Just as Korben, Leeloo, Father and Cyrez escaped
Zorg's building, a beep inside the building, throughout the building sounded.
The bomb detectors.
A hand-piece on Zorg's hand also beeped. "They
want to blow my building!" Zorg shouted while running down another
one of the many hallways led to his private workshop. "They'll pay
for this." He looked over to Nicolle, who was running beside him.
"Guess your plan to revenge on them was garbage,
huh?" Nicolle was amused.
"This is the plan." Zorg answered not
so amused.
"Where the hell are we going to anyway?" Nicolle
glanced back at Zorg.
"Escape route." He simply replied.
"Nice." Nicolle mumbled.
They came to a stop in front of a thick and heavy silver
door with a key pad on the side. Zorg stared at it for a second, thinking.
"I know the codes. . . I think." Then he moved his fingers over
the key pad.
The heavy door opened slowly with a dim hiss.
They moved quickly in.
A nasty-looking yet gracefull smooth-faced spacefighter
was sitting in the middle of the over-twenty-meter long workshop. The spacefighter
looked somewhat like Zorg's ZFX200.
Zorg stood proudly in front of it, and said as if to
himself, "My new ZFX250." He then saw Nicolle's confused look,
then added, "With some private new adjustments." He smiled. "I
was building it privately, only by my most trusted technicians. Though
it is not quite finished," Zorg smiled one of his evilish smile, "it
will do the job."
Beep!
The sound broke into Zorg's thoughts.
"Can't we just go, Zorg?"
"Yes." Zorg walked over to one of the working
tables and grabbed a metalic box which looked like warm-aluminum with some
sybols on it. He opened the box and saw four stones, four Sacred Stones
sitting in the box safely. He smiled, and ran into his plane.
A small pink sports car emerged from Zorg's building
in the dark night and flew away from it. It was seemingly overloaded. Far
behind it, a small but bright little dot of light also emerged and flew
out of Zorg Industry building, and headed for the cloudless night sky at
a spremely fast speed.
"Tsouk dot!" Leeloo exclaimed inside the crowded
little pink car, pointing to the sky. "Zorg!" She and all of
them looked at once as the tiny bit of light disappeared into the stars.
Cyrez turned around from the front seat beside the driver
and looked at Leeloo, "Are you sure?" He knew he should not have
doubt in her, but somehow, Cyrez was curious how she know all these stuff.
Leeloo tried to stand instead of being tucked in the
small back seat with Father Cornelius. She failed and dropped back into
her seat. "Yes." She replied.
Korben added from the front, "Well, this is no
space craft. And I hate space travels, so don't think I am taking you up
to the stars. Once is enough." He went into some memories of the old
times; the guns, the people and the orders were happening all over again.
It was the feeling that Korben hated so much, not the travelling itself.
He glanced back, "Besides, we have the Father. Just leave Zorg to
the authorities. Let's just go home."
"The stars. . . suns. . . evil!" Father Cornelius
murmured to himself quietly, then he gasped in astonishment. He looked
at Leeloo beside him worrily, "There's something very important, very
vital that I forgot!"
"What is it?" Leeloo asked.
"That's the problem! I forgot! I can't remember!"
The priest was upset, "All I know is that it is very important!"
Korben looked in the mirror at Leeloo and suggested,
"Leeloo, why don't you do that. . , thing again? You know, to read
his mind."
"She can do that?" Both Cyrez and the Father
exclaimed. She nodded,
"To read his memories, not his mind." She
put her fingers on Father Cornelius' temples and eyes gently, "Relax.
It won't hurt."
The priest nodded softly and Cyrez watched with amazement.
Korben sat at the front seat mumbling to himself, "Yeah,
whatever it is. . ."
A few more minutes passed. The timer was counting every
second of it.
Finally, Leeloo looked at all three people with a terrified
look on her face. "Zorg's got the elements." Her face was white,
green eyes flashed with fear, for the universe.
The car suddenly jerked as Korben shouted, "What?!
Again?" He then snapped the driver's wheel tight.
"He had drugged Father Cornelius, and now he's
got the Sacred Stones. Even worse, the Evil remained undefeated, and Zorg
is to deliver the stones." Leeloo added.
Cyrez sighed, "It still wants to turn the Light
of Creation to the dark side." He sighed, "Great! How are we
going to stop them? We don't have a spacecraft at hand?"
After a few moments, Father Cornelius pointed to a place
that was lightened with cars and all sort of things. A spaceship is in
the middle of the crowd. The so-called spaceship was weird looking. It
looked just like a slice of paparoni piazza from the top, instead of red
paparonis, they were green, flashy green. "How about that one?"
The pink sports car turned around down to the crowd
abruptly, and flew down nearly at the speed of sound. He looked at the
altitude indicator. Then at Cyrez's timer.
120 m, 18 : 02
90 m, 18 : 01
60 m, 18 : 00
30 m, 17 :59
The car dropped like a rock; the time reduces like the
altitude. The nose of the car abrupted lifted and the car slow and landed
just beside the spacecraft.
Now Korben and hear people yelling, shouting in joy
or so seemed. Aside the spacecraft, a portable hovering stage stood, up
on it, six or so guys gazed in amazement at Korben's entrance.
One of the guys on the stage wore bright orange cloth,
and dyed his hair green. He was helding a long microphone. Ruby Rhod.
"Ruby!" Leeloo laughed happily.
"Yeah, it's Ruby." Korben laughed not-so-happily.
He looked over to Cyrez and asked, "How much time
til that thing goes off?"
Cyrez was pale, he inhaled deeply and looked at his
watch, "Uh... seventeen minutes and counting." He exhaled.
"Damn." Korben answered, and went out of the
car. Then he realized he was the closest one to Ruby than any of the crowds.
He jumped onto the stage professionally as others got out of the car.
"Korben Dallas!" Ruby shouted. "Korben
my man! How nice of you to drop by!" He spoke into his mike, "Let's
rock! Green?" The whole crowd cheered.
Korben coldly grabbed Ruby by his shirt, "Look,
I did not want to play dumbo and I still don't. Green, Ruby?"
"Green." Ruby replied with fear for his man.
"Good." Korben snapped the mike from Ruby
and said, "Look everyone, that building is going to blow up in fifteen
minutes. The shockwave will wipe this place clean, so you are going to
get the hell out of here? You GREEN ?" He threw the mike back to Ruby
and jumped down the stage.
Ruby and his fellows followed. The crowd stood. "Bzzzzz!!
Didn't you hear the man?" Both the crowd and his fellows scattered.
He turned back to Korben who was walking toward Leeloo. "Hey, Korben
my man, is it really gonna blow? And wipe us clean?"
"We're taking your ship." Korben answered
with a different answer.
"Hey, man," Ruby grunted, "you know-"
He stopped abruptly as he saw Cyrez coming out of the car. "Eh!"
Ruby grabbed Korben to one side with all his strength.
"Hey!" Korben snapped his shirt back. "What
do you want?"
Ruby whispered softly, while monitoring Cyrez, "He's
a spy!"
"I know."
"You know?" Ruby was surprise, "But,
but, he works for Zorgie!"
"It's Zorg; and no. He works for us." Korben
was running out of patience.
"He does?"
Korben yelled, "Just believe each word I say!"
Korben glared at Ruby, "Are you going to get on your ship or just
stand here and be wiped out?"
"Ten minutes; Major." Cyrez noted Korben.
He also saw fear in Ruby's eyes. Not just fear, but distrust. He told himself.
I don't need his trust any ways.
Minutes later, in the cockpit of Ruby's ship - Green
Galaxy, which was in the middle of the crust of the piazza-looking
ship, Father Cornelius complained, "Mr. Dallas, everything is ready
to go, except for Mr. Rhod."
Korben turned to the Father, "We'll go without
him then." He simply said.
Ruby rushed into the cockpit that was decorated by colourful
ribbons hanging from the top, which Korben did not appreciate much. "I
don't wanna die!" Ruby cried. Leeloo had explained what they were
going to do, which caused Ruby crying in fear.
"Uh, Major? If you want to get out here alive,
the time is now." Cyrez suggested as the timer counted 0 : 10.
Korben, already ran out of patience, ignored Ruby and
launched Green Galaxy.
Green Galaxy shot up into the sky, leaving a
trace of white smoke from its engines as the explosion lit up the night
sky. The sky now looked sea blue to Leeloo, who was sitting at a seat near
a window. It reminded how blue and beautiful the sky once seemed to her,
right after they thought they defeated the evil. Right when Korben expressed
his love to her. Now the evil was among them again, trying to turn the
Light of Creation to the dark side. She knew in her heart, that this time
they had little chance to win.
The shockwave stormed the place, the trace of technology
in the surrounding ten kilometers were wiped out clean. It was ironic,
the technology which was now used to destroy the trace of their origin.
"We are now cleared of Earth's atomsphere."
Cyrez read the computer and reported.
"Set pursuit course. Search for any ships in this
region. They can't be far." Korben said.
"Unless Zorg has gone into hyperspace." Cyrez
corrected Korben.
"Unless he has gone into hyperspace." Korben
repeated quietly, showing a little hope of finding Zorg. He knew Zorg was
an intelligent man, in fact, too intelligent that the authorities even
could not get their hands on him.
"I don't wanna die. . ." Ruby cried as if
to no one in the background. "Where are we going?" Ruby looked
around, expecting some answers.
The priest had gone from the cockpit. Father Cornelius
was to figure out what happens when the evil does turns the Light of Creation
to dark. The Darkened Light, the priest had told Korben.
"To the stars." Korben answered Ruby emotionlessly,
still drifting in his thinkings.
At a resting quarter onboard the Green Galaxy,
at a side of the ship, Priest Cornelius' thoughts wandered through the
stars. He saw not just the stars and suns, but millions of life and
beauties in the galaxy. The three suns at opened an entrance for
the evil was no where in sight, though, the forces and terrors of the pure
evil was among all of them. He laid his eyes slowly back to the room
he stood alone in. It was dim, yet, he could clearly see the shades,
and everything in the room. He looked without seeing.
Deep in the priest's heart, he knew all sorts of help were
useless once the pure evil get the Sacred Stones. All sorts of efforts
were a waste of time once the pure evil turned the Light of Creation to
the ultimate Doomsday weapon. Or so the priest believe.
Leeloo knew Father Cornelius' beliefs from the ancient
were too powerful, and too influential for him to think beyond what he
was told. Cornelius could not go beyond without her help; she was
determined to open the priest's eyes to the impossible. Leeloo believed,
and knew, that though all the efforts were insignificant, but the efforts
were not useless. Even when the Light was darkened. Now it
was time for the priest to believe.
Leeloo slowly opened the door to the room where Father
Cornelius was staying. The ray of light landed on the back of the
priest, revealing the strong comparison between the light, the dark, and
a man caught in between.
The priest was sitting on a sofa facing out the window.
He sighed and said to whoever had opened the door without even turning
his face around. "It's hopeless. Totally hopeless.
We will never get the Sacred Stones back. . ." His eyes slowly
filled with tears.
"No." Leeloo answered peacefully, and
resourcefully; at that moment, she did not seem to be Leeloo, who was innocent
and playful. Instead, she was like a person who spoke through knowledge
of far beyond the known, and great experiences.
She slowly walked to the priest's side, and put one
hand gently on the priest's shoulder. "No. The efforts
are not hopeless, no matter how insignificant they seemed."
She looked out the window and then back on Cornelius. "Ever
see drops of water drip down on a stone, trying to drill a hole in it?
Sure it seemed ridiculous, even hopeless, but look deeper; as time goes
on, the water will result a hole in the stone. It will."
She smiled softly down at the priest, who was looking up at her with tear-filled
eyes.
"But it is different. . ." The priest
said sadly, "that is about time, but this, is about-"
"There is no difference." Leeloo interrupted
Father Cornelius fiercely; she kneed down and put a hand on the thick window
in front of her. She felt it softly. "Does this seems
different from the stars out there to you? Does this seems different
from us?" She continued, "All of these, and reality, is
made up of what known to you as matter. And this, matter, is made
up of, atoms, or the four elements to the ancient Greeks. What is
different is their unique arrangements; by putting the differences together,
they create what is unlikely to be created, such as me, a Fifth Element."
Father Cornelius seemed inspired; he remained silent
and turned his face around to the stars. Then he noticed a shadowy
blur moving at a not-so-distant space. Gradually, the blur becomes
more 'realistic' and started taking a triangular shape. The priest
was shocked by this sight, and he stood there said nothing with his eyes
wide. Leeloo, by his side, found this sight and was studying carefully.
The blurry shape then shimmered with purple sparks, and formed a piece
of metallic object slowly.
On the bridge, Cyrez yelled out in worry, "Major Dallas?
I am detecting something unusual here. . . can't identify it yet."
Korben Dallas went to his side and looked down at the
monitor, "Hmm, that's odd."
"I've got a bad feeling about this."
Ruby said at one side, who insisted on staying on the bridge with his man.
"I mean, Korben, I travel a lot-"
Korben shot Ruby a sharp look and Ruby became quiet.
Quiet, but still murmuring.
"I am getting it!" Cyrez turned to Korben
who was no paying close attention. "It's a ship or some kind
for sure."
"How come you have not detect it earlier?"
Korben asked simply. A thought went across his mind. "Zorg?"
"Still unidentified, sir." Cyrez answered
simply without taking his eyes off the data which kept on scrolling on
the monitor.
A high-pitch sound was present, and it grews suddenlly
louder, then followed by the rock of the entire Green Galaxy.
Braaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm. . .
The missle hit knocked all of the crew of Green Galaxy
off their feet.
Cyrez braced himself and threw himself back to the
monitor from the cold floor.
Korben, lying on the ground mumbled as if to himself,
"It's Zorg alright." He jumped up from his back and rushed
to the pilot's seat. He held the controller with his right hand and
dropped his left hand on a flat touch-screen device just beside his legs.
He pushed hardly on the screen and a green light lit up. He then
moved his left palm gently up; more green lights lit up. The view-finder
main screen in front of Korben's eyes showed up a line of words.
They read, "Thrust Output : MAX." Korben smiled as he felt
a sudden burst of power thrust him back against his seat.
The rest of the crew went kissing the ground again.
In the resting quarter where Father Cornelius and
Leeloo were at, they found themselves lying on the soft carpet floor with
their feet pointed up at the ceiling. Father Cornelius was panting
while his head leaned against the floor, inhaling dust into his nostrils.
Leeloo however, was in a much better position comparing to the Father.
She was lying on the ground and her long legs were caught mid-air in some
cables that had fallen off during the impact.
With a swift leap, she unattached the cables and landed
on her feet again. She giggled at Father Cornelius for his ridiculous
position.
"Now, Leeloo, do not laugh. Won't you help
me up?" Father looked at her.
Leeloo grabbed Father Cornelius by his right arm and
pulled him up and left him in moaning. "Let's move."
"Where?" The priest was still moaning
from the pain.
Leeloo rushed him away without answering; her usual
smile was gone.
A while earlier, onboard of the ZFX250.
"Now let's show'em a thing or two. Shall
we?" Zorg grinned in the pilot seat. Nicolle, sitting
behind him, working on calculations on the computer. "Revert
the cloaking sequence. And, prepare to attack." Zorg said
with joy as if his favourite movie was going to start in any second.
The ZFX250 shimmered with purple lights around its sleek
body and revealed its nasty-looking fire arms under the wings and in front
of its nose. The distant of ZFX250 and its target was reducing every
second.
"Target locked. Missle ready. Shields
to maximum." Nicolle reported with no emotions on her face.
She was simply doing her job without any emotion interfering.
"No, drop shields. It wouldn't be challenging
if it was too easy." Zorg smiled back at Nicolle and switch
to weapon control. On the screen, the digital image of Green Galaxy
appeared with a flashing red square around its body. Then a smaller
square appeared in the middle.
"I only hope I can be there when the missle strikes."
Zorg said before he pressed the red button on the control panel.
His words meant nothing more than his love for chaos. The only reason
he wanted to be on his prey was to see and feel the chaos throughout it.
Nicolle looked at him with a frown, still studying his
words. Isn't he crazy or what? The words came into Nicolle's
mind. Then she heard a click and she knew the missle was fired.
"The bird is away!" Zorg looked at his
monitor in joy.
A bright energy-missle flew out from under the protected
wings of the ZFX250, heading straight for its prey, Green Galaxy,
like an angel of death. The flash from its tail ripped the dark space.
The missle exploded over the main hull of the Green Galaxy; it was
a positive impact, only it hit right on the energy shields over the hull.
The energy shields flashed with brilliant blue the second the missle explodes,
and was gone the next. However, even though the Green Galaxy
was undamaged, the missle did rocked it hard.
"Target remains." Nicolle reported again.
"Yes, I can see that, can't I?" Zorg
was now not so happy as before, but still held a piece of his joy.
He watched as Green Galaxy speeded up and high-tailed away.
He was not disappointed. "Switch to laser fire."
"Are you just trying to play them?"
Nicolle asked. "Why don't you just send them another missle
and we can be on our way?"
Zorg's smile was gone. He turned and glared at
Nicolle, who showed no fear. "I said, switch to laser fire.
Can't you see I am trying to enjoy my revenge?"
"Is that what it was all about?" She
looked at Zorg coldly, "Then, as you wish." She said and
turned back to her station.
"Thank you." Zorg closed his eyes and
said softly, gently. Then he turned back to the fire control station.
Brilliant green plasma bullets were stripping away
the precious shields from the Green Galaxy. Each hit lit up
the hull with blue-green lights. The stars at the distance also seemed
to reflect the flashing of the light.
"Ah!" Korben Dallas looked at the shield
indicator and saw the numbers slowly decreasing. "Do you have
weapons on the ship?" Ruby shook his head in fear. Korben
sighed and turned back to the monitor. "I tried to play it soft,"
he murmured and pulled up the controller stick all the way.
People on the deck fell to the ground again.
"What are you doing?" Ruby demanded.
Korben ignored.
Cyrez watched in silence.
The priest who just entered stared in shock.
Korben had turned the ship all the way around, heading
straight toward their attacker. The monitor flashed with green lights
again as more and more hits were present. Beside the sounds of explosion
and the steady humming engine, the control room was completely silent.
"Zorg, they have turned around."
Nicolle read from the data screen. "And is heading right at
us."
"What are they trying to do?" Zorg was
now a bit worried. "They don't even have a weapon on that ship,
why are they taking attacking position?" Zorg bit his lips as
a thought came to him. He ordered, "Re-route all power to weapon
control."
The green plasma fired even more intensively than before.
"They are on a collision course!" Nicolle
gasped.
"Oh yeah?" A evil grin went on Zorg's
face. "Let see if are really that tough."
Nicolle abandoned her station and turned to Zorg, "Are
you crazy?" She shouted above the noises of plasma fire.
Zorg stared at his target and kept on firing, "They
will turn at the last second."
"What if they don't?"
Zorg glared at her, then back to his screen. He
answered nothing.
The Green Galaxy was getting closer each second.
Nicolle calculated that if they collide, the possibility
of her survival was, in lack of a better word, tiny. Death is
a release. She told herself. Then I'll be free from
Zorg's grip. The thought did not made the suituation look better
to her. She still did not like the thought of being jammed and swallowed
in flames of fire. She looked back at Zorg, who had now let go of
the firing button, and was concentrating on the course of their flight.
The Green Galaxy looked much bigger than before now to Nicolle
and Zorg. And it was getting bigger each second. Nicolle stood
up, squinted at the image. She could see lights emitting from the
hull of the Green Galaxy, hear the deep humming of its engine, and
the most frighting, the flashes of shields from both the ZFX-250 and the
Green Galaxy.
"Oh no." Zorg gasped, and tilted the
controller stick.
Bssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
The shields flashed and glowed.
It was an hard impact, but there was no fire, no smoke,
and no explosion. The small triangualr fighter was bounced away by
both the shields of both ships. The Green Galaxy jerked to
one side, and the ZFX-250 was thrown into the space, spinning.
"Ugh!" Nicolle tried to get up from
the un-flat, and she found herself miracly alive, yet wounded. Then
she saw Zorg, lying on the ground, too, was not dead.
Zorg gasped and murmured, "I can't believe he didn't
turn! He was suppose to turn! He was not suppose to crash into
me!"
"How the hell did you think he'll turn?!"
Nicolle finally yelled at Zorg.
Zorg was a little bit more calmed. He turned he
face to Nicolle's reddening face and answered to Nicolle's question.
"That's the way he was trained."
Nicolle sat back down at her seat, "Maybe the life
of a cabie changed his style!" She ignored Zorg's moaning and
begun tapping on the keypad and found out it was not working at all.
Smoke from the burning wires floated out into the air. She got up
and hurried to a computer panel which was still working, and reported from
the screen.
"The auto-navigational systems are off-line.
Weapon controls are down. Engines at 40%. Shields are gone,
and the Hyperdrive is-" She paused when she read the line.
"Don't tell me." Zorg slowly got up
and trudged to Nicolle's side.
She stared and finished, "Malfunctioned.
There's no way to fix it."
Zorg reached out a hand from Nicolle's back and hold
her right hand. Nicolle tensed. An urge came to her, and she
fought it. The urge of kissing Zorg was revolting, she told
herself. For all her life she had wanted to kill Zorg, why was she
wanting to kiss him?
Zorg did not seemed to notice the feeling Nicolle had,
he stared at the monitor and moved Nicolle's right hand down and touched
a green button at the side of the panel. Then he let go of her hand.
A deep hum noised, and the ship shook once.
"Seems like the cloaking device is still working."
Zorg turned back to the pilot seat.
Nicolle froze, the urge was gone, completely.
She stood where she was with a feeling of losing something. Losing
a great chance to kill Zorg. She tried to convince herself as
she sat back down, however, even herself did not believe it.
Zorg checked his computer station. "The radar
system is still working, but other things are almost all down. Looks
like we have to fly this thing on manual." By the look on his
face, Nicolle realized that Zorg was not even talking to her.
She switched on the radar systems at her station and
found a new ship entering the sector from hyperspace.
She inhaled, then read the monitor calmly, as emotionless
as before, as the way she should be. "There's another starship
coming in." She glanced up at the pilot.