My X-Men 3 Screenplay

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT--NIGHT
Jean and Emma. Jean is in the machine, Emma stands before her. In the
background Shaw is out of focus at the control station. Some somber, light
music subtly kicks in. (Think of when Xavier goes into the bad Cerebro in X2.
That's what I hear in my head.)

ANGLE ON JEAN
She is still. Her eyes are empty. This is not Jean we are seeing; it's
Phoenix, enthralled by Emma.

ANGLE ON EMMA, OVER JEAN'S SHOULDER
She reaches her hand at Jean.

MEDIUM SHOT: EMMA, JEAN; SHAW OUT OF FOCUS
Emma slides her hand down Jean's cheek. She throws a glance over her shoulder
to Shaw.

RACK BACK TO SHAW
He begins to press buttons.

CUT.

INT. THE STOLEN JET--NIGHT
Cyclops presses some buttons, while Storm holds the stick.

PAN BACK PASSED BEAST AND NIGHTCRAWLER TO ICEMAN AND ROGUE
Rogue shivers visibly, reacting to Emma's touch. ICEMAN leans in and puts his
arm around her.

CLOSE ANGLE ON ROGUE
Her expression matches Jean's.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT--NIGHT

CLOSE ANGLE ON JEAN
(Just to cover my tracks) She indeed has the same look as Rogue. The Phoenix
effect begins to extend out of her again. Her eyes line with fire. She looks
like she is about to speak.

CUT.

EXT. CANADIAN WILDERNESS--DAY
Through some trees, we see a small Military compound.

CRANE UP TO A BIRDS EYE VIEW
We see clearly that the Canadian Compound is very similar to the Mutant Death
Camp from the first scene. Large stone perimeter walls. Both a blessing to the
production designer and a testament that the danger room sequence is not that
far off. Worthington drifts into frame.

ANGLE ON LOGAN
Worm's eye view: We can still see Worthington in the sky. Logan is watching
the compound. Worthington descends and lands next to Logan.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT--NIGHT

ANGLE ON SHAW
As he begins the final stages of the sequence, flipping levers and adjusting
settings.

WHIP PAN OVER TO JEAN
Emma stands nearby, though the Phoenix effect has nearly over taken the entire
frame. Jean leans her head back and slings it down.

JEAN
Scott!

CUT.

INT. STOLEN PLANE--NIGHT
A very sharp cut in on Rogue, who mirrors Jean's movement and speaks in unison
with her.

ROGUE
Scott!

WHIP PAN TO CYCLOPS
Catching everyones reaction on the way. Cyclops instantly flys from his seat
and begins to move back to Rogue.

TRACK CYCLOPS
He reaches Rogue, who is generally creeping Iceman out.

CYCLOPS
Rogue? What is it?

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT--NIGHT

ANGLE ON JEAN
Shaw has moved to Emma in the background. Jean jerks around.

JEAN
Not...right...something...

CUT.

INT. STOLEN JET--NIGHT

ANGLE ON ROGUE
Cyclops, Iceman in background.

ROGUE
Not...right...something...

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT--NIGHT

ANGLE ON JEAN
Emma and Shaw look concerned in the background.

JEAN
...the White...Queen...

CUT.

INT. STOLEN JET--NIGHT

ANGLE ON ROGUE
Iceman, Cyclops in the background.

ROGUE
...The White...Queen...

SWISH PAN TO BEAST
This sounds familiar to him.

BEAST
What did she say?

TRACK BEAST
As he starts back towards Rogue.

CUT.

EXT. CANADIAN COMPOUND-DAY

LOGAN'S POV
Two guards changing shifts in front of the huge gate in the wall.

REVERSE ANGLE
Logan and Worthington look at each other.

LOGAN
Done anything like this before?

WORTHINGTON
I snuck into the Dean's office in college.

Logan is visibly unimpressed. He starts down the hill that they have been
standing on.

TRACK LOGAN AND WORTHINGTON
As they make their way down the hill.

LOGAN
Why would you do a thing like that?

WORTHINGTON
One of my buddies changed his grades. I was going to change them back.

Logan gives a take of utter disbelief and then puts his arm out and stops
Worthington.

WIDE ANGLE ON THE COMPOUND

A guy with binoculars on top of the walls. The shift change guys are still
talking.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT-NIGHT
Shaw and Emma look at each other.

PAN AROUND SHAW AND EMMA 180 DEGREES
Until Jean is in the shot. She is motionless now.

JEAN
It's time.

CUT.

INT. STOLEN JET-NIGHT
Same shot except with Rogue in Jean's place and Cyclops and Beast in Emma and
Shaw's places.

ROGUE
It's time.

CUT.

EXT. CANADIAN COMPUND--DAY
Wide shot. The guards have stopped talking. One of them heads off. The othere enters a code and opens the gate.

REVERSE ANGLE
Logan and Worthington. Logan looks at him.

LOGAN
Okay.

Logan darts off, low. Worthington leaps up and out.

TRACK WORTHINGTON
As he shoots up into the sky, his wings beating. We catch a glimpse of the horizon in the background. The sun is setting.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT-NIGHT
Close on Jean. She looks upward. The Phoenix Effect is at its strongest now.
In fact, we can't tell exactly where it begins and Jean ends.

PULL BACK
As Jean RAISES HER ARMS THROUGH THE RESTRAINTS AS IF THEY WEREN'T THERE.
(Think Kitty Pryde.)

ANGLE ON JEANS FEET
She is barefoot. Her ankles are also restrained. The metal restraints from her
hands fall into frame and dangle just above the floor. Jean steps OUT OF HER
ANKLE RESTRAINTS.

ANGLE ON JEAN, CLOSE
Her eyes are still skyward.

JEAN
I'll save you all.

CUT.

INT. STOLEN JET-NIGHT
Similar of Rogue. Eyes up.

ROGUE
I'll save you all.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT-NIGHT
Medium of Jean, over Emma and Shaw's shoulders. Jean looks down. The Phoenix
effect vanishes. It is SILENT. No Music. Nothing happens. Emma and Shaw look
at each other, confused.

CUT.

INT. STOLEN JET-NIGHT
Same deal: Rogue is quiet, looking down. Beast and Cyclops are confused.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE BASEMENT--NIGHT
Slow pull in towards Jean. SILENCE. When we reach a close up of Jean, she
lifts her head slowly and looks forward. She whispers.

JEAN
...now.

PULL BACK
To include Shaw and Emma, as the Phoenix Effect seems to replace Jean's body; a being of pure white energy. We caught a glimpse of her at the opening of X2, but now we see her as she truely is: the most powerful being on the planet. The Phoenix resembles Jean, but is mostly a mist/cloud of glowing fire. Music swells. She looks up again.

ANGLE ON EMMA AND SHAW
Shaw has a protective arm around Emma, as they step backwards away from Phoenix. They are bathed in light.

ANGLE ON PHOENIX
As parts of her nebulous body slowy drift apart and upward.

TRACK THE PHOENIX EFFECT
As it picks up speed, moving towards the top of the great chamber. It is no longer shaped like Jean, jsut an extension of the effect itself. It zaps through the ceiling and is gone. Silence.

CUT.

INT. THE STOLEN JET--NIGHT

ANGLE ON ROGUE
As Cyclops, Beast, and Iceman try to restrain her. She is spasming and screaming, tearfully.

ROGUE
I've got to save us all from them! The White Queen told me how!

They have her calm now.

ANGLE ON BEAST
Who takes another hypo from his sack. Thumps it. Squirts it. Leans in towards Rogue.

BEAST
This will knock her out, I'm afraid.

ANGLE ON CYCLOPS/BEAST/ICEMAN
Rogue is out. Beast pulls away with the needle. Iceman sits next to her and takes her hand.

ICEMAN
Will she be alright?

BEAST
Hard to say. If I knew what the hell was going on, I could give a more detailed prognosis.

CYCLOPS
The White Queen?

BEAST
That's what she said, yes?

Cyclops nods.

BEAST
Strange. The telepath in London. Emma Frost.

CYCLOPS
What about her?

BEAST
It was a joke...I used to call her "The White Queen."

STORM (OS)
Guys...

NIGHTCRAWLER (OS)
Mein gott...

TRACK BEAST AND CYCLOPS
As they leave Rogue with Iceman and make their way to the cock pit, eventually including Storm and Nightcrawler.

SCOTT
What's up, Storm?

STORM
I control the weather, right?

BEAST
Control might be the wrong word, actually...

STORM
You know what I mean. How come I've never seen anything like that before?

Storm gives an little upwards nod. Nightcrawler points out the windshield. Cyclops and Beast gaze out, mystified.

PULL IN THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD TOWARDS THE HORIZON
Where out over the Atlantic ocean, a large...well...Surge of white-hot Heat Lightening is moving from cloud to cloud. It is the Phoenix Effect, crackling it's way across the Atlantic: FAST. It spreads towards us, touching every cloud within range and then reconnecting and disconnecting again. A Phoenix Storm. It reaches us and fills the screen.

WHITE.

CUT.

END OF SCENE.

EXT. ALKALI LAKE BED--NIGHT
We see a roaring fire. Track passed this to reveal several torn pieces of parachute material marked with coal in tiny squares. These seem to be failed atempts at something that took several tries. Keep going. Pass the still unconscious Moira MacTaggart. Hold on the dead dear, that has had several chunks ripped out of it. All the while we hear:

XAVIER (OS)
You see, Erik. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

MAGNETO (OS)
Suddenly you're the expert.

ANGLE ON A SCRAP OF PARACHUTE MATERIAL, CLOSE
It has been laid out into a grid of charcoal marked squares: 8 x 8. Once we see the wooden pieces Xavier was carving earlier we know what we are looking at. It is a crudely fashioned chess board. Magneto has obviously made the first move. We see Xavier's hand move one of the wooden pawns forward two spaces.

XAVIER (OS)
I've been beating you for forty years. I think I have a little lattitude.

MAGNETO (Chuckles OS)
Lattitude?

ANGLE ON XAVIER
He is lit by the light of the fire. His normally pristine suit is covered in deer's blood. There is blood on his face.

XAVIER
From the first move, Erik, you set yourself up for defeat. The knight?

ANGLE ON MAGNETO
He is likewise lit and covered with blood.

MAGNETO
That's a risk I'm willing to take.

ANGLE ON THE "BOARD"
As Magneto moves his knight again; it is almost even with Xavier's pawn.

MAGNETO (OS)
Besides... I could harldy call this a knight. Usually it looks like a horse.

ANGLE ON XAVIER
He smiles as he moves.

XAVIER
And here I thought you would be touched I modeled it after you.

MEDIUM ANGLE: XAVIER AND MAGNETO
Magneto laughs and so does Xavier. Right now they are alone in the world.

ANGLE ON THE BOARD
Xavier's pawn has taken Magneto's knight. Xavier clutches it.

ANGLE: XAVIER AND MAGNETO
Xavier holds up the knight.

XAVIER
See what your bravado has cost you? One of the most important pieces. Crucial.

MAGNETO
Perhaps different things are crucial to different people.

XAVIER
Perhaps.

ANGLE ON THE BOARD
Magneto moves his other "knight."

ANGLE ON XAVIER
He throws his head back.

XAVIER
Erik, you can't be serious!

ANGLE ON MAGNETO
He looks coldly at Xavier.

MAGNETO
I assure you, Charles. If I am anything at all, it's serious.

ANGLE: XAVIER AND MAGNETO
Xavier does his best to continue without laughing. He makes a move.

XAVIER
Do you remember the first thing you ever said to me?

Magneto makes a move.

MAGNETO
No. Though I'm sure it was very appropriate.

Xavier moves.

XAVIER
It was. We were working as doctors during the war.

Magneto remembers. Then he moves.

MAGNETO
Yes. You were seventeen.

XAVIER
And you were eighteen. Good God, Erik. Your voice had barely changed.

Xavier reflects a moment and then makes a move. Magneto moves.

MAGNETO
And you had a full head of hair.

Xavier moves.

XAVIER
There's no need to be cruel.

ANGLE ON XAVIER
Over Magneto's shoulder. Magneto moves. Xavier leans back.

XAVIER
We were stationed in Korea. At...At, uh...The Kumsong River Valley.

MAGNETO
God help us.

XAVIER
I remember... I was in the medical tent. And... No... Yes, it was. Moira brought you in. I was treating a Australian Private with bronchitis. And you came in, with Moira, and you looked at the patient... You looked at me and you said, "You're not contagious, are you?"

Xavier laughs.

ANGLE ON MAGNETO
Over Xavier's shoulder. Xavier finally leans in and moves. Magneto laughs also, remembering.

MAGNETO
Yes... And then you said, "If I am, maybe you have an immunity to it."

Magneto raises his eyebrows.

MAGNETO
Appropriate, indeed.

ANGLE ON THE BOARD
Magneto moves his remaining knight and takes Xavier's bishop.

ANGLE: XAVIER ON MAGNETO
Magneto shows the bishop to Xavier.

MAGNETO
You see. Perhaps his brother did not die in vain.

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE CLUB, SHAW'S OFFICE--NIGHT
Shaw stands behind his desk, pacing. Emma sits on the corner. Over the
speakerphone, we hear Worthington's voice.

WORTHINGTON (VO)
...Then, I'm too late.

SHAW
Too late for what, Warren? Magneto's adjustments do not appear to have been
as crucial as he believed. The Phoenix is en route to America. Once she is
done, we will send the jet for you.

WORTHINGTON (VO)
I still don't understand. Where is she going?

EMMA
Don't concern yourself, Warren. Just tell us. Is Magneto still alive?

WORTHINGTON (VO)
Yes. Although he and Xavier are both powerless.

Shaw's ears perk up.

SHAW
Xavier? He's with you?

WORTHINGTON (VO)
Yes. And two of his people.

SHAW and Emma look at each other. Emma smiles.

SHAW
On second thought, Warren, we will be right over. Go back to Xaiver and
Lensherr. We'll pick you up at the lake bed.

Shaw presses the release button. He looks at Emma as he presses a few
buttons on the phone. She picks up her coat from a nearby chair. There is a
beep from the phone.

SHAW
Milos? I want you to ready the jet.

Silence. And then:

MILOS (VO)
Uh... Yes sir. Of course... It's just...

Shaw is annoyed.

SHAW
Just what, Milos?

MILOS (VO)
Didn't you... I mean... Sir, I thought you left in the jet a half-hour ago.

Shaw and Emma look to each other in panic.

MILOS (VO)
... I can prepare the secondary jet... sir... Mr. Shaw? Sir?

CUT.

INT. HELLFIRE JET COCKPIT--NIGHT

ANGLE ON MYSTIQUE
As she pilots the jet, smiling.

CUT.

INT. CANADIAN COMPOUND--NIGHT
The room is very typical of any corporate security office. A calendar on the
wall. Two desks. Worthington is standing by the phone. Logan watches a door.

LOGAN
How does it look?

WORTHINGTON
They're coming for us. I knew Mr. Shaw wouldn't desert us. Whatever Xavier
said.

Logan glares back at him.

LOGAN
Something tells me this ain't the main security office.

WORTHINGTON
What?

LOGAN
Familiar scent.

TRACK LOGAN
As he goes to a nearby wall. There is a framed picture opposite him. He
winces, as he looks at it.

LOGAN
We need to go. NOW.

PAN INTO A CLOSE UP OF THE PICTURE
As Logan moves out of frame. We see the picture. It is black and white.
There are several men holding the handle of a shovel. It is the
groundbreaking ceremony for this compound. One of the men is someone we've
seen before. His name is WILLIAM STRYKER.

CUT.

INT. A CONTROL ROOM--SUNSET
The room is very modern. A computer geeks wet dream. LCD monitors adorn
every wall. Consoles at every corner. The monitors display an exterior of a
simple air-field. Lots of hangars. A lone man, dressed in military clothes sits at
one of the consoles. For history's sake, we will call him BOLIVAR.

TITLE CARD: ST. LOUIS, MO

PULL IN ON ONE OF THE MONITORS
We barely catch Bolivar snapping his head towards it before we pan passed
him. On the monitor we observe a low-level military private. He is a little
nerdy, obviously only involved in this project for his brains. We will call
him HOWELL. We see him produce a key card and swipe it. The door in front of
him opens.

PAN OVER TO THE NEAREST DOOR
As it opens and Howell enters in a hurry.

BOLIVAR (OS)
You're late.

HOWELL
Sorry, sir. There's some kind of storm outside. I've never seen lightening
like that in my life.

ANGLE ON BOLIVAR
As he looks back at his computer.

BOLIVAR
Very interesting. The AI circuits malfunctioned again. We've run a
diagnostic.

Howell rushes into frame.

HOWELL
Did you try re-routing through the forward buffer array?

BOLIVAR
Of course, that was the first--

Suddenly the monitors all go dead in the chamber. Howell and Bolivar look at
each other. Howell scurries out of frame.

BOLIVAR
I have to brief to the President in half an hour!

HOWELL (OS)
I'm sure it's only electrical interference from the storm, sir. Give me a
second.

ANGLE ON HOWELL AND A MONITOR
As he re-routes some multi-phasic something or other. The monitor in front
of him blinks on.

HOWELL
There.

ANGLE ON THE MONITOR
We see Phoenix, standing just outside one of the hangars. She is still as a
saint.

HOWELL (OS)
What the hell?

Phoenix raises her arms. The screen goes a blinding white.

PULL BACK TO INCLUDE HOWELL AND BOLIVAR
Who has moved next to Howell. They recoil.

BOLIVAR
It's a mutant!

CUT.

EXT. THE ST. LOUIS COMPLEX--SUNDOWN

WIDE ANGLE
Phoenix stands at the center of the complex, arms raised. A white halo of the Phoenix Effect, similar to an atomic bomb, ripples out over the various hangars.

ANGLE ON VARIOUS HANGARS
As the Phoenix halo hits them and they vaporize. Literally crumbling into dust.

CUT.

INT. THE CONTROL ROOM—SUNSET
Small explosion throw Howell back away from the wall.

TRACK HOWELL
As he moves through the air. But hold on Bolivar, who he passes amid the destruction. Bolivar speaks into a radio and frantically types into a console.

BOLIVAR
Beta Base! Copy! Alpha Base has been compromised. Automatic data transfer in five… four… three—

FADE TO WHITE, NO SOUND.

EXT. THE ST. LOUIS COMPLEX—SUNSET
Slowly the white energy siphons back into Phoenix. She stands in the center of a large barren stretch of bedrock. The airfield is gone.

CUT.

END OF SCENE.

INT. STOLEN JET–NIGHT
Beast and Cyclops sit next to Storm and Nightcrawler. Favoring Beast.

BEAST
“And now we look through a glass but darkly.” Lewis Carol, Alice through the Looking Glass. The White Queen.

NIGHTCRAWLER
What did she call you?

BEAST
That’s neither here nor there.

CYCLOPS
Be straight Hank. Who are these people?

BEAST
The Club has been around since the late sixteenth century. Benjamin Franklin was a member. So was Byron.

STORM
All mutants?

BEAST
Of course not. Hellfire is beyond that. For a couple of years now, the mutants have been in charge, but it’s mostly a social club. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be touching. Mutants and Humans living despicable and immoral lives together.

CYCLOPS
They funded your research...

BEAST
The Club is very interested in the origin of the latest mutant boom. They never said why, just signed the checks. It was an opportunity. I took it. We traced the mutant gene back to one mutant in the middle kingdom.

STORM
Egypt? En Sabah Nur?

BEAST
Literally, “The First One.”

CYCLOPS
I read all of this. “An alpha and an omega,” you said. Fascinating, but really not good for anything but speculation. There was no proof. You heard Harvard. Inconclusive.
BEAST
Scott! They stole it! They took the proof and denied everything. You would never believe... the device we found. It’s some kind of accelerator. I mean, this is an electro magnetic harnessing device from antiquity. And they just took it. My articles, my papers were worth nothing without it.

STORM
Why would they want a device like that?

BEAST
I don’t know. En Sabah Nur always said that mutant called “Phoenix” would use it. To remake the world, I believe.

NIGHTCRAWLER
There is a myth... adopted by Plato while he was in Egypt. It became one of the most important doctrines of my faith.

They look at him.

NIGHTCRAWLER
Resurrection. To die and be born again.

BEAST
The trail of the Phoenix leads back to En Sabah Nur. It originated there.

ANGLE ON CYCLOPS
He stares out the window.

CYCLOPS
Jean...

ANGLE ON THE GROUP
They look at each other.

STORM
You say this device is electro-magnetic?

CUT.

END OF SCENE.

EXT. CANADIAN COMPOUND–NIGHT
Logan and Worthington make their way down a hill. In the background we see alarms blaring. Sirens. They have been discovered.

ANGLE ON LOGAN
He looks to Worthington.

LOGAN
This happen at the Dean’s office, bub?

ANGLE ON WORTHINGTON
He is daintily making his way down the hill. He runs a few step and then jumps and glides. He looks back at Logan.

WORTHINGTON
Actually, campus security was a real pain.

He jumps, lands, runs.

WORTHINGTON
My wings weren’t as big as they are now. I had to run like everyone else.

He jumps, lands, runs.

ANGLE ON LOGAN
He sneers, still running.

LOGAN
No need to run, now.

ANGLE ON WORTHINGTON
He jumps, lands, runs.

WORTHINGTON
I could carry you, but we’d be spotted.

He jumps, lands, runs.

WORTHINGTON
Anyway, I’m doing just fine, thank you.

He jumps... SMACK. The ring of metal. He has hit something that stands about twelve feet tall and is very definitely made of metal.

ANGLE ON LOGAN
He stops shocked. Looking at something just off camera.

ZOOM IN ON LOGAN
He doesn’t know what to do. He pops his claws. SNIKT.
CUT.

END OF SCENE.

EXT. ALKALI LAKE BED--NIGHT

ANGLE ON THE CHESS BOARD
There are only a few pieces left. We see Xavier and Magneto's hands make a few moves. One of them is very definitely winning.

MOIRA (OS)
Do you think its possible that there will be an end to this? To everything? Humans and Mutants.

PULL BACK
To include Xavier and Magneto, still playing. Moira sits in the background eating some deer meat.

XAVIER
Moira, the day this ends is the day that one species is gone.

MAGNETO
I couldn't have said it better myself.

XAVIER
Integration is an unending war. A war of bureaucracy and etiquette.

MOIRA
It sounds like a hard life.

Xavier looks pointedly at Magneto.

XAVIER
I had no desire to find the easy way.

ANGLE ON MAGNETO
He looks up.

MAGNETO
Easy. Your right, Charles. I will never fathom just how difficult your life is...safe within your manshion. Your school. Those of us that wander the world, trying to find a place to sleep are just too lazy to make a difference.

ANGLE ON XAVIER
He snaps up.

XAVIER
You are a fugitive, Erik!

WIDE ANGLE
Xavier and Magneto, Moira between.

MAGNETO
And so are you! Now that they know who you are they'll beat your door in and lock you up with me.

XAVIER
They aren't monsters, Erik, we can reason with them.

MAGNETO
That just shows how little you know about them, Charles.

MOIRA
And what about you? What do you know about us?

ANGLE ON MAGNETO
He turns to Moira.

MAGNETO
I know that your earrings aren't real silver.

ANGLE ON MOIRA'S EAR, CLOSE
As her EARRING UNFASTENS ITSELF AND MOVES TOWARD MAGNETO. IT RE-FASTENS IN MIDAIR.

TRACK THE EARRING
As is drifts passed Moira's terrified face. Follow it passed Xavier, who is stoic and down to the "chess board," where it hooks itself on Xavier's king. The king is hopelessly caught between Magneto's knight and a rook.

MAGNETO (OS)
Checkmate.

ANGLE ON ALL THREE
Xavier and Moira are tense.

MAGNETO
You needn't worry, Charles. Perhaps now that my...strength has returned, we won't be so helpless.

Xavier seems relieved. He looks down at the board in disbelief.

XAVIER
You beat me...

Magneto grins.

MAGNETO
Convenient that your telepathy isn't working.

Moira laughs.

ANGLE ON XAVIER
He is shocked.

XAVIER
Erik, I never... you're not suggesting...

ANGLE ON MAGNETO
As he laughs, also. Suddenly a large rack of spotlights blares to life behind him. Imagine a sporting vehicle's light rack, but 10 times as powerful. Magneto looks back and then immediately shades his eyes.

REVERSE ANGLE ON ALL THREE
As they are bathed in light. All of them Squint and cover their eyes. Magneto stands up. Moira moves to Charles.

PULL IN ON XAVIER, CLOSE
His eyes widen.

XAVIER
Good God...

REVERSE ANGLE, WIDE; SLOW CRANE UP
As another light source moves towards the original. In fact we can see a lot of these light racks moving around, only partially illuminating each other for a moment. There are about six of them. We can determine that each stands about 12 feet tall. Every once and a while we catch a glimps of a large rust colored arm or leg, but we never see one of them CLEARLY in this scene. MAKE NO MISTAKE: THESE ARE SENTINELS. (Thank God!) They move in a slow criss-crossing pattern towards Magneto, Xavier and Moira.

PAUSE.

NOT A CUT. JUST A BREAK IN WRITING. SORRY.

ermm, sorry to say, but i think nobody would read somthg so long.

You should be honored.. I registered just to review.

Ignore Flavinho. I've read your story twice. I love it so far. It's one of my favorite X-Men Fanfics and I check back regularly for updates. Why, I don't know seeing as how you don't update that often. Which is fine by me because when you do, the writing is of excellent quality. Of course, that's not to say that I'm not annoyed everytime I check back and see the same update. 😛

Anyways, keep up the great work and I can't wait to see what else you come up with!

I like it as well and have read it many times to see if you had finished it yet.

Wow. That was cool....

Wow

OMG that was brilliant
it may seem a little long but if it was a film it would be shorter u should give it to the director to film

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