Prince Caspian~ King of Comical Narnia
(The sky is dark. The scene appears on Miraz's castle where the clouds cover the moon. Inside the castle is his wife giving birth. The midwives are getting stuff prepared for the coming baby or babies.)
Midwife 1 to Servant Girl 1: Get me a towel!
Miraz's Wife: I'm in great pain right now!
Midwife 1: Now calm down your majesty. I was asking another person to get me a towel.
(Miraz's Wife explodes.)
Miraz's Wife: Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down? I've probably giving birth to Bill Clinton! Or who knows? Hillary Clinton! Get my lawyer! Get my secretary!
Servant Girl 1: Mistress. I have a towel and a hair dryer at your service.
(Miraz's Wife squints at the servant girl and retains her explosion of anger.)
Miraz's Wife to Servant Girl 1: All things are at my disposal!
(Meanwhile, Miraz is looking out of a window and looking at the stars. General\Lord Glozzel comes into the room that Miraz is in. He then stands still and clears his throat to catch Miraz's attention. Miraz sighs.)
Glozzel: Lord Miraz, you have a baby.
Miraz: What kind is it?
Glozzel: Human my lord.
Miraz: I know it is you ape. I was asking is it male or female?
Glozzel: It's a girl.
(Miraz sighs and stamps his foot against the floor. He then turns around to Glozzel.)
Miraz: Impossible! I didn't order for a girl! I've watched the stars since New Year's Day…
Glozzel mumbles: Which was just yesterday.
Miraz: And found that the heavens and gods promised me a baby boy! The heavens have cursed us!
Glozzel: His majesty's lady gave birth also to a boy.
(Miraz stops being angry and calms himself. He then smiles at Glozzel.)
Miraz: Good! You know your orders. Kill the prince.
Glozzel: My lord?
Miraz: Yes. What is it?
Glozzel: Are you sure my lord?
Miraz: Sure about what?
Glozzel: To kill the prince of the Telemarine Kingdom?
Miraz: I am always sure, captain.
Glozzel: I'm a general and lord, my liege.
(Miraz rolls his eyes and with a motion of his hand bades Glozzel to go away. A few minutes later, cursing and shouting of defenses for someone comes down from the hallway. And in the room that Miraz is in, comes in Glozzel holding Miraz's newborn son who is crying very loud. And behind him is a crowd of midwives and servant girls pleading to Glozzel to release the baby and let him live. Miraz's eyes grow wide.)
Glozzel to Midwives and Servantgirls: I'm sorry me ladies. But your's and my king bade me to kill his son.
Miraz to Glozzel: You fool! I could have you hanged for this!
Glozzel mumbles: I know that sire.
Miraz: I didn't want you to kill my son!
Glozzel: But you told me to kill the Prince.
Miraz: I wanted you to kill my brother's son! Prince Caspian the X!
(Glozzel nods and hands the midwives Miraz's son. Glozzel then goes into a hall and orders nine men in black to follow him. Meanwhile, a dark robed figure sneaks to Caspian's room and puts a hand on his mouth. Caspian gasps and sees its Gollum. Caspian slowly wipes the clammy hand from his mouth.)
Caspian: Gollum?
Gollum whispering softly: There won't be a Gollum if you and I stay here.
Caspian: Where's Doctor Cornelius?
Gollum: He couldn't make it.
(Caspian hears a thud and Gollum collapses unconscious. He sees Doctor Cornelius with a pan in his hand. Caspian exhales in relief and lies back in his bed.)
Caspian: Five more minutes.
Doctor Cornelius: There won't be another five minutes if you continue lying here and you won't be watching the stars tonight unless you get up now!
Caspian groans: But it's a Saturday, professor. I just want five more minutes.
Doctor Cornelius tapping Caspian's shoulder: Get up!
(Caspian immediately gets out of bed and follows Doctor Cornelius into the closet when they both hear footsteps.)
Caspian: Professor, what's going on?
Doctor Cornelius: Your Aunt has given birth…to some twins.
(Caspian thinks for a moment and follows Doctor Cornelius into the closet. They enter into the closet and Prince Caspian puts his eye to the crack between his closet doors and sees nine figures dressed in black, draw their swords out and start stabbing into his bed. Caspian turns to Doctor Cornelius.)
Caspian: What are they?
Doctor Cornelius: They were once men. And then Miraz your uncle gave them nine costumes of power, blinded by their professional skills in acting they took them with 20 questions. Now they have fallen under his spell. They are the Mirazgul. Assassins. Neither living nor dead. At all times…
(Black Riders stop stabbing and draw open the curtains and see that Caspian is not there. They scream and turn over the bed on top of each other. Doctor Cornelius gulps.)
Doctor Cornelius: They sense the power of the Deep Magic coming from one. They will not stop hunting you.
Caspian: What is the deep magic?
Doctor Cornelius: No time for anymore history lectures, come!
(Caspian follows Doctor Cornelius into the armory and puts on a leather jerkin, takes a sword, and gets on a brown horse called Brego. Doctor Cornelius goes over to him and holds out a megaphone.)
Doctor Cornelius: You must make for the woods.
Caspian: The woods?
Doctor Cornelius: They will not follow you there.
Caspian: But there's Ents there!
Doctor Cornelius: All the more why you should head over there.
(Caspian gulps. Doctor Cornelius pulls out something that is wrapped in cloth and hands it to Caspian.)
Doctor Cornelius: It took me 45 minutes to find this by the help of an employee at Wal-Mart.
(Caspian takes the megaphone and stuffs it into his personal bag.)
Doctor Cornelius: Do not use it, except at your greatest need.
Caspian: Will I ever see you again?
Doctor Cornelius: I hope so my prince. There's so much more I have to tell you. Everything you know, is about to change.
Soldier 29: Close the drawbridge!
Doctor Cornelius slaps the horse: Go!
(Prince Caspian rides away and into the courtyard. Two soldiers stop him with their spears but he rides past them while carrying one of their spears with him. He rides out of the gate and throws the spear into a cage of fire nearby and rides off. He gets over the drawbridge and comes to the village. He sees fireworks go off and hears one say,)
Citizen 4: A son, a son! Lady Prunapismia has this night, given birth to a son!
(Prince Caspian rears his horse and rides off. He sees a company of riders going after him and he rides and rides until he enters into the forest. Glozzel rides after him while the others hang back. Glozzel turns around and stares at his men.)
Glozzel: Which one of you superstitious old women wants to spend his night in a cell?
(All the riders raise their hands. Glozzel growls, rolls his eyes and rides off after Caspian. Caspian continues riding hard and crosses a river. He looks behind himself and sees the rider stop at the river's edge."
Glozzel: Give up the pup, she-elf.
Caspian: I'm Prince Caspian.
(The guy realizes who he is talking to and draws out a crossbow. Caspian sees the rest of the riders ride up next to him. A rider rides up next to Glozzel while he aims his crossbow at Caspian.)
Soldier 39 to Glozzel: Mind your aim.
(Soldier 39 nudges his crossbow. Glozzel shoots and misses Caspian's head by a hand breadth. Glozzel gets frustrated.)
Glozzel: You idiot! You made me miss!
Soldier 39: Oohh.
(Prince Caspian becomes fearful and rides deep into the woods.)
Soldier 39 to Caspian: That's right! We warned you! Never come back!
Glozzel: You idiot! We want him back! Dead!
(The riders ride forward across the river, but loose a rider a long the way who fell of his horse. Caspian continues riding hard through the forest and looks back over his shoulder and then looks forward and gets hit by an overhanging dead tree and falls over. He gets dragged by his horse for a long way. He tries to reach his stirrup but can't. He then takes out a pistol and shoots the stirrup his leg is caught on and stops being dragged. He lays there for a while and then gets up and looks at his surroundings. He hears some growls and grunts and looks in the direction of the noise, and out pops Grishnak the orc with a spear through his shoulder.)
Grishnak to Prince Caspian: I'm going to rip your little innards.
(Caspian's eyes widen and he gets up, grabs his sword and megaphone, and starts running away from the orc.)
Grishnak: Come here!
(Caspian finally sees a large tree and starts climbing the thick roots. He stays there and waits until he sees the orc come out of the bushes and start looking in all directions for him. Caspian hears something creak and sees light below him. He sees two dwarves come out and see Grishnak.)
Nikabrik to Trumpkin: He's seen us!
(Trumpkin doesn't hesitate and throws a small knife right through the orc's body and walks over to it and nudges the body. Nikabrik follows after him and they inspect the orc. Caspian tries to make himself more comfortable and sets his foot on a branch but falls down right outside the entrance to a hidden underground cave. Trumpkin and Nikabrik turn around and see that it is a Telmarine. Trumpkin draws out his sword and runs towards Caspian and is about to kill him when he sees the megaphone and hears riders coming. He turns to Nikabrik.)
Trumpkin: You take care of him.
(Trumpkin runs toward the company of riders while Caspian looks at Nikabrik, crawls quickly over to his megaphone and grabs it.)
Nikabrik: No!
(Caspian holds down the trigger and yells,)
Caspian: Help meeeeeeeeeeeeee!
(Nikabrik takes the pommel of his sword and wops it over Caspian's head and makes him fall unconscious.)
(Meanwhile…)
(Back in our world, in England, Lucy is crossing the street when a car almost runs into her and slams its breaks and its horns.)
Driver 1: Hey watch yourself!
Lucy: Oh, I'm really sorry!
Driver 1: Mind yourself love!
(While Lucy is walking along the streets, Susan is at a magazine store and is reading one of the magazines there, when a man dressed in total white clothes, steps up to her and looks at her.)
Man 2: You go to Saint Finbars?
(Susan smiles slightly.)
Susan: That's right.
Man 2: I go to the Insane Asylum, right across the road.
(Susan smiles slightly and continues reading.)
Insane Man: I've seen you…sitting by yourself.
Susan: Yes…well I just prefer to be left alone.
(Susan tries to ignore him and continues reading.)
Insane Man: Me too.
(Susan sighs and gets impatient.)
Insane Man: What's your name?
Susan sarcastically: Hillary.
Lucy: Susan! Susan!
(Susan turns to see Lucy come up the street and meet her.)
Lucy: You better come quickly!
(Several police are walking through the crowd and see the Insane Man.)
Constable 1: There he is!
(The Insane Man turns around dumbly and finds himself attacked and pushed down by several policeman.)
Constable 2: You won't escape us a second time!
(Susan and Lucy quickly leave the sight and enter into the subway where they find a group of men and girls shouting,)
School Group: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
(Susan and Lucy nudge there way through the crowd and see Peter fighting with several Agent Smiths. Peter looks up during fighting and sees Susan with a disappointed and tired look while Lucy is worried. While the Agent Smiths are pushing Peter around, Edmund arrives and starts fighting with the Agent Smiths. After a while of fighting, two soldiers arrive and start blowing a whistle. They start separating the Agent Smiths and Peter and Edmund and shake them both.)
English Soldier 1: Act your age!
(One of the Agent Smith gets angry and slugs the English Soldier unconscious. He straightens out his clothes and pulls his dark glasses off.)
Agent Smith 2: I am acting my age.
(The Agent Smiths leave while the school group scatters and the other soldier becomes afraid and runs away. Several minutes later, the four Pevensies are sitting on a bench, waiting for a subway. Edmund puts his luggage down and sits next to Peter.)
Edmund: You're welcome.
Peter: I had it sorted!
(Peter gets up.)
Susan: What was it this time?
Peter: He wanted the location of Zion.
Lucy: So you hit him?
Peter: No. Then they said that they would have to interrogate me. That's when I hit him.
Susan: Really, is it that hard to give away a stupid secret?
Peter: I shouldn't have to! I mean, don't you ever get tired of people pretending that we live in a matrix?
Edmund: Um, Peter, we do live in the matrix.
Peter: Well I didn't always!
(Peter walks back to his seat.)
Peter: It's been a year. How long does Morpheus expect us to wait?
Susan: I think it's time to accept that you should be saying the right lines for your part in this comedy. It's no use making it more silly.
(Edmund sighs. Susan looks at the crowd passing by them and sees the Insane Man again.)
Susan: Oh no. (*turns to Lucy*) Pretend your talking to me.
Edmund: We are talking to you.
(Lucy then gets up.)
Lucy: Ow!
Susan: Lucy, your not playing your part. Talk to me!
Lucy: Something pinched me!
(Peter then gets up and looks at Edmund.)
Peter: Stop pulling me!
Edmund: It was just a joke!
Peter: When are you going to learn to grow up?
Lucy to Susan excitedly: It feels like we're being unplugged from the matrix!
(The subway rushes past them.)
Susan to the three: Quick! Everyone, hold hands!
(They all hold hands except Edmund.)
Edmund protesting: I'm not holding your hand!
Peter: Oh, yes you are, little brother.
Susan: We're going to miss our boarding time!
(They all hold hands and watch as the place seems to get torn up. As the subway passes them, they see small pictures of what they know to be, is Narnia. Their world around them begins to fade and the subway fades into oblivion and leaves them in Narnia. They walk out of a cave that they are in and see the beach and waves of the sea. Lucy turns to Susan who smiles at her and they start running for the water. Peter tags Edmund and runs after them while they all take off their school coats, ties, and shoes.)
Peter: Shame you're not as quick as me, Ed!
Susan: Last one's in, is a rotten egg!
(They all get into the water and continue playing around, when Edmund stops splashing water. Peter splashes water into his eyes.)
Edmund: Oww. Stop it, Pete.
Peter: You little…(*Peter then remembers and covers his mouth*) Sorry, wrong story.
Edmund: Where do you suppose we are?
Peter: Well, where else do you think?
Edmund: Well, I don't remember any Roman ruins in Narnia.
(Peter looks up where Edmund is looking and sees a ruin. They stop swimming and go up there and start studying the ruins. Lucy picks an apple and starts biting into it. She looks out at the sea and turns to Susan.)
Lucy: I wonder who lived here.
(Susan walks towards her and her foot kicks something. She bends down and picks up a solid gold chess piece formed like a centaur and looks at Lucy.)
Susan: I think we did.
Lucy: Well then this can't be a Roman ruin.
Susan: It could be Greek.
(Lucy lifts an eyebrow.)
Susan: You never know.
(Edmund and Peter come up to them and Edmund sees the solid gold chess piece and exclaims,)
Edmund: Hey that's mine. It went to my chess set.
Peter: Which chess set?
Edmund: Well I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?
(Edmund takes the chess piece and looks at it. Lucy turns and looks up ahead and sees something familiar to her.)
Lucy: It can't be.
(Lucy runs up ahead, followed by Peter, Edmund, and Susan. She goes up some steps and looks at Peter.)
Lucy: Don't you see?
(Lucy then positions her brothers and sister in certain places all in a line.)
Lucy: Imagine walls. And columns there. And a glass roof.
(They all think for a moment.)
Peter: A green house!
Edmund: A silo!
Susan: King Louis the XIV's bedroom.
(Lucy sighs.)
Lucy: No. Cair Cavalier.
(Meanwhile, the riders come back, riding to Miraz's castle. Miraz is holding his twin babies and looks down to see Glozzel and his men come in; missing one rider. Miraz hands his babies back to his wife, and goes down to the stables where his men are unsaddling. He approaches a horse carrying a large bundle, but Glozzel stops him.)
Glozzel: Wait. Wait, my lord. It is not what you think.
Miraz: Then what is it?
Glozzel: We're not sure.
(Glozzel motions to one of his men standing by. The soldier throws off the blanket covering the bundle and Miraz gasps.)
Miraz: Impossible.
(Miraz thinks for a moment and looks at Glozzel. At the council, Lord Sopespian is standing up and talking with the other members.)
Sopespian: I warned this council, when it put it's trust in President Obama; there would be consequences.
Council member 2: No. No. We cannot accuse the president without proof.
Council member 5: How long are we going to hide behind that excuse? Until every chair in this room is empty?
Council member 2: Yup.
(Council member 5 rolls his eyes. Miraz enters into the chamber and walks over to his seat.)
Miraz: Lords of the council, my apologies for being late. I was not aware we were in session. My friend, Obama, could not make it today.
Sopespian: No doubt, he and you were otherwise preoccupied.
(Miraz leans in his chair.)
Miraz: My lord?
Council member 5: It seems that ever since the death of Caspian the Ninth, you and your friend have acted like you were the sole rulers of the land. And now it seems that behind these walls, even Prince Caspian has gone missing.
Sopespian mockingly: My condolences, my lord Miraz. Imagine, loosing your nephew, on the night that your wife has blessed you with a son.
(The Council murmurs in agreement.)
Council member 2 pointing out: And a daughter.
(Sopespian rolls his eyes.)
Miraz: Thank you lord Sopespian. Your compassion is a boon in this troubled time.
Sopespian: Perhaps, you can tell us how such a tragedy could have ever occurred.
(Miraz looks up and sees Glozzel enter and close the door silently behind himself. Miraz gets up.)
Miraz: That is the most disturbing news of all. (*walks over towards the throne*) Our beloved Prince Caspian was abducted (*turns around and faces the council*)…by Narnians.
(Council roars in doubt and amazement.)
Council member 5:You go too far Miraz. Do you expect us to stand by, while you blame such a blatant crime on fairy tales.
(Miraz motions with his hands and Glozzel opens the door where two guards bring forward a hobbit and a dwarf. The members of the council get up in amazement.)
Miraz: You forget my lords. Narnia was once a savage land. The blood of our forefathers was shed, to exterminate this vermin.
(Miraz points to a dwarf who is Trumpkin and then looks at the hobbit next to him who is Pippin.)
Miraz pointing to Pippin: And this vermin.
(Miraz turns toward Sopespian.)
Miraz: And while we've been bickering amongst ourselves, (*walks over to the dwarf and hobbit*) they've been breeding like cockroaches under a rock. Growing stronger. Watching us.
(Miraz turns around.)
Miraz: Waiting to strike!
(He swings his fist at Trumpkin, but he ducks his head and Miraz misses him and instead hits Pippin unconscious and makes him fall to the ground. Trumpkin looks up at him.)
Trumpkin: And you wonder why we don't like you.
Miraz: Well I intend to strike back! (*looks at the council and walks toward the throne*) You have my word, my lords. I will find Caspian, and finish what our fathers begun.
(Meanwhile, back at the ruins of Cair Paravel, Edmund and the rest of the Pevensies are walking more into the ruins. Edmund bends down near a stone.)
Edmund: Torpedoes.
Peter: What?
Edmund to Peter: This didn't just happen. Cair Paravel was attacked.
Peter: How do you know that?
(Edmund points to a piece of shrapnel. Edmund and Peter then look on a wall and walk over to it. They remove some dead branches and then push a fake wall away to reveal a wooden door. Peter breaks away the rotten wood and opens the door which falls of its hinges. He then takes out his knife and starts tearing up his clothes. He picks up a stick and wraps the piece of cloth around it.)
Peter to Edmund: I suppose, you wouldn't happen to have any matches on you by any chance?
Edmund: Well no, (*reaches into his leather bag and pulls out a flash light*) but would this help?
Peter smiling: You might have mentioned that a bit sooner.
(Edmund grins and leads the way. They go down some stone steps to reveal their private treasury. They reach the bottom and find all their personal chests in the same place they had left them, 1300 years ago. Each one goes to his own chest except Peter who picks up a gold plate with the image of Aslan and blows on it.)
Lucy: I was so much bigger then. (*holds up some of her clothes*)
Susan: Well, you were older then.
Edmund: As opposed to being a few hundred years, when your younger.
(Susan picks up her sniper rifle.)
Susan: My megaphone.
Lucy: What?
Susan: I must have left it in a cart at Wal-Mart, the day we went back.
(Peter looks up at the statue of himself and goes over to his chest where he pulls out his lightsaber and reads the inscription on the handle.)
Peter: When Adam's Flesh and Adam's Bone, sits on Cair Paravel on throne…
Lucy finishes sadly: All that there will be left is a carcass.
(Edmund rolls his eyes.)
Edmund: Read the other side.
(Peter looks on the other side of the handle.)
Peter: When Aslan bares his teeth, winter meets its death.
Susan: When he shakes his mane, we will have spring again.
Edmund: That sounds more like it.
Lucy sadly: Everyone we knew, Mr. Tumnus and the Beavers…they're all gone.
(Peter looks at everybody.)
Peter: I think its time we found out what's going on here.
(Lucy nods her head in agreement. Meanwhile, a few miles north-west, is a single Telmarine boat bearing two men, and two bundles. One soldier is holding a crossbow, and the other is rowing.)
Soldier 49 to Soldier 56: They won't stop staring.
Soldier 56: So don't look.
(Soldier 49 looks down and sees the dwarf, Trumpkin, with an angry look on his face behind his gag. While the other, a hobbit named Pippin, is grinning happily without a gag but is not saying a word. They continue rowing for a while and then Soldier 49 looks at his companion and stops rowing.)
Soldier 49: Here's far enough.
(Soldier 56 puts down his crossbow down and picks up Pippin and Soldier 49 picks up Trumpkin. They are about to toss them into the water, when they see a bullet plow into their boat. They both look up to see four strangers coming over the beach. All of them are dressed in lordly clothes. One has a knife and a cordial, the other has a sniper rifle, another has a lightsaber, and the other one has a sword. They are in fact the Pevensies.)
Susan to Telmarine Soldiers: Drop them!
Trumpkin muffled: Crows and Crockery!
Pippin: Proud foot and proud feet! There's a Jedi.
(The Telmarine Soldiers haul them over the boat and drop them both in the water. Soldier 49 reaches for the crossbow and aims but gets shot in the shoulder. Soldier 56 jumps after him out of the boat. Peter and Edmund rush over to the water and Peter plunges in into the water and brings Trumpkin ashore. Edmund grabs the boat and hauls it over and Lucy takes out her knife and cuts Trumpkin's gag and bonds. Trumpkin looks up at Susan with an angry look.)
Trumpkin: Drop him? (*throws his gag down*) That's the best you can come up with?
Susan: A simple "thank you" would suffice.
Trumpkin pointing at the river: They were doing fine drowning that silly hobbit without your help.
Peter: Maybe we should've let them.
Trumpkin: Yeah. You should've.
(Susan hands Peter his lightsaber and Trumpkin sees it and stares at all four of them with amazement.)
Trumpkin: You've got to be kidding me. You're it? You're the kings and queens of old.
(Peter holds out his hand to him.)
Peter: High King Peter, the Magnificent.
(Trumpkin hesitates on shaking his hand.)
Susan to Peter: You could've probably left out the last part.
Trumpkin chuckling: Probably.
Peter: Still (*turns on his lightsaber which burns a piece of Trumpkin's beard off*) you might be surprised.
(Trumpkin realizes that a piece of his beard is gone and he gets slightly angry.)
Trumpkin: Oh, you don't want to do that again boy.
Peter: Not me. (*looks at Edmund*) Him.
Trumpkin: Let him try!
(Trumpkin reaches for Peter's sword and takes his lightsaber away. He starts trying to hurt Edmund and succeeds in hitting him in the face.)
Trumpkin: Oh, are you alright?
(Edmund pulls out his sword which is lightsaber proof and does a few hits with Trumpkin and succeeds in hitting him in the rear with the flat. Trumpkin growls and they continue fighting until finally Edmund succeeds in knocking the lightsaber out of Trumpkin's hand and cuts of another piece of his beard. Trumpkin kneels down in amazement.)
Trumpkin: Beards and bedsteads. That megaphone must have worked after all.
Susan: What megaphone?
(Meanwhile, Prince Caspian wakes up and squints in pain when he feel his head very soar. He looks up and sees he's not in the forest anymore but in someone's house. He looks down at his arm and sees an IV that has been injected into his arm. He takes it out, looks at the IV pole and stuff near his bed and gets up quietly when he hears some voices. He creeps to the entrance of his room and peers out and sees a dwarf and a badger.)
Nikabrik: Uhh. We've had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinkin days.
Trufflehunter: I'll just give him some Jello then. He should be coming around soon.
Nikabrik: Oh yeah? Well I don't think I chloroformed him long enough.
Trufflehunter: Nikabrik, he's just a boy!
Nikabrik: He's a Telmarine. Not some lost puppy from a 101 Dalmatian clan. Besides, you said you were going to get rid of him.
Trufflehunter: No. I said I was going to take care of him. We can't kill him now. I just plugged him into an IV. It…it would be like murdering a patient. Or a guest.
Nikabrik: Oh yeah? And how do you think his friends are treating their patient?
Trufflehunter: Trumpkin knew what he was doing.
Nikabrik mumbling: Except that stupid hobbit that got into the fight.
Trufflehunter: It's not the boy's fault.
(Prince Caspian rushes from the entrance and tries to escape but Nikabrik stops him with a short sword. Prince Caspian backs off and grabs a plastic spatula and holds it out like a sword. Trufflehunter tries to stop them both but they fight each other. Nikabrik cuts the spatula piece by piece in Prince Caspian's hand until there's nothing left except the piece that he is holding on to.)
Trufflehunter: Stop Nikabrik!
Nikabrik: I told you we should've carbon-freezed him when we had the chance!
Trufflehunter: You know why we can't do that! We don't have the technology!
Nikabrik: That is no excuse! He's a Telmarine! He's seen us!
(Nikabrik slashes his sword near Caspian's stomach and Caspian sits down on some wooden steps.)
Trufflehunter: Enough Nikabrik! Or do I have to sit on your head again?
(Nikabrik growls quietly.)
Trufflehunter to Caspian: And you…look what you made me do!
(Trufflehunter picks up a bowl of Jello off the floor.)
Trufflehunter: Spent half the morning on that Jello.
Nikabrik: Why?
Trufflehunter: Because I can't read English on the box! I had to get a translator to read it out for me.
Nikabrik: What translator?
Trufflehunter: A squirrel.
Caspian: What are you?
(Trufflehunter heads for the kitchen.)
Trufflehunter: You know, it's funny that you would ask that. You would think that Telmarines would know a badger when they saw one.
Caspian: No…I mean…your Narnians. You're supposed to be extinct.
Nikabrik: Well, sorry to disappoint you.
(Nikabrik shakes his head in frustration and seats himself at the table again. Trufflehunter comes back and sets another bowl of Jello on the table.)
Trufflehunter to Caspian: Here's your Jello. Still cold.
Nikabrik: Thanks!
(Nikabrik reaches for the bowl of Jello but Trufflehunter snatches it away.)
Trufflehunter: Not you!
(Nikabrik goes sullen.)
Nikabrik: Since when did we open a cafeteria to Telmarine soldiers?
Caspian: I'm no soldier.
Nikabrik: Then why do you carry a leather jerkin?
Caspian: Because I can take whatever I want.
(Nikabrik picks up his short sword again.)
Nikabrik: Until today.
(Trufflehunter puts his paw on his blade and lowers it.)
Caspian: I am Prince Caspian…the Tenth.
(Nikabrik looks at Trufflehunter in amazement.)
Nikabrik to Caspian: What are you doing here?
(Caspian throws the piece of spatula on the table.)
Caspian: My uncle, has always wanted my throne. I guess, the reason why I have lived this long is because he didn't have an heir of his own.
Trufflehunter to Nikabrik: Well, that changes things.
Nikabrik to Caspian: Yeah. That means we don't have to kill you ourselves.
Trufflehunter: You would dare kill me?
Nikabrik grumbling: I was talking to this lost pup.
Caspian: You're right.
(Caspian moves toward the entrance and puts on his leather jerkin.)
Trufflehunter: Where are you going?
Caspian: Lord Glozzel won't stop hunting me until I'm a superstitious old man that wants to spend a night in a cell, or under the axe blade.
Trufflehunter: You can't leave now! You're meant to save us.
(Caspian stops packing up his things and sees Trufflehunter holding a megaphone.)
Trufflehunter: Don't you know what this is?
Caspian: Yeah. A megaphone.
Trufflehunter: Yeah. But not just any megaphone. It's from Wal-Mart! (*he starts holding it like a teddy-bear*) We hardly get anything from the outside world that is so shiny, bright, clean, and technologicus! How much can I pay to buy it off of you?
(Nikabrik rolls his eyes.)
(Meanwhile, the Pevensies are in a boat. Peter is rowing, Edmund controls the tiller, Susan sits between Edmund and Peter, and Lucy sits in front of Trumpkin and behind Peter. As they are rowing, Lucy is looking at the trees on the bank and sees them so quiet.)
Lucy: They're so quiet.
Trumpkin looking up: They're trees. What did you expect?
Lucy: They used to dance.
Trumpkin: It was not long after you left that the Telmarines invaded. Everyone retreated into their holes and left Narnia a seeming desolate place. And the trees…they retreated so far back into themselves that they haven't been heard from since.
Lucy: How could Aslan let such a thing happen?
Trumpkin grumbling: I thought he got raptured when the lot of you did.
(Peter stops rowing.)
Peter: We didn't mean to leave you know. We didn't expect the first rapture to come so soon.
Trumpkin turning his face away: It makes no difference now, does it?
(Peter continues rowing.)
Peter: Stop reading Left Behind books, and get us to the Narnians, and it will.
(They continue rowing until they reach a rocky sandy shore. They put anchor there and Lucy goes out exploring. She finds a small, gray, thin creature bending in the water. It dives in and comes up with a fish which it holds in his mouth. Lucy smiles and walks toward it.)
Lucy: Hello there!
(Trumpkin and the Pevensies look in Lucy's direction. The thin creature, holding the fish in his mouth, gets up on two legs and looks at Lucy with a frightened expression.)
Lucy: It's alright. I'm a fan of yours.
(The thin creature, gets on its hands and knees and starts sprinting toward her.)
Gollum: My precious!
(Trumpkin hears Gollum and looks at Lucy.)
Trumpkin: Don't move your majesty.
(Lucy starts running away from Gollum while Susan loads her sniper rifle.)
Susan to Gollum: Stay away from her!
(Lucy falls down and finds Gollum towering above her. She screams, and Gollum yells, when a dart comes flying into his shoulder. Gollum screams in pain and falls down.)
Gollum: Ohhh, I've been skewered!
(Gollum lies their unconscious. Susan looks behind her to see who fired that shot and sees that it was Trumpkin holding a knock-out dart gun. He lowers it and goes over to the sleeping Gollum. Peter and Edmund run ahead and help Lucy up with their lightsaber and sword drawn out. Trumpkin goes over to Gollum and starts nudging it with his gun to make sure it has been knocked out.)
Peter to Edmund: It was crazy. I don't think it had the One Ring.
(Trumpkin bends near the body of Gollum and draws his tazer out.)
Trumpkin: Get treated like a wild fish eater long enough, that's what you become. You might find Narnia a more savage place then you remember.
(Trumpkin starts inspecting and tapping Gollum while Lucy stifles a giggle. Meanwhile, at Miraz's castle, Doctor Cornelius is walking in the corridors to his office, when he finds someone bustling inside with his stuff. He enters into his study and finds Lord Miraz there, looking at a book.)
Miraz to Doctor Cornelius: You have quite a library here, doctor.
(Doctor Cornelius moves toward his desk.)
Doctor Cornelius: Is there something my lord is acquiring?
Miraz: I think I already found what I was looking for.
(Miraz turns to Doctor Cornelius and slams a bullet without a shell into a painted picture of the Mona Lisa.)
Miraz: In one of my soldiers!
(Doctor Cornelius takes his glasses off and inspects the bullet.)
Doctor Cornelius: Probably a deer hunter.
Miraz sarcastically: Or probably a fisherman who missed his mark.
(Miraz seats himself in a chair and puts his boots on Doctor Cornelius's desk.)
Miraz: What do you know of Queen Susan's megaphone?
Doctor Cornelius: It was said to be controlled by the Force.
Miraz: The Force?
Doctor Cornelius: The Narnians believed it would call their kings and queens and Jedi's of old. At least, such was the superstition.
(Miraz rises out of the chair and walks over to him.)
Miraz: And what does Caspian know of this superstition?
Doctor Cornelius chuckling quietly: My lord, you forebade me from mentioning or let him seeing the Star Wars films.
Miraz: Mmm, so I did.
(They both hear someone enter into the room and Doctor Cornelius turns around to see General Glozzel with several other soldiers. Doctor Cornelius realizes his predicament and turns to Miraz.)
Doctor Cornelius: I'll say just this one thing, if Caspian does know of the ways of the Force, his highness would have a good reason to be nervous.
(The soldiers with Glozzel, escort Doctor Cornelius away to the dungeons. Lord Sopespian comes into the corridor, just in time to see the soldiers taking Doctor Cornelius away. He looks at General Glozzel who is standing in the hall, and goes up to him.)
Sopespian: First our prince, then Obama, now his tutor. If the members of Miraz's house are not safe, who is?
Miraz calling from study: Lord Sopespian!
General Glozzel looks at Sopespian: Those are dangerous words Lord Sopespian.
Sopespian: One must choose his words carefully, as one chooses his friends.
(Lord Sopespian walks away from Glozzel and enters into the study.)
Miraz: How long until the escalator is finished?
Sopespian: Things are going on schedule.
Miraz: That's not good enough! I need my army across that river now!
Sopespian: May his lord, consider lending a few of his own men? I have only so many at my disposal.
(Miraz leans toward Sopespian.)
Miraz: A fact, you would be wise to remember. Go to Beruna. Take as many men as you need. We need to get to Caspian before they do.
Sopespian: They my Lord?
Miraz: It is time, you learned your history.
(Sopespian smiles and seat himself.)
Sopespian: Sounds fun. What do you want to teach me from history?
Miraz: That you are a complete idiot, my Lord Sopespian! You always have been and always will be if you don't use your wits!
(Miraz exits out of the room.)
Miraz: Get on with the bridge, now!
(Sopespian sighs and gets up and sees the bullet jammed into a picture of the Mona Lisa. Meanwhile, Caspian is walking through the woods alone, or seems like alone, when he hears some rustling behind him. He turns around.)
Caspian: I can hear you.
(Caspian looks down to see Trufflehunter and Nikabrik appear from behind two trees.)
Trufflehunter: I just think we need to wait for the kings and queens.
(Caspian thinks for a moment and then continues walking away from them.)
Trufflehunter: Oh fine. Let's see if the others will be just as understanding.
Nikabrik walking towards Caspian: Yeah. Maybe I'll come with you. I'd like to see you explain things to the Uruk'hi.
(Caspian stops walking and turns toward Nikabrik.)
Caspian: Uruk'hi? They're real?
Trufflehunter catching up with Caspian: And very bad tempered.
Nikabrik: Yeah. Not to mention, Babies.
Trufflehunter motions with hands: Huge.
(Nikabrik and Trufflehunter walk ahead of him.)
Caspian: What about Centaurs? Do they still exist?
Trufflehunter: Well the centaurs will probably fight on your side. But there's no telling what the others will do.
(Caspian stops walking.)
Caspian: And what about Harry Potter?
(Nikabrik and Trufflehunter stop walking, look at each other with disgusted faces and look at Caspian.)
Nikabrik: How do you know, so little about us?
Caspian: Stories.
Trufflehunter: Wait a minute. Your spies told you fairy tales about Narnia?
Caspian: No. My Palantir…it… Look this is not the time to be messing up our script.
(Caspian walks passed them but Trufflehunter stays and starts sniffing the air.)
Nikabrik: What is it? What do you smell?
Trufflehunter: Man flesh.
Nikabrik motioning towards Caspian: Who? Him?
Trufflehunter: No. (*looks back at where they came*) Them!
(Caspian, Nikabrik, and Trufflehunter look to see a company of Telmarine soldiers armed with crossbows and swords.)
Nikabrik: They must have picked up our trail.
Trufflehunter: Let's move!
(Caspian, Nikabrik, and Trufflehunter start running. A Telmarine Captain loads his crossbow when he sees the three running.)
Captain 5: There pace has quickened. They must have caught our scent. (*turns to his soldiers*) Hurry!
Soldier 72: Ah man! And we were so good at sneaking up on them.
Sergeant 2 turns to his soldiers: Come on you idiots.
(The whole company moves forward all except one soldier who is actually a hobbit enlisted into Miraz's army. He is breathing hard under the weight of the armor and weapons on him and stops walking.)
Pippin: Three hours of days pursuit. No food. No rest. No sign of my Longbottom Leaf but what bear bush can tell.
(The Telmarine soldiers unleash a rain of shafts and darts at Caspian and his two friends. Caspian and his two friends run down a steep hill and disappear out of sight. The Captain runs up ahead and sees a boot print and stops running.)
Captain 5: Not idly to the boots of Telmar fall.
(Sergeant 2 runs up to him.)
Sergeant 2: He may yet be alive.
Captain: Less then 20 yards ahead of us! Come!
(They run down the hill after Caspian and continue unleashing darts at them. One dart hits Trufflehunter in the leg and he stumbles over. Nikabrik turns around.)
Nikabrik: Oh no.
Caspian: No wait! I'll go.
(Caspian runs over to Trufflehunter and starts picking him up. Trufflehunter takes out the megaphone and hands it to Caspian.)
Trufflehunter: Take it! It's more important then I am!
(Caspian hurriedly slings the megaphone over his shoulder and picks Trufflehunter up and starts running away and catches up with Nikabrik. He gives him Trufflehunter.)
Caspian: Get out of here!
(Caspian draws his sword out. The men have Caspian in there sights, when one of them men cries out and falls down. The bushes start rustling among them and another falls down. And another. The company continues running toward Caspian but one by one, more Telmarine soldiers fall down. Finally there is only one soldier left and he drops his crossbow and pulls out a tazer and starts pressing the button in every direction around him.)
Sergeant 2: Ah! Where are you? You little LGM! Come out!
(Sergeant 2 accidentally shocks his leg and falls down. The bushes then start rustling again and start heading toward Caspian. Caspian is about to strike when he gets knocked down, a green figure lands on his stomach, and pulls out it's small lightsaber.)
Yoda: Choose your words carefully, Sith!
Caspian: May the Force be with you.
Yoda sighing: I was hoping for something less…
(Caspian hears two taps behind Yoda's back and Yoda falls over to the side, unconscious. Replacing Yoda's place is one large mouse who pulls out his sword by the help of his tail and points it at Caspian.)
Reepicheep: Choose your words carefully, Telmarine!
Caspian: You're a mouse.
Reepicheep sighing: I was hoping for something a little more original. Pick up your sword.
(Caspian looks at his sword and then at Reepicheep.)
Caspian: Uh, no thanks.
Reepicheep: Pick it up! I will not fight an unarmed Jedi.
Caspian: Which is why I might live a little longer if I choose not to cross lightsabers with you noble mouse.
Reepicheep: I said I would not fight you. (*points his sword at Caspian again*) I didn't say I would let you live!
Trufflehunter: Reepicheep, stay your blade!
(Reepicheep looks up to see Trufflehunter and Nikabrik.)
Reepicheep: Trufflehunter? I hope you have a very good reason for this untimely interruption.
Nikabrik to Reepicheep: He doesn't. Go ahead.
Trufflehunter: He's the one that called through the megaphone.
(Reepicheep looks at Caspian with an accusing glance of amazement.)
Reepicheep: What?
Glenstorm: Then let him bring it forward!
(All four of them look up to see a company of centaurs and a centaur named Glenstorm looking down on them.)
Glenstorm: This is the reason why we have gathered.
(Meanwhile, the Pevensies and Trumpkin are walking through a maze of big rocks and boulders with Peter leading them.)
Susan: I have no memory of this place.
Peter: That's the thing about girls. They don't carry a map in their heads.
Lucy smiling: That's because our heads always have something inside them.
Susan: I wish he had listened to the DLF in the first place.
Edmund: DLF?
Lucy: Dear Little Friend.
(Trumpkin stops walking.)
Trumpkin: Oh. That's not patronizing at all, is it?
(Peter stops when he comes to several paths leading in several directions and starts circling around.)
Peter to himself: I'm not lost.
Trumpkin: No. (*jumps down from a rock*) You're just going the wrong way.
Peter: You last saw Caspian in the frozen woods. And the quickest way there, is to cross at the River Rush.
Trumpkin: But unless, I'm mistaken, there's no longer any frozen woods. There's a forest called the Shuddering Woods.
Peter: That explains it then! (*points to a melting icicle under a rock*) I'm…you're mistaken.
(Peter continues leading them until they come to the River Rush. Peter looks down to see a deep gorge, 150 feet down, with the river at the very bottom.)
Susan to Peter: You see, every time water passes through hear, it erodes the land and rock creating a…
Peter: Oh, shut up.
Edmund to Trumpkin: Is there any other way down?
Trumpkin: Yeah. Falling.
Peter: Well we weren't lost.
Trumpkin: There's a ford near Beruna that we can cross. How do you feel like swimming?
(Susan turns to go.)
Susan: Sound's better then walking.
(The four turn to go but Lucy stays behind when she sees Aslan.)
Lucy: Aslan? Aslan!
(The Pevensies and Trumpkin turn around. Lucy smiles at them.)
Lucy: Aslan! He's right over there!
(She looks back and sees that Aslan is gone.)
Trumpkin: Do you see him, now?
Lucy: He was there.
Peter: I'm sure there's any number of lions in these woods, Lucy. Just like when you saw Gollum.
Lucy: I think I know Aslan when I see him.
(Peter thinks for a moment.)
Peter: Why didn't I see him?
Lucy: Maybe you were wearing your contact lenses.
(Peter looks at Trumpkin.)
Trumpkin: Look, I'm not going to jump off a cliff after someone that doesn't exist.
(Peter continues thinking and deciding.)
Edmund: The last time I didn't trust Lu, I ended up being pretty stupid.
(Peter looks at Lucy with regret.)
Peter: I'm sorry Lu.
(Peter issues leading them with Susan and Trumpkin following him. Edmund gives Lucy a knowing smile and motions for her to come. She looks at Edmund, and then back where she saw Aslan, and follows Peter. Meanwhile, at the Dancing Lawn, which is actually the Accusing Lawn, the Narnians are shouting accusations and disapprovals against Caspian (like Liar! Murderer! Thief! Kill him!) who looks at them all with fear and amazement to see so many.)
Nikabrik pointing at Caspian: All this megaphone proves, is that they've stolen yet another thing from us.
Caspian: I didn't steal anything.
Minotaur 1: Didn't steal anything? (*shoves his axe at Caspian*) Shall we give him a list of the things they've stolen?
Centaur mom 9: Our homes.
Dwarf 6: Our lives.
Faun 15: Our freedom!
Nikabrik: And our twinkies!
Deer 4: You stole Narnia!
(Narnians shout in approval.)
Caspian: You'd accuse me for all the crimes of my people?
Nikabrik: Accusable? And punishable.
Reepicheep: Ha! That's rich coming from you, dwarf. (*draws his sword and waves it at Nikabrik*) Or have you forgotten that it was your people who fought along the side of the White Witch.
Nikabrik taps Reepicheep's sword away: And I'd gladly do it again. If it would only rid us of these barbarians.
(Some Narnians shout in approval.)
Trufflehunter: Well then it is a good thing that it is not in your power to do it. Or would you have this boy go against Harry Potter, now?
Narnian Crowd: Yes! Yes! Yes!
Trufflehunter grumbling: I meant Aslan.
Narnian Crowd: Well then No! No! No!
Trufflehunter: All you creatures may have forgotten, but we badgers remember well. That Narnia was never right, until a son of Adam became King.
Nikabrik at Trufflehunter: He's a Telmarine! Why would we want him as our King?
(Narnian Crowd shouts in approval again.)
Caspian to Nikabrik: Because I can help you.
Centaur 7: To death with him!
Faun 2: At least hear him out!
(Caspian looks all around at the Narnian crowd.)
Caspian: Outside these woods, I'm a prince. The Telmarine throne is rightfully mine! Help me, and I can help you to regain Narnia.
(Glenstorm steps out.)
Glenstorm: It is true. The time is ripe. I watch the skies for it is mine to watch (*looks at Trufflehunter*) as it is your's to remember, badger. Tarva the lord of victory, and Alambil the lady of peace; have come together in the high heavens. And now, a son of Adam has come forth. To offer us back our freedom.
Nikabrik adds: And our twinkies.
Squirrel on Tree to Caspian: Do you really think that we could get back our twinkies? I mean, do you mean it? I mean, Really?
Caspian: Two days ago, I did not believe in the existence of talking animals. And yet here you are, in strength and numbers that we Telmarines could never have imagined. (*holds up megaphone*) And whether this megaphone is loud or not, it deafened our ears and brought us together. And together, we can take back our hearing and what is our's.
(Sparse applause ensues from the Narnian crowd.)
Glenstorm: If you will lead us, (*draws his sword*) My sons and I offer you our swords.
(More swords and blades get drawn out and held towards Caspian. Reepicheep draws his sword and salutes.)
Reepicheep to Caspian: And we offer our lives, unreservedly.
Trufflehunter: Miraz's army will not be far behind, sire.
Caspian: We must gather and collect as many men and weapons as we can. (*looks at Glenstorm*) I'm certain that he will come.
(Meanwhile, at the river of Beruna, men are hammering and sawing trees and building a wooden bridge. The Pevensies and Trumpkin come up from the forest and survey the work. They duck down when Lord Miraz comes riding in to inspect the work. Peter, Trumpkin, and the rest leave and go back to the spot where Lucy saw Aslan.)
Peter to Lucy: So where do you think you saw him?
(Lucy sighs.)
Lucy: