Journey To The Center Of The Earth Page #4

- Kind of like a water slide.

- Water slide.

Okay, that's a theory.

But wouldn't the water have formed

stalagmites pointing straight up at us?

- We'll be skewered.

- That is also possible.

Is that water?

Yes. Water.

Water slide, water slide.

Here it comes. Hang on.

Sean! Sean!

Sean, Sean, you all right?

We didn't get skewered.

Make for the rocks.

Where's Hannah?

Hannah! Hannah!

My backpack was too heavy.

Thank you.

So where does that put us now?

Back to one.

Guys, where are we?

Are those stars?

No.

That's just the ceiling of the cave.

Is it just me, or is the cave ceiling...

...moving?

Yeah.

It does look like it...

...doesn't it?

They're birds.

Electric birds?

They look like Cyanis rosopteryx.

Only they're bioluminescent,

like fireflies or glowworms.

It's incredible.

Cool.

Glow... birds.

Have you seen

these creatures before?

Yeah, in the museum,

but they were fossilized.

These things have been extinct

for over 150 million years.

Where are they going?

- Hey, a tunnel.

Guys, come on.

Sean, wait. Wait for me.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I give you the center of the Earth.

Max was right.

He was right.

Max was right!

Your dad was right.

He was right.

Hannah, your dad was right too.

They both believed...

...in something

that everyone told them was impossible.

He was right.

- What's that light up there?

- I can't tell.

It must be some sort

of luminescent gas combination.

I don't know.

It's like a terrarium.

A terrarium thousands of miles

beneath the crust of the Earth.

A world within the world.

"The waterfalls, which for a long time,

could be heard flowing from afar...

...now cascaded along

the towering canyon walls...

...streaming along the rock

with no end."

I mean,

it's the same thing Liedenbrock wrote.

Are we saying that Liedenbrock

the character was real?

That he existed?

Someone came down here.

Someone saw all this.

Someone got out

and someone told Verne.

Somebody got out?

That's the best thing I've heard all day.

Doesn't this

just completely blow your mind?

My mind is blown, yes.

Enormous fossilized mushrooms.

Sort of like humongous fungus.

- Everything in the book is real?

- Probably.

- And the really dangerous parts?

- I was thinking about that too.

Right.

Trevor, come quick.

- Sean?

- Sean?

- I'm going in.

- Yeah, wait up.

Hey, slow down.

I'll be right there.

Someone actually lived here?

That somebody...

...was Liedenbrock.

Look at all his gear.

All this, state of the art...

...a century ago.

Hey, Trevor.

I think I found Liedenbrock's notebook.

Look.

Looks like on the other side of those trees

there's some sort of underground ocean.

Yeah.

I don't think

that's Liedenbrock's handwriting.

It's my dad's.

Trevor?

Trevor?

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Out here.

Can you wait here for a minute?

Hey, I think I found Max.

I never really got a chance to know him.

I mean, I wish I did.

He wrote something

and I want you to hear it.

"August 14, 1997.

Today was Sean's third birthday.

Six weeks ago, I promised myself

I would be home in time...

...to give him his first baseball glove.

Now I'm worried...

...that I'll never get the chance.

I set out to make an incredible discovery

to share with Trevor and the world.

But now, I would trade it all...

...just to be able to watch you grow up...

...to be the brave and caring man...

...I am certain you will become.

Happy birthday, Sean.

I love you.

Daddy."

Goodbye, Max.

Come on.

According to Max's journal...

...we're here in this giant air pocket

that's surrounded by lava.

And during periods

of intense seismic activity...

- Like the one we're in now.

- That's right.

- the magma that surrounds us...

...turns this place

into pretty much just a big oven.

Was that what happened to my dad?

Look, I know I'm just a kid,

but I can handle this, really.

Sit down.

Max was planning an escape.

His notes say that temperatures down here

can easily hit 200 degrees.

A human being can't survive

beyond 135.

- It's already 95 degrees.

- It was 82 when we got here.

- Temperature's rising quickly.

- So, what do we do?

I say that we follow Max's plan.

"My analysis of the original Verne text...

...leads me to believe that across the ocean

due north of my current position...

...is a geyser-like river which could be used

to return to the surface."

So, what we have to do

is get across this ocean...

...and find the geyser

and just hitch a ride topside.

Topside sounds good.

It's a little trickier than that.

It could get so hot

that the water'll evaporate.

How much time do we have?

Forty-eight hours. Seventy-two, tops.

Probably less.

Okay, so the question is:

What is the fastest way

to get across the ocean?

There's no way we can get around it,

because if we hike...

Oh, we don't have time.

There's no time to do that.

It's all in the book.

Hey, you all right?

What's the temperature doing?

It is a hundred degrees.

Eat your trilobite, Sean.

We gotta keep our strength up.

Attaboy.

Hey.

Don't we need a center mast?

No. We don't need it.

The wind that we want is way up there.

Thermal. It's a lot faster

than what we got down here.

Good job. That should just about do it.

Hey, I got something for you.

What is this?

- It's a compass.

It was your dad's.

I remember the Christmas

that your mom gave it to him.

She wanted to make sure

that he could always find a way back home.

And maybe it will help you

find a way back to her.

- Thanks, Trevor.

- You got it.

- It means a lot to me.

- Me too.

Oh, there's one thing you should know.

Down here, the polarity is reversed.

I mean, north is south, south is north...

...and we need to bear due north

across the sea.

You mean, south.

Exactly.

All right, it's starting to pick up now.

Okay, hold it. Hold it really steady.

Good, good, good.

- Good. Ready?

- Yeah.

Three, two, one, go!

- Yeah.

- All right.

Yeah. All right.

Yeah.

Go, go, go.

Yeah. Keep going.

Whoa, we're going, we're going.

Hey, well, can you wait for me?

Well, get on.

- Come on, come on, let's go.

He's back.

Hey, little guy.

Seen those clouds?

Yeah.

The current's pulling us in the direction

we wanna go. We should lower the kite.

Can't do that.

It's a hundred and nine degrees.

It's getting hotter.

We need all the speed we can get.

Leave it up.

It's just a little storm.

Ain't no big deal.

Something moving down there.

Phosphorous and plankton.

It's the same thing we saw

back at the beach.

I don't know.

It looks kind of big for plankton.

Sean, we're not at SeaWorld,

so back off a little bit.

- All right?

- I think it's some sort of fish.

No.

They're everywhere.

Sean, I told you

we'd get to the batting cage.

Batter up.

Okay. Let's see what you've got.

Yeah. Line drive.

- Sean!

- Do you hear something?

- Hello?

- Sean.

- Mom?

- I think we have a bad connection.

Mom, I can't hear you.

Where are you?

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