Junk Field (Script)

INT. BAR - NIGHT

A chipmunk sits on a table on top of another table. The chipmunk has military garb and a variety of medals with scars over his face.

The bar owner uses a pipette filled with whiskey to fill a chipmunk-sized cup. The chipmunk drinks the whiskey slowly and deliberately. 

A man in military garb with fewer medals than the chipmunk salutes the chipmunk.

Gabriel, a young, beautiful man with a thin stitch through his forehead.

Gabriel

Good day, Sir. May, I sit with 

you?

Cashew

(In agreement)

Mhm.

Gabriel

One Parfait, my good man, and get 

the boozy strawberry.

The bartender nods.

Gabriel

The owner is French so they are

made with real custard. You 

should grab one.

Cashew

(annoyed)

Is there something you want?

Gabriel

I want to have a conversation but I

also have a business to attend to.

Cashew

(Professionally)

What do you want?

Gabriel

I want you to join my new crew

The camera pulls into the chipmunk’s eye.

INT. TREE IN A BACKYARD - MORNING 

The camera focuses on a tree with round wooden houses hammered into the tree. The camera closes into one of the wooden house’s windows. Inside the house, we see a chipmunk doing pushups. The room is filled with a variety of workout equipment except for chipmunk size and a picture that overtakes an entire wall of a man with red hair in formal military garb. In front of the chipmunk is a shard of reflective glass.

Cashew, a brown Siberian chipmunk with a stash over its torso.

Cashew

(Says excited)

Alright, Cashew, today is the day.

Today, you join the Space Force

fully. 

Someone knocks on the door.

Almond, an old chipmunk

Almond

Cadet outside now!

Cashew rushes out of his room and salutes the old chipmunk.

Almond

Today you take your first step into

the real world. Away from your home

and family. You will only have your

wits and skills to rely on. But! 

Today you are my boy and you will

Eat breakfast with the whole family.

Cashew

Yes Sir!!

The two walk together in a march outside the tree house. Outside is an RC car with a Jerry-rigged section on top that allows Almond to drive.

INT. HOME OF THE BACKYARD

The two silently drive toward the home. The blue sky is speckled with debris like a reverse starry night. Inside the home was a redheaded teenage girl working on a humanoid robot.

Sammy is a teenage girl with red hair and is physically built.

Sammy

Hey cousin Cashew. Hey uncle 

Almond. Mom’s making cashew pancakes 

for our little soldier.

Cashew

I may be little, but I can take even

the biggest of giants don’t you know.

Why can I take even you down big 

missy.

Sammy

Oh, you want to go. Let’s go.

Almond

Enough you too! It would be nice to 

go through one meal without your two 

trying to kill each other. Now 

Sammy Cashew won’t be around for a

While so shouldn’t you leave on a

good note.

Sammy

You know me and cuz are good Uncle. 

Besides, it's not like he’ll be 

gone forever. Ain’t that right 

cuz.

Almond

You’re darn tooting. 

Mom

Pancakes are ready, baby.

The chipmunks climb the table into a smaller table on top. All of them eat pancakes together. The camera pulls into Cashew’s eye and we pull back to the older Cashew.

INT. BAR - NIGHT

The chipmunk and man sit looking at each other in silence.

Cashew

You… you should look for someone

else kid.

Gabriel

I’ll be back and you’ll say yes.

Cashew lifts his cup at the young man as he walks out. The bartender brings the parfait to the table.

Gabriel

Oh! You can have that on.

He puts the money on the table. Cashew looks at the tall glass filled with strawberries and custard

Cashew

Do you have Cashews? This is gonna 

kill me.

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INT. FOREST - NIGHT

A young man sits on a beach chair in the middle of the forest with a Corona in hand. He looks up at the starry sky. The sky is covered in bright stars and just as many black dots that float right next to each other.

Peni, a Dominican young man with long hair and two braids reaching his chest.

He sits there looking at the sky until a bright explosion fills the sky. He jumps up out of the chair.

Peni

Hallelujah! La madre de dios me 

quiere mucho. HOY será el 

nacimiento de mi obra maestra.

The boy runs through the forest to get to the crash site until a soldier comes out of the ground and slams him with the but of their gun. 

The camera goes black.

The camera comes back to a group of doctors over Peni with a syringe. Inside the syringe is filled with a glowing green substance.

Peni

No!!! Keep your poison away from me

that is a lie.

(he says loudly becoming quiet)

The camera goes black.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY

The camera comes back to a hospital with him handcuffed to the bed. He struggles for a little bit before giving up. Gabriel walks into the room.

Gabriel

Good morning.

Peni stares at him silently. 

Gabriel

Peni Cillin was an illegal doctor 

that would travel the world giving 

his “cure” sometimes with high pay

sometimes free. Each person would

later use this “cure” as a weapon

for tormenting others. To put it in

simple terms, you have been charged 

with bioterrorism. Anything to add 

to that?

Peni stares at him silently. 

Gabriel

Okay. I guess you aren’t as smart

as they say. Telling a bunch of

doctors to not give you medicine

is not what the kids would say

intelligent.

Peni

That isn’t medicine. It’s poison 

with extra steps. All it does is

delay the inevitable. What you

call bioterrorism is actually the

true cure. 

Gabriel

He speaks, and he tells. I knew

you were the kind of guy that loves

to talk. Tell me more I’m at the

edge of my seat.

Peni

What I do is feed the foreign 

aliment be it a virus, a disease, 

or mutation a serum made of the 

infected person’s DNA. The now

damaged DNA becomes an anti-venom

that can be used to mutate the 

infected out of the problem. 

Turning an aliment into a power

Gabriel

Honestly, I don’t know what any of

that means. I know what those words

are but past that I’m in the dark.

Do you want a job?

Peni

What?

Gabriel

You are both a brilliant person and also really

dangerous. That means one of two

things is going to happen. One, you

get executed as a threat to the 

country, or two, you became an asset.

One lets you live.

Peni

That isn’t a choice. That is an 

ultimatum. 

Gabriel

That’s why I didn’t say choice. I

think your potential would be 

wasted if you die. I’m developing

a task force capable of dealing

with our problems.

Peni

Look me in the eyes. I would rather

die than join the American military.

Gabriel

I’ll be back and you’ll say yes.

Gabriel walks out of the room. Peni says still and closes his eyes. The camera focuses on a clock on the wall as it speeds up. After a couple of hours, the camera returns to Peni. Peni opens his eyes.

His braid moves around the cuffs. They turn a silvery metallic color and shatter the cuffs. He gets up pulling the iv out of his arm. The doors open and armed guards point their guns at Peni.

Guard A

Put your hands up.

Peni

Okay. My hands are up.

Peni puts his hands up, and the Guards fall to the ground. Peni pulls his shirt off revealing a serpent wrapped around his torso. The serpent unravels into a tail as Peni strips one of the guards of their armor and weapons.

Outside the door, the hallway is filled with guards wearing gas masks. The serpent exhales a black smoke that fills and Peni charges at the men. Some pull down their goggles but some aren’t fast enough. A silver fist caves the guard’s face in. Peni runs through the smoke.

The bullets spray down the hallway where Peni runs. One of the bullets strikes the serpent. The serpent dries out and snaps off. Peni continues to run. Peni’s hair becomes sharp spikes as his face and hair turn into a silver color. He punches through the walls till he gets outside.

Outside are even more guards pointing their guns. They begin firing at Peni. The armor he wears is blown to pieces revealing the silver skin around his body. He covers his face with his arms. Under his arms, two of his teeth extend into fangs and he takes a deep breath. 

As he holds his breath, his gut starts to glow like molten metal. He exhales releasing a plum of flame over the ground at the guards. The flame is so large and great that it completely obscures Peni. After the flame dies out, a dragon with silver scales appears in Peni’s place. He flies out into the air. One of the guards pulls out a communicator. Guards with rocket launchers pour out of the building and point at the dragon. Rockets fly at the dragon and make their mark, but Peni is unscathed.

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INT. HOUSE - DAY

A little girl sits in the living room with her dog. She is watching cartoons with a bowl of cereal in front of her. 

Her mom walks in and sits on the couch. 

Her father walks in and sits on the couch.

The father places a bowl in front of the dog and it starts barking happily. The little girl stares at the dog and its jaw changes into a smiling row of teeth for a second. The girl shakes her and the dog is normal. She stands up and looks at her mom.

Girl

Mom, I think there’s something

wrong with my eyes.

The mother says nothing and stays still.

Girl

Dad, I think there’s something

wrong with Mom.

The father says nothing and stays still.

Girl

Mom. Dad! SOMEBODY!

A man walks up behind the little girl and stabs her with a syringe. The little girl lies on the ground as she watches the man grab her frantic dog.

The camera goes black.

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

She wakes up to see her home destroyed. The walls are peeling off and the couch has exposed springs coming out. The dog’s bowl has dried blood over it. The kitchen has the sounds of knives on a cut board.

The little girl tiptoes toward the kitchen. The same man that grabbed her is cutting potatoes and carrots. The kitchen is just as dilapidated as the living room. Her dog is strapped down on the table and looks at her. The girl tiptoes toward the dog and starts unhooking the straps.

The man grabs her wrists and straps her down on a chair. He brings the chopped vegetables to the table with a hotplate on the table. He pours oil onto the pan and starts tipping it around to evenly distribute the oil.

Max, a large man with bite marks over every part of his body.

Max

I’m going to ask you questions

Answer honestly.

The girl stays silent, trembling.

Max

Do you remember your mother’s name?

Do you remember your father’s name?

Do you remember your name?

Do you remember your birthday?

The girl starts scared but changes into a more confused expression.

Girl

I don’t… I don’t remember anything.

Why don’t I remember?

Max

Two weeks ago the bones of a married

couple had been discovered in their

home with their child nowhere to be

seen. You are that child.

Girl

Wha… What is happening?

Max

What’s happening is that you have

been exposed to a hallucinogenic

material capable of distorting the

memories of the affected person.

Now, look at your dog.

The little girl slowly turned her head to where the dog was. Instead of a dog is a dog-sized shark with mushrooms growing over their heads. The mushrooms have a knife sticking out of them.

Girl

Why? Why? Why? Why!? WHY!?

Max

Shut the fuck up!

Max walks back to the pan and pours the vegetables in. The room is filled with the noise of vegetable sizzling, the little girl whimpering, and the shark biting its restraints. Max unties the girl and pulls out a knife.

Max

Now you can sit there hoping for

all this to disappear, or you can

get revenge and a meal all at the

same time.

The girl picks up the knife and starts stabbing the shark to death. Max moves in front of the destroyed shark and nods at the girl. He takes off the restraints and starts cutting the shark into slabs. He pours the meat into a pot filled with milk.

Max

Now, let this sit to take out all

ammonia overtones. We will add extra

time to deal with the mushroom’s

hallucinogens. 

Girl

Heheheeh.

A clock screen wipes take over. The two just stand there without moving the entire time. Max pulls out the meat and pats it down with a cloth. He places it onto the pan and makes a quick sear over the shark stake. The girl takes a bite of steak.

Girl

My mom always told me to eat my

vegetables. Heheeheh.

(starts crying between the laughter)

She eats the vegetables through her tears.

EXT. HOME - NIGHT

A police officer pulls up in front of Max and the girl.

Max

Remember, violence is always the

answer.

The police officer takes the girl away.

INT. BAR - NIGHT

Max sits in a bar with a beer in hand. He is on his phone flipping through articles about sharks. The camera shows pictures of a bone shark, a lightning shark, and a mechanized shark.

Gabriel

Hello. May I buy you a drink?

Max

Fuck off.

Gabriel

I am building a team of talented

individuals to deal with the trash

in the field around the world.

Max

None of that sounds like shark

hunting, so no. Fuck off.

Max’s phone makes a ping. He looks at the phone and starts walking out.

Gabriel

I’ll be back and you’ll say yes.

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INT. DINNER - DAY

A man sits in the stall for dinner. The man wears a leather jacket and leather gloves that obscures all of their skin. He sits there looking at the menu. The camera focuses on the man’s eye.

Stinger, a man-shaped humanoid with leather covering all of their skin and a helmet covering their head.

INT. MAN (HEAD) - DAY

Inside we see a long table with bees filling each side and a screen showing what the man sees. The room is filled with sounds of buzzing until a green circle appears on the screen. A waitress walks up to the man.

INT. DINNER - DAY

Waitress 

What will you be having?

The man points at the stack of pancakes with honey on top. The waitress fills a mug of coffee for him. The man drinks the coffee. The camera focuses on his mouth.

INT. MAN (MOUTH) - DAY

A pool is filled with coffee as vacuums drain the pool into boxes. Bees label the boxes based on sector number. Another group of bees uses glow sticks to direct the boxes to their correct location.

INT. DINNER - DAY

The man takes perfect ten-second intervals between sips. Gabriel sits in the same stall as the man.

Gabriel Stinger

Hello. My name is Gabriel and- you wish to recruit us.

Gabriel

Oh.

Stinger

(Robot-like)

Analysis: Gabriel. Youngest cadet to

make general in the Space Force. A

survivor of alien abduction has

been tested in various experiments.

Gabriel

Somebody did their research.

Stinger

We both did our research. Your 

turn.

Gabriel

Stinger: Classified as an android

but more akin to an advanced bee

hive. Multiple accounts of hunting

monster class threats. The nature

of your collective consciousness 

allows you to make calculations 

often described as predictions 

of the future. This brings us to 

the big question why say yes?

Stinger

What does that change?

Gabriel

Humor me.

Stinger

My calculations dictate that you

have the highest potential of 

achieving my main goal.

Gabriel

And what’s that?

Stringer

Making us stronger.

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INT. HANGER (DAY)

Gabriel walks down a hallway into a room with Stringer, Max, and Peni standing at attention in soldier garb. Max and Peni stare daggers at Gabriel.

Gabriel

Now the crew is almost complete.

Today we go on our first mission.

If we succeed, we can get our

final member.

(Max and Peni groan.)

Remember we all benefit from each

others' success so let’s not step

on each other's toes okay?

Max and Peni go silent and straighten up. 

Gabriel

Let’s roll out.

Everyone walks into a truck with plates that emit force to keep it floating. They drive into a wheat field. The driver walks out of the truck with a water bottle. He opens the bottle, and the water floats into a screen that says Farmer 657. 

EXT. WHEATFIELD (DAY)

Farmer 657

Can you hear me?

Gabriel

Yep!

Farmer 657

Okay, I found a patch of rust muscle

growing on my tractor. I called the

officials and nobody came by.

Gabriel

We are understaffed sir. Can you

give us any more information?

Farmer 657

You are gonna regret waiting so

long. The rust grew and took the

whole tractor. Don’t know 

anything past that. Also, I lost

a dozen drones. 

Gabriel

We will clean this up quickly.

(Gabriel closes the call.)

Peni

(Sarcasm)

What are we, exterminators?

Max

(Offended)

What’s your problem with 

exterminators?

Stinger

Silence. I smell the creature.

Stinger points toward the field. 

Gabriel

Okay, folks, I won’t be helping

any of you. If you can’t survive

this, then the whole operation is 

a bust.

Max & Peni

(Whisper under their breath)

Piece of shit.

Gabriel

Good luck!

Gabriel waves them off as he hangs out of the truck. Stinger leads the march as his helmet’s visor extends into a pair of binoculars. They survey the scene and sit down.

Max

What do you see?

Stinger

Nothing. Creature is not here.

Max

Then why are we stopping?

Stinger

Creature will return.

Max

(Frustrated)

How do you know that?

Stinger

All rust-based creatures stay in the

same location unless given a proper

reason to move. Analogy: butterfly 

in a cocoon.

Max

Then let’s set up camp.

INT. HANGER (SUNSETTING)

Max and Peni set up camp while Stinger continues to stand watch. Max finds a flat piece of land and lies down.

Peni

So you have anti-gravity technology.

Max

Do you have to talk? I just got 

some modicum of comfortable.

Peni

Well. We are going into combat and 

I need to know how you fight.

Max

Anti-gravity isn’t real.

Peni

That’s a new one elaborate.

Max

I don’t just turn off gravity. I 

use a complex level of teleportation

to move the gravitational pulls

from other planets. I’m folding

space not breaking gravity. My two

favorites would be the moon for

less and Neptune for more. Sprinkle

in little martial arts and you get 

humanity's greatest shark hunter.

And you?

Peni

I’m a doctor, and I have a gun 

filled with poison. That can’t be

healthy using that much gravity on

your body.

Stinger

Alert. The target is here.

Stinger is already standing up as they point at a rustle in the wheat. Max and Peni stand up. Peni loads his gun. Max flips a switch on his belt as light glows on his gloves and boots. As he takes a step forward, a rust-red scorpion stinger sticks out of the ground and stabs Max’s leg. He falls to his knee.

Max

(Calmly)

Fuck.

Multiple holes pop out of the ground. Through those holes are drones with plates projecting energy to make them float. The drones have a rust-red patch of muscle in the front and the back. The front has four fingers with a talon at the tip and the back has a scorpion. Six drones fly over the trio. 

Stinger pulls six sniper rounds and absorbs them into his body. Their back extends into six barrels. The barrels train on the drones and shoot through the mechanical parts. On the ground, the drones leak a dark red fluid. The fluid causes the grass to steam and melt. The barrels on Stinger’s back become mouths and extend toward the drones. The jaws crush the drones into metallic orbs that don’t leak. Max pulls out his leg to reveal red veins growing there. The camera goes x-ray to show all the blood in his body. Max raises and lowers his arm. All the blood in his body falls downward. The camera returns to normal and his leg is gushing dark red fluid until bright red flows out. Max flicks his wrist and globs of blood float in the air. Max pulls a blowtorch out and blasts the wound completely unfazed. The leg loses the extra veins and Max stands up and runs forward.

An anorexic humanoid stand watching the trio as they run toward it. The creature stays still staring at them as it backs up. Stinger pulls out another bullet and converts their arm into a rifle that shoots right at the creature's head. The creature is unfazed and continues to back up. Max gets in a running stance and bolts right in the face of the creature. Max throws a punch and lines appear upward at the start of the punch and halfway switch direction downward to show gravity has changed on his fist.

The creature’s face is carved into a crescent shape after the punch.

Stinger

I see.

Stingers break down and melt his arms into chainsaws. Stinger dashes forward seeing that the creature has a snake-like lower half made of rust-red muscle that connects to the tractor. Stinger raises his arms and slices the connection apart. The blades leave sparks melting the halves to ensure that the fluid doesn’t spill out. The creature stays still on the ground.

Peni

Is it over?

Stinger

Checking.

Stinger walks up to the creature’s tractor portion as a pipe extends toward them. The pipe sprays a dark red liquid and Stinger turns their feet into wheels to dash away. The tractor’s engine starts louder than ever. Black plates cover it from all sides except the portion that had the humanoid creature. A pair of jaws with the plates create a skull around it. The six other drones surround the trio. These drones have a shell made of the same black plate. Peni points his rifle at the tractor. He fires and paces the teeth with a glowing green bullet. 

Peni

That’s my best poison bitch.

Stinger

Fun fact: Rust creatures are 

inorganic so poison would be 

ineffective.

The creature stares at Peni with confusion.

Peni

That would be more fun had you told

me before.

The creature charges at Peni while baring its teeth. Stinger holds the creature’s jaw open and lifts it in the air before slamming it into the ground. Before hitting the creature grows a pair of arms to grab Stinger’s waist. As the creature hits the ground, it rips Stinger’s upper body from his lower. Bees start flying out of the two halves. 

Max and Peni stand back to back. The drones rush forward to slam into the two. Max punches with his gravity-powered punches while Peni shoots them. The drones get a crack after each punch and Peni shoots through those cracks to destroy them. They take down five of the six drones with the tractor and then charge at them.

Max is run over and hits his head against the ground. The camera flashes between darkness and conciseness. An image of a town being ransacked by sharks as the tractor flashes between itself and a shark with a woman in its teeth. 

Max

There’s my shark.

Max charges at the creature and punches the side of its face causing his arm to shatter on impact. The armor shatters with the image of a fist implanted on impact. He floats back and slams another fist with his other unbroken arm destroying the shell. Max’s eyes look crazed with a hideous smile on his face. He looks at his broken arms and starts floating into the air. He slams himself downward feet first. His kick bends the creature’s back into a v shape. The creature spits out blood, metal, and a metallic heart after the attack.

Stinger gets up and converts his arms into shovels to fill the mouth to lessen the blood spilling. 

Stinger

Well done Max.

Peni

(Spooked)

Ahh. How are you alive!?

Stinger

I am a construct of the great bee

hive mind.

Max

(Angry)

We won you Mother Fucker.

EXT. FARTHER AWAY FROM THE FIELD - NIGHT

A drone carries a beating metallic heart and drops it onto the ground. The heart forms an anorexic humanoid out of the rust-red muscle. 

Gabriel

Now. Now. I’m gonna ask you to die.

The creature throws a punch exactly like Max, but Gabriel grabs the fist out of the air. 

Gabriel

How fun.

Gabriel extends his arm and flames made of TV static pour out and engulf the creature. Nothing is left behind except the heart.

Gabriel

Now we get paid.

Gabriel picks the heart up and walks away.