Lost in Space Page #10

JUDY:

Well, who do we have here?

As the beast struggles in Don's hand it changes color, chameleon like,

trying to hide. No luck. Don holds fast.

WEST:

Easy there, little buddy. No one's

going to hurt you.

SMITH:

How do you know it won't hurt us?

Don has begun stroking the creature's head. After a beat, the small

beast begins to COO and emit small BLIPPING sounds.

JUDY:

Looks like you've made a friend. You

have a good bedside manner, Major.

WEST:

I'm going to let that one go.

SMITH:

How charming. Doctor Dolittle of

outer space.

JUDY:

Where do you think it came from?

JOHN:

It's possible this is one of the

creatures represented in the

hieroglyphs we saw on the wall. It

must have been their ship attached to

the other docking ring.

The beast has moved onto Don's shoulder, is now clutching there,

burying its tiny face into his neck. Don can't help but LAUGH.

WEST:

It looks like a child.

SMITH:

If so, my dear Major, what do you

suppose happened to its parents?

JOHN:

Let's get back to the bridge.

As they leave, a dark shape skitters across the ceiling in the

background. Ominous. Unseen.

CHAPTER 14:
Giant Spiders!

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INT.-JUPITER TWO

Penny is still hanging overhead.

PENNY:

I think I've got it.

The sensor console comes back to life, displays lighting, status lights

going green. Maureen stares at the monitor.

MAUREEN:

That's strange.

SCREEN-CLOSE. Revealed in the sensor scan, the scallops pulse with

ambient heat. Penny lands beside her.

PENNY:

Those scales are giving off heat.

INT.-PROBE SHIP-BRIDGE

John is at the Com.

JOHN:

I've tapped into the internal sensor

array. Besides us, this ship is

totally deserted.

SMITH:

A ghost ship.

Don is sitting with the tiny creature. He pulls a ration pack from his

pocket. Turns it over in his hand.

WEST:

And the flavor of the day is ...

banana/beef. Who thinks up these

combinations?

The creature stares at him intently as he tears open the foil lip,

sucks a bit LOUDLY. Judy can't help but smile at him.

WEST:

MM. Good.

SMITH:

Major West, I highly recommend you

never breed. That by the way is my

medical opinion.

Don glares at him, hands the tiny creature the pouch. The creature

looks at it, emits a small BLIP, takes a tentative suck. Its eyes widen

in delight as it begins to suck the ration pack.

WEST:

Little thing was hungry.

SMITH:

Good Lord, who will - spare us the

tyranny of the sentimental?

(OVER) a distant, high pitched WHINE.

PENNY:

Do you hear something?

Suddenly the creature begins to SCREAM, leaping on Smith's back,

clinging to his neck for dear life.

SMITH:

Get this infernal creature off me.

The WHINE is growing louder. it seems to be coming from above.

THE CEILING-CLOSE. There, in the corner, the membrane covering the hole

seems to be trembling.

WEST:

This can't be good.

SMITH:

You have a remarkably keen sense

of the obvious.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

Maureen stands with Penny at the main sensor station.

MAUREEN:

John, get the hell out of there.

ON SCREEN. The silver disks on the hull of the probe ship are beginning

to move, rising to stand now on spindraled legs.

EXT.-PROBE SHIP

Heads and legs emerging, the disks reveal themselves to be armor plated

spiders. The monsters find viscous holes in the outer hull and push

through, vanishing into the probe ship.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

(OVER) a THUD. The Jupiter Two shakes, as if struck.

MAUREEN:

Give me an external view.

Penny works the console.

ON SCREEN. Spiders are leaping from the probe onto the Jupiter Two.

INT.-PROBE SHIP-BRIDGE

The lizard monkey's SCREAMING has reached new heights of hysteria. A

shape begins to push through the viscous bole in the ceiling.

What bursts in is a monster out of nightmare. Nearly half the size of a

human, shiny metallic body from which wet, spider-like limbs extend. A

fang covered vAw opens below ravenous, green eyes.

Don draws his laser and FIRES, but the blast only reflects off the

metallic surface of its torso, forcing the creature to retract its

limbs and eyes, hiding within its protective shell.

JOHN:

Evacuate. Now!

The team races for the door as several more spiders drop through the

hole in the ceiling, landing in the bridge and scampering fast towards

our fleeing heros.

INT.-PROBE SHIP-TUNNELS

The boarding party race down the corridor. The spiders are bounding

after them, using walls, floor, and ceiling with equal facility.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

Will is madly working his keyboard, controlling the fleeing Robot.

WILL:

This joy stick is too slow. Activate

holographic interface.

A holographic robot appears on the bridge. Will steps inside, the image

now moving with his body. He spins, facing backwards, firing.

INT.-PROBE SHIP

The Robot is holding up the rear, its torso swiveled backwards so it

can retreat and FIRE simultaneously.

The Robot's plasma BLASTS have more effect than-the lasers, blowing the

spiders into tiny pieces of inhuman flesh and metal.

But more monsters are pouring through the holes in the corridor

ceiling, some giving chasing, others swarming injured comrades.

Judy watches as several spiders devour their fallen brethren.

JUDY:

They eat their wounded.

Our heroes race to a nexus, corridors leading off in all directions.

Spiders are dropping from the ceiling around them.

JOHN:

Which way?

INT. -JUPITER TWO

WILL-POV. A graphic map flashes within the holograph.

WILL:

Turn left.

INT.-PROBE SHIP-CORRIdOR

ROBOT:

Now right.

The spiders are swarming, closing fast.

JOHN:

Got to seal the bulkhead.

WEST:

The door control is at the other and

of the corridor.

JUDY:

The fire sensor.

Judy pulls her gun, FIRES, hitting a ceiling sensor at the end of the

corridor. Blast doors SLAM, sealing out most of the spiders.

DON-CLOSE. Impressed.

BLAST DOORS-CLOSE. Metal teeth begin tearing through the steel.

Our group has made it to the door to the docking bay. They rush in, the

Robot coming through the open doorway last and holding there.

INT.-PROBE SHIP-DOCKING BAY

Don activates the airlock to the Jupiter, the batch slowly opening.

The Robot stands in the doorway to the docking bay, FIRING at the

spiders as they come down the hall, blowing them away. More pour

through the now rending blast doors. There are just too many, rolling

towards them now like a single, shifting mass of death.

SMITH:

Open, damn you.

WEST:

It's cycling a vacuum check. There is

no way to speed up the protocols.

SMITH:

Fools. I warned you not to come

aboard this cursed craft. You've

killed us. You've killed us all.

Judy throws him, hard, into the wall.

JUDY:

Shut up.

WEST:

Now that's a bedside manner.

The first spiders reach the Robot, leaping onto its metal bull.

INT.-JUPITER TWO

Maureen and Penny are at the Com, powering up the engines. Will is

within the holograph, fighting off the spiders.

WILL:

Charge.

INT.-PROBE SHIP-DOCKING BAY

The Robot's shell electrifies, the spiders recoiling.

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