The story so far...
The US Military received word of a Nazi weapons facility on the Danish island of Bornholm. Rumors suggested they were on the verge of producing an operational nuclear bomb. Captain America and Bucky were sent in to demolish the facility and extract the head Nazi scientist in charge of the project, Professor Otto Hahn.
But somebody beat the Americans to the punch.
By the time Cap and Bucky arrived at the facility, its Nazi guards were dead, the majority of its scientists having suffered a similar fate - though they soon learn Otto Hahn managed to escape the massacre. As the pair explore the facility they are attacked and captured by members of the German Resistance and taken to the leader of this mission, who stands before the top secret project Otto Hahn and his fellow professors were working on.
It is not a nuclear bomb.
Rather, it is a antiquated machine that contains glowing specks of cosmic energy; minute chunks of a cosmic cube.
It is a machine capable of altering Earth's history.
Not just Earth...
... the Universe.
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PANEL ONE
The German Resistance Leader looms over Captain America. Our hero's hands are cuffed, his iconic shield is nowhere in sight. Two guards positioned slightly behind him have their pistols trained on his back. Behind the German Resistance Leader - in front of Cap - the shards of cosmic cubes glow ever brighter.
The machine is powering up.
GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER
There are a finite number of universes out there, Captain.
A finite number of universes very different to our own.
A finite number of perfectly parallel universes.
PANEL TWO
A pained expression crosses the Leader's face.
GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER [1]
A finite number of ways our history can play out.
GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER [2]
Do you know what this means, Captain?
PANEL THREE
Tight on Cap, pleading.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Don't.
PANEL FOUR
On the Leader. His eyes are bulging, visibly revealing his psychosis. His hands hover above the cosmic cube machine console.
GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER [1]
It means this Goddamn Nazi scourge can never be erased.
Not entirely.
GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER [2]
It will always exist. Somewhere.
On some... plane of existence.
And I - -
PANEL FIVE
Tight on Cap, his mouth open, yelling - -
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Don't!
PANEL SIX
The leader presses down on a button.
GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER
- - could not live with myself, doing nothing.
SFX
Vmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Cool Sime - I like the preamble. Really set the mood. Two things - Cap is held by handcuffs alone?
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GERMAN RESISTANCE LEADER [2]
Do you what this means, Captain?
I'm assuming a 'know' has been misplaced there?
Otherwise, good solid script that draws you in.
Is it against the 'rules' to edit my script to include a "know?" :(
ReplyDeleteNot at all. I've already outed you anyways :)
ReplyDeleteSo the German Resistance are just as psychotic as the Nazis? Scary. I wasn't sure about the repeated use of "finite" here, Sime... surely the alternate worlds are "infinite"? Or am I missing something.
ReplyDeleteHey Rol, I was basing the theory off an article I read in, I think, New Scientist, which suggested there are a finite number of ways history can play out.
ReplyDeleteYou're correct, though, my dialogue is flawed, I've just realised - - the universe is indeed infinite; this means there must be a infinite number of histories just like ours and an infinite number of different ones.
The German Resistance Leader knows that the Nazi regime, in some universe, somewhere, will always exist. For every timeline they're defeated in, there is another where they grow strong. So he intends on using the cosmic cube to rewrite the universes. Which, I don't know if that is possible, but it wouldn't get that far - - Cap'd stop him!!
I think next time I'll leave quantum mechanics to the experts...
I always like stories where Cap's inherent nobility forces him to save the bad guys.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting premise. Well thought out and this page reads like it is truly building to something big.
ReplyDeleteI'll echo Rol's thoughts on the 'finite' / 'infinite' debate, but apart from that, the dialogue reads well. It's the classic "the bad guy believes themselves to be acting for the great good and are therefore the most dangerous" scenario, but given a rather monumental twist. Well done.
I liked this one. Neat play having the anti-Nazi movement being almost as psychotic as their enemies.
ReplyDeleteAll the best villains think they're the hero of the story, right?
Cool page, and I can clearly see that Kirby crackle in the last panel...
I liked the idea, as it is a great concept, but the whole "finite" thing bothered me too.
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