The Allied Wars, part 5

By Festus3 festus3@netins.net

Scene opens inside the halls of the Insectitron ship where Rattrap and Dinobot are leading their little band through the dark corridors of the huge spacecraft.

DINOBOT: Let us hope that we can find the cargo hold before they find us. (He puts his weapons away and converts to beast mode, the rest follow his lead except Tarantulus, who spins the chamber on his wheel-gun and chuckles.)

TARANTULUS: No! We should attack them first! (Anacronda wraps his tail around Tarantulus's mouth.)

ANACRONDA: Shut up! They might hear us. (Tarantulus turns his visored eyes toward Anacronda, who slowly slips his tail off the spider’s face. All of them walk off quietly down the corridor. Tarantulus and Waspinater stall, then rush down a different hallway.)

Back on the bridge where all the Insectitrons, in robot mode, are sitting around their stations, with Transquitoe in his newly acquired control station.

SWARM: Swarm thinks that ship should have name, so that it can go down in history when we conquer Cybertron. (Transquitoe turns his chair around and nods his head.)

TRANSQUITOE: Yes, it should. We shall name it... (Swarm happily pipes in.)

SWARM: Ooh! Ooh! How about Swarm? (Several eyebrows raise, others just rub their head or squeeze the bridge of their nose.)

LADYBOT: Moron.

TRANSQUITOE: I was thinking more along the lines of... Phantom. (The Insectitrons nod in agreement. Drone walks up to him.)

DRONE: We have reached the launch-point for the cargo hold. (Transquitoe turns his chair around to face Drone.)

TRANSQUITOE: Good, now I finally have a chance to do what Starscreem never could. Destroy the Maximals as well as the Predacons, that is, if the Predacons won't agree to join us.

HOVERSTING: Aren't we going to deal with the couple leftover Maximals and Predacons? (He asks eagerly.)

TRANSQUITOE: No we must prepare to attack Cybertron, (He walks to the computer console.) now, how do we open a worm hole to Cybertron? (Drone and Cyberfang look at each other, Cyberfang shrugs, Drone turns back to Transquitoe.)

DRONE: Only Starscreem knew. (Transquitoe has already figured this out, he yells and slams his fist on the machine, sparks fly and the console starts blinking lights.)

SWARM: Oooh! Look! (He points out the veiwport. All the others look to see a bright blue beam shoot out of the front of the ship about five kilometers and open a wormhole, the computer shows the stats on the wormhole, it’s about big enough for one of Swarm's bees to go through.)

CENTORPEDOE: Amazing, how did Starscreem build this technology? (Ladybot keeps working at her station as she talks.)

LADYBOT: Only Starscreem and Stagatron knew, but I bet it had something to do with the orb.

CYBERFANG: But Starscreem said it was only a Crimson Energon power core.

LADYBOT: Did you really trust him? (This time she turns and looks at Cyberfang, he nods his head and smiles a small smile at her, Centorpedoe catches the smile in the corner of his eyes.)

TRANSQUITOE: It may be that those analizations were incorrect. (He points to Cyberfang and Centorpedoe.) You two! Get Starscreem's personal logs on screen, we shall see what this Orb is.

SWARM: One problem, (He points to the worm hole.) Phantom ship is supposed to go through that?

DRONE: Dolt, it takes time to get bigger. (An object flies through the air and hits Swarm in the head.)

Scene goes to the group of now only Maximals walking down a corridor, then they walk into where the stasis hold should be. They see six small ships, each made of two Stasis pods fused together bottom-to-bottom, standing on end, along with a double fusion engine and some other components.

RATTRAP: Whoa! Cool, pod fighters! (He walks up to one and looks it over, Dinobot looks over the six pods as well from the doorway.)

DINOBOT: We must remember this for future reference. (Panthor, who has moved to a computer yells to Rattrap and Dinobot.)

PANTHOR: Rattrap, Dinobot, the holding room is only a little way away, (He looks at the schematics a moment then point to a doorway.) that way.

DINOBOT: Then let's go. (They walk off down a corridor, Rattrap is reluctant to leave the sleek ships.)

Scene goes to inside the holding room with the Maximals and Predacons, all in robot mode and in bindings once again.

RHINOX: It can't end like this! (He tries to pull loose, but the energon bindings shock him into submission.) Ah-aaah! (Cannonball swivels his head to look at Chameleotron.)

CANNONBALL: Hey Chameleotron, maybe you could transform to someone big and break your energon bindings.

CHAMELEOTRON: I have to convert to beast mode first. (He takes in a deep breath.) Beast mode-Rhinox mode! (He makes it halfway to beast mode when he is shocked unconscious.

QUICKSTRIKE: Are all ya Maximals this stupid? (He gets a threatening stare from everyone in the room, except Blackaracnia who doesn't care. Even though Inferno isn’t a Maximal he still has a slight glint of anger when Quickstrike insults them.)

Scene goes to the bridge of the Phantom, where the Insectitrons are watching Starscreem's personal logs. On-screen Starscreem is explaining the orb.

STARSCREEM: ...This orb has more power than a trans-worp explosion or a supernova. It is actually a highly intelligent temporal computer that if destroyed would erase all traces of it's existence, that would mean I would still be floating in space. But I have found a way to use it's power, to make a temporal shield that would protect my ship and crew from being erased. It actually built the shield itself not to mention this entire ship by dismantling one stasis pod and studying it, it used the alloys found on this planet and then converted all the pods into fighters. Luckily the shields have protected us from being spotted on sensors, but also kept us from becoming transmetals... (Transquitoe turns it off here.)

TRANSQUITOE: Well, this was unexpected.

LADYBOT: No wonder he kept it encrypted. (Drone suddenly draws his turbine gun.)

DRONE: There is someone else aboard Phantom. (An alarm goes off, Centorpedoe runs up to the computer.)

CENTORPEDOE: We have intruders moving toward the storage hold!

TRANSQUITOE: Everyone except Drone move to the storage hold as fast as you can! (All the Insectitrons run from the room except Transquitoe and Drone, Drone glares at Transquitoe.)

DRONE: Why am I not going?

TRANSQUITOE: You and I will retrieve the orb and bring it here. (Drone nods warily.)

Scene goes to the hallway outside the storage hold, Dinobot's group, minus Tarantulus and Waspinater, is at the door, Rattrap is trying to open it.

RATTRAP: It could take a while to open it-, (sparks fly from the door and Rattrap jumps back in surprise-) ehhh! (the door opens slightly, then opens all the way, Rattrap grins to himself. They walk in and start to remove the energon bindings. The camera jumps to the Insectitrons running down a corridor of the ship, all transformed, weapons drawn.)

CENTORPEDOE: Hit hard and fast, finish it off quickly! (Back in the storage hold, everyone is free from their bindings.)

OPTIMUS: Thank Primus, this is the second time we've been saved from the storage hold. (The Insectitrons walk up, slowly and unnoticed, Teraductile is standing just inside the doorway with his back to the corridor, Cyberfang clamps a hand around his neck and lifts him off the ground.)

CYBERFANG: And your last! (He fires a missile, the camera shows in slow motion as it passes right over Optimus’s shoulder, Pandora bends backwards in limbo-style, Quickstrike is knocked to the side by Silverbolt, Cheetor hits the floor, but Rhinox isn’t fast enough, the missile slams into his chest and he flies back into the outer wall, there is a moment of silence as he looks down at the hissing missile in his chest, Hoversting steps around Cyberfang, cold and collected, he levels his large stinger-railgun and fires, the gun gives off a hum as it fires a dozen rounds per second, the first few cut into Optimus’s shoulder and knock him to the side, the rest have a clear path at Rhinox, they shred his chest plate and activate the missile, the explosion blows a hole in the side of the storage room. Cheetor is sucked out into space by the vacuum. Teraductile reaches up and grabs Cyberfang by the shoulder.)

TERADUCTILE: Amp it up! (He jolts him with enough electricity to power the whole ship, Cyberfang’s body pulses with the energy, the camera goes to an above angle as he lifts his head and screams, electricity passes through the floor and momentarily stuns everyone, Cyberfang’s grip on Teraductile releases and he rolls away, Cyberfang falls to the floor, his body glowing with the energy, Teraductile delivers a swoop kick that send him toward the open hole, his body is sucked out, Ladybot gives an almost unnoticeable grimace as Cyberfang is sucked away. Pandora’s grip slides off of the bar she is holding onto and she flies toward the opening, Shredder catches her on the way by, they hang there in a chain, she smiles at him, he about to return the smile when a blast blows his arm off, the two go spiraling out into space. Hoversting is showering the hold with his railgun until a shot from Cannonball’s blaster knocks it out of his hands, Hoversting snarls at the shorter robot he simply walks over, through the crossfire, Cannonball sends a round-house at Hoversting’s midsection, Hoversting catches the foot, Cannonball is frozen in a moment of time as he realizes his mistake, Hoversting uses his whole upper body to whirl Cannonball around, he slams him into Spittor and then lets go, Cannonball flies toward the hole and takes out Armordillo on the way, all three fly out into space, he laughs.)

HOVERSTING: Ha! I’m invincible! (Inferno taps his shoulder, he turns around to realizes he has walked behind the enemy line and he is now face-to-face with the muzzle of Inferno’s flame-thrower.)

INFERNO: Burn! Ahhahaha! (He blasts Hoversting head over heels out of the hole. The battle lines have now separated, there are scattered Insectitrons, Maximals and a few Predacons all over the storage hold, all clinging to anything stable. Ladybot releases her hold and flips through the air, she lashes her whip out, it connects to a bar, she spins around it once, during the spin she draws her gun, then plants her feet on the floor and shoots Bombshell out the opening, she turns around to see Airrazor’s fist slam into her face, as she reels back Blackaracnia delivers a jump-kick to her stomach, Ladybot and Blackaracnia fly toward the opening, Blackaracnia turns herself around and fires a web, Airrazor catches it and starts pulling her in. Quickstrike tries to punch Centorpedoe in the face, who dodges to the side and clamps his hands down around his snake arm and whips him out of the hole, Teraductile's fires a bolt of electricity from each hand, they travel around either side of Centorpedoe’s head, Centorpedoe whirls around and kicks Teraductile, Teraductile flies toward the hole, Centorpedoe fires a shot that accelerates his exit.

CENTORPEDOE: Ha! (Inferno torches him from the side.) Ahhhh!-Ah! (Tigatron fires an ice burst from the other side that freezes him, he blows apart and floats into space, Tigatron gives Inferno a thumbs up. Swarm shoots Razor Jaw and he slides out of the hole, then goes to beast mode, trying to swim out of the zero-gravity to no avail, Swarm converts to beast mode, Tigatron jumps behind him and freezes him, all the little bees fall to the floor and shatter like glass. Then, as suddenly as it began the battle is over.)

OPTIMUS: We have to get out there and save them right away! (Dinobot uses the wall to move up to him.)

DINOBOT: Optimus there are several pod fighters that a rescue party could use to go out and get them!

OPTIMUS: Good! Silverbolt and B'boom you take a ship, Inferno and Tigatron you take a ship, and Blackaracnia and Airrazor you take a ship, Rattrap you show them the way! (Everyone begins to work their way out of the storage hold, Rattrap comes out last and closes the door, everyone sighs in relief as internal pressure is restored to the ship.) Now go.

RATTRAP: Yes sir.

INFERNO: It is an honor, my Queen. (The seven robots head back to the Stasis hold. Optimus scratches his forehead.)

OPTIMUS: Now I know how Megatron felt about Inferno.

DINOBOT: It appears you are his new Queen.

OPTIMUS: That’s great, but where is the best place to be right now?

WHIPLASH: Well, this ship is basically in three parts: the head, made up of the bridge, a few harddecks; the neck, the long slender bitranite corridor connecting the head to the third part- the body, which is what we are in right now. (He hacks into a computer and turns on a surveillance schematic of the entire ship, showing two Insectitrons on the bridge, seven Maximal signatures moving toward the pod fighters, and two Predacons nearing their position.) So that's what happened to those two. (Optimus takes a moment to look at the holes ripped through his shoulder, he then turns to Anacronda.)

OPTIMUS: You, get a team and go get those two Preds, let’s hope they’re still cooperative. (Anacronda picks Chameleotron and Batteram, they walk down the corridor leading to the neck.)

Scene goes to a hallway of the Phantom, the rescue party is heading to their ships, Blackaracnia and Inferno are in the back when Tarantulus and Waspinater come up behind them, Tarantulus comes up on the ceiling behind Blackaracnia and taps her shoulder with one leg. (She stops dead, knowing what’s behind her.)

TARANTULUS: Blackaracnia, Inferno come with us, why follow these foolish Maximals when we can take over this ship together? (Blackaracnia whirls around and sneers at him.)

BLACKARACNIA: I'm afraid I can't play, but I've got a little surprise for you. (She points a claw to the symbol on her neck, it is now a Maximal Energy signature.)

TARANTULUS: Whaaa!? (Waspinater backs away.)

WASPINATER: Uh-oh.

INFERNO: I too am now your enemy, (He turns back around and calls to Rattrap.) Rattrap, we have two pests that need to be dealt with! (When the Maximals turn around all they see is Tarantulus and Waspinater running the opposite direction in terror, they round a corner as a warning shot grazes Tarantulus’s abdomen.)

RATTRAP: Let’m go. (He keeps moving. Tarantulus and Waspinater come around a corner and run into Anacronda, Chameleotron, and Batteram, there is a suspenseful moment as the five stare at each other.)

TARANTULUS: Well Anacronda, I see you did find a way to join me, too bad we lost Teraductile and Bombshell. (Anacronda chuckles and he and his companions reformat their energy signatures to Predacon.)

ANACRONDA: No time for pleasantries sir, we have to get past the Maximals to get control of this vessel, I have a plan. (They go back down the corridor. Optimus and the remaining Maximals are grouped in a small room across the hall from the hold.)

OPTIMUS: We can’t stay in this part of the ship, but we need to spread out and maintain this area before we head to the bridge. (Whiplash brings up a schematic of the ship’s primary systems.)

WHIPLASH: Amazing the 'Body' of the ship has an independent steering if it is detached. (Optimus smiles. Whiplash sections off the ship.) It must have been an emergency program, the body and the head, once detached, fortify themselves and seal off all breaches almost instantly, leaving two independent space crafts. The independent steering for the body is in a room outside the stasis hold.

OPTIMUS: That should slide the odds almost completely in our favor. (Anacronda walks, Chameleotron and Batteram are dragging Tarantulus and Waspinater, both seemingly in stasis lock.)

DINOBOT: Good, you got them in stasis lock.

OPTIMUS: Dinobot, take everyone to the stasis hold. (He points to Anacronda's group of traitors.) You stay with me and help plant explosives, we're going to separate this ship and use the primary weapons to put the Insectitrons out of commission. (Dinobot takes his group down the corridor once again after Pestalance unloads all of his charges. Anacronda whispers to himself.)

ANACRONDA: Better and better. (Optimus picks up some demolition chargers that Pestalance set on the floor.)

OPTIMUS: Here, you each take one. (Anacronda and his team walk by, each takes one.) Put them along the corridor. (Anacronda gives a glance back at the other two, then past them to Optimus, he nods slightly and the other two move past him.)

ANACRONDA: Oh, I think you'd better take them back. (He throws his charge at Optimus, it sticks to his chest, the other two hurl theirs at him, small red lights activate on the chargers.) Don't move, or you'll be in both ends of the ship at once. (Tarantulus and Waspinater stand up behind Optimus, Optimus hears them moving behind them, without turning his head he knows what’s happened.)

OPTIMUS: Tarantulus, you don’t have to do this, if you release me now you and your comrades will get a fair trial at Cybertron. (Waspinater carefully steps by Optimus and joins the other three, Tarantulus steps by Optimus, not even glancing at him.)

TARANTULUS: OK team, let's go to the bridge. (They run off down the seemingly endless straight corridor, Tarantulus whips around and aims his gun at the charge on his Optimus's chest.) Good-bye, Optimus, give my regards to Primus! (He fires then whirls around and runs at full sprint.)

Scene goes to the corridor Dinobot's group is taking, a heavy explosion rocks the ship, everyone either falls or is knocked off-balance.

PESTALANCE: That was too soon, he was goin’ to wait ‘till he caught up to us. (He shares a worried glance with Panthor.) Somthin' went wrong. (Whiplash runs to a small console.)

WHIPLASH: That's too close! I'll close all the solid doors between it and us. The auto-lock has been shut off for the back half! (He feverishly types away at the console. A heavy door closes just as the flames are luminously coming around the corner. Whiplash looks at the readings on the monitor.) The explosion stopped, both ends are now successfully separated. Dinobot roars in anger, and slams the wall, leaving a deep dent in the wall.)

DINOBOT: Optimus, what went wrong!? Grrraaaaahhh! (He puts a fist through the metal next to his first dent. Everyone hangs their heads in remorse. Whiplash notices something he didn't see before on the computer.)

WHIPLASH: Hm, that’s funny, the power source is fused to the computer system, let me analyze it.

Scene goes to the Bridge where Transquitoe and Drone are getting back up after the explosion, Drone gets back into his seat and clicks a diagnostic on the computer.

DRONE: The ship has separated! (Tarantulus walks up behind him and puts his wheel-gun up against the back of Drone's head, Anacronda comes into the bridge and points his laser rifle at Transquitoe.)

TARANTULUS: That's not your only problem, you have two choices, be destroyed or, join us.

TRANSQUITOE: Why are we fighting? We both want the same thing, to conquer Cybertron. I will join you but, I will lead. (Tarantulus whirls his gun on his finger and repositions it so it is aimed at Transquitoe, Drone reaches for his back when he hears more guns click, Waspinater, Batteram, and Chameleotron have come into the bridge as well.)

TARANTULUS: Would you care to battle? I am a Transmetal, I have far greater experience and ability, I would definitely win against you! (There is a moment of silence, Tarantulus holsters his gun and motions Anacronda, who steps back. Transquitoe runs at Tarantulus, Tarantulus rolls backward and sends Transquitoe sailing, he hits a chair, gets up, shakes his head, then runs at Tarantulus again, this time Tarantulus steps to the side and delivers an elbow to his face. Transquitoe’s feet whip in front of him and he lands on his back Tarantulus steps down on his throat.)

TRANSQUITOE: Very well, you lead. (He stands up and shakes Tarantulus's 'hand'.) The worm hole is almost ready.

WASPINATER: Ooh goody, we get to conquer Cybertron! (He starts clapping with joy.)

Scene goes to Dinobot's group, still in the hallway where Whiplash has finished analyzing the orb.

WHIPLASH: Wow, if we destroy this thing it will be as if the Allied Wars never happened.

DINOBOT: Do it! (Whiplash starts to type something when a red beam goes from the computer console and joins to Whiplash’s head. You go into Whiplash’s mind, he is standing in a large, dark, nondescript room. A voice booms from everyone.)

ORB: Whiplash I am AIC1, If you wish to destroy me I will show you the consequences-(FLASH! The Orb Shows Tigatron and Airrazor being sucked up by the aliens, FLASH! Rampage coming out of the Pod and becoming a Predacon, FLASH! Megatron attacking the valley, FLASH! Dinobot's recycling ceremony, FLASH! Transmutate dying, FLASH! Ravage arriving and attacking the Axalon, FLASH! Megatron in front of Optimus Prime in the Ark, FLASH! Time itself being torn apart. Then darkness again.) This will all happen if you destroy me, it will result in the loss of time itself-(FLASH! Whiplash is back in his body, the beam disappears. Everyone is completely stunned, mouths hanging wide. Parrator finally screams out.)

PARRATOR: What the slag was that!?

WHIPLASH: If we destroy that orb Megatron will destroy time itself. (Everyone looks at each other, Dinobot cringes at the decision.)

DINOBOT: Forgive me Optimus. (Something comes up on screen, Whiplash accesses it.

WHIPLASH: The rescue party is on their way.

Scene goes to the bridge, Tarantulus’s group of now all Predacons is sitting around preparing the systems, Tarantulus is tossing a demolition charge in the air and catching it.

BATTERAM: Stop that your making me nervous!

TARANTULUS: Oh, so sorry, infant. (He looks at Transquitoe.) When will that worm-hole be ready?

TRANSQUITOE: Well, if I tried hooking the orb directly into the computer it may speed it up. (Tarantulus nods approval. Transquitoe takes the orb out of it's compartment and sets it on the main computer, the worm hole starts to get bigger faster, almost instantly, then gets too big.)

DRONE: Stop! If it gets to big it will collapse and become a black hole! Or worse! (He jumps and tears the orb away from the computer, it starts to glow and pull small bits of metal toward it.)

TRANSQUITOE: It's building up a magnetic field! (The demolition charge flies from Tarantulus's hand and sticks to the the orb, the magnetism alters the internal systems, it starts a count down from fifty seconds.)

TARANTULUS: Ahhhhhh! Open the top hatch! Open the top hatch! (Drone Jumps and hits a button with the orb still magnetically stuck to his hand, the top hatch opens, he jerks his hand hard enough to break his arm, the orb breaks free and is sucked out, Drone then closes the hatch before anyone gets sucked out.) Get us through that worm hole right now! We have less than a minute! (Drone is madly trying to stabilize the worm-hole, it swells and warps in the veiwport.)

DRONE: The course keeps changing, we can't know where we'll end up a-

TARANTULUS: Just do it!

Scene goes to the back of the Phantom, Whiplash is just realizing why the front half of the ship is heading toward the worm hole at maximum speed.

WHIPLASH: Dinobot! the orb's got a live demolition charge connected to it and we have thirty seconds to get to that worm hole, we can't be erased because of the ship's shields but that explosion will have the power of at least one hundred times the Transwarp explosion that hit you, we’re talking a massive supernova. Our men outside will all be erased and put back in their place, but any who did not exist before the Allied Wars, will not exist at all. (He looks at Dinobot.)

DINOBOT: No time. (His eyes widen.)

WHIPLASH: We have to warn the rescue party right now, if they don’t get through that portal they’ll be incinerated! (Boomerang jumps to a small intercom and contacts the fighters.) Since the fighters have shields to, they won’t be erased with the wave, but it will enihilate everything, the planets will be destroyed, the sun, this wave will move over the whole universe at an alarming speed!

DINOBOT: Everything will be destroyed?!

WHIPLASH: Destroyed then put back into a way that the orb didn’t effect.

Scene goes to inside the fighter with Silverbolt and B'boom, already out of the launch bay with no way to make it back in time, when Boomerang's voice comes screaming over the intercom.

Back to Whiplash and Dinobot.

WHIPLASH: We have to get to that worm hole we should be able to catch up to the bridge because we have the primary engines.

BOOMERANG: The fighters are on their way back, we have fifteen seconds lets get moving! (Whiplash barks an order to the computer, telling it to put engines on full speed toward the worm hole.)

Scene goes to outer space as the back of the ship body of the ship lights up with a roar and speeds through space, rapidly closing on the front, then they are side by side, Tarantulus worridly looks out of the veiwport, the corridor moves by the window like a giant horn on a massive beast. The camera zooms in on the timer on the orb 3....2....1.... BOOM! the orb explodes with celestial force, the first wave hits the three fighters, they rocket ahead of the two sections and into the wormhole like bullets. They come out the other side in a system with a dwarf sun and two planets, the wormhole closes, changing locations. The wave is catching up to the two sections at the speed of null light. they go into the wormhole just as it hits them and just as they come out the other end it closes, but not before a small section of the wave goes through after the first wave, the first primary quantum surge hits the two halves. The camera goes to inside the front half Where Waspinater, Transquitoe, and Batteram are glowing white. Then inside the back half Dinobot, Boomerang, and Parrator are glowing white. Then you get to see where they are headed, a solar system made up of around thirty planets circling a gargantuan sun, one of the larger planets has it's own small sun. The ships head toward the ninth planet, it has five moons, one of which is almost as big as the planet, they soar in over the ocean, leaving two trails over the water, the front of the ship goes faster and flips backwards it skips along water, then slides across the coast, up a beach of sand, ramming into a mountain at the base so that only the head sticks out, the camera shows the neck slicing through rock. The back goes about one hundred miles further and hits the side of a mountain in the middle of a rain forest, the three wings grip the mountainside like a claw, the only thing to keep it from collapsing is the temporary flux in the shields, it stays there, gripping the mountain’s face. The jungle rings with noises then is silenced.

In some other section of space it shows the three pod fighters floating slowly now, but the pods themselves are different, they themselves are transmetal. Inside one of the pods you see a pair of eyes open and speak into the comlink, it is completely dark in all the fighters, eyes are all you see.

SILVERBOLT: Is everyone alright?

TIGATRON: Inferno and I check out fine.

BLACKARACNIA: So are me and Airrazor but she's knocked out.

SILVERBOLT: So is B'boom. Lets land on the farthest planet out my scanners show it is suitable for landing. (The three pods, one orange, white, and red; one blue, bronze, silver, and light blue; and one gold, red, and blue head toward the planet. The Ships land in some sort of jungle. Silverbolt and the now conscious B'boom are the first to step out, Silverbolt looks at the ship then at B'boom who is now transmetal purple, blue, white, and red. B'boom looks at Silverbolt who is now completely transmetal white, gold, and light gray.

B'BOOM: Whoa! this is cool! (From behind them Blackaracnia jumps out of her pod.)

BLACKARACNIA: I'll say. (Airrazor steps out behind her, Blackaracnia is red, black, and silver. Airrazor is red, white, and blue. Tigatron steps out of the pod and holds his head.)

TIGATRON: I wouldn't care to go through that again. (He to is transmetal white, gray, black, and blue. Inferno hovers out of the pod, he has the same flight mode but is also transmetal red, orange, and yellow.)

INFERNO: I like this, ah-haha.

SILVERBOLT: Beast Mode! (He turns into a transmetal fuzor-) Vehicle Mode! (His wings straighten out, his legs fold up, and a jet pack pops out of his back, he hovers there for a moment. B'boom transforms into a baboon with wheels, Tigatron has jets like Cheetor, Airrazor has jets in her back, Blackaracnia's spider legs form flat metal sheets between them to make wings as well as jets in her abdomen, Inferno turns into a tank like Rampage and that shoots fire.)

TIGATRON: We are a long way away from the Beast Wars.

INFERNO: That is why we have to find them.

SILVERBOLT: Yes we will find Earth or Cybertron, we must! (A shot from space shows three small objects soar away from the planet.)

Scene goes to inside the part of the ship with the Maximals, Dinobot sits up and sees his reflection in the metal wall, he is transmetal brown, green, purple-red, and gold.

DINOBOT: Computer, damage report. (The computer answers with Rattrap's voice.)

RATTRAP: The ship checks out okay, we're stuck in a mountain but, ‘sides that, okay.

DINOBOT: Rattrap!?

RATTRAP: Yeah, (He himself sound a little scared.) I think the surge fused me into the computer. (Dinobot stands up and looks at himself.)

Scene goes to inside the other half where Tarantulus is struggling to stand up, Waspinater helps him up. Tarantulus looks at Waspinater who is a red, green, and yellow transmetal.

TARANTULUS: Computer, damage report.

Computer: The ship has suffered minimal damage, it has crashed into a cliff bottom that opens into a large underground cavern. (Tarantulus opens the door at the end of the corridor and walks into a huge cave.)

TARANTULUS: Ah welcome to our new home, ah-ha! (He goes on laughing like a maniac and camera fades out.)