P.O.V. - SWINGING AROUND UNEVEN BAR IN GYM.
[Rhythm is performing on the uneven bars during a
Gymnastic display.]
FOLLOWING- Rhythm dismounts bars and makes perfect landing, then raises hands above her head. Announcer speaks over P.A.]
Announcer
Rhythm has made a perfect landing from her energy
packed routine......Yet another great display of the
athleticism of the members of FUTURE PEACE! What a great
bunch of kids!...Next we will see...
FADE OUT:
Equinox
Hey, Tempo, I'll race you back to camp!
[Tempo turns to him with a odd look and calls out to her horse and speeds up till she is in lead of Equinox and the rest of the group]
Tempo
COME ON YOU SNAIL!! (from far ahead)
[Equinox and Tempo race each other up ahead while the others maintain there normal speed while going back toward camp. Camp is a series of small green tents, near a thicket of trees. The five remaining riders gallop up to the camp as Tempo and Equinox are still arguing about who won the race outside a near by tent. Rhythm, Polo, Ezel and Mr. Key are busy at the two fires cooking dinner. Pro. Locklear is teaching Fire how to set a snare trap off near one of the far tents. Just as Anoki, Chase, Crys, Union, and Utopia get off the horses and tie them up for the night Epic , and Dr. Sutherland come back with arms filled with wood pieces for the fires.]
Rhythm
Good thing we figured out how to make poles from the bush trees that grown around
here. I'd hate to have to eat beans the entire three days.
[Rhythm mutters while turning the large fish in the huge metal pan. The fish sizzle and pop with the heat and seasoning, aroma fills the air.]
Mr. Key
Human resourcefulness in a tight situation is amazing sometimes. I left the
rods at the base on purpose.
Ezel
Like that time you took the five of us out to the far side of the island
and told us not to come back for four days.
Polo (smiling)
I developed a rash that burned my skin for a week and we all lost five pounds since
we couldn't find enough berries and wild vegetables to eat right.
Mr. Key
But the second and third time you did fine and avoided all the poison vines.
Rhythm
At least you got shut out in a tropical environment. We were dropped thirty
miles out on the tundra in the middle of the winter and given supplies only
to last three days. We were cold and hungry when we got back. Luckily they
gave us warm clothes so we didn't get frostbite from the weather.
[Utopia comes up and sniffs the food and smiles]
Utopia
Ahh the good old days in the Alaskan Yukon. Thank goodness we don't have to
submit to that sort of cold any longer eh!
Ezel
Not everything warm and pretty is a tropical paradise. The hidden dangers are
always the most deadly.
[Crystal and Anoki walk up with Chase skipping ahead of them]
Anoki
My rear is sore, when do we eat?
Chase
Yeah, Daddy, I'm hungry! What did you make besides fish.
Mr. Key
Beans, boiled wild potatoes and onions.
Crystal
Sounds good! I'll break out the china
[Union hears this near by as she steps out of a tent with a grey jacket on.]
Union
I'll help!
LATER DURING DINNER. [Dark out and everyone is talking and eating around the now single fire. Chase has already finished and is clowning for the others]
Chase
Well when I was little my parents had to put me in a shoe box because the bed
they made me was too big...[Others laugh].....Okay, how about this one...Ezel's feet are so big
that the N.A.E. Navy has certified them seaworthy!
[Ezel laughs with the others and she hugs her little sister]
Ezel
[Playfully, Humorous]
Chases mouth is so big that the entire World Fleet could dock on her tongue.
[All Laugh, Chase giggles wildly]
FOLLOWING SHOT- In a dark, misty woods. The P.K.'s are training in search and rescue. All dressed in black with high tech laser tag guns, they search through the training site for the object they are to retreive. Camera follows behind Tempo and Fire as they sneak up toward Polo and Rhythm on a clearing. Rhythm and Polo turn and quickly fire upon Fire and Tempo, tagging them out of the game.]
Rhythm
You're both dead!
[Fire and Tempo moan and drag themselves back to base. Polo and Rhythm continue ahead, searching out more members of the other team.]
Polo
We took out Fire and Tempo!.....Has anyone found the object yet?
[Reply heard over radio headset.]
Ezel's voice
No, we are still looking!
[Polo confirms and he and Rhythm keep looking.]
P.O.V. SHOT- Anoki is looking over at the object, which is a marble filled pouch hanging from a tree. Crystal is grabbing it down from the tree and she turns suddenly when hearing a noise.]
CLOSE-UP SHOT-of Anoki
Anoki
I see Crystal, she has the pouch!
Polo's Voice
Then take her out!
Ezel's voice
Run her down if you have to.
FOLLOWING SHOT- Crystal hears Anoki in the bush near her and begins to run with the pouch in her hands. Anoki chases after her. Soon Ezal, Polo and Rhythm follow after her.]
Ezel
Come on, you can't out run me!!
Crystal (into her headset)
Where's my backup!!! I'm being chased by greyhound and friends!!
Equinox's voice
We're coming!...Fire and Tempo were tagged out!
Crystal
HURRY UP!!
[Equinox comes out of the bush and meets Crystal. She tosses him the bag and he runs ahead with it. Union comes up beside and soon Equinox passes the bag to Union and runs with her. ]
Union
Come on, let's go!!
[Equinox & Union run and dodge, between Epic & Utopia who come out of the darkness and try to take the bag. Union runs the last lap of the race back to base. She is closely chased by Ezel, Anoki, Epic and Rhythm ]
Union
Fast as lightning, you can't catch me!!
[Ezel runs closely behind Union but is unable to catch her before she tags base. Aqua (of G.Y.P.R.) meets them, standing beside Dr. Sutherland, and Professor Porter Bell. Aqau smiles and throws the winners their towels. All the teens trinkle in.]
Aqua
That was pretty good!
Dr. Sutherland
Only two kills on the retrieval team!
Porter Bell
I think you could perform better, with more practice!
[Utopia,grabs a towel and whipes off the sweet from his face.]
Utopia
I don't know, it wasn't a real situation out their. The
odds were too even.
Tempo
Well, atleast the mission was completed. We recovered
the marble bag!
Dr. Sutherland
Yes, you did!
FADE OUT:
[Blackness, shifting to lush landscapes and a streaking light. Then same landscapes, now barren (after nuclear war) and dead. Close-up of computer which dissolves into nuclear missle, Camera pulls back. Close-up of Anoki's eyes pulling back to his face.]
"It seemed a morning like any other, until the news came in. Three nuclear warheads in a world no longer using such violent technology have been rumored to have fallen into the hands of the Confederation. The three monster antiques are equipped with enough Plutonium to wipe out 1/6 the world population. Old nuclear shelters from the 20th century have long since been torn down. After the nuclear accident of the early 21st century, all nations got rid of whatever nuclear and bio warfare weapons they had by dismantling them and disposing of the parts. Relic shells of these man killers were set up in museums all over the globe so that no one would forget the bombs on Japan in 1945, or the accident of 2016, when the United States got false bleeps on screens because of a computer hacker. The Bordem of 'One' caused the USA and China to launch missiles against one another......That ill fated day the world population was cut in half, the land ruined for twenty years, the United States fell from it's high seat in the world economy. Rebuilding took along time, the scars are still evident in many of the country sides of North Carolina through to California and Hawaii. The Provinces' of China, once flourishing with people, and life are like a vast graveyard. Dreary are those who survived the incident and yet, hopeful are the younger generations who seek only to rebuild their culture and society. Many people thought the world had ended that day, for many people still asleep in their beds it had. In a flash of light their lives ended. ...With three warheads in the possession of the Confederation of Australia, I find it hard to rest. I want to be awake if that star is to streak across my sky and in a moment blind me, taking my life with it's brilliant death."
[The Rep. quickly exits. All the Senior N.A.E. Representatives bustle into the Meeting Hall and seat themselves quickly. The Speaker of the Summit comes in, She looks angry. Things suddenly get perfectly quite. The P.K.'s find their seats. The Speaker calls order and speaks into the Mic.]
Speaker
You are aware of the of the reason we called this Emergency meeting?...A
Nuclear Crisis is perhaps on the brink. Do any of you have any questions
of suggestions as to how we might solve this problem?! [staring toward the P.K.'s]
Fire
No, we were woken up only twenty minutes ago and told to come here. Here we heard
of the situation.
Utopia
What would you like us to do? [shrugging]
Rhythm [whispers]
We must ask for them back, politely!
Speaker
I'm not sure what You can do!
[A voice yells]
Let the Peace Keepers go, since it was the anti-Peace Keepers
who headed the raid!!
[Other Rep.'s cheer and talk on. Crystal becomes confused at the notion.]
Crystal
You said that Dark Squad was there, they were among the Confederate Soldiers in the
attack on the ship and it's sinking!!?
Speaker
Yes, you weren't told this?
Polo
No, we weren't told!
Union
If Dark Squad is involved then we are the only ones who can stop them.
Equinox
Can we be shown all the details on the warheads that are available!?
[The speaker points to scientists standing at the doorway. The peace keepers get up from their seats and leave.]
[Separate room. Teens are shown Spec's of the warheads and they study them closely.]
Scientist
This is how you disarm the warheads!
[Pointing to connections highlighted on a chart and pointing to wires on model]
You cut these two wires, only these two!!
[Fire looks up to the scientists with a pale face]
Fire
Only those two!?? (gulp)
Scientist 2
Yeah! If you don't want to blow everyone up!!!
[All the teens get a shocked look]
Scientist 3
Don't scare them! They are only the flag ship in the operation. Only if push comes to
shove are they to disarm the warheads(to other scientists).....As soon as you find
out where exactly in the compound they are hidden and the layout of the place you
call in the explosive experts, they'll handle the problem.
Scientist 2
When the information comes in they'll be deployed to the location immediately. If they're
lucky the N.A.E. will give them proper backup.
Scientist 1
SHHHHHH! you two!!
Anoki
Hopefully the warheads can be recovered and dismantled for good.
Scientist 2
And the Blueprints burned and no one have the recipe for massive death...My
grandfather talked like you. He was in Washington D.C. when the bomb dropped.
[4 Hrs. LATER. N.A.E. Reps bustle about the room. The eleven P.K.'s sit alert and on the edge of their seats. They had barely touched the biscuits, spring rolls, Juice ,and cheese cubes brought out to them]
Anoki
(moan from headache) When will this end? (Tele to Crystal)
Crystal
When we die of old age, or worse !(Tele)
[Tempo puts her head on her arms and stairs at the phone on the table in front of her. Moments pass in utter silence. The phone rings. All thoughts are broken as is a glass dropped on the floor, and attention put on the video phone. The speaker crosses the room and answers the phone.]
Speaker
Yes,....Where?...........oh........I understand...yes they are here.....ready?..I hope so!
[The phone is hung up and speaker turns to sternly]
The warheads have been located. They are being hidden in a silo in the upper Siberian Peninsula bordering the Arctic Ocean. It is unconfirmed as to whether or not the four 'Lost Peace Keepers' are there. You will be given proper attire and tools and leave immediately...[teens turn to leave]
I wish you success on your mission Peace Keepers and may the God of all protect you!
Rhythm
Where do we go for the gear? ( to speaker)
(Scientist 3 comes up behind Rhythm)
Scientist 3
Come with me, I'll take you to the Armory.
(leading the way, with teens and four N.A.E. officials following)
[The Peace Keepers Suit up and put on packs and get aboard plane. They are dropped off at the approx. location of where the warheads are believed to be hidden. A team of Five go inside the compound, hidden in the snow drift. The other six stay in the large snow tank as backup with two soldiers. Equinox, Fire, Union, Ezel, and Rhythm are the mission team with Rhythm as leader. The five infiltrate the lifeless compound successfully and proceed into the depths of the cold corridors. Union and Equinox are first to locate the warheads in a isolated room on a lower floor. Union set forth with the plan of putting trackers on the warheads so the explosive specialists can locate them. Union pulls out a small bug from her chest pocket and slaps it onto one of the warheads large casings. Equinox does the same on a separate warhead. The heavy doorway to the bay drops down enclosing the two.]
Union
Team one this is team two copy! Team one we found the warheads!!
[Their radio communicators are useless. Equinox runs up to the door and tries to open it]
Equinox
What is this?
[A sound is heard faintly as gas is released through the air ducts of the enclosed room. The two try to escape it but soon collapse, unconscious onto the floor.]
[In a control room members of Dark squad sit in chairs viewing images of Equinox and Union falling to the floor, gasping for air. The teens find humor in the ghastly sight and laugh and mock. The Confederate soldiers in the room don't see the humor]
Aeon (facing away)
Go get them from the bay and put them in the cell.
[IN TANK. Crystal and Anoki immediately realize what has happened]
Anoki
Union and Equinox have been captured!! I repeat Union and Equinox are captured!!
[The head soldier in tank takes command]
Soldier
Return to the tank immediately! ( he booms into the radio)
[Fire, Ezel and Rhythm return to the tank in time to hear the transmission from the N.A.E. ordering the peacekeepers to evacuate to the base, 50 miles away]
Crystal (begging)
We have to retrieve Equinox and Union now!!! If we go back and wait there is no
telling what will happen!!
General
Follow orders and return to the base now!! (angerly)
Crystal(bold and defiant)
No, Sir!! I cannot do that, not now!!
[The two soldiers aboard the tank point guns at Crystal. Crystal looks down at the guns and then back to the General on the screen]
Kill me if you must. I need to rescue my teammates.
[The two soldiers lower their guns and Crystal exits the tank and starts marching through the snow toward the compound. Anoki immediately follows, then Fire, Tempo and the rest of the P.K.'s and the two soldiers. The general yells from the screen, only to be unheard.]
[The eleven people storm into the complex, smashing or disarming every electrical panel and system they come across. They use flash lights to lead them through the darkened maze]
[Dark Squad and the four confederate soldiers sit disgustedly in the dark control room with no way to see what the P.K.'s are doing. A soldier works on a wall panel trying to internally activate the hidden backup power]
Female Soldier
No use ! They have done too much damage. I doubt I could bring up power in two
days from the mess they made.
[Chasm turns to the repairman]
Chasm
Don't worry about fixing those blasted circuits now. We have to finish what was started!
[Crystal and the others search through te darkened compound, not caring to be quiet. They are broken into a group of five and a second of six. Anoki leads up the second group, Crystal the first, both using their telepathic link with Union to help in the search]
[Rapt orders the soldiers to help him make repairs elsewhere in the compound. The soldier working inside the panel restores the backup power which lights up the room and turns on night vision camera's throughout the compound. Chasm looks to the screen showing Crystal with her team of four going through the hallways. A evil grin crosses her face and dark thoughts emerge in her mind. She turns to Sirin]
Chasm
Aeon, I have an idea for getting another hostage!
[Sirin looks over the screen and to Chasm's face. Aeon noticing Chasm's expression, but unflattered.]
Aeon
Who ! (turns back to the screen) You want Crystal badly, don't you?
(Chasm walks up to Aeon and looks into his eyes)
Chasm
Of course I want to get back at her...I need you to help me catch her and defeat her.
Aeon (unthrilled)
Fine, I don't care who is first as long as the result is that all the Peace Keepers
are dealt with.
[Aeon and Chasm exit the control room and seek out the location of Crystal's team.]
Crystal
Go, Go find the warheads!! (yells in pain)
Polo [on other side of door]
No, I won't loose another sibling, not now or ever!!
Crystal
Please go!!! (exasperated)
[Polo steps back from the wall and turns to the other three, taking charge.]
Polo
We must find the warheads
Utopia
Then we rescue Crystal, Union and Equinox right afterwards!
Soldier
The warheads are more immediate at this time.
Rhythm
Crystal can fend for herself at the moment, let's go!!
[The four radio the second team about Crystal and continue searching for the warheads]
[OTHER SIDE WALL. Crystal realizes her team has left her, and that she isn't alone in the room. A dim light is turned on in the room and Chasm steps toward Crystal. Crystal listens]
Chasm
Poor, Poor blind thing. So miserable on the floor!
[Crystal listens carefully to the sound of Chasm's voice and steps to fix in on her location in the room. Chasm comes so close to Crystal that she reaches out and and grabs Chasm's heel and jerks her foot out from under her. Chasm falls onto her backside and quickly reacts in anger and kicks Crystal in her side. Crystal gasps for breath, holding her side. Aeon stands silent at the rear of the room, smiling faintly at Chasm's fall. Chasm gets back up to her feet. Crystal backs up a little and carefully stands up. Chasm picks up a club from against a wall and swings it at Crystal. Crystal ducks and counteracts Chasm with a kick that knocks the club from her hands. Aeon intrudes as Crystal is about to lurch on Chasm, and knocks Crystal against the cement wall with a telekinetic blow to her chest. Crystal slams against the wall and falls unconscious to the floor in a lump.]
Aeon
See how easy it can be. (to Chasm)
[Chasm shrugs and then her and Aeon drag Crystal out of the room]
[ELSEWHERE IN COMPOUND. Anoki is leading his team, though evidently stressed over Crystal capture and his sense of what is happening to her he stays focused. Anoki's team locates the warheads and destruct the door and fuse close the vent system then proceed in disarming the warheads while Polo's team comes and helps, while also standing guard for anyone or thing that might interfere. The long and delicate task of disarming and dismantling the warheads begins.]
[CELL. Crystal is drug into the cell and dropped harshly onto the floor and kicked by Chasm. Union and Equinox look on from their restraints on the far side of the room. Crystal begins to regain consciousness as Aeon reenters the room with a tray carrying several needles and small bottle of a clear substance. Aeon places the tray on the small table near the door and steps forward, looking down at Crystal. Chasm goes to the tray and picks up the bottle and one of the needles and proceeds to fill it with the substance.]
Chasm
How much had the doctor said would be effective in depressing a Peace Keepers
powers? (to Aeon)
Aeon
25 fluid mg's
Chasm
That is nothing, I think our FRIEND Crystal needs more. She is after all the
first person this substance is being tried on. There is no telling how much it
will take!
[Chasm fills the needle with 50 milligrams of the substance then places the bottle in Aeon's hand and reaches down to Crystal who is too unconscious to move still. Chasm grabs Crystal's left arm and thrusts the needle into one of her veins, injecting the substance. Crystal moans at the added pain and in seconds after Chasm is done with the injection Crystal begins to convulse and shake violently. Union and Equinox watch helplessly in horror.]
Equinox
(yells) Crystal!!
[Chasm steps back and looks to Crystal's shaking body. Partly scared and amused, Chasm begins to laugh loudly. Aeon stands silently, curiously watching Crystal's torment. After several moments Chasm's interest fades and she leaves the cell, a couple moments later Aeon exits also, placing the bottle on the tray on his way out. Soon Crystal's body starts to calm down until she lays still. Then regaining consciousness Crystal mumbles to the others.]
Crystal
Who is here?
Union
It is me! (lifting her head)
Crystal
Who!? (lifting her head & looking around the dim lit room)
Equinox
It's me, Equinox...and Union!
[Union realizes Crystal is blind and whispers to Equinox}
Union
She's blind. Crystal cannot see!
[Equinox looks confused and turns back to Crystal]
Equinox
Crystal, come and release us if you can move!
Crystal
Where are you ?
Equinox
To your right, about 25 feet forward.
Crystal
How?
Equinox
I don't know....(looking around the room)
Union
There is a table with several needles on a tray upon it about 12 feet to your left...
you can pick the locks with one of the needles perhaps.
Crystal
Okay, I'll try!
[Crystal fumbles quietly and wearily to her feet and slowly steps toward the table guided by the words of Union and Equinox. She locates the table and stabs her hand on one of the needles trying to blindly locate one and grasps it tightly. She breaks off the sharp point and places the tube portion back on the tray. She turns and carries it toward Union and Equinox carefully.]
Union
Careful, careful, I am only five feet on front of you in shackles on the wall...Move
about two steps to your left
[Crystal raises the needle and feels for where the shackles are on Union and finding the lock proceeds to very carefully pick the lock. In about 30 seconds Union is freed and she takes the needle from Crystal and unlocks Equinox quickly.]
Crystal
Can't say I didn't find you!
Union
I have a plan ! (just freeing Equinox)
[Minutes Later. Crystal begins to scream. Aeon and Chasm and a soldier burst into the room and Chasm kneels over Crystal and yells at her to shut up. Crystal pulls a syringe from behind her and stabs it into Chasm's thigh, injecting her with the substance. Chasm falls back and in moments begins to tremble. Aeon shoves Crystal to the floor. Equinox and Union come up from behind and tackle Aeon and the soldier. Union shoves the other needle filled with the substance into Aeon's buttocks. Aeon tries to hit Union but she trips him and he falls to the ground and also begins to shake. Equinox grabs the small guard and twists his arm behind his back and leads him to the shackles on the wall and imprisons him. Union untwines a set of shackles and clasps them around one of Aeon's and one of Chasm's hands, binding them to each other. Equinox goes to Crystal and grasps her hand and back and lifts her from the floor and leads her out of the cell. Union grabs the keys from Aeon, who is still trembling]
Union (looking down to Aeon)
Sorry Aeon, I couldn't let you win this time.
[Union closes the door as she leaves after Equinox and Crystal.]
Equinox
That stuff works (mutters to Crys)
Crystal (sarcastic)
YES, It does !!
Union
You'll be fine!
[Union and Equinox lead Crystal toward the upper floors of the compound, there they run into the others who have by now disarmed and mostly dismantled the warheads]
Epic
Oh my goodness, you escaped! (when he sees the weary trio)
Fire
Funny running into you three, AFTER the work is done! (holding up a critical part of one of the warheads)
Union
Yeah! I know!! (smiling faintly)
[Anoki comes up behind Crystal and Equinox holding 2 parts of a warhead]
Crystal
Now that you have had your fun are ready to go?
Anoki
If you are ready? (handing Crystal a part)
[The eleven Peace Keepers and the two soldiers leave the compound with all the key parts of the three warheads in hand and go back to the tank.]
[Two weeks later, at home in Paris. The Peacekeepers are meeting Crystal as she is released from the hospital there and is signed out by Dr. Zelmal and Dr. Key at the front desk]
R. Key
Glad things are back to normal Crystal?
[Crystal slowly walks forward and walks with her two guardians and the ten other Peace Keepers as they leave the building]
Crystal
Of course I am...I'm glad the warheads were dismantled! (softly)
Tempo
Not so much about Aeon and Chasm being rescued by the confederacy before our
troops got there though!?
Zelmal
Could have been worse!
Ezel
At least the substance wasn't permanent.
Polo
Nor the flash light blindness.
[They exit the doors to the hospital and Crystal winces at the bright light]
Crystal
What a bright day ! (half covering her eyes then looking fully into the bright lit
sky) I love it!!
[Anoki hugs Crystal's shoulders and laughs. They all join and walk toward the van. Little Chasity peeps out of the van door and jumps out and races up to Crystal and hugs her. Mrs. Key and Pro. Locklear wait at the side of the van with the F.U.T.U.R.E. Guardians]
Chase
Crystal, I'm so happy you are okay!!...And that there are NO MORE WARHEADS IN THE WORLD!! (shouts the little girl)
Locklear
Every thing is as it should be
