Silver Surfer - 09- Second Foundation Sync: hata20tr
You have chosen well, Nova...
This world is young,
and while it is filled with energy,
it has not yet created life...
Your talent for locating whatever you seek
makes you the perfect herald for Galactus.
You just say that 'cause you know what a sucker he is for a side of lava.
Let me ring the ol' dinner bell...
Now we can get down to business.
Are you certain you wish to do this?
If Galactus learns that you have aided me in my search for Zenn-La,
you will most assuredly face his wrath.
Silverado, I've got to do this.
I know what it feels like to lose everything you love.
Are you sensing something?
As they probably don't say on Zenn-La,
bingo!
You have found it?
I am kinda overwhelming, huh?
Better get going.
The place isn't exactly next door!
I am going home.
Home?
What's wrong?
This planet...
...it does not even resemble my world!
Do not touch it!
Nova!
Those are pulsar mines,
used by the Skrull to prevent the escape of convicts from prison worlds.
And Big G's using them to keep you out?
With his power, why bother?
I am sorry, Nova,
but I do not think he is "bothering" at all.
This cannot be my homeworld.
Silverado, I don't make mistakes.
Well, there was that nose-piercing incident...
If home's where the hearth is, I guarantee there's a roaring fire waiting for you below...
Skrull Vandal craft,
the Confederation's most potent vessels!
And we have no place to maneuver!
You were right about one thing, Surfer...
...this definitely isn't Galactus' style!
Nova, where have you brought us?
Yes...!
Game point for the hot chick and quicksilver team!
I do not know your reference, Nova...
...I believe any victory celebration is premature.
Green Interceptors, this is Hive One.
Cease interference. Repeat... cease interference!
Odd...
...The Vandals perform as well within an atmosphere as without.
Why do they not continue the pursuit?
Thank you, Interceptors.
The Hive Mother appreciates the zeal you've shown,
but we do not want to hurt the children now, do we?
Nova, can you hear me?
Silverado...?
Who would've thought a living flame could have contusions?
So this is the old homestead, huh?
Not exactly like I imagined.
This is not Zenn-La.
And yet...
Nothing like this ever happened to me before.
How could I be so far off?
Perhaps...
...not so far off,
after all...
Nova!
The composition of these buildings...
...the feeling of them...
...They could once have stood upon my world!
Skrull!
We have been tricked!
Welcome to my world.
Who are you? What place is this?
I am Nietre. The Caretaker.
That is a Mindless One,
one of my young charges...
- On Skrullos. - "Skrullos?"
Nova,
you have taken us to a place no Outsider has ever before found...
...the very Nest World of the Skrull!
Precisely, Silver Surfer.
Now, come with me quickly...
...I have taken a great risk,
and we have very little time!
No planet but that of our origin...
...has ever been found with the proper conditions for Skrull reproduction.
Here on Skrullos we hatch
and begin our childhood...
The body of the Hatchling rages with primal instinct...
Bereft of reason,
it is driven only by emotion...
Oh man!
With this kind of upbringing,
no wonder the Skrulls all act like frat boys on Saturday night!
Later,
after the time of jungle trial,
when the Hatchling has gained the power of thought...
It returns to the Hive.
We have a "situation" here, Prime Minister.
What kind of "situation?"
Two known associates of Galactus,
the Silver Surfer and a woman our Intelligence Service believes is called Nova,
are planetside.
You couldn't stop them?
What kind of fleet are you running, Zedrao?
My Vandals were called off...
...by Caretaker Nietre.
He's been incommunicado ever since.
Nietre, I knew we should've gotten rid of the old fool the moment we took over!
We had no choice, Kiar.
He's like a father to most of the Confederation.
Without him we never could have kept up the charade of a normal chain of command.
But if he actually intends to summon the Devourer of Worlds...
He may be a loyalist, Kiar,
but that's something he'd never do...
He's up to something far more insidious.
Zedrao, now that we have real power,
I don't intend to lose it.
Whatever Nietre's plan, it's up to you to stop it.
Correct me if I am wrong, Nietre,
but I assume there is some point to your hurried hospitality?
Indeed there is, Silver Surfer.
Long have I awaited a deliverer...
...and I believe you are he.
What, you ordered a pizza and it still hasn't come?
Children...
You don't have to tell me.
I used to baby-sit for the kid next door!
From what I have heard of the Skrull,
is not the Hive Mother customarily present at the hatching?
Such was the way of our people...
...until a cabal including Prime Minister Kiar...
...and Admiral Zedrao seized power.
And eliminated our beloved Queen!
But what would prompt such a horrendous action?
The Hive Mother had grown increasingly angry over...
our lack of victory in the Kree War...
She was going to remove them from their positions...
...and of course, destroy their entire nests!
Now the Prime Minister rules absolutely,
telling our people he follows the wishes of a queen only a few of us know...
...does not exist!
With no Hive Mother,
the Skrull have no future.
Yet these eggs...
Several clutches still remain.
But eventually there will be no new Skrull.
Unless...
Behold...
...the next Hive Mother of the Skrull!
If this is a Royal Egg,
why do you not simply hatch it and create a new Queen?
If the usurpers learn of a Hatchling Hive Mother,
they will imprison her,
or raise her to be their puppet...
...or worse.
But if someone with your power...
...takes the Egg to be hatched in a safe place,
my people can rally behind their new queen.
Oh Great! Just what the universe needs. A Skrull rally.
Nietre, you know that most other beings consider the Skrull...
...to be the most barbaric race in the universe.
Although on my homeworld we had no such bias,
still is it not my place to interfere in your affairs...
Skrull fighting Skrull!
Never did I believe I would be part of something like this!
I am not important!
You must save the Royal Egg!
Don't sweat it, Nietre.
You can have Today's Special...
...two rescues for the price of one!
We would have to pick rush hour!
Surfer! I can hardly breathe.
Nietre, what is happening to us?
The shock troops have used...
...a special gas that...
...causes unconsciousness.
Both Nova and I wield the power cosmic!
Such a weapon should have no effect on such as we.
Our greatest minds have created a weapon...
...that can stop almost anything.
I can't hold on!
Please...
You must be our Deliverer...
How ironic that I,
who have been raised with a devotion to harmony and peace,
and being called upon to save...
the fiercest savages who ever roamed through space.
And yet,
can any man turn his back on another,
and still call himself...
...civilized?
A Royal Egg?
Are you sure?
Absolutely.
Nietre's been hiding it from us all this time!
This changes everything...!
I thought that in acting to defend ourselves from the Queen.
We'd doomed our entire race!
Now I see that the tragedy can be averted...
And we have a chance to establish a ruling line...
...of our direct descendants, through our own Hive Mother.
Our nests will reign forever!
Zedrao,
I knew there was a reason we were working together.
Find that Royal Egg!
That's no way to treat a mother of tomorrow. Shame on you!
You seem to be feeling somewhat better, Nova.
Must be my maternal instinct.
You don't look so bad yourself, Silverado.
Who would have thought that a man of living energy could have...
...contusions?
Hey, you know what you just did?
You made a joke!
Impossible! The Silver Surfer does not make "jokes... "
Although there were times when Norrin Radd did.
It is so strange, Nova...
For all its differences,
this world does indeed make me feel...
...more like Norrin Radd...
...than I have since I left home.
Think maybe I was actually right...
...and somehow this could be Zenn-La?
It would need be...
...a Zenn-La out of its time,
after the climate had changed,
and everything I knew had crumbled to...
...this.
To me my board!
We must return to space!
Sorry, Fido.
You've gotta stay here at the Pound.
Come on. I can't see.
Silverado!
Go on with the Egg!
Or you'll hit the dirt too!
This is one of me, but millions of Skrull...
...and, good or bad, their whole future's riding with you!
Nova! I will come back for you...
I'll bet you say that to all the girls...
Nova brought me to this planet,
yet now I leave without her...
Am I cursed to forever betray those I love or respect?
Why is there always a conflict between my hopes and desires...
...and the greater good?
After seeing how the Skrull are raised...
...so unlike the gentleness of my own kind.
Now do I understand why they have made themselves
such a threat to the remainder of the universe.
Were the future Hive Mother to be reared more humanely...
...who knows what benefits we all might receive?
But is there no way to prevent an innocent...
...like Nova from paying the price?
Prime Minister...
...to what do we owe this honor?
I came here to personally view the Royal Egg, Zedrao.
Not this nonsensical woman of flame!
You don't like the look?
Take it up with Galactus.
Better yet, let me go and take it up with Big G!
We will recover the Egg, Kiar,
no matter what resources it takes!
But in the meantime...
In the meantime,
having someone who can summon Galactus in our very midst...
...makes for a delicate situation.
Not necessarily.
What we lose on one front, we gain on another.
New reports confirm...
...that it's Nova who selects the worlds on which Galactus feeds...
And if she were to select the worlds of the Kree...
No!
I'll never lead him to an inhabited world!
You say that now,
but we skrull are experts at persuasion.
Leaders of the Skrull!
I believe I have something you need.
And you have something I want!
Surfer! You can't!
We are listening, Silver Surfer...
My bargain is a simple one.
Return to me my associate...
...and take back your Queen.
Don't, Silverado!
Instruments show that it's genuine, sir.
Release the woman.
How could you do it?
They'll use her!
They'll hurt her!
And keep going after everyone else in the universe as well!
Do not worry, Nova.
I used my ability to transmute elements.
- That is not the Egg. - Not the Egg?!
They're gonna come after us!
Actually, I believe they will be too busy...
And they say everything happens in movies.
Thanks for coming back for me.
I believe in keeping my word.
Nova, will you try once more...
...to locate Zenn-La?
All I got was...
...that.
No! It is elsewhere!
I will find it no matter what...
My Nova! I hunger!
I hear you, Master!
Silverado, What'd you do with the real Egg?
Above all things in my life, I respect harmony and peace.
I believe the Skrull must control their own Destiny...
...but with a Hive Mother raised where...
...she can learn what that Destiny truly is!
You're safe with Kili, my girl.
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