MALPRADE OIL RIG,
SOUTH CHINA SEA.
A huge oil rig deep in the middle of the hot sea, burning sun casting down on clear blue ocean, a heavy security presence aboard. The two deathly black helicopter gunships are cruising through the sky towards the top deck of the rig, ready to land.
Marlin Vibert stood on the top deck in all his imposing glory, flanked by armed guards. He saw both gunships land before him. Out of one stepped Balfour, smugly holding Arkady at gunpoint, ushering him over to guards who surround the scientist.
Vibert approaches both, observing Arkady. "Doctor Damescu, you have a very talented daughter," the creepy bio-smuggler admitted. "It was she who gave me this indestructible armour."
Arkady nodded, proudly. "She is a wonderful girl, and if you harm her in any way, I'll-"
"You'll what?…" interjected Vibert, with the patronising laugh of a man who knows he's in control. "You're hardly in a position to demand, doctor. Don't worry, you'll soon be reunited with your daughter. Permanently."
Vibert nodded to his guards, who began carrying a fearful Arkady to the side, as he turned towards the pleased Balfour. "Let me see now, Reginald," he said, pacing round the diplomat. "You had yourself subjected to the first phase of cloning experiments, you fooled MI6 into believing you dead and you brought us a valuable hostage."
"I do as Mr Malprade commands." Balfour said, a loyal streak shining through.
"Good." Vibert nodded, with a grin. "Because Mr Malprade commands that your contract is fullfilled."
Vibert extends his hand to a guard, who promptly fills it with a gun. Casually, he fires a bullet into the chest of a shocked Balfour, killing him instantly, the man dropping dead. Vibert then sees Jacqual seductively step out of the second gunship and approach, kicking the limp diplomats body off the edge of the rig into the ocean below.
"You made it safe." Vibert said, addressing her. "Mr Malprade will be delighted."
"And the girl will come, soon enough." Jacqual confirmed, confidently. "With Bond."
"Good." said Vibert. "I owe him a painful demise."
Jacqual laughs as she and Vibert begin guiding a disturbed Arkady across the rig.
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A pair of hi-tech binoculars watch this from afar, observing the two villains guide the scientist toward a lift. The binoculars are held by James Bond, now in a speedboat around half-a-mile away out of sight of the bad guys with a concerned Nadia Damescu in tow.
"They've just delivered him." Bond announced, instantly worrying Nadia. "Is he hurt?…" she asked.
"No. But, the day is young." he admitted, putting the binoculars away, viewing the monstrous rig with interest.
Nadia was puzzled. "Why would Malprave be cloning people on an oil rig here?…"
"I'd suggest we knock on the front door and find out, but this place is heavily guarded." Said Bond, his mind ticking over about what their next step should be, as Nadia asked. "Then, how do we get inside?…"
Bond looked at her with a smile. "I think this calls for a diversion, don't you?…"
Nadia wondered what he meant as 007 hit the accelerator, the speedboat churning toward the rig.
On the top deck, Vibert and Jacqual descend down into the rig with Arkady and several armed guards on a futuristic elevator. The guards patrolling all of the rig decks begin to see the speedboat appear at super-fast speed, rapidly heading for the rig.
Drawing machine guns, the guards begin pouring bullets into the kamikaze speedboat, which explodes hugely just shy of hitting the rig. The moment it blows, Bond and Nadia emerge from the ocean near a jetty at the back of the rig, free of guards distracted by the boat.
007 climbs quickly onto the jetty, seeing Nadia horrified as Balfour's dead body floats past. "Oh, God…it's Balfour."
"Someone must have given him the bullet." quipped Bond, as he helped up Nadia onto the jetty, both heading into the rig with all security distracted. They soon see the lift descending, Vibert, Jacqual and Arkady heading down into the huge construction below.
"Where's that lift going?…" wondered Nadia.
Bond smiled. "Let's find out." he said as he opened a ladder hatch adjoining the descending lift and both quickly begin climbing down it, not being spotted by the villains.
U.S.S WASHINGTON,
SOUTH CHINA SEA.
A massive US Navy aircraft carrier powers it's way through the clear blue sea a few dozen miles away from the oil rig. On the top deck, a huge presence of Navy guards are around the G8 summit members, the leaders of the major industrial world powers.
Journalists from across the world are reporting live and awaiting a press conference from the world leaders, one for CNN.
"The USS Washington is transporting the G8 leaders, of the USA, France, China, Germany, India, Israel, Russia and England, to the summit location in Hong Kong, where such topics as the environment, Third World debt and the war on terrorism are on the agenda. It's hoped the summit will produce real breakthroughs for the future of the planet." the reporter said.
Surrounding the world leaders are a mass of secret service personnel. M is there, with Moneypenny. The two then see senior MI6 operations officer Bill Tanner approach.
"Any word on James?…" Moneypenny asked him.
Tanner nodded. "Bond just sent word. He's reached the coordinates, a Malprade oil rig. We've since lost contact."
"Let's hope he finds Dr. Damescu in time." admitted M, both Moneypenny and Tanner agree with their boss.
In a telescope-holding mast high above the top deck, a Navy Officer is on guard, now detecting something on his scope. He presses his intercom. "Bridge, mast tower. We have incoming traffic, over."
In the distance, a wave of speedboats are heading for the carrier.
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The bridge inside the carrier is large while being compact, a huge amount of officers working at stations all around. The tough Captain hears the intercom transmission, heading over to the radar.
"Do we have them on radar?…" he asked.
The Radar Officer nodded. "Yes, Captain, six unidentified craft heading bearing port and starboard, incoming fast."
"Send a communicay," the Captain ordered. "Order them to identify themselves."
"No response, Captain." the Comms Officer in the corner replied, concerning the commander.
A moment passed, at which point a cocksure presence arrives in the form of Damian Falco, the tough CIA chief in his forties, a confident swagger masking a man good at his job. He approaches the Captain, asking "What the hell's goin' down?…"
"Trouble," declared the Captain. "Raise our defences, sound the general alarm and ready weapons."
Falco observes the radar and looks over at a subordinate crewman. "Get the British up here, now." he ordered.
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The craft are a wave of black speedboats heading from both sides of the carrier, three on each side, filled with armed squads.
On a much bigger speedboat, Maximillian Malprade himself stands with Kai and Fai, clicking ready a machine gun rifle for immediate use.
POSEIDON SEA BASE,
SOUTH CHINA SEA
The ladder hatch bottom is kicked open by Bond, who jumps down into the room below, guiding Nadia down by the waist. "Where on Earth are we?…" she asked, surveying the surroundings.
"Below." Bond replied simply, seeing the room they'd landed in was a futuristic access room holding the lift, now abandoned. A stretch of multiple corridors are before them.
An entire underwater base beneath the oil rig is beyond.
007 and Nadia head into the corridors and are amazed to see they have huge windows showing the ocean all around, the base being massive.
"We're on the sea bed." Nadia realised. " A huge underwater base."
"For which that rig above must simply just be an access point." Bond declared.
Nadia didn't understand. "Why would Malprade have built this place?…"
"I doubt it's just for fishing." 007 quipped, heading carefully through the sea bed view corridor. Bond and Nadia begin to observe a guard presence hovering around a room in front. Keeping discreet, they watch the guards begin transporting crates of supplies.
"Looks like they're clearing out." Bond realised. "But, to where?…" wondered Nadia.
The guards head off down the corridor, allowing Bond and Nadia to enter the room ahead. The sight that greets them stuns both. "Oh, my God!…" exclaimed Nadia at the sight.
A huge chamber filled with cryogenic tanks holding an innumerable amount of test subjects in cloning experiments stretches out before them. Adjoining rooms and corridors stretch off at different points of the chamber, scientists and guards heading away with materials.
"This is incredible!…" declared an amazed Nadia. "There must be hundreds of people down here."
Bond nodded. "All guinea pigs in human cloning. I think now we know why Malprade built this place."
"We have to help these people." Nadia said, until Bond reminded her. "Let's help your father first."
007 headed off through the massive chamber, passing the multiple cryo-tubes as Nadia follows behind as she sees him heading off down a corridor where guards and scientists seem to be mainly heading.
She stops as she hears a struggle coming from a corridor the opposite way.
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Bond traversed the corridor and came out to a massive pen area, holding a submarine at a sealed watery dock, next to a cargo facility. He removed his hi-tech binoculars and takes a closer look, seeing Vibert ordering the submarine be stocked with bio-materials.
A number of other guards are planting C4 explosives ready to detonate around the rest of the pen, overseen by Vibert. Around him are eight familiar-looking men and women, who Vibert is debriefing, all listening and being commanded like automotons.
All look exactly like the G8 world leaders. 007 nodded, beginning to understand everything. "Poseidon is complete." he declared, looking round concerned when he gets no response from who he believes is behind him.
"Nadia?…"
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The sound of a struggle from a familiar voice is drawing Nadia into the corridor, her concern growing as she traverses a corridor from the clone chamber. She approaches a smaller cloning lab with one large cryo-tank which guards are now trying to force Arkady inside of.
He is struggling with all his might, breaking through as he sees Nadia enter. "My girl!…"
"Father!…" exclaimed a shocked Nadia, as, pushing past the guards, Arkady rushes toward her, stopping dead as he hears the click of a gun coming from the side.
Jacqual appears from the shadows holding a classic gun, which she fires at him, a bullet hitting Arkady square in the chest.
"No!…" shouted Nadia, the guards standing watching as she catches her father as he falls, bleeding profusely. She holds him in his arms as he gasps, reaches up to touch her face, and then dies. Nadia is left distraught at this, weeping loudly as Jacqual smiles.
The weeping grief soon turns to anger and Nadia lurches up towards the cocksure Jacqual, who points the gun straight at her. "Go ahead," she said. "Give me an excuse."
The anger barely stops Nadia, who freezes in front of the gun. "You bitch!…"
As Jacqual chuckles, Nadia's anger returns to sorrow and she drops her guard, weeping. Jacqual nods to the three guards, who move to grab Nadia. "Let her enjoy what was meant for her father."
The door suddenly opens and Bond enters with a jumping forward roll, firing expert gunshots at the three guards as he rolls. Just as he gets to his feet, Jacqual grabs Nadia and points the gun at her neck, smiling at seeing Bond aim his weapon at her.
He sees Arkady lying dead on the floor, a flicker of sadness crossing his face. He turns to Jacqual. "Let her go!…" he demanded.
Jacqual begins slowly inching back across the room onto one of four spherical areas. She drags Nadia tightly, painfully against her. 007 edges forward, becoming angrier.
"Let her go!…" he shouted, seeing Jacqual then inch onto the circular area, a glass panel shooting up around her and Nadia, becoming a futuristic lift. "James!…" she cried, the sound of her voice fading as the two women disappear into the floor.
At that exact moment, Bond sees the three other circle panel lifts shoot up, delivering extremely well-armed, armour protected guards. The three guards begin unloading a barrage of gunfire at him, he avoiding it by diving out through the door into the pen.
The gunfire is heard by the dozens of guards across the pen, who look up and see 007 dive out, landing on a top level. Vibert, shepherding his cloned world leaders into the submarine, sees Bond and grins.
"Get him!…" he bellowed. "Bring him to me!…"
From above, Bond dodges gunfire from the three armoured guards who appear behind him, running down the length of the corridor. He stops in a corner to put a new magazine into his gun, looking to see a floor lift deliver Jacqual and Nadia down by the sub.
Vibert briefly leers over Nadia before Jacqual carries her forcefully into the submarine, the clones having all now entered it. Realising what he must do, 007 sees a series of stairs leading into the cargo area and makes a dash for them across the corridor.
The guards on the cargo area all fire up at him with machine guns, bullets coming at Bond from all sides, he outrunning them. Reaching the stairwell, he dodges the gunfire and begins jumping down. He stops as guards begin coming up from the bottom.
Quickly, Bond dives off three flights from the bottom, landing in the cargo area, immediately diving behind cargo boxes. Vibert watches as the guards pummel gunfire into the cargo from where 007 tries to defend.
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A small submarine, docked in the pen, most of the space now being filled by the G8 clones.
All watch as Jacqual drags in Nadia, pushing her into a seat, strapping her down with a slight hint of lesbian sexual thrill.
Nadia looks at her with hatred as Jacqual begins powering up the submarine to depart.
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The final set of C4 explosives are set by several guards not far from the submarine, the timer beginning to count down. All three collapse as bullets hit them in the back from Bond's gun, he making a dash from behind the cargo boxes, shooting as he goes.
Bond runs toward the submarine as a barrage of gunfire comes in at him, Vibert standing nearby and watching with delight. "There's nowhere to run, Mr Bond!…" he growled.
The submarine's engine begins churning and the doors begin sealing up, doing so fully just as 007 arrives to get inside. The craft begins slowly heading for a sealed airlock, which opens up, allowing the submarine to glide through on it's way out the base.
Bond sees the doors starting to seal once more and after taking out a few more guards, dashes to the just set C4 explosives. He advances the timer to just ten seconds and legs it from gunfire, diving behind cargo boxes. He braces himself.
Vibert begins making a run for it the penny drops.
The explosives near the airlock doors explode hugely, blowing the doors off just as the submarine exits the base. The water from the ocean begins to cascade in the destroyed airlock, the guards all fearfully running for their lives.
Bond sees Vibert dive into a car on a base cargo rail track, speeding off and away, the railtrack doors starting to close. With all his might, 007 runs across the cargo bay as the water pours in behind, cascading towards him with extreme force.
He dives through the doors just as they seal, stopping the water. Bond lands in a second rail car, which he kicks into action, it soon careering down a huge tunneling section of railtrack devised for shipping cargo, filled with automated gun turrets lining the walls.
Bond flies through the track on his rail car, controlled with a joystick lever which either increases or decreases speed. The lever is hit for speed by Bond, who's car begins rapidly gaining on that used by Vibert, speeding through ahead of him.
The two cars begin to meet as the track begins dividing in two, Bond preparing to jump over onto Vibert's car to get the man. Vibert laughs as he reaches into the back and pulls out a machine gun as he swerves down an opposite track to the secret agent.
The two tracks are opposite a series of pillared walls, visible to each other. Vibert begins firing his gun through at Bond. The gun turrets lining the wall begin firing on cue, aiming square at 007's car as he speeds through, dodging bullets. He himself reaches into the back and pulls out a similar machine gun. Bond loads it ready and starts aiming at the gun turrets.
The turrets explode as Bond fires his bullets at them, blowing out before they can hurt him. Vibert keeps firing relentlessly. The two cars revert back to the same track, Vibert ahead with Bond right behind, the two channeling through a sea bed view tunnel.
The two stand up in their cars facing one another, firing huge barrages of ammunition at one another, the bullets almost colliding. Bond ducks but manages to get a round to hit Vibert square in the chest, he laughing as they bounce right off his bio-armour.
The laughter stops as Vibert runs out of ammo, dumps his machine gun aside and hits the lever stick for speed, he racing off. 007 stops firing and gives pursuit, not being able to catch up. He checks and sees he's only just a few bullets left. Then, Vibert presses a button on the rail car, which begins ejecting magnetic mines which lock on the track, ready to blow once intercepted.
Seeing them coming, Bond dumps the machine gun and frantically searches the back, pulling out a shotgun he clicks. "Lock'n'load." he quipped as the first mine rapidly approached with Vibert looking supremely confident, Bond aiming his shotgun and firing off a blast.
The mine explodes before the car can run over it, Bond safely getting through. He begins safely blowing up the mines in advance. Vibert uses his last mine and looks angry at seeing the mines exploding between the two cars, causing no damage to either.
Once all mines are cleared, 007 hits the gas further and his car hits the bumper of the first one, the two right up close. Bond aims his shotgun at Vibert, who turns and dives angrily over to the car behind, kicking the shotgun away as he does.
The two begin grappling dangerously on the car.
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The flooded pen is filled with the dead bodies of floating guards and emptied cargo, not to mention explosives.
The rest of the C4 explodes at it's set time, the pen raging with fire, blowing off the doors to the rail track.
The water begins cascading it extremely quickly.
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As they grapple, Bond and Vibert feel the explosion a few miles behind them. The distant sight of a barrage of water tunneling through becomes clear.
"The end is near, Bond." roared Vibert.
Bond quipped. "There's always a light at the end of the tunnel."
Vibert, now holding Bond now with the sheer power of his size, turns to where the secret agent looks. The end of the tunnel track is approaching, the doors opening to reveal red light coming from the base power core.
Bond and Vibert grapple as they see the first car speed through and fly off the edge of the track with an electric burst, into the massive power core, a gigantic machine just under the sea bed, between the ocean and molten lava which provides energy.
The cargo rail track is positioned around it spherically, connected to automatic lifts that can carry people and cargo up onto the machine. The first car plunges down from the track and explodes inside the molten lava below.
In the second rail car, as the water rapidly gains, Bond kicks the joystick lever and the car breaks as it enters the power core. The sudden breaking stops the car at the edge, 007 holding onto the sides, while Vibert is flung off with the braking force.
The track doors seal behind them, again protecting them from the water now filling the tunnel.
As he flies off, Vibert grabs onto the edge of one of the automated lifts with one hand, swinging himself up onto it, activating it. 007 watches the lift begin carrying Vibert up onto the power core control port on the roof of the machine, the centrepoint.
The rail car begins gliding at slow pace around the circular track, Bond now searching the back of it for any weaponry. The automated lift delivers Vibert onto the control port, where he turns a lever on a pipe extending into the lava, which steams with energy.
It churns up fiery power into a flamethrower gun that rests nearby, which Vibert grabs with all his might and points to the track. Bond finds no weapons left as he looks up and sees Vibert grin, before shooting a ray of fire out towards the track.
Hitting the lever, Bond speeds the car away as the fire impacts the track behind him, roaring with flame. Vibert fires another blast. The car increases speed as it heads around the track, avoiding Vibert's fire rays only just, he beginning to get more on target.
"Hot under the collar, Mr Bond?…" he bellowed, Bond seeing Vibert's delight in the weapon he uses and suddenly sees the button on his own car to release mines.
He waits until he gets near a strut locking down an automated lift, planting the mine. A fiery burst explodes it.
The lift extends outward ready to be used, Bond speeding the car back around to it and jumping on as Vibert hits the car with fire. It explodes, Bond already activating the lift, which glides towards the control port. Vibert begins turning his huge weapon.
007 jumps from the lift up onto the control port, kicking away the flamethrower as Vibert shoots a fire ray at him. The secret agent unleashes fists and kicks at Vibert, only slightly winding and not hurting him. He enjoys seeing Bond give his all.
Once Bond stops seeing it's futile, Vibert grins. "My turn."
The man mountain begins unleashing punches and kicks that seriously begin hurting Bond, drawing blood on parts of his body. He tries fighting back but Vibert puts him down, laughing. He picks up Bond by his neck and proceeds to dangle him over the edge of the control port, the molten lava far below.
Vibert laughed. "Time to go to hell, 007." He goes to drop Bond, who sees the flamethrower lying nearby, he managing to kick it with his feet. The flamethrower turns and unleashes a backdraft of hot air which blasts Vibert over the edge, causing Bond to drop with him.
007 grabs the edge of the machine with dear life, seeing Vibert roar with fear as he plunges through the air into the molten lava. The secret agent climbs back onto the port and sees the lava bubbling below.
"Hope it's warm enough for you, Marlin." Bond said, then turning his attention to the flamethrower and aims it upwards, at the earth ceiling just a few metres above.
He fires a blast, blowing a hole through the earth, causing water from the ocean to begin blasting through.
Bond climbs the machine and begins forcing his way through the oncoming surge of water in order to reach the sea above. As he does so, the huge doors from the railtrack burst with water, which starts cascading hugely into the power core.
The huge several mile long Poseidon base explodes as the C4 fully makes it's mark, the construction blowing itself apart.
A shockwave is felt by Bond as he swims away from the exposed earth under him holding the power core, earth exploding outward. He goes to make for sea level, but soon sees the submarine rapidly approaching him, it's front opening and swallowing him.
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The slinky form of Jacqual walks into the forward cargo section as the front closes up, water draining out back into the sea.
Bond lies on the floor somewhat dazed from the exposure to water, off his guard as he sees Jacqual slink her way over to him.
"Welcome aboard, 007." she said.
As Bond goes to get up, Jacqual kicks him in the face, he falling unconscious……