Avengers: Infinity War Page #10

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(Strange is sitting cross-legged, his hands poise in a mystic gesture with the Time Stone suspended between them. His eyes are closed, and his head is jerking rapidly from side to side)

Tony:
Strange, we alright?

(Strange seems to snap out of it as he starts forward, letting out a cry)

Tony:
You’re back. You’re alright. Hi.

Peter Parker:
Hey, what was that?

Strange:
(Speaking breathlessly) I went forward in time to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict.

Quill:
How did you see?

Strange:
14,000,605.

Tony:
How many did we win?

(Strange pauses a while before answering)

Strange:
One.

[Cut to Vormir, where Thanos and Gamora have just appeared outside a mountain]

Thanos:
The stone had better be up there…For your sister’s sake.

(Cut to inside the mountain where Thanos and Gamora stand before a cloaked, faceless figure there to guard the way)

Stonekeeper:
Welcome, Thanos, son of Eros. Gamora, daughter of Thanos.

Thanos:
You know us?

Stonekeeper:
It is my curse to know all who journey here.

Thanos:
Where’s the Soul Stone?

Stonekeeper:
You should know…It extracts a terrible price.

Thanos:
I am prepared.

Stonekeeper:
We all think that at first. (The figure glides farther out of the shadows and reveals the face of who we know to be Red Skull from Captain America: The First Avenger) We are all wrong.

(Cut to the Red Skull leading Thanos and Gamora to an outside pinnacle)

Thanos:
How is it you know this place so well?

Red Skull:
A lifetime ago, I, too, sought the stones. I even held one in my hand. But it cast me out, banished me here. Guiding others to a treasure I cannot possess.

(They come to the edge of mountaintop, and stop at the precipice)

Red Skull:
What you seek lies before you. As does what you fear.

Thanos:
What’s this?

Red Skull:
The price. Soul hold a special place among the Infinity Stones. You might say it has a certain wisdom.

Thanos:
Tell me what it needs.

Red Skull:
To ensure that whoever possesses it… Understands its power… The stone demands a sacrifice.

Thanos:
Of what?

Red Skull:
In order to take the stone you must lose that which you love. A soul…For a soul.

(Gamora begins to laugh at the irony of the situation)

Gamora:
All my life, I dreamed of a day…A moment when you would get what you deserved. And I was always so disappointed. But now…You kill and torture…And you call it mercy. The universe has judged you. You asked it for a prize, and it told you no. You failed. And do you wanna know why? Because you love nothing. No one.

Thanos:
(Turning to face Gamora with tears in his eyes) No.

Gamora:
Really? Tears?

Red Skull:
They’re not for him.

(Gamora looks at Red Skull, and seems to realize what is about to happen)

Gamora:
No. This isn’t love.

Thanos:
I ignored my destiny once. I cannot do that again. Even for you. I’m sorry, little one.

(Thanos grabs Gamora by the arm and takes her to the precipice)

Gamora:
No!

(She tries in vain to brake from his grasp but he soon throws her over the side, and watches sorrowfully as she falls to her death)

[Cut to Thanos lying in water. He opens his hand and sees that he now has the Soul Stone.]

[Cut to the Quinjet where Sam is piloting Rhodey, Steve, Natasha, Wanda, and Vision]

Sam:
Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0. I hope you’re right about this, Cap. Or we’re gonna land a lot faster than you want to.

(The Quinjet passes through a force field into Wakanda)

Okoye:
(Walking with T’Challa and a band of the King’s Guard) When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world…This is not what I imagined.

T’Challa:
And what did you imagine?

Okoye:
The Olympics. Maybe even a Starbucks.

(The occupants of the Quinjet descend the ramp)

Bruce Banner:
(To Rhodey) Should we bow?

Rhodes:
Yeah, he’s a king.

Steve Rodgers:
Seems like I’m always thanking you for something. (Shaking hands with T’Challa)

(Bruce bows in front of him)

Rhodes:
What are you doing?

T’Challa:
Uh, we don’t do that here. (He dissuades with a motion of his hand) So how big of an assault can we expect?

(The group begins to walk back the way it come to greet the guests)

Bruce Banner:
Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault.

Steve Rodgers:
How we looking?

T’Challa:
You will have my King’s Guard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and…

Bucky:
(Walking forward toward Steve) A semi-stable, 100-year-old man.

(The two friends share a hug)

Steve:
How you been, Buck?

Bucky:
Uh, not bad, for the end of the world.

(Cut to inside Shuri’s lab where Vision lays on a table, while Bruce and Shuri stand over him, and the others watch. Shuri scans the stone, and studies the hologram)

Shuri:
Whoa. The structure is polymorphic.

Bruce:
Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially.

Shuri:
Why didn’t you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?

Bruce:
(Staring for a moment) Because, we didn’t think of it.

Shuri:
(smiling) I’m sure you did your best.

Wanda:
Can you do it?

Shuri:
Yes, but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures. (To T’Challa) It will take time, brother.

Steve:
How long?

Shuri:
As long as you can give me.

Okoye:
(Looking at a device that just alerted her) Something’s entered the atmosphere.

(Cut to outside where Sam and Bucky stand, looking up a the sky)

Sam:
(Over the comm) Hey, Cap, we got a situation here.

(The defense shield around Wakanda destroys one of the vessels entering the atmosphere)

Bucky:
God, I love this place.

Sam:
Yeah, don’t start celebrating yet, guys. We got more incoming outside the dome.

Vision:
(Appearing beside the window with the others) It’s too late. We need to destroy the stone now.

Natasha:
(Turning toward Vision) Vision, get your *rear* back on the table.

T’Challa:
We will hold them off.

Steve:
(To Wanda) Wanda, as soon as the stone’s out of his head…you blow it to hell.

Wanda:
I will.

T’Challa:
Evacuate the city. Engage all defense procedures. (He points to Steve) And get this man a shield.

(Cut to Nivadellir where Rocket is in the pod, and Thor jumps from the roof onto the rings with a rope in his hand attached to the pod)

Rocket:
I don’t think you get the scientifics here. These rings are gigantic.You wanna get thm moving…You’re gonna need something a lot bigger to yank ’em loose.

Thor:
Leave that to me.

Rocket:
Leave that to you? Buddy, you’re in space. All you got is a rope and a-

(Thor begins to swing the pod around. He lets the pod drag him, until he stops himself by digging his feet into the ring, still holding the pod. The rings begin to move)

Thor:
More power, rabbit!

(Finally the star bursts into life, the rings align, and a jet of light streams through the forge)

Eitri:
Well done, boy.

(Thor, hanging on, looks through the pod window, at Rocket, an points to the star)

Thor:
That’s Nivadellir.

(The iris closes and the beam of light recedes back into the star)

Eitri:
*Dang* it.

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