MOUSEOFTHESUN3MOUSE HUNT OF THE SUN 3
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THE MOUSE HUNT OF THE SUNrw
EXT. MUSEUM OF ANCIENT TIMES -- DAY
The sun skirts the horizon. At the entrance to the
grounds is a sign that reads MUSEUM OF ANCIENT TIMES
HOURS: 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM MON. - SAT CLOSING 5:00 PM
SUNDAY
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Shirley and Harvey furtively
enter the building nearest the stone ring.
Moments later a GROUND POLICE vehicle pulls up by the
sign.
INT. MUSEUM OF ANCIENT TIMES - BUILDING NEAREST THE
STONE RING -- DAY
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Shirley and Harvey avoid doors
and windows as the sun sets.
HARVEY
....Rebel bases in the jungle.
The last resistance to Geode
rule. I wanted to join up, but
ran afoul of the Ground Police.
SHIRLEY
Where I come from you're the
head gardener on Haven in the
Clouds. Mercy, my daughter,
likes to listen to your
stories.
Harvey
I'm from Haven in the Clouds
all right. But there never was
no Mercy in my life.
LISA (O.S.)
And that will continue if any
of you are still here in the
morning.
AT THE REAR OF THE BUILDING
Lisa drags a duffel bag and herself out of the
shadows.
SNEAK
Ripper, you been saving up your
strength. Now we may need it.
Ripper confronts Lisa.
RIPPER
Ready.
LISA
At ease. I've considered your
story and decided to give you
one chance to prove it. There's
a full moon tonight. If you can
walk through that ring outside,
you told the truth. Ground
police are stationed in a one
block radius. They'll close in
at sunup...
SHIRLEY
Why are you doing this?
LISA
For love.
Lisa takes a photo out of her SWAT suit.
IN THE PHOTO
In a room that resembles the Oval Office, Lisa works at a
desk with a husky, male, anthro honey badger. Both are
dressed in business suits.
INT. MUSEUM OF ANCIENT TIMES
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Shirley and Harvey pass the
photo around.
LISA
That's George Steenbok. He died
ten years ago. He made the
mistake of underestimating a
blind, unarmed, Black Dragon.
There aren't any dragons on
Geode...
SNEAK
George became first citizen but
he's dead in our universe too.
Five years ago.
LISA
That's five more years than I
had him. -- I brought your
gear.
Lisa kicks the bag over to them. Edsel unpacks and
distributes the contents.
EXT. MUSEUM OF ANCIENT TIMES --NIGHT
Under a full moon, Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Shirley and
Lisa wait on one side of the stone ring.
LISA
...But aside from being in furn
training, Julie was okay?
SNEAK
Not happy but in good health.
She was in the best physical
shape of her life.
The moon shines through the stone ring.
Ripper jumps into the ring, but gets stuck in the
middle.
SHIRLEY
You may need this.
Shirley holds up the green gem.
Lisa is pissed.
LISA
I'm glad you're leaving. That
was in a sealed case in the
pyramid...
SNEAK
What did Celestine say? Mares
eat some grain?
RIPPER
Mareseat oads n dozey doats --
Chizchdaplatina
EDSEL
Vayminos. On delay.
Edsel jumps through the ring and lands on the ground
on the other side.
Shirley runs towards the ring. Sneak and Edsel grab
her tail, then run with her.
SNEAK
Bye Lisa. If this works you'll
never know...
The moon moves off. Only Lisa is left staring through
an empty stone ring.
EXT. LOAM - BOGLIMA - CHIZCHDAPLATINA -- NIGHT
A starry night with a full Moon is the only light on
the stone ring. NATURAL JUNGLE SOUNDS except for many
voices raised in song on the other side of the city.
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, and Shirley pull themselves
together. All four SNIFF the air.
Shirley slinks off.
SNEAK
We're somewhere else. No techy
stink.
EDSEL
This is Chizchdaplatina. But
when? All the buildings are
new.
Shirley returns. Ripper tentatively grabs her arm.
SHIRLEY
It's okay, Ripper I'm staying
with the group. I want to see
Mercy again.
Ripper let's go.
SHIRLEY
There's an army getting
themselves worked up that way.
A thousand furrs armed with
flint spears, blowguns and
small bows. The only metal is
jewelry.
EDSEL
That means it's at least twelve
hundred years ago. Boglimians
have used metal edged weapons
for a thousand years.
SNEAK
Stay here. I'll see for myself.
EXT. CHIZCHDAPLATINA - ARMY CAMP -- NIGHT
The bare chested males and the females wearing
bandeaux, wear skirts of rope and feathers.
From the pyramid steps the Tribal Leader, a river
otter, JERDAN, addresses the massed locals
Sneak listens from the shadows.
JERDAN
The false goddess has cut off
our path over the mountains and
all trade with our brothers by
the Vast Sea.
The crowd ROARS in anger.
JERDAN
Our four sister cities of the
plains, river, desert and Half
Vast Sea have not sent the
promised armies. So the glory
of battle shall be all ours!
The crowd ROARS in excitement.
JERDAN
The omens say tomorrow will be
a good day to die!
The crowd fades into the night.
SNEAK
Hey skirt guy. You know, no
poor dumb bastard ever won a
war by dying for his country --
or tribe. The idea is to kill
the other bastard...
Sneak steps out of the shadows.
JERDAN
Whoooo -- are -- you? Who, Who?
Who, Who?
EXT. CHIZCHDAPLATINA - STEPS OF THE PYRAMID -- NIGHT
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, and Shirley share a fruit
basket with Jerdan.
Around them five wide trails lead off in all
directions.
In the same direction as one trail, high in the Amos
Mountains, a green glow competes with the star shine.
SNEAK
...So when Celestine demanded
you warship her you told her to
go see the llamas up in the
mountains?
JERDAN
She went up to Chizchdaouro and
now the priests worship her and
demand tribute.
EXT. CHIZCHDAOURO CENTRAL PLAZA -- DAY
Celestine faces the llama with a biggest headdress, the HIGH
PRIEST. Llamas, alpacas, and vicunas in priestly feathered
robes look on.
The High Priest looks skeptical.
Celestine gestures and a briar patch encircles the High
Priest and closes into a cage.
The High Priest grovels and the other priests bow down.
EXT. TRAIL DOWN MOUNTAINS INTO NORALOCO JUNGLE -- DAY
Celestine, the High Priest and some llamas, alpacas, and
vicunas in priestly feathered robes, Look down from further
up the trail.
A wall of thorn bushes blocks the trail below them and
continues to swiftly grow up and own the trail.
Jerdan and the Chizchdaplatina Maykatecs gesture angrily from
the base of the trail.
JERDAN (V.O.)
When we refused, a high wall of
thorny nettles blocked the road to
Chizchdaouro, our former religious
center in the mountains and past
that to Chizchdamithril our main
seaport.
EXT. CHIZCHDAPLATINA - STEPS OF THE PYRAMID -- NIGHT
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel and Shirley continue to share
fruit with Jerdan.
EDSEL
Chizchdamithril was the old name
for Boglima City.
What you know as the Maykatec
Ruins was Chizchdaouro.
JERDAN
At dawn we will once more storm the
mountains. Four thousand brave
Maykatec been killed or wounded so
far. The other cities refuse to
send more troops.
Sneak, Ripper and Edsel have a whispered confab. Shirley
appraises Jerdan's jewelry.
Sneak turns to Jerdan
SNEAK
Could you put things off a day or
two? We got some ideas. -- First
off how hard would it be to
convince these other tribes...
JERDAN
Same tribe, Do one impossible thing
in our "Trial of Worth" and they
will follow you over Angelus Falls
in a reed boat.
EXT. CHIZCHDAPLATINA -- DAY
The mountains loom in the distance.
Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Jerdan and Shirley muster at the start
of the trail to Chizchdaouro.
SNEAK
Ripper you head for the river
people's town and Shirley you head
for the ones who live in the
desert. Them's the longest treks.
I'll go to the Half Vast Seaport
and Edsel will head for the plains
after we check some thing out.
RIPPER
Be safe. And Edsel this is for
luck.
Ripper rubs noses with Edsel and gives him a big, wet, sloppy
lick, then sprints off before he can react.
Shirley sidles up to Edsel, but Sneak steps between.
SHIRLEY
I'm off.
Shirley departs. Sneak addresses her retreating back.
SNEAK
In more ways than I can count.
EXT. BASE OF MOUNTAINS -- DAY
A wall of thorns twenty feet high blocks the road and extends
for miles on either side.
Sneak and Edsel survey the route.
SNEAK
How would you get from here to
Cheese-chat-doro?
EDSEL
Chizchdaouro?
Edsel closes his eyes, wrinkles his nose, then points his
ears north south east and west.
EDSEL
In this time there's' a series of
caves under Angelus falls that
leads...
Edsel points up.
EXT. NORALOCO RIVER VILLAGE -- DAY
A huge tree acts as a dam, to hold back the river.
Ripper, along with the city leaders assays the Noraloco
River which has overflowed its banks and flooded part
of the town.
An OLD JAGUAR seems to be the spokesfurr.
OLD JAGUAR
This was our punishment for
opposing the new Goddess. Our crops
are ruined and half the town is
unlivable.
RIPPER
So you must fight her. True?
OLD JAGUAR
Maybe but I can not lead in war. If
you could move the tree...
EXT. SUN CITY -- DAY
On one side of an adobe village withered trees circle a
dwindling oasis.
Shirley and a KIT FOX converse.
KIT FOX
...with no shade our water supply
dries up. If we send troops what
will the goddess do next?
SHIRLEY
If you don't, she won't help you.
KIT FOX
If you can steal the sun from the
sky, we will join Jerdan.
Shirley sees that the moon is in the daytime sky.
SHIRLEY
What day and year is this?
KIT FOX
The fiftieth Year of the Panther
and today is the first day of
Hunter's Moon.
Shirley thinks a bit and gets a sly look.
SHIRLEY
At noon tomorrow I will do as you
ask.
EXT. NASSCAR PLAINS -- NIGHT
In the center of an immense plain, strewn with rocks and
boulders, Edsel walks in the moonlight.
A CHIPMUNK sits cross-legged atop a mound. Edsel doesn't see
him at first.
EDSEL
How hard could it be to find a city
on flat land?
CHIPMUNK
Impossible.
Edsel notices the chipmunk for the first time.
EDSEL
Care to wager on that?
CHIPMUNK
You have come to find troops to
fight in the mountains. Find them
and they are yours.
EXT. SHARK COVE - DAY
Sneak is almost to the Maykatec fishing village on the Half
Vast Sea. The seaweed thatched roofs are visible.
She is so intent on looking for fish along the shore, she
fails to notice the gang of FISHERS {weasels} drying nets.
Sneak grabs a fish that washes up.
SNEAK
Lunch.
FISHER
Ola. You from Chizchdaplatina or
Chizchdaouro?
SNEAK
Chizchdaplatina. Wanna fight an
evil mouse?
FISHER
No. Want to help us catch sharks?
SNEAK
Nay. I'm kinda in the middle of
something.
The other fishers throw nets over her and tie them shut.
FISHER
Chizchdaplatina or Chizchdaouro? It
does not matter, now you are shark
bait.
EXT. HALF VAST SEA -- DAY
The fishers tack their catamaran into the wind picking up
speed.
Sneak, wrapped in netting, dangles just above the water.
Dorsal fins of several great white sharks cut the waves.
SNEAK
What if I can escape from this?
FISHER
We are here to catch a shark. So we
just try again.
SNEAK
What if I get you a shark and
escape from here?
The Fisher's laugh.
FISHER
You will then be our capitano. No
you will be our Queen. Queen of the
Sea Fishers!
A fifteen foot shark jumps out of the water and swallows the
net Sneak was wrapped in. Its teeth catch in the ropes. For a
split second Sneak is both still in the net and standing with
the fishers, helping to pull the net on board.
SNEAK
Reel it in, boys. Then find me a
crown.
EXT. NORALOCO RIVER VILLAGE -- DAY
In the dry riverbed Ripper closely examines the dam tree.
The Old Jaguar and several villagers, on one bank, hold one
end of a rope.
The other end is tied around Ripper's waist.
RIPPER
When I say pull, pull.
Ripper scratches an X into the tree bark, closes her eyes,
takes a deep breath and punches the tree on the X.
Nothing happens.
She repeats the process.
A small crack appears in the bark.
A third time she hits the spot. Now with claws and finger
tips.
The crack widens.
RIPPER
PULL!
The villagers pull her up the bank as the tree splits in half
and the river goes back to bed.
EXT. NASSCAR PLAINS -- DAY
Edsel heads toward a shimmering heat haze.
The chipmunk follows.
EDSEL
You spoke true. At night it is
impossible. The shadow of the
mountains hides it well. By day...
Edsel enters the heat haze which mirrors the land in front of
it rather than blurring the land behind it.
Edsel crosses a short bridge over a canal, into a village of
low one story dwellings made of clay and rocks that match the
natural land colors and contours.
CHIPMUNK
Welcome to Nasscar.
EXT. NASSCAR - CHIPMUNK'S HOUSE - DAY
Edsel is enjoying a feast as the sun reaches its high point
of the day.
The locals also feast and clean their weapons.
Slowly, the cloudless sky darkens.
The locals run indoors or underground (in non-anthro form).
Edsel looks up in the sky as a black disc slowly covers the
sun.
EXT. TRAIL FROM SHARKS COVE TO CHIZCHDAPLATINA -- DAY
Fishers and other furrs from the village follow Sneak. The
villagers carry small nets, clubs encrusted with sharpened
shells and all wood tridents.
The cloudless sky darkens.
The villagers run into the jungle or underground (in non
anthro form).
Sneak gazes at the sky as a black disc slowly covers the sun.
EXT. CHIZCHDAOURO CENTRAL PLAZA
Celestine watches the llamas, alpacas, and vicunas in
priestly feathered robes build a step pyramid of concentric
layers.
As a black disc slowly covers the sun, she makes a small tree
grow tall and has one branch grab the High Priest and bring
him to her.
She points to the sky.
CELESTINE
Do you know what that is?
HIGH PRIEST
It is written in the hall of
records that on this day a Black
Dragon will consume the sun to warm
his belly. When he is done he MAY
release it.
Celestine sees that the other priests are nervous, so she
causes all the nearby trees to grow to redwood size and block
out the sky.
CELESTINE
Unseen is unknown. Show me this
HALL OF RECORDS
EXT. SUN CITY -- DAY
As the land cools off, under the eclipse the oasis expands a
little. The Kit fox and the towns people fill ceramic jugs
with water.
SHIRLEY
As promised. But I can't keep it
for long. Other furrs need the
light.
KIT FOX
You kept your word so we will too.
The solar eclipse passes and the sun once more blazes down on
the desert.
EXT. BASE OF MOUNTAINS - ANGELUS FALLS -- NIGHT
A huge army rests, on either side of the river, near where
the falls creates a small lake. Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Jerdan
and Shirley search by torchlight for a way under the falls.
SNEAK
I can see a trail through the mist
higher up but not where it starts.
A Maykatec white rabbit climbs a cliff on the opposite side
of the falls from Sneak and company. He misses a hand hold
and falls back into the lake.
EDSEL
(pointing)
There. Where the hare fell out.
SNEAK
I know a great baldness cure...
EXT. ANGELUS FALLS -- NIGHT
Under where the rabbit was climbing, a cave entrance is
blocked with debris. Sneak, Ripper, Edsel, Shirley and the
Maykatecs stand single file passing stones away from the
cliff face.
EXT. ANGELUS FALLS -- NIGHT
As dawn arrives, the small rocks are gone. All that remains
is a huge engraved disc. In the center a stylized jaguar head
sticks its tongue out at the world.
SNEAK
Roll away the stone.
Ripper, Sneak, Edsel and Jerdan push and slowly the disc
tumbles sideways into a groove.
Sneak leads, Ripper, Edsel and Jerdan who follow upward into
the dark. Shirley catches up.
SHIRLEY
Don't leave me here alone.
EXT. CHIZCHDAOURO -- DAY
On the side of town overlooking the Noraloco jungle, Sneak,
Ripper, Edsel, and Shirley plan.
SNEAK
I'll take a look see. -- Shirley,
dear, try and follow quietly in
about five minutes.
Shirley gives a mock salute.
SHIRLEY
As you command. -- Darlink.
Sneak turns cat (non-anthro) and slinks off.
EXT. CHIZCHDAOURO -- DAY
In the center of town is a step pyramid of concentric
circles. On the top most tier is an ornate throne. On each
successive level llamas, alpacas, and vicunas in priestly
feathered robes face outward. On the throne is Celestine in
robes embroidered with gold thread. On her head is a
headdress of entwined metals with a glowing green gem
centered above her eyes.
The whole scene looks like a Busby Berkeley nightmare.
EXT. CHIZCHDAOURO
On the edge of town overlooking the Noraloco jungle, Sneak
watches from between stone blocks, as the priests dance and
sing the praises of 'goddess' Celestine.
Celestine raises her hand and the music ceases.
The High Priest, bows low and grovels towards Celestine.
HIGH PRIEST
Oh 'Sun and Moon and all the
Stars', what is your wish.
CELESTINE
Bring the foreign devil before me.
I'm bored.
The high priest motions and armed priests bring Harvey, a
white rabbit that looks exactly like the one Sneak met in
Platinum City, up to the tier below the throne.
SNEAK
How did he get here?
A vicuna near the wall speaks without turning to look for who
spoke.
VICUNA
Missionary from Haven. Priest of
the Onests. Came to set us heathens
on the right path...
Celestine gestures and green vines grow out of the ground to
bind Harvey in place. They slither around him like snakes
until only his face a ears are uncovered.
CELESTINE
Can your god do this?
HARVEY
Monkeying with the natural order of
things'll turn on you in the end.
Know the law of threes?
CELESTINE
Nothing can harm The Goddess!
A quizzical look passes over Sneak's face.
SHIRLEY (O.S.)
Whatever you do comes back
threefold. Good brings thrice good.
Evil brings evil three times.
Shirley joins Sneak in her niche. They both retreat into the
dark.
SNEAK
That's not the same bunny from the
techy future but somehow it is.
SHIRLEY
That my dear, is one of the long
line of Pope Bunnifaces that ruled
Haven until our time.
SNEAK
Haven's gonna need a new rabbit
soon. --- Listen. Circle round to
the other side. Look for any way we
can get the mad mousy alone.
SHIRLEY
And you?
SNEAK
I'm gonna see where 'our army' is,
then look on this side. Sunset,
I'll meet you on the trail to
Boglima City
SHIRLEY
Chizchdamithril
SNEAK
Gesundheit.
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