[SCREAMING]
[EXPLOSION ECHOES]
[CHOIR SINGS]
[GROANS]
MAN: Nothing over here.
MAN 2: Move to the next one!
[GRUNTS]
MAN 1: Easy, easy. Any luck?
MAN 2: We need more sap today.
MAN 1: Look out below!
MAN 3: Any luck?
MAN 1: A little higher.
A little to the left.
MAN 2: We don't have all day. Hurry.
I found some.
MAN 2: Good.
That's right. Hoist him up.
MAN 4: Okay, I got it.
MAN 1: Heads up. How was that?
MAN 5: Not too good.
MAN 6: Yeah, same here. Nothing.
Hey, Enode! Working hard?
What would you know about work?
Always off playing.
I don't play, Enode.
I explore.
A waste of time.
Our only duty
is to serve the gods, Kaena.
They protect us.
Come on, hurry up.
We'll be late for the offering.
Protect us?
They're not doing such a great job.
WOMAN: Here they come!
Monster...
It steals our sap and keeps us thirsty.
It has turned our planet into a wasteland.
My queen, these attacks are killing us.
Our world is dying.
You must safeguard our people from extinction.
Ah.
Hmm.
Huh?
[ROARING]
[SCREAMING]
[ROARING]
Axis, protect me.
[ROARING]
Ah! Ow.
[ROARING]
MAN: Good, good.
Ilpo...
No move.
No move or Marauder will see.
No move.
Ilpo in trouble now.
No move.
No!
I told you.
I...warned...you.
[CRUNCH]
Ilpo broken.
All broken.
Ah!
Ilpo, it's me. Kaena.
Don't be frightened.
Ah...
Ilpo broken again today.
Three times.
Always broken since long time.
You're not broken, Ilpo.
The bug's not looking too good, but you're fine.
Here.
They don't grow like they used to.
It's weird.
You have to go further and further
to find vines that aren't all dried up.
How?
Oh, that.
I had a little run-in with a Sharken.
Kaena go too far.
Too close to Great Oblivion.
Oh, the Great Oblivion.
The Sharkens aren't afraid of the Great Oblivion.
You should see them diving in and out of the clouds.
Kaena get broken. No come back.
You came back.
Why won't you ever tell me what you saw?
That.
That...everywhere.
You've seen this stuff before?
Past the clouds? You saw it past the clouds?
Marauder attack.
Ilpo no move.
Not to move.
Then fall, almost break.
The worm catch Ilpo.
The worm? A worm caught you?
Then sleep.
Then see the man...
But not man.
Bad... Bad...
Then too much light, very bright.
Blue light...
Blue light?
Ilpo, listen. In my dreams, there's a blue sun.
Was it a blue sun below the clouds?
Ah...
Below, all above.
What?
Below, all above. Above, all below.
Come on, Ilpo.
[HORN ECHOING]
The Grand Priest.
Kaena must go, quick.
I know.
Time for another offering.
[HORN BLOWING]
Got it.
[HORN BLOWING]
Hey! What's going on?
You just say something?
[GRUNTS]
I heard you. Talk again.
That's okay. Pretend all you want.
Maybe you'll talk for my brother.
Kaena. Kaena!
Where have you been?
Did you draw any more pictures?
Show us, Kaena.
All right, all right,
but only if you promise not to tell.
The Grand Priest wouldn't like it.
We promise. Mm-hmm.
You saw a Sharken up close?
Pretty close.
Is it a fast flyer?
Very fast.
I'd love to have wings
so I could be free.
You don't need wings to be free.
Imagine another world,
a beautiful place with a blue sun
and so much sap you can swim in it.
Where is it, Kaena?
Have you seen it?
No. But I've dreamt about it,
and--
GRAND PRIEST: My children...
We know that the sap is vital to our survival,
but with passing time,
it seems we are beginning to exhaust our resources.
MAN: That's right.
What are we gonna do about it?
I understand your suffering.
Your suffering is my suffering.
But we must not doubt.
CROWD: No!
Who made us a gift of the Axis?
Who protects us from the Great Oblivion
and its terrifying guardians?
The gods!
Who, at the moment of eternal peace,
opens the gates of paradise for us?
The gods!
Who has given us life?
The gods!
Yes, our gods!
Let us examine our consciences.
[GIGGLING]
Kaena, you won't believe what I found.
What is it this time, Essy?
A worm that talks.
I've got him over there in the pen.
GIRL: I wanna see.
[IN WORM LANGUAGE]
Right.
Okay, there's still some work to be done here,
but not by me.
Get my armor, get my wings, and get out of here.
The master's going to want a full report on this...
GIRL: How silly, Essy!
Hey, don't make fun of him.
I'll bet that worm talks better than you.
Oh, my word, that's so silly.
Hey, Kaena,
you like my brother, don't you?
He's all right.
A bit dull.
GRAND PRIEST: Is our faith unshakable?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Do we not owe everything to our benevolent gods?
Yes!
Then raise our offering to the Well of the Gods.
[GRUNTING]
[RUMBLING, PEOPLE GASPING]
[GASPS]
It's all right.
[PEOPLE GASPING, SHOUTING]
The gods are angry.
We'll be cast into the Great Oblivion.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
No, my children.
No. This is a sign.
Don't you understand?
The gods are testing us at this very moment.
Testing our faith.
We must trust in them
and put our lives in their hands.
Stay where you are.
To move is to defy the gods.
Be pure.
Kneel.
Pray.
May the will of the gods be done!
[CRASH]
[GROUND RUMBLING]
[GASPS]
[SCREAMS]
Hmm.
Kaena, wait up!
Kaena, what are you doing?
He moved, Zehos. The Grand Priest moved.
The gods saved him.
The gods don't care about him. They don't care about us.
She's right.
Why did they destroy the temple?
You, go fix the pen.
But it's true.
Now!
Kaena!
Don't do anything stupid.
I saw you move!
My parents moved, and you called them impure.
Are you impure?
Kaena, you're upset.
You moved to save yourself.
The gods moved me, Kaena.
They guided me.
It is they who saved me.
No. The gods don't save anyone.
They didn't save my parents.
Your parents did not put their trust in the gods, Kaena,
so why would the gods protect them?
Your parents made their choice.
I pray that is not the choice that you will make.
Pray?
What's the point of that?
Your gods are deaf...
if they even exist.
Life is hard.
After your parents died, I raised you as my own daughter,
took pride in your intelligence, your spirit,
and it wounds me that now you turn your gifts
to blaspheming the gods instead of worshipping them.
Think of the life that awaits us beyond Axis.
Oh, I do. All the time.
Ah, of course.
You think I am not aware
you fill the children's heads with harmful lies.
Showing them drawings
of imaginary creatures and places.
They're not imaginary. I've seen them.
In your dreams, is that it?
They're real.
I've seen another world.
I've seen a blue sun at the base of Axis.
Listen to yourself, Kaena.
Raving like poor Ilpo.
Do you want to become like him?
Mashing bugs and whimpering in your sleep?
He's not crazy.
He went past the clouds and saw--
The Great Oblivion, and it made him mad!
No. Look at this.
This object is harder than the hardest sap.
Whoever made it
was certainly not afraid of your gods.
Do not provoke the gods.
Give me that.
[GRUNTING] No!
You tried to kill me.
No, I only wanted--
You've gone mad.
You've become a danger to us all.
[PANTING]
[HORN BLOWING]
Catch Kaena before she harms someone else.
Her actions are angering the gods
and putting all of our lives in peril.
Find her before she escapes the village.
I saw her.
This way.
[SOBBING]
So even a tough girl like you can cry?
I thought you'd come here.
I haven't been down here since we were kids.
But we're not kids anymore.
You were right.
Oh, Zehos, what am I gonna do?
That the knife?
He grabbed at it,
and I wasn't even thinking, and I just pulled away, and--
I know you didn't try to kill him.
Look, I'll talk to the Grand Priest.
He'll let you come back into the village.
I'd rather disappear into the Great Oblivion
than go back.
Come on, Kaena.
Listen to me.
There is another world out there,
and I'm gonna find it.
I am sorry, Grand Priest. There's no sign of her.
May the will of the gods be done.
Hail to you, gods of my people.
I trust our offering was acceptable?
No. It was not acceptable.
Is this the best you can do for your gods?
I am sorry, Almighty.
Great troubles afflict our village.
The sap is drying up, and--
[GROWLS]
We have a heretic, a young girl who dishonors you.
How?
She has run away, Almighty.
She wants to enter the Great Oblivion.
She believes there's another--
Is your authority so weak over your people?
It is just one girl, Almighty.
She has always been--
One heretic can pollute the others
with impure ideas,
and then hardship will come to all your people.
Yes.
The girl is already dead.
Think no more of her.
Turn your devotion to the next harvest.
Do not insult us again.
We will not, Almighty.
ZEHOS: Do you remember when we were kids?
We used to have these contests,
see who'd go farthest from the village?
KAENA: And I'd always win.
Weren't you ever afraid?
Sure I was,
but I didn't want you to know.
Anyway, I knew that Axis
would always show me the way back.
"Axis, protect me."
That's what you used to say, right?
Like it was something alive.
It is alive. It talks to me.
Listen, when we were kids, it was all right...
But now we're supposed to be all grown-up, right?
And spend our lives
harvesting sap and eating worms
and never wondering
what's on the other side of the clouds?
I didn't say that.
All I mean is someone has to harvest the sap
and repair the huts and tend the worms...
Oh, you know, you used to be interesting.
Now you're boring. Now you raise worms.
What else are we supposed to eat?
Anyway, I've got a little brother to look after.
I can't just--
Daydream like me, right?
Go water your worms, Zehos.
Kaena...
My children...
the gods appeared to me last night.
They spoke to me.
They will punish Kaena,
and her treason has made them angry.
The gods are demanding
another harvest of sap by day's end.
Our offering must be better,
or we will all perish!
Let us raise our offering to the Well of the Gods!
THE QUEEN: Sap...
I need more.
There may not be much more, my queen.
Sap is drying up.
The villagers can't find any more.
I don't care about slaves.
Kill.
Once we've killed that thing, there will be...
Your majesty,
we have been trying to kill it for hundreds of years,
and these slaves are beginning to doubt.
If we ignore this, a riot could come.
I beg you, my queen, to consider the fusion now.
[ROARS]
And what of our descendants?
Bled dry of sap by this monster?
Destroy.
It must be destroyed.
Your will be done, my queen.
Kaena?
I...
Uh...
It's okay, Zehos.
You've got to take care of Essy.
Kaena...
I'm sorry.
Find her.
[ROARING]
Marauder!
[SCREAMING]
Oh, no. I must see if she's all right.
Kaena...
No villager could have invented that worm's armor.
There must be a survivor.
Carefully.
Master, if I may respectfully submit,
this is a complete and total waste of time.
She's nothing but a primitive being.
A surprising specimen.
This is the one
you were telling me about, Assad?
You're sure?
Yes, master, it's her.
She's not like the others.
She's curious,
and she's got a kind of...
intuition.
The way she moves,
it's as if she knows every branch and root,
and twice, I mean twice,
I've seen her close her eyes and just jump,
as if something were guiding her.
Not terribly scientific, Assad.
I should say not.
But you say you've heard her talk of a blue sun
at the bottom of Axis?
Master, a delusional worm-eater
sees a blue sun,
and suddenly, she's a prophet?
Please, master, this is completely irrational.
It hurts my brain.
Ow, ow, it really does.
But what if Vecanoi9 survived the crash, Gommi?
That is an impossibility, master.
Vecanoi9 was destroyed along with everything else.
It's all just scrap metal scattered across Axis.
Most of it went into building this place.
So it's as if she's somehow imagined Vecanoi9?
Uh, yes, master, an egg is what she imagined.
She saw a blue egg.
A nice glowing blue egg.
Maybe if we all thought it was a blue egg,
we could move on with our lives.
Oh, and she's violent too.
Back off, you... you creatures of the Oblivion.
You back off, and calm down.
You have nothing to fear from us.
[SCREAMS]
Hello?
No!
[METAL CLANKING]
Ah!
[WIND HOWLING]
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
Don't ask me, ask this genius. Why did we?
Hmm?
She needed help.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
They eat them.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
And they enjoy it.
Eeep!
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
Ah...
[GASPS]
The master...
would like to speak to you now.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
What are they doing?
They're making the penultimate preparations
to facilitate liftoff.
Liftoff? Mm-hmm.
Yes, this entire base is an intergalactic vessel.
What's that?
Typical humanoid be--
I-- I don't think you'd be able to understand.
Assad...
the master wants you to come as well.
Okay.
OPAZ: You may take it.
It's yours.
Are... Are you gods?
[CHUCKLES]
No. My name is Opaz. I am a mortal, just as you are.
I'm sorry we frightened you. We mean you no harm.
You were badly injured,
so we treated your wounds.
And my knife?
Later.
Your clothes are being repaired by my prosthetics.
You mean the worms?
Ha. Worms?
[LAUGHS]
Worms?
We happen to be hyper-evolved vermiform Oligochaetes
with cognitive abilities
far beyond the best artificial intelligence.
Mm-hmm. Let me explain something to you.
I myself can speak 1,200 languages, mm-hm,
identify over 10,000 galaxies, you see,
and repair virtually any form
of silicon-based technology.
Mm-hmm.
Worms, pfff. Indeed.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
No, we are not just worms.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
And don't you talk worm to me.
I heard you all back there, talking worm,
and it's undignified.
It's disgusting, it's beneath you.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
I do not talk worm.
I think I like our worms better. They don't talk as much.
Let me explain something to you, humanoid.
Those specimens are sadly not evolved.
You'll find that I, however, am your superior
in every respect.
Except that I can eat you.
Ah!
[CHUCKLES] Oh ho.
I hope not.
I would be quite lost without Gommi and the others.
I wouldn't have survived without them,
and I certainly couldn't have built this ship
to return home.
Where is your home?
Mm...
Far away from here.
[CHOIR SINGS]
[ROAR]
My queen...
this thing has defied your attacks for centuries.
It may outlive us all,
and if something should happen to you, or I...
our race will be forever extinguished.
As queen, you must protect your--
Fusion?
I know what you want, Voxem.
I know you are the last male,
and that you crave fusioning with me...
But our future!
Future?
There will be no future while this thing lives.
That problem may solve itself.
My queen...
I believe
that one of the invaders may have survived,
living high in Axis.
If we can find him, he can take this thing away.
[ROARS]
QUEEN: I decide!
Your world is not quite as you imagined it, Kaena.
Your world is Astria, and here,
its twin, Talless,
which you saw for the first time last night.
Hundred of years ago, a Vecarian ship
carrying thousands of my people
exploded in space near your planet.
I was the only survivor.
Axis.
Yes.
This is your home, Kaena.
It was within these branches that my crib finally landed.
It was Axis that saved me.
Your people live in the middle of Axis,
here, at the exact point
where the gravitational forces of the two planets
cancel each other out.
And we're here.
All the time I thought I was going down to the roots of Axis,
but I was really going...up?
Below is above and above is below.
Ilpo was right.
You saved him.
I only dressed his wounds,
as I did for many other creatures of Axis.
So that's where the blue sun is.
Blue sun?
Yes, I've dreamed of it so many times.
It's down there at the roots of Axis.
Look.
It's Vecanoi9.
What's Vecanoi9?
All the knowledge of my people is contained in its brain.
It was transmitted to all Vecarians as children.
It's our memory.
So it really exists.
Master...
no good can come of listening to a worm-eater
with an IQ of two.
I think you might be underestimating her
just a little, Gommi.
In a matter of days, the ship will be ready,
and then we can leave this pitiful little...world.
It's what you've always wanted, master.
It's what you've always wanted...
But the chance to retrieve Vecanoi9,
to save all the knowledge
that he didn't have time to pass on to me.
You... You should've let her get eaten,
but no,
you had to save her, bring her back to the ship.
Master, perhaps we should journey
to the base of Axis just to make sure.
Perhaps, Assad.
You miss her too, don't you?
She's coming back, isn't she?
Soon. I hope soon.
[GASPS] Ah!
[SIGHS] Oh.
Oh, no.
No.
No!
[GASPS]
Did she go to that other world?
I don't know.
Maybe.
We should've gone with her.
Maybe you're right, Essy. Maybe you're right.
Help!
Help. Help!
Whoa! Ilp--
Quake!
Quake...
now!
[RUMBLING]
[CRASH]
Essy.
Essy!
Have you seen my brother?
No. The gods are testing us again.
We must pray.
Zehos!
I had a terrible nightmare.
Excuse me. Master...
this is the unstable behavior
I've been talking about.
Listen to me.
The blue sun, Vecanoi9, was being attacked
by some evil force, and--
[RUMBLING]
Only the impure move.
Do not mock the gods.
Kneel!
ZEHOS: No, get up.
Pray!
The square's going to collapse.
Come on!
May the will of the gods be done.
Is this what happened in your nightmare?
Vecanoi9? Was it...destroyed?
No. No, but it suffered,
and when Vecanoi9 suffers, Axis suffers.
They're linked, aren't they?
I don't know.
Axis is in danger.
The village...
Zehos and Essy and the other children...
I have to go.
Wait.
We'll go together.
First to your village,
then to find Vecanoi9.
Oh, someone help me, please.
[MOANING]
Come on, big guy. I know you can talk.
[MOANING]
[CRYING]
How much longer can this go on?
Calm yourself.
Help me, please. Someone.
Gods of my people, my gods, we are in need of you.
Our village is destroyed and we don't know where to go.
Please answer us.
Answer me.
Is everything all right?
Come, Enode. I have good news for our people.
The gods have spoken to me.
What did they tell you? Do they offer us help?
Better than help, Enode.
Deliverance.
Our suffering has finally been rewarded.
The gods have destroyed our village, but why?
I don't--
So that we may go to join them.
The gods have called us.
They will give us shelter, Enode.
We have passed the final test.
Let everyone know we leave tomorrow.
[GASPS]
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
Good.
Yes. I'm ready. Perfect. I'm fine and...
I'm not fine.
[CRASH]
[HUMMING]
Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
Mm. Ahh.
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
Continue with the final preparations.
When I return, we'll proceed to liftoff.
Master, this expedition is much too risky.
Please reconsider. Please?
Vecanoi9 exists, Gommi,
and Kaena seems to have some special relationship with it.
Can't say I'm crazy about these new clothes.
They're to protect you, Kaena.
I'd feel a lot better with my knife.
Let us depart.
Ooh.
What?
You're best friends with the worm-eater now?
Oh.
[WHIRRING]
Ready to fly?
We get to fly?
Huh? Ah! Whoa!
[SPEAKING WORM LANGUAGE]
Ooh. Ooh.
KAENA: Whoo hoo! Come on, Assad! Faster!
She's crazy, master. She has the brain of a Goordak.
Zumo, are you okay?
KAENA: Wa-hoo!
Look out.
[GROWLING]
Look out!
[PANTING]
Poor Zumo.
I'm so sorry, Gommi.
Sorry won't bring him back.
Master, it's not worth it.
We cannot risk our lives trusting her stupid visions.
The success of this mission is beyond our own lives.
We must face our destiny. Time is running out.
GOMMI: See? See? See?
I told you. I knew this was a bad idea.
A very bad idea.
I told you we should go back to the base
before we all get killed,
because we're all going to be killed.
The sooner we leave this wretched world,
the better.
The harvest is over. We are free.
Come on, everyone. Run to meet the gods.
The gods are opening the doors of their world.
They've gone crazy. We can't stop them.
But the gods said--
There are no gods, Essy.
We have to go. It's all right.
Let's go find Kaena.
That is not the way to paradise, Zehos.
The gods have summoned us.
I saw you in the temple. I saw you begging the gods,
and they didn't come--
Silence this impure one.
ESSY: Oh!
Run, Essy. Go!
You have just sent your brother
to his death.
[GRUMBLING] Don't know what we're doing here.
Blee! It's quiet.
Yeah. Too quiet.
[GASPS]
Huh. It's close.
What's close? What is she talking about?
Be quiet.
What does she hear?
I mean, I'm not hearing anything,
and my hearing is bio- technically enhanced--
[CRASH]
[ROARING]
Ah!
[ROARS]
Whoa!
[GROWLING]
No move...
or Marauder will see.
[ROARS]
Opaz, Gommi. Don't move.
Kaena.
Master, let's move.
Gommi, stay still.
[ROARS]
Ah!
Let's...fly!
Gommi!
VOXEM: There you are, damned invader.
Now you will come
and kill this thing you left behind.
Do not kill him.
[ROARS]
[HEAVY FOOTFALLS]
[ROARS]
Kill her.
[ROARS]
[CRASH]
[GROANS]
[GIGGLING]
Look at me!
We're flying.
Ohh.
We fly, my brothers and sisters. We fly to meet the gods.
Zehos. No. No...
I must tell her what I intend to do, Gommi.
I wouldn't be too hasty, master.
If Vecanoi9 and Axis are truly linked,
what will happen when I retrieve Vecanoi9?
How do I know Axis won't be destroyed?
Uh, this is a dying world, master.
But it is her world, Gommi. She has the right to know.
Gaaaar oop.
Gaaaar oop, yourself.
If only I could persuade her
to leave with us...
OPAZ: If you had the chance, would you leave Axis?
KAENA: It's my home.
OPAZ: You could make another,
in a world less hostile, a place bountiful enough.
You'd have time to learn, to dream,
to build a civilization.
No.
Ilpo...
Got you!
Essy!
What are you doing here?
Kaena!
Ilpo took care of me.
Ahh.
Kaena not broken.
It's all right, Ilpo. They're friends.
They saved my life, and yours too.
What's going on here?
Essy?
Where's Zehos?
Huh...
ILPO: They go into the well of the gods.
All go up inside. Village gone.
Something terrible awaits them.
I dreamt it.
I've got to find them.
We don't have time for this.
What about Vecanoi9? Mm?
ESSY: You do talk!
I knew it. I knew I was right.
Essy, you stay here with Ilpo
until I get back.
I'm coming too. I want Zehos.
It's too dangerous, Essy. I'll bring him back.
I promise.
Assad,
I want you to stay here and protect Ilpo and the boy.
It would be an honor.
Master, you're not... You're not going there alone?
You can't be serious!
Master, if you think I'm staying here, you're crazy.
I'm coming too.
I wouldn't have it any other way, Gommi.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh...
Ha ha!
Whoa!
Okay, let me help you,
because there's floating and there's flying.
Floating, you don't know where you're going.
Flying, you do.
We should re-orientate ourselves now.
Whoa!
No...
No!
Kaena, look out.
[SCREAMS]
[GOMMI GRUNTING]
OPAZ: Hold on, Gommi.
[SCREAMS]
Oh, sticky, gooey, yuck.
If I could just remind you I'm not built for this.
Thank you, Gommi.
You're welcome, I guess.
[OPAZ MOANS]
Alley-oop.
Our queen has become obsessed with her attacks,
and with each attack,
more of us die in vain,
sucked into her body to make it stronger.
Who will be next?
The queen fears the ultimate fusion
because she knows
that she will have to sacrifice her own life
to create new life,
the new generation of Selenites.
Join with me so that we may...live.
Kaena, there's something I must tell you.
What?
Uh-oh.
You, your people, Axis...
all of you are in danger because of me.
Remember you asked if Vecanoi9 and Axis were linked?
They're not just linked. They're the same.
The crash of my ship, the birth of Axis,
happened at exactly the same time.
VECANOi9 CREATED AXIS, AND IF I AM TO REMOVE VECANOi9--
What do you mean, "remove"?
I must bring Vecanoi9 back to my people, Kaena.
And what about my people, my world?
I fear Axis will die.
But we'll die.
How can you accept
sacrificing so many people?
I used to think your people were too primitive
to care about their destiny...
until I met you, Kaena.
Please, come with us.
There's room for you on our ship.
And all of my people?
You don't realize the power we need
to reach th--
And you knew that from the start?
Kaena, your world is dying,
and you must realize how important Vecanoi9 is.
I curse the day I met you.
Here.
You might need this to get back to your ship.
My people need me.
Kaena!
[PANTING, SHOUTS]
[SOBBING]
Axis protect me.
[VILLAGERS ARGUING]
[SOBBING]
Please, have mercy.
The gods will... Will help us...
They promised me.
Don't you get it?
Your gods are nothing but sap monsters.
Perhaps the gods are merely angry.
[SNARLING]
We must pray and ask--
We trusted you.
No. Wait. Let's not waste our time.
There's got to be a way out of here.
So, little one,
it's you who killed my Marauder.
How lucky you are
to finally meet your gods.
You're not gods. What have you done to my people?
You are nothing but slaves.
Before the arrival of the blue monster,
you didn't even exist.
Your species is a vile aberration.
Too bad we aren't compatible, little one.
Fusing with your pretty little body
would be so much more pleasant
than what awaits me with my queen.
Where is the old man? Where is the invader?
I don't know.
You lie, slave.
Why would such a powerful god
worry about a sick old man?
Never mind.
We know where to wait for him.
He'll come to us.
Put her with the others.
Ow.
[SHOUTS]
It's Kaena. She's alive.
Kaena!
Zehos!
You made it.
But Essy...
I don't know what's happened to him, Kaena.
Oh, he's safe.
Back at the village with Ilpo.
I knew you'd come save us.
[CUTTING]
Gommi!
Come on! Follow the worm!
A talking worm...
Where's Opaz?
He went to find Vecanoi9.
These monsters are waiting for him, Gommi.
They want him to kill Vecanoi9.
I don't care about Vecanoi9.
All I care about is the master.
Stupid, stupid, stupid,
I should have never let him go alone!
[MUMBLING PRAYERS]
[GASPS]
[MUMBLING PRAYERS]
Take them back to the Well of the Gods,
back to the village.
You're not coming?
I don't have time to explain.
I've got to find Vecanoi9...and Opaz.
What about us?
None of us are safe unless I do this, Zehos.
I've got to.
What about me?
I don't want to lose you a second time.
You'll never lose me.
Uh, hm...
I'm coming with you.
I've got to find the master.
Gommi, you'll need to show them the way.
I'll find him, Gommi. I promise.
Please, we need you.
We're just primitive, unevolved worm-eaters,
and we need you.
All right then, um,
to the Well of the Gods, no further.
Then I'm coming back for the master.
Here.
Can't believe I'm saying this, but...
Good luck, Kaena.
Thank you...my friend.
[SPLASHES]
[SAP RUSHING]
It leads to the village!
Go now!
It's the only way!
Well, worm eater,
this is where I leave you.
Wait! I'm coming with you.
I'm not leaving without Kaena.
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTING]
Vecanoi9...
Hear me.
I have come for you!
[METALLIC SURGE]
Vecanoi9...
[SURGES AGAIN]
Vecanoi9...
speak to me.
Open for me.
Vecanoi9...
[GASPS]
[ROARING]
Oof!
[SURGE OF RINGING]
[GRUNTING]
Your monster...
[GRUNTING]
Your monster killed my planet.
Our ship crashed...
Your monster steals our sap!
We meant you no harm--
Your monster starves my people!
You created it.
You will kill it!
I can't kill it.
Vecanoi9 will not listen to me.
He will not open.
He has...
forgotten me.
Then you...
will die!
[ROARING]
Fuse...my queen!
It's real.
[GASPS]
No!
Opaz!
[CREAKING OPEN]
I'm getting you out of here, Opaz.
Just hold on.
You...
did it...
Kaena.
It's...you...
It's you...
[SIGHS]
I haven't done anything.
Tell me what to do, Opaz.
Tell me what to do!
[SOBBING]
Monster!
[GASPS]
At last I see you.
[SOBBING]
Now you will die!
No!
Slave!
[ROARS]
Children...
not yet.
Not until I kill!
[SCREAMS]
[ROARS]
[SHRIEKING]
ZEHOS: Kaena!
Kaena...
[MOANS AND MUTTERS]
[GRUNTS]
Kaena, wake up!
Please, Kaena!
OPAZ: Kaena...
Opaz? Where are you?
Listen to me, Kaena.
My people are no more.
I was the last.
All the others died hundreds of years ago
when their ship crashed.
Only Vecanoi9 survived,
so he created a gigantic reservoir of life--
Axis--
so that you could exist, you humans.
Vecanoi9 created you.
I... I don't understand.
He chose you
to carry the memory of the Vecarian people.
He chose you, Kaena.
Now you are the future.
You must lead your people.
But how?
How will I know what to do?
Kaena!
[GRUNTS]
Kaena...
Come on, Kaena, wake up.
Stay with me.
[SIGHS]
[RUMBLING]
GOMMI: Hey!
[METAL CREAKING AND BREAKING]
[ZEHOS SHOUTS]
Whoa!
ZEHOS: Gommi!
Gommi!
[SHOUTING IN WORM LANGUAGE]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[WIND RUSHES]
[SNIFFING]
[RUSHING AND CREAKING]
[GULLS CRYING]
[WAVES CRASHING AGAINST SHORE]
Zehos, Kaena!
Gommi!
Assad!
The master?
[MOANS]
Kaena, wake up.
WOMAN: She's dead.
Kaena's dead.
No...
Who will be our guide now?
[MOANS]
She's moving. She's alive!
There is no more sap, no more water.
How will we live?
No!
[BRANCHES CREAKING AND STRETCHING]
OPAZ: He chose you, Kaena.
You must lead your people.
No. Stand up!
This is nothing compared to what all of us can learn.
Beyond the clouds is a wide universe.
Millions of suns shine on unknown worlds,
sheltering so many people.
I'm no leader.
All my knowledge is yours.
No one must think for you.
You are free now.
We are free.
[CHUCKLES]
[CHEERING]
[GOMMI'S WINGS WHIR]
[HUMMING]
Oh, come on, people.
It won't hurt you. Watch!
[LAUGHING]
ESSY: Kaena, the new world, will it be beautiful?
KAENA: Yes.
If you should fall In the deep
To call your dreams The vision in your sleep
You know they need it
The light is in your hand
And all the signs around
You feel every sight
You share every sound
You know you feel it
The truth is in your hand
Oh...
Run to the light
Kaena
Echoes of the past
Are flying to your soul
And you're there in a storm
The night is falling
The answer is coming
Oh...
Run to the light
Kaena
Oh...
The sun is inside
Kaena
Leave all the fear behind
Oh...
Run to the light
Kaena
Oh...
The sun is inside
Kaena
Oh...
Run to the light
Run, run, Kaena
Oh...
The sun is inside
Kaena
Kaena...
If you should fall In the deep
To call the dreams The vision in your sleep
You know they need it
The light is in your hand
And all the signs around
You feel every sight
You share every sound
You know you feel it
The truth is in your hand