Endless Night Wizards vs Aliens

Out there - that's the Neverside.

-ELEVATOR PINGS

-No!

I think the form filter's jammed.

You've become human!

Whoa! I hope I make a half-decent dad.

Yay!

-Benny!

-Tom!

-Tell me we can get back home.

Come on!

We left the Neverside

and everything's gone back to the way it was.

-Benny Junior!

-Neverside is like a dream world.

And, like a dream, it fades.

-I shall never forget.

-What colour were his eyes?

I'm not sure either.

I've lost him and now I'm going to lose you.

One morning you'll wake up

and what happened on the Neverside will be like fragments of a dream.

Goodbye, Tom.

Goodbye, Lexi.

Once, there will have been only darkness.

And the evil things of the night held sway in the world.

For there will have been no sun in the sky,

but only a black moon riven with silver.

No flower did bud and all will have been misery.

Then a fiery comet came a-crashing into the dark moon

and pieces will have been raining upon the Earth.

The moon itself would have been pushed away,

letting the sun shine on things for the first time.

And the dayside will have been born, and with it the first wizards.

Yet beware -

should the endless night return,

the powers of wizards is lost.

Moon, it's an eclipse. Just an eclipse.

That's all. You'll see at noon tomorrow.

But moon stones will still be raining down,

-or how will Randal be having this?

-Hang on, you mean that's moon rock?

As falling from the heavens and even on the very head of Randal Moon's

greatest of greatly-great-great grand grand grand fathers.

And is that how you got your name?

Because someone got hit in the head with a piece of moon rock?

I will not be seeing the amusement of it.

-He most assuredly did not.

-I suppose it could be moon rock.

There's no question it was hit by meteors.

But the moon never permanently covered the sun.

It's in orbit.

Mybit? Whichbit? Whatbit?

No, not "your bit", "orbit".

Demonstrate, professor.

The crystal ball is Earth.

The orange is the sun.

This is the moon.

Earth orbits the sun.

The moon orbits Earth.

If you will be saying so.

But sometimes the moon's orbit brings it close enough to block out

the sun completely from us, and that casts a shadow over Earth.

Which is an eclipse.

Yes, yes, but evil will still be making the most of time of shadows.

And wizard magic will be weaker when the moon covers the sun.

Is Moon getting the heebie-jeebies?

It's always the same when there's an eclipse.

He's like a dog chasing his tail.

But nothing ever happens, does it?

Randal Moon will be attuned to his silvery sister.

There will be a chill in his blood tonight.

A feeling that this passing...

will be a bad moon.

Relax, tomorrow's only a partial eclipse.

It won't even go dark.

And, Tom, we should be going.

We should? Where?

Quinn's birthday party.

It's suppose to be a surprise for him, not for you.

Yeah.

Look, I'm not really in the mood.

Come on, it's Quinn.

Katie will be there. Everyone will be there, even me.

I know, I'm just tired, Benny.

I've not been sleeping so well lately.

Oh, why is that?

Just dreams.

Weird dreams.

It doesn't matter.

And besides Mr Fisher's science project,

I've got magic homework to do.

So, tell Quinn that I'll see him tomorrow. OK?

Yeah. Laters.

Bye, Mrs Crowe, bye, Moon.

Magic is important, Tom, but...

..so are friends.

Don't take them for granted.

Don't worry. I won't.

And you're quite all right? There's nothing bothering you?

I'm fine, Gran.

Like I said, I'm just tired.

BOTH: Hail the Might of Nekron!

We have awaited this alignment for months.

Is all prepared?

In 13.5 hours,

Earth's moon will begin its partial eclipse of the sun, Father.

The Gravizon has been calibrated for lunar mass.

We await only the optimum point of conjunction.

Then we shall visit night upon the wizards! Behold!

The Nekross shall conquer the moon!

LAUGHTER

HE GASPS

HE STIRS

Run!

This way!

No!

ALARM BEEPS

Oh, yeah.

That's good.

Morning! Did you sleep OK?

Weird dreams. Being chased through woods.

A teacher after your homework, I bet.

And there's this kid. I keep dreaming about a boy and...

Is it something to do with when I was in the Neverside?

Was he there?

You know what I told you about the Neverside, Tom.

It's full of tricks and deceptions... shades and shadows.

What do you remember about this boy?

I really don't know.

Just a boy.

Do you know how old he is? What colour hair?

No idea. What's it matter? It's just a dream.

-Random.

-Yes. Of course it is.

I mean, none of my dreams make any sense at all.

Apart from the cheesecake recipe.

You ready, Dad?

I'll just get my bag.

-Is he OK?

-Yes. I think so.

I was trying to see how much he still remembers of Benny Junior.

But the memory is as good as gone. He'll be fine.

Come on then, people, there's an eclipse coming, let's do today.

Thank you.

Oh!

Help yourself.

Their master plan is clever.

In fact, forgive me,

I can find no better description for it than "inspired".

Perhaps we should act sooner, Excellency?

There is no need for haste, Jathro.

And I have never doubted the King's capacity for ingenuity

or, indeed, cruelty, which is why you must take care.

Should you be discovered, it will be...painful.

Fear not.

I shall take all necessary steps in the cause of self-preservation.

And the Glory of Nekron, of course.

The glorious day approaches.

Technician 15! What do you think you are doing?

Most exquisite Excellency, I was addressing a malfunction.

I will give you a malfunction,

if you do not report to the flight deck immediately.

Final checks on the Gravizon - now!

Yes, exquisite Excellency.

Soon you will not be so much "exquisite", as simply "ex".

Tom! Bonjour!

Morning, Mr Sherwood.

Richard.

-Hey, Tom, can you give me a hand?

-What is it?

It's my dad's reflector telescope.

And my father's before me.

In fact, he built it. So be careful with it.

It's heavy and delicate.

Never realised you came from a line of stargazers, Benny.

Oh, mais oui.

The year that I was born, man first walked on the moon.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up.

It wasn't to be.

But I'm betting one day Benny here will be the first Sherwood in space.

What a day that would be.

As long as he doesn't get kidnapped by aliens, eh, Tom?

-NERVOUS CHUCKLE

-Round here? No chance.

Come on, we should get this telescope set up.

If only your dad knew you'd already been in space.

It's crazy all the stuff I've done.

And I can't tell him any of it.

Give us a shout if you spot those aliens!

HE CHUCKLES

Lunar alignment in 30 minutes.

Are all systems prepared, sister?

-TOM:

-'Out there, that's the Neverside.

'A place of dreams and nightmares.

'I won't abandon my brother.

'He might not be here any more.'

-Lexi. Are you unwell?

-No, I...

I am perfectly well.

We must all be alert.

We have spent months preparing for this moment.

Its success will bring us victory over the wizards.

It shall be a great day for Nekron.

And a very dark one for Earth.

-So, how was the party?

-It was cool.

Katie brought Quinn down to the bowling alley,

he had no idea we'd all be waiting for him.

I told him you were sick.

-Oh, you didn't have to do that.

-Yeah, well...

I hope you slept better last night?

-No more dreams?

-Nothing that made sense.

It's just my brain in scrambled mode.

Yeah, you'd be used to that!

Yeah, right.

Now, has everybody remembered your eclipse glasses, yes?

ALL: Yes.

So, your grandad actually built this? It's amazing.

It's sort of a family heirloom.

My grandad and dad used to watch the stars for hours together.

Me and dad did the same when I was little.

It's how I got hooked on science.

I never thought about science being handed down to you.

It's like Mum...

It's like Mum passed magic on to me.

One day maybe I'll have kids.

And I'll show them the stars too.

And I'll tell them how...

..I went up there and fought aliens.

Kids.

Imagine having a kid.

How weird would that be?

I suppose it would be cool teaching him how to play football.

Yay!

No!

Are you OK?

Yeah.

Just the thought of having a kid.

Sort of freaks me out.

Made a miraculous recovery then, Clarkey?

Yeah. Sorry, I missed it, mate.

No worries, got plenty more birthdays to come.

Look at all this! Trust the Benziac to go over the top.

It's a telescope - it's not going over the top,

it's just a bit more advanced than a cereal box with a hole in it.

Good point, Benny.

-Benny's grandad made this.

-What?

That's so cool! Can I look through it?

Well, it's pointing at the sun,

so only if you want to burn your eyes out.

But you can take a look at the pictures later.

-You're taking pictures of the sun?

-Yeah.

-Using the camera to make a spectroscopic analysis.

-Yeah...

That's a nice camera, though. Careful you don't fry the optics.

Don't worry, I'm using diffraction grating.

Right...

My dad was a newspaper photographer,

he left me all his cameras when he died.

What exposure are you using?

-F22 maximum.

-Yeah, you're going to need that.

Someone told me strange things could happen around an eclipse,

but Benny and Quinn getting geeky? I never saw that coming.

Moon?

Where are you?

Have you seen Moon?

Oh...

Tell me, Stickley, and tell me soon, where is hobgoblin Randal Moon?

Listen up, you'll think it fable, He is hid under the table!

-Ah!

-Whatever do you think you're doing?

Mistress, the passing of the moon, it will be almost upon us.

Calm down, Moon.

It'll all be over in the flutter of a fairy's wings, you'll see.

Now come on out.

You really are frightened, aren't you?

You're trembling.

There will be evil to come, Mistress, Randal Moon will be

seeing it a-coming in the darkness.

Right, everyone's got their protective glasses on

-and their eclipse viewers at the ready?

-ALL: Yes!

Good. Oh, come on, Jenkins.

Good. The show's about to start.

Here we go!

That way. Idiot!

All systems are readied.

The eclipse is beginning.

Activate the Gravizon!

Gravizon activated, Majesty.

-Oh!

-It will be beginning!

That's amazing!

Stunning!

-That's clearly going to help.

-Thank you.

It's reached maximum phase.

That's it? Show's over?

We've got maths next!

The partial alignment is complete.

Engage the Gravizon! We will take control of their moon!

And move it!

As my King commands, so it is done.

Now, let there be darkness!

Got it wrong, Benziac. It's going for the full monty!

No! It can't be! That isn't possible!

Moon! Whatever are you doing?

Experiencing some velocity drift.

Compensate by five degrees.

Immediately, exquisite Excellency.

Unseen hands, they'll be a-gripping the moon! Aye and Randal Moon, too!

They only predicted 38% solar obscuration.

Talk English, not Martian, Benny!

The moon, it was only supposed to hide 38% of the sun.

Look - it's three quarters covered!

I didn't think they got stuff like this wrong.

They don't!

This can't be happening!

Another ten degrees' adjustment, technician.

Oh, dear. This isn't good. Not at all.

You'll be a-telling Randal Moon!

Oh, Moon, can't you hold on to something?

It's bad enough with one moon playing silly beggars,

never mind two!

It will be the unseen force a-grasping

Randal Moon's silvery sister,

it will be playing him like a puppet, Mistress.

But what sort of unseen force?

Randal Moon will be but a hobgoblin, he will be knowing only this,

it will be not the force of nature.

CRASH

Approaching totality, Father.

Totality.

Prepare thrusters for the final manoeuvre!

Fire thrusters!

Look!

It's getting bigger!

It's getting closer!

RUMBLING

-What was that?

-An earth tremor!

It's going to hit us!

The moon! It's going to hit us!

Where are you running to?

Where are you going to go?

It's no use, there's nowhere to hide!

Position achieved.

Fix relative position!

Maintain the moon's new position relative to the sun's movement.

Splendid.

It's stopped.

But what happened?

The moon can't do that!

Well? Any bright ideas?

I could do with a ray of sunshine right now.

Katie's right. It's impossible.

Mum's on her own. She'll be going out of her head.

I'm going to make sure she's all right. Yeah?

And I'd better check on my little sister. She's at playgroup.

-They'll all be scared.

-Yeah, try not to worry.

Yeah. Right(!)

-Is it the Nekross?

-Maybe.

But this isn't like anything they've ever done before.

Why would they?

Because they know wizards get their three spells every sunrise.

-You can't have a sunrise if the moon is blocking it out!

-Exactly.

No sunrise - no magic.

Whatever they're up to, this isn't over, Benny.

I've got a bad feeling this is just the beginning.

'Europe is in darkness. The tides are in chaos.

'Four hours on, and the world is reeling with shock.'

The moon seems to have adopted a new solar-stationary orbit

between Earth and the sun.

Western Europe has come to a halt, as people desert their jobs

-to be with loved ones.

-As offices are left empty

and the transport infrastructure struggles with this mass exodus,

governments have called for calm.

Is this the end of the world?

Not necessarily, I mean...we don't know.

During about four or five hours of chaos

as the country and the government were falling apart...

It's against all laws of physics.

According to the internet, this could be the work of aliens.

It's as good an explanation as any.

We seem to have shaken the humans' bombastic faith in being

the sole life form in the universe!

We hold the very existence of their world in our grasp,

and soon the wizards will learn the price of its survival!

People are gathering in large numbers at churches

and in ad hoc candlelit vigils as the eclipse continues.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Benny, are you coming in?

-I'm sort of busy.

-Come back up to the house.

You shouldn't be out here on your own.

No. I've got things I need to do.

That's the second one in the last hour.

No-one knows what's going to happen next. It's not safe.

-So we've got to be prepared.

-Your mother's right.

Now, I'm a rational man, but what's happened today, it's not natural.

I don't mind telling you, it's got me scared.

I've been scared before, Dad. More times than you know.

But I've never given up hope.

Oh, Benny, darling, that's very brave of you.

But we're in a serious situation.

Benny, are you even listening to us?

People out there - they think the world is going to end.

Sorry, I've got to go!

Don't worry, the world's not finished.

-Not today, anyway.

-Benny!

It's the Nekross, all right. Look!

So what are we looking at?

It's my spectroscopic analysis of the eclipse.

But I don't see any Nekross.

There! The spectroscopic signature of the Zarantulus.

I've charted it before. No-one else would ever spot it

because they wouldn't know what to look for.

Are you saying the Nekross dragged the moon out of orbit

and parked it smack over the sun?

And pushed it closer to Earth to increase the size of the eclipse!

Wizards across the whole of Western Europe are cut off from the sun,

and as long as the eclipse lasts, what magic we've got is weaker.

The eclipse has knocked out the Network of Mirrors.

They've isolated every wizard.

Can't Randal Moon help? Where is he?

He will be standing in for a book-end!

Where do you think he is?

He's connected to the moon,

and anything the Nekross do to it has an effect on him.

You mean he's stuck up there?

Like a pigeon up a magician's sleeve.

HIGH-PITCHED SOUND WAVE

-What is that?

-The scrying mirror.

The Network of Mirrors, it will be infiltrated by technockery.

Randal Moon can feel it. Agh!

Attention, wizards!

Oh, my goodness! Nekross!

We have control of your moon,

and with it we have blocked out your sun.

There will be no more sunrises.

And wizards are left weak and defenceless in its shadow.

Nekross, do you hear me?

The halfling wizard! We hear you.

And I see your fear!

I'm not scared of you!

And you can't put the whole of Earth in an eclipse.

When we have harvested the wizards in this sector

we will move on to the next, bringing shadow and taking magic

from across your world until we have taken every wizard!

We'll still fight you. Even without magic.

And how would you do that?

Persuade your armies to fire missiles at us? We will return fire

and we will obliterate them!

No! This is a war between us - wizards and Nekross.

You've never hurt innocent people before! Don't drag them into this!

You do not dictate the rules of this war!

There are no rules!

And these "innocent people", your unenchanted, are your weakness.

We will do with them as we wish - to force your defeat!

You're holding the world hostage!

Whilst the moon remains in its new position, your world is dying.

The climate will change, the seas will rise

and the tides will become land-drowning tsunamis.

The Days of the Ever Night will be returning!

Millions of people will die.

And you cannot allow that.

You are duty-born to protect the unenchanted.

At all costs.

What is it you want?

The surrender of all wizards.

Forget it! Not happening!

Then your world will die in shadow.

Your innocent unenchanted will starve and choke on toxic air.

If you take all the wizards, then you'll starve, as well!

You'll have used up all your food supply!

Which is why, on your surrender, we shall farm you like cattle.

The Nekross shall feast forever.

No way!

There will be no sunrise, you are helpless.

We shall allow you 24 hours to give yourselves up to the Nekross

or watch your entire world die.

ALARM CLOCK BEEPS

RUMBLING

That's the second tremor this morning.

I suppose you should be grateful it's only a broken pot.

What's going on there?

NASA's bringing a shuttle out of mothballs. To go to the moon.

They've been so very clever.

The Unenchanted were bound to investigate what had

happened to the moon.

But without Magic, the only way we can stop it is...

..to surrender.

They've won, Tom. The Nekross have won.

Nobody's surrendering.

You're my family,

and no pigtailed alien is going to get its hands on you.

There has to be another way.

Benny, come on. Quick, help us!

These are survival rations. For, like, disasters.

-We have to get ready.

-For what?

-For anything.

We need to make sure that we're all safe.

So we're moving everything we can into the basement.

It's secure and sturdy down there. Built by Victorians.

You mean you're going to hide? In the basement?

Not hide. Take cover.

We'll get Uncle Clarence and barricade the doors,

and lock ourselves down there until

-whatever's going to happen... happens.

-No!

This is crazy.

You're rational people. This...this is just panic.

Benny! You have to accept what's happened!

The moon has moved closer to the Earth.

None of that can happen - but it has!

"Rational" doesn't make any sense any more!

RUMBLING

Those tremors are coming more often.

It's as if this area is the epicentre.

We're on the verge of a total environmental disaster.

Down there, we can be safe... for a while, and together.

No. No way.

-You just don't know what's going on.

-And you do!?

Mum, Dad, I love you.

But I can't sit in a hole and wait for the world to end.

To move the moon with Magic?

It will be beyond wizards, and most surely a hobgoblin.

So is that it? There's nothing we can do?

Except surrender?

The wizard's way is clear,

to protect the Unenchanted from all dangers.

-And we must do our duty...

-DISTANT HORN BLOWS

What's that?

I've never heard it before.

DISTANT HORN BLOWS AGAIN

No-one will, in over 1,000 years.

It will be the wizards' call to war.

DISTANT HORN BLOWS AGAIN

You mean we're not giving in?

-We're going to fight?

-Yes! That's worse than anything.

By the ancient rites, the Magical lines will be called

to a council of war at the Henge of Stone.

We can't wait!

If we're going to war, we need to hit the Nekross fast and hard!

Thomas, my darling, you don't know what you're saying!

All-out war, it would be a terrible thing.

I've fought the Nekross since they got here.

-I'm not scared of them!

-You're not.

And you've always beaten the Nekross according to the way of the wizards.

You've never shed blood.

This won't just be a war between wizards and aliens, Tom.

This will be a war like no other.

How can we protect the Unenchanted amidst all that destruction?

They haven't left us any choice.

Whatever the choice,

you won't be a part of it.

-What are you talking about?

-This is war, Tom.

Not a cold war, not a secret war.

We're talking about something where innocent people

get caught in the crossfire. I don't want you anywhere near that.

I have to speak at Stonehenge.

I have to try and talk them out of this madness.

-Michael, will you take me there?

-Of course.

-I'm coming with you.

-No. No, you're not.

You're staying here.

Tom, I know you only want what's best for all of us

but you have to stay here.

I don't want you to be part of this choice.

Whatever happens, you shouldn't have to live with this

-on your conscience.

-But, I...

-Tom...

please.

If that's what you want.

Michael, we're running out of time.

Benny.

-What are you doing here?

-I guessed you'd be around.

I wanted it to be open.

-I just wanted something to feel normal.

-Yeah.

Tom, is the world going to end?

The wizards are talking about going to war. A full-on proper war.

Hang on, wizards don't kill.

The Nekross have pushed us too far.

Maybe they haven't left us an option.

There's always another option to war. We've still got science.

What? Our science against Nekross science?

Look what they did, Benny.

-It's no contest.

-Evening, losers.

It's 11 in the morning.

Don't get detailed with me, Benziac.

You said it was only going to be a partial eclipse,

-and now look at it!

-You're both doing OK, though, yeah?

No. Everybody's scared. I'm scared.

We're all scared.

Not me. I'm just hungry.

Where is everybody?

Gone home. Got out of town.

Hiding in basements.

Nothing's going to be the same again, is it?

Doesn't mean it can't change back.

You don't really think that, but thanks.

I know I'm with Benny the Brain, and I'm not giving him grief.

If you're talking changes, that's a monster.

Scary monster.

I'm sorry I was always such a plank.

You're a smart bloke.

You'd have probably ended up some top scientist.

On TV as well, I bet.

Yeah. Maybe.

What about you?

I was going to be a newspaper photographer like my dad.

I just wanted to see the world. You know, go everywhere.

Travel across India on a train,

scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef,

watch the Northern Lights and sleep in an igloo.

-A million things.

-Stop it!

You're my friends...

..and you deserve all those dreams.

You deserve to live them.

Look, you're the best mates ever.

And I love you.

Steady on, Clarkey.

Well, I do.

I love you.

Look, where are you going?

-Tom?

-Try and keep Quinn out of trouble.

Tom! Where are you going?

I've got to do something, Benny.

For Katie and Quinn, for you, your mum and dad, everyone.

What are you talking about?

I've got to stop this war.

And how are you going to do that?

Go home, Benny.

Your mum and dad are frightened, they need you.

You can't help me with this one.

Tom, you're scaring me.

You have always been the most spectacular mate, Benny.

Now be my friend and let me do what I've got to do.

You contacted me once through this.

Let's see if I can get you on call-back with one last spell.

Slah - torr - dah!

DEVICE BEEPS

-Tom Clarke?

-Lexi.

Look, the wizards won't surrender.

They're getting ready for a full-scale war.

That is unfortunate.

It will mean devastation across your world.

Countless wizards and Unenchanted will die.

And Nekross. That's why we have to stop it!

"We"?

We can think of a way out of this without war.

And you would trust me?

Yes, I trust you.

Don't ask me why, I don't know.

But I do.

But my people starve. We must have Magic.

Then take me.

Take me and end the eclipse.

You would sacrifice yourself?

It's not a sacrifice.

I'm saving my friends. This isn't their fight.

So you can extract my Magic.

Every drop of it.

But you have to end the eclipse.

It is not enough.

We will take you and nine others.

Then ten more wizards, every month,

into eternity.

No, I can't do that.

The alternative is war.

All right, Lexi. I'll be the first.

And if the wizards see you're as good as your word, then...

there will be others.

There's something I have to do.

Then you can take me.

DOOR OPENS

Benny! Where have you been?! We've been worried sick!

I wanted to see my friends.

Your friends?

Yes, of course.

I'm sorry I scared you, Dad.

I gave you this for your ninth birthday, do you remember?

Every ten minutes, there was a new discovery.

And every time, you came running to tell me.

You were always so excited about everything you learned.

Every day you would come from school and want to talk about it all night.

It was joyous.

What's this all about?

We don't talk like that any more.

You keep things to yourself.

-You're secretive.

-I'm sorry.

Benny, where we are now, what time we have left,

I don't want us to end up like my dad and me.

You and Grandad got on. You watched the stars together.

Dad had problems.

The astronomy turned more into escape than hobby.

He would just go off all night on his own.

He was obsessed with that stone circle.

Stone circle? Why?

Sitting on a hill with a meteor buried under it -

in his mind, that was some sort of escape.

He felt somehow closer to the stars.

No sillier than feeling safe in a basement

-built by Victorians, I suppose.

-What stone circle, Dad?

Burnt Hill. They say the standing stones were carved from it.

Burnt Hill?! That's amazing!

What's amazing? What are you so excited about?

Benny, where are you going?

Don't worry, Dad. Everything is going to be all right!

OK?

You have done well, Lexi.

This is a glorious day for Nekron!

I shall devour Tom Clarke!

Yes, Father, we will extract his Magic.

But he has made an offer of great bravery,

which avoids war and will provide for our people into eternity.

We should honour him with a quick, painless extraction.

Never! He has been a savage pain in my carbuncles since our arrival!

But, Father, do we not celebrate the sacrifice of an honoured enemy?

I think that is exactly what our father intends to do.

Yes! I shall feast on his Magic in the old way!

I shall suck it from him raw!

No. Father, he is a warrior! He deserves better!

A warrior? He is livestock! He is food!

And I will snap his bones and sup the very Magic from them!

What news will you be a-bringing to Randal Moon?

I need you to do something for me.

I need you to give my gran a message.

And she has to pass it on to all wizardkind.

What will be this message?

This war can't be allowed to happen.

So I've made a deal with the Nekross, Moon.

A terrible deal.

But it gives everyone a chance.

It will save lives, and that...

..that is a good, honourable thing...isn't it?

To be saving lives will always be a good thing, a blessed thing.

But what manner of agreement?

'Tom! Tom!'

Benny!

Tom! It's all right! We can put the moon back!

What are you talking about? How?

NASA says when the Nekross shifted the moon,

all the moon rock samples in their labs started to vibrate.

You mean, what the Nekross were doing had an effect

-on moon rocks on Earth?

-And on Randal Moon!

Who carries a moon rock in his pocket! Exactly!

And those earth tremors, I know where they're coming from.

Burnt Hill.

You mean the stone circle?

-DEEP VOICE:

-'Little wizard. You have disturbed our sleep.'

A meteor landed there thousands of years ago.

I think it was from the moon, Tom! A huge chunk of moon rock

that's still reacting to what the Nekross have done.

I think the stone circle is carved from moon rock!

But they're not just rock.

The Burnt Hill standing stones are Magical entities. So maybe...

Maybe if the moon can move moon rock,

moon rock that's got Magic can move the moon!

No! No! No! The stones are dangerous!

Will you not be remembering?

'Will you give of yourself? Yes or no?

-'Yes or no? Yes or no?'

-Yes!

Moon's right, they almost destroyed you, Tom.

Yeah, but they sent you to space! They're powerful, Benny.

I should've known you'd show up with a genius idea

just when I needed you!

Just when the whole world needed you! Come on!

Now we fight back the wizard way!

Jathro to Control. Jathro to Control.

Chancellor, most exquisite Excellency, do you read me?

Yes, Jathro. Report.

It seems the king's master plan is working.

The wizard halfling is surrendering.

The other wizards will follow his lead.

The wizards' surrender changes nothing.

My plan is now begun.

Be careful, Tom.

These stones are the last chance there is for wizardkind,

maybe the entire planet.

I'm not letting them or the Nekross beat me.

PHONE RINGS

Wrong number.

Let's get on with this.

Tom Clarke has ignored my signal.

His words of surrender were empty, sister. He means to trick you.

Hear me!

I am Tom Clarke of the Magical Line of Crowe

and I demand counsel with the Strength of Stone!

Maybe you need to shout louder?

Strength of Stone, hear me!

I think you got their attention!

Powerful Magical Energy reading at Target Zone Veta.

Tom Clarke!

I knew you couldn't trust him!

He has a plan!

Leave him to me!

-DEEP VOICE:

-'Little wizard. We have been waiting for you.'

-Tom! Is it working?

-Yes, Benny. Just keep back!

What do you mean, you've been waiting?

'The moon is disturbed. We ache to our deepest strata.

'We knew you would come.'

So will you help me? Will you move back the moon?

'To bend the Strength of Stone to your will,

'we must make a bargain.

'From you and from she who follows you here.'

Is this your idea of surrender?

Change of plan, Lexi.

I'm not giving myself up, or any other wizard.

He's raising the Magic of the Stones against you, Lexi.

They're moon rock, there's a whole chunk of it under this hill!

Moon rock and Magic! They are no match for Nekross technology!

'"Technology"!

'Your technology is but a crying babe

'against the ancient forces of Magic.'

Where did that voice come from?

You heard them?

But how can you hear the stones?

You're Unenchanted, you're an alien!

DEEP VOICE LAUGHS

What wizard trickery is this?

Get out of my head!

'Do you have the courage to bargain with us, little wizard?!'

What do you want?!

'You must both become whole! That is our bargain!

'You must remember!'

Remember? Remember what?

'Look!'

Lucy.

Tom?

Wha...what was that?

It's like my dream,

the dreams I've been getting.

Dreams? You have them also?

'Not dreams, but memories.

'There are things that your mind hides from you, wizard.

'And yours, unworld one. Memories of joy and of great pain.'

I can feel it.

I've been feeling it for days.

I feel it also.

'Do we have a bargain, wizard?!

'Do you accept what is hidden from you to move the moon

'for what is to come?'

'Answer, wizard, do you accept our bargain? Answer now!'

Yes.

I accept the bargain!

No!

Look! The moon, it's moving, Tom!

The moon is breaking from our hold!

Increase the Gravizon to maximum!

Do not let it get away!

I must have those wizards!

Might of Nekron, the Zarantulus cannot take this punishment!

The ship will break up! We must release the moon! Now!

EXPLOSIONS

Disengage the Gravizon! Disengage!

Tom.

You did it, Tom! You did it!

Look, it's back!

The sun's out.

What a beautiful day, we have it back!

Black cats and monkey hats, that will be enough of that!

It's not my fault.

Our son.

Benny Junior.

Tom...

I had a son, Benny!

We had a son.

How can we forget him?

The stones said we had to remember for what is to come.

I will understand.

We lived together for 20 years. We loved each other.

So what happens now?

I will tell my father that your Magic was too powerful.

Or you could tell him the truth.

What happened to us - that changes everything.

We could all find a way of living together, couldn't we?

No, Tom. That was another world.

The memory of our son binds us like nothing else could.

But my people are Nekross.

What we are to each other will horrify and anger them.

You don't mean that, Lexi.

You were human.

There's something inside you that's still human.

I can feel it.

Goodbye, Tom.

Lexi...

Come on, let's get out of here.

The wizard used Magic to tear the moon from our control.

Why did you not stop him?

I was unable.

Unable?! In what way?

Unable, father.

That is all.

Lexi! Explain yourself!

Lexi! Do not walk away from your father! Lexi!

Lexi!!!

Tom!

Hey! Clarkey! We playing a game or what?

-It's going to be dark soon!

-Not too soon, I hope.

You know, life can throw some pretty rough stuff at you.

But I think I can handle it all, as long as I've got my mates.

-DEEP VOICE:

-'Prepare yourself, wizard for what is to come.

'Soon the true darkness shall fall.'

You will both enter the Contest as rivals.

Your task is to find the Clarke wizard once and for all.

As soon as she could talk, Bisme spoke about visions.

-I found it.

-Found what?

She has the sight.

ALL: Scar - pass - dah!

-Gran!

-EXPLOSION

Now it's time for me to go.

I will show no mercy.

Let the onslaught begin!