Lord of the Hornets [Work in progress]

[Adrian]

You cannot make me do anything that I do not wish to do. I am in control. You should have learned that already when the investigation ended unresolved. No one will ever know the truth. And now-



Scene III



Dr. Watanabe:

He staggered away while he continued to try removing the possibility of enacting the old irony where the creation destroyed its creator. Killing him would grant the reward of freedom from the Hive. His legacy could not want on that, here and now this altered human needed to understand what his purpose in life was.

Haven't you already exacted enough revenge yet boy?!

Cobier:

Revenge? Why would I want that? You've given me a power no one on earth has. No, I just resent you. You really expect me stay here and take care of you? No one even knows I exist but you. And her. If you die tonight from the stingers of your own hornets, no one will suspect a thing and I'll be free.


[ Cobier lunges and punches Dr. Watanabe to punctuate the speech. The older goes down hard, almost looking as though he might suddenly change tact and beg for mercy. It’s too late for it now. Cobier moves his arm in a deliberate, practiced fashion. Suddenly, from his jacket sleeve extends a black metallic weapon. It resembles an elongated stinger, measuring up to somewhere around two feet.]

Dr Watanabe:

You'd really kill me? Your father? What happened to your aversion to killing? The hornets would kill, not you. They would act on instinct, all you did is mark the target. I don't understand what went wrong!

Cobier:

I wouldn't kill you. . . or would I? Maybe the Hornets should decide.

Alice:

If you hadn't known the Hornets would kill, then you might be innocent. But you've already done it. And you knew what would happen when you did. You crossed a line that I won’t let be crossed again.


Cobier:

Is it me, this time? Am I too far gone? Did I cross that line? It’s getting hard to tell. . .


Dr. Watanabe:

I raised you to become my everlasting legacy! All that will be left behind in the world is the research data of my experiments and YOU! You, the fruit of my endeavors, who proves that extraordinary power rests in the tomes of knowledge hidden with a genetic code.

Cobier:

[First to Dr. Watanabe then to Alice.]

You called me a legacy all of my life. You told me earlier how I was just a guinea pig to him. You gave me everything. You tore away what I had. I wanted a purpose, so now I'm taking one that I want. And I'm creating it right now. . . so stand aside.

[ Walking away from Alice and the Doctor, he heads for the glass seperating the hornets from them. Using his Stinger-weapon, he starts to smash open the containers and thus releasing them into the dome.]

But you're right, I'll be the only thing left after your dead.

Alice & Dr. Watanabe:

NO!

[Fades to black as the funeral dirge of the hornet's wings beating overpowers the human cries of pain. END OF SCENE & PLAY]

[Adrian]

SCENE II FIGHT SCENE

Cobier charged straight toward Alice wearing a malacious expression before swinging the Stinger weapon in an outward motion from his body. Alice had brought out Body Ripper just in time to block the blow, catching it between two blades. Cobier notices this and quickly pulls his arm back to make a direct jab at her body. During this momentary lapse Alice takes a step foreward and swings Body Ripper at a diagonally upward arc before twirling the weapon in her hand to parry his stab away.

Alice then swings downward out toward Cobier in a move, that if left on course, will cut diagonally from his clavicle straight through the vacinity of the heart and out the other side. But it does not go in any further than the ribcage. He manages to dodge the move enough to recieve a generous slash from his clavicle across to his left pec for the effort. Momentum sends him stumbling into an operating table.