Alexia Dark
Warrior Princess
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EXT. NEW YORK CITY - DAY
A semi-dark alley. As the V.O. occurs, we speed by red bricks at near-blurring speed. When we reach the end, we are launched into the air and onto a rooftop. We race by pipes, chimneys, and other things that you would find on roofs. Once we reach the edge, we are launched once again into the air, and swing in a swooping motion down a street. Higher and higher we go, catching glimpes of a red and blue reflection from time to time. As the V.O. ends, we swing into another dark ally, until there is only darkness.
V.O.: "With great power, comes great responsibility." The first time my Uncle Ben said that to me, I'd had no idea how important it would become. There are times when it haunts me. There are times when it gives me strength. There are times I wish that I could go back to when it meant nothing to me. Those are the times when I need to remember it most. Without it, I would not be who I am today, and would never have known who I was...
INT. PETER'S BEDROOM - DAY
An alarm clock buzzes. A hand appears and pounds the alarm clock's snooze button until it shuts off. PETER PARKER rolls over, but doesn't get up. There's a knock on his door. Peter doesn't respond. The door opens a crack as UNCLE BEN peers inside.
UNCLE BEN: Peter?
Uncle Ben opens the door all the way and sees Peter still in bed.
UNCLE BEN: C'mon, kiddo, time to get up.
Uncle Ben walks in, sits on the bed and visciously messes up Peter's hair. Peter finally moves, sitting up and laughing a bit.
PETER: Hey!
UNCLE BEN: You awake yet?
PETER: Yeah.
UNCLE BEN: Good. You don't want to be late for school.
Peter has a sad expression at the mention of school. Uncle Ben notices.
UNCLE BEN: Something wrong, Pete?
PETER: We get our exam scores back today.
UNCLE BEN: Why're you worried about that? You're the top of your class.
PETER: Some people don't like that about me.
UNCLE BEN: Well, your Aunt May and I love you, and would even if you never saw an A in your life. Don't let people get you down because they can't handle not being as smart as you are, Peter. It's your gift.
PETER: You're right, Uncle Ben.
Uncle Ben pats Peter on the head.
UNCLE BEN: You're a good kid, Peter. Don't change.
PETER: I won't.
Uncle Ben gets up and exits the room. Peter leans over to the other side of the bed and grabs his glasses off of his nightstand.
INT. PARKER DINING ROOM - MORNING
Peter enters the dining room, wearing a rather geeky outfit, nicely combed hair, and large glasses. Uncle Ben is sitting at the table reading the newspaper. Peter sits down at the table. Aunt May enters from the kitchen, carrying a plate of wheatcakes, and sets them on the table.
AUNT MAY: Good morning, Peter.
PETER: 'Morning, Aunt May.
There is a pause as Peter pours himself some orange juice.
AUNT MAY: How long is this science experiment you're going to see? Should I pack a dinner for you?
PETER: No, I should be back by then.
AUNT MAY: Is anyone going with you? Maybe they'd like to come by...
Peter shakes his head.
PETER: No.
UNCLE BEN: Why don't you ask someone to go with you?
AUNT MAY: I could ask Mary Jane for you.
Peter laughs at their concern.
PETER: No, really, its fine.
AUNT MAY: Ok, dear. Have a good time.
EXT. MIDTOWN HIGHSCHOOL - AFTERNOON
The students spill from the school. LIZ ALLEN walks more slowly than the rest, looking at a paper in her hand, then stops. Peter, who is also holding a paper, sees her, follows and stops behind her. The girl's paper says C+.
PETER(V.O.): Here goes nothing...
Peter approaches Liz, clearing his throat a little.
PETER: A C+, huh? Better than most of our class. Congrats.
Liz looks at him, curious.
LIZ: Thanks.
She doesn't say anything more. There is a very short pause.
PETER: Uh, I know you're probably busy, but there's an experiment they're doing at the science hall. Dangerous chemicals and radioactivity. It's supposed to be really exciting, and I was wondering if-
Suddenly, FLASH THOMPSON approaches from behind Liz.
FLASH: What do you think you're doing, Parker?
PETER: I was just asking Liz if she would-
FLASH: If she would go out with you? Get real. (to Liz) Let's go. I'll show you what a real date is supposed to be like.
LIZ: Sorry, Flash, but I'm not interested.
Liz walks away from both of them. Flash turns to watch her go, then looks at Peter.
FLASH: You better watch it, geek.
Flash walks in the same direction as Liz.
Peter looks at his A+ paper, crushes it in his hands, and throws it in a trash can.
INT. SCIENCE HALL - DAY
Peter enters the building. He looks at the poster advertising the experiment, then looks outside, trying to make a decision. He looks at the poster again, and reluctantly walks toward the lab.
INT. LAB - DAY
Peter enters the room and moves toward the crowd gathering around a machine against the wall that is seperated from the people by an 9-foot-high glass shield that doesn't quite reach the ceiling. Peter takes a few pictures of the machine. In a corner of the room, we see a spider leave it's web and begin to crawl across the ceiling.
SCIENTIST: This material is very radioactive, so we're only using a small amount here today, for safety purposes. This is the first time an experiment of this kind as been conducted before the public here, and we hope you enjoy it.
The lights dim to near darkness, and a humming sound can be heard from the machine. Peter, at the back of the crowd, is studying it intensely. The spider has crawled above the glass barrier and is near the spot where the reactants are to combine. Peter moves around the crowd to the side, closer to the machine, to get a better angle for the camera. Suddenly, a light comes from the machine as the radioactive material reacts, and a multi-colored light is given off. The spider climbs down on its web, unseen by the spectators, and touches the radioactive material. It immediately zips back up it's web and begins to crawl away, then falls onto Peter's hand. It bites him.
PETER: Ow!
He holds out his hand and sees the glowing, now dead, red and blue spider, it's fangs still embedded in his hand. He flings his arm down, throwing the spider away. The reaction stops, and the lights come back on. The audience claps. Peter touches his head, and exits the room.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
Peter walks out of the science hall and down the street, still staring at his hand. He stops in the middle of the road.
PETER (V.O.): Ugh, I feel-
Suddenly, a car honks, and there is a 'spider-sense' sound. Time slows as Peter jumps out of the way. Almost a story out of the way, in fact, onto the side of a building, which he is clinging to with his bare hands. He looks down. The street is deserted. He looks up at his hands, thoroughly freaked out. He lifts his hand and moves it to a spot higher on the wall. He does the same with the other, and pulls himself up.
On the street below, a young boy is walking with his mother.
BOY: Mommy, look! On the wall!
Peter trns a corner of the building just before the mother turns.
MOTHER: There's nothing there, sweetie.
The boy frowns.
BOY: But I saw him...
Peter is now near the roof, and looks down the four or so stories he's climbed. Dizzy from the height, he grabs the nearest thing around him: a lead pipe coming out of the roof. Relieved to have a hold on something, he pulls himself onto the roof, and takes his hand away. The pipe has been crushed to almost nothing where he grabbed it.
PETER (V.O.): What's going on?
A door opens on the roof, and Peter runs to the other side. He doesn't look back as he jumps onto a steel wire connecting the roof to another building, and walks along it with perfect balance. He drops down into an alley below, landing gracefully without the slightest injury. There is a dramatic pause as he looks at his hand again. Cue cresendoing, heroic music.
PETER (V.O.) What am I supposed to do?
The music decresendos, and Peter walks out of the alley. In the corner of the alley, a spider moves on it's web.
A semi-dark alley. As the V.O. occurs, we speed by red bricks at near-blurring speed. When we reach the end, we are launched into the air and onto a rooftop. We race by pipes, chimneys, and other things that you would find on roofs. Once we reach the edge, we are launched once again into the air, and swing in a swooping motion down a street. Higher and higher we go, catching glimpes of a red and blue reflection from time to time. As the V.O. ends, we swing into another dark ally, until there is only darkness.
V.O.: "With great power, comes great responsibility." The first time my Uncle Ben said that to me, I'd had no idea how important it would become. There are times when it haunts me. There are times when it gives me strength. There are times I wish that I could go back to when it meant nothing to me. Those are the times when I need to remember it most. Without it, I would not be who I am today, and would never have known who I was...
INT. PETER'S BEDROOM - DAY
An alarm clock buzzes. A hand appears and pounds the alarm clock's snooze button until it shuts off. PETER PARKER rolls over, but doesn't get up. There's a knock on his door. Peter doesn't respond. The door opens a crack as UNCLE BEN peers inside.
UNCLE BEN: Peter?
Uncle Ben opens the door all the way and sees Peter still in bed.
UNCLE BEN: C'mon, kiddo, time to get up.
Uncle Ben walks in, sits on the bed and visciously messes up Peter's hair. Peter finally moves, sitting up and laughing a bit.
PETER: Hey!
UNCLE BEN: You awake yet?
PETER: Yeah.
UNCLE BEN: Good. You don't want to be late for school.
Peter has a sad expression at the mention of school. Uncle Ben notices.
UNCLE BEN: Something wrong, Pete?
PETER: We get our exam scores back today.
UNCLE BEN: Why're you worried about that? You're the top of your class.
PETER: Some people don't like that about me.
UNCLE BEN: Well, your Aunt May and I love you, and would even if you never saw an A in your life. Don't let people get you down because they can't handle not being as smart as you are, Peter. It's your gift.
PETER: You're right, Uncle Ben.
Uncle Ben pats Peter on the head.
UNCLE BEN: You're a good kid, Peter. Don't change.
PETER: I won't.
Uncle Ben gets up and exits the room. Peter leans over to the other side of the bed and grabs his glasses off of his nightstand.
INT. PARKER DINING ROOM - MORNING
Peter enters the dining room, wearing a rather geeky outfit, nicely combed hair, and large glasses. Uncle Ben is sitting at the table reading the newspaper. Peter sits down at the table. Aunt May enters from the kitchen, carrying a plate of wheatcakes, and sets them on the table.
AUNT MAY: Good morning, Peter.
PETER: 'Morning, Aunt May.
There is a pause as Peter pours himself some orange juice.
AUNT MAY: How long is this science experiment you're going to see? Should I pack a dinner for you?
PETER: No, I should be back by then.
AUNT MAY: Is anyone going with you? Maybe they'd like to come by...
Peter shakes his head.
PETER: No.
UNCLE BEN: Why don't you ask someone to go with you?
AUNT MAY: I could ask Mary Jane for you.
Peter laughs at their concern.
PETER: No, really, its fine.
AUNT MAY: Ok, dear. Have a good time.
EXT. MIDTOWN HIGHSCHOOL - AFTERNOON
The students spill from the school. LIZ ALLEN walks more slowly than the rest, looking at a paper in her hand, then stops. Peter, who is also holding a paper, sees her, follows and stops behind her. The girl's paper says C+.
PETER(V.O.): Here goes nothing...
Peter approaches Liz, clearing his throat a little.
PETER: A C+, huh? Better than most of our class. Congrats.
Liz looks at him, curious.
LIZ: Thanks.
She doesn't say anything more. There is a very short pause.
PETER: Uh, I know you're probably busy, but there's an experiment they're doing at the science hall. Dangerous chemicals and radioactivity. It's supposed to be really exciting, and I was wondering if-
Suddenly, FLASH THOMPSON approaches from behind Liz.
FLASH: What do you think you're doing, Parker?
PETER: I was just asking Liz if she would-
FLASH: If she would go out with you? Get real. (to Liz) Let's go. I'll show you what a real date is supposed to be like.
LIZ: Sorry, Flash, but I'm not interested.
Liz walks away from both of them. Flash turns to watch her go, then looks at Peter.
FLASH: You better watch it, geek.
Flash walks in the same direction as Liz.
Peter looks at his A+ paper, crushes it in his hands, and throws it in a trash can.
INT. SCIENCE HALL - DAY
Peter enters the building. He looks at the poster advertising the experiment, then looks outside, trying to make a decision. He looks at the poster again, and reluctantly walks toward the lab.
INT. LAB - DAY
Peter enters the room and moves toward the crowd gathering around a machine against the wall that is seperated from the people by an 9-foot-high glass shield that doesn't quite reach the ceiling. Peter takes a few pictures of the machine. In a corner of the room, we see a spider leave it's web and begin to crawl across the ceiling.
SCIENTIST: This material is very radioactive, so we're only using a small amount here today, for safety purposes. This is the first time an experiment of this kind as been conducted before the public here, and we hope you enjoy it.
The lights dim to near darkness, and a humming sound can be heard from the machine. Peter, at the back of the crowd, is studying it intensely. The spider has crawled above the glass barrier and is near the spot where the reactants are to combine. Peter moves around the crowd to the side, closer to the machine, to get a better angle for the camera. Suddenly, a light comes from the machine as the radioactive material reacts, and a multi-colored light is given off. The spider climbs down on its web, unseen by the spectators, and touches the radioactive material. It immediately zips back up it's web and begins to crawl away, then falls onto Peter's hand. It bites him.
PETER: Ow!
He holds out his hand and sees the glowing, now dead, red and blue spider, it's fangs still embedded in his hand. He flings his arm down, throwing the spider away. The reaction stops, and the lights come back on. The audience claps. Peter touches his head, and exits the room.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
Peter walks out of the science hall and down the street, still staring at his hand. He stops in the middle of the road.
PETER (V.O.): Ugh, I feel-
Suddenly, a car honks, and there is a 'spider-sense' sound. Time slows as Peter jumps out of the way. Almost a story out of the way, in fact, onto the side of a building, which he is clinging to with his bare hands. He looks down. The street is deserted. He looks up at his hands, thoroughly freaked out. He lifts his hand and moves it to a spot higher on the wall. He does the same with the other, and pulls himself up.
On the street below, a young boy is walking with his mother.
BOY: Mommy, look! On the wall!
Peter trns a corner of the building just before the mother turns.
MOTHER: There's nothing there, sweetie.
The boy frowns.
BOY: But I saw him...
Peter is now near the roof, and looks down the four or so stories he's climbed. Dizzy from the height, he grabs the nearest thing around him: a lead pipe coming out of the roof. Relieved to have a hold on something, he pulls himself onto the roof, and takes his hand away. The pipe has been crushed to almost nothing where he grabbed it.
PETER (V.O.): What's going on?
A door opens on the roof, and Peter runs to the other side. He doesn't look back as he jumps onto a steel wire connecting the roof to another building, and walks along it with perfect balance. He drops down into an alley below, landing gracefully without the slightest injury. There is a dramatic pause as he looks at his hand again. Cue cresendoing, heroic music.
PETER (V.O.) What am I supposed to do?
The music decresendos, and Peter walks out of the alley. In the corner of the alley, a spider moves on it's web.
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