(The camera goes to the snowy north, it is now later in the night, the snow storm is over, then in the cave, Springblaster is sitting next to Drone, a few feet away lies the creature's life-less body, a stalagmite driven through its center eye. Drone wakes up, he looks first at the dead creature then to Springblaster.)

SPRINGBLASTER: I returned the favor. (The two look into each other's eyes.)

DRONE: Thank, (He has trouble saying the words.) thank, (The two's faces are lingering closer and closer to each other.) thank you- (The two touch lips, Drone slips his arms around her waist as they continue.) The storm's over.

(Springblaster wraps her arms around his neck.)

SPRINGBLASTER: So?

(In another part of the snowy desert Anacronda clears a snow dune, there in front of him is the rugged stretch of land separating the jungle from the snowy north, Parrator and Pyereen step up next to him, the three say nothing, the Maximal still not placing too much trust in the Predacon and vice-versa, they walk between the rocks.)

ANACRONDA: When we get back, I can't trust you not to turn against me.

PARRATOR: That goes both ways, Pred. (Pyereen steps between the lanky Predacon and the rainbow Maximal.)

PYEREEN: Chill out boys, let's just get home and then we can decide who shoots who in the back. (She walks ahead and the other two break off their staring contest and follow behind. In the jungle Whiplash and Quadroblade are plunging through thick grass and ferns, Whiplash hears something, he looks around but doesn't linger on it, he reaches the edge of the grass and walks ahead, Bombshell and Transquito suddenly burst out of the trees on each side of him, Bombshell hits him in the head with his shell-shield while Transquito gets him in a head-lock, Quadroblade starts to run up but Tarantulus comes up behind her and holds her arms.)

TARANTULUS: Where're you goin' sweetie? Heh heh heh. (He rests his chin on her shoulder, she tries to jerk away.)

QUADROBLADE: Back off creep! (Tarantulus hits her in the back of the head.)

WHIPLASH: Leave her alone! (Bombshell begins to swing his shield at the fuzor's face again, Whiplash jerks to the side and Bombshell strikes Transquito instead instead.)

TRANSQUITO: Ah, you stubby little- (Whiplash grabs the Predacon by the neck and flips him over, the Predacon lands on a log, a broken branch goes through his shoulder, Bombshell hits Whiplash over the head and he goes down, Quadroblade ducks down, whirls around, and then stands up, raking her wrist and elbow blades up Tarantulus's body, slicing his chest-plate to ribbons and exposing his circuits.)

QUADROBLADE: Try to make a move on me will ya? (Bombshell runs up behind her, he suddenly falls, Whiplash's saw/shield in his back.) Poor Preds, they never learn.

(The scene goes to later, the sun is beginning to set, Dinobot's head comes up out of the canopy, he looks and seas their mountain in the distance, he slides back down the tree and lands next to Dragoness and Panthor.)

DINOBOT: The base is not far now, none of this makes sense yet though.

PANTHOR: What?

DINOBOT: If the orb wanted us dead it would have done so.

DRAGONESS: Maybe they, it, whatever, wants us alive. Or, it could be toying with us. (Dinobot ponders the though.)

DINOBOT: Then it may not be wise to rush in.

(The camera goes to Parrator, Pyereen and Anacronda walking through the jungle, Parrator walks by a tree.)

PARRATOR: Ah! Holy slag! (He sees Teraductile pinned to the tree with Dinobot's sword, Anacronda sees it, he instantly registers the foot prints on the mud, the marks of the scuffle, he walks slowly to the side, Parrator walks up to the lifeless robot, he is face-to-face with him, Teraductile's head suddenly snaps up and he grabs Parrator by the neck, with his other hand he pulls the sword out of his gut, he whirls around and holds Parrator against the tree, Pyereen starts to run at him but Anacronda tackles her, she rolls over and pins him to the ground.)

ANACRONDA: Hmm, not right now. (He winks at her, she angrily grabs him by the bottom jaw and twists his head around backwards, Batteram jumps on her from the side and Chameleotron helps him, both of their heads are dented from the blows given to them earlier, Teraductile pushes the sword through Parrator's chest and leaves him there. Anacronda stands up his head still backwards.) I was wondering when I would find help.

TERADUCTILE: What do you think we should do with the hot tamale? (Pyereen struggles to get up but Batteram and Chameleotron hold her down, Teraductile twists Anacronda's head back around, but it falls of.)

ANACRONDA: Thanks, thanks a lot. (His body picks up the head and jams it back on.) I don't think we have any use for her. (Teraductile pulls two of Parrator's throwing knife-feathers out of the tips of his wings and holds them above her face.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Good night! (Pyereen closes her eyes.)

(The camera goes to Tarantulus, his chest-plate still slashed open, baring his circuits, Bombshell is walking behind him trying to pull the fan-blade out of his back, Transquito is walking behind them, his right arm limp from the branch driving through it, they suddenly come across the other four.)

ANACRONDA: You look like slag.

TARANTULUS: You don't look great either, where's Drone? (Everyone shrugs.)

TRANSQUITO: We got a long walk back. (Tarantulus pulls a small scanning device out of a compartment in his calf.) What's that?

TARANTULUS: Our Titan friends have got a very large underground base, this will help us locate their nearest entrance.

CHAMELEOTRON: You trust them? You trust those creatures they have as guard-dogs?

TARANTULUS: They're still out somewhere in the desert so they can't do anything to us. (The small object bleeps and they begin to walk where it guides. The scene goes to the edge of the trees by the foot of the Maximal base, the moonlight is casting eerie shadows, Panthor is quietly, carefully crawling under the ferns and other plants, he reaches the edge of the clearing and sees shadows circling the entrance to the elevator, they all stand at attention, Panthor crawls back. Further in he relays the news to Dinobot and Dragoness.)

DRAGONESS: It was a trap, the whole thing.

DINOBOT: I'm betting they're at the other bases to.

PANTHOR: What do we do? We can't even fire our weapons.

DRAGONESS: We have to get back to our repair stations or else we'll deactivate. (They are startled by a noise behind them, Boomerang steps out, followed by Bambard and Shellshock.)

BOOMERANG: What're ya standin' 'round here for? Let's go in. (He starts to walk toward the base, Dinobot grabs him by the arm and pulls him back.)

DINOBOT: We got bigger problems, shadows.

BAMBARD: Ah slag, at the base? (Dinobot nods.)

DINOBOT: I've got it! (Everyone sh's him.) We don't have weapons but the base is loaded.

SHELLSHOCK: So, all we have to do is get some-one into the base, quietly.

(Smiles spread around the faces of the group.)

BAMBARD: I'll do it.

DRAGONESS: Whoa there Bambi, we gotta plan a little better than that.

DINOBOT: I have an idea, we'll need two teams one... (He trails off as the camera fades out, the sun is just starting to reappear)

Scene goes to Tarantulus and the other Preds, minus Drone, inside the Xenomorph caverns, they are walking close to each other, the drones on the walls eye them as they move by.

BATTERAM: I don't like this one bit man.

TARANTULUS: The Titans must have done something to the queen that changes the entire colony.

TRANSQUITO: Huh?

TARANTULUS: They must have done something so they know Predacons are friends. (He turns left at a two-way intersection.)

BOMBSHELL: Why didn't we go that way? There were lights going down it.

TARANTULUS: The Titans warned me, they have all sorts of security in the main section of their base, we can only use the outer tunnels. (One of the drones is crawling on the ceiling above them, Teraductile turns his eyes up and whispers into Tarantulus's ear.)

TERADUCTILE: That drone has been following us.

TARANTULUS: Probably just a curious one. (The camera shows a close-up view of the creature's elongated head, a small camera is planted inside it's exoskeletal head.)

CHAMELEOTRON: How far away are we? (A drone moves by on one of the walls and he jumps to the side.)

TARANTULUS: We still have a ways to go, now would you all please shut up!?

Scene goes to Drone and Springblaster in the cave, they are sitting around the fire, the sun is just over the horizon.

SPRINGBLASTER: I should go now. (She stands up and walks to the opening, she turns back to Drone and is about to say something when another huge three-eyed monster appears behind her at the cave entrance, she turns around and sees the huge mouth.) Ahhhh! (A tentacle reaches out for her, she dives out of its path Drone helps her up and they back away from the monster, it pushes its long body in further, Drone looks around he runs to the side the creature follows him.)

DRONE: This better work! (He runs alongside the creature, it whips around to follow him, a tall pillar-like rock is directly in its path, the creature's face plows into it and sharp rocks and stalactites fall from the ceiling, Springblaster rams Drone out of the way as a huge chunk of rock falls where he was, they run to the exit but it collapses.) Go deeper in! (They do a one-eighty and run back into the cave over the two dead monsters, the ceiling is collapsing around them as they run, they pass by a small opening, about six feet tall and three feet wide, they both dive in as the cave collapses behind them, Drone looks up, they are in a room, the walls are a smooth black/gray color, like marble, at one end there is a strangely shaped stem-table, a small keypad is on the front end.)

SPRINGBLASTER: Is that?

DRONE: A computer. (He stands up and walks over to it.)

(Outside the Maximal base Dinobot and Dragoness jump out of the tree line and yell to the shadows.)

DINOBOT: You want us!? Come and get it! (They run into the forest and a some shadows follow them. After those shadows leave, Boomerang and Tankeel run out.)

BOOMERANG: Ey! Your mamma's a dingo! (Tankeel smirks at the lame insult but some more shadows emotion-lessly run after them. There are only five shadows left, Panthor and Shellshock run out, the shadows don't give them a chance to say anything.)

PANTHOR: Whoa! That way! (They run into the jungle as the last of the shadows follow them, Bambard steps out and walks by the polygon floating a few feet above the ground, he gets into the elevator. Inside the base he runs to the comm room, when he slams open the door he is greeted by two shadows, one is Panthor and the other Chameleotron, he freezes in his tracks. Inside the room Drone is standing at the computer, he pushes a button, a hologram appears on the flat top, he goes over a couple more keys.)

DRONE: it's a remote access terminal, (He looks at something, it shows three power bars, he clicks on it, the computer instantly brings up an image of the planet, three black dots are blipping on the surface.) oh slag, three more polygons, at the bases, it was a trap!

SPRINGBLASTER: Why let us survive here just to attack us at our bases? (A grim realization dawns on him.)

DRONE: A test, they were testing our survival skills.

SPRINGBLASTER: You don't know that, they could be just toying with us, trying to keep us guessing, whatever it is can you do something? (He goes over the keys, and yells with glee.)

DRONE: I can, (He clicks a button and the three black dots disappear. The polygon below the Maximal base evaporates, the two shadows aiming their weapons at Bambard disintegrate, the ones in the jungle do so as well, back in the cave Drone grins.) and I just did (He clicks a key to shut the computer off, a strange voice speaks from the computer.)

VOICE: Signature not recognizable, compound will self-destruct. (Drone looks at the exit, the only way out is blocked, he starts going over the keys like mad.)

SPRINGBLASTER: What are you doing? We have to get out of here! (He clicks a last button and the computer jolts him with red electricity, Springblaster pulls him back, red electricity still covering his body, he grabs her around the waste and pulls out his turbine gun, in an instant he fires into the ceiling and turns his ankle rockets on high, the camera goes to a sky view as he flies up out of the cave, his body still coursing with the raw energy.)

Back at the Maximal base it is sun set, Bambard and Shellshock are sitting in a tree, Shellshock moves closer and steals a kiss. Boomerang and Tankeel are sitting in a room with a large window, also watching the sun-set, Boomerang slides his arm around the shorter female's shoulders and they begin kissing, Quadroblade and Whiplash finally walk up to the base, the two get in the elevator, having held back the whole day, as soon as the elevator door closes Whiplash pulls her up to himself and they lock lips, on a hill Drone sets down Pyereen and Parrator and Springblaster gets down off his back, she kisses him and he flies away, Dinobot and Dragoness are sitting in the comm room, Dragoness leans on his shoulder, Dinobot nervously slides away, Dragoness starts to put her arm around him but he stands up.

DINOBOT: Uh, uh, is that an alarm! (He runs out of the room, Dragoness sits back in her chair and sighs. At the predacon base Drone lands on the sand, it is night now, he walks in with a smile on his face, when he gets into the base he sees his fellow Predacons sitting around a table, various holes, dents, and other damage on their exo-structures, Drone sits down and the others stare at him.)

DRONE: What? (The camera zooms out on Drone's smiling face.)