Blade II Page #13

INT. OPERATIONS VAN - NIGHT

-- back with Scud. He ducks his head outside, looking

beneath the van. Nothing there. Relieved, Scud shuts the

rear door, laughs to himself.

A PAIR OF CLAWED HANDS

Suddenly rip down through the ceiling of the van, peeling it

up and back like it was tinfoil! A REAPER with a bloody

bandage covering his eye SNARLS down at us.

INT. HOUSE OF PAIN - BALLROOM - NIGHT

The first skinhead figure spins towards us. It's a Reaper.

All three of them are, eyes wide with bloodlust as they leap

at Asad and the others.

Suddenly, the Reapers are everywhere, blocking the exits,

ripping into their vampire victims, tossing them aside like

toys. Vampires scream and run, some taking to the walls as a

means of escape, some racing across the ceiling.

INT. HOUSE OF PAIN - FIRST CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Blade stops half-way up the ladder as he hears GUNFIRE. He

drops back to the floor, then notices that Nyssa is gone. HE

pushes through the vinyl curtain and finds -- Nyssa forced

back against the wall, wrestling with --

SCUD (O.S.)

(filtered; panicked)

They're here!!!!

-- Nomak, who swings his head around towards Blade! Blade

FIRES his MACH pistol point-blank into Nomak's face, blasting

the Reaper backwards --

But Nomak is back on his feet in a split-second, SMASHING

through a window onto the fire escape beyond. Blade rushes

to the window, looks out --

BLADE'S POV

Nomak is scaling his way straight up the neon hotel sign,

jumping from one letter to the next with lightning speed.

INT. HOUSE OF PAIN - KITCHEN - NIGHT

A Reaper EXPLODES out from the walk-in, rather than the door

behind them. He leaps atop Reinhardt, SLAMMING him to the

floor. Lighthammer swings his hammer, missing the Reaper,

taking out a chunk of the wall instead.

Lighthammer swings and misses again, taking a chunk out of

the floor. Verlaine empties her automatic rifle into the

Reaper even as --

The Reaper turns on Lighthammer, catching the war hammer,

Reaper's lower jaw disengages and splits open, revealing a

freakishly enlarged esophagus lined with serrated, sharklike

teeth.

All of this takes a split-second. No time for Lighthammer to

react as the Reaper latches its grossly expanded mouth onto

his throat and begins draining him before our eyes. The

Reaper SHUDDERS and the whites of his eyes bleed red as an

ecstatic wave washes over him. His pale flesh, pulsing with

engorged veinwork, becomes flushed, turning crimson as --

LIGHTHAMMER:

Ohmygodhe'sfuckingkillingmehe's --

Lighthammer's face becomes increasingly pallid! His face

begins caving inward, shrinking as every millimeter of blood

is vacuumed out of him.

BLOOD VESSELS:

Are popping up beneath the Reaper's briefly translucent skin,

becoming engorged and dilated. The veins continue to swell,

racing up his neck, then branching out over his face, chest,

and arms -- like an instant network of varicose veins.

Verlaine retreats, horrified. Reinhardt scurries backwards,

then scrambles to his feet, running for his life into --

INT. HOUSE OF PAIN - BALLROOM - NIGHT

Chaos. Vampire patrons flee. The Bloodpack FIRE, unleashing

a hailstorm of bullets, cutting into vampires and Reapers

alike as --

EXT. FIRE ESCAPE - NIGHT

Blade steps out onto the icy fire escape. CRASH! Nomak has

dislodged the "H" from the hotel sign. It comes HURTLING

towards Blade, who ducks back into the center of the "O" to

avoid being hit. The "H" continues falling, SMASHING down

into the street near the Mystery Van where --

INT/EXT. OPERATIONS VAN - NIGHT

Scud unloads his handgun into the Reaper atop the van. The

Reaper should turn to ash, but it doesn't! Scud flees,

DIVING into the front of the van, ducking behind the wheel.

He keys the ignition --

WHAM! Now the Reaper is atop the hood, SMASHING his feet

through the windshield. Scud SCREAMS as he slams the van

into the drive and floors the pedal --

WK-KRUNCH! Scud CRASHES the van against the side of a

building, pinning the Reaper between the van's front bumper

and the crumbling wall. He keeps his foot on the gas pedal,

GRINDING the van's wheels.

This gambit should cut the Reaper in half, or at the very

least, fatally wound it -- but it only enrages it further.

The Reaper stretches forward across the van's crumpled hood

and resumes BATTERING away at the cracked windshield --

SCUD:

UV headlights, c'mon, come on!!!

Scud fumbles for the headlights. They won't go on! Then he

notices a mess of wiring haphazardly duct-taped together. He

reaches for the wiring, fiddling with it --

SCUD (CONT'D)

FuckmefuckmefuckmeFUCKME!!!!

INT. HOUSE OF PAIN - BALLROOM - NIGHT

The Reaper nearest Priest turns in his direction. We

recognize her as the Nurse from the bloodbank. She LEAPS at

Priest --

Priest fires a Glaser round through the she-Reaper's head.

The Reaper twists in mid-leap, falls to the floor, then picks

herself up again. Like Scud's Reaper, she seems unaffected

by the custom-made ammo.

ON THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BLOODPACK

Having similarly disastrous results. The Reapers are

shrugging off their firepower. Asad leaps, snapping a

Reaper's neck with a spinning heel kick, but the Reaper keeps

coming!

BACK TO THE PRIEST

Alarmed, reaching for a specialized shotgun instead. The

Reaper continues forward, moving so fast she almost seems a

blur as BA-BOOM! BA-BOOM! Priest pumps his shotgun

repeatedly. Two projectiles fire out, chained together by a

length of titanium cable. The cable catches the Reaper in

the mid-section, cutting it clean in half!

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