Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Page #15

MANTIS (CONT’D)

Drax, we need to talk

DRAX:

Ugh. I am sorry, but I like a womanwith some meat on her bones.

MANTIS:

What?

DRAX:

I tried to let you down easily bytelling you I found you disgusting.

MANTIS:

No! That’s not what I -

Drax starts to GAG.

MANTIS (CONT’D)

What are you doing?!

DRAX:

I’m imagining being with you

physically!

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MANTIS:

Drax, that’s not - I don’t like youlike that. I don’t even like the

type of thing you are.

DRAX:

(offended)

Hey! There’s no need to get

personal!

MANTIS:

Listen! Ego’s gotten exactly whathe wanted. I should have told youearlier, I am stupid. You are indanger.

EXT. NEBULA’S SQUASHED M-SHIP - NIGHT

Gamora and Nebula still sit here, quietly and awkwardly.

Gamora glances down a twisting tunnel, where phosphorescentlights shine brightly.

GAMORA:

What’s that?

She moves towards it. Nebula, hesitantly, follows.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

Ego and Quill enter the palace.

EGO:

You need to readjust the way youprocess life. Everything around us -

including the girl - is temporary.

We are forever.

QUILL:

Doesn’t eternity get boring?

EGO:

Not if you have a purpose, Peter.

Which is why you’re here. I toldyou how all those years ago I hadan unceasing impulse to find life.

Ego is standing underneath the diorama of him facing thelittle alien girl.

EGO (CONT’D)

I didn’t tell you how when I didfind it, it was all so...

disappointing.

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INT. TWISTING CAVERNS - NIGHT

Gamora and Nebula move further down the cavern, stepping intolight, getting closer.

EGO:

And that is when I came to a

profound realization.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

EGO:

My innate desire to seek out otherlife was not so that I could walk

among that life.

Ego looks at his son, moved by the memories.

EGO (CONT’D)

Peter, I had found meaning.

Quill is taken aback. But Ego sets his finger lightly on hisforehead, and the white light bursts through his son’s body.

We see THE COSMOS IN QUILL’S EYES. He looks ecstatic, far

beyond where he stands, and seems to finally understand.

QUILL:

I see it. Eternity.

INT. TWISTING CAVERNS - NIGHT

Gamora and Nebula stop, in horror.

GAMORA:

Oh my God.

They are staring at piles and piles of skeletons of variousspecies, thousands of them, seeming to go on forever.

NEBULA:

We need to get off this planet.

EXT. GALAXY/UNIVERSE - OUTER SPACE

We see traces of the UNIVERSAL NEURAL TELEPORTATION NETWORK,

the Quadrant a blinking light POPPING IN and OUT on a trailacross the cosmos

And then ZOOM BACK FURTHER TO THE UNIVERSE, the same blinkinglight making its way while ROCKET, YONDU, and KRAGLIN SCREAM.

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EXT. ASTEROIDS - OUTER SPACE

WATCHERS swirl to the Quadrant SWISH past them and JUMPS OUT.

They turn back to STAN LEE, in a spacesuit with a fishbowlhelmet.

STAN LEE:

Anyway, before I was so rudely

interrupted, that time I was a

World War II vet -

EXT. RED PLANET - OUTER SPACE

THE QUADRANT POPS INTO SPACE, EGO’S PLANET nearby.

INT. QUADRANT FLIGHT DECK - OUTER SPACE

Yondu, Kraglin, Rocket and Groot FALL OUT OF THEIR SEATS,

RETCHING, clutching their stomachs.

YONDU:

What the hell you doing, boy?!

ROCKET:

I could tell by how you talkedabout him - this Ego is bad news.

We’re here to save Quill.

YONDU:

For what?

(derisively)

For ‘honor’? For ‘love’?

ROCKET:

No! I don’t care about those

things! I want to save Quill so Ican prove I’m better than him! I

can lord this over him forever!

Yondu LAUGHS bitterly as he pulls himself up to the controls.

Rocket yanks himself up beside him.

ROCKET (CONT’D)

What are you laughing at me for?!

YONDU:

You can fool yourself and everyoneelse but you can’t fool me. I knowwho you are.

ROCKET:

You don’t know anything about me,

loser.

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YONDU:

I know everything about you. I know

you play like the meanest and thehardest ‘cause you actually themost scared of all.

ROCKET:

Shut up.

YONDU:

I know you steal batteries youdon’t need and you push away anyonewho’s willing to put up with you,

‘cause just a little bit of lovereminds you how big and empty thathole inside you actually is!

ROCKET:

I said, shut up.

YONDU:

I know the scientists what made younever gave a rat’s ass about you

ROCKET:

I’m serious, dude - !

YONDU:

Just like my own damn parents, whosold me, their own little baby,

into slavery! I know who you are,

boy, because you’re me.

They stare at each other there, a mirror.

ROCKET:

What kind of pair are we?

YONDU:

The kind that’s about to go fight aplanet I reckon.

ROCKET:

All right, okay, that’s - Wait.

Fight a what?

INT. DRAX’S SLEEPING QUARTERS - NIGHT

Gamora, furious, BURSTS into the room. She sees Mantis

standing with Drax.

She RUNS to her, GRABBING HER by the neck -

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DRAX:

Hey!

And she SLAMS her against the wall.

GAMORA:

Who are you people?! What is this

place?!

DRAX:

(re:
Nebula)

What is she doing here?

NEBULA:

Just watching the fireworks.

DRAX:

Gamora, let her go!

GAMORA:

The bodies in the caverns, who are

they?!

MANTIS:

You are scared.

Gamora, whose skin is touching Mantis, lets go of her neck,

terrified.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

The DIORAMAS all around Quill and Ego TRANSFORM into a map ofthe universe. Quill stares in his cosmic reverie at the

PLANETS around him -thousands of them with pieces of EGO’SLIFEFORM - GLOWING COSMIC PLANTS - buried within them.

EGO:

I call it the Expansion. It is mypurpose. And now it’s yours aswell.

QUILL:

It’s beautiful.

Quill stares up at a DIORAMA: Ego grabs handfuls of his ownbody, engulfed in light, and plants the wriggling pieces onvarious planets.

EGO:

Over thousands of years I implantedthousands of extensions of myselfon thousands of worlds.

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In the DIORAMAS, the COSMIC PLANTS OVERGROW and COVER each of

the planets, like chocolate on a malt ball.

EGO (CONT’D)

I needed to fulfill life’s one true

purpose:
to grow and to spread,

covering all that exists, untileverything... is me.

INT. DRAX’S SLEEPING QUARTERS - NIGHT

Gamora backs away, recovering.

GAMORA:

What did she do to me?!

DRAX:

She already told me everything.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

EGO:

I only had one problem. A singleCelestial doesn’t have enough powerfor such an enterprise. But twoCelestials - well now, that justmight do.

INT. DRAX’S SLEEPING QUARTERS - NIGHT

MANTIS:

The bodies are his children.

Gamora is horrified.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

On the DIORAMAS we see Ego with hundreds of species of femalealiens.

EGO:

Out of all my labors the mostbeguiling was attempting to graftmy DNA with that of anotherspecies. I hoped the result of sucha coupling would be enough to powerthe expansion.

INT. ECLECTOR HALLWAY - NIGHT

Yondu and Rocket walk here.

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EGO (O.S.)

I had Yondu deliver some of them to

me. It broke the Ravager code - but

I compensated him generously. And,

to ease his conscience, I told him

I would never hurt them.

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