SUBMACHINE: The Movie Series (superfanfic text story)

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nooo, hahah. But it takes me time to write all of this.
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Tonight I've been reading all forum posts written by Mateusz, a thing I hadn't done before. Some things being added to the final plot :o

(for example, I noticed about the horizontal lighthouse in a vertical environment to be filled with sand just today. I didn't know about that thing).
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SUBMACHINE 9
THE TEMPLE


Flashbacks in black italics paragraphs

Unknown ancient time
The opening scene showcases a normal day in the Bamboo Town, where some families are shown. When suddenly, some villagers see a strangely dressed woman walking through the houses in search of something. The villagers quietly reunite and follow the woman, until she stops and places a beamer near the forest. Then she activates it, a bright light surges, and the woman disappears in front of their eyes. Then, a villager woman looks at everyone and shouts repeatedly a word, which could mean something like 'magic!' or 'goddess!'. This is the first time we see Elizabeth in person. Opening titles.

2039

Garden

While the opening titles appear, we see Mike's group, now with Lisa, crossing the Temple door and going through the initial passages of the complex, until arriving to the outside terrace in which Sub9's game starts.
The group is still confused by Mollock's death. All of their plans seem truncated since they know he's not who they had to look for, and that they've been wasting time and they might not be able to get back to the Corridor to search Hugh. But the ones looking for the real Murtaugh are now them, and they all agree that if they find him maybe he can help them stop the disruption and put all things in place.

Charles and Hugh realize Lisa is gone. First they thing she's got lost, but after a while, they start to believe she has tried to escape. Assuming she's tried to go with Mike's group, they wonder if they should go after them, or keep following their masterplan to find the subnet power source, the system, and control it. You may wonder why Hugh and Charles don't just fucking follow the other group's steps and go to the Corridor, through the Edge, the Core, the Plan and then arrive to the Temple. Well, just think that rebuilding/reusing all those four movie scenarios for just a couple of scenes would be a simple enormous waste of money for the producers. So probably the easiest and cheapest way is to create new computer-generated locations as an alternative way to arrive to the Temple.

Lisa asks what are those navigators they have in their pockets. Fake Mur explains its function, and Lisa asks something no one has thought before: what happens if in some layer there isn't matter? If in some layer the place hasn't been yet built? Would they fall to the void? Clark says that maybe the Temple is the 'knot' Murtaugh talked about in Sub8, and then there would be a version of the Temple in every layer. So, no one is gonna fall into the void. Everyone gets a bit relieved.
Meanwhile, Mike has been looking at the water fountain next to them, strangely displaying a glowing green water. They notice it's the same colour as the big green karma portal, and they assume it must be the same component. They take some water into jars, to further study it.
The first puzzles involve the karmic water, as Fake Mur call it, and they soon open the passage to the pyramid. The first thing they see is that the place is quite different from previous visited places, as it has a more studied architecture, but it's flooded with red amber, a substance they never saw before. Another thing they notice is that the unstable layer anomalies have stopped.

2021
Murtaugh, during his sabatic time in the Kent county, meets a younger woman at the café in the village where he goes to buy his groceries and other things for his vacation house. They become friends, and they meet to talk and take photos many days a week. The woman is called Elizabeth, but she doesn't tell much about her life to him, a thing that at first don't seem to bother Murtaugh. He finds funny, a coincidence, that his recently-born daughter is called Lisa, a very similar name.
One day at the café, Elizabeth tells she has to go, explaining her mother is ill and she has to take care of her. Murtaugh understands, and they have a warm goodbye, not before Elizabeth gives him an address for him to send letters, to keep in touch. Murtaugh promises to write him from time to time and tell how he is.
The next day, Murtaugh does a trip to the Kent waterfalls, where the infamous accident happens.


2039

Pyramid

While exploring the Pyramid, there's one moment in which Lisa and Mike have to change layer to get an object. Before coming back to layer 5, Lisa prevents Mike to press the button and tells Mike she had been waiting to be alone with him. She starts sobbing and telling she was so afraid he could be in danger, and tries to kiss him. Mike refuses and confesses his attraction to her, but says it isn't possible because he knows who she really is; her little sister. He says he wishes it wasn't like this, but anyway, after being so close each other, they make out anyway. They agree to don't let anyone know about this and they take the navigator again.

Also, during their descent, Lisa shows her knowledge of egyptian and hindu culture, and everyone is impressed. She knows every reference to gods and icons spread througout the pyramid (and furthermore the Temple itself), but she's always saying that although everything is historically accurate, the fact that so many cultures are showcased within a same space makes it almost ridiculous, a parody (like those theme parks which mix different cultures without caring). She wonders why does this happen, and Fake Mur implies that maybe this pyramid was inhabited by different civilizations during so many periods of time. Lisa, nevertheless, remarks that both hinduism and ancient egypt civilizations coexisted during a long period of time, which makes it somehow strange.

They later arrive to a small 'building' inside the building that is empty inside. They use karmic water to unveil a light bridge which let them advance, but what at first they thought it was the darkness of the empty tunnel, is in fact subnet void, a thing they never thought it could exist in closed environments (normally the void appears at the edges of the locations). Fake Mur tells everyone to be careful, as this is an unstable bridge. Lisa and Bob somehow keep suffering from vertigo and uneasiness.

Sometime between 2030 and 2039... or not


Then we see Murtaugh writing letters to Elizabeth. It is implied that she's the only person she can trust in to tell things about the Submachine. Elizabeth, in one letter, says she wants to know the place, and go with him. After many attempts, he agrees to let her in, and for a time, they explore the Subnet together. She only talks to Elizabeth, not to the other scientists, and Elizabeth seems to be able to see them but she doesn't worry about the situation. That's when one of the scientists say: "Why does this sociopath only talks to Elizabeth" "She's the only person he can see, remember? We're like drawings in a piece of paper redrawn and erased, seven times"

One day, Murtaugh becomes so mad that he escapes to the Lighthouse, abandoning Elizabeth, and later regretting it.


2039

During the film, Charles and Hugh go through some locations in their way back to the Corridor. Not because they need, but Charles has the objective to explain things of the subnet to Hugh, while they see more karma portals. In one of these rooms, Charles explains to Hugh that once he read the plans of some scientists to bury Murtaugh inside the Lighthouse. As Hugh could see, the Lighthouse isn't covered with sand on the outside. But the inside is, indeed. That's why they used an intradimensional horizontal shift. They switched the location of the lighthouse to a dimension that had an horizontal pull reversed 90º, so the lighthouse appeared as lying on the ground horizontally. Of course, Murtaugh didn't notice the change, he didn't just fall to the nearest wall. Everything inside the Lighthouse did a turn. Then they just released the sand through the windows and doors. Then they changed the shift to vertical and the Lighthouse came back to its original position. But the damage was already done. Charles guesses that's when Murtaugh decided to escape.

Temple

After solving more puzzles, they arrive to the Temple. They become very impressed, as the surroundings are vast and enormous, but all of it it's darkness. They manage to open the bar door at the far right, and Mike sees there is a small room in which says 'Elizabeth'. Curious, he enters and finds the tomb of Elizabeth.
"Isn't she the woman who Murtaugh talked to?", says Clark. As they remove the stone cover of the tomb, a mummified corpse appears.
"Why would he talk to a dead woman? This makes no sense, it seems like she died ages ago", says Mike.
After the discovering, the group has to go through all the red amber and the tunnels, a thing which makes Lisa feel worse, until she ends up sweating and demanding them to rest a bit.

They go out of the tunnels to make Lisa rest a bit, when Mike realizes there is another small room similar to the other one. When he approaches to read the name, he dramatically looks at the others and he runs inside shouting "No, no, no, no" repeatedly. Lisa notices who's inside that tomb, and they help Mike to open the stone cover.

Murtaugh is dead.

Sometime between 2030 and 2039... or not

The next flashback is after the shootings at the Core. Elizabeth is in a 'safe' place, reunited with the remaining scientists, who want to go after Murtaugh to make him pay for what he's done. Elizabeth tries to calm them down, understanding Murtaugh's loss of focus and madness, and tells they need to wait for him at the knot, as she will find him and take him there. It's the only place where he will be able to see the scientists.

2039

Mike starts to be desperate and he furiously uncovers the mummified face, only to show an unrecognizable mummified face. Still, Mike keeps saying "He's dead, my father is dead". And everyone has a feeling of deception. The thing they've been looking for, for whom they've been doing all this journey, is no more. It doesn't exist anymore; it ceased to exist hundreds of years ago. Fake Mur tries to calm everyone saying it's probably a time travel matter: he died while being in another past time, supposedly the egyptian era, as his body is mummified. But that doesn't seem to calm anyone.

Mike gets angry and wonders which was the purpose for him to be trapped inside the submachine. He's angry that he could never have entered here and now he would be living a happy life, without knowing who his father was. Lisa tries to uplift him saying they wouldn't be here without his help, and later, she asks Fake Mur: now what? What should they do, now that Mollock and Murtaugh are dead?
Fake Mur reminds Lisa they still have to escape the Submachine, but also that there are two people trying to cause harm to the system. Clark also adds the revelation he had while he travelled to the future: Charles and Hugh having the power. He suggests they should find them and stop them. The only problem is that now they're too far from them. They could be literally anywhere the subnet.
So the first thing they do is to try to keep going. They manage to open a trapdoor which, through a set of stairs, leads to the top of a big Shiva statue, as Lisa points out. As they can't just jump due to the huge altitude, Mike and Bob decide to go to the pyramid again to find some rope, while the others wait there.

They find the rope at almost the top of the pyramid, so for the travel back to the group they have to cross the light bridge, which at that moment is way unstable. Mike goes at the front, and Bob after him. Suddenly, Bob's feet fail and slips to the edge of the bridge, instinctively catching Mike's ankle. Mike falls to the bridge floor, slowly going to the edge, and shouts Bob telling him to try to reach his hand, but he can't and Mike can't turn his body almost 180º around, and Bob really weights quite more than Mike. The latter looks at the rope and without hesitation, throws the rope at Bob, which falls down to the void but manages to catch the end of the rope. Bob has a hard time trying to go up the rope, but the rope starts to break, and suddenly he looks at Mike and says "You will need the rope", and releases it, falling to the void. Mike stays a long minute looking down without being able to move, and then goes away.

Shiva section

Sometime between 2030 and 2039... or not

Elizabeth finds Murtaugh and takes him to the Temple. Both are enlightened by a white light. Elizabeth tells him he is in all the layers at once, that he isn't a one-dimensional being, as her, in these moments. Murtaugh tells his navigator doesn't work and he can't go out that state, and suddenly Elizabeth removes the eighth button on the navigator. It works again. She goes to a device near them and places the 'magic' button inside, giving the wisdom gems to Murtaugh and closing it. She says he will be safer now.
Murtaugh asks who is really she, and Elizabeth confesses she is her protector. To his question about who gave him his karma arm, she replies it was herself. (Then we see another flashback which shows Elizabeth looking at Murtaugh from his far behind at the moment he loses his physic arm. We understand she was meant to be there).
Elizabeth tells Murtaugh to come with her, as someone is waiting for him.


2039

When Mike arrives to the Shiva statue, Jenny asks where Bob is (remember they have a romance), but Mike just shows the half-torn rope and says "I just couldn't save him". Jenny starts to cry and throws Mike to the floor, taking it personally. But Clark and Fake Mur retain her. Jenny asks what happened, Mike explains his fall and Jenny claims the Submachine must be becoming self-aware and taking lives, following the anti-human infestation protocol started at the Edge. Jenny assumes Bob's loss as another killer trap similar of those she experienced at Sub6, but the others remind her it was Bob's decision, just to save them, because if the rope broke, they couldn't keep advancing. Afterwards, the group descends through Shiva's statue, and we see the same sequence as the game. As there are no more doors or passages, they wonder how can they get out of there. The only thing they see is that device next to them. Fake Mur recognizes the wisdom gem-shaped hole, and he arrives to the conclusion that they must put a gem in order to unveil the capsule. But not one, actually three, as there are holes in three of the layers. Next to them he notices the number 3 in a pedestal, and he suggest they travel to layer 3. There, they see a karma portal which leads them to the S1 mover, now torn apart by the destruction in layer 3. They take the three wisdom gems and place them into their holes, unveiling the last button for the navigator, the one Elizabeth left. But there is only one button for everyone, so they agree that Lisa uses it and tells what she sees.
When Lisa presses the button, time stops, but Lisa can still see them, frozen. Actually, as she is in the same state as Murtaugh was, she is fluctuating through all layers in the knot, seeing everything superimposed. Atoms emit light as she moves, and she follows the path until the big white portal. Before doing anything, she presses the layer 5 button. For the others, no amount of time has passed, so they think she didn't travel. But she says she could see all of them, and she felt she was in all layers at once, with the time frozen. To be all together to use the white portal and escape, Lisa thinks that she could give the button to someone when she's in layer 8, and that person could also travel to layer 8, repeating the same process until everyone is reunited together.

Meanwhile, Charles and Hugh arrive to the Corridor and they see the Mover, but surprisingly the wisdom gems are gone. Therefore, they can't use it to access the Edge. But one of those layer anomalies suddenly shows a faint karma portal out of nowhere, inside the Mover. Charles tells Hugh to come and they decide to take it, and automatically they are at Shiva Temple. Confused, they wonder where they are. When Clark receives the button and presses it to layer 8, he sees Charles and Hugh behind Mike's group, and he fears they are in the same layer as them. He returns to layer 5 and when he sees they're not in that layer, he warns the group to reunite all together quick, because they've arrived to the Temple. (It's the first time Clark and Jenny will see Charles). They all travel to layer 8 and, only there, they understand that time and history aren't lineal anymore and don't really matter in the Submachine. Every bit of 'history' of humanity is somehow contained within the Submachine.

Half amazed half confused, Mike, Lisa, Fake Mur, Clark and Jenny take the white portal and disappear.

Sometime between 2030 and 2039... or not

The last scene is both Murtaugh and Elizabeth arriving to the place where the scientists are waiting. They point him with their guns, and Murtaugh gets on his knees and explains he feels sorry for the destruction he's caused.
Elizabeth convinces the scientists to take down their guns, making them realize the singularity of human mistake, that can be so big when facing a life structure as the Submachine, still so mysterious and unknown for the unidimensional being. Elizabeth sits next to Murtaugh, who cries at her shoulder.


~

CHARACTERS (in the present events of the movie)

Mike: Murtaugh's son (alive)
Fake Mur: Murtaugh's brother (alive)
Lisa: Murtaugh's daughter / Mike's sister (alive)
Charles: Subnet invader (alive)
Hugh: Charles's assistant (alive)
Bob: (†)
Jenny: Ancient Section explorer (alive)
Clark: scientist (alive)
Murtaugh: Mike's father (†)
Elizabeth: Murtaugh's protector (†)
Scientists: (state unknown)

Mollock: Fake Mur's raptor (†)
James Manfield: (†)
Wolfgang: lighthouse keeper (†)
Ship Team: (†)
Basement Team: (state unknown)
Tomb Trap Team: one person (†)
Einstein: lighthouse cat (state unknown)
Sir Henry o'Toole: lighthouse architect (†)
Anna: Murtaugh's wife (†)
Sean: Ancient Section team (†)
Sharon: Ancient Section team (†)
William: Ancient Section team (†)
Arthur: Ancient Section team (†)
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Will there be Submachine 11?
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Sublevel 105 wrote:Will there be Submachine 11?
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The most similar thing to Submachine 11 might be a short epilogue I'm planning to write, as I can't solve all the questions in the last film, because I have the ending already planned. But no, I won't invent more plot than the one who happens until Sub10 :)
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I do not know anything about this Movie, but it has to have a gnome in it.
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SUBMACHINE 10
THE EXIT


Opening title is just 'Submachine 10' and 'The Exit' in white text over a black background with no sound. There's no initial sequence.

Any previous movie's visible transition indicating a flashback is starting disappears in this film, aesthetically merging scenes happening in the past or future with the present events and dissolving any conception of different timelines.

Murtaugh appears with Elizabeth walking by an unknown Subnet location, which seems to be at layer 3 due to its corrosion. Murtaugh explains that he was shocked when he saw his own tomb, and he never thought he would see such a thing. Elizabeth reminds that this was going to happen sooner or later if he kept travelling in time. Murtaugh agrees.
Now he explains his goal is to restore the damage done, he wants the Subnet to be the place it was when he first knew it, although now it's quite more vast and unexplorable in its entirety. For every part of the Subnet he explored, the Subnet would grow 32 times that part. Or so.
Elizabeth is curious about Mur's family: isn't he sad to have left their children away, isn't he curious about seeing them again after all those years? Murtaugh says that so much time has passed and they're probably with a better and more stable family, and all he wants for them is to be happy. But he knows one day he will reunite with them again. He also knows his brother is as intelligent and brave as him, so he must be doing great things in life. Elizabeth seems to take air to say something, but then realizes and she shuts up and smiles. She is happy Murtaugh is focused in one layer again, and acts like a normal person, and he is happy too.

-

The white portal takes Mike's group to an unstable brick bridge floating in mid-void. When they realize, they all run to the safe area at the end. Clark finds strange that they didn't fall into the void while taking a portal before, given the unstability of the whole Subnet lately. Jenny looks at him and reminds him that it's actually happened recently. Mike keeps saying it wasn't an accident, that Bob really sacrificed himself for the group, but Jenny still doesn't believe him. It's never mentioned why she takes it too personally or why she doubts about Mike.
The first thing they notice is that the navigators don't work, even the light on the buttons has gone, and it can't be a malfunction because all navigators are off. So they decide to explore the place.
Mike takes a strange light sphere floating in the air, which surprisingly doesn't burn or feels hot when touching it, but it has a gravity field and you can hold it in your hand. He looks at Mur expecting any scientific answer but he says that's beyond his imagination. He puts it in a pedestal facing a wall and immediately feels pushed to it, but he crosses it. That sphere gives matter the capacity of decomposing and crossing another matter. Fake Mur thinks Murtaugh probably hasn't created those spheres.
Mike comes back from the wall and says he has seen a broken stairway that leads to another section but he couldn't access due to the void. He instead suggests to try to reach the bottom of that structure above them, which is bigger than where they are.

When they solve the puzzle and get inside, they realize they're in a similar ship to the one in the Core. They see the first 'normal' looking telephones, and they for a moment wonder if they work. But sadly, they don't. Mike wonders if at this point he's already marked as 'missing' and if police are still searching him. After all, he still has a family out there, even if it's not his biological one. Fake Mur sees there are lots of scientific utensils and gear and he says he will stay there to try to fix the navigators. They refuse to separate, and Clark says he will stay there with him. He fears Charles or Hugh come and he won't be able to face them alone. Fake Mur refuses to go, but somehow finds a pair of walkie talkies, and says that they try to communicate with them. If the walkie talkies don't work, then he will go with them. In 2039, devices known as ‘walkie talkies’ can reach very long distances without giving interferences. The group agrees. However, they decide to get some sleep there, as they've been more than a day without sleeping. (Don't worry about the food, everyone still has food supplies on their bags)

Hours after, the four remaining explorers keep going through the Captain's Ship until they find a karma portal which leads them to another location.
Automatically after taking the portal, the layer anomalies become more frequent. That’s a thing that worries the group, because without the navigators they could be led anywhere in the Subnet. Lisa still feels the dizziness of travelling through portals, and Mike worries about it, and stays close to her all the time, making Lisa feel better.
The place are some kind of decayed ruins with statues, and a device at the bottom discovered by Clark. The device needs more pieces to be activated, but they deduce it’s a portal. They also see that the scenario-inserted portals are actually layer switches, as they’re binary and there are eight possible combinations. After solving the puzzles in the Resin mine, they see another portal device, but this one is working. The karma portal leads to the Lab, but displayed differently, as Fake Mur doesn’t recognize some elements, because it’s another layer’s version of the Lab. They have to go back as they can’t access the farmost door. During the trip, they’re all the time communicating their finds to Fake Mur.

They keep discovering places. They see all the portals take to previous visited locations, but they can’t escape through any of them because they’re always in different layers than the ones where they originally visited the places in the previous films (aka they never end up in layer 1), and the navigators aren’t working because Fake Mur tells them the layer anomaly is invalidating them.

-

Charles and Hugh are leaving the Temple. Charles wants to access the Defense Systems because he knows there are places inside with ammunition and different kinds of weapons, but now they can't use the Mover, so they have to access through another location. While they're going, Hugh asks him why is he trying so hard to remove everyone from the Subnet, if he is clearly more advanced and possesses more scientific knowledge than them, only comparable (with due respect to the obvious difference) with Murtaugh's. He says he doesn't fear them to overcome him, but if they get out the Submachine, he risks danger of being revealed. His last goal is to find Murtaugh, but not letting him keep exploring.

-

While they are in the Defense Systems, there’s a room which they have to open through a System protocol, so Jenny introduces herself into the System to deactivate it. But while she’s inside, a layer anomaly takes place, with Jenny unaware of it. So when she gets out the connection pod, she is alone at the place. While trying to look for the others, suddenly someone appears behind her and covers her mouth.

Mike, Lisa and Clark are worried because they’ve lost Jenny, but after waiting for some hours, they see it’s absurd to expect another anomaly at the same place and they decide to leave, but they plan to go in search of Jenny later.
They find a drawer with some letters, all sent by Elizabeth to Murtaugh. They read it and learn that Elizabeth is making him understand the Submachine is sentient, and although his attempts to fix the structure are admirable, he must remind that the Subnet is healing itself too, so he can only sit and watch. While they read the letters, intercalated images of Murtaugh visiting a small island with a broken big box with five karma veins feeding it is shown on screen. Elizabeth is also seen writing letters to Murtaugh, with Einstein alive and vivid on her lap. Lisa doesn’t understand that if the Subnet is healing himself, why is now becoming more and more unstable, instead of the opposite. No one can answer her. But they also learn Murtaugh had finished a ‘karma stabilizer’, a device that would help them to literally fix the broken fabric of the Subnet. If it’s still there, they must find it, with Jenny too.

But Jenny seems to be in trouble now: she is retained by Hugh to her will while Charles is preparing a needle with some substance; later he says it’s a paralyzing serum, which can paralyze all body for hours. Jenny gets agitated. Charles wants Jenny to tell them where Mollock and Fake Mur are, but Jenny tells Mollock is dead, so they don’t have a reason to go after the others. But Charles still wants to know their position, so Jenny has to try hard to resist and not telling them.
Just when Charles is about to inject the paralyzing serum, Jenny manages to defend and take Hugh off her, escaping for a short time before Charles closes a door in front of her and is able to catch her. They have a fight, and suddenly she gets a gunshot from Hugh, and dies.
“What the fucking hell, Hugh, she won’t tell us a thing if she’s dead, you’re a complete bullshit”, shouts Charles to Hugh. He says he got worried because he’s seen she was holding a knife to stab Charles, and he tells him to grab it. Charles is not undamaged at all, though: Jenny has provoked him a head contusion and his head is hurting.

Charles decides to pack the things and go find Fake Mur. While getting the provisions, Hugh, in the room next, asks if he should grab a rope he has found. Charles enters the room, says that it’s not necessary, that he doesn’t need him anymore, and shots Hugh in the head.

-

At the Temple location, they're in a layer in which a new section is uncovered by the red amber. Then they find a room with some manuscripts hanged to the wall. One of them tells that "Here's the afterlife home of Murtaugh, our savior and guiding light through hundreds of years, who enlightened us and spread the word about the magic places of the World with the valuable help of his two companions and protectors." No one knows why it says 'two companions' when there's only Elizabeth's tomb there. But they finally understand Murtaugh was a time traveller who explored the Submachine with Elizabeth's help, and then travelled to other civilizations, like the Bamboo Town or the egyptian one, to show the magnific powers of the Submachine and its positive benefits. And now Lisa understands why are there so many different cultural signs at the Temple: it was the place where all civilizations left their mark. It might have been created in the 21st Century, but the Submachine has already been present on many crucial eras in the history of Humanity.

Mike manages to activate the portal at the first location, and they explore the Lighthouse sewers and the Basement. They manage to access the door on the Lab and there it is: the karma stabilizer. Lisa still wonders why if Murtaugh had finished the stabilizer, he didn't use it. Mike says maybe just after finishing it, he had to run away to some place... or maybe he died then. But Lisa reminds he had to die with Elizabeth when he travelled to the egyptian era. Why that temporal incongruence?
Then, Fake Mur calls them and tells them to come back, because the anomalies have suddenly increased and now he’s seeing them everywhere. Clark says he will come back, and tells them to make the stabilizer work.

When Clark arrives to the ship, Fake Mur makes him shut up and tells him he’s seen Charles at the floor below. Clark gets nervous and says he has to warn Mike and Lisa, but Fake Mur prevents him from doing it. He hasn’t told the truth so they can keep exploring and finishing the plan, which is more important.
Clark decides to pack the things and runaway from there, but Fake Mur wants to face Charles. It’s a bit late, because when they’re talking Charles appears out from below and hits Clark leaving him unconscious. Fake Mur tries to defend but he’s clearly weaker and Charles ties him to a pipe in the wall, with the rope he got before. He demands to know the whereabouts of the real Murtaugh, and Fake Mur tells him Murtaugh is already dead. Charles denies it and breaks the walkie talkie.

Mike and Lisa try to use the karma stabilizer, which they charged before. It works; it fixes the disruption in the walls and unveils karma portals which lead to more locations. When they’re done with some layers, they try to tell Fake Mur they achieved it, but when they get no response, they worry and quickly go to the ship.
What they find there alarms them: all wardrobes and drawers open and all the contents thrown in the floor, broken glasses and opened hatches. Not long after they find themselves face to face with Charles, and he warns them not to move. They ask where is Hugh, and he says he’s dead. Lisa breaks down, but still asks where is Jenny, then Charles says “I killed her too”. Mike comforts Lisa, but quickly gives her the karma stabilizer and tells her to fix more disruptions (now the layer anomalies are happening every 5-10 seconds somewhere around them), while Mike abruptly grabs Charles to fight him.

Mike asks why doesn’t Charles kill him already, as he has a gun. He adds that he has even a knife, but he won’t use any because he likes to kill people with his bare hands. It’s not necessary to remind that Charles’s behaviour becomes more mad and erratic as the movie occurs, until a point in which he doesn’t mind about his surroundings. Later, Charles runs down to the vertical stairs which connect the Ship with the Palace location below, with Mike following him. While Charles descends, Mike tries to take his hands off the stairs to make him fall. He manages it, but Charles is still alive from the fall.

Lisa is trying hard to find more broken Subnet parts, travelling through karma portals, which leaves her unwell. But she stands the damage and keeps fixing parts. However, the anomalies don’t stop, but increase. Now matter in one or more layers is starting to collapse into each other, forming strange object formations, or the suppression of matter. Objects appear from nowhere only to disappear again, but people too. While Charles and Mike are fighting, one of them disappears and appears later behind the other one, constantly interrupting the fight and changing power positions. Sometimes Mike is about to fist hit Charles but he disappears before his very eyes.
That also happens with the vertical stairs. Clark recovers from the unconsciousness, and quickly tries to untie Fake Mur. When they’re both free, they run to the stairs, but they’re not there, so they can’t go down to help Mike.
Fake Mur explains he came to the conclusion the layer anomalies are the several different layers trying to merge together, collapsing between themselves. That's why matter occupying the same space in two or more layers takes fusion. If they don't stop the layer crunch... the Subnet could change drastically and they could even disappear.

Mike and Charles arrive almost to the edge of the palace floor, just near the void, and Charles tries to lead Mike to the edge to throw him. But Mike resists, with the whole place every time shaking and changing more and starting to break (like an earthquake), a dangerous thing for both. At the same time, Lisa finishes fixing the last karma portal, and notices the anomalies have stopped. Suddenly, Mike manages to take the control and grabs Charles head, taking chance that a big pipe has suddenly appeared next to them. A first first plane of the faces of both is shown, where suddenly Mike gasps and opens his eyes abruptly. Mike aggressively takes Charles head and smashes it against the hard pipe, making him fall to the ground almost dead.
Lisa arrives and shouts the anomalies are gone, and then sees Mike, and then Charles lying on the floor, as Clark and Fake Mur can use the stairs and arrive to the Palace. Lisa asks if Charles’s dead. Clark grabs his body and throws it down the void. “Yes, he’s dead”, says.

-

Lisa shouts because he sees an injury on Mike’s body. Apparently Charles stabbed the knife on his abdomen, and now he is bleeding. Lisa says he’s fixed the stairway that Mike saw at the start, and it leads to the Lighthouse, the original version, so they can finally exit the Submachine through there. Mike’s state is really worrying, so they got to hurry. Clark and Fake Mur carry him, while Lisa is crying, telling Mike they’re gonna cure him. They try to stop the hemorrhagia, but the wound is too big.
They take the last karma portal through the dark room to the Lighthouse, and every time the ascension to the upper part becomes more difficult, as Mike needs more help to go up. When they arrive to the top, Mike’s already unable to walk and he starts losing conscience.
Lisa keeps saying that everything will go well, but Fake Mur and Clark look at each other, with sadness on their looks.

Finally, they manage to go out, leaving Mike lying at the Lighthouse terrace, facing the sea at the sundown.
They’ve left the Submachine.




By that time, Mike accepts the situation. Clark goes to seek help, but they don’t have any mobile phone or medium to call anyone. Fake Mur has already lost all hope, but he looks happily at Lisa, who thinks Mike can still heal. Clark doesn’t surrender yet.
Lisa, crying, looks at him. Mike tells Lisa she’s been the most brave and intelligent person he’s ever known, that she has already succeeded. Then looks at Fake Mur, and thanks him for caring of Mike and their family even though he hasn’t been with them most of the time. They both say without him they wouldn’t have been able to escape. Lisa can’t resist to kiss him, then she hugs him and he dies peacefully, enjoying the view.

-

Lisa spends crying a long time next to Mike until she recovers a bit. Meanwhile, Fake Mur, although still shocked from Mike’s death, thanks Clark for his help and his knowledge. However, Fake Mur suggests him to leave. Clark denies, as he wants to help them until they’re in a safe place, but Fake Mur reminds him that he doesn’t belong to this era and it’s extremely dangerous for him and for the society to stay in a wrong time. Clark in the end sees he’s right, and he tells he’ll be a lucky guy in his era, as he now knows future technology and he may become a bright and renowned physicist. They both laugh. He says goodbye to Lisa and Fake Mur, going back to the Subnet to find the space-time transport arc he built. Not before asking Fake Mur what’s his actual name, to which he says: “They’ve always called me Mateusz.”

Lisa asks Mateusz what will happen now. He says it would be dumb to not talk to the world about the Submachine, as the best thing that could happen would be a global understanding about what we have and how can we live with it. They have a whole living organism that they can learn about and learn to live with it, and it’s their job to make them appreciate it instead of taking profit, or even worse, destroying it. The Earth has never had a better chance to regenerate itself.
But Lisa needs to give Mike a decent ending. They’ll have to bring the body to the town and they’ll have to risk having problems with the justice about who and what killed him. Lisa says maybe Bob’s van is still down there -while she gasps, remembering all people who died inside-, and Mateusz says he’ll try to find the keys. Lisa stays with Mike.
For that, Mateusz has to break the glass with his shirt to access the keys, still put on, and he goes up to pick Lisa and Mike. He shouts he got the keys as he steps up the stairs, and Lisa approaches to see, asking if the van still works. “I hope so”, says Mateusz, “now it’s time to get him”.
As they face to Mike to bring him to the van, his body is gone. They look each other scared.

-

The screen fades to black and then shows a close-up of Mike touching his wound, but his wound isn’t there anymore. He’s alive and healed, as he finds himself walking by a desert. He sees two figures in the distance, that instantly recognizes when they’re nearer, although he has never seen them.
Mike looks at his father, who greets him with the karma arm, and they both hug themselves crying of joy. Then we see Elizabeth smiling behind them, and the word ‘Submachine’ appears in black over a white background.


~

CHARACTERS (in the present events of the movie)

Mike: Murtaugh's son (†)
Mateusz: Murtaugh's brother (alive)
Lisa: Murtaugh's daughter / Mike's sister (alive)
Charles: Subnet invader (†)
Hugh: Charles's assistant (†)
Jenny: Ancient Section explorer (†)
Clark: scientist (alive)
Murtaugh: Mike's father (†)
Elizabeth: Murtaugh's protector (†)
Einstein: Elizabeth's cat (state unknown)

Mollock: Fake Mur's raptor (†)
Bob: (†)
Scientists: (state unknown)
James Manfield: (†)
Wolfgang: lighthouse keeper (†)
Ship Team: (†)
Basement Team: (state unknown)
Tomb Trap Team: one person (†)
Sir Henry o'Toole: lighthouse architect (†)
Anna: Murtaugh's wife (†)
Sean: Ancient Section team (†)
Sharon: Ancient Section team (†)
William: Ancient Section team (†)
Arthur: Ancient Section team (†)
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Re: SUBMACHINE: The Movie Series (superfanfic text story)

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If this isn't the best Hollywood rendition to Submachine with the more movie stereotypes and fake and unrealistic topics about science, then I don't know what could be.
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Re: SUBMACHINE: The Movie Series (superfanfic text story)

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just finished reading it. the brother's name is Mateusz, seriously? XD

I enjoyed it overall, it kept me engaged until the end :D When will you post the epilogue?
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