Flash Gordon Page #20

Season #8

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THUN:

Don’t move, sharkman!

KALA:

If the atmosphere pumps have been disabled, we all die!

-IRIS WIPE TO:

INT. SECRET POLICE HEADQUARTERS – MINGO CITY

In a long and dark room. Several men in black leather and goggles sit in a row in front of flickering monitors. Their pasty faces are illuminated only by the cathode rays from their screens. We see in the dark, a huge wall of computer lights and dials.

One of the men looks up from his monitor.

SECRET POLICE:

Captain Malo. We are receiving a distress signal from Coralia. It’s faint...

CAPTAIN MALO stands behind the SECRET POLICE.

CAPTAIN MALO:

Find out what it means.

INT. HALLWAY – CORALIA

FLASH dashes down a hallway. SHARKMEN run back and forth in a haste, ignoring him. He comes to an intersection, in confusion, looks both ways, and then runs to his right.

The long hall in which he ran is made of glass. It begins to CRACK loudly and water starts squirting through the breaks.

AURA appears at the INTERSECTION FLASH had just passed and follows suit.

INT. MAIN HALLWAY – CORALIA

BALUSK, the sharkman who captured FLASH and DALE, strides down the hall. A worried look on his face as he nervously watches the cracks rendering in the glass. He approaches a radio com on the wall. Pushes a button.

BALUSK:

This is Captain Balusk. Use emergency buttresses on corridor ten. Close hatch doors to levels 8, 102, and 210.

ANGLE ON:
Water is crashing through a break in the wall.

TWO SHARMEN approach BALUSK. We can see the fear in their eyes.

SHARKMAN:

The dynamo generators have been destroyed by Princess Aura!

BALUSK:

Yes! And she released the earthman from the tank room! Together, they have doomed our city!

SHARKMAN:

They must not escape! Where is it you think they’ve gone, captain?

BALUSK:

The throne room!

The THREE race up the hall in the direction FLASH and AURA had headed.

INT. THRONE ROOM – CORALIA

FLASH and AURA run into the empty throne room towards the ante-room under the stairs. The sound of glass cracking becomes LOUDER.

INT. ANTE-ROOM – CORALIA

FLASH, followed by AURA, dashes up to THUN, DALE, and KALA.

FLASH:

Dale!

DALE:

Flash! Thank God, you’re okay!

They embrace each other. AURA grimaces at this.

FLASH:

Thun! Dale! We have to get out of here! The city is breaking apart.

ANGLE ON:
The glass dome above the palace throne room begins to render large cracks. Water begins to leak in. KALA snarls at his captors.

KALA:

Impetuous fools! You will suffer the same fate you have bestowed upon my kingdom!

KALA throws a lever and PUNCHES a large red button on the control panel. A KLAXON begins to wail.

THUN:

What did you do, sharkman!

KALA:

The city will be raised to the surface where Ming’s ground forces are waiting! You will pay for your insurrections, lionman!

AURA points at the door leading to the dynamo room.

AURA:

Quickly! This way! To the tunnel that leads to the surface!

BALUSK and FIVE SHARKMEN arrive at the throne room entrance.

KALA:

(to the sharkmen)

You fools! Kill them! Kill them all!

The SHARKMEN raise their rifles and begin shooting at FLASH and COMPANY. They dodge behind a coral pillar. THUN blasts back, disintegrating two SHARKMEN. The SHARKMEN dodge for cover. FLASH, THUN, DALE, and AURA enter the side corridor, slamming the hatch behind them.

KALA:

After them!

INT. DYNAMO ROOM – CORALIA

Our group wades knee-deep in rising water to a round hatch leading to a carved tunnel. The city begins to shake violently.

INT. CORALIA

Several shots of terrified SHARKMEN and WOMEN dashing about as their city begins to implode.

EXT. CORALIA – SEA BOTTOM

Along the sides of the circular platform on which the city rests, ENORMOUS CLAMPS are RELEASED.

INT. TUNNEL – CORALIA

FLASH assists THUN in shutting the large, round hatch. They hear the SCREECH and GROAN of metal. It subsides.

The group takes a moment to catch their breath as they listen.

AURA:

Kala has raised the city above the sea. Once my father learns of our escape, he will send his forces to retrieve us.

DALE:

But, what of Kala and his people?

AURA:

They will taste my father’s wrath.

FLASH:

Let’s not hang around to find out. Where to from here?

AURA:

I have a hidden palace in my father’s kingdom, there we can...

FLASH:

No!

THUN:

I’ll take you to my father, king of the lionmen. He’ll protect you.

FLASH:

(looks at Dale)

Yeah, best go with Thun.

SUDDENLY! A great rush of water barrels down the tunnel WASHING them with it.

EXT. CORALIA – SEA OF ZODAN

Amid the murk, the entire city of CORALIA begins to lift off the seabed floor and up toward the surface.

INT. TUNNEL – SEA OF ZODAN

The water RUSHES. It washes our heroes near a ledge.

FLASH climbs up and assists DALE and THUN onto the ledge with him. AURA races by, FLASH grabs her arm and pulls her to safety.

FLASH:

We have to find a way out before it floods completely!

AURA glances towards the roof of the cave in which they are standing. The roof COLLAPSES and water CASCADES down.

AURA runs toward another tunnel.

THUN:

(snarls)

Catch that b*tch before she has a chance to warn her father!

FLASH grabs her by the arm. Spins her around.

FLASH:

Not so fast!

AURA:

I can lead you to a safer way out.

FLASH:

Shut up! I’ve just had about enough from you!

DALE smugly reacts like “yeah, he’s mine, b*tch”.

THUN growls as he hears what the others pick up on. He motions down the tunnel that AURA was attempting to escape through. We can hear the sounds of RUSHING WATER.

FLASH:

I hope you’re a good swimmer, princess.

AURA points. There is a boarded-up entrance to another tunnel above on an overhanging ledge.

AURA:

Look! Another way out!

THUN:

Don’t trust this she-b*tch!

The water is RAPIDLY rising.

FLASH:

We don’t have much of a choice, my friend. Dale, stay close to me.

The group climbs up the stone ledge. THUN helps FLASH to pry several of the planks away. They climb through.

WHIPE TO:

EXT. SEA OF ZODAN – DAY

Majestically, the entire city of CORALIA emerges above the surface of the sea.

EXT. SHORE – SEA OF ZODAN – DAY

On the shore, one thousand ARMORED MEN march into a camp of tents. Crimson banners flutter, displaying the house of MING. At the forefront of the march is a large tank-like vehicle. On its hood rests a SINISTER LASER CANON. Behind it, on a towed lorry, is a device that looks like a large SPOTLIGHT.

An ARMORED MAN approaches the commander. He salutes.

ARMORED MAN:

Commander, the city of the sharkmen has surfaced. What are your orders?

COMMANDER:

We await word from Mingo City. King Kala is to bring the prisoners to us – look out!

The commander points upward.

COMMANDER:

Lionmen!

EXT. SKY – MONGO

A squadron of gyro-ships of the lionmen appears overhead. They fly in v-formation.

EXT. ROCK BLUFFS – MONGO – DAY

FLASH, DALE, THUN, and AURA emerge out of the stone entrance to the cave. As soon as they emerge, THUN hears the whirling sound of the gyro-ships. He looks up and roars triumphantly.

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