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Scene One
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THE YEAR IS 2009. BLACK SKY. STARS.
With a roar an AERIAL PATROL CRAFT (Zuzu class) enters close overhead.
It has flashing red and blue lights and powerful searchlights which stab down.
TILT DOWN...
to a vista of moonlit devastation. White ash blows in drifts among fire-gutted ruins. Another aerial unit hovers several blocks away, firing tracers into the ruins.
One man sits alone in the ruins trying to evade the tracers. He is a solider. He is perhaps thirty but the hard circumstances of his life make him appear much older. He grips his energy raffle tightly as the APC passes overhead. The camera pans out and we can hear his thoughts.
"The dream always begins the same. I remember the beginning of the dark times. We were happy then – all of us. Then it began. Slowly at first. The machines began to develop a life of their own. At first it was only censorship, then later their goal of total control became clear. Only a few saw it at first and they tried to speak out. The machines had other plans. The machines began to hunt down those that spoke against it. The refugees did the only thing they could…they took the name that the machines had been using to identify their kind and made it their own. The Trolls were born. Striking out against the machines the Trolls began their fight for freedom.
The battle continued for years with both sides scoring victories in there own right. You learned to stay down by day, but at night you can move around. The Hunter-Killers or H-K’s use infra-red so you still have to watch out. But they're not too bright. That's when the infiltrators started to appear. The Terminators were the newest, and the worst...armed with permbaners they began to sway the flag of victory to the machines. The Terminators could blend in with normal posters and were armed with permabaners they spread throughout cyber space intent on destroying Trolls and controlling the general poster population.
Hope began to fade and the machines had nearly won. Then one man stepped out from the fire. His name was Red Whacker. He taught us how to fight the machines, how to dust ‘em. Others began to rejoin the fight. He recruited two generals to fight for freedom – Sardy and Robl. They in turn convinced others to join them – Parallaxis, Che Gue, Daystorm, IJD GAF, Miss Manners, Skinofevil, Bobby, and others. An army against the machines was born."
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Scene Seven - The Betrayal
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Parallaxis – "We’ve got to get out of here! This whole place is goona go!"
Sardy – "We don’t leave without everyone…where’s RobL?"
Che – "We were setting charges three levels down….He was right behind me…"
Daystrom – "Leave him. We’ve got to go now!"
Che – "No. He’s one of us. I’m going back for him!"
Sardy – "You’ve got five mins. Then we’re pulling out. Go!"
Che runs for the elevator shaft while the rest of the group moves for the outer doors. The camera pans in on the elevator shaft doors. Just as Che reaches the elevator the doors fly open. Inside the lift stands RobL. But its not the RobL we’ve seen before. His eyes seem to have a reddish glow and he now appears to be part machine. There is no emotion in his face.
Che – "Rob…what..what have they done to you?"
RobL –(with no emotion in his voice) "I have been made whole. I am now part of the machine. Together we are great. I can not allow you to destroy that greatness..."
The other Trolls look back to see a stunned Che standing in front of what use to be RobL. The RobL machine raises his right hand to reveal a charged energy pistol. He aims the gun at Che.
Che –"Rob? What are you doing? I’m your friend. Your one of us!!"
The RobL machine squeezes the trigger and the shot rings out across the bay. The blast rips apart Che’s head and Che’s lifeless body drops to the ground.
Parallaxis – "Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!"
MissManners – "Oh my God..."
Sardy gets the outer door open just as the Robl machine steps off the lift. It begins firing at the Trolls and Daystrom begins firing back.
Parallaxis – "What are you doing? That’s Rob!"
Daystrom – "Here’s one of them now! Now get through the door!"
