Optimus Primal quotes from Beast Machines: Transformers

Optimus Primal

What's wrong, Megatron? Is your single elegant machine having trouble multitasking?

Optimus Primal

Welcome back into the fold.

Optimus Primal

Forget the seeds of the future. I'm burying you in the past!

Optimus Primal

That's it! We've got to work together to reform our neural pathways! That's the only way to destroy the virus and cure us!

Optimus Primal

Everyone underground!

Rattrap

What makes you think it's any better down there? [A tank nearby explodes] I withdraw the question.

Optimus

Of course! "The seeds of the future lie buried in the past"!

Rattrap

Why do you keep saying that?!

Optimus Primal

According to legend, the first robots who came to Cybertron had to learn how to transform. It took discipline, purity of spark, years of practice...

Rattrap

News flash for ya, monkey boy: WE AIN'T GOT YEARS!

Cheetor

Awesome transformation, big bot!

Rattrap

So, what's your secret?

Optimus Primal

I... understand.

Blackarachnia

Great. That makes one of us.

Optimus Primal

Free your minds. Let go of old thinking. Focus on the transformation within.

Rattrap

What's with all the hocus-pocus? Just give us the command codes so we can transform already.

Optimus Primal

It's not that easy, Rattrap. The Oracle has melded us into a balance of both machine and living tissue. Command codes and onboard computers are things of the past.

Cheetor

So what are we? Robots or animals?

Optimus Primal

Both... and neither.

Blackarachnia

Well, that sure clears it up!

Optimus Primal

The key is finding the balance in yourself. Then and only then can you truly say: I am transformed.

Rattrap

I am transformed, I am sooo transformed I can't even believe it!... ehhh.

Optimus Primal

Just let it happen, don't try to make it happen. [Rattrap tries to force himself to transform] Can you feel it?

Rattrap

Oh! I feel a breakthrough coming...

Optimus Primal

Megatron... What have you done with the Council of Elders?!

Megatron

Alas, they are no longer in control. Cybertron is now my domain. You may bow before your new lord and master.

Megatron

I am the future. I have forged this entire planet into a single elegant machine. A vision of technological purity and order. And you four mongrels would dare contaminate that vision with your accursed beast modes!

Optimus Primal

My memory's a little faulty, Megatron, but I seem to recall you picking up a beast mode yourself.

Megatron

I wiped it clean from my shell! Like a virus! The same way I wiped this planet clean! The same way I intend to finish the job with you!

Optimus Primal

Frustrating, isn't it? Trying to focus on four chaotic individual minds at once...

Megatron

SILENCE!

Optimus Primal

You're still ruled by emotions. That's not very "technologically pure", is it? You can feel the anger rising in you! You're just about ready to EXPLODE!

Optimus Primal

Look at yourself, Megatron. See the thing you despise the most! Cybertron will never be pure so long as the beast exists within you! You've failed.

Megatron

No, Primal. You have failed! You're still too late to save your people. Billions of Transformers - their extinguished sparks are on your hands!

Optimus Primal

What have you done with them?!

Megatron

Perhaps if you'd won the Beast Wars, things would be different. Who's to say? [transforms back to robot mode]

Optimus Primal

[furiously] TELL ME WHAT YOU'VE DONE! [involuntarily returns to beast mode]

Megatron

Who's the beast now, Primal?

Optimus Primal

We were sloppy out there today: unfocused, reckless, insubordinate! One more mission like that and we may as well surrender to Megatron!

Rattrap

Sheesh! Bye-bye sand master, hello task master.

Optimus Primal

Blackarachnia! Were you even listening? I told you to transform!

Rattrap

Haha... If my beast mode were as ugly as hers, I wouldn't want to go back either.

Optimus Primal

You think this is a joke?! [Rattrap fears of him] We are Cybertron's only hope! [Screams in pain in his spark] I failed my people once... Ehk! I will not fail them again.

Rattrap

Heh! What crawled to his circuits?

Cheetor

Optimus, wait!

Blackarachnia

He's got a lot of his mind.

Rattrap

Speaking of which, how come you're so hard on staying in robot mode?

Blackarachnia

I have my reasons.

Cheetor

Use me for target practice? THAT'S IT! I Am Trans...

Optimus Primal

Negative. These storage bins may contain explosives.

Blackarachnia

[Scoffs] Aren't you being just a little overcautious?

Optimus Primal

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