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PIRATED!
An IRON MAN ADVENTURE by Fred Van Lente
Avast, ye swabs! This
script be copyright © 2007 S.S. Marvel. Arrh!
SPLASH: Iron Man, wearing his huge, bulky DEEP-SEA ARMOR, walks or jets (impelled forward, like a submarine) gently along the Caribbean seabed, shining a spotlight on the fish, coral and seaweed-covered depths. Get all “Finding Nemo” on us here. Ref. for bottom of Caribbean: http://www.bubblesub.com/experience.htm
Here’s an article (with numerous pictures) about the deep-sea armor from the original IRON MAN comic: http://www.ironmanarmory.com/hydroarmor.html Although the size and functionality looks good, I would make the coloring (COLOR NOTE) identical to the coloring of the regular armor, so the folks upstairs don’t freak that we’re trying to change the character’s design or anything. Specifically, I would make sure that the HELMET inside the clear dome thing is the exact same as the regular Iron Man armor.
1. BLURB: The
Bermuda Triangle:
2. COMPUTER CAPTION: Sediment
Velocity: HIGH
3. COMPUTER CAPTION: Electrical Resistivity: LOW
4. COMPUTER CAPTION: Chance of Locating Gas Hydrate: 0%
5. IRON MAN: Blast! Another
dead end!
6. TITLE: “PIRATED!”
7. CREDITS: Written by Fred, etc.
Panel 1: Close on Iron Man’s face, looking around.
1. JAGGED FLOATER: You been playing “Man from Atlantis” for almost two hours, Shellhead. Want to make your way back up? I bet it’s getting’ kinda stuffy down there…
2. IRON MAN: Not really. My Deep-Sea Armor has cybernetic gills that extract breathable oxygen from seawater. I can stay down here as long as I like.
Panel 2: Angle on Tony’s yacht, bobbing up and down on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. S.I. logo on the side.
3. JAGGED FLOATER (IM): I’m going to scan a couple more quadrants before resurfacing, Rhodey.
4. RHODEY (at rear): Suit yourself.
Panel 3: Rhodey and Pepper in their swim suits recline on pool chairs on the back of the boat, sunbathing. A C.B. radio sits on the deck nearby.
5. RHODEY: I bet Pepper and I will find …
6. RHODEY: … yawn! …
7. RHODEY: … some way of occupying ourselves…
Panel 4: Angle down – long shot of Iron Man walking along the sea floor.
8. IRON MAN: Geologists estimate hydrates -- crystalline deposits of methane gas buried beneath the seabed -- contain twice as much carbon as fossil fuels.
9. IRON MAN: If Stark International could find and extract those deposits, we’d have an enormous new energy source on our hands!
Panel 5: Quick cutaway to the 18th century – an enormous gas bubble shoots up in the center of a whirlpool, dragging down a Spanish galleon!
10. CAPTION: “And as an added bonus, we could solve the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle. All the mysterious ship disappearances around here could be explained by underwater landslides rupturing the hydrate layer…
11. CAPTION: “…shooting up a huge plume of combustible gas to the surface, sinking whatever unlucky ships happened to be sailing above and sucking them straight down, into the depths…”
Panel 1: Big panel: Iron Man, chest light shining, comes across a sunken Spanish galleon, lying on the sea floor.
1. IRON MAN: Whoa.
2. IRON MAN: Just like that.
Panel 2: Iron Man climbs up on the deck of the sunken vessel, by the helm wheel.
3. IRON MAN: The theory goes that ships would get dragged down so quickly by the methane blowout that they would be completely buried underneath tons of settling sediment, obscuring any trace of them…
4. IRON MAN: …so I know hydrates weren’t responsible for this shipwreck.
5. IRON MAN: But it’s quite a sight all the same.
Panel 3: Iron Man walks past an old-timey diving suit guy like the figurines you see in fish tanks.
6. IRON MAN: Like walking around inside a fish tank.
Panel 4: As Iron Man walks past, two glowing eyes suddenly appear inside the diver’s faceplate and he turns menacingly toward our hero’s back…
7. IRON MAN (OFF): Glad I stuck a camera in this thing…
Panel 1: The diver throws his arms around Iron Man, trying to grab him.
1. IRON MAN: Wha…?
Panel 2: Two more divers dressed identically suddenly shoot out of the captain’s cabin and cargo hold hatch of the wreck.
2. IRON MAN: And you brought friends.
Panel 3: Iron Man’s armor suddenly becomes electrified like an electric eel, zapping the first diver off of him!
3. CAPTION: Defense
Mode: ACTIVATED
4. SFX: KKKRRRZZZZ
5. IRON MAN: I may be a lot slower down here, with thousands of pounds of sea pressure bearing down on me…
Panel 4: Out of the shoulders of the Deep Sea Iron Man suit shoot a pair of miniature TORPEDOES!
6. IRON MAN: …but I’m far from defenseless!
7. COMPUTER CAPTION: Mini-Torpedo
Targets: ACQUIRED
8. SFX: Fwoosh! Fwoosh!
Panel 5: The depth charges explode around the two divers, knocking them backward.
9. SFX: BOMF! BOMF!
Panel 1: Though he’s defeated his enemies, who start to float away unconscious from him, Iron Man looks around in confusion as the deck of the sunken ship starts to shake ominously.
1. IRON MAN: Sorry I missed the “No Trespassing” sign…
2. IRON MAN: …which I don’t think is even legal, out here in international waters…
3. IRON MAN: …but what exactly were you trying so hard to protect—
4. SFX: RRRRUUUMMMBBBBLLLE
Panel 2: Big panel: A huge, atomic submarine-sized mechanical GIANT SQUID suddenly emerges from underneath the wreck, splitting it in two – it makes Iron Man seem a like little minnow in comparison!
5. IRON MAN: Ask a stupid question…
6. IRON MAN: Rhodey—Rhodey, come in.
Panel 3: Angle on the deck of the S.I. yacht. Both Rhodey and Pepper are passed out, asleep, while the CB squawks futilely.
7. RADIO (IM): Rhodey, I need you to contact naval authorities immediately. I’ve stumbled upon--
8. RADIO (IM): Rhodey?! Where are you?
9. RHODEY & PEPPER: Z
Panel 4: Detail
on Iron Man’s boot. The Deep Sea armor has four
propellor like attachments encased in circular housings set into the heel,
ball of the foot, and on both ankles, each like that of a submarine. All four
are raging at once! Impeller ref.: http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/10249784/Pump_Impeller.html
(I guess basically they look like tiny spinning hubcaps.)
10. COMPUTER CAPTION: Boot
Water Impellers: FULL SPEED
11. IRON MAN (OFF): I’m on my own…
Panel 1: Too late! A giant metal tentacle have wrapped around Iron Man’s waist.
1. IRON MAN: Ahh! Too slow… This suit’s so much bulkier and more unwieldy than my regular armor…
Panel 2: Close on the beak of the mechanical Kraken: it irises open, sucking water in…
NO COPY
Panel 3: …and sucks Iron Man right into it, the tentacle still holding onto his waist.
2. IRON MAN: Impellers useless…
3. IRON MAN: I’m headed straight for the belly of the beast!
Panel 4: Iron Man emerges into a pool into the hollow interior of the mechanical squid, which is some kind of submarine, clearly. He is disoriented, climbing out…
4. KRAKEN (OFF): Well
ain’t this a queer catch o’ the day,
me mateys? A diving bell with legs!
5. KRAKEN (OFF): A wee on the minnow side, though-- I’m of half a mind to throw ‘im back!
6. IRON MAN: I’d better start hearing where I am and who you are, or I start punching holes in your squidmobile--
Panel 5: An energy beam streaks from off panel, blasting Iron Man!
6. KRAKEN (OFF): Now he’s flown his true colors – a landlubber barely standin’ on his sea legs!
7. KRAKEN (OFF): Who else would spout off when the captain’s speakin’?
8. SFX: ZZZAAKKK!!
Panel 1: Big panel: The force of the blast drops Iron Man to his hands and knees in front of COMMANDER KRAKEN and his scurvy TECHNO PIRATES! The Techno Pirates should look like stereotypical pirates from literature and movies – except they should all be cyborgs, half-human, half-machine, with metal plates instead of heads and glowing red eyes and sodering and welding tools instead of hands. The only guy with a hook is the Commander himself – and now it’s SMOKING, as he just blasted Shellhead with it.
Kraken Ref.: http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2005/05/cat-3-marvel-comics-1972.html and/or
http://cgi.ebay.com/1970-Marvel-Sub-Mariner-27_W0QQitemZ320109296316QQihZ011QQcategoryZ32741QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
1. KRAKEN: Shut your bilge-hole! I’ll keelhaul you just as soon as look at you!
2. KRAKEN (BIG): COMMANDER KRAKEN broaches no mutiny on his ship!
3. IRON MAN: Unnnnnhh…
Panel 2: JACK TAR, Kraken’s cyborg first mate, who wears an all-black seaman’s jacket, whips out a strange looking-tool: kind of like a cross between those flat pieces of metal car thieves use to slip into closed windows and a coat hangar … except with blinking lights on it and a handle.
Jack Tar presses a button on the handle, and it extends outward in numerous directions, fractally, like a multi-limbed fork or rake.
In the background, it may be possible to notice that all of the other pirates have identical tools as well.
4. JACK TAR: Don’t damage him too badly, cap’n, there might be some first-rate salvage in that shell!
5. SFX (the sound of the tool extending): BEEP! Clack! Clack! Clack!
Panel 3: Kraken removes an antique stopwatch from his jacket to time his men.
6. KRAKEN: You’re as sharp as a cutlass, Jack Tar, don’t let any sailor tell you different!
7. KRAKEN: Alright, mateys, strip the fish clean, starting…
8. SFX: Click!
9. KRAKEN: …now!
Panel 4: Close on Iron Man’s face, lying down on the floor of the sub.
10. TONY (THOUGHT): Seems
like that energy blast shorted out my defense
systems…
Panel 1: The pirates swarm over Iron Man, shoving their tools into the joints and narrow parts of his armor.
1. TONY (THOUGHT): …fortunately, the only way to mechanically open the armor is by latches on the inside!
Panels 2-3: Small panels, detail of the tools sliding into the joints and cracks of Iron Man’s one shoulder and one boot, respectively.
NO COPY
Panels 4-5: Same shots, but the tools are twisted, wiggled, buttons pressed – and the shoulder pad and/or boot pop right off!
2. SFX: KLIK!
3. SFX: KLAK!
Panel 6: Close on Kraken’s hand plunging down on the timer of the stopwatch, stopping it.
4. SFX: Klik!
5. KRAKEN (OFF): Twenty-two seconds!
Panel 7: Sitting on the floor on his ass, utterly stunned, is Tony Stark. Check out Marvel Adventures Iron Man #1 for the knitted-weave one-piece jumpsuit he wears underneath the Iron Man suit – I imagine there are short sleeves and shorts. All around him, the pirates hold up and ogle the pieces of the Iron Man armor triumphantly.
6. KRAKEN (OFF): Break out the grog, me fine fellows!
7. KRAKEN (OFF): A new record!
8. TONY: !?!
Panel 1: Jack Tar has popped off the face plate of Iron Man’s helmet, and is examining the circuitry inside with a jeweler’s glass in his eye. Commander Kraken stands over him.
1. JACK TAR: Quite a haul, cap’n! Magnetic resonance imagers in the eyes … mini-torpedoes in the shoulders … a Uni-Beam in the chest…
2. JACK TAR: … might be just what we need to storm Hydrobase herself!
3. KRAKEN: At last!
Panel 2: SMEE-BORG (like Captain Hook’s first mate from Peter Pan, except a cyborg) gets smacked by CAT 9.0 TAILS, a female pirate with a cat-o’-nine-tails instead of one hand.
4. SMEE-BORG: Hydrobase? The platform where they test all the experimental marine technology?
5. SMEE-BORG: But that place is a floating fortress— Oww!!
6. SFX: Krak!
7. CAT 9.0 TAILS: Don’t you think the cap’n knows that? He was their top scientist – before they threw ‘im overboard!
Panel 3: Close on ranting, crazed Commander Kraken.
8. KRAKEN: Aye… Hauled me before the mast… Accused me of pilferin’ me own inventions… I ask ye, how can I steal what’s rightfully mine?
9. KRAKEN: Like this sub I designed – and sailed away in, right under their own noses, and been the terror of the Caribbean ever since!
10. KRAKEN: But I swore I’d see those backstabbin’ scientists walk the plank … and now, with these weapons and equipment, I got my chance!
Panel 4: Close on a stunned Tony.
11. TONY (THOUGHT): Greeeeat… you really outsmarted yourself this time, Stark.
12. TONY (THOUGHT): I plotted recent ship disappearances throughout the Bermuda Triangle, hoping to locate hydrate deposits that way…
13. TONY (THOUGHT): …without ever realizing the real explanation was a band of 21st century techno-pirates!
Panel 5: A cyborg pirate that actually has a PERISCOPE EYE extended up from one of his own eyes through the ceiling of the sub calls Kraken over.
14. SCOPE: Cap’n! Off the starboard bow! A container ship!
15. SCOPE: Flyin’ Singapore colors!
16. KRAKEN: On-screen, Mr. ‘Scope!
Panel 1: The cyborg Periscope Guy throws up a view of a Container Ship up on a screen so Kraken can look at it. Container ship ref.: http://paradise.caltech.edu/riedel/personal/04-08-07-gallery/04-08-07-image-026.jpg
1. KRAKEN: Aahh…
A fine sight–- practically keelin’ over with consumer electronics!
2. KRAKEN: Battle stations! All hands on deck! No harm in fattenin’ our hold en route to Hydrobase, eh, mateys?
Panel 2: Commander Kraken menacingly waves his hook in Tony’s face.
3. KRAKEN: As
for you, my mustachioed dandy… Why, you ain’t even good for ballast. I’m afraid it’s into the drink with ye…
4. KRAKEN: …outta our torpedo tubes! Hahahahah!
Panel 3: Smeeborg and Cat 9.0 Tails carry a Tony trussed-up with bungee cords through the bowels of the sub, toward the torpedo tubes.
5. TONY: Listen … You don’t have to do this. I’m a wealthy man. I can pay you thousands for letting me go.
6. SMEEBORG: Sorry, pal. Nothing personal. Captain’s orders.
7. TONY: It doesn’t bother you that your captain is clearly a raving lunatic?
Panel 4: The two pirates place Tony inside an open torpedo tube.
8. SMEEBORG: A little – but you got to understand, we’re all smugglers and castaways the captain rescued at sea!
9. CAT 9.0 TAILS: He saved our lives with cybernetics – we owe him everything! We can’t betray him.
Panel 5: Tony’s POV, looking up – the pirates looking down through the torpedo tube hatch.
10. SMEEBORG: So he’s obsessed with pirates. So what? Who doesn’t like pirates?
11. TONY (DOWN, OFF): Their victims, for one.
Panel 6: Same shot: the pirates look at each other.
NO COPY
Panel 7: Same shot: stat panel 5.
12. SMEEBORG: Well, you got us there.
Panel 8: BLACK PANEL, as the pirates close the hatch shut.
13. SFX: CLANG!
Panel 1: On the bridge, Kraken shouts orders in front of Periscope Guy.
1. PERISCOPE GUY: Target within range!
2. KRAKEN: FIRE
TORPEDOES!
Panel 2: Underwater, out of the side of the “squid’s” head fire several torpedoes—and the trussed-up Tony shoots out of one tube!
2. SFX: CHOOM!
CHOOM!
Panel 3: Close on Tony as he shoots through the water at incredible speeds – his face is pulled back like an astronaut experiencing incredible G-forces!
NO COPY
Panel 4: Tony’s POV of the underside of the container ship! It’s zooming closer…
NO COPY
Panel 5: Closer…
NO COPY
More below . . .
Panel 1: Pull back: at the last second, Tony, shooting upward toward the surface, just misses the bottom of the boat!
NO COPY
Panel 2: Tony’s head shoots over the surface of the water!
1. TONY (BIG): GASP!
Panel 3: Tony, treading water, divests himself of his bonds, loosened as they were by his speedy ascent.
2. TONY (THOUGHT): Missed!
3. TONY (THOUGHT): And the force of my ascent loosened my bonds.
4. TONY (THOUGHT): Maybe my luck’s starting to change…
Panel 4: Tony looks up, startled, as he hears, in the distance…
5. SFX: BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM!
Panel 5: Tony looks toward the horizon, where the container ship is rocked by torpedo blasts at its water line…
6. TONY (THOUGHT): Or not.
7. TONY (THOUGHT): Hmm… I bet I could swim there in an hour if I paced myself.
Panel 1: Tony, swimming a breaststroke, approaches the container ship that is rapidly sinking into the water – it has partly keeled over, the front part sticking out above the ocean surface.
1. BLURB: 73
minutes later…
2. TONY (THOUGHT): Kraken’s men have come and gone without noticing me… fortunately it looks like the crew got away on lifeboats…
Panel 2: Tony climbs aboard the bridge, which is already ankle-deep in water. Bridge ref.: http://ronhashiro.htohananet.com/am-radio/photos/ss-kauai.html
3. TONY (THOUGHT): The pirates stole the high-tech cargo, but I just hope…
4. TONY (THOUGHT): Yes! They didn’t bother with the electronics on the bridge! The equipment’s still intact!
Panel 3: Tony examines the radar/sonar on the control panel of the bridge.
5. TONY (THOUGHT): In minutes I can jury-rig the ship’s radio to track the transponder frequency continuously emitted by my armor components…
Panel 4: Outside, Tony sees that one of the lifeboats is still lashed to the side of the ship. http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=5318&pic=8
6. TONY (THOUGHT): And the crew didn’t take every lifeboat... Good.
Panel 5: Big panel: Tony shoots in the lifeboat (powered by an outboard motor) across the water, away from the sinking container ship!
7. TONY (THOUGHT): I’ve got a giant mechanical squid to harpoon.
8. TONY (THOUGHT): Nobody rips off Tony Stark!
Panel 1: Huge
establishing shot of HYDROBASE, which should look something like a huge,
sprawling, high-tech OFF SHORE OIL PLATFORM, just because I think those are
cool. Some inspiration: http://www.rtcontrols.com/
Visibly surfaced nearby is
Kraken’s squid sub. Clearly the place is under attack: fires rage in several
parts, something blows up on one quadrant, and smoke billows from several
sections.
1. BLURB: Hours
later, at Hydrobase:
2. SMEEBORG (in Hydrobase – in IRON MAN font):
This thing is giving me a headache.
Panel 2: Inside a hydrobase lab, Jack Tar kneels in front of a vault door, wearing Iron Man’s gauntlet. He’s using the repulsor ray beam attachment on the glove to punch a hole through a vault door. Behind him is Smeeborg, who is wearing Iron Man’s helmet. But he’s holding the side of the helmet like it’s hurting him.
3. JACK TAR: Aye, I’d wager the cranial interface is set to the regular user’s brainwave patterns—so your gray matter’s gettin’ bioelectric feedback.
4. JACK TAR: Tell me quick, then – with the magnetic image resonator – am I any closer to blasting through the lock mechanism?
5. SMEEBORG (I.M., OFF): Almost…
Panel 3: Smeeborg’s (i.e., Iron Man) POV: Through the helmet’s eyeslits he’s actually seeing through the vault door, X-ray vision-style – Jack Tar has punched a fairly round hole in the vault door toward it. Here’s a cutaway photo of a safe lock: http://home.earthlink.net/~ccloudy1/6730TOP.JPG
6. SMEEBORG (I.M., OFF): …maybe two or three more inches.
7. SMEEBORD (I.M., OFF): And knock off the Long John Silver talk, huh?
Panel 4: Angle down on a Hydrobase pylon: Tony Stark is climbing up the hand rails from the lifeboat moored on the water below, toward the base platform, looking like he’s really pissed off.
8. CAPTION (I.M.): “It’s not like the captain’s in earshot.”
Panel 1: Shoot from behind as Smeeborg, wearing the helmet, stands over Jack Tar, who’s crouched, blasting the vault door with the gauntlet. Tony Stark’s hand reaches into the panel and taps Smeeborg on the shoulder.
1. JACK TAR: Oh. Heh. Yeah…Sorry.
2. JACK TAR: Cooped up in that sub for weeks at a time…
Panel 2: Same shot: except Smeeborg has turned around, and Tony has planted his fist right into his gut, doubling him over!
3. JACK TAR: …I sometimes forget how to sound like a normal person.
Panel 3: Tony bashes Jack Tar on the back of the head with the Iron Man helmet as hard as he can, knocking the techno pirate out!
4. SFX: KLONGG!!
Panel 4: A bunch of lab coat-wearing Hydrobase scientists cower inside what appears to be janitor’s closet.
5. BLURB: Elsewhere:
6. CAT 9.0 TAILS (OFF): Make yourselves comfy, eggheads!
Panel 5: Outside, in the corridor, Cat 9.0, wearing the Iron Man chestplate, seals the janitor closet door shut by melting the edges with the Uni-Beam.
7. CAT 9.0: I’m turning this closet into the Hydrobase brig!
8. SFX: kkkkrrrrzzzzz
Panel 1: Cat is surprised to see the Uni-Beam projector suddenly grow DARK – smoking, silent.
1. CAT 9.0: No… Dead!
2. CAT 9.0: Hunk of junk…
3. IRON MAN (OFF): Watch your mouth.
Panel 2: A bizarre sight: Coming down the hallway is Tony Stark, wearing 75% completed Iron Man armor – sans chest plate, of course.
4. IRON MAN: The helmet can emit a remote override signal to any individual armor component.
Panel 3: Sneering, Cat cracks the cat o’ nine tails on the end of her one arm menacingly.
5. CAT 9.0: Still works just fine as armor, though.
6. CAT 9.0: And
your gut’s got no protection against
my cat o’ nine tails—
7. SFX: SNAP!
Panel 4: Cat lunges forward with the cat o’ nine – but Iron Man simply sidesteps, and cuts the whip off at the wrist with his ENERGY BLADE! (Break this up into two panels if you want.) Cat looks none too pleased.
8. IRON MAN: Fine.
9. IRON MAN: I like my odds.
Panel 5: Iron Man pins Cat against the wall, waving the blade menacingly under her nose.
10. IRON MAN: Kraken.
11. IRON MAN: Where?
12. CAT 9.0: U-upstairs – At the highest point of the base…
Panel 1: Big panel: At the top of Hydrobase, Commander Kraken has the three main Hydrobase scientists tied up (to each other, in circular fashion) and literally walking a flimsy wooden plank he has stuck out over the railing. (See reference photo back on Page Fourteen for inspiration.) If possible, show that Kraken’s foot is only thing keeping the plank on the platform.
1. CAPTION: “…keeping his promise!”
2. SCIENTIST: N-now let’s not be so hasty, Steve…
3. SCIENTIST: M-maybe we can talk to the authorities… Get that embezzlement indictment dropped…
4. COMMANDER KRAKEN: The one you call “Steve” is no more! You made sure o’ that!
5. COMMANDER KRAKEN: Now you’re beggin’ for your lives from Commander Kraken, scourge of the seven seas…
Panel 2: Angle down: the tied-up scientists have several hundred feet to drop to the surface of the ocean.
6. KRAKEN (OFF): …and he ain’t known for his mercy!
7. IRON MAN (OFF): Kraken! Stop!
Panel 3: Iron Man, now fully armored, bounds toward the outdoor platform from inside the base’s highest section.
8. KRAKEN (OFF): Why if it ain’t the Human Torpedo!
9. KRAKEN (OFF): Maybe you got more o’ the old salt in you than I thought…
Panel 4: Kraken blasts the middle part of the plank to splinters with a blast from his cyber-hook!
10. KRAKEN: …but you still got the speed of a beached Beluga whale!
11. SFX: SHRAKKK!
Panel 1: Their plank destroyed, the tied-up scientists pitch forward, into thin air!
1. SCIENTISTS: AAAAAAAAA!!!
Panel 2: Iron Man pushes Kraken aside and jumps up on the railing of the platform….
NO COPY
Panel 3: And leaps down, after the scientists, grabbing onto them! But now they’re both falling!
2. IRON MAN: Good news: I’ve got you!
3. IRON MAN: Bad news: I didn’t bother to put airborne jets into my Deep-Sea Armor!
Panel 4: Close on face of Iron Man and terrified scientist facing us as they fall.
4. SCIENTIST: Falling this high up into water is as bad as falling to the ground! We’ll hit the ocean like it was concrete!
5. IRON MAN: Not necessarily…
Panel 1: Suddenly giant balloons suddenly shoot out from Iron Man’s four limbs simultaneously! They should be sticking out of the suit, not from lines, but just out of slots in the suit; the overall effect should be not unlike the crazy inflatable suit Woody Allen wore in Sleeper (a classic): http://www.allposters.com/-sp/-Posters_i275681_.htm
1. COMPUTER CAPTION: Floatation
Devices: DEPLOYED
2. SFX (BIG): BWOMPF!
Panel 2: Turned so his back hits the water first, the scientists in his arms, the fully-inflatable Iron Man splashes down.
3. SFX: SPLASH!
Panel 3: Iron Man (deflated, the balloons back inside the suit) helps the scientists climb up the pylon ladder on one support, to safety.
4. IRON MAN: Quickly, get up there, before Kraken gets back to his sub—
Panel 4: One of the squid sub’s tentacles, reaches upward, trying to grab onto Shellhead!
5. IRON MAN: Geez, this suit is slow.
Panel 5: Kraken on the bridge of the sub, barking commands to what remains of his crew, including Periscope Guy.
6. KRAKEN: I’ll not forgive your foiling of my righteous vengeance, landlubber!
7. KRAKEN: Full speed ahead, mateys! I won’t rest until I’ve returned every shot he’s fired across my bow in kind!
8. KRAKEN: As Ahab cursed the White Whale:
Panel 1: Underwater, Deep Sea Iron Man shooting forward as fast as his boot propellers will impel him, dodging the flailing tentacles of the giant squid sub.
1. KRAKEN (in sub): “From hell’s heart I stab at thee!”
2. KRAKEN (in sub): “For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee!”
Panel 2: Close on Iron Man snapping to attention when his computer tells him:
3. COMPUTER CAPTION: Sediment
Velocity: LOW
4. COMPUTER CAPTION: Electrical
Resistivity: HIGH
5. IRON MAN: Eh…?
6. COMPUTER CAPTION: Chance
of Locating Gas Hydrate: 98.2%
7. IRON MAN: Show me!
Panel 3: Iron Man’s POV: The Sea Bed: The computer has LIT UP those areas where hydrate deposits can be found under the sediment. Here’s how the US Geological Survey does it: http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/gas-hydrates-2.gif
8. IRON MAN (OFF): There… a volatile pocket of methane gas, just below the top layer of seabed…
Panel 4: Inside the sub, Kraken barks the order when Periscope Guy gives the word.
9. PERISCOPE GUY: Target within range!
10. KRAKEN: FIRE ALL
TORPEDOES!
Panel 5: Detail of the host of torpedoes shooting out of the sides of the squid sub!
11. SFX: VWOOOSH!
Panel 1: Iron Man dodges out of the way of the torpedoes just in time – they hit the seemingly innocuous seabed…
1. SFX: BOOM!
BOOM!
Panel 2: Huge panel as an enormous EXPLOSION shoots out the sea floor, shooting clouds of dirt and enormous chunks of rocks everywhere! A WHIRLPOOL of FROTH shoots up out of the huge crater blown in the seabed, snatching up both the squid sub and Iron Man sucking them down, down…. Take some time with this shot, it can really be killer.
2. SFX (HUGE): KRAKATHAKABOOM!!!
Panel 3: On the bridge of the sub, all the pirates, including Kraken, looks terrified and shocked as RED warning lights blink madly – Kraken and his pirates are battered about like rag dolls!
3. SFX: AROOGA!
AROOGA! AROOGA!
Panel 1: All the debris, dust and boulders settle back down onto the ocean floor, covering the crater created by the methane explosion – and the squid sub, which now lies inside the crater. Like right after shaking a snow globe: all the particles in the water are agitated, flying.
NO COPY
Panel 2: Same shot: Everything looks serene and peaceful … all the debris and sediment has settled, the water has cleared.
NO COPY
Panel 3: Same shot: zoom in: Iron Man’s fist cuts through the seabed with his energy blade!
NO COPY
Panel 4: Iron Man walks away from the him-sized hole he’s dug out of the sea floor.
1. COMPUTER: Area
Scan: NEGATIVE
2. TONY (THOUGHT): Incredible… The geological explanation of the Bermuda Triangle must be a credible one.
3. TONY (THOUGHT): I can’t find a trace of Commander Kraken or his sub…
Panel 5: Small, inset panel of just Kraken’s hook (no gory fleshy stuff attached to it, please) – lying, missed by Iron Man, in some seaweed on the ocean floor.
5. TONY (THOUGHT, OFF): …anywhere…
6. BLURB: End
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