The Name's Jaw, Razor Jaw

By Festus3 festus3@netins.net

Scene opens over the desert, the sun is burning hot, a massive crater from the spawning of Scream is spread over miles, Parrator and Boomerang suddenly hover into view, both in vehicle mode. Boomerang is scanning the destruction with a small gadget.

BOOMERANG: Aw now this ain't royt. (He hits the small machine with his other clawed hand.) There's chemical radiation and forms of energy down there that the computer can't e'en compute.

PARRATOR: Translation? (Boomerang turns his orange and black transmetal face and grins at the Parrot.)

BOOMERANG: I got no bloomin' clue.

PARRATOR: Whiplash should, let's get some samples. (The two head down to the epicenter of the crater, the camera shows something hovering high above them in the clouds.)

Scene goes to the Predacon base, Tarantulus and Drone are sitting at a computer inside the bridge of their base watching from the spy-cam's point of view while Anacronda works at a different computer.

TARANTULUS: Will it work? (Drone considers for a second.)

DRONE: No, there's two of them, and they're flyers. (Tarantulus turns to Anacronda.)

TARANTULUS: Do you have anyone else isolated? (Anacronda brings up a split-screen showing Panthor prowling the edge of the desert, waiting for Boomerang and Parrator. The other screen shows Bambard working by himself on a communications tower on top of a cliff over the ocean shore.)

DRONE: How convenient, all by himself and only a few miles away.

TARANTULUS: We have a winner! (He hits his communicator.) Chameleotron! Get up here! (Chameleotron comes through the door from the hallway.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Yeah, what?

DRONE: We won't have this chance again, Transquito, Bombshell and Batteram are already in place. (He hands him a small chip with an energon crystal placed in the center.) This will last you as long as you need to get the job done, but you have to stay in one form constant, that means if you try to transform you will die unless you remove the chip. (he carefully takes the chip and stores it in a compartment in his wrist.)

TARANTULUS: Teraductile and Anacronda will help you destroy the Maximal for certain, this has to go without a hitch or it will blow up in our faces.

(Teraductile calls in from the beach, his voice sounds over the intercom.)

TERADUCTILE: All's clear outside, we're ready to start on your word Tarantulus. (Tarantulus hits a button and the ceiling hatch opens, Anacronda jumps up and his hang-glider wings open, Chameleotron stands for a second then hits the button on his arm.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Bambard! (His body shudders and he transforms into Bambard, he takes the chip out of his wrist compartment and sticks it in his neck, a surge goes over his body.) Beast mode! (He transforms and uses his powerful deer legs to jump up, Anacronda catches him and heads along the shore with Teraductile right behind. Tarantulus sits with his hand just above a red button.)

Scene goes to outside the Maximal base, hanging upside down in a tree, in beast mode, and heavily concealed is Batteram, using one foot to hold the tree and the other to hold a small remote device. Back at the predacon base a satellite dish rises out of the water and positions itself to face the planet's largest moon. On the other side of the mountain, concealed under a growth of ferns is Transquito, also in beast mode, a small remote in his two front legs. Somewhere else in the jungle an identical satellite rises out of the trees and positions itself as well. Inside the Pred base Tarantulus eagerly waits. Teraductile sees the cliffs ahead, he brings his wrist to his mouth.

TERADUCTILE: Now! (As soon as Tarantulus hears the word he slams the button, Batteram and Transquito instantly receive the message and activate their remotes, the satellites beam a signal to the surface of the moon, the two signals combine into one beam and bounce back down, right onto the Maximal base, inside all the power goes off, Dinobot and Whiplash look at each other in confusion. Back on the cliff Bambard is working unknowingly at the computer when a shot travels over his head and blows it up, the explosion knocks him back to the edge of the cliff, he looks up and sees the three preds fly over his head and land where his station once was, he starts yelling into his comm.)

BAMBARD: Base! Base this is Bambard I'm under attack! (Chameleotron prances up to him, still in beast mode.) What do you want, Chameleotron!?

CHAMELEOTRON: No, I'm Bambard, and you're dead. (He digs his antlers into Bambard's right arm, opening a wide gash.)

BAMBARD: Ahhhhh! (Chameleotron transforms and steps on the arm, he bends over and takes a small mechanism out of Bambard's circuits, his portable communicator's frequency clearance.)

CHAMELEOTRON: You won't be needing this! (He opens his arm and pulls out his Predacon comm. circuit and replaces it with Bambard's.) Teraductile, dispose of him, Anacronda, you know what to do. (Anacronda nods and pulls out his laser rifle, he turns it around, points it into his right wing, and fires a hole through it, he then walks to the side and lays on the ground as if he has crashed. Bambard is backing up to the cliff while Teraductile charges his hands, they glow with a tremendous amount of electricity.)

TERADUCTILE: Too bad, so young, eh. (He claps his hands together and unleashes a bolt of electricity, Bambard catches the blunt off it and sails over the cliff, Teraductile looks over the edge, then flies down.)

Inside the Maximal base Whiplash has isolated the problem and quickly overrides it.

DINOBOT: Quickly, make sure everybody's all right!

Back at the cliff, Teraductile flies down as Bambard splashes into the water, the Predacon stops just above the water and charges up again. On top of the cliff Chameleotron is talking into his communicator.

CHAMELEOTRON: Yeah Whiplash I'm okay, Anacronda slagged the installation though, but I got him! (He turns his camera to the supposedly fallen Predacon.)

WHIPLASH: Get out of there now! The other Preds might not be far behind!

CHAMELEOTRON: Sure thing buddy, over! (He transforms to beast mode and quickly runs off. Teraductile's eyes are glowing as his charge reaches critical mass, he fires two pillars of lightning into the water, slaughtering fish plant-life.)

TERADUCTILE: Shocking isn't it? (He shakes his head.) Whoa head rush! (He flies up and picks up Anacronda, now in beast mode, he then flies away with Anacronda's long body trailing behind. Under the water Bambard's charred and lifeless body floats silently toward the bottom. (Inside the Predacon base Tarantulus is laughing with glee.)

TARANTULUS: Hahahahaha! Without a hitch! Hahahahaha! (Drone goes back in his chair and sighs in relief.)

Scene goes to deep under the ocean, in the black perpetual night of the sea bed, the camera moves over the surface, it passes by several fish-like creatures with gnarled faces that snap at each other and circle, a crustacean moving slowly across the sand, then, a strange sight, a lifeless form. Its mouth is lying open, baring the razor sharp teeth inside, you can faintly make out the red of the stomach, Razorjaw, deep in an endless stasis lock, the camera moves quickly into his head and fades...

...Scene opens over Cybertron, 'the' Cybertron, during the day, there are vehicles moving on tracks and through the sky, as well as robots walking around the multiple layers of buildings, on top of one building, in a darkened window, a red eye moves to a scope. An open-top monorail car is moving along slowly, two Maximals are sitting inside, both are very familiar, Optimus Primal and Rhinox, before they acquired beast modes, the gun sight centers on Optimus's face. The gunning robot loads a clip in and speaks.

SNIPER: Like shooting sparks in a barrel. (High above the window, on top of an opposite building, another robot runs and jumps into the air, he grabs onto a cable with one hand and uses a razor on his other to cut through it. In the window the sniper squeezes the trigger, but something appears in the scope as the other robot swings in and kicks the gun to the side, it goes off, the shot passes safely by the Optimus, the driver speeds away, inside the window the sniper ducks and the second robot lands behind him.) Razor, fancy meeting you here. (Razor pulls out two blasters and levels them at the Predacon standing opposite him, who also has drawn a blaster.)

RAZOR: Who sent you? (His voice has a slight ghostly metallic drone to it, the other laughs.)

SNIPER: Ha! You expect me to tell you?

RAZOR: Your plan is a failure now, it couldn't hurt.

SNIPER: You think we'd only place one sniper, really now Razor, that hurts.

RAZOR: On the contrary, (He tosses his two blasters in the air and jumps over the sniper's shot, while he travels over the sniper he uses his wrist razors to cut off his arms, he lands behind the sniper and hits him over the back of the head, causing the Predacon to go down to his knees, he then catches his guns and puts them to the back of the other robot's head.) this will hurt. (He lets the other robot sit for a moment in pain.) Who sent you!? (The sniper opens his mouth to speak but a plasma shot takes his head off from the side, Razor quickly turns to see two other Predacons at the door, they fire and he jumps backwards, teetering on the window sill, he goes completely out of the window when they fire again, one runs up to the window and looks down, he's not there, two feet collide with his face as Razor swings back in, the first Pred falls back onto the other one. In the hallway Razor burst out of the door and begins heading down the stairs, three robots appear at the bottom.)

PRED: End of the road buddy. (The three fire at once, Razor dives to the side and scrambles into an elevator, as the door closes Razor waits patiently with his hands crossed behind his back, when the door is almost closed a face appears in the crack, outside the elevator the Predacon falls back with a blade driven in between his eyes. Inside the elevator Razor pushes the top floor button.)

RAZOR: I hate it when they're pushy like that. (The elevator stops and the door opens, he steps out and goes up a flight of stairs to the roof, the elevator next to his opens and four Predacons pour out, the first is shot in the face then Razor runs up and out of sight, when the now three Predacons come onto the roof they are greeted by an empty space, one of them notices a power cable stripped from its braces and hanging over the edge, they run up to it and look down, there is Razor, repelling down, he looks up, smiles, and points to his foot.) Watch your step, it's a long way down. (They all three look down at once, a flat gray object, barely noticeable, is sitting between them, it detonates downward, incinerating the ground beneath the Predacons and causing them to fall past Razor.) That's going to hurt. (He feels the cable go slack and looks up, it has melted through.) Oh slag-ahhhhhhhhhhh! (It breaks and he plummets down, still holding the cable.) Well, this could have gone better. (He sees the approaching power cables below.) If this doesn't work... (He whips the cable to the side and it catches with another, ripping that one free and causing him to jerk sideways, he flies through a window and rolls to a stop on the floor.) Oh, slag. (He gets to his feet and runs out of the building as amazed Maximals watch. He explodes out of the door and hails a passing vehicle, the driver opens the door.)

DRIVER: Yeah, what'ya need? (Razor pulls the robot out of the vehicle and gets in.) What do you think you're doing!?

RAZOR: Sorry, This should be enough. (He flips a credit chip to him and speeds off, a computer voice speaks.)

COMP: This vehicle is not allowed to pass the current speed, please slow down and drive safely- (Razor rips the speed control from the dashboard and accelerates, whizzing by other vehicles, following the monorail. A sudden silence falls over him, his surroundings darken, a white, ghostlike blur appears in the distance, instantly the vision is gone, he zooms his vision ahead and sees the second sniper, below him is the car containing Optimus and Rhinox.)

RAZOR: Gotcha'. (In the window the sniper is aiming the gun, the cross-hairs are approaching Optimus's head, Razor's car breaks off from the traffic and veers up, it travels through the window, taking the sniper with and embedding him in the wall, Razor opens the door and walks up to the robot.) I'm getting tired of asking this, who sent you? (The Predacon sneers and pushes a few buttons on his wrist panel.)

SNIPER2: I'll see you in the pit! (Razor tenses and sprints for the window, the sniper pulls out his blaster and aims for Razor.) For X! (The shot catches Razor in the shoulder, his momentum carries him out of the window, the self-destruct goes off and fires him out of the window, as he flies to the ground he crashes through a vehicle's window and lands in a heap in the passenger seat, the female driver stares at him in astonishment, he switches to a sitting position.)

DRIVER: Are you alright sir?

RAZOR: Never better, you can drop me off up here at the corner, I'll walk where I need to go. (She lowers the vehicle to street level, he hands her a credit chip and gets out.)

Scene goes to a little later, around sunset, Razor's wrist is hooked up to a CR engine while his superior chews him out.

SEKTOR: It's this kind of recklessness that will get your skid-plate fired!

(Razor passively responds.)

RAZOR: It's also that kind of recklessness that makes me your best agent.

SEKTOR: Whatever, I'm not going to blow a gasket over this. (Razor looks at him, puzzled.)

RAZOR: This is new.

SEKTOR: As you should already know, Protoform X has been caught and put on an exploration ship to be dumped.

RAZOR: Yes, and today's target is the pilot, I guessed that much.

SEKTOR: X had loyal followers, he was a role model for all the low-life Predacon scum out there.

RAZOR: Yeah, what's your point? (Sektor sighs.)

SEKTOR: They will stop at nothing to stop this mission, they may even attempt installing moles in the stasis pods. I want you to get to the core of their organization and stop them.

RAZOR: I hope you're also aware that if Depthcharge finds out... (He leaves it to imagination.)

SEKTOR: We don't have time to worry about that renegade! You have to start tomorrow morning, the Axalon departs in two days!

RAZOR: Yes sir. (He starts unhooking the CR engine.)

SEKTOR: Razor, you are the CEC's best, one of very few Maximals with the gift of the Matrix, and the only agent I trust to carry this out. (Razor's thoughts are read out loud.)

RAZOR: Okay. Why's he so choked up over a simple infiltration mission? You must be goin' soft old buddy. (Sektor chuckles to himself.)

SEKTOR: I wish. (He hands Razor a small chip.) Don't access this until it's time. Get some rest and start first thing in the morning, dismissed. (Razor leaves the room.)

Scene opens in the morning Razor steps up to the door of a small spare parts shop, he goes inside, a short Maximal is sitting behind the counter, he is startled when he sees the agent.

RAZOR: How're you doing this morning Sprocket? (Sprocket nervously answers.)

SPROCKET: Uh-uh just fine sir, wha-what can I help you wit? (Razor flips the computer on the counter around, he goes through a few data-tracks.)

RAZOR: That's funny, it's not here.

SPROCKET: Huh? Wha-what?

RAZOR: Well, my sources say that you moved certain 'items' yesterday.

SPROCKET: I-I only sell spare parts for hovercars, you know-

RAZOR: Slag that! (He pulls the robot over the counter and puts a blaster in his eye.) You sold several sniper assault lasers to a group of Predacons among other things! What were the other things!?

SPROCKET: I don't know what you're talking about!

RAZOR: Cut the lag or I'll carve you a new disk drive! (He flips his left-hand razor out and puts it up to Sprocket's neck.) Then I'll stick your spark in a reactor core!

SPROCKET: Alright! Alright! Field dampers! (Razor isn't happy yet.)

RAZOR: Who and what else!?

SPROCKET: I-I-I-I-I, they, the-the-they were Preds! They bought dampers, uh, a couple of snipes, cutting lasers, magnetic-

RAZOR: Enough! Did you put a tracer in any of the products?

SPROCKET: How'd you know I did that!? (Razor brings his wrist-blade closer.) Yes! Yes! I wasn't sure if they would pay up completely so I put tracers in some of the stuff.

RAZOR: Good, give me the tracker. (He lets the terrified robot up, Sprocket pulls a small gadget out from under the counter and hands it to Razor who walks out, at the door he turns around and throws the object behind the counter, the explosion rocks the little room and flings Sprocket to Razor's feet.) It wasn't nice to give me a bomb instead now was it? (Sprocket takes an object out of his wrist chamber.)

SPROCKET: Please, just go. (Outside two Predacons are standing in a window across the street, a rocket launcher leveled at the door.)

PRED: Fire! (Razor is standing in the doorway when everything darkens again and time seems to freeze, the window across the street has a bright white ghost-like spot in it, the vision is gone. The Preds smile when the shop explodes, standing behind them is Razor, both of his wrist blades out, the Predacons don't even see the blades bear down on their necks.)

RAZOR: Now, to find them. (He turns on the tracker.)