Heavy Metal Page #12

BARBARIAN #1

Hey, look. A new one.

(to Taarna)

Where you from, baby?

TAARNA ignores him.

BARBARIAN #2

Doesn't talk much, does she ?

BARBARIAN #3

She doesn't have to talk for what

I want to do with her.

CUT TO:

TAARNA'S HAND

It slowly moves down to her sword, and unclips the safety strap.

CUT BACK TO:

THE BARBARIANS:

BARBARIAN #3

(running his hand across her breastplate)

C'mon baby, let's see what's under there.

BARBARIAN #1

(starting to undo her breastplate)

Yeah, let's have a look.

Taarna slowly stands up, pushing their hands away, and takes

a step back.

BARBARIAN #2

Heey, she's tough.

BARBARIAN #3

Maybe she wants to fight?

They all laugh.

BARBARIAN #1

... or maybe she wants to take

us all on?

Still laughing, they move towards her.

In a blinding flash, TAARNA draws her golden sword, and wielding

it like a Samurai master, slices off all three of their heads.

In an instant, the sword is back in its sheath.

The barbarian's heads stop laughing as they fall to the ground.

The music stops, and everyone in the bar stares at TAARNA.

Stepping over the bodies, TAARNA walks up to the bartender,

pulls out the parchment picture of the glowing mountains, and

shows it to him. The bartender looks at it carefully, then

points out the window.

BARTENDER:

Beyond the oasis.

TAARNA nods and leaves.

CUT BACK TO:

THE BARTENDER:

His eyes start to turn green. The camera gets closer and

closer to his glowing eyes, until the green glow turns into

the image of a ball, lying in the ground, in AUSTIN'S holograph.

CUT TO:

AUSTIN:

AUSTIN is crouched over the machine turning several knobs,

trying to make the ball move. Nothing happens.

AUSTIN:

(to himself)

Hmmm ... must be jammed.

Frustrated, AUSTIN picks up a flashlight, opens up a compartment

underneath the control knobs, and takes a look inside. While

AUSTIN fiddles inside the machine, we see two hands appear on

the holograph screen and pick up the green ball. AUSTIN looks

over to the holograph and notices.

AUSTIN:

Where'd it go?

CUT TO:

THE HANDS:

As the hands cradle the green ball, the camera pulls back

to reveal a skinny, unco-ordinated boy wearing thick eyeglasses,

carrying the sphere across his backyard. This is DAN.

DAN:

(V.O.)

It all started when I found the green

meteorite. I read in Farraday's "Life

of the Planets" that smaller ones like

this are supposed to burn up when they

enter the atmosphere, but for some reason

this one didn't ...

DAN carries the ball into a typical small-town house.

DISSOLVE TO:

T.V. ANTENNA ON ROOF - STORMY NIGHT

As the narration continues, we follow two red wires down

from the T.V. antenna, along the roof, and into DAN'S attic

window. The wires run through a bucket of water and are hooked

up to some electronic parts on DAN'S desk.

DAN:

(V.O.)

... so I brought it up to my room,

stuck it in my rock collection and

forgot about it. I was experimenting

with natural electricity ...

The camera pans around the room to show various displays of

DAN'S scientific tinkering - blue-ribbon science projects,

transparent models of a man and a woman showing all internal

organs, and many books.

In the corner, the green ball sits in DAN'S rock collection.

At his desk, DAN impatiently shuffles through the dusty pages

of an old scientific journal.

DAN:

(V.O.)

... and with the storm warnings up,

I figured maybe tonight I'd hit the

jackpot. All I needed was a little

juice.

He looks out the window at the gathering storm.

CUT TO:

THE STORM:

Crackling from the sky, a bolt of lightning strikes the

television antenna and surges along the wires into the attic.

CUT TO:

DAN'S ATTIC ROOM

The lightning flashes into DAN'S apparatus, lighting it up

brightly.

DAN:

It works!

Suddenly, an electric arc jumps from the bucket of water

and crosses the room to join with thw ball on his shelf.

Caught in the middle, DAN begins to glow green.

DAN:

(looking at his

green arms)

Oh Jesus!

The electrical field opens up a shimmering gateway into another

universe and DAN de-materializes.

CUT TO:

THE TRANSFORMATION

We float in darkness for a moment as black shapeless images

zoom past.

DAN:

(V.O.)

I felt like I was nothing

- just atoms floating in the

darkness ...

Then, tiny beams of light join to form a glow in the corner

of the screen. The glow gets brighter and starts moving slowly

around the screen. Now, we can make out some of the images

whipping past - a half-formed hand, pages of a book, a crumbling

pyramid, a green ball.

DAN:

(V.O.)

Then, a body started to re-form

around me. Only it wasn't my

body - this one had muscles.

Sturdy muscular parts begin to materialize around the moving

light. They join up with each other to form a powerfully built

human figure.

Finally a man's face takes shape, and as it forms, eveything

gets brighter and clearer.

DAN:

(V.O.)

It was a great body, but I

wasn't too crazy about the

face.

The powerful figure, DEN, turns slowly as he floats and begins

to look at his hands and arms. Moving his mouth, he speaks in

a new voice - deep and powerful.

DEN:

(feeling head)

Hmmm ... no hair.

Suddenly, the background explodes into fields of radiant colours

as the body accelerates away from us and passes through a second

shimmering gateway.

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