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StarCraft The Movie [Part 2]
By Aragorn
EXT. SPACE – MAR SARA
Dropship after Dropship whoosh out of the Thunder Child battlecruiser, zooming down towards the desolate planet below.
EXT. MAR SARA – DAY
Dropships fill the sky as they enter the atmosphere zoom across the barren landscape, slowly lowering as they reach their destination.
EXT. COLONY MS-001 – DAY
Two dropships have already landed and have begun unloading troops by the time the third, fourth, and so on lands and starts unloading their troops. Once each dropship is fully unloaded, it shuts its doors and takes off, heading back up to the battlecruiser above the planet. Each of the Squads instantly reform once all the dropships have been unloaded, and the squad leaders move their squads out to their designated points.
C SQUAD LEADER
C Squad, move out!
D Squad has already begun their journey out of the colony.
BRICK
B Squad, let's get this colony secured!
Brick picks a handful of Marines and two Firebats.
BRICK
You guys go with the Tech Squad into the Command Center.
They nod and say 'Yes Sir' as they march the Techs down the dusty street and out of view. Brick then splits the rest of the squad up into sections, each section taking one of the four areas of the colony – North, South, East, and West.
BRICK
Let's move it, double-time! Move, move move!
The squad splits up, moving into the four directions. Some of the buildings have been partially destroyed, bits and pieces of the walls and roofs having collapsed. Jack and another marine, LUCAS, march down a street, while Danielle starts to march down another street, but stops and goes inside one of the stores.
INT. STORE
The store has been wrecked, food packaging ripped open and strung everywhere, shelves knocked over, buckets of blood smears all over everything, and a giant hole in the back wall. Food crunches under Danielle's metallic boots, and she uses her gun to reach under a shelf and use her strength to make the gun tip the shelf back over. She gasps as she sees a mutilated body underneath in a pool of its own blood, a few intestines strung out from under it.
EXT. COLONY MS-001
Jack and Lucas are scanning the streets when they see something in the distance. Jack rushes over to it, Lucas not far behind, and they come across a part of the ground that had collapsed into an underground tunnel system. He lets out a loud whistle and waves for nearby troopers to come over. Among them is Danielle, who had been inspecting the inside of a store and had exited through a hole in the wall.
JACK
Look at this.
DANIELLE
Looks like they came up from under the ground.
A firebat, FAWKES, bends down and tries to peer down one of the tunnels without actually stepping down into the collapsed area.
FAWKES
Looks like those tunnels go deep.
JACK
Sarge, come in. We found an underground tunnel system. Looks like these fuckers burrowed through the ground.
BRICK
(V.O.)
Copy that, Private Sheldon. Southside has reported two more of those.
Jack looks around and sees a nearby military bunker with a dead body resting in an awkward position on the stairs leading up inside of the building, missing a limb or two.
JACK
You guys stay patrolling outside. I'm checking out that bunker.
As everyone else continues searching the area, Jack rushes over to the bunker and goes inside.
INT. BUNKER
The entire place is wrecked with cabinets, bunks, and various debris strewn everywhere, including a couple grisly dead bodies. Jack slowly and carefully steps around and over whatever he can, a few times bending down to overturn something before continuing on with his search. One of those times reveals a third body having been squished under a gun cabinet. The body is decapitated and the head is no where to be found.
JACK
It's a slaughterhouse in here.
LUCAS
(V.O.)
You need back up?
JACK
No, that's alright Private Lucas, thanks though.
Jack looks out one of the many tiny openings, which allows soldiers to look out and aim their guns out at any approaching dangers. He scans the barren wasteland that goes on for as far as the eye can see, the sun almost making the heat itself visible in waves coming up from the desert ground. A thumping noise, followed by a scratching noise turns Jack's head from sightseeing and towards a closed door at the far end of the room. The noise continues as Jack cautiously makes his way around the wrecked debris, over the dead bodies, and towards the closed door.
JACK
To whoever is behind that door, I am a Confederate Marine. I am going to open the door. Do not attack.
Jack shoulders his gun as he reaches the doorknob and presses down on it. The door slams open with a roar as one of the creatures – a zergling – jumps out, knocking Jack to the floor, hissing and roaring at him as he starts denting and scratching the metal of his suit with its teeth and claws. One of the sickles swings down, breaking his faceplate and shattering it everywhere.
Automatic gunfire rings out and the creature flies off Jack with a screech, splattering the wall with its purple blood. Jack quickly backs up as he stands up, never taking his eyes off the dead creature as he raises his gun and aims it at it. Danielle steps into view, followed by Fawkes.
FAWKES
What the fuck is that thing?
JACK
It's a vicious little fuck, and I'm guessing it's one of the things that attacked this colony, and more then likely A Squad as well.
DANIELLE
Sergeant Brick, this is Private Giblak. We've made contact with an unknown life form.
BRICK
(V.O.)
Status?
DANIELLE
Very dead. Sir...this is something you're going to want to see for yourself.
EXT. MAR SARA WASTELAND – DAY
D Squad is patrolling the wasteland area near the colony, their feet crunching the sand and rock underfoot. One of the Marines, DAVID LANDIS, stops and looks up at the blazing sun in the sky, lifts up his faceplate and wipes some sweat on his head before whooshing his faceplate closed again and continuing on. One of the Firebats, JANE KELLY, eyes a half-buried monstrous skeleton in the sand.
JANE
I have a bad feeling about this.
HARRY
You always have a bad feeling.
JANE
But this time I really mean it. I mean, not only did we receive a distress call about attacking aliens, not only did we loose communications with both colonies, but the entire A Squad and their Battlescruiser are missing. What happened to them?
LANDIS
Private Kelly's right. This whole thing just doesn't feel right.
They get a momentary break from the scorching sun as they pass beneath a small clump of thick trees.
HARRY
Unfortunately, that's what my last girlfriend said too.
Harry laughs along with half the other people in the squad, but everyone instantly stops as a Zergling bursts out of the ground right in front of them, and stares at them.
LANDIS
What the fuck is that little guy...?
It screeches and charges at them. CORPORAL NECRIS, the Squad Leader, raises his gun with everyone else.
NECRIS
Firebats! You're up!
All the Marines fall back as the Firebats take front and center and open fire on the approaching creature, burning its skin off within seconds as they fire steady streams of thick fire. A pile of twisted lifeless burning flesh is all that's left within seconds. Necris walks up to it and taps it with his foot. A piece of burning flesh falls from the rest and plops onto the ground.
JANE
What the hell is it, sir? Local?
NECRIS
Negative, Private. Remember our briefings aboard the Thunder Child. Did this resemble any of the critters that currently, or have been known, to habit this hellhole?
JANE
Sir, no sir!
NECRIS
Sergeant Brick, come in. This is Corporal Necris of D Squad.
BRICK
Report, Corporal.
NECRIS
Contact reported, sir. A single little bugger came up out of the ground and rushed my squad.
BRICK
Multiple other reports of contact have been relayed. C Squad has already lost three men to the little fucks when they got rushed by a group of them. They are extremely hostile. Shoot to kill on sight.
NECRIS
Orders understood, sir. Ok men, we have Shoot-to-Kill orders on these guys. Eyes peeled, guns raised, and let's keep moving!
EXT. COLONY MS-001 – DAY
Sergeant Brick turns around and continues helping his section of the squad search their area, passing by several dead bodies of colonists strewn among the streets.
MARINE VOICE
Sir, the techs have communications up and running again. We've established contact with El Secro, and updated them of our situation. General Duke was not present though, as he is currently on his personal battlecruiser, the Norad II, sir.
BRICK
Finally some good news. I'm on my way. Try to establish contact with the Norad II.
MARINE VOICE
Copy that, sir.
Brick shoulders his gun and turns, jogging towards the nearby giant Command Center.
EXT. MAR SARA – DAY
D squad continues their patrol, guns raised and aiming outwards, eyes constantly scanning in all directions. All of a sudden, from in front of them, dozens upon dozens of zerglings pop up from under the ground, hissing and screeching at them. Without even waiting a second, they rush the squad.
NECRIS
Firebats!
The Firebats once again step forward as the Marines step back, and unleash a wall of fire at the incoming alien forces. While some of the zerglings are pretty much stopped in their tracks, conforming into burning piles of flesh, some also make it through the wall of fire, and a couple of those continue rushing despite being on fire themselves. They leap at the Firebats – a few of them being knocked down as the zerglings on them work at ripping into their flesh, digging and cutting through the armor like it's nothing. Some of the Firebats back up however, narrowly missing getting landed on by the zerglings who just land on the ground again, and they open fire once more, unleashing another wall of fire.
NECRIS
Marines! Help 'em out!
Speeding bullets begin whizzing into the attack area, pelting the attacking zerglings and cutting into their flesh. A couple of the zerglings that were ripping into fallen Firebats are flung off by the force of the bullets, while some of the charging ones are mowed down between the hail of gunfire and the wall of fire.
The same sound they heard when the zerglings burrowed up from the ground is heard once more, this time from behind everyone, and Landis turns his head.
LANDIS
They're attacking our rear!
Half of them turn around to see a new group of the aliens. These ones move on snake-like bodies which lift high off the ground, making these new creatures just a bit taller then the average person. Along their back is a boney spine jutting out from the slug-like body, the back of which, right behind the shoulder blades, is protected by a hard shell with ends in a thick spike of bone. The head is protected by a large thing crest, which moves down and forms the skeleton-like face, with wide open jaws that could cover an entire human body in one bite. Its two arms end in long thick razor-sharp sickle-like claws made out of bone where the hands should be. The HYDRALISKS have arrived.
MARINE
Holy sh...!
His shout turns into gargled screams as the lead Hydralisk impales the marine, shaking him around, spraying wet blood in all directions before the body flies off.
NECRIS
Kill 'em all!
They then open fire on the rear, while the others continue firing at the attacking zerglings from the front. No matter how many of the aliens they kill, it seems a dozen more jut replace the fallen one. Zerglings are taking down soldiers every few seconds, and the hydralisks are cutting down their prey even easier, splattering the brown desert floor with large amounts of gooey red. One of those such people is Corporal Necris, who manages to get his head decapitated by a slice of a hydralisk's giant curved claw, before two smaller zerglings leap and knock the body to the ground, cutting into it and ripping it apart in savage glee.
JANE
This is a slaughterhouse! I'm getting out of here!
HARRY
I'm with you!
Harry and Jane turn away from their fight, allowing a couple other soldiers to get overtaken, and turn to run away, firing blasts of fire at any zerglings or hydralisks that are between them and freedom. While running away, Harry gets nicked in the leg by a quick slash of a zergling's smaller high-raised sickle claws, slicing his side open. Harry screams and instantly slows down just on the outside of the slaughter. Jane slows down and turns back to him.
HARRY
Go on! I was just nicked, that's all! I'll catch up!
Jane nods and turns back around, running across the desert, away from the dying high-pitched screams of her comrades being slaughtered. Harry hears some screeching and turns his head back around, seeing that he's been noticed by some of the aliens and a large number of them break away from the massacre to start chasing after him.
HARRY
Shit!
Still holding a hand at his side, he runs to the near-by clump of trees and quickly starts to climb as high as he can get in one of them, so that he's near the bushy top by the time a large number of both zerglings and hydralisks have reached the area.
HARRY
Can't get me now, can ya, you fuckers!
While holding onto a higher branch with one hand, he aims the other down and lets loose some fire, which ends just above their heads below. One of the hydralisks glare up at him and hisses lowly, slowly lifting the end of its tail up. A small crevice splits open at the very end of it, and all of a sudden three small, thin, green needles shoot out, digging into Harry's body consecutively within seconds. One digs into his arm while the second digs into his chest, both spurting blood out as he screams. The third flies and impales right through his faceplate and into his left eye, spurting blood all over the inside of his faceplate and obscuring his remaining view. Harry lifts his head back as he screams louder then before, and he falls off the back of the branch and lands with a hard thump on the ground. He is quickly covered in the attacking zerg forces, who all rush and pounce on him like hungry lions.
INT. COLONY MS-001 – HOUSE
Jack and Danielle enter one of the homes, sweeping their guns around as they slowly step through the seemingly untouched building. The rush to a corner and Jack gives a hand signal. He jumps out from behind the corner and crunches down as he points his gun into the room, while Danielle rushes on down the hall to do the same to another room.
JACK
This one's all clear.
DANIELLE
So's mine.
They shoulder their weapons and turn to meet each other in the middle of the hall. Danielle pushes herself up close to Jack and opens her visor.
JACK
What are you doing?
Danielle reaches up and pushes a button on Jack's suit that whooshes his visor opened as well.
DANIELLE
This.
She leans up and kisses Jack on the lips. Instead of pulling away, Jack grabs her sides and pulls her closer as he returns the kiss.
COREY
(V.O.)
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
Danielle and Jack instantly part and whip around, finding Corey and his two friends standing in the entranceway.
COREY
Now last time I checked, personal relations between officers were illegal. And while on the job? Tsk tsk. I wonder what the Sarge would say about this.
JACK
Corey, what's your problem with me?
COREY
My problem is rich kids that think they're so much better then everyone else, just cause they have the money to get everything handed to them while everyone else has to work their asses off.
JACK
Oh, I don't believe this. You're blaming me for being born into a rich family?
COREY
I'm blaming you for what you and people like you have done to people like me. Come on, this house is empty, it's safe. Let's finally get this done.
Corey drops his gun to the floor.
JACK
What in the Galactics are you doing?
COREY
Me and you, just us, hand-to-hand, come on.
DANIELLE
Corey, knock it off.
COREY
Bitch, stay out of this.
JACK
Don't talk to her that way!
Jack drops his gun and goes into a fighting stance. Corey smirks. Right as he charges, a zergling bursts through the plaster of the wall and lands on Corey, knocking him to the floor. Corey screams as the zergling's sharp teeth gnash into him, and its two scythe limbs slash up and down repeatedly. Jack instinctively goes to raise his gun, but then realizes he dropped it. Danielle gets a hard-ass determined look on her face and raises her own gun, pulling the trigger and not letting go until the zergling is splattered against the far wall, its purple blood tinting almost every surface in the room. Blood leaks out of Corey's body from multiple places and begins pooling on the floor. Corey's two friends look at each other and then turn and run out of the building. Danielle watches them run away.
DANIELLE
Shit. This isn't going to bode well...
Jack picks up his gun and grabs Danielle's arm.
JACK
Come on, we have to get out of here.
Danielle nods and the two of them rush out of the house, leaving Corey's dead body behind.
3/9/2008 8:00:35 PM
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