Demolition Man Page #26

SPARTAN:

Yes. Absolutely everything.

Start where I left off. You were

six...

GARCIA:

Spartan.

Spartan's busy.

GARCIA:

Spartan...

(as Spartan ignores

him; still busy)

Spar...

SPARTAN:

What!

Garcia can only point: Simon Phoenix, forty feet away,

giant grin, AcMag in hand, taking aim.

Spartan hurls Katherine to the ground, with himself as a

shield as ---

SPARTAN:

Get down!!!

Huxley, Garcia, and the Scraps who have a clue dive as

the ACMAG FIRES with the resulting tremendous EXPLOSION.

PHOENIX:

Spartan, buddy, I brought some

old friends.

The Cryocons OPEN UP with all manner of WEAPONRY on the

crowd. Mayhem and slaughter. Huxley and Garcia have

taken cover as well. Their stun batons look exceedingly

useless. Spartan is momentarily trapped under a

collapsed beam. Doesn't last long. Growls. Hurls it

aside. Comes up FIRING with the BERETTA.

SPARTAN:

Stay down!

Phoenix FIRES again. The AcMag round barely misses them.

Spartan's blasted brutally by the EXPLOSION. Stays on his

feet. Keeps FIRING. Albert goes down. He's not going

to get back up again. Payne rises to his feet FIRING a

giant REVOLVER. The other armed Scraps follow his lead.

Another AcMag ROUND GOES OFF. The lights dim. Spartan

sprints for where he last saw Phoenix.

Spartan can hear Phoenix CLATTERING off up a culvert

behind him. He bolts up after him.

INT. WASTELAND - CULVERT - NIGHT

It forks upwards. Sixty degree incline. Flattens out.

Splits again. Spartan halts, listens. Follows the

FOOTSTEPS. Same trick works backwards, as Phoenix stops

dead, hears Spartan COMING. FIRES the ACMAG. Misses as

Spartan is just about to round a bend into range.

The CULVERT itself EXPLODES, blowing shrapnel everywhere.

Fifteen feet of it are gone. It's an ugly, ugly jump.

Two hundred feet down and no room to miss. Off to one

side, one of the fans spins madly. Spartan leaps. Hits

the other side, grasping at shards of metal. Pulls

himself in. It heads back up.

Spartan ascends. Up. Up. Now almost, and then

completely vertical. He climbs spread-eagled after

Simon.

INT. WASTELAND - CROSS PIPE - NIGHT

The pipe "T"s at the top. Spartan mantles up as Phoenix

CLATTERS off. Down below in the pipe, the sound of

SOMEONE ELSE FOLLOWING as well. A gasketed porthole

glints beside Spartan, he slams it open. Looking down,

he is a hundred yards above the cavern floor. Beside

him the chain arcing up from the machine shop below

ratchets around a joint and heads off into the darkness

in the direction Phoenix has fled.

Half a beat. Spartan reaches out, way out, and just

manages to snag the chain. Hauls madly. CHAIN CLATTERS

and CLATTERS. Half a beat. A long, low RUMBLE.

Phoenix stops a moment, wondering what the hell it is. A

giant blast of water tidals through the pipe. The AcMag

is swept away.

Spartan looks up to see Phoenix and a wall of water

headed his way.

SPARTAN:

Oh sh*t.

Simon smashes into him. The two are swept along. The

force blows them off the side.

PHOENIX:

Just go with the flow, Spartan.

INT. WASTELAND CORRUGATED CONDUIT - NIGHT

Spartan and Phoenix are carried along by the water into

an aqueduct. Phoenix heaves himself over the side.

Spartan follows.

INT. WASTELAND - LARGE CAVERN/SUPPORT GRID - NIGHT

Every Scrap can see. The two hang on a suspension grid

of an old rusty rebar, directly over one of the WHIRRING

VENTILATOR FANS. It's not meant to take any weight.

Slippery as hell from the spray above. The REBAR CREAKS

and MOANS.

No one dares move. Below, Charlie lies dead. No other

cryocons can be seen.

Spartan and Phoenix scrabble madly, yet in slow motion

as not to break the old joints as they stay on. Hand

over hand, Phoenix makes his way along as ---

PHOENIX:

Hey, since we're just hanging out,

I have to tell you something --

remember those muni passengers

you blew to pieces trying to

catch me...? They were already

dead, pal, before you even

touched the building. Cold as

Haagen Dazs.

(Simon grins his

scary grin)

See ya...

Simon swings himself back and forth, gaining momentum.

The rebar's about to give as he launches himself out

into space, just clearing the fan. A wild twisting

fall ending in a CLANGOROUS landing through three levels

of Scrap lean-tos.

Spartan feels the rebar starting to fail around him. As

he tries to haul himself up, it just gives way more. The

whole fan structure is giving way. BITS of METAL fall,

hit the fan and are sent CLANGING off into space.

And then... it gets worse. A NOISE from above. Beppo

appears. Hangs from a firm support. He begins to stomp

on Spartan's fingers. Laughing wildly.

Spartan moves, he stomps them again. Spartan moves

again, but this time seeing a heavier piece of rebar

nearby. Snags it. And as Beppo's foot comes down again,

grabs it. Hauls. Beppo starts to scream. His grip

comes loose on the wet bar above. Screams past Spartan

as he falls. There's a tremendous CUISINART SOUND.

Blood flies up past Spartan as he climbs up to safety.

He moves down the grid past the fan. Sees below as

Phoenix scrambles to his feet, starts to run. Spartan

doesn't want to do it. No choice. Growls. Leaps.

Falls. Falls. Falls. Smashes into a garbage heap.

INT. WASTELAND - LARGE CAVERN - FLOOR - NIGHT

Simon pounds a rushing up Garcia unconscious in a single

blow. Recovers and empties a TOMMY GUN at the crowd.

Scraps crawl for cover. Payne and two others FIRE back.

Phoenix disappears. Spartan blitzkriegs out of the

refuse. Crazed.

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