The 5th Wave Page #4

you tookthe gun out of my hand?

Let's just leave any potential disarming to me,

all right?

No.

No, I need to be ready.

Cassie, it's okay.

You don't have to be tough all the time.

Don't do that.

I'm not tough, okay?

I promised Sam that I would be

there for him no matter what.

I made that promise to him.

Okay.

Give me your gun.

Get up.

Point it at my chest.

Okay. Grab the barrel of the gun with your left,

and with your right, snap my hand away.

You got it?

Hey, you're not gonna hurt me. All right.

Like that, but stronger.

Good.

Now at the end, you'll grab

my wrist and pull it toward you.

Like that?

Yeah.

Good job.

Well, thanks.

Can I have...

RINGER:
Okay.

Don't be so scared of your weapon.

You gotta think that the gun is a part of you.

Not the gun firing, you firing.

Try it again.

Well, that wasn't terrible.

Zombie, the Colonel wants to see you, now.

COLONEL VOSCH:
Could be.

Seems like a good target.

Be right back.

Lieutenant?

Yes, sir.

Simultaneous attacks on the last

of our metropolitan areas.

A full-on invasion. This is it.

The 5th Wave.

It's started?

Yeah.

Here, I want to show you something.

These employ the same technology

as the detector viewer from medical.

We've improved it. Made it mobile.

The idea is to allow our soldiers in the field

to instantly differentiate between friend and foe.

You look at the enemy through

this and it lights 'em up green.

We can see them before they

know they've been seen.

We take back the advantage.

The only thing left to do now is

test the optics in live conditions.

Which is why tomorrow at 2100,

I'm sending four squads into battle

equipped with these helmets.

Your squad will be among those four.

Yes, sir.

Make me proud, son.

Bring that squad back in one piece.

Yes, sir.

Evan?

Morning.

Morning.

Who've we got here?

Um...

This is Lizbeth.

She's my best friend.

She looks like she's funny.

Yeah. Actually, you know, she was...

She was really funny.

And this guy.

He's nobody.

This must be Ben Parish.

Oh, God.

Wow.

I really wish you hadn't read my journal.

It's really embarrassing.

Is that your family?

Yeah.

And that must be Sam.

Yeah.

I can't wait to meet him.

We should probably get moving.

Yeah.

All right, this way.

How do you know without a compass?

Do you have a compass?

No. But...

You know, I can make one out of

a pin and a glass of water.

Didn't peg you for a Girl Scout.

What'd you peg me as?

A cheerleader?

You said it, not me.

I've never been a huge fan of the outdoors.

Too many bugs.

You live on a farm.

Accident of birth.

I had a scholarship to Kent State.

Mechanical engineering.

Thought I was some hick, huh?

You said it, not me.

SAM:
Zombie, are they really sending us to fight?

ZOMBIE:
Yeah.

SAM:
I'm scared.

It's okay.

Just go to sleep, all right?

What was your name before?

Ben.

What was yours?

Sam.

But my sister called me Sams.

When I couldn't sleep

she would sing to me.

Bones sinking like stones

All that we fought for

BOTH:
Homes, places we've grown

All of us are done for

Could you guys please shut up?

SAM AND ZOMBIE:
We live in a beautiful world

Yeah, we do Yeah, we do

We live in a beautiful world ?

Hey. Let me help you.

Yeah, sure.

Looks better.

Yeah.

Let me do this.

All right.

Got scissors?

Yeah.

I got it.

I should probably cover our stuff.

Evan.

Thank you.

Squad 53?

Present and accounted for.

All right.

Strap in. Take us up.

Where's Nugget?

Food poisoning.

SAM:
Zombie.

Zombie.

Let me out of here!

SOLDIER 2:
Copy that.Tango

Three dropping down 1,000.

You clear on your orders?

Infiltrate enemy hornet's nest,

verify enemy and terminate.

Remember, The Others light

up green in your visors.

At mission complete, signal for extraction.

We'll get ya home.

Holy sh*t, it's working. You guys,

I got two of 'em straight ahead.

And I heard it. I was right there.

Got you, you mother-fu..

I peed. I definitely just peed.

Get inside!

Return fire!

Coming this way!

They're over here, too!

Run for the alley!

Go! Go, go, go!

Teacup, go, go!

Go! Run!

Move!

Go! Go!

Contact!

Stay low!

Get to the bus.

Go!

Where's Teacup?

Where's Teacup? We lost Teacup.

Over here!

Don't do that! Don't scare me like that!

Oompa's been shot!

Down, down! Now, now!

Down, down, down!

Oompa's been shot!

Down!

He's not breathing!

Don't be dead. Come on, man.

Don't be dead! Please don't be dead!

Oompa... Stay alive, Oompa!

We can't stay here.They'll be back.

That alley way. We'll have cover there.

No, it's too far.

If we're out in the open that long

they'll pick us off one by one.

We need a distraction.

Okay.

Okay what?

I'll distract them.

When I tell you to run, run as fast as you can.

Now cover me!

What?

Listen up!

On my go, haul ass to the alley way.

Back out there? Are you crazy?

Listen, Teacup, you just

gotta trust me, okay?

You're gonna run and don't look back.

What about Oompa?

He's dead, man. We gotta leave him.

Sorry, man. I'm sorry.

Zombie, now! Run!

Haul ass!

Go, go, go!

Let's move! Move! Move!

Stairs.

Got it.

Clear!

Clear!

Clear!

Are we still alive?

I think so.

Watch out!

Don't shoot! It's Ringer!

That was badass, Ringer.

I'd hug you if I didn't think

you'd punch me in the nuts for it.

Okay, so what do we do now?

None of this makes sense.

They knock planes out of the

sky and cause earthquakes,

but they're afraid of an army of children?

There's something Vosch isn't telling us.

Okay, I'm not risking my life for this.

DUMBO:
Ringer, what are you doing?

I'm unenlisting.

I'm better out there on my own.

If you know what's best for you, you'll do the same.

Holy sh*t! What the hell is this?

Zombie, you see this?

She's green!

What the hell, you guys?

Put your guns down.

You're one of them! You're an alien!

What are you talking about?

I just saved your asses!

If she's one of them, we have to take her out now.

Poundcake, just calm down, all right?

We have to.

I can see it!

I can see it inside of her!

There's nothing inside me!

Shut up!

Zombie, what do we do? Do we shoot her?

It's your call, Zombie.

Zombie, what are you doing?

What's up, man?

Oh, my God! What's going on, man?

Come on, man.

Hey. Put your guns down. Put your guns down.

Don't shoot. Calm down.

She's not an Other. Neither am I.

I'm glowing green, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, listen.

You know me.

Come on, Dumbo. You know who I am.

Put the guns down.

Just put 'em down! I'm not an Other.

I don't even think any of those people

out there shooting at us are Others.

Reznik, Vosch...

They lied to us.

They lied to us, man.

Green doesn't mean alien. Green means human.

Just, without one of these.

What are you talking about?

Don't you guys see?

Those lenses, these trackers, it's all fake, man.

It's an illusion. It's a trick.

They weren't testing these.They were testing us.

They were seeing how we would do,

how we would hold up under pressure.

All right?

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