[Introduction, Orion Pax entered the Archives to grab the recordings to see.]
Orion Pax: Okay, let’s see what we got here. Seen it. Seen it. Huh. What’s this about?
Alpha Trion: (voiceover; via transmission & narration) At the dawn-dawn-dawn-dawn-dawn-dawn-dawn...
Orion Pax: Ah. Here we go.
Alpha Trion: (voiceover; via transmission & narration) At the dawn of time, there was our gracious and powerful creator, Primus. To protect our universe, he sacrificed his life force, transforming himself into our planet, Cybertron. From within Cybertron’s core, Primus birthed the first Transformers known as the Primes, the most powerful Transformers, appointed to lead and protect future generations. To assist them, Primus created an entity of great power, the Matrix of Leadership.
Orion Pax: The Matrix, there it is. Okay. Good. Come on. Keep going.
Alpha Trion: (voiceover; via transmission & narration) With the Matrix in the Primes’ possession, Cybertron’s natural power source, Energon, flowed in abundance, sustaining life across the planet.
PA System: Attention! Unauthorized movement detected in archival vault. Sector J-3.
Sentry Guard 1: KDQ-12 to KDK-1. Breaching archives in ten seconds.
Alpha Trion: (voiceover; via transmission & narration) For generations, there was peace and prosperity, until the Matrix of Leadership was lost, causing Energon to no longer flow.
[The transmission shuts off.]
Orion Pax: (groans) Why does every legend about the Matrix end right there? (sighs) One of these has to say what happened.
PA System: Halt, criminal! Prepare to be detained!
Orion Pax: Oh, hey there.
PA System: Halt, criminal! Prepare to…
[Alarms blazes.]
Orion Pax: Uh-oh.
[Orion Pax tries to escape the archives, but the guards arrived to stops him.]
Sentry Guard 2: Freeze!
Sentry Guard 1: Get down!
Orion Pax: Well, hello, guys. I’m so glad you’re here. Which way is the exit? (chuckles) I must’ve taken a wrong turn.
Sentry Guard 1: It’s that defective mining bot, Oreon Pix!
Orion Pax: Orion Pax.
Sentry Guard 1: Who cares? We told you to never come back here!
Orion Pax: Why are we all yelling?
Sentry Guard 2: (threatheningly) I'm gonna smash you!
Orion Pax: Hold on. Whoa, whoa, hold on. No need for violence. How about this: I run away, you chase me. We play that game. Huh? Come on. You’re bigger, faster. It’ll be fun.
Sentry Guard 2: He doesn’t have a cog. Let’s give him a head start.
Sentry Guard 1: Why not? It’s not like he can transform.
Orion Pax: Oh, yeah? (mischievously) Well, watch this.
[Orion Pax pretending to transform and mischievously ran off.]
Sentry Guard 1: Get him!
[Orion removes the Vent to smash the guards's heads.]
Orion Pax: I… I… Uh… Something that flies. Something that flies.
PA System: Prepare to be detained! Halt, criminal! Prepare to be detained! Halt, criminal!
[the two guards transforming themselves into a jet to chase Orion Pax, Orion Pax breaks the window and screams in fall.]
Orion Pax: Come on! Start! Come on! Whoa! Whoa. No, no, no, no!
Sentry Guard 1: There he is!
Orion Pax: Ha-ha! So long, suck… Ooh, Energon. Evening, everyone. Pardon me.
Cybertronian Citizen: Hey!
Orion Pax: Whoa!
Male Miner: Ah, it’s Orion.
Female Miner: Seriously, again?
Orion Pax: (chuckles) Okay, fellas! Thanks for the head start. You want to give me another one?
Sentry Guarde 1: (threateningly) You’re dead!
Orion Pax: (Nervously) I’ll take that as a no.
D-16: (grunts) Hey! Watch where you’re going!
Sentry Guard 1: (angrily) Oh… What did you say, no-cog?
D-16: Sorry, sir, I didn’t mean you. I was referring to the bot who was behind you.
Sentry Guard 2: What? Where’d he go?
D-16: The filthy red and blue bot? Has a big mouth, squeaky joints, gives off a corroded metallic stench?
Sentry Guard 1: Where is he?
D-16: He went that way.
Sentry Guard 1: When I get my hands on that bot…
D-16: All right, all clear.
Orion Pax: Okay, D-16, I may be a little rusty, but “corroded”? That is too far.
D-16: Let me guess. Chased out of the archives?
Orion Pax: (laughs) Yeah. I had to jump out of a window this time. Almost died. (laughs) It was wild.
D-16: And digging through ancient data is worth dying for?
Orion Pax: Yes, it is.
D-16: I need a new best friend.
Orion Pax: If there are clues in our recorded history that can help locate the Matrix of Leadership, they’re in the archives.
D-16: Sentinel Prime, the Sentinel Prime, is up on the surface right now, risking his life for us in search of the Matrix.
Orion Pax: That’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m trying to help him.
D-16: Yeah, okay. (laughs)
Orion Pax: The sooner Energon flows again, the sooner we won’t have to mine for it. Don’t you want to choose your own path, do whatever you want?
D-16: We’re miners. We mine, that’s all.
Orion Pax: No, there has got to be something more I can do. I can feel it.
D-16: Oh, yeah? Like the time you had a “feeling” you could transform without a cog?
Orion Pax: You said you were never gonna mention that again.
D-16: Took me three days to pry you open. Your feelings get you in trouble.
Orion Pax: Yeah, yeah.
D-16: Just trust in Sentinel Prime.
Orion Pax: I do trust in him. Hey, if we did have cogs…
D-16: I’d transform into a shovel and beat you.
Orion Pax: I don’t like how fast you answered that. But listen, if you did beat me, I couldn’t give you this awesome Megatronus Prime thing I have here. It’s cool. I’ll give it to someone else.
D-16: What Megatronus Prime thing?
Orion Pax: Ah, it’s nothing. Just a, you know, (showing the sticker of Megatronus Prime to D-16) mint-condition Megatronus Prime decal, first edition.
D-16: (gasps) What?
Orion Pax: If you don’t want it, I can just throw it away.
D-16: Throw it away? Don’t… That’s not funny. Let me see.
Orion Pax: Wait. Don’t grab. You’re gonna crease it.
[Orion then places the sticker to D-16's shoulder.]
D-16: (amazed) You know, Sentinel says Megatronus was the…
Orion Pax: The strongest Prime to ever live. I know, buddy. Looks good on you.
D-16: Ah, it’s really cool. Thanks.
Orion Pax: Always got your back.
D-16: No matter what.
Female Announcer Voice: Approaching sublevel station. Stand clear of doors. Mining teams, prepare to unload.
Elita-1: Metal to the pedal, drill bits. This is it. How much Energon have you mined under my leadership?
Miners: So much, Elita-1!
Elita-1: And how perfect is my mining record?
Miners: So perfect, Elita-1!
Elita-1: We are a mere 30 units of Energon away from my promotion to supervisor. Are you happy for me?
Miners: So happy, Elita-1!
Orion Pax: Elita… I mean Captain, you are looking especially shiny this morning. New polish?
Elita-1: Orion Pax, I’m sorry that I somehow gave you the impression that we’re friends.
Orion Pax: Apology accepted.
Elita-1: Light up that wall! Let’s go! Ten seconds!
Orion Pax: Happy to take the lead today, Captain. Feeling like I have enough power in me to drill down and touch Primus myself.
Elita-1: You don’t have the touch or the power. Ready positions, rust buckets! Let’s go!
Orion Pax: She’s in a good mood today.
D-16: Mm-hmm.
Orion Pax: You ready?
D-16: Always ready. Let’s punch in.
Elita-1: Here we go. This one won’t be open long. Brace it up!
Miner #1: Here we go! Bridge!
Miner #2: Brace up!
Elita-1: Lower channel is open.
Miner #3: Drill power on max!
Miner #4: Low bridge!
Elita-1: Drill it out!
Wheeljack: I tapped a vein!
D-16: It’s unstable!
Orion Pax: We got to go, we got to move!
Elita-1: Evacuate! Everyone out! Evacuate immediately! The tunnel is closing. I repeat, the tunnel is closing!
Orion Pax: You with me, D?
D-16: On your six! Keep going!
Orion Pax: Look out!
Orion Pax: Jazz is stuck! Elita, we’ve got a trapped miner. I’m falling back to assist.
Elita-1: (voiceover, via call) Negative. Do not break protocol. Evacuate!
D-16: We’re gonna need more lift.
Jazz: It’s closing! Just grab your pack and go.
Orion Pax: Yeah. Good idea.
Jazz: What? No, I didn’t mean it!
D-16: Pull him clear!
Elita-1: Pax, what’s happening?
Orion Pax: Nothing much. Just normal protocol-following stuff. It’s all good. (hears rumbling) Oh, that’s not good.
Elita-1: Orion Pax, could you please exit the tunnel of death?
Orion Pax: (voiceover, via call) Elita, it’s about to get messy out there!
D-16: Go, go, go!
Jazz: Run! Run! Hurry! We’re not gonna make it!
Orion Pax: Come on! Go, go, go!
Elita-1: (strictyl) What the hell, Pax? I told you to evacuate.
Orion Pax: I did, eventually.
Elita-1: (strictly) If I get fired because of you…
Orion Pax: Oh, please. They’re not gonna fire you.
[Darkwing immediately appears behind Elita-1.]
Darkwing: Elita-1, you’re fired.
Elita-1: What? Why? I followed protocol to the letter.
Orion Pax: That is true. I was the one who broke the rules.
Elita-1: No one asked you! (to Darkwing) Darkwing, please, I’ve worked too hard for this.
Darkwing: (rudely and grumpily) You are no-cog bots with limited options. Report to waste management immediately.
Elita-1: Waste management?
Orion Pax: Elita…
Elita-1: Next time, why don’t you stop and think before you ruin someone’s life?
Orion Pax: I’m sorry! (to Darkwing) Hey, Darkwing!
D-16: Don’t do it.
Orion Pax: I may not have a cog, but my finger can transform. (mockingly) Guess which one? I’ll give you a “limited option.”
[He imitates a transforming sound as he's about to flip the bird at Darkwing. Darkwing getting angry notices and prepares to punch him, but D-16 grabs his fist.]
D-16: Excuse me, sir. Allow me. (punches Orion) I apologize on his behalf for the… (gets punched by Enraged Darkwing; in slow motion) Why?
D-16: (painfully) That really hurt. (sighs)
Orion Pax: What’d you expect? He’s metal.
D-16: You know you were out of line, talking back to a superior like that.
Orion Pax: Darkwing was out of line. He deserves it. (sighs) Aren’t you tired of being treated like we’re nothing?
D-16: He had every right to hit me. I interfered. Hey, and I appreciate you having my back.
Orion Pax: I’m glad you were there with me to get punched in the face. That was fun.
D-16: (laughs) Anytime, buddy.
Female Announcer Voice: Attention, all sectors. Stand by for a live transmission from Sentinel Prime.
D-16: He’s back? He’s back already?
Orion Pax: Maybe he found the Matrix.
Sentinel Prime: (via Live Transmission) Is it on? Okay, thank you. Hello, my friends. Hello, Iacon City! Hello to our saviors, the industrious miners who toil selflessly to maintain our Energon reserves. I celebrate you.
D-16: Humility and presence! That’s leadership! Ah! Nobody does it better!
Sentinel Prime: (via Live Transmission) Once again, I have narrowly returned with my fleet after another treacherous expedition across the desolate, dangerous surface of our planet. I departed with hopes of finding the Matrix of Leadership, the key to bringing balance to Cybertron. I regret to inform you that we’ve returned empty-handed. This is a setback, but not a failure. Rest assured, I will find the Matrix of Leadership, so that Energon can flow again. But that’s in the future. Right now, I think we all deserve a little fun! Tomorrow, there will be no work. All shifts off because tomorrow is the Iacon 5000!
D-16: (excitedly) Whoo! Whoo-hoo!
Sentinel Prime: My favorite event. A high-octane race all across Iacon City. Let’s all see which competitor can prove they are truly more than meets the eye.
Orion Pax: (whispers) D. Psst! Hey, D. (D-16 wakes up) Oh, good, you’re up. Come on, I have an idea.
D-16: (sleepily) Whatever this is, it better be good.
Orion Pax: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Listen. All right, what if… what if… what if tomorrow we ran in the Iacon 5000, huh?
D-16: (sleepily, yet grumpily) What if I kill you for waking me up?
Orion Pax: No, no, no, hear me out. We don’t even have to win!
D-16: (sleepily) Oh, that’s good, because we wouldn’t.
Orion Pax: But… But if we beat just one Transformer, it proves we’re just as good as they are. Not only would we go down in history, the mining bots that did the impossible, but we would show everyone that we’re… we’re capable of so much more!
D-16: (sleepily) Or we get publicly humiliated and then busted back to tier one.
Orion Pax: Yeah, but at least we would’ve done something, you know?
D-16: Pax…
Orion Pax: Come on, D.
D-16: Pax. We’re mining bots who can’t transform. We can’t fly, we can’t roll, we can’t race. Come on, let’s go.
Orion Pax: (sighs) All right, fine. Yeah, maybe you’re right. Maybe.
D-16: The Iacon 5000 is finally here!
Orion Pax: I have a surprise for you. Come on.
D-16: Where are you going? The stadium’s that way.
Orion Pax: Yeah, yeah, I know. Follow me.
D-16: Great. We’re gonna be late now. I wanted good seats. (annoyed) We came all this way to miss the opening ceremony. This is wonderful!
Orion Pax: Trust me, I know what I’m doing. Hold up!
Orion Pax: Get caught in one of those, it’ll launch you halfway across the city.
D-16: Okay, where are you taking me?
Orion Pax: Don’t be a glitch, this will be totally worth it. Trust me.
D-16: (annoyed) Hey, you don’t be a glitch. Look, I know this is, like, fun for you, like, we’re joking around, but if you make me miss any part of the Iacon 5000, I swear I will (amazed) smelt your face right off your…
Iacon 5000 Announcer: Welcome to the Iacon 5000. There they are. Put your hands together as today’s competitors are taking the field.
[D-16 noticing the Iacon 5000 racers (including Darkwing, Chromia, Mirage, Thunderglide and Behemoth).]
D-16: Look! There’s Thunderglide and Behemoth! This is unbelievable! I feel like I’m in the race! You did this for me?
Orion Pax: No. I did this for us.
Iacon 5000 Announcer: And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for. The icon of Iacon! The savior of Cybertron! Quintessons fear him, but we love him! Our leader, the one and only… Sentinel Prime!
Arcee: I love you, Sentinel!
Sentinel Prime: Yes! It feels so good to be here with you all today. My friends. My Cybertronian family. It has been precisely 50 cycles since the Quintessons attacked our home. Fifty cycles since we lost the Matrix of Leadership and our Energon supply dried up. Fifty cycles since the battle that killed the other Primes, my brothers and sisters in arms. Today we honor the Primes (summons the memorial statues of the Primes) who gave their lives for ours and we show them that the strength of Cybertron will never be diminished.
[D-16 notices Megatronus Prime's statue.]
Sentinel Prime: Racers, on your marks!
[Iacon 5000 racers transforming into vehicle modes to get ready.]
D-16: (excitedly) I can’t believe we get to watch from the starting line. The best seats in the house! (Orion puts a jetpack on his back, concerned) Why’d you bring jetpacks?
Sentinel Prime: Get set!
Orion Pax: (Determined) It’s time to show them we are more than meets the eye.
D-16: (annoyed) Oh, no.
Iacon 5000 Announcer: And they’re off!
[Orion Pax & D-16 jumps into the race track, went on to the race, the Orion grabs D-16 with his Jetpack on, and race.]
D-16: (angrily) Are you crazy?
Orion Pax: Sure feels like it.
Iacon 5000 Announcer: The Iacon 5000 has begun!
[Sentinel notices Orion Pax and D-16 in the race track which confuses him.]
Sentinel Prime: (confused) I’m sorry, are those miners in the race?
Arcee: Miners! Those are miners, like us!
Iacon 5000 Announcer: I can’t believe what I’m seeing here! Miners trying to run in the Iacon 5000!
Elita-1: (annoyed) You’ve got to be kidding me.
Iacon 5000 Announcer: This is insane!
Firestar: There are miners in the race!
Sideswipe: Miners?
Brawn: No way!
Sideswipe: They can’t even transform!
Ironhide: It’s Orion Pax and D-16!
Iacon 5000 Announcer: This is a first in Iacon 5000 history. How are they going to survive?
D-16: (angrily) If we survive this, I’m gonna kill you!
Orion Pax: I accept those terms.
Iacon 5000 Announcer: It’s Tailwind pulling into the lead down the main stretch followed by Strafe and Skyfire!
[the Blasters shooting right next to the racers, zapping two racers.]
D-16: Hey, look out!
Orion Pax: I owe you one.
D-16: More like a thousand. I can’t believe we’re not in last place!
[Darkwing races through D-16.]
Darkwing: Eat it, miner!
D-16: Gah!
Iacon 5000 Announcer: Darkwing delivers a devastating blow!
Orion Pax: Gotcha!
[the Heroes trying to race, noticing that the blocks prevents other racers and crashes into the.]
D-16: We’re not fast enough!
Orion Pax: Improvise!
Spinout: Hey! Get off!
D-16: Spinout! Big fan!
Jetstorm: Hey!
D-16: Jetstorm, I’m so sorry. Big fan!
Cyan Racer: (angrily) Get off!
Orion Pax: Time it just right! And… now!
D-16: Move!
Iacon 5000 Announcer: And the miners have fallen way behind. We can now focus on the real contenders in this race.
[Orion Pax noticing the beacon, the heroes launched through the track, screaming into the air crashes into Darkwing.]
Iacon 5000 Announcer: I don’t believe it! The miners take down Darkwing!
Darkwing: (angrily) Oh, miners!
Orion Pax: Great effort, Darkwing!
D-16: That worked! It actually worked!
Orion Pax: Is this the dumbest thing we’ve ever done?
D-16: Oh, yeah, it’s up there!
[the racers gets magnetized by the magnets.]
Female Racer #1: Aah!
Male Racer: Gaah!
Female Racer #2: No, no, no!
D-16: Whoa!
[another magnet magnetizing two racers.]
Orion Pax: Wait! Go, go, go!
Iacon 5000 Announcer: A four-bot pileup in the magnetic tunnel and the two miners are now in first position! This is unbelievable!
[One racer gets magnetized and got wrecked, with the part damaging D-16's leg.]
D-16: Ah!
Orion Pax: D!
D-16: No. Go. Leave me!
Orion Pax: No, we do this together.
Iacon 5000 Announcer: One miner is now carrying the other mere steps from the finish line in the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of…
[However, Chromia speeds by, knocking them down while crossing the finish line and cheers.]
Iacon 5000 Announcer: We have a winner! Chromia comes from behind to take the prize. Talk about an Iacon 5000 for the ages.
Orion Pax: Well, second place is still pretty good.
[Unfortunately, the other racers speed past them. D-16 is angry at Orion Pax for his proposal on Iacon 5000, Cut to a hospital where some racers are seen being taken care of.]
Intercom Voice: Paging Dr. Ratchet. Dr. Ratchet to Medical Bay 94.
[One robot is seen being wheeled on a bed.]
Female Medic Bot: Do not worry. You will be fixed up in no time.
Injured Racer: (groans painfully, weakly) Did I win?
Female Medic Bot: You participated.
Injured Racer: (weakly) Yay!
[We then see Orion and D in a medical bay, fixed up from their injuries.]
Orion Pax: So… how long do you think we’ll be here?
D-16: (deeply) I’m not talking to you. (then angrily) You know what? I can’t believe you made me do that. We are so screwed!
Orion Pax: Thought you weren’t talking to me.
D-16: (angrily) Hey, look, I know it’s all a big joke to you. But not me. I was paying my dues. I was going places. And now they’re gonna bust me down I… I don’t even know how many tiers!
Orion Pax: I’m sorry, D. But come on, didn’t you feel it? Even for just a second, didn’t you feel liberated? Didn’t you feel like you were something else? Like you could be more than what they say you are?
D-16: (angrily) Yeah, I felt it. I did. But it doesn’t matter. We’re going to get punished and demoted. (sighs in embarrassment) Sentinel Prime saw the whole thing. This is so embarrassing.
[Just then, an arachnid-like robot, Airachnid, steps in and turns her head to show extra eyes on the side. The eyes stare at the two robots.]
Airachnid: It’s clear.
[Sentinel Prime enters the room, looking stern.]
Sentinel Prime: (Disappointedly) Orion Pax. D-16. What you two did today was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.
Orion Pax: Sir, this is all my idea, and we’re so sorry.
Sentinel Prime: (turns to joy) I loved it!
Orion Pax: You did?
Sentinel Prime: (excitedly) How could anyone not love it? You gave my best racers a real run for their money.
D-16: So we’re not getting demoted?
Sentinel Prime: (confused) Demoted?
[He laughs with the two laughing nervously.]
Sentinel Prime: (while laughing) Demoted.
D-16: (while laughing nervously) What is happening?
[Airachnid laughs sarcastically. They all stop laughing.]
Sentinel Prime: (stops laughing) The fact of the matter is we’re halfway into the first shift since the race ended and that mining crew has already reached 150% quota. You inspired them to work harder!
Orion Pax: Sentinel Prime, sir, we joined the race to show everyone our potential. That we bots can do more than just mine…
Sentinel Prime: Outstanding! I love a bot that can think for himself. Perhaps you two could tour the mines, speak to your brethren, and help them see their potential.
Orion Pax: (laughs) Wow! Okay, great. (stammering) That sounds incredible. I would love to…
Airachnid: Sir, it’s time.
Sentinel Prime: Ah, yes. I’m sorry, friends. We’re preparing our next travel to the surface. But in the meantime, I’ve got a treat for you. Hang tight. Airachnid, have someone escort these heroes to my personal service facilities. Best care in Iacon. Until next time, legends.
[Sentinel and Airachnid leave the medical bay.]
D-16: (excited) Sentinel Prime. (laughs) The Sentinel Prime!
Orion Pax: You still mad at me?
D-16: I am less mad at you.
Orion Pax: I’m telling you, D… I got a feeling that everything’s gonna change and we’re gonna go…
[Unfortunately, Outraged Darkwing enters the room, seething mad at the two for embarrassing him at the race.]
Darkwing: (growls angrily) Miners! (growls angrily again)
D-16: (nervously) Hi, Darkwing.
[Soon, Darkwing flies the two down many sublevels.]
Orion Pax: Oh, no, no, no.
D-16: No!
[They end up at sublevel 50 and Darkwing throws them off.]
D-16: Wait, wait! You don’t understand! We were supposed to go to Sentinel Prime’s service pod!
Darkwing: (angrily) You two dolts aren’t going to see anyone ever again! I’ll make sure of that.
[Darkwing flies away, leaving the two alone.]
D-16: You’re making a mistake! Ask Sentinel!
[The door slams in front of them.]
Orion Pax: (groans) I hate that guy!
[As they look around, they see a conveyor belt sending scrap into an incinerator. A masked yellow bot notices their presence.]
B-127: (Deep voice in the mask) You! How did you get down here? There’s no access to this level. There is nobody down here but me. Oh, my- Oh, my gosh, (removes his mask) you’re real! You’re others! You’re not… me! You’re here, and you’re not me! (laughs)
Orion Pax: Uh, yeah.
B-127: (excitedly) Awesome! I am so sorry. That must have been weird for you. I just haven’t had a lot of company since they put me down here in sublevel 50.
D-16: Fifty? But there are only 40 sublevels.
B-127: That’s what I thought! Turns out there are ten more, and they are not pleasant. Probably why nobody ever really talks about them.
Orion Pax: How long have you been down here?
B-127: How long have I been here? (laughs) Let’s see, somewhere between a long time and forever? I mean, I had other jobs, but I kept getting reassigned ’cause I’m so good at what I do. Oh! I’m B-127, by the way. But you can call me B. And I’m actually working on some nicknames. The one I’m floating right now is Badassatron. Which is actually pronounced… (in a deep voice) “Badassatron.” (in normal voice) But if you have any critiques…
D-16: Yeah, great. How do we get out of here?
B-127: Great question. You don’t.
D-16: We don’t?
B-127: Nope. We have limited access to the waste management area, but the new shift manager there does not like distractions. No, they prefer we stay here on the task at hand.
Orion Pax: Which is?
B-127: Oh! The scrap comes in from the chute there onto the conveyor belt. Our job is to look for anything that might be worth salvaging before it hits the furnace and gets smelted.
D-16: So you watch garbage burn.
B-127: Yes! It is so great that you’re here now. I can’t wait to learn everything about you. And then tell you everything about me! I have a lot of hopes and dreams that I am just dying to share with one or two new best friends.
Orion Pax: Uh, yeah, I would love to…
B-127: (splutters) Where are my manners? Come on, I’ll introduce you to the rest of the crew. Hey, guys, we’ve got company!
[B-127 opens the garage door to introduce Orion Pax and D-16 to his friends.]
B-127: This is EP-508, this is A-A-Tron, and this fella here is Steve.
Orion Pax: “Steve”?
B-127: Yeah, he’s foreign.
D-16: Question: Do they talk back to you?
B-127: Um, (silly) they’re not real. (laughs) Jeez, you think I’m that crazy?
Orion Pax: It’s just you’ve been down here a…
B-127: No, I was talking to Steve. (laughs) Classic Steve.
[then Orion Pax notice a voice from Steve.]
Orion Pax: What is that?
B-127: Look at this guy.
Orion Pax: It’s coming from inside.
[Orion accidentally broke Steve]
B-127: Oh! Steve! No! (started crying and whining)
Orion Pax: I am so sorry.
B-127: (dramatically) Steve, no!
Orion Pax: We can fix it, don’t worry.
B-127: (whiningly) My Steve!
Alpha Trion: (over transmission) Quintesson ambush! Calling the High Guard for immediate support. Immediate support!
Orion Pax: That’s Alpha Trion.
D-16: One of the Primes?
Alpha Trion: (over transmission) Repeat, Zeta Prime has fallen!
Orion Pax: It’s an S.O.S. message.
Alpha Trion: (over transmission) Protect the Matrix! Sending location coordinates. Sending location coordinates.
B-127: (shocked) Holy Primus!
Orion Pax: Those are coordinates to a location on the surface. This could be where the Primes died in the Quintesson war. Which means this is where we could find the Matrix of Leadership.
D-16: (annoyed) What are you talking about? It’s an old beacon inside a statue made of garbage.
Orion Pax: Or it’s a clue of how we could find the Matrix of Leadership.
D-16: (dismissively) No. No way. Absolutely not!
Orion Pax: Hey, D, come on, this could be our chance to show everyone we’re not…
D-16: (angrily) You already tried to “show everyone” in the race you tricked me into running, which got us stuck down here in this waste hole with this, uh… (notices B-127's sad expression) really cool guy.
B-127: Oh, thank you.
Orion Pax: I’m just saying…
D-16: (angrily) There’s a reason no one goes to the surface. It’s dangerous! I’m waiting right here until Sentinel Prime finds us.
Orion Pax: Oh, okay. Yeah. Hmm. Well, we’ll just stay here forever. That cool with you, B?
B-127: (excitedly) Forever? This is great! I have new coworkers and roommates. There’s plenty of room now that Steve is dead. I usually sleep on the conveyor belt, but you can totally have it. I’ll sleep in the corner next to A-A-Tron. (while D-16 groans grumpily) Plenty of room for you to stretch out, too, ’cause you’re taller than I am. Know what I mean?
Orion Pax: Hey, D, what do you think Sentinel’s reaction would be if you personally handed him the Matrix of Leadership that you found?
D-16: (annoyed) Okay, stop. I know what you’re trying to do. (then) And it’s definitely working. I’m in.
Orion Pax: Hah, ha! Yeah, buddy.
D-16: How do we get to the surface?
B-127: Pfft! You kidding me? The surface? Easy. I know a way. But it won’t be easy.
D-16: (Disgusted) Why is there so much trash? Ah!
Orion Pax: Warn me next time, please. My mouth was open.
B-127: Only 49 sublevels to go! Waste-disposal trains are the only vehicles that go all the way to the surface.
D-16: Yeah, but they don’t allow passengers. The trains are autonomous.
B-127: Yeah, that’s the “won’t be easy” part.
Orion Pax: It’s perfect. We’ll be safe inside the train.
Worker: That’s the last one. Send ‘er up!
Elita-1: Hold up! One more. I’ll lock it down.
[Elita-1 notices something disturbing in the train.]
Elita-1: (laughs dramatically) Thanks for being an idiot, whoever you are. Turning you in will definitely get me promoted back up a rank or two.
D-16: Got her!
B-127: No, wait, I…
Orion Pax: Elita! Stop!
Elita-1: Orion?
Orion Pax: Hold on, let me…
Elita-1: Security! Sound the ala…
B-127: She’s headed to the engine!
Orion Pax: Don’t worry, I got this. Hold on, let me explain! We’re on a mission!
Elita-1: So am I. To ruin your life.
Orion Pax: Elita, wait. We found a message. We know where…
B-127: This bot is crazy! Who is she?
Orion Pax: Dead end, Elita. There’s no way… Well, she’s gone.
B-127: (scared) Whoa! Why? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this?
D-16: Climb faster!
Orion Pax: Gotcha!
D-16: Ah, the surface.
Elita-1: It’s beautiful.
B-127: I am speechless.
Orion Pax: Elita, listen to me. We know where the Matrix of Leadership is.
Elita-1: (dramatically) Oh, sure. And I’m really a Prime. I just prefer loading crates of toxic waste. (shocked) Whoa. Where did you get this?
B-127: From my friend Steve. Orion killed him.
Orion Pax: (annoyed) I did not kill Steve.
D-16: (annoyed) He was never alive.
Elita-1: What?
Orion Pax: Look. Sentinel told us he was going to the surface, and then we found this message. We figured that we could hand deliver it to him or scout the locations ourselves. Whichever comes first. This was too important to wait. It will change all of our lives.
Elita-1: (inhales sharply) (then refuses, dramatically) No, no, no, no. I’m not going to get demoted again because of you. I’m turning this rig around and I’m notifying the…
D-16: Hey, guys? Guys? What is that?
[the heroes noticing the surface getting closer.]
D-16: Is it getting bigger?
Elita-1: Or closer?
B-127: (scared) No, no, no, no, no, no! Are you closing? Don’t close. Stop closing. It’s closed!
Elita-1: Oh, come on!
D-16: Oh, now I know why no one comes to the surface!
[the surface wrecking the trains jumps of one trailer, the heroes screaming in danger, meanwhile Orion Pax trying to wake Elita-1 up]
Orion Pax: Elita? Elita? You okay? (Elita punches him in the face; groans in pain) Please stop punching me in the face.
B-127: Can you help?
Elita-1: Iacon… The train… (shocked) Where’s the train?
Orion Pax: Relax, okay? Here it comes.
[The train goes the other way.]
Orion Pax: And there it goes. Okay, I was wrong about that. It was going the other way.
[Elita then started to lose her temper, she screams out loud in anger before punching some rocks.]
Orion Pax: Okay, so I think this is us, and if we follow the path to…
Elita-1: (angrily) Now you listen to me, Mr. “Zero Seconds Since My Last Accident!” I’ll go on your little quest because I don’t have a choice. But I carry the map, I navigate, and if this leads to nothing, then I’m dragging you and those two idiot go-bots back to Iacon City and to the first supervisor depot we see, at which point you will explain everything that’s happened, using words that reflect me in a very positive light! Got it?
Orion Pax: Yeah, okay. Deal. Great. All right.
Elita-1: Let’s go!
B-127: She’s joining us? (laughs eagerly) Fantastic! (to Elita) Hi there. Uh, Elita, right? Am I saying that right? Wanted to formally introduce myself. I’m B-127. You kneed me in the face earlier, back there. You can call me B, or Badassatron. It’s a nickname some of the guys gave me. I don’t know. I didn’t give it to myself or anything. Actually, it’s pronounced… (in a deep voice) “Badassatron,” (in normal voice) in case you were wondering. (in a deep voice) Badassatron. (in a normal voice) You like that, right? (in a deep voice) Badass…
Elita-1: (annoyed) I’m gonna need you to talk less.
B-127: (in normal voice) Sure! No… Yeah, no problem. What am I talking less about, my nickname? That’s fine with me. Got some mountains over here…
Orion Pax: Hey. You’re thinking about what you’ll say when you hand the Matrix to Sentinel, aren’t you?
D-16: I can’t help it.
Orion Pax: D, we’re really doing this.
D-16: So glad I’m out here with you. This was a great idea.
B-127: I’m just having a good time. How much further is the Matrix on the map? Make an educated guesstimate. This is the coolest thing that has ever happened to anyone anywhere, I’m telling you! (sings) Not one, not two Not three, but four. Four best friends who are walking through the door. (speaks) There’s no doors, we’re outside.
Orion Pax: Hey, look, there’s more of it over here.
Elita-1: What is it?
D-16: It’s not metal.
Orion Pax: It’s like some kind of weird nature. It’s weird.
Elita-1: So are they.
B-127: (sings) Going to the Matrix with my best friends.
Elita-1: What was that?
Orion Pax: Um… I think this is not right. We should go.
D-16: Yeah, good idea.
Elita-1: Run!
B-127: What are we running from?
D-16: What is that?
[the heroes discovering the Quintesson ship.]
Orion Pax: Oh, no. It’s a Quintesson ship.
Elita-1: What?
B-127: (Scared) What do we do? What do we do?
Orion Pax: Shh! Quiet. It’s scanning for life-forms. Move, move!
B-127: Wait!
Orion Pax: Go, go, go, go!
Elita-1: Come on! They’re not gonna make it.
B-127: Whoa. What… What were they searching for?
D-16: (sarcastically) Someone to hug, B. (then annoyed) How should I know?
Orion Pax: I’m not waiting around to find out.
Elita-1: This way. We’re close.
Orion Pax: Quintessons haven’t been here for 50 cycles.
Elita-1: It doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing out here.
B-127: A cave with teeth. Nothing scary about that.
B-127: Knives coming out of the ceiling. Amazing. Everyone, do we have to go insi…? (the others turn on their headlights) Okay, yep, we’re going in. Why shouldn’t we? Just walking into the scariest place I’ve ever seen in my entire life. This is ridiculous.
[the heroes notices in shock that there were dead bodies of the primes (except Alpha Trion).]
B-127: (amazed) I don’t believe it.
Orion Pax: The Primes.
Elita-1: We’re here.
[the heroes discovers the the deceased primes. D-16 notices in shock about the dead body of Megatronus Prime.]
D-16: Megatronus Prime.
[D-16 being saddened by Megatronus's death, then frowns, meanwhile Orion Pax discovers Zeta Prime's corpse.]
Orion Prime: Zeta Prime. (notices that the Matrix of Leadership went missing) The Matrix! It’s gone.
Elita-1: Let’s keep looking.
[Orion Pax discovering Prima Prime's corpse, until he notices something sparkling.]
Orion Pax: Hey, guys!
[the heroes removing the rocks and discovers the Powered down Alpha Trion.]
B-127: It’s Alpha Trion!
Orion Pax: He’s powered down. But his spark is still lit.
[B-127 grabs energon cube from his arm to Alpha Trion's mouth, Alpha Trion started recovering.]
Alpha Trion: (struggled) Quintesson ambush! Attack! Message before…
Orion Pax: Whoa, whoa, it’s okay! It’s okay. You’re safe now. The war is over.
[Once Alpha Trion was recovered, he turns his head to the deceased Zeta Prime, puts his hand on his corpse and mourned.]
Alpha Trion: (sadly) I failed you, old friend. You deserved so much better than this end.
Orion Pax: No, you didn’t fail. We heard your message. We’ve come to find the Matrix.
Alpha Trion: (concerned) Your transformation cogs. What happened to you? Who are you?
D-16: We’re cogless miners, from Iacon.
Alpha Trion: Miners? Why?
Elita-1: Well, we’ve had to drill for Energon ever since it stopped flowing.
Alpha Trion: (dismissively & annoyed) Impossible.
Orion Pax: That’s why we came. To fix things. If we find the Matrix of Leadership and get it to Sentinel Prime, he can fix…
Alpha Trion: (angrily) Sentinel is no Prime.
B-127: (shocked) What?
Elita-1: (irritably) He’s broken. Fantastic.
Orion Pax: (confused) What are you talking about? Why would you say that?
D-16: Sentinel Prime is our protector. He’s been saving us from the Quintessons ever since…
Alpha Trion: (sternly) You have not been saved. You’ve been living a lie. I saw the truth with my own eyes. Come. I will show you.
[Alpha Trion puts his hand on the ground to reveal the truth to the heroes.]
Alpha Trion: (via narration) For thousands of cycles, the war with the Quintessons had been a brutal conflict.
[Started the flashback with the Primes to Sentinel with transmission.]
Alpha Trion: (voiceover, via narration) Until Sentinel, the principal aide to the Primes, intercepted an enemy transmission. There was going to be a secret gathering of Quintesson commanders. Their elimination could end the war.
Alpha Trion: (via Narration) It was a mission so important, we Primes took it on ourselves. We agreed to meet Sentinel for his sensitive intel in secret, here in this cave. But we were not alone.
[the heroes notices the Quintessons in the flashback.]
Solus Prime: Quintessons!
Prima Prime: They’re here!
Alchemist Prime: It’s a trap! Battle positions!
Vector Prime: Hold the line!
Solus Prime: Primus be with us!
Nexus Prime: For Cybertron!
[The Primes engage the Quintessons in the battle.]
Alpha Trion: (voiceover, via narration) We were outnumbered, but stood as one.
[Megatronus Prime firing his missiles in his back to shoot the Quintessons, defeated them, Megatronus uses his sword to impale one Quintesson in defeat.]
Alpha Trion: (voiceover, via narration) Our victory was near.
[Nexus Prime firing his cannons to defeat the Quintessons, until he gets assassinated by Sentinel.]
Alpha Trion: (voiceover, via narration) Until we were betrayed.
[The Quintessons grabbing Megatronus Prime's body as Sentinel prepares to kill Megatronus Prime by slicing him in the head, horrifying the heroes. Sentinel kills Solus Prime with his gun and hits Zeta Prime. Zeta tries to get up but Sentinel Pinned him down.]
Zeta Prime: (weakly) (groans) Sentinel, why?
Sentinel Prime: (evilly) For all the power of Cybertron.
[Sentinel finally murders Zeta Prime.]
Alpha Trion: (voiceover, via narration) But Sentinel never understood the true power of what he desired. The Matrix of Leadership can only be wielded by one that Primus himself deems worthy. And Sentinel most certainly was not.
[the Matrix of Leadership gets dissolved by Primus and makes Sentinel horrified after his betrayal.]
Sentinel Prime: (shocked) No!
[the flashback ends.]
Orion Pax: (crushed) Wait. Hold on. You’re saying that the Matrix of Leadership just vanished?
D-16: (aggravated) No. No, no, no. That is impossible. I don’t believe it.
Elita-1: Why would Sentinel do that?
Alpha Trion: To make a bargain.
B-127: A bargain? With who?
Alpha Trion: With the new rulers of Cybertron.
[meanwhile outside the cave, the heroes, discovering the ships of Quintessons.]
Orion Pax: The Quintessons.
Elita-1: There are so many.
[the heroes discovers a very large Quintesson Ship arriving in the surface.]
D-16: (annoyed) He’s here. Sentinel Prime is here.
[D-16 noticing Sentinel Prime, Airachnid and the Death Trackers arriving through the surface and lands to meet the Quintesson Soldiers.]
Sentinel Prime: Keep your eyes open.
Airachnid: They always are.
[the Quintesson commander arrived in the surface, Sentinel and his troops bow down to him, the train doors ejected so that the ship grabs the crates.]
Elita-1: I load those crates. Those are filled with contaminated metal.
Orion Pax: I don’t understand. What do the Quintessons want with toxic waste?
[the crates removed the energon.]
D-16: (shocked) Our Energon.
[the Quintesson ship fueling it up with energon, making Orion Pax, Elita-1 and B-127 shocked and fueling D-16 up with anger.]
D-16: (angrily) Traitor!
Orion Pax: D, no.
[Airachnid noticing something, but there is nothing out there then the Quintesson commander becoming angry and grabs Sentinel Prime to torture.]
Sentinel Prime: (straining) I know what I promised you, but our mines, they’re running out! There’s barely enough Energon for us. I swear I will get you the rest. (strictly, to his troops) Triple-time every mining shift. No miner gets a break until I get my Energon. All of it! Let’s go.
[Sentinel and his troops departed the surfaces, meanwhile D-16 becoming bitter at Sentinel's lies and betrayal, the heroes leave, the scene cuts back to the cave with Alpha Trion.]
Alpha Trion: Now you have seen the truth.
D-16: (bitterly) Every day… Every single day of my life has been a lie.
Orion Pax: (aggravated) My God, I knew it! Deep down, I always felt something was off.
D-16: (bitterly) He deceived everyone.
Elita-1: (aggravated) Sentinel bought himself power and then put us to work paying off his debt.
B-127: (ashamed) I can’t believe it. Well, obviously, I can believe it, I just saw it, but I still… I can’t believe it.
D-16: (bitterly) Sentinel lied to my face.
Orion Pax: It was all a sham. How could we have been so gullible? Oh, this… this is going to change everything.
[D-16 stomps angrily on his mining badge.]
D-16: (angrily) You just had to do it, didn’t you?
Orion Pax: Me? What did I do?
D-16: (angrily) You just had to go to the surface, had to enter the Iacon 5000. You just had to break protocol!
Orion Pax: Who cares about protocol?
D-16: (angrily) I do! I care! Because nothing bad happens when you stay on protocol!
Orion Pax: Sentinel Prime has been forcing us to work in the mines until our gears strip, and all the while he’s been giving the Energon away to our greatest enemies!
D-16: (groans angrily) And what do you think he’s going to do to us when he finds out that we know?
Orion Pax: I’m not thinking about what he’s going to do, I’m thinking about what we’re going to do.
D-16: (angrily) Well, that’s the whole thing! You’re never thinking about anything else, just yourself! (sarcastically) Fantastic! Another Orion Pax master plan. I can’t wait to hear this.
Orion Pax: Don’t you want to stop him?
D-16: (furiously) NO, I WANT TO KILL HIM!!! (angrily) I want to put Sentinel in chains and march him through the mines so everyone can see him for the false Prime that he is! I want him to suffer and then to die in darkness. (Dramatically) But we all know that it doesn’t matter what I want, right, Pax? The fact is, we’re just cogless bots. Right? (chuckles bitterly) We had limited options, and now… now we have none.
Alpha Trion: No son or daughter of Cybertron is born without a cog.
D-16: (grumpily) Oh, yeah. I’ve been with myself since I came online, and this slot’s always been empty.
Elita-1: (concerned) What are you saying? Are you saying…
B-127: No. No way. Nobody could be that evil, not even Sentinel.
Alpha Trion: He removed your cogs before you came online.
Orion Pax: (crushed) We were born with transformation cogs, but he…
D-16: (bitterly) He took them from us.
Alpha Trion: What defines a Transformer… is not the cog in his chest but the spark that resides in their core. A spark that gives you the will to make your world better. My fellow Primes had that spark. And I see their strength in you. Take their cogs and access your full potential.
[Alpha Trion removes the T-Cogs from the corpse of the Primes including Prima, Onyx, Alchemist and Micronus.]
Alpha Trion: Prima. Onyx. Alchemist. Micronus. Warriors of noble spirit, loyalty, strength. Their uniqueness enhanced by these.
[Once the Cogs from the Primes's corpse were gifted to the heroes by Alpha Trion, Orion Pax, D-16, Elita-1 & B-127 were renewed, converted and reformatted into new transformers.]
Alpha Trion: They were one. You are one. All are one!
Orion Pax: Wait. We have… You… You gave us…
Alpha Trion: The ability to change your world. How you choose to use that power is up to you.
[until the heroes and Alpha Trion notices that they were founded by The Death Trackers.]
Alpha Trion: They’ve found us.
D-16: Oh, yes! Time to fight back!
Alpha Trion: No. You must return to Iacon City and alert everyone. (grabbing the sand) Embedded in this are the records I have shown you. Use it to reveal the truth.
Orion Pax: We will.
Alpha Trion: This tunnel leads to the mountains. Cybertron’s future is in your hands.
Elita-1: We’re out of time. We got to move!
Orion Pax: Wait, we can’t just leave you here.
Alpha Trion: Your fight will come, my friend. Primus has a purpose for us all. But this fight… (deeply) This fight is mine. Now go!
[The Death Trackers arrived to arrest Alpha Trion.]
Death Tracker: (Robotic tone) Stand down, old timer.
Alpha Trion: Ah. Old, you say?
[Alpha Trion grabbing the sand to ambush the Death Trackers, Alpha Trion transforming himself into a Beast to engage and defeat them, impaling them to death.]
Alpha Trion: (in his beast mode) Not too old for you.
[Unfortunately, Airachnid ambushes him from above. Meanwhile, the four bots are running toward the exit.]
Orion Pax: We need to hurry!
D-16: I still think we have better odds fighting than outrunning them.
Elita-1: Wait! We have cogs. We can transform now.
Orion Pax: That’s right. Everyone ready?
Elita-1: I was born ready.
Orion Pax: On three. One…
[but the heroes fall to the hills, meanwhile the Death Trackers notices something and follows them.]
D-16: Ah! How do we use these things?
Orion Pax: I don’t know. Just try. It’s working. Ha! It’s working! My head! My head! Whoa! Help! Help!
D-16: (grunts) This is not faster!
Elita-1: (grunts) Oh, come on!
B-127: And transform! (transforming into a car but without wheels, screaming) Wheels! I need wheels!
[the Death Trackers keeps following them, they arrived to stops them, but the heroes transforms, Orion Pax transforming himself into a Truck, D-16 transforming himself into a tank and Elita-1 transforming herself into a motorcycle. The Heroes ambushed and defeats them]
B-127: Woah woah, woah, woah!
Orion Pax: Ha!
Elita-1: (amazed) (laughs)
B-127: Oh, wow.
Orion Pax: (excitedly) We’re alive!
Elita-1: (excitedly) I’ve never moved that fast. That was incredible!
B-127: (excitedly) Did you see me slide all over?
D-16: (excitedly) Yes! (laughing deliriously)
Orion Pax: (concerned) Hey, whoa, buddy. You okay?
D-16: (excitedly) I’m great. Are you kidding me? We can transform! We transform!
Orion Pax: Oh, hey! I know.
D-16: We’re wasting time. We have to get back to Iacon.
Orion Pax: Looks like the fastest way back to Iacon is…
D-16: (grabs the recording) Here, I got it.
Orion Pax: Hey, what are you doing?
D-16: Don’t worry, I got it.
Orion Pax: Yeah, but be careful. Our proof is inside and you’re spilling it everywhere.
D-16: (sternly) I… got… it.
Orion Pax: Okay.
D-16: Follow me.
[Meanwhile, in Iacon, a captured Alpha Trion is brought to Sentinel by Airachnid.]
Sentinel Prime: (smugly) Alpha Trion! You are still alive. Would you look at that? You look horrible.
Alpha Trion: (angrily) Traitor. You are a disgrace. Primus will surely…
Sentinel Prime: (dismissively) Uh-huh. Yes. Shut up. I seized an opportunity to take control of my future. Anything to get out of working for you and that boring council of elders. Seriously, I would watch you Primes spend half the day losing a war and the other half sitting around waxing poetic about loyalty and honor. And now look at you.
Alpha Trion: (defiantly, yet angrily) Hear my words: You will fall. And a new Prime will rise…
[Sentinel holds his blade against Alpha Trion's throat.]
Sentinel Prime: (annoyed) There you go again. I don’t want to listen to any more speeches. There were others in the cave with you. Who are they?
Alpha Trion: (defiantly, yet angrily) They are to be your undoing. You’ve lost, Sentinel. Nothing you can do…
[Sentinel then kills Alpha Trion with his blade and removes it from his corpse.]
Sentinel Prime: Oh, didn’t I just say no speeches? (to Alpha Trion's corpse) You heard me, right? This is what I’m talking about. Unbelievable. All of them are like that. So disrespectful. (sighs, to Airachnid) Okay. Hunt down the others.
Airachnid: With pleasure.
[She transforms and flies off. Back with the group, as they walk, Orion comes over to D-16.]
Orion Pax: Hey, buddy.
D-16: Oh. Hey.
Orion Pax: You’ve been a little quiet. Are you all right?
D-16: (bitterly) All I can think about is Sentinel’s smirking face. He must pay for what he’s done. Someone has to do something.
Orion Pax: We are. With Alpha’s proof inside that device, we will show everyone the truth.
D-16: (bitterly) You honestly believe it’ll be that easy? Iacon doesn’t want to hear the truth. They worship Sentinel. There’s got to be a better way to bring him down.
Orion Pax: We have to trust everyone will believe what we show them.
D-16: (angrily) I trusted Sentinel! With everything. (then deeply and bitterly) I will never trust a so-called leader ever again. (upsetting Orion Pax) There’s only one bot I know I can trust…
[Suddenly, D-16 gets traumatized and faints, Orion, Elita-1, and B-127 gets traumatized as well, they are ambushed and captured by 4 high guard soldiers before falling unconscious.]
Starscream: (offscreen) All right, wake them up.
[The heroes wake up to see a group of high guard soldiers standing around them. Their leader, named Starscream, sits on his throne.]
Starscream: (sternly) Now, are you spies or just… incompetent lackeys?
Orion Pax: We’re not spies.
Elita-1: But he is incompetent.
Soundwave: (scans Orion, coldly) Scanning electrical impulses. He speaks the truth.
Starscream: (dismissively) That just means he believes himself, like any spy would.
[B-127 tries to speak, but his mouth is gagged shut.]
Elita-1: (concerned) Uh, why is he gagged?
Shockwave: (annoyed) He wouldn’t stop talking.
Elita-1: Even when he was unconscious?
Shockwave: (angrily) Especially when he was unconscious!
Starscream: Enough! Two options for you! One, we slowly dismantle each of you one bolt and screw at a time, and really make sure you feel it. Or two: In exchange for a quick death, you give us intel on the Energon trains, access to the mines or anything else that could hurt your boss, Sentinel Prime.
Elita-1: Who exactly are you guys?
B-127: (removes the gag) Ah! The Cybertronian High Guard!
Shockwave: (growls angrily) I told you it wasn’t tight enough!
B-127: Prestigious defenders of Iacon.
Elita-1: Prestigious?
Orion Pax: He’s right. I read all about you in the archives. You were the most legendary warriors in all of Cybertron.
B-127: Look, look, look! (pointing Starscream) That’s Starscream, and (pointing Shockwave) you’re Shockwave, (pointing Soundwave) and Soundwave. Raise your hand if “wave” is in your name. There’s a lot of “waves.”
Starscream: (angrily) Silence! (then arrogantly) The yellow annoying one is correct.
B-127: Whoo!
Starscream: (bitterly) We were once the High Guard. We witnessed Sentinel’s betrayal, saw the Primes fall. Since that day, we’ve been fighting from the shadows, doing whatever we can to sabotage Sentinel.
Orion Pax: That’s great! We’re… (the High Guard soldiers point their guns at Orion) Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, okay. We’re good. Everyone, relax. I’m just saying we’re allies. We were on our way back to Iacon, and now with your help, we can unify Cybertron against Sentinel Prime.
Starscream: (refused) The idea of a unified Cybertron is a myth. All that counts is the strength of one bot over another!
[the High Guard soldiers shouting about Sentinel's betrayal.]
B-127: Okay. So, these guys are a little intense.
Elita-1: Yeah. Just a little.
Starscream: (angrily) Hey! What are you doing?
D-16: (sternly, yet rudely and angrily) I tell you what I’m not doing. I’m not cowering in some busted ship, (then angers Starscream to rise his throne) playing king of the throne. I’m not pretending like I’m making a difference by throwing one punch and then running away to hide! I found out that Sentinel is rotten today, and I’m gonna make him pay for it. Today!
Starscream: (aggravated) You think you can insult me and just walk away? (coldly) No one leaves here unless I say so.
D-16: (chuckles) Is that right? (deeply) Well, how can you say so with my head in your teeth?
[He headbutts Starscream in the face.]
Orion Pax: D!
High Guard Member: Whoa!
[B-127 and Elita-1 were shocked as D-16 and Starscream fight.]
Starscream: (gloatingly) Hit me! Do it! Come on! Yeah, more!
High Guard: (chanting) D-16! D-16! D-16!
D-16: (angrily) You want to see the strength of one bot over another? Huh?
[D-16 pinning Starscream down with anger and bare hands.]
Starscream: (angrily, voice starts to distort) Is that all you’ve got, tough bot? Let’s go! Do it! Come on!
[D-16 roars angrily as he starts to punch Starscream, ejecting his cannon with his arm. this rage shocks the High Guard, and the heroes, D-16 uses his cannon as a threat to kill Starscream.]
Starscream: (scared, voice distorted) Please! I beg you!
Orion Pax: Stop! D, he’s not the enemy!
D-16: (angrily) Bear witness! This is the last time I show mercy! Decide right now: You can stay here in hiding, bowing before your pathetic leader, or follow me as we march on Iacon and I take down Sentinel once and for all!
High Guard Members: (chanting) D-16! D-16! D-16!
[Soundwave, Shockwave and other High Guard Members chanting over D-16, meanwhile Orion Pax becoming horrified at D-16's rage, until the notices an ambush coming from Airachnid and the Death Trackers.]
Orion Pax: B, come on!
Airachnid: Engage all hostiles! I’ve got the bridge!
[Airachnid murdering other High Guard Members and grabs D-16, meanwhile Elita-1 starts to defeat the Death Trackers.]
Orion Pax: Elita, get down!
[then Elita-1 and Orion Pax got defeated, Airachnid and the Death Trackers carries D-16, B-127 and the High Guard members to Sentinel, in the morning Elita-1 removes the debris from Orion Pax.]
Orion Pax: (weakly) I feel like someone dropped a cliff on me. (groans) Where are the others?
Elita-1: Sentinel’s troops took as many prisoners as they could carry. (Sadly) They got D-16 and B.
Orion Pax: (sadly) Oh, no.
Elita-1: (sadly) And half of those High-Guard nutjobs.
Orion Pax: (sadly) Our proof. It’s gone.
Elita-1: (sadly) So, what do we do now?
Orion Pax: (ashamed) D was right.
Elita-1: About what?
Orion Pax: (ashamed) Everything. Look at it. Look around. This is a disaster. (sadly) It’s all my fault. I should have stayed on protocol.
Elita-1: Listen to me. I really want you to hear this. Are you listening? I’m better than you.
Orion Pax: Yeah, okay, I’m hearing you.
Elita-1: I’m better than you in every way, except you have hope. You always have. (excitedly) You went back into the mine to rescue Jazz. You snuck up to the surface to find the Matrix of Leadership.
Orion Pax: (chuckles) Yeah, and how’d that work out?
Elita-1: My point is, that your instincts tell you to break protocol for a reason. (excitedly) This blind optimism that you have is why you make such bold and courageous choices, that are also extremely stupid.
Orion Pax: First time giving a pep talk?
Elita-1: You’re inspiring. You can envision a better future that no one else can see. And if we ever want to see B and D-16 again, that is the Orion Pax that we need right now. (encouragingly) Listen to me. We can do this.
Orion Pax: Those Energon trains will be heading back to Iacon. If we intercepted one…
Elita-1: Hell yes, I can reroute it. What else do we need?
Orion Pax: Well, my bold instincts tell me we have to recruit some nutjobs.
[Some other High Guard Members including Shockwave and Soundwave survived in the Debris.]
Elita-1: (Sadly) I was afraid you’d say that.
Orion Pax: (walking to Shockwave and Soundwave) Uh, Shockwave, Soundwave. You in the back. In order to save our captured friends, we have to act now.
Shockwave: (mockingly) How about I blast you back to Iacon? (Elita-1 punches him in the eye) (groans in pain) Oh! She punched me in my eye!
Elita-1: (seriously) Everyone, shut up! All of you. Listen to him.
Orion Pax: Most likely, our friends are being held captive at the top of Sentinel’s tower. A surprise attack would give us a chance to rescue them.
Soundwave: (coldly) Impossible. We do not have enough soldiers or a way inside.
Orion Pax: Elita will get us in. And I will get more troops.
Shockwave: (Rudely) Why should we follow you? (Elita-1 pounds her fist as she threatens to punch Shockwave again; then) We will follow you.
Soundwave: (coldly) Attention, High Guard. Prepare for battle. What is our first move?
Orion Pax: (quietly) We roll out.
Skywarp: (confused) What?
Elita-1: Louder.
Orion Pax: (boldly) Transform and roll out!
[Meanwhile, D-16, B-127, and some of the High Guard members are held hostage in the throne room.]
B-127: I don’t understand. Why are we still alive?
Sentinel Prime: (smugly) Look at this rowdy bunch! The High Guard! You know, you guys have been tough to find. Every trip to the surface, I’ve been searching for you.
Airachnid: Tracking the bots in the cave led me right to them.
Sentinel Prime: (notices Starscream) Oh-ho-ho! You captured Starscream!
Airachnid: It was too easy.
Starscream: (angrily, voice getting distorted) I’m going to rip you apart piece by piece so that your death is painful! You’ll regret the day you were…
Sentinel Prime: (laughs) You sound ridiculous. It’s weird. (to D-16) Oh, D-16, what a tragic story you’ll be. (mockingly) Atop the leaderboard in your sector and secretly a traitor.
D-16: (bitterly) I’m not a traitor. You’re the traitor.
Sentinel Prime: (smugly) Nuh-uh. You, all of you, are traitors. (trickly) You’ve been working with the Quintessons to sabotage my expeditions. You’re the reason why I haven’t found the Matrix of Leadership yet.
B-127: (annoyed) None of that is true!
Sentinel Prime: (trickly) Oh, trust me, it’ll be very true when I’m executing you in front of all of Iacon. (kneels down to B-127, rudely) Because down here, the truth is what I make it.
[D-16 stomps his foot and stands up in defiance.]
Sentinel Prime: (as he stands up) Well, well. What’s this about?
D-16: (bitterly) I’m not kneeling in front of you.
Sentinel Prime: (smirks) Feeling confident, are we?
D-16: (bitterly) You don’t scare me. You want to know why?
Sentinel Prime: (smirks) Please.
D-16: (bitterly) Because I don’t have anything left to lose. You took it all.
Sentinel Prime: (grins evilly) I sure did.
[He punches D-16 down before noticing the Megatronus Prime sticker on his shoulder.]
Sentinel Prime: (smiles evilly) Ah, Megatronus Prime. (takes the sticker off) Of course you were a fan. (impressed) Megatronus was the coolest Prime! The biggest! The baddest! The toughest! (evilly) That’s why, after I killed him, (shows Megatronus' T-Cog inside his chest) I took his cog for myself.
D-16: (angrily) He was greater than you’ll ever be!
Sentinel Prime: (arrogantly) I don’t know. I’m pretty great. But I can understand why you’d want to wear his face over mine. Here. (places the sticker on D-16's chest) Let’s make sure it doesn’t come off.
[He uses a blowtorch to burn the Megatronus symbol onto his chest, Airachnid grins evilly and B-127 getting frightened, D-16 screams in pain until the symbol is burned. Meanwhile, Orion stands out of the plane.]
Orion Pax: (nervously; to himself) Okay. I can do this.
[He jumps out of the plane and transforms into truck mode as he rides down the road.]
Ironhide: (voiceover, annoyed) You can’t be serious. We just worked 22 shifts without a break!
[We then cut to the mining locker room, where Ironhide argues with Darkwing.]
Ironhide: (annoyed) These miners need rest and time to repair and…
Darkwing: (angrily and threateningly) Sentinel Prime wants more Energon! So get back in the mines before I make you get back in the…
[Just then, Orion grabs his arm and punches Darkwing, sending him flying into an arcade machine. Darkwing is defeated as he crashes and lots of tokens spill out. The miners take notice.]
Miner #1: Who was that?
Miner #2: Did you see who that was?
Miner #3: That can’t be him.
Jazz: Is that…
Prowl: It can’t be.
Jazz: (shocked) Orion?
Orion Pax: Jazz.
Jazz: (shocked) Is it really you?
Orion Pax: Yeah, I know I, uh, look a little different.
Jazz: “Little”? There’s nothing “little” about you.
Ironhide: Uh, how is this possible?
Moonracer: Sentinel told us you died from your race injuries.
Orion Pax: (seriously) Sentinel is a liar.
Miners: (confused) What?
Prowl: (confused) Huh?
Orion Pax: (kneels down to their level) Look, I know how this will sound coming from me. I was never the most focused miner. But as you can see, everything is different now. (shows them his T-Cog) I went to the surface, and I learned the truth. My friends, we were all born with transformation cogs. And then Sentinel, he stole them from us. He took away our ability to make our own decisions. He stole our freedom. But now, I’m offering you your first real choice. You can work a 23rd shift and mine yourself to death (boldly) or fight back against Sentinel with me. Right now.
Sideswipe: How are we supposed to do that?
Arcee: We can’t fight. We don’t have cogs.
Orion Pax: What defines a Transformer is not the cog in its chest but the spark that resides in their core. A spark that gives you the will to make your world better. And that spark, Sentinel can never take from us.
Jazz: There’s not enough of us. We’d need an army.
Orion Pax: And we have one. Elita is bringing troops. We are not alone in this. (boldly) If we want to be in control of our own destiny, we will have to fight for it. Now is the time for us to stand up… for ourselves. Stand up for this injustice.
[Miners cheers for Orion Pax's speech.]
Orion Pax: (boldly) I promise you this fight will be worth it. Follow me. Nothing can stop us when we stand together. Together as one.
Miners: (chanting) Orion Pax! Orion Pax! Orion Pax!
Orion Pax: (voiceover, via call) Elita, it’s time.
Elita-1: You got it. Buckle up, Blinky. We’re going in.
[Elita-1, Soundwave, Shockwave and the High Guard soldiers in the train arrives to Iacon to rescue D-16 and B-127 and stop Sentinel.]
Sentinel Prime: (unimpressed) Not a good idea.
B-127: (whispering, scared) D, stay down.
Sentinel Prime: (smirks evilly) Well, that’s a shame. You really were a great miner.
Airachnid: (shocked) We’ve got a breach! Protect Sentinel!
[Airachnid and the Death Trackers launch to stop the train.]
Elita-1: They spotted us. It’s about to get bumpy.
[Elita drives the train to dodge Airachnid and her troops's attack.]
Soundwave: (coldly) High Guard, eject.
High Guard Members: Come on! Move out!
[The High Guard engage and fight back to the Death trackers.]
Shockwave: There’s too many. We have to abort!
Elita-1: (horrified) We’re not gonna make it.
[Orion Pax and the Miners engage with and attack the Death Trackers with Jetpacks.]
Elita-1: (excitedly) Whoo-hoo!
Orion Pax: Metal to the pedal, miners! Let’s break some protocol!
Elita-1: (excitedly) That’s what I’m talking about, Pax!
[Airachnid then stops Orion Pax, screaming angrily when attacking, and pinned his arms down, summoning her cameras on his face.]
Orion Pax: (shocked) Whoa! That’s intense.
Airachnid: (angrily) You can’t win, miner. I see everything!
Orion Pax: (amazed) That’s right, you do. Except the tower we’re about to crash into.
[then the train crashes into Sentinel's tower hitting Sentinel in the debris.]
Cybertronian Citizen: What’s going on?
Orion Pax: Hey!
[Orion Pax defeating Death Trackers.]
Orion Pax: (shocked) What has he done to you?
D-16: (bitterly) This is nothing compared to what I’m gonna do to Sentinel.
Orion Pax: Soundwave, free the prisoners.
[Soundwave releasing the prisoners free.]
Orion Pax: I know how to stop him. Airachnid is the answer.
D-16: (rudely) I’m doing this my way. (runs off)
Orion Pax: D!
[the beacon frees Starscream and attacks the trackers, it also frees B-127.]
B-127: Yes! Whoa! (putting on his battle mask, amazed) Whoa-ho-ho! I got a battle mask! Elita! Battle mask! It appeared when (ejecting his knife hands) this guy tried to… Knife hands? I have knife hands! What the…? (laughs triumphantly; in a deep voice) Badassatron.
D-16: (angrily) Where’s Sentinel?
[then Sentinel blasted the heroes away.]
Sentinel Prime: (angrily) You pathetic little twits! Did you really think that you could knock down everything I’ve built?!
Orion Pax: (angrily, to Sentinel) It’s over, Sentinel. You can’t escape the truth.
Sentinel Prime: (angrily) What truth? That I plucked the cogs from your newborn chests? Forced you to mine so that I could pay off the Quintessons and live like a king? None of that matters! Because the truth… (as he transforms into battle mode) is what I make it!
[He proceeds to fire weapons at the heroes.]
Orion Pax: Incoming!
B-127: Whoa!
Elita-1: He’s too strong.
Orion Pax: I have a plan. We need Airachnid.
Elita-1: Airachnid?
Orion Pax: We need her memory.
B-127: Where is she?
[Airachnid flies into Elita-1 on cue.]
Elita-1: Found her!
Orion Pax: Elita! (voiceover, via call) Do not break her. Bring her to the broadcast station. We’ll meet you there.
Elita-1: (strained) Easier said than done.
[Elita-1 stops Airachnid removing her spider arm and beat her up.]
Orion Pax: (voiceover, via call) I said, don’t break her!
Elita-1: (while beating up Airachnid) Relax! I’m being very gentle.
[Orion Pax gets stopped by the Death Trackers until B-127 slices them up with knife hands)
B-127: (excitedly) Orion! (removing his battle mask) Orion, look! I have knife hands!
Orion Pax: (Impressed) I can see that.
B-127: I’m gonna cut these guys. Watch. (to the death trackers as the run in cowardice) Come here!
Orion Pax: You can jab them later. We got to go.
B-127: (excitedly) Yeah!
[meanwhile D-16 fighting back against Sentinel, but he defeated him, cutting back to the control room as the security officers noticing that B-127 cutting the door and screams]
Control Room Lead Security Officer: Uh, excuse me. You can’t be in here. AAAAH!
[B-127 scares the Control Room Security Officers and proceeds to cut up the control panels with his knife hands until Orion and Elita arrive.]
Orion Pax: B! These are not the bad guys.
Elita-1: Why did you cut the door?
B-127: What? No, I didn’t… That was an… I… It was already like that. (to the control room Officers) Right?
Control Room Security Officer #1: (scared) Yes, that’s right.
Control Room Security Officer #2: (scared) That’s right, yes.
Control Room Security Officer #1: (scared) Yeah, it was already like…
Control Room Security Officer #2: (scared) Yes. Mm-hmm.
[In Iacon City, the broadcast turns on.]
Female Announcer Voice: Attention, Iacon City. Stand by for a live transmission from Sentinel Prime.
[Back in the fight, Sentinel has D-16 pinned down.]
Sentinel Prime: (grins evilly and mockingly) What’s wrong, D-16? (aims his blaster at D-16) Rise up!
[meanwhile Airachnid felt defeated as her eyes were used by the heroes. the heroes replay footage of Sentinel's true colors on the screens of Iacon.]
Sentinel Prime: (evilly, via recordings) That’s why after I killed him, that’s why after I killed him, I took his cog for myself. Cog for myself. (angrily, via recordings) What truth? That I plucked the cogs from your newborn chests? Forced you to mine so that I could pay off the Quintessons and live like a king? What truth? That I plucked the cogs from your newborn chests? Forced you to mine so that I could pay off the Quintessons and live like a king? (strained, via recordings) I’m working my miners as hard as I can. I swear I will get you the rest! I’m working my miners as hard as I can. I swear I will get you the rest! (shocking the Citizens) I’m working my miners as hard as I can. I swear I will get you the rest!
[Sentinel notices in shock and horror. The citizens and miners become furious at what Sentinel truly is.]
Miner 1: (angrily) Liar!
[The miners protests as they proceed to knock over the carts full of energon.]
Miner 2: (angrily) We trusted you!
[Even the robots with T-cogs are disgusted and enraged at the false leader.]
Cybertronian Citizen: (angrily) Traitor!
[Orion, Elita, and B are amazed that their plan worked.]
Elita-1: (amazed) Pax, we did it.
[Sentinel shocked in fear as he couldn't believe this. Now everybody in Iacon knows his true nature and his allegiance with the Quintessons. But their anger was nothing compared to D-16's, who stands up and angrily charges into him from behind.]
Orion Pax: (shocked) D!
[D-16 and Sentinel fly through the city, with the former continues to punch the latter on the face and breaking his wings off in the process. Then, they stop at the top of a building. Enraged D-16 repositioned his limbed arm, stands up and fires his blaster while Sentinel frantically uses his booster to dodges the attack. The blast ended up destroying parts of the tower's spike.]
Sentinel Prime: (scared and foolishly) D-16. We can lead Cybertron together! Don’t do this!
[As D-16 refuses to listen, he prepares to shoot down the false leader but Orion stops his friend from shooting him.]
D-16: (angrily) What are you doing?!
Orion Pax: It’s over, D. Everyone in Iacon knows the truth.
D-16: (angrily) So do I! He took everything from us! I have to do this!
Orion Pax: No, you don’t. Rebuilding Iacon cannot begin with an execution.
D-16: (angrily) He deserves to die! Can’t you see that?
Orion Pax: We’re better than this. Don’t be like Sentinel.
D-16: (deeply, yet furiously) Pax, you need to move out of my way before I move you myself.
Orion Pax: D, listen…
[D-16 angrily punches him away and goes to try to kill Sentinel again. Orion gets in the way...]
Orion Pax: Stop!
[...and the blast hits him in fatal accident. Horrifying Elita-1 and B-127, D-16 notices in shock and grabs Orion from falling]
D-16: (crushed) No! No, no, no, no. Why? Why did you do that? Why?
[D-16 at first is crushed but then slowly looks to the other sides with anger while he is going through the motion.]
Orion Pax: (weakly and horrified) D, no.
[when D-16's anger continues to wrath, most of the lighting darkens, D-16 lowers his head before lifting up to turn evil and reveal his eyes now blood red.]
D-16: (coldly) I’m done saving you.
[He lets go of Orion to his death, sending him falling into the chasm. Elita tries to save Orion, but B stops her from falling despite them watching in horror. D-16 looks over at Sentinel with rage, while the later crawls away to escape from D-16's wrath. Gold Trackers come down to try to fight D-16 while saving Sentinel, but he easily deals with them. We see the planet's metal shifting as Orion falls into the chasm, when a beam of light saves him then takes Orion's corpse into the well of the AllSpark. While all of this is happening, D-16 then proceeds to grab Sentinel, (With the latter screaming in horror) lift him up, and tear him in half then dropping him, the High Guard roared with cheer while Elita and B-127 is horrified at D-16's wrath by killing Sentinel. Sentinel's eyes turned off as D-16 rips Megatronus' T-cog from Sentinel's corpse then walks toward the ledge giving a thunderous speech to the High-guard as he shows off Megatronus' T-Cog.]
D-16: (Wrathfully) The Age of Primes has ended! No more false prophets! Follow me and you will never again be deceived. RISE UUUUUUUUUUP!
High Guard: (chanting) Rise up! Rise up! Rise up! Rise up! Rise up!
[Meanwhile, in the well of the AllSpark, where the spirits of Alpha Trion and the primes saw Orion Pax's corpse]
Alpha Trion: (Spirited) Orion Pax, your noble sacrifice for the greater good has proven you worthy in the eyes of Primus. He entrusts in you the future of Cybertron and the Matrix of Leadership!
[Back in Iacon City...]
[The High Guard cheer for D-16.]
D-16: (evilly) I will lead us all into the future!
[D-16 open his chest, taking out his old T-Cog and placed Megatronus' T-Cog into his chest. As both Orion and D-16 reformat themselves into their new bodies, D-16 ejecting his new arm cannon forms.]
D-16: I…
[Orion Pax reformatting and recovering.]
D-16: AM…
[Orion Pax finishing his transformation and resurrection.]
D-16/Megatron: (evilly and angrily) MEGATRON!!!
[In the well, Orion Pax finishes his transformation.]
Alpha Trion: (Spirited) Arise… (renaming Orion Pax to a new prime) Optimus Prime.
[Optimus Prime open his eyes, fully recovered, then shoots out of the well of the AllSpark. Back in the city, Megatron orders the High Guard.]
Megatron: (evilly and angrily) Burn it down! All of it!
[Megatron begins to blow up statues of Sentinel with his arm cannon with rapid fire, causing the citizens to panic and run.]
Starscream: All hail Megatron!
[Starscream, Shockwave, and Soundwave began to fire their weapons.]
B-127: (shocked) He’s gonna kill everyone.
Elita-1: (shocked) We have to stop him. Come on.
[The two run over to try to stop their corrupted friend.]
Elita-1: [Grabbing Megatron's arm.] Stop! It’s over.
Megatron: (angrily) It’s over [Megatron lifting Elita-1, retracting his arm cannon, then grabs her.] when every last one of his followers is dead!
[Megatron slams Elita-1 into the ground, then B-127 kicks Megatron with his mask on and knife hands on the ready. They try to stop Megatron, but the latter proved to be too strong as he overpowers them. Just as Megatron was about to finish B-127, a shooting light shot up between B-127 and Megatron. B-127 and Elita-1 landed safely from the explosion whereas Megatron skids using his hands to stop his fall. The shooting star crashes down revealing recovered Orion Pax now as Optimus Prime, Megatron looks at him with shock.]
Megatron: (shocked) Impossible.
[then he continues with anger and stands up.]
Megatron: (angrily) Primus gave you the Matrix. [Megatron clenches his fist to Optimus.]
Optimus Prime: (sadly) We could’ve built the future together.
Megatron: (angrily) I’ll build it myself. After I tear down everyone, IN MY WAY!
[Megatron angrily screams and charges at Optimus Prime who then readied his battle mask.]
Optimus Prime: Ah!
[Optimus and Megatron continue to fight. Optimus transform into his vehicle mode, tripping Megatron then hurling him over the building causing them to fall. Megatron tries to punch Optimus, but the later catches it with his open hand. Megatron deploy his arm cannon causing Optimus, who is close to its range, gets punches and staggered by it. Megatron aimed his arm cannon at Optimus, but the later readied his exhaust pipes and spews out flamethrowers at Megatron. Megatron shield himself from it, then procceeds to fire a blast at Optimus knocking him down. Megatron furiously lunges at Optimus and repeatedly beats him to a bloody pulp. Optimus transform his leg into wheels as he shoots off hoping to cause Megatron to loose balance. Megatron deploy his small cannon on his other arm and tries to rapid fire at Optimus. Optimus retract his head back into the chest to avoid fire. Then Optimus punches Megatron in the air, but Megatron transform into his tank mode to halt the crash. Megatron in tank mode proceeds to fire at Optimus who dodges the tank's blast. Optimus leaps over Megatron grabbing Megatron's cannon then ripping it from its turret. Optimus tries to bludgeon Megatron with it, only for Megatron to transform back into his robotmode then catching it with his back, now once again firing Optimus with its tank cannon on the back. This cause optimus to be sent flying over the debris. Optimus tries to recover, only to be smacked by Megatron who uses a metal panel debris. Megatron doesnt end there, as he proceeds to grab Optimus, slamming him into the floor, then proceeds to beat him up, now using a debris stick as a bludgeoning weapon. Optimus tries to block with his arm, the matrix of leadership glows then it transfers into optimus arm, which starts to transform. Just as Megatron was about to land the final blow on Optimus, the energy ball dispurst sending Megatron flying in the air. B-127, Elita, Starscream, Soundwave, Shockwave, and Megatron looked in shocked of what they saw. Opitmus now manifests an energy battle axe to fight, then gets into a battle stance. Optimus swings energy waves as Megatron weakly limps and dodges it while using his small cannon to fire at him. Optimus dodges it with ease then sent Megatron flying by kicking him. Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave join in the fight with Optimus defeated them with ease. Optimus ejected his energy blade once again. Megatron furiously roar then charges at Optimus firing all weapons at him. Optimus uses his energy axe to spin deflect the blast. When Megatron is close, Optimus grabs Megatron's small cannon arm, bent it barrel, then Optimus uses hs energy axe to slice off Megatron's new cannon, ultimately winning their fight, hurlling Megatron into the ground and defeating him.]
Optimus Prime: (upset) We were given the power to change our world, and you chose to destroy it. (deeply and angrily) Just like Sentinel.(Megatron slowly gets up while looking at Optimus with destain.) You have betrayed Cybertron and its citizens. (heartbroken as he removes his battle mask) And you betrayed me.
(Megatron, without a word, weakly gets up then looks at Optimus with a snear while breathing in.)
Optimus Prime: (sadly) Go. Take the High Guard and leave. You are banished from Iacon.
[Megatron becoming shock at this then back to bitterness.]
Optimus Prime: (sadly) It didn’t have to end this way.
Megatron: (bitterly) This isn’t over, Prime.
(Both Megatron and Optimus started at each other, before the later moves aside allowing Megatron to limp away.)
Megatron: (to the High Guard) High Guard, follow me!
[Megatron and the High Guard transform and roll out, leaving Iacon, while Optimus sadly look at them after the battle.]
Optimus Prime: (voiceover, via narration with sadness and melancholic tone) The line between friend and enemy is not as clear as I once believed. Once it’s crossed, there’s no going back. Because some transformations are permanent.
[the scene transition to a flashback of Orion first meeting D as the latter stares at the poster of Megatronus Prime in the locker room.]
Orion Pax: Hey, Megatronus Prime. Nice.
D-16: Oh, yeah. Well, he’s my hero.
Both: The greatest Prime to ever live.
D-16: I’m D-16.
Orion Pax: Orion Pax.
D-16: You ever mine Energon before?
Orion Pax: No. You?
D-16: No. I hear it’s dangerous.
Orion Pax: Well, I’ll tell you what. You watch my back, I promise to watch yours.
D-16: All right. Thanks, Pax.
[They both fist-bump before transitioning to Optimus Prime in the present.]
Optimus Prime: A new beginning for Cybertron.
Elita-1: And a new leader.
Optimus Prime: Yes, about that. I could use some help from a bot who is better than me in every way.
Elita-1: Who, me? Oh, no, no. I have a pretty sweet gig working in waste management.
Optimus Prime: Well, Captain, I do owe you a promotion. How’s Major Elita sound?
Elita-1: How about Commander?
Optimus Prime: (chuckles) Even better. (to B-127) And I’m sorry, B, but I cannot let you go back to sublevel 50. I may be a Prime now, but I’m gonna need you by my side.
B-127: Are you serious? (excitedly) This is the greatest day of my life. I get to work for the government.
[Suddenly, the Matrix of Leadership starts glowing.]
Elita-1: Okay. So that’s new.
B-127: (confused) I’m sorry, what is happening?
[Optimus Prime grabs The Matrix of Leadership and lift it up to let energon flow down the river while returning the T-Cogs to the miners.]
Optimus Prime: (voiceover, via narration) And now we stand here together as one… [Miners reformatted into the new bots] Proving we all have the power to transform, to become who we were destined to be, to right wrongs, to make our world better. Because here, freedom and autonomy are the rights of all sentient beings. Here, all are truly Autobots.
[Optimus Prime, Elita-1, B-127 and the miners, now Autobots march through Quintessons.]
Optimus Prime: (voiceover, via narration) This message is a warning to all Quintessons. If you dare return to Cybertron, the Autobots will be waiting. I will be waiting. I (putting on his battle mask) am Optimus Prime.
[Cut to black. Roll credits. During the credits, B-127 returns to his old workplace in sublevel 50.]
B-127: Hey, guys! Great news, the Energon’s back! And I have a cog and I can transform! It’s a long story. I’ll fill you in later. Oh! And here’s the best part. My hands are straight-up knives. Watch this. Knife hands! (summons his knife hands, only to kill his remaining old friends by accident) NOOOOOO!!!!
[Resume credits. Then, after the credits, we come to one last scene, where Megatron and the High Guard are outside Iacon.]
Megatron: (voiceover) Sentinel the betrayer is dead. But his death has given life to a new enemy. A stronger enemy. A personal enemy. We will not be blinded by his deception.
[Starscream, Soundwave and Shockwave rises with the symbol of Megatronus Prime for rebrand with their eyes now red.]
Megatron: (voiceover) We are the ones who are…
[The group brands themselves the symbol of Megatronus Prime on their bodies. No longer are they the High Guard. Now they are...]
Megatron: (vengefully raising his Fusion cannon up in the air rallying the new army.) DECEPTICONS! RISE UP!!!
[The Decepticons cheer and chant while both Megatron and the Deceptiocons (san Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave.) shooting into the air.]
Decepticons: (chanting) Rise up! Rise up! Rise up!
[Megatron shows his evil stare to begin the war with the Autobots, leaving the movie end with the symbol of Megatronus Prime Cut to black.]