|
<cut back to the CDC/EPA site, outside and concentrating on the vehicle that has now come to a stop just in front of one of the Rangers guarding the entrace to the site from the forest. Much to the annoyance of all around, it continues to appear to be using German opera as an offensive weapon.>
"Stop that at once," shouted the Ranger over the near deafening opera, as he raised his gun to towards the cab. Then he saw the creatures pouring out from the rear of the vehicle – strange hordes of hairless squirrels.
But the hordes swamp him before he could react.
The remaining Rangers reacted at once, opening fire on the hairless squirrels, but to no avail as the squirrels seemed to be wearing invisible, incredible armour and bullets, rockets knives just glance harmlessly off them. The alarm is raised and rapidly the entire company of Rangers and the solitary helicopter fight an incredibly valiant battle against the squirrels.
But also a vain one.
Despite acts of honour and valour and their selfless attempts to save the members of the CDA and EPA and gain them time to escape, the battle is brief and bloody, and the squirrels triumphant.
When the brief battle is mostly over, and only a few Rangers remain, fighting to defend the last of the trucks, a white-faced, shocked and stunned Slite is visible being driven away by Evil-Marc in the truck, together those squirrels who returned to the truck and are now looking somewhat more satisfied with themselves, in a unearthly chilling fashion, with eyes resembling bottomless pits of pure evil.
As the truck drives away, The Ride of the Valkyrie fades to silence and is replaced with the sounds of Jessye Norman singing Im Abendrot from Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs.
Silently, save for the music, the camera slowly pans over the site of the battle, the downed wreckage of the Apache, the ruined military vehicles and the broken human bodies. Finally, it turns to one of the larger trucks, torn apart like a paper bag. Inside, a final one-sided fight lasts for less than a minute.
Finally, to the haunting words of the final stanza, the camera rests on the bodies of the besuited official, his assistant Julie, and the last of the Rangers who fought to save them….
|