All Out War! Part Two Wizards vs Aliens

OPEN FIRE!

I already have.

URGH! Pursue them! Pursue and destroy!

Sister, I need you, join me in this magnificent fight!

Guards, to your stations!

HE GROANS

HE SCREAMS

ALARMS BLARE

Benny...

I'm sorry. I wish I could stay.

But events are moving too fast.

You said it was time to go...

Time to go into battle!

There's a danger moving across the sky,

strong enough to summon me, and restore your soul!

Because you must go back, Mother. To find Tom.

The only hope lies with him. Give him these words...

SHE WHISPERS

Give Michael my love.

Vash - ran - dah!

Right.

Moon!

Don't stand there boggling. We have work to do.

CLANGING AND BANGING

Tom!

Tom!

Tom!

Tom!

Varg! Lexi! You've got to reverse the extraction!

Reversal is impossible!

Now be silent, we are trying to fight a war!

It's OK. You're still 16.

-HE GASPS

-I'll get you home, I'll get you

back home to your dad...

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry, Tom.

I just don't know what to do!

I halted the extraction before it was complete.

There's still a chance it can be undone.

Then do it! Help him!

-Please!

-Sunlight. He needs sunlight!

Argh! Must you always side with him?!

We need his magic!

We're losing this battle, but if we get Tom Clarke into sunlight,

then we might stand a chance of winning!

But Mistress, we'll be trapped! The tunnel's all a-caving-in!

I promised to give Tom that message, so stand back!

A good blast should clear the way.

No, no, no, but all your spells will be gone!

My daughter gave me magic. From the Afterlife!

Mark me, for there are ancient

powers at work tonight. Crom - fel - dahvaaa!

Halfling! We've lost lateral stabilisation,

we need manual control,

keep that line level on the horizontal plane.

-Are we flying this ship together?!

-You just happen to be necessary.

But we're actually flying this spaceship together, yeah?

Yes, we are.

Oh, boy!

Moon! I need a Finding Spell, immediately! We've lost Tom!

Lexi to Flight Deck.

Grex Way 15 is out of action,

I cannot proceed. Is Grex Way 9 clear?

-I am too busy for this, sister!

-Varg. Please. The boy is dying.

Varg! Give her an answer!

Negative! Nine is gone, there is no way through.

Now you must abandon him!

TOM GASPS FOR AIR

Such a little life.

ELECTRIC CURRENTS SIZZLE

SHE GROANS

Lexi! We had a surge of Zanti Scale, what is happening?

-SHE GASPS

-Lexi?!

Nothing. It seems I was mistaken, brother. Grex Way 15 is clear.

Argh!

We'll proceed onwards.

This journey's not over yet!

CAULDRON SIZZLES AND BANGS

Dark ash roots and a centipede's boots!

The Finding Spell will be all of a-sizzle, Mistress!

Show us Tom!

I command you, Scrying Mirror, show us Tom Clarke!

He's in position! Now move the ship. And save his life!

Here comes the sun!

He's restored, now lower magical shielding.

For all the good it will do, how can Tom Clarke help us now?

Null - clar - dah!

-He can make us invisible!

-No!

Tom!

The Finding Spell will be a-broken!

They have disappeared, Mother! The Zarantulus is gone!

Scan for them! Scan deep!

SONAR BEEPS

Don't make a noise, not a sound!

I know you're out there.

Hiding.

Cowardly Royals, where are you...?

Does His Majesty hunger?

You sent Nekron tiny scraps

of magic, but hid most of it for yourself,

swilling inside your belly.

And what of the magician? Is he there?

With his bookworm friend?

Do you not wonder why we gather around your precious Earth?

Soon, the entire fleet will arrive. 500 ships will

surround the planet and then open fire!

Earth will be ripped apart.

An explosion so vast, it will open a gateway into the Neverside itself.

A portal from which

the Nekross can feed, with no need for wizards.

Oh! But now!

Are you angry? Do you rage? You want to stop me?

Then face me, you cowards!

Show yourselves!

-Nothing.

-Move on.

Summon the rest of the Fleet for the destruction of Earth!

But what's been going on up here? What have they done to you?

I came to Earth a princess. I will leave a traitor.

But I would live that life all over again...

..to see our child. Our lost and forgotten, never-was child.

If I could just hold him.

SHE GROANS What's that?

It's insignificant.

Still! We stand together at the end, Tom Clarke.

Facing impossible odds, on a ruined spaceship,

above a planet doomed to die.

What a wonderful way to go!

All this time, Father,

you stole magic for yourself.

I was SO hungry.

Then the Royal House of Nekron has fallen.

And all for this.

The Essence of magic.

Taken from the heart of the Extractor.

Enough to feed an entire planet.

Oh! But the magic intoxicates me!

Feed me, my son. Feed me.

HE SOBS

Forgive me.

Moon, give me everything you've got!

Tom's hidden himself away, but I have to send him that message.

-Helen said it could save the world!

-But what is it, what's the message?

-Three words!

-Which are...?

-I can't say.

Is that the three words or are you saying you can't say?

-I'm saying I can't say.

-Why not?!

I'm sorry, but they're only for Tom. Words have power, Michael,

-but words can wear thin.

-Yeah,

I'm going to wear a few words thin, any minute now. Moon!

Find my son! And that's an order!

I just thought... maybe you can help us, Bisme.

If you can see the future,

can you tell us what's going to happen?

I'm sorry. But her gift of the Sight is only very weak.

It's a low-level psychic vision, at best.

She can't really see much further than tomorrow's tea.

Well. That's not bad. Go on, then, what's for tea tomorrow?

Darkness.

She's just a little kid!

How am I supposed to save her?!

Everyone is looking at me, like... like I'm magic.

Do mobiles work in space?

Nope.

Got to phone Katie. Cancel that date on Saturday.

And this time, I've got the best excuse ever.

How many times have you cancelled that date, now?

You can talk, you've never even had a date.

Well, it's like I said.

For every action, there's an equal and opposite action.

Which makes me the equal and opposite of you.

Tamsin Kuthu, Year 10, she likes you. You should ask her out.

Yeah, but the thing is...

I'm the equal and opposite of you.

In every way.

-Don't you get it?

-She might say yes.

Equal and opposite, Tom. I'll go on a date, one day.

Just not with her. Not with a girl.

Oh.

Right.

You're really the opposite of me! Benny, that's brilliant!

It's not brilliant, it just is.

I did wonder. How come you never said?

I dunno.

It's the sort of thing you say at the end of the world.

No, it's not, Benny. So much for brains, you have never been

so stupid. You can say that sort of thing any day of the week!

-Come on!

-What, where are we going?

To save the world! Because now I've got a reason.

The planet needs to survive so YOU can go on your very first date!

Right, we need a plan, and quick.

-What happened?!

-She's dying.

I have Zanti Scale Contamination.

What can we do?

Zanti Scale unfolds the cellular structure, from within.

It's devastating. And unstoppable.

My sister, I shall mourn you.

What about those Nekross ships?! They've got medicine, haven't they?

What if we surrendered? They'd help you, wouldn't they?

You would surrender? For me?

Of course I would!

Can you see, Varg? What creatures they are.

ALARM BLARES

It's the Fleet. They're all here.

They've surrounded the earth.

We've got to save the planet! And Lexi!

And my family, and...

I don't know what to do! I've got exams tomorrow.

I've got... football, I've got, I've got...

I've got nothing, OK?

I've got nothing!

-Tom. She needs you.

-Not now! I haven't got time!

No, but she's got a message. And it's definitely for you.

Tom. Can you hear us?

Listen to my voice.

-What?

-Tom. Are you there, Thomas?

What's she doing?

She's a receiver. And only one person calls you Thomas!

It's me. It's your gran.

Can you hear me, Thomas?

Gran! It's me, Gran!

I'm here, it's me, I can hear you!

It's him! It's Tom! I can hear you, Thomas!

Moon, give me more!

By the sprites of Spinoza, Randal Moon will not be failing you,

Young Master!

Nor my friend Benny! Not me, not Moon, not ever!

Tom.

It's your dad here...

Oh, that's weird! Dad, did you know you're a little girl?

Yeah, funny, listen. Your gran's got a message...

..from your mother.

Mother! Behold. I have detected magical activity.

A Witchvoice, coming from the Clarke habitation.

Follow that voice. They call to the wizard boy.

Find him!

She said these three words...

..could save us all.

-What are they?

-Three tiny words.

Is that the three words or are you just saying it's three words?

I'm just saying it's three words.

Could we hurry up a bit, folks?

Tell me what they are!

"Take..

..the salute."

"Take the salute" What does that mean?

-What does that mean?

-What's it mean?!

-What will it be meaning?

-Gran, what does it mean?

I don't know! But it must make..

..sense to you. Just think!

Take the salute?!

I don't know! What does take the salute mean?!

HIGH PITCHED WHIRRING

-What happened? Where did he go?!

-Ow!

Transmission broken! I have a fix on its destination.

I can now make the Zarantulus visible!

Take the salute?

I really don't know.

And now it's too late.

And so, we come to the end.

But know this... I could not have wished for finer children.

But I am dishonoured, Sir.

You never were, my child. Forgive an old King his temper.

I let you down.

Hey. We had the best times, you and me.

We fought a war. In outer space.

I loved it, Tom.

LOUD CREAKING

They approach.

I suggest that we drink to the best of times,

as we face our inevitable death. Sister?

Earth and Nekron share so many things.

You search for your mysterious salute, Tom.

And on the homeland, this final drink is known as the salute,

the salute to the afterlife and its...

-What did you just say?

-That's the salute?

-That's called a salute?

-It is a form of salute, but...

Take the salute! Tom!

Do you see? That's raw magic, from the heart of the Extractor!

So what happens if...? Oh, boy!

Tom, just think. What happens if a wizard drinks the magic?!

BOTH: Take the salute!

And firing, in five, four,

three, two, one!

Stop.

Aaagh!

It's OK. It's...

Tom!

Tom!

-Tom!

-500 ships. They look like toys.

I am tired of these toys.

Transport me to the Zarantulus!

SHE SCREAMS

Muhahahaha!

SHE SCREAMS

SQUELCHING AND SCREAMING

Go home.

You are dying.

And you...are terrifying.

But still, no magic in the universe can save this body.

Then have a new body.

My sister!

-I'm human!

-What have you done?!

She will be happy with him.

Go home.

THEY LAUGH

Who else can I change?

-I can change you.

-Why would you do that?

To make you happy.

I'm happy as I am. I'm going to stay exactly like this.

And the moment you start changing people, right down to their souls...

Tom you're going too far.

Who are you to stop me?

I'm Benny. I'm your friend.

And I'm your equal and opposite.

Come back, please. Come on, Tom. Come back, come back to me.

-Come and see!

-What is it?

It's called a city. Don't let it scare you.

I was born a warrior and a hunter.

We'll make this world our own, Benny.

What about Dad?

Your father is only a boy in this world.

We can give him the greatest gift of all. Freedom.

He only made us. Now we have to find out who we are.

Besides, my beautiful boy,

we have a wonderful new world to explore, we'll be too busy running.

-Running from what?

-This.

THEY GIGGLE

They're out there somewhere.

I sent them into the Unenchanted world, I remember that.

But... I don't know, it's fading away...

FANFARE

Wizards. The Zarantulus is now returning to Nekron.

We must seek the forgiveness of our people,

and build a new world order, is that not so, Father?

Indeed, my son.

I bid you farewell.

Safe journey, Varg.

Good luck.

And if you ever come back, then come back as friends.

I mean, we proved last night, we can work together.

We proved what last night?

-That we can be friends.

-In what way?

I saved your lives!

And then you took my sister and changed her species

-on a whim!

-She was dying!

So you rewrote her entire existence? You made her human!

This is the most foul act in the history of Nekron, and we will

be revenged! Is that not so, Father?

Let battle be joined!

Yeah, well, do you know what? I've had a very long night.

And I've still got exams!

So you can go spinning off to that planet you kept in starvation.

But if you ever come sliding back, then remember this,

we had a war! A great, big war.

Wizards versus Nekross.

Wizards versus your entire planet.

Wizards versus every single alien in the sky,

and do you know what happened?

The wizards won!

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