Endless Night Part Two Wizards vs Aliens

Tomorrow's only a partial eclipse.

Take control of their moon! And move it!

-It's going for the full Monty!

-That isn't possible.

They only predicted 38% solar obscuration.

Approaching totality, Father.

-Look!

-It's getting bigger!

It's getting closer.

SCREAMING

-Is this the Nekross?

-Maybe.

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

-What is it you want?

-The surrender of all wizards.

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!

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