Epsilon the North Star

Epsilon the North Star#2: The elements

CUT TO: WOODS

EXT. WOODS- LATE AFTERNOON

EPSILON CLIMBS THE SIDE OF A HILL AND AS HE GRABS ONTO A ROCK. HE FEELS SOMETHING CRAWLING ON HIS HAND AND IMMEDIATELY SHAKES OFF THE BUG THAT IS ON HIS HAND.

[Epsilon]

(Thinking)

This is crazy! That guy might not even make it and yet I'm out here risking my life. And who knows what the hell is out here? What's going to show up once the sun sets. I could just wait it out and then head back, but then I would have to lie to a dying man's face. Screw it, I'm already up here. I might as well keep at it.

EPSILON CONTINUES UP THE MOUNTAIN. AS HE DOES HE SLIPS AND FALLS MULTIPLE TIMES AND CUTS HIMSELF ON SHARP ROCKS.

CUT TO: LATER

EXT. MOUNTAIN- EARLY NIGHT

EPSILON GETS TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN AND IT BEGINS TO STORM.

[Epsilon]

You've got to be kidding me!

EPSILON TAKES OUT THE RADIO AND BEGINS TRYING TO GET A SIGNAL. HE THEN HOLDS UP THE RADIO AND LOOKS FOR A SIGNAL.

[Epsilon]

Come on, damn you! I didn't hike all the way out here to have you not work! Work!

EPSILON CONTINUES TRYING TO GET A SIGNAL. HUGE NOCTURNAL BUG LIKE CREATURES BEGIN TO COME OUT AND THE ONLY TIME THEY ARE VISIBLE IS WHEN THEIR BIOLUMINESCENCE LIGHTS PULSE IN THE NIGHT OR THE LIGHTNING LIGHTS THE AREA AROUND. EPSILON HOLDS THE RADIO UP IN THE AIR TRYING TO GET A SIGNAL AND SUDDENLY THE RADIO BEGINS BEEPING REALLY LOUD. THE BUGS THEN ALL TURN THEIR ATTENTION TO THE SOUND COMING FROM THE RADIO AND START TOWARDS IT. EPSILON NOTICES WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE LAST SECOND AND BEGINS TO RUN AWAY FROM THE BUGS. EPSILON THEN RUNS INTO A TREE AND THE SIGNAL IS LOST SO THE RADIO STOPS MAKING NOISE. THE BUGS THEN GO THEIR OWN SEPARATE WAYS TRYING TO FIND EPSILON AND THE RADIO. EPSILON THEN LOOKS OUT OF ONE OF THE HOLES IN THE TREE AND SEES THE BUGS LOOKING AROUND.

[Epsilon]

Screw all of this! Those things are gonna eat me if I'm not careful. I have to find a way out of here.

EPSILON BEGINS TO SNEAK OUT OF THE TREE THAT HE'S IN AND IS CAREFUL TO WATCH WHERE HE STEPS. JUST WHEN HE THINKS HE'S IN THE CLEAR, A BUG BEGINS TO WALK IN FRONT OF HIM. EPSILON STAYS COMPLETELY STILL AND WAITS FOR THE BUG TO PASS. HE THEN BEGINS TO WAVE HIS HAND AT THE BUG AND GETS NO REACTION FROM IT.

[Epsilon]

They must be blind. There's no way it didn't see me just now.

EPSILON PICKS UP A ROCK AND THROWS IT. THE NOISE MAKES MULTIPLE BUGS GO OVER AND CHECK OUT WHAT MADE THE SOUND. WITH THERE STILL BEING A NUMBER OF BUGS IN HIS WAY, EPSILON BEGINS TO THROW ROCKS TO CLEAR A PATH OF BUGS. JUST AS EPSILON IS GETTING AWAY HE COMES BACK INTO THE SIGNAL FOR THE RADIO TO BEGIN BEEPING. THE BUGS ALL THEN TURN TO WHERE EPSILON IS AND EPSILON THROWS THE RADIO AWAY. EPSILON THEN RUNS OFF WHILE THE BUGS FIND THE RADIO AND DESTROY IT.

CUT TO: LATER

EXT. PLANE- NIGHT

EPSILON GETS BACK TO THE SHIP AND GOES TO WHERE THE PILOT AND THE ROBOT ARE. THE PILOT WHO IS DEAD LAYS LIFELESSLY BESIDE THE GYNOID.

[Gynoid]

His injuries were too severe. I did what I could but there was no way to save him.

[Epsilon]

And now there might not be any way to save us.

[Gynoid]

What do you mean?