G. I. JOE: THE PYRAMID OF DARKNESS

 

EXT. AIR OVER JUNGLE - DAY

QUICK KICK

G forces! Too hard to move!

ALPINE

Great stunt work, stuntman.

ALPINE

We're goin' down! Any ideas?

QUICK KICK

As a matter of fact, did you notice what the cargo on this crate is? Trubble Bubbles!

QUICK KICK

Joe Headquarters! Let's move it!

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - DARKENED

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

GUNG-HO

Nuts! You can't run a twentieth-century HQ on first-century technology! This is hopeless! Without the juice it's no use. Huh?

COBRA COMMANDER

Citizens of earth, we have diminished the Pyramid's power enough to address you now.

GUNG-HO

Ah, stick your head in a bucket and rust your face off!

COBRA COMMANDER

And here to present our ultimatum, your new supreme leaders, the Crimson Twins.

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(T) All governments must surrender to us (X) and Cobra by the end of the day, (T) or we shall intensify the strength of the Pyramid of Darkness.

ACE

Looks like Cobra Commander's havin' a little power failure of his own.

GUNG-HO

We've got less than seven hours.

ACE

What's that noise?

WILD BILL

Sounds like my pappy's ranch at feedin' time.

GUNG-HO

Open the door and give our visitors the famous Joe welcome.

GUNG-HO

We're saved guys! It's the cow cavalry!

WILD BILL

We thought you were done for!

STALKER

If you had to play cowboys and Cobras, couldn't you have done it on horses?

SHIPWRECK

Very hilarious, but when we hit the Pyramid of Darkness, we had to improvise. Do us a favor, Wild Bill. Milk our ponies and bring us a glass.

WILD BILL

Huh?

GUNG-HO

I'll get you both a drink if you've got somethin' for us.

SHIPWRECK

We got a laser disc from a Cobra factory.

GUNG-HO

How do you play a laser disc with candle power?

EXT. SPACE - SPACE STATION DELTA

TOMAX AND XAMOT (V.O.)

All life forms will perish.

INT. SPACE STATION DELTA - CONTROL ROOM

TOMAX AND XAMOT (CONT.)

You have only until the end of this day to respond.

TORCH

Bravo! Bravo! It's even better in rerun. Want to see it again?

ZARTAN

Under no circumstances.

TORCH

You don't seem so confident without your precious whistle. Take him away!

MUTT

Dusty, we've got to get control of these Fatal Fluffies.

FATAL FLUFFY

No talking!

TORCH

Well, well. Lyin' down on the job again, are you? Get back in line!

MUTT

The whistle that controls the Fatal Fluffies--Torch has it around his neck. (to Junkyard) See that whistle, Junkyard? Go fetch it!

TORCH

No!

MUTT

Good boy, Junk!

TORCH

Get that whistle!

FATAL FLUFFIES

Roar!, Grr!, Die!, Move! Move or be punished!, etc.

DUSTY

The Fatal Fluffies are goin' crazy!

JOES

Yo Joe!

TORCH

Don't hurt us! It was all Zartan's fault! We was always nice to you, wasn't we?

DUKE

Way to go, guys. Now let's put some yo back in Joe!

EXT. SPACE - SPACE STATION DELTA

DUSTY (V.O.)

Yo Joe!

EXT. WILDERNESS - EDGE OF PYRAMID

QUICK KICK (O.C.)

I don't think I'm gonna love this part of the picture.

ALPINE (O.C.)

We're losin' power!

QUICK KICK

Get ready to jump!

ALPINE

It's not the jumpin' that worries me. It's the...

BAZOOKA

...landing.

ALPINE

Hey, I distinctly hear the gentle sound of the tables turning.

QUICK KICK

Yeah! Let the sunshine in!

EXT. HIDDEN COBRA BASE - DAY

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Calamity most foul! Aghhh! No! No! No! Your selfish bungling has permitted the Joes to undo my exquisite Pyramid of Darkness! You twin twerps! I'm back in command now.

COBRA COMMANDER

Come in, Destro, come in!

COBRA COMMANDER

Stop that, Destro! I see you both clearly and I am stunned!

DESTRO

She, uh, she had something in her eye, Cobra Commander.

COBRA COMMANDER

My eye, she did! Now stop going ga-ga and establish a low-altitude Pyramid of Darkness at once!

DESTRO

As you order, Cobra Commander. Cobra!

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(T) Excellency, we must also take precautions to guard (X) Cobra Temple (T and X) from a sneak attack.

COBRA COMMANDER

Balderdash! This temple is in no danger, because nobody knows where it is. Now get out of my sight!

EXT. USS FLAGG - DAY

FLINT

We've got to treat this as a temporary victory only, unless you guys at Headquarters have something to make it a little more permanent.

SHIPWRECK

This laser disc Snake-Eyes and I borrowed from Cobra has info on the control cubes. Now that we've got power, I can spin this platter. Let's hope it's a hit. I'll patch the computer's image directly to you, Flint.

COMPUTER

Plans and structural elements of robotic self-defense mechanisms. Details of longitudinal alignments systems.

LADY JAYE

Skip past the general diagrams. What we need to know is whether those cubes are vulnerable.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

SHIPWRECK

You got it, Lady.

COMPUTER

...self-destruct mechanism.

SHIPWRECK

Bingo! It's in Cobra Temple.

GUNG-HO

Now all we've gotta do is find that house of serpents before it's too...late.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - DAY

EXT. USS FLAGG

FLINT

Adm. Ledger, Cobra's rebuilt the Pyramid of Darkness.

EXT. MOUNTAIN PEAK

DESTRO

This low-altitude Pyramid of Darkness will give us the time we need to destroy G. I. Joe.

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Excellent, Destro. Then we shall win after all! The world will be ours!

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS

QUICK KICK

Here we go again!

ALPINE

Headquarters! Bail out!

BAZOOKA

Too late!

ALPINE

Hold on!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

SHIPWRECK

A Cobra copter!

ALPINE

Sorry to drop in unannounced, but we just happened to fall by the neighborhood.

SHIPWRECK

Well, don't keep us in suspense, Alpine. Why'd you treat us to this open house, and who's the barefooted stranger?

ALPINE

Introducing star of stage and screen, Quick Kick, stuntman extraordinaire.

QUICK KICK

Let me give 'em a quick update. ImetthesetwoguysontheMountainofGlass theywereinrealhotwateroutthereinthecoldbutidrewemaway fromsomeleopardsealssowehitchedaride withMajorBluddtoCobraTempleunderthefallsbutwe...

SHIPWRECK

Hold it! Hold it! Uh, rewind that part about the Cobra Temple.

QUICK KICK

Ewtubsllafehtrednuelpmetarboc otddulbraojamhtiwediradehctihew... I said, Major Bludd gave us a ride to Cobra Temple, but we....

GUNG-HO

You know where Cobra Temple is?

QUICK KICK

Sure. Doesn't everybody?

SHIPWRECK

This is the info we've been waitin' for!

GUNG-HO

The darkness isn't holding.

SHIPWRECK

Then get on the horn and see if you can contact Flint. There's a crack in the Cobra curtain, and we're goin' through it.

JOES

Yo Joe!, Let's go!, etc.

EXT. HIDDEN COBRA BASE - DAY

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Stabilize the Pyramid! What's taking you so long, Destro? This flickering is intolerable! G. I. Joe must be deprived of energy until we can launch our attack!

EXT. JUNGLE

SHIPWRECK

Come on! We've got just enough power! Keep movin'!

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Cobra soldiers, forward to victory!

EXT. HIDDEN COBRA BASE

COBRAS

Cobra!

COBRA OFFICER

Impossible.

SHIPWRECK

We'll be outta this darkness in a flash! Then, hammer through that temple and put those cubes out of action!

JOES

Yo Joe!

COBRA COMMANDER

G. I. Joe? But how? Take defensive positions, and fight the enemy to oblivion!

COBRA COMMANDER

Unleash the Cobra Dragon! Terminate the Joes!

SHIPWRECK

No strength!

ROADBLOCK

Got to fight...fight...got to...

COBRA COMMANDER

We've won! Won! Won! Wait until the Cobra Dragon is finished with them. Then clean up the mess. I'll be inside writing my victory speech.

ALPINE

Any suggestion?

BAZOOKA

Yodel?

ALPINE

You gotta be kiddin'!

QUICK KICK

Wait! I got an idea!

QUICK KICK

Now yodel.

ALPINE

This is ridiculous.

QUICK KICK

Come on, let's try it.

XAMOT

Look out!

SHIPWRECK

Alpine and his yodeling yokels did it!

JOES

Yo Joe!, Let's go!, Come on!, etc.

INT. COBRA BASE

COBRA COMMANDER

What is happening?

COBRA COMMANDER

Stand and fight, you cowards!

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(X) We are bankrupt here! (T) But elsewhere we have prepared a fine surprise for the Joes!

COBRA COMMANDER

What do you mean surprise? Why am I always the last one to know?

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

SHIPWRECK

We've got to find the self-destruct mechanism for the cubes! But, where is it?

SHIPWRECK

Polly, you're allowance just went up ten crackers a week!

EXT. MOUNTAIN PEAK

BARONESS

Something's happening!

DESTRO

Brilliant deduction, Baroness!

BARONESS

Don't become hostile with me! We have a relationship!

DESTRO

Silence, woman! I'm losing Pyramid control!

DESTRO

It's self-destructing!

INT. RATTLER COCKPIT

COBRA COMMANDER

I lost my cubes! My wonderful cubes! All gone! Now I'll never rule the world! I hate this job!

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(X) Sensors indicate G. I. Joe is pursuing us. (T) But that's impossible, (T and X) absolutely impossible!

COBRA COMMANDER

Well, somebody forget to tell them!

EXT. USS FLAGG

ADM. LEDGER

Ready on flight deck?

JOES

Yo Joe!

XAMOT

We must get to the Enterprise Towers!

COBRA COMMANDER

Yes! Yes, hurry!

EXT. ENTERPRISE CITY

FLINT

Looks like Cobra's hunting for a nest, Lady Jaye. Let's make sure they don't get too comfortable.

LADY JAYE

I'm right behind you!

LADY JAYE

Yo Joe!

FLINT

All attack groups, this is Joe Leader. Proceed to Enterprise Towers.

INT. ENTERPRISE TOWERS - HANGAR

COBRA COMMANDER

Stop! Our position is deteriorating! Will you acknowledge me? We must flee and save ourselves!

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(T) Relax. (X) We need not retreat. (T) We shall soon activate a weapon which (X) will destroy our enemies (T and X) completely.

COBRA COMMANDER

Weapon?

EXT. ENTERPRISE TOWERS

SHIPWRECK

Enterprise Towers! They're transforming into a gantry and battle rocket! If that ship ever gets up, no force on earth will be able to handle it! We've got to keep it from reaching space.

INT. ROCKET - COCKPIT

COBRA COMMANDER

Brilliant! This huge rocket is invincible! The last laugh shall indeed be best!

EXT. ROCKET

SHIPWRECK

Satin!

SATIN [Ketty Lester]

Need a lift?

EXT. SPACE - SPACE STATION DELTA

FLINT (V.O.)

Station Delta, do you see Battle Bird preparing to lift off?

INT. SPACE STATION DELTA - CONTROL ROOM

DUSTY

We see it, and we don't like it. Duke and the rest of the guys are riggin' a proton beam strong enough to take it out, but they'll need more time.

INT. SPACE STATION DELTA - CELL

RIPPER

We didn't mean to double-cross you, Zartan.

TORCH

No, never! Nay, nicht, nein, no!

BUZZER

It was those scuzzy wuzzies. They intimidated us!

BUZZER

Oh, thank you, Zartan! Thank you!

ZARTAN

Oh, get up! Get up, you treacherous toadbellies! If Cobra loses, I alone shall seize the reins of power. And I'll need stooges to do my bidding, even second-rate stooges like you. Now, let's get out of here before we're discovered.

TORCH

Oh, you won't regret this.

BUZZER

Right. We love bein' your stooges.

INT. ROCKET - ELEVATOR

SATIN

Ready? We're nearing the upper level.

INT. ROCKET - COCKPIT

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(T) Increasing thrust. (X) Liftoff in ten seconds... (T and X) nine...eight...seven...

SATIN

It's now or never, guys. Yo Joe!

SHIPWRECK

Yeah, right. Yo Joe!

SATIN

This is for messin' with my father!

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(T) G. I. Joe has caught up! (X) Destroy them, brother!

SHIPWRECK

Oh, brother yourself!

SATIN

Hey, steel face is shortin' out his own rocket ship!

EXT. ROCKET (O.C.)

FLINT

Shipwreck, Duke's just about ready for that proton beam, so get outta there and don't drag anchor.

INT. ROCKET - COCKPIT

SHIPWRECK

I suppose this is a bad time to ask you to go out with me?

COBRA COMMANDER

Help, you fools! My face is magnetized to the controls!

EXT. ROCKET

POLLY

Polly wants flight insurance!

INT. ROCKET - COCKPIT

COBRA COMMANDER

I wish you were triplets so I could hit three of you!

EXT. SPACE - EARTH ORBIT

COBRA COMMANDER (CONT., O.C.)

In competent, idiotic, fatheaded nincompoops!

EXT. SPACE - SPACE STATION DELTA

INT. SPACE STATION DELTA - GARBAGE DISPOSAL

ZARTAN

Get in here! Jettison now, before they fire!

EXT. SPACE - SPACE STATION DELTA

TORCH

Zartan, you put us in the garbage module!

INT. GARBAGE MODULE

TORCH

We'll get you for this, Zartan!

INT. SPACE STATION DELTA - CONTROL ROOM

DUKE

Proton beam is up to speed. Lock on coordinates. Fire!

INT. ROCKET - ESCAPE POD

TOMAX

Hurry, no time left!

EXT. SPACE - ROCKET

JOES (in various locations)

Yay!, Yo Joe!, etc.

EXT. ENTERPRISE CITY

SATIN

Yo, Shipwreck!

POLLY

Polly, too! Polly, too!

SHIPWRECK

Cool it, bird. Shipwreck works alone.

INT. SUBWAY CAR

COBRA COMMANDER

Your interference cost me victory!

TOMAX AND XAMOT

We should have taken control sooner.

DESTRO

Your vain denseness destroyed our tactical advantage!

BARONESS

I had everything under control until you imbeciles got pretentious!

COBRA COMMANDER

You pea-brained carbon copies of identical dumbells! You're responible!

EXT. SUBWAY CAR

TOMAX AND XAMOT

(T) Your fault! (X) His fault!

(T) Your fault! (X) His fault!

(T) Your fault! (X) His fault!

EXT. ENTERPRISE CITY

FLINT

Well, Lady Jaye, looks like we won.

LADY JAYE

Right, but now what do we do for thrills and chills?

FLINT

How about dinner at the Joe commissary?

LADY JAYE

What's so dangerous about that?

FLINT

The food!

 

 

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