ATTACK OF THE LIVING DEAD
Inspired by Gorge Romero's "Night of the Living Dead"
Story first conceived 9/13/04
the screen comes on with men in Military uniforms sitting around a big rectangle shaped table in the middle of a large briefing room with a map of the world on the wall. The type comes across the bottom of the screen that says "the Kremlin, Moscow. 2004." A Russian flag is on the end of a flagpole in the corner of the room and the Russian coat of arms is in the center of the table. The men are sitting around the table looking very nervous. Than all of a sudden a man walks in through a door in the wall and all the men go to stiff attention. The man walks to the front of the table and puts his hands down on it, leaning against it.
PUTIN – at ease gentlemen.
the men all sit down. They look at their president with stone faces.
PUTIN – gentlemen, the United States have launched their attack on the nation of Iraq this morning.
cries of dismay ring out from the men at the table. Putin holds up his hand to silence them, and they all quiet down.
PUTIN – we can no longer allow the US to threaten our interest. With the invasion of Iraq they have threatened to expose our involvement in that area. General (something).
GENARAL – yes Mr. President!
PUTIN – did you to get the weapons out in time?
GENARAL – yes sir. All anthrax containers and scud missiles were removed from the country prier to the American invasion. The only things we weren't able to get out were a few dozen night vision goggles.
PUTIN – good. Men, as you all know this government has been hard at work trying to make the Russian Federation the dominate power on earth, to bring Russia back out of the dark and show the rest of the world that we are a power to be reckoned with. But over the last three years the United States has been getting in the ways of our plans. By invading Iraq they have taken away our influence in the middle east. If they ever find out that we have been funding nuclear programs in Iraq, Iran, and North Korea it will be the end of us. Gentlemen, the United States needs to be neutralized.
the Generals start to murmur to each other. One of the Generals looks up at Putin and says. .
GENERAL – sir, there is no way we can win a war against the United States without using Nuclear weapons. Even if the Chinese help us the Americans will use their navy and air force to batter us from the air without even sending ground troops.
PUTIN – who said anything about going to war?
GENERAL – but sir. . .
PUTIN – I said the United States has to be neutralized, I didn't say anything about going to war with the Americans. We merely need to take them out of foreign affairs.
GENERAL #2 – and how do you suggest we do that Mr. President?
PUTIN – America is a more divided nation than even most Americans know.
he pulls out a map of the US. He points to the southern United States.
PUTIN – there is an insurgent group in the US called the fighters for southern independence. They have groups all over the south from Virginia to Florida. They perform small, untraceable terrorist acts against US authorities. This is a well organized terrorist group within the borders of the United States which has been dormant since the 1940's. By itself this group wouldn't be able to hold its own against the United States Army for even a day but if we provide the right environment they can do a lot of damage and possibly take America out of international affairs.
the generals look at Putin waiting for what he is going to say next. They are leaning forward in their seats. Than after a short pause Putin again starts to speak.
PUTIN – my scientists have developed a new kind of weapon, one that could change the face of warfare in our favor. A disease that can wreck havoc across an entire continent and yet can be contained by those who understand it.
GENERAL – what kind of disease?
PUTIN – my scientists call it Project Black Death. They discovered that if you concentrate enough of a powerful radiation you can actually bring a dead body back to life.
GENERAL – impossible!!!
PUTIN – no my friends, this is truth. The radiation does something to a cadaver's brain that somehow manages to reanimate it, unless it's over three weeks old. But when a body is brought back to life it comes back as nothing more than a savage beast, working more on instinct than on any kind of logical thought. They become cannibals in their reanimated form. General Grachevc has come up with a plan to use this new weapon to our best advantage.
GRACHEVC – yes Mr. President.
General Grachevc gets up and walks over to the large map of the world hanging on the wall.
GRACHEVC – we are calling it Operation Black Storm. The goal of this operation is to reclaim all territory formerly under the control of the Soviet Union, and to establish Russia as the sole military power on earth. If all goes well the plan is set to go off sometime in late 2006, or early 2007. For the next two years we will be arming ourselves and our allies in preparation for the attack.
GENERAL - exactly how many other nations are to be involved in this operation?
GRACHEVC – I have on this map all the countries that already promised full support for the attack. They are North Korea, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Mexico, and Pakistan. All have been specially chosen for what they can contribute for this mission. We also have many terrorist groups from the Middle East to North America who are also working for us. The plan is quite simple really. Arm Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons while we fund insurgent forces in Iraq to keep Americas eyes off of us just long enough to get into position. When the time is right we will instruct our allies to simultaneously release Black Death all over the United States and its allies.
he pulls down another map once again showing the world but this one has large dark red circles and red shaded countries in Asia and Europe.
GRACHEVC – the dark red circles are the initial outbreak zones where Black Death will be released. As you can see most of them are in the southern, northeastern and western United States. Once the order is given the Fighters for Southern Independence will release the virus in strategic locations all over the south while our own agents will do likewise in the heavily populated cities of the northeast, while the Mexicans infect the west coast and the cities of the southwest. The terrorist in the south will than rebel while the Mexicans cross the border to retake the land stolen from them during the Mexican War. At the same time, agents from Iran, Syria, and Egypt will infect Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia with Black Death. This will neutralize all American military installations in the area while at the same time securing our grasp in the Middle East. With America out of the way our military will be able to release the virus into Europe and Asia, and then move in and pick up the pieces after the disease takes its tole.
GENERAL – but what about threat China and Japan would pose if America fell?
GRACHEVC – am excellent question. China and Japan would do nothing but weaken our mission to become the sole world power. That is why we will also infect them with Black Death. With their extremely high and dense population Black Death would spread like wildfire.
As you can see from the map all major industrial countries have been targeted to be hit by the Black Death. India, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and all of Europe. By the time Black Storm is completed Russia will be the only nation in the world left. There will be new masters in the Eastern and Western hemispheres. Russia will prevail.
the generals look at him in stunned silence. They can't believe what they have just heard. Than one of the generals starts to sing the Russian National Anthem. Than all the generals start to sing and they all stand at attention as they do so. They finish the song and Putin raises a glass of wine.
PUTIN – my friends, to Russia!
GENERALS – TO RUSSIA!!!
next are a series of news clips from the following two years.
REPORTER – as the Insurgency in Iraq grows the death tole for US troops has gone up to over 1,000 dead.
REPORTER – riots brake out in the Muslim population in southern France and threatens to de stabilize the entire country.
REPORTER - Iran and North Korea continue to build their nuclear weapons programs despite demands from the US that they stop.
REPORTER – thousands of rockets have been launched from southern Lebanon by the terrorist group Hamas into the nation of Israel.
REPORTER – it has been confirmed that North Korea has successfully tested a nuclear weapon. . .
REPORTER – twenty were killed this morning when a car bomb went off in a crowded city street in New York City. Officials claim that the attack was most likely conducted by the terrorist group. . .
REPORTER – fifteen are left dead after yet another riot by illegal immigrants who are now demanding that the southeastern United States be returned to the Mexican government.
the screen goes blank. Opening credits go on. Creepy music is playing.