SCIENTIST: We had such potential, such promise
But we squandered our gifts, our intelligence
Our blind pursuit of technology
only sped us quicker to our doom
Our world is ending
But life must go on
(WIND WHISTLING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(BANGING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(RUBBLE CLATTERING)
(SCRAPING)
(METALLIC GRINDING)
(CLATTERING CONTINUES)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(GRUNTS)
(SIZZLING)
(GROANING)
Wait! I'm a friend
(GROANING)
Yes, I always hoped
Aha!
So much thought
The details Carved wood Molded copper
(INAUDIBLE)
You can't speak
Uh-huh
Come with me
(METALLIC CLANKING)
Here
Stop!
Some things in this world are better left where they lie
But if you know where to look,
these ruins are full of riches
(GARBLED) Friend? Wait, wait
Friend? Almost there
Friend
(CLEARLY) Friend? Friend
What's this?
You found it!
(EXCLAIMS HAPPILY)
He's He's always drawing this
(LAUGHS HAPPILY)
(DISTANT ROARING)
(STAMMERING) Are Are we alone?
No, no
(DISTANT ROARING)
(GASPS)
(SHUSHING)
Go
(ROARING)
Get in the can Go on
(ROARING)
(GASPS)
(METAL GROANING)
(GROWLING)
(ROARING)
(SHOUTS)
(GROWLING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(GRUNTING)
Here, kitty, kitty
Why don't you finish what you started, with me?
(GROWLING)
(TREMBLING)
(EXCLAIMING FEARFULLY)
(METAL CLANKING)
(GASPING)
It's all right, I'm not going to hurt you
You're safe now
Where am I?
With us I never expected to see another one
There, that should hold
If 2 were here, he would have done a better job
I wonder where he's gone to
I was with him
2? Where? Out there?
What was he Keeping secrets from me, I see
I was coming to tell you
What's this?
I I found him in the emptiness
What were you doing out there?
I You'll lead the beast straight back to us!
But How many times have I told you?
The beast That's what took 2! If we hurry, we can save him
If the beast took him, that's the end of it
But he was still alive
No! We have rules!
Our new guest seems confused
Perhaps I can help you achieve some clarity
(SNORTS)
It didn't kill him?
Quiet!
(GRUNTING)
Hey
(LAUGHING MENACINGLY)
Hold on
(8 GRUNTING)
When we woke in this world, it was chaos
Man and machine attacked each other with fire and metal
(ARTILLERY FIRING)
SOLDIER: Look out behind you!
(TAPPING)
I found others
(EXPLOSION)
There's a path ahead
Follow me
(ELECTRONIC WHINING)
(SHOUTS)
1: The gas killed everything
I led us here to sanctuary
And here we waited for the war to end
Slowly the world became silent
The only thing that remains now is the beast
So we stay hidden
And we wait for it, too, to sleep
But where did it come from? Why is it hunting us?
Questions like that are pointless
We need to protect ourselves, keep ourselves out of danger
Too many of us have already been lost
But he isn't lost
(SCOFFING)
Why aren't you listening to me? 2 chose his own path!
I suggest you avoid making the same mistake
Go to the watchtower and take our guest with you
This was the first thing we built together
We can still go after him
Us? But he could be anywhere out there
(GASPS)
That's where it took him Out towards those three tall shapes
Oh, no We can't, not there
We have rules
Why do you listen to 1?
A group must have a leader
But what if he's wrong?
Come with me
I can't do it alone
I
(INHALING SHARPLY)
I I can't
But wouldn't he have come for you?
(SIGHING)
I
5: Wait
We're going to need a map
5: Actually, I don't mind having one eye It's easier for me
Allows me to concentrate on just one thing at a time, you know?
(GASPS)
(RUBBLE CLATTERING)
Why was he out here alone?
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
Where's this tunnel?
I don't know!
Wait!
(YELLS)
We should go back!
We can't
(GASPS)
The beast
It's too dark
We can use that
(CHUCKLES)
Wait
2 would be impressed
We'll find him
You know, you're just like him
You forget to remember to be scared
Can I wait here?
Oh
Why would it bring him here?
(METAL CREAKING)
(GROWLING)
(GASPS)
2!
5: 2!
I knew you would come
(SHUSHING) I thought
(GROWLING)
(SHOUTS)
(SCREAMING)
(9 BREATHING HEAVILY)
(EXCLAIMS FEARFULLY)
(ROARING)
7! I don't believe it!
You've come back!
I never left You finally decided to join the fight
You dropped this
Where've you been hiding?
Rusty, hacked-together, shoddy pile of
(EXCLAIMING IN PAIN)
(LAUGHS)
(METALLIC HUMMING)
5: We did it 2: Remarkable I never thought
Wait!
What are you doing? We don't know what it is!
(SCREAMING)
Oh! No! 2!
(MACHINE POWERING UP)
(MACHINE GROANING)
(SHOUTS)
(ALL GASPING)
(GASPS)
5: Whoa! 7: Jump!
(GRUNTING)
(GASPING)
5: Hurry! Quick!
(DISTANT CLANGING)
What are you waiting for?
Keep up! Come on!
(SOBBING) I knew we shouldn't have come!
Why? Why did you do that?
I didn't know! I'm sorry
I'm sorry
What were you thinking?
What is it going to do?
I know where we can find answers
(SCREECHES)
Is this what it was like?
7: Keep up!
(PAGE RUSTLING)
(SOFT CLATTERING)
Oh! They've been here?
The whole time?
Twins
They've been hiding here Lost in the past
Looking for answers
(LAUGHING) Oh!
They're cataloging
Whoa!
We need your help We awakened something
No I awakened something Something terrible
That's it!
ANNOUNCER 1: Today, the Chancellor presented the latest advancement
of technological wizardry to the public
CHANCELLOR: Comrades, today dawns a new era
Let us praise this new technology
Welcome to the age of the Machine!
It will create new machines in its own image!
Machines of peace
that will usher in a glorious new era
of wealth and prosperity for the state!
ANNOUNCER 2: Residents are advised to pause for a public address
(GUNS FIRING)
CHANCELLOR: Science has turned its sinister hands against us
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
People of our mighty state,
join me in repelling the iron fist of the Machine
But the thing that woke it,
it was round and imprinted with strange shapes
The shapes corresponded
It fit perfectly into the Machine as if it were made for it
That's what 6 always draws!
6?
2 collected his drawings
He was always studying them
I have to see them
What? Go back to 1?
So he can lock us away while this nightmare awakens?
Never
Where did he put them? Uh They're here somewhere
Uh
Here Here Here they are
Right?
(LAUGHING MENACINGLY)
1: You awakened what?
You fools! I warned you!
He warned you
1: Now you've put us all in unimaginable peril
And may I ask, did you manage to save 2?
Of course not!
By following this witless folly,
you've endangered everything we work for!
Why was 2 sent out to begin with?
I sent him to scout
That doesn't make any sense
You don't send the oldest out to
Look, we need to figure out what's going on
The source, the source
Go back to the source
This is it This is what awakened the Machine
What do you know about this?
You can't be trusted I won't allow you to endanger us further
Subjugate them!
Sub What?
You illiterate cretin!
Take their belongings!
Hey!
You're nothing but a coward
How dare you challenge me!
I, who kept everyone safe all these years
Ever since you got here, everything has been unraveling
You're a curse, a fool, guided by pointless queries!
And you are a blind man guided by fear!
Sometimes fear is the appropriate response
(SCREECHING)
Whoa!
Quick!
9! Go!
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMING)
(PANTING)
9! Keep going! I'll find a way down!
(LOUD SCREECHING)
(SHOUTING)
(GRUNTS)
(SCREECHING)
(GROANING)
(PANTING)
Come on!
(BOTH SHOUTING)
Let me try that again
(7 GROANS)
Oh!
The cable! Cut it!
(SCREAMING)
Grab on!
(SCREAMING)
Grab those wires!
Your cape!
Let it go! I can't!
Do it now!
(PANTING)
(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)
(SCOFFS)
Well, you owe me a cape
(SIGHS)
Oh
(EXCLAIMS)
(GROWLING)
There will be more, won't there?
(1 SCOFFS)
It's not safe here
Stand lookout
(LAUGHING MENACINGLY)
I'll search out a safer retreat
Oh!
Ah!
Ooh!
(SKITTERING)
Oh!
(GASPS)
6: Oh
What? What is it?
The source
The thing that woke the Machine
Go back Go back Back to where?
Dark science
What good does this useless rubbish do us? Forget it!
You know something
What do you know?
I know enough to leave their ancient evils to molder
Look what they've left us with Leave it be, I say!
But you, always asking questions!
So many pointless questions!
Probing Pushing Like 2! He always had to know too much!
I was right! You did send him out to die!
He was old He was weak!
(GASPS)
Sometimes one must be sacrificed for the good of many
You coward!
9: 7!
(SCOFFS)
Your path takes us to catastrophe
We have to go back
Back? Where?
To the first room where I woke
(MOANING)
(SKITTERING) Hmm?
(SKITTERING)
(SHUDDERING)
(GASPS)
Can't he see his way only brings trouble?
I mean, what good comes from his path?
(SCOFFS)
I know what we need I I know what's right
(SKITTERING)
(GASPS)
No
(METALLIC CLANGING)
(SKITTERING)
(GASPS)
No, no It can't be!
No! No!
1: No!
9: Find her!
(SCREECHES)
(GRUNTING)
Don't look in the eyes!
5!
(GRUNTING)
(SCREECHING)
7! 9!
9: No!
(GASPING)
We have to go after them!
What? 8? Where's Where's 8?
That thing has them! It's taking them back to the Machine!
Then it's too late
We We have to get out of here
We must try to find another safe place
No more hiding We're going after them! All of us
Need I remind you of the outcome of your last heroic venture?
I can't let this happen to them
I'm going in
I'm coming with you
No I need you here
If I don't make it back, destroy it
Wait! How?
So then, let's hear it What's your brilliant scheme?
We'll need a full barrel
(GROANING)
(MUFFLED SHOUTING)
(GRUNTING)
(EXCLAIMING HOARSELY)
9: Hey! Over here!
(SQUEALING)
Where are they?
It's been too long We have to do it now
No! They need more time
(GASPS)
Help me pull it down!
(ALARM WAILING)
They're coming! They're coming!
Help! Help!
No! Not yet!
Let go, you fool!
9: 5!
We're coming!
Now!
(EXPLOSIONS)
(SCOFFS)
Good riddance
It's done
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(LAUGHING)
(GRUNTS)
(BOTH LAUGHING)
6: (ECHOING) Sound
Sound
(BOTH LAUGHING)
6: Sound
Thank you
Hmm
(EXCLAIMING)
(PANTING)
(5 SCREAMING)
5: The Machine! Everybody, the Machine!
Run away!
(MUSIC STOPS)
No! No!
1: There's nothing we can do!
No! No! No!
No!
(GASPS)
They They've been trapped!
1: To the bridge!
No! They're trapped! They're trapped inside!
9: 6, come on!
7: Get off the bridge!
No! Stop! You mustn't destroy it!
7: Get away, 6!
You mustn't destroy it! Don't destroy it!
They're trapped! They're trapped!
They're inside! They're inside!
Run!
9: Jump!
Go back to the first room! He'll show you the source
It must be destroyed
No No, we can't! Didn't you hear him?
They're trapped inside We can still save them
What? How?
We have to find the source It holds the answer
We need to destroy it
But there's still a chance!
We're out of time
9, they're gone
You're wrong
9
Let him go
Greetings, 9
It had such promise, my Great Machine
It was meant to be an instrument of progress,
of creation
That was the agreement our Chancellor failed to honor
Though the fault is hardly his alone to bear
The Machine was born purely of my intellect,
which I now know was not enough
My creation was hopelessly flawed and indeed dangerous,
for it lacked the human soul
and could be easily corrupted by those who controlled it
That is why I'm making each of you
You are all that's left of humanity
You are all the pieces of my soul
Together, you and this device shall protect the future
Look closely and remember what you see
Fire!
Quickly! 9: I now know the truth!
The Scientist!
It's the Scientist He's the source!
He gave us his soul
We are him
Load the cannon!
Stop! You'll destroy the talisman!
It's too late!
Quick Quick, get in
We need to take the talisman from the Machine
It can be used against it
I'll lure it to me, and then you'll have a chance
No 9, don't do this What if you're wrong?
I'll show you how to use it It'll be okay
9: This is the sequence
(GASPS)
(GRUNTING)
(GASPS)
No!
Please, we can't do this without you
They all died because of me
I started this and now I need to finish it
1: They left us nothing Nothing
Why do we have to right their wrongs?
Sometimes, one must be sacrificed
No!
(GROANING)
(GASPS)
(SIGHS)
You did it!
No, I didn't
Not yet
They're free now
7: What happens next?
9: I'm not sure, exactly
But this world is ours now
It's what we make of it
{{{ the end }}}