LEGACY OF TURELZEVIR: DOLL REAVER

OFFICIAL GAME SCRIPT
(FINAL DRAFT)


SECTION 33 (KAIN/RAZIEL/FRANK)

“Battle for Nosgoth”


EXT. DEVICE II

The pink-purple translucent Spirit Shield shimmers over the half-completed superstructure of The Device.

Outside the shield, a purple distortion in space-time slowly forms on the land, and from it spews the rebellion against the Dark Forces, Vorador’s Vampires and the rebel Hylden led by The Seer. They run towards The Device.

VORADOR
The shield is still up.

SEER
My god, they must know...

VORADOR
They must know we are coming! It’s a trap, all vampires, all Hylden, stop running, it’s a trap!

The vampires and Hylden stop their run and turn around... to see the greeting the Dark Forces have prepared for them. Dozens of Hylden Hoverships and behind them at the sea’s coast is the juggernaut itself, the Super Sarafan Destroyer.

VORADOR
Everyone, prepare to retreat!

SEER
Vorador, we won’t get another chance at this!

VORADOR
We have no choice Seer, we cannot repel forces of that magnitude!

SEER
Raziel will have that shield down, we’ve just got to give him more time!

EXT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER ON THE DEVICE II

Three Hylden Hoverships circle the tower, protecting their leader.

INT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER – VAMPEROR’S THRONE ROOM

The lift doors open to reveal the handcuffed KAIN and the SARAFAN LORD. They step out and ascend the staircase to the VAMPEROR’S throne. The chamber has a few of the red agents of the Vamperor’s Imperial Guard standing about.

The black back of the throne is visible. It is facing the circular window beyond, the occupant is watching the battle over Nosgoth, a battle he is certain to win.

As KAIN and the SARAFAN LORD stand before the chair, it slowly turns around, and in it sits the VAMPEROR, clothed in black robes from head to feet, his hood covers much of his face, but it looks perhaps like he has red eyes.

VAMPEROR
Welcome young Kain. I have been expecting you.

The VAMPEROR gestures with his claw and KAIN’S handcuffs come loose and fall off.


VAMPEROR
You no longer need those. Guards, leave us!

The Imperial Guard leave the room.

VAMPEROR
I’m looking forward to completing your training. In time, you will call ME master.

KAIN
You’re gravely mistaken. You won’t convert me as you did my father.

The VAMPEROR gets up in his chair and slowly walks towards Kain. The robes still cover much of the short shrivelled figure.

VAMPEROR
Oh no, my young vampire. You will find that it is you who are mistaken. About a great MANY things.

The SARAFAN LORD passes the handle of the material Soul Reaver to the VAMPEROR who holds it at a distance as if disgusted by it.

SARAFAN LORD
The new Soul Reaver.

VAMPEROR
Ah yes, the new weapon of Nosgoth’s salvation, made from that rather unusual trinket the Doll Reaver. Much like the first Soul Reaver.

The VAMPEROR tosses the blade over his shoulder as if it no longer matters. He looks at the SARAFAN LORD.

VAMPEROR
It is of no concern, but you still believe it is. You are so much like your father. By now, you must know that your father can never be turned from the side of the Dark Forces, so will it be with you.

KAIN smiles.

KAIN
You’re wrong. Soon I’ll be dead, and you with me.

The VAMPEROR returns to his throne, cackling in amusement.

VAMPEROR
Perhaps you refer to the surprise attack by your vampires? Yes! I assure you, we are quite safe from your friends here.


KAIN restrains himself, but his smile fades.


KAIN
You’re overconfidence is your weakness.

VAMPEROR
(briefly turning to face KAIN)

You’re faith in your friends is yours!

The VAMPEROR resumes his place on his black throne.


SARAFAN LORD
It is pointless to resist, my son.

VAMPEROR
Everything that has transpired has done so according to MY design. Raziel, out there trying to destroy the Spirit Shield generator, has just walked into a trap! As has Vorador and the Seer’s pathetic attack! It was I who allowed your rebellion to know the location of the Spirit Shield generator! It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops were waiting for him!
I’m afraid that the shield will remain quite operational as your allies, even now, try to get in!

EXT. DEVICE II

The rebellion against the Dark Forces are taking cover in the canyons of Nosgoth as the Hylden Hoverships fire from above. The Super Sarafan Destroyer remains at the water’s edge, not releasing any troops or firing any shots. Explosions are occurring everywhere, vampires and rebel Hylden are falling.

VORADOR
Only the Hoverships are attacking, I wonder what the Sarafan Destroyer is waiting for?

SEER
I have a bad feeling about this.

INT. SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER – BRIDGE

The SARAFAN CAPTAIN strides towards the SARAFAN ADMIRAL and the SARAFAN COMMANDER confidently.


SARAFAN CAPTAIN
We’re in attack position now sir.

SARAFAN ADMIRAL
Hold here.

SARAFAN COMMANDER
We’re not going to attack?

SARAFAN ADMIRAL
I have my orders from The Vamperor himself, he has something special planned for them. We only need to keep them from escaping.

INT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER – VAMPEROR’S THRONE ROOM

Out of the window, KAIN, the SARAFAN LORD and the VAMPEROR watch as Vorador and the Seer’s army takes cover from the barrage trying to destroy them. Unable to penetrate the shield, they are losing the battle.


VAMPEROR
As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed! Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational weapon of mass destruction!

The VAMPEROR presses a communication button on his throne.

VAMPEROR
Fire at will Commander!


INT. DEVICE II CONTROL ROOM

Much like the control room of the first Device, the HYLDEN COMMANDER stares at the vampires and Hylden traitors through a view screen. He targets a crossfire on one group on them and gives the order.

HYLDEN COMMANDER
Fire!


INT. DEVICE II FIRING TUBE

With a green glow of glyph energy, The Device II fires out a directed beam of destruction.

EXT. DEVICE II

A green beam erupts from The Device and hits a group of Vampires and Hylden.
All that is left is scorch marks and their charred clothes.

VORADOR
That blast came from The Device!

SEER
My god, that thing’s operational!! All vampires, all Hylden, move as close as you can to the Super Sarafan Destroyer, engage at point blank range!

VORADOR
At that close range we won’t last long against that Sarafan Destroyer.

SEER
We’ll last longer than we will against that Device, and we might just take a few of them along with us!

EXT. SPIRIT SHIELD GENERATOR – CANYON RUN

Raziel runs and runs as fast as he can down the canyon towards the Spirit Shield generator. He holds the reaver ready to fire the Spirit Reaver projectile into the machine, assuming he makes the run. Chasing him is a large amount of Hylden, Demons, and above them a firing Hylden Scoutship.

Raziel keeps running down the canyon, faster and faster, strafing left and right to avoid being targeted by the Hylden Scoutship.

INT. HYLDEN SCOUTSHIP

The Hylden Stormtrooper is frustrated as he cannot lock on to Raziel yet.

HYLDEN STORMTROOPER
The forces are strong in this one!

EXT. SPIRIT SHIELD GENERATOR – CANYON RUN

Ahead of Raziel, blocking his path to the Spirit Shield generator is a legion of Hylden Stormtroopers. With his pursuers gaining on him, and an army in front of him, it looks as if he is not going to make it.

RAZIEL
(V.O)

With the canyon blocked, and my pursuers gaining on me, I realised that I was not going to make it. Even if I were to run through those obstructing my path to the generator, I would have slowed down enough for those behind to catch up, and destroy me.


The many Hylden troops and Demons continue to follow, the Hylden Scoutship continues to fire, missing the blue running creature just barely.

They get closer and closer, they are almost on top of him.

GHOST OF MORTANIUS
(V.O)

Use the Force glyph Raziel...


RAZIEL, still running, shakes his head, uncertain if he just heard what he though he heard.

GHOST OF MORTANIUS
(V.O)

Let go Raziel...


Again the voice of Mortanius, urging him on.

GHOST OF MORTANIUS
(V.O)

Raziel, trust me...


RAZIEL had forgotten about the Glyphs. Realising that he has just enough eldritch energy for one force glyph blast, he keeps running.

He leaps into the legion of Hylden ahead, and in the air summons the power of the Force glyph. Hylden fly out in every direction and Raziel keeps running. He is almost on top of the Spirit Shield Generator now, he clutches the Reaver again and prepares to fire the Spirit Projectile into it.

INT. HYLDEN SCOUTSHIP

The Hylden Stormtrooper finally gets a lock on RAZIEL, and is about to press the fire button and annihilate him completely in the spectral and material realms.

HYLDEN STORMTROOPER
I have you now!


EXT. SPIRIT SHIELD GENERATOR

The Hylden Scoutship fires and there is a massive explosion.

RAZIEL keeps running but looks over his shoulder to see the Hylden Scoutship’s burning wreckage crash into Hylden and Demon armies beneath it, crushing and killing them all. He looks up to see the source of this destruction, the turbo-laser of the Death Star that has suddenly appeared in the area.

RAZIEL prepares to fire the Spirit Reaver projectile at the Spirit Shield Generator coming into view at the end of the canyon. He hears a message being broadcast from the Death Star.

INT. DEATH STAR CONTROL ROOM

MOEBIUS and UMAH are holding hands, and looking at the viewscreen as RAZIEL’s run takes him close to the Spirit Shield Generator. DARTH VADER, MOEBIUS’S new apprentice, is cradling something near to them.


MOEBIUS
You’re all clear kid.

UMAH
Now let’s blow this thing and make ourselves a new home!

EXT. SPIRIT SHIELD GENERATOR

RAZIEL, reaching the end of the canyon, fires the Spirit Reaver projectile into the shield generator. As the projectile of energy hurls through the air, RAZIEL stops and realises that, of course, he will not survive the imminent explosion and is about to die.

RAZIEL (V.O)
So, this was it. The saviour of Nosgoth, armed with the power of the mighty Spirit Reaver, has fulfilled his role in the saving Nosgoth.

The projectile hits the Spirit Shield Generator and the technological terror begins to collapse on itself in small scattered explosions.

RAZIEL
(V.O)

The explosion is imminent. It is time for me to die. I take pride in that my death will afford my allies, and...


RAZIEL looks towards the retreating Death Star.

RAZIEL
(V.O)

... some newfound friends, to destroy the Dark Forces and rebuild a new, better world. Time, for me, to die...

RAZIEL’S monologue is interrupted as he is suddenly dragged up and away by the Death Star’s tractor beam.

The Death Star with RAZIEL in tow, thrusts away from the Spirit Shield Generator.

The Generator explodes in a blinding flash of light. The entire land shakes.

INT. DEATH STAR CONTROL ROOM

MOEBIUS, still holding UMAH’S hand, looks sad.

MOEBIUS
I had everything, control over all of time, dominion over the fates, escape from my own death...

He raises his hands to indicate his next point.


MOEBIUS
And this, a fully armed and operational battle station, with a clone army in its bowels to do my bidding, my reward for serving my masters.
And I’ve betrayed them. I’ve betrayed my entire life. I had everything.

UMAH kisses him softly on the lips.

UMAH
Everything?

MOEBIUS smiles warmly.

MOEBIUS
Maybe not everything. It is just such a change... Kain is out there now, against my former masters.

UMAH looks worried.

UMAH
Yes, I know.

MOEBIUS
He is going up against the two most powerful beings in the land.

UMAH
Yes.

MOEBIUS
You... love him. Don’t you?

She nods.

MOEBIUS
Okay, I understand, that’s fine, really. I won’t get in the way. When Kain comes back, I’ll leave, I don’t want to cause you any trouble.

She smiles and kisses him again.

UMAH
You silly, silly man. I do love Kain.
He’s my brother.


MOEBIUS reacts.

MOEBIUS
Brother. Brother!? BROTHER!
My god! Wow, that’s great!
I mean...

UMAH
I know what you mean Moe.
I love you more than anything I’ve ever known.
I have to of course, you are the father of our children.

MOEBIUS smiles shyly, and looks towards his apprentice DARTH VADER, another gift from the Dark Forces turned against them. In his arms are the twin babies of MOEBIUS and UMAH. UMAHBIUS and MOEMAH.

One of the Turel Clone Army walks into the Control Room and approaches MOEBIUS and UMAH.

TUREL CLONETROOPER
We are approaching tha battle. Now that we blew up the fool, the shield is gonna give way any damn second!

The time-streamer turns away from his new family and faces his approaching lieutenant.

MOEBIUS
Good work. Leave a minimal amount of troops on this station to operate the turbolasers we will be firing at The Device. The rest of you will disembark and join the attack on the surface.

TUREL CLONETROOPER
Okay head sucka! We attack the foo! Destroy the fool! Destroy the fool!

MOEBIUS
Indeed.

EXT. DEVICE II

The purple-pink shield protecting The Device II fades and vanishes.

VORADOR
The shield is down! Commence attack on The Device!

SEER
(laughs)

I told you he’d do it!

The army of vampires and rebel Hylden run towards the now-unshielded Device II, in an attempt to try and find a gap in its superstructure to enter and destroy it.

VORADOR and the SEER hear a loud rumble and look over their shoulders.

Hundreds of clones run towards them from the horizon, the terrifying Clone Army of Turel, and above them fading into vision, MOEBIUS’S gift from the Dark Forces, the Death Star.


VORADOR
My god!

As the army get closer, they start attacking the Hylden Hoverships and Hylden Stormtroopers. The Death Star starts firing its massive turbolaser, shooting Hylden Hoverships out of the air.

SEER
No, they’re fighting FOR US!

VORADOR
Has Moebius finally lost his mind!?

SEER
Hey, don’t kick a gift horse in the mouth!

VORADOR
Oh come on, its Moebius!

SEER
If you kick a gift horse in the mouth, you give it a motive to bite the foot kicking it.

VORADOR
Eh?

The Device II fires again and takes out a small chunk of the Clone Army.

INT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER – VAMPEROR’S THRONE ROOM

KAIN watches as the battle rages outside.

KAIN
We’re winning.

VAMPEROR
Are you, my young vampire?
You have destroyed the shield generator, but it is of no concern. We outnumber you. We are better than you.
And this weapon of mass destruction is still impenetrable.
Your cause is lost, and your friends out there will not survive, my young apprentice.
The rebellion will die... As will your friends...

KAIN looks to his side at the material Soul Reaver on the floor.

VAMPEROR
Good... I can feel your anger.
I am defenseless... Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the side of the Dark Forces will be complete!

KAIN resists the urge and turns his gaze back to the window. Suddenly he turns back and, telekinetically summoning the Reaver, thrusts it towards the VAMPEROR’S hooded face.

Just as suddenly, the SARAFAN LORD raises his own Glyph-Enhanced Blade and blocks the blow. The fight has begun.

EXT. THE DEVICE II

The numbers have been evened, but the rebellion against the Dark Forces is still overpowered.

The Device fires another blast and knocks another chunk out of the Clone Army. The Death Star retaliates by destroying another wave of Hylden Hoverships.

Near to the walls of the Device, the SEER and VORADOR stand, still unable to get in.


VORADOR
It’s no use, we cannot get in. The gaps in the superstructure are too small!

SEER
We must, all of Nosgoth is depending on us!

On the horizon another group of figures has appeared and is running towards them.

VORADOR
My god!

SEER
Don’t be so unnecessarily dramatic!

As the new army get closer, they are recognised.


VORADOR

Sluagh! They’re all Sluagh... in the material realm.

SEER
Frank!

VORADOR
Frank!


The army of Sluagh, new to the material realm, join the battle. For the first time, the rebellion is overpowering the Dark Forces.

FRANK leads his army to save his beautiful living world!

VORADOR
What a guy!

SEER
And he’s just sooo sexy!

VORADOR
Yes. Yes he is.

RAZIEL approaches the two.

RAZIEL
Vorador, Seer, how are things?

SEER
Raziel! You’re not dead!

RAZIEL
No I’m not.

VORADOR
What, you survived the explosion? But I thought...

RAZIEL

I had a little help, from some new allies.

VORADOR
Moebius.

RAZIEL
And Umah.

VORADOR
AND Umah?!

INT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER – VAMPEROR’S THRONE ROOM

KAIN has refused to fight against his father and has taken refuge in the shadowy storage area at the side of the throne room, which stores crates and boxes of the VAMPEROR’S treasures.

The SARAFAN LORD roams slowly, searching for his son, green glyph energy flickering across his blade.


SARAFAN LORD
Give yourself to the dark forces. It is the only way to save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you, your feelings for them are strong. Especially for......
Sister!
YOU have a twin sister?

The VAMPEROR smiles at this news.


SARAFAN LORD
Your feelings have now betrayed her too! Mortanius was wise to hide her from me. Now, his failure is complete!
If you will not be turned to the dark forces, then... perhaps... SHE will!

KAIN loses control and leaps towards the SARAFAN LORD in a furious rage. The Soul Reaver is swung faster and faster at the SARAFAN LORD who simply cannot retaliate fast enough. The battle rages towards the chasm at the opposite end of the throne room, and as the SARAFAN LORD desperately tries to step backwards, he loses balance and falls over. In his fury, KAIN swings the reaver and cleanly cleaves off the SARAFAN LORD’S gloved hand.

The VAMPEROR descends the stairs from his throne, laughing insanely.


VAMPEROR

Good! GOOD!! Your hate has made you powerful, now, fulfil your destiny!
And take your father’s place at MY side!

KAIN is breathing heavily, thoughts are bouncing around his head of power, control, domination, ruling Nosgoth, serving the great VAMPEROR...

He turns to look on the VAMPEROR and in this new light, he can see into the hood for the first time. A being of red eyes and blue skin. The thoughts of power melt away as a possibility enters his mind, and, launching a telekinetic pulse from his hand, he knocks the VAMPEROR’S hood off.

KAIN
My god! What... WHO are you?

The face is shrivelled and scarred, as if it had been badly burnt, but the features are recognisable enough. The VAMPEROR realising the disguise is no longer necessary, drops the robe completely.

The body is like the face, shrivelled and burnt, but recognisable. Blue skin, vampiric claws and bony wings on which the few feathers that remain have turned old and grey.

VAMPEROR
Yes Kain, it is I.

KAIN
Janos... Janos Audron!?

VAMPEROR
You were expecting, perhaps, an ancient Hylden?

KAIN
How? WHY!?

VAMPEROR
The Demon Dimension is not merely an alternate plane of existence, Kain, it was a place of my people’s own creation. In an attempt to make ourselves pure, we foolishly ripped our souls in two.
Our dark sides, our sadism, cruelty, greed, ambition, and instinctive lust for the kill, were cast away and formed the Demon Dimensions, the demons held captive within are not aliens, but our own dark sides made flesh. When we discovered this hell of our own making, we used it as a prison for our great enemies.

KAIN
The Hylden. But...

VAMPEROR
With our enemies sealed, Kain, we continued in Nosgoth.
But you see, good cannot exist without the bad. Nosgoth is not black and white, and would never sustain a race that was one extreme without the other.
When the blood curse hit, we could not survive. We could not kill to sustain ourselves, and if we tried to negotiate for human blood, we were captured and murdered.
The winged race died. Only I survived.
I made Vorador. In trying to save a human’s life, I made him.

KAIN
And he brought you blood.

VAMPEROR
He sustained me.
But that was a lifetime ago! I was the only one of my kind to be embraced by the darkness of the Demon Dimensions. The shunned darkness of tens of thousands of my kind filled my soul.
Time has no meaning in that place Kain. For an eternity the Hylden tortured me in ways you CANNOT begin to imagine. But as time passed, I rose higher and higher, with knowledge and a way of thinking completely alien to them. And now, an eternity later, I lead them. I lead my Hylden brothers in the creation of a new world, by annihilating the old one.

KAIN
Insane!

VAMPEROR
You think I am deranged!?

KAIN
You said it yourself; Nosgoth is not Black and White.

VAMPEROR
I am neither extreme. A little of what Janos was remains, but only enough to ensure there is, heheh, what you of all people would know as balance. I am The Vamperor, and the most of my life force is the comprised dark side of an entire extinct race!
Despite this unique heritage though, I claim not to be good or evil, my intention is to build a new future for my people!

KAIN
Lies! You have never released a single Hylden from their prison! Instead, you clone your own loyal army, creatures neither Hylden nor Monster but twisted parodies of life. Those I fought in Meridian, those out there fighting for you now are not Hylden, but mindless automatons.

VAMPEROR
I have took the best of the Hylden, their strength, loyalty, and ability to grasp the destiny I OFFER and made the occupants of a new world.

KAIN
And what of the true Hylden, those who supported you and made you their leader?

VAMPEROR
Better where they are! I have taken their essence to construct something better.
And as for those cowards and traitors out there, fighting for you led by their Seer, let them die, along with the rest of your insignificant rebellion!

KAIN
You are insane!

VAMPEROR
Enough of this. Kain, I can feel the desire for power and strength within you, the instincts to kill, manipulate, and annihilate the weak so that the strong may have something better. Give in to those feelings, shed your humanity and embrace the destiny I offer you!
Finish him!

KAIN is conflicted, tempted by the thoughts of power and strength, but shakes them away finally. He looks back at his father, then at the VAMPEROR again, and throws the material Soul Reaver away.


KAIN
Never. I'll never turn to the side of the Dark Forces.
You've failed your highness. I am a vampire, like my father before me. Not good, not bad, not black, not white, but grey. GREY! GREY!!

Pause.

VAMPEROR
So be it. Vampire.

EXT. THE DEVICE II

Despite the greater numbers, the Rebellion is losing the battle. As well as the shots coming from The Device, the Super Sarafan Destroyer is releasing hundreds of Sarafan troops into the battlefield, and firing its glyphlasers at everything.

One of the Hylden Hoverships is scathed by the Death Star and crashes down. It is not heavily damaged, but it appears the Hylden pilot was killed in the blast.

FRANK doesn’t hesitate. He opens the hatch and drops the Hylden pilot to the ground. He takes off in the ship.

EXT. HYLDEN HOVERSHIP

He flies towards the Super Sarafan Destroyer as fast as he can, learning the ships controls quickly.

INT. HYLDEN HOVERSHIP

The readout on the com panel indicated WEAPONS AND SHIELDS NON OPERATIONAL.
FRANK disregards it and flies towards the bridge of the Sarafan Destroyer.

Speedily, he types into the Hylden keyboard a long message. The com panel now indicates MESSAGE READY FOR TRANSMISSION.

INT. SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER – BRIDGE

The SARAFAN ADMIRAL, SARAFAN CAPTAIN and SARAFAN COMMANDER stand looking out of the viewscreen. Despite the increase in numbers, they are still winning.


SARAFAN CAPTAIN
Sir, that one’s flying a bit close isn’t it?

SARAFAN ADMIRAL
Yes, yes he is. Comms, open communications to the ship coming towards us. Hovership, what is your designation and division?

The bridge viewscreen activates and the officers turn to face it, to see FRANK’S smiling face. As always FRANK does not speak, but types a message again.

The Super Sarafan Destroyer’s Glyph Computer begins to speak in dull tones.


SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER COMPUTER
I Apologise For The Inconvenience But I Must Use Your Computer To Communicate With You. I Am Frank. I have commandeered this vessel. The Pilot was already dead. I am sorry.

SARAFAN ADMIRAL
Glyphlasers, destroy it!

On the viewscreen, FRANK can be seen quickly typing in response.


SARAFAN CAPTAIN
Sir, we’ve lost our bridge deflector shield!

SARAFAN ADMIRAL
Intensify the forward batteries, I don’t want anything to get through!

SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER COMPUTER
I Apologise For The Inconvenience. Your Shields Have Been Deactivated. I Am Going To Collide This Ship Into Your Bridge. I Am Sorry, You Will Die. But I Cannot Allow This Senseless Destruction To Go On.

SARAFAN CAPTAIN
Killing yourself in the process!?!?

SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER COMPUTER
Yes. But If I Do Not, You And Those Who Ask You To Do The Things That You Do Will End So Many Beautiful Races. Including My Own Brothers And Sisters.

EXT. HYLDEN HOVERSHIP

FRANK’S Hylden Hovership accelerates towards the bridge very close now.

INT. HYLDEN HOVERSHIP

FRANK types. The Com Panel now displays MESSAGE TRANSMITED TO DEATH STAR.

He types one last message to the crew of the Super Sarafan Destroyer.

INT. SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER – BRIDGE

SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER COMPUTER
I Am Sorry To End Your Lives. My Friends And My Families Must Stop Those Who Tell You What To Do Or Many Will Cease To Be. I Cannot Permit That To Happen.
Bye.

SARAFAN ADMIRAL
Intensify forward firepower!!!

The Hylden Hovership accelerates towards the window of the ship.

SARAFAN COMMANDER
Too LATE!!!

The bridge is consumed by an explosion as the hovership crashes into it.

EXT. SUPER SARAFAN DESTROYER

The bridge explodes, and other parts of the ship begin to flash with fiery explosions.

EXT. DEVICE II

Most of the occupants of the battlefield watch as the Super Sarafan Destroyer loses control. The surface and decks of the ship are an inferno; Sarafan Troops on fire try to jump off, into the sea.

The dying vessel veers onto and past the beach, its powerful engines thrusting it forward. It runs over a battalion of Hylden Troops on a course for The Device.

The Super Sarafan Destroyer in a deafening explosion collides with the western wall of The Device II. All of Nosgoth shakes and a blinding light consumes the battlefield.

The light diminishes. Where the collision was is now a fiery, burning hole in the side of The Device II.

VORADOR
We’ve got ourselves a way in! Commence attack into the Device!

SEER
I told you we’d do it, hahaha!

RAZIEL
The forces are with us! Shall we?

Vorador, the Seer, Raziel and a squad of Vampires, rebel Hylden, Sluagh and Turel clones, invade The Device II and head straight for its core.

INT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER – VAMPEROR’S THRONE ROOM

The SARAFAN LORD is slowly rising, and moving towards his master’s side.

The VAMPEROR’S look of amusement has disappeared, now his expression is one of fury and hatred.

He raises the claws of his cloven hands and points them at KAIN.

VAMPEROR
If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed!

Suddenly, green lightening spews from the claws into KAIN’S body.


KAIN
Arrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!

KAIN is taken completely by surprise and falls over. The SARAFAN LORD stands by his VAMPEROR.

VAMPEROR
Young fledgling... Only now, at the end, do you understand.

Another barrage of green lightening spews forth into KAIN’S body. The young vampire convulses in agony at the incredibly intense pain. He tries to get up but cannot.

VAMPEROR
Your feeble skills are no match for the POWER of the Dark Forces!

Another discharge of lightening.


VAMPEROR
You have paid the price for your lack of vision!

More lightening, and more screams from KAIN. The SARAFAN LORD looks at his son, then at his master, then at his son again.

The VAMPEROR stops. He smiles at KAIN beneath him.


VAMPEROR
Now, young Kain, you will die.

The smile becomes gritted teeth and the VAMPEROR unleashes the most intense barrage of green lightening yet.

On the floor, next to the massive abyss going down to the core of The Device II, green electricity sparks all over KAIN’S body. He looks up, towards the SARAFAN LORD.

KAIN
Arrrrrgghhh... Ugh... Ah... Father...! PLEASE!!!

More lightening. The SARAFAN LORD looks back and forth uncertainly, between his master and his son.

KAIN is dying, his life force is being choked by the intense evil lightening. He has only seconds of life left.

KAIN
Arrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh... Uh... U...

The SARAFAN LORD immediately spins around and hoists the VAMPEROR high above him.

VAMPEROR
Arrrrgggggghhhhhhh!

The VAMPEROR’S lightening arcs from his fingertips and into the SARAFAN LORD below. Despite the intense pain flooding through his already exhausted body, the SARAFAN LORD continues to walk steadily towards the abyss in the middle of the room. As the lightening gets even more intense, his skull is heated so much by the lightening, it is visible through the brown helmet he wears.

The SARAFAN LORD reaches the abyss and launches the VAMPEROR straight down it.

VAMPEROR
Arrrrrrrrrrrggghhh... hhhhh... hhh... h...

INT. DEVICE II CORE

The VAMPEROR’S wings don’t slow his descent, old grey feathers fall off as he tries to flap them in vain.
Reaching the bottom of the abyss, the VAMPEROR falls straight into The Mass II’s feeding tube. There are chewy, bone-crunching sounds in between many, many screams.


VAMPEROR
Oh god, no...!
Arrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

INT. VAMPEROR’S TOWER – VAMPEROR’S THRONE ROOM

The SARAFAN LORD cannot take any more and falls on the floor. KAIN groans and struggles, but manages to get up and limp to his father.

INT. THE DEVICE II – DAMAGED TUNNELS

The rebellion against the Dark Forces storm their way to the center of The Device. Hylden Hoverships are following them, shooting.

VORADOR
(to Turel Clones)

You! You were made in the first Device weren’t you!?

TUREL CLONETROOPER
Yeah Suckah! All us foo’s were! They used the Hylden cloning machines in the first Device to clone us all, as a gift to the man Moebius!

VORADOR
Would you say this structure is similar?

TUREL CLONETROOPER
I d’know man! Yeah, maybe.

VORADOR
Could you make your way back out, but taking a long complicated route?

TUREL CLONETROOPER
Yeah foo!

VORADOR
Then do it. And see if you can get a few of those Hylden Hoverships to follow you!

The Clones run down a side corridor, and half of the Hylden Hoverships chase after them.

Vorador, leading those running to the Device, ducks quickly as a metal shard on the roof slices one of his tall ears off cleanly.


VORADOR
Now that was TOO close!


INT. DEVICE II – HYLDEN HOVERSHIP BAY

KAIN, with the Soul Reaver sheaved on his back, has the collapsing SARAFAN LORD’S arm over his shoulder and is carrying the heavy tired figure to the entrance of the nearest Hylden Hovership. Around them, Hylden Stormtroopers, Imperial Guard Hylden, Hylden Officers, Demons and Sarafan Troopers run around panicking as alarms siren around them.

The two approach the entrance to a Hylden Hovership, but the SARAFAN LORD can take it no longer and collapses, half sitting up with his back against the small vessel.

He looks up at KAIN, who is kneeling in front of him.

SARAFAN LORD
Kain... Help me take... This mask off...

KAIN
But you’ll die.

SARAFAN LORD
Nothing can stop that now. Just for once, let me look on you... with my OWN eyes.


KAIN carefully puts his claws around the SARAFAN LORD’S brown mask and with a hiss of escaping air, it comes free. A Hylden face stares at him from beneath it, but as Kain was earlier informed, that is just a second mask. Kain delicately pulls back the second mask...
...and gasps at the face of his father.


KAIN
(V.O)

The lost piece of the jigsaw hidden in plain sight. In the ancient tongue, Ani means Old. Old... Kain...

Smiling but in great, great pain is a being who looks just like KAIN’S future self. KAIN finally realises what happened to the older KAIN that was RAZIEL’S maker. He was taken by the Dark Forces into the Demon Dimensions to spend an eternity being converted into one of their own, with no one to come to rescue him from the dark souls within. THIS is the sharp edge of the coin, KAIN is his own father.

The SARAFAN LORD, KAIN’S future self, smiles softly with blistered lips, his face is badly scarred and burnt, his eyes are bloodshot, his head bald, his teeth broken, his horns ripped off to leave dry, painful looking scabs.

He stares into his younger self’s eyes, a look of pride and satisfaction at his son.


SARAFAN LORD/ANI KAIN/OLD KAIN
Now, go... My son... Leave me!

KAIN
No! You’re coming with me! I’ll not leave you here, I’ve got to save you.

SARAFAN LORD/ANI KAIN/OLD KAIN
You... already have... Kain. You were right... You were right about me... Tell your sister... YOU were right...!

OLD KAIN closes his eyes and his head begins to fall back.

KAIN
Father! I won’t leave you!

The SARAFAN LORD, ANI KAIN, OLD KAIN, is dead.

A tear falls from KAIN’S eye and dissolves in a cloud of smoke.

INT. DEVICE II CORE

The survivors of the tunnel run make it to the core. VORADOR, the SEER, RAZIEL, and a few vampires, rebel Hylden and Sluagh burst into the massive chamber, followed by two Hylden Hoverships.

Before them, the mammoth Glyph Core shimmers with the glimmer of glyph energy. Small towers around it contain the huge amounts of energy within, and at the bottom of it all, The Mass II, much smaller than the first Mass, is mindlessly eating something.

RAZIEL
There it is!

VORADOR
All right Raziel, go for the power regulator on the North Tower!

RAZIEL
Understood! I’m already on my way out!

As VORADOR, the SEER and the rest of the rebellion against the Dark Forces head to the middle of the chamber, RAZIEL runs away from the group to the North Tower. Summoning the Generic Yellow Reaver, he fires a projectile at it and runs back to the tunnel. The protection tower detonates in a small explosion of green energy.

VORADOR leads the group to the central Glyph Core and summons red flaming fireballs in his claws. With a powerful throw he launches them into the center of the Core.


VORADOR
Run Away!!

ALL IN UNISON
Run Away!! Run Away!!

The team runs straight back out the way they came in. Behind them, explosions begin to consume the Glyph Core.

INT. DEATH STAR CONTROL ROOM

MOEBIUS watches as the sensor readings of The Device II show that it is about to go. He looks towards the tall dark figure of DARTH VADER still babysitting UMAHBIUS and MOEMAH.


MOEBIUS
Broadcast a message, Lord Vader, quickly!

DARTH VADER
Yes, my master.

MOEBIUS
Tell everyone on the battlefield to move AWAY from The Device!

DARTH VADER
As you wish.

UMAH walks up to her lover, looking sad. A she tries to brush away the tears in her eyes, but the burning sizzling sound is very audible.

MOEBIUS
What... What is wrong?

UMAH
Frank. He sent us a broadcast, a message. A last message.

MOEBIUS
Oh no. Not Frank. But he was... But he was...

UMAH
So sexy?

MOEBIUS
Well yes my dear, but not just that. He was... he was... one of the most decent creatures I have ever met. He helped me make...

MOEBIUS takes UMAH’S hand.


MOEBIUS
He helped me make some good decisions.
What did the message say?

UMAH
I think... my love... it would be better for everyone to see it when the battle is over.

From the Death Star’s main viewscreen, they see the vampires, rebel Hylden, Sluagh and Turel Clones running away from the Device. Explosions are erupting all over its superstructure.


MOEBIUS
We’ll never forget him. I promise.

INT. THE DEVICE II – DAMAGED TUNNELS

The team run back out, chased by two Hylden Hoverships, the way they came. A wall of fire is consuming the tunnels behind them, and it is getting faster and faster.

EXT. DEVICE II

KAIN’S commandeered Hylden Hovership launches out of the exploding hovership bay, the roof of which collapses behind him.

INT. COMANDEERED HYLDEN HOVERSHIP

KAIN pilots the small vessel, behind him the body of the SARAFAN LORD/ANI KAIN/OLD KAIN lies.

INT. BELOW THE DEVICE II CORE

The Mass II is making strange noises, as if in pain. From one of its deep lower recesses, a small creature comes forth, a squid-like entity. It abandons its mother and swims to a nearby wall. The essence of Glyph Energy flickers around its tentacles, and green lightening fires from it, blasting open a wall. The squid swims out into the open sea.

The essence and psyche, the dark soul of the VAMPEROR transferred itself into the offspring of the pregnant Mass II, and has escaped. This, strange, giant squid-like creature looks strangely like one of the Dark Forces RAZIEL described to the young KAIN.

INT. THE DEVICE II – DAMAGED TUNNELS

The wall of fire is on their backs now, and consumes the last remaining Hylden Hovership chasing them. VORADOR leads them, faster and faster, and they burst out of the exit a split second before the wall of fire.

EXT. THE DEVICE II

VORADOR, the SEER, RAZIEL, the vampires, the rebel Hylden, the Clone Army and the Sluagh run away from The Device. Above them, KAIN’S commandeered Hovership flies.

VORADOR
Yaaaaaaaa-harrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The Device II flashes with glyph magic, and the little green explosions covering its surface grow much more intense. The Device glows green for a second, and spectacularly explodes, shooting out massive orange flames in every direction and a wave of green glyph energy outward.

The heroes rejoin their allies, victorious.

INT. DEATH STAR CONTROL ROOM

MOEBIUS and UMAH watch the explosion on the Death Star’s Viewscreen.


MOEBIUS
I’m sure... I’m sure Kain wasn’t in that thing when it blew.

UMAH
He wasn’t. I can feel it.