THE TRANSFORMERS, third series 04.Five Faces Of Darkness Part 4 ================================= (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 - . Ultra Magnus - . Judge Deliberata - . Grimlock - . Blast Off - . Dead End - . Swindle - . Galvatron - . Cyclonus - . Motormaster * - . Motormaster - . Sweeps - . Wreck Gar - . Captain Fairborne - . Blaster - . Wheelie - . Blurr - . Quintesson 3 - . Quintesson 1 - . Quintesson 2 - . Quintesson 4 - . Kup - . Spike Witwicky - . Arcee - . Springer - . Robot 1 - . Robot 2 - . Robot 3 - . Autobot 4 (A3 ?) - . Autobot 5 - . Autobot 6 - . Optimus Prime - Peter Cullen Scrapper - . Octane * - . ? - ? Mixmaster - . Pilot - . Perceptor - . Silverbolt - . RODIMUS PRIME Last big party of December, folks. Let's go out with a bang! ULTRA MAGNUS Just once, couldn't your attitude reflect the gravity of the situation? RODIMUS PRIME Not if I can help it! DELIBERATA.-3 Yes! Yes! Even if it means my life is forfeit: destroy them, destroy_ GRIMLOCK Ooh, me Grimlock say shut your faces. BLAST OFF The Autobots are helpless. This time their doom is certain. DEAD END And we owe this grand opportunity entirely to our new allies. BLAST OFF I do not take your meaning. SWINDLE He means one of their opportunities... GALVATRON Now, Decepticons, learn the price of your disloyalty. Attack! CYCLONUS Attack who? {Is hit by Galvatron} Ugh. GALVATRON Everyone! BLAST OFF Fly for the rear. DEAD END What matter where the death comes from, in front or behind? Death is death. SWINDLE We've been doublecrossed. GALVATRON You have forsaken the Decepticons' one true leader, and for your treachery, you will pay! MOTORMASTER* Galvatron, you have returned. GALVATRON Beg for your life. MOTORMASTER Spare me and I'm yours to command. Hail Galvatron! SWEEPS Hail Galvatron! Hail Galvatron! SWINDLE They gave us energon, they lead us out of disarray. What did you give us that they didn't? GALVATRON "They"? "They"? Who are "they"? Perhaps I should introduce myself. {D/A; Goo.} RODIMUS PRIME We should have been molten by now. What's going on up there? ULTRA MAGNUS Sloppiness. Disorganisation. As I've tried to teach you, undisciplined thinking can make even the simplest task impossible. {They enter a building} |ULTRA MAGNUS None of these devices except the tv's are functioning. | [tv sound] |RODIMUS PRIME Wait a second. I've got a feeling... WRECK GAR {on screen} Hello, hello, hello, you are very television, mate. Glad you used the dial; wish everybody would. ULTRA MAGNUS Wreck Gar? RODIMUS PRIME I thought so. WRECK GAR Kimosabes, Rodimus and Ultra Magnus, you look like brand new. Radio, weeko, whiteboards and all, but why do you come on down to Goo? RODIMUS PRIME We didn't come on down, we crashed here. WRECK GAR All right, kin. You are in danger of being cancelled or losing your time slot. ULTRA MAGNUS What's he talking about? RODIMUS PRIME We're gonna get killed. Wreck Gar, we need personalised service with friendly convenient payment terms. Let's all be there?! WRECK GAR While you wait for me, Wreck Gar will put you in good hands. {A/A; Jupiter.} MARISSA Fairborne to Metroplex. Entering Jupiter's magnetic field. BLASTER I got static boogie all over my screen already. Any sign of Blurr and Wheelie? MARISSA Continuing to scan...if you can still hear me, Blaster, I think I've spotted them, alive! But something's very wrong down there. I'm going after them! [Trans-bats are squeaking] WHEELIE Uh, kick, run away, others play. M, m, ah. M. BLURR I'm okay but you're in bad shape. I just can't leave you in bad shape, so I gotta do something to save you, that'll get ME in bad shape. WHEELIE M, oh, ah. Take the cog, you're faster. Keep Metroplex from disaster. MARISSA Autobot Blurr, come aboard with the cog. BLURR But I have to save Wheelie. What would I do without Wheelie? Now what am I gonna do? Do I save the cog, or do I save Wheelie? But if I save Wheelie, then you could get hurt, and we might lose the cog, and so what am I gonna do and why do I have to just make decisions like this? ************************ *** *** *** commercial block *** *** *** ************************ MARISSA Blurr! What is he doing? WHEELIE E, Blurr, don't be a stup, fly the coop. MARISSA He ran right back into the danger. Uh, my digital watch is smarter than that! [Fire-bats squeaking] MARISSA {After leaving the ship with a jetpack and a weapon} Eat null-rays, you bags of proto-plasm! BLURR Well, it's about time. I was gettin' claustrophobic down there, and when I get claustrophobic, I get nervous, and when I get nervous, I feel_ MARISSA I don't care how you feel, as long as you're alive. Now shut up and get to the ship. {They run to the ship, but the fire-bats transform into missiles and destroy most of the ship.} BLURR Well, it's official: we're not going anywhere. And if we don't go anywhere, that means we stay here forever, and forever won't be very long because of those_ MARISSA Quiet! If you're going to panick, panick productively. Help me find out if the radio's still working. BLURR Yes, ma'am. {A/D; near the Quintesson ship.} GALVATRON Huhuhahaha, come out and face me. I wish to meet the new leaders of the Decepticons. QUINT. 3-3 This one must be dealt with differently than the others. QUINT. 1-1 What shall we do? QUINT. 2-2 Negotiate. QUINT. 3 From a position of weakness? QUINT. 2 From a position of falsehood. GALVATRON {Entering} Decepticons, fire! Show yourselves or perish. QUINT. 2 We wish to be your allies, to help you defeat the Autobots. GALVATRON Huh, have I asked for your help? QUINT. 2 Nno... GALVATRON Then what makes you think I want it? {Shoots} QUINT. 2 Galvatron, no, I beg you. QUINT. 2-2 We have no choice, we must tell him. QUINT. 1 No. QUINT. 4-3 Never. GALVATRON Tell me...what? QUINT. 1,4 We would die before telling you... QUINT. 2 ...about the Decepticon matrix of leadership. GALVATRON What Decepticon matrix? QUINT. 1-1 Priorities, please. What do we get for giving you this information? GALVATRON I might let you live. QUINT. 1,2,4 Our lives are not enough. GALVATRON You would dictate terms to me? QUINT. 1 Yes, in addition to letting us live... QUINT. 2 ...you must also destroy the Autobots on Goo. GALVATRON Au-to-bots? {Goo; the Autobots are attacked again.} ULTRA MAGNUS Renewing the hostilities, are they? RODIMUS PRIME Look out! KUP Try to take on Galvatron first. RODIMUS PRIME Galvatron? KUP Fire! GALVATRON Uh, ah. You succeed at nothing but increasing my rage, Autobots. RODIMUS PRIME Look out, we're on thin Goo. ULTRA MAGNUS No, it's evaporating out from under us. SPIKE What's going on down there? KUP I dunno, but it sure feels like we're bein'...sucked through the goooo. GALVATRON I will not be defeated by a garbage scow. SPIKE What happened to the Quintesson? {Deliberata is hurtling towards Galvatron, who swats him aside} WRECK GAR Sale, sale. Drop prices to cut off competition. Doors closing at midnight. GALVATRON Thwarted by junk! {Destroys force field generators} Very well, Junkions, then you will share the Autobots' fate! I hate Autobots, but I hate disloyalty more. And more than either, I despise failure. And I blame you for this failure. QUINT. 1-1 Destroy us, and you will never have the Decepticon matrix. QUINT. 2-2 Seventy-six point nine percent probability he doubts the existence of the matrix. GALVATRON Right! QUINT. 4-3 But he cannot doubt we would be powerful allies. GALVATRON Yes, you would. QUINT. 1 But he could, if we posess such power, for example, we could... GALVATRON Why have you not destroyed the Autobots yourselves? QUINT. 1 Their association with these...humans has changed them. QUINT. 2-2 We find the Earth-creatures highly unpredictable and troublesome. GALVATRON Huhuhahahahahaha, the humans? You fear the humans? They are weaklings. Very well, then. With your intellect and the strenght of my Decepticons, we shall blast the Autobots and the humans of the map of the galaxy! SWEEPS Hail Galvatron, hail Galvatron. QUINTESSONS Hail Galvatron. {Goo.} WRECK GAR {To Arcee} Don't you cry. I've got a secret. You'll have Springer back faster than snap-crackle-pop. ARCEE You can...bring him back? WRECK GAR New and improved, or, for a limited time, your money back. {Springer is put back together} SPRINGER What happened? Arcee? ARCEE Springer! Oh, Springer. SPRINGER Huhuh, not to discourage you, but what did I do to deserve all this? ARCEE Ow, shut up. KUP I dunno how you did it, but...thanks, Wreck Gar. WRECK GAR Assembly required. Batteries not included, but I believe in me. ARCEE Rodimus, look who's back. RODIMUS PRIME {Absent-mindedly} Yeah, good to have you back, Springer. SPRINGER Well, don't let your enthusiasm overwhelm ya. RODIMUS PRIME Sorry. I've been thinking about the Quintessons. Who they are, why they treat us as enemies. From what I saw back on that asteroid, I think the answer may be in the matrix, in the memories of the ancient Autobot leaders. SPRINGER So just get blasted again and almost die. Then you can enter the matrix and find out for sure. ARCEE He's only kidding. Tell him you're only kidding. SPRINGER He knows, Arcee. He's not as dumb as he looks. C'mon, let the boy cogitate if he wants. He won't do anything rash, will you, Rod? {Arcee and Springer leave; Rodimus Prime short-circuits himself} ************************ *** *** *** commercial block *** *** *** ************************ RODIMUS PRIME Where am I? Is this the matrix? ROBOT 1 Rodimus Prime! You have embarked on a journey into Cybertron's distant past. Prepare to look into the face of your creator. {A Quintesson appears; after that, Cybertron in the past} Eons ago, Cybertron was a factory, build by the Quintessons to manufacture robots. There were two product lines: military hardware and consumacles. These two product lines were the linear ancestors of the Decepticons and the Autobots. In time, the Quintessons endowed their products with a simulated intelligence. Now, the machines could manufacture themselves. And before long, they grew too lazy and greedy to bother even with that. There were simpler ways to wring performance out of their slaves. {Picture of a Quintesson guard striking a robot with a whip, and thereby dismantling him} ROBOT 2 The Quintessons simply recicled it on spot. The Quintessons also used the robots to entertain them. A hew {?} was pitted against machine: gladitorial combat. Some of us, however, found this pointless combat repellant, and sought to put a stop to it. ROBOT 3 We failed... But the seeds of revolt had been planted, and would one day yield a terrible harvest. What the Quintessons failed to grasp, was that their robots had developed emotions; they knew and felt the difference between freedom and slavery. And that oversight sealed their fate. {The robots' victory over the Quintessons is shown} AUTOBOT 4 For a time the robots lived in harmony. But this did not last. The former consumacles - who called themselves Autobots - sought a peaceful existence, while the military hardware wanted conquest. And they got their way... AUTOBOT 5 as they terrorized the Autobots. AUTOBOT 6 Knowing we could never defeat the Decepticons with firepower, we turned to stealth and invented the art of...transforming. The Autobots ruled for many centuries. But, in time, the Decepticons also learned how to transform. Thus, one fateful night, far below the city, Megatron was born. OPTIMUS PRIME The matrix was passed to Alpha Trion, the oldest of Autobots, who kept it safely hidden for many years. Until the next Autobot leader appeared. A gentle robot known as Orion Packs, who was fated to become... RODIMUS PRIME ...Optimus Prime. OPTIMUS PRIME And so he began the third Cybertronian war, which rages to this day. RODIMUS PRIME And the Quintessons...are our creators?! OPTIMUS PRIME Through all these centuries, they have waited for the proper moment to strike, to reclaim the planet that we Transformers took from them. RODIMUS PRIME And now they're going for the gusto {?}, right? OPTIMUS PRIME Do not forget what you've learned of our past, Rodimus. From its lessons the future is forged. SPRINGER {Bending over Rodimus Prime} Are you crazy? Why'd you short-circuited yourself? Wake up, you, you moron! RODIMUS PRIME It was the only way...into the matrix. SPRINGER I was wrong: he is as dumb as he looks. ARCEE Springer! RODIMUS PRIME No more jokes, Springer. Cybertron's in deadly danger. We're heading back there. Now! SPRINGER Yes sir mister leader sir. {Quintesson base.} GALVATRON We shall attack on two fronts then? QUINT. 1 Correct. Simultaneously on Cybertron -and-on-Earth. {Earth; the Contructicons are fusing things in a city together.} SCRAPPER The bridge {?} joint is almost complete! OCTANE * I'm ready with the beacon! ? Sleep sound, ye Earth creatures, for your awakening shall be rude. {Morning.} MIXMASTER Constructicons to Galvatron. Hhheh. Trypticon is ready! {Space.} GALVATRON Transform it! {Earth; Trypticon is transformed.} [Humans panick] [Trypticon growls] [Humans panick] [Decepticons cheer] MIXMASTER Trypticon lives! {Space.} GALVATRON Then Autobot City dies! PILOT Mayday! Mayday! Request landing clearance! PERCEPTOR We must deny their request. KUP And let a shuttle full of innocent humans die? I can't do it. PERCEPTOR Cybertron's safety might depend on it. KUP I...I just can't. Let 'em land! PILOT Thank you, Cybertron! SILVERBOLT We've spotted her... We're too late! She's about to hit the... GALVATRON Decepticons, attack! QUINT. 1 The Decepticons will destroy the Autobots. QUINT. 2 Then, we will crush the Decepticons... QUINT. 1-1 ...and soon, very soon now, Cybertron will be ours! {CREDITS}