Antz Page #15

-- But all is not well. We pull back to reveal that Z and

Bala are standing in front of a giant sneaker logo, which is

attached to a giant sneaker. Which moves.

Z:

I sort of imagined Insectopia a

little differently --

Just at that moment, we hear a whistling in the air -- and

the female wasp is crushed by a huge swatter that sweeps out

of the sky, sending the picnic blanket billowing up in an

aftershock that throws Bala and Z to the ground.

BALA:

Oh...my...God.

MALE WASP:

(shaking her)

Muffy! Muffy! Wake up!

But she doesn't move. The Male Wasp stares up at the sky.

MALE WASP:

(heartbroken)

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY????

But Z, also looking up, has no time to commiserate.

Z:

Bala, look out!!

They are only saved by the fact that they are so small - .the

holes of the swatter pass over them.

The woman, realizing that the swatter won't work on ants,

throws it to the side and tries stomping on them...

Before Bala can get away, a sneaker falls on her with a

thunderous BOOM that shakes the ground.

BALA:

MMMffllmmm...

The shoe rises, as the person wearing it steps away...and we

see that Bala is stuck in one of the ridges of the waffle-

soled sneaker, adhering to a big piece of bubblegum!

BALA:

Z! Help me!!!

But Bala is carried off on the sneaker in a huge, looping,

ferris-wheel-like motion. BOOM. The sneaker on which Bala

is stuck falls again, as the woman tries to step on Z, too --

Z:

Bala!

(mournfully)

I'll never see her again...

-- But he does, instantly, as the shoe rises again, showing

Bala stuck deeper in the bubblegum --

BALA:

Z!!! Get me out of heeeeere!

-- The woman has decided to walk away from the picnic to get

the bubblegum off her shoe...Z heart sinks as the shoe Bala's

stuck on lopes off into the distance...

Z:

(thinks)

These things always come in twos...

He sees a SECOND SHOE starting to rise --

Z:

Take me to your leader!

Z runs towards the shoe as it rises... and at the last moment

catches on to the snaky, swinging shoe-lace.

Z:

Whoooooooaaaa!!!

The sneaker lifts off into the air, with Z holding on for

dear life to the lace, and getting further and further away

from Bala as he's drawn to a vertiginous height...the

landscape can be seen rolling and pitching crazily in the

background...

Z:

Bala! Come back here!

For a moment, the sneaker seems to pause in the air...then it

descends again, in a stomach-churning, roller-coaster free-

fall as the sneaker on which Bala is stuck rises up again...

BALA:

Z!!!!!!! I'm stuck!

-- But Z is trying to keep his lunch down as he descends.

The sneaker hits the ground, and Z can feel himself

again...it's now or never.

Z:

(Tarzan whoop)

Aa-ee-ya-ee-yaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!

As the sneaker rises again, he swings off the lace, hurtling

through the air and catching one of the laces of Bala's

sneaker...the momentum swings him up and under the sole...

BALA:

Z! You're here!

Z gets smashed into the bubblegum next to Bala. Now he's

stuck too.

Z:

(ruefully)

Yeah. I'm here.

The sneaker descends again. Z and Bala hold hands and SCREAM

as they see the ground rise too meet them...

THUD! They're squished deeper into the bubblegum. The

sneaker rises again...

BALA:

(emotional)

Z...if we don't make it...I just want

you to know....

Z:

(touched)

Yes?

BALA:

This is all your fault!!!

The sneaker rises, and seems ready to fall again...but

instead it just hovers there. (The person wearing it is

balancing on one leg and about to scrape off the bubblegum

with a penny).

Z:

We're safe...

Just then, the hand holding the penny looms up...the penny

is, by ant standards, about sixty feet high. The huge image

of Abraham Lincoln stares down at them.

Z:

Who the hell is that?!!!

The penny starts scrapes the bubblegum off the sneaker,

bringing Bala and Z along with it. They're carried through

the air as the penny gets thrown away...turning over and over

in a lopsided orbit as Bala and Z SCREAM...

...and land with a CRASH in total darkness.

EXT. LAKE - DAY

The "lake" where Z and Bala were nearly drowned by the water

droplet.

The earth shakes as a HUGE, MONSTROUS creature approaches the

lake - and begins to drink from it. The creature seems to

hear something, and, growling, turns its ugly head. It's a

Pomeranian, one of those yappy little lap-dogs -- but seen

from ant perspective, it's something out of a horror movie.

TOUGH VOICE (O.S.)

Ant Team Six -- take him out!

The monster bears its huge fangs at the approaching

intruders -- a bunch of flying ants who look as though

they're attacking the Death Star!

The monster rears and snaps at two of the ants, who are

making a diversionary run...

and then gets it from the rest of the ants, who land on his

soft, wet nose and start stinging away like crazy.

The monster rears back in pain -- and runs away, YIPPING!

The members of ANT TEAM SIX, a crack team of hardcore flying-

ant commandoes a la Seal Team Six, break off the attack and

land.

MAJOR MANDIBLE:

And don't come back, you sissy!

MAJOR MANDIBLE, Ant Team Six's lethal commander, steps into

frame. He's the one-eyed killer we met in the bar earlier.

The rest of his team fan out to search the area.

MANDIBLE:

Talk to me.

COMMANDO ANT:

Z and the Princess were here, sir.

Signs of a struggle.

MANDIBLE:

Let's get a read on that feremone

track.

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