Ape Chronicles #045 - Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive
Ape Chronicles #045 - Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive
Ape Chronicles #045 - Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive
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DODGE: TAYLOR! Get your ass up here! The<br />
whole damn ship is going down FAST!<br />
TAYLOR: No shit.... Coming up <strong>the</strong> ladder<br />
Dodge! Let's get <strong>the</strong> hell out <strong>of</strong> this sinking hell<br />
hole!<br />
SFX: Taylor climbs <strong>the</strong> ladder as he says <strong>the</strong><br />
previous lines.<br />
TAYLOR: What are you two assholes waiting for<br />
The rafts inflated and in <strong>the</strong> water! Jump!<br />
SFX: The three jump to <strong>the</strong> water. Then start to<br />
swim to <strong>the</strong> raft, <strong>the</strong> starship sinking in <strong>the</strong><br />
background.<br />
DODGE: Damn! This lake or<br />
ocean, or whatever <strong>the</strong> hell it is, is salty as hell!<br />
TAYLOR:<br />
DODGE!<br />
Well don't drink it- SWIM<br />
SFX: The three climb into <strong>the</strong> raft.<br />
LANDON:<br />
Now what skipper<br />
TAYLOR: Landon Grab an oar and start<br />
rowin'! We paddle our asses <strong>of</strong>f and get away from<br />
<strong>the</strong> ship before we get sucked down with it! Hell <strong>of</strong> a way to earn a<br />
living- eh Landon<br />
LANDON: Yeah... Glad ya made it...<br />
TAYLOR:<br />
rowing!<br />
What's your problem Landon Get<br />
SFX: They start to paddle furiously.<br />
TAYLOR: Dodge- get a water test, me and<br />
pretty boy here will row...<br />
LANDON:<br />
DODGE:<br />
Screw you...<br />
Aye skipper.<br />
SFX: Dodge immediately opens ano<strong>the</strong>r kit and<br />
takes a sample <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> water.<br />
DODGE: (half to himself) Briny... Twentyfive<br />
percent salinity. Near <strong>the</strong> saturation point.<br />
LANDON: (looking back) She's still sinking...<br />
Still hot after entry into <strong>the</strong> atmosphere... Steaming<br />
as she slides down... Under... The dark water...<br />
SFX: The ship begins sinking faster with loud<br />
gurgling and steam hissing and <strong>the</strong> rending <strong>of</strong> metal<br />
sfx.<br />
LANDON: (looking back) Only <strong>the</strong> radio<br />
antenna and <strong>the</strong> tip <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tail fin are still visible.<br />
Going ... going...<br />
SFX: The craft vanishes beneath <strong>the</strong> water. Dodge is<br />
still busy with his kit. Landon is still looking back,<br />
but<br />
Taylor doesn't bo<strong>the</strong>r to turn his head.<br />
LANDON: Gone. Skipper... You didn't even<br />
look back- didn't watch her--<br />
TAYLOR: (flatly) What's <strong>the</strong> point We're<br />
here to stay. Our ride's gone <strong>the</strong> way <strong>of</strong> Jules<br />
Verne... 20,000 Leagues under <strong>the</strong> sea...<br />
DODGE: (from behind Landon) Look at<br />
those sandstone cliffs lining <strong>the</strong> water... Must be<br />
over a hundred foot tall... They stretch for... Miles...<br />
LANDON: Great... Well Where are we<br />
Have any notion, skipper<br />
TAYLOR: (confidently) We're some three<br />
hundred and twenty light years from Earth. On an<br />
unnamed planet in orbit around a star in <strong>the</strong><br />
constellation <strong>of</strong> Orion. That sun beating down on us<br />
could be Bellatrix.<br />
DODGE:<br />
Too red for Bellatrix.<br />
LANDON: You didn't have time<br />
to check <strong>the</strong> tapes, so you don't really know, do you<br />
(as Taylor ignores him) What went<br />
wrong<br />
DODGE: (grinning) The question, Landon,<br />
is not so much where we are as when we<br />
are.<br />
TAYLOR: Worry about that later Dodge...<br />
Right now let's worry about our here and our now...<br />
Make for that rocky cove over <strong>the</strong>re. Might have a<br />
beach or a way inland... O<strong>the</strong>rwise it's cliffs for<br />
miles...<br />
LANDON: Right... (Sardonically) Taylor, we<br />
weren't programmed to land in water.<br />
TAYLOR:<br />
Shut up Landon, and row...<br />
SFX: The trio paddle <strong>of</strong>f into <strong>the</strong> distance and fade<br />
out and roll end credits.<br />
END CHAPTER #1