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Doom II (Part 1) By Aragorn
DOOM II
WRITTEN BY
Dave Thac
&
Jeff Long
Based on the video games Doom, Doom 2, and Doom 3, along with their expansion packs, and the Doom Bible which can be found here: http://5years.doomworld.com/doombible/
EXT. SPACE - MARS
Closing in on the Red Planet and its remaining moon, we suddenly shift into hyperdrive, speeding beyond Mars, through the asteroid belt, into outer space - and find ourselves before the planet known as Jupiter.
A system of rings winds its way around the gas giant along with a compliment of moons that number anywhere from 16 to 39; one of which, Io, has been converted into a base with a new skin of concrete and steel: bunkers, laboratories and atmospheric converters.
SUBTITLE Io: One of Jupiter’s moons
INT. IO COMPLEX - LABS - SYSTEM CONTROL
It's the mother of all Gateways - a construct the size of a two-story building, nodes crackling with energy, the entire arch humming with power. It's surrounded by a good four dozen Marines, each armed to the teeth with chainguns, shotguns and pistols.
This area is overlooked by a huge control station filled with technicians and their computers. At the head of the balcony stand DR. WILHELM DODD and LT. JOHN PIETROVICH.
DODD Proceed.
With a clap and a sizzle, the Gateway is suddenly filled with blue light. The Marines' faces are unflinching.
DODD Set Europa coordinates.
Pietrovich scrutinizes the countenance of each of his troops. His gaze comes to rest on a young woman in the back row who looks uneasy. She glances up at him.
PIETROVICH Hmm.
Dodd sees her and clenches his fists.
DODD Abort.
PIETROVICH Doctor…
DODD (cutting him off) I said abort, damn it!
He storms past the techs and down a spiral staircase to the arena. The Gateway's brilliant light fades out and shuts off, leaving the Gateway empty again. Dodd grabs the female soldier's arm.
DODD What in hell are you doing down here?
SGT. ARLENE SANDERS' femininity, concealed as it is by her cold exterior, is betrayed by her emerald eyes. She pulls away from Dodd and blushes.
ARLENE I'm doing my job.
DODD I specifically told Pietrovich to keep you out of System Control.
ARLENE And he passed those orders on to me, Doctor. I disregarded them.
DODD Do you want to be court-martialed?
ARLENE Wilhelm…
She grabs his arm and manhandles him away from the other smirking Marines.
ARLENE I don't know what you think this is - chivalry? But I signed up to defend this base, not to sit on the sidelines while you're risking your life.
DODD Shit, Arlene...
ARLENE (cutting him off) Do not use your position here to hold me back. I am a soldier first and a girlfriend second.
Pietrovich has walked up behind the bickering couple and lowers his head between them.
PIETROVICH Maybe this can be continued privately.
DODD Lieutenant…
ARLENE Yes, sir.
She turns her back on Dodd.
DODD (to Pietrovich) Get her out of here.
PIETROVICH Doctor, I don't think it's appropriate for you to hand down orders based on a relationship that is prohibited to begin with.
Dodd seems like he's ready to throw a punch. But, all protocol aside, Pietrovich is a tower of muscle and he wears his don't-fuck-with-me look well.
DODD All right then, John.
Dodd heads back upstairs. Casting one last long glance at Arlene, Pietrovich follows him. The experiment is resumed. As the Gateway returns to life, Dodd and Pietrovich stare expressionless, into the light.
DODD Reset Europa coordinates. (under his breath) You're a real son of a bitch you know that?
PIETROVICH (under his breath) Jesus Christ, I'll buy you a beer.
DODD (under his breath; sarcastic) That oughta make up for placing my girlfriend in harm's way. Thanks.
PIETROVICH Private Yoshida?
A gentle-faced Asian man in his early twenties, MIDORI YOSHIDA, takes his place at the lieutenant's side and extends an open palm towards the Gateway.
YOSHIDA Clear, sir.
Dodd scowls at the unorthodox behavior. Ignoring him, Pietrovich nods to the PFC.
DODD All right, commence transmission.
A Marine approaches the Gateway with a glowing electricity baton in hand. He prepares to toss it into the portal.
DODD Is Europa ready?
TECHNICIAN I'm getting a greenlight from Europa base, sir.
Yoshida's hand closes into a pained fist.
YOSHIDA Wait.
PIETROVICH Private?
YOSHIDA They're coming.
The blue light suddenly shifts to blood red and casts a much darker, grimmer color around the room. The Marines raise and aim their arsenal at the Gateway. A series of locked-and-loaded sounds cascades through the ranks.
PIETROVICH How bad is it?
YOSHIDA There are a lot of them.
PIETROVICH Steady, Marines!
Arlene Sanders pumps her shotgun and points it at the foreboding energy field as the lab falls silent. Yoshida shuts his eyes, opening his hand again, searching the stars. He speaks, barely above a whisper.
YOSHIDA Now.
With an inhuman shriek, a LOST SOUL tears through the Gateway, and is blasted to dust in half a second.
PIETROVICH Here we go, men!
More Lost Souls now, a cloud of them, surge through the Gateway. The Marines calmly pick them off. The demons immediately start to panic, some turning back toward the gate and exploding in head-on collisions with their siblings. However, one speeds straight toward Wilhelm Dodd.
Pietrovich whips out his pistol and puts two in the skull, shattering it just before it shreds Dodd's face. Arlene delivers a blistering blow to three Lost Souls at once, sending bits of their beings flying in all directions. Another one drops down behind her; she whirls and smashes it with the butt of the shotgun.
Dodd rushes down the stairs.
PIETROVICH Wilhelm, no!
Still more Lost Souls are pouring through. A PFC screams in horror as two lift him off the ground, tearing him in half, blood spraying the floor. Dodd shoves a dying grunt aside and runs at Arlene. A Lost Soul clips his kneecap and he slams into the wall, screaming in pain.
Arlene turns to see him and starts to move towards him. The entire Gateway begins to pulsate with a loud THUD-THUD-THUD, like a giant heartbeat, and the onslaught of Lost Souls is suddenly over.
Arlene hauls Dodd to safety beneath the staircase. A big chunk's been taken out of his knee.
DODD Arlene, I'm sorry...
ARLENE You're gonna be fine, asshole.
There are tears in her eyes. Dodd smiles weakly. That’s when something big, man-sized, hurtles through the Gateway. A mangled form dressed in green tatters. It slams into the floor with a wet sound and steam rises from the unmoving thing. The Marines slowly advance on it, guns at the ready.
YOSHIDA Wait!
Yoshida races down the stairs, parting his fellow grunts and rolling the body over.
YOSHIDA It's human.
ZOOM IN on the battered and bruised face of Flynn Taggart.
INT. IO COMPLEX - INFIRMARY
Dodd winces a little as his leg, secured to an operating table by clamps, is repaired. A titanium kneecap is fused to the remaining bone with a laser.
MEDIC You okay?
DODD Can't feel a damn thing.
Dodd slams his hand up to his mouth to stifle a surprise rush of vomit. On the next table over lies an unconscious Taggart. Pietrovich reads from a computer monitor.
PIETROVICH Corporal Flynn Taggart, listed as Missing-In-Action three years ago on Mars.
DODD This is the guy that…
PIETROVICH (cutting Dodd off) Yeah, this is the guy. (to Yoshida) So what can you tell us about all this?
DODD John, we all saw him come through the Gateway. We don't need some so-called necromancer to piece it together for us.
PIETROVICH With all due respect, this so-called necromancer saved our asses today.
YOSHIDA It's okay, I'm not offended.
PIETROVICH What's the story with Taggart here?
YOSHIDA Sir. He's broken, that's for certain. Although I can't say how just yet...
Dodd rolls his eyes. The medic releases his leg.
MEDIC Good as new.
YOSHIDA I need to speak with him.
PIETROVICH Well, his condition hasn't changed at all since he came through. You might be in for a long wait.
Arlene Sanders enters, looking with a mixture of concern and anger at her lover.
DODD Hey.
ARLENE (Sarcastically) How's my hero?
DODD Well, I'll be able to walk again, thanks for asking.
TAGGART (O.S.) A-Arlene?
She turns on her heels, her face suddenly white.
ARLENE Oh my God...it's...you...Flynn?
She rushes to him. Dodd's surprise matches her own.
ARLENE You're the one who came through the Gate? Are you okay?
TAGGART Gate? Back up for a sec.
Taggart weakly sits up, rubbing his head, and frowns at the others.
TAGGART Where am I?
PIETROVICH You're on a USMC outpost on…
TAGGART (Cutting him off) Mars, right. But who are you people?
PIETROVICH This isn't Mars, soldier.
YOSHIDA (To himself) Amnesia.
TAGGART Eh?
PIETROVICH You're not on Mars. Corporal, what year is it?
TAGGART What kind of shit question is that? Anyone with half a brain can tell ya it’s 2546.
PIETROVICH Soldier ...It's 2549.
TAGGART How'd that happen?
PIETROVICH What's the last thing you remember?
TAGGART I was pulling sludge detail on Mars with Dacote. Where's he at?
PIETROVICH I'm afraid that everyone you knew on Mars is dead.
Taggart shakes his head in disbelief. He tries to get off the table and shudders, falling back. The medic pushes through the others to check his vitals.
YOSHIDA Corporal Taggart, you've been to Hell and back.
TAGGART Feels that way.
PIETROVICH You really don't remember anything?
TAGGART Obviously not.
He reaches over his shoulder and tugs something from his back with a painful grunt. It's a spur of demon bone, the end caked in blood from Taggart’s back.
INT. IO COMPLEX - CORRIDOR
Dodd follows Arlene from the infirmary.
DODD Ex-boyfriend?
ARLENE No, Wilhelm. Flynn and I served together before he got demoted and shipped out to Mars.
DODD And nothing went on between the two of you?
ARLENE Grow the fuck up!
He chases after her, drawing the bemused glances of soldiers and techs in the hallway.
DODD I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Forget it. It's just...the way you looked at him.
ARLENE All this time, I thought he was dead. I thought he was rotting in Hell, which is the last place that Flynn Taggart belongs.
DODD Fair enough. (Pauses) Forgive me?
ARLENE No.
She steps through a door marked USMC PERSONNEL ONLY, which shuts behind her. Dodd nods bitterly and heads back the other way.
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT
Pietrovich, Dodd and Taggart (in new government-issue clothes) stand outside a door labeled RESTRICTED.
PIETROVICH In the years since your disappearance, we've made advances in Gateway technology and performed several successful operations. (beat) But every once in a while...
He swipes a red keycard and the door opens. Beyond is a narrow corridor, lined with windows that look into mini-labs. Inside each lab is at least one armed Marine and one busy scientist. The trio looks through the first window.
DODD This might jog your memory.
Taggart stares in horror at the thing strapped to an exam table, a hulking pink brute on four legs with no noticeable eyes and a set of teeth to rival a Great White. It squeals like a piglet when a robotic arm drives a needle into its neck. It’s a Pinky Demon.
TAGGART My God, what is that? Some kind of Alien or something?
Dodd and Pietrovich exchange troubled glances.
PIETROVICH Next lab.
They turn around and look into a room where a sedated Imp is being scanned by ultraviolet beams.
PIETROVICH Want to go in?
TAGGART Hell, why not?
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT - MINI-LAB
A huge, heated grid passes over the Imp, warming its body. It stirs and Taggart flinches a little when he sees it. Dodd notices Taggart flinching.
DODD Remember this?
TAGGART Nah, it's just a lot more fuckin' ugly up close then out there.
The restrained monster opens its dozens of expressionless red eyes and looks curiously at them.
PIETROVICH (O.S.) Somewhere in your mind, we may have the key to stopping these things from coming through our Gates.
TAGGART I got a key for ya. It takes an energy cell with two hundred rounds of reconstituted plasma.
Dodd sighs. Pietrovich smiles.
TAGGART If these mothers are from Hell, we should send 'em back.
The Imp snarls and lunges at Taggart. Taggart jerks away, but the demon is bound to the table and can only hiss and spit at him.
TAGGART Fuck.
DODD He does that to everybody. C'mon.
INT. IO COMPLEX - HANGAR CONTROL
The room is filled with dozens of computers and high-tech equipment. A nervous officer sitting at one computer flags down his supervisor as he walks by.
SUPERVISOR What is it, soldier?
OFFICER Looks like the supply ship's coming in early.
SUPERVISOR Thank Christ, we're out of coffee.
OFFICER Sir...
He points to a blip on his radar screen.
OFFICER They're coming from the wrong direction?
SUPERVISOR It happens, son.
He turns to go.
OFFICER Well sir...
The Supervisor turns back, annoyed.
SUPERVISOR What?!
OFFICER It looks bigger than usual. That's not a Class 5 ship, is it?
The supervisor sighs and taps his fingertips on the blip approaching Io.
SUPERVISOR It...(pauses) Hmm. Give me a live feed on the main screen.
The large monitor in front of the entire room displays an actual image of the moon, its surface pockmarked with craters and ancient lava floes. Above the Marine base hovers a monstrous ship.
SUPERVISOR Detail.
The screen zooms in on the ship, a mass the size of ten football stadiums, built from bone, skin, organs, and death with physics-defying rivers of blood running along its armored hull and a swirling shield of Lost Souls covering the entire thing.
SUPERVISOR Oh Shit.
Mammoth hatches began opening on the underside of the Hellship. An unholy red light pours out over the base.
OFFICER Sir.
SUPERVISOR Get the Major...get Earth Command...get...holy fuck. We're dead.
Thousands of Cacodemons and Pain Elementals spew forth from the hatches of the Hellship, along with even more Imps and Demons dropping to the surface and tearing off in every direction. The Revenants lead a charge through the entry gates of the Io Complex, laying them to waste in a silent barrage of explosions on the main screen. All in all, there are hundreds of thousands of Demons.
SUPERVISOR We're dead.
A wall explodes, sending workers flying in all directions, just as a Revenant steps through.
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT
Taggart and co. are on their way out when a piercing alarm sounds.
TAGGART That sounds bad.
PIETROVICH It is.
He punches an intercom on the wall.
PIETROVICH This is Pietrovich, what's the situation?
INTERCOM VOICE Get all of your men to...Dear God, they're all over us! They're coming out of nowhere!
The transmission cuts off.
DODD Security system's going to lock us in here if we don't move.
A strange "phasing" sound comes from the rear. They all turn to see a Pinky Demon standing in the hallway behind them, snarling.
TAGGART Uh…
Bursts of green light announce the teleportation of several Imps and two more Pinky Demons into the corridor. Dodd punches the door's control panel. It doesn't open.
PIETROVICH How are they doing this?
The demons all glare at the humans with hungry eyes. But instead of attacking - they bust through the various lab doors to free their brethren. Gunshots are quickly silenced, replaced by the excited sounds of liberated nightmares.
PIETROVICH Taggart, now would be a good time for your memory to come back.
TAGGART All I need is a gun, sir.
Pietrovich nods grimly and hands over a pistol.
PIETROVICH This is the best I can do.
TAGGART Good enough.
Then the window beside Taggart shatters - and the Imp from earlier yanks him out of sight.
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT - MINI-LAB
The Imp hurls Taggart into an instrument cart, sending scalpels and drills clattering to the floor. The creature kicks them aside as it prepares to tear him apart. Taggart empties his clip into the miserable beast. It slams into the opposite wall and rebound with bloodlust in its eyes. Taggart glances to the side - above the exam table, the heating grid is still on, rotated to face them. He throws out a leg to trip the attacking Imp.
It stumbles and flies into the grid - frying half of its face on the white-hot wiring. The Imp shrieks and tears away, leaving a good portion of its flesh behind. Taggart stands up and slugs the demon in the jaw.
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT - CORRIDOR
Pietrovich shoots the control panel and Dodd begins to wrestle the door open. The lieutenant uses the rest of his ammo to no effect on the advancing horde. They're slowly, playfully closing in on the humans.
DODD C'mon John!
A Pinky Demon slams its head into Pietrovich and he is slammed up against the wall. The Pinky Demon rips into his belly with savage glee.
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT - MINI-LAB
A mutilated dead Marine lies on top a shotgun. Taggart kicks the body off and grabs the shotgun, stuffing ammo into his pockets.
INT. IO COMPLEX - THE HABITAT - CORRIDOR
Dodd's halfway through the door when a Pinky Demon rushes him from behind and rips into his shoulder, tugging him back, causing Dodd to scream. The Pinky Demon grunts insistently and opens its mouth to strike the killing bite.
Its entire head becomes a shower of blood that sprays Dodd's face, unveiling Flynn Taggart, who feeds another shell to another Pinky Demon and punches out an Imp. He's already knee deep in the guts of a few slaughtered Imps and Pinky Demons.
TAGGART How ‘bout a hand?
Taggart reaches out as the remaining Imps and Pinky Demons rush down the hall, heading towards him. Dodd tentatively extends his hand.
TAGGART Let's go, buddy!
Dodd grasps the Marine and hauls him through the door. Together they force it shut, containing the Demon wave on the other side. However that doesn’t stop the monsters from trying to break in.
TAGGART Looks like they missed me.
DODD We have to find…
ARLENE (O.S.) (cutting him off) Wilhelm!
Sanders and Yoshida come from the other direction, their uniforms already torn and drenched with blood.
YOSHIDA I didn't see them coming. I don't understand!
DODD Where are they coming from??
ARLENE There's a ship outside. It's fucking huge!
YOSHIDA They're all over the base. We're trapped.
ARLENE No, there's always the brig.
DODD What?
ARLENE The prison is the most heavily fortified structure on Io. Anyone who knows what's good for them will head there.
DODD Arlene, this hallway might be the only place that isn't filled with those things!
ARLENE I'm pulling rank. We're going to the prison.
TAGGART It's not a bad idea.
The doctor stabs a finger into Taggart's chest.
DODD We don't need input from a delinquent grunt who can't even remember the last three years!
TAGGART What I do remember is mopping the floor with geek scientists who couldn't strategize their way out of a paper bag.
ARLENE Enough!
DODD Whose side are you taking?
ARLENE Neither of you! Stop being so fucking arrogant and follow me! That's an order!
Yoshida opens his mouth to try and calm the crew, but Dodd silences him with a glare.
EXT. IO COMPLEX - DAY
The atmospheric converters make the air breathable, but it doesn't make the volcanic landscape much more hospitable, especially now. The yellow-tinged sky boils as smoke rises into it - smoke from the pyres of soldiers, being burned alive by the army from Hell. Their screams - from the ones still alive - echo throughout the moon.
The human BBQ is being held inside the gates; Arlene gapes at the holocaust scene from behind a Moon Rover. On the horizon, Hell's minions are still pouring out of the ship to attack every building in sight.
TAGGART Where's the prison?
ARLENE We can't just let this continue.
TAGGART The prison.
ARLENE We've got to fight them.
TAGGART If we run out there right now, we'll be fuckin’ kindling. We need more men.
ARLENE (sighing) ...I know.
Nearby, a legless scientist is being hung over a fire, blood dripping from his stump. His eyes meet Dodd's.
DODD Jesus, they're cooking him.
ARLENE Let's move.
DODD At least they killed John instantly. ARLENE Flynn's right.
DODD No, you are. You always were. We can’t let this continue.
Dodd snatches Yoshida's pistol and runs out into the open.
ARLENE WILHELM!
An Imp turns its head at the sound of Arlene's cry and Dodd shoots it in the head, blood exploding out the back. The rest of the Imps begin charging at him with fireballs swelling in their hands.
ARLENE WILHELM!
Dodd runs for cover, firing a few wild shots back at the Imps, regretting his bravado in a big way. The rover fishtails in the dirt as Taggart jumps into it and stomps on the gas, hurtling toward the doctor. Arlene and Yoshida are left behind to watch the scene.
TAGGART YEEEHAW!
He thrusts out the shotgun and catches a passing Imp in the mouth, lifting it off the ground and blowing its ugly head to smithereens.
Dodd leaps - catches the rover's roll cage and hangs on for dear life.
TAGGART Get in Doc.
An Imp-colored blur sails past the rover, taking Dodd with it. Arlene drops her gun and wails in horror. Pulling a 180, Taggart searches the landscape, but Dodd is nowhere to be seen. It might have something to do with a dozen or so Imps forming a tight circle around something that Taggart couldn’t quite pick out. What he can pick out though is bits of flesh and blood being ripped away and throw messily behind the group of Imps.
TAGGART Doc!
Imps from other locations turn at the yell and soon after, fireballs slam into the grill of the rover.
TAGGART Fuck this shit.
He throws the rover into reverse and speeds back to Arlene and Yoshida's position. Yoshida pulls the sobbing sergeant in and Taggart floors it.
10/26/2005 3:42:34 PM (Updated: 10/26/2005 3:43:44 PM)
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