Copyright 2000 --- Robert Baer Jr. The Space Rovers -- "War in the Heavens -- Part 4" DISCLAIMER Road Rovers characters, names, situations and the Road Rovers universe are the property of Warner Bros. I, nor this script/story are connected with Warner Bros. in any way, shape or form. This document may not be publicized or reproduced in any way, shape or form. It must remain fully intact and may not be altered in anyway. It is strictly used for not-for-profit entertainment purposes only, and is not intended to infringe on any Copyrights. This story is written by Robert Baer Jr and the characters Otto, Starlight, Samantha Maddog, Molly Maddog, Warrior, Princess, Fydo, Boomer, Rasputin, Saundra, Alexander, Grunt, Daisy, Abdullah, Bob, Cactus Jake, Marie, Francis, Calypso, Sheena, Bruno, Molly, Deborah, Orchid, Porta, Dot, Luigi, Sophia, Willfong, Lao Zi, Su Li, Claudia, Sno-wie, Numbia, Hojo, Shamansta, Derby, Poncho and the Gila Monster are all Robert Baer Jr's creations, copyright pending, 1999 - 2000. Cobber is a creation of Mike Browner, Misty Maddog is a creation of Bart Walls. DJ is a creation of Jake Williams. Marauder is a creation of Jerimy Bass. Huntress is a creation of Greywolf Lupous. The Space Rovers -- "War in the Heavens -- Part 4" The scene is aboard the bridge of the Canius Minor, as Persia, Alexander, Boomer, Saundra, Whitey, Bob, Cactus Jake and Bruno are busy working at their assigned stations, Persia's last log entry plays in the background. PERSIA (recorded, background): Captain's log, entry 3000. It has been one solar day since our successful defense of Jurrassian Alliance space against the Imzoman Q-BO machines. Prime Minister Roberto reports that there have been no enemy attacks since that time. I hope that this means the Imzomans are considering peace, but this is not likely. A heavy counterassault is likely, but from where, and when? We must defeat the Imzoman, they are ruthless and merciless killers. All we can do is wait. Commander Zeldor has patrol ships lined up along the Jurrassian border, our ship has taken it's 'place' in the second line of defense several light years from the frontier border. This 'lull' in the action has given our crew time to make minor repairs and fine tune the ship's weapons. I may not be permitted to make this recommendation, seeing how I am supposed to be relieved of duty, but I recommend commendation for Lt Fydo. His accidental discovery helped us and our allies stop the Imzoman advance. Now, we can only wait for them to make the next move. End entry.. ALEXANDER (stand up): Captain, I don't like this one bit! Those crazy cat creatures are up to something, I just KNOW it! I feel it in my bones! WHITEY (looking at monitor): If you have a medical problem, Commander, I would suggest a trip to sick bay. PERSIA (confused): Huh? WHITEY (sadly): That was an attempt at humor, Captain. It would appear that I was unsuccessful... CACTUS JAKE (laughing): Oh! NOW I get it! Bones! Sick Bay! (laughing hard) BOB (sternly): I agree with Alexander, I'll bet they're preparing a major assault! PERSIA (nods): I agree, full sensor sweep of the entire area! If a microbe moves out there, I wanna know about it! WHITEY (nods): Aye aye, Captain! CACTUS JAKE (looks at monitor): Er.. Captain... something's movin' out there! PERSIA (sternly): Can you be more specific, Leiutenant? WHITEY (looks at monitor): Confirmed! A small wormhole has formed approxiamately one thousand kilometers from our present position! ALEXANDER (shouts): Battle stations! All hands to battle stations! WHITEY (looking at monitor): A single vessel is coming through it... it's.... it's.... I can't believe it! Impossible! PERSIA (sternly): What is it, Whitey? WHITEY (shocked): It's the Space Rover! PERSIA (nods): On screen! The entire bridge crew gasps in amazement at the sight of the dog-shaped space vessel with the 'saucer' in it's 'mouth.' ALEXANDER (shocked): WOW!! PERSIA (shocked): I never thought I'd see that old bucket of bolts in use again! BOOMER (looks at Saundra): Brings back old memories, doesn't it? SAUNDRA (nods): It sure does! BRUNO (looks at Persia): We are being hailed! PERSIA (sighs): On screen! Now on the front view screen is the image of Hunter dressed in a Space Rover uniform. HUNTER (on screen): This is acting Captain Hunter of the Space Rover. Persia, I hereby place you under arrest for treason! BOOMER (jumps up): BULL COOKIES!!!!! ALEXANDER (shakes head): No treason has happened here, Hunter, and ... HUNTER (on screen): Prepare to be boarded and surrender your ship, NOW! CACTUS JAKE (growls): Cousin, we need to talk! HUNTER (on screen): We are prepared to use force if neccessary! PERSIA (shocked): You mean, you'd fight us? Aim your weapons at us and fire? HUNTER (on screen, sternly): That's exactly what I mean! COBBER (on screen, talking to Hunter): No Hunter! My Sheena is on that ship! HUNTER (on screen, growls): Cobber, follow my orders! I am in charge! COBBER (on screen, shakes head): We can't shoot our own mates! Think of those dozen little kippers aboard and... HUNTER (on screen, growls): One more word, Cobber, and you're relieved of duty! (turns to the front): Ok, Persia, what's it gonna be? PERSIA (sternly): I'll surrender myself, but let the rest of my crew go free. I'm the one you want! HUNTER (on screen, frowns): Not good enough! Suddenly, the screen goes blank. WHITEY (looks at monitor): The Space Rover is moving towards us! GRUNT (angry): GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR GROWL!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! PERSIA (shakes head): No Grunt, hold your fire! I don't want to fight our Road Rover comrades unless we have to... WHITEY (looks at monitor): They're not powering up weapons or force fields, just moving in closer.... ALEXANDER (shakes head): That doesn't make any sense.... unless...... PERSIA (jumps up): Short range teleportation! Raise our force fields now! Before she finishes, a loud BOOM!!!! shakes the bridge area, it's Otto dressed in full Road Rover gear. Grunt growls and tries to pounce on him, only to be repelled by Otto's personal force field. Otto simply stands on the bridge and closes his eyes. WHITEY (looks at monitor): Captain! We have one other intruder, she's in the engineering section.... The screen switches to engineering, where a loud BOOM!!! had just shaken the area. Molly, Sophia, Shamansta, Willfong and Hojo all stare at the strange female being, Starlight in her horse-sapien form. MOLLY (growling): Starlight! No horse has a place in MY engine room! Before anyone can stop her, Molly draws a laser pistol and fires at Starlight, only to see her beam bounce off of Starlight's personal force field. Willfong picks up a huge metal wrench and tries to strike Starlight, but the wrench bounces off the force field, knocking Willfong down to the floor. SOPHIA (into wrist comm): Intruder alert in engineering Intruder alert in engineering! The scene shifts back to the bridge, where Persia slowly walks towards Otto. PERSIA (nods): NOW I see what you two are doing! You and Starlight are using your internal computer interfaces to take control of my ship! OTTO (sternly): That is precisely what we have now done! BOOMER (pushing buttons): He's right, helm controls locked out! SAUNDRA (sadly): So are the navigational controls! GRUNT (pounds control panel with fist): GRRRRRRR GROWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR! BRUNO (looks at his console): He's even tied up our communications system! WHITEY (looks at monitor): And Starlight now has taken complete control over our warp engines. HUNTER (reappears on front view screen): Good work, Otto and Starlight! Now we have the Canius Minor! Prepare to be boarded and arrested! PERSIA (looks at Otto): Otto, I can read your thoughts, you don't want to do this, do you? OTTO (sternly): I must obey Hunter and the Master.... PERSIA (calmly): You seem like a reasonable man, Otto, have you downloaded all of the data in our computer system into your own memory banks? OTTO (nods): I have PERSIA (calmly): Then, read all of our crew reports for the past week. Examine the data for yourself... OTTO (nods): Affirmative.....processing...... your data suggests, Captain, that you had a choice to make between returning home and saving the lives of a ship full of Jurrassians.... you chose to save their lives.... PERSIA (calmly): That's right, Otto. Under those same circumstances, what decision would YOU have made? OTTO (sternly): Based on the data given, I must admit, I would have also disobeyed the Master and chosen to assist the Degalo! PERSIA (nods): Exactly! OTTO (sternly): Then, this entire operation is not warranted. The first duty of all Road Rovers is to preserve life. Not acting the way you did would have meant certain death for the crew of the Degalo. HUNTER (on screen): OTTO!!! STOP THAT!!! YOU'RE LETTING PERSIA CONTROL YOUR MIND!!!! OTTO (turns to Hunter): Captain Hunter, I am an individual mind capable of independent thought. I submit to you that this seizure of the Canius Minor is unwarranted. HUNTER (on screen, growls): OTTO! MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE SHIP, AND THAT'S AN ORDER!!! OTTO (shakes head): An order I must respectfully decline to obey.... STARLIGHT (on speakers): Otto, this is Starlight! I've downloaded the same files you have, and have come to a similar conclusion. I am disengaging my control over the computers in engineering now! OTTO (nods): I concur, Starlight, I am disengaging my control over the ship's main computer core..now! HUNTER (on screen, angry): OTTO, STARLIGHT! You'll be sorry! (screen goes blank) WHITEY (looks at monitor): Full control of all systems has been restored! PERSIA (smiles): Thank you, Otto! Another loud BOOM!!! shakes the bridge, Starlight now stands beside of Otto. OTTO (sternly): I cannot condemn the actions of someone when I would react the same way in similar circumstances... STARLIGHT (nods): I agree with Otto. We surrender! OTTO (nods): Affirmative, Captain, you may take us to your brig. We will offer no resistance. PERSIA (smiles): You two really mean that! (shakes head): No, I want to make friends, not prisoners! OTTO (sternly): Then Starlight and I will assist your crew, if this is agreeable PERSIA (nods): It is agreeable.... WHITEY (looks at monitor): Captain! The Space Rover is charging up it's weapons! PERSIA (shocked): Raise force fields, NOW!! The scene now switches to the bridge of the Space Rover, Hunter is in the captain's chair, Colleen and Exile are at the helm controls. Cobber is standing next to Hunter. Samantha, Blitz, Misty, Warrior and the Gila Monster are at their assigned stations. WARRIOR (looks at Hunter): Charging up weapons, Captain! HUNTER (growls): Good! Target their engines and FIRE forward lasers! COBBER (shouts): NO!! You could hurt Sheena! HUNTER (growls): That does it! Gila Monster, take Cobber to the brig! GILA MONSTER (holding 2 x 4): Waits a minute. Otto and Starlight is over there too! HUNTER (upset): Blitz! Take Cobber away! BLITZ (happy): I'll bite his tooschie first! COBBER (growls): You do and you won't eat solid food for a week, mate! Cobber flatens Blitz with one punch then smiles at the Gila Monster. HUNTER (growls): I should've known better than the trust a cold blooded reptile! Warrior, take both of them to the brig! COLLEEN (looks at view screen): Er...excuse me Huntie-Wuntie, but we have bigger problems now! HUNTER (confused): Like what? COLLEEN (points): Like THOSE!!! EXILE (shocked): Bolshoi! HUNTER (shakes head): I would not have predicted this, no way! The scene now switchs back to the bridge of the Canius Minor. WHITEY (looking at monitor): Captain, more than a dozen Imzoman ships decloaking all around us! PERSIA (sternly): Keep those force fields up! (turns to Whitey) On screen! CACTUS JAKE (shocked): They're firing at us and the Space Rover! PERSIA (turns to Bruno): Get me Hunter! BOOMER (excited): TOO LATE!! PERSIA (shouting): Grunt! Return fire! Lasers, torpedoes, get them to back off! Grunt growls as he pushes buttons, the ship shakes as the Imzoman weapons blast the Canius Minor's force fields. PERSIA (shouting); Whitey! Status report! WHITEY (looks at monitor): Our force fields are holding. The Space Rover was taken by surprise! She's lost her warp engines, primary weapons and force fields. I detect teleport signatures all over her, they are being boarded! PERSIA (shouting): Boomer, get us moving! We have to do what we can to protect Hunter's ship! Now the scene switches back to the Space Rover. Several Imzomans are on the bridge, Cobber, Warrior and the Gila Monster fight them. GILA MONSTER (smiles): Time to play Clobber the kitty! COBBER (swings the sword of Canus and cuts an Imzoman laser rifle in two): You could say I'm a cut above the rest! Warrior punches two of them, one of the men grabs Misty. She screams when Samantha tries to free her and is knocked to the floor. SOLDIER (angry): So, little she dog, what have you got to say now? MISTY (looks the soldier in the eyes): I say you will attack any other Imzomans you see in front of you! Suddenly, the Imzoman soldier gets a blank look on his face and puts Misty down. SOLDIER (coldly): I obey! The soldier now attacks his stunned comrades, in a matter of minutes, all of them are lying on the floor of the bridge. HUNTER (standing up): Cobber, Gila, get down to level seven! EXILE (looking at monitor): Comrade Hunter, Persia's ship is circling us, trying to protect us from enemy fire! HUNTER (shouting): We need all the help we can get, even from a traitor! The scene shifts down to the engineering section, where DJ, Huntress and Molly Maddog are pinned behind a wall by nine Imzoman sodliers. MOLLY M (angry): Keep firing! I'll take their weapons! HUNTRESS (nods): I'll join you on that one, Molly! DJ (looks at his laser pistol): It's drained! We're going to need a miracle now! Suddenly, Princess runs into the engine room. She instantly 'freezes' time and quickly disarms the nine cat-like soilders. Leaving several laser rifles beside of DJ, Huntress and Molly, Princess has time to point her laser rifle at the soldiers as time 'unfreezes.' PRINCESS (giggles): You have the right to remain silent, if any of you kitties move, I have the right to blast holes in ya! (shouts): Hey DJ, Huntress, Molly, I grab a rifle and help me cover these bozos! DJ and Molly are stunned when they see the pile of Imzoman rifles behind them, and Princess holding the Imzomans at bay. MOLLY M (smiles): Looks like you got your miracle, DJ! DJ (smiles); Now THAT'S what I call service! HUNTRESS (smiles): Indeed! A loud BOOM!!! shakes the engineering section, Otto and Starlight appear. DJ (shocked): Otto? Starlight? What are you two doing back here? OTTO (sternly): Persia sent us back, we must get your force fields back up to prevent further Imzomans from invading this ship! STARLIGHT (nods): Let's do it, Otto! Otto and Starlight rush at lightning speed all over the engineering section, fixing, repairing, even soldering wires together with their eye lasers. Within seconds, the pair are standing in front of DJ, Huntress and Molly. OTTO (sternly): Force fields have been restored... I am detecting one hundred and forty seven Imzomans aboard. Starlight, if we can generate a high level force field in that empty cargo bay... STARLIGHT (nods): We can teleport all of those nasty cat people there! I'm on it! MOLLY (nods): Great idea! HUNTRESS (nods): Meet you at the cargo bay, Starlight! Otto rushes back to several control panels as Starlight, Molly and Huntress rush to the cargo bay. Starlight begins to teleport every Imzoman on board the Space Rover to the cargo bay. Otto signals Starlight that he has the force field ready. When the last Imzoman is teleported to the cargo bay, Starlight, Molly and Huntress step back as Otto activates the force field. HUNTRESS (growls): That'll hold those lousy cats! MOLLY (nods): Yeah! STARLIGHT (smiles): We have succeeded! The scene switches to the bridge of the Space Rover. Hunter, Cobber, Exile, Warrior, Colleen, Blitz, Samantha and Misty are desparately trying to keep order. HUNTER (shouts): We have to get our force fields back up! COLLEEN (looks at panel): Blimey! The force field IS on now! EXILE (points): Bolshoi! Look! All dose cat people have vanished! SAMANTHA (shocked); Oh no! What's going on? MISTY (smiles): I think I know! If my telepathic powers are working correctly, it looks like Otto and Starlight are back on board and they're the ones who have our systems up. They also have erected a high level force field in our cargo bay and have all the Imzomans trapped there. BLITZ (grumbles): Hey little dog girl! How do you know dis? MISTY (smiles): I've read Otto and Starlight's minds! HUNTER (smiles); I would not have predicted this! WARRIOR (looks at Hunter): Confirmed! According to our internal scanner everything Misty has said is true! BLITZ (stares at Misty): Impossible! You can't read mind, little girl dog! MISTY (defensive): I can so! And right now, you're thinking of how Colleen would look in a thong bikini! BLITZ (shocked): How did you know... (shakes head) er... I mean DAT'S WRONG! Colleen karate kicks Blitz in the stomach. COLLEEN (growls): Stop that, Blinkie! (turns to Misty): Let me know if he imagines that again! COBBER (laughs): Now there's your comedy! The Gila Monster rushes in. GILA MONSTER (confused): Hey! What's goin' on? One minute I was clobbering a bunch of gooberoos with my 2 x 4 and the next minute, they all disappeared! COBBER (laughs): Long story, big guy! The scene now shifts to the Imzoman flagship where General Coldhart is watching his ships encircling and firing at the Canius Minor with glee. COLDHART (smiles): Excellent! The dog shaped ship is badly damaged! Our soldiers have boarded it! How is the Canius Minor holding up? SOLDIER (salutes): Sir, their shields are holding but beginning to weaken. They can't take much more weapons fire. COLDHART (happy): Wait! I want to take the Canius Minor in tact. So here's my plan.... Now the scene shifts back to the Canius Minor bridge. The loud sounds of laser and torpedos pounding the force fields is heard in the background as Persia continues to bark out commands. PERSIA (shouting): Whitey! What's our current status? WHITEY (looks at monitor): Force fields down to thirty percent strength. Even with our barium reactor at full capacity, the ship can't take this kind of beating forever! BOOMER (smiles): Captain, according to my sensor data, the Space Rover has it's force fields back up! ALEXANDER (nods): It was wise for you to send Otto and Starlight back there, Captain! PERSIA (nods): I agree old man.... but now we have to find a way to get both ships out of this battle! SAUNDRA (shocked): Captain, they've stopped firing at us! WHITEY (nods, looks at monitor): It's true! They have ceased fire! CACTUS JAKE (shouts): Yes! Maybe they're gonna withdraw! ALEXANDER (shakes head): I seriously doubt it PERSIA (sternly): They're up to something, I just know it! WHITEY (looks at monitor): Captain, I detect that an object has just penetrated our force field, but I can't detect a visual image. PERSIA (shocked): It's gotta be a cloaked ship! Old man! We have to .... Before she can finish, Persia suddenly vanishes in a flash of light. ALEXANDER (shocked): CAPTAIN!!! GRUNT (shouting): GRRRRRRRRRRR GROWL!!!!!!!!!!!! WHITEY (looks at monitor): The object has left our force field, I still cannot get a visual iamge of it. BRUNO (looks at Alexander): Commander, Cobber is calling from the Space Rover! ALEXANDER (shouts): On front viewer! COBBER (on screen): Alex? Where's Persia? ALEXANDER (confused): Where's Hunter? COBBER (on screen): He disappeared in a flash of light! ALEXANDER (growls): They got Persia too! BRUNO (looks at Alexander): Commander! Claudia reports that Fydo has vanished! ALEXANDER (looks at Cobber): Persia, Hunter and now Fydo? Why would those cat creatures want with them? -------------------------------------------------------------------- to be comtinued......