Dominion Page #10

It means a full city wide attack is imminent. CODE RED.

Everyone is running for the exits to either escape or get to

their designated posts. Vega is like a ship; everyone has a

job to do in an emergency. Some do what they are supposed

to, many panic.

Michael stands still, in the chaos of the crowd and listens.

We have no idea what he hears, but it worries him.

He looks up to Wynn’s box, makes eye contact with WYNN,

mouths to her:
GO.

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She quickly turns and exits.

Michael presses his (Secret Service) earpiece mic.

INTERCUT WITH ALEX

MICHAEL:

Get Claire and Rysen to Weel’s

bunker. Stay there until I come

and get you.

ALEX:

Will do.

INT. HALLWAY – NIGHT

Alex shouts out the order to Claire and Rysen’s other guards.

ALEX:

Weel’s Bunker.

They race through hallways that are quickly filling with

people looking for a way out.

Suddenly, DOORS bust open and a thousand people rush into the

hall. Like a wave Claire and Rysen are separated.

Rysen’s guard goes with him; Claire is caught up in the crush

and disappears through a stairwell double door, pushed along.

ALEX:

Claire!!

INT. RYSEN’S BARRACK’S TOWER – 35TH FLOOR – NIGHT

The sound of the citywide alarms is unrelenting.

Noma stands at the window and looks down on the city as

Vega’s defenses kick in. She turns and runs quickly to her

post.

EXT. VEGA – NIGHT

Security shutters slam down over every window in the city,

lights come on, creating perpetual daylight.

Giant lights mounted on the walls flood the night sky,

illuminating the surrounding area.

The soldiers outside of the arena function like a tight crew

acting with practiced precision to lock down Vega, rushing to

positions, civilians flee indoors or underground.

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EXT. LANDSCAPE - NIGHT

A low flying POV is moving over the landscape FAST... it

crests a rise and we see VEGA ahead.

INT. UNDERGROUND CONTROL ROOM – NIGHT

This is where they coordinate the city’s arsenal, the brain

center.

Men and women in tan uniforms work sophisticated controls and

monitors. One radar image is transferred to the main screen.

It shows six objects, moving fast over the terrain.

The MAN in charge, JACOB (late 40’S), a doughy red head, was

a computer game designer in his previous life. He stares at

the images, amazed.

JACOB:

How the hell did they get that

close without us knowing?!

No one can answer that... but there’s no time.

JACOB:

Ah, hell. FIRE!!

EXT. WALL – NIGHT

An impressive explosion of firepower is unleashed off the

walls of VEGA; advanced missile systems are launched at the

moving targets.

EXT. VEGA - NIGHT

We now see a contingent of six angels flies towards Vega,

FAST.

But these are unlike any “Eight-Balls” we’ve seen. They’re

like Special Forces angels, armored, trained, bladed wings;

all have “adaptations” that make them deadly.

Two of them are instantly destroyed by the onslaught, but the

other four are able to dodge the ordinance.

A second wave of heavy artillery is fired from the large

strafing GUNS, obliterating another of the angels, before the

last three get up and over the walls, entering the city.

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INT. HALLWAY AREA – NIGHT

Alex fights towards Claire’s exit, pushing people out of the

way when he hears a child’s scream, it’s BIXBY and she’s

getting overwhelmed by the crowd, is about to be crushed.

Alex remembers, this is where she was supposed to meet him...

ALEX:

Bix!

BIXBY:

(scream)

Here!

Alex doesn’t hesitate, and dives into the crush, knocking

people of the way, as he grabs her up and drapes her over his

shoulders.

He then has to fight his way back to the double doors.

INT. DOUBLE WIDE STAIRWELL – NIGHT

Alex breaks through and sees CLAIRE barely holding onto a

railing, trying not to get swept down with the crowd.

ALEX:

Claire! Hold on!

Claire looks up, sees him.

He makes his way to her, reaches a stairwell just above her.

Alex puts Bixby down and then reaches to Claire, reaching,

reaching, she grasps his hands and he pulls her up to where

he is and they embrace, relieved.

Alex holds her for a moment, clearly an intimate embrace, and

they look at one another.

CLAIRE:

Alex... please... I’m so sorry... I

had no idea... If I had known...

Looking around at the madness, the crush of people.

ALEX:

There’s no time right now, we need

to get out of here...

Bixby’s flabbergasted, wtf?! Alex is with Claire Rysen? But

no one else notices in the panic...

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EXT. VEGA – NEAR WALLS – NIGHT

The THREE angels have entered the city, flying fast down the

strip.

The leader of the three is named WIKEN and he’s a higher

angel, more powerful, more distinct, his eyes, wings and hair

all jet BLACK. Even the way he moves is more pronounced, has

that same strange time-lapse effect that Michael just

demonstrated.

SOLDIER’S FIRE on them and hit WIKEN, but the rounds do no

damage.

THEY DIVE over a LARGE wall...

EXT. ABOVE GROUND REACTOR COMPOUND – NIGHT

...into the courtyard above the underground reactor.

A mean and quick battle takes place as Wiken and the angels

destroy the soldiers trying to repel them. The city sirens

still blaring, we hear, over the walls, more soldiers rushing

to the reactor site.

WIKEN turns toward the reactor, and finds Michael standing

there.

Michael’s wings, WHITE FLECKED WITH GOLD, extend and without

a word they launch at each other... two ancient angels at

war.

The fight is amazing to see, the skill and power of both

impressive...

INT. WEEL’S MGM UNDERGROUND BUNKER – NIGHT

David, William, Jeep, Rysen, Arika, her entourage, Roan and

their guards are all glued to VIDEO SCREENS showing what is

happening in the city, specifically the fight between Michael

and Wiken at the reactor building.

EXT. HALLWAY -NIGHT

Alex, Claire and Bixby arrive in the hallway just outside of

Weel’s bunker. They made it, the hall empty.

Claire moves towards the large steel doors, but Alex stops

her, turns her to him.

ALEX:

Let’s go. Leave. Right now!

Tonight.

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CLAIRE:

Leave the city? It’s under attack.

This is a Code Red.

ALEX:

It’s perfect. By the time they

begin looking for us we can be on

our way to Delphi.

Bixby hears the plan, realizes that he was taking her with

him and falls even more in love with Alex.

But for Claire, it’s something different. We can see it now,

the conflict in her, the love she has for Alex, but the

loyalty she feels to her father, to Vega... The pull of that

responsibility.

CLAIRE:

(the hardest words)

I can’t.

(beat)

Not right now. My father needs me.

Vega needs us. We have to stay to

protect the city. We’ll work all

this out... no one is going to tell

me who to marry.

ALEX:

What makes you think you’ll have a

choice?

CLAIRE:

Do you trust me?

ALEX:

(doesn’t)

I trust you...

Off this, Claire puts her arm through Alex’s and they walk

into the bunker followed by Bixby.

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