Friend or Foe - Part One Wizards vs Aliens

Look, trust me, OK? I know what I'm doing and I'll be careful.

So today, in science behind Mr Fisher's back, Benny Sherwood

will secretly be mixing chemicals that could go bang!

But he'll be careful. No worries there, then.

I promise, nothing will go bang.

Have followed subjects. Cover intact.

Target has entered the school.

Will maintain constant surveillance.

EXPLOSIONS

PEOPLE SCREAM

Benny Sherwood, this is your fault again!

You lot, over there, Assembly point C!

You two here! Wait here.

You are in so much trouble.

We are talking letters home, detentions, investigations...

and things, things I haven't even thought of yet!

It was only a little bang, sir!

A bang, Sherwood, followed by a room full of smoke,

followed by panic, followed by...

well, just look!

I only passed the magnesium!

I wasn't trying for a smoke bomb, sir!

No excuses!

Just think of the damage that you've done to this school!

You, Benny Sherwood...

Ein kosh graak dah!

What damage, sir?

But that's... But no...

But there was a whole...

Ein landwy dah!

No, I saw... No, I swear...

But the explosion?

Explosion? Perhaps you should take it easy this weekend, sir?

BELL RINGS

And there's the bell! See you later then, sir.

Oh, bangin' lesson!

Thanks.

Smooth. But don't you think that was a bit... public, Tom?

Don't you think that was a funny way of saying "thanks," Benny?

Ma'am, did you see that?

The boy, he clicked and...

The smoke went... Their clothes!

It was like... Bam! It's unbelievable!

Stay calm, Adams.

This is exactly the proof I wanted.

Congratulations, I'll be making a positive note on your record.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thousands of years of human history

and we're the first to find a Wizard.

Magic exists, Adams!

You were right, ma'am, of course.

Stick close to Thomas Clarke. Everything must go as planned.

His magic will soon belong to me!

Substandard work, Guard 731.

I am displeased.

Report for discipline.

Nothing escapes my attention.

Carry on, Varg.

Emergency! Human intruder

on flight deck! Lockdown now!

Do not move, human!

You are a prisoner of the Nekross.

I'm hurt. Don't you recognise me?

You will answer my questions! How did you come aboard my ship?

So it's your ship, is it? How very proprietorial of you, Varg!

How do you know my name? Who are you?

Attend!

Hail, the might of Nekron!

Report to your King.

Father! When you hear what...

Not you, Varg! Speak, Lexi.

As the King commands, so it is done.

You decreed the Form-Filter was to be completed.

It seems it can deceive even a Nekross.

Excellent! You will show me.

Ugh! Disgusting!

Exactly, Father, a perfect recreation of a human being.

I've made a detailed study of the humans' rituals and social codes.

The key to understanding them

came from primitive digital signals known as "tele-vision"

which seem to rule every aspect of human life.

But what purpose do they serve?

The creatures seem almost hypnotised by the signals, Father.

They believe whatever they see or hear. It proves their weakness.

Then why waste time studying such an inferior species, sister?

Do you not see? The Form-Filter makes me appear human.

It allows me to move amongst humans

unnoticed and unchallenged.

The perfect spy!

A spy? Do you claim that a Wizard...

Would never see the danger in his midst until it was too late.

HE LAUGHS

Target on the move.

Other kid in tow. Is the Operation go, ma'am?

Not yet, Adams! I will tell you when Operation Vanishing Act begins.

Sorry, ma'am.

It seems you and Father have planned this to the last detail!

Varg, this project has been a challenge even for me.

We all work to the same ends, brother!

Then explain, what is this object?

This is part of my disguise.

I have designed "Lucy" very precisely to fool

the young Wizard, Tom Clarke.

He has ambitions outside the Wizards' realm.

And Lucy can help him. Or so he will think.

But what if Tom Clarke suspects?

See! You recoil at this "human". He will not suspect.

As Lucy, I will become a part of his world.

And I will use his knowledge to find the location

of every drop of magic hidden on Earth.

The Nekross shall feast!

I think you begin to see the merits of my plan at last.

I can transport you only to Tom Clarke's

known locale, as the Wizards remain shielded from us.

Keep an active comms signal at all times.

Do not worry, Varg. I will find Tom Clarke.

As the humans say,

I have really done my homework!

TRANSPORTER WHIRRS

So much space.

So pointlessly pretty, but so perfect.

MACHINE BEEPS

'Lexi? Were you reporting in?

'I was unable to comprehend your words.'

I was...

There was some slight disorientation.

I am proceeding with my search for Tom Clarke. Out.

Emergency supplies for the shed.

If your folks ever find out, you'll be on a diet

of gluten-free pips and seeds till the day you leave home.

Here he is, the main man!

Don't cheer, cos it gets embarrassing.

Ah, your geeky mate hasn't blown up the ball, then?

Well, not yet, anyway!

It was barely an explosion!

And I'm pretty sure I know what went wrong.

You going to chat all afternoon, Quinn, or are we going

to play some footy?

Don't fancy a kick about, Katie?

Well, I wouldn't want to give one side an unfair advantage!

Lexi to Zarantulus.

Target sighted. Am proceeding with the plan.

Maintain communicator silence until I instruct otherwise. Out.

PLAYERS YELL AND CHEER

Take it, take it!

Sorry! Sorry!

Sometimes I don't know my own strength!

That's... How did you do that?

I seem to have lost your ball, so you can use mine.

OK, but who are you, then?

What?

Names! Never forgo social niceties, that's my motto.

Hello, I'm Lucy.

Tom Clarke. This is Benny, Katie.

If it's chocolate you're after, Benny has got a shopful in his bag.

Uh, here you go.

Chock oh lit?

Don't tell me you've never heard of chocolate before.

Where've you been hiding, the Moon?

Of course not.

I just try to eat healthily.

Chock oh lit is not an essential part of human...

our diet.

Whoa! Did somebody skip lunch?

Correct.

We playing a game or what?

Here!

Continue to play!

Just love to watch those experts at work.

Oi! That still counts as a save.

Pretty good throw, though.

Do you work in football or something?

I do. And I saw how well you played, Tom Clarke.

I'm sure you wouldn't have been felled by my throw.

Wow. Um. Thanks!

Good footwork. Great potential.

-With the right coaching.

-You should take up refereeing,

it's obvious you can't see what's right in front of you.

You keep chatting, Clarkey.

You coming, girls?

Hey, come on, you guys.

I should be heading home anyway.

It was, uh, nice to meet you, Lucy.

Goodbye. I'm serious about football. Are you?

I'll try to catch you up, yeah?

Sure. See you later. Bye, Benny.

Two of them left with the target now.

What are your orders, ma'am?

Watch and wait for now.

But move all units to full alert.

I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before.

You look kind of familiar.

We humans do look very similar to each other.

I'm sure I've never met you.

I'd remember someone with your exceptional skills.

Ah, thanks!

I'll ask you again, Tom.

Are you serious about football?

Yeah, I am, but the thing is,

my family aren't into football.

They'd rather I was doing...

Let's just say the family business comes first, I guess.

But football is a very popular sport,

resulting in admiration and financial reward.

Are your family not aware of this?

Maybe you should pop round and tell them.

Splendid idea.

As long as they're not having a busy spell at home right now?

There's a short cut just down here we can take.

Oh, good.

Adams, take the wizard and his friends. We'll need them.

I have been tracking Lexi, Father. I...

I think she may be leading us directly to the Wizard stronghold.

At last! Victory is in our grasp!

THEY LAUGH

PHONE RINGS

Sorry, it'll be Mum. I'll catch you up.

-What does your father do?

-Hi Mum.

-He's a vet.

-A former soldier?

No! Vet.

As in making poorly pets better.

What about your dad?

Does he play football too?

My father... isn't very mobile these days.

Needs a lot of attention.

But I'm really very... devoted to him.

Only one remains with the target.

All units await your order, ma'am.

The second they're out of public view, Adams,

take the wizard and the girl!

-Is your house much further?

-This is a just a short cut,

it's not far from here, don't worry.

TYRES SCREECH

What are you doing? Who are you?

-Lucy, run!

-What's happening?

HE COUGHS

Gotcha, Wizard!

Guards, take them. Now move out.

Hey! What's going on? Hey!

No, Tom!

Tom! Can you hear me? Tom! Tom!

Sister, come in!

Lexi, do you read me?

Zarantulus calling Lexi.

Report! Lexi, respond at once!

Lexi?

Father, we have lost communication.

Wizard trickery!

You will go to Earth and find her, Varg. Find her!

Oh, no! Not you. No, no.

-Don't shoot.

-Where is my sister?

Look, please, don't shoot. I don't know anything.

You hold her communications unit. You tell me where she is now.

I haven't seen her. I don't know. I would have remembered. I swear.

Lexi was with the wizard halfling. Where has he taken her?

Tell me the truth - human - or be disintegrated.

Tom, he's with, er, Lucy.

I just saw them both in...

No. Is that possible?

-Can you change your shape to look human?

-You know this.

Then Lexi's disguise failed, as I feared it would.

No, it did work. It fooled Tom.

And me. Lucy's Lexi, of course. I thought I recognised her.

-Your babbling serves no purpose.

-Please. Listen.

Something happened to them both.

There was smoke or gas.

I just saw Tom and Lexi taken away in a big van.

Gas! Move back, halfling.

A narcotic compound, dissipating.

It was strong enough to fell Lexi.

-And Tom?

-Irrelevant.

If it was knockout gas, we're talking science.

Wizards wouldn't touch that stuff. You know that.

Then who? Human cattle? Creatures like you?

Like me?

Obviously not me.

I wonder.

No, please don't...

Hello!

Can anyone hear me?

I can hear you, Thomas.

Who are you? Let me out of here.

You don't recognise me. Good.

I pay a great deal of money to make sure nobody ever does.

Look, whoever you are, I don't know what all this is about.

Listen and learn. My name is Stephanie Gaunt.

Yours is Thomas Clarke. I am a very rich woman.

-I can make you a very rich young man.

-What are you on about?

I'm talking about magic.

What? Pulling rabbits out of hats?

Look sorry, this would have been better

coming from your mum when you were six.

There's no such thing...

No more denials, no more lies.

You are now my wizard, Thomas.

I went to a lot of trouble to acquire you.

You'll be in a lot more trouble to keep me.

Just a simple click of the fingers. Amazing, isn't it, what that can do.

-Lucy! What have you done to her?

-Nothing yet.

But try to use magic

and poor Lucy will suffer the consequences, like THAT!

Benjamin! Whatever's wrong, dear?

It's Tom. He's been kidnapped.

Please, let her go.

-She doesn't know anything.

-I'm aware of that.

But her presence means you'll do exactly as I say.

Whatever you want with me, just let her go.

Thomas, we're going to be working together from now on

and there are a few things you need to understand.

-I think I know enough already.

-You think wrong.

I've achieved a lot but the world is full of things money can't buy.

Or it was. Because, with your magic,

everything is now within my reach.

Give me what I ask and I will make you richer

than you ever dreamed.

You've got a problem there.

Because there's one thing money can't buy, it's me.

You got one hour to change your mind and bring your friend up to speed.

Otherwise she pays the price.

Lucy!

-Are you all right?

-No, I'm not all right.

I wake up tied to a bed and someone was threatening me. What is this?

She's after me. It's my fault, I promise I'll get you out.

Can't you just magic us out?

-What?

-That's what you said, wasn't it?

You're a wizard. Are you?

You heard all that?

I shouldn't be telling anyone this.

I got you into this so you deserve the truth.

I am a wizard.

But we only get three spells a day and I've already used two.

So? We've still got one.

What about your family? Are they magic too?

There must be some magic way to call them

or maybe there's more wizards nearby - there are more - yes?

Lucy, please. I don't want to use my last spell

until I know more about this place, like where we are.

I can't just magic us off somewhere safe, it doesn't work like that.

Tom! I'm scared.

Lucy, trust me. A wizard always protects his friends.

Michael of the unenchanted.

-A wonder most rare.

-Shut up and listen, Moon.

Tom's been taken. We have to find him NOW.

Unworld ones will be taking Thomas?

No! I know it's hard to believe

-but it can't be the Nekross.

-So, what do I do? Call the police.

My son's been kidnapped. Oh, and there's a disguised alien with him!

Mr Clarke. Varg was worried about his sister.

-If you focus on that.

-I'm focusing on my son, Benny.

Focus, like Benjamin says.

Find a spell. Something powerful.

Wizards stay hidden. There's no such thing as a finding spell.

Please don't cry, Mrs Crowe. I've got an idea.

But you won't like it.

Be coming out with it, imp! Quick sticks!

We can't do this on our own.

We've got to ask for help to find Tom.

We've got to call...

the Nekross.

It is hard to believe, but it would appear Lexi was taken by...

humans.

Impossible!

But it has happened! Lexi is lost.

-The halfling Clarke was also taken.

-That is irrelevant!

Perhaps not, Father.

The Wizards will be just as anxious to find him as we are to find Lexi.

Ask the Nekross for help?!

I know! But their ship's got scanners, sensors,

all sorts of technology they'll use to find Lexi.

Benny, we can't trust them!

Randal Moon will be loathing the unworld ones,

but as we be fearful for Thomas,

will they not be awash with worries for their lost whelp?

United, the power of Wizardkind

and the machine-might of Nekross

may save our boy from this hidden foe!

He could be right, Michael.

Never! Nekross need no help!

It pains me, Father, but it may be the only way to find Lexi!

Their knowledge may be of use.

Think of it merely as a temporary coalition!

Mm... A coalition!

That will end as all coalitions do.

When we feed on them all!

Ma'am. Lennox in Tech-Div says

he's registering a type D power source from the lab.

-Could be the boy.

-Or it could be somebody else!

Can't you call the other Wizards?

Summoning spells are advanced magic. I'm still learning that stuff!

I'm learning too.

Learning that someone's been telling lies.

I haven't used magic. I swear!

No. But then I hardly thought magic was a Type D power source!

Whereas this unusual design...

Where did you get it?

It's a family heirloom.

And you should never upset my family so keep your hands off it!

Stay away from her, Gaunt!

You've got to be kidding! Lexi?!

What are you?

She's a monster!

I am Nekross!

This has got to be a trick, Ma'am.

No, I don't think so. This is advanced technology.

It's alien technology!

She is a vicious, dangerous alien!

So, I have an alien!

A Wizard and an alien!

Oh, this is even better than I'd hoped.

There is nothing... Nothing we cannot do!

So, let's start with the world. And then...

Why not?... The whole universe!

The mighty wizards come crawling for our aid!

Who cares about the scrolls or statutes!

Tom and Lexi are in danger!

You have magic, you have alien science,

you will tell me how to commit the perfect crime.

Nekross technology is needed, not words.

-How are we going to trace that van now?

-Send down the brain scrape.

That thing is going nowhere near me!

It is possible your human brain will explode.

Oh, they have been clever. But not clever enough!

Full alert!

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