Karya: Right now!
I just noticed. Storm isn't ANYWHERE in this version. I wonder why...
I also have found Scripts for X2, maybe X3, and I don't know how different the X4 script is from the movie, since I haven't seen it yet.
May post another tonight. May not!
I think this is my fav chapter.
X-MANSION - NIGHT
UPSTATE NEW YORK, SALEM CENTER
It's raining hard. Lightning illuminates the X-Mansion, an expansive, two-winged brick structure. The sign at the top of the circular drive reads "XAVIER INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER LEARNING."
X-MANSION 2ND FLOOR, BEAST'S LIVING QUARTERS - NIGHT
Beast, in reading glasses, upside down, clings to ceiling-mounted "monkey-bars" with his feet, reading "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD."
X-MANSION 2ND FLOOR, ANGEL'S LIVING QUARTERS - NIGHT
Angel sleeps on his stomach, shirtless, his wings spread wide.
X-MANSION 2ND FLOOR, XAVIER'S LIVING QUARTERS - NIGHT
Xavier is at a worktable, using a soldering iron to do delicate work on a bread-box sized, device with a antenna. He looks tired.
X-MANSION SUB-BASEMENT, WAR ROOM - NIGHT
Iceman, in human form, is asleep at a security station, with TVs and RADAR screens. An alarm sounds loudly. Iceman awakens, startled. He stands rapidly, as his skin is covered in a thick ice suit, of sorts, transforming him as he punches buttons and studies screens.
X-MANSION 2ND FLOOR, XAVIER'S LIVING QUARTERS - NIGHT ALARM.
Xavier looks up, worried, wheels quickly across the room into an elevator. The doors shut.
X-MANSION GROUNDS, LAWN - NIGHT A small door pops open in a well placed rock and a RADAR mast rises up, and starts shifting back and forth, scanning and beeping.
X-MANSION, 2ND FLOOR WINDOW - NIGHT ALARM.
A window is thrown open. Angel climbs out and leaps. He spreads his wings and soars into the rainy sky, soaring around the mansion.
X-MANSION SUB-BASEMENT, WAR ROOM - NIGHT ALARM.
Elevator doors open and Xavier enters, wheeling to Iceman.
"What have we got, Robert?"
"The thermal sensors and radar are going crazy, but they're being taken out before they can cross-reference. Watch..." Iceman points to a radar screen. It shows an erratic blip heading towards the screen's center. Then the screen goes dead.
X-MANSION GROUNDS, LAWN - NIGHT
At the rock, the RADAR mast has been ravaged, innards exposed.
X-MANSION 2ND FLOOR, LIVING QUARTERS HALLWAY - NIGHT ALARM.
A long hallway. Beast runs down the hall. Cyclops comes out a door, adjusting his visor. He waits till Beast is past, making sure the coast is clear, then ushers Jean Grey out.
X-MANSION GROUNDS/FRONT-GATE - NIGHT
Angel lands gracefully and runs. He sees that the wrought-iron of the Institute's main gate has been slashed open. Angel goes to an intercom on the gate pillar.
"This is Angel. I'm at the front gate. The perimeter's definitely been breeched." Angel says into the intercom.
X-MANSION FRONT DOOR - NIGHT ALARM.
Loud noises are heard clunking. The doors swing open. Cyclops, Beast and Jean Grey step out, ready for battle.
X-MANSION SUB-BASEMENT, WAR ROOM - NIGHT
Iceman and Xavier continue monitoring. Suddenly, the pitch of the alarm changes and the entire War Room is bathed in red light. Xavier looks, then sits back in his chair and shuts his eyes...
"Jean... can you hear me?" Xavier says in his mind to the other Telepath.
X-MANSION FRONT DOOR - NIGHT
Beast, Cyclops and Jean Grey fanning out across the drive when Jean turns her head, responding to Xavier.
"I'm here, Professor." She replies.
"The intruder has entered the mansion." Jean heads back toward the mansion, shouting to Beast and Cyclops.
"Scott, he's inside the house!"
X-MANSION GROUNDS/FRONT GATE - NIGHT
Angel pushes through the remains of the gate, peering forward. Lightning illuminates a Harley Davidson motorcycle parked ahead.
X-MANSION, FRONT DOORS - NIGHT
Jean runs into the foyer and halts, looking up in shock just as Beast and Scott arrive to back her up.
"Logan!" Jean yells, shocked at the intruder. Logan sits at the top of the broad, central staircase. He's still in the clothing Sabretooth ruined, soaked, hurt bad. The entire right side of his face is swollen and badly bruised.
"Your security system could use some improvements." He stands, weak, keeping his hand on the rail, tossing a duffel bag off his shoulder. He takes a step down, but blacks out and tumbles. Jean comes to catch him, cradles his battered form.
"... nice catch... "
"What happened to you?" She asks, stunned.
"Bad things, darlin'... bad things."
LOGAN'S DREAM - LOGAN'S MEMORIES P.O.V. FROM UNDERWATER
Blood tubes, and bubbles; like from within an aquarium to the outside world. Figure in a lab coat passes, warped and made unrecognizable by the water and glass. The running down the metal corridor, passing metal doorways, searching. Rounding a corner... ahead are high-tech Military Man strange uniforms. The Military Men look alarmed, pointing, raising automatic weapons... It rushes straight at Military Men, heedless of the guns, picking up speed, into the rapid gunfire.
Everything goes pale. Then, the world fades to white. Suddenlt, the scene changes to a giant field of flowers. Peaceful. Colors so clear. Flowers are everywhere, EVERYWHERE!
X-MANSION, WOLVERINE'S LIVING QUARTERS - NIGHT
Logan sleeps, shirtless, still baring his massive wounds. We wait paiently, as he sleeps, he heals. Later, we see is face is less swollen, and his torso is almost completely healed, but covered in many large scars.
X-MANSION, VARIOUS ROOMS, LIBRARY, HALLWAY - DAY
Xavier leads Logan through the vast library, into a hall.
"The dining rooms, kitchen and parlor are found in the other wing. As you can see, everything on this floor and above has been designed to be viewed by the general public. As far as they know, this is merely a school for gifted students." They reach an elevator and enter it.
"The sub-basements, however, are an entirely different matter." Xavier finishes, as the doors close.
WAR ROOM - DAY
he vault-like door opens. Xavier and Logan enter. For the first time we see the War Room's full glory. There are many futuristic, multi-screened computer stations.
"The War Room. We've tapped into NORAD Central Command, the F.B.I. and C.I.A...even your Department H. All civilian, military, and police data is harvested, twenty four hours a day."
"I hope you don't expect me to learn Word." He pauses, looking around. "Why are you trusting me... showing me all your secrets right off the bat?"
"Trust is the only thing of any value I'm showing you. You already know the one piece of information that could hurt the X-Men most. Our location."
"Now that you mention it, how did I know that? I mean, I came right here..."
"The night we met, I planted it in your mind, hidden away with a memory trigger attached. So, the moment you decided to accept my offer, the trigger was activated and the information was revealed to you."
"You did that, without me even knowing."
"And, I do apologize. Normally I feel such uninvited intrusions are wrong, but I felt I had no choice. As a telepath, I face innumerable moral dilemmas every day. You can only begin to imagine. Right now, for example, I could read your every thought with ease... if I choose to."
Logan ponders this as Xavier wheels to a security door.
CEREBRO CHAMBER - DAY
The door rises. A high-tech chair sits surrounded by controls, beneath a techno-amazing Cerebro helmet is attached to a swing arm.
"This is Cerebro. Its sensors constantly sweep the globe, piggy backing existing satellite projections. By linking with it, I have the ability to detect the unique waves of psionic energy emitted by super humanly powerful mutants."
Xavier hits some keys: producing a 3-D holographic map of New York Cityin the air. Wispy signals of red ebb and flow across it.
"It unfortunately cannot specify exact locations. However, I have recently discovered an unusual gathering of mutants in and around New York City."
"The Brotherhood... and Sabretooth. Who's running that road show, anyway? Who's the guy who turned me into a giant magnet?"
"The time will come for this discussion. Till then, I have to ask you not to mention that incident to the other X-Men.
X-MANSION, DANGER ROOM CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Another technological wonderland. Beast is in the control chair, working controls. Jean Grey and Cyclops flank him. The trio is looking at a large view port window.
"Not bad." Jean says, impressed.
"Not bad at all." Beast says, equally impressed.
"Not good enough." Cyclops says with a sigh.
Xavier and Logan enter. Angel, seated, takes his nose out of his Wall Street Journal and stands. Jean and Cyclops turn to face Professor.
"Logan... you've already met Jean Grey, and our team leader, Scott Summer, or , this is Warren Worthington the Third. Nicknamed Angel, for obvious reasons."
Angel, rather snobbish, shakes hands, although it looks like he'd rather not.
"Worthington, huh? As in Worthington Industries?"
"I'm Chairman and principal stockholder."
"How does a mutant manage that?"
"In this age of teleconferencing and fax machines, it's not too hard."
"This busy gentleman over here is Henry McCoy. Biochemist and genetic researcher extraordinaire, otherwise known as Beast." Xavier finishes.
"A distinct pleasure meeting you. I'd shake hands, but I don't have a free one."
"Beast is putting our young Iceman, Robert Drake, through his paces." Xavier motions to the window.
"Come look. We call this the Danger Room." Logan walks to the view port, looking into a positively enormous room. The dented, greasy, burnt, metal walls and ceiling of the Danger Room are covered in irregularly shaped geometric sections, formed by the seams of trap doors, hidden compartments, hinges, gun barrel holes and slightly jutting sensors. Iceman, dwarfed by the room, runs for his life, dodging red laser beams
THE DANGER ROOM
Iceman sprints, as laser beams shoot past. He looks back over his shoulder. KACHUNG! A metal wall suddenly juts up from the floor and the oblivious Iceman slams into it. Iceman rolls, still under fire. He places his palms on the floor. A pillar of ice forms under his hands, growing, shooting quickly up into the air, and carrying him. Across the room, cannons that fire awesome lasers in the wall shift to retarget. At the top of the still forming ice pillar, Iceman fires back at the cannons with ice projectiles, disabling them. Iceman lets out a laugh. Below, a panel whips opens in the wall... A battering ram shoves out and shatters the pillar in the middle. Iceman cries out as he falls. He points with both hands... On the floor, a crude slide made of ice morphs into existence. Iceman hits it near the top and slides through to slow his fall. The slide spits him out the bottom. He slides across the floor. Iceman comes to a stop. In front of him, a trap-door slams open and a menacing fire cannon rises on pistons, targeting. The cannon shoots a flame, engulfing Iceman before he can crawl away.
A loud horn sounds, and the fire cannon lets up, then withdraws into its hiding place. Iceman's sharp edges have melted
"That's enough for today, Robert." Xavier says into the intercom, his voice filling the Danger Room, signaling the end. Iceman reforms his melted edges, pounds the floor in frustration.
DANGER ROOM CONTROL ROOM
Xavier lets his finger off the intercom button. Cyclops watches Iceman exit the Danger Room below.
"A disappointing score for Bobby Drake, ladies and gentlemen. If only he could have landed that triple axle." Beast chuckles.
"Alright, Beast, alright. We all know he needs lots of practice." Cyclops replies.
"He has to learn to react quicker." Jean answers.
"More quickly, actually." Beast says.
"He will. See to it, Scott. Spend some extra time with him." Xavier says to Cyclops who nods in return. Xavier looks to Logan.
"So... what do you think?"
"It looks fun. When's my turn?"
"It's not fun, Logan. It's for real. I doubt you're ready for it."
"Hey, I'm for real too, Cyke, so it's a perfect match. Or, didn't your mommy teach you to share your toys?" He replies, offended.
"You don't know anything about the D.R. except what you just saw. You go in now, you're just going to get yourself killed." Cyclops says, angered.
"Well, why don't we let the big man decide?" Logan and Cyclops look to Xavier.
THE DANGER ROOM - DAY D.R.
The doors open. Logan enters. Doors slam. Logan walks to the center. SNICKT!
Out pops his claws, and he looks up at the control room.
"You still want to do this?" Cyclops' voice comes over the intercom.
Logan looks all around, retracts and extends his claws on both hands... 1,2,3, 1,2,3, 1,2,3, like impatient, drumming fingers.
"I'm waiting." He yells to the large empty metal room. Three tones blare. Then, four irises in one wall open quickly. PHUT! PHUT! PHUT! Leather medicine balls are fired. Logan runs, missed by several, but one medicine ball knocks him in the small of his back and knocks him down.
"Last chance to change your mind."
"Shut your cake-hole." Logan stands. CLANK! Up pops the fire cannon.
Logan runs straight at it, leap-frogs over just as it fires. Ahead, three long, multi-sectional arms fly up from the floor. Spider legs with sharp sword tips. They swing and jab at Logan, but he ducks and dodges. The swords whistle as they swipe. Logan blocks them with the backs of his claws, then ducks and runs...
He chops two of the arms down as he passes. The third arm retracts. Logan searches for the next threat. High above, a mini missile cannon with missiles ready to go reveals itself. Logan books. Mini-missiles explode behind him. Ahead, a semi-circular wall jumps up, creating a dead end. Logan does not slow, leaps, kicks off the wall with one foot and repels, running the other direction without missing a step. Logan runs to the wall ahead and flattens against it. He looks up. The missile launcher is directly above. It stops firing, whirring as it tries to target. It can't make the angle. Logan smiles, but that smile wipes away as the wall he's pressed against starts slowly tipping towards him. Logan runs. A big section of the wall is falling like a ten ton domino. Logan gets out from under, as the wall slams flat with a thunderous BOOM! Logan slides to a stop, looks back up at the view port, cocky.
"You'll have to do better than..." Logan looks up. A spiked, metal ram arm hurtles down. Logan dives away as the ram pounds. The ram retreats. The floor opens in front of Logan, and he is momentarily eye to eye with a drone robot. Logan gets up. The bizarre, lanky drone-bot rises into full view as the platform bringing it locks in place. Logan looks behind him. Then, 4 other drone-bots arrive similarly. Logan backs up, claws ready. The drone-bots attack with buzz-saw hands and serrated fingers. Logan kicks one. Another drone-bot strikes, sends Logan flying. Logan lands hard, his shoulder cut up pretty bad.
THE D.R. CONTROL ROOM
Xavier and the rest of the X-Men watch.
"I'm shutting it down."
"No, Scott. Let him continue."
THE DANGER ROOM
Logan stands, furious. The drone-bots are coming. Logan goes to meet them with a cry of rage. He swings, cutting into the drone-bots as they try to counter. Drone-bot pieces fly to the Danger Room floor. Logan cuts one drone-bot in half, grabs another drone-bot's arm, and cuts it off. A drone-bot buzz saw slices Logan's back with a glancing blow, but Logan turns and impales the drone-bot's head on his right hand's claws. Logan keeps swinging, ripping, shredding, tearing, bashing.
THE D.R. CONTROL ROOM
Cyclops is amazed, a little frightened.
"My God..." Cyclops says, stunned at Logan's show.
THE DANGER ROOM
Logan tosses the last drone-bot, breathing hard, calming. The horn blares. Logan looks up.
"I'm going to Disneyland."