kang (turning to the men):

Well it seems you men have done something right in your lives.  You have been spared.


Prisoner 1:

For a few hours.  We heard all about this invasion he is planning.  It’s suicide.

Kang:

Be that as it may it is all of our fate to be united in this cause.  When we get to the surface you could run and try to escape, I won’t stop you.  But the million soldiers on the surface might not be as sympathetic. 


Prisoner 2:

You see!  It is a suicide mission.  Some mercy this is.

Kang:

You all have skills in the art of combat.  That is why Krull spared you.  Stay close to me and follow your instincts.  Just know this, I will not permit killing of any kind during the battle.

Prisoner 3:

No killing?  THIS IS WAR!!  How are we to defend ourselves?

Kang:

By doing just that.  You will all be given defensive weapons that can only stun the opposition.  You were spared so you could save the lives of men on both sides of this war.  Come, we must review the plan and arm ourselves.


Interior:  Krull’s Battle Ship’s hanger.

Jacob Somelli:  Will’s brother.  20’s geeky yet confident in a weird way.  Average to good looking.  He is in the hanger working on adding equipment to two small flat round floating droids.  Thousands of orbital glider ships fill the massive hanger. 

Jacob gets zapped by the robot accidentially.


Jacob:

Geez!  Barry!  Control yourself damnit!  This isn’t the first time you’ve been upgraded.

The other robot looks at Jacob with a concerned expression.

Jacob:

Don’t give me that crap Andy.  You’re next and I might not be so gentle with you.

The robot shivers in fear.

Will:

You know, someday I’d like to have a conversation with you when you’re not playing with your robots.

Jacob:

You’re lucky I kept them out of my pants this time…

Will (a shocked look comes over his face)


Jacob:

Hey I was mildly kidding about that!  What’s up?  Did Admiral happy tell you the deal?

Will:

We are the first to go in tomorrow.

Jacob:

Tomorrow?!

Will:

Tell me about it.

Jacob:

What did he ask for? 

Will just stares at Jacob

Jacob:

Not all of them, tell me not every single…

Will continues to just stare and look apologetic

Jacob: 

GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH!!!  This guy is a total jackass!  How the hell am I supposed to install a billion stealth drives in all these ships? 

Will:

Honestly there is only like 300 thousand ships give or take.

Jacob gives will a “I’m going to kill you” stare.

Will:

I’ll help!  Just point me in the right direction!  Plus you have your awesome robots! 

Jake:

Mockery.  Always an effective motivational tool.

Will:

Hey I have to imprint myself on thousands of gliders and figure out a way to get them through their plasma field. 

Jake:

It sucks to be the boss I guess.

Will:

Get to work.

Jake (sighs):

I love my job, I love my job, I love my job…

The camera pans back as Jacob continues to whine and Andy and Barry whirl around the hanger getting parts and bringing them to Jacob.  Jacob installs equipment on gliders as quickly as he can as the camera pans further and further back to see Will touching and concentrating on glider after glider and the scene fades.

The next day the camera opens on a worn out Jacob and Will still working on the gliders with Jake’s two robots whirling around.


Jake:

I love my job…I love my job and I...love…my…job…FINISHED!

Will:

Me too.  I feel like my brain is going to ooze out of my skull.

Jacob is passed out on the ground.  Snoring.


Will:

Wow.  Impressive.

Krull appears in holographic form.

Krull:

General is your work complete?

Will:

Yes Admiral. 

Krull:

Excellent.  Ready your troops and wait for my command to launch.

Will:

They will be ready.  We will destroy their forward generator and signal you when it is safe to land and begin your assult.  Good luck sir.

Krull:

Luck will have nothing to do with it.

The holographic image fades and Will moves over to Jake.

Will:

Wake up princess.

Jake:

UGH!!!

Will:

We’re launching soon.  Get ready.

Jake:

(sarcastically) Awesome!


Will:

Look at it this way, you’ll get tons of sleep if you die which could totally happen in a few mintues.

Jake:

You’re an ass.

Will (Into a mic on his helmet)

Ready your ships gentleman!  Kang have your gliders right behind us when we approach the plasma field.  I don’t want it changing suddenly if we make it through.

Kang:

Yes Will.  I will see you on the ground.

Computer Voice:

All troops to your gliders.  All troops to your gliders.

The announcement echoes around the massive battle cruiser as thousands of men including men in a different hanger arming their stations to fire the giant plasma cannons on the sides of the ship.

Krull:

Are your men ready general?

Will:

We are awaiting your orders sir.

         Krull:          

Excellent.  Kang wait for my signal to launch your men.

Kang:

Yes Krull.

Krull:

Master gunner, begin the bombardment!


Master Gunner:

Yes sir!  Open fire!

The planet’s surface begins to light up as the entire fleet begins firing on the planet’s surface.  A giant green plasma field glows around the entire planet and blocks many of the shots, several get through however.  Massive plasma blast reign down and destroy military installations as well as civilian houses, buildings and businesses.  Mass chaos breaks out on the planet surface as people left and right are vaporized by the plasma blasts.  A giant green plasma field glows around the entire planet and blocks many of the shots, several get through however.

Krull:

Now is the time.  Launch your gliders. 

Will:

Power up men…

Thousands of ships in the hanger light up and their engines turn on.  Jake turns on his ship and it sputters.

Kang:

My men are ready when you are Will.

Jacob:

Let’s do this

Will:

Open the hanger doors.

The hanger doors open below all the ships revealing the planet’s red Mars like atmosphere with the greenish energy shield surrounding the automosphere.  The plasma blasts are exploding on the planet’s surface in green and red dots. 

Will:

Hang on men, this is going to be a tight squeeze!

The gliders drop down into the outer atmosphere and turn red with the friction of the planet.  Suddenly a grid of electric energy surrounds the gliders.

Jacob:

I hope you got fully imprinted on all of these or this is going to be a real short trip.

Will closes his eyes and the gliders all bend and twist simultaneously.  The field tightens and destroys several gliders.

Will:

Damn!

The field continues to tighten until the majority of the gliders barely make it through the field.  They all bend back into their original form.  Kang shrink’s his men’s gliders into almost pencil form as the men inside the ships lay down and then rocket through the narrow opening in the plasma filed.  After they are through the field, all the ships spring back into their normal shape.

Jacob (Shaking):

Activating stealth mode.

All the gliders disappear leaving only the people flying them visible. 

Will:

What the hell man!  It isn’t exactly effective if you can see us!

Jacob:

Hey I didn’t have time to put these things on everyone’s suit!  Hopefully they aren’t paying attention.

Hundreds of thousands of men sail through the sky as the soldiers on the ground prepare for the coming invasion.  The camera shows them preparing for their defense as hundreds of men are flying in above them.  Below a young girl of 17, Cle Dorme, is playing outside.  She looks up to see the odd sight of these floating men and smiles.

Cle:

Holy cow dad there’s guys floating everywhere!

Cle’s Father:

Cle!  Get in here now it’s dangerous out here!


Cle’s fathers yell alerts a nearby guard who looks around in front of him and doesn’t see anything.  He then looks up and see hundreds and thousands of floating men gliding down toward the ground all around him. 

Guard:

ARHGHTHAS!

The guard screams and raises his side mounted plasma cannon to fire at Jacob’s glider which is closest to him. 

Jacob (on seeing the guard raise his weapon and point it at him:

Oh crap, oh crap, oh holy crap…

Will hears this over the intercom, takes control of Jacob’s ship and twists it into a almost crumpled piece of paper that which is a very tight fit for Jacob.

Jacob:

Oh dear god.

The ship begins to plummet as a massive plasma blast sails over Jacob’s ship with Jacob in it struggling to get out.  Just before it hits to ground, Will turns the ship into a slide and Jacob is tossed into some nearby bushes.  He raises his head up and passes out.

Meanwhile the plasma blast that was fired at Jacob’s glider hits Cle’s family’s house right as her father shuts the front door, blowing the house and Cle’s family, up.

Cle:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Will:

All troops ready your weapons!

Massive piles of dirt kick up as all the gliders land and thousands of men pop out of their cockpits and draw their weapons.  Blast fire from all directs.  Will lands and spots Cle on the ground running for her still exploding house.  He jumps out of his ship and lands in front of her and grabs her.  He Rolls and brings down the wing of the ship to protect Cle and himself from oncoming plasma blasts.  He then whips his glider around taking out several enemy positions.  Cle opens her mouth wide and stares in shocked wonderment.



Will (into his helmate communicator):

Jacob!  What are you waiting for?!

Jacob shakes his head and picks it up and sees a massive battle raging all around the small patch of woodsy area he landed in. 

Jacob:

I was just having the best dream.  I was dead and it was awesome.

Will:

Where is their power source?

Jacob:

Hold on

Jacob turns on his 3-D image locator and scrolls around until he locates a bunker with a large blinking red light in the middle.

Jacob:

Got it!

Will:

Where?

Jacob:

About 20 clicks to the south.  It looks like their entire army is surrounding this thing!

Will (exasperated):

Of…Course…Delta force, Jacob is sending you the target.  Meet us there when you land.  (Looks at Cle)  It is too dangerous to stay here.  You’ll need to stay with us kid.

Cle looks straight forward in shock without saying a word.  Will gets down at her level and runs his hand through her hair.




Will:

I am sorry for what happened but you need to stay with me so I can keep you safe, can you do that?

Cle snaps out of her trance and looks at Will.

Cle:

I will stay with you.

Will (gives her a tender smile):

Kang do you copy?

Kang:

Yes I am here.  We made it through and are making our way to Gythium. 

Will:

Be careful, we’ll have that power down soon to get you some reinforcements.

Kang changes his gliders into hover craft, he and his men get on the craft and speed off towards Gythium.  Will takes control of several more gliders, ejects the pilots out of them and then smashes the gliders into the immediate defense surrounding the landing party.  The rest of the gliders land and the men gather together and march towards their target.



(Exterior) Generator Base

A massive army is defending the generator base.  The base structure looks like the pentagon with a massive generator in the middle.  There are giant plasma cannons all over the structure and 20 thousand troops surround the base ready for battle.

(Interior) Generator Base Control Room:

General Hudson:

It appears their landing has begun.  Are your men ready sergeant? 

Sergeant Zumonda:

Yes sir.  We have enough forces to repeal them.  How can you be sure they are coming?


General Hudson:

They are here already sergeant.  Or did you not hear the explosions over the ridge?

Sergeant Zumonda:

Wasn’t that a training exercise?  You don’t possibly think they could get an invasion force through our shield?

General Hudson:

Just keep your men ready for anything.  I have seen Krull, Somelli and thier army do much more improbable things.

Suddenly a glider comes crashing down into the base right behind Hudson and Zumonda.  It explodes behind them sending the base into utter chaos. 

General Hudson:

Stand your ground men!  Take your positions and take aim with the plasma batteries. 

Sergeant Zumonda:

Take aim?  At what?

General Hudson (turning Zumonda’s head towards the west):

THEM!

Over a ridge you can see 10 thousand men marching over the ridge.  Will has his hands up and he is controlling about a thousand gliders.  The men in the base turn their guns towards the oncoming army and begin to fire their giant plasma cannons at the approaching army.  Will uses gliders to block the blasts, destroying the gliders in the process.  There are so many blasts that several get through and take out a legion of men.  One blasts heads right for Cle, Will notices at the last minute and throws a glider shield in front of the blast.  The explosion knocks Cle back towards Will.

Will:

I said stay with me, that means stay next to me!

Cle shakes her head yes violently.

Will (into the mic on his helmet):

Now Jacob!

Jacob (into the mic on his helmet):

Going invisible now.  Requesting radio silence.  Just give me something to walk through.

Jacob turns a switch on his wrist and fades away.  He walks to the side of the battle where no enemies are attacking.  Will throws a few gliders at the fortress.  Two get blasted by the fortresses’ grid of defense turrets.  One glider gets through the defenses and smashes into a corner wall.  The interior of the base is exposed in front of Jacob.  Zumonda in the base goes to run over to the whole.

Hudson:

No!  I need all men to keep on firing at them or they will walk right over us.  That’s Somelli!

Zumonda runs over to a plasma cannon takes aim and fires at Will‘s legions.  As the men in the fortress continue to fire, Jacob sneaks through the hole in the side.  Once inside Jacob releases Barry and Andy and points towards the control room at the top of the fortress.  They salute him like Patrick Swazye in Road House and fly towards the control room.  Jacob looks confused after the odd salute, shakes his head and walks towards the heavily guarded power generator.

The two robots fly towards the control room.  They latch onto the wall outside the room, and peer in through the doorway.  They see hundreds of men busily walking around the giant room, using remote cameras to control the guns and fire at Will and his men.  The robots look at each other, shrug their shoulders and fly into the room.  Barry flies straight into the massive computer screen smashing it as the shocked officers look on.  Andy shakes his head, then starts duping computers out of people’s hands and ripping wires out of the walls with his tiny robot hands. 

Hudson:

Don’t just stand there, shoot them!

Hudson and the other officers grab their pistols and start shoot at Barry and Andy causing a total chaos in the control room.  Barry and Andy dodge the blasts which then hit computers and equipment, destroying it.  Barry and Andy snicker as Hudson gets frustrated. 

Hudson:

Stop shooting you morons and catch them!



The officers lunge at the tiny flying robots as they quickly fly out the way, take a strange bow and fly out of the room.

An invisible Jacob walks towards the guards standing outside the power generator room.  He walks over to the guard closest to the door and lightly rubs his fingers down his arm.  The guard looks at the guard standing next to him.

Guard 1:

What the hell are you doing?

Guard 2:

Huh?

Guard 1:

Huh?!  Huh?!  You just touched my arm.  Keep your hands to yourself freak!

Guard 2:

What are you talking about? 

Guard 1:

Look I won’t touch you if you don’t touch me.

Guard 2:

Whatever.

The guards look forward and Jacob grabs the butt of the first guards softly and breaths into his ear.  The guard freaks out and starts fighting with the one next to him.  Jacob chuckles and waits until the first guard knocks the second guard out.  Then he shoots his stunner into the neck of the first guard, takes his door key and walks into the hallway to the generator room. 

As several officers chase after Barry and Andy, Hudson takes control of his remaining defenses and starts firing on Will’s legions.  Plasma cannon after plasma cannon turn and begin to rain down blasts on top of Will and his army.  Will manipulates several gliders to shield his army from the blasts.  Soon he loses too many gliders and the massive plasma blasts get through the shield and kill hundreds of men.

Will (into his mic):

Jacob!  Jacob come in!

Jacob is still invisible and walking towards a giant guard standing next to the door to the power generator.  The guard is holding a giant electrified hammer.  He looks like a rhino and pig mixed together.  As Jacob sneaks behind the guard, Will’s voice can be heard over his mic.  The guard immediately grabs his electric hammer and swings it around his body as Jacob dives to the ground.  Jacob switches off his headset.  The guards takes several big sniffs from its massive nose.

Guard:

I know yer out there, I can smell ya.  I smelled ya right when you came in.  Come out and I’ll show mercy.

The guard turns on his electrified hammer and sniffs his way towards Jacob.  Jacob backs up as the guard charges and smashes his hammer into the floor barely missing Jacob.

Jacob gets up and runs over to the generator door and turns off his invisibility. 

Jacob:

Hey sexy.

The guard’s eyes turn red with rage and he charges.  Jacob dives out of the way at the last second and the guard breaks through the door and smashes into the generator on the other side of the room shutting it down.

The plasma cannons fire one last shot and then fall silent.  Will blocks the blasts with the last of his gliders. 

Will:

He’s done it!  CHARGE!  Cle you stay here and I’ll come back for you.  Ok?

Cle shakes her head in agreement and hides behind a wrecked glider.  Will pulls the glider over top of her, protecting her.

The men yell out and storm down the hill towards the massive base.  Hudson sees this and grabs his first lieutenant.

Hudson:

The power is down, retreat to the palace!

Hudson and the first lieutenant run to the north wall of the fortress.  There is a secret passage behind a wall.  Hudson taps the wall exposing the passage and jumps in.  He is sucked out of the fortress just as it is being sieged by Will’s forces.



Will (into his mic):

Krull the shield is down, begin your assult of Gythium.

Krull:

Excellent.

A fleet of massive ships descend from space and head towards the massive city of Gythium just beyond the military base.  It is a huge futuristic city with glimmering sky scrapers and plasma grid highways.  As soon as the shield generator goes down huge walls rise up around and begin to engulf the entire city.  Kang and his men speed towards the city on their hover craft.


Kang:

Hit your accelerators men! 

The group speeds in their hover craft towards the city, Kang takes the lead in front of the group.  The rest of the group backs off as Kang speeds just under the closing dome.  He puts his hand up and touches the bottom of the massive wall as it closes down.  He jumps from his hover craft just as the back gets caught in the gate and the craft explodes.  Kang lands and rolls in the middle of a massive futuristic suspension bridge that leads to the city.  The bridge has thousands of enemy soldiers on it and Kang stands up in the middle of the group.  They all raise their weapons at Kang and he looks at them with a smirk. 

Voice:

Hold!

A massive alien pig/rhino creature comes out from the middle of the forces surrounding Kang.

Kang:

Nice to see you Mandalla.



General Mandalla:

Kang.  I was hoping I would have the pleasure of killing you before I met my end today.  It appears the gods have heard my prayers.

Kang:

There is no need for this my brother.  I want to end this conflict now before more bloodshed stains the land of your great world.

General Mandalla:

Enough lies!  You are here to murder our great sultan!  I will show you how we deal with your kind!

Mandalla lunges at Kang with his massive electrified ax.  Kang rolls out of the way and turns on his electrified Manrikigusari chain.  Mandalla’s ax comes in at Kang who puts up his chain and snatches the ax from Mandalla’s hand.  Kang breaks the ax in two.

Kang:

Now can we talk like civilized men?

General Mandalla:

KILL HIM!

Kang:

Apparently not.

Kang looks over at the gate and lifts up the area that he touched and his 12 men come lumbering through the raised section of gate just as Kang is being rushed by the soldiers on the bridge.  Kang’s men rush towards him as he aptly fights off dozens of attackers all without harming them.  He snatches away their weapons and destroys them as his men rush to his aide.  Kang sees them coming.

Kang:

Remember men!  Control yourselves, we do not want blood on our hands!

Kang and his men continue to disarm the soldiers as several of the prisoners are shot while trying to do so. 



Outside the city Krull’s ship lands and he exists with a hundred thousand troops at his back.  He sends his diamond sphere through Kang’s hole and kills several men that were attacking Kang and his men.  Krull and his elite guards come through the hole in the gate and fight their way towards Kang.  Krull recalls his diamond sphere and it melds to his body and forms a shimmering protective diamond armor. 

Kang:

No bloodshed Krull! 

Krull:

You fool!  This is war!  I will kill a million of these slime if it means protecting my men.

Kang:

We cannot do this on our own, we must raise the gate so your men can enter.

Krull:

I will take care of that, cover me.

Kang and his men block several shots that are headed for Krull with their defensive weapons.  Krull walks over to the gate and puts his hands on it.  It vibrates all over and Krull lifts it off of the massive wall and tosses it at the enemy armies.  Thousands of troops come swarming into the city and the battle intensifies. 

Kang (To Krull):

We must get to the palace and capture the Sultan before he escapes.

Krull:

Agreed. 

Krull and Kang get on the remaining hover craft and speed towards the palace as the war rages on behind them.

Krull and Kang make their way to the heavily guarded palace flying at ferocious speeds on their hover craft.  They both have imprinted themselves on these crafts as they make amazing maneuvers to avoid troops and other obstacles on the extended plasma grid highway connecting the bridge to the palace. 




Interior:  Palace defense center.

The palace defense center is a buzz with guards and officers manning various computer defense systems.  They are tracking Krull and Kang on their hover bikes as well as the battle that continues to rage at the bridge. 

The Sultan of Osiris, ruler of this planet, sits in the back of the room with several henchmen standing at his side. 

Sultan:

I want all our defensive units to converage on this tower now.  They may have made it this far but they are fools if they think they can lay seige onto our sacrid palace.

Suddenly Hudson and his lieutenant appear out of a vortex in a side closet. 


Hudson:

Your highness, they have already breeched our walls.  Krull and his sphere are speeding to our door now!

Sultan:

DESTROY THEM!!!

Hudson (into mic):

Attention!  All troops to the palace.  The Sultan must be protected.

As the men in the control room stir and rally their defenses to stop Krull and Kang, Mara stands in the corner of the room silently observing everything that goes on.  No one sees him and as the camera whrils around the room, his expressionless face can be seen in the corner observing the action while breathing heavily.  As Hudson’s lieutenant walks by Mara grabs him by the shoulder and turns him so they are standing face to face.  Mara tilts his head as the shocked officer looks at the disturbing blank face looking back at him.  Mara  violently puts his hand on the officers face.  With the back of his head to the camera you can see his head shake and vibrate violently as his shreik is drowned out by the loud talking in the room.  Mara now has the officer’s face on his face and he moves the body silently to the room with the warp zone. 






Meanwhile Krull and Kang are facing a fericous defense outside of the palace.  Krull uses his sphere as armor and then to attack hundreds of men while speeding on his hover craft and then back to armor again right before a shot hits his head.  As plasma blasts hit Krull’s diamond armor, they get absorbed and Krull then fires the blasts out of his hands.  Krull and the sphere act as one.  Kang meanwhile uses the plasma blaster on his hover craft to disarm hundreds of soldiers with extremely accurate shooting.  Krulls sphere gets ahead of the group and slams into the massive doors at the front of the palace.  As Krull and Kang distract the guards in the front of the palace the diamond sphere begins drilling into the doors and breaking them apart.  As the doors are pried open Kang and Krull are almost destroyed by a reign of plasma blaster fire from the thousands of troops now converging on the palace in its defense.  Kang’s hover craft is hit by a plasma blast and he collides with Krull, knicking the side of his craft.  The collision knocks Krull unconcious and his sphere falls to the ground.  Both vehicles become tangled and Kang quickly steers both towards the door.  Right before both vehicles crash into the door, Kang pulls Krull out of his hover craft and then bends his own vehicle into a protective shield that covers both riders while Krull’s craft smashes into the hole in the palace door created by the sphere.  Krull and Kang roll through the door.  It is pitch black inside the palace.  Kang is stunned and Krull is still out cold.  As troops converge from the outside, Kang comes to his senses as plasma blasts explode around him and he uses the large metal ball that used to be his hover craft to push back the incoming troops and then to barely fill in the gap in the door before the troops make it inside the palace. 


Suddenly the sound of hundreds of plasma blasters charging up can be heard and a green glow from the weapons illuminates the room.  It is a massive grand hallway like the Taj Mahal.  Hundreds of palace guards point their weapons at Krull and Kang.  Kang puts his hands up.

Kang:

As you can see, my friend needs medical attention.  We would like to negoticate a peaceful transition of power with your leader the Sultan. 

A massive screen lights up on a wall at the back of the grand hall with the face of the Sultan looking down on Kang and the unconcious Krull. 

Sultan:

Ahh Kang.  I see you have made it this far.  However if you are going to win this war, you are going to have to compramise your supposed lofty moral integrity. 






Kang:

I don’t want victory Sultan, I just an end to this maddness.  Surely you can’t believe you can stop what is coming.  How many of your people need to suffer for your arrogence?

Sultan:

Arrogance?!  You insulant fool!  Kill them and hang their bodies from the peak of this palace to remind any others foolish enough to invade our sacrid soil.

In the background of the transmission, Mara is seen killing another guard and putting him in a closet and taking his face.

As the guards raise their guns, Krull and his sphere begin to wake up.  Kang prepares his chain, before the battle begins Krull sends turns his sphere into a giant rotating blade and sends it around the room killing all the troops.  Kang tries to disarm and defend some of the guards from Krull’s blade.  He manages to save only one.  As Krull looks at Kang in disbelief the guard draws his blaster and points it and Kang.  Krull slams the blade into the man’s chest, killing him before he can fire.

Kang:

NOOOO!  Damn you Krull!

Krull:

I just saved your life!  These things were going to kill us both.

Kang:

You will learn one day that all life is precious and our enemies can be our greatest teachers in the science of humanity.

Krull:
 
We can debate this later.  For now we must make it to the Sultan before he can call in more troops.

In the palace control room as the Sultan anxiously watches Kang and Krull make their way towards his location.  He nerverously looks around the room to see it almost empty except for the girls in his herum.  He looks at the girl next to him who’s face doesn’t move but eyes do.  Clearly it is Mara.

Sultan:

Where are my officers?  Where did everyone go?

The girl looks at him without saying a word and shrugs her shoulders.  The camera then goes to the outside of the portal that connects the generator fortress to the palace.  There are hundreds of faceless bodies packed outside of it.

Just then Krull and Kang burst through the door to the control room.

Kang:

It’s over Sultan.  End this needless bloodshed and tell your forces to withdraw.

Sultan (drawing his plasma blaster):

The only thing that is over are your pathetic lives!

The Sultan points the blaster at Krull who sends his sphere at him.  As the sphere moves towards the Sultan it turns into a jagged saw blade.  Kang stops the blade before it hits the Sultan and disarms him. 

Kang:

He must be taken alive Krull:

Sultan: 

Yes, I must be.  You on the other hand…

The Sultan reaches down to his side and pulls a blaster from a hidden holster.  He fires it at Krull.  The blast skims the side of his face, melting the skin away from part of it.  Krull is knocked back and stunned.  His sphere angerily turns into a knife and rams intself into the chest of the Sultan killing him.  It then rushes over to Kull.  It looks at him and melts and replaces the melted skin on Krull’s face as an astonished Kang looks on.


After the battle Krull stands with Hudson in the defeated enemies palace.  .

Krull:

So General.  You fought valiantly, I was impressed.  I want you to work for me.  Join me.

Hudson:

You want me to switch sides, just like that?



Krull:

There is no choice really, you either become my loyal servant or I have you tried for crimes against the public good and you will be executed.

Hudson:

This is a fine democracy you are building here Krull.

Krull:

Power through violence is all the people of this galaxy will ever know.  Go to the military outpost on the first floor of the palace.  They are expecting you.

Hudson:

At once…sir.

Hudson leaves and Kang and Will enter.

Kang:

At last Krull, a true Democracy will reign in the universe.


Krull:

Yes.  But Demoracy is never free.

Kang:

What do you mean?

Krull:

I mean the war is not over, for us at least.  Already our spies tell us of rebel uprisings all over the galaxy.  It appears our enemies and their sympathizers are changing their tactics.  They now are engaging in a series of attacks on some of the outlying planets.

Kang:

The outlying planets?  Those are scarcely populated and have little defenses.




Krull:

Yes but they are strategically positioned near 4 dying stars.  The dark energy that is being generating near these stars must be harvested to help fuel our new weapon.  They have the technology and raw material we need to win this war.

Kang:

New weapons?  Win what war?  We just won the war to end all wars.  A representative government has yet to even be thought about and you speak of new weapons and creating a new conflict?

Krull:

Let the people believe what they want Kang.  They maintain that the universe is becoming united and bound together in brotherly community as new technology overcomes distance and sets thoughts flying through space.  They are fools.  This idea of freedom is nothing more than a grand illusion, because by interpreting the satisfaction and multiplication of desires as freedom they repress their own nature.  They live only for mutual envy, luxury and austentation.  In fact they create laws to repress each other, just to use those who are convicted as slaves.  The poor solve their envy and unsatisfied need in drunkenness and drugs but soon they will drink blood instead of wine, they are being led onto it.  Are these men free?  I give them true freedom by taking away the worries of ruling.  I am their savior.  What you call oppression they call freedom.

Kang:

I agree, this is the true nature of the majority of creatures in the galaxy.  That doesn’t mean we should exploit their ignorance.  The salvation of the people comes from the people themselves, not from an oppressive tyrant.  I don’t want to do this friend, but you give me no choice but to stand against you.

Krull:

So be it.



Kang (to Will)

Clearly Krull believes one form of slavery cannot end without being replaced by another. 





Kang (to Krull)

You live on your vindictive pride like a starving man in the desert.  Sucking blood out of his own body.  You will never be satisfied and refuse forgiveness.  Your course is one of your own making.  I will hope for your awakening to this reality.
Kull:

I cannot let you leave you realize Kang.  Those who oppose my freedom spreading across the galaxy cannot be allowed to be drawn into a prolonged conflict. 

Kang:

I will never attack you or your forces.  I detest violence, this war has shown me it’s true face and I am now fully aware of its reality and limitations.  True freedom can only be won through non-violent resistance to evil by force.  Only then will all beings see who are the repressors and who are the repressed.

Krull:

Surrender your weapons you may return to Satyagraha.

Kang:

It will be done Krull.  I hope your mind finds peace.


As Kang walks away, Will stops him.

Will:

Kang you can’t truly believe that this war can be won through non-violence and love alone can you?  You are too wise to be so naive.

Kang:

Krull is on the road to ruin, Will.  He has created a war for the sole purpose of fueling more war.  He will never live in a galaxy without war, oppression is his addiction.

Will:

He keeps us safe from the evil ones like the Zurhellenia.  They wanted this war not us.  We are fighting for peace!




Kang:

Can you hear yourself?  There can never be peace as long as there is fighting.  It is like adopting starvation as the solution to hunger.  I wish you good fortune friend and hope that you come to this realization as I have.  Krull is you and you are he.  Never for one minute take him to be a real, independent unstoppable force.  He is a lie, an illness of humanity.  The only thing that separates you and he is your willingness to embrace the reality of the light and he denies it.  He is a phantom who is strong outside but a small child in his own mind.  The key to his undoing is knowing and exploiting his childlike mind.  His attachment to power will be his downfall.

Jacob walks in with Cle just as Kane says this.  Kane looks at them, nods and walks out the door.

Jacob:

Oh sorry, were you guys in the middle of something…

Will:

Kang was just saying goodbye in his own way.  Well guess what?  They have no one left on this planet to rule it so Krull has decided to let you stay and help set up the government here. 

Jacob:

Um excuse me?

Will:

Yeah it’s kind of insane but he is serious about it.  Don’t worry, you won’t have to make any decisions, just nod and look pretty.  So congrats, Prince Jacob.

Jacob:

I heard they needed a prince of awesomeness on this planet.  I’m glad I could fill that void.  Where are you going?

Will:

To drop Cle off with our aunts and then, to war with Krull.  There is violent unrest in the new Galactic Union and we have to stop it before it spreads. 




Jacob:

You are sending her to our aunts?  Ugh!  I thought you wanted to help her?!  So you get to go have fun while I sit and help rule a planet that has been reduced to smoldering rubble?  Awesome.


Will:

Cle you can do whatever you want.  I have aunts in another sector that you can stay with if you would like.  They are wealthy and can take good care of you.  What do you want to do.

Cle:

I don’t know.  I don’t think I can stay here though, I just keep thinking of my father’s face as that plasma blast came down…I need to get out of here I think.

Will:

You will do well with my aunts.  They will take good care of you, I promise.

Jacob:

Just don’t make eye contact with them and you will be great.  They really treated us so well, I’m sure they will do the same for you.

Will:
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Stop whining and know your role.  Don’t do anything that’s going to embarrass me ok there princy.  I think I’m finally on Krull’s good side.

Jacob:

A guy named Krull has a good side?  Don’t worry, I’m not one to draw attention to myself.


Cut to Jacob doing a handstand on top of a bar having green liquid poured into his mouth while hundreds of alien creatures surround him and cheer him on.  They count the seconds Jacob is having the liquid poured into his mouth.

Crowd:

29, 30, 31, 32

Jacob pulls his head away and the crowd franticly cheers.

Alien Bartender:

32 seconds!  A new record!!

Jacob staggers to his feet.

Jacob:

That’s right!  Give me all your damn money you freaks!  Prince Jacob will not be matched!  Everyone else can officially suck it!  That’s a direct order from the office of the magistrate.  SUCK…IT!

The crowd begins to boo as Jacob staggers of out the bar with his friends.  He harasses some women and when they reject him, he swears at them and insults them.  A policeman standing outside sees Jacob’s drunken tirade and approaches him.

Officer:

What do you think you’re doing?

Jacob:

I am making suggestive remarks to a few lady friends.  And you?

Officer:

I don’t care who you are you can’t harass the people of this planet.

Jacob nods sarcastically as the his droids come out of his pocket and slyly take the officers cuffs off of his belt and quietly handcuff the officer to a giant bear like alien creature as Jacob looks on in delight.

Jacob:

And what is a big man like you going to do about it?

Officer (getting ready to pull out his gun):

Why you..arghhhh!

The officer gets violently jerked back as the alien bear realizes his hand is bound to the officer’s.  They violently shake around as Jacob claps and howls.


Jacob:

I think the big man’s got himself a hot date for the evening.  Congrats big guy!

The bear shakes so violently it breaks the officer’s cuffs, sending him flying across the room.

Demitri (One of Jacob’s friends):

Jesus what is your deal?  You could have killed that guy!

Jacob:

So!  What are they going to do to me?  I’m the damn prince of a smoldering crater!  I make the laws.

Demetri:

Yes you are very important.  So important that you get slobbering drunk and then don’t show up to any cabinet meetings for weeks and no one knows or cares.  What exactly is your problem?

Jacob:

You mean right now or in general.

Demetri:

Oh in general.  Please enlighten me.


Jacob:

I have a great deal of amore propre as they say…

Demetri:

Ummmm whaaaa?








Jacob:

I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf.  But I sometimes have had moments if I had happened to be slapped in the face I should, perhaps, have been positively glad of it.  I say, in earnest, that I should probably have been able to discover even in that a peculiar sort of enjoyment…the enjoyment, of course, of despair; but in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position…

Demetri:

Uhhhhh…

Jacob:

You see life is empty.  So I chose to fill it with an endless cycle of personal amusement, generally at the expense of others.  Does it make me evil if I admit this? 

Demetri:

You’re drunk!

Jacob:

So!  What does being drunk have to do with it?  I am an insect, just following one vice to the next, never content or satisfied.  The only gratification I get is when someone actually punches me.  But no one ever does!  People just smile wryly as I humiliate them.  I want to be ground into a pulp you see.  Only then will I finally get what all insects deserve. 

Demetri:

I think I know what you are talking about…

Jacob:

You do?!

Demetri:

YES!  MORE BOOZE!!!

The friends all explode into cheers.

Jacob:

NOOO!!!!

He goes over to the bear like creature.

Jacob:

THIS is what I need.

Jacob grabs the bear like alien and begins dancing suggestively with it as his friends cheer and turn up the music to a futuristic samba. 

Will arrives at his aunts house with Cle.  It is an older futuristic home, a kind of grand futuristic Victorian house.  Will’s aunts are Zara (mid 60’s superficially nice but very stern tall and thin) and Jelda (mid 50’s again superficially nice but exceedingly bossy and self conscious she is a very short and plump). 


Zara (in a heavy Russian accent):

My darling Vill!  Let me see you dear boy! 

She turns Will around in a circle.

Zara:

Oh so grown up!  And a hero too match!  Jelda and I heard all about how heroic you and your brother were!  We are so proud of you.

Jelda:

Yes proud!  But we were so worried about you!  Why did you have to be a big brave murdering oaf! 

Zara:

JELDA!  Don’t say such things to him the minute he walks back into our home!  He’ll never want to come back!  Besides the men he murdered deserved it!  Those filthy Xertax scum! 

Will:

Ladies please.  This will always be my home.  I would like you to meet a good friend of mine.  Zara, Jelda, this is my friend Cle.

Cle:

Hello.  It’s nice to meet you.

Zara:

Oh aren’t you a pretty girl.

Jelda:

Yes…very pretty.

Will:

Aunt Zara.  I am in great need.

Zara:

Are you now?


Will:

I have pledged to protect this child and duty calls me to another conflict in the Andromeda Quadrant.  Would you keep her safe until I return?

Jelda:

But we know nothing of this girl.  What will people say?!  They will think we have gone mad!

Will:

Just treat her as your own, she has been through a terrible ordeal and needs a compassionate hand. 

Zara:

If you ask it of us, it shall be done.  It is the least we can do for you while you fight to keep us safe from the evil ones.  Right Jelda.

Jelda:

Yes…Right…

Will:

I knew I could rely on your kindness.  Cle.

Cle:

Yes.

Will:

Take care.  These women raised me, you are in good hands.

Cle:

Thank you sir.

Will:

Call me Will.

Cle:

Ok.  Will.

Will:

Goodbye.

Cle:

Will!

Will:

Yes?

Cle:

Please come back soon.

Will:

I will be back as soon as I am able.

Will walks away leaving Cle with his stern and disappointed looking Aunts.






Three Years Later

Jacob is sitting at a royal banquet in a large castle with alien society types sitting around drinking and feasting on odd cuisine.  A rock band plays odd alien music as the camera pans around the party until it fixes on Jacob who looks bored to death as the ruckus party continues around him.  He stands up in disgust and walks out of the party.

Demetri:

Prince Jacob!

Jacob continues to walk out of the party and towards the door.  Demetri runs after Jacob and grabs him by the arm.


Demetri:

Prince Jacob!!!  Where are you going?

Jacob:

Demetri I’m bored.  Most of these women are here because they think I will pay them in some way.  Some want their freedom in an upcoming case but mostly they all just want money, and for what?  To spend on meaningless nonsense that they grow bored of almost instantly.  Pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe this party.

Demetri:

Oh come now prince.  Look at all the lovely young things that are littered all over this room.  They are here just to see you.  Yes maybe they might want something but how can you resist?

Jacob scans the room and sees several extremely attractive human and alien women.

Jacob:

Meh

Jacob turns to walk out, just then a gorgeous young woman walks through the door and they collide. 

Demetri:

Watch where you are going wench!

Ellana:

Who are you calling wench half wit!

Demetri:

Half wit?  Why…

Demetri raises his hand to slap Ellana but Jacob grabs it as he stares at her, enraptured in her beauty.

Jacob (to Demetri):

Clam yourself, don’t you know who this is?  (to Ellana) Ms. Defru I presume.

Ellana:

Yes.  Who are you?

Jacob:

Prince Jacob Somelli at your service. 

Ellana:

Nice to meet you.  Have you seen my sister?


Jacob:

Your sister?

Ellana:

Yes.  She is only 17 and our father is looking for her.

Jacob:

Um there are no 17 year olds here dear.  What kind of party do you think this is?

Ellana:

An unseemly one no doubt.  Kara!

The beautiful young girl who was singing with the band on the man dining table turns and looks towards Ellana.


Kara:

Ellana!!

The young girl runs towards her sister.

Kara:

These guys are sooooo nice you wouldn’t even believe it!  (to Jacob) I…love…you

Kara moves in to kiss Jacob.

Jacob:

Hey that’s ok.  God she loves playing hard to get.  She learned that move from you I’m sure.

Ellana:

No and I would appreciate it if you would send her right home if you ever see her here again.

Jacob:

Why?  Are we such bad company?

Ellana:

Yes.  Yes you are.  Come Kara.  Papa will have your hid if he finds out what you have been doing.

The two women leave as Jacob stares at Ellana.  She looks at him, rolls her eyes and leaves.

Jacob:

Goodbye fair ladies!

Demetri looks at Jacob with shocked wonder and amusement on his face.

Demetri:

Wow.  How gay are you?

Jacob:

It’s called working it with the ladies pal.  Maybe you should try it sometime and you wouldn’t be “doing it” with her.

Jacob points to an odd looking ape like woman.

Jacob:

How does that work exactly anyway?

Demetri:

She is exceedingly feisty in bed there pal so keep judging.

Jacob:

Yeah I’m sure the sex is totally worth swallowing a gallon of fur.

Demetri:

At least I’m not into the ice princess there.  Good luck with that.

Jacob:

Thanks for the warm wishes.  Seducing her will give me a nice distraction.  She will give herself to me and then instantly regret it.  It’s what I like to call a Jacob special.

Demetri:

Not if her father, the general has anything to say about it.


Jacob:

We’ll see.

Exterior (Krull’s battle cruiser):  The cruiser hovers above a blue jungle planet.

Interior:  Command bridge of the Battle Cruiser:  Will and Krull look out over the planet from the bridge and have a holographic map in front of them as they discuss strategy for a battle on the planet’s surface.  Will has aged some and has started growing a beard.  Krull’s face shimmers where the diamond sphere has now permanently affixed itself to him.  The rest of the sphere is hovering next to Krull.


Krull:

Their forces are heavily fortified in the jungle.  They are scattered and not easy to track.

Will:

It is their home world.  They know that jungle like the back of their hand.

Krull:

No matter.  We have cut off their supply lines, they are hemmed in without hope of escape.

Will:

What of the negations with their leaders? 

Krull:

We have no time.  More sectors are rising as we speak.  We need the dark energy being generated now by the exploding star in this quadrant.

Will:

What do you plan on doing with this precious dark energy of yours?  No one on the ground even knows what we are fighting for.

Krull:

The scientists of Juna hold the key to harnessing the energy.  It can be used to create and destroy and our people’s safety depends on it.  Just win me this war.  I need bases on this planet now!

Will:

I will win you your position and your war.  Just don’t fool yourself into believing the people on the surface will ever bow to our rule.

Krull:

That is where you’re mistaken.  They want our rule.

Will:

You’re insane.  These wars have driven you insane.

Krull:

Hardly.  I have just come to a realization about the nature of things.

Will:

What are you talking about?


Krull:

I have drawn back the curtain on the rottenness of man.  I speak of the rottenness of what you call virtue and godliness.  I call an animal corrupt when it loses its instincts.  When it prefers what is injurious to it. 

Will:

What are you saying?

Krull:

Pity stands in opposition to all power.  It is a depressant.  A man loses power when he pities.  Pity thwarts the law of evolution.  Who am I to stand in the way of natural selection?  I am helping these people weed out their weak, leaving only their strongest to join me in my new order.

Will:

So that is what you have turned into?  A sick pseudo scientist running your experiments on the living creatures of this galaxy?  I won’t play along.  I want freedom for the people in the universe, not slavery under a different name.  Kang was right you have simply replaced one form of slavery with another.

Krull:

Spare me your lament for the freedom of the people.  My power is their freedom.  What is good?  Whatever augments power.  What is evil?  Whatever springs from weakness.  What is happiness?  The feeling that resistance to that power is overcome.  No contentment but more power.  Not peace at any price but war.  Not virtue but effenicy.  The weak shall perish.  That is the first principle of my new race of Hyperburians.  What is more harmful than any vice?  Sympathy for the weak.

Will:

You cannot seriously believe you can subjugate the entire galaxy? 

Krull:

They subjugate themselves and gladly.  They will tremble before my wrath, their minds will grow fearful of the might of my legions.  They shall have no secrets from me.  I will allow them to sin and have what they consider to be free will, but their will will be what I command it to be, and they will thank me for it.  I will give them the ultimate gift, saving them from the burden and anxiety of free will.  The illusion of freedom I create for them will be their salvation.  No thought, just freedom to follow their natural impulses.

Will:

You consider man to be nothing more than an animal, simply chasing his desires?

Krull:

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind around by the nose.  The universe has declared a reign of freedom, but what do I see in this freedom of theirs?  Nothing but slavery and self destruction.  They have desires so why not satisfy them?  That is their idea of freedom.  What follows this right of multiplication of desires?  In the rich isolation and spiritual suicide.  In the poor envy and murder, for they have been given rights but not the means to satisfy their wants.  They don’t care about the truth.  My force gives them their freedom.  So what if I wasn’t elected to this post.  The results are the same.  All men are slaves, regardless of weather their masters are elected or seize what is rightfully theirs.

Will:

You justify murder and oppression by calling it freedom.  I will not be a pawn in your game any longer Krull.  Farewell.

Will turns to leave, Kull’s sphere begins to chase but Krull raises his hand, telling the sphere to relent.  Will gets in a shuttle and returns to his Aunts home.  He arrives to an empty house, agitated with what happened with Krull and exhausted from his long trip. 

Will:

Zara.  I’m back.  Is anyone here?

He hears footsteps behind him and he spins around in time to see Cle, now a woman of 20. Come running up to him and hug him.

Cle:

Will!


Will:

Wow hey kid.  You’ve grown.

Cle:

And you’ve grown a beard.

Will:

Yeah.  I was going for the creepy uncle look, did I pull it off?

Cle:

Totally.

Zara:

Cle!  Go and take Will’s bags up to his room.  I’m glad to see you didn’t get yourself blown up.

Will:

Me too.  Do you mind if I stay for a while?

Zara:

Stay as long as you need.  Your bedroom is how you left it.  The church is having a party tonight.  You should go and relax with your old friends.

Will:

We’ll see.  I’m tired, it has been a long trip.

Will walks to the top of the stairs to see Cle waiting for him.

Cle:

You should go tonight.  Despite the fact the church is putting on this party it might actually be interesting.

Will:

Stop begging ok, I’ll go if I feel like it.


Cle:

You know, that beard actually kind of makes you look old.  You might want to take a nap.  I hear that’s what old folks do.

Cle runs down the stairs and into the kitchen, helping her aunt prepare dinner.  Will turns and puts his things in his room and exhales deeply.

Cut to the church party.  Will is the object of every woman’s affection.  The dance is going on as Will talks with many people.  Cle is dancing to the futuristic and Will cannot keep his eyes off of her.  She notices his stare and flashes a wry smile.  After she is done dancing Cle goes over to an odd looking refreshment table to get a drink.  Will leaves the people who he is talking to and makes his way over to Cle.

Will:

Have you been enjoying living with my aunts?

Cle:

Oh you mean bitter and spiteful, the hate sisters.  They’re great thanks for leaving me with them.

Will:

Yeah well I suppose they are a tough pair.  They love me though!

Cle:

Yeah great for you.  Meanwhile I am basically their maid.

Will:

Seriously?  Are you being serious right now because I can’t really tell.

Cle:

You lived with them.

Will:

Yeah but they kind of worshiped me so I didn’t get clear perspective into how they really are. 


Cle:

Well I was kind of half kidding.  They do kind of suck, but they aren’t like…evil.  At least I don’t think.  They’re old school.  If that makes sense.

Will:

It does in a weird way. 


Cle:

How long are you going to be home for?



Will:

I don’t know, I need to figure some things out…if that’s ok with you?

Cle:

Yeah totally.  Just keep your hands to yourself dirty old man. 

Will:

Yeah I wasn’t even thinking that. 

Cle:

Yeah you were, and it’s gross.

Cle gives a wry smile and walks out of the party.

Will:

Ok then…

Exterior:  Zur Hölle Courthouse.

Jacob sits at the head of a court proceeding looking bored to death.  Part of his Princely duties is to settle financial disputes.  He hates the job and it shows.  Many alien creatures line the courthouse waiting for their turn.  The cases are called deli style with numbers popping up and someone raising their hand and coming to the front to hear the accusations against them.  Jacob has final say and can either let someone off, force them to pay a fine or send them to jail.

Barrister:

Next on the docket number 44…Society against Arrington Defru.

Jacob sits up in his seat and looks intently at the man coming through to the front. 

Jacob:

Are you General Defru? 

General Defru:

I am sir.

Jacob:

Is your daughter Ellana?

General Defru:

Why yes but…what does she have to do with this?

Jacob:

Nothing at all, proceed barrister.

Barrister:

General Defru, you have been charged with amassing a debt well over 10 million credits better on cyberball without the ability to pay off your debt.  What do you plead?

General Defru:

I cannot hide any longer, I am guilty.

Jacob:

Sadly general you have only two options.  According to our law you must either pay the amount in full within the next month or…

Jacob looks at his handheld sentencing guide book and it says 10 years community service until bill is paid.


Jacob:

10 years mandatory hard labor on Angola.

General Defru:

This is outrageous.  I cannot raise that kind of money in a month!  I demand to speak with the governor.

Jacob:

Speak with whomever you like.  This is not your first offense, General.  You need to be taught a lesson.  No one is above the law general and all the people in this court room need to see that no matter what your position is, breaking the law is breaking the law.  In a civil society such as ours, such offenses demand swift, fair action to ensure the integrity of the law is upheld.  Next case!

The court explodes into yells and cheers as the general is taken away.  Jacob smiles.

Jacob:

Next case!

Interior:  Jacob’s chambers.  He is smoking a cigar with his feet up on his desk.  Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Jacob:

Go away.  I told you I am not to be disturbed.

The door swings open and Ellana walks in and shuts the door behind her.

Jacob:

Yes?

Ellana:

I have come here to beg mercy for my father.  He is weak and needs help.  If you reduce his sentence, I swear to you that he will get the help he needs.  You and I both know he would never survive hard labor on a prison planet!




Jacob:

That may be, but the law is the law.  I cannot change that.  You would have to submit a formal appeal to the courts and…

Ellana:

Enough!  I know you have the power to bend the law any way you want.  So what is it that you want from us then?

Jacob:

Well…you could always try to persuade me…

Ellana:

What do you mean?

Jacob gets up and moves in towards Ellana.  He puts his hands on her arms.

Ellana:

What are you doing?

Jacob:

I’m sure you can be really persuasive if you put your mind to it…

Jacob pushes the strap down from Ellana’s dress.

Ellana:

Get your hands off me you filthy pig!  This is what this is all about?  You want to have sex with me for my fathers freedom?  Are you that much of a slime?

Jacob:

I wouldn’t say slime, I would say opportunist.  He broke a law.  If you want to help him out you can.  You know where to find me.  I am being honest here.  Isn’t that the least bit refreshing?

Ellana slaps Jacob hard across his face.

Ellana:

Pig!


Ellana storms out of Jacob’s office and Jacob rubs his face where he was slapped and smiles.

Another knock comes at the door shortly after Ellana leaves. 

Jacob:

Change your mind so soon, come in come in!

The door swings open and an elderly man with a futuristic eye patch comes into the room.  He has a scowel on his face and he stares at Jacob without saying a word.

Jacob:

Father.

Boris Sommelli:

You thought I died already didn’t you?

Jacob:

I didn’t know and I really didn’t care.

Boris:

Come come now.  Is that any way to speak to your dear old dad?

Jacob:

What is it that you want?  I’m a busy man.

Boris (mockingly):

Oh yes!  I hear you’re a big important prince now.  Yet some of us remember who you really are. 

Jacob:

Shut your mouth before I have you thrown out.  You slime.




Boris:

You’re mother is dead.

Jacob (shocked):

Wha…What happened?  How?

Eh, not such a big man now huh.  When was the last time you spoke with her?  7 years?  She had terraflu.  She didn’t suffer much. 


Jacob:

Why didn’t you tell me?

Boris:

Why should I bother such a big shot with such trivial details?  If you cared, you would have called and then you would have known.

Jacob:

You son of a bitch!

Boris:

The real reason I’m here boy is to tell you your mother left you a rather large inheritance.  20 million credits.  I am here to deliver it to you.

Jacob:

Fine give me the money and leave.

Boris:

Come now, do you think I would carry such a sum with me?  No, I left it at my room in their secure safe.  Come, we will go fetch it now.

Jacob:

Get out of here!  Contact my office in the morning and I will send a man.  I don’t want you in my sight again.



Boris:

As you wish…Prince.

Jacob’s father leaves the room and Jacob sits at his desk and begins to sob.  He looks at a framed picture of his mother and cries even more.  Just then another knock comes on the door.

Jacob:

WHAT?!

The door swings open and it is Ellana.  She doesn’t say a word.  She walks into the room and slowly pulls down the top straps of her dress.

Ellana:

I want the whole 20 thousand, then you may have what you want.

Jacob (looking stunned and then amused):

Haha!  You think you are worth a 20,000 credits?  Are you insane?  Bring your sister next time and I’ll consider it for the both of you.

Ellana slaps Jacob, knees him in the groin, and walks out of the room.

Ellana:

You are a filthy disgusting worm of a man.  I wish this would insult you but somehow, I don’t think it does.

Jacob:

Get out of here before I have you arrested and thrown in the hole with your degenerate father.

Ellana runs out of the room in tears.

Exterior:  General Defru’s Home

Ellana runs into her house, looks in a mirror in a hallway and wipes the tears from her face after her confrontation with Jacob.



Ellana (to herself):

What are you doing?

General Defru (from upstairs):

Ellana?  Is that you girl?

Ellana (Turns and looks upstairs):

Yes Papa!  Go to bed, you’re still sick.

General Defru (coughing):

Don’t tell me what to do girl.  I’m not a child! 

Ellana:

I know father.



General Defru:

When you come upstairs, don’t turn out my nightlight again!  You know how much I detest the dark.

Ellana:

Yes.  Now go to bed…

The general walks off to bed.  Ellana turns around and looks back at the mirror, she she’s the front door wide open and Jacob standing in the doorway.  She quickly spins around.  The two stare silently at each other for a moment.  Ellana moves towards him and lifts her hand to slap him.  Jacob grabs her hand and puts 20,000 credits in it.  Jacob then gets down and grovels at a stunned Ellana’s feet.

Jacob:

Forgive me.  You are right about me.  I am scum, but not you.  You would do anything for the ones you love.

Ellana kicks Jacob off of her feet.



Ellana (With a silent yell):

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Jacob staggers to his feet.  Gives her a wry grin and elegant bow.

Jacob:

As you wish my lady.  Consider your father’s debt to society paid.  Good evening.

Jacob backs away and out the door.  Ellana is in shock with her mouth wide open and tears in her eyes.  She then looks at the money she is holding, puts it in her pocket, and runs upstairs.

Exterior:  Will’s aunt’s house at night.

Will is standing in the kitchen talking to his Aunts as Cle cleans up the dishes from dinner.

Will (Speaking with his Aunts):

I grew weary of the hyproacy of war.  In Krull’s mind, war is endless.  I couldn’t continue to fight a war without end.


Zara:

So you just left then?  What kind of military do we have protecting us that just allows people to come and go as they please?!

Jara:

And what will we tell our friends?  They will have lots of questions about why you are home during a time of war.

Will:

Actually my number one concern while I was getting shot at in a dense jungle was “What will my Aunt’s friends say if I go home before I get killed?”.  I still haven’t come up with the answer so you two will just have to get creative.

Jara:

You really thought about our friends when you were fighting?


Zara:

No you fool he was teasing us.  No need to be rude Will.  Come Jara, let’s go to bed.  Will clearly needs to get some sleep.

Jara:

Goodnight dear.

Will (shaking his head):

Goodnight ladies.

The two women go up to their room.  Cle is cleaning the kitchen still and Will brings dishes over to her to help.

Cle:

Wow.  Now I totally get where the bitter beard comes from.

Will:

What?


Cle:

Hey if those two women ever raised me and I was a guy, I would totally grow an anger beard to celebrate my midlife crises too.

Will:

An anger beard, huh.  Where do you come up with this?  And who said I was having a mid life crises? 

Cle:

Well you quit your job and you moved back home.  What’s next?  Are you going to grow a pony tail and start a band?

Will:

For now I was thinking of just relaxing and seeing what comes up.  Something always comes up if you are open to it.


Cle:

Sounds like a solid plan.

Will:

What are you going to do?  Are you going to the university here?  I can’t imagine you would want to live here much longer.

Cle:

I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.  Maybe teach.  My mom was a teacher.

Will:

What about your dad?

Cle:

He was a painter and artist.  He loved to create.  He hated what was going on in the world.  So he used his art to express himself.  Most of his stuff never saw the light of day.  But enough did.  We were all so proud of him.  What about your parents?


Will:

I haven’t seen them in twenty years.  My mother is great, my father is insane. 


Cle:

Insane?  How?  Like nothing in the house is ever clean enough insane or I’m always right insane.

Will:

More like I am doing everything in my power to make the lives of everyone around me miserable insane.  I ran away with my brother Jake when I was 14, moved here and never looked back.

Cle:

It sucks having to grow up so fast huh?

Will:

Yes…yes it does.  So…how is the boyfriend situation?

Cle:

Excuse me?

Will:

Are you dating someone?

Cle:

The guys around here leave a little to be desired.  By that I mean it seems all of them were born without a brain stem

They look into each other’s eyes for a few moments. 

Cle (laughing):

Goodnight!

Cle runs past Will and goes upstairs.

Will (to himself):

Goodnight.

Exterior:  Krull’s Battle Cruiser

Interior:  Krull’s personal quarters

A hologram glows inside the dark chamber.  It is a massive battle continuing on the Jungle planet of Juna and Krull is standing in the middle of the room looking into the hologram.

General Hudson (in holographic form):

We are getting wiped out here Commander.  Our right flank has been smashed and we are bunkered down here in our forward base.  We need all the reinforcements you can spare.




Krull:

Unacceptable General.  The troops I have provided should have been more than enough.  You need to act with aggression and bring the battle to their doorstep.

General Hudson:

Sir.  They know this terrain and are hiding all over this sector.  Unless you know how to see through the ground, there is no way we can flush them all out.

Krull (seething with anger):

Hold your position.  I will be in contact shortly.

General Hudson:

But sir…

Krull ends the transmission and opens up a new transmission. 

Krull:

Mara

The hologram changes to Mara sitting.  He stands up.  He turns towards the camera and stares with an icy gaze.

Krull:

Find Will Somelli and bring him to my ship.

Mara bows and slinks off.


Exterior (Will’s Aunts house):

Will is outside imprinting on objects in his aunts’ yard, Cle is watching from the doorway of the front door.  Will manipulates the random objects to form a shield and several other defensive objects as Cle approaches him from behind.  Will moves his shield of melded objects right in front of Cle, blocking her path to him.

Cle:

HEY!


Will:

You shouldn’t sneak up on me while I’m imprinting on things.  It takes a while for me to get fully in control, you could get hurt.

Cle:

Well teach me how to defend myself.

Will:

Fine, come here.

Will grabs Cle’s hand and from behind guides her movements.  He has her place her hand on a tray on his aunt’s outdoor picnic table.

Will:

The first thing you have to understand is that there is no you and there is no me.  We are just a compilation of different materials which are made from the same things everything else is made from.  Does that make sense?

Cle (sarcastically):

Totally

Will:

If you are to learn, it is very important that you come to this understanding.  Seeing through the lie of our concept of reality is the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe.  We are one with everything, that is why I can control things I touch.  When I feel them, they become a part of me.  Observe.

Will picks up a rock and closes his eyes.  The rock begins to vibrate violently and then relax.  Will then breaks the rock apart and turns it into a crude sculpture as Cle looks on in amazement.

Will:

I can do this because I see the reality of the universe.  Now feel this tray with your fingertips, close your eyes and concentrate on the texture.

Cle:

What are you talking about?

Will:

Just listen to me and concentrate.

Cle:

Ok

Cle begins to focus and her hand begins to grip the object.  Will guides her hand all over the object and it begins to vibrate lightly.

Will:

Can you feel that?

Cle:

Yes.  How can you do that?



Will:

You are doing it, now twist it.

Cle:

How?

Will:

Just visualize the tray twisting and make it happen.

Cle lifts her hands off the tray and begins to twist her fingers and the tray begins to twist along with her fingers.

Cle:

Holy crap!

Will:

You see, just focus on the objects you touch and practice what you just did.  That way you can use any object you come into contact with to help you.

Cle looks at her hands with a wry smile.

Interior Upstairs in Will’s Aunts House:

Will sits in his room and tries to meditate while Cle comes home from the church party looking lovely.  She looks in Will’s room and sees him meditating.

Cle:

I’m home.

Will (With his eyes closed):

Thanks for letting me know.

Awkward silence…

Cle:

Well goodnight!


Cle begins to get ready for bed.  Will has a hard time concentrating as Cle hums and tune and applies lotion to her skin in her underwear.  He tries to concentrate on one object in the room and move it but keeps getting distracted by Cle’s beauty.  Cle gets up and goes to her room and keeps the door open a crack.  Will starts to concentrate on a chair.  The chair starts to vibrate and split.  He hears Cle’s hum and the chair binds back together with a quick jolt and falls over making the sound of a ruler against a desk. 

Will gets up, turns out his light and moves towards the hall silently.  The light is out in the hallway and Cle’s light is the only one on in the house.  He peers into her room and can’t see anything.  He moves closer to look into the room.  He tries to open the door a little and Cle is standing there looking right at him. 

Cle:

You are a freaking perv.

Will:

And?

Cle:

What do you mean and?  Back to your room old man.

Will:

Please.

Will enters the room and closes the door, the boldness of this action shocks Cle.

Will:

I know what you want.

Cle:

Oh and what is that?  Beardy mid life crises guy and not a 20 year old hottie?

Will:

Exactly.

Cle:

Exactly.  Get out.

Will:

Or, I could do this.

Will runs his finger down Cle’s cheek and then down her arm while staring  deeply into her eyes.  He takes her hand, leans in and kisses Cle and Cle is again surprised.  Cle takes a step back, looks at Will and grabs him by the back of the head and pulls him in for a kiss.  Will kisses her back, begins to kiss her neck and pushes her back onto the bed while continuing to kiss her neck.

Cle:

Wait…This will change everything.

Will:

I know.

They make love.  After they are asleep on the bed and Will’s aunt Zara walks by and looks into the open door.  She sees Will in Cle in bed together and has a furious look on her face.  Later on that night Will wakes up to an odd sound in the hallway.  He gets up to investigate and sees an ear climbing up the wall.  He looks on in disgusted amazement when he turns to see Mara with his head upside-down on his shoulders looking at him.  Mara raises a gas spray and sprays Will in the face, knocking him out.  The camera takes a first person perspective on Will and fades to black as his eyes shut at Mara’s feet.

Cle wakes up the next morning to Zara banging on her door.

Zara:

GET OUT WHORE!  GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Cle:

What the hell is going on?

Cle gets up and opens the door.  Zara is standing just outside of it with a look of disgust in her eyes.

Zara:

So…

Cle:

So…What?

Zara:

So you think you can just sleep with him and then you are a princess?

Cle:

Did you forget your medication this morning?

Zara:

Oh don’t pretend it didn’t happen.  Don’t pretend that you didn’t plan this all along.

Cle:

You are out of your mind.

Zara:

You will never have him.  He would never want to be with a simple girl like you.  He has used you, you fool.  He wants a girl with a more regal touch.

Cle:

Regal touch?  Is that even a tangible thing?  What the hell are you talking about?

Zara:

Get out.

Cle:

What?

Zara:

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Jara:

Yes yes out!  Our neighbors will never let us live this down!!

Cle:

Out?  For what?  He came onto me!

Zara slaps Cle. 

Zara:

He would never, you hear me!  NEVER!  Come, come get your things.

Zara throws a bag at Cle and Cle starts franticly packing her things into it.  She grabs cloths a brush runs into the bathroom and grabs a tooth brush all while Zara and Lara scream whore at her and push her towards the door.

Cle:

But am I supposed to go?

Zara:

You should have thought about that before you did what you did.  Oh and don’t even try getting a job.  I have made some calls and told every employer within earshot that you are a thief and a liar.



Cle:

What the hell is your dysfunction? 

Zara:

You dare come in here, accept our hospitality and then put our good name at risk by sleeping with Will?!  Our name is EVERYTHING.  If people found out Will had lowered himself to sleeping with you…

Cle slaps Zara.

Cle:

Having money doesn’t make you better, it just makes you miserable.

Cle walks away, confidently down the street and Zara and Lara stand on their porch, shocked.


Exterior.  Planet Juna

Juna is a jungle planet with rocky terrain similar to the jungles of South America.  Krull has been bombarding the planet from orbit but the inhabitants have burrowed underground which has forced Krull to land tens of thousands of troops at two bases.  Krull is at the forward base near the inhabitants capital city of Ilya which is imbedded in the planet’s rocky surface.  The other base was where Will was stationed and is about to be overwhelmed.  Hudson is at that base.

Interior:  Krull’s Meditation Chamber in the forward invasion base

Will is waking up from a groggy sleep and he sees Krull and his diamond sphere looking intently at him.

Krull:

Ahh.  You’re awake.

Will:

Wha…Where am I?  What have you done to Cle?

Krull:

Temperance.  Will temperance. 

Will:

Wha…

Krull:

You see temperance is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires.  This is, curiously enough, implied in the in the saying of a man being his own master.  There is something ridiculous in the statement “master of himself”.  For the master is also the servant and the servant the master and in all these modes of speaking, the same person is denoted.  The meaning is, in the human soul there is a better and worse principle.  When the better has the worse under control, then a man is said to be master of himself.  This is a term of praise.  But when, owing to evil education or association, the better principle, which is also the smaller, is overwhelmed.

Will:

What are you talking about.  You kidnapped me?  Why?

Krull:

Because you are going to help me win this war.

Will:

Go to hell.


Krull:

No you see.  You are in hell.  You know the reality of my way of law and order and consider it evil.  You also know, as I do, that it is less evil than the alternative.  You know first hand what the alternative is, don’t you Will?

Will:

Yes.








Krull:

Your men are getting slaughtered everyday you ignore your duty and don’t finish the job you started.  We are on the precipus of great victory or crushing defeat.  With defeat would come a new power wanting to pick up where the Xertax left off to ensure the enslavement of all beings.  Stop playing games and finish your job.  That will give us the power we need to spread everlasting freedom across the galaxy.


Will:

Your freedom is murder.  You would never allow the people to be truly free.

Krull:

You are forgetting the ruling principle.

Will:

What are you talking about?  What principle?

Krull:

In all things that for a composite whole and which are made up of parts weather continuous or discreet a distinction between the ruling and the subject element comes to a fight.  Such a duality exists in living creatures but not in them only.  It originates in the constitution of the universe.  Even in things that have no life there is a ruling principle.  When it comes to living intelligent things, the duality exists between the soul and the body.

Will:

Yes but in corrupted natures, the body rules the soul.  It is an evil and unnatural condition.  The rule of the soul and the mind over the body is what separates man from a savage animal or insect, chasing after desires like a bull being pulled by the ring in its nose.

Krull:

Ahh but you make my point Somelli.  There are so many men who are more dangerous than any animal, best tamed by his more powerful master.  So are these beast like men better off being tamed by the most powerful among them.  You know I speak the truth yet you continue to allow yourself to believe in a false reality.  Help me tame these beasts so we can be secure. 

Will:

What you are proposing is murder.

Krull:

And the alternative is extension.  If the animals are allowed to rule, you know what will happen.  I will command an invasion force and attack their well fortified capital.  You just finish your job and destroy their entrenched positions near their giant plasma cannon and the cannon itself.  The sun in this galaxy is about to supernova.  We need the dark energy it is creating to win this war once and for all.
                                                 
Will:

It seems I have no choice.  I can’t just abandon my men to their sure doom.  I will do as you command Krull, one last time.

Krull:

Excellent.  Contact me when you have achieved your objective.

Will leaves and takes a convoy to the second encampment.  As his convoy enters the gets closer to the second encampment, Will looks out the window of his truck to see explosions ahead.  As the convoy gets closer, it starts to take flack as giant plasma blasts explode around the trucks. 

Will moves to the front of the truck and sees the plasma blasts coming in all around him.


Will:

Are we still driving in the safe zone?

Driver:

There are no safe zones.  Rebels have overrun the perimeter.  We have a small zone protected but it isn’t looking good.  Are you going in to help evacuate? 

Will:

No, I’m going in to wipe them out.  Drop me in as close as you can get me.




Driver:

I’ll try.  Strap on a jet pack, I’m wearing mine.  If it gets real rough, I’m bailing FYI.

Will:

Great, thanks for letting me know.

Will goes and grabs a jet pack, puts his hands on it and closes his eyes.  The pack begins to shake as Will imprints himself on it.  He then straps it to his back.

Will:

How close are we?

Pilot:

Well we are getting close but…

Will turns his head just in time to see a massive plasma blast coming right at the ship.

Will:

Bail out!  Bail out!

The pilot grabs for his jet pack but is too late as the blast begins to consume the ship.  Will quickly pull an ejection level next to his seat and is rocketed out of the  hover craft just before it explodes and tries to fire up the jet pack as he falls through the pinkish atmosphere of the planet with plasma blasts whizzing past him.  He closes his eyes, imprints himself on the jet pack and fires it up.  He looks down at a massive battle ragining and heads towards where the majority of the fire is concentrated.  He sees a last encampment of his forces about to be overrun by natives riding wild alien beasts similar to an Acrocantosaurus.  They wield plasma cannons and strange primitive/futuristic weapons. 
Will rockets down to the encampment, lands and takes off his jet pack.  He walks into the command center.

Will:

Hudson what is going on?

Hudson:

Will!  Where the hell did you come from?

Will:

I just got blown out of my transport.  What’s happened here?
We’re being overrun

Hudson:

After you left we couldn’t hold these guys.  They have been flanking our positions every.  They’re persistent sons of bitches!  We are about to bug out, it’s way too hot in here.  Did you bring reinforcements?

Will:

I did.

Hudson:

Where are they?

Will:

You’re looking at him.  Set your men up on the high ground and prepare for an assault on their giant plasma cannon. 

Hudson:

Assault?  I don’t know if you’re keeping up with current events, but we are getting our asses kicked out there pal!

Will

Confidence in victory is all we need.  We have enough men to destroy their cannon, Kull is waiting on my signal for his main assault, we are merely a diversion.

Hudson:

Wow.  You still have a knack for saying exactly what I don’t want to hear at the exact moment I don’t want to hear it.





Will:

Take what artillery we have left and bring it to the front.  We need to make one last push to end this.  The cannon is about 40 clicks to the north on top of a heavily hill.  An all out blitz is all only shot of knocking that thing down.

Hudson:

What are you going to do?

Will:

Improvise.  How far away is the enemies’ main force?


Hudson:

They are at least 20 clicks away.  Our intelligence hasn’t even seen them for days.  So we have time.

Just then a rumbling comes from the woodsy area right in front of the second encampment.  All the men turn to see hundreds of alien animals large and small fleeing out of the woods and about 10 thousand soldiers coming right behind them.  They all look at each other and chaos reigns.  As the invading army rides through the encampment on lizards, some Will’s men start shooting, some turn and run others throw away their weapons and try to run and hide. 

Will (to Hudson):

Get control of your men!

Hudson:

Control my ass, DO SOMETHING!


Will moves over to a giant burnt out helicopter and places his hands on it.  A shiver like a dog shaking water off it’s body begins at Will’s hands and starts  going all over the helicopter.  Will takes control of the entire structure and starts to bend it into a personal hover craft with the jet pack as the motor.  He then flies over to a half blown out tank, puts his hands on it and separates the metal into bullet like pieces.  He waves his hand and the bullets start zig zagging all out of the encampment as thousands of aliens are hit by the bullets.  Will then takes off in his homemade flying contraption and starts firing on the alien creatures.  All their attention is focused on Will as they try to shoot him down.  It is clear by the reaction in their faces that they know who he is and what he can do so they make every effort in stopping him leaving the rest of the troops unattended. 

The remaining troops set up their artillery.

Hudson:

Fire when ready captain.  We need to give Will some breathing room.

Captain:

Fire!

The troops fire their plasma artillery units at the ground units around the cannon.  The shots whiz past Will and distracts the ground troops below him.  He takes advantage of the confusion and flies low firing relentlessly on the natives below.  They return fire and hit Will’s copter.  He loses control of it and it crash lands and Will is pinned down by the copter.  The rebels begin to close in.  Will snaps out of it, and summons the bullets he imprinted on before.  They come out of the ground and out of the bodies of the men that they killed.  The rebels see this, turn around and run away as the bullets fly by them. 

Hudson:

He has them on the run!  Hit them with everything we’ve got.

The artillery turns and points towards the massive plasma cannon at the top of a high hill.

Gunner:

Cannon out of range sir.

Hudson (into his headset):

Will come in.

Will:

Yes.

Hudson:

We are out of range of the cannon.  I don’t want to move in much closer or it will fry us all.  They are moving it into position to do just that right now.

Will:

I will create a diversion, move your men up, I will draw their fire towards me.  Just move into position to blast that thing.  Understood?

Hudson:

Yes Sir.

Will salvages what he can from his wrecked copter and creates a smaller, more personalized self copter with the jet pack again propelling it forward.  He flies up in front of the cannon as it is being moved to the front of the hill it is on.  The rebels are trying to get a clear shot at Hudson and his men.  Their attention turns to Will as he swoops in with guns blazing.  As they are distracted Hudson’s men move into position and fire at the cannon.  Will barely moves out of the way as a volley of shots comes from Hudson’s position and hits the encampment surrounding the giant plasma cannon. 

Hudson:

Direct hit!

Will (into mic):

Keep firing and watch out for me damn it!

Hudson:

Hey you said you wanted that thing destroyed right?

Will (Into his headset):

Krull.  We have disabled the Plasma cannon.  Begin your attack now.


Krull:

Excellent Somelli.  I will be sending my sphere into the gate of their hidden fortress.  Keep their cannon at bay until we get through.

Will:

Yes sir.  (To Hudson) Captain keep these forces focused on you, I will move to the front to assist Krull.


Hudson:

It’s about damn time he got off his ship and did something.  You heard the man, keep the pressure on them men!


The men let out a roar (similar to the rebel yell) and keep firing on the cannon as the remaining men try to fight them off.  It is heavily fortified with guns all around it.  The rebel troops around the main enterence retreat back into the fortress and two massive gates close behind them.  Krull’s sends his sphere out of his encampment towards the gate.  The sphere rockets towards the gate avoiding plasma blasts along the way.  It hits the rock gate and morphs into a drill and begins drilling into the massive rock doors.

Rebel soldier:

Wha?  What is that thing?

Rebel commander (with a look of terror on his face):

All units fire on the object at the front gate!

All the men try to angle their guns to fire down on the burrowing sphere.  As the blasts come in the sphere melts into the door and the blasts hit the door.  Creating a hole that the  sphere can easily fly through.  The sphere looks up at the men, pauses for a second and then flies through the rock door.  The soldiers are taken by surprise, the sphere pauses, vibrates and then turns into a thousand tiny pellets and starts firing itself at the soldiers all around the base.

Krull sits silently inside his meditation chamber.  He has his eyes closed but he can see through the sphere as he guides the little pellets through the ranks of the troops.

Krull:

General Ordona.  They are confused, now clean them out but spare their leaders.  I need their knowledge.

General Ordona:

Yes sir.

Krull’s forces march on the capital city as the screams from the men inside the city as the sphere shoots from person to person killing them as the try to escape.  The army enters the city and the men look around to see hundreds of dead bodies littering the streets.  The sphere is still chasing after men.  Chaos reigns in the city as fire comes from all sides but it is mostly aimed at the sphere.  As it continues to chase soldiers around, the small force walks right up to the main building and finds the leaders of the planet cowering under the desks.

General Ordona:

Gentlemen, Commander Krull would like to have a few words with you.

Exterior:  A dive bar on Will’s Aunt’s homeworld.

Cle is wearing the same cloths that we saw her in before but they are dirtier and more ragged.  She is sitting at the bar scanning the crowd.  She sees a drunk green guy sitting by himself.  She smiles a sly smile, gets up and walks over to him.

Cle (flirting):

Since when is it fun to drink all by yourself?

Drunk Green Alien:

Ooo ta doo fra dah…

Cle:

Exactly!

Cle sits on the alien’s lap and sees a bag of gold on the alien’s belt.

Cle:

Oh wow.  You seem tired and this looks so heavy.

Cle lifts the bag of gold.

Cle:

Here doesn’t that feel better

Drunk Green Alien:

Uguuuuu…

The drunk green alien pukes out yellow slime onto the ground while making a highly disturbing noise.

Cle:

Oh my.  Well it looks like you’re busy here.  I’ll give you some privacy.

Cle gets up and takes the gold off the puking alien’s belt.  As she heads to the door, the bartender reaches over the bar and grabs her. 



Bartender:

Where do you think you’re going missy?

Cle:

Um out to get some food and a change of cloths I think.  Is there a problem?

Bartender:

Yeah, you’re stealing from my customers you gutter slime.

The bartender takes the gold from Cle and throws it at the puking green alien.  It hits him on the side of the head, he pukes one last time and passes out in his own vomit.

Cle:

Well at least you gave the gold to someone who truly needs it.

Bartender:

If you want credits you have to earn them.

Cle:

Great!  Are you hiring?  I’d make a great waitress!

Bartender:

Well we do need someone.  What did you say your name was?

Cle:

I didn’t.

The bartender looks behind the bar and there is a do not hire sign with Cle’s name on it.




Bartender:

Wait, you’re that girl.  The one that robbed those poor old Somelli ladies.  Get out!  I don’t want that kind of trouble in here.

Cle:

Come on!  What the hell am I supposed to do?! 

Bartender:

That’s not my problem!  OUT!

The bartender grabs Cle by the arm and forces her out into the rain, she falls down the steps of the bar and into a muddy puddle.

A pair of feet walk up to Cle and stand next to her.  Cle pulls her muddy face up from the puddle.

Woman:

You need a place to stay pretty one?

Cle:

Yes.  Can you help me?

Woman:

Yes of course!  Come with me.

Exterior:  Futuristic Brothel.

Cle and the women walk into the brothel.  There are both human and alien clients and women alike conversing and flirting all over the establishment.  It is like a futuristic old west brothel with a crazy chandelier in the middle of the room and a tenticled alien playing a futuristic organ.

Woman:

Come come sit down.  Esten, bring soup for our young lady.

The alien behind the bar picks up a bowl and fills it with a strange soup type orange gruel.  When the bowl is full the bartender slings it to Cle.  Cle hungrily eats the soup quickly.

Woman:

My my you are a hungry little thing aren’t you?

Cle doesn’t look up from her bowl until she finishes it.

Woman:

And…How was it?

Cle:

Horrific.  More please!

The woman looks at Cle and smiles.

Woman:

Why do you look so familiar dear?

Cle (looking up briefly from her second bowl):

I guess I just have one of those faces.

Woman:

Hmmm.

The woman looks away from Cle and behind the bar where she sees the same holographic poster of Cle’s face with a warning about not hiring her under her name.

Woman:

Is that you that got those horrible old hags so relied up?

Cle:

Yes.  I will leave as soon as I’m done the soup.  Thank you so much for giving it to me.





Woman:

Don’t be foolish girl.  We should give you a medal for getting under their skin so.  Those two old crows are no friends of ours.  They have been trying to close us down for decades.

Bartender:

Ooochudia! (Decades!)

Cle:

Why?  You seem like such nice people.  Oh wait I think I just answered my own question.

Woman:

That you did dearie, that you did!  They hate the fact that we don’t care what they and their snobby friends think about us.  It drives them nuts.

Bartender:

Echoo-Do (nuts).

Cle:

Really?  That is why they hate you?  Because you don’t care what they think?

Woman:

That and they don’t like what we sell here.

Cle:

What DO you sell?

Woman:

Empowerment.  We sell the opportunity for creatures of all shapes and sizes to share whatever they may want.  Some just want company, while others want some things that are more, shall we say, carnal.

Cle:

Oh…

Cle looks around the room and sees a lot of scantily clad females from all different alien races flirting with men and she comes to a realization of exactly what kind of place she is in.

Cle:

So how exactly is selling yourself empowering?

Woman:

Because you can sell whatever you want.  You say what you will and won’t do and you tell them what costs what.  Some of the women in here have the most powerful creatures in the galaxy begging them for just a few minutes of their time.  I ask you, how is that not empowering?

Cle:

You might have a point there.

Woman:

Well what do you say?  Would you like to stay?

Cle looks at her tattered cloths and looks around at everyone laughing and enjoying themselves.

Cle:

Do I get my own room?

Woman:

Of course!

Cle:

Ok, where is it?

Woman:

Upstairs, Upstairs.  (To the bartender) Xenu, take our beautiful young Cle up to Chloe’s old room.

Xenu:

Yougruffawol (this way please)

The multi eyed alien bartender begins to walk away and he looks back with confusion in his many eyes.  Cle looks at him with a look of equal confusion.

Woman:

He said to follow him.  Xenu is old school and hates all these foreigners on his planet so try to get on his good side and learn his language.

Cle:

Good to know…what’s your name again?

Nersha:

Nersha.

Cle:

Thank you Nersha.

Nersha:

Get some rest sweetie, you’re going to need it (she winks).

Cle (to herself):

I really hope she’s kidding.

Cle follows Xenu up the stairs towards her room and sees a creature staring out her.  It is Octupus like with many tentacles.  When she walks by, it puts a tentacle out and stops her and then rubs her cheek with another tentacle.

Cle:

Oh god I don’t think she was kidding.

Cle gentle pushes the tentacle out of the way and continues on to her room.


Exterior:  General Defru’s house.

Jacob stands outside the house, hiding himself as he waits for Ellana to come out.  The door opens and he tries to hide behind a bush.  Ellana sees him, rolls her eyes and walks down the path to her eyes and down the street.  Jacob moves along pathetically trying to hide in the bushes while keeping his eyes on Ellana.

Ellana:

I see you over there!

Jacob closes his eyes and tries to duck behind a bush that doesn’t come close to covering him.  He looks up, smiles and walks over towards Ellana.

Jacob:

Hey what’s new?

Ellana:

You know I called the police and told them you were harrassing me?  Stop lurking in my bushes and get a life!

Jacob:

I have a life thank you.  I just want you to be a part of it.

Ellana:

No!  You are scum!

Jacob:

Really?  Would a scum pay off your daddy’s debts?  The bottom line here is your selflessness touched me.  Now you are stuck in my head and I won’t be satisfied until you give me another shot.

Ellana:

Another shot?  You didn’t have a first one.  Get used to disappointment.  And stay out of my bushes freak!

Ellana walks away leaving a dejected Jacob standing on the side of the road.

Jacob goes back to his city apartment, opens the door and smells smoke.  He looks up to see someone smoking a futuristic cigar in the dark.  The silhouette of a man holding a briefcase can be seen in his living room.  Jacob turns on his light to see his father sitting in a chair.

Boris:

Nice place you have here son.

Jacob:

Was I somehow not clear enough when I said I never wanted to see you again?

Boris:

No but why should I start caring now what you think?

Jacob:

Well played.  Get out.

Boris:

So you’re still quite the ladies man I see.

Jacob:

You see?  What?  Have you been following me?

Boris:

Of course.  I need to see what my sonny boy is up to before I just drop a fortune onto his lap.

Jacob:

Do you think you can just drop credits on my door and expect me to forgive you?  You truly are a sociopath.  Money buys nothing but problems.  I already own everything I need, donate it to the homeless in mom’s name.

Boris:

Oh how noble.  See, I did raise you right.

Jacob:

It’s funny how you are operating under the assumption that just because you happen to be my father that I will somehow refrain from punching you in the face.  Keep up the comments and you will be swallowing your teeth.  Out!





Boris:

You know so many people think money is evil.  It isn’t, it is morally neutral.  It is how thinking people use it that counts.  That is the issue with money.  Money exposes your true nature.  If you use the majority of your money for good than that is who you are.  If you spend it on frivolous things then that is who you are.  So why not just take it, or are you too afraid to show the world who Jacob Somelli really is?  Huh?  Is that it?

Jacob:

GET OUT!

Jacob grabs his father and throws him out the door with his suitcase full of money.

Boris:

By this time tomorrow, you will be begging me for this money, you proud fool.  I am Boris Somelli and no one denies my generosity!

Interior:  Court House:  The next day.

Jacob is again sitting in judgment of his fellow citizens.  He is bored as usual and keeps looking down at an object as testimony is being taken for a case.  The camera reveals the object to be a picture of Ellana.  He stares at the picture longingly as the case continues. 

Balif:

Your honor?

Jacob (not paying attention):

Yo!

Bailiff:

Your honor what is your verdict?

Jacob:

Oh yeah right.  Um guilty?

Bailiff:

Next case.  The commonwealth of this planet vs Alexander Defru.

Jacob looks up in stunned silence as the old general is once again lead into the courtroom.  The general looks like a totally broken man as he walks in and stands in front of Jacob.

Jacob:

And what is the charge?

Bailiff:

Knowingly placing a wager that he had no intention of repaying. 

Jacob:

What say you of this charge general.

General Defru:

I was tricked!  An old man approached me with a suitcase full of money and told me he would give me 100 to one odds on the favorite in galaxy bowl.  How could they lose?  He must have set it up!  He must have fixed it!!

Jacob:

I…I am sorry general but the law leaves me no choice.  30 years hard labor on the prison planet of Angola!

General Defru:

NOOOOO!  Not Angola!  I beg you…NO!!!

Jacob:

Bailiff, take him back to my chambers.  The court is in recess for the day!

Jacob bangs his gavel and walks out of the court furious.

Interior:  Jacobs chambers.

Jacob is sitting behind his desk with the cowering General sitting in front of him.

Jacob:

How could you do this again?  Don’t you know it was my money that got you out of this mess last time you fool?  Well I cannot pay this fine.  You have to go to Angola, there is no getting around it you ass!  Who did you place this bet with?

General Defru:

He didn’t give a name.  He was a large older man with a beard and he was smoking a cigar.  He had a suitcase full of money that he seemed to be eager to wager.  He tricked me!

Jacob:

You greedy old pig, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!  Take him to the holding cell!

Jacob runs out of the court and into a hover taxi. 

Jacob:

Take me to the Laniex hotel as fast as you can!

The cab speeds away and drops Jacob off at the hotel.  He dashes to the front counter asks which room his father is staying in and runs to the elevators.  He bursts into his father’s room but it is vacant with all his things hastily put together.  Random cloths are laying around the room and a single golden credit still lays on the floor.  Jacob looks at it and immediately activates Barry and Andy. 


Jacob:

Go find my father, (the two robots looks at each other and shiver).  Do it already dumbasses! 

The two robots look at each other and fly off.  Jacob sits down and furiously stares at the door, waiting for his father to return.  The robots begin to franticly search the city for Boris.

Exterior:  Cle’s Brothel.

The camera moves upstairs as you can hear Cle shrieking in sexual pleasure.  The camera follows these sounds and goes through Cle’s door.  You can see her straddling a slug like creature that has several tentacles that are moving all over her body.  The creature is large, slimy and, like the bartender, it is a native of the planet.  Cle continues to move up and down and yell in delight although she is covered in slime and has an almost disgusted look on her face.  The slug like creature gives out a bizarre moan coupled with one of Cle’s last screams, both clearly having an orgasm.  Cle gets up and immediately grabs a towel and starts to wipe herself off.

Governor Slellcack (the slug):

Sessha mintka vee Cle?  (why are you in such a rush to clean off Cle)

Cle:

Um  have you ever looked at yourself?

Governor Slellcack:

Bitha kantantia lomos?  (If I’m so awful, why do you scream so loud?)

Cle:

Because you tip better when I do?  Now leave the credits on the bed and leave.

Governor Slellcack:

Filt ter bree or sig neg mir ma.  (Fine 20 thousand and 5 thousand for you my dear)

Cle:

Great…bye

Governor Slellcack:

Migh allin brith tah.  (I’m governor of this planet so I say when I leave, let’s have a drink)

Cle:

Knock yourself out.  I never touch the stuff.

The slug uses its tentacles to uncork a bottle of green liquid.  It brings the liquid to its nose, sniffs it and then starts to disgustingly guzzle from the bottle.  Cle looks on with an astonished/disgusted look on her face.  The Governor drinks half the bottle and slams it down on a table.  He looks satisfied for a brief moment.  Then a look of panic and pain comes over his face.  He begins to gargle and make upsetting noises as Cle looks on helplessly. 

Cle:

What is it?  What’s wrong?!





The governor’s tenticles begin flailing and he grabs at his throat.  He gives out one last gargle and scream and then dies with his tongue hanging out of his mouth.  Cle shrieks and runs to the door and lets in the Governor’s security guards.  They all converge on the now dead governor.  As they huddle around the body the guards look down at the governor and then at Cle.

Cle:

What?

Interior:  Boris’ hotel room

Jacob is passed out on his father’s bed with an empty bottle of alcohol next to him.  Barry comes flying into the room and sees Jacob is passed out.  He rolls his eyes flys into the bathroom, gets some water in a glass, flies back over and dumps the water on Jacob’s face.  Jacob wakes up with a start, he is still clearly drunk. 


Jacob:

Whazz up lil bud?

Barry whistles and buzzes and points to the door.

Jacob:

You found em?  Way to go!  Lemmie grab my coat.

Jacob staggers over to his coat rack, grabs his coat and staggers out the door. 

Barry drags Jacob into the street by his collar.  He leads him into a cab and pushes him in, he flies up to the driver shows him the address and the cab screeches away with Barry chasing after it.

The cab stops in front of General Defru’s house.  Jacob staggers out of the cab, throws money at the cabbie, pukes in the street and looks up at the house.

Jacob:

Hey, I know where we are!!  That son of a bitch!

Jacob staggers into the house and he sees his father sitting on the couch with Ellana standing in front of him.  Her blouse is down to her shoulders and she appears to be undressing for Boris.


Jacob (seething):

You SLIME!

Boris:

I told you, you fool.  You would be begging me for the money.  How dare you refuse your own father’s generosity!  Your pride rivals even my own.

Jacob:

You know nothing of pride or honor.  You think of nothing but yourself.  You couldn’t stand the idea of me loving her.  So you had to have her right?  To show me that you’re still the boss?  Is that it, you filth?

Boris:

You watch your mouth you insolent little toad.  I made you and I can unmake you!

Jacob (sobering up):

You can’t unmake anything old fool.  Your life is a shadow, built on lie after lie to help stroke your pathetically fragile ego.  The ironic thing is how could such an utter failure have such a massive ego.

Boris:

Shut up!

Jacob:

No really.  You failed at your marriage, you failed as a father, you failed in your career am I missing something?

Boris takes out a gun.

Ellana:

Stop it both of you!  What is this some kind of sick game your family likes to play with others lives?

Jacob:

No, he is a scumbag!  I am just mildly pervy but in a playful way.


Ellana:

Enough you fool.  Your father is the one my father is in debt to!  He hounded my father and played on his every weakness and made my father an offer to good to pass up.  My father is weak!  So when he lost what did your father want in return?  Me.  Just like you.  Well I would do anything for my father, you know that.

Jacob:

Yes I know.

Ellana:

You and your father are the same!

Jacob:

No we aren’t!  What did I do, huh?!  When you gave yourself to me, what did I do?!

Ellana stands there in stunned silence as if now, finally, Jacob’s act of compassion registered in her brain as a great thing.

Jacob:

I gave you everything I had!  Because that is what true love is.  It is identifying the greatness of another and using their greatness as an inspiration to improve yourself.  You INSPIRE me Ellana.

Ellana:

I…I what?

Jacob:

You inspire me to want to better my own existence.  When you did what you did for your father, it made me see what the true meaning of life is.

Ellana:

Oh and what is that?

Jacob:

I am here to help others and create causes of joy in as many lives as possible.  I do it not for them, but for me.  Seeing joy in others and knowing that I caused it brings happiness to my own life.  So I am selfish!  Maybe you are right, I am selfish like my father!

Boris:

Touching

Boris points his plasma blaster at Ellana and fires.

Jacob:

NOOOOOOO!!!

Ellana falls to the ground.

Boris:

You will never have more than me, only less, because that is what you are.


Jacob waits to be shot by his father but is instead shot from directly behind him and then knocked on the head unconscious.  He wakes up several hours later and sees the dead bodies of the woman he loved and his father.  He gets up and  beats a hasty exit.  He is hung over and confused.  He doesn’t have a clean memory of what happened the night before and he goes back to his house to clean up.  He looks in the mirror and breaks down sobbing.

Exterior:  Krull’s batlle cruiser

Interior:  Observation deck.

In space, off in the distance, you can see a dying star that is about to go supernova http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova (Image)

Krull is standing facing the dying star.  In the background the doors open and two scientists are pushed into the room by Krull’s guards.  Krull’s sphere turns to face the scientists while Krull continues to face the Supernova.

Krull:

Have you decided to accept my offer?

Scientist 1:

We will never give in to your threats Krull. 



Krull:

We know the area around a supernova star has the richest possible concentration of dark energy.  We have your science, we understand how to use it.  All we need is enough dark energy to fuel our ships.  I just thought I would give you the opportunity to save your own lives.

Scientist 2:

We’d rather die than see you use our research to enslave the galaxy.

Krull:

So brave!  I admire that…to a degree.

Krull pets his sphere lovingly.

Krull:

Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?  But do you know that like all of us it is slowly decaying day by day.  It might take a million years, but it will one day…(the sphere vibrates violently and turns into a dust) vanish.

The scientists look on in amazement. 

Krull:

But when it vanishes, is it really gone?  Or is it just reduced to it’s own more basic, natural self?  You men are both exceedingly intelligent.  But tell me have you learned a way to live without breathing?

As the scientists breathe they look on in horror as the dust from the sphere floats in the air and approaches the scientists’ nose.  They try to cover their noses and mouths as the dust comes closer and closer.  It slips over the fingers of the first scientist and into his nose as he shrieks in pain, gets a strange look on his face and his nose starts to bleed.  The dust then creeps out of his ear as he crumples to the floor.

Scientist 2:

I’ll do anything you ask! 

Krull:

Of course you will.

The scientist and a few space suited men board a harvester shuttle.  It is a circular shuttle with a giant oil rig type pump attached to a tank on the back.  The shuttle rockets off into space, approaches the Supernova and begins to melt slightly on the outside due to the intense heat.

Scientist 2:

Hold here.  Activate dark energy harvester.

The pump on the outside of the ship begins sucking in dark energy and the tank in the back begins to fill with the energy. 

Scientist 2:

Pressure levels steady.  We are holding at 25% capacity.  .

Krull:

I want 75% at least.



Scientist 2:

The energy is too heavy Krull, we wont be able to operate our systems.  The most we have ever had is 50% capacity at one time.

Krull:

Come back with at least 75% or don’t come back at all.

The tank continues to fill as the shuttle begins to sink and move erratically.  The gauge on the control panel of the ship continues to climb past 50, past 60, past 70.  The shuttle begins to shake violently and the gauges on the control panel being to really buzz and alarms sound.  The gauge gets to 75%.

Scientist 2:

Turn off the harvester and return us to the battle cruiser.

The shuttle limps back to Krull’s battle cruiser.  On the way back two of the assistants pass out from an overload of radiation given off from the dark matter.  The second sceintists becomes overwhelmed and barely lands the shuttle into the hanger before dying.  Will and Krull run into the hanger and help put out the fires created by the crash.


Krull:

Bring the Dark Energy container to the fueling chamber.

Will:

Are the pilots alive?  Do you even care?

Krull (coldly):

No.

Will grabs a fire extinguisher and focuses it on the blaze as several working droids come in and secure the dark energy and bring it out of the hanger leaving the burning ship.  Will throws the fire extinguisher at the droids.  It barely misses them and hits a door control opening the hanger doors.  Everyone hangs on for dear life as the vacuum of space sucks out the ship and the dead bodies inside it along with the droids.  It nearly sucks out the dark energy container but Krull grabs it at the last minute, imprints on it and pins it into the ground.  His sphere shuts the manual override and the hanger doors shut.

Krull:

You fool!!!

Will:

Yes, I am a fool.  I am a fool for ever believing that your way was somehow better for the galaxy.  War is war, death is death, killing is killing.  It doesn’t matter if it is being done  by people who claim there are doing it in the name of good or in the name of evil.  The results are the same.

Krull:

They want to enslave the galaxy.

Will:

You mean that they want to take away the slaves you already control.  Or do you call those men who just died free?  They are the embodiment of your way, and it is wrong.  Don’t bother trying to find me, I will never fight for you again.  You can torture me if you wish, but I will never again do your bidding.  Now I am free for the first time in my life.  Goodbye Krull.

Will walks over to a ship, gets in and flies off.  Bots come into the hanger and take the dark energy container.  General Hudson enters the hanger.

Krull:

Bring the dark energy to the conversion chamber.

General Hudson:

You are going to need a lot more than that.  How are you going to get people to harvest it for you?

Krull:

We need to be more creative in our recruiting.


The droids bring the energy container out of the hanger as Krull and Hudson turn and walk out after them.

Exterior:  Large futuristic Castle type building (Jacob’s house)
Interior:  Jacob’s bedroom

It is the next day night after the murder and Jacob tosses and turns having a nightmare about the previous nights murder.  He wakes up with a scream and looks around the room to see that there are about a dozen cops in his bedroom staring at him.

Jacob:

What is the meaning of this?  Who are you?!

Officer Sinter:

Is that a confession?

Jacob:

Confession?  Are you mad?! 

Officer Sinter:

We have enough to convict you.  Confess and we will be lenient.

Jacob:

Confess?!  I demand to know what are the charges against me!



Officer Sinter:

So you think you are better than the rest of us.  Did you hear that boys.

The officers in the room all laugh hysterically while Jacob sits on his bed looking astonished.

Jacob:

Shut up!  Shut up I tell you!!  Get out of my house!

The officers look at each other, shrug, and all of them walk out aside from Sinter.

Officer Sinter:

Seriously confess and you won’t have to work on the new slave ships they are building.  Trust me, my friend got the contract to designed them.  You don’t want to be on that thing right in front of a dying star.

Jacob:

What the hell are you talking about?!  What is my crime?

Officer Sinter:

Officers!

Two bulky aliens enter the room.

Officer Sinter:

Read him his rights.

One of the aliens takes out an electronic reader.

Alien 1:

You have been arrested.  Confess and you might avoid torture.

Jacob:

Torture?!  You are all mad!!

Officer Sinter:

A night in jail may loosen your tongue traitor!  Take him to the pit!

Jacob gets pulled violently out of bed and dragged down the hall of his house screaming.  Barry and Andy jump up and fly after him but the guards are ready.  They open a powerful magnet which sucks the two robots into it and deactivates them.

Jacob:

Take your filthy hands off my robots!

Jacob gets hit in the head with the butt of a gun and is knocked out.

Jacob wakes up slowly in a dank, dark cell.  He can hear the screams of men being tortured around him.  He looks around and all he sees are old padded walls with a door at the front of the cell lit by a dim green light.  Inspector/prosecutor Barnes enters the cell through the door and he brings in a chair.  The entire cell is just an empty, grimy place with green tiles all around the cell.  Barnes sits on the chair and snaps his fingers in Jacob’s face.

Barnes:

Hello!  Have you woken up yet love?

Jacob:

Wha?  Where am I?

Barnes takes out a tiny hologram projector.  It is a hologram of Cle being taken into custody from a newsreel type service.

Barnes:

The jig is up friend.  We have her.  Now confess and you both get off easy.

Jacob:

Who is that?  This is insanity.

Barnes:

No insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting a different result.  Rich and poor lawbreakers pay the same price in our galaxy.

Jacob stares intently at the hologram.



Jacob:

Is that the…

Barnes:

Yes…

Jacob:

No, it can’t be…can it?

Barnes:

Who is it Somelli? 

Jacob:

Is it…Cle?

Barnes:

Exactly.  Now where is the Xertex powder?

Jacob:

Huh?

Barnes gets up and starts to walk out of the room.

Barnes:

Maybe I should make you think about it a while longer…alone.

Jacob:

No!  No!!  Um she was the child we saved during the invasion.  She lives with our horrible aunts I think.

Barnes:

You killed your father and that girl because they found out, didn’t you Somelli?

Jacob:

No!

Barnes:

You wanted him dead.  You wanted your brother to control the planet.  That isn’t
how we do things though Somelli.  That is the old way, the way you fought against.  How could you betray your fellow man like that?  To try to steal democracy away before they can even get a taste of it?  And you killed your own father because he wasn’t going to sit idly by and let you do it.  What kind of a man are you?

Jacob:

No.  I didn’t kill anyone.  There was someone else there!  Will is out fighting a war!  He is defending our democracy. 

Barnes:

Not anymore.  Haven’t you heard?  Your big brother has deserted his post in the military and is moving back to his home world right now.  Just in time for him to be elected governor.  Swept in as a war hero.  There is only one problem, it’s all a lie.  Let’s see if a week is enough to jog these events free from your memory. 

Barnes gets up and slams the door behind him.

Jacob:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The camera pulls out of Jacob’s cell and down the hall of darkness.  Jacob’s screams are soon buried under the screams of thousands more prisoners who are yelling and carrying on like animals in their cells.  Some are alien, some are human, all are suffering.

Exterior:  Will and Jacob’s Aunt’s house.

Will walks into the living room of his aunts house.

Zara:

Who is it?!  I know nothing about it!  Leave me alone I have a gun!!

Will:

Hold on, it’s me.

Zara:

O Vill!!  Thank the gods you have returned!  It has been horrible since you left. 



Will:

What has?  What happened?

Zara:

Your brother is in jail of Vill, it is horrible!  He killed your father and that terrible Cle has killed our beloved governor!

Will:

What?  You’re mad!  There is no way either of them could…

Zara:

Damn that good for nothing tramp Cle.  This is all her fault!

Will:

What are you talking about?

Zara:

She always wanted you.  This was her little plan to give you what she thought you wanted, power.  She even showed her true whorish self to get what she wanted!  What all see her for what she is, though.  (Zara spits on the ground)

Will:

Cle is no whore.  What is wrong with you?

Zara:

She is no whore eh.  Ask her yourself, she is in the jailhouse right now.

Will:

How could you let this happen?  All you had to do was look after her and be nice.  Why is that so fucking hard to understand?




Zara:

How dare you speak to me this way.  I know what you did with her.  When you left, we kicked her out!  We know what she wanted.  To steal our name and have you all for herself.  We built this name, it isn’t a name that she will ever have!


Will:

You old fool.  We’ll guess what, I’m marrying the whore and we’re living in this house so, pack your bags.  I’ll be back before sundown.

Zara:

Villy…you couldn’t.

Will:

Cruelty and selfishness are their own reward.  I own this house so kindly leave now, send me the bill for the movers.  Good-day ladies.

Will walks out the front door and back into his cab, his aunts look on in shock.  The cab flies off to the police department.

Interior:  Police Department

At the jail Cle sits by herself in a cell full of alien and human tough looking “ladies”.  She has a blank look on her face when an officer enters the room.

Officer:

Ok…3263827, 1454589 and 7395046 come to the front of the cell please.  The rest of you scum stay where you are or you get the hose.

The officer pats a hose that is coming out of the wall facing the holding cell.  All the prisoners shutter when they see this.

Cle steps out of the cell with two other inmates.  The officer walks out of the room and the floor turns into a conveyor belt and moves the three women off into another room that has “plea/sentencing room” written on the door.  The door lifts open and all three women come to a dead stop in front of an alien judge.  The judge stands 20 feet above the prisoners behind a large bench.  He is dressed in black robes and has a parrot like alien creature. 




Judge:

Arna Demsicle.  You stand accused of murder in the first degree.  How do you plead?

Arna:

Not guilty.

Parrot Creature:

LIES!!!

Judge:

It appears you are lying. 

Arna:

Huh?

Parrot:

GUILTY (BOCK)!

Judge:

You have been found guilty and are sentenced to death.

Arna:

But…What?

The floor opens under Arna and she falls in.  The floor immediately closes and the girls are moved over one space.

Cle:

This system is a bit brutal but efficient. 

Thangor (Second Prisoner):

Are you mad?!  Shut up!



Judge and Parrot combined:

Silence!!!

Cle:

Listen to the bird.  I’m telling ya, he runs the show.

Thangor looks at Cle in shock and horror.

Judge:

Thangor Mendosa.  You have been accused of lying to a jury, harboring a fellon, armed robbery and manslaughter.  How do you plead?

Cle:

Damn!  I thought I was a hardass.  Well done!

Thangor:

Shut up!

Judge and Parrot combined:

How dare you!

Cle:

No your honor.  She was totally talking to me, I will shut it now.

Judge:

HOW DO YOU PLEAD?!

Thangor:

Not Guilty.

Parrot:

LIES!!  She did it!  She did it!




Judge:

This court finds you guilty and sentences you to 50 years hard labor on the prison planet of Angola.

Thangor:

NOOO!

Judge:

Next!

The conveyor belt moves Thangor through a door that says Angola.  There are two other doors at the end of the conveyor belt, one says “Rehabilitation” the other says “The Hole”.


Cle:

I’m pretty sure I don’t want to find out what “The Hole” is.

Judge:

Cle Doormay.

Cle:

Here.

Judge:

You have been accused of murder and prostitution.  How do you plead?

Cle:

Um guilty?

Parrot:

She’s lyin…HUH?!

Judge:

Excuse me how do you plead?

Cle:

Guilty.

Judge:

Hmmm.  No one has ever actually pled guilty before…One moment.

The judge and the parrot whisper to each other for several seconds.

Judge:

In light of your honest answer, we have decided to be lenient and sentence you to life in prison on Angola.

Cle (sarcasticly):

Thanks for the compassion.

Judge and Parrot combined:

You’re welcome.

Cle gets pushed through the Angola door at the end of the conveyor belt.  The door opens and she falls down a slide.  While on the slide a packet of cloths, a toothbrush and soap fall onto Cle as she franticly tries to grab and hold onto them.  The slide dumps her out in a crowd of other prisoners inside a massive space shuttle.  A few more people fall in and the top hatch closes.

Cle (sarcastically):

Speedy justice.  Always the sign of a solid democracy.

Right after Cle says this the engines of the craft fire up and the craft rockets off into outer space.

Will’s taxi arrives at Cle’s jail just as the shuttle is taking off.  He goes inside and demands to see the captain in charge.  He is escorted to the captain’s office. 

Will:

Captain, I am commander Will Somelli of the Galatic…

Captain:

I know how you are Somelli.  What do you want?

Will:

I wish to see the prisoner Cle Dormay.  She is my fiancé and I understand there has been some kind of trouble.

Captain:

Oh you understand that do you?  I understand a few things about you as well.

Will:

What do you mean?

Captain:

I understand that little slut killed the governor of this world.  I also understand that your wacko brother of yours put her up to it.  We have a democracy Somelli.  You can’t just kill world leaders just because you want what they have.

Will:

You speak nothing but lies, I was off fighting a war and had no time to plan killing a world leader!  Where is your proof?

Captain:

         I have your brother’s signed confession.

The Captain hands an electronic pad to Will.  On the pad is a video on repeat of Jacob signing the pad while looking around nervously.

Will:

Clearly he was coerced.  Look at his face!  It looks like he has been tortured!  Let me speak to your supervisor at once.

Captain:

No.  You see, you are the one who needs to answer some questions…Deserter!  Traitor! 

Will (standing up):

This is absurd.

Captain:

Sit down or…

Will:

Or what?  You’ll somehow remove this piece of your desk from your mouth and hands?

Will flicks his hand on the desk and three pieces of the metal desk gag the captains mouth and tie his hands together behind him.  Will walks over and looks at the pad.  He writes down where Jacob is being held and then looks up Cle.  They are both being held on the prison planet of Angola.  He sees a repeating video of her being taken into custody and a look of great sadness sweeps across his face.

Will:

Be a good boy and keep your mouth shut until I leave, you wouldn’t want me to lose control of your desk would you?

The captain feverishly shakes his head no.  Will leaves leaving the captain bound and gagged in his office.

Will gets in a cab and speeds off to the city spaceport.  He gets in his ship and blasts off for Angola.

Exterior:  Prison planet of Angola

A shuttle enters the orbit of the massive planet that is covered in concrete with dotted massive prison complexes.  The shuttle flies over thousands of them as the camera pans across its massive haul to focus on Jacob sitting at a window seat on the shuttle.  The camera goes inside to reveal him chained to his chair.  A small robot flies over to him, prints out a small piece of paper and hands it over to him.  He looks at it and it reads.  “You have been found guilty and are sentenced to life in prison on Angola.”

Jacob:

Thanks for the update.

The robot shrugs and flies away.  Jacob continues to look out the window as the shuttle lands inside a massive hanger.  An alien guard comes down the isle. 

Guard:

On your feet!



All the men rise including Jacob.  They are marched into a massive common room along with hundreds of thousands of other prisoners.  The room is enormous with all different types of disgusting and weird alien inmates literally climbing the walls.  Jacob walks past signs saying pilots and scientists can get their sentences thrown out for a year of service.  There are neon holographic signs all throughout the halls and people and aliens are asking guards about the details.  There are sign up booths and hundreds of people are lining up to sign up for the program. 

Jacob (to an alien standing next to him):

What the hell is going on?

Alien:

People are getting their sentence removed by helping the war effort.  I would do it but don’t know nothing about science and can’t fly.  They have flying classes here though.  Maybe me take one.  It’s better than spending life here.

High above there is a large floating podium.  A tall thin man walks onto a hover craft that glides him over to the podium.  He gets off and raises his hand, the entire room becomes silent. 

Warden Kindly:

Welcome honored guests!  I am pleased to have you in my facility and will do everything to make your stay as comfortable as possible.

Jacob:

Is this guy forealzies?

Warden Kindly:

Admiral Krull has asked me to inform you that any creature with a space pilot’s license or someone with a dark energy expiration background can apply for a full pardon.  Details can be found at the booths outside the common area.  As for the rest of you, you will pick up on the rules as you go.  Work hard and stay clean and you will not be bothered.  Your stay here will be what you make of it.  CLEAN THEM!

Water dumps from giant valves on the sides of the jail soaking inmate with soapy water.  The water drains and the prisoners are ordered to line up.  Jacob sees Cle being marched to the woman’s side and focuses in on her.

Jacob:

I think I need to have a conversation with that young gal…

Interior:  Prison cafeteria.

Jacob is watching Cle get her food and struggle to find a seat.  Once she does he walks towards her and sits down next to her.

Cle:

By all means, have a seat.

Jacob:

Since you are my coconspirator, I thought it would be appropriate for me to introduce myself.  (extends his hand) Jacob Somelli.

Cle:

So you are the reason they set me up? 

Jacob:

I honestly don’t know what is going on.  They just handed me a note telling me I’m guilty.  No trial, no nothing.  Just a little robot handing me a note.  This is madness.

Cle:

Meh.  At least it makes life less boring.

Jacob:

What?  Are you actually enjoying yourself?

Cle:

I want disorder.  My ideal guy is one who will marry me and disappear six months later.  I want to set fire to the whole universe and stand in the middle and watch it burn around me. 

Jacob:

Ummmm…awesome?  Not sure where that came from. 

Cle:

I just thought you should know.

Jacob:

But if the whole universe is burning and you are standing in the middle of it, won’t you get burned too?

Cle:

Exactly.

Jacob:

You are one spooky chick.

Cle:

Do you want me to tell you about my dreams?

Jacob:

Does it involve you making out with an equally hot female?

Cle:

Yes

Jacob:

I’m all ears!

Cle:

I’m in a dark room at night and I’m surrounded by demons…

Jacob:

Ummmm…

Cle:

They all surround me and grab me and try to take me with them.  But then I tell them that I embrace the light and the desire to dedicate my life to helping my fellow man and they scurry off into the darkness.  Then I renounce the light and curse all men and they rejoice and grab at me again until I embrace the light once more.



Jacob:

So at what point do you make out with a girl?

Cle:

Huh?  Oh yeah I made that up.  How else was I supposed to get you to listen to my crazy dreams?

Jacob:

Well played.  So what happened to you?  How did you get tangled up in all this?

Cle:

I don’t know.  Somehow I think your brother is involved but I don’t know how.

Jacob:

Will?!  How do you know about him?

Cle:

He took me to live with your aunts after the war dumbass!  Don’t you remember meeting me?  You were standing right there!

Jacob:

I have zero memory.  Having electric volts run through your head will do that too you.

Cle:

Well look on the bright side, you probably won’t survive very long in here so you won’t suffer long.

Jacob:

How comforting.  Thanks for the pick me up.

Cle:

Glad I could help!




Exterior:  Space

Will’s shuttle approaches the prison planet and lands in the same hanger Jacob landed in.  He exists the shuttle and is greeted by an alien.

Prison Guard:

Greetings General Somelli.  We have been expecting you.

Will:

Have you?  I would like to speak with the warden of this planet.

Prison Guard:

Yes of course.  Follow me please.

Will walks out of the hanger

Exterior:  Warden’s office. 

The warden’s office sits in the middle of the cell block hovering above the ground by an invisible force field.  It has glass all around it and is circular.  The warden’s desk resides in the middle and can also be rotated in a circle so the warden can see everything.  Cle is brought to a door parallel to the warden’s office on the cell block.  A ramp extends from the warden’s office and Cle and her guard walk the ramp into the floating office. 

Interior:  Warden’s office

Warden Kindly:

General Somelli.  What an honor.  Please, do sit down.

Will:

Thank you.  I am here about my brother and a friend of mine.

Warden Kindly:

We know why you are here General.  You see Admiral Krull has an offer for you.

Will:

Does he?


Warden Kindly:

He has offered to pardon your little coup de ta and set your friends free at once.

Will:

If I go back to work for him.

Warden Kindly:

Well…yes.  You are highly skilled and Krull needs you to win the war.

Will:

Didn’t we already win the war?  Did I miss something?

Warden Kindly:

Don’t be foolish Will.  Our freedoms are being threatened this very minute!

Will:

Someone who lives on a prison planet contesting that their freedoms are being eroded is the hight of irony, wouldn’t you say warden?  The way I see it, laws that are made down the barrel of a gun aren’t laws that are worth respecting.

Warden Kindly:

Ahh.  Well then by the power vested in me by our grand overlord and leader Admiral Krull, I hereby place you under arrest.

Will is electrified in his chair and knocked unconscious.

Interior:  Will’s Cell.

Will opens his eyes and slowly looks around his tiny cell.  He sees a dim figure looking at him at the front of his cell.  He focuses his eyes on Jacob who is intently staring at him. 

Jacob:

Rise and shine sleepy head.

Will:

Where…where are we?

Jacob:

We are in hell and in the name of personal responsibility I would like to confess to you that it is all your fault.

Jacob whirls around and looks at the cell next to Will’s.

Jacob:

Gregor!!!  How many times do I have to tell you?!  No noise when I’m trying to think!  Do you want me to throw another apple at you?

The camera shows that Jacob is yelling at a large cockroach with an apple lodged in his back.  The cockroach begins to make click noises.

Gregor (subtitles under the cockroach’s mouth):

Please don’t tell my boss I’m a cockroach!

Jacob:

Shut up you freak!  (Looks at Will) So, let me buy you dinner.

Interior:  Prison Mess Hall

The prison mess hall is a massive area with futuristic cafeteria style seating and dispensers all over the room that serve the same green goop to every customer.  Various aliens and humans are getting their meals.  Jacob and Will are standing in line waiting for their turn to eat.

Jacob:

Have you come up with anything yet?  I really need to get out of here, it’s nice and all but…I really think I might get raped by something that may or may not have a penis.

Will:

I need to get a good imprint on a few more things to make our escape as effective as possible.

Jacob:

Great.  Are we working with any sort of solid timeframe here?  Not that I’m in a rush, I just want to avoid getting raped.


Will:

So what happened?  You were a prince!  Did you get Cle to kill that slug governor? 

Jacob:

I honestly have no idea.  Dad’s dead.

Will:

Yes they told me you killed him.

Jacob:

He tried to ruin my life Will. 

Will:

How did he die?  What happened?

Jacob

He tried to buy the girl I loved.  The next thing I knew, he was dead.

Will:

Did you kill him?  Is that why you’re in here?

Jacob:

I don’t know if I kill him.  I’ve gone over it so many times in my head and I can’t connect the dots.  It just doesn’t make sense.  I didn’t have a trial so there was no evidence presented either way. 

Will:

What about due process?  Surely you could appeal…

Jacob:

Appeal?  To what?  They want you Will!  That is what this is all about, you.





Will:

I know.  Krull has gone insane.  He refuses to stop fighting.  I tried to appeal to him but he is convinced that military strength IS law. 

Jacob:

Well whatever is going on between you two has landed me and your girlfriend in jail.

Will:

Have you seen Cle?  Is she in this precinct? 

Jacob:

Yes I have seen her.  Charming girl.  I think she is a prostitute so she’s clearly friendly.

Will:

I am going to marry her.


Jacob:

Fantastic.  Didn’t you put, marry a space whore, as your life goal in your high school yearbook?

Will:

Mock it if you must but I have wrong her and I am going to make it right.

Jacob:

Well can you make it right by getting us all the hell out of here and where can we go when if we make it out?

Will:

Do your two little robots still exist? 

Jacob:

Oh my dear lord.  You are actually acknowledging the existence of Barry and Andy.  A truly banner day.  They removed all their weapons and upgrades but they did let me take them. 


Will:

Just shut up and get them ready.  We can go to Satyagraha, Kang and his men will protect us.  First we need to find Cle before she gets into trouble.


Interior:  Female mess hall

Cle is in line for her food in the female section of the prison.  There are food dispensers distributing green liquid.  The women are all variety of alien species.  Guards are lined all over the massive open cafeteria.  One large tough alien looks like a green Pipi Longstocking (named Dex Jenxs) on steroids bumps into Cle knocking her tray to the ground.  Cle picks up her try and the alien simply knocks it down again.

Cle:

Can I help you?

Dex Jenxs (snarls and shows her teeth)

Venka Meeet Saaa Droo!

Cle:

Um…yeah

Dex lunges at Cle who jumps over the brute and turns around to face her again.  Dex smashes into a table knocking trays and aliens all over the mess hall.

Cle:

Can we talk about this or are we beyond that point?

Dex charges and knocks Cle backwards into the mess hall kitchen where she sees giant turtle like aliens sitting on top of the pots where the food is served from.  There is a tube going from its butt into the pot where the “food” is deposited.

Cle (gagging):

I wish I didn’t see that.

Two guards attempt to subdue Dex by jamming stun guns into her side but all it does is anger her further.  She takes the two guards and knocks their heads together and then takes one of their bodies and throws it into two oncoming guards.  Dex comes barreling through the kitchen from the mess hall, picks up Cle and throws her back out into the general population.  Cle lands on a table with two humans and an insect creature.  The insect hands Cle a tray just as Dex comes charging at her.  Cle tosses the tray at Dex’s feet causing her to stumble and bang her head on the table knocking her unconscious.  Stunned silence comes across the cafeteria as everyone stops what they are doing to see what just happened.  Two guards come up and hit Dex with their stun guns for good measure.  This causes fury of hatred in the inmate population as the camera pans dozens of different inmates with look of pure hatred on their faces.  A roar goes up and a full scale riot ensues.  The two guards who tazered Dex are immediately overwhelmed and the prisoners are seen fighting with the guards on duty.  It is total chaos.  The insect creature grabs Cle’s arm.

Insect Creature:

Come with us before she gets really angry!

The two humans, Cle and the Insect Creature run out of the chaos and make it to a side panel.  One of the humans taps on the side and the door opens and they escape just as a table smashes into the wall.

Interior:  Hidden Chamber Within the Prison Walls.  There are moldy pipes and a wet gloomy atmosphere within the hidden chamber.  The insect creatures antenna glow illuminating the room with an errie green light.

Insect Creature:

Where are you from girl?  I know you didn’t learn those moves by giving bad credits for food.

Cle:

In my line of work, a girl needs to learn how to take care of herself. 

Insect Creature:

Found that out the hard way did ya?  Just wait until they discover you are missing.  I hope you have a high pain threshold…

Cle:

Well I was kind of hoping to try to contract Will Somelli.  He kind of owes me one I would say and he is some kind of war hero I think.  Maybe he could convince them to…






Insect Creature:

Will Somelli?  You mean General Will Somelli?  Krull’s second in command?  This man owes you somehow?

Cle:

Well…yeah.  He’s helped me before.

Insect Creature:

My dear he is here.  He was just arrested last night.  If he is at all sympathetic with you, he could help our cause greatly.  This is just the break we needed.  Thank you…

Cle:

Cle…Cle Doorman

Insect Creature:

Thank you Cle, it is time we showed our oppressors what real power is…

Interior Will’s Cell:

Will is sitting on the floor in front of his bed meditating.

Interior Will’s Cell:

Will is holding Barry and Andy, they begin to vibrate slowly gradually becoming more and more violent until it Will is fully imprinted on both of them and the two small robots fly towards out of the jail cell towards the warden’s office.  Barry pushes a few buttons on the panel next to the door and the computer says “access denied”.  Suddenly Barry shrikes in pain and he begins the flatten until he is razor thin.  He is then yanked down and under the door to the warden’s office while Andy looks on in terror. 

Jacob:

Take it easy!  What the hell did you do to him?


Will:

Hey he knew there would be risks. 

Will flicks his fingers and Barry is restored to his normal state. 


Barry goes to the warden’s desk and starts trying to log into the mainframe of the prison network.  It keeps saying access denied. 

Jacob:

Come on come on!  What is taking so long?!

Suddenly Barry accesses the prison mainframe.

Will (with his eyes closed/speaking with Barry):

Do they have any information on where they are keeping Cle?

Barry types in Cle’s name and finds her location and starts buzzing.

Will: 

Good.  Download a map and log off before you are detected.

The computer screen Barry is accessing suddenly begins to blink red and an alarm starts going off.

Computer Voice:

Alert!  Alert!  Unauthorized Access to Security Network in Sector Delta

Jacob (yelling out of his cell):

Barry, take Andy get the door open to the hanger and prep any ship for take off.


Barry gives an odd slow salute (a la Patrick Swayze in Road House) and zips out the warden’s office.  Security guards gather around Jacob and Will’s cell.  Will puts his hands on his cell door and it starts to vibrate.

Guards surround Jacob’s cell and point their weapons at him.

Guard 1:

Put your hands where we can see them.

Behind the guards you can see Will’s door slowly come off it’s hinges and float near them and start to bend around the guard.  One guard notices what is happening and he tries to get the other’s attention but it is too late.  Will cell door wraps around the guards tightly so they can’t move.  Jacob grabs one of the guard’s weapons.

Jacob:

Someone in there please let go of your code key before I have my friend here squeeze it out.

Three or four codes keys drop to the floor. 

Jacob:

Wow, just when I thought no one could have less dedication to their cause then me.  Thanks guys. (To Will)  Let’s get to the warden’s office, get Cle and get out of here.  I don’t want to wait around until they can call Krull for help.

Interior:  Will’s Cell

Will:

The warden has this place on lockdown.  We are going to need help.  I am going to open some cells and start some havoc.  Make your way to the Warden’s office and unlock every cell you can.

Jacob:

You make it sound so easy!

Will begins putting his hands on cell doors all down the cell block and ripping them off their hinges with his mind and a simple hand gesture.  Inmates come pouring out of their cells and chaos begins to break out in the prison.  Guards rush in with plasma rifles and tear gas and try to settle the situation down.  Will continues to release the prisoners and throw the cell doors at the on coming guards.  Jacob looks down at all the chaos with a look of wonder and horror.  He focuses on Will as he is surrounded.  Guards surround Will as he puts his hands on the railing on the outside of the cell block.

Guard 1:

Hands up!

Will (wryly):

Sure

As Will extends his hands up, the railing comes out like a whip and he uses it to tie the guards together and then uses the railing to squeeze them.

Will:

Drop the guns boys, I wouldn’t want things to get any tighter for you.

The railing begins to squeeze the guards as they shriek and one by one drop their blasters.  The camera pans back to Jacob who is dumbstruck with what he just saw and he stands there as guards run by him with his mouth wide open.  He sees the Warden run past him and towards his office. 

Jacob:

Oh no you don’t!

Jacob dives at the warden and misses him badly.  The warden runs into his office and shuts the door.  Jacob and runs down the extended ramp as it begins to withdraw.  He gets to the end of the returning ramp and he jumps, barely grabbing the side of the now hovering office. 
Jacob:

Why the hell did I do that?

The office morphs with the walls of part of the prison and transforms into a attack robot with giant laser cannons on its shoulders and hands equipped electrified arms that fry anyone who gets grabbed.  There are cells that still hold prisoners in the legs of the massive machine.  These cells have vacuum tubes in the back that shoot into the inmate in the cell, sucking out their life energy.  The energy is then turned into a massive plasma shot that comes out of the shoulder mounted cannons on the massive structure. The warden is in the head which is all glass.  Jacob jumps around and tries to avoid being crushed on the body of the robot as it transforms.  He winds up in the middle of the now transformed robot. 

Interior:  Prison War Robot

The warden is controlling the robot with several 3-D image screens.  He grabs several prisoners (with some guards mixed in) and exlectrifies them.  He then fires his plasma cannons at some more prisoners and they are instantly liquefied. On one of the image screens you can see Will using one of the prison doors to knocks some guards off the edge of the prison block.  The warden locks in on Will.

Warden:

I thought this would actually be challenging!






Exterior:  OTS shot of the robot

The warden pushes a large red button which activates the vacuums in the prison cells, draining the life-force of the men inside and firing the energy out of his shoulder mounted plasma cannons at Will.  Will throws a prison door at the blast and there is a massive explosion which knocks Will down to the second level of the prison block.  Will immediately starts putting his hands on various large objects and throwing them at the robot as fast has he can touch them knocking it back.

A long shot shows Will and the robot continuing to battle.  The shot shows Jacob trying to climb up the side of the robot with limited success.  The camera zooms in for a closer shot of Jacob climbing up the robot.  When the robot moves Jacob gets tossed around and he loses the progress he has made..  He starts to climb up again and the Robot staggers back almost knocking Jacob off in the process.

Jacob (exhausted and panting):

Could this BE any more of a pain in the ass?

As he makes his way up the robot, the plasma cannons continue to fire at Will.  Knocking him down to the ground floor.  Some rubble falls on his head knocking him unconscious. 

Interior:  Robot control room

The warden sees Will unconscious on the ground and extends the giant robot arm to pick him up.

Warden:

I can’t wait for Krull.  I will kill you myself!

Suddenly the back wall of the prison shakes with a loud thud.  The warden and the robot turn just in time to see a massive holes get blasted out by the plasma cannons on from the female ward of the prison.  Thousands of female prisoners come storming through the hole. 

Meanwhile Jacob scales up to the top of the robot.


Interior:  Robot cockpit

Andy squeezes into the warden’s cocpit and looks around to see the warden.  The warden looks up and sees Jacob yelling outside his cockpit.

Warden:

How the hell?

The warden grabs Jacob with the robot’s massive arm. 

Warden:

Two for the price of one.  Any last words?

Jacob:

Yes.  Bite me!

Andy sees Jacob in trouble, yelps and immediately beings firing his stun ray at the warden. 

Warden:

AHH!  Get out of here!

As the warden struggles with Andy, he losens his grip on the two men and they both slide out of the Robot’s hands and fall to the floor.  He continues to struggle with Andy as the robots arms flail, mirroring the warden’s movements.  Cle and an army of women prisoners make their way into the hall through the hole they just blasted out.  Cle spots Jacob and Will.

Cle:

Will!

Interior:  Giant Robot

The warden, now in full control of the robot, targets Will and readies his shoulder mounted plasma cannons.  Will looks up, and sees the cannons charging.  He puts his hands on a massive pile of rubble and waits for a few seconds as the cannons continue to charge by draining the life force of the prisoners trapped in the cells that make up the body of the robot.

Cle:

NOOOOOOOOO!

The cannons blast at the rubble knocking Will backwards.

Jacob runs to the team of female rebels with hundreds of guards chasing after him. 


Jacob (Out of breath):

Hello Ladies.

He winks at the female insect leader.

Female Insect Leader:

ATTACK!!

Jacob shrikes and ducks as the women run past him and at the guards.  A large battle rages as the guards and the female inmates fight to the death.

Exterior:  Super Massive Black Hole

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Krull has a fleet of Dark Energy gathering ships chained to his own ship just outside the Super massive black hole.  The ships are piloted by ex inmates looking to reduce their sentences.  Some ships are sucked into the super massive black hole, others are thrown around violently and smash into other debris that is swirling around the super massive black hole.  As the ships dark energy tanks fill they are towed back into Krull’s battle cruiser.  The men leave the ships shaken and barely able to breathe as they take the dark energy containers off the ships and haul them out of the hangers.  Krull watches with his sphere at his side looking content as thousands more ships are prepared to launch into space to gather more dark energy for Krull’s ultimate weapon.  General Hudson walks into the hanger.

General Hudson:

Admiral Krull.

Krull:

Yes General.

General Hudson:

We are receiving a distress signal from the prison planet Angola.

Admiral Krull:

Ahhh…Will.  Load the Dark Energy Generator to maximum capacity and set your first course for the Angola system.


General Hudson:

Yes sir.

All of the ships gathering dark energy are immediately pulled back into the battle cruiser.  The energy is loaded by the prisoners into a massive reactor in the middle of the ship.  The prisoners are being whipped while doing this by guards with energy whips.  This causes a semi panic as the prisoners just dump the energy into the reactor and run to avoid being whipped.  So prisoners fall into the reactor and are vaporized.  When the reactor is full general Hudson gives the order to engage and the ships’ helmsmen pushes a button and raises energy levels on his computer screen.  A mass of dark energy appears in front of the ship.  The energy soon melds into a massive Quasar, sucks the ship in, and disappears.

Interior:  Prison Main Hall

As the female and mail inmates continue to battle the prison guards Will is still battling the giant robot.  Will continues to throw various objects at the robot with the robot continuing to grab inmates and put them in its fuel cages, using their lifeforce to charge his cannons, and firing at Will.

Warden Kindly:

You see Somelli.  You are responsible for all this!  How many more men need to die before you realize you will never win?!

Will looks up and sees Cle and Jacob battling the prison guards.  He gathers some dirt and throws it at the warden.  It creates a cloud of smoke blinding the warden’s robot.  He then grabs the railing on the walkway tier.  The railing begins to vibrate by his hands, the vibration extends down the railing as Will looks on at Cle and Jacob who are beginning to be pushed back by the guards.  The guards knock Cle to the ground and are about to shoot her when Will whips the railing at them knocking the guards backwards just as the plasma gun goes off. 

Will:

Run!  Jacob, get her to Satyagraha!

Cle looks up and focuses on Will who is staring back at her.  Their eyes meet and they share a brief, poignent moment.



The warden again charges his cannon with the lifeforce of one of the inmates, Will hears the inmates’ screams and grabs a prison door.  The door begins to vibrate as the cannons continue to charge.  Cle, Jacob and the inmates run past the pinned down guards and to the exit.  Cle looks back and sees Will throw the gate just as the massive plasma gun fires.  The blast hits the gate and knocks Will unconcious the expolsion also knocks the warden out and the robot staggers back and falls.  The bar that is holding the guards falls to the ground now that Will is unconcious and the guards rush after the prisoners.  The last prisoner gets through the door to the hanger just as the guards rush and begin to draw their blasters.  Jacob turns and shuts the door right as plasma blasts come at the group.  The blasts hit the closed door.

Cle:

We have to go back!

Jacob:

No!  You heard Will, he wants us to go to Satyagraha.  I know Kang, he will help us. 

Cle:

But Will.

Jacob:

Us dying isn’t going to help him.  We just have to do everything we can to help rid the galaxy of Krull.  That is what Will wants, hopefully he will live to see it happen.

Cle conceeds and the group of inmates runs to the first available ship, fights off the guards and crew and takes over the massive ship.  They blast off with Jacob at the controls.  As they get into orbit a massive Quassar explodes out of nowhere in front of them.  Their ship gets sucked in as Krull’s ship comes out with the prison ship almost scraping the top of Krull’s command battle cruiser.  The ship dissappears along with the Quassar.  Krull’s cruiser lands and he walks into the main hall of the prison.  He sees Will passed out and walks over to him.  He grabs Will’s face and looks at him. 

Krull:

You are mine now Somelli.  Take him away!

The remaining guards come in and take Will to Krull’s battlecruiser




Meanwhile Jacob’s prison cruiser hovers above Satyagraha which is all blue.  As the come in to land the blue mist separates and allows the ship to land.  The land is a forrest similar to ones in the northeast, with massive pine type trees and rocky terrian.  Kang walks out of his tree fortress and greets Jacob and Cle.

Kang:

Welcome friends to Satyagraha

End