Wakening-
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Garth’s obedience is being put to test when thorblen
suspects that he may have resisted the strange occult powers of mind control
exerted by ring of sycultra
Garth is in the garden when ordinary housecat enlarged to
size of a huge tiger by thorblen’s strange powers and he is determined to kill
this cat otherwise everything will be lost,
he uproots one of the wooden rods in the fencing and uses it to fend off he
attack of the great cat when it sprigs on him ,he is being watched from above
by convict micky greer and others who fear that garth will also be killed in
the manner con flannery was killed, disere and thorblen are also watching the
predicament of garth , diserie is terrified and asks thorblen who is is
watching the cat attacking garth in
sadistic pleasure ,to stop this horrible spectacle’
Cat once again prepares to attack and garth catches hold of
a heavy metal seat of a garden swing to defend himself, he repels the attack of
the springing cat by throwing the seat of the swing at her , and catching hold
of heavy metal chains once again swings the seat at the cat and with agility
and cunning wraps the chains around the cat, neck and exerting his huge strength
manages to strangle the cat and kill it.
Disere is in shock and is dazed when Garth returns back from
his ordeal in the garden while thorblen is happy with his feat and appreciates
his great strength and realizes that he is a real man different from the bunch
of other escaped felns, but regrets that ultimately he also will have to die
along with others. He tells Garth that he is satisfied and that he can now
accompany them to Kirby Moore missile base.
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A fleet of automobiles leaves johny warrens hide out and
proceeds towards Kirby moore , thorblen appreciates Garth and tells him that
may be he will allow Garth to live and also
probably will give disiere to him after they have completed their
mission.disiere is deeply offended at the suggestion and tells him that she is
not his slave .thorblen responds that she indeed was a slave ,and that he could
have turned her also in to a zombie but for the fact that he would not have
enjoyed making love to a zombie!
Thorblen and his gang reaches the outskirts of Kirby moore
in the dead of night and prepare to take it over, while a little distance away
Garth and diseie are conferring in hushed voices Garth asks diserie that now it
all depended on her knowledge of thorblen’s weaknesses disiere tells Garth that
she hates thorblen and would be happy if Garth is able to kill him and confides
in him the secret that the magic of sycultra ring is ineffective when it is
underwater.
Inside the missile base the soldiers are preparing to
inspect and close silos no 4 while outside thorblen is calling upon the demonic
powers of his ring and when he points it towards the missile base a dense et
black cloud of gas starts floating towards the base. As the soldiers inform
their superior officer that 3 unidentified vehicles have been detected round
the perimeter fence of the base are suddenly struck by the deadly nerve gas
which weakens them induces maniacal laughter. They can’t help themselves from
laughing and fall to the ground helplessly laughing and greatly weakened by
strange effect of the deadly nerve gas, thorblen takes advantage of the ensuing
chaos and orders Garth and Johnny warren’s gang to take control of the missile
base.
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Thorblen orders Johnny warren,and others of his gang to
seize the rockets and activate the nuclear warheads,garth realizing that professor lumiere has probably not been
successful in persuading the officials at home ministry to take some preemptive
action at the Kirby moore missile base,decides that he is going to intervene on
his own before it was too late ,he makes a last ditch attempt to talk some
sense in to Johnny warren’s head that they were in a suicidal mission, but he
fails to get through to the mind of zombie like state of johny warren and
others who were in atrance totally unconcerned of the terrible catastrophe
looming large for them and the world at large , they were not concerned if they
lived or died ,thorblen was their master and if it was his wish that they
should die then they would die at his command.garth sees large silos filled
with water and thinks to himself that only if he could try and bring thorblen
near water and try to drown him as
according to diserie ring of sycultra the source of evil power did not work
under water.
Thorblen is informed by his hypnotized loyal gang of thugs
that nuclear warheads had been activated and and rockets were ready to launch
,thorblen once again passes his final orders to Johnny warren to let the grand
designof world destruction be put in to motion.
Garth asks how thorblen will save himself from the inferno,
to which thorblen gleefully responds that he will use the powers of sycultra
ring to go far away in to the space and watch the spectacle of earth world go
up in flames .he mockingly tells Garth that he would leave desiere with him to
give him solace during his last dying moments!
For the last time thorblen calls out to the spirit of his
long dead uncle zukanor to proudly tell him how he was wrecking his vengeance
over stupid new world while thorblen prepares to take the final step of firing
the rockets Garth challenges him stopping him and telling him that his magic
had not worked on him.
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Garth challenges thorblen to fight him before he proceeds
with his nefarious designs , thorblen tells garth that he always had suspicions
about garth not being under his spell , but it did not matter, how did he
expect to overcome the magical powers of sycultra by his mere muscle power,
even as thorblen speaks he is grabbed by Garth who holds him in a viselike grip
and and suddenly drags him near the silo’s edge and trips him up along with
himself down in to the silos , when thorblen realizes he has been tricked he
desperately tries to break free but with
huge effort Garth uses all his power to
hold thorblen ‘s arms pinned to his side keeping his head down long enough to
drown him ,while Johnny warren and his gang wait anxiously at the edge of the
water filled silos wondering what was happening to the two as more than five
minutes had gone by sinse they had taken a plunge in to the waters.while
diserie desperately urges them to show some courage and try to help garth.
Finally garth feels thorblen’s body go limp in his grasp and
he pulls his body up to the surface of waer where he is spotted by waiting
Johnny warren and gang who are curious what has become of thorblen?
Garth informs them that thorblen is dead and they should
come to their senses and help him out , realizing that they were not yet free
of thorblen’s evil spell he slowly climbs up from the silos up the metal staircase
toward solid ground, he plans to bring over the truck parked some distance
away with tanks full of inflammable naphtha to where the body of thorblen now
lay.
Garth asks diserie to give him some matches and after he
puts thorblen’s body into the truck he lights up some waste papers asks
everybody to move away and then he ignites the inflammatory materiel and at
last thorblen’s body is consumed by flames and thousands of years old evil body
crumbles to ashes , Johnny warren and his gang watch thunder struck unable to
move in shock ,once they realize that their evil master is gone , they still
not being free from his evil spell threaten garth with a gun telling him that
even though he may have won ad killed
thorblen but thorblen was still their master and they would gladly die while trying to carry out his last
wishes and orders.
Johnny warren and his gang flee and run towards the control
room housing the firing control of nuclear armed rockets firing at Garth even
as he tries to pursue them as he tries to prevent them from committing this act
of madness and destroying every thing .
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In a last ditch attempt to prevent the gangsters from wreaking
havoc by unleashing nuclear warheads garth wades in to the ruffians using his
iron fists while gangster on the control panel is egged on by his companions to
push the “button”, when suddenly thorblen’s evil spell begins to wane and
suddenly Johnny warren is at a loss as to where he is and what is he up to ,his
comrades are equally befuddled as they find themselves thirsty and longing for
a drink.johnny warren holds his head reeling asking Garth as to what the hell
is happening ,garth quietly tells him that nightmare is over and just to keep
away from the controls of the rocket launchers. Security guards are also coming
out of effects of debilitating nerve gas when Garth approaches them asks them
to take him to their commanding officer, who is also coming out of dizzy spells
when he queries garth ,he is firmly told to first look for taking steps to
deactivate nuclear warheads on the rockets. A confused commander of the nuclear
base asks for explanations and Garth firmly tells him to contact ministry of defense
and patch him up to professor lumiere.
Old uncle zukanor’s spirit transcends the boundaries of time
and space comes to Kirby moore missile base to bid final farewell to his
wayward nephew “rest in peace” my nephew you were always disrespectful and wild
you destroyed a whole generation of ishraan you were always stubborn ,now you
have come to your just end.
Professor lumiere is still having a tough time with the
ministry’s officials who are grilling him as to his source of knowledge of
secret Kirby moore missile base during that time garth succeed in getting
through to minister’s aide from the missile base and informs him of thorblen’s end and urges
the authorities to evacuate and arrest the outsiders .later on professor
lumiere and garth are having dinner in a restaurant when proff lumiere informs
garth that ministry has agreed to accept their story with some reservation but
they had decided to keep the whole affair secret due to security reasons
Diserie comments though thorblen was a cruel monster and I
hated him but he was a man.garth politely disagrees, diserie spots his former
lover Johnny warren leaving the restaurant and goes after him calling after him
“yoo hoo johnny I am coming too”
Garth happily comments there goes one brave woman who saved
the day for earth , bless her heart she has gone back to her first love!
