Cosmic Energy

Prologue

A/N – Please note, this screenplay was written quite a few years ago and opinions and beliefs herein may not reflect my current point of views as of now. I tried to use this story to try to work through my own thoughts that I was dealing with in life at the time and ultimately ended up forcing this story and the characters to be something they're not rather than letting them grow into their own thing, so at times it may come off as unnatural. Because of that, I feel this is one of my weaker works. That said, I think there are still some very interesting plotlines here and it should prove interesting enough for its historical significance in my life. For the most part, this is how I left it upon finishing a few years back, but I might have made some slight changes and may include some additional changes to fill in any gaps that might have been left by editing .

EXT. SPACE- TIME OF DAY UNKNOWN

Film starts with a view of our Solar System. It shows a comet heading towards it.

It zooms into an unspecific planet or moon (Later found to be Pluto), as the comet strikes it, splitting the planet into two, and throwing debris into space, and three pieces of hyperspace meteorite along with it, one headed for Earth.

EXT. SWAMP- DAY

Shows a scientist and a guy from NASA walking through the swamp.

SCIENTIST: You see Mr. Melnyk, this meteorite that landed on Earth a few days ago is very peculiar. Our equipment shows that the energy inside of it is more powerful than even electricity, and as far as we know, only rivaled by the black hole itself.

MR. MELNYK: You're saying that it can go faster than the speed of light? (Pause) That's impossible, according to Einstein's Law of Special Relativity-

SCIENTIST: I know about the laws of relativity, and that is one of the strangest parts about it.

MR. MELNYK: Like... What do you mean, are you saying that this... (Searches for a word) Cosmic Energy defies the laws of relativity?

SCIENTIST: "Defies" isn't quite the word I was looking for. I would say it rewrites them.

MR. MELNYK: Seriously? That almost sounds like a bad excuse a student would make just because they want to prove something when they have no idea what they are talking about.

SCIENTIST: But it's true. We still have a lot of testing to do, but I'm sure in time, we'll work out the answer of the relation of this energy and special relativity.

MR. MELNYK (Sigh): So what you're basically saying is that the energy inside of this meteorite, if used like electricity, it would reach its destination at a faster pace.

SCIENTIST: Faster than you can comprehend, using the energy from this, we could travel from one side of the Milky Way to the other in just a few weeks.

MR. MELNYK: How much further?

SCIENTIST: Just over here.

They round a corner to find the hyperspace energy laying in a crater in the middle of the swamp. The energy inside the clear crystal swirls through the center, slowly changing colors as it goes. MR. MELNYK stands in awe.

SCIENTIST: The casing on the outside has to be strong to avoid sustaining damage from the amount of power inside, but we have discovered that it has a relatively low melting point for something that strong.

MR. MELNYK: So you really think that this could be used to travel the stars?

SCIENTIST: I wish I could say yes, but there is not nearly enough to send you all the way across the galaxy.

MR. MELNYK: In space there is no gravity, so when something is propelled across space, it keeps moving until something of greater force stops it.

SCIENTIST: That is the part that we quite haven't figured out. According to all the tests we've run, when the energy stops pushing, it automatically pulls whatever it is propelling to a stop, even in a zero gravity simulator. The energy seems to be hesitant to separate from the object it is propelling, and pulls it to a stop when it stops pushing. We are not entirely sure we can work it out of it.

MR. MELNYK: How did this rock not cause more damage upon landing?

SCIENTIST: We can only suspect that it is for the same reason. Somehow, it seems to have slowed down before it struck.

MR. MELNYK: Can't you reverse engineer it and create more.

SCIENTIST: Nothing like it exists in this world.

MR. MELNYK goes up to the crystal and feels it.

MR. MELNYK: How far can this crystal get us?

SCIENTIST: About to the planet Neptune and back. (Pauses) Our theory is that a comet had once long ago hit some planet in the solar system and threw some of this into space where it eventually landed on Earth. If this theory is true, then we may be able to find which planet this comes from and be able to find more.

MR. MELNYK: You're sure?

SCIENTIST: If not, then we may never have a chance like this again.

MR. MELNYK (Calling to some men): Load it up in the truck.

Shows a few minutes later as his men are loading the truck.

MR. MELNYK (Turning to SCIENTIST): If there is a chance that this energy came from another planet, how would we find it? It would be illogical to send a space probe to every planet and possibly moon in the solar system, and search every planet. At least in a reasonable time frame.

SCIENTIST (Walking with him to another truck): We've also noticed something else about this energy. When this energy was entering the atmosphere, animals all around the world of a particular Order seemed to notice. Being in close vicinity with this energy crystal causes this particular species to act more... timid if you will.

MR. MALNYK: What animal?

SCIENTIST: You're in luck, the animal that you're looking for is native to this part of the world.

With that, he opens the back of the truck to reveal an alligator inside.

MR. MELNYK: The crocodilian?

SCIENTIST (Closing the door): Yes. This crystal could be a major breakthrough for science, more than just for astronomy.

MR. MELNYK: Are we going to speak of any of this?

SCIENTIST: Not yet. Only what I called you here for. We are sending an alligator to the furthest reaches of the Solar System for important scientific research.

MR. MELNYK: Is there any more lying about anywhere?

SCIENTIST: The funny thing is, it remained pretty intact in the impact, we're pretty sure that this is all there is.

As he says this, it shows the crystal inside of the truck with a previously unexposed chip.

It shows a place in another place in the swamp with the missing piece of hyperspace energy laying on the ground, swarming with alligators.

TITLE CARD: Cosmic Energy