Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Page #17

ROCKET:

She tried to murder me!

NEBULA:

I saved you, you stupid fox.

GAMORA:

He’s not a fox.

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GROOT:

I am Groot.

ROCKET:

I’m not a raboon either!

GROOT:

I am Groot.

ROCKET:

‘Raccoon,’ whatever!

Drax looks out the window.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

TENTACLE-LIKE STRANDS BURST UP through the palace flooringall around the drill.

INT. PALACE - NIGHT

Drax turns to the others.

DRAX:

How do we kill a Celestial?

QUILL:

There’s the center to him - his

brain, his soul, whatever it is, in

some sort of shell --

MANTIS:

It’s in the caverns below the

surface.

Quill climbs up the ladder to see -

QUILL:

YONDU?

Nebula looks at Gamora.

NEBULA:

If he’s got that fin back, I am soscrewed.

I/E. PALACE - SUNRISE

Yondu THRUSTS the ship upward for takeoff. But TENTACLES

wrap around the ship -

And YANK IT BACK DOWN into the floor, destroying thefoundation of the palce.

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THE ENTIRE PALACE SLOPES.

INT. LASER DRILL - SUNRISE

Everyone FALLS forward.

YONDU:

Thrusters are out!

Quill starts rewiring the mechanics.

QUILL:

I guess I should be glad I was askinny kid. Otherwise you wouldhave delivered me to this maniac!

YONDU:

You still reckon that’s the reason

I kept you around, you idiot?!

QUILL:

That’s what you told me, you olddoofus!

YONDU:

Once I figured out what happened tothem other kids, I wasn’t gonnajust hand you over.

QUILL:

You said you were gonna eat me!

YONDU:

That was being funny!

QUILL:

Not to me!!

ROCKET:

You people have issues.

Quill sees THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD where EGO’S CREEPY SKELETAL

is GROWING IN FRONT OF THEM.

QUILL:

Of course I have issues that’s myfricking father!!... Thrusters areback up.

Quill thrusts the ship FORWARD instead of up.

It CRASHES through Ego and DOWN THE SLOPING FLOOR -

And OUT THROUGH the giant pane of glass at the end.

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I/E. LASER DRILL/CRACK IN THE PLANET - SUNRISE

Everyone holds on in what’s essentially the worst rollercoaster drop ever.

YONDU:

We should be going up!

QUILL:

We can’t. Ego wants to eradicatethe universe as we know it. We have

to kill him.

They PLUMMET toward a fissure in the earth below. It’s too

small for the ship.

QUILL (CONT’D)

Rocket!

ROCKET:

Got it.

Rocket BLASTS the lasers perfectly, CHIPPING AWAY PIECES of

rock, forming an opening in the crack.

They SMASH into the opening, barely fitting, leading downinto the planet.

Quill flies perfectly, TWISTING through tunnels and around

corners.

Rocket mans the lasers, BLASTING PIECES OUT OF PLACE just in

time so they can SCRAPE through.

ROCKET (CONT’D)

So, we’re saving the galaxy again?

QUILL:

I guess.

ROCKET:

Awesome. We’ll really be able tojack up our prices if we’re twotime-

galaxy savers.

QUILL:

I seriously can’t believe that is

where your mind goes.

ROCKET:

It was just a random thought, man!

I thought we were friends!

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ROCKET (CONT'D)

Of course I care about the planets,

and the buildings, and all of theanimals on the planets.

QUILL:

And the people.

ROCKET:

Meh.

Mantis GIGGLES.

MANTIS:

The crabby puppy is so cute he

makes me want to die!

DRAX:

Your suicidal thoughts sadden me,

but your wish will likely come

true.

I/E. QUADRANT FLIGHT DECK - OUTER SPACE

MEANWHILE, Kraglin is mellowly hanging out, eating some soupand listening to “WHAM BAM” BY SILVER as he sees something

out in the distance of space. He looks a bit closer.

SOVEREIGN OMNICRAFT ARE POPPING THROUGH JUMP POINTS ABOVE

EGO’S PLANET.

EXT. AYESHA’S SPACECRAFT - OUTER SPACE

AYESHA is remotely piloting one of the ships. She looks

determined and angry on the vid-screen.

And, one by one, Sovereign OMNICRAFT POP IN all around her,

until there is a large fleet.

INT. SOVEREIGN PILOT BAY - DAY

Ayesha, in full pilot gear, yells into her comm.

AYESHA:

Pilots, release envoy units!

EXT. AYESHA’S SPACECRAFT - OUTER SPACE

Smaller, more nimble robotic ENVOYS, like big pods withblasters for arms - detach from the front of every Omnicraft.

AYESHA:

Our sensors detect the batteries

are below the surface of the

planet.

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INT. SOVEREIGN PILOT BAY - DAY

AYESHA:

Dive!

OVERHEAD SHOT:
On the screens in all the pods, the envoysDIVE toward the planet from slightly different directions.

I/E. QUADRANT FLIGHT DECK - OUTER SPACE

Kraglin, in shock, watches the massive fleet of envoys divingdownward. He grabs the comm.

KRAGLIN:

Uhh... Cap’n?

No answer.

KRAGLIN (CONT’D)

Cap’n?

INT. LASER DRILL/CRACK IN THE PLANET - SUNRISE

Yondu doesn’t hear the CRACKLING SPEAKER beside him as theymaneuver down through the fissure. Quill eyes him.

YONDU:

So why’d Ego want you here?

QUILL:

He needs my genetic connection tothe light to help destroy theuniverse. He tried to teach me how

to control the power.

YONDU:

So could you?

QUILL:

A little. I made a ball.

YONDU:

A ball?

QUILL:

I thought as hard as a could,

that’s all I could come up with.

YONDU:

You ‘thought’?

Quill nods.

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YONDU (CONT’D)

You think when I make this arrow

fly I use my head?

QUILL:

What do you use?

They look at each other instead of where they’re going, andthe CRASH into an overhanging piece of rock.

The entire side door is RIPPED OFF.

As the SCREECH through a smaller space and into -

INT. PLANET’S HOLLOW/LASER DRILL - DAY

The Laser Drill DROPS into this enormous open space withinthe planet.

The Guardians gather on the side of the ship open to thehollow, gazing out at its stunning beauty, lit by Ego’s whiteglow running throughout it.

GAMORA:

Whoa.

Mantis turns, looking through the portholes on the otherside.

MANTIS:

There! Thats Ego’s core.

Mantis points at the Self Chamber, down below them. Theytwist down towards it.

GAMORA:

That ore’s thick. Rocket, we’re

gonna need to use the big laser.

Rocket nods, FLICKS switches.

All the small lasers on the sides move through grooves tocombine into one huge laser in the center of the ship: theMEGA-LASER.

MANTIS:

We must hurry. It will not take Egolong to find us.

ROCKET:

Keep it still!

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Quill steadies the craft as best he can beside the Self

Chamber. But it’s an unwieldy beast, built for power, notprecision.

Rocket powers up the mega-laser and holds tight to theSHUDDERING CONTROLS as it DRILLS, BURNING a HOLE into the

protective sheathe. It melts and drips down.

QUILL:

We drill into the center, we kill

him.

Quill holds tight to the steering wheel. Yondu notices theBLINKING LIGHT on the comm. He taps it.

YONDU:

What is it, Kraglin?

KRAGLIN (O.S.)

Um, remember that Ayesha chick?

YONDU:

Yeah, why?

Yondu looks out the window where AYESHA’S SQUADRON is

SWOOPING OUT OF the cracks in the ceiling all around them.

YONDU (CONT’D)

Aw, hell.

Quill PULLS AWAY from the envoys.

But the Sovereign envoys start BLASTING AT THE CRAFT all atonce; the LASER LOSES POWER and the VEHICLE TURNS SIDEWAYS -

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