Rated M
Page 1
Panel 1:
Close up of a Death Machine prototype with a tendril (from Toxin off panel) wrapped around the body.
SFX: SSHH
Panel 2:
Same view, but the tendril is now crushing the body and smashing the circuitry and wiring out.
SFX: KKKSSHHTT
Panel 3:
Pan out, so we get a back view of Toxin as he slashes through a Death Machine bot with his axe-arm, while “eating” three others with his mouth-arm (little spider-legs sticking out from the teeth along with parts of the body) – it’s utter chaos, and more and more are climbing out of the ceiling vents in the teleportation room (where Toxin is – the door is sealed shut, part of Mr.Z’s last command to the system/facility). Death Machine bots are jumping and charging at Toxin and climbing onto him.
CAPTION(Pat): I can’t feel any of the pain.. only a sense of… bliss.
Page 2
Panel 1:
Toxin totally covered in Death Machine bots.
CAPTION(Pat): I hear Toxin roar under a cloud of mechanical bodies.
Panel 2:
Show the Death Machine bots slammed back by tendrils from Toxin (dozens and dozens of tendrils pushing a few back with each end, globbing the bots together and at the same time, crushing them)
SFX: WHUD
SFX: KKSSHHHKKT
CAPTION(Pat): And free.
TOXIN: RAWR!!!
CAPTION(Pat): What I’d give to be free.
Panel 3:
Show the vents, and more Death Machine bots climbing down and out.
Panel 4:
Pan back to show Toxin glaring at the vents and aiming his arm up at them, webbing them up with blue webbing that’s almost like tendrils.
TOXIN: GGOOO AWAAYYY!! GRAWR!!
Page 3
Panel 1:
Show a Death Machine prototype tackle into Toxin’s side, along with several others.
SFX: WHAM
Panel 2:
Close up of a Death Machine prototype’s mouth biting down into a part of Toxin. More mouths biting down around it.
SFX: BBZZZZTTTT
Panel 3:
Pan back to show Toxin tossing the group aside via tendrils and his mouth-arm.
SFX: WHUD
Page 4
Panel 1:
Show Toxin looking over at the doors that Mr.Z came through.
CAPTION(Pat): Toxin wants to be free. Just like me.
Panel 2:
Show the vents again, spider-legs starting to pry through the webbing.
SFX: KKSSHHKK
Panel 3:
Show a front view of Toxin running toward us (at the door).
CAPTION(Pat): Those things.. they couldn’t have made much more. Toxin’s been smashing them to bits for too long for there to be much more.
Page 5
Panel 1:
Show a large laboratory room, Toxin smashing through the doors with a shoulder tackle.
CAPTION: LABORATORY ROOM B; IRON-WRATH SUIT TESTING AREA
SFX: BRRKK
TOXIN: GRAHH!
Panel 2:
Show a close up of Toxin looking back over his shoulder at a large group of Death Machine prototypes heading his way, he’s got clenched teeth and is growling.
TOXIN: GRRRR….
Panel 3:
Show Toxin looking at a large counter/table that has a fully loaded mini-gun on it, attached to a metal arm (probably a variant of Iron-Wrath’s armor).
TOXIN: Hrrr….
CAPTION(Pat): No @#%ing way.
Page 6
Panel 1:
Extreme close up of the mini-gun’s handle as dark green tendrils slither over it. The metal arm is being detached.
CAPTION(Pat): I pray that I’ve lost my mind.
Panel 2:
Show a front view of Toxin as his mouth-arm made of tendrils has basically become a giant handle for the mini-gun (mirroring how Blademaster made his missing arm the spot for a sword), and firing the gun at us (toward the Death Machine prototypes)
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: BUDDA
TOXIN: HAAHAHAAA!!!
CAPTION(Pat): This is a dream.
CAPTION(Pat): Gina’s at my bedside. I had a nervous breakdown. I must have shot someone accidentally and the stress--
CAPTION(Pat): I’ll be better soon. Just on meds for a few months.
Panel 3:
Show the Death Machine prototypes being blown to bits by the barrage of bullets, pieces tossed everywhere.
SFX: BSHKT
SFX: BSHKT
SFX: BSHKT
CAPTION(Pat): If only.
Page 7
Panel 1:
Show the whole lab as Toxin is running toward a different door that should lead out.
TOXIN: Hrrr…
Panel 2:
Show Toxin entering a large room, bigger than all the others. Toxin is looking up and around. The mini- gun is still attached to his tendrily blob of what used to form an arm.
CAPTION: LABORATORY C; NANOBOT-SWARM-DEATH MACHINE PROTOTYPE TESTING
Panel 3:
Close up of Toxin’s face as he looks up.
(From off panel) SYSTEM TEST COMPUTER: NANO-DEATH-MACHINE DEFECTIVE PROTOTYPE #23 ACTIVATED; DECOMISSION CANCELED. DECOMISSION OF NANO-DEATH-MACHINE DEFECTIVE PROTOTYPES #1-22 SUCCESSFUL.
CAPTION(Pat): Nano-Death-Machine?
CAPTION(Toxin Symbiote): Place annoy get out place annoy go free FREE
Page 8
Panel 1:
Give us a view from behind Toxin and looking up at the large, gray room. It’s an epic view as a large swarm of tiny robots form in mid-air, forming a monstrous set of eyes and teeth in mid-air.
NANO-DEATH-MACHINE: TARGET SIGHTED.
CAPTION(Pat): Five bucks says this thing was defective because it thought everything was a target.
Panel 2:
Show Toxin jumping over a large swarm that strikes down at the ground as one solid blade.
SFX: SHKK
Panel 3:
Show Toxin webslinging toward the wall.
SFX: PLISH
Panel 4:
Show Toxin clinging to the wall and aiming the gun down and off panel and firing.
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: BUDDA
Page 9
BIG IMAGE:
Big side view of the two. The entire Nano-Death-Machine swarm is headed for Toxin, but Toxin keeps firing the mini-gun, which is keeping it in one place in the air, blowing bits off of the robot swarm.
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: BUDDA
SFX: PING
SFX: PING
CAPTION(Pat): The adrenaline… feels so good…
Page 10
Panel 1:
Close up of the barrel of the mini-gun, it’s still and stopped from firing.
CAPTION(Pat): I don’t think I want this to end anymore--
CAPTION(Pat): --The rush is PHENOMENAL…
Panel 2:
Show Toxin, clinging to the wall, dropping the mini-gun from his tendrils.
TOXIN: RRRAAAA--
Panel 3:
Side view of Toxin jumping over the nano-swarm, firing out a LARGE amount of webbing that trails behind him (this webbing is blue in color) – the webbing is coming from his back and his arms (aimed backward).
SFX: PLISH
SFX: PLISH
TOXIN: --AAAAAAAAAWWW--
Panel 4:
Show a front view of Toxin falling down from his jump on the other side of the swarm, the webbing fired behind Toxin covers the entire top of the swarm and has it covered. Toxin has the strands in his hands as he falls down.
TOXIN: --WWWWWWWRRRRRR!!!
Page 11
Panel 1:
Show Anti-Venom jumping up (via placing his hands on the ground and shoving his whole body up into the air in a Spider-man like pose) to dodge a black tendril that impales a wall instead of his abdomen like it intended.
SFX: SHUK
ANTI-VENOM: ORWELL, LISTEN--
ANTI-VENOM: --I’VE CHANGED!!
Panel 2:
Show Monster running toward Anti-Venom.
MONSTER: STOP THAT! STOP PRETENDING!
Panel 3:
Close up of Anti-Venom’s head ducking under Monster’s massive fist.
(From off panel) MONSTER: YOU’RE A MURDERER--
ANTI-VENOM: GAH!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Just being NEAR his body makes me nauseous. All that super-venom pumping in his veins, it’s a miracle he’s not dead--
Panel 4:
Pan out to show upperbody view of Anti-Venom and Monster, Anti-Venom has his arm out and is webbing Monster’s eyes.
SFX: PLIP
MONSTER: GRAH--
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): I can’t cure him. He’s a dead man, consumed by his own vengeance--
Panel 5:
Show Monster smacking Anti-Venom off panel via backhand (while his other hand is busy prying Anti-Venom’s webbing off of his eyes).
SFX: WHAM
MONSTER: KILLED OUR SSSOON, I’LL MURDER YOU!!
Panel 6:
Show Anti-Venom looking up from the floor. The part of his face that Monster hit is boiling and burning.
ANTI-VENOM: GRRAAAHHH!!!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): I’m going to need a miracle here…
Page 12
BIG IMAGE:
Toxin looking at a large blob of webbing stuck to the ground.
CAPTION(Pat): Fired more webbing than it could generate, then made more.
CAPTION(Pat): It’s as if Toxin is at his full potential and his mind couldn’t handle the stress of the transformation… if only I had control, I could fix this entire situation so easily.
CAPTION(Pat): I wish I had control. I love this power. I’d get revenge on--
CAPTION(Toxin Symbiote): KILL ANTI-VENOM KILL ANTI-VENOM
CAPTION(Pat): Oh, @#%.
Page 13
Panel 1:
Show a new room, the door is being ripped apart as Toxin claws his way through. Toxin’s tendril-arm is forming regular claws at this point and looks just like his actual arm.
SFX: KKKRRRSSSHHH
CAPTION(Pat): It’s starting to listen to me again?
CAPTION(Toxin Symbiote): KILL ANTI-VENOM KILL ANTI-VENOM
Panel 2:
Show Monster looking over from Anti-Venom and off panel (at Toxin) – Anti-Venom is backed up in a corner (and had no other way to escape at the time).
MONSTER: WHO’SSS THERE?
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): A higher being is giving me a second chance.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): That’s the only expla--
Panel 3:
Show Toxin tackling Monster down and out of Anti-Venom’s way.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Scratch that.
MONSTER: GRARR!!!
TOXIN: RRRAWWRHH!!
Page 14
Panel 1:
Show Toxin punching Monster in the face and still pinning him down to the floor.
SFX: WHAM
CAPTION(Pat): Something about this guy…
CAPTION(Pat): I almost feel BETTER.
CAPTION(Pat): STRONGER.
Panel 2:
Show Monster headbutting Toxin in the face.
SFX: WHUD
MONSTER: GET OFF OF USSSSS!!!
TOXIN: GRAH!!!
Panel 3:
Show Monster and Toxin crouching and glaring at each other.
MONSTER: GET OUF OF OURRRR WAY!!! WE NEED TO KILL ANTI-VENOM!
TOXIN: Nnnnooo! That’sss OUR JOB!!
Panel 4:
Pan up above the two glaring at each other to show Anti-Venom crawling along the ceiling.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): Officer Patrick Mulligan of the NYPD, I salute you.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): For this gesture of kindness I’ll be absolutely certain to cure you. Then I can lock Orwell up and be the hero.
Page 15
Panel 1:
Show Toxin’s mouth-arm (after changing into that form again off panel) biting down into Monster’s shoulder.
SFX: CHKK
MONSTER: ARRGHH!!
Panel 2:
Show Toxin reeling Monster in with the tendril-arm and pulling his head back slightly with his mouth open.
TOXIN: AAANTI-VEEEENOMM IS OUURRSSS TO KILL--
Panel 3:
Show Toxin biting down into Monster’s other shoulder viciously.
SFX: CHRK
TOXIN:--NNNOT YOUUURSSS!!!
CAPTION(Pat): THE TASTE!!
CAPTION(Pat): THE TASTE IS SO, SO-
CAPTION(Toxin Symbiote): EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT
Panel 4:
Show Anti-Venom falling down toward Toxin from the ceiling.
Page 16
Panel 1:
Show Anti-Venom kicking Toxin out of the way and off panel from Monster.
SFX: WHAK
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): If Toxin gets near Orwell, he’ll start eating the super-venom and then I won’t be able to cure him!
Panel 2:
Show Monster grab Anti-Venom from behind by the back of his neck. Monster’s touch burns at Anti-Venom.
SFX: SSSSSSS
MONSTER: SO GLAD YOU COULD JOIN USSS!!
ANTI-VENOM: GRAGHH!!!
Panel 3:
Show Monster pulling Anti-Venom back, his touch still burning Anti-Venom, so that his back will slam into the ground and Monster and Anti-Venom will be face to face (as if Monster wants to eat Anti-Venom’s FACE).
SFX: SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
MONSTER: PLEASE, DON’T LEEAVVE!! Noooottt like BEFFORE!
ANTI-VENOM: GRAWGHH!!!
Panel 4:
Extreme close up of Monster’s jaws opening wide.
MONSTER: THISSS IS FOR HUGH!!
Page 17
Panel 1:
All black, with the SFX written on it.
SFX: CHOMP
Panel 2:
Show Monster fallen onto the ground (his face is on panel, the rest of his head is not (forehead up is not visible)). His hands are visible, showing that he is not touching Anti-Venom anymore.
Panel 3:
Show just Monster’s face and head…. Everything from the forehead up is missing. Bitten off and bleeding out.
Page 18
Panel 1:
Show from behind Anti-Venom. Anti-Venom is sitting up and looking in the foreground at Toxin. Toxin has blood and blobs of gray gunk dribbling from his mouth.
ANTI-VENOM: Oh my God…
TOXIN: Mmmmmrrrrm….
Panel 2:
Close up of Toxin’s face. He’s smiling ear to ear, blood and gunk showing from his teeth.
CAPTION(Pat): It tastes…
CAPTION(Pat): This is blood…. Oh god…
CAPTION(Toxin Symbiote): Mmmmm…
CAPTION(Pat): The rush… the rush is gone…oh my god… this is--
Panel 3:
Show Anti-Venom getting up, parts of him are partially burnt but his body is flaring up tendril-wise.
ANTI-VENOM: YOU- YOU--
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): They hurt my angel. They kicked me while I was down. But I changed my mind about them. I cast my dark thoughts out, and my plan was to put him away in a proper jail.
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): My plan was to be the hero, no, the protector, that I should be.
Panel 4:
A side view of Anti-Venom jumping at Toxin, his tendrils slashing out toward Toxin, along with his finger-tendrils. Toxin puts his arms out as if he’s welcoming the assault and will fight back.
ANTI-VENOM: YOU ATE HIS BRAIN!!
TOXIN: GRAWRR!!!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): WAIT! Remember! It STILL CAN BE! This man is just SICK! REMEMBER THAT!
Page 19
Panel 1:
Show Anti-Venom tackling Toxin, pinning him down to the ground by his shoulders (impaling his shoulders with tendrils to do so – those marks burn at Toxin).
SFX: SSSSSSSSSSSSHH
ANTI-VENOM: PATRICK, IT’S TIME TO GET THAT THING OFF OF YOU!
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): This man has a FAMILY! I can SAVE HIM! And then--
CAPTION(Anti-Venom): I can prove it! I’m NOT a monster anymore!
Panel 2:
Show Anti-Venom crouched over Toxin, dozens of tendrils impaling Toxin. Toxin is writhing in agony, looking like he’s roaring. There’s a visible glow.
SFX: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH
TOXIN: GRARRRRRRRRRRRRRWWWWWRRRR!!!!!
CAPTION(Pat): Yes… I’m back… I can see clearly again. Cure me. Kill this thing.
Panel 3:
Front view as if Anti-Venom is looking toward us (but down at Toxin) – Toxin is looking straight up and snarling and roaring.
SFX: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHH
ANTI-VENOM: There! Almooossst---
CAPTION(Pat): Please. Please I’m begging you. KILL THIS MONSTER!!
Page 20
Panel 1:
Show Toxin’s face, and the symbiote partially melting off, bubbling as if it was boiling. There’s a glow all around.
SFX: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHH
CAPTION(Pat): Think of Gina.
CAPTION(Pat): Think of Edward.
CAPTION(Pat): Not going to let this ever happen again.
CAPTION(Pat): Never going to bring this near them ever again--
Panel 2:
Show the tendril-arm boiling and burning away. Still a glow all around.
SFX: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHH
CAPTION(Pat): --my arm….
CAPTION(Pat): I’ll adjust.
CAPTION(Pat): Just please--
CAPTION(Pat): PLEASE END THIS!
Panel 3:
Show a large, white glow.
Page 21
Panel 1: Anti-Venom stands over Patrick Mulligan, who is devoid of the symbiote and in civilian clothes. As expected, Pat’s right arm is missing, and there’s just a stump there.
ANTI-VENOM: Patrick… you’re better now.
Panel 2:
Show Anti-Venom grabbing Patrick’s hand and pulling up.
PATRICK: … Thank God.
ANTI-VENOM: My sentiments exactly.
Panel 3:
Show Anti-Venom looking at Monster’s body, and Patrick looking the other way.
PATRICK:… I’m… I-
ANTI-VENOM: It wasn’t your fault.
ANTI-VENOM: Let’s just go.
Panel 4:
Show Anti-Venom and Patrick walking down a long hall.
ANTI-VENOM: If I remember right, the teleportation room was…
Panel 5:
Show Anti-Venom peeking into a white room with tons of destroyed Death Machine prototype parts around it.
ANTI-VENOM: Here!
PATRICK: Wait, can we operate the teleporter?
Panel 6:
Close up of a control panel, white tendrils inspecting it or ripping bits apart (nothing too dangerous for the technical health of the ‘porter controls, just to show that Anti-Venom is figuring out how to use it).
(From off panel) ANTI-VENOM: Hmmm….
Page 22
Panel 1:
Show a large flash with Anti-Venom and Patrick appearing in an alley.
CAPTION: MANHATTAN
PATRICK: WHOA!
ANTI-VENOM: Heh… guess so.
Panel 2:
Show Anti-Venom walking toward the darker parts of the alley. Patrick is looking at him.
PATRICK: Wait…. Eddie…
Panel 3:
Show Anti-Venom turn his head, the suit is partially flowing off, exposing Eddie’s eyes and parts of his face.
ANTI-VENOM: Yeah?
Panel 4:
Show Patrick.
PATRICK: Thank you.
Panel 5:
Same view of Anti-Venom, but it’s just Eddie Brock now. And he’s got a smile.
EDDIE: No problem.
Page 23
Panel 1:
SILENT. Show Anti-Venom crouched down on a fire escape at night, looking down.
Panel 2:
SILENT. Show Jenna looking up (and off panel at him) at us, waving and shouting.
Panel 3:
SILENT. Show Anti-Venom landing on the street, the suit partially peeling back to show Eddie.
Panel 4:
SILENT. Show Eddie hugging Jenna.
Panel 5:
SILENT. Show the SCREAM SYMBIOTE partially forming its own body inside of a living room that looks like it was torn apart (Hybrid’s former place). It’s looking down at the splattered mess of Scott’s corpse, and the remains of the Hybrid symbiotes around him, all dead. It’s as if Scream is mourning.
Page 24
Panel 1:
SILENT
Show Patrick walking into his apartment, Gina looking over in surprise.
Panel 2:
SILENT
Patrick and Gina sitting on the couch, Gina looking at Patrick’s stump, crying her eyes out.
Panel 3:
SILENT. Show Patrick reaching over and wrapping his arm around Gina. No doubt apologizing and saying everything will be okay.
Panel 4:
Close up of Patrick’s face as he holds his wife, and he looks truly happy.
CAPTION: P..Pat…Patrick…Why…
Panel 5:
SILENT. An extreme close up of Patrick’s eyes. His eyes are filled with absolute terror.
THE END
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Disclaimer: I don't own any characters in this script (Death Machine(and all subsequent Death Machine related robots), Monster(not Orwell Taylor, but Monster) excluded), and I am not making any profit off of their use.
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