Hercules: The Chaos War

Silje Torp

Alicia Vikander

Jamie Bell

Brett Gelman

Ken Watanabe

## Plot

*Hercules: The Chaos War* is a sequel to Hercules, One year after the gods sent Typhon to Tartarus, Hercules and Dionysus are enjoying a drink of wine together, they to each other about immortality and whether they believe it to be a gift or a curse, Hercules believes it is a gift, while Dionysus believes it is a curse, he tells Hercules that when you’ve been alive for so long, you run out of new things to experience and it gets boring, but Hercules tells him that’s why you need to find something to keep going for, telling him that some days he is bored as well, but he stays alive so he can protect his home and his family, Hercules finishes his wine and tells Dionysus that he’s headed home for the night, he leaves his brother to finish his drink, when Hercules wakes up, he goes to Dionysus’ home to find that he is not there, he chuckles to himself, as Hermes walks past, he asks Hercules what he’s laughing at, Hercules turns to him and says that Dionysus isn’t home, which means he probably got drunk and fell asleep at the bar, Hermes tells him that he wanted to speak to Dionysus, so he’ll join him, the two walk to the bar and see Dionysus slumped over at a table, Hercules walks up to him nudges him, but he doesn’t wake, he lifts up his head and sees that his eyes are dark black, with black liquid coming out of his mouth, he drops Dionysus’ head in horror, he turns to Hermes, telling him that he’s dead, the two of them rush into Zeus’s throne room, Zeus asks why they look so distraught, Hercules tells his father that Dionysus has been killed, Zeus stands from his throne and asks where the body is, they take him to the bar and pick up the rest of the family on the way, when they arrive Athena goes to inspect the body, Hermes asks her what happened to him, Athena turns to them and says that this is the end of the gods, Zeus tells her to explain herself, she tells them that there is an old legend called the Chaos War, where the Japanese god of chaos and evil, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, comes to Olympus and massacres the Greek gods, later that night Zeus is sitting in his throne room, grieving the loss of his son, the doors swing open and a man walks into the throne room, Zeus looks over at him and asks who he is and how he got passed his guards, the man begins to transform into a black, shadowy creature, Zeus looks at him in fear, he utters the name Mikaboshi, quickly he got up from his throne and began throwing lightning bolts towards him, but Mikaboshi kept walking towards him, unfazed by the lightning hitting him, he grabbed Zeus and threw him into the wall, Zeus got up and punched Mikaboshi, knocking him down, he got back up and the two fought until Zeus managed to smash him down into the ground, he summoned lightning into his hand, he jumped into the air and plummeted his lightning bolts down into Mikaboshi’s chest, Mikaboshi looks down and laughs, he grabs Zeus’ throat and lifts him into the air, he grabs the lightning bolt and pulls it out of his chest, he lift up his hand and extends his finger into a sharp point, he slowly pierces Zeus neck as he struggles to get out of Mikaboshi’s grasp, Mikaboshi drops Zeus onto the ground and walks away, Zeus attempts to get up and follow him, but he falls back down to the floor and he begins coughing up black liquid, his eyes begin to turn black as he lies motionless on the floor, in the morning, Artemis and Hercules go to the throne room to speak to Zeus about a plan to defeat Mikaboshi, but when they arrive they see the dead guards and they burst into the throne room to see Zeus had already been killed, they run over to their fathers body and hold him in their arms, they begin crying as Hermes and Athena walk into the room, they rush over and fall to their knees at the sight of their fathers body, once they have managed to calm themselves down, they gather at the arena and begin thinking of ways to defeat Mikaboshi, Artemis says that so far Mikaboshi has only attacked them while they are alone, so she suggest that they stick together until Mikaboshi is gone, they all agree that it would be smart to stay close to each other, but they hear a voice behind them telling them that it won’t make a difference, they turn around to see Mikaboshi standing at the entrance of the arena, he tells them that he was going to kill them one by one to make it more fun, but Thayer give him no choice but to end the fun now, he charges at them, knocking them all down, he looms over Athena, picking her up and stabbing his finger into her skin, killing her, he turns to the other and Hercules and Artemis run at him, punching him until he is on his knees, but Mikaboshi throws them both to the side, Hermes uses his speed to run at Mikaboshi and attack him, but Mikaboshi catches him and throws him through a wall, Artemis jumps towards him, but Mikaboshi extends his finger and stabs Artemis through the stomach, Hercules charges towards Mikaboshi screaming at him, he swings his axe towards him, aiming for his neck, but Mikaboshi grabs the axe by its blade and takes it from him, he lifts the axe into the air and slices Hercules hand off, he lifts him up and forces his whole hand through Hercules’s stomach, killing him instantly, Hermes pushes the rubble off him and stands up he watches as Mikaboshi kills Hercules and uses his speed to grab Mikaboshi, as he is holding him, Mikaboshi stabs Hermes in the neck, but Hermes continues running and opens a portal to the void, where Knull was imprisoned, as soon as he crosses through the portal, Hermes collapses on the ground, Mikaboshi tries to make it back through but the portal closes just in time, trapping him there for eternity, he turns to Hermes, demanding that he opens the portal back up, but Hermes laughs at him as his eyes begin to turn black and he dies

## Cast

Joe Manganiello as Hercules

Harrison Ford as Zeus

Silje Torp as Athena

Alicia Vikander as Artemis

Jamie Bell as Hermes

Brett Gelman as Dionysus

Ken Watanabe as Amatsu-Mikaboshi