Barnes Railway Bridge, One of the Bridges over the Thames.

Sunday, August 7th,1898:

A group of aristocrats, to be more precise, the Grey family, were boarding a train out of the city.

Mr. Grey: "Ah, look my dear. There´s seats here"

He said as he boarded the train.

Mrs. Grey: "But its so full of people! Really, must we pack and run like this?"

Mrs. Grey let her son sit next to her.

Mrs. Grey: "You sit there child"

grabbed the bags.

Mr. Grey: "Dearest, it's only temporary, because of the meteorites. We´ll be home soon, you´ll see"

Mrs. Grey: "Oh, now it's hardly moving. All these people I expect. Oh, it's all too bad. I´d had those lovely new curtains delivered..."

Mr. Grey: "They'll still be safe w\hen we get back, old thing. Now chin up, eh?"

As they talked, the boy looked at the window and was shocked to see something tall and mechanical coming towards them.

Mrs. Grey: "But really! Those announcements, saying everyone south of the river should evacuate. I have never known anything like it."

They boy tried to reach his father's hand

Jimmy Grey: "Father…"

Mr. Grey: "Just a moment lad, your mother and I are talking. Darling, you musn't let things like this upset you"

Mr. Grey turned back to his wife

Mrs. Grey: "I know, its just that our lives were in that house. When I think..."

Jimmy pointed at the window in panic

Jimmy: "FATHER! LOOK AT IT!"

He only saw tendrils shifting on the other side of the window.

Mr. Grey: "Good god, what on earth is-"

Before he could finish, the tripod lifted a tentacle and slammed it down on the track, destroying it. The train was derailed and came crashing down into the water

Chapter Four: All Creatures Great and Small

Corpses, wreckage and bags sank deeper into the River Thames. The young boy popped out of the water, hanging onto his father's suitcase for dear life.

Jimmy Grey: "Oh. Oh...Mother! Father..."

Much to his horror. The sight of what was left was entirely terrifying, there being scraps of metal on the water and corpses on the water, sometimes the later being impaled by the former. The boy was shocked at the sight. For better or for worse, he couldn't locate his parents. He saw that he was alone, surrounded by death.

Jimmy Grey: "Oh no. Oh, please. Please, I don't want to…"

The boy was stopped on mid sentence when he realized he was standing up in something...But where? The water was deep. Suddenly, under him, something rose up. Bubbles began to surround him in a circle. He was standing on something metal.

Jimmy Grey: "Wh-?"

Something reddish rose. It was as if he was on a metal fish. It continued to rise. He looked forward and saw that he was on some kind of boat. He looked up into the blue sky. He spotted a balloon floating by, which seemed to mean hope to the boy. Another sign of life in the sky away from the monster's reach. He then spotted the device again, the horrifying machine on three legs, which had walked passed and through the destroyed bridged, turned around as if it noticed it has missed one and confronted the mechanical whale the boy was on. Young Jimmy turned around and gasped at the face of a large undersea monster made of metal before his eyes told him it was only a figurehead. A cannon rose up from its back pointed upward. A shirtless but muscular man was in the gun's seat. The large cannon's nose had risen up and into view. The monster appeared to charge up a device ready to fire. The cannon aimed and shot first, hitting the terrible machine.

There was an explosion sending chunks of flaming metal everywhere. The heat device misfired and went off into the River, which boiled. Ismael's head popped out of the open hatch!

Ishmael: "That thing's boiling the river!"

It was true the act of the machine falling into the Thames was now boiling the entire river.

The Tripod legs stood upright and fell to the side. Chunks clanged and bounced off the submarine. Jimmy saw a big piece falling towards him.

Jimmy Grey: "AAAAH! Oh Lord! Lord Save me!"

Ishmael: "Grab the lad Jack, before the steam cooks him!"

Jimmy Grey: "AAAA!"

The man at the cannon's head jolted and he took off running like an athlete towards the boy.

Broad Arrow Jack: "Leave it to me, Mr. Mate"

The man with a tattoo quickly grabbed the scared boy and pulled him away where the flaming debris came crashing down. The child was panicking.

Jimmy Grey: "No! Who are you? Please, my mother and father…!"

Broad Arrow Jack: "They're dead lad. They have to be! you have to be a man up now!"

He said shaking him by the shoulders. The realization hit and he stopped screaming as he was brought inside.

Jimmy Grey: "No! Mother…"

He was brought inside and the hatch was closed. The Nautilus submerged, leaving only death and wreckage behind.

Broad Arrow Jack, the shirtless man, carried the boy down a flight of stairs and with one hand, offered him to the kinder Ishmael

Ishmael: "There, easy as you go lad, it's all right…"

The young Jimmy allowed himself to be passed along when he spotted Nemo standing before a large window into the Thames, which was far from a pretty sight with the pollution and the remains of the train, bridge and tripod floating around, making the Captain appear to be the menacing mastermind responsible for the attack. Next to him was a large manlike beast sitting and staring back at him. The creature's eyes bulged out in a face meant to scare the boy. The steering wheel was in the form of a multi armed Goddess. He was too young to identify it as Shiva-Nataraja, the lord of the cosmic dance.

Ishmael put down the boy and with a hand on his shoulder navigated the frightened child towards Nemo.

Ishmael: "It´s the one we surfaced beneath, Captain. Only Survivor….We've picked up another orphan."

Ishmael had been left the sole survivor of a disaster at sea courtesy of Moby Dick. He hated to see it happen to someone so young.

Hyde turned uninterested towards the boy.

Mr. Hyde: "What's he blubbering for? I'll give him something to cry about"

Nemo: "Hyde, He's only a child."

Mr. Hyde: "I know what children look like Nemo. I've often scraped them off my boots.

Captain Nemo: "That's enough. Find the boy dry clothes, . And give him some broth. Put his ashore when we dock at Wapping"

Ishmael: "Aye Aye, Captain. Come on, boy. Let's get you shipshape."

He guided Jimmy away who was awestruck at the Captain's appearance. Hyde and nemo looked back at the river as debris fell.

Mr. Hyde: "Hurnh. Children. It's the way they look at you I can't stand. You know Nemo, that wasn't a bad shot for a wog."

Captain Nemo: "Thank you. It's a pity I couldn't navigate the locks to shepperton, but I hear artillery have downed one invader there by themselves. "

The Thames had a series of locks put in place to control its flow. The Shepperton lock was on the Windsor-to-Twickenham stretch of the Thames. Reaching the locks would make travel easier. The Defeat of the Tripod was witnessed by the chronicler H.G. Wells.

" In another moment it was on the bank, and in a stride wading halfway across. The knees of its foremost legs bent at the farther bank, and in another moment it had raised itself to its full height again, close to the village of Shepperton. Forthwith the six guns which, unknown to anyone on the right bank, had been hidden behind the outskirts of that village, fired simultaneously. The sudden near concussion, the last close upon the first, made my heart jump. The monster was already raising the case generating the Heat-Ray as the first shell burst six yards above the hood.
I gave a cry of astonishment. I saw and thought nothing of the other four Martian monsters; my attention was riveted upon the nearer incident.
Simultaneously two other shells burst in the air near the body as the hood twisted round in time to receive, but not in time to dodge, the fourth shell.
The shell burst clean in the face of the Thing. The hood bulged, flashed, was whirled off in a dozen tattered fragments of red flesh and glittering metal.
Then I saw them dimly, colossal figures of grey, magnified by the mist. They had passed by me, and two were stooping over the frothing, tumultuous ruins of their comrade.'

Captain Nemo: "According to my courier, a second Tripod retrieved its comrade's remains…"

Mr. Hyde: "That's very touching. They're as weak and sentimental as people, then?"

Captain Nemo: "No. They just don't want us studying their engineering. Bring that wreckage aboard, Broad Arrow Jack. Use the tentacles."

Broad Arrow Jack: "Right you are, sir."

He said as he saluted.

The tentacles came off of the side of the Nautilus shot out and began to grab pieces of the Tripod from the bottom of the river.

Mr. Hyde: "Hurrh. Well hurry up. I want to kill more slug. Otherwise I might as well be off somewhere taking it easy, like Mina and Quatermain."

Captain Nemo: "Patience. There will be enough killing soon. As for Quatermain and Miss Harker. I doubt very much that anything is easy."

South Downs
Allan and Mina tredged through a perfect field of grass. It was a beautiful sgh. Untouched by the invasion. There were horses nearby, black beauties grazing in majestic fields.

Mina Harker: "Keep up."

Mina was ahead of Quatermain, garbed in white safari like clothing as was Allan.

Allan Quatermain: "Bugger it. I can't. I'm old, Mina. I'm bloody old. That's why fatty Holmes sent me out here to the South Down with you, because I'm only fit for…"

Mina Harker: "Women's work?"

Allan Quatermain: "That...Blast it, that's not what I meant. Why do women have to turn everything around? I'm just fed up. I don't know what we're doing here.

Mina Harker: "We're looking for someone. Who's somewhere around here."

Allan Quatermain: "Yes. And we've no blasted idea who, and we've no blasted idea where. If this chap's so secret even Holmes doesn't know where he is…

Mina Harker: Then he must be very important. You're tired Allan. We didn't sleep.

Allan Quatermain: Yes, well, by the time we'd found our lodgings, it was light. And what was all that "Mr. and Mrs. Quatermain" stuff about?"

Mina Harker: "Nothing. It's just cover we've used before. When we caught Griffin remember?"

Allan Quatermain: "Hmph. Yes. I remember. Griffin. Talking about invisible men, the way that one treated you. I wish the blighter were her now."

Mina Harker: "Don't say that, Allan. He might be."

Allan Quatermain: "Oh. Yes. Yes, I suppose you're right. Fine time to bring it up, though, with these dark woods looming.

They were now approaching the large woods which seemed more like a jungle.

Mina Harker: "They're all we have. M. Said our mystery man maintained a mobile base in the forest, so that no one knew where he was."

Allan Quatermain: "Jolly thoughtful of him. Mina, do you have any idea how big these bloody woods are?

Mina Harker: "No. I only know that we have to find this person and that complaining won't make it any easier. Why don't you just concentrate on the task at hand."

Allan Quatermain: "Huh. Yes, I suppose I should, At least until the Spacemen come and fry us both."

Mina Harker: "Oh, do be quiet. It's a lovely summer's day and the birds are singing, flowers are blooming, bountiful nature, and all so green…"

"Oh, don't you be fooled. It's red."

Allan and Mina turned around sharply.

"Red in Tooth and Claw"

Standing there was a familiar figure.

"Hello Mina. Did you miss me?"

London Dock
The Nautilus had reached port. It bellowed smoke into the form of a question mark as large cranes aided in reloading it. More importantly. All three men of the Nautilus were seeing off the young boy. Ishmael was bringing him.

Jimmy Grey: "I never met someone from another land before, and no one as nice as the Captain."

Broad Arrow Jack: "He's nice to everyone even his hostages. Glad you're not one of them."

Ishmael: "The two best men I've ever known as our Indian Captain and a Polynesian Cannibal."

Two British police officers had come to retrieve him. They were waiting on the grey stone dock.

Captain Nemo: "Well, boy, here is where we put you off. The constables will see you are entrusted with relatives. What is your name lad?"

Jimmy Grey: "Grey, sir. Jimmy Grey. Y-your metal fish is very grand, sir. One day, god willing, I shall build one myself"

Captain Nemo smiled at the child

Captain Nemo: "Well then.."

He turned around. Ishmael and Broad Arrow Jack did the same and all three walked back to the craft. The Captain mustered his grandest smile and raised his arm.

Captain Nemo: "Good luck, boy!"

He said as the door to the Nautilus rose up, dripping with water and closed. The top of the craft spouted a huge geyser. Hyde approached Nemo

Mr. Hyde: "Huhn. Cabin Boy safely ashore, is he? Perhaps we can get on with our work now?"

Captain Nemo: "Protecting the innocent is our work, creature"

Mr. Hyde: "No, killing Mars-men, that's our work. And Griffin, when I find him-"

Captain Nemo: "You heard Miss Harker, Griffin has nothing to do with this, she claimed that the way he talked...The way he laughed, it was different from our twisted comrade"

Mr. Hyde: "Well, whoever was the bastard, once I find him, he will wish he hadn't been born"

Captain Nemo: "If we find him, which is not likely, we don't even know who he is"

Mr. Hyde: "...But we know someone that might…"

Captain Nemo: "Besides, if I were Miss Harker, I should not like to miss that event. She would want to be there for"

Mr. Hyde: "...No...I don't believe she would. She is different from us, Nemo. And she's better off where she is"

South Downs

A man stood before Mina and Allan.

"Hello Mina. Did you miss me?"

Mina Harker: "Jonathan!"

She ran up and hugged him. Allan scratched his head.

Allan Quatermain: "Jonathan eh? Mina talked quite a bit about you."
Mina: Yes but why are you here? Who is looking after Quincy?

Jonathan Harker: "Seward is watching over Quincy."

Allan Quatermain: "But why were you sent here? Did Mycroft think our role as Husband and wife was not convincing?"

Jonathan Harker: "I suppose he believed an authentic couple would fit the bill. However one thing he did not inform me of is why he asked me to come out here to the Hundred Acre Woods simply to meet my wife and an elderly thought dead explorer."

Mina Harker: "Our benefactor has also withheld information from us. Perhaps he left you a piece to a puzzle."

Jonathan Harker: "Well he mentioned that a man named Edward Prendick has an estate up here."

Mina Harker: "Perhaps he is the one we are to find."

Allan Quatermain: "No it would not be so easy but perhaps he may provide an inclination."

The three marched through the large woods to an opening. There was a man reclining in a seat in the sun. His eyes opened slowly when the three stepped in front of sunlight. His eyes peered open life a sleeping infant and then widened in shock as he sat up.

Edward Prendick: "The stars...They told me I would meet new people...That is, if you are people"

He jumped to his feet and began to feel Allan's face, tugging at the flaps of aged flesh. Quatermain slapped him away.

Allan Quatermain: "Keep your distance! Of course we are people, what else could we be?"

Mina Harker: "Allan, dont shout"

Edward Prendick: "Oh where are my manners."

He held a hand out.

Edward Prendick: "Prendrick. Eddie Prendrick. I´m so glad they have listened to me, and sent someone to find him"

Mina wasn't sure what was more annoying, this man´s insanity, or the fact that his way of introducing himself was similar than Campion Bond´s.

Mina Harker: "That...That would rather depend on whom it is you suppose us to be looking for"

Edward Prendick: "Why the Doctor of course"

Prendick started doing weird movements with his hands as if he was a stage magician.

Edward Prendick: "Everyone thought he´d died on his island, of course I may have helped in that regard but I know what really happened. Rutting on all fours like-like...And the plump chap I met on my return. Government chap! He knew! You could see it. See it in his piggy eyes"

Mina Harker: "This man...Did he have a little moustache? Macassar oil in his hair?"

Edward Prendick: "That's him! And he knew about the island"

Mina Harker: "I'm sure he did"

Jonathan Harker: "And you say...this doctor is somewhere nearby"

Edward Prendick: "Well, yes, it's obvious, I have seen them, the ones he altered. You think they are people, but look closer! They are animals"

He pointed is hand at Quatermain

Edward Prendick: "What seems a man will have the eyes of an old hunting dog"

He points his hand at Jonathan

Edward Prendick: "Perhaps the teeth of a bat, filthy blood suckers"

He pointed his hand to Mina

Edward Prendick: "Or perhaps they're feline. Soft and sleek to all appearances, but stealthy! Vicious! Do you know the type of whom I speak madam? Hm? Yes...Yes I rather think that you do!"

Jonathan Harker: "What on earth are you talking about?!"

Edward Prendick: "Oh yes. I should explain. He would want me to explain. But yes I shouldn't the Doctor wouldn't want me. But I should. I told that I found an island where a mad Doctor and his assistant Montgomery were doing experiments in vivisection on animals to make them more like people. I said that the animals turned on their masters and killed the two men and I escaped but that's not true. Only Montgomery was killed. The Doctor wanted to start from scratch. He made me swear not to tell anyone. Burned the island. A fresh start."

Mina: "A Fresh Start where?"

Edward Prendick: "I tried to rejoin the humans but my trouble took the strangest form. I could not persuade myself that the men and women I met were not also another Beast People, animals half wrought into the outward image of human souls, and that they would presently begin to revert,—to show first this bestial mark and then that. But I have confided my case to a strangely able man,—a man who had known Moreau, this fat man, and seemed half to credit my story; a mental specialist,—and he has helped me, though I do not expect that the terror of that island will ever altogether leave me. At most times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, a memory, and a faint distrust; but there are times when the little cloud spreads until it obscures the whole sky. Then I look about me at my fellow-men; and I go in fear. I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere,—none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them; that presently the degradation of the Islanders will be played over again on a larger scale. I know this is an illusion; that these seeming men and women about me are indeed men and women,—men and women for ever, perfectly reasonable creatures, full of human desires and tender solicitude, emancipated from instinct and the slaves of no fantastic Law,—beings altogether different from the Beast Folk. Yet I shrink from them, from their curious glances, their inquiries and assistance, and long to be away from them and alone. For that reason I live near the broad free down-land, and can escape thither when this shadow is over my soul; and very sweet is the empty downland then, under the wind-swept sky."

Jonathan took a deep sigh and put a supportive hand on Prendick's shoulder.

Jonathan: "You may not believe I'm human but I too was prisoner to a madman, surrounded by hideous beasts and I too rejoined the world, growing used to seeing monsters and sharp teeth where they were none, but I can tell you that it is possible with a strong pillar. All became better the moment I was back in London with Mina."

Edward Prendick: "Back in London? When I lived in London the horror was well-nigh insupportable. I could not get away from men: their voices came through windows; locked doors were flimsy safeguards. I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealousy at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer dripping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibbing children. Then I would turn aside into some chapel,—and even there, such was my disturbance, it seemed that the preacher gibbered "Big Thinks," even as the Ape-man had done; or into some library, and there the intent faces over the books seemed but patient creatures waiting for prey. Particularly nauseous were the blank, expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone. And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone, like a sheep stricken with gid."

He retreated into his sadness once again.

Edward Prendick: "And even now I am not alone."

At this the faces of the three newcomers looked around expecting to see eyes watching them.

Edward Prendick: "I have said too much already"

Prendick turned his back

Edward Prendick: "D-Don't try to follow me! I have set traps for your sort! TRAPS!"

Prendick started running while doing what would be unsure to be laugher or screams

Jonathan Harker: "What a peculiar fellow"

Allan Quatermain: "I´ll say. That doctor he spoke of. You don't suppose it's the chinaman?"

Mina Harker: "No...This is someone different, The Devil Doctor hates all things western from what I read on him hence why he chose the Limehouse district as a base. He wouldn't use such an island,but the fat man he mentioned, that has to be our Mr. Bond"

Allan Quatermain: "Ah, yes, I see."

Jonathan Harker: "So then the doctor we are searching for and the one from our lunatic friend´s island"

Mina Harker: "...Are the same man. Yes, I think that's highly likely. Come on, let's explore these woods"

They entered to the woods and found massive trees.

Allan Quatermain: "...Africa"

Jonathan Harker: "...What?"

Allan Quatermain: "Oh, just talking to myself, really. I was just thinking that this feels like Africa somehow. If I didn't know better, I'd swear there was game here."

Jonathan Harker: "What in Sussex?"

Mina Harker: "Well, I suppose there are rabbits"

Allan Quatermain: "No, I mean big game. Tiger. Bear. I can almost smell it on the breeze. And that feeling of being watched by hidden eyes"

Jonathan Harker: "Allan, no offense, but I think Pendrick might have gotten you paranoiac"

Mina Harker: "I hadn't noticed anything like that. All this hunter talk´s jolly stirring though."

She shot a glance at Jonathan with a blush.

Allan Quatermain: "Stirring?"

Mina Harker: "Nevermind" She said smirkin

Jonathan Harker: "If it makes you feel better the presence of that mad man, Prendick might be a good sign, judging that he seems obsessed with this mysterious doctor, especially considering what he told us about before running in fear"

Mina Harker: "Jonathan has a point, his proximity means we are close. Perhaps this "island" was a previous base"

Allan Quatermain: "Yes. That chap said something about everyone thinking our doctor was dead. If military intelligence had simply moved him here...Well, that fits with their usual tactics. I mean, Im supposedly dead. Griffin, Hyde, Nemo...Moriarty"

Jonathan Harker: "I just hope a certain transylvanian count Im thinking on stays dead…"

Mina Harker: "Would never agree more with you darling. Staged deaths seem to be rather a speciality. I wonder about M´s brother. He didn't seem too saddened about it and there are rumors circulating but Dr. Watson has yet to publish anymore accounts since the incident at Reichenbach Falls. We´ll search a little longer, shall we? If we have no luck, we can return to our inn and plan for tomorrow""

Allan Quatermain: "Suits me. Frankly, I´d rather be facing space-man with Hyde and Nemo than tramping through this shrubbery"

Mina Harker: "Oh Allan, dont be so dreary about everything"

Jonathan Harker: "So...Do you have more stories about hunting trips Mr. Quatermain?"

As they progressed through the forest, something seemingly like a clothed bear started approaching.

The River Thames, London
The City burned as three Martian Tripods destroyed all in their path. The bridge was overcrowded with people. Nemo and Hyde stood on the surface of the Nautilus, keeping their eyes on the distant crafts and the people fleeing in panic.

Captain Nemo: "Ishmael, if one of them approaches Blackfriar's bridge, try to put a round beneath its canopy. Failing that, collapse the bridge"

Ishmael: "Aye aye, sir!"

Mr. Hyde: "Collapse the bridge? With all those innocent lives? Ohhh, Nemo!"

Captain Nemo: "Do not mock me, horror. The thames´s London's moat now...And whatever measures are necessary to contain our problem south of the river, those measures will be taken"

Mr. Hyde: "Huh, goodbye South London then"

Captain Nemo: "Possibly. If we are fortunate, there are no more canisters to come. Those creatures already here can destroy so much...As for the population, hopefully they can escape in time. We must save as many we can. Even if they are only…."

Mr. Hyde: "Human?"

Captain Nemo: "English"

The Olde Stumpe

The Olde Stumpe was an inn by the side of the road. Which the Harkers and Quatermain were to spend the night.

Allan Quatermain:"...Just saying that if we find nothing tomorrow, we should return to…"

The landlady walked down the stairs.

Mina Harker: "Hush, Allan. Miss Mopp. Good evening."

Miss Hopp:"Evenin', Mr. and Mrs. Quatermain."

Jonathan: "I hope you don't mind, unexpected circumstances have forced my Grandfather Allan to stay with us. I've trust you've heard of the news from London."

Miss Hopp: "Oh yes I'm terribly sorry."

Jonathan Harker: "Yes, and if it's quite acceptable we'd like to have...separate rooms. Well pay for the difference of course."

Miss Hopp: "I don't see why not. Shall I do you now for supper, or will you be going straight up"

Mina Harker: "Oh Jonathan and I would like to retire early."

Jonathan Harker: "I'm sure Grandpa Allan would love some supper."

Miss Hopp: "Well, I'll do you for breakfast at eight sharp, if that's all right?"

Mina Harker: "I'm sure that will be most adequate. Come along, dear."

She opened the door and Jonathan took one look back before entering.

Once inside he shut the door and turned to Mina.

Mina Harker: "What on earth was that?"

Jonathan Harker: "I was only keeping up 're on a highly confidential mission, purporting to be a happily married couple."

Mina Harker: "We...are...a happily married couple….aren't we?"

Jonathan's face shifted to a look of sadness.

Jonathan Harker:"...Well I could hardly book separate rooms, Could we?"

Both their faces sank into depression.

Mina Harker: "What happened to us?"

Jonathan Harker: "Dracula happened."

Mina Harker: "How could one person tear us apart so much?...Maybe we should have divorced after all."

Jonathan Harker: "No. I couldn't do that to you. You'd have been disgraced."

Mina Harker: "Jonathan, you are damaged while I am disgraced and disregarded by the world. Now if you wouldn't mind…"

She lowered her dress to reveal the top of her corset.

Mina Harker: "Would you like to unfasten this wretched thing?"

Jonathan approached and undid the top.

Mina got into bed nude. Jonathan lowered his pants to do the same and then got into bed. He turned to face his wife.

Jonathan Harker:"Mina? We've drifted apart. Why should now be any different? During the war, during the uncertainty…"

Mina Harker: "Because of the war. Because of the uncertainty."

In London the Tripods stood in London engulfed in flame. People burned to a script. Inside the Nautilus behind a sealed metal door came heavy pounding.

Captain Nemo:"What's that noise? Where is it coming from?"

Broad Arrow Jack pointed to the door from behind came the heavy pounding.

Broad Arrow Jack:"It's your monster Chap, Captain. Hyde. He's with the the Mars wreckage we salvaged earlier."

The two reached the hatch and turned it to open the door.

Captain Nemo:"But that clanging! It's like a church-bell! What he doing with…"

The door opened.

Captain Nemo:"oh."

Hyde stood in a boxer's stance with his fists raised. His knuckles were bleeding and he was shirtless. He roared and punched the piece of metal, which had several indents on its side. He was using the wreckage as a punching bag.

And as Hyde punched in rage and the loud pounding of metal echoed through the Nautilus, Jonathan harker thrusted into his wife. Mina let out moans. Eventually the two switched Mina, still wearing her scarf sat on Jonathan's hips.

Woking Crater
An invisible voice spoke to a group of the Molluscs, pictures were drawn in the sand with a stick.

"You see, what it is, It's a Submarine. It goes under the water. Under the river, yes? That's right. Like a Fish."

"This is what's stopping you from crossing the Thames. Do you understand" This Submarine. You have to do something to destroy it. You have to do something to the river."

The Old Stumpe
Mina's scarf fell away from her neck and Jonathan gazed upon her scars. The red gashes across her neck. His eyes widened in horror and he stopped.

Jonathan Harker:" I'm...I'm sorry Mina"

She felt her neck and then looked back to her husband in sadness.

Mina Harker: "Not quite the two discreet puncture-marks of legends, were they?"

Jonathan reached towards his own neck to feel his scars and then sat up. All over his back were the large gashes and scars left behind by the Count's Vampiric Brides. He looked like a whipped man.

Jonathan Harker: "No. No they are not."