Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Page #18

Drax, Mantis, and Gamora GO TUMBLING from the hole in the

side. Nebula and Groot grab onto the floor.

INT. BELOW SELF CHAMBER - DAY

Gamora, Drax, and Mantis FALL from an incredible height. TheyLAND - ONE, TWO, THREE - WITH APLOMB.

Gamora looks up and sees the Laser Drill CURL behind the Self

Chamber as it tries to avoid the envoys’ BLASTERS.

INT. SELF CHAMBER/LASER DRILL - DAY

Nebula and Groot settle as the ship rights itself and BLASTS

PIERCE the ship around them.

Quill peers down at Rocket, who has jumped out of his seatand is pouring out the contents of his satchel.

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QUILL:

Why aren’t you firing the laser?!

ROCKET:

They blew out the generator!

I think I packed a small detonator.

NEBULA:

A detonator is worthless without

explosives!

ROCKET:

We got these!

Rocket shows Nebula the Anulax batteries.

Quill leaves the controls to Yondu as he CLIMBS down beside

Rocket, now messing with wiring on his BOMB.

QUILL:

Is it strong enough to kill Ego?

ROCKET:

If it is, it will cause a chain

reaction throughout his entire

nervous system.

QUILL:

Meaning what?

ROCKET:

The entire planet will explode.

We’ll have to get out of here fast.

I rigged a timer.

Rocket stuffs the bomb back in his satchel. Groot climbs on

his back.

Rocket and Quill slap on their AERO RIGS.

QUILL:

Go!

The run and jump out of the laser drill, FLYING ON THEIR AERORIGS, avoiding the GUNFIRE.

The ZOOM towards the blast hole on the side of the self

chamber.

INT. OPENING OF BLAST HOLE - DAY

Rocket and Quill land here, messily, TUMBLING.

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INT. BELOW SELF CHAMBER - DAY

Mantis is worried about something else entirely; the entirechasm begins TREMBLING and the walls start to MUTATE.

MANTIS:

He’s coming.

DRAX:

Didn’t you say you could make himsleep?

MANTIS:

When he wants! He’s too powerful! Ican’t!

DRAX:

You don’t have to believe in

yourself because I believe in you.

They look ahead. They see, on the enormous wall in front ofthem, the LIGHT-FORM of a giant EGO SCREAMING ANGRILY.

His SCREAM becomes a TUNNEL OF ROCKS RUSHING TOWARDS THEM

like a train.

Mantis sees a nerve bundle on the ground coming from Ego’sCore. Although afraid, she grabs it.

MANTIS:

SLEEP!

She SCREAMS with effort and some pain as energy travelsthrough the bundle and into the core, where it darkens.

The LIGHT LEAVES THE ROCK FORMATION and it SLAMS into the

ground in front of them, SPLASHING DIRT OVER THEM.

But they are safe, shivering. Drax and Gamora look at eachother.

DRAX:

I never thought she’d be able to doit. With as skinny and weak as sheappears to be.

Mantis’s arm is TREMBLING.

MANTIS:

I don’t know how long I can holdhim!

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GAMORA:

You need to, girl. If you don’tkeep Ego at bay, we all die.

INT. OPENING OF BLAST HOLE - DAY

Rocket shines a powerful PEN-LIGHT inside the cavity,

exposing the interior, spattered with Swiss-cheese-like holesglowing with light.

ROCKET:

The metal is too thick! For the

bomb to work we’d actually need toplace it on Ego’s core. And our

fat butts ain’t gonna fit throughthose tiny holes.

QUILL:

Well...

Quill slowly eyes Groot, who is playing with a leaf on hisarm and thinking about something else entirely.

ROCKET:

That’s a terrible idea.

QUILL:

Which is the only kind of idea wegot left.

Rocket SIGHS. He puts Groot on his back and MOVES with Groot

deeper into the blast hole, mumbling to himself:

ROCKET:

Unbelievable. ‘Rocket, do this.

Rocket, do that.’

Quill turns toward the opening. PUSH UP AND IN ON QUILL.

QUILL:

Uh, what a day.

He jumps out into the fray.

INT. PLANET’S HOLLOW - DAY

Quill FLIES UP as a ship FLIES in toward him BLASTING, andhe’s about to fire back. MAN VS. SPACESHIP. This is most

likely the beginning of the biggest, baddest fight scene

ever, but instead we CUT TO

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INT. INSIDE BLAST HOLE - DAY

Quiet. Blasts in the deep background. Rocket places a tinybomb in front of Groot. It is a small, simple device withtwo switches and two buttons. He explains, very carefully:

ROCKET:

All right. First you flick this

switch, then this switch. That

activates it. And then you push

this button, which will give you

five minutes to get out of there.

Whatever you do don’t push this

button, because that will set off

the bomb immediately, and we’ll all

be dead. Now repeat back what I

just said.

GROOT:

I am Groot.

ROCKET:

Uh huh.

GROOT:

I am Groot.

ROCKET:

That’s right.

GROOT:

I am Groot.

ROCKET:

No! That’s the button that will

kill everyone! Try again.

Groot thinks.

GROOT:

I am Groot.

Rocket nods.

GROOT (CONT’D)

I am Groot.

Rocket nods.

GROOT (CONT’D)

I am Groot.

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ROCKET:

No! That’s exactly what you justsaid! How is that even possible?!

Which button is the button you’resupposed to push?! Point to it.

Groot thinks. And he points to the one that will kill

everyone.

ROCKET (CONT’D)

NO!!!

QUILL (O.S.)

Hey, you’re making him nervous!

Rocket runs to see, at the end of the hole, a sliver of the

outside as Quill peeks in while SHOOTING at envoys.

ROCKET:

Shut up! And give me some tape!

Does anyone have any tape outthere!? I want to put some tapeover the death button!

QUILL:

I don’t have any tape. Let me

check.

Quill disappears from the hole. As Rocket waits, he hears,

amongst the chaos, faintly

QUILL (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Yo, Yondu, do you have any - ow! -

do you have any tape?!

O.S. GUN BLASTS.

We hear VOICES GRUMBLING.

Rocket and Groot look around, waiting. Rocket is impatient.

He coughs. Groot is like a bored kid in a waiting room. He

shifts around and plays with the wires on the bomb.

Quill reappears outside the hole, SHOOTING an envoy.

QUILL (CONT’D)

No one has any tape.

ROCKET:

Not a single person has tape?

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QUILL:

You have priceless batteries and anatomic bomb in your bag! If anyonehad tape it would be you!

ROCKET:

That’s exactly my point! I have todo everything!

QUILL:

Dude, you’re wasting time!

Rocket turns back to Groot, who has already taken the bomband is heading towards the hole.

He makes a “WHEEEEEE” sound and smiles brightly as he HOPSinto the hole and SLIDES down as if on a water slide.

Rocket, heavy-lidded, watches him go.

ROCKET:

We’re all gonna die.

INT. PLANET'S HOLLOW/LASER DRILL - DAY

Yondu and Nebula, in the cockpit, are being overcome asblasts come through the walls.

YONDU:

We’re done for without the

generator.

Nebula MOANS, frustrated. She flips open a section of thedashboard, then a part of her arm.

INT. PLANET'S HOLLOW/LASER DRILL - DAY

The remaining Sovereign envoys have ENCIRCLED the batteredLaser Drill, BLASTING IT TO BITS.

Quill FLIES into the Laser Drill, SLAMMING into the wall.

AYESHA (ON SHIP)

Guardians! Perhaps it will provideyou solace that your deaths are notwithout purpose.

Nebula is feeding the wires from the craft into hermechanical arm.

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