[Two Cybertronian spaceships warp into space and engage in aerial combat]
Hull breach in sector 7, guiding systems failing!
Oh man, this is ridiculous! We're an exploration ship, not a battle cruiser!
No choice. Our ship was the only one that could lock onto Megatron's warp signature.
Shields are doing a major fade!
Plasma cannons to full power.
[The Predacon ship Darksyde fires on all weapons on the Maximal ship Axalon as Dinobot torments about them]
Their shields are down. Destroy them!
Now, where's the fun in that? A little torment I think first. Yesss. Side Guns!
[Darksyde shoots up the side guns at Axalon, Maximals' screams]
Rapture. The stasis hold is failing.
RhinoxWe're going down.
Launch all pods, get them in the safe orbit. [Axalon releases all the stasis pods out of the Maximals' ship into the galaxy] ALL PLASMA CANNONS, FIRE!
[Axalon shoots at the Darksyde with the plasma cannons, Megatron screams two times and both ships split and crash land into different locations of the planet]
We don't have to do this, Megatron! There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries! Why start this up again?
Peace perhaps on your side, Maximal scum, yes - but not on ours. Permit me to inform you that an enemy which appears to be peaceful may, in fact, be merely biding its time!
[Repairing his gun] Finally...
We Predacons have never abandoned our rightful goal of galactic conquest! No... we have merely been waiting for the right moment... to STRIKE!
You mean like THIS!? [Fires at Megatron]
Ahh, a treacherous, under-handed sneak attack. Oh-ho-ho, I like you, pussycat, yes... But it shall avail you not, no! For now the power gauntlet has been cast! Predacons, TERRORIZE!
Rhinox
Rhinox, MAXIMIZE!
Optimus Primal: MAXIMIZE!
[The Maximals hold a secret ballot to decide who should be the new leader]
Rhinox
One vote for Rattrap. [Rattrap smirks] One vote for Dinobot. [Dinobot looks impressed] One more vote for Rattrap, and..... another vote for Dinobot. It's a tie.
Heeeey! What?!?! Which one of you... you traitors voted for the Predacon?!?!
Rhinox
It's a secret ballot. No one has to say who they voted for.
[Laughs heartily] Great system, your "democracy". No mechanism to break a tie.
Some power play, leatherlips! Y'know, I'm startin' to wonder if that alien probe had anything to do with Optimus's disappearin'.
[Tosses the command table aside] I've heard enough from this scrawny thief! I will break the tie and be your leader, by force if necessary!
Rattrap, you commanded well in my absence.
Err..... Command's a pain in the tail, especially with this pack of hyenas, you can keep it.
I'm more concerned with this probe right now.
[The alien probe suddenly disappears before the Maximals]
What the spotted heck was that all about?!
I don't know. I suppose they found out everything they needed to know about us.
Rhinox
Yeah. They know we've got destructive capability. And reasoning power.
But why would they want to know? And more importantly, who are they? Friends, enemies, or... something more?
Good question. I wonder when we'll find out the answer.
Rhinox
[At a console] Incoming stasis pod! Its orbit has decayed into the Northern sector!
Heads up, bots; get ready to move!
Rhinox
Impact in 5 seconds... 4... 3... 2... 1...
[The stasis pod crashes in the Arctic]
[At a console] IMPACT! It landed in Sector 6175885, a hundred clicks due north! Shall we go?
The stasis pod is ours, Maximal! And I know your weaknesses, yeesss... [Megatron blasts an outcrop where two tigers are standing; the tigers plunge down to the ground and Megatron utters a sadistic laugh]
Rhinox
Let them go! They're not part of this!
That's right, just innocent creatures. [Aims his blaster at the tigers] So surrender yourselves and this pod, or they shall be terminated!
[The Maximal squad slowly lower their guns]
You win, you depraved wad of stinkin' slag...!
Rattrap... gone? No way. I don't believe it.
He was a difficult Maximal to deal with. At times, impossible. But I'll remember him with honor.
I won't disgrace his memory with lies! He was a stinking, omnivorous pestilence! Still, in some perverse way... I will miss him.
Rhinox
Sure, he smelled bad he was a rat but he was my best friend...
[An infected Optimus Primal has violently emerged from the CR chamber]
Nobody...takes it off... Understand? You hear me?! I'LL BLOW YOUR SLAGGING HEADS OFF!
[Rhinox restrains Optimus]
Rhinox
Hold on there!
[Struggles] GET OFF OF ME!
I don't fear you... I DON'T FEAR ANY OF YOU!!!!!!
Rhinox
I thought that thing was supposed to turn him into a coward.
No doubt, that WAS its intention. But Scorponok is notoriously incompetent. I would say instead that we have...a berserker. Interesting...
[Terrosaur confronts Rhinox over his previous incidents]
Look who's here. Our loyal friend.
Rhinox
Is that supposed to mean something?
Deep six the "big wide eyes" routine! You're trying to destabilise the whole operation, so you can knock off Megatron and take over! Well, i got new for you, pal... [lowers his voice] I like this plan! So here's the deal: You and me, equal partners.
Rhinox
No, here's the deal.
[Rhinox grabs Terrosaur by the neck and put him up against the wall]
Terror... ack! [Starts choking]
Rhinox
You're gonna keep your big beak shut and do exactly what I tell you - 'cause one false move and you're a new fast food sensation: Pterodactyl Hot Wings! Get it?!
[Rhinox drops Terrosaur]
Rhinox
Good.
[Rhinox walks off, leaving Terrosaur gasping for breath]
[Rhinox confronts Megatron over his undesirable defeat]
Rhinox
Well, what do ya know? I win.
[Megatron growls in pain as he tries to stand up]
Rhinox
Reprogramming me was the worst mistake you ever made, cause now that I'm a Predacon, I'm just a little too crafty for you!
Rhinox
It's called irony, sport. I take over, and you head straight for the recycling bin, yeessss.
So it would seem. And even now, Rhinox, you're teaching me a valuable lesson...
Rhinox
Yeah? What's that?
Sometimes Predacons gloat too much! [Shoots one of the transmuter's buttons, causing it to reprogram Rhinox back to Maximal form]
Rhinox
[Bewildered] What happened?
It's the Maximal! [Shoots Rhinox] Do you thought you'd outwit me?!
Rhinox
Whoa... what do you suppose that beam was all about?
A message! We were given a paradise! All we had to do was live there in peace! But we proved unworthy. And the paradise is no more.
Yeah, it's an old story. Maybe someday we'll learn.
Yeah well uh, pardon my pragmatism here in this you know, deep philosophical moment, but I'm a little more concerned about who got that message. You gotta know, they ain't gonna be real happy...
What do you think's there gonna do?
Rhinox
That, we're just going to have to wait and see...
Rhinox
[groans in pain]
Rhinox
Wild bean vines... Hard to digest... [starts turning around while groaning]
Do NOT turn your back on me, Maximal scum!
[The Maximals back away from Rhinox, while the Predacons look on in shock realizing what's going to happen]
Rhinox
[groans again and lifts his tail]
[Megatron screams as Rhinox lets out a fart so massive it can be seen from space]
Whoa. Sounds like we got back just in time.
So, Tigatron. Now that the fun's over, how about filling us in?
Megatron has found a strange golden disk of alien manufacture. It was activated recently. That was the energy anomaly I noticed.
Another golden disk. Coincidence?
Rhinox
Maybe.
It has moving symbols on it. Megatron has translated them.
It was designed to be a beacon. The aliens... the ones who seeded this planet with Energon; the ones who created that flying island that almost destroyed us...
Yes? What are you saying? What have you discovered?
They're coming. [Airazor and Rattrap gasps, Dinobot growls] They're on their way here. And I don't think they're very happy.
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