Alien vs. Predator Page #15

Come on.

A metal ladder runs up the side of one of the base buildings. GUTTIEREZ

crosses to it and starts to climb the first few rungs.

DE VRIES:

What? Are you nuts? Just the two of us?

GUTTIEREZ:

I've seen this mother, De Vries. We can

bag it, no problem.

DE VRIES:

Forget it, man.

GUTTIEREZ:

C'mon De Vries. Think of the bonus.

DE VRIES:

F*** the bonus. I hate heights. You

wouldn't get me up there even if it

_wasn't_ night.

GUTTIEREZ starts to climb the ladder.

DE VRIES:

What the hell are you doing?

GUTTIEREZ:

Hey, fair enough. If you won't come, I'll

handle it myself.

DE VRIES runs her fingers through her hair in frustration. Comes to a

decision counter to what she wants to do...

DE VRIES:

Wait a minute!

GUTTIEREZ stops climbing.

DE VRIES (CONT'D)

Alright, okay. Look...

GUTTIEREZ:

What?

DE VRIES:

I'll come with you.

BREWSTER BARKS. She drags the dog over to a metal stanchion and ties the

leash around it.

DE VRIES (CONT'D)

But I'm going first...

GUTTIEREZ:

Anything you say, Mammacitta.

She climbs around GUTTIEREZ and begins to ascend the ladder. BREWSTER

WHIMPERS and plaintively BARKS after them.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - ROOFTOP LEVEL - DUSK

The rooftop is dark, mysterious. Pieces of retrofitted junk can be seen in

silhouette, edged in light from way below. DE VRIES and GUTTIEREZ carefully

step over the threshold. They speak in WHISPERS.

DE VRIES:

Careful of that edging there...

GUTTIEREZ:

Yeah, I got it.

Although we have an outstanding VIEW of the night lights of the base up here,

the immediate gloom is impenetrable.

DE VRIES:

Where's that flashlight?

By way of an answer, a powerful ray cuts a swathe through the air. DE VRIES

takes the torch from him and shines it on the ground. Circular extractor

fans rotate quietly in the gloom.

DE VRIES (CONT'D)

Still got him?

GUTTIEREZ:

It's moving slow. About...eleven metres.

On the left.

DE VRIES plays the flashlight across the rooftop.

GUTTIEREZ (CONT'D)

Little bit further...

The beam comes to rest on a protruding piece of apparatus. A short-range

antennae, about seven feet wide.

GUTTIEREZ (CONT'D)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right there, right

behind the antennae. I think we're got

it cornered...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - DUSK

HIROKO bends down to inspect a small plastic grating fitted flush with the

roadway. The broken grillework is melted outwards. KAMEN and two other

men - CALDWELL and THOMAS - stand behind.

THOMAS:

The door to the food storage locker was

smashed open. It must have come straight

out of here.

HIROKO yawns.

HIROKO:

Alright. Keep your eyes peeled.

She voices her concern to KAMEN.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

If it got out of the systems, it could

be anywhere.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - ROOFTOP LEVEL - DUSK

It's very quiet, and we can hear the NERVOUS BREATHING of GUTTIEREZ and DE

VRIES as they cautiously stalk forward.

GUTTIEREZ:

Hold it, hold it...

DE VRIES:

What's wrong?

GUTTIEREZ:

I'm picking up another signal.

DE VRIES looks around, unnerved.

DE VRIES:

What? Where?

GUTTIEREZ:

Just behind us, over to the right.

DE VRIES shines her beam over the surface of the yellow crane to their rear,

shifting her attention to-and-fro from it and the antennae.

DE VRIES:

Can't see a thing. Are you sure?

GUTTIEREZ:

Yeah, I...

The second blip on the small screen abruptly vanishes.

GUTTIEREZ (CONT'D)

Wait. Lost it.

DE VRIES:

How?

GUTTIEREZ:

I dunno. Might be a glitch.

From behind the metal disc there comes a SHUFFLING SOUND, followed by a

METALLIC THUNK. This gets their attention. The two of them halt in their

tracks.

DE VRIES:

Oh, man. _That's_ no glitch!

GUTTIEREZ:

It's alright, it's cool...

DE VRIES:

Is it still moving?

GUTTIEREZ:

No, he's stopped; he's totally still.

Just take it nice and easy, babe. Nice

and easy...

A small many-limbed SHAPE hurls itself from the confines of it's hiding place

with a FERAL SHRIEK. DE VRIES YELPS in surprise, and looses off a spray of

bullets.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - DUSK

HIROKO looks up, startled by the sound of GUNFIRE. She sees the rooftop of

one of the building modules lit by tracer fire. BREWSTER's tethered nearby,

BARKING furiously.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - PUMP ROOM - PUMP SHAFT

A think metal cable connected to her jacket harness suspends URIOSTE in the

gloom of the Pump Shaft. In front of her is a machine-part we saw her carry

earlier. With the strap of a flashlight clenched in her mouth, she's just

finishing up bolting the part to the larger piece of machinery in an alcove,

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