ALIENS Vs.PREDATOR

The crane hoists the module aloft, free of it's umbilicals.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - COMMAND CENTER

Pencils, disposable cups, and anything else not bolted down all roll from

table-tops. Most are grabbed by their owners.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM FAR SIDE - NIGHT

HIROKO's bike veers blindly around the corner of a building, with HIROKO

still SHOOTING. She looks up and her eyes widen. Ahead is the out-of-

control blaze. A tongue of flame licks out across the platform, directly

in her path.

HIROKO slides the gun quickly into her shoulder-holster and ducks for cover

behind the bike's windshield. The ALIEN's head twists around, and they

plunge into the inferno...

WHOOMPH! The liquid from the breached pipe ignites, trailing a plume of

yellow flame. HIROKO jams down on the foot-release and wrenches the steering

bar hard to the right. She leaps for safety as the burning bike with it's

ALIEN passenger crashes through the station's safety-rail and plummets into

the swamp.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM RAMP - NIGHT

The two crawlers THUNDER down the ramp. GUTTIEREZ' vehicle pulls into a

tight right turn, while MATT's continues on it's course. The crane with it's

underslug module continues to RUMBLE slowly forward.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM FAR SIDE - NIGHT

HIROKO mechanically tries to get up from the concrete roadway. Winces.

Something hurts. She looks down at the back of her left hand. The skin has

been scraped away.

A DISTANT NOISE, something else being broken. HIROKO turns. Through the

conflagration, ALIENS are advancing.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

GUTTIEREZ' smoldering crawler pulls-up alongside Big Bertha's titanic wheels.

INT. FIRST CRAWLER - NIGHT

GUTTIEREZ turns his head to one of the guys in the rear.

GUTTIEREZ

Take the wheel, Roy!

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

GUTTIEREZ and DE VRIES exit the crawler in a big hurry. The moment they're

clear, the vehicle starts up and is gone. DE VRIES is alert, the tip of her

rifle probing their surroundings.

DE VRIES

C'mon, man! Let's shag it!

GUTTIEREZ begins climbing the tall ladder running up to the Bertha's cab.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - NIGHT

HIROKO's running along the platform, pistol clenched firmly in hand. She

thumbs her headset.

HIROKO

Rob, it's Hiroko. Come in.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - COMMAND CENTER

CASSIE answers, holding on to the edge of her console.

CASSIE

Hiroko, it's Cassie. What's...

HIROKO's VOICE interrupts.

HIROKO

(O.S., on speakers)

I've lost the bike and I'm cut-off.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - NIGHT

HIROKO spins around the corner, pointing her gun cop-stance.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

If I can get to the chopper, I'll meet

you at the rendezvous. Don't wait for me.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - COMMAND CENTER

CASSIE

But...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - NIGHT

The heli-jet pad's just up ahead. The relief on HIROKO's face is enormous.

HIROKO

No 'buts'. Just do it. Noguchi out.

INT. BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

GUTTIEREZ and DE VRIES pile inside the surprisingly cramped driver's cab.

There's a seat up-front, with another behind a small control fascia pointing

out-back. DE VRIES hands over her rifle and slides into the rear. She

flicks on an overhead light. Taped to one side is a black-and-white magazine

cut-out of a naked male body-builder.

DE VRIES

Nice buns...

She gives the control board a cursory once-over. GUTTIEREZ calls back from

his vantage point at the doorway.

GUTTIEREZ

Can you handle it?

DE VRIES powers-up the console.

DE VRIES

Piece of cake.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - HELI-JET PAD - NIGHT

HIROKO runs towards the waiting heli-jet. The flicker of an andrenalin-

fueled smile plays on her face...the disappears.

Like a scorpion scuttling over a rock, the ALIEN climbs up on top of the

grounded machine. It's head turn towards her. HIROKO starts to raise her

pistol...then stops. Other ALIENS are descending the nearby navigation

tower...straight for her.

HIROKO turns tail. She races over to a ladder running up the side of a

building and begins to climb.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

The shadow of the crane and it's cargo falls over Big Bertha's rear flatbed.

Flashing warning strobes illuminate the twin hydraulic arms which rise up to

meet it.

INT. BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

DE VRIES twists on the 'waldo' controls operating the manipulator hands.

EXT. SWAMP - NIGHT

ALIENS rise up out of the swamp below, and start to scale Bertha's balloon

tires.

INT. BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

GUTTIEREZ fires a barrage down at the oncoming creatures. He HOLLERS back to

DE VRIES.

GUTTIEREZ

Move it baby, or they're gonna be chewin'

on my cojones!

DE VRIES

Couple more seconds!

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - ROOFTOP LEVEL - NIGHT

HIROKO takes flight across the rooftops with the ALIENS in pursuit like a

pack of dogs. She vaults extractor intakes and retrofitted junk with ease.

So do the ALIENS.

She cuts across a conduit overpass bridging two buildings across the main

street, trying not to lose her footing. Just before reaching the other side,

HIROKO slips and falls to her knees. Her headset drops thirty feet onto the

concrete roadway. Her hand rests on something red. It's the cover for the

explosive bolts connecting the conduit to the building. She scrambles onto

the rooftop and flips over the hatch. Glances up. The ALIENS are already

starting across. She pulls the primer cylinder out by it's handle. Jams it

into the detonator, and turns...

She's practically on top of the bolts. The EXPLOSION is DEAFENING. With the

clamp on this side free, the conduit falls into the street with a SCREECH of

twisted metal. One of the ALIENS is pulverized by the falling debris, but

the others survive. All HIROKO's managed to do is buy herself some breathing

space...

She races across the building's roof. Reaches the other side...straight into

a dead end.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

The admin module locks onto Bertha's manipulator arms with a satisfying

CLUNK. Autocouplers slot into place, and the crane releases it's load.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - COMMAND CENTER

The connecting jolt is even greater then before. Several larger objects

CRASH to the deck.

INT. BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

DE VRIES

That's it! We've got it! Get us out of

here.

GUTTIEREZ looses one last volley at the ALIENS. He pulls the cab door shut,

and throws himself into the driver's seat.

GUTTIEREZ

C'mon sweetheart. Do your stuff...

EXT. SWAMP - NIGHT

Bertha's wheels GRIND to life, spilling ALIENS and crushing them under it's

treads...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - ROOFTOP LEVEL - NIGHT

HIROKO's P.O.V. It's a straight drop thirty feet onto concrete, with no

ladders or any other way down. She looks desperately around for another

avenue of escape.

The leering face of an ALIEN comes up over the roof's edge. HIROKO swings

her pistol over and fires. It falls away...only to be replaced seconds later

by two others.

Her gun goes dry. Quick as a flash, she ejects the spent magazine. She

slaps the spare in and continues firing.

INT. BIG BERTHA - NIGHT

Big Bertha's heading away from the base into the surrounding trees.

GUTTIEREZ grits his teeth as they plunge towards the high branches.

GUTTIEREZ

Get down!

DE VRIES hits the floor. The thick boughs impact with the cab, SHATTERING

the safety glass.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - ROOFTOP LEVEL - NIGHT

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! _CLICK_. HIROKO's gun's empty. She reaches for

another clip on her bandolier...then realises that was her last one.

The encircling ALIENS HISS triumphantly and close in. With no place to go,

and no means of defending herself, HIROKO's a goner. The lead ALIEN's lethal

double-barrel teeth open. It's almost on her. HIROKO CRIES OUT...

WHOOSH! The ALIEN's face is severed in half. A circular metal object blurs

through the air and loops back on itself, almost faster then the human eye

can follow. A massive form SLAMS down in front of HIROKO, pushing her out

of the way. She hits the deck hard and gasps. BROKEN TUSK is standing

before her. He skillfully catches the frisbee-like 'smart weapon', then

throws it again.

HIROKO watches with awe as the PREDATOR joins battle against the ALIENS.

HISSING ALIEN jaws are silenced by BROKEN TUSK's formidable fighting

technique. Questing limbs are BLASTED and HACKED away by advanced PREDATOR

weaponry. Acidic blood flows freely. The skirmish is surprisingly brief.

BROKEN TUSK and HIROKO stare at one another. BROKEN TUSK pulls a slung metal

rod from his shoulder. Two barbed tips SCHNICK outwards, forming a spear.

The PREDATOR looks at her, and his lip curls. It takes a second for HIROKO

to realise he's offering it to her. Bewildered, she accepts it, pulling

herself up.

A bright orange ball of flame mushrooms up behind, getting both of their

attentions. BROKEN TUSK regards her. His mandibles CLICK-CLACK nervously...

HIROKO

Look. Don't take this the wrong way, but

when I imagined the cavalry coming to my

rescue...they never looked like you.

The PREDATOR turns away, seemingly uninterested.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - NIGHT

Another gout of flame BELCHES out of the churning mass in the middle of the

station.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - ROOFTOP LEVEL - NIGHT

HIROKO turns her recovered headset over in her hands.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Broken. Useless!

She throws it aside. BROKEN TUSK stands beside her, keeping guard. Another

DETONATION goes off behind, even LOUDER.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Jesus. I.C.C.'re gonna have to close the

book on this place.

She SLAPS BROKEN TUSK on the arm.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Come on, Butch. Let's go.

She begins to walk away. BROKEN TUSK crosses to the safety barrier, peering

over the side...

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Hey! I said come on!

The PREDATOR turns a deaf ear to her. He gauges the distance below, then

throws himself off the platform's edge.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

What...?

She races across to the rail and gazes downward.

HIROKO'S P.O.V. The PREDATOR wades through the swamp towards something she

cannot see. HIROKO looks around the platform. She's suddenly very alone.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Shit!

She crosses to a maintenance ladder and begins to descend.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - SWAMP LEVEL - NIGHT

HIROKO SPLASHES through the swamp towards the PREDATOR. BROKEN TUSK has

paused before a culvert nestled within the shadows of the platform piers,

running directly out into the swamp. Most of the drain is underwater, with

only about eight inches protruding from the water. The thick metal grille

covering it is mangled and twisted. Broken from within.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

You've got to be joking. No way am I

going back in there!

No joke. BROKEN TUSK starts submerging to get across inside.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Hey!

BROKEN TUSK pauses for a moment. He gives her a look, then disappears into

the blackness. HIROKO looks around. It's no fun being the last person left

alive here.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

Goddammit!

She takes several deep breaths, then reluctantly follows...

INT. RYUSHI STATION - SEWER SYSTEM - CULVERT

HIROKO emerges within an air pocket inside the drain. She shivers. It's

just as dirty and cramped as she remembers. Several of the maintenance

lights down here are broken, and visibility is minimal.

HIROKO (CONT'D)

(quietly)

Wha...?

BROKEN TUSK whirls, and clamps a hand across her mouth. She gets the

message.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - SEWER SYSTEM - CENTRAL RESERVOIR

They exit the culvert through another smashed grate. HIROKO finds herself

back in the Central Reservoir again. She wades through the water behind

BROKEN TUSK, holding the spear above her head. The two of them look very

vulnerable in here. They pass beneath the PULSATING SAC HIROKO saw earlier.

It looks riper now, ready to burst. An INSIDIOUS PULSING NOISE - like a

heartbeat - gains in volume the further they travel.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - SEWER SYSTEM - PUMP CHAMBER

They come out in a chamber some forty feet in height and dominated by an

enormous pump. ALIEN gunk covers everything.

HIROKO gasps. High above it a QUEEN ALIEN, nesting on top of the vast

mechanism. It's EGG SAC drapes around the pump; spiraling down around it.

She seems to be asleep.

BROKEN TUSK ignores the QUEEN. His eyes are searching the multitude of

forms - human and otherwise - cocooned into the walls. He finds what he's

looking for. Up on one wall is another PREDATOR. Dead. It's stomach

blown open.

HIROKO holds her spear tightly. FACEHUGGERS pulse malignantly, wrapped

around several trapped victims. A number of empty EGGS are scattered here-

and-there.

BROKEN TUSK looks around. No ALIENS. He begins climbing the organic fresco,

watching the QUEEN ALIEN carefully for signs of awareness. The bellows-like

SOUND of her BREATHING is overwhelming. He reaches the entrapped PREDATOR.

It's left arm is encased in a solidified mass of secreted resin. BROKEN TUSK

raises his 'smart weapon' and activates it.

The SPLINTERING NOISE makes HIROKO wince. She glances up at the QUEEN. It's

breathing start to change, and it's head moves...