Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

His name was Jack Deth...

...a bizarre warrior from another dimension.

A world called Earth.

Things have changed a little around here.

Doctor Lyra Sirrell.

Jack Shit, isn't it?

Where women do not know their place.

An RBG-7.

And weapons are developed by an arcane discipline.

The long second watch.

Called science.

Multi-purpose blade.

So where the hell you sending me this time?

Point of origin seems to be Topeka, Kansas.

I wish I could give you a better idea of what to expect.

Jack!

Jack, you all right?

This science also created a device...

...that brought Jack Death to our world, Orpheus.

A world that has no use for this, science.

A world where magic rules.

Magic and us.

We are the nobles, the Trancers,

and our undisputed and feared monarch is Lord Caliban,

who nicknamed Jack Deth...

Me?

Wolf's Head.

I will capture this Wolf's Head.

Jack Deth quickly met many denizens of our land.

Oh shit.

Something tells me I'm not in Kansas.

What the hell are you doing here?

Some familiar to him.

Trancer.

And some new faces.

This is not a dream.

I think not.

Where the hell am I?

This place is called Orpheus.

And when he came into conflict with the nobles,

the Wolf's Head drew first blood.

Caliban actually seemed to admire this stranger.

He's got a respect for you.

I have a great deal to offer you.

This interloper.

Caliban felt that the Trancer nobles of Orpheus had become lazy,

and that Jack Deth with his bizarre manner and other worldly weapons...

...would present a challenge.

Is this some bizarre attempt at levity?

But even Caliban was fallible.

He had not anticipated resistance from his own son, Prospero.

Nor from Shaleen,

the bitch leader of the rebellious peasants called Tunnel Rats.

No.

He's not like the others.

I cannot do this, father.

I will not.

Was Jack Deth some sort of savior?

The Tunnel Rats certainly came to believe so.

This man can put an end to our nightmare.

I have seen it coming.

We must find him.

We must hurry!

Those little rodents had the gall...

...to sneak into our midst after we had captured Jack Deth.

Prospero insanely chose to ally himself with them.

There's no way out of this place.

And together, they narrowly escaped.

We gotta work fast.

It did not take us long to track them to their hiding places.

Why is he here?

There!

...there much time.

Find 'em and kill them.

The battle was swift and brutal.

Far more so than we might have expected.

It seemed that Jack Deth had indeed given the Tunnel Rats...

...that which they had never before possessed.

Hope.

We suffered many casualties,

and I Lucius felt the sting of the damnable Shaleen.

Jack!

As the Caliban,

he fell victim to a cowardly assault by the Wolf's Head.

Aided by the power of a long dead wizard named Oberon.

Sorry, father.

I have no son!

Now, after a month of their strike and run tactics,

Picking us off one by one.

The Tunnel Rats, led by Jack Deth...

...have mounted an offensive at the heart of power itself.

They strike at the castle of Caliban.

Deth is coming!

Deth is, ah!

Hey, how you holding up?

Get down!

Prospero.

Steal these bastards.

Lucius.

Celia, I had this horrible dream.

We were driven from the castle by those peasants...

...and some mad man, Jack Deth.

And the few of us who survive...

Escaped, and are in hiding.

Not a dream.

No.

Have this, it's good.

It's good for you.

It's fine.

It's very good for you, Jack.

That's great, that's fine.

Just have one.

That's enough!

Okay, don't start that.

Don't start with that.

Is this better Jack?

Do you feel like smiling?

If it would please you.

God damn it, stop it!

Just do what pleases you.

Not me, you.

Jack.

Before you, I was just another slave in the home of Caliban.

You changed all that.

There was nothing more important to me than pleasing you.

You're like a God.

I'm not like a God.

You are the greatest warrior who ever fought.

That's ridiculous.

Sexually, you're like a wild animal...

...who no living man can equal.

Well, yeah.

Jack Deth.

You're trancing.

A strain from the fighting has caught up with me.

I am sorry if I have frightened you.

Are you saying I'm scared?

No, your weapon is saying that.

If you wish to stand about looking threatening,

that is your privilege.

But if you are interested in finding a way home,

then come with me.

You may even bring your toy.

Any clue to crossing dimensional realms,

is here in my father's library.

I offered to help, he wouldn't hear of it.

How bad?

It is not your concern.

How bad?

Why are you doing this?

The first time you said it was to make things even.

Why are you helping me now?

Because you've been fighting side-by-side with us.

The son of Caliban battling his own kind.

You're a good man, Prospero.

You saw innocent people suffer,

and no one could do any more than you have, to fight it.

Now I see you suffering,

and I can do no less.

Any form of physical contact will do.

Variety's nice.

I don't want to fall in love with you.

Don't flatter yourself.

I need to rest a bit.

Go help Jack.

He doesn't like to depend on anyone, except himself.

I'm sure you can understand that.

I don't want to fall in love with you, either.

Jack Deth?

How are you doing?

Terrific, making tremendous progress.

All right, okay. I give up.

What is this shit?

Rhonic is a language commonly used in a cult.

What, what is it?

God, Jack, you've found it.

This is it.

Other worlds, other when's, other why's.

It is about inter-dimensional travel.

I knew that.

I hunger, Lucius.

I feel empty inside.

I need meat.

We all have the hunger.

Lucius is trying to do his best.

I hate those peasant bastards as much as you do, Angelo.

The bitch leader took my eye.

And if I hadn't escaped through Caliban's sanctum,

she would've killed me.

What were you doing at his sanctum?

Caliban has great powers.

Did you get anything?

Yes.

We are dead.

Why did you get that thing?

Lucius had a good reason.

Why did you get that thing?

Something made me.

I felt this need.

Nothing I can...