Buck Rogers in the 26th Century Episode 114x "The Wandering Planet" Written by: Erin Weinstock I don't hold any of the copyrights in this story, and this story was made without profit. Teaser: ext: Outer space: We're on the edge of our more commonly thought of solar system: Neptune. A planet is moving into view as this scene happens. Not due to any movement of the camera, no this planet we can tell is moving. At the moment it looks to be filled with a deep blue and greens that seem to have been matted over in white: the white in places completely covers whole large areas, and clouds are scattered all over its atmosphere. Hold on this for a beat before... Pan camera forward past this planet deeper into the solar system just past Jupiter to see a black ball with lines moving all over its surface. Cutting the camera closer in on this we see five camera lenses moving through the lines; all moving to an intersecting spot on the sphere where these lines meet. The cameras stop moving when they're all touching each other. Cut camera to closer on this to see each camera lens showing the slowly moving planet coming forward. Cut to: ext: Defense Directorate: V.O. Huer: "The Scientific Research Directorate, what could they want with us?" Cut to: int: Huer's Office: Huer is in his office alone putting his weight onto a hand touching his desk. Theopolis: "A planet has entered this solar system." Huer: "So somehow they've discovered a new planet in this solar system." Theopolis: "That isn't what I meant Dr. Huer. I meant, "A planet has entered this solar system"." A beat, Cont: "And according to them it's still moving but not in an orbit they've determined yet. According to them it's a passing planet moving through our solar system and many more to follow." Huer gains a look on his face of shock that with it shows pure terror. A beat, Huer: "Is it headed towards Earth?" Theopolis: "No, but in prediction it will pass close by." Huer relaxes his look and tone now. Huer: " [ beat ] Then I assume why I've been contacted with this information is to alert all Defense Directorate fighters and transportation vessels there is no need to worry about a threat from this wandering planet." Theopolis: "That isn't why they contacted you about this planet Dr. Huer." Huer starts to take on a worried look. Cut to: int: Shuttle: Buck, Wilma, Taindair, and Huer are here: Huer is at the controls. The camera can see the window: we can see that we've just entered past the atmosphere. Buck: "So tell me again why the Scientific Research Directorate needs us again?" Huer: "They believe this planet might pose a possible threat to Earth and they want us to determine which this might be: true or not." Wilma: "Did they say why it might be a threat?" Huer: "No." [ beat ] Cont: "They said that we'd have to see this with our own eyes. That otherwise we'd tell them they were making this all up." Wilma: "Well, this is a rather odd predicament they've put us in." Taindair looks to Buck. After a beat of this, Buck: "Taindair, I view everything in this century as an odd predicament. So asking me about this whole thing wouldn't be a good idea." Wilma has something catch her eye and she moves over to Huer to stare at the controls. Wilma: "What was that?" Huer: "What was what?" Wilma: "Something came into the ship's radar detection for one moment then disappeared. It, it didn't look like a ship. Well, not any ship I'm familiar with." Buck: "What did it look like." Wilma: "Like nothing I've ever seen before." Suddenly a dragon swoops past the window. Cut camera to us seeing everyone looking forward toward where we know the window is; everybody has a drop-mouthed expression on their faces. Wilma in a weak voice: "[ beat ] Like that." Huer: "What on Earth was that?" Buck after a beat: "A dragon." After another beat, Taindair: "Magnificent beast." End Teaser Pre-Credits: Beginning of Act One: ext: In the Air: The camera is moving with the shuttle as it's heading down towards the planet. Huer: "Buck, how is it you know what a dragon is and I've never heard of them before. Have you had an encounter with their species before." Buck: "No, they aren't real, at least I thought they weren't real." Taindair: "How can you say you've known of a species that up until now you didn't think was real?" As Buck says this next line the dragon we saw swoop by earlier comes up to in front of the shuttle: in a sense with flapping its wings it's trying to hover to get a better look at the ship. As it does this we see in better observation that from an artistic standpoint this dragon's body is shaped in the European style. Only in difference from its classic form, it has a mane that appears right after the head and trails down its back, which has sharp spines coming out of it. Buck: "You've never heard of dragons before? They're classic in fairy tales and myth." Now the dragon flies off and downwards. After a beat we find out why it did this: because shortly afterwards a man totally covered in a suit of armor holding a lance, riding a Pegasus flies after it. Cut to: int: Shuttle: Everybody still looks stunned by what they've just witnessed. Huer lets go of his steering controls without noticing his own action. Huer: "[ beat ] Buck do you, do you know what that other thing flying was too?" Wilma notices that Huer has let go of the controls. She points this out to him. Wilma: "Dr. Huer!" Huer grabs back the ship's steering controls. Now they return to a normal face after the sudden attack of fear. After a beat, Huer: "They're, they're headed towards the landing coordinates I was given." Buck speaking softly: "That was a Pegasus. That was a "knight" riding a Pegasus." As the look of shock continues to stay on Buck's face. Taindair looks from Buck back towards the window. Taindair: "I think I understand now why this is something we would have to see with our own eyes." Cut to: int: Stadium: The camera is entering this place moving with the sight of the dragon coming down in a controlled descent on its back with the knight on winged-horseback coming after it. Note the dragon has a large spongy square on its chest with the lance looking like it's digging into it. The stadium as we start to get to better look at it, we see most of its occupants are creatures of myth and fantasy. There are almost no humans to be seen. The dragon still in control of its movement falls on its back, puts its forearms on its chest, sticks its tongue out and rolls its eyes back: the crowd cheers at this. Now the knight on the Pegasus lands and the crowd cheers louder. Some loudly are shouting: "Samos! Samos! Samos!" The knight dismounts the Pegasus and lifts up his visor. Shouting, Jason: "Thank you, thank you everyone. It was my honor to slay that dragon for you." He points to the dragon that we can well tell is playing dead. A satyr walks out to where Jason is standing and shouts. Pangor: "The show may be over folks -." The whole of the crowd seems to make a sound of disappointment at this. Cont: "But I'm sure my good friend here, Sir Jason Samos, would be willing to sign a few autographs at a fair price by the entrance to this stadium!" The crowd now cheers louder than ever now after Pangor's last line. Jason bends down a little to Pangor. Jason speaking softly: "The visitors the off-world magicians talked about are here." Pangor in the same tone and looking around the stadium: "Where are they? I don't think I see them." Jason: "I saw their metal carriage coming while I was in the air; heading down towards near here." Pangor: "Do you think these visitors will be as the magicians promised?" Jason: "If they are, I feel we'll find out soon enough." Jason starts heading towards the entrance of the stadium. Proudly, Cont: "They will be told to meet us here, we'll greet them at the entrance; I have some autographs to sign." Cut to: ext: Clearing: The shuttle seems to be near centered in the clearing that only has woods and the stadium just past it; what the camera is focusing on right now is just behind the shuttle at its entrance. POV of looking out from the shuttle is a pack of what looks to be wolves. Wolf One: "Are you fellows the off-world visitors we've been told of?" Wolf Two turns to Wolf One. Wolf Two: "Of course they are, look at how they are garbed. No one of our territory or beyond it to this world dresses like that." The wolf pack moves past the entrance to out of view to Huer, Buck, Taindair and Wilma. V.O. Wolf Three: "This one looks even more strange than the last one. Looks like it was built to scale dead sea-serpents." Cut camera to a good view of this scene. Buck is now stepping out of the ship being followed by the others. We can see now that the wolf pack of five is slowly walking around the ship looking it over. Buck: "Talking wolves?" Wolf Five: "I beg you pardon!" Buck: "I'm sorry then what are you?" Wolf Four: "We, sir, are werewolves." Buck: "Huh?" Wilma: "This world just keeps becoming stranger and stranger." Wolf One: "And what's so strange about being in the presence of werewolves?" Huer: "This isn't happening." Wolf Two: "Well what is it? Haven't you ever met a werewolf?" Buck: "No we haven't, we didn't know you were real, in fact how is it you're real? And dragons and Pegasus, and if you're werewolves why aren't you attacking us now?" Wolf One: "Heavens, why would we want to do such a thing?!" Wilma: "You're werewolves." Wolf One: "Yes." Wilma: "Werewolves attack people and turn them into one of their own." Wolf Two: "Oh the utter nonsense you off-worlders have come to believe of us. We wouldn't hurt a fly unless we were in our Human form, it's only then that you should really worry about us." Wolf Four: "We'll be close by Earth's moon tonight." Wolf Three turning to Wolf Four; Wolf three: "Ha ha then it'll be one big party for us then tonight." Huer: "Um wolves, werewolves, have you by chance encountered a group of people saying they're from Earth's Scientific Research Directorate?" Wolf Two to Wolf One: "I told you these fellows are the off-world visitors we've been waiting for." Wilma: "We were to meet up with the ones from the Scientific Research Directorate here. [ beat ] Do you have any idea were they might have gone off to? Wolf four: "We were sent here by them to get you, they're at the stadium." Cut to: ext: Stadium: The camera is following Buck, Huer, Wilma, and Taindair; the werewolf pack is in the lead in front of them and in the approaching foreground we can see the stadium with its crowd, most of which are leaving but some are staying behind and look to be grouped together around something unseen. Note is the camera up in the air a little. Huer: "The ones from the Scientific Research Directorate, have they acted as surprised as we have about all of this?" Wolf Three: "You off-worlders aren't used to anything not fitting into your idea of the norm are you?" Wilma: "I've had odd things out of the norm happen to me and I've accepted the fact they've happened." Buck: "Like what?" Wilma: "Like losing what I believe to be reality and having it replaced by a fantasy one." Buck makes a noise at that, then says: "I know where you're coming from on that note and I can relate to it on double." Wolf One: "I don't understand what you could be meaning on that, care to explain?" Buck: "I'd prefer not to go into that." Cut camera to being in front of them now as they're moving. Huer puts a hand up to running across his forehead. Huer: "Wolf, I see a crowd gathered around the stadium, but no one that looks like they could be from the Scientific Research Directorate. Are you sure they're here?" Wolf One, also known as Alouto: "My name is Alouto, and with how the opening to that stadium looks right now, it's my guess they're stuck in there wanting to get out. Seems Samos has drawn in a larger crowd than normal to want his autograph." Cut to: int: Stadium Entrance: A crowd of mainly myth beasts and fantasy creatures has Jason surrounded. Pangor is by Jason's side taking money from the ones who want Jason's autograph and are holding out slips of paper for him to do it. Jason: "One at a time please, one at a time; I swear none of you will be let down." Pangor: "His next show will be tomorrow at two PM, my fellow beasts you won't want to miss it." Fairy One: "And why's that?" Jason: "Because in tomorrow's show you'll get to see me fight twenty goblins." Fairy One makes a flipping backwards circle in the air and takes on a look of pure delight at what Jason has just said. As this has been happening in this scene the werewolf pack, Buck, Huer, Wilma, and Taindair have been trying their best to make their way through the crowd into the stadium. Now they're nearly at where Jason and Pangor are as, Cont: "AND just where do you think you're going to, off-worlders?" At this the group stops. Taindair: "You're the man we saw up in the air." He says this looking Jason up and down. Jason puts out a friendly hand to Taindair. Jason: "Sir Jason Samos, glad to meet you. [ beat ] Tell me [ beat ] which of you are knights, off-worlders? Renceson is in the woods, and the Scientific Research Directorate said they had sent for knights to battle it." End of Act One: Beginning of Act Two: int: Stadium Entrance: This scene starts where Act One left off. Only as this scene is starting three members of the Scientific Research Directorate are pushing their way through the crowd. Huer: "Excuse me?" Jason: "Which of you fellows are knights? I already know the maiden isn't one, um are you their lord?" Member One of the Scientific Research Directorate followed quickly by the other two into being where the group is standing, Member One: "We're sorry we forgot to inform Dr. Theopolis about this." Buck speaking to Member One: "I, and I'm sure the rest of us have this question on our minds towards you guys: but why? And what the hell is going on?!" Member One turning back and forth from Buck and Huer: "We asked you here for what you were told about, and this fighting the Renceson thing, that's something, well they could really use your help with. After all you're with the Defense Directorate and we're just scientists." Pangor speaking to the group that consists of Buck, Huer, Wilma, and Taindair: "You are going to fight the Renceson, correct?" Fairy One: "Oh silly little satyr, Samos is our protector. He can kill the Renceson." Pangor turns away from the fairy. Pangor: "Jason, off-worlders, I think it's time we left this place to get ready for battle." Buck: "Now hold up here, we haven't agreed to do anything; we don't even know fully what's going on!" Pangor gives Buck a good kick in one of Buck's lower legs. Cont:"Hey watch those hoofs, bucko!" Pangor: "The name's Pangor." Pangor takes a beat and looks like he's trying to calm down. Cont: "Now yes or no, you are protectors, correct?" Huer: "That is our duty." Pangor: " [ beat ] And one of you will fight and kill the Renceson? We will be on our way now to get ready for the fight?" A beat after this line is said, Pangor starts giving the body language that says he's ready to kick Buck again. Buck: "Hey!" Buck backs away from the satyr. Huer: "We will fight this Renceson you speak of." ext: Jason's Home: It's twilight and the only good lighting we're getting is from windows of the house and blown glass lanterns hung from rods in the yard. Buck and Jason are eight feet in front of a stump throwing axes at it and talking. Note Jason is wearing normal looking middle-age clothes but he's still wearing armor on his legs. Wilma and a female centaur are working on a load of laundry. But right now the camera's focus is only on Wilma and the centaur. They're working with a washboard and bucket to do the job. As this scene starts the centaur is wringing out a dress by twisting the fabric. Wilma: "You wear all these dresses?" Centaur: "Not all of them no, some of these I haven't worn since I was a colt." Wilma: "Then why have you brought them out now?" The centaur lets the twisted up dress she's been wringing out flop out, down full in her hands so Wilma can see it. The upper part of it looks like a fancy middle-age white-collar, but after the waist of it, it flows down long to looking like a bad joke on its length; cut off in the front. Centaur: "You, maiden, do not dress properly for a well-behaved lady. You need a dress." Wilma: "I - I'm not sure, I don't think that would fit me. But thanks for the offer anyway." Centaur: "Well it's far too small for me anymore. When dry you'll feel it's made of the softest velvet you've ever touched; are you sure you won't take this gift?" Wilma smiles; Wilma: "Thank you." She takes the dress which the centaur hands over to her. Centaur smiling: "Now what to do about your manners." Wilma stares at the centaur giving an inquisitive look to it. Cont: "You, I'm told, like to do the men's jobs and not a lady's. Do you not know how to do a lady's work?" Wilma: "The gift you've given me is really kind. How would you like a gift from me?" Centaur: "Thank you, I would like that. [ beat ] What is it?" She asks happily. Wilma: "How would you like to know the kind of power women can hold on Earth in the 26th century?" Centaur: "Oh tales of that wondrous land I've only heard about in legends. I'd love to hear about the world you come from!" As she says that last line, she's thumping around her horse legs in excitement. Wilma: "In the 26th century -." Pan camera over to where Buck and Jason are. Buck: "With what I've noticed of this planet so far, it forces me to ask: what is this Renceson thing?" Jason: "Massive, [ beat ] six eyes that are blood red, armor plating that makes steel look weak, talons larger than what any bird of prey could ever hope for, spines as sharp as daggers that run down to the end of its tail, where at the tip of that are too many jagged points to count -." Buck: "I think I'm getting the picture." Jason: "But I'm not done yet." Buck: " [ beat ] Go on." Jason: "Ten forked tongues." Buck: " Is that it?" He asks with sarcasm in his voice. Jason: "And a pair of wings that look like they were forged by the devil." Buck: "Done now." Jason: "That's what the Renceson is." Buck: "How did this happen?" Jason: "What? How the Renceson came to be?" Buck: "This myth, this fantasy, how is it all real? How is it this planet is roaming the galaxy?" Jason: "Earth has purely forgotten its sister hasn't it?" Buck is in deep thought for a beat before answering: "Venus?" Jason: "It happened eons before the first Humans ever set foot on this planet. The ring of rocks that encloses first four planets of this solar system was once this planet's moon, "Merlentis"." As this is said the camera's focus on Jason dissolves into being in space and on a large moon with the wandering planet close by to it. V.O. Cont: "When Merlentis exploded by the might of Florn's magic, this world was sent tumbling out of its orbit to out beyond the confines of the four planets." As that is said we see the moon exploding and the wandering planet sent off moving. V.O. Buck: "But how did the myth beasts come about?" V.O. Jason: "Most were of this world when it was born, others have come from other worlds, some by magic." As that last line is said the camera returns to letting us see Buck and Jason at their ax throwing. Buck: "So how did Humans get here?" Jason stops in his tracks of being ready to throw an ax; he puts down his throwing arm. After a beat, Jason: "This planet has been wandering the galaxy for millions of years. Every thousand six hundred years it returns to passing past its old home. [ beat ] On the last pass explorers from this world traveled back to Earth to see what had become of it since our last visit. Fifty men and women came back with them, [ beat ] that's how Humans came to this land." Buck: " [ beat ] You don't like it here." Jason: "On the contrary, I love it here. It's the only home I've ever known." Buck: "Well that isn't how you sound about it." Jason just stares at Buck for a beat. Jason: "Have you ever used a sword before?" Buck: "No." Jason: "Come with me, I'll teach you." int: Jason's Home: The camera is close up on a fairy that looks very worried; underneath her is a table. Fairy Two: "Why are you looking at me that way." Cut camera back so we can see this scene better. Taindair is sitting in a chair that's seated right in front of the fairy. Huer is having a talk with the three from the Scientific Research Directorate. Taindair: "You are the most interesting looking insect I've ever encountered." Fairy two: "I'm not an insect!" Taindair: "Mind if I put that fact to the test?" Huer turns toward the two after that is said. Huer: "Taindair, don't." Fairy Two: "Why, what did the dragon have in mind?" Taindair: "I'm not a dragon." Fairy Two: "Then we're even." Jason bursts the door open. Jason: "He's not a knight, he's a wizard!" Huer: "What are you talking about?" Jason: "I've never seen magic of this type in any land, I don't know what he did!" Huer moving towards Jason, Huer: "Let me see this; Buck Rogers is no wizard." Cut to: ext: Jason's Home: It's darker now outside than it was the last time a scene was shot out here. The Scientific Research Directorate people are standing in the doorway; Huer is walking towards the camera towards Buck who's right by it; Jason is close by to Huer. Huer: "Buck, you're not a magician, so tell me what you did that has this man thinking you are one?" Note we can't see all of Buck yet. Buck: "I hit the stump." Huer: ""You hit a stump." How can he consider that magic?" Cut camera into a better view of this scene so we can see it better. Buck: "It's how I did it, Dr. Huer." Buck is holding his blaster by his side. Huer: "Show me." Buck leads Huer and Jason following to the stump that earlier him and Jason were throwing axes at; the camera is moving with them. Cut camera to Buck pointing his blaster right at the camera; Huer and Jason are behind him. Cut camera to Buck's POV looking at the stump that unlike the last time we saw it now looks nearly destroyed. Buck fires his blaster at it. End of Act Two: Beginning of Act Three: ext: Jason's Home: This scene is taking place right outside the front door. Buck is leaning against the house looking out into the woods. There's no light coming from the home; only from one lit lantern on a pole by where Buck is. We can hear wild nonsense shouting coming from out of the woods from many people. After a beat of this ... Jason comes out of the house and looks at Buck. Jason: "I wouldn't be out here right now if I were you." Buck still looking outwards: "Why's that?" Jason: "Unless I add some fuel to that lantern soon, when it burns out the werewolves will stop keeping their distance from this place and move in." Buck: "Is that what I'm hearing out there? Werewolves?" After another beat of looking at Buck, Jason: "You call it tech-no-logy, when we call it magic. Things we are not used to coming across that are man-made. [ beat ] How much of this technology has this planet done without over the eons?" Buck: "You want technology from the Defense Directorate?" Buck turns to look at Jason. Jason: "No, [ beat ] I was wondering if what you see as normal, what is wondrous to this planet, would be normal to off-worlders." Buck: "Like what?" Jason: "Would people see me as normal off this planet?" Buck looks down: after a beat, Cont: "I wouldn't be." Buck: "You'd be just as out of place as I am." Jason: "But you're just visiting here, you'll be back home soon." Buck: "I'll be back on Earth." Jason looks out back towards the woods. Jason: "We should really be getting inside now." Buck starts to move to come into the house. Cut to: ext: Clearing: The camera is close up on the dragon we saw the day before. It looks bored and is preening itself and looking around. Note it's daytime now. Cut camera back to seeing this scene better Buck and Jason are 15 feet away from the dragon, Huer, Wilma and Taindair are by the shuttle along with the werewolf pack. The camera at this moment is close by Buck and Jason, who both are holding swords. Jason: "Now sir Buck, I know you'd prefer to use your fancy pistol on this beast but its armor I assure you won't allow you for a good strike. Today I'm going to teach you how to hit a moving target." Buck: " [ beat ] I think that's the same dragon I saw you pressuring yesterday." Jason: "She's a good friend of mine, quite tame, she won't harm you at all." Turning to Buck, Cont: "Take a swing at her." Buck: "I don't want to hurt her." Jason: "It's practice, you don't need to hurt her, [ beat ] just learn from her." Buck goes up to the dragon and gives it a little whack with his sword. Cut camera up to the dragon holding its head in one of its hands, shaking its head from side to side. Cut camera to Jason; Jason: "That's attacking?" Buck turns back to Jason just long enough to, Buck: "You want me to strike her harder?" Jason: "It would help, [ beat ] you are going up against the Renceson later today. Learning how to fight properly is the point of this." Buck gets a mean look on his face and gives her a hard whack with his sword. Then Buck looks up to the dragon in expectation. Buck's face now takes on a look of annoyance and he lowers his sword. The dragon grabs the sword from Buck. Smiling at Buck the dragon gently puffs out her large underside scales and puts the tip of the sword in one of the openings between the scales. Then she hands the sword back to Buck. Cut camera to the gang at the shuttle. Wolf Three: "He's not much of a knight is he?" Wilma: "He's a captain and a Defense Directorate fighter pilot." Wolf Two: "A sea captain and a fighter and he's never used a sword before?" As Wolf Two says that last line Alouto backs into the shuttle and gets onto his hind legs. Taindair: "You can tell he's a sea captain?" Alouto is now rubbing his back up and down the ship. Wolf Two: "Well what other types of captain are there?" Wolf Two looks over to Alouto, Cont: "What in Merlentis name are you doing?!" Alouto: "Rrwoho, I think I've found out now why this craft has soo many ridges. Transport and back-scratcher. Wwooo!" Huer: "It's designed that way to let it move faster through Star-Ports!" Alouto stops his rubbing up and down, Alouto: "You don't like this do you?" Huer: "I'd prefer you not do it." Alouto slides down the ship. Alouto: "I'll stop." Cut camera back to being on Buck, Jason and the dragon. The dragon is playing with Buck's sword: resting on one of its palms is the sword's blunt handle end; the other end is being twirled around in the ground as the Dragon moves its hand. Jason: "So what are you going to do now that she has it?" Buck: " [ beat } How well does she understand English?" Jason: "Quite well, why do you ask?" Buck to the Dragon: "Could you please release my sword, dragon?" The dragon rolls its eyes at that having been said, and lifts the hand holding the sword, that then lets the sword drop to the ground. Buck goes over to the sword and picks it up. Jason: "The Renceson doesn't know any tongue! Human or Beast by word, it won't understand you! It won't grant a favor just like that!" Buck turns to Jason, Buck: "Then why don't you fight the Renceson since you know so much about it, since you know what will and won't work against it?" Jason: "I CAN'T!" Buck: "Why not? Aside from being an entertainer I also get the impression you're some kind of big hero?" Jason: "I'M A RETIRED HERO, NOT A HERO ANY MORE; IT'S YOUR TIME!" Buck backs up, Buck: "Woh there didn't mean to push any buttons." Jason: "THEN [ beat ] then practice." Buck: "Not until you tell me the full story of what's going on." Jason quickly walks up to Buck and holds the tip of his sword at Buck's neck; Jason giving a mean face, Buck not even flinching. Then after a beat Jason walks away off camera. Cut camera to being close up on Buck. Buck: "What did I say?" Cut to: int: Stadium Office: Pangor is sitting at a desk looking at papers The room has one window and portraits on the wall of numerous myth beasts that look fearsome. As the scene starts Buck is entering the room. Pangor not looking up from what he's doing: "You could knock." Buck: "I'm sorry." Pangor looks up from what he's doing. Pangor: "Oh it's you, Jason's replacement." Buck: "I'm not Jason's replacement." Pangor: "Of course you are, you're a fighter, a knight." Buck: "I may be a fighter but I'm not a knight. I'm just a visitor on this planet, this isn't my home." Pangor: "You'll learn to love it here." Buck: "Pangor, what is the deal with Jason? I know he's hiding something back in information about this whole ordeal and you have to tell me what it is." Pangor: "What makes you think that I would know such things?" Buck: "You're his boss for these fake fights he puts on for others." Buck while saying this last line is giving the body language to Pangor that he's getting a tad irritated. Pangor: "And I'm also his oldest friend." Pangor leaves his desk and walks to being in front of Buck. Cont: "Can you keep a secret?" Buck: "That depends, is it a harmful secret?" Pangor: "Only to those who adore Sir Jason Samos for the great battles he's won in the past." Buck: " [ beat ] He's not the hero everybody claims he is, is he?" Pangor: "No, that isn't it. He is a great hero around here, but that Renceson beast you're about to fight is the reason he can no longer truly battle." Buck crossing his arms: "I take it this Renceson thing is one hell of an opponent from what I've heard of it, [ beat ] what did it do." Pangor: "Jason believed the Renceson was no threat to this land due to the fact its residence has always been said to be another land, till one day he was told it had attacked a family that had just moved into town. It killed all of them but one who then came to Jason with the news; [ beat ] Jason then went after the Renceson to avenge the deaths of the family." Pangor takes a beat: eyes to the ground looking sad. Cont speaking slowly: "He failed in his fight against the beast." Pangor looks up to Buck and still speaking slowly, Cont: "And ever since that lost battle with the Renceson he hasn't been fully Human." End of Act Three: Beginning of Act Four: int: Stadium Office: This act starts where Act Three left off. Buck: "What do you mean the fight with the Renceson left Samos being not fully Human? Did it turn him into some kind of half beast that I haven't noticed?" Pangor: "No, [ beat ] Jason lost one of his legs to the Renceson. When it got replaced that's what took away some of his humanity." Buck: "He got a transplant from something?" Pangor: "I think he must wish that was his case. No, he was given a mechanical leg by some kind fellow we met while passing his planet." Buck: "Oh, so he's a cyborg." Pangor: "You have a name for what he is?!" Buck: "Since I began living in this era I've met a few; mainly old war horses that fought during Earth's war with Sanopp." Pangor: "I think Jason might be happier on Earth; he'd fit in better." Buck: "He seems to be fitting in here pretty well right now. So he's a cyborg and that's uncommon in these parts. You're the only one who knows this fact besides myself, right?" Pangor: "It's more than that; natives such as myself outnumber this planet's Human population ten to one. Now being Human is one thing, and being a Human such as the likes of Jason makes life all the more lonelier." Buck: "You know when I fight the Renceson later, [ beat ] I think that will help things." Cut to: int: Woods: Buck is entering the woods, normally clothed but for a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. Wilma, Huer and Jason are standing just before the edge of these woods. Jason shouting: "You'll do fine, you shouldn't fear the Renceson, it should fear you!" Buck looks back to Jason and glares at him for a beat, before returning his gaze to the woods. Putting his sword out before him, Buck speaking softly: "Here Renceson. Here renny renny, Renceson." Cut to: int: Deeper Woods: The woods completely fill the scene that surrounds Buck; and like just in the last scene he still has his sword out in front of him. He's still moving but is having a hard time at it due to wild growing vines bearing thorns. Cont: "Renceson?" He puts down his sword, Cont: "Maybe it no longer lives in these woods." Rustling can be heard. Buck turns around to look for where it came from. He shrugs his shoulders and starts to move again. In a snap coming from his side, the Renceson does a jump attack at him, knocking him down to off camera. Cut camera to Buck looking up at the camera which is actually the Renceson's POV. Cont: "Man you're ugly, Samos didn't tell me that part." V.O. Renceson: growling. Buck puts his arms up, hands on both sides of the beast, and he throws it off: this in turn since it's the Renceson's POV throws the camera to match. Cut camera to normal: Buck has just gotten back onto his feet. He's holding his shield out further in front of him than his sword. The Renceson is still growling and looking like it's ready for a fight. A beat, Buck: "Hh roll over?" It starts to lunge at him but Buck quickly blocks the attack with his shield. The beast turns its head to its side against the shield and tries to knock the shield away: the beast fails in this. Then it quickly lowers its head and bumps up the shield. That last act in turn makes Buck stab at the beast. Renceson then gives a little noise of shocked pain. The Renceson then swiftly moves down its head to the side of Buck not holding the sword and slams him in the side knocking him down. It quickly bites in Buck's side as best it can, before Buck noticing the coming attack lifts his shield to the beast to try to stave off the attack. Buck screams at the top of his lungs as the Renceson bites him. Hold on the sound of Buck's scream as ... Cut to: ext: Woods: We're just on the edge of the woods; Wilma, Huer and Jason are here still. As they hear the distant scream they all take on a look of fear and worry for Buck; Jason's jaw drops. Note we see that the sun is setting. Wilma grabs out her blaster and starts moving towards the woods, but Jason grabs her too fast for her to really move. Jason: "No." Wilma: "I have to!" she says angrily at Jason. Jason: "It is not a woman's place to do such a job." Wilma: "Buck is my friend! And there's no way I'm going to let your centuries old view on what women can and can't do keep me from saving him!" Huer: "This isn't a matter that should be argued on!" Huer turns to Jason, Cont: "She's fully qualified to do the job Samos, let her go!" Jason lets go of Wilma and she starts moving into the woods. Cut camera on to Jason as he stares out at the woods. Huer: "She can fly better than a bird and she's fought aliens stronger than any ox, Samos. [ beat ] How do you think she'll do?" Jason: "But she's never fought a Renceson before." Cut camera to behind Huer and Jason: Jason heads into the woods at a faster speed than Wilma, drawing a dagger while starting into this. Cut to: int: Woods: We see Jason running through the woods and surpassing Wilma who's also in a run herself. Jason is running so fast Wilma can't help but take a look at him. After a beat of this scene ... Cut to: int: Deeper Woods: Buck is trying his best to fight off the Renceson: he's wounded in multiple places and is bleeding, some of his sword has been cut off but it still has a jagged tip. Jason enters the scene, and Buck notices this fact fast, Buck: "I thought you weren't coming." Jason: "You shouting told me you were in need of aid in fighting this beast, I thought you could use the help." Buck: "I shouldn't need your help remember? You're a retired hero, out of service. Should have let Wilma come." Jason towards the beast: "Renceson!" The Renceson turns toward Jason and growls, Cont: "Remember me?" Buck: "Why come here Samos, why? I'm supposed to be your replacement?" Jason while fighting the beast with Buck: "You handle your sword like a toy, I should have never let you go off to do this on your own." Buck: "Well I'm not too used to fighting beasts that look like they could come out of Greek myth OK. This isn't the sort of world I'm used to." Buck hits down the beast with the arm that's hand is holding the sword. Jason quickly throws down his hand with the dagger into the crack between the armor of the beast's back. Jason looking to Buck: "But it's the sort of world I'm used to." Buck: "Then why did you quit?" Jason looks at the dead beast, then back to Buck. Jason: " [ beat ] I never quit." Buck gives him a half smile. Cont: "I performed for the public and taught those I thought might want to follow in my footsteps, but I never quit." Buck starts walking back from whence they came still smiling. Jason quickly follows after him. Buck as Jason catches up to him, Buck: "So you'll be fine with the fact that I'm not going to be staying on this world?" Jason: "Always stay where you belong, Rogers. Yours is Earth and the heavens, mine is this Wanderer through the stars." End Of Act Four. The End. Roll Credits.