Inside the Shadows

By Festus3 festus3@netins.net

Scene opens in a swirling green hued cloud where a 3-D black polygon with fourteen sides floats suspended in the air, several spots of light peer from inside the dark green vapor of the nebula.

VOICE1: (Its voice is raspy and low.) Is the process complete?

VOICE2: Yes, we are ready. (The second voice is smoother and lower than the first.)

VOICE3: Then we shall punish the ones who have violated the time-space flow. (This one is higher than the other two but still low. The polygon glows brightly red, then disappears into transwarp space.)

Scene goes to early morning where Dinobot and Panthor in robot mode are sparring on the very top of their mountain while the rest relax on various rocks and ridges in beast mode. Whiplash, Parrator and Bambard are having a conversation on the life forms while they look over a holographic data-pad.

BAMBARD: I still think it's kind of strange that there are no mammals on this planet.

PARRATOR: Still not as strange as the power of the energon here. (He fidgets on his uncomfortable perch.)

WHIPLASH: There has got to be something tied in with the fact there are only reptilian and insect animals here. (He brings up a 3-D image of some of the animals they have encountered, he stops on the large spidery creature that is Darkrazor's beast mode.) We should be more worried about the Titans now having the computer data they need to make the anti-electron.

BAMBARD: (He has been watching the horizon since the other two started boring him and he notices something flying towards them.) Wow, look at that thing. (The other two turn to see a very large creature flying in their direction, it has two sets of scaled wings.)

WHIPLASH: Look at the talons and the beak, almost like a bird of prey. (The reptilian bird gracefully flies overhead, its one hundred yard wing-span catches the attention of the others, although the second set of wings is a little smaller.)

PANTHOR: What the?!

PESTALANCE: Whoa! dat's huge!

DINOBOT: Impressive. (Rattrap's voice comes in over the intercom.)

RATTRAP: Hey Dinobutt! We got seven incoming Preds!

DINOBOT: Clever, trying to take us off-guard. That vile arachnid will regret this attack. (The five Maximals in beast mode transform and get into the elevator. It is a rather tight squeeze.)

BAMBARD: Why attack now? I mean what possible reason? (He scratches his head with one of his gangley antler hands.)

DINOBOT: He must know something we don't.

WHIPLASH: Possibly something about the encrypted chunk of the computer system? (Just below the canopy of the jungle the Predacons are all moving through the air except Tarantulus who is driving along the ground, Chameleotron can now fly because he is transformed into Illumeneeto. Waspinator and Transquito are in helicopter mode and Batteram is in jet mode, the machine guns in his shoulders ready to fire.)

ANACRONDA: (Having trouble gliding through the trees with his broad hang-glider wings.) Drone, are you sure it's in there?

DRONE: It has to be, there are no more computer files left unsearched in our part of the system so the codes must be somewhere in the Maximal's.

WASPINATOR: Waspinator thinks he-

TRANSQUITOE: Well no one cares what Waspinator thinks do they? (Waspinator edges away from the other Predacons who begin laughing at his expense.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Good thing we're using this field disrupter or we'd get slagged before we even got close to their base. (He holds up a small transmitter, Drone looks at it, then double-takes.)

DRONE: It's not on you moron!

TARANTULUS: Slag! You imbecile! It's too late now though, keep moving! (The Predacons speed up and are ambushed by the seven Maximals who leap out from behind their perches in various trees. Dinobot, in dragster mode, drives out from under some ferns and slams into Tarantulus, Bambard slams into Chameleotron/Illumeneeto, Batteram is taken out of the air by Pestalance, Panthor and Boomerang nail Transquito and Drone, Whiplash's saw/fan flies through the air and slices off Waspinator's rotors, and Parrator dives down and brings Anacronda with him, the battle breaks loose. Dinobot and Tarantulus are facing off, still in vehicle modes.)

DINOBOT: You can't win Tarantulus.

TARANTULUS: On the contrary, (Chameleotron walks up behind him and fires an anti-matter burst that Dinobot barely evades.) I can. (Chameleotron is caught by a shot from the rattlesnake head mounted on Whiplash's shoulders. Dinobot and Tarantulus power toward each other, just as they are about to collide Dinobot lowers his head to ground level making a ramp, Tarantulus travels over him and lands with his Predacons, Dinobot transforms to robot and stands alongside his team. There is an eerie silence as the fourteen robot's hands twitch above their weapons.)

PARRATOR: What's that!? (He is looking into the sky and points in surprise.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Nice try. (The black polygon hovers down to a stationary position between the two sides.) Huh?! (Whiplash leans and talks into Dinobot's ear.)

WHIPLASH: I can't place it, but somehow this is familiar. (Dinobot nods.)

DINOBOT: Yeah, deja-vu. (The corners of the orb begin to glow a blinding red, everyone shields their eyes, the camera shows the faces of everyone as they lower their hands and stare in awe at the sight before them, as the light grows dimmer the Maximals and Predacons back away, then the camera goes to the ground and shows the black metallic feet slam onto the ground followed by thirteen more. The camera moves up to reveal an all-black Dinobot with piercing red eyes. All of the other things that came out of the polygon are exact black copies of all of the Predacons and Maximals, all of them are also completely black with red eyes. The copy of Tarantulus steps up beside the Dinobot copy.)

COPIES: (They all speak with a computer-like droning at the same time.) For your interference with the time-dimensional flow, (They pull out their also all black weapons.) you shall all be terminated. (They take aim at the transformers on either side.)

PESTALANCE: What'da cheese-eatin scrap slag are those!?!

BAMBARD: I'm not waiting to find out. (He fires his blaster at the copy of him, the blast travels through the dark robot's super structure and hits a tree.) Oh slag. (The copies begin firing their weapons, all of which have bright red energy beams, mayhem breaks loose, everyone scatters. Dinobot walks up to the copy of Boomerang and tries to punch it in the chest, his fist passes through the dark metal, Dinobot roars in pain and brings his hand back, half-melted by the anti-matter.)

ANACRONDA: What the slag are they!?

DRONE: Some kind of copies of us. (Anacronda gives him a strange look.)

ANACRONDA: Or, shadows? (Panthor lands between them on the ground with a anti-matter burn through his shoulder, Panthor looks up and sees Drone's turbine gun right in his face, the gun rotates, charging up, then it is shot out of his hands by Parrator.)

PARRATOR: Not so fast insect! (Anacronda, who's back is facing Parrator, opens his hang glider, knocking Parrator back and off-balance. He then dives on the brightly colored transmetal and they begin fighting. Elsewhere some shadows have cornered Waspinator, Pestalance and Transquito. Pestalance looks from the shadows, to the two Predacons who do the same. Their minds are set when a red beam burns a hole through the rock they are against, the three open fire on the shadows.)

TRANSQUITO: Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! (Their shots pass through the shadows slowing them down, they then concentrate all of their fire on the copy of Chameleotron, the shadow tries to walk forward, but begins stumbling backward as the shots cause him to begin breaking down.)

PESTALANCE: Heehee! He's goin'! (The shadow collapses to his knees and with a metallic scream de-materializes.) Whoo-hoo! We got him! (He keeps on cheering until he sees Transquito's gun aimed at his face. Transquito is about to fire when an anti-matter beam penetrates his chest. Dinobot jumps in out of no-where and begins helping Pestalance and Waspinator, they manage to take down a copy of Batteram but there are just too many of them.)

DINOBOT: This is hopeless! They're too strong! (In another part Chameleotron, still transformed into Illumeneeto, is firing like crazy with his magnetic bursts, they work better than most of the other weapons but is still to little to make a big difference. Tarantulus if firing his shoulder missiles like crazy.)

TARANTULUS: This is bad! (They see Whiplash, Batteram and Bambard nail the copy of Whiplash.) Keep firing! (Boomerang lands to the side of the shadows and opens fire with his shoulder guns and blaster, they manage to get the copy of Bambard.)

CHAMELEOTRON: This is impossible! (He takes an anti-matter shot to the leg and goes down, he comes back up as Rhinox and pulls out the chain guns.) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! (He lets loose a shower of bullets on the Tarantulus shadow and it falls to the ground and de-materializes. The camera goes to where Parrator and Panthor are running away from four shadows.)

PANTHOR: This couldn't get worse! (They come into a clearing and freeze instantly, there standing in front of them are the Titans all in robot form and without energon interference.)

DARKRAZOR: It just got worse!

BRUTALLION: That computer data you so graciously gave us was very useful, we even made ourselves field dampers, now prepare to terminate! (The titans pull out their huge guns and prepare their shoulder guns, eye lasers and various others.)

PARRATOR: Oh jeez! Duck! (Just as the Titans fire the two Maximals duck and the shadows come out of the jungle behind them, the wave of ammo blows them off their feet and roughly twenty yards away where they de-materialize in mid flight.)

QUAKE: What where those? (Parrator and Panthor jump up off the ground and run full speed back to the clearing, followed closely by the Titans, the two break into the clearing.)

PANTHOR: Run! Run! Run! (The Titans burst from the trees and raise their weapons, Darkrazor looks at the shadows.)

DARKRAZOR: Interesting. (She changes her vision to infrared, then light spectrum, the sonar but can't get a reading.) Anti-matter. (Brutallion aims his fusion cannon and starts firing at no target in particular, one shot slices a tree over Dinobot's head in half.)

DINOBOT: This could be helpful. (He notices something he had forgotten about, the polygon, still floating a meter off the ground. Bambard sees it to.)

BAMBARD: I got it. (he takes aim at the polygon.)

DINOBOT: No wait! (Bambard fires into the polygon, the polygon glows red and redirects the shot back at Bambard who is put into stasis lock. Dinobot looks at the fallen Maximal, then at the dark polygon and roars in anger. He walks up to it, fire from both sides missing him by inches, he steps right up to it, it is about two feet across.) This ends here! (He takes both of his hands and drives his claws into it, he then spreads his hand apart, ripping open the orb, inside it he sees absolute darkness. Meanwhile this whole time a battle is still raging between the Titans, Maximals, Predacons and shadows. Dinobot takes his hand and sticks it inside the polygon.) Aaaaaaaaaah! (His hand is incinerated and he falls back to the ground, which probably saved his life for at that moment one of Quake's seismic cannon's shots hits the opening, resulting in a tremor that passes over the ground not affecting anybody except the shadows who are vaporized. All is silent as the transformers stare at the polygon, the hole still in it.)

DRONE: What happens now? (The polygon drives itself into the ground.)

DARKRAZOR: Quake! Follow it! (Quake transforms into his beast mode and shoves his beak into the ground, followed by the rest of his worm-like body. Darkrazor brings her gun up and aims it at Dinobot, who is now struggling to stand up.) As for the rest of you... (She leaves it to the imagination, before she can pull the trigger though Transquito and Batteram dive at her, both in vehicle mode and firing their weapons, she is caught off-guard by the shots but doesn't fall.) Ohhh, you'll pay for that! (She fires the guns on her right arm at Batteram and her left at Transquito, both are hit and careen somewhere into the jungle.)

DINOBOT: You can't win against all of us. (The Predacons and Maximals now stand side by side weapons drawn and aimed at the two Titans.)

BRUTALLION: Ha! You don't stand a chance! (Brutallion aims his fusion cannon straight at Dinobot and fires, Dinobot dodges but catches the shockwave and collapses onto the ground next to the now somewhat conscious Bambard, all of the active Maximals and Predacons begin firing at Darkrazor and Brutallion. Darkrazor brings out her crest shield and Brutallion raises his arms to stop some of the fire, Bambard begins to slowly drag away Dinobot's lifeless form. The camera shows Pestalance climbing a tree quietly behind Brutallion, over his shoulder is a pack of high explosives.)

PESTALANCE: (Quietly to himself.) Let's see if dis takes slasa outa your step. (he tosses three of the high power charges and they stick to Brutallion's back, the huge transformer stops firing and tries to grab at the charges. Pestalance then throws the other two and they stick to Darkrazor's back and leg.)

DARKRAZOR: Huh! (The charges detonate sending Pestalance flying from his perch in the tree.)

PESTALANCE: Whooo-hooo-hoo-hoo! (He lands roughly on the ground when the smoke clears you see Darkrazor's beast mode tail vanish into Quake's hole in the grounds and there is also a path in the trees where Brutallion has disappeared through in retreat.)

BOOMERANG: Yeah! We beat'em (He is standing next to Tarantulus, who then aims his gun right at the side of his head and fires, Boomerang fall to the ground.)

TARANTULUS: Predacons move out! (The Predacons run as the remaining Maximals fire at them.)

PANTHOR: Oh boy, there's a lot we have to sort out.

WHIPLASH: That's for sure. (They start dragging the unconscious robots back to the base.)

Scene goes to the strange cave with the hive of bipedal insectoid creatures where the Titans have set up their base, the three are sitting in three very large vats of CR fluid.

DARKRAZOR: How could you have lost it?

QUAKE: I lost it when it broke through to the ocean and my tunnel flooded.

BRUTALLION: Cry-baby. (Quake glares at the slightly taller robot.)

DARKRAZOR: Both of you, shut up! (She accesses a computer terminal on the side of her CR vat.) From the computer data I got out of the Maximal's base I have found a strange blocked piece of data, I can't quite figure out what it is but it almost doesn't seem like data, (She brings up the data on the anomaly.) the composition is almost that of a spark.

BRUTALLION: A dull-spark to be exact, its probably just a mistake.

DARKRAZOR: Or something more.

Camera fades out and scene goes to inside the Maximal base where the only ones not regenerating are Whiplash, Panthor and Parrator, they are also joined by Rattrap.

WHIPLASH: What happened back there was impossible, pure anti-matter with a thinking core.

PANTHOR: In layman's please?

WHIPLASH: Big trouble.

RATTRAP: Come on, how could this get any worse?

WHIPLASH: We may not be able to destroy it. (Rattrap is silent.)

Scene goes to inside the Predacon base where Tarantulus, Drone and Waspinator are the only ones not in a CR pod, they are again trying to get into the second hidden floor.

DRONE: We should be trying to figure out what that thing was.

TARANTULUS: (He laying on top of the floor panel trying to get the computer to work.) I know what it was, they have tried to destroy us before.

WASPINATOR: Spider-bot mean-

TARANTULUS: Yes! Them. (Tarantulus goes back to work on the panel.)

WASPINATOR: Waspinator still think Spider-bot should let him try-

TARANTULUS: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP! I've had it with your interference! Get away from me! (Waspinater starts to say something.) GO!

(Waspinater hangs his head and walks off down one of the corridors.)

DRONE: You aren't in the least bit worried about the shadows?

TARANTULUS: Once I get into this floor I will worry about them. Now, take the field damper and infiltrate the Maximal base, I want those codes. (Drone walks away and mutters under his breath.)

DRONE: Fruit-cake.

Scene goes to back inside the Maximal base where enough time has passed for everyone to come out of the CR pods.

WHIPLASH: We have come to the conclusion that these 'shadows' are definitely anti-matter, and I'm guessing the polygon disappeared to regenerate.

DINOBOT: But how does this help us?

WHIPLASH: Well, when you cracked it open and Quake shot it that seemed to weaken it.

BOOMERANG: Meaning?

WHIPLASH: Simple, if we direct enough fire power into it, it should be destroyed.

RATTRAP: Seems too easy.

DINOBOT: And it very well could be, but we have no other choice at the moment.

PANTHOR: There's still one problem, how do we find it?

WHIPLASH: We don't, it finds us.

(Scene goes to a corridor somewhere else in the Maximal base, Drone is working at a computer trying to find the codes.)

DRONE: Come on, come on. (He goes through file after file but can't get to anything, he opens the large part of the computer that's locked off.) Wow, I'm guessing the Maximals couldn't get this far into the computers, luckily I had the bridge clearance codes, huh? (He sees a large disturbance in the computer's data.) What's this? (He tries to extract the data on to a disk, but when he tries to open the link to the disturbance the computer screen flashes then goes black, then the lights around him go black. He turns back to the computer screen and sees a horrifying 3-D silhouette of an ugly, ghastly creature's face pushing through the glass like it were made of rubber. The demon-like face turns to him and stretches further out. He jumps back and hits the opposite wall.) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (The mouth opens wide and prepares to swallow him whole, Drone closes his eyes, silence, he opens them, the lights are on, the face is gone, on the screen the words' Loading Task' are flashing, he quickly closes out of the program and deletes all evidence of his using the computer.) I do not need this stress. (The lights go out again and all you can see are his green eyes reflecting off of his gold metal face.) Okay that's it! (You hear his turbine gun charge up and he starts firing madly, sirens begin sounding in the meeting room and Whiplash brings up an image of the ship.)

WHIPLASH: There's a Predacon on board!

RATTRAP: He used the computers! He almost covered it up.

DINOBOT: The codes, he must have been looking for the codes for the second room!

BAMBARD: We have to go now!

DINOBOT: Flyers, take the lead with me! The rest of you move in beast mode it's probably faster. (Outside the base Drone rockets away, his ankle jets on full. A few seconds later Dinobot burns rubber down the steep mountain side, followed by Parrator, Boomerang and Whiplash. Then a Panther, deer, and white rat run out of the elevator. Scene goes to the front where Drone is desperately going as fast as possible, he sees Dinobot driving underneath him and speeds up.)

Scene goes to the Predacon base where Chameleotron is checking the scanners.

CHAMELEOTRON: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Drone's coming in fast with all the Maximals on his tail! And I mean fast!

TARANTULUS: He found it! Haha! Heeheeheeheehee! (Tarantulus looks at the monitor.) Prepare for battle! (The Predacons run out of their cave and to the beach, bordered by the jungle.)

BATTERAM: I don't like this, this is where the Titans, well, you know.

(Tarantulus shudders.)

ANACRONDA: We take care of the Maxies, then open the second floor?

TARANTULUS: Yesssss hahahahaha. (He grows more insane by the second with anticipation, suddenly out of the forest bursts Drone, he crashes at Tarantulus's feet in exhaustion, then the Maximals come out of the jungle, the two sides stand off, Whiplash leans into Dinobot's ear.)

WHIPLASH: We're all in one place, the perfect time for 'it' to strike.

(Dinobot nods.)

TARANTULUS: You lose Maximals! We have the codes! (Bambard shoots him in the chest.)

BAMBARD: Not if we can help it! (The two sides break into crossfire. Drone crawls up to Tarantulus who is lying stunned on the sand.)

DRONE: You may not want to hear this but, there are no codes, none, I looked through everything. (Tarantulus opens his eyes.)

TARANTULUS: Noooooooooooooooooo! (He jumps up and fires a load of missiles from his shoulders, the missiles freeze the crossfire, for a split second everything goes silent, then mayhem breaks loose. The missiles destroys the sand dune the Maximals are hiding behind, the Maximals return fire while scattering, then Drone rolls behind the rock Anacronda is hiding at.)

ANACRONDA: Did I hear you correctly?

DRONE: No codes, no-where.

ANACRONDA: This is hopeless...(Anacronda continues talking, Drone sees something out over the water, it's night so the moons are casting dim light, he opens his mouth in horror.) I mean what are we doing on- (Drone begins tapping his shoulder.) What? What? (He sees it as well.) Oh slag. Tarantulus! It's back! (Tarantulus rolls out of the way of Whiplash's saw/shield and looks over the ocean. The rest of the transformers simultaneously stop firing.)

DINOBOT: Here it comes. (The polygon freezes between the Maximals and Preds and a blinding light pierces the night, when the light subsides fourteen shadows are standing in a circle around the polygon.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Oh slag. Uh, um, uh, Optimus! (He transforms into transmetal Optimus and brings the shoulder guns over his head, sites in on the shadows and begins firing like mad, everyone does, Batteram's gun jams and he goes down behind his rock to fix it, he stands up and turns around, in front of him is the Waspinator shadow.)

BATTERAM: Ah-(The shadows thrusts its fist through his arm and melts it off, Batteram reels back and lands on the sand, crawling desperately away, the shadow walks calmly after him, Batteram feels a very slight vibration and jumps into the air, transforming and flying swiftly back, on the spot where he was laying a massive black beak, followed by a tan gelatinous body, flies out of the ground and slams down onto the sand.)

PESTALANCE: Could this get any worse? (A huge dark spidery figure creeps from the trees behind him, Darkrazor clamps one of her huge hands around his waist and picks him up off the ground.) Aaaaaah! I had to ask! (Darkrazor holds his face up to her huge crested head, her mouth opens and the second mouth inside twitches, she then reels back in pain, three holes in her shoulder begin oozing acid blood, she looks down and sees the shadows of Whiplash and Drone.)

DARKRAZOR: Darkrazor! Terrorize! (She throws Pestalance away, he lands behind the Predacon lines, she transforms and stands there, towering over the two antagonizers.) That was a mistake! (She readies the guns on her shoulders, wrists, hips and her eye-lasers. Dinobot looks to his right and sees the two shadows de-materialize in a wave of fire-power. Behind him the trees explode outward and Brutallion steps out in beast mode, the huge creature looks down at Dinobot and lets out a bellowing roar.)

BRUTALLION: Brutallion! Terrorize! (He transforms and slams his electro-club on the ground where Dinobot was just standing, sending currents of electricity through the ground, Dinobot quickly converted to vehicle mode and peeled away. Batteram looks back at Quake, the immense worm slides back into its hole.)

QUAKE: Quake! Terrorize! (His voice echoes the words out the hole, Batteram looks around curiously and lands next to Anacronda.)

BATTERAM: Where is he? (BOOOOM! The ground explodes underneath them, caused by Quake firing his seismic gun underground, Batteram gets the full force and flies somewhere into the jungle, Anacronda is sideswiped by the shockwave and slides across the sand, more sections of beach begin exploding randomly, one goes off under Dinobot and sends him flying through the air. He lands behind the Predacons next to Pestalance.)

PESTALANCE: We're cold slag. (Dinobot turns on his comlink and sends a message to Whiplash and Batteram.)

DINOBOT: We have to take it out, we have to take it out now! (Whiplash nods as he listens to the transmission, Dinobot, with Pestalance on his back ramps over Anacronda and lands next to the other two.)

BAMBARD: OK, let's do it! (Dinobot turns toward the polygon, revving his engine, Whiplash converts to his beast mode, the rattlesnake/ dilophosaurus/ scorpion fuzor puts his back legs at the bases of Dinobot's back wheels, then his clawed hands on Dinobot's shoulders, he lowers his head and his two scorpion tails twitch in readiness. Bambard stays in robot mode and waits behind them.)

DINOBOT: Pestalance, draw its attention! (Pestalance runs to the side and starts firing at the polygon, the polygon returns the shots, narrowly missing Pestalance. Dinobot burns rubber toward the polygon, Bambard runs behind them, cross-fire missing them by inches, Dinobot travels under the polygon, Whiplash strikes with his tails, the right tail makes a dent, the second splits a crack, then Dinobot ramps a dune and lands behind a rock. Bambard sprints up to the polygon and grabs the edges of the crack with his gangley antler hands, he uses every ounce of strength, then the orb splits open, revealing the utter darkness inside.)

BAMBARD: NOW! (All of the Maximals aim their weapons at the hole, charge them to full power and fire, they keep firing and the polygon begins to glow brighter and brighter. The Predacons notice this and also begin firing at the polygon, the shadows begin to fade, then the Titans join in, first Darkrazor fires her shoulder guns and double-mouth gun, a beam of seismic waves comes out of the ground directly underneath the polygon, then Brutallion brings up his fusion gun. When his solid beam of energy hits the polygon, time itself shudders, the shadows disappear and the orb begins to spin wildly.)

PESTALANCE: It's gonna blow! (The Predacons retreat into their base while the Maximals head toward theirs, Quake moves through his tunnel underground, Darkrazor and Brutallion sprint and dive into the water. Dinobot looks back and sees a blinding flash, the shockwave throws them all roughly twenty meters. Tarantulus and Waspinater are the only Predacons that make it into their base, the rest are embedded in the outer wall of the mountain, and the two Titans in the water are toppled end over end in the waves. Dinobot struggles to his feet and walks back onto the beach, where the polygon was floating there is now only a dark within dark orb floating there.)

DINOBOT: What? (The dark orb suddenly rockets out of the planet's atmosphere and enters transwarp space. Whiplash walks up to Dinobot, one of the scorpion tails on his shoulder is missing and the rattlesnake head mounted between his shoulders is hanging limp, then Panthor walks up to them as well.)

WHIPLASH: What was that?

DINOBOT: All too familiar.

PANTHOR: Come on, let's get back to the base for repairs. (The three walk away, joined by the rest of their battered and bruised team. Inside the Predacon base Tarantulus has truly lost it, he is standing on top of the hatch to the second room shooting it at point blank.)

TARANTULUS: Open! Open! OPEN! (The robot throws the gun away to his side in disgust. Waspinater walks up.)

WASPINATOR: Spider-bot let Waspinator try now?

TARANTULUS: Couldn't hurt, maybe you'll kill yourself and all of my troubles will be over. (Waspinator ignores the comment and places his hand above the keyboard, he them slams his hand flat against it, the lights around the edge of the door light up and it opens. Tarantulus gapes in open-mouthed paralysis.) H-h-h-h-how-h-how?

WASPINATOR: Simple, the first Waspinator fall on keyboard he land like this, (He shows how he had put his hands out to stop his fall.) it wasn't the code that opened the door, it was Waspinater. (Tarantulus thinks about that for a second, then slams his forehead.)

TARANTULUS: DUH! Why didn't it occur to me before?! Starscream was a simple being, he wouldn't take the time to remember a massive password encryption, that was a cover up! He used a DNA recognition module inside the keys, and since your body possessed his spark, you took on some of his DNA, I don't believe it! (His head hurts so much that he passes out on the floor. Waspinator stands there, very pleased with himself.)

WASPINATOR: Waspinator did it! Waspinator did it! (He realizes something.) Aw slag, Waspinator have to salvage the rest of Predacons. (He begins dragging Tarantulus's body to the CR pods. The camera zooms out, and fades.