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CHAPTERS: The chapters of this story are published live for collaboration development purposes, with a sequence derived from the Chapters below, supplemented with other (unpublished) writings as we progress. The final order for the proposed screenplay may be the subject of additional drafts to suit production of the final movie (producers/directors/actors). To be in a position to gain an idea of style and commercial value, please request a copy of our Kulo-Luna (draft) screenplay. See our terms and conditions. The script version of these Chapters will not be published, but will be available as with Kulo-Luna, on request.
60 W,
20 S - ATLANTIC DASH
60 W, 30 S - AMAZON
“We’re off to South America for a few days. I think you’ll find it interesting.”
“Too right blue,” said Dan and he also started carrying the remaining boxes aboard with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy for a camping holiday.
Dan checked the readings. “Should be okay. What’s she doing on this gig?”
“Maybe it should be the other way round. What are we doing on her gig?”
Dan looked suitably puzzled and listened for clues. John entered Charley’s number and waited. He was just about to hang up, when Charley answered. “Is that you John? I’m in the gym,” she said trying to catch her breath. Charley was indeed in the middle of a five mile jog at level 8 on a running machine. She’d ignored the call to begin with, intent on beating her best time, but eventually gave in to curiosity.
“Remember it; I can’t get it out of my mind.”
"Really, why is that,” asked John? his curiosity roused.
“If we’re talking about the same thing, you’ll probably be headed inland up a very long river?”
“You’re on the money penny, but why is this so memorable?”
“Because of what I found and rumours of latent plans for world domination from last century. Steve thought I was losing it.”
“Can you send us what you’ve got?”
“It’s complicated. If you’re serious about this, I’m okay to meet you, if you’ll share quid pro quo.”
“Quid pro quo and hush, hush?” offered John.
“Sounds like a deal, I need a break anyway.”
“Charley you’re a marvel. Thanks. I’ll meet you at Manaus?”
“Spot on."
"You can’t miss us, next week then my treat. What will you be wearing?”
Charley laughed and hung up.
Hal chimed in, "Hi guys, I don't want to spoil things, but thought you should know the pressure is dropping rapidly, meaning high winds and heavy seas."
"Can't be," said John, looking at Dan. Who shrugged, also taken aback.
The sky turned ominously darker in grey colour as the Swann took a pounding from waves reaching forty feet, which had minutes before been just 5 feet.
All this came out of nowhere, the mariners worst fear. The instruments had not given any clue
as to what was in store from them.
Hal had been on sentry duty and gave them a good bit of warning. But even
so, had not
been able to avoid the tropical conditions, which was of itself rather puzzling and something to think on later.
There was no need for an answer and Storm didn’t wait for one; both men leapt into action. Dan felt the warning from the violent rising and falling of the
Swann, which he’d only felt once before on the east coast of Australia, but not as bad as this. Storm by name, Storm by nature, Dan thought to himself as he braved the wind from the aft helm position, lashed by driving sea spray. He
flooded the pontoons, such that the raised hull was now in the water. In
this mode the Swann became almost invisible to radar, emulating a stealth
vessel. It was possible to make the ship completely transparent to radar,
but not in hurricane conditions.
"I'd have done all of that if you'd let me," chimed in Hal, effecting an upset tone.
John
and Dan smiled.
“That’ll teach us to relax.”
“Yup,” nodded Dan, with a bothered look on his face.
“What’s troubling thee mate,” asked
John. It wasn’t often that Dan looked worried about anything.
John wasn’t yet up to this. He cracked a Solar Tonic™ and grabbed a sandwich, which he wolfed down, then took the command seat and set about lowering the
Swann even further into the ocean by venting more ballast tank. They were indeed being blown off course into the
Bermuda
Triangle. John scanned the instruments and they were acting strangely. As the weather outside deteriorated the wind speed increased lashing their screens with salt spray so visibility was close to nothing, even with the wipers at full pace. The
weather sensors were not receiving anything and ‘Captain
Nemo’ refused to display anything for long enough to make sense.
“Blimey,” said Dan “beats the wall of death hands down.”
John was thinking the same thing. It was like riding a bucking bronco. Both men came out of their chairs simultaneously, and both re-adjusted their belts ………
THE
ELIZABETH SWANN NAVIGATES THE AMAZON
"Thank heavens the Swann doesn’t need fuel. John turned to Dan." He’d been pushing his traveling companion all the way across the Atlantic. Dan looked tired.
“Partner, I know the scenery is irresistible, but you’d better get your head down. We’re meeting Charley up river at the airport. I’ll take the next six. Okay?”
Rivers need considerably more careful navigation skill than the open ocean. Although it is possible to plot a course on the autopilot with the accuracy of modern GPS receivers, in practice it takes so many waypoints, it’s simpler to steer manually.
"I
can manage that quite easily," said Hal,
in a voice of feigned indignation.
“You win skip,” said Dan secretly happy at the opportunity. He left the com to turn in.
Charley had seen the films, The Boys From Brazil, and The Bourne Identity, so had conjured up all manner of theories, based on the runner her reporter friend, Steve Green, had asked her to research. She had a while to pass, waiting for that laggard John Storm and his chum Dan Hawk, so thought to do a little detective work. Charley asked about in some of the outlying villages, affecting the air of a lost explorer.
Only a few of the native Amazonians spoke few enough words of English to converse. The mature tribes people were most assuredly friendly, but clammed up with the mentioned of soldiers. And just walked away, arms waving wildly, when she asked if they knew any German settlers in the locality.
Finally a little girl playing by a stream volunteered a vague direction, after catching sight of a candy bar. Charley guessed the real compass heading, after the girl aimed her hand in one direction upriver, as a reflex, then hastily re-adjusted ninety degrees inland, effecting her broadest smile, not looking her in the eye.
The exchange completed, Charley aimed as indicated, but once out of sight, changed course, and was she glad she followed that hunch.
Meantime, John and Dan had docked suitably off to one side of what appeared to be the main terminal, to remain as inconspicuous as possible.
"We're up for meeting Jack Mason somewhere along the trail."
Don't you mean Jack will catch up with us when we've taken the heat," said Dan wryly.
John nodded. It seemed the CIA's calling card on his watch. But then, at least they took the trouble to join the party occasionally. More than could be said of MI6, or Blue Shield.
Hal chimed in, "Charley is heading upriver, some twelve hundred meters north-west."
"How does he know that?" said Dan to John.
"Elementary my dear Watson. Calculating molecule dispersal rate from her perfume, against wind direction - probability. But most simply, from her iphone gps triangulation - I imagine."
"Both. Well deduced Holmes," Hal responded.
On the return trip to the Mediterranean, the Elizabeth Swann passes through the Straits of Gibraltar
CHAPTER 1. THE POISON ASP - CHAPTER 2. WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria CHAPTER 3. NEW WORLD ORDER - A Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy CHAPTER 4. CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a religious sect. CHAPTER 5. INCUBUS - CHAPTER 6. SPLICE - CHAPTER 7. TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries. Until a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria. CHAPTER 8. PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - CHAPTER 9. THE AMAZON - CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures. CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - CHAPTER 12. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace. CHAPTER 13. KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice. CHAPTER 15. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories. CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered. CHAPTER 17. RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation. CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators. CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant. CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught. CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned: FINALE FOR NOW
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CHAPTER 1. THE POISON ASP - Overwhelmed by grief, Cleopatra poisons herself with a cobra bite in her mausoleum CHAPTER 2. WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria CHAPTER 3. NEW WORLD ORDER - A Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy CHAPTER 4. CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a religious sect CHAPTER 5. INCUBUS - Franco Francisco accepts offer of employment from Roberta Ferrara CHAPTER 6. SPLICE - Klaus von Kolreuter perfects a method of gene manipulation CHAPTER 7. TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries, until shift in the tectonic plates trigger tremor off the coast of Alexandria CHAPTER 8. PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - Marjorie Boyle videos exceptionally fast athlete, Sam Hollis investigates CHAPTER 9. AMAZON QUEEN - Elizabeth Swann navigating river and docking at Manaus CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - London's secure DNA database is stolen CHAPTER 12. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace CHAPTER 13. KIDNAPPED - Charley is taken prisoner, John, Dan and CIA rescue her CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice CHAPTER 15. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence, implanted memories CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - To Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered CHAPTER 17. RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - Military detain Cleopatra for stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned
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