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INT GERMAN LAUNCH SITE - “Replica”
A large vulture squawks as ZERO wakes up in an iron cage suspended above the floor. The leader of the Cultists stands at attention to the left of him and an old man in a lab coat facing ZERO.
SCHOPENHAUER
Agent, you’re finally awake! Nice of you to join the land of the living.
ZERO
Dr Schopenhauer, I presume?
SCHOPENHAUER
My reputation precedes me and yet I don’t know your name.
ZERO
They call me Zero.
SCHOPENHAUER
Agent Zero then, how did you find me?
ZERO
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.
SCHOPENHAUER
Now then, don’t make this difficult.
SCHOPENHAUER spins his cage around so ZERO can see DAPHNE unconscious in another cage and the girl from town, now dead, sharing a cage with a vulture.
SCHOPENHAUER
Now talk or your girlfriend will meet an untimely demise!
ZERO
I’m from the future. I was sent back in time to stop you from creating a bomb and prevent atomic holocaust.
SCHOPENHAUER
Atomic holocaust? Very interesting. Of course I don’t believe you but I am a man of my word.
SCHOPENHAUER snaps his fingers and ZERO and DAPHNE are released from their cages.
SCHOPENHAUER
She may leave, but you must stay to witness my atomic holocaust! Do you see that tower out there in the desert? That is the atomic device. We are safe in this facility with the blast windows here. I’m more interested in what happens out there.
SCHOPENHAUER directs ZERO’S attention outside.
SCHOPENHAUER
You see, Zero, mankind started in caves hiding from animals many times his size until he overcame them and the food chain itself. Now we have overcome the sky with flying machines and have even recreated the sun. This device is the crowning achievement of humanity. It is the destined end of our evolution to create a power that would destroy the entire world and I have the honor of introducing it. Take him outside and start the detonation sequence.
SCHOPENHAUER flips the safety guard off the terminal and presses the detonator. A large flip clock counts down from sixty. ZERO breaks free of the Cultist and knocks off the antelope skull mask revealing a woman with long dark hair.
SCHOPENHAUER
Shiva, stop him!
SHIVA
A corpse will be good enough for this test fire!
ZERO and SHIVA fight in the control room until she kicks him through the door.
EXT. GERMAN LAUNCH SITE
ZERO stumbles and catches onto a railing, hanging a few stories off the ground. After pulling himself up he continues his fight with SHIVA over the catwalk and large pipes above massive petroleum tanks.
SHIVA
It’s over. Enough playing around.
SHIVA draws her pistol. ZERO climbs the stairway of the radio tower and stands on the handrail at the top. SHIVA aims at him but ZERO jumps grabbing the spinning radio dish and swings around behind her. ZERO kicks SHIVA over the railing and she falls a few stories tumbling onto a small sand dune.
ZERO rushes back into the control room and pulls the killswitch. Cut to black.
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