Scene 12 - Releasing the trapped

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Thunderbird 2 blasts its engines again as it lowers down to hover closely to the water. A mechanism is released, as the pod drops. SPLASH! Thunderbird 2 then flies off elsewhere whilst the flap is opened again, as a track is quickly lowered into the water.

Gordon:

Thunderbird 2 from Thunderbird 4, commencing launch.

The engines are fired as Thunderbird 4 slips down into the sea, charging downwards.

Mobile Control from Thunderbird 4, I need a course that will take me to the kid who is trapped in the stream.

Scott:

F.A.B Gordon. I'll send you one when I'm back in Thunderbird 1. It looks like we may have some company that is out for the Armageddon too.

Scott finishes the call on his chunky radio whilst he rides on his Hoverbike. Inside the trapped, claustrophobic cave, the water is reaching Christine's neck. Armageddon hangs on tightly to his radio.

Christine:

What's keeping them so long?

Helicopter:

Helicopter to Armageddon.

Armageddon:

Now look, what's keeping them so long to get us out?

Helicopter:

International Rescue are deploying their crafts that will get you out.

Armageddon:

Alright. Stand by.

Christine:

Help! I'm drowning! I'm drowning!

Armageddon:

No you're not! Stop fussing!

Shane in the cliffside has passed out too, lying streamline on the rocks. Meanwhile, the massively long stream is beginning to rise faster and faster and higher and higher all the time. Gordon begins searching. He activates his strongest lights for him to see more accurately. Now, Alan is positioned next to the rocks and he is about to turn on the blenders.

Alan:

Excavator to Mobile Control, about to commence the drilling.

Scott:

F.A.B Alan.

Alan:

I hope they are ready for the shock. Now!

He activates a control on his left as the blenders at the front of the craft spin dangerously fast, cutting and penetrating through the rocks as the waste is spewed out behind the craft onto the beach as watery mud. Thunderbird 1 takes off and circles the area like Thunderbird 2.

Scott:

Thunderbird 1 to Thunderbird 2, it looks like we may have some more of us out to get the Armageddon.

Virgil:

You mean that helicopter that has been circling around for some time now. Did he do the damage on purpose or was there another movie disaster?

Parker and Penelope are standing by in FAB 1.

Lady Penelope:

Parker, you see that helicopter flying around up there?

Parker:

Yes m'lady. That 'elicopter has been circling around for over an hour now.

Lady Penelope:

The helicopter that the Armageddon arrived in.

Parker:

Don't worry m'lady. I'm standing by.

Lady Penelope:

Alan should be through any minute.

Alan continues to dig powerfully through the rocks. The other two can hear something digging behind the wreckage.

Christine:

Listen... what's... that?

Armageddon:

International Rescue I expect. I hope my men are standing by.

Christine:

I don't know how much longer I could have...

She screams. She has been sucked down.

Alan:

I'm through!

She is thrown downwards, followed by the Armageddon. The Excavator backs away, whilst water spills out constantly as two bodies are shot out and run down. Both are covered in dirty, cold, murky water, coughing from the shock.

Christine:

Oh, what just happened?

Jeremy:

CHRISTINE!

Officer Baker:

MOVE IN LADS! GET SOMEONE TO LOOK AFTER THE GIRL!

Virgil:

Look!

The helicopter has swung in over the cliff, and a massive grapple is thrown down onto the Armageddon's back accurately.

Officer Baker:

STOP HIM!

The Armageddon laughs evilly as the helicopter zooms off into the distance of the sea, before cornering around to the right heading for the west, carrying the man with the thin piece of rope.

THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!

ZOOM! FAB 1 jumps off from the cliff, SPLASH!

Lady Penelope:

OH NO, THEY'RE NOT OFFICER BAKER! AND THIS IS ONLY JUST THE BEGINNING!

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