THE TRANSFORMERS, third series 02.Five Faces Of Darkness Part 2 ================================= (c) Marvel & Sunbow This is a "complete" dialogue transcript for research purposes and is not for sale under any circumstances. Format (c) 1994 by Boris Ammerlaan. Version 1.0. Last modified 2005/03/14 Send remarks, suggestions and improvements through http://www.stack.nl/~boris/feedback.php By Flint Dille With (in order of voice appearance): Rodimus Prime - . Grimlock - . Vortex - Swindle - Cyclonus - Soundwave - Drag Strip - Blast Off - Springer - Arcee - Onslaught - Scourge - Quintesson 1 - Kup - Quintesson 2 - Spike Witwicky - Ultra Magnus - Quintesson 3 - Judge Deliberata - Sharkticons - Galvatron - Sweeps - Quintesson guard - Sling Shot - Sky Dive - Fireflight - Silverbolt - Quintesson ? - RODIMUS PRIME I think we're outnumbered. GRIMLOCK Ugh, me Grimlock like big fight. RODIMUS PRIME Good! 'Cause you Grimlock have got one. {They get hit by a blast} GRIMLOCK Uh, uh. Me Grimlock no hurt. RODIMUS PRIME Me neither. And you gotta wonder why. VORTEX It just don't pack the one of it used to. SWINDLE Yeah, because we're out of energy, dummy. CYCLONUS Decepticons, attack! GRIMLOCK Me Grimlock like shooting when can't miss. RODIMUS PRIME They can't blast us, so they're gonna stomp us en masse. Cowards! GRIMLOCK Mm, crunchy. One... two, unh.. SOUNDWAVE Alien object approaching. DRAG STRIP Inse BLAST OFF I'm out of here. GRIMLOCK {Shielding eyes from rockaroid's engines' light} Waah! SPRINGER I told you it would stop on a proton. ARCEE Yeah, and that was the first thing you've told me that was right. ONSLAUGHT Most unusual behaviour for a meteor. SPRINGER {Picking up Rodimus Prime & Grimlock with metal claws} Let's get outta here before the natives are on to us. CYCLONUS Those miserable Skuckzoids. SCOURGE They can't be working with the Autobots. SWINDLE Eh, they'd sell out to anybody for the right price. CYCLONUS If anyone would know, Swindle. {Shoots at Rodimus Prime} GRIMLOCK Rodimus, me Grimlock demand you wake up. CYCLONUS Your contributions of energon will not be in vain, brothers. Never again shall we be humiliated by the Autobots, for when we return, Galvatron shall be with us! {D/A; Quintessa.} QUINT. 1-1 You are the Autobot called Kup. You are Cybertron's chief of security. KUP Nah, my name's Teaspoon, and I'm Cybertron's chief dishwasher. QUINT. 2-2 Zero percent probability of truth. Identification positive. {= Unidentified person 3 from part 1} QUINT. 1 Tell us the status of Cybertronian defense apparatus. KUP Total shambles after the last war; three kids and a dog could take the planet. QUINT. 2 Four percent probability of truth. Defenses at optimum levels. Direct assault not viable. QUINT. 1 Are there any known weaknesses in your defense system? KUP Hey, you guys seem to know all the answers. Why ask me? QUINT. 2 The answer he suppresses is that Cybertron is not vulnerable to conventional attack. However, he is concerned with the security of planet Earth. SPIKE For a bunch of funky aliens, these guys sure know a lot about Cybertron and Transformers...a whole lot. ULTRA MAGNUS It's as if they could read our minds. SPIKE Yours, maybe. They don't seem so eager to question me. ULTRA MAGNUS Yes, curious, isn't it? QUINT. 2 Silence! QUINT. 2-3 Th sensors have a lack of knowledge of his species. QUINT. 3-4 Indeed. Such intuitive powers could present a serious impediment to our operation. QUINT. 2 I agree. We must see how he stands up to interrogation. QUINT. 2_2 {Faced to Quintesson 3} And then, how he faces...death! {D/A; Rodimus Prime & Grimlock are carefully put down on an asteroid.} GRIMLOCK Uhuh. Rodimus, me Grimlock say you wake up. {Springer & Arcee exit landed rockaroid} SPRINGER Is it bad? ARCEE I'm no doctor, but it doesn't look good. SPRINGER Is he gonna make it? ARCEE I'm no psychic either. RODIMUS PRIME My time..in the light..is short... ARCEE That's what Optimus Prime said when he was dying. RODIMUS PRIME Springer, my friend... ARCEE He's preparing to pass the matrix of leadership to you! SPRINGER His judgement is obviously impaired. Forget it, Rodimus, you're just gonna have to stay alive. RODIMUS PRIME You must...aaarh... GRIMLOCK [crying] ARCEE His lifeforce has slipped away. ************************ *** *** *** commercial block *** *** *** ************************ ARCEE Nothing; no life force at all. GRIMLOCK Noooo. SPRINGER It's true, Grimlock. He's gone. We'll take the body back to Cybertron for interment. GRIMLOCK Me Grimlock say he alive. No matrix of leadership! SPRINGER He's right. If Rodimus were dead, the matrix would have emerged. ARCEE But if he's not dead...where is his life force? {Insane sound, Rodimus is inside the matrix} RODIMUS PRIME Ah..the Quintessons. Huh..uh. GRIMLOCK Haha! He alive. Me Grimlock love Arcee. ARCEE I-I didn't save 'im. He came out of it himself. SPRINGER We thought we'd lost ya. RODIMUS PRIME No. I was..I was inside the matrix. I know now who kidnaped the others. GRIMLOCK They hidden inside you? RODIMUS PRIME Heh. No, you bozology. Remember when we were shot down over the planet Quintessa? We were tried and sentenced to die. GRIMLOCK Mm, me Grimlock rescue you. ARCEE You must be kidding. RODIMUS PRIME No, it's true, he did. But we never knew what our crimes were, that was the strange thing. But there isn't time to talk now. Let's get to Quintessa. SPRINGER Sorry, Rodimus, you're not going anywhere but to Cybertron to recover. RODIMUS PRIME Quintessa, that's an order. {A/A; Quintessa} ULTRA MAGNUS Where are you takin' us? DELIBERATA-5 To your judgement. KUP Right. We're gonna get a fair trial and then they're gonna kill us. SPIKE Makes you wish for the good old days, doesn't it? You know, before the...fighting broke out. Bears vs. the Lunar Colony. There was fourth quarter, force down, thirty yards to go. You remember that play? ULTRA MAGNUS No... SPIKE How about you, Kup? KUP No, but in a jam like that all you can do is...rush 'em and pray! Ooh! {They break free and capture their Quintesson escort, and Spike even gets a gun; they end up on the ledge above the pit.} SPIKE All right, Quintessons, you have a choice: release us, or I turn your buddy here into blewie juice. QUINT. 1-3 We sentence judge Deliberata...to death. SPIKE Tell me your name isn't Deliberata. DELIBERATA-5 I praise your decision. Open the pit. KUP Why, of all the piston-blowin', can-jammin', crank-bustin'.. SHARKTICONS [growling] KUP Why do I feel like I've seen this before? SPIKE Same reason my life is flashing before my eyes. {A panel opens, revealing Quintessons} QUINT. 1_1 Bear us no mind. We just...like to watch. | [Sharkticons growling] {A/D; Throb.} SCOURGE He's over there. CYCLONUS Scourge, show them the stuff of leadership and remove Galvatron from the ooze. Hm, better you than I. GALVATRON Who disturbs my plasma bath? CYCLONUS Mighty Galvatron, we have come to deliver you from... GALVATRON My empire of ash? {Hits Cyclonus} My bastion of brimstone? Rih! {Hits Cyclonus} My kingdom of desolation? Nah! {Hits Cyclonus into ooze} Did I ask you for deliverance? Nah! Did I? {Kicks Cyclonus into ooze} Hahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahahahaha. Oh, Cyclonus, how wonderful to see you again. Decepticons, your leader has returned. Long live the empire. Long live -hahahahaha- Galvatron! Hahahahaha. SWEEPS {Look at eachother} Long Live Galvatron. ************************ *** *** *** commercial block *** *** *** ************************ {Somewhere near Quintessa.} RODIMUS PRIME Let's see... Kup and I were shot down right over there... therefore it's gotta be that planet over there. ARCEE I'll radio the coordinates to our assault force. SHARKTICONS [growl] SPIKE Wait, there's still something I don't get. QUINT. 1-1 Which is? SPIKE What crime {[Sharkticons growling]} did we commit? QUINT. 1 They are Autobots, you are guilty by association. SPIKE What crime did the Autobots commit? QUINT. 1-5 Theft. ULTRA MAGNUS You're confusing us with Decepticons. QUINT. 1 Do you not occupy Cybertron? SPIKE Huh? KUP Eh, if you haven't out these guys are crazy, you're slower on the uptake than I thought. QUINTESSONS Sharkticons, carry out the executions. QUINT. 1-1 As we predicted, the Autobots have send help. QUINT. 2-2 My readings indicate their leader is aboard the ship. QUINT. 3-4 It is fortunate he is so foolhardy. Let us hope his foolhardiness is not in fact...courage. QUINT. 2 He carries the leadership matrix. If we could destroy it... QUINT. 1-3 ...the entire Autobot population would plunge into despair and chaos. SPIKE Is it my imagination, or have they lost interest in us? ULTRA MAGNUS An asteroid? KUP Yeah, so? I've seen thousands of 'em. ULTRA MAGNUS About to land on your head? KUP I gotta admit: that's new. SHARKTICONS [fleeing] QUINT. 1_2 Perhaps we should seek some cover. No, that would be cowardly. QUINT. 1-1 Place your faith in our defense systems. Q. GUARD Fire! QUINT. 1_2 The Autobots threaten us...no more. {A/D; Throb.} GALVATRON These baths have made me more powerful than ever. But where am I to find the mighty legions who will follow me? CYCLONUS The Sweeps and I shall serve as your elite guard. Uh, and the other Decepticons shall make excellent gun fodder. GALVATRON Hmhnhmhahahaha. Elite guards, heh, you? Hahahahahahahaha. {Makes point by singlehandedly defeating all present Decepticons.} SCOURGE Mighty Galvatron, I have learned your lesson. I now know not only that you are the leader, but also why. GALVATRON Huhuhuho, such insight is rare. Watch out for this one, Cyclonus, one day he might tahe your place. Come, Decepticons, we have an empire to regain! {D/A; Quintessa.} QUINT. 1-? What is that? QUINT. 2-2 Eighty-six percent probability: the rescue expedition. SPRINGER Everybody, ready! ARCEE Looks like the old empty-rockaroid-trick fooled 'em all right. QUINT. 1-1 Excellent. Our estimate of their arrival time was accurate to the implusso minus five minutes. QUINT. 2 Yes. Now we must escape. RODIMUS PRIME Grimlock, jump! GRIMLOCK Geronimo! {Misses Quintessons} Mmow. KUP Keep 'em fightin'; we could win this thing yet. ULTRA MAGNUS Hrh. Possibly, but I wouldn't wish to wager on it. Hurh. SHARKTICONS [growl] RODIMUS PRIME {On Springer} Grab on! ULTRA MAGNUS Let's get to the ship. SPRINGER Great idea, but there's a problem. ARCEE We don't have a ship. SPRINGER But it's okay, we got backups coming. Springer to Autobot fleet. {Incoming ship blasts Quintesson installation} SLING SHOT Nice shooting, Silverbolt. SKY DIVE We're about to enter the atmospere. Prepare for rescue operation. FIREFLIGHT They have a massive proton cannon targeted on us. SILVERBOLT Air Raid, you and Skydive take out the cannon. Fireflight, spot Rodimus and the others. Sling Shot, get in there and pull our guys out. {Quintessons escape in ship} QUINT. ?-? They believe they have won. QUINT. 2 A pity we shall not witness the horror on their faces _as_they_die_. QUINT. 2-3 Activate the core bomb and move us out of range. QUINT. 2_1 I shall miss Quintessa, but the destruction of the matrix is worth even this. RODIMUS PRIME Autobots, let's get out'a here! {Quintessa explodes.} {CREDITS}