Atlantis: The Lost Empire Page #4

It looks like

the rotor's shot!

I'm gonna have

to pull a spare...

from one

of the trucks.

- Can l...

- No toques nada!

I'll be right back.

[Hissing and groaning]

[Whoosh]

She lives!

Hey, what'd you do?

Well, you know,

the boiler in this baby...

is a Humac model P54/813.

Now we got the 814

back at the museum.

The heating cores

on the whole Humac line...

have always been a little,

you know, temperamental...

so sometimes you gotta... boom!

Persuade 'em a little.

Yeah, yeah,

thank you very much.

Shut up.

Two for flinching.

Ooh!

[Mole laughing]

This is it.

It's gotta be.

ROURKE:
All right,

we'll make camp here.

Why is it glowing?

Pah! It is a natural

phosphorescence.

That thing is going to keep me

up all night, I know it.

[Triangle jangling]

COOKIE:
Come and get it!

For the appetizer,

Caesar salad...

escargot...

and your Oriental

spring rolls.

- Yuck.

- I wanted the escargot.

Knock yourself out.

There you go, Milo.

Put some meat

on them bones.

Thanks, Cookie.

That looks greasier than usual.

You like it?

Well, have some more.

You're so skinny,

if you turned sideways...

and stuck out your tongue

you'd look like a zipper.

You know, we've been

pretty tough on the kid.

What do you say

we cut him some slack?

Yeah, you're right.

Hey, Milo! Why don't

you come sit with us?

Really? You don't mind?

Nah. Park it here.

Gee, this is great.

I mean, you know...

it's an honor to be

included in your...

[Pbbbt]

[Laughing]

- Mole!

- Ah, forgive me.

I could not resist.

Hey, Milo, don't you ever

close that book?

Yeah, you must've read it

a dozen times by now.

I know, but this... this

doesn't make any sense.

See, in this passage

here, the shepherd...

seems to be leading

up to something.

He calls it

the heart of Atlantis.

It could be the power source

the legends refer to.

But then it just...

it cuts off.

It's almost like

there's a missing page.

Kid, relax.

We don't get paid overtime.

I know, I know.

Sometimes I get

a little carried away.

But, hey, you know, that's what

this is all about, right?

I mean, discovery,

teamwork, adventure.

Unless, maybe...

you're just in it

for the money.

- Money.

- Money.

- Money.

- Money.

I'm gonna say...

money.

[Sighs] Well, I guess I set

myself up for that one.

[Grunts]

What, is something

wrong with your neck?

Oh, yeah, I must've

hurt it when...

[Cracking]

Aah! Ow!

Better?

[Grunts] Yeah!

Hey, how'd you learn

how to do that?

- An Arapaho medicine man.

- Get outta here.

Born and raised with 'em.

My father was an army medic.

He settled down

in the Kansas Territory...

after he met my mother.

No kidding.

Nope. I got a sheepskin

from Howard U.

And a bearskin

from old Iron Cloud.

Halfway through medical school,

I was drafted.

One day I'm studying gross

anatomy in the classroom...

the next I'm sewing up

Rough Riders on San Juan Hill.

Main course.

I couldn't eat another bite.

AUDREY:
I'm watching

my weight.

Ha ha ha, don't you worry.

It'll keep

and keep and keep.

Thank God I lost my sense

of taste years ago.

Aren't you going

to pitch up your tent?

Uh, I did.

I guess I'm still

a little rusty at this.

I haven't

gone camping since...

well, the last time

my grandpa took me.

I never got to meet

your grandfather.

What was he like?

Where do you start?

He was like a father

to me, really.

My parents died

when I was a little kid...

and he took me in.

- [Chuckles]

- What?

Well, I was

just thinkin'.

One time, when I was eight,

we were hiking along

this stream...

and I saw something

shining in the water.

It was a genuine arrowhead.

Well, you'd think I'd found

a lost civilization...

the way Grandpa

carried on about it.

It wasn't

until I was older...

that I realized

that the arrowhead...

was just

some compressed shale...

mixed with zinc pyrite

that had fractured...

into an isosceletic

triangulate.

[Giggles]

That is so cute!

Say, Audrey,

uh, no... no offense...

but how does a teenager

become the chief mechanic...

of a multimillion dollar

expedition?

Well, I took this job

when my dad retired.

But the funny thing was...

he always

wanted sons, right?

One to run his machine

shop and the other...

to be middleweight

boxing champion.

But he got my sister

and me instead.

So, what... what happened

to your sister?

She's 24 and 0, with a shot

at the title next month.

Anyway, I'm saving up...

so my Papi and I

can open another shop.

Forget your jammies,

Mrs. Packard?

I sleep in the nude.

SWEET:
You're gonna

want a pair of these.

She sleepwalks.

Well, as far as me goes...

I just like

to blow things up.

SWEET:
Come on, Vinny...

tell the kid the truth.

My family owned

a flower shop.

We would sell roses...

carnations, baby's breath,

you name it.

One day, I'm making...

about three dozen corsages

for this prom.

You know, the one

they put on their wrist.

And everybody, they come.

"Where is it?"

"When is it?"

"Does it match my dress?"

It's a nightmare.

Anyway, I guess there

was this leak next door...

of gas or what. Boom!

No more Chinese laundry.

Blew me right through

the front window.

It was like a sign from God.

I found myself that boom.

[Grunting]

[Mole chuckles]

What's Mole's story?

Trust me on this one.

You don't wanna know.

Audrey, don't tell him.

You shouldn't have...

told me, but you did.

And now I'm telling you...

you don't wanna know.

[Cookie snoring]

[Milo yawns]

The redhead's got a gun.

[Snores]

Ahh, ooh.

Ah! Aah!

Holy... Whoa!

Fire.

Fire!

Fire!

Fire!

MILO:
Fire!

I'm gonna kill him.

Thatch, go back to bed.

Get some water

on that fire!

ROURKE:
No time!

Get us into those caves!

Move it!

Move it! Move it!

COOKIE:
Ya-ha!

Gertie, pull!

Milo, jump!

Right now!

Aah! Aah!

[Tires squealing]

No, no, no,

no, no, no, no!

Whoa! Whoa!

Aah!

Aah!

[Crash]

All right, who's not dead?

Sound off.

[Groaning and muttering]

COOKIE:
Danged

lightnin' bugs...

done bit me

on my sit-upon.

Somebody's gonna have to

suck out that poison.

Now don't everybody

jump up at once.

[Sighing]

ROURKE:
Audrey,

give me a damage report.

Not as bad as it

could have been.

We totaled

rigs two and seven...

but the digger looks

like it'll still run.

Lucky for us we landed

in something soft.

Pumice ash.

We are standing...

at the base

of a dormant volcano.

HELGA:
It just keeps going.

Maybe that's

our ticket outta here.

Maybe not.

The magma has solidified

in the bowels of the volcano...

effectively blocking the exit.

I got the same problem

with sauerkraut.

Hold on. Back up.

Are you sayin'

this whole volcano...

can blow at any time?

No, no, no, no.

That would take

an explosive force...

of great magnitude.

[Sproing]

Maybe I should

do this later, huh?

If we could blow the top

off of that thing,

we'd have a straight

shot to the surface.

Mr. Thatch,

what do you think?

Mr. Thatch?

ROURKE:
Thatch?

[Breathing heavily]

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