Apocalypse Rising Page #4

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Why did you let them?

My father asked me to.

Your father?

He must be cruel.

Never. But he can be tough.

Can I help you?

My father

will help me.

What you can do

is help out humanity

which teeters on the verge

of Armageddon today.

That is why I brought you here.

If you think I can,

I will.

Hurry. The dead

are preparing to rise.

[shouts in agony]

[panting, whimpering]

- Sister.

- [crying]

He died to save

this planet's people.

And now he's asking

for our help to do it again.

- The dead!

- The dead have risen?

What?

No, the Dead Sea.

It's disappearing.

What sort of apocalyptic cult

have we got ourselves

wrapped up in here?

One that can drain the sea...

from outer space, David.

Okay, well, if you say

they're aliens, then...

I guess they're aliens.

You know, I've never seen you

interested in anything

that wasn't buried underground

for the last 50,000 years.

You've brushed off my advances

for so long now.

You've made advances?

[sighs] I mean, a man can only

get shot down so many times

before he gives up.

David, I'm so sorry

for not noticing.

I wanted to discover

something important first.

Maybe we can discover

something together.

You, uh, know what

they want us to do now, right?

What the hell.

Maybe we will procreate

after all.

[rings clack]

[India] So, these are

a bunch of heavy minerals

that have settled to the bottom

over the years.

It's perfectly normal.

[Mia]

There's something inside.

[India]

I highly doubt it.

But if there is,

I'm certain they're dead.

[Mia]

That's what I'm afraid of.

[Magnum]

Mia. Mia!

It's the same sign

from up top.

Except I've never heard

of a department designating

- an underwater site.

- Hmm.

Our archeological dig site

is the Dead Sea site.

This is just the Dead site.

Maybe an intern

left a word off?

[rocks clattering]

[India] "On the third day

Christ rose again."

Book of Luke,

chapter 24, verse 46.

That's a quote

from the Christian bible.

- But why is it here?

- [David] A cult?

A secret attraction

for scuba divers.

I don't know.

This could mean anything.

There's a passageway here.

[Mia] I don't know

how to gain entrance.

[Major Lee] Only the dead

can open it, Mia.

Yes, Father.

Only the dead can open it.

[slams shut]

[India]

Oh, sh*t!

[David]

Great. We're trapped.

[David]

Feels like a coffin in here.

[Mia] They emerge

from coffins and crypts.

Sarcophagi and mausoleums.

They suffer for millennia

in cramped spaces,

waiting to rise again.

Just like their savior.

Their savior?

[Mia]

The man you call Jesus.

This is the most incredible

archeological discovery

in the history of the world.

Why are we whispering?

[India] I don't know

what else is down here,

but, if anything,

I don't want to become a part

of this skull collection. Ugh.

Site?

It's not a word,

it's what you call a...

an acronym.

"The dead shall inherit

the Earth."

[man] He rose from

the dead to save us!

Soon we will rise up

to eat their bodies...

and drink their blood.

It will give us

everlasting life.

- [priest laughing]

- Let's get the f*** outta here!

[laughing]

[zombies wheezing, moaning]

[laughing]

Aaaah!

[growling, moaning]

[growling]

Arrgh! Aarrgh...

[Mia screaming]

Aah!

Run!

[zombie growling]

[whimpering]

My father.

Father, I need your help.

I need your help now.

[Major Lee]

Leave me. I belong.

No!

[Major Lee]

I love you.

I love you too.

[Thora] The Zeds here

don't move as fast.

We have an advantage.

Oh, sh*t!

We f***ing did this.

He Who Watches got tired

of watching us ruin his world.

He drove humans off of Rathe,

and now Earth.

And likely every other world

he's ever created.

[Magnum]

Girls, let's go. Let's go.

[moaning, growling]

[woman]

Why do your people hate you?

[Karl]

They're not my people.

On my planet, Rathe,

we had two tribes.

The Epilates, and my tribe.

We were at war with one another

for resources,

and our differences

and beliefs of our creator.

At one point,

there was peace,

but someone broke the truce.

No one really knows

who started it.

But on the first night

of the attack,

I lost my mother...

my father...

four sisters,

a twin brother,

and most of my friends.

What happened?

They were murdered

in their sleep.

I managed to survive,

but then the dead arose

to consume us all.

I only survived for one reason.

And what reason was that?

Revenge.

[Shira, moaning]

Harder. Harder!

Oh, yeah.

Karl will be back

any second.

Okay. Yeah, I'm trying.

Harder!

[Karl, in distance]

We gotta go!

- Oh, is that him?

- Yeah.

Pathetic choices

around here.

Except for that Magnum.

- [zombie roars]

- [flesh tears]

[Shira]

Was that good?

[groaning]

[sighs]

[gurgling]

Hell, yeah.

Now we're talkin'.

[panting]

Yeah.

I'm gonna f*** you

six feet to hell.

[gurgling, rasping]

[moaning]

- We gotta go.

- No! Let me finish!

Come on!

Let go of me,

you interstellar c*nt!

[Shira grunting, yelling]

You just f***ed a Zed?

Is there no limit

to your sluttiness?

No.

Come on, we gotta go.

[whooshing]

[Mia]

Just as on Rathe.

A new war between Earth's

inhabitants has begun.

A war founded on religious

differences,

greed,

and a struggle for power.

A war that is only a prelude

to the true devastation

that is about to sweep

this doomed world.

[explosion]

- [Magnum] Hey.

- [all panting]

A war has begun.

- We have to get to the city.

- Why? What's in the city?

A great evil is about

to be unleashed.

We have to go now.

Ah. Well, would you

look at that?

Thy kingdom come...

never.

[India] So, Thora,

what was your world like?

You know, before.

[Thora]

Rathe? Sorta like this.

Dry and dusty.

My father did say that before

the wars it was a paradise.

[India]

So you had wars too?

[Thora] The Ariels

and the Nepilates,

they fought over everything...

land, water, holy grounds.

I remember when I was younger,

the children of each tribe

would get together,

of course,

without the adults,

and they created

a Children's Peace Treaty

in which we decided to share.

[India] Yes, let the children

negotiate peace.

I mean,

they're the only ones left

that are not blinded by hatred.

[Thora] Well, the adults

laughed at us

and burned the treaty.

And the fighting

intensified after that.

[soldiers shouting]

[gasping]

[India] Guns.

Come on, guys, they got it.

[zombies howling]

[Mia]

Oh, no! Oh, no!

What is it, Mia?

We must get

to the Prayer Wall.

A great evil

is about to be unleashed.

[zombies moaning]

We must hurry.

Crazy, isn't it?

The religious people

were right.

Death isn't the end after all.

But this probably

wasn't what they meant.

I mean, I'm just curious

if when the humans are gone,

you think the zombies will

make horror movies about us?

[India laughs]

I guess we'll either

live or die together.

I'm good with that.

I'm sorry I got you involved

in this, Dr. Coleman.

It's okay. You know,

India Jones

and the Temple of Death

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