Act 3 - Recovery
After fade to black: Hero regains consciousness, to find himself lying in a wrecked wasteland.
Target Body Count: 40
Contents
Rubble Trouble
- Script: Hero surveys the scene, he sees a rumbling among the wreckage, a cockroach scutters from the scene; noises of people struggling are heard from beneath brick rubble, and then nothing. Two lives snuffed. A squirrel pokes inquisitively from beneath a broken kitchen appliance, approaches the Hero tentatively sniffing his boots.
- Body Count: 2
Tank!
- Script: Hero rises slowly as tank approaches in the distance. Hero finds grenade at his feet, tosses it at tank. Tank driver (Donald Foley) shouts “No!” as tank explodes. All 3 passengers die. Cockroach continues to sniff, unconcerned.
- Body Count: 4
Jaws...er...Teeth
- Script: Hero looks at nearby pool. In it, a Mechano-Shark kills it’s first victim, like in Jaws, with Susan Backlinie as the victim.
- Body Count: 1
A Load Off
- Script: Our illustrious hero Stewart notices a camper parked nearby. The owner, a rugged man named Bo (Dennis Quaid) invites ‘Stew’ in for bacon and eggs. Waving away security concerns, Bo says the RV auto defenses are the best… and indeed it kills eleven fleeing refugees during the meal.
- Body Count: 11
The Ruins of Tokyo 5
- Script: Bo pulls the camper into a ruined city, which he identifies as Old New Neo Tokyo Omega Five. The Hero looks out of the window. On the street outside, a lady (Marianne Muellerleile) succumbs to plague. Her child cries briefly, before dying from the plague as well. The Hero chokes back a tear.
- Body Count: 2
The Home Stretch
- Script: The dashboard radio glows and crackles, and a voice (Mary Deese) tells Bo that he hasn’t got much time. Bo tells the Hero to buckle up. Accelerating, the camper van thumps four unseen pedestrians to the ground.
- Body Count: 4
People Die
- Script: Camper van crashes after hitting Ella Mitchell. Driver dies, but hero survives. Hero tortures 5 ninjas who appear out of nowhere and attack him, using the Kirby-Taunt Japanese Torture Device, and then kills them.
- Body Count: 5
What’s This?
- Script: Hero exits van, van explodes. Uninjured Hero rummages through remains of van, acquires and equips Gold Rimmed Monocle with Chain. Glare blinds two ninjas. They fall on van which bursts into more flames, giving away two other ninjas. Hero eviscerates one bare-handedly and defenestrates other through van window.
- Body Count: 4
Tourists
- Script: Hero sees a crowd of people approach and begins to sprint towards them, carrying An Imported Rusty Scimitar. After dicing them to bits, he realizes they were in fact ten Canadian tourists and their tour guide (Thomas Gibson).
- Body Count: 11
The Unknown
- Script: The hero, running through the wasteland, encounters a steel grate in the floor. As he bends to open it he is set upon by 5 masked assailants. He kills four using martial arts, and the fifth by using him as a lever to operate its locking mechanism.
- Body Count: 5
Return to Shadow
- Script: The last ninja stands before a semi circle of beings in large dark cloaks. One draws a gun to shoot him for his failure. Before the bullet flies the ninja throws a pair of shuriken killing two of the cloaked beings. The ninja is then shot and dies.
- Body Count: 3