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The
artwork is also suitable for use in "Jimmy Watson's Magic
Dinobot."
A proposed network TV serialization, about boy who saves his paper round
money to buy himself a robot for Christmas. Then, when assembled, it
come to life, to become his friend. ARTWORK
- Somewhat better than the huge ants in "Them," but perhaps not as good as
the CGI in Antman. Now a
museum
exhibit in Sussex, England.
The artwork is based on an Australian Bulldog
ant.
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USS
ARKTOS
CHAPTER
2: TUNNEL COMPLEX
- THE LABYRINTH BENEATH THE ICE
The vast, endless white expanse of the
Antarctic Ice Sheet stretched to a horizon lost in the screaming wind. It was a landscape defined by sound—the distant, guttural groan of shifting glaciers, the low, grinding roar of ancient ice walls collapsing under their own immense weight. It was a cacophony of a world slowly, inevitably, falling apart.
But now, a new sound cut through the natural noise. A low, resonant humming, almost below the range of human hearing, pulsed beneath the ice, a mechanical heartbeat in the cold, still air.
From high above, the ice sheet looked like a simple, unbroken canvas. But a section of it was different. It wasn't a fracture from some natural disaster; it was a deliberate, almost geometric rupture. It looked as if a colossal, invisible hand had pulled back a veil, revealing what lay beneath. And what was exposed was not clear, blue ice. It was carved.
This was the Labyrinth. A vast, impossible architecture of dark, cavernous spaces etched directly into the solid ice, ancient beyond
human comprehension. It was a secret preserved for millions of years, an architectural impossibility, now revealed by the relentless, man-made thaw. Hints of something having moved, or still moving, within its shadowy depths sent a silent chill through the air.
A small, isolated research outpost sat on the ice sheet, a stark smudge of black against the white. A tracked vehicle, half-covered in snow, was abandoned, its engine cold. A single tent flap, secured with a broken zipper, flapped frantically in the wind, a desperate signal in the silence. The only sounds were the wind and the fabric snapping against itself. No human voices. No equipment hum. No trace of a distress signal. Just a scientist vanished. Disappeared. Without warning. Without a sound.
Only a single piece of information remained. A leak.
In the heart of London, the controlled chaos of a global newsroom hummed with life. Monitors glowed with breaking news alerts, the low murmur of urgent conversations filling the space. In the center of it all sat a young researcher, her eyes wide with a mixture of fear and disbelief as she hunched over her tablet. A headset was pressed to her ears as a distorted, broken audio clip played and then cut out, leaving behind a moment of impossible sound—a guttural roar, ancient and alien, mixed with the crackling static of a rushed transmission.
A crude outline appeared on her screen. It was something prehistoric, entombed in ice. Massively huge. Utterly
alien to any modern classification. Her fingers, flying across the keyboard, typed out a quick, trembling summary. The text on the screen sealed it: “Prehistoric Antarctic Discovery. Estimated scale:
KING
KONG.” The discovery was too big to be contained.
Across town, in the cool, familiar blue glow of a BBC News World Service studio, veteran anchor Jill Bird straightened her jacket. She had seen it all, but the tension in the room was palpable. A technician gave a silent countdown, and her voice, crisp and authoritative, cut through the air.
"And a late item," she announced. "Researchers in Antarctica say they have discovered a subsurface tunnel complex beneath the compacted snow and ice. We'll bring you more on this breaking story as it comes in."
A graphic of a stylized ice sheet with a tunnel network diagram flashed on the monitor behind her.
The light in Charley
Temple's apartment was low and spartan, a direct reflection of her own functional, no-nonsense nature. The only illumination came from her high-end tablet. The
BBC News World Service live feed played in a small window, but her intense, sharp eyes were fixed on a secure messaging app beneath it. An unread message from an anonymous source.
"The tunnels," the text read. "They found them. And the jaw. It's out."
Charley's eyes narrowed. The pieces clicked with an unsettling certainty. The vanished scientist. The leaked findings. The tunnels. It wasn't coincidence. This was a domino effect. She knew what “the jaw” meant. It was the key to what was inside the Labyrinth. And now it was out.
She tapped out a rapid, encrypted message, her fingers moving with the speed of a seasoned operative.
TO: STORM
SUBJECT: ANTARCTICA - URGENT
MESSAGE: It's happening. The tunnels. And something else – something huge. We need to move.
Her finger hovered over the send button, then with a decisive tap, she sent it.
John Storm was halfway across the globe, but Charley knew with absolute certainty that he'd drop everything the moment he read this.
The immense, dark mass of the continent was now just a silent shadow against a moonless sky. The only sounds were the occasional creak or crack from beneath. The world had long convinced itself that Antarctica was untouchable, a neutral zone protected by international treaties. It was a fragile lie.
But nothing lasts forever. The treaty was ending. Negotiations had stalled. And beneath the surface, a silent war was brewing. Nations were staking claims. Corporations were laying groundwork. Secret operations were unfolding in the deep ice. The tunnels had surfaced at exactly the wrong time. Or perhaps, the right time for those seeking opportunity. This was no longer just a scientific discovery. It was a gold rush.
And someone, somewhere, was about to make a move.
John Storm just had to beat them to it.
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GOLD
RUSH
A
startling discovery in the ice, sharp jaws protruding from a block of
solid ice.
SECTASAUR™
- SCENES (APPROX 5 MINS PER SCENE)
PART
1
CHAPTER
1: US ARKTOS 1838 EXPEDITION -
The ice melts at both poles revealing features on the land not seen for
thousands of years. A converted Frigate, the US Arktos is discovered at the South Pole locked into melting
ice, then freed.
CHAPTER 2: TUNNEL COMPLEX - Discovery of a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the ice, dated by scientists to be
many millions of years old, is leaked to Jill Bird, BBC world service,
via Sky news and Discovery Channel. Supporting John Cleves Symmes theory
of 1818.
CHAPTER 3: GOLD RUSH - Three expeditions launched by competing concerns, Swedish,
Multinational & Cathy Carter, backed by the
CIA.
The third funded by Chinese, Lin Po
Chang. Land grab for mineral rights and archaeological exclusivity,
prehistoric insect DNA.
CHAPTER 4:
U.N. CALL FOR JOHN STORM - MI6 and the
UN
decide to send in John
Storm and the Elizabeth Swan. Dan Hawk and
Charley Temple
speed from the
Southern Ocean to the Weddell Sea and there to Deception Island, an extinct volcano.
CHAPTER
5: IT'S MURDER ON THE ICE - Several fatal accidents occur in quick succession, then an egg clutch is discovered in a section of a tunnel.
Chang eliminates the remaining opposition. Then nurtures one thawed
egg through a simulated incubation.
CHAPTER 6:
BOUND FOR ENGLAND - The creature is smuggled aboard Ice Patrol survey vessel
'KoolArctic' bound for England, eats two crew members. Second mate on KoolArctic reports the chaos aboard
vessel to the British Admiralty, abandons ship.
CHAPTER
7: BASECAMP - John's team set up camp onshore, locate the excavation site,
using the 'Ark' (a DNA database) Storm finds dead explorers & uncovers disturbing new evidence to support
theory that dinosaurs were not entirely wiped out by a
meteor striking the
earth.
PART
2
CHAPTER
8: WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH - Confirmed, they
lived when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Dinosaurs starve in volcanic/asteroid
winter. Sectasaurs have higher
tolerance to freezing conditions, eat competition, then hibernate.
Suki Hall hypothesis merit worthy, supported scientific community.
CHAPTER 9: WORST FEARS CONFIRMED - From DNA analysis aboard
energy depleted Elizabeth
Swan, Storm estimates species grew to between 3-5 metres, warm blooded with
high tolerance to low temperatures. Team realize danger to humans, alert
MOD
& CIA to the danger.
John made Master
& Commander RN.
CHAPTER 10: -
ATLANTIC EXPRESS - Storm and crew head to England at high
speed, breaking record on hydrofoils. Sectasaur stows away on Atlantic
Express. Meanwhile Chang has landed in
Portsmouth.
CHAPTER 11: HAMPSHIRE - The giant prehistoric animal jumps ship,
feeds on New Forest ponies, gaining attention of Hampshire police, relayed to
MI6 and thence to John Storm.
CHAPTER 12:
BUCKLERS HARD - Storm heads up the Beaulieu River to Bucklers
Hard, following pony corpses toward a wooded area near Worts Gutter (Furzey Lane). Storm
calls military for backup. Chang heads to Buckler's Hard, and Worts
Gutter.
CHAPTER 13:
CAT & MOUSE - Storm and Temple
play cat and mouse with Sectasaur - when the giant insect came up from behind over the brow of a ravine and
knocks Charley nearly unconscious. Storm strikes the creature with an axe,
causing partial shock.
CHAPTER 14: FIRST AID - Charley and John patch creature's wound with antiseptic and bandages. The
giant insect feigns immobility. Understands dialogue between John and Charley is not aggressive or threatening,
and marks these two humans down as allies.
PART
3
CHAPTER 15: SECTASAUR RESCUES JOHN - John panics with axe.
Creature lashed out in reflex throwing John over a ledge. John at the mercy
of creature.
The huge insect puts itself at risk to pull John up to safety. Meanwhile government troops,
Territorial Army reservists are closing in.
CHAPTER 16: PUZZLING SITUATION - John dusts himself, while magnificent insect
cleans itself. John offers hand palm up to the creature. The animal
studies with both feelers, tickling him. John's heart pounding, at risk
of amputation, enjoying leap of faith. It understands and responds to
voice communication.
CHAPTER 17: ALL FRIENDS - Charley joins from bracken and saw the interaction between John and the insect.
She proffers her hand, the prehistoric insect smelled her all over with its antennae. Charley giggled at the
friendly touch. Temple shot in arm by troops, insect in head. Chang witnesses interchange.
CHAPTER 18: HOSTILE FIRE - Troops fire wounding animal. John & Charley both
leap in front of insect yelling to stop firing, but Charley is shot in the arm and
screams. The giant insect moves to protect them both from the gunfire,
taking more hits and another to the head. It collapsed, feelers limp.
Dead. Gone.
CHAPTER 19: ATTACK SUBSIDES - John and Charley shout as loud as they
can,
stopping firing. They reach insect. They raised its feelers, Charley and
John take one each, and the trio embraced for a minute, its antennae
were limp - there was no reviving it - tears, anger - it was gone. J&C
in shock for a moment.
CHAPTER
20: NO REMORSE - John & Charley anger welling up inside, tears
gave way to action. A rhinoceros soldier
is delighted at kill. "Yes," cried the soldier. "Yes," said John,
punching the trigger happy fool out. Up to that point other military thought they had saved
their lives. Chang is devastated at loss.
CHAPTER 21:
EPILOGUE & DEBRIEFING - John files a report with
the United
Nations and MI6, advising of a great loss to science.
Keep watching brief for any repeats, finds, missing links, etc. Watching
brief with increased security, military conflicts. Further investigations needed. Chang vows to return to Antarctica.
Charley
temple and John Storm - comfort the wounded Sectasaur
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