Cosmic AXL#3.5: Salesman

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CUT TO: IZZY'S HOUSE

EXT. IZZY'S ROOM- LATE AFTERNOON

IZZY SITS IN HIS ROOM DOING HIS HOMEWORK WHEN PEACE TELEPORTS INTO HIS ROOM. IZZY RUNS AND CLOSES THE DOOR AND THEN TURNS TO PEACE.

[Peace]

(Whispering)

Sorry, I know that I'm not supposed to be seen.

[Izzy]

(Whispering)

It's fine, no one saw you just be a little more careful okay?

[Peace]

(Whispering)

Alright.

PEACE LOOKS AT IZZY'S BED AND SEES THAT HE IS DOING HOMEWORK.

[Peace]

(Whispering)

Is that algebra?

[Izzy]

Yeah, and it sucks.

[Peace]

This is elementary to me. I can help you do it.

[Izzy]

I know how to do algebra. I just hate doing it. It's such a chore.

[Peace]

(Whispering)

I'm bored.

[Izzy]

What do you want me to do about it?

[Peace]

I don't really know. I was just letting you know. We should do something tonight.

[Izzy]

(Whispering)

Have you ever been hiking?

[Peace]

No.

[Izzy]

(Whispering)

Then we can do that. I'll show you were me and my dad hike at. It should be fun.

[Peace]

(Whispering)

I don't know. Isn't hiking just walking around in the woods?

[Izzy]

Well yeah but it's just as good as anything else.

[Peace]

What makes you say that?

[Izzy]

You have the power to fly into outer space and see the cosmos. How in the world could you be bored in the first place?

[Peace]

I just am.

IZZY SIGHS AND THEN CLOSES HIS BOOK. HE THEN GOES OVER TO HIS CLOSET AND GETS TWO OLD BACKPACKS OUT. GIVING ONE TO PEACE, IZZY THEN STARTS PACKING SUPPLIES FOR THE TRIP.

[Peace]

(Whispering)

Is any of that really necessary? We can fly you know.

[Izzy]

(Whispering)

That's probably why you're bored. You use your powers to do everything.

[Peace]

(Whispering)

Perhaps, you're right. But it is easier my way.

[Izzy]

Yeah. But that takes all the fun out of it. You need to challenge yourself to see if you can do stuff without your powers. You know, the human way.

[Peace]

The human way sucks.

[Izzy]

Watch it.

IZZY FINISHES PACKING UP HIS STUFF AND THEN PACKS PEACE'S BACKPACK. IZZY THEN STARTS OUT OF HIS ROOM.

[Izzy]

Meet me in the back in about two minutes.

[Peace]

Okay.

IZZY LEAVES THE ROOM AND GOES DOWNSTAIRS. LOOKING AROUND HE SEES THAT HIS MOM ISN'T IN AND STARTS OUT THE FRONT DOOR. RUNNING INTO HIS MOM AS HE LEAVES HE SLAMS INTO HER AND MAKES HER DROP SOME GROCERIES.

[Izzy]

Oh crap, sorry about that mom.

IZZY HELPS HELEN PICK UP THE GROCERIES AND TAKES THEM INSIDE.

[Helen]

Where are you off to?

[Izzy]

Me and some friends were gonna try and get some hiking done before daylight gives out.

[Helen]

Okay, well be safe and remember what your father taught you.

[Izzy]

Come on, it's me we're talking about. Safe is my middle name.

IZZY LEAVES THE HOUSE OUT THE BACK DOOR. PEACE JUMPS DOWN TO BACKYARD AND THE TWO LEAVE THE HOUSE BY HOPPING OVER IZZY'S BACKYARd FENCE.

[Izzy]

This is going to be great. If we follow the trail that my dad made we should be able to see some cool stuff.

[Peace]

You mean like rocks and trees.

[Izzy]

Hey, you were the one that was bored not me.

IZZY AND PEACE WALK A TRAIL THAT IZZY KNOWS.

CUT TO: LATER

EXT. WOODS- NIGHT

IN THE WOODS SOME ALIENS MEET UP. ANOTHER ALIEN THAT HAD HIS SPACESHIP CLOAKED THEN REVEALS THE SPACESHIP AND WALKS OUT OF IT.

[Onazar]

You guys are in for a treat. I've gotten a lot of tech and a lot of weapons on the way here. Blasters, cloaking devices, energy swords, Ms. Top Alien magazine.

[Disop]

All of this stuff better work this time Onazar. The last energy sword you gave me shorted out in a battle and it almost cost me my life.

[Onazar]

Hey, that's not my fault. Once it's in your hands it's not my problem.

[Gylaz]

Then maybe we should kill you and see what works for ourselves.

GYLAZ FLASHES A LASER PISTOL AND ONAZAR PULLS OUT A PHOTON ZAPPER.

[Onazar]

If you really want to become one with the stars that much then try me.

ANOTHER ALIEN COMES BETWEEN THEM.

[Dalmax]

Let's not start anything we can't finish.

ONAZAR LOOKS AT DALMAX AND CHUCKLES.

[Onazar]

Never one for action are you Dalmax?

[Dalmax]

Not if I'm not a hundred percent sure that I can come out on top.

[Onazar]

Smart.

[Disop]

Just bring out all the mechandise already.

[Onazar]

Alright.

ONAZAR BRINGS OUT A CASE ON A HOVER CART AND OPENS IT.

[Onazar]

Feast your eyes boys, some of the most stellar tech in the galaxy.

DALMAX LOOKS OVER EVERYTHING.

[Dalmax]

What a joke. These blasters are old.

[Onazar]

No they're not. They're used sure but in mint condition. I garantee that they will get the job done.

[Disop]

You're trying your hand at being more sleazy than usaual Onazar. What do you take us for? Chumps?

[Onazar]

Look, if you don't want 'em then I can pack up my stuff and go!

[Disop]

You'd like to do that wouldn't you?

[Onazar]

Yep.

[Gylaz]

I'll take the flux shield.

[Onazar]

Alright, now we're cooking with Sots grease.

[Gylaz]

At half the price.

ONAZAR LOOKS AT GYLAZ AND BURST OUT LAUGHING.

[Gylaz]

What's so funny?

[Onazar]

That you think that you'd get something half off.

[Gylaz]

You owe me a thruster after I fixed yours. This comes out of that favor.

[Onazar]

We were running from the feds. It was out of mutual assurance, it doesn't count.

[Gylaz]

Chybud! Without me, you would have died! You owe me!

[Onazar]

I don't owe you anything.

[Disop]

Come to think of it you bailed on me when a deal went wrong. You wouldn't cooperate, the deal went south and you bailed with the money that we were supposed to split. You owe me too!

[Onazar]

We agreed to steal the money anyway. It's not my fault that you were slow.

THE GROUP OF ALIENS IN THE WOODS CONTINUE ARGUING. SOME MEN WHO ARE SETTING UP DEAR STANDS HEAR THE COMMOTION AND GO TO CHECK EVERYTHING OUT. ONE USING HIS SCOPE SEES THE GROUP OF ALIENS AND FREAKS OUT.

[Man#1]

(Whispering)

What the hell?

[Man#2]

(Whispering)

Henry, what is it?

[Henry]

(Whispering)

You're not gonna believe your eyes. But it looks like we got ourselves a couple of aliens.

[Man#2]

(Whispering)

You've been drinking too much Henry. Let me see the gun.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

I'm telling you, Ben, those are aliens.

BEN LOOKS THROUGH THE SCOPE AND SEES THE ALIENS FOR HIMSELF. BEN THEN DROPS THE GUN AND GOES OVER TO HIS STUFF.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

Ben, what are you doing?

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Getting my camera. If I can get pics of those aliens, I'll be rich. Show people that they actually exist.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

But don't people already know that there are aliens out there?

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Don't be dense. That tale is just about as fake as the moon landing. They tell you that kind of stuff to keep you from thinking. And according to you, it seems to be working.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

Now come on Ben, you know that there's no cause to be hurtful.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Shut the hell up Henry. You get on my nerves with the polite talk. Where's your backbone? It's all those yoga books that you've been reading with that new girl of yours. I tell you what, she's turning you into a sissie.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

Screw you Ben.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Well there's a start. Maybe one day you'll be able to fling a real insult my way.

BEN GOES BACK TO THE SPOT WHERE THEY WERE BEFORE. HE THEN GETS THE CAMERA READY AND STARTS TO TAKE THE PICTURE WHERE HENRY TAPS HIM ON THE SHOULDER. BEN IGNORES HENRY AS HE GETS THE CAMERA INTO FOCUS AND HENRY CONTINUES TO POKE BEN. AFTER BEN GETS THE CAMERA THE WAY HE WANTS IT HE THEN SPINS AROUND TO LOOK AT HENRY IN A ERY IRRITADED WAY.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

What is it?

[Henry]

(Whispering)

I was just trying to tell you to make sure the flash is off.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Henry, I really think that you should be put into a psych ward sometimes. I'm about to take pictures of real life honest to goodness aliens. Why in the hell would I have the flash on?

[Henry]

(Whispering)

What if it's on?

[Ben]

(Whispering)

It's never on. I don't use it. Only apertures use the flash on a camera.

BEN STARTS TO TAKE THE PICTURE AND HENRY SUDDENLY TRIES TO GET A LAST-MINUTE WORD OUT.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

No, Sophie was-

BEN TAKES THE PICTURE AND A LARGE FLASH GOES OFF. THE ALIENS NOTICE THE FLASH AND THEN LOOK IN THE DIRECTION OF WHERE IT CAME FROM.

[Onazar]

What was that?

DALMAX LOOKS UP THE HILL WHERE THE FLASH CAME FROM AND USES A THERMAL CAMERA FETURE IN HIS ROBOT EYE TO SEE BEN AND HENRY.

[Dalmax]

Humans.

[Onazar]

No one move. I'll take care of this.

ONAZAR TAKES OUT AN ENERGY KNIFE AND THEN STARTS OP THE HILL. GYLAZ THEN GOES TO TAKE SOMETHING AND A FORCE FIELD PREVENTS HIM FROM TOUCHING THE MERCHANDISE.

[Gylaz]

Why that slugborg!

BEN LOOKS THROUGH THE CAMERA AND NOTICES THAT ONAZAR IS COMING UP THE HILLSIDE.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Oh shit! One of them is coming up this way.

[Henry]

(Whispering)

It probably saw the flash. I was gonna say that Sophie was playing with your camera the other day.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Why didn't you say anything?

[Henry]

(Whispering)

You said that the flash was off and wouldn't listen to me.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

Never mind that. It had a knife. Grab the guns and bring 'em over here. I think it's wanting to fight.

HENRY GETS THE SHOTGUNS AND THEN HANDS BEN ONE OF THE GUNS. THEY THEN WAIT FOR A SECOND AND HEAR THE SOUND OF FOOR STEPS STOPPING.

[Ben]

(Whispering)

What's going on?

[Henry]

(Whispering)

Maybe it gave up.

SUDDENLY ONAZAR JUMPS UP INTO THE AIR AND COMES DOWN LANDING BEHIND BEN AND HENRY. THE TWO THEN SPIN AROUND AND SHOOT AT ONAZAR. WHEN THE BULLETS DO NOTHINGS TO ONAZAR, HE CHUCKLES.

[Onazar]

Humans. I know so aliens looking for some humans for a recipe. You guys will do just fine!

[Ben]

Get away from us!

BEN AND HENRY BEGIN SHOOTING AT ONAZAR AGAIN BUT THE BULLETS DO NOTHING. ONAZAR THEN SLOWLY STARTS TO WALK OVER TO WHERE THEY ARE AND LAUGHS WHILE THE TWO ARE POWERLESS TO STOP HIM.

CUT TO: TRAIL

EXT. TRAIL- NIGHT

IZZY AND PEACE WHO ARE LOOKING UP AT THE STARS HEAR THE GUNSHOTS AND LOOK AT EACH OTHER.

[Peace]

Were those gunshots?

[Izzy]

Yeah, but they were too much in a row to have been shooting at something. Whoever it is, they might be in trouble.

[Peace]

Let's go then.

IZZY AND PEACE FLY OFF TOGETHER IN THE DIRECTION OF WHERE THE GUNSHOTS WERE COMING FROM. COMING ACROSS ONAZAR AND THE OTHER ALIENS THEY THEN LAND ON THE GROUND AND ALL THE ALIENS LOOK AT PEACE AND IZZY.

[Alien#2]

More humans?

IZZY LOOKS AT ONAZAR WHO IS HOLDING BEN AND HENRY.

[Izzy]

Hey, let them go.

[Onazar]

Who do you think you are giving me demands?

[Cosmic]

The name's Cosmic, and I'll be handing out your daily dose of butt kicking if you don't let those two go.

ONAZAR AND THE OTHER ALIENS ALL LAUGH.

[Onazar]

Kid, things would be a lot better for you if you just beat it. These two are coming with me because they attacked me before I could get the chance to explain myself.

[Cosmic]

You expect me to believe that?

[Onazar]

It's the truth.

[Cosmic]

Well truth or not, you can't just kidnap people. Let them go.

[Onazar]

I'm sick of this earthling trying to tell me what to do!

ONAZAR DROPS BEN AND HENRY AND PULLS OUT A BLASTER. HE THEN SHOOTS AT COSMIC AND SENDS HIM FLYING BACK INTO A TREE. THE TREE FALLS OVER ONTO COSMIC AND A FEW SECONDS LATER HE GETS UP AND SHOOTS A ENERGY BEAM AT ONAZAR THAT PUSHES HIM BACK ACROSS THE GROUND. COSMIC THEN GOES TO WHERE PEACE IS.

[Cosmic]

Get those guys out of here. I'll deal with the aliens.

[Peace]

Right.

PEACE FLIES OVER, GRABS BEN AND HENRY AND THEN FLIES OFF. GYLAZ WHO HAS A JET PACK THEN STARTS TO GO AFTER HER BUT COSMIC FLIES UP TO WHERE HE IS AND TACKLES HIM OUT OF THE AIR AND TO THE GROUD.

[Gylaz]

Get your hands off of me you filthy human!

[Comic]

Who're you calling filthy?

SUDDENLY COSMIC IS GRABBED FROM BEHIND ONAZAR, HELD UP IN THE AIR, AND THEN PUNCHED BACK THROUGH THE AIR. COSMIC SKIDS ACROSS THE GROUND UNTIL HE COMES TO A STOP THEN SITS UP RUBBING HIS HEAD.

[Onazar]

Anyone who helps take this guy down gets 75% off all merch.

ALL THE ALIENS JOIN ONAZAR'S SIDE AND START TO RUN AT COSMIC. COSMIC DODGES THE BLASTERS THAT THEY FIRE AT HIM GYLAZ GETS AIR BORN SO THAT HE CAN HAVE BETTER SHOTS. COSMIC THEN FLIES UP TO WHERE HE IS AND USES A ENERY FIELD TO PROECT HIM FROM THE BLASTERS. COSMIC THEN TACKLES GYLAZ TO THE GROUND AGAIN THIS TIME SENDING HIM FACE FIRST INTO THE GROUND. COSMIC HEARING ONAZAR RUNNING AT HIM TURNS TO SEE HIM CLOSER THAN EXPECTED AND DUCKS AT ONAZAR IS ABOUT TO PUNCH HIM. COSMIC THEN BEGINS TO PUNCH ONAZAR BACK ACROSS THE GROUND. COSMIC UPPERCUTS ONAZAR ON HIS LAST PUNCH AND IT SENS HIM FLYING BACK THROUGH THE AIR. ONAZAR SLAMS INTO CART WHERE ALL OF HIS MERCHANDISE IS AND FALLS ONTO THE GROUND. ONAZAR THEN PICKS UP A COUPLE OF ITEMS AND LOOKS BACK AT THE FIGHT. DISOP TRIES THROWING UP A CORROSIVE STOMACH ACID ONTO COMIC BUT HE EVADES IT. COSMIC THEN RUSHES DOWN DISOP AND PUNCHES HIM BACK INTO A TREE WHICH KNOCKS HIM OUT. DALMX USES HIS ROBOTIC EYE TO TRY AND SHOOT A LASER AT COMIC BUT COSMIC COUNTER BY USING AN ENERGY BEAM OF HIS OWN. THERE IS A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO FOR A SECOND BUT COSMIC MANAGES TO WIN AND THE BLAST FROM COSMIC BREAKS DALMAX'S ROBOTIC EYE. WHILE DALMAX IS STUNNED COSMIC RUNS OVER TO WHERE DALMAX IS AND PUNCHES HIM BACK ACROSS THE AIR WHERE HE SLAMS INTO A ROCK. COSMIC THEN LOOKS AT ONAZAR WHO IS WALKING OVER TO HIM WITH NEWLY AQUIRED WEAPONS AND THE FLUX SHIELD.

[Cosmic]

I beat all your friends. What makes you think that you'll do any better?

[Onazar]

Because unlike these idiots, I've got the right tech. And seeing how you ruined my sale, I guess I'm gonna have to take you with me as collateral. I'm sure that I'll be able to sale you into slavery on a distant planet and get some money off of you.

[Cosmic]

Not gonna happen!

COSMIC SHOOT AN ENERGY BEAM AT ONAZAR. ONAZAR USES THE FLUX SHIELD TO COUNTER THE BEAM AND SEND IT BACK AT COMIC TEN TIMES HARDER. THIS PUSHES COSMIC BACK THROUGH THE AIR AND INTO SOME TREES. ONAZAR RUNS OVER TO WHERE COSMIC IS AND THE TWO BEGINS FIGHTING. COSMIC THROWS SOME PUNCHES AND BECAUSE OF ONAZAR'S SHIELD AND MACE ONAZAR IS ABLE TO COUNTER AND HAVE BETTER REACH ON COSMIC. ON ONE OF COSMIC'S ATTACKS ONAZAR BLOCKS WITH FLUX SHILED AND THEN SPINS AROUND HITTING COSMIC IN THE BACK OF THE LEG WITH THE MACE. WHILE COSMIC IS ON A KNEE, ONAZAR SLAMS THE FLUX SHIELD DOWN INTO HIS CHEST AND SMASHES COSMIC INTO THE GROUND. ONAZAR THEN PICKS UP COSMIC, THROWS HIM INTO THE AIR, USES A BLASTER TO PUSHES HIM FURTHER UP INTO THE AIR WITH AN ENERGY BEAM, THEN JUMPS INTO THE AIR AND PUNCHES COSMIC BACK DOWN TO THE GROUND. COSMIC HITS THE GROUND AND PUTS A LARGE CRATOR UNDERHIMSELF. ONAZAR THEN LANDS ON THE GROUND BESIDE COSMIC AND LAUGHS AS HE SEES HIM START TO STAND UP.

[Onazar]

What more are you going to try? I've showed you that I'm stronger and better than you are! You've got nothing that can compete with me. Just give it up!

[Cosmic]

You wanna see what I've really got?

COSMIC STARTS CHARGING AN ENERGY BLAST AND ONAZAR FIRES A BLAST AT COSMIC. HOWEVER, COSMIC MANAGES TO TELEPORT RIGHT BEFORE THE BLAST CAN HIT HIM. COSMIC THEN REAPPERS RIGHT BEHIND ONAZAR.

[Cosmic]

Fine! Take this!

COSMIC RELEASES A HUGE BEAM OF ENERGY THAT LAUNCHES ONAZAR BACK THROUGH THE AIR. ONAZAR SLAMS INTO THE SIDE OF HIS SHIP AND FALLS TO THE GROUND. COSMIC THEN FLIES OVER TO WHERE ONAZAR IS STANDS OVER HIM IN A FIGHTING POSE.

[Cosmic]

You ready to give up yet?

[Onazar]

Fine, you win. I'll go. But not before I give you this!

ONAZAR TAKES OUT A BOMB AND PLACES IT ON GROUND IN FRONT OF COSMIC. THE BOMB GOES OFF AND IT LAUCHES HIM BACK THROUGH THE AIR. ONAZAR GETS UP, GETS INTO HIS SHIP AND TAKES OFF. PEACE WHO IS COMING BACK SEES COSMIC LAYING ON THE GROUND AND GOES TO HELP COSMIC GET TO HIS FEET.

[Peace]

Are you alright?

[Cosmic]

I'm gonna be sore for a little while but I'm sure that I'll be fine.

[Peace]

What happened to the alien that you were fighting?

[Cosmic]

He got away.

[Peace]

Should we go after him?

[Cosmic]

Not tonight. If I don't get back soon my mom is gonna have an aneurism.

[Peace]

What are you going to do if you run into him again?

[Cosmic]

He wasn't all that bad. I can take him.

[Peace]

Hope you're right. If you ask me, you should've killed him. Who would have missed him? Plus, your laws wouldn't have put you at blame.

[Cosmic]

I guess you're right. What happened to the hunters?

[Peace]

Dropped them off a local hospital. A nurse told me that they were going to be fine.

PEACE YAWNS.

[Peace]

Let's get home. I'm beat.

[Cosmic]

Why are you tired? I did all the work.

[Peace]

Sure, you did.

COSMIC AND PEACE FLY BACK TO COSMIC'S HOUSE.

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