2054 Dog

(Ivan grabs the wrist of a construct holding a pistol. He twists and pulls on the wrist, kicks his leg over the enemy’s head. He snaps the pistol out of it’s hands . He aims the pistol down at the contruct’s head.)
Jake’s thoughts: “You don’t exist in the moment.”
( Ivan executes it with it’s own pistol.)
“You ‘re just another animal.”
(Ivan looks up toward another enemy. His eyes are barely visible through his helmet. They are wide, dilated, and bestial.)
“Nothing exists but the moment .Who you are fades. You are not a clone. You are not a man.”
(The films begins to slow into slow motion. Jake looks out towards his comrades. Andrews kicks a broken enemy off of him. Annete breaks another with the butt of his rifle, Eric is being overpowered. )
“You are not a convict or soldier. You are a pair of arms, a pair of legs.”
(Ivan draws a melee weapon that is built into his armor. It is similar to chainsaw brass knuckles. As the parts of body are spoken, the camera lingers on Ivan’s arms and legs. Ivan rushes the enemy on top of Eric.)
“Just a beast in the moment. Is that all we are?”
{Brief shot of Ivan rushing the camera in slow motion. The angle changes and the speed suddenly returns to normal, slightly sped up.} (Ivan eviscerates the enemy on Eric with a loud battle scream and a roar from the chainsaw knuckles. Annete knocks down another enemy and blasts it apart on the ground. He comes face to face with another, it raises a rifle towards him. He knocks the barrel of the rifle aside a delivers a punishing blow to the construct’s face. Ivan grabs a punch from a disarmed construct, locks the elbow joint, twists the construct to the ground, finishing it with a brutal stomp, crushing the head. Dog slices the neck of another construct with his knife. He is confronted by another construct. The construct tackles him, he stabs the construct while wrestling on the ground, killing it. Andrews knocks the pistol out of a construct’s hands, twist the fingers in arc, then draws his own pistol and fires it into the construct’s side. Ivan grabs the arm of a construct, then throws it through a thin wall out of the building, where it falls to the ground.
A construct fires his pistol at Dog. It leaves a crater in his armor. Dog rushes the construct, the construct draws a knife, then lunges towards Dog. Dog parries one lunge, then another slash from the construct. Dog steps back to dodge a strike from the construct and his foot slips in loose debris. He falls onto to the ground and loses his knife. Dog looks up to watch as the construct plunges it’s knife through his armor, deep into his chest.
Ivan rushes over, kicks the back of the construct’s knee, holds the face of the construct, then snaps the back of the construct with another spark ridden kick. Annete and Jake gun down the last few constructs. Eric sprints over to Dog)
Eric: {Shaken} Shit. (He examines Dog, his HUD flashes list of information. It begins beeping with Dog’s heartbeat) Shit; Armor breach, critical ventricle and aortic damage, spinal trauma.
(The squad has gathered around Dog. Eric removes the knife with difficulty, and pumps a clear fluid into Dog. Annete stabilizes Dog coughs, blood spurts onto his visor blocking view of his face. The squad scrambles to remove Dog’s breastplate. Blood is everywhere.)
Eric: Shit. Blood in the lungs, K clone defect, damaged pleural cavity. Morphine, Maximum trauma nano… (Eric feels his tools pulls out a device and inserts it with another tool. Dog’s heartbeat continues to skyrocket.) Shit, Respirator is broken-
Annete: We’re losing him, Eric! (Dog twitches squeezes Annete’s hand.)
Eric: K- clone tissue going on- (The heartbeat stops. Eric freezes. Eric face changes from the adrenaline rush of the moment to realization of and resignation to what happened. He sets the equipment down.
Jake looks up from Dog at Annete. Annete sighs and releases Dog’s hands. Andrews helps Annete up. Annete’s face is saddened, processing his grief. Ivan reloads his weapon.)
Ivan: We need to keep moving. (Ivan pats Annete on the shoulder. Annete swallows. His face is wiped clean of emotion, leaving a forced, grim determination- similar to Ivan’s helmet. Ivan walks off toward the objective. Eric stands up from Dog, and folds away his equipment. Eric follows Ivan with a disappointed and frustrated look on his face, grinding his teeth.
Jake stands up, coming eye to eye with Captain Andrews. Andrews offers Jake the bloodied knife. Jake accepts it and looks at it. Andrews follows the squad. Andrews’ voice trails off as he reports K-09 as a casualty. Jake looks at the knife and glance
s back down at Dog, then follows the squad.
{Jake is seen leaving off into the sunset. The knife is silhouetted against the sunset. Dog’s body is in the foreground of the shot, his face unseen, but the blood on his visor very clear. His arm and hand remain upright, where they hand been held.}
Jake: {Interior} Are we just an animal in the moment..?