It! The Terror from Beyond Space Page #2

of those 9 men who died

to try and find out.

Don't you owe it to Carruthers

to treat him as

a fellow officer,

not as an animal?

Do you think he's innocent?

I don't know.

It's not for me to decide,

or for you, van.

Ok, chicken. I'll let up

on the third degree.

Looks like I either

have to do that

or get lynched myself.

It's you I'm worried about, van.

I hate to see you so vindictive.

Every move I make's worse.

Ah, come on, Eric, resign...

No!

Aah!

I haven't resigned

a game in 30 years.

I'll be damned if

I'm gonna do it now.

What was that?

What?

I heard something.

What?

I don't know.

I didn't hear anything.

I learned to hear all

over again on Mars.

Who's up there?

Kienholz.

Come, colonel, we

got a game to finish.

Kienholz?

Did you hear anything?

Kienholz?

Now he's hearing things.

Come on, let's get him before

he wakes up the others.

Kienholz?

Carruthers?

Hey, Carruthers,

come on down here.

Kienholz is gone.

Kienholz isn't gone,

he's probably just turned in.

I'll check his cabin.

Kienholz?

Kienholz?

He's not in his cabin.

Kienholz?

Will you stop this

nonsense, currathers?

Kienholz?

Kienholz, do you hear me?

Kienholz?

Kienholz?

Kienholz, answer!

What's he hollering about?

I don't know.

He can't find kienholz.

Kienholz, this is Royce.

Reply at once.

Reply at once.

Joe, can you hear me?

Reply at once.

Report at once

to the quarters level.

If this is one of his jokes,

I'll make him walk home.

Everybody search the ship.

He isn't here.

Come on.

Not a sign of him.

This is ridiculous.

It's just plain crazy.

Kienholz's gotta be here.

Where's your brother?

He's Comin'.

Hey, gino.

Hey, gino!

Funny, he was right behind me.

Hey, gino!

Gino?

Gino!

Gino?

Hey, gino!

Maybe he went below.

But we were here together.

Now there's 2 of them missing.

This is ridiculous.

There's just no place on this

ship for a man to hide.

Ay, gino, where are you?

Gino?

Where can he be?

If he were here, he'd hear us.

Oh, look, maybe he's hurt.

We've got to find him.

Kienholz.

Lord have mercy on his soul.

C compartment.

First storage, c compartment.

Come quick. Come quick.

All hands on the double.

What's the matter?

What happened?

What happened?

Shush!

Hey, maybe gino's up there.

No. No, he's not there.

Over here.

If he's in there, we can get

him through this hatch.

I'll go, I know the

layout in there.

He's in here.

Gino!

Gino!

Gino. He found gino.

Easy, Bob.

He's alive!

Gino?

Gino?

Gino?

Gino!

Gino?

Help!

You're not gonna

leave gino up there.

Get him out of here!

Get my brother outta there.

Get out of here, will ya?

Get a head start. Go!

What are you gonna

do with those?

We can wire 'em

up to the hatches.

Let's do it!

Put up the grille. Hurry up.

There wasn't anything

else to do, Bob.

I know how you feel,

but there wasn't anything

else we could do.

We could've tried.

You heard what Jack said.

Gino was past help...

We should've tried.

Sooner or later, he's gotta

come out of the duct.

Right into the grenades.

There, you'll be all right,

but you have to rest.

Jack, nobody blames you.

Do you know what

happened to kienholz?

Every bone in his body

must be broken.

I'm not sure that's

what killed him.

That shriveled-up effect...

I'll have to do an autopsy.

What is that thing down there?

Carruthers?

What is it?

Do you know what

it is, Carruthers?

No.

I have a theory

based on what you

and Jack told me.

You say it's man-shaped,

humanoid.

Perhaps there was once

a civilization on Mars.

It ended. Disease,

war, something terrible.

The martians that were left

went back to barbarism.

Savage murderers.

Maybe that's what

we've got on board.

Bob?

I was only 3 feet away from him.

He was shaking his head,

trying to warn me.

I was that close and

I couldn't help him.

Instead I ran.

Why don't you hate me, too?

At least Carruthers did

what he thought was right.

If anybody did a wrong

thing, it was me.

But please believe me,

we couldn't of saved him.

Gino knew that.

Gino knew that himself.

I don't blame Carruthers, you,

I don't blame anybody.

It's just that he's down there.

How could that thing

have gotten aboard?

And why? Just to kill us?

What is the usual reason

an intelligent creature kills.

It's hungry?

What makes you so certain

it's intelligent, colonel,

not just an animal?

It opened the door

to c compartment.

Eric?

Those gas grenades

that gino made up.

He joked about them,

said if we ran into

any dinosaurs on Mars,

the grenades would

take care of them,

but... If nothing else

works, maybe gas?

They're in the

chemical cabinet, Eric.

We'll use them as a last resort.

Jim, will you get out

the gas masks?

The second storage hatch.

Close it! Close it!

Bullets, grenades,

nothing stops it.

What do we do now?

What'd you find out?

There's not a molecule of oxygen

or a drop of water

left in kienholz's body.

Water?

Blood,

bone marrow,

glandular secretion,

moisture in the tissues...

Every ounce of edible fluid

in his body is gone.

Probably through

some osmosis process,

there are no punctures.

That's what killed him.

Cellular collapse

and dehydration,

not being crushed

into that duct.

It holds together.

Mars is a world almost totally

without water or oxygen.

The creature's entire

being is probably

organized to feed

in that manner.

It preys on smaller creatures,

which in turn feed

off the sand itself,

converting their intake

and hoarding it as water.

I'm worried about van.

Infection's set in and I

can't seem to control it.

It's exploring, testing.

It can get through

the center hatches.

It has to kill us or starve,

and we've got to kill it or die.

Why is it so quiet now?

Why doesn't it attack?

'Cause it's got gino, huh?

Bob, look, I've got an idea.

How is he?

It's an alien bacteria

of some kind.

So far the infection

isn't critical,

but our drugs don't

even touch it.

Col. Carruthers.

I know this may sound horrible,

but you were right

and we were all wrong.

It's taken this to prove it.

Anne?

Anne?

It's moving around.

Jimmy?

Anne?

Bob and I have a suggestion.

We could get around

behind the creature

by going out the control

room emergency air lock,

moving down the hull

to the emergency air

lock on the motor level.

That would put us

one level below it.

We might be able to

surprise it that way.

If we knew what

to surprise it with.

I've been thinking of something.

At least, it's worth a chance.

Exactly 520 minutes,

10 seconds,

now.

We'll time it to get to

the motor level air

lock at exactly 525.

Start making noise then,

not a lot, just talk,

move around.

Don't make it sound threatening.

Just enough to keep

his attention away

in case we make

noise coming in below.

Good luck,

in case we don't come back.

I said, "good luck,

in case we don't come back."

The plan is a simple one.

While the rest try to hold

the attention of the beast

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