Dinobot Chronicles Episode 1

By Festus3 festus3@netins.net

(Scene opens inside the room where Dinobot is regaining composure.)

DINOBOT: Compu-ah Rattrap Where is everyone? (He takes another look at himself in a reflection on the wall.)

RATTRAP: A, most off'em slid through the hole in floor to the storage area, except Whiplash Who got sucked out of the escape hatch on the way down, my sensors are reading him at the foot of the mountain. (Dinobot looks down the hole in the floor and sees the rest of the group in a heap the next floor down.)

BAMBARD: Oh slag, that hurt. Panthor get off my leg. (Panthor snarls and throws Bambard up through the hole where Dinobot catches him and then drops him.) Ouch.

PARRATOR: Wow I'm shiny! (He looks down at his new Transmetal body made up of all the colors of the rainbow. He transforms to Beast Mode and flies up and out of the hole.)

PESTALANCE: I have a split'en headache. (He looks at Boomerang who is now an Orange, Black, Green, and Yellow transmetal.)

BOOMERANG: Ey, I like this! (He transforms to beast mode and jumps out of the storage hole, then pestalance and Panthor climb out.)

RATTRAP: Why dont'ya go and get Whiplash, you can test your new abilities. (Dinobot looks at the wheels on his shoulder and hips then grins.)

(Scene goes to outside Dinobot's base where Dinobot, in his vehicle mode, Drives down the side of the mountain at top speed with Panthor riding on his back.)

PARRATOR: Wait up! (He flies out in beast mode holding Pestalance by the arms, then his wings straighten and a jet engine pops out of his back.)

PESTALANCE: Oh no, Ahhhhhhhhh! (Parrator flies top speed downward to the jungle below. Boomerang comes out with a flight mode like Megatron carrying Bambard.)

(Scene goes to the foot of the mountain where Whiplash is struggling to sit up when Dinobot screeches to a stop right in front of him.)

WHIPLASH: It took you long enough! Hey nice wheels. (The rest of the group lands next to them and they start to help up the fuzor.)

(Scene goes to inside the new Pred. base. where Tarantulus is standing with Waspinator inside the huge cavern.)

WASPINATOR: Beast Mode. (He transforms into a wasp then goes to vehicle mode, his legs fold up and his wings turn into a helicopter propeller he flies up with joy and the propeller gets caught between two Stalactites and stop moving) Uh Oh! (Since the propellers can't move the only other thing that can is his body. So while Waspinator is spinning wildly Tarantulus is rounding up his soldiers. Everyone is there and Transquito and Batteram are Transmetal. Transquito who is Purple, Red, Yellow, and Gray is also a helicopter but his nose turns into a laser cannon. Batteram who is Bronze, Black, and Green has machine guns that come out of his shoulders and his wings straighten like a jet.)

ANACRONDA: Where are we? (He transforms to beast mode and slithers down a tunnel.)

TARANTULUS: We are in the strangest solar system I have ever seen. But, first things first, we must find and destroy the Maximals, if they survived.

DRONE: That may be hard if we don't get our systems on-line soon.

TRANSQUITO: Yeah, it would be best if we got that done first. (He flies up and fires his laser cannon, sizzling a stalagmite) Cool!

BATTERAM: The worst part is that we've got the worst end of the ship, only three decks and two are encriptedly sealed.

TARANTULAS: Well, then you'll just have to decrypt them slaghead!

BATTERAM: (Shaking his head) Hey, don't look at me, thats Drone's department! (Drone hits him over the head and goes back into their section of the ship to work on the computer systems.)

CHAMELEOTRON: (Notices a button on his arm that was not there before) Hello, what is this? (he pushes it and a computer voice sounds out.)

Computer: Please state desired transformation.

CHAMELEOTRON: Uh, Transquito. (Then his body transforms completely into Transquito, including robot mode.) Oooh, how about, Anacronda? (He again transforms into a complete Anacronda.)

TARANTULUS: This could be useful knowledge in the future. It seems that the surge has mutated you in a different way

(Scene goes to inside the maximal base where Whiplash is looking over some computer readouts while Rattrap listens.)

WHIPLASH: This doesn't make any sense, these readouts say that tampering with the orb was unsuccessful, hey! whats this? (He notices a lightly encrypted file and opens it within minutes,) This is a warning posted by the species that made the orb! It says that the orb has gained too much power and can bend and control reality.

RATTRAP: So what your telling me is that this is all a game, made up by that big gumball?

WHIPLASH: Was a game, until it was destroyed, it says here that it only controlled the minds of the three leaders Optimas, Megatron, and Starscream; but it only intended for Megatron and Starscream to die, when Optimas was destroyed it lost control and was therefore helpless. (He takes in a deep breath after that mouthful.)

RATTRAP: So you mean that the orb was using us as puppets for its amusement until we broke free? (His voice pauses) Then how'd we get here, or more importantly, where is here?

WHIPLASH: We are in the right time now, about as far away from Cybertron as we can get, so I'm guessing the orb put us here on purpose, it has separated us from time and that means there can be two of us in existence. (He turns on a scanner.)

RATTRAP: What're you do'in? (Being the ships computer he finds the answer himself,) Whoa this planet has some strange species.

WHIPLASH: That is why everyone else is out scouting. (He opens a hatch and jumps on his hoverboard, a disk comes out of the computer containing the information on some of the dangerous species of the planet, he flies out of the hatch and down to the jungle.)

RATTRAP: Oh sure, leave me all alone to talk to myself, well, looks like I'm going to be here a while. (The screen starts to close down but he notices something and opens it) What! (Then a computer purification sweep knocks out the file and the memory of it from Rattrap's brain.)

(Scene goes to above the canopy where Whiplash spots Dinobot with Parrator and Panthor, he hovers down and lands in front of them.)

WHIPLASH: Read this. (He hands Dinobot the disk, Dinobot inserts it into a slot in his arm.)

DINOBOT: Hmm, this planet has formidable creatures, to bad we can't use them for Beast Modes. (He transforms into beast mode) how about a meal? (The rest of them look and see what Dinobot just saw, a creature about the size of a stasis pod that looks like a turtle shell with millions of tiny legs.)

PANTHOR: Hmm. (He transforms and follows Dinobot into the bushes where they prepare to attack the giant beetle-like creature.)

PARRATOR: (He looks at Whiplash) Why do I have the feeling we are going to be running for our lives soon? (Then the creature senses Dinobot and Panthor and the legs extend out to about ten feet long revealing the bottom of the creature, all teeth! It lunges for Panthor but he makes a bee-line for the base with the rest right behind him.)

(Scene goes to somewhere else in the jungle where Pestalance is with Boomerang and Bambard in the trees trying to get a closer look at the same kind of creature when they see what looks like a flying cat with red scales, it lands next to Bambard.)

BAMBARD: (He starts to pet it) Hey, it's kinda cute. (Then it's mother comes down out of the sky and starts blowing fire at them. Boomerang, Bambard and Pestalance jump out of the tree and hit the ground running while a ten foot long flying tiger-like animal with wings chases them all the way back to the base where they run into the other group being chased by a walking shell.)

DINOBOT: Into the base now! (The fliers pick up the others and fly them up into their base, while the flying tiger and the Giant beetle linger outside.)

PANTHOR: Okay I hate this planet! (They are all out of breath and exhausted.)

BAMBARD: You can say that again! (He looks at his right arm that is now completely black.)

DINOBOT: It appears that this planet is going to take some getting used to. (He looks out of the lower hatch and sees the giant beetle still waiting, then he slams a button that closes the hatch.)

(Scene goes to outside the entrance to the Predacon base on a beautiful serene beach where everyone except Drone is inspecting their new surroundings.)

TARANTULUS: (Walks up to the edge of the water and picks up some kind of gray crab, as hard as a rock, that then curls up into a ball and spits a jet of poison in his face) Ha, nice try. (He then throws it like a baseball out of sight over the water.)

WASPINATOR: Hmmm, whats that? (He flies over to another one of the walking shells and taps the top of it, this one seems to have a better attitude toward disturbances, until it wakes up!) Ahhh!

ANACRONDA: (Talking to Transquito while the shell creature chases Waspinator in the back ground) What kind of planet is this?

TRANSQUITO: I don't know, but the life forms here seem fairly aggressive

ANACRONDA: That would mean either that they are veracious predators or, that that is their defense. (Batteram walks up.)

BATTERAM: Against what? (Suddenly a tidal wave splits the sea in half and a huge serpent like creature with a mouth big enough to swallow an Autobot rises up and swallows the shell creature with one strike.)

ANACRONDA: Against that!

TRANSQUITO: Relative of yours? (Then one of its eyes, the size of a stasis pod, focuses on the six Predacons and it rears for another strike, it gets a mouth-full of sand as it misses the scattering robots.)

WASPINATOR: Waspinator rather be in Cybertron prison!

(Meanwhile in the Maximal base.)

DINOBOT: What is that! (He is looking out of a window at a solid black shadow against the mountain.)

WHIPLASH: It looks like some sort of bug. (Then it changes colors to red and gray, showing that it looks like a praying mantis except with two pairs of arms and only it's fourteen feet long, its seems only interested in sunning itself.)

RATTRAP: Scans show that it is asleep. (It sturrs a little bit) And it just woke up! (It crawls to the top of the ship and flies away.)

PESTALANCE: If I see another creepy crawly thing bigger than me I'm gonna go crazy. (They slowly back away from the window fearing something bigger may come.)

BAMBARD: (over the intercom,) Guys Panthor and I found the location of the Pred base! (All the bots run to the console room where they download the trajectories.)

DINOBOT: We must get them now before they organize themselves! (He opens the floor hatch and they fall out, literally.)

(Scene goes to inside the Predacon base where Drone has just located the Maximal's base.)

TARANTULUS: We must strike now! Predacons, Move out! (They charge out of the door, weary of the sea creature and head for the jungle. The camera goes back and fourth between the two sides and shows every one of them individually, then finally they meet, both sides instantly stop and raise their weapons.)

TRANSQUITO: Prepare to die, Maximal scum!

PANTHOR: You first, needle-nose. (An eerie silence sets over both sides, then, suddenly, a black polygon floats down out of the sky and hovers between them.)

DINOBOT: What the slag! (The polygon then shatters into fourteen segments that then attach to Maximals and Predacons' chests, resulting in a strange paralysis that knocks them out cold.)

(Scene goes to inside the Maximal base where they are all laying on the floor.)

RATTRAP: Ey wake up! I turn around for a second and ya fall asleep! (The maximals struggle to their feet.)

DINOBOT: What how'd we get here? What happened out there?

RATTRAP: What are ya talking about? Out where? (They look at each other and Whiplash runs to a computer.)

WHIPLASH: This can't be, it says that it's several minutes before we left! (They look at each other some more, and then they notice the small burned spots on all of their chests.)

PARRATOR: Oh this can't be good.

(Scene goes to the Predacon base where they have just discovered the same thing.)

WASPINATOR: Waspinator not like this, not like this at all. (He is still groggy and falls over.)

DRONE: The source of these burns cannot be identified by the computer. To find all the elements in this mark we would have to add about ninety unknown elements to our periodic table. (Batteram Transforms, then transforms back and the burn is already gone).

TARANTULUS: It seems that we are not alone on this planet. (He turns to Drone) You said that there were two encrypted floors, why don't you try to access them?

ANACRONDA: Just blow it open! (He pulls out his laser rifle and starts walking off.)

DRONE: I'm afraid that not even an atomic blast could get through solid, whatever the slag that alloy is. (Transquito walks up to the computer and looks at the encryption.)

TRANSQUITO: Whatever he was hiding, its something big!

CHAMELEOTRON: (Sees a large worm crawl across the floor that then latches onto a metal pipe and eats away at it using acid venom) That could be useful.

BATTERAM: Yea if you want to wait ten years to get through, that alloy is thousands times stronger than that aluminum tubing and about five feet thicker. (He picks up the worm and it spits acid on his arm, but the acid has no effect) Told Ya.

DRONE: Hey look at this. (The energon scanner that had been turned off read  considerably large amounts of stable and raw energon deposits underground.) Batteries included.

TARANTULUS: Waspinator, Transquito go dig up some energon. Batteram get more of these on-line. (Tarantulus hands him a small Spider/light drone.) Anacronda and Chameleotron I need you to get as much surveillance equipment on-line as you can. (The Predacons go off to do their jobs while Drone and Tarantulus try to decrepit the access codes.)

(Scene goes to the jungle several hours later where Chameleotron and Anacronda are placing small video receptors in clearings and trails.)

ANACRONDA: If this got any more boring I'd go into stasis lock!

CHAMELEOTRON: At least we don't have to dig for energon! (He steps in some kind of mud, or he hopes it's mud.)

ANACRONDA: We only have a couple more to place then we can- (Sparks fly from his joints and he collapses, his body is pulsing with strange energon build-up.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Whoa! I've never seen energon build-up do that! (He opens a comm. channel) Hey base this is Chameleotron and we're experiencing strange energon build-up and Anacronda's in stasis lock already I think- (He collapses after a surge of energon. In another part of the jungle Waspinator and Transquito are laying on the ground out cold.)

(Inside Pred base Tarantulus is trying to get a hold of anyone.)

TARANTULUS: Slag! They're out cold (Drone pushes a button on the console and is shocked with massive amounts of electricity.)

DRONE: Well that wasn't it. (He falls on his back.)

(In a tunnel inside their cave Batteram has found a way to get the Spider drones to replicate themselves and he is standing in a room brighter than daylight in the middle of thousands of little spider-bots.)

TARANTULUS: (Over his comm.) Batteram what is your work status?

BATTERAM: Well I don't think you have to worry about darkness anymore. (He starts walking into another room he looks at the control he is holding and adjusts the production rate of the spiders.)

TARANTULUS: Batteram, Anacronda, Chameleotron, Transquito, and Waspinator are all out of commission from some strange energon surge we need you to pick them up.

BATTERAM: What, hello, hello! (But the link is cut off.) Slag! (Minutes later he is flying with Drone above the jungle, they spot the two bugs on the scanner.)

DRONE: Lets get them as fast as we can! (They swoop down and both grab one then they head off to find the two reptiles, but not before Drone grabs a small sample of energon.)

(Scene goes to inside the Maximal base where Boomerang has just brought Pestalance and Bambard back from the same thing.)

DINOBOT: What happened? (He asks as the two are put in the CR pods.)

WHIPLASH: When they reported in they said it looked like energon build-up but I've never seen it do this. (he takes a sample of the energon that the two were digging for and puts it in a molecular scanner and the computer analyzes it.)

PARRATOR: The shields protect us from this, don't they?

PANTHOR: They should. (The results come out of the computer and Whiplash reads it.)

WHIPLASH: Whoa this can't be happening, it says that the energon has a plutonium electron level twice as high as Earth plus tons of unidentifiable elements.

PANTHOR: Meaning?

BOOMERANG: We are in big trouble. (He transforms into robot mode and walks up to them.)

WHIPLASH: If I can analyze the extra chemicals I may be able to make an antielectron that can be placed into our sparks to prevent further damage. (Everyone looks at him with a look of solid confusion.)

DINOBOT: So you are going to put something in our sparks?

WHIPLASH: It's not as easy as it sounds, but it can be done. (He goes to work on the computer analyzing the chemicals. After a few hours Pestalance and Bambard come out of the CR pods when Whiplash is about ready to perfect the electrons, he takes a small glass cube containing a single antielectron, he opens his chest chamber and then opens the small glass cube, the electron fuses with his spark and Whiplash is knocked off his feet.) Whoa! that little thing packs a punch. (A bright green gloss passes over his body then disappears. He walks over to the computer and looks at the readouts,) Well it worked. Who's next?

(Scene goes to the Predacon base where they are just finishing the same project with only Waspinator left.)

WASPINATOR: No Waspinator not want to put that in spark! (Anacronda has to wrap himself around Waspinator to restrain him so they can insert the electron,) No, owwww! (The electron gives him a jolt and he glazes green,) Hey, thats not so bad!

DRONE: This energon is obviously very powerful, why don't we see how well it works. (He walks over to the energon case and takes out the old chunk of energon about the size of a computer monitor, the entire place goes dark, then he inserts the piece of new energon about one inch in diameter, the lights instantly go on brighter than they have ever been.)

BATTERAM: Whoa! That stuff could power all of Cybertron! (Waspinator is mesmerized like any other bug to light and he starts to bump into it.)

WASPINATOR: Pretty light. (Chameleotron hits him in the back of the head and he goes out of the daze.)

TRANSQUITO: How long should it last?

DRONE: From the rate of power consumption I'm guessing longer than we will. (Anacronda looks at the tiny cube.)

ANACRONDA: How could something this powerful occur naturally, I mean there is no way that energon under normal circumstances could mutate into this.

TARANTULUS: You are right we may very well be on another alien project. (The other Predacons look at him as if he is crazy and walk away, when Tarantulus is alone he says quietly) 0........0.0.Well maybe I will have my chance after all. (He starts laughing maniacally, the camera zooms out and fades.)