FADE IN:
EXT. SPACE
A small planet glows in the light of its sun. Suddenly, we
hear a loud rumble, and see a thick, electronic mist behind
the planet... Then, the electronic mist begins to engulf the
planet, and we hear the horrible sounds of destruction.
Almost like somebody, or something, is eating it.
PUSH DOWN TO:
EXT. THE NEAR SIDE OF THE PLANET'S SURFACE
Strange robotic creatures scramble around the planet in a
wild panic. It looks like Pompeii must have looked as
Vesuvius erupted.
ANGLE ON ONE OF THE CREATURES - TRACKING
The creature is KRANIX. We will meet him later on in a very
different context, but for now, he is running from the ever-
growing mist that threatens to engulf him.
ANOTHER ANGLE - THE PANIC
As Kranix runs, another creature, ARBLUS, calls to him.
ARBLUS
Transform and flee, Kranix! You must
warn all you meet of the horror of
Unicron! Suddenly, the pitiful creature
is surrounded by the strange energy cloud
and it looks like his body has
simultaneously caught fire and been
doused with acid.
KRANIX
Arblus! No!
ANGLE ON KRANIX
The mist threatens to engulf him too. He transforms into a
small rocket ship and...
TRACK WITH KRANIX AS...
He takes off. As we rise higher and higher in the atmosphere,
we see the horror wrought by the hideous and still mysterious
Unicron. The planet cracks like an egg and rivers of lava
leak out. The energy cloud surrounds it and... Dissolves
everything... ... And when the smoke clears, we get our
first look at Unicron. It is horrifying. A massive, metal orb
with a gaping maw and a field of electricity.
(CONTINUED)
2.
CONTINUED:
PAN FORWARD to SHOW that this hideous planet is on a direct
collision course with...
MOONS ORBITING CYBERTRON IN DEEP SPACE
There are TWO MECHANISTIC MOONS orbiting the huge planet
Cybertron. But we are most concerned with a small, greenish
metal one.
NARRATOR
It is the year 2005. The treacherous
Decepticons have conquered the Autobots'
home planet of Cybertron. But from
secret staging grounds on two of
Cybertron's moons the valiant Autobots
prepare to retake their homeland.
CLOSER ON GREEN MOON
At first, we see nothing unusual or suspicious. Then,
pulling closer, we see that the top of the moon is covered
with moon camouflage "netting" and underneath it is a huge
cache of futuristic weapons. This is the Autobot staging
ground for an assault on Cybertron. DOLLY THROUGH THE COMPLEX
until we arrive at a Command Center where several Autobots
peer into monitors, running constant surveillance on
Cybertron.
ANGLE ON IRONHIDE
He peers into a monitor. As he speaks, we see the monitor
PAN to an area where a huge Decepticon Symbol is emblazoned
on Cybertron.
IRONHIDE
Every time I look into this thing, my
circuits sizzle. I'm tired of this
waiting game, Prime. When are we gonna
start bustin' Deceptichops?
ANGLE ON OPTIMUS PRIME
He stands over a holographic map which shows various invasion
plans for Cybertron.
OPTIMUS PRIME
We still don't have enough Energon cubes
to power a full scale assault, Ironhide.
IRONHIDE
Then let me make another run to Autobot
City on Earth. I'll bring you back more
cubes than you'll know what to do with.
3.
ANGLE ON PRIME
He solemnly hands down an order
PRIME
Alright, ready the shuttle for launch.
ANGLE ON IRONHIDE
He raises a fist in a warwhoop!
IRONHIDE
YAHOO!
(looking into monitor)
Your days are numbered now Decepticreeps.
A SMALL MOON "MOUNTAIN"
Ironhide transforms and Races toward a mountain, which stands
about a half mile from the secret Autobot facility.
OPTIMUS PRIME (V.O.)
Jazz, report security status.
COMMAND CENTER - ANGLE ON THE CONSOLES
JAZZ
No sign of Decepticons in this sector,
Prime.
PRIME
What about Moon Base 2?
JAZZ
Jazz to Moon Base 2.
PAN UP and through the sky to -
ANOTHER MOON
This is the second moon. It is much
closer to Cybertron than the first one.
This is where Bumblebee and Spike are
stationed.
JAZZ (V.O.)
Jazz to Moon Base 2.
ANGLE ON BUMBLEBEE AND SPIKE
They stand together a communication console. Spike is now
35 years old. Bumblebee looks as he has always looked, save
for a couple of funny bumper stickers on his tail: I (heart)
Cybertron. I (club) Decepticons.
(CONTINUED)
4.
CONTINUED:
BUMBLEBEE
Bumblebee and Spike here.
JAZZ (V.O.)
We're about to send up the bird. Any
Decepticon shenanigans in your sector?
BUMBLEBEE
All clear, Jazz.
(pause)
SPIKE
Hey, Ironhide, tell my son, Daniel, I
miss him, and tell him I'll be coming
home as soon as we've kicked Megatron's
tail across the galaxy.
CUT TO:
INT. THE SHUTTLE
Ironhide and Prowl sit at the controls, running a series of
pre-launch tests.
IRONHIDE
Will do, Spike.
ANGLE ON PRIME, CLIFFJUMPER, AND THE OTHERS
Standing at the Command Center, watching:
PRIME
Commence countdown, Cliffjumper.
CLIFFJUMPER
Five...Four...Three...Two...
THE LUNAR "MOUNTAIN"
Suddenly, smoke starts pouring out of the mountain.
CLIFFJUMPER
One....
Then, the "mountain" which must be made of paper mache or
something blows away revealing -- The shuttle!
CLIFFJUMPER (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Liftoff.
Suddenly, the shuttle rips out of the ground in a ball of
fire.
(CONTINUED)
5.
CONTINUED:
As it takes off, we realize this isn't any dinky shuttle, but
a massive ship, capable of carrying all the energon needed
to fight a war and an army to boot. The screen is bathed in
smoke and fire which slowly clears.
ANGLE ON PRIME
As he watches the shuttle shoot into the distance.
PRIME
Now, all we need is a little Energon and
a lot of luck.
ANGLE BEHIND PRIME
We see a bank of computers. Suddenly, a small tape deck pops
open... a cassette pops out and transforms into...
...Laserbeak who flies away unseen.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. SPACE - LATER
The shuttle hurtles though a massive asteroid field.
PROWL (V.O.)
Slow down, Ironhide. We want to get to
Autobot city in one piece.
CUT TO:
INT. THE SHUTTLE
Ironhide is at the controls.
IRONHIDE
If I can dodge Dececpticon rays, I can
sure as shootin' dodge a couple of
asteroids.
Suddenly, there is a terrible BANG! on the side of the ship,
and the two Autobots are thrown from their seats.
PROWL
You were saying?
IRONHIDE (IRKED)
That wasn't an asteroid. There is a blast
of light and they turn to see...
6.
ANGLE ON THE SHIP
The most powerful laser light anybody has ever seen cuts a
gaping hole in the side of the ship... Then, when the light
clears, a panel of the ship falls in and we see -
MEGATRON!
In all his glory.
MEGATRON
Die Autobots!
Then, he transforms to Gun Mode, spins into STARSCREAM'S arms
and Starscream fires.
BRAWN
is cut in half by Megatron's blast.
ON PROWL
as SCAVENGER MELTS HIM DOWN.
THE INSECTICONS
...eat away at the hole in the shuttle to
make way for... ...an ARMY of other
Decepticons including Laserbeak who
enter, firing.
IRONHIDE AND RATCHET
While FIRING back are FUSED TOGETHER... ... then blasted
apart and fall in smoking, glowing fragments.
ON STARSCREAM AND MEGATRON
As they enter the now empty ship, a number of Decepticons
flood past them, taking positions and searching for other
living Autobots.
MEGATRON
This was almost too easy, Starscream.
STARSCREAM
Much easier, oh mighty Megatron, than
attacking the real threat: the Autobots
moon base.
MEGATRON
You're an idiot, Starscream. Were we
simply to wipe out that minuscule base,
they could build another one.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
7.
CONTINUED:
MEGATRON (CONT'D)
But when we slip by their security
systems in their own ship and destroy
Autobot city, the Autobots will be
vanquished forever!
IRONHIDE
Fat chance, Megatron!
Ironhide pulls himself up and grabs onto Megatron who flings
him against the wall.
MEGATRON
Such heroic nonsense!
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. EARTH - CLOSE SHOT- MINIATURE RADAR SCREEN
A child's hands hold a scanner device which tracks a
TRAVELING BLIP across a star map towards a pulsing dot which
represents the Earth.
DANIEL (V.O.)
The Shuttle just zipped past checkpoint
zeta.
ON DANIEL
Daniel, a classic twelve year old
American boy watches the portable viewer
which is like an over-sized Boy Scout
compass. WIDEN SHOT to show he is at an
old fashioned "fishin' hole" on Earth -
surrounded by weeping willows, assorted
trees and shrubs, and that his fishing
pole is stuck in the dirt, the line
floating lazily out on the water.
DANIEL
Let's watch Ironhide land it, Hot Rod! As
Daniel runs to small skateboard-like
device, hits a button, and watches, it
transforms into a hoverboard and rides
it, like a surfer up a steep, grassy
hillside we change angle to feature...
HOT ROD
an "adolescent" Autobot. He is in robot
mode, sitting with his fishing rod held
between two fingers, looking bored with
it all.
HOT ROD (CONT'D)
Talk about dull......!
(CONTINUED)
8.
CONTINUED:
Then, he tosses the rod into the water.
ON DANIEL RIDING HIS HOVERBOARD UP THE HILL
DANIEL
(calling excitedly)
Hurry or we'll miss it!
HOT ROD
lopes up hill after Daniel.
HOT ROD (CONT'D)
If you're gonna ride, Dan-O ...ride in
style! Hot Rod catches up with Daniel,
scoops him off his hoverboard, TRANSFORMS
to automotive mode and RIDES OVER CREST
OF HILL with Daniel in the front seat.
ANOTHER ANGLE - ON AUTOBOT CITY
FOLLOW Hot Rod up and over a roadway leading around the
perimeter of Autobot City which becomes visible the instant
Hot Rod clears the rim of a hill. As they travel, we SHOULD
also be getting a sense of what Autobot City is all about.
(DESIGN NOTE: Autobot City looks like a federal energy
project gone mad. Here, the Autobots are trying to exploit
every known means of getting energy. The mountain is covered
with solar panels, windmills spin in the valley, oil derricks
pump, and not far away a hydroelectric dam catches millions
of volts. Near all of these various things are energon
compressors, which turn the raw energy into energon cubes. IN
THE BACKGROUND of these scenes, we should see various panel
truck-type Autobots cruise up in auto mode to stacks of this
energon, convert to humanoid mode, load up their vans, then
convert to Auto mode again and drive the Energon into Autobot
City. In short, it should be clear that the purpose of
Autobot City is to harvest energy. All the while, Hot Rod and
Daniel are riding recklessly out from the Autobot City and up
into neighboring hills for an overview of the -
CIRCULAR LANDING AREA
which resides within the "bowl" created by the City structure
and natural surroundings.
DANIEL
Hey! Let me out.
HOT ROD
Why settle for a peek when you can see
everything from Lookout Mountain?
(CONTINUED)
9.
CONTINUED:
DANIEL
But we're not supposed to go beyond City
limits!
HOT ROD
Chromo-Chicken!
ON KUP AND OTHER AUTOBOTS
KUP - a grizzled, "old Soldier" of an Autobot - is directing
the positioning of a large metal road barricade. Hot Rod
barrels through a sign which reads: "STOP -THIS AREA OFF
LIMITS", almost knocking Kup over in dust and wind
KUP
disgustedly watches Hot Rod drive up the
mountain.
KUP (CONT'D)
(to sound like swearing)
Cam bustin', turbo revvin' young punk.
CUT TO:
MOUNTAIN ABOVE AUTOBOT CITY- LOOKOUT POINT
Hot Rod arrives at a viewing platform carved in mountainside
and TRANSFORMS back to humanoid mode. Daniel rushes to a set
of PUBLIC VIEWING BINOCULARS and peers into them.
HOT ROD
This is it! Now take a squint through
those babies.
DANIEL
Hot Rod, look! There's a hole in the
shuttle!
HOT ROD
What!?
DANIEL'S P.O.V - BINOCULAR MATTE - THE SHUTTLE
The hole Megatron blasted in order to get into the shuttle
mars the otherwise perfect exterior of the ship.
ANGLE ON DANIEL AND HOT ROD
Hot Rod looks up and a pair of futuristic binoculars pop out
of his eyes.
10.
HOT ROD'S POV - THE SHUTTLE
Hot Rod's vision, now, infinitely better than human vision,
spots something truly disturbing -- -- Starscream, and
several Constructicons inside the ship!
HOT ROD (O.S.)
Decepticons!
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
Drawing his gun, he starts FIRING on the shuttle.
HOT ROD
This is for Ironhide. As so's this!
ANGLE ON THE SHUTTLE
Rays streak through the hole searing...
STARSCREAM
He ducks away from the door.
STARSCREAM (CONT'D)
I'm hit!
ANGLE ON MEGATRON
Standing behind a pair of Decepticons who pilot the shuttle,
he turns to see...
THE CONSTRUCTICONS
Firing out of the hole.
MEGATRON
He's furious.
MEGATRON (CONT'D)
You imbecile, our cover is blown!
STARSCREAM
It was your stupid strategy!
CUT TO:
ANGLE ON KUP, CONSTRUCTION CREW
Kup and the Autobot Construction Crew watch Hot Rod shooting
at the shuttle.
KUP
What's that darn fool doing? Hound looks
up and points.
(CONTINUED)
11.
CONTINUED:
HOUND
Decepticons!
ANGLE ON THE SHUTTLE
Suddenly it cracks open, and Decepticons shoot out of the
wreckage like toys from a pinata.
CLOSE - MEGATRON
In mid-air
MEGATRON
(shouting to forces)
Attack!
(he looks down and fires)
HOT ROD AND DANIEL
Hot Rod pulls Daniel back as Megatron's BLAST SHEARS OFF the
VIEWING PLATFORM which crumbles and falls down the steep
mountain!
HOT ROD
Hang on!
Putting Daniel under one arm, he pivots and kicks up at...
...Hook and Scavenger who are descending on him in humanoid
mode... ...causing them both to crash against the
mountainside which starts a... ...landslide which Hot Rod
"rides" down the slope, pursued by... ... Decepticon FIRE.
HOT ROD
(SHOUTING)
WHoooooooaaah
ANGLE ON BOTTOM OF MOUNTAIN SLOPE - BLITZWING
Blitzwing flies down in jet mode, transforms to robot mode,
looks up at the "slide riding" Hot Rod and Daniel, transforms
to tank mode and takes aim.
BLITZWING
(amused)
Come on down, Autobrat!
ON HOT ROD AND DANIEL
as Hot Rod tumbles, he covers Daniel with his arms and tries
unsuccessfully to slow his fall.
HOT ROD
Yiiiiiiiiii!
(CONTINUED)
12.
CONTINUED:
ON BLITZWING
about to fire, when...
...Kup's arm descends into SHOT, spinning Blitzwing's turret
around. Blitzwing's blast, scorches...
SHRAPNEL
who is flying nearby.
BLITZWING
transforms to robot mode and turns as...
Kup comes flying, feet first, into
Blitzwing knocking him off the mountain
ledge.
FOLLOW Kup as he lands in front of Hot Rod, who is just
coming to a stop at the bottom with Daniel.
HOT ROD
Not bad for an old timer!
KUP
(gruffly)
Old timer?! That's something you'll
never be if you don't get back to the
city. You know what we used to do with
cocky, insubordinate upstarts?
HOT ROD
(interrupting)
Save it.
STARSCREAM
transforming into jet mode, fires on them
with laser bursts which...
... chew up the ground beside them.
HOT ROD AND KUP
with Daniel race toward Autobot City, transforming into
vehicle mode as shots gouge the terrain around them.
CUT TO:
PERCEPTOR IN MICROSCOPE MODE ON "BATTLEMENT" OF AUTOBOT CITY
he watches...
PERCEPTOR'S POV - THE DECEPTICON ATTACK
Megatron, Insecticons, Constructicons, and other Decepticon
forces attack the city from the sky and ground.
(CONTINUED)
13.
CONTINUED:
PERCEPTOR
transforms to humanoid and runs
toward...... ... Three new Autobots,
ARCEE, a lovely female Autobot of about
Hot Rod's age, SPRINGER, a very muscular
and bantering "Indiana Jones" type
Autobot and ULTRA MAGNUS, the large and
soldierly City Commander.
PERCEPTOR
Ultra Magnus.....a cursory evaluation of
Decepticon capability indicates a
distinct tactical deficit!
ULTRA MAGNUS
In other words, Perceptor...
SPRINGER
(translating)
We're outnumbered!
He turns and FIRES from his hip.
DIRGE IN JET MODE
Zooms in to strafe as...
SPRINGER'S BLAST...
...Explodes on his wing tip.
SPRINGER, ULTRA MAGNUS AND OTHERS
as Decepticon BOMBS AND LASER FIRE pour in on the City.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Springer, Arcee, transform Autobot City!
HIGH ANGLE - LOOKING DOWN ON COURTYARD - TRACKING SPRINGER
AND ARCEE
STARSCREAM (V.O.)
Pathetic fools!
STARSCREAM
TRANSFORMS and hovers in robot mode,
firing all around them as they...
..dive for the switch and pull it down.
(CONTINUED)
14.
CONTINUED:
STARSCREAM
There's no escape...Uuuuh! Just then, the
floor of the courtyard STARTS
TRANSFORMING - - the center line of the
floor snaps shut like the halves of a
gigantic steel shelled clam, trapping
Starscream's foot.
STARSCREAM
Agggggggh! My foot!
ANGLE ON SPRINGER AND ARCEE
as they make it through an archway which TRANSFORMS INTO A
STEEL SHIELD as they run through
ON STARSCREAM - HIS FOOT STILL CAUGHT IN "CLAM" OF COURTYARD
He struggles to get free before he is crunched by the still
transforming city. In the nick of time, he shoots a "shoe
horn" like projection from his wrist and pulls his boot
free, then... ...dodges away. ... The "clam" shape RETRACTS
COMPLETELY and more armored shielding SLIDES INTO PLACE TO
COVER where the Courtyard was. He winces in mid-air and flies
away as the city continues to transform to a fortress below.
CUT TO:
ANOTHER ANGLE - THE TRANSFORMING CITY
The towers and buildings of the city, picot and retract.. ...
withdrawing like periscopes, turning and vanishing into
steel shield coverings.
ON MEGATRON
as he FLIES OVER SCENE, BLASTING this way
and that, shouting
MEGATRON
Breach their defenses!
ON INSECTICONS
who are trailing Megatron, attack the
fast CLOSING CITY, trying to GNAW AND
DEVOUR their way through the PORTS and
BRIDGES leading inside.
KICKBACK
(Chewing on jamb of doorway
near bridge)
Delicious, eh Shrapnel?
(CONTINUED)
15.
CONTINUED:
SHRAPNEL
(CHEWING on draw-bridge to
City)
A little heavy on the electrons.
Electrons.
ZOOM UP TO:
KUP, HOT ROD AND DANIEL
as Kup and Hot Rod are racing down mountain toward the
transforming city's drawbridge.
KUP (V.O.)
The Insecticons are in our way.
HOT ROD (V.O.)
Wrong! They're our way in! Yaaaaaaay-
hah!
ANOTHER ANGLE
Hot Rod speeds up, passes Kup and... ...
rides up and over Kickback's back, using
it like a stunt driver's ramp to...
... hurtle across the open space between Kickback and the
doorway into the city.
ON SHRAPNEL
As Shrapnel looks up and reacts... ...Kup
hurtles up and over Kickback's back just
as Kickback is starting to rise to see
what knocked him face down onto the
bridge in the first place. ... Kup goes
SAILING OT OVER OPEN SPACE between
Kickback's back and the doorway into the
city- -clobbering Shrapnel, who is in the
way and landing on the city doorstep,
driving in as...
THE DOORWAY
transforms, shutting down with metal
shields with a "clank" sound as Kickback
and Shrapnel both leap at is to... ...
bite Kup and Hot Rod and instead BREAK
THEIR TEETH on steel door, falling face
down with a grunt as LAST BITS OF CITY
TRANSFORM.
CUT TO:
16.
INT. CITY SIDE OF DRAWBRIDGE
as Kup and Hot Rod roll in and TRANSFORM where Ultra Magnus
is waiting for them with Perceptor. Other Autobots are
moving into battle stations in the b.g. and ALARMS SOUND.
Daniel looks on in awe.
ULTRA MAGNUS
(sternly)
You can explain your security violation
later, Hot Rod! Now, man your battle
station.
HOT ROD
I don't have to explain my so called
violation to you or anyone...
KUP
(tugs him along roughly)
He said "later!"
Kup moves OFF with Hot Rod and Daniel.
CUT TO:
BLASTER ON FORTIFIED " CROWS NEST" LOOKOUT TOWER
The "Crows Nest" has windows all around and Blaster's seat
rotates so he can watch action and broadcast battle reports
like a Top 40 Deejay. Perceptor climbs up ladder into "Crows
Nest" from lower level. As Blaster speaks, we see Decepticons
FIRING at the windows of the Crows Nest but the bursts
explode harmlessly against the glass
BLASTER
Lookout and shout! Yow! Explosions rock
the Crows Nest. Blaster swivels around
and tilts to see...
BLASTER'S POV - INSECTICONS
Chewing on armor plating at the lower edge of the fortified,
transformed city.
BLASTER
activates turret type LASER CANNON
BLASTER
Gonna lay some slugs on those overweight
bugs!
(FIRES Laser Cannon)
(CONTINUED)
17.
CONTINUED:
CANNON SWIVELS
LASER BLAST cooks out and we FOLLOW IT
OFF SCREEN to...
THE INSECTICONS
as a Laser BLAST hurls Bombshell up and
out of sight and causes Shrapnel and
Kickback to get sucked into the vacuum.
BLASTER
Perceptor joins him.
BLASTER
(joyful at his direct hit)
I'm talkin' hits here, Autobuddies! Hits
with a capital "aitch" like in Hard,
Heavy and...
(sees Perceptor)
Hey, Perceptor, what's shakin' other than
this fortress?
BLASTS of enemy fire continue to rock the crows nest as
Perceptor answers
PERCEPTOR
Blaster, Ultra Magnus sends orders to
contact Optimus Prime for reinforcements.
BLASTER
Alright! Cover your receptors,
Perceptor! Blaster transforms to ghetto
blaster mode and broadcasts VISIBLE
waves...
THE WAVES
rise and expand into space
BLASTER
Optimus Prime... Do you read me? The
Decepticons are blitzing Autobot City.
We're really takin' a pounding. Don't
know how much longer we can hold out.
ON WAVES SPREADING THROUGH SPACE
CUT TO:
MEGATRON LEADING ASSAULT ON TRANSFORMED AUTOBOT CITY
He is FIRING at ARMORED DOOR, trying to melt through when he
reacts to SOUND of Blaster's broadcast for help, stops, and
looks up at CROWS NEST.
(CONTINUED)
18.
CONTINUED:
MEGATRON
Soundwave! Jam that transmission.
ON SOUNDWAVE
SOUNDWAVE moves forward and starts
heaving CASSETTES upwards toward
Blaster's Crows Nest position.
SOUNDWAVE
Rumble! Frenzy! Ravage! Ratbat! Eject!
Operation: interference.
ON CASSETTES
as they transform and attack the crows
nest.
ON RUMBLE
as he starts PILE DRIVER MOTION on Crows
Nest windows
RUMBLE
First we crack the shell. Then we crack
the nuts inside.
INSIDE CROWS NEST
as Blaster and Perceptor see Rumble and others and react.
Blaster stops broadcasting.
BLASTER
We got Cassette Critters knockin' on the
window!
ON RUMBLE
as he CRACKS THROUGH GLASS and he and
others swarm in and attack Perceptor who
tries to beat them away
PERCEPTOR
Run, Blaster! Save yourself!
BLASTER
No way. Two can play!
ON BLASTER
as he spews out CASSETTES which TRANSFORM
into CUBBIE, a lion, STRIPES, a tiger,
STINGER, a scorpion and BOLTS, a small,
tough robot.
BLASTER
Sic 'em!
(CONTINUED)
19.
CONTINUED:
ON RUMBLE
as Cubbie takes him down by the foot,
turning him over and over
ON STRIPES
as he SNAPS at Ratbat who screams and
darts, trying to escape as we move to
STINGER AND BOLTS
as Bolts swats Frenzy into Stinger who JABS Stinger into
Frenzy making him yowl and run.
PERCEPTOR AND BLASTER
As they fight Decepticons.
PERCEPTOR
You think you got through to Prime?
BLASTER
Let's hope so! Cause if I didn't we're
gonna look like burnt out toaster ovens!
CUT TO:
LONG SHOT -AUTOBOT CITY BESIEGED
The city shows gaps, dents, smoking holes and Decepticons
continue to pump fire into it and get back sporadic return
fire from inside as... ... Megatron moves INTO SHOT and fills
THE SCREEN
MEGATRON
Constructicons merge for the kill!
IN "PILLBOX" LIKE GUN EMPLACEMENT IN CITY'S ARMORED WALL
Where Springer and Arcee clear the twisted remains of Autobot
defenders away from a CATAPULT LIKE TORPEDO LAUNCHER.
POV - THROUGH LAUNCHER PORT
we see the mountain where the Decepticons are getting ready
for the final charge.
SPRINGER
Great! Megatron's making his big push and
we can't even push...
(struggling to turn Catapult
around to re-aim it)
...back!
(CONTINUED)
20.
CONTINUED:
Arcee starts to push beside him.
THE HUGE CATAPULT
moves slowly as we CHANGE ANGLE and Kup, Hot Rod and Daniel
ENTER SHOT.
KUP
Keep at it, Springer, lad! Help's at
hand!
(to Hot Rod)
Together now!
Hot Rod joins the others in pushing the huge Catapult into
firing position.
DANIEL
also leans against it, his small legs
churning.
THE CATAPULT
starts moving easily now.
ON ARCEE BESIDE HOT ROD
Pushing on the busted catapult.
ARCEE
(pushing, manages to speak to
Hot Rod. She likes him but
doesn't want to go too far)
I was afraid you'd be trapped outside the
city walls.
HOT ROD
(likes her, too, but tries to
be cool and collected)
Hey, I wasn't worried for a micro-second,
Arcee!
ARCEE
(enjoying letting him have it)
Then you probably didn't understand the
situation. Before Hot Rod can react, Kup
steps back from repositioned Catapult
KUP
That did it!
DANIEL AT LAUNCHER PORT (Opening in "pillbox" through which
the Catapult will fire)
(CONTINUED)
21.
CONTINUED:
DANIEL
Kup, Hot Rod! Look!
(he points)
THEIR P.O.V. - THE CONSTRUCTICONS
as they start linking themselves together into enormous
DEVASTATOR.
KUP (V.O.)
Devastator!
ON DEVASTATOR
as he rises up and starts FIRING,
HAMMERING, TEARING AWAY at metal shields
which create armored walls of the
transformed City.
WIDEN SHOT TO INCLUDE MEGATRON, STARSCREAM, DIRGE, ET, AL.
as they line up behind Devastator, FIRING INTO THE CITY,
ready to follow Devastator inside when he has torn the "roof"
off.
ON SPRINGER, ARCEE, HOT ROD, KUP AT CATAPULT
as Springer LOADS TORPEDOES ONTO CATAPULT LIKE SLING
SPRINGER
I got better things to do today than die.
(he FIRES Catapult)
ANGLE ON CATAPULT
as it HURLS FLAMING TORPEDO BOMBS one after the other out the
launch port and we FOLLOW THEM TO MEGATRON AND OTHER
DECEPTICONS waiting for Devastator to open the way as a
succession of torpedo-bombs explode, knocking them aside,
some of the Torpedo-Bombs strike...
DEVASTATOR
and explode harmlessly as Devastator
continues to grunt and tear off armored
layers of the city. He grabs Hot Rod and
Kup and starts to crush them.
ARCEE
Hot Rod!
CUT TO:
22.
EXT. THE EDGE OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
as Optimus Prime's Space Shuttle hurtles in.
INSIDE THE SPACE SHUTTLE - OPTIMUS PRIME WITH DINOBOTS
OPTIMUS PRIME
Dinobots. Destroy Devastator!
GRIMLOCK
Uhhhh! Me Grimlock love challenge!
Dinobots, transform!
DINOBOTS
transform into humanoid mode, and, with
Grimlock at the front... ...fly out of
the shuttle in wedge formation, blasting
in unison.
FOLLOW DINOBOTS
In as they transform again and, in dino
mode, swoop over to Devastator...
DEVASTATOR
Roars towards the Dinobots.
THEIR BATTLE
shakes the Earth...
...buckling City walls, menacing the Autobots inside. Hot
Rod and Kup are released during the struggle.
ANGLE ON THE DINOBOTS
As they try to destroy Devastator... ... Their strength is
more than matched and soon they are overwhelmed by him.
CUT TO:
EXT. THE BATTLEFIELD - MOMENTS LATER
Prime stands outside the dented shuttle with Sunstreaker and
Hound. As he talks he shoots at a swarm of Decepticons who
battle their way towards him.
PRIME
Megatron must be stopped.
(pause)
23.
PRIME'S POV - MEGATRON
The Decepticon leader stands a hundred yards away, vanishing
and reappearing with the shifting waves of Generic
Decepticons that charge back and forth.
PRIME (V.O.)
No matter the cost.
PRIME'S CHARGE: A SERIES OF SHOTS
PRIME'S CHARGE - HEROIC BATTLE THEME SONG
Optimus Prime leader and hero of the Autobots charges into
certain doom. As he battles his way through the Decepticons,
we HEAR an inspiring anthem of courage, strength and triumph,
like "Eye of the Tiger". This theme will reprise during the
film when the Autobots are battling at impossible odds. He
charges headlong into the Decepticon forces which separate
him from Megatron. Decepticons fire on him, but he takes
the shots, and... Spinning and whirling like the Sundance
Kid, he takes a lot out. Then, Decepticons attempt to block
his charge and Prime... ... Like a powerback, transforms to
Truck Mode and barrels into them, sending Decepticons flying
around like shards of glass hit by a .45. ... finally, he
is engulfed by an incoming swarm, and it looks like his
attack is foiled.
MEGATRON
as he commands his troops.
MEGATRON
Their defenses are broken. Let the
slaughter begin.
Then he turns and sees...
MEGATRON
Prime!?
PRIME
smashing through a wall of lesser
Decepticons.
PRIME
One shall stand, one shall fall.
CLOSE ON MEGATRON
his eyes blazing with hatred.
MEGATRON
Why throw away your life so recklessly?
24.
ON OPTIMUS PRIME
Dirge takes a sneaky leap at him... Optimus stiffarms him
with a shuddering clank... ...then turns him upside down with
one hand and... ...drives him headfirst into the rocky
ground, letting him crumple and fall.
OPTIMUS PRIME
That's a question you should ask
yourself.
MEGATRON
hurls himself at Optimus Prime... ....
both tumble into the walls of the City...
...denting the walls and causing the
electronic panels inside to short
circuit, surrounding them with a fiery
nimbus of crackling electrical energy.
Ultra Magnus in car carrier mode barrels out of city carrying
several Autobots. He and the others transform into robot
mode and fire lasers at the Decepticons.
INTERCUT TO HOT ROD, KUP, DANIEL, ARCEE, BLASTER, PERCEPTOR,
fighting their way to the battle of the titans.
HOT ROD
We've got to save Prime! Punching...
KUP
That's his fight, lad! Stay away.
Shooting..
...And charging.
ANGLE ON OPTIMUS AND MEGATRON
Megatron attempts to kick Prime in the throat... ...Prime
catches his foot, twists it... ... and hurls Megatron
backwards into a metal pile.
MEGATRON
grabs a jagged, spearlike piece of steel
and hurls it at
PRIME
The steel "spear" pierces his side and
sticks in him as... ... he charges
Megatron, ...dodging shots from
Megatron's gun to... ...deliver a huge
UPPERCUT which... ...lifts Megatron into
the air so high that... ...
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
25.
CONTINUED:
PRIME (CONT'D)
his head butts sharply against
overhanging concrete balcony, mashing him
down...
MEGATRON
lands and stealthily slips a laser dagger
from his boot, turning and slashing at...
PRIME
as he comes for him, tearing... ...a gash
across Prime's midsection, which spews
smoke and sparks and...
... dropping Prime to one knee.
MEGATRON
(gloating)
Farewell, Prime!
As Megatron hurls the laser dagger as we CHANGE ANGLE to -
OPTIMUS PRIME
as he lifts chunks of broken concrete and
catches the laser dagger on it, tossing
it aside as he lunges at-
MEGATRON
who claws his fingers and digs them into
Prime's eyes
MEGATRON
I'll rip out your optics! Optimus grabs
Megatron's clawed hand in one of his
hands, twists it in see-sawing test of
strength which... Optimus wins in a judo
toss which sends Megatron - - skidding
face first through steel rubble, in a
shower of sparks until he crashes into
the side of the city.
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
He dispatches a Decepticon and turns to Prime.
HOT ROD
That's showing him, Optimus!
KUP
knocks two Decepticons on their tails and
turns.
KUP
Finish him off, Prime! Do it now!
(CONTINUED)
26.
CONTINUED:
ON MEGATRON
as he spots a gun on the ground ahead of
him
MEGATRON
No more, Optimus Prime! Grant me mercy,
I beg of you!
ANOTHER ANGLE FEATURING OPTIMUS PRIME AND HOT ROD
as Optimus Prime warily moves out to look down at the
cowering Megatron, keeping him in his gun sights.
OPTIMUS PRIME
You who are without mercy now plead for
it. I thought you were made of sterner
stuff, Megatron!
ON HOT ROD
as he sees Megatron go for the gun and leaps out to grapple
with him
PRIME
Out of the way, Hot Rod.
MEGATRON AND HOT ROD
as Hot Rod grabs for the Blaster - - Megatron quickly gets
Hot Rod in a headlock and using Hot Rod as a shield, gets the
gun and...
BLASTS PRIME IN THE WOUND HE'D MADE WITH HIS LASER DAGGER
ON OPTIMUS PRIME
his midsection now glowing and smoking, a huge hole where the
Blaster has struck.
ON MEGATRON
firing blaster again and again
MEGATRON
Fall! Fall!
Megatron tosses Hot Rod aside like a rag doll and stands
above the dying Prime.
MEGATRON
I would have waited an eternity for this.
Crawl, slave! On your knees!
27.
ON OPTIMUS PRIME
as he gathers his remaining strength and smashes Megatron
with both fists clasped together.
OPTIMUS PRIME
(gasping painfully)
Never!
He bashes in Megatron's torso casing, fracturing the sides
which split, spilling wires, fuses, lights, circuitry.
Megatron falls! Prime falls to his knees, tries to rise,
collapses to his side and falls slowly back. HOT ROD runs
over to him.
HOT ROD
Optimus! Forgive me!
ANOTHER ANGLE- MEGATRON
Starscream and other Decepticons stand over the smoking body.
STARSCREAM
(sarcastic, filled with false
sympathy)
How do you feel, Mighty Megatron?
(he kicks Megatron)
MEGATRON
(weakly clutching at
Starscream's hand, gasping)
Enshrine me!
STARSCREAM
(drops Megatron's hand coldly,
calls to other Decepticons)
Take this scrap to Cybertron!
Astrotrain, transform and get us out of
here!
ANOTHER ANGLE- ASTROTRAIN
as he MOVES ONTO SCENE in Humanoid mode, showing battle burns
and scars. Then, he converts to train mode, and rolls through
a crowd of generic Decepticons, crushing many under his
wheels, as he makes his way towards Starscream.
ANGLE ON THE EXODUS
Ramjet, Thrust, Dirge, the Constructicons, Soundwave and his
cassettes, et.al. run towards Astrotrain.
28.
ANGLE ON KUP AND ARCEE
They fight for a moment, then they notice their attackers are
beating feet...
ARCEE
The Decepticons are retreating.
KUP
Prime did it. He turned the tide! He
shoots (O.S.) into...
A CROWD OF DECEPTICONS
Who fight each other for a place on the shuttle.
ANGLE ON STARSCREAM
dragging Megatron by one leg, callously disregarding the way
Megatron's head and upper body BUMP AND GET KNOCKED from
dragging.
THE AUTOBOTS
fire after them, closing ranks on the
shuttle, and pouring shots into the
melee.
ANGLE ON ASTROTRAIN
Decepticons make way for Starscream as he tosses the nearly
lifeless Megatron into the shuttle and gets in. Then,
standing at the door, he kicks other Decepticons away.
STARSCREAM
Astrotrain, take off.
ANGLE ON ASTROTRAIN
The shuttle takes off, leaving a number of generic
Decepticons behind, who immediately raise their hands upon
realizing that they are surrounded by Autobots.
DISSOLVE TO:
OPTIMUS PRIME
as he lies on an improvised bier-like
platform, a profusion of electricity
discharging tubes and "plasma" bottle
devices hooked up to his arms and into
his gaping middle wound.
(CONTINUED)
29.
CONTINUED:
SCANNERS
emit bleeps and show oscilloscopic
patterns but sounds and wave patterns are
steadily growing weaker and weaker.
PERCEPTOR
is bent over Prime, in microscope mode,
examining him... He then transforms and
straightens up, his voice strained and
cracking with emotion.
PERCEPTOR
I fear the wounds are...
(he can't finish what he's
going to say)
INTERCUT TO HOT ROD, KUP, ARCEE, DANIEL
AND OTHER AUTOBOTS as they react.
OPTIMUS PRIME
(using remaining strength to
makes himself heard)
Autobots...do not grieve... Soon, I shall
be one with the matrix.
HOT ROD
(a flash of hope)
Prime!
(looks off at Prime)
HIS P.O.V. - OPTIMUS PRIME
His head is turned so all assembled can see. His eyes flicker
weakly, his voice RUMBLES with overtone of vast weariness and
resignation
OPTIMUS PRIME
(reaches up with right hand
with great effort)
Ultra Magnus! It is to you, old friend,
I shall pass the matrix as it was passed
to me ....
ANOTHER ANGLE FEATURING ULTRA MAGNUS
as he steps forward unwillingly, mixed grief and surprise on
his face
MAGNUS
Prime, I'm just a soldier. I'm not
worthy.
(CONTINUED)
30.
CONTINUED:
OPTIMUS PRIME
(gasping)
Nor was I, but one day, an Autobot shall
rise from our ranks and use the powers of
the Matrix to light our darkest hour.
TIGHT SHOT - ULTRA MAGNUS AND OPTIMUS PRIME
Optimus Prime is tilted into half sitting position by other
Autobots manipulating the platform as Ultra Magnus grasps his
hand with great emotion
OPTIMUS PRIME
(voice failing, pressing on
with it)
Until that day...
Until all are one... Continue the struggle... (sags, gasps,
hanging on) Transfer the Matrix of Leadership.
TIGHTEN SHOT ON ULTRA MAGNUS AND OPTIMUS PRIME
A distraught Ultra Magnus nods, reaches out with free hand
and points his forefinger at Optimus Prime's chest. Then,
pressing a button on Prime's chest, a small, secret doorway
opens, and we see something extremely bright glowing in
there. Ultra Magnus, nearly blinded by the intense light,
reaches in, and lifts out --
THE AUTOBOT LEADERSHIP MATRIX,
-- and holds it for a moment in his hand.
ANGLE ON ALL
The bright light, which emanates from the perfect crystal,
seems to blind everybody and washes all color out of the
shot. Then, slowly, Ultra Magnus moves it into his own chest,
closes the door, and the light is gone, save for a momentary,
and extremely powerful glow from his eyes.
ON KUP, HOT ROD, ARCEE AND PERCEPTOR
They are all full of great sorrow.
ON PRIME - HE DIES
All of his lights go out, including his eyes.
DISSOLVE TO:
31.
UNICRON
Rotating satellite dishes on the surface spark with
electricity. Dissolve inside Unicron to reveal scenes of
Prime's death and the passing of the Matrix to Ultra Magnus
playing on various monitors. Some of the scenes are in slow
motion, others are sped up. The effect should be eerie.
CUT TO:
EXT. ASTROTRAIN
As it whizzes through the Solar System.
ASTROTRAIN
Jettison some weight, or I'll never make
it to Cybertron.
INT. ASTROTRAIN
The ship is packed with living, dead and wounded Decepticons.
Starscream addresses them like an Athenian Orator.
STARSCREAM
Fellow Decepticons, Astrotrain has
requested that we lighten our burden!
ANGLE ON BONECRUSHER
BONECRUSHER
In that case, I say it's survival of the
fittest.
STARSCREAM
So I hear a second on that?
ASSORTED SHOTS
HEALTHY DECEPTICONS
Aye!
STARSCREAM
And against?
NOT HEALTHY DECEPTICONS (WEAKLY)
NAY!
STARSCREAM
The ayes' have it!
A robotic hand flips a switch, and chaos ensues. Strong
Decepticons start heave-hoing the weaker ones out into space.
32.
DECEPTICONS
(AD LIB)
Beat it! Spare me!
ANGLE ON STARSCREAM AND MEGATRON
Starscream picks him up and holds him up by the door.
STARSCREAM
(sarcastic)
Oh, how it grieves me to do this.
MEGATRON
Wait, I still function!
Starscream kicks him out.
STARSCREAM
Wanna bet?
MEGATRON IN SPACE - TRACKING
He shakes his fist.
INT. THE SHIP
The last of the weak Decepticons is tossed, and the others
dust off their hands.
STARSCREAM
Well, as Megatron has, how shall we say -
departed. I nominate myself as the new
leader.
ON THE CONSTRUCTICONS
SCRAPPER
The Constructicons form Devastator, the
most powerful robot. We should rule.
SOUNDWAVE
Constructicons inferior. Soundwave
superior.
BONECRUSHER
Who are you calling inferior.
HOOK
Nobody would follow an uncharismatic bore
like you.
(CONTINUED)
33.
CONTINUED:
The five cassettes: BUZZSAW, FRENZY, RUMBLE, RAVAGE AND
LASERBEAK pop from his chest transform, and prepare to
attack.
RUMBLE
Hey, nobody calls Soundwave uncrazmatic.
FRENZY
Yeah! Let's kick tailgate.
THE CONSTRUCTICONS
try to form Devastator, but...
HOOK
Constructicons, unite!
RUMBLE AND FRENZY
quake the ship so hard with their pile-driver arms that, with
the help of Laserbeak, Buzzsaw and Ravage, they keep knocking
the Constructicons off.
RUMBLE/FRENZY
No way!
Over the battle.
BLITZWING
I am a triple changer. I am worth any
two of you. I should run things.
DIRGE
DIRGE
Death comes to anyone who crosses me. He
attacks Blitzwing.
EXT. ASTROTRAIN - SAME TIME
He is flying a very wobbly course past Pluto...
ASTROTRAIN
Stop squabbling or we're gonna crash.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. SPACE - LATER
Megatron and the other dented, dinged and dead Decepticon
bodies float through space. we follow the wailing Megatron
and the others down to:
34.
THE SURFACE OF UNICRON
littering the otherwise beautiful technological expanse.
UNICRON
Welcome, Megatron.
MEGATRON
(looking around)
Who said that?
UNICRON
I am Unicron.
MEGATRON
Show yourself!
UNICRON
I have summoned you here for a purpose.
MEGATRON
Nobody summons Megatron!
UNICRON
Then it pleases me to be the first.
MEGATRON
State your business.
UNICRON
Bring me the Autobot Matrix. It is the
one thing - the only thing that can stand
in my way.
MEGATRON
You have nothing to fear. I have already
crushed Optimus Prime with my bare hands.
UNICRON
You exaggerate.
MEGATRON
The point is, he is dead! And the Matrix
died with him.
UNICRON
No. It has been passed to their new
leader. Get it for me.
MEGATRON
Why should I? What's in it for me?
(CONTINUED)
35.
CONTINUED:
UNICRON
Your bargaining posture is highly
dubious, but very well, I will provide
you with a new body, and new troops to
command.
MEGATRON
And...
UNICRON
And nothing.
You belong to me now.
MEGATRON
I belong to nobody.
UNICRON
Perhaps I misjudged you. Proceed on your
way to oblivion. The Mist appears and
starts to dissolve Megatron.
MEGATRON
(pleading)
No, no. I accept your terms. I accept!
UNICRON
Excellent! Behold - Galvatron! X-ray
images: wiring, circuitry, etc. flash on
and off as a new and larger being starts
to form, changing from dented Megatron to
a huge, new creation: Galvatron.
THE TRANSFORMATION - CREATION
ends in a blinding flash and Galvatron - who still resembles
Megatron - laughs and flexes his muscles and stretches. His
voice is deeper, different from Megatron's
GALVATRON
Long live Galvatron!
UNICRON
And these shall be your minions...
ANGLE ON OTHER DECEPTICONS
Their bodies are turned from battered Decepticons to...
(CONTINUED)
36.
CONTINUED:
SCOURGE
SCOURGE (Sweep character) is bearded,
fanged and ferocious looking and as soon
as he has been CREATED, he roars and
stretches and an ARRAY OF SIMILAR
CREATURES - smaller and all wearing dark
and matching uniforms - are INSTANTLY
CREATED FROM OTHERS behind him
UNICRON
Scourge, the tracker....and his
huntsmen...the Sweeps....
ON CYCLONUS (NEW DECEPTICON WITH PLANE TRANSFORM ABILITY)
CYCLONUS is CREATED and then his "armada" of similar, but
smaller and similarly colored and clad creatures are formed.
UNICRON
Cyclonus, the warrior...and his
armada.....
ANGLE FEATURING GALVATRON
GALVATRON
To Cybertron!
He roars with a mad power-rush, gets into Cyclonus (who will
be his personal ship) and leading the armada, takes off for
the distant stars.
UNICRON
(loudly proclaiming over the
scene)
Bring me the Autobot matrix! DURING
UNICRON'S COMMAND we CHANGE ANGLE TO SHOW
LONG SHOT OF UNICRON
as Galvatron and his newly created force FLY UP AND AWAY with
great speed.
GALVATRON
I will rip open Autobot after Autobot
until it is yours, Unicron.
CUT TO:
THE DECEPTICON HALL OF HEROES - STARSCREAM
This is the closest thing the Decepticons have to a throne
room. It is a massive, circular room with tombs of old
leaders, and a raised area where Starscream stands.
37.
STARSCREAM AND OTHERS
The Decepticon plane looks slightly ridiculous with cloak on
his shoulders and Thrust and Ramjet at his side, weapons held
high, but ready for action should anybody question
Starscream's rule. In front of him stands Astrotrain holding
a huge Metallic CROWN over his head.
OTHER DECEPTICONS
in neat ranks but their grim expressions
show their displeasure.
STARSCREAM
(preening)
Get on with the ceremony! Dirge and
others react to EERIE SOUNDS and look up
and off. Starscream looks where others
are looking and reacts.
HIS P.O.V. - GALVATRON AND HIS FORCES
as they descend in Hall of Heroes and Galvatron moves out to
confront Starscream
ON STARSCREAM AND GALVATRON
STARSCREAM
Who disrupts my coronation?
GALVATRON
Coronation? This is bad comedy!
STARSCREAM
Megatron, is that you?
GALVATRON
Here's a clue!
HIS P.O.V -GALVATRON
as Galvatron transforms into cannon, FIRING A HUGE BURST ON
STARSCREAM as BLAST hits him. For a moment, he retains his
shape then piece by piece, he falls apart. Only a pair of
boots remain on the floor.
GALVATRON
He transforms back to robot mode and
confronts other Decepticons boastfully.
GALVATRON
Will anyone else attempt to fill his
shoes?
38.
ON DECEPTICONS - THRUST, DIRGE, ASTROTRAIN, BONECRUSHER, ET.
AL.
PAN for their reactions as they ponder for a brief beat and
then exchange looks/
DECEPTICONS
(AD LIB)
LONG LIVE...
(they look at each other) What did he say his name was. He
didn't.
GALVATRON
Galvatron.
DECEPTICONS
LONG LIVE GALVATRON!
CUT TO:
UNICRON
Bit by bit, we see new sections of the
planet being generated. Then, the
sinister mist we saw at the beginning of
the film starts pouring out.
He's about to do the big munch on..
THE FIRST MOON OF CYBERTRON -
PUSH IN TO - JAZZ AND CLIFFJUMPER
Standing outside the "netted" complex, looking off at...
UNICRON
A strange, LOUD HUM fills the air and the
ground heaves and SHAKES beneath their
feet
JAZZ
Where'd that come from?!
CLIFFJUMPER
Who cares? I'm more worried about where
it's going!
(CONTINUED)
39.
CONTINUED:
JAZZ
(on communicator device)
Talk to me, Earth! We got a situation
out here!
CUT TO:
AUTOBOT CITY- EARTH -LONG SHOT
Autobot City is almost rebuilt, and we see Kup and Hot Rod
working with other Autobots to move large panels into
position. In the background, two huge SPACE SHUTTLES are
almost completed and Ultra Magnus is directing the work.
During this ESTABLISHING SERIES OF SHOTS, we HEAR JAZZ'S
VOICE OVER
JAZZ (V.O.-FILTER)
Roger me. Wilco me. Anything? Hello.
Hello Earth.
CUT TO:
OUTSIDE OF LARGE SPACE SHUTTLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Springer and Arcee fit a hull section in place with Daniel
motioning to them, directing the action.
BLASTER
He reacts to muffled transmission from
Jazz.
BLASTER
I'm pickin' up a faint signal! BLASTER
TRANSFORMS to blaster mode and Jazz's
VOICE is broadcast loud and clear causing
Springer, Arcee, and Daniel to react
JAZZ (V.O.-ON FILTER)
This is Jazz. I gi-normous weird lookin'
planet just showed up in the suburbs of
Cybertron....
CLIFFJUMPER
And it's attack...
STATIC obscures the message
ULTRA MAGNUS
Jazz! Cliffjumper!
CUT TO:
40.
THE FIRST MOON
is covered by Unicron's energy field, and slowly seems to
dissolve.
ANOTHER ANGLE FEATURING UNICRON
a great maw works more intensely crushing bits of the planet.
CUT TO:
JAZZ AND CLIFFJUMPER ON THAT MOON
as quakes, tremors and cyclonic winds toss and tear at all
structures on the moon and the energy field closes in on Jazz
and Cliffjumper - who, using handholds every step of the way -
et into
AN ESCAPE POD VEHICLE
as Unicron looms larger, larger, the energy field seems to
dissolve the landscape.
JAZZ
Got ...to....blast free....if we can.....
They get in and start retro blasters, the
flame of blasters whirling in wild winds
as moon is engulfed.
CUT TO:
CLIFFJUMPER (V.O.)
Ignition and....
SOUNDS of torrential winds, quakes, etc as moon is quickly
becoming Unicron's lunch.
JAZZ (V.O.)
Hit it!
ON ESCAPE POD
as it BLASTS OFF and away from Unicron with an EXPLOSION. For
a moment, it looks like they are going to get clean away,
but...
ANOTHER ANGLE
Suddenly it is pulled deep into Unicron.
41.
ANOTHER ANGLE - THE MOON
as Moon shatters like a hollow egg and is sucked completely
into Unicron's maw which closes around it with a snap.
CUT TO:
GALVATRON IN DECEPTICON HALL OF HEROES
Silence. No more winds. No more movement.
GALVATRON
How dare Unicron?!
(defiant)
Cybertron and all it's moons are mine!
ANOTHER ANGLE ON GALVATRON
His body starts to twist making him writhe in pain powerless
to resist
SCOURGE
But remember, WE belong to HIM!
GALVATRON
(gasping for breath, writhing,
nods)
I....will obey, Unicron! Decepticons, to
Earth! The torture stops and Galvatron
clutches his throat and tries to regain
his composure as we...
CUT TO:
EXT. AUTOBOT CITY -- ULTRA MAGNUS
He has a portable communication device. Spike and Bumble can
be seen on it. Springer, Kup, the Dinobots, Blurr, and Hot
Rod look on amid general gathering of Autobots. Arcee holds
Daniel up on her shoulder so he can see. Blaster is in b.g.
SPIKE
It's like a terrible nightmare, Ultra
Magnus.
BUMBLEBEE
This thing - this juggernaut just ripped
the first moon to shreds.
SPIKE
And it's heading this way.
(CONTINUED)
42.
CONTINUED:
BUMBLEBEE
We'll try 'n slow it down...
SPIKE
But you'd better get here fast because...
Suddenly, static obscures the
transmission.
DANIEL
Dad!
ULTRA MAGNUS
Autobots, prepare to board the shuttles.
This new menace is more dangerous than
all the Decepticons put together.
Somehow we must destroy it before it
devours Cybertron.
DANIEL
But what about my dad? He's on the moon
between that monster and Cybertron.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Daniel, I'll do everything I can for
Spike.
HOT ROD
And what are we going to do when we get
there? If that thing crunches moons,
it'll make short work of us.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Maybe the Matrix can stop it.
HOT ROD
You're right! It can.
KUP
What do you know about it lad?
HOT ROD
It's just a feeling.
Hot Rod looks up and sees something.
KUP
Look!
THE AUTOBOTS TURN TO SEE
43.
POV - ANGLE ON ATTACKING DECEPTICONS
Decepticon ships seem to dive from nowhere to attack the
Autobots.
ULTRA MAGNUS
To the shuttles!!!
ANGLE ON DECEPTICON JETS
Galvatron is in the lead.
GALVATRON
There is no escape. I, Galvatron will
crush you just as the magnificent
Megatron crushed Prime!
ULTRA MAGNUS
And you'll die trying just like Megatron!
Ultra Magnus fires Laser and hits
Galvatron.
GALVATRON
aaaaaaaah! Autobot cur!!
CYCLONUS
You want me to gut Ultra Magnus for you?
GALVATRON
There are plenty of Autobots for you.
Ultra Magnus is mine!
THE BATTLE - QUICK CUT
Decepticons dive on fleeing Autobots.
ANGLE - ARCEE AND DANIEL
As Daniel looks up and Arcee moves over to him protectively.
Hot Rod looks at Arcee in the same way she is looking at
Daniel.
ARCEE
Stay close to me, Daniel...
HOT ROD
(to Arcee)
And you better stay close to me... Arcee
pulls Hot Rod toward her before he gets
hit by laser
(CONTINUED)
44.
CONTINUED:
ARCEE
No, you'd better stay close to me. Blurr
is trying to get Grimlock into Shuttle
with the rest of the Dinobots as
Decepticon FIRE COMES IN ALL AROUND.
Grimlock is like a "spooked horse"
refusing to be shut in the barn.
BLURR
(pleading with him, shoving
him, talking very, very
rapidly)
Nice Dino, good, Dino, sweet Dino! Won't
you step into the nice spaceship for
Blurr? Please, pretty please.
GRIMLOCK
(sticking head out past
struggling Blurr)
Me, Grimlock, not "nice Dino!" Me bash
brains!
HIS P.O.V. - SEVERAL DECEPTICON JETS COMING AT HIM
GRIMLOCK
He gives FIRE BREATHING BLAST AT JETS as
they go by STRAFING THE
SHUTTLE , SHOTS RICOCHETING AROUND GRIMLOCK AND BLURR
THE DECEPTICON JETS
as Grimlock's BLAST SETS THEM ALL ON FIRE and they spin into
one another as we CHANGE ANGLE TO
ULTRA MAGNUS
as Kup, Hot Rod and Arcee MOVE INTO SCENE
BEHIND HIM
ULTRA MAGNUS
Kup, Hot Rod. Get the Dinobots out of
here!
KUP AND HOT ROD
as they run into Dinobot Shuttle, retracting their entry ramp
in
45.
HAIL OF FIRE FROM SCOURGE AND HIS SWEEPS.
ON SCOURGE
as he TRANSFORMS to Humanoid mode and
shouts orders, FIRING AT Blurr who BLURRS
PAST and then at Arcee who also SHIPS BY
SCOURGE
No survivors!
IN DINOBOT SHUTTLE
as Hot Rod squeezes past Sludge Swoop, and Slag to join Kup
who is already at control deck where Grimlock sticks his head
down to look out the window. Kup shoves him aside.
KUP
This reminds me of the battle on Alpha 9,
when the Petro-Rabbits were...(annoyed)
Grimlock, get your noodle out of my face!
(starts throwing switches)
GRIMLOCK
Me, Grimlock, love Kup's war stories!
KUP
You're living one now!
(to Hot Rod)
Engage the boosters for Cybertron's sake!
Hot Rod nods and quickly passes his hand
over bank of SWITCHES all of which GLOW
AND PULSE with the action.
ANOTHER ANGLE
as DECEPTICON FIREBALL COMES UP and
SPLATTERS AGAINST WINDOW, sending tongues
of fire running across the glass behind
Hot Rod's head
HOT ROD
You got 'em!
BACK TO KUP AND GRIMLOCK
Grimlock still trying to stick his face in the control panel
as Kup works furiously and more DECEPTICON FIRE HITS THE SHIP
GRIMLOCK
(to Kup)
Tell Grimlock about Petro-Rabbits again.
(CONTINUED)
46.
CONTINUED:
KUP
(muttering, using joystick)
I'll give you Petro-Rabbits. Contact!
The Shuttle lurches and shakes
ANGLE ON SHUTTLE WITH DINOBOTS
It takes off amidst a hail of Decepticon fire.
HOT ROD (V.O.)
Yaaaaaaaaho! We're airborne!
GRIMLOCK (V.O.)
Groooooowwwwwrrrr!
ON CYCLONUS AND HIS "WING" OF PLANES
as they bank down toward RISING SHUTTLE FAR BELOW.
CYCLONUS
Vaporize them!
Jets streak down toward upward rising Shuttle as we
CUT TO:
ANOTHER PART OF SHUTTLE LAUNCH AREA
Springer springs onto scene with Daniel, Ultra Magnus and
Perceptor are guarding the entry ramp, firing at Decepticons.
SPRINGER
(to Daniel)
Looks like we're shipmates, squirt!
DANIEL
All right!
SPRINGER
But if you get space sick, you're gonna
walk home.
ANOTHER ANGLE FEATURING ULTRA MAGNUS AND PERCEPTOR
ULTRA MAGNUS
Hurry!
Blurr blurs up ramp. Arcee reaches the ramp as the shuttle
takes off horizontally.
ON BOARD THE SHUTTLE- ANGLE ON SPRINGER
as he reaches down for Arcee.
(CONTINUED)
47.
CONTINUED:
SPRINGER
Jump.
ON ARCEE
still going up the ramp while the
shuttle slowly leaves the ground.
Just as the wind and gravity are about to knock her off, she
jumps up and...
INSIDE THE SHUTTLE
Springer grabs her hand and pulls her in, narrowly avoiding a
barrage Daniel is watching, terrified.
DANIEL
That was close!
Concussion of Decepticon hit rocks the shuttle
SPRINGER
Believe it or not, this is the fun part.
IN "COCKPIT" OF ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE
Ultra Magnus is at control deck with Perceptor as they "taxi"
for launch and we see oncoming Decepticon jets firing at them
ULTRA MAGNUS
No time to preheat....Can this ship take
it?
PERCEPTOR
With an accelerated ignition procedure
the ceramic housings might create a
magnetic flux.
ULTRA MAGNUS
(baffled)
What?
SPRINGER
(ENTERING SHOT, reaches in and
pushes joystick forward)
He says "go for it!"
Powerful rockets ignite, and the shuttle SHAKES with the
sound.
ANGLE ON RUNWAY
The Shuttle's rockets surge, melting the pursuing Sweeps as
the Shuttle hits the sky and soars upwards.
48.
ON DINOBOT SHUTTLE
Cyclonus' Jets fire on it, as we CHANGE ANGLE ON ULTRA
MAGNUS' SHUTTLE It roars up behind Cyclonus' jets and
overtakes and smashes through them, scattering them as it
pulls up alongside the Dinobot shuttle
INT. DINOBOT SHUTTLE- KUP AND HOT ROD IN "COCKPIT"
Grimlock is peering out of the side ports.
HOT ROD
gives the thumbs up gesture.
ANOTHER ANGLE
INCLUDING Ultra Magnus' shuttle through
side port as Springer gives thumbs up
signal in return and Daniel waves
ON SPRINGER
as he turns and reacts, looking straight
up and ahead
SPRINGER
It ought to be smooth sailin' from here
on in.
ON ASTROTRAIN AND DECEPTICON JETS
ASTROTRAIN
Fuse them!
Astrotrain starts diving into upcoming Shuttles BLASTING
AWAY.
INT. DINOBOT SHUTTLE - "COCKPIT"
as Kup struggles to hold controls, his shuttle also ROCKING
from direct hits
KUP
(using intercom)
Ultra Magnus...what next?
INT. ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE - "COCKPIT"
shuttle ROCKS WITH DIRECT HITS as Ultra Magnus struggles with
controls
ULTRA MAGNUS
Remember what we did off Beta Four!
(CONTINUED)
49.
CONTINUED:
KUP
I remember it well.
ON THE SHUTTLES
They fire (O.S.) at...
A LARGE ASTEROID
With incredible precision, the rays strike the asteroid,
splitting it in two parts.
ANGLE ON ONE OF THE ASTEROID HALVES
It shoots through space and strikes another asteroid, which,
breaks into several pieces, many of them angling back
towards...
GALVATRON'S SHIPS
which swerve to avoid them as....
THE OTHER ASTEROID PART
Hits another moon or asteroid or general rock in space,
doing the same thing... WIDEN SHOT to show that the pieces
are shooting around like pool balls after an incredibly
violent break... ... zinging into each other... ....
Narrowly missing Galvatron's ship... ... Filling space with
incredible amounts of Dust, lava from inside the moons,
multi-colored gasses, explosions and generally making a mess
of space. (Note: think of this scene as the "Asteroids"
video game.)
ANGLE ON THE AUTOBOT SHUTTLES
As all of this is going on, they jam into hyperspace... ...
Corkscrewing and arcing off into the galaxy, leaving only
blurred images of themselves as...
GALVATRON'S SHIP
emerges from the chaos.
ON CYCLONUS
CYCLONUS
The explosions jammed my sensors.
(pause)
I have lost track of the Autobots!
50.
ON GALVATRON
GALVATRON
Damn it!! They did the same thing to me
off Beta four!
DISSOLVE TO:
DEEP AND SERENE SPACE - ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE AND DINOBOT
SHUTTLE
Possible song - optimistic adventure with
the suggestion that all dreams might not
happen.
as both shuttles soar majestically through the vast depth of
infinite space.
ULTRA MAGNUS (V.O.)
Congratulations Autobots, we've lost 'em
at least for a while. So rest up. We'll
refuel on the Junk Planet and work out
our battle plan there.
INT. DINOBOT SHUTTLE - KUP
Kup sits spinning yarns, leaning back in chair as Grimlock,
Sludge, Slag and Swoop lie, lounge, sit with chin on hands,
all listening like little kids to a bedtime story - in rapt
attention
KUP
Yep, I remember the dust was so thick off
Beta 4 had to use windshield wipers on
your optic sensors....
GRIMLOCK
(impatiently)
Me, Grimlock, know all about wipers! Want
to hear good part of story!
SWOOP
(beating wings rapidly,
excitedly)
Good part, Kup! Tell Swoop good part!
SLUDGE
SLAG
(excitedly)
(beating tail on Unh unh unh....
floor) Good part...tell
...tell...
(CONTINUED)
51.
CONTINUED:
KUP
Okay, Okay. The dust was really thick
and then this gigantic Ick Yak...
ON HOT ROD
He is practicing sparring with a SPINNING AUTO-COMBATANT - a
very high tech quintain with many arms, legs, and weapons
that test the user's skills, and reflexes. Hot Rod wears
sparring gauntlet, and holds a small LASER DAGGER and special
shield. As he lowers shield and reacts to Dinobot reactions
to Kup's story.
HOT ROD
Don't you think we have better things to
do now than tell stories Kup?
KUP
Like what?
HOT ROD
Like maybe figure out how we're gonna
stay alive.
DINOBOTS
(ALL SHUSH HIM)
As he is speaking, Auto-Combatant "sees"
its opening and gives Hot Rod a swift
kick in the rear, sending him flying
(o.s.)
THE AUTO COMBATANT
Then hammers its fists on top of his head...
ON HOT ROD
Irked.
HOT ROD
(continuing)
Time out, for Cybertron's sake!
ON AUTO-COMBATANT'S FACE
as it sticks out a metal tongue and gives him a LOUD
RASPBERRY
BACK TO SCENE
as Hot Rod rises and draws his fist back to clobber the Auto-
Combatant
(CONTINUED)
52.
CONTINUED:
AUTO COMBATANT
(mechanically, quickly)
Time out, time out, time out! Suddenly,
the shuttle rocks from impact and SPARKS
and flames shoot out of large hole in
wall
ON ULTRA MAGNUS AT CONSOLE INTERCOM
ULTRA MAGNUS
Kup! Raise your force fields at once!
They're armed with.....
ON GALVATRON ON "BRIDGE" OF FLAT TOP
as he presses firing button ...
ULTRA MAGNUS (V.O.)
Moleculon Missiles!
ANGLE ON GALVATRON'S CARRIER
Particularly deadly looking missiles shoot out.
ANGLE ON THE DINOBOT SHUTTLE
It zooms towards a whopper of a planet, surrounded by several
small moons. We will later learn that this planet is
Quintesson, but for now, it's mysterious. The moleculon
missiles streak after it like sidewinders.
INT. THE DINOBOT SHUTTLE
Kup and Hot Rod pilot the thing for all it's worth.
HOT ROD
They're closing on us!
KUP
Yep, like the shrikebats of Dromedon!
HOT ROD
Yeah, how'd you beat them?
KUP
I'm trying to remember...there were an
awful lot of casualties that day...
ANGLE ON THE SHUTTLE AND MISSILES
The missiles streak toward them.
(CONTINUED)
53.
CONTINUED:
KUP (O.S.)
Oh yeah, we inversed polarities.
HOT ROD (O.S.)
That'll tear the ship apart!
KUP (O.S.)
You got a better idea?!! With that, the
ship seems to stop, on a dime, in mid
air! The missiles zoom past it.
INT. THE SHIP (KUP AND HOT ROD)
Hot Rod watches wide-eyed, as Kup watches ahead warily, hands
on the controls.
HOT ROD
Okay, so you were right.
KUP
Don't run your programs until they're
debugged.
ANGLE OUT THE VIEWSCREEN
Suddenly, the moleculon missiles, reverse course and start
coming back.
HOT ROD
They're coming back.
KUP
Let's just hope we've screwed up their
trajectories.
ANGLE ON THE MISSILES
The missiles sidewind towards them, then their paths cross
and
BOOOM!
Everything flashes white.
ANGLE ON THE DINOBOT SHUTTLE
HOT ROD
Whew!!!
INT. THE DINOBOT SHUTTLE
Kup and Hot Rod look forward, their eyes, blinking, as if
strained.
(CONTINUED)
54.
CONTINUED:
KUP
Yep, I thought we'd had it that time for
sure.
EXT. ANGLE ON THE SHIP
It sits next to a gigantic alien-made moon. Suddenly, a
hatch opens and a massive grabber that looks like a lobster
claw shoots out at it.
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
He sees the claw coming out of the viewscreen.
HOT ROD
Dive!
ANGLE THROUGH THE VIEWSCREEN
The claw snaps on the front of the ship, smashing the window
and...
ANOTHER ANGLE
crushing the area between Hot Rod and
Kup.
SPACE - ANGLE ON THE SHIP
As it explodes, flinging the Autobots inside down toward the
Quintesson's planet.
CUT TO:
GALVATRON PURSUING ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE
CUT TO:
INT. ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE - ULTRA MAGNUS, SPRINGER
as they man control panel in cockpit. In the background,
Blurr and Arcee work to patch other holes in hull and Daniel
helps them. Perceptor slowly plots coordinates on light-up
table, oblivious to SHAKES AND ROCKINGS of their ship.
SPRINGER
Kup and Hot Rod just bought it!
ULTRA MAGNUS
I can't deal with that now.
(CONTINUED)
55.
CONTINUED:
SPRINGER
Face it, Magnus, the Decepticons 're
gonna dog us until they see us dead!
Ultra Magnus nods solemnly
ULTRA MAGNUS
(cryptic)
Then that's exactly what they're gonna
see.
CUT TO:
THE DECEPTICON FLAT TOP AND CYCLONUS' ARMADA
ON GALVATRON
as he works controls which eject more
Moleculon Missiles.
HIS P.O.V. - ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE
electrical outline envelopes it and there is a... ...
blinding flash after which... .. remnants of the hull and
superstructure explode toward camera and past camera
accompanied by explosive sound and then, silence! ... Where
the shuttle had been there is now...nothing! Just loose
asteroids and clouds of space dust
CYCLONUS
The Autobots have been terminated!
GALVATRON
Excellent. And soon we shall say the
same of that infernal Unicron. Suddenly,
Galvatron's body begins to twist, and he
writhes in pain.
GALVATRON (CONT)
Aaaah! Take me to Unicron...Aaaah!
LONG SHOT ON THE HUGE FLAT TOP
as it veers off and away from the space cloud, followed by
Cyclonus' Armada. Hold for a beat, and then CLOSE IN on the
dust cloud as... ... part of Ultra Magnus' shuttle flies into
the clear.
ANGLE ON THE COCKPIT
Arcee, Perceptor, Springer, Blurr are crowded together in
cramped remnant of cockpit as Daniel and Ultra Magnus sit at
the control deck
(CONTINUED)
56.
CONTINUED:
ARCEE
Did we have to detonate three- quarters
of the ship?!
SPRINGER
Seeing how they would have detonated four
quarters, I think it was a good choice.
SUDDEN SHUDDER AND THE SHIP DROPS
SHARPLY, all holding on to each other and
to any protruding handhold
ULTRA MAGNUS
Perceptor....can you still locate the
Junk Planet?
PERCEPTOR
Gamma waves in this sector of space
create marginal navigation probabilities,
however.....
(looks at Ultra Magnus)
ULTRA MAGNUS
Holds his head in his hands as Springer
grimaces
RESUME ON PERCEPTOR
realizes he's overdoing it again, clears his throat
PERCEPTOR
Ahem.....yes I think I can.
LONG SHOT- SHUTTLE CHANGING COURSE TOWARD LARGE DISTANT
PLANET
which we see as dim shadow on the edge of space
CUT TO:
A small, falling object appears high above Quintesson and
hurtles down, down, over and over until it is in view and we
see it is...
HOT ROD
still cartwheeling down toward the planet
below, trying to change the angle of his
fall
HOT ROD - TRACKING
He plummets down through layers of atmosphere and continues
to fall past shiny rock pinnacles of unusual construction as
we
57.
CHANGE ANGLES TO
AERIAL VIEW OVER A VAST SEA OF LIQUID ENERGY
as Hot Rod falls into the sea, we CUT TO THE SILVERY ENERGY
SEA Hot Rod sinks to the bottom where he collides with... ...
a metallic reef, bounces, manages to right himself, shaking
his head as he regains equilibrium, and... Then he transforms
into auto mode modified for undersea action and starts riding
off as he calls through intercom.
HOT ROD
(bubbling, filtered voice)
Kup....Grimlock? Slag!....Anybody? WE
FOLLOW him through undersea world as he
rounds a "corner" of the Reef Wall and
reacts
HIS P.O.V. - A HUGE, MECHANICAL 0 SQUID CREATURE
The ROBOTOID SQUID is tearing Kup to pieces and tossing the
pieces across the ocean floor with its silvery metal
tentacles
ON HOT ROD
HOT ROD
Kup!
He transforms and blasts...
THE SQUID
angrily streaks toward Hot Rod.
HOT ROD
Fires at the Squid, but not stopping him.
ANOTHER ANGLE
Hot Rod's shot plinks off a couple of
tentacles, but the squid keeps coming...
... Wraps his tentacles around Hot Rod and starts crushing...
... Hot Rod looks like he's about to be crushed, but he...
... Shoots ... Its hideous Optical Sensor.
THE SQUID
releases a laser print ink stream which
boils out in the water in a series of
dots and "x" shapes and retreats.
HOT ROD
Don't worry, I'm not coming after you.
(CONTINUED)
58.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD
lowers his head and blows blast of air
through head-piece. The air blast clears
the water, revealing Kup's head and torso
half buried in the "sand"
ON HOT ROD AND KUP'S HEAD
as hot Rod kneels
HOT ROD
Kup! Say something!
CLOSE ON KUP'S HEAD
as he turns head around to look up at Hot Rod and spits out a
mouthful of sand
KUP
(bubbling as he speaks)
Fix me!
HOT ROD
Sure, Kup....right away! Hot Rod rapidly
PULLS KUP'S SCATTERED BODY PARTS
TOGETHER.
CUT TO:
KUP AND HOT ROD ON THE RED DESERT SHORE OF THE ENERGY SEA
Kup stands impatiently while Hot Rod reassembles them.
HOT ROD
Well...what do you think? Kup feels his
elbow joint, twists his neck side to side
and gets creaks and squeaks and moves
legs in odd, creaky way as he is trying
himself out.
KUP
(a beat, then grimaces)
There's a piece missing.
HOT ROD
No way....
(sifts through pile of SCRAP
METAL PARTS lying at Kup's
feet)
See, this wasn't yours...it's some kind
of prehistoric ion cruncher....and this
doohickey looks like a funky energon
funnel... and this...
(CONTINUED)
59.
CONTINUED:
KUP
(moving up and back, bending
arms and hands, CREAKING,
CLUNKING, SQUEAKING)
Well, I still think I'm short a part!
(sees Hot Rod hang his head)
But all things considered, you did an
amazing job, lad! Amazing!
HOT ROD
(brightening)
Really?
KUP
(rotates arm rapidly)
Yeah, you even got rid of a nasty burr on
my rotator! Now, let's find the Dinos
and get off this twisted planet!
ON KUP
as he transforms it's evident that a
fender is misplaced and a wheel mounted
improperly so it wobbles and he rides
unevenly with much chugging and oil
spewing
KUP (V.O.)
(in vehicular mode)
Of all the circuit glitched diode blowin'
dim-wittery... I told you a part was
missin'.
we watch Hot Rod and Kup move off into the distance as we:
DISSOLVE TO:
ANOTHER PART OF QUINTESSON
Kup and Hot Rod walk along a swampy, marshy area. Suddenly,
there are several loud gurgles, and we can see the shapes of
something terrible emerging through the muck. Hot Rod spins
to fire, but Kup bats down his arm.
PAN TO SHOW
EIGHT SHARKTICONS (in humanoid mode) surrounding them. The
Sharkticons are smaller than the Autobots, but they look ugly
and vicious.
KUP
Don't act hostile. I'll use the
universal greeting.
(CONTINUED)
60.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD
Universal Greeting.
KUP
Watch. I'll have them eating out of my
hand.
HOT ROD
Or our faces.
Kup holds out his hands to show that he has no weapon. Then,
he addresses them...
KUP
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong...
HOT ROD
(mocking, mimicking)
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong...
The Sharkticons look interested.
SHARKTICONS
(GROWL VERSION OF THE SAME
THING)
KUP
See, the Universal Greeting works every
time.
(pause)
Now, without making any sudden moves,
give them an Energon goody. Kup reaches
into his belt, presses a button and pulls
out an Energon cube. Hot Rod, somewhat
suspicious of the whole process does the
came.
They hold out the cubes and two of the Sharkticons take the
Energon cubes, like dogs getting a treat. Then, the other six
show up looking for cubes.
HOT ROD
This is getting expensive.
KUP
Don't worry, they'll reciprocate. They
each hand out three Energon goodies to
the remaining six Sharkticons... The
Sharkticons eat them happily. Then, they
back off, eyeing the two Autobots with
menace.
(CONTINUED)
61.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD
I thought they were supposed to
reciprocate.
KUP
(not sure of himself)
Customs vary from place to place.
Suddenly, the Sharkticons transform to
their vicious mode and lunge at them.
The two robots, taken by surprise, fall backwards. PAN FROM
the fallen robots to an area behind a tree. For just a
moment, we see a small yellow Autobot in robot mode. There,
then, as quickly as we realize what it is, it transforms into
automode and vanishes in a flash. It was Wheelie.
THE SHARKTICON CAMP ON QUINTESSON - KUP, HOT ROD AND
SHARKTICONS
Sharkticons march Kup and Hot Rod into a HOLDING PEN within a
walled compound. As we FOLLOW THEM INTO PEN we PULL BACK and
PAN to establish that entry procession is being watched by...
THE QUINTESSONS
slender, spindly framed robotic creatures
with oversized five sided heads, each
side bearing a different mechanistic face
with a different expression on each -
smiling, angry, grimacing, suspicious and
the fifth face is not yet to be seen. As
Hot Rod and Kup are led to certain death
in the Quintesson dungeons, harsh,
dissonant, metallic and terrifying music
plays, underscoring the brutal evil they
face,
KUP (V.O.)
Reminds me of the Niter Slave Mines on
Golgonath Seven....
HOT ROD
Every place reminds you of some place
else.....
KUP (V.O.)
Experience, lad. You should learn to
appreciate it.
HOT ROD
A lot of good it's done us so far!
62.
ON HOT ROD AND KUP
as Hot Rod looks around and reacts sharply
HIS P.O.V.- THE QUINTESSONS
as we feature the Leader Quintesson who is taller and wears a
different color robe from others. He is watching arrival of
Kup and Hot Rod and his faces rotate so it goes from smiling
face to suspicious face to angry face to furious grimace.
RESUME ON HOT ROD AND KUP
as Sharkticons shove and prod them, JOLTING them into the
holding pen and locking the gate. Then, they install
RESTRAINING BOLTS.
HOT ROD
I can't transform!
KUP
They're restraining bolts, lad.
HOT ROD
(looking around)
We got to get a new travel agent....
What is this place?
PAN FROM HIS P.O.V. - A SHADOWED, ALCOVE LIKE HUT
as a figure moves forward slightly and speaks in a harsh,
bass'o voice. It is GRANIX. We saw him in the first scene,
escaping from his planet when Unicron ate it. {Note: The
script says *G*ranix here. Not my mistake.}
KRANIX
The world of the savage Sharkticons and
their cruel masters the Quintessons.
They hunt down those who try to escape
the wrath of Unicron, and put them on
trial.
KUP
But what if they're innocent?
KRANIX
Guilty or innocent, the sentence is
always the same - death!
HOT ROD
Unicron?! Who's Unicron?
(CONTINUED)
63.
CONTINUED:
KRANIX
A planet six times the size of this one
that absorbs everything in its path.
KUP
So that's the monster's name.
HOT ROD
I wonder if there's any connection
between it and Galvatron.
Suddenly, a Quintesson Guard roars in...
QUINTESSON GUARD (V.O.)
That one!
All turn and look off, reacting as two Guards thunder in,
grab Granix and pull him back out of the door. {NOTE: Another
instance of the spelling of Granix}
ANOTHER ANGLE - INCLUDING THE LEAD QUINTESSON
as he points at Kup and Hot Rod
QUINTESSON GUARD
Soon, you too shall receive your
sentence.
THEIR POV - OUT THE WINDOW THE ARENA
Kranix stands on what almost looks like a wide diving board
over a watery (or oily) pit teeming with Sharkticons.
LEAD QUINTESSON
Jury, have you reached a verdict?
JUROR #1
We have your honor.
LEAD QUINTESSON
(to jury of Quintessons)
Guilty.....Or innocent. I repeat.
KRANIX
Spare me this mockery of justice.
LEAD QUINTESSON
I repeat, guilty...or innocent.
JURORS
Guilty!!
(CONTINUED)
64.
CONTINUED:
Jury's faces rotate to fifth expression - a DEATH'S HEAD ON
GRANIX {NOTE: Yet another, final, reference to Kranix as
Granix} Suddenly, the Robot is dumped into a pit of teeming
Sharkticons and there is a mad frenzy. In moments, he is no
more.
ANGLE ON KUP
He watches grimly through the bars.
KUP
Not the end I'd wish for, lad.
DISSOLVE TO:
THE EDGE OF A HUGE, SHADOWY PLANET IN SPACE
as Ultra Magnus' Shuttle is BUFFETED BY WINDS AND STORMS as
it enters the atmosphere of JUNKION.
INT. THE SHUTTLE
as it SHAKES AND RATTLES VIOLENTLY
DANIEL
Where are we, Springer?
SPRINGER
The place where everything ends up after
you throw it out.
TIGHT ON BLURR
as he holds up hands and CROSSES fingers.
RESUME ON SPRINGER
Tenses and crouches protectively around Arcee and Daniel as
we see mountains of junk whizz past the window.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Brace for impact!
ON SHUTTLE - TRACKING
It plummets through the mountains and canyons of junk,
narrowly avoiding crashing, but frequently hitting junk
pinnacles or sides of junk walls, and causing avalanches of
junk. By the time the ship lands, it is nearly
indistinguishable from the junk.
65.
INT. THE SHUTTLE
Everyone is in a jumbled tangle - Ultra Magnus beneath Blurr,
Perceptor upside down and hanging from torn end of stairway,
Arcee crouched over Daniel and Springer with half his body
sticking through the hull
SPRINGER
(pulling himself free of hull
wall)
Remind me to give the Auto Pilot a
raise... Daniel creeps out from under
Arcee and shakes bits of broken metal and
dust off his shoulders
DANIEL
Wow! That was better'n the Roller
Coaster at Future World!
PERCEPTOR
(working scanner, computer
device, thoughtfully)
The composition of this planet seems to
be a chaotic amalgam of discarded ferrous
and non-ferrous articulations.
ULTRA MAGNUS
(baffled)
How's that?
SPRINGER
(opening hull door with a
RIPPING OF METAL)
He says the planet's made of junk.
SPRINGER AND PERCEPTOR AT OPEN DOOR
as they look out on landscape of "living" junk
SPRINGER
Yep, this dump is a dump......
ULTRA MAGNUS
as he straps on TOOL BELT
ULTRA MAGNUS
We might be able to salvage this thing.
(checks LASER DRILL, turns it
on, off)
Ultra Magnus starts for door followed by
Blurr who takes up a saw and tool belt
and Perceptor who rolls up Shuttle Plans
as Daniel moves out to join them
(CONTINUED)
66.
CONTINUED:
DANIEL
Can I help, too?
SPRINGER
It's rough out there, kid. Stay inside
and play with crayons or something.
ARCEE
as she steps forward with a smile, a
strange GRID LIKE "SUIT" in her hand
ARCEE
I think Daniel can make himself useful
with....this! It used to be Spike's.
(holds Grid-like metal frame
"suit")
DANIEL
Wow! Dad's exo-suit. He told me about
it but I never saw it.
ARCEE
Here, try it on.
She starts helping him into the exo-suit.
ON DANIEL
as he gets inside the "suit" which fits
over his body like a grid-work metal
"cage."
Daniel clips "cage" of Exo-Suit shut and stands up inside the
gridwork which makes him taller and broader. He moves
awkwardly, barely able to advance a step
SPRINGER
Just think about what you want to do
before you do it!
DANIEL
brows knitted, thinking.
SPRINGER
Don't fight it Dan-O.
He suddenly starts moving rapidly backwards, then sideways,
then forward, then he starts dancing rapidly, then bounces
off walls... ..spinning upside down, then flips over several
times and lands in a splatter, legs spread, arms this way and
that - amused, startled and unhurt.
(CONTINUED)
67.
CONTINUED: (2)
DANIEL
(continuing)
It's kind of tricky....
He suddenly flips around twice in mid-air then regains his
feet and leans way over against Arcee for support. She laughs
and pats his shoulder
ARCEE
For the first time out, you were great!
ON SPRINGER AT DOOR
as he sends down RAMP and motions to the others curtly
SPRINGER
Show time's over! We've got work to do!
(he starts out)
EXT. THE SHUTTLE
as Springer, Arcee, Daniel et.al. come down the ramp and look
around at the lush "vegetation" of growing junk clumps all
around them and a long vista of junk mountains and spires of
weathered junk-rock.
DANIEL (V.O.)
(whistles)
This must be the junk capital of the
universe!
LONG SHOT- DANIEL AND THE OTHERS
as they start DIGGING for parts to repair the ship, sinister
Junkions begin to emerge from the junk to watch them. Their
leader, WRECK-GAR, speaks to his fellow Junkions.
WRECK-GAR
(in guttural, rusty, metallic
rumble)
Stop thief! No welcome-wagon, "hello
stranger!" that good coffee flavor
OTHER JUNKIONS
Yeah, or your money back! Wreck-Gar shows
large JUNK GUN with all sorts of razor
sharp fins and rusty little rocket
missiles mounted around the howitzer like
barrel
(CONTINUED)
68.
CONTINUED:
WRECK-GAR
Operators are standing by! They laugh in
guttural, clanking sounds and look out at
Springer and the others who keep working
as we
CUT TO:
EXT. THE GATE TO THE QUINTESSON PALACE
At first, we see only the face of a sinister Quintesson
gatekeeper, backed up by heavily armed Sharkticons.
QUINTESSON
Greetings, noble strangers.
ANGLE ON THE DINOBOTS
They stand at the gate, looking more like kids showing up at
your door wondering if you can come out and play, than like
serious robots on a serious mission.
GRIMLOCK
Yes, me, Grimlock, noble! Me, Grimlock
search for friends.
ANGLE ON QUINTESSON AND GRIMLOCK
The Quintesson, showing his friendly face, smiles.
QUINTESSON
And who might they be?
GRIMLOCK
Autobots. Hot Rod and Kup.
QUINTESSON
(feigning recognition)
Oh yes. A young one and an old one.
GRIMLOCK
Yes. You know friends. Where are they?
QUINTESSON
They went down that path. He points to...
A PATH
It probably isn't lined with primroses,
but it should be.
GRIMLOCK
GRIMLOCK You good friend to Grimlock. I
reward you, sometime.
(CONTINUED)
69.
CONTINUED:
With that, the four Dinobots head towards the "primrose
path."
ANGLE ON THE QUINTESSON
His head rotates and he smiles a sinister, evil smile.
EXT. UNICRON
Galvatron stands upon the demonic planet, in an extremely
contorted position.
GALVATRON
Why do you torture me?!
VARIOUS ANGLES ON UNICRON
We have no idea where this godly voice is coming from, but
this place sure is spooky.
UNICRON
You have failed.
GALVATRON
No, Unicron. Ultra Magnus is dead.
UNICRON
Then where is the matrix?
GALVATRON
Destroyed, with him.
UNICRON
The matrix can not be destroyed.
(pause)
And Ultra Magnus lives on the planet of
Junk. Stalk him. Cut him open! And
bring the matrix to me.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. THE PRIMROSE PATH
They step along the primrose path, not noticing as sinister
things start to happen all around them.
ANGLE ON A METAL EATING PLANT
This thing looks like a metal version of a "venus fly trap,"
and it has a malevolent red eye which lights up. Swoop walks
past it in humanoid mode.
70.
SNAP!
It misses him by an inch.
GRIMLOCK
Me Grimlock, positive Hot Rod and Kup
close! Get thump, thump, thump...
(taps his head hard)
ANGLE ON THE GROUND - IN FRONT OF SLAG
Suddenly, a section of stones drop away in front of Slag
revealing a spiked pit...
SLAG
Me, Slag say you are full of beryllium
balony. He is just about to fall in
when...
ANGLE ON GRIMLOCK AND SLAG
Grimlock, in dino mode, slaps him with his tail, knocking him
away an instant before he steps into the hole...
GRIMLOCK
Me, Grimlock, say you full of cesium
salami! Slag gets up...
SLAG
Beryllium balony!
GRIMLOCK
Argh!
ANGLE ON GRIMLOCK
He is about to pounce on Slag when a massive tree, which is
actually more like a sword, suddenly is spring and arcs
toward him. The machete like blade strikes the ground,
between Grimlock and Slag narrowly missing them. He turns
and sees the thing stocking in the ground.
GRIMLOCK
Me, Grimlock think trees here are cheap
model.
SLAG
Like your head! (laughs at own joke)
Grimlock jumps on Slag and wrestles him
to the ground. Suddenly, a SQUEAKY, ODDLY
CHILDISH VOICE speaks from o.s.
(CONTINUED)
71.
CONTINUED:
SQUEAKY VOICE (WHEELIE)
Friends find. Look behind.
GRIMLOCK
(furious)
Who say that?
HIS P.O.V. - WHEELIE
WHEELIE is the Wolf Boy of Quintesson - an Autobot who's been
evading the Sharkticons since his parents' ship crashed,
killing everybody else in his party. He wears a necklace of
Sharkticon teeth, packs a three bladed laser knife and a
special SLING which hurls FIRE STONES. He fears nothing,
especially the Dinobots, and he cockily struts into the
clear... ... walks right up Sludge's tail onto Sludge's back
and then shinnies up his neck and jumps onto... ... Slag's
head where he stands eye to eye with Grimlock
WHEELIE
Friends find. Look behind. Many Face
lie. You fool! You buy!
GRIMLOCK AND WHEELIE
GRIMLOCK
(eyes blaze, furious)
Me, Grimlock, "fool?"
WHEELIE
(smiling breezily)
Picture you got. Now fool you not!
(he laughs in a wild, metallic
cackle)
Grimlock raises a claw to swipe Wheelie
off Slag's head
GRIMLOCK
Me, Grimlock, no like you!
ON WHEELIE
as he scowls and quickly loads FIRESTONE
IN SLING and slings it onto Grimlock's
nose where it EXPLODES making Grimlock
yowl and pull back, feeling his reddened
nose and speaking through his nose
angrily
GRIMLOCK
(continuing)
Doooooooow! Why boy hit by dose?
(CONTINUED)
72.
CONTINUED:
WHEELIE
(folds arms across his chest)
Wheelie say, find friends today!
(nods defiantly)
Grimlock and Slag react as we
CUT TO:
THE QUINTESSON "COURTROOM"
Kup and Hot Rod stand on the platform over the Sharkticon
pit. They are "bound" by restraining bolts.
ANGLE ON THE QUINTESSON JUDGE
QUINTESSON JUDGE
Before we deliver your verdict, would you
like to beg for your lives?
ANGLE ON KUP AND HOT ROD
Kup turns to Hot Rod.
KUP
Remember when you put me together today?
HOT ROD
(sarcastic)
Sure, that's all I got to think about.
KUP
I know what part you forgot.
QUINTESSON JUDGE (V.O.)
Silence or I'll hold you in contempt of
this court.
HOT ROD
I have nothing but contempt for this
court.
ANGLE ON THE QUINTESSON JUDGES
Suddenly, their heads swivel around to deaths heads.
ON KUP AND HOT ROD
The platform drops away and they tumble...
KUP AND HOT ROD - TRACKING
Suddenly, Kup in double-jointed fashion slips out of the
restraining bolt...
(CONTINUED)
73.
CONTINUED:
KUP
That doohickey you lost was part of my
shoulder socket. Watch this, lad...
without it, I'm double jointed as
Houdini.
Then, he transforms to humanoid mode and shoots off Hot Rod's
bolt.
HOT ROD
Wish you'd figured that out a little
sooner.
KUP
Better late than never!
ANGLE ON THE SHARKTICON PIT
In full humanoid mode, they land, their weapons drawn.
ANGLE ON ALL
Kup and Hot Rod fire, driving some Sharkticons back.
HOT ROD
They've got more Sharkticons than we have
photon charges!
Kup transforms to Auto mode.
KUP
Let's hold a demolition derby! Then, he
roars into a bunch of them, slamming a
massive stack into the wall.
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
He transforms, too and does the same thing.
ANGLE ON THE SHARKTICON PIT
As fast as the Autobots can run the miserable things over,
new swarms of them come out.
ANGLE ON KUP AND HOT ROD
They clear out a circle in the center of the pit and
transform to humanoid mode.
HOT ROD
Didn't even bend a fender.
(CONTINUED)
74.
CONTINUED:
KUP
Yeah, but look. There are a lot more of
those cam dinging, grill-crackin' things.
WHAT HE SEES
is a wave of larger, more powerful Sharkticons.
HOT ROD
We can't hold out forever, but we can
give them one whopper of a repair bill.
ANGLE ON THE SHARKTICONS
They charge Kup and Hot Rod Kup and Hot Rod fire into them,
destroying several, but are.... ... Soon overrun. The
Sharkticons crawl all over them, munching on their metal.
SUDDENLY --
DINOBOTS (O.S.)
(WAR WHOOP)
ANGLE ON THE DINOBOTS
They fly down and land on the pile, transforming into Dinobot
mode.
ASSORTED SHOTS OF DINOBOT CARNAGE
SLUDGE in brontosaurus mode, swats several around with his
tail, while stomping them with his feet.
GRIMLOCK
Lowers his teeth to devour a much smaller
Sharkticon, the Sharkticon bares his
teeth, realizes that he's a second
stringer, and scampers away.
GRIMLOCK
Me Grimlock want to munch metal! Slag
barrels into Sharkticons, making a quick
shishkebob out of them, while...
Swoop picks two up with his claws, flies in the air and drops
them on other Sharkticons.
THE SHARKTICONS
suddenly back off and begin transforming
(bowing) to the dinobots.
75.
ANGLE ON ALL
Kup and Hot Rod dig themselves out of a pile of Sharkticon
parts.
HOT ROD
I never thought I'd be so happy to see
those big bozos.
ANGLE ON GRIMLOCK
He turns to Hot Rod.
GRIMLOCK
Me Grimlock no bozo. Me king!
ANGLE ON QUINTESSON JUDGES
They look down, their angry faces showing.
QUINTESSON JUDGE
Sharkticons! Execute them.
ANGLE ON GRIMLOCK
He points to the Quintessons...
GRIMLOCK
Me Grimlock say execute them.
THE SHARKTICONS
for a brief instant, don't seem to know
what to do. Then, they charge the
Quintessons.
THE CHASE
The Quintessons start to flee, but it's
clear that the Sharkticons, who climb
over the stacked bodies of other
Sharkticons, are going to catch them.
KUP
I think the problems on this planet will
be solved very shortly.
ON HOT ROD
HOT ROD
But what about our problems. We need a
ship.
WHEELIE
WHEELIE You get a ship if I get a trip.
76.
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
He turns to the little, feral, robot.
HOT ROD
Who are you.
SLAG AND WHEELIE
The dinobot lifts up Wheelie.
SLAG
Him Wheelie, him friend.
HOT ROD
HOT ROD He'll be mine too, if he can find
a Quintesson ship.
ANGLE ON WHEELIE
He points into the distance...
WHAT WE SEE
is the strangest looking corkscrew ship we've every seen
sticking out of the ground.
HOT ROD
That's a ship?
EXT. THE SECOND MOON OF CYBERTRON
PAN ACROSS an enormous stockpile of weaponry as we hear the
terrible roar we have come to associate with Unicron.
SPIKE
If this doesn't do it, nothing will.
ANGLE ON SPIKE
He sets a timer to 20 seconds. The L.E.D. clicks down.
BUMBLEBEE
now with a new bumpersticker which is a
Unicron with a red circle and slash
through it, looks very fidgety.
BUMBLEBEE
Let's get out of here.
77.
BUMBLEBEE AND SPIKE
They run over to a small space ship as... ... The timer
counts down.
THE SPACESHIP
takes off.
ANGLE ON THE SECOND MOON
Now, for the first time, we see what is really going on.
Unicron looms behind it, about to do the big munch.
ANGLE ON BUMBLEBEE AND SPIKE
They roar away.
ON UNICRON
His mist surrounds the planet...
ON BUMBLEBEE AND SPIKE
They stop their ship in space.
BUMBLEBEE
Five, four, three, two, one...
ON THE SECOND MOON AND UNICRON
BLAMMMOLA!
An incredible display of fireworks goes off, seemingly
blowing Unicron to smithereens.
ON BUMBLEBEE AND SPIKE
They slap palms. Then, they look up, horrified.
BUMBLEBEE
It isn't even dented.
SPIKE
Let's get out of here!
ON UNICRON
The great Maw opens and we hear a grand
cosmic roar! Suddenly, the smoke and
space junk from the explosion are sucked
into his mouth.
ON BUMBLEBEE AND SPIKE
They try to fly away.
(CONTINUED)
78.
CONTINUED:
SPIKE
We're being sucked into it!
ANGLE ON THEIR SHIP AND UNICRON
Despite the fact that their thrusters are on full power, they
are still sucked into...
UNICRON...
Whose great mouth shuts when he's got the human and the
Autobot.
CUT TO:
DEEP SPACE - THE PLANET JUNKION
ANGLE ON ULTRA MAGNUS' SHUTTLE
as Arcee and Springer work on the ship, while Perceptor
watches.
PERCEPTOR
Be sure the fittings are securely welded!
ANGLE ON BLURR
as he uses FLAME JETS FROM FINGER TIPS TO WELD joints where
new "canopy" is fitted
BLURR
(very fast, as usual)
Absolutely, positively, definitely...
WIDE SHOT TO INCLUDE DANIEL
as he helps Blurr install a junk part.
DANIEL
This exo-suit is fantastic!
(to Blurr)
Want me to do that?
BLURR
Weld? You? Really? Well, why not? Give it
a try, but think it through first! Daniel
knits his brow, extends FINGER OF EXO-
GLOVE which is part of exo-suit.
CLOSE ON EXO GLOVE AND DANIEL'S HAND
as hand quivers and his finger shoots out a tiny flame which
sputters, sparks and then goes out like a wet match
79.
RESUME ON BLURR AND DANIEL
BLURR
Practice, practice, practice!
WRECK-GAR AND JUNKIONS IN HIDING
Wreck-Gar starts to motion them to the attack, and the
Junkions ready their weapons.
WRECK-GAR
Forward, avanti, apfel and like, go for
gusto....
(stops as OMINOUS ROAR comes
from overhead and he looks up)
HIS P.O.V. - GALVATRON AND HUGE DECEPTICON FORCE
WRECK-GAR (V.O.)
Hang on, this be industrial strength We
watch...
ULTRA MAGNUS
as he, too, hears and then looks up and
sees the Decepticon force
ULTRA MAGNUS
Decepticons!
(to Springer)
We've got to draw them off and then
double back to the ship!
ANGLE ON CYCLONUS
with Galvatron piloting, races up and launches a particularly
nasty looking missile which streaks INTO SHOT and...
ANGLE ON ULTRA MAGNUS' SHIP
... BLAMMOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turns it into junk. Springer FIRES UP at INCOMING JETS,
calling to the others
SPRINGER
Cancel that last order.
ON ARCEE, DANIEL, BLURR
as Arcee transforms and moves off in one direction. Daniel
looks at Blurr who is starting to transform
(CONTINUED)
80.
CONTINUED:
DANIEL
What do I do?
BLURR
Transform! You can do...
(TRANSFORMATION complete, he
blurs off and, in V.O. adds)
...it!
Blurr GOES OFF outblurring past HAIL OF LASER FIRE from
Ramjet scorching by overhead
ON DANIEL
as he reacts, looks around, thinks, brows
knitting, looking off, reacting
DANIEL
Transform....
HIS P.O.V.- SCAVENGER
Coming at him from one side, Shrapnel coming from the other
side
ON SCAVENGER
as he starts reaching for Daniel
SCAVENGER
Human germ!
ON DANIEL
as his Exo-Suit SUDDENLY TRANSFORMS INTO
auto mode and takes off and drives
through...
...SCAVENGER AND SHRAPNEL, knocking them over.
DANIEL (V.O.)
Wooooh!!
GALVATRON
flies up to a ridge in advance of his
forces, motioning to them to split off
and follow...
EXT. JUNKION - THE CHASE
BIRD'S EYE VIEW - THE AUTOBOTS
They dash through the maze-like walls of junk, pursued by
Sweeps, who strike them from above...
(CONTINUED)
81.
CONTINUED:
SWEEP
He lets out a rayblast...
ANGLE ON PERCEPTOR - TRACKING
... Hitting Perceptor and spinning him around... ... Until he
stumbles to the ground.
ANGLE ON PERCEPTOR AND ULTRA MAGNUS
... Perceptor lies on the ground, stunned. ... Ultra Magnus
stops next to him...
ULTRA MAGNUS
Perceptor!
... Suddenly, shots tear into the junk all around them as...
ANGLE ON A SWEEP
ROARS towards them...
ANGLE ON PERCEPTOR
He suddenly transforms to cannon mode and fires! ... Blowing
the sweep to protons.
ON PERCEPTOR
He transforms to humanoid mode.
PERCEPTOR
It appears that my lacerations were
primarily superficial.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Then move it...
ANGLE ON PERCEPTOR
He takes off.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Stays behind, taking a few shots at...
SWEEPS
which streak over in deadly formations.
ULTRA MAGNUS
He stands and shoots.
SPRINGER (O.S.)
Ultra Magnus!
(CONTINUED)
82.
CONTINUED:
Ultra Magnus turns to see...
THE OTHER AUTOBOTS
several yards down the junk-lined corridor.
PERCEPTOR (O.S.)
Your estimated survival time is 10
seconds.
ANGLE ON ULTRA MAGNUS
He shoots at the junk walls.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Then use that time to escape! The Matrix
was designed for an emergency like this.
I'll try to unleash its power.
SPRINGER
But what if it doesn't work.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Until all are one!
THE OTHER AUTOBOTS AND JUNK WALLS
Ultra Magnus' ray hits the walls and they tumble down,
separating him from the other Autobots.
ANGLE ON ULTRA MAGNUS
His back to a wall of fallen junk, he pulls out the matrix.
ANGLE ON GALVATRON IN CYCLONUS
Galvatron pops out of Cyclonus and both transform, to land in
front of Ultra Magnus.
ANGLE ON ULTRA MAGNUS
Struggling to open the leadership matrix. He puts his hand
inside of it and gets a powerful shock! He pulls his hand out
quickly.
ULTRA MAGNUS
Damn it! Open it!
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
He laughs.
83.
ON ULTRA MAGNUS
He still struggles.
ULTRA MAGNUS
(baffled)
Prime, you said the Matrix would light
our darkest hour.
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
Four sweeps fly TOWARD CAMERA in formation. Galvatron pops
out a communication device from his helmet.
GALVATRON
Sweeps, quarter him!
ANGLE ON THE SWEEPS - TRACKING
Four rope-like rays shoot out of them and...
ON ULTRA MAGNUS
wrap around his arms and legs.
ANGLE ON ULTRA MAGNUS AND THE SWEEPS
His arms and legs caught by the four ropes, he knows he's
just about had it. He struggles for one last moment, then...
ANGLE ON THE SWEEPS AND ULTRA MAGNUS
Pulling their rays taut, the Sweeps fly in four separate
directions, effectively drawing and quartering the Autobot
leader...
ON ULTRA MAGNUS
As all of his limbs are separated from his body and scattered
in the distance, he SCREAMS IN HORROR.
ULTRA MAGNUS
(SCREAMS IN HORROR)
ANGLE ON THE MATRIX
It tumbles from Ultra Magnus' hands to... ... Galvatron's
hands!
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
He holds the Autobot Matrix.
(CONTINUED)
84.
CONTINUED:
GALVATRON
Unicron, my "master," with this I shall
make you my slave!
Galvatron gets into Cyclonus and flies off
DISSOLVE TO:
DANIEL
as he moves out and looks down at Ultra
Magnus' remains
DANIEL
(tearful)
Ultra Magnus!
ANOTHER ANGLE - BLURR, SPRINGER, ARCEE AND PERCEPTOR
as they move up beside Daniel.
BLURR
Without the Matrix there is no hope. No
hope at all!
WRECK-GAR AND AN ARMY OF JUNKIONS
as they are moving in battle array towards the Shuttle.
Junkions are an interesting species. They ride themselves.
That is, the Junkions ride transforms of themselves, so that
if their vehicle breaks down, the driver will become the
vehicle, and the vehicle will transform to become the driver.
They are gibbering, singing almost a wild kind of junk-rock,
war-cry song which, like their language, is constructed of
bits and pieces of the museum junk of our culture - a
humorous aggressive song which makes a surreal kind of sense.
"Slice 'em dice 'em... And that's all folks or your money
back..."
ON WRECK-GAR
as he roars into the lead and shows his
teeth
WRECK-GAR
Don't look behind door number two, Monty.
It's time to play End-of-the-line-my
valentine! Geroni-roni-doo-ron-ron-i-mo!
(he charges)
ON SPRINGER AND OUR FRIENDS
as they react
(CONTINUED)
85.
CONTINUED:
SPRINGER
Get gone!
Springer leads the way and Blurr, Arcee, Daniel and Perceptor
follow and we MOVE TO A ROAD WARRIOR STYLE CHASE as Springer
and Arcee ride on either side of Daniel and Perceptor with
Blurr bringing up the rear- - zig zagging back and forth to
keep the Junkions from getting at Daniel.
A JUNKION
roars alongside Springer on his
motorcycle and throws out laser barbed
grappling hook, trying to hook Springer.
Springer ducks first pass of hook.
ON JUNKION
as he hurls GRAPPLING HOOK AGAIN
ON SPRINGER
as he catches HOOK BY THE CHAIN AND YANKS
IT
THE JUNKION
goes flying off his motorcycle.,, He
transforms into a motorcycle as The
motorcycle transforms into a rider and
hops on the new motorcycle and then...
...turns around to come back.
ON SPRINGER
He looks over, astonished.
SPRINGER
It's not hard to knock 'em down. It's
getting them to stay down that's the
trick.
ON ARCEE
as she fires at a Junkion who is trying
to swerve her off the road knocking him
off the motorcycle... The Junkion looks
down at his missing arm, digs around in
the junk for a minute, comes up with
another, and then transforms to a
motorcycle.
ANOTHER ANGLE
as Junkion rides over to her, starts
belting her with junk sword
ARCEE
They're indestructible!
(CONTINUED)
86.
CONTINUED: (2)
ON DANIEL
as he skids, stopping his Exo-Suit as he
reacts to what's ahead
DANIEL
They're everywhere!
HIS P.O.V. - PILES OF JUNK
as Junkions arise out of every junk pile in sight and,
gibbering, singing their junk-rock battle song, start moving
in
ON SPRINGER
as he stops and Arcee, Daniel, Perceptor
and Blurr stop around him. They close
ranks and look out at the Junkions grimly
PERCEPTOR
Perhaps they're not as vicious as they
look.
ON WRECK-GAR
as he gnashes his teeth and grins and
then BLINKS HIS EYES which roll to show
eyes like ping pong balls. Wreck-Gar
makes blipping noises as he does this
ON SPRINGER
reacting to Wreck-Gar's noises and
eyeball display
SPRINGER
(to Perceptor)
Positive thinking gets on my nerves.
Suddenly, all react to sound and wind of
passing space cruiser their P.O.V- HOT
ROD, KUP AND DINOBOTS IN CRUISER as it
shoots past and banks, coming back for a
closer look
SPRINGER (V.O.)
It can't be....it's.....Hot Rod! He's
alive!
DANIEL
as he looks up at passing Cruiser and
waves
DANIEL
And Kup and the Dinobots! We're saved!
(CONTINUED)
87.
CONTINUED:
PERCEPTOR
I wouldn't count on that!
(indicating Junkions)
HIS P.O.V. - EVEN MORE JUNKIONS ARISING OUT OF THE JUNK HILLS
as Junkions newly risen from Junk look up and point at
Cruiser and make hostile signs toward it, shaking weapons,
etc.
INT. THE CRUISER - MOVING SHOT - VIEW THROUGH CANOPY
Hot Rod and Kup look down on the army of Junkions below
surrounding their friends as they SWOOP BY
KUP
Not since the Crocodillos of Strontero
have I seen such a sight....
ANOTHER ANGLE GRIMLOCK
as he sticks his face up next to Hot Rod. Wheelie, riding on
Grimlock's head, slips down to stand on console next to Hot
Rod
GRIMLOCK
Maybe they make me king, too!
KUP
Don't hold your breath, your majesty.
WRECK-GAR
as he watches Cruiser descend and start
gliding in for a landing
WRECK-GAR
Steady as she goes, mob! Snoopy visitors
get mud in the eye bye and bye, and film
at five!
(gives thumbs up sign, RIDES
OFF)
JUNKIONS
Everything must go by midnight! With a
SINGING ROAR of musical, tribal
excitement, the Junkions sweep Springer
and our friends along with them,
following course of landing Cruiser to
CRUISER LANDING SITE
Cruiser sets down and Junkions line up with weapons aimed at
rampway as they watch door
(CONTINUED)
88.
CONTINUED:
ON DOORWAY
as Hot Rod steps out with big smile and
hand full of energon sticks followed by a
very wary Kup, and the Dinobots with
Wheelie riding Sludge's neck.
INTERCUT TO SPRINGER, DANIEL, ARCEE ET. AL FOR REACTIONS
ON WRECK-GAR AND OTHER JUNKIONS
as they react to hot Rod's smile, Wreck-Gar trying to mimic
that smile to his followers who laugh
ON HOT ROD
as he steps up beside Kup and gently pushes Kup's rifle aside
HOT ROD
(aside to Kup, still holding
smile)
Guns aren't exactly friendly.
KUP
(through his teeth to Hot Rod)
Neither are they in case you haven't
noticed.
HOT ROD
(sotto)
What was the Universal greeting again?
WRECK-GAR
growls and slips a SNIPPER, BLOW TORCH
CUTTING TOOL out of a holster and starts
toward Hot Rod with it
HOT ROD
HOT ROD
(big smile)
Bah weep graaaagnah wheep ni ni bong?
WRECK-GAR AND OTHER JUNKIONS
They look at one another, blink, then beam with smiles
WRECK-GAR
Bah weep graaaagnah wheep ni ni bong?
HOT ROD
(nodding, smiling)
Bah weep graaaagnah wheep ni ni bong?
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
89.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD (CONT'D)
(presses energon sticks
forward)
As Hot Rod says this...
...Wreck-Gar takes the energon sticks and holds them over his
head and... ...all the Junkions smile and cheer and start
chanting the universal greeting phrase, laughing, clapping
their hands and dancing around, taking Arcee's hand and...
... taking Springer and Perceptor and Daniel out into center
of a square dance type gathering, moving back and forth with
them dancing happily, singing the universal greeting in a
melodic, rhythmic way
EVERYBODY
Bah weep graaaagnah wheep ni ni bong Bah
weep graaaagnah wheep ni ni bong! Bah
weep graaaagnah wheep ni ni bong....
WRECK-GAR
hugs Hot Rod, and Perceptor who winces
and tries to enjoy it, and then hugs
Daniel, Wheelie, Arcee, laughing and
dancing as SINGING goes.
ON GRIMLOCK
as he reacts to Wreck-Gar kissing his leg
GRIMLOCK
Yuck! Me Grimlock, not a kisser! Me,
Grimlock, a king!
WHEELIE
claps his hands and gleefully makes
noises as he hops about, dancing with
Junkions until we CUT TO
WRECK-GAR
as he stands on top of platform and RINGS
JUNK BELLS AND SIRENS getting silence and
smiling as he waves hands all around
WRECK-GAR
Have a nice day and please, close cover
before striking, friends! Amigos, buddies
and side kicks, Breep drit, aw rootie! So
say the Junkions!
(holds hands over his head)
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
He looks at them, strangely.
HOT ROD
Where did you learn to talk like that?
90.
ANGLE ON WRECK-GAR
He reaches into his body, and about where a heart or some
other organ would be, he pulls out a Watchman.
THE WATCHMAN
On it is a crazy Eddy-type commercial.
WRECK-GAR
We talk T.V. You talk some T.V.?
KUP
looks around nervously.
KUP
I talk some TV. And now, Hot Rod for the
news. Don't touch that dial. Void where
prohibited. JUNKIONS cheer wildly while
the Dinobots react with uncertainty
RESUME ON WRECK-GAR
as he points off and shouts happily.
WRECK-GAR
By George kimosabes your smashed up,
blotto friend, soon like brand new with
ninety day warranty all iciban parts and
labor is!
HIS P.O.V. - JUNKIONS WITH ULTRA MAGNUS
The Junkions move Ultra Magnus' mangled body through an
amazing assembly line, quickly piecing together his body
parts, using junk when they can't find a part. Then, they
lube him, dust him, spray him and polish him. Then, Wreck-Gar
hits a switch, and Ultra Magnus' eye lights go on.
WRECK-GAR
Happy motoring! Cock-a-doodle-do!
ON ULTRA MAGNUS
as he steps away from Junkion line of reconstruction and into
group consisting of Hot Rod, Kup and Springer.
SPRINGER AND OTHERS
(Ad lib jubilation)
Ultra Magnus!
ULTRA MAGNUS
You're all alive...
(CONTINUED)
91.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD
The matrix!
All turn to Ultra Magnus.
ULTRA MAGNUS
It's gone...
KUP
And with it, all hope.
HOT ROD
No...
(inspired)
The matrix will not fail us.
ARCEE
Didn't you hear Ultra Magnus. We don't
have it anymore. Galvatron does.
HOT ROD
Then we've got to trust in ourselves, and
no matter what they odds, destroy
Unicron.
ON WRECK-GAR
His eyes light up.
WRECK-GAR
Yeah! Destroy Unicron... Kill the grand
poobah.... Flush cosmic troubles down the
drain.
ANGLE ON JUNKIONS
JUNKIONS
(almost chanting)
Destroy Unicron... Kill the grand
poobah... Flush cosmic troubles down the
drain.
ANGLE ON SPRINGER
The Quintesson ship in the BACKGROUND.
SPRINGER
Listen, I don't want to rain on anybody's
parade, but how are we going to move the
army to Unicron. We don't have enough
room on that ship.
(CONTINUED)
92.
CONTINUED:
WRECK-GAR
No fuss, no muss.
(to others)
Hurry, hurry. Sale must end! Rush right
on down to bridge and test drive latest
with no obligation.
Suddenly, several Junkions scramble to concealed doorways in
the Junk.
ULTRA MAGNUS
You have ships here?
WRECK-GAR
New, improved Junkion planet, is sleek
sexy import with turbo handling.
SPRINGER
What's he talking about?
ANGLE ON QUINTESSON
Suddenly, boosters fire from the back side of the junk, and
somewhere under all of the junk, we realize is a real space
ship. Maybe the junk is the space ship. It takes off, bits
and pieces of junk flying off as it moves.
SPRINGER
This is what I call traveling in style.
DISSOLVE TO:
LONG SHOT- UNICRON
as Galvatron stands on the surface of Unicron, holding the
Matrix.
GALVATRON (V.O.)
Listen to me, or suffer the consequences.
UNICRON
Aren't we getting pompous?
GALVATRON
I now possess that which you most fear.
Unicron LAUGHS and the force of it rocks
the surface of the planet, knocking
Galvatron to his knees.
GALVATRON
You will do my bidding, or... Unicron
roars with laughter.
(CONTINUED)
93.
CONTINUED:
GALVATRON
...taste my wrath.
He leans down and starts trying to open the matrix.
ANOTHER ANGLE - FAVORING GALVATRON
IN THE BACKGROUND, we see Cybertron getting closer. Galvatron
struggles with the Matrix, but gets a big shock.
UNICRON
You underestimate me Galvatron.
ANOTHER ANGLE - GALVATRON ON UNICRON
He desperately struggles to open the matrix. The planet
suddenly starts shaking. Galvatron is bathed in a reddish
light, and looks up in horror!
ANGLE ON UNICRON
A hideous transformation is beginning. The surface of the
planet in front of Galvatron opens up, and we see that the
hideous light comes from eyes set on a hideous head!
GALVATRON AND UNICRON
Galvatron is maybe the size of a single tooth on the horrible
head before him.
UNICRON
For a time, I considered sparing your
measly little planet, but now you shall
witness its dismemberment!
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
Suddenly, the ground he stands on drops away, and he falls
through space... ... Landing on a protruding plate which
sticks out of Unicron's chest.
GALVATRON - CLOSE
He looks around himself in horror and lets out a loud scream
as he realizes the unimaginable horror that surrounds him.
ANGLE ON UNICRON - LONG SHOT
The massive planet transforms, arms and legs fold out of the
enormous body, hands unfold from the arms, jets from it's
back propel it towards... ... Cybertron, which, now looks
lonely and vulnerable in space.
94.
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
He stands on a ledge on Unicron and desperately tries to open
the matrix, but no cigar.
GALVATRON
No!!!
ANGLE ON CYBERTRON
Unicron enters shot and grasps at Cybertron with a hideous
claw...
ANGLE ON A TOWER ON CYBERTRON
Shockwave talks into a communications device, as alarms sound
and troopers run everywhere.
SHOCKWAVE
Decepticons...we're under
attack...Scramble - Then his voice is cut
off as...
SHOCKWAVE'S POV - OUT HIS WINDOW
Unicron's hand reaches towards the window, squeezes, and the
walls crash in.
SPACE - UNICRON AND CYBERTRON
Unicron tears off the tower and crushes it as...
A FLEET OF DECEPTICON SHIPS
streak out of Cybertron and begin firing on the enormous
planet. Here, we see the true scale of Unicron. The fighters
are the size of bees as they attack.
ANGLE ON UNICRON
He looks down on the swarm of fighters and... ...Breathes
fire down on them. The fighters POP and burn like popcorn in
a blowtorch. In moments they disappear like sparks from a
fire.
ANGLE ON CYBERTRON
Decepticon troopers man a massive gun emplacement as... ...
Unicron's huge hand reaches down... ... scraping buildings
and... ... tearing out gun emplacements.
95.
ANOTHER ANGLE- UNICRON'S FACE
as he puts his face down so his mouth will receive all the
rockets, laser blasts, etc.
THE DECEPTICON DEFENDERS
are silhouetted like ants in the foreground as Unicron OPENS
HIS MOUTH and swallows the fire barrage
GALVATRON
GALVATRON Stop feeding him, you fools!
ANGLE ON UNICRON AND CYBERTRON
As yet more Decepticon fighters rip out of the planet, it
looks like Unicron is going to have a field day tearing it
apart.
CUT TO:
EXT. SPACE - SAME TIME
The massive Junkion ship and the corkscrew cruiser piloted by
Hot Rod and Kup race through the dark void.
HOT ROD
I don't believe it.
INT. THE QUINTESSON SHIP - SAME TIME
Hot Rod, Kup, Springer, Arcee and Daniel as they also look
through canopy, astonished
DANIEL
Wow!
THEIR P.O.V. - UNICRON Destroying CYBERTRON
HOT ROD (V.O.)
Doesn't it remind you of something, Kup?
RESUME ON KUP, DANIEL AND HOT ROD
as they MOVE CLOSER STILL. Kup is glassy eyed.
KUP
(entranced)
Nope, never seen anything like it.
(CONTINUED)
96.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD
I knew there had to be a first time....
(using intercom)
Battle stations!
LONG SHOT- HOT ROD'S CRUISER AND THE JUNKION SPACE SHIP
as hatches open and the Dinobots start FLYING OUT.
INT. - CRUISER
Hot Rod shoves joystick forward and Cruiser DRIVES TOWARD
UNICRON whom we see turn to take a swat at it through glass
canopy
ON JUNKION SPACE SHIP
as it pulls up beside Hot Rod's Cruiser so they are both in a
line.....The Dinobots behind both ships ...all diving toward
Unicron's nose
INT. JUNKION SHIP - WRECK-GAR AT CONTROLS
As Wreck-Gar also has joystick shoved down and watches
Unicron's face loom closer, closer, closer
LONG SHOT- CRUISER, JUNKION SHIP AND DINOBOTS IN FORMATION
as Unicron smiles and cups both hands together, preparing to
catch the lot of them as soon as they get within reach
UNICRON'S CHEST
Galvatron, the matrix hanging around his
neck. Transforms to Cannon and fires up
at... ... A bright panel on Unicron's
chest...
BLAAAM!
He hits the panel and lights and sparks fly out, causing the
gigantic robot to flicker momentarily.
ANGLE ON UNICRON
The monster lets out a ROAR! Then, reaches down, picks up
Galvatron and drops him into his mouth like a raisin.
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
He drops into the deep pit of Unicron's mouth, narrowly
avoiding both a torrent of fire, and his sharp, crushing
teeth.
97.
EXT. THE SPACE BATTLE - SAME TIME
As they Junkion cruiser comes close, Unicron lets out a burst
of fire... ... Flames lick the ship, but when the fire
subsides, nothing has happened.
WRECK-GAR (V.O.)
Patented enamel resists fire, rain and
corrosion. Five year warranty,
satisfaction guaranteed.
OTHER JUNKIONS
Or your money back!
The ship fires back, dumping rays into... ... Unicron's face,
but not really doing any damage.
UNICRON AND JUNKION CRUISER
Unicron grabs the Junkion cruiser with both of it's hands
and...
CLOSER
... tears it in half.
WRECK-GAR (V.O.)
Unshakable, unbreakable, unbeatable. And
for a limited time we include...
INT. CRUSHED JUNKION SHIP
As Ultra Magnus, Perceptor and the others watch in
amazement...
WRECK-GAR (CONT'D)
Free bonus surprise!
JUNKIONS
Free bonus surprise!
THE JUNKIONS RUN AROUND
welding things... ...screwing things together... ... and
kicking control panels to make them work...
EXT. SPACE
Both halves of the Junkion ship act as independent space
ships.
PERCEPTOR (V.O.)
Most unscientific, but... effective.
98.
EXT THE SPACE BATTLE
As the Quintesson ship shoots toward Unicron's face.
THE CRUISER
Is suddenly struck by a ray from
Unicron's eye, and half of it is knocked
off.
INT THE CRUISER
Lights go off, and the Autobots are thrown around like toys.
ANGLE THROUGH THE VIEWSCREEN
They are heading right to Unicron's eye.
ANGLE ON UNICRON AND THE CRUISER
Unicron swipes at the cruiser, but misses. The Cruiser
crashes right through Unicron's eye like a corkscrew!
UNICRON (V.O.)
Graaaaaaaaaaa!
INT. UNICRON'S HEAD - SAME TIME
The cruiser rips through the eye socket and smashes through
several electrical membranes that are, in fact, Unicron's
brain.
ANGLE ON THE SHIP
As the ship tumbles through, it dumps off the various
Autobots like rubbish and disintegrates.
ANGLE ON HOT ROD
He tumbles out of the rubbish and down a deep pit (which we
can assume is a robotic sinus or something)
EXT. THE BRAIN AREA
Kup, Springer, Daniel and Arcee are scattered about the floor
in the giant, flickering chamber.
DANIEL
Where's Hot Rod?
SPRINGER
Sees something in the distance.
(CONTINUED)
99.
CONTINUED:
SPRINGER
I don't know, but I hope they didn't get
him.
WHAT HE SEES
Are dozens of hovering Robots that look like floating bear
traps, snapping their jaws as they drift slowly towards the
Autobots.
ANGLE ON THE AUTOBOTS
KUP
Debugoids!
ARCEE
Quick! This way.
They run into a long, cave-like chamber which looks like the
central nervous system or something.
CUT TO:
INT. ANOTHER CHAMBER - LATER
Hot Rod drops through the darkness and lands in a pile of
miscellaneous junk.
ON HOT ROD
He slowly gets up and looks around the chamber.
WHAT HE SEES
Pan as Hot Rod looks over various different bits of junk,
until he sees the glowing shape of the Autobot Matrix
apparently suspended in mid air.
HOT ROD
The Autobot Matrix!
Then, suddenly two red, burning eyes light up above the
matrix, and we see the hideous form of Galvatron.
GALVATRON
It will do you no good, Autobot. It
cannot be opened.
ON HOT ROD
He stands up and walks towards Galvatron.
(CONTINUED)
100.
CONTINUED:
HOT ROD
Not by a Decepticon.
ANGLE ON HOT ROD AND GALVATRON
Hot Rod steps towards Galvatron.
GALVATRON
It is strange that we should find
ourselves as allies...
ON GALVATRON
Suddenly, his body is violently twisted,
and his arms are almost broken off.
GALVATRON
Uhhhh...
UNICRON
Destroy him, or feel yourself torn from
limb to limb.
GALVATRON
Of course, my master!
ANGLE ON GALVATRON AND HOT ROD
Galvatron takes a shot at Hot Rod. ... Hot Rod dives away, as
electricity seems to flash everywhere.
ON GALVATRON
He peers into the gloom.
GALVATRON'S POV - PANNING THE ROOM
Hot Rod is nowhere to be seen amidst all of the junk.
ON GALVATRON
Weapon drawn.
GALVATRON
Puny Autobot, you lack even Prime's
courage. There is no response.
CUT TO:
EXT. SPACE - THE BATTLE
ASSORTED SHOTS
Unicron now stands atop Cybertron,
fighting the various ships that swarm
around him like bees. ... Rays streak
from his one good eye. ...
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
101.
CONTINUED:
ASSORTED SHOTS (CONT'D)
His hands smash fighters... ... Fire
shoots from his mouth.
THE DINOBOTS
Now reaching Unicron's butt, start
kicking.
GRIMLOCK
Me Grimlock kick Butt.
ANGLE ON UNICRON
Suddenly; he looks down, sending down a searing blast of
fire.
ANGLE ON THE DINOBOTS
They transform to robot mode and fly away.
GRIMLOCK
Me, Grimlock, need new strategy.
CUT TO:
INT. THE CORRIDOR IN UNICRON -- SAME TIME
Kup, Arcee, Springer and Daniel dash down the corridor.
Suddenly, Daniel's foot is caught in a maze of wiring.
ANGLE ON THE OTHERS
Not noticing, they keep running.
ANGLE ON DANIEL
He tries to pull his foot out. No luck. Then, he looks up.
WHAT HE SEES
The Robotic Antibodies are drawing very close to him.
DANIEL
He looks o.s. towards the others.
DANIEL
Help...
ANGLE ON KUP AND ARCEE
They turn around and see Daniel about to be munched by the
antibodies.
ARCEE
Daniel!
102.
ANGLE ON SPRINGER, KUP AND ARCEE
They dash down the corridor firing on...
THE ROBOTIC ANTIBODIES
Their shots hit some, knocking them to scrap, but there are
so many of them, that they can't hold back the tide as it...
ANGLE UNDER THE ANTIBODIES
Daniel, unscathed by the things, which hover over his head,
munching their way towards the Autobots, gets his foot free.
DANIEL
I'm okay. They don't even see me.
ANGLE ON THE AUTOBOTS
It looks like Custer's last stand as they are surrounded by
the vicious antibodies.
KUP
They must not programmed to catch flesh
creatures.
SPRINGER
Us, on the other hand...
ARCEE
Daniel... Try to find help! Arcee
fires...
HER SHOT - TRACKING
Misses the Antibodies, but strikes a large tube.
ANGLE ON THE TUBE
When it is hit, it pours a torrent of liquid which... ...
Goes over the swarm of Antibodies, but hits Daniel... ...
Carrying him away in a flood of glowing liquid.
ON DANIEL - TRACKING
He shouts as he finds himself in a river of flowing goo.
CUT TO:
103.
INT. UNICRON - A FLOWING TUNNEL
Daniel rips through what seem to be endless caves on the
torrent of liquid, until he is dumped down a high waterfall
into... .... A glowing lake. ... He stays under for a
moment, and then bobs up to see...
UNICRON'S STOMACH
This is the central processing area for
Unicron's "food" and "energy." A long
conveyer belt drops junk into a clear,
bubbling vat, where it is separated into
raw material and energy. The energy,
which comes out in raw form, goes into a
machine and is crunched into energon
cubes, while the solid material, is
separated into it's component metals and
plastics, formed into ingots and sent
elsewhere in an assembly line fashion.
DANIEL
watches this with awe until he sees...
ANGLE ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE
... Several Decepticon troopers hanging from cables like
shirts at a dry cleaners are dropped into the bubbling vat,
and in moments converted to nothing... ... Then, Cliffjumper
and Jazz roll out of the line...
ON DANIEL
He dashes to the shores of the glowing
lake...
DANIEL
Cliffjumper! Jazz!
And then Spike comes rolling down, followed by Bumblebee!
DANIEL
Bumblebee! Dad!
ON CLIFFJUMPER, JAZZ, AND SPIKE
They look down, but can't move because they are held by
massive pincers.
SPIKE
Shut off the control, Daniel. Daniel
looks around.
Then, he sees.
(CONTINUED)
104.
CONTINUED:
A CONTROL
.. which controls the whole thing.
ON DANIEL
He runs up a catwalk towards it....
ANGLE ON DANIEL
He reaches the flickering panel.
DANIEL
What do I do? It doesn't have any
buttons or anything.
ANGLE ON SPIKE - TRACKING
He looks down.
SPIKE
Shoot it, Son.
DANIEL
But I don't have a gun.
SPIKE
Use your exo-suit.
ANGLE ON DANIEL
He looks down at his hand and concentrates as hard as he can.
Then, a spark comes out. It grows longer.
ANGLE ON THE MACHINE
Spike and the Autobots are about to go in.
CLIFFJUMPER
Hurry!
DANIEL
Starts frying the command console!
ANGLE ON THE LINE
It keeps moving. Then, Cliffjumper is dropped in!
ANGLE ON DANIEL
He looks back, and to his horror sees Jazz, Bumblebee and his
father about to be dropped in. He keeps firing. The panel
starts exploding!
(CONTINUED)
105.
CONTINUED:
DANIEL
I can't stop it!
ANGLE ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE
Jazz drops in, then Bumblebee, then Spike.
DANIEL
turns around and sees this.
DANIEL
Dad!
There is no answer. Play the moment. Then...
SPIKE
Son.
ANGLE ON THE VAT
It is empty. The Autobots and Spike sit at the bottom,
smoking but alright.
SPIKE
You did it!
CUT TO:
INT. THE DARK CAVERN WITH GALVATRON AND HOT ROD
Galvatron, the Matrix at his neck, stalks around the room.
Looking everywhere for Hot Rod.
GALVATRON
Come out, Autobot. We all must die
sometime.
Suddenly, shockingly, Hot Rod jumps out of the floor and
grabs Galvatron, sinking his fist into the Decepticon's face.
GALVATRON
stumbles backward.
ANGLE ON GALVATRON AND HOT ROD
Galvatron jumps at Hot Rod... ... Hot Rod transforms to a
car and races away...
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
He transforms to cannon mode and fires... ... Hot Rod
transforms to humanoid mode and the shot goes through his
legs. ... Then, he fires back at Galvatron... ...
(CONTINUED)
106.
CONTINUED:
Hitting him as he transforms back to humanoid mode and
angering him. .Raises his gun, then lowers it.
GALVATRON
No, I will crush you with bare hands. Hot
Rod transforms back to car and tries to
race away... ... Galvatron jumps after
him and catches him... ... Hot Rod,
nearly pinned by Galvatron transforms to
humanoid mode.
... Galvatron wrestles him to his back.. ... The Adolescent
Robot tries to fight back, but the other is stronger. ...
Galvatron puts his hands around Hot Rod's neck and starts
squeezing. ... We hear the crunching of metal.
GALVATRON
First Prime, then Ultra Magnus and now
you. It is a pity Autobots die so easily
or I might have a sense of satisfaction
now. Hot Rod desperately gasps and pulls
at Galvatron's hands...
EXT. SPACE - THE BATTLE
Unicron shoots down more Decepticons with his remaining eye,
while he crushes the Junkion ship.
INT. THE JUNKION SHIP
The walls crush in. The Junkions and the Autobots are being
smashed together.
WRECK-GAR
Ashes to ashes. Junk to junk.
INT. THE DARK CAVERN
Galvatron still strangles Hot Rod.
HOT ROD
Gasps.
GALVATRON
Die!
ANOTHER ANGLE
On Hot Rod, his hands, nearly dead,
spring to life for a moment and grasp the
Matrix which hangs from Galvatron's
chest.
107.
ANGLE ON THE MATRIX
Suddenly, it lights up.
ANOTHER ANGLE
A miraculous transformation takes place.
... Hot Rod begins to grow at an
alarming rate. ... Age shows on his
face. ... He is stronger and wiser.
OPTIMUS PRIME
Arise, Rodimus Prime.
HOT ROD
Optimus!
ANGLE ON GALVATRON
He fires at Hot Rod as...
GALVATRON
Nooooooo!
... Hot Rod gets up. ... The shot doesn't even dent him.
HOT ROD
This is the end of the road, Galvatron.
With that, he picks up the Decepticon and
throws him through...
EXT. UNICRON - SAME TIME
... Unicron's side...
CUT TO:
INT. THE DARK CAVERN
Hot Rod, bathed in the glow of the matrix. Sticks his hand
in the way we saw Galvatron and Ultra Magnus try earlier.
There is no shock. Then, like pulling the pin on a hand
grenade, he unleashes the spiritual equivalent of a bomb!
ASSORTED SHOTS - INVASION OF THE MATRIX
The matrix rips through Unicron's body, blowing up wires
causing floods and generally causing havoc.
EXT. SPACE - THE BATTLE
Unicron suddenly lets out a scream and lets go of the Junkion
ship, sending it hurtling.
108.
INT. THE JUNKION SHIP
It tumbles through space.
AUTOBOTS AND JUNKIONS
(THEY SCREAM WITH EXHILARATION)
ANGLE ON UNICRON
Suddenly, he starts tearing into his body.
EXT. SPACE
Unicron writhes in space, tearing himself apart, ripping off
a leg, and sending out sparks like a roman candle.
CUT TO:
INT. THE CORRIDOR WHERE KUP ET.AL ARE TRAPPED
They are overrun by the antibodies. One takes a whopper bite
out of Springer's chest.
SPRINGER
I'm almost out of energy. Suddenly, he
looks up and sees one of the creatures
explode above
HIM.
Then another explodes, then another.
SPRINGER'S POV - A WALL OF ANTIBODIES
Suddenly, every antibody in the wall begins exploding, and
through the carnage, we see Bumblebee, Spike, Daniel,
Cliffjumper and Jazz.
ANGLE ON THE BATTLE
The last of the antibodies is blown away, and Kup, Arcee and
Springer sit up amidst a pile of antibody bodies.
SPRINGER
That's what I call the nick of time.
ANGLE ON ALL
Suddenly, an entire wall vanishes as Unicron's hand tears at
things.
(CONTINUED)
109.
CONTINUED:
JAZZ
Let's burn rubber!
ANGLE ON THE TUNNEL
They transform. The humans jump in.
THE CHASE - TRACKING
They race up the tunnel, one step ahead of Unicron's hand
which shoots after them, pulling apart what we know must be
pieces of his brain... Then, they reach what seems like a
dead end. In fact, it is the back side of Unicron's good
eye. The hand comes in after them!
ANGLE DOWN THE CORRIDOR
An unbelievably fast and powerful robot races towards the
Autobots. When it gets there, we realize that it is Rodimus
Prime.
KUP
I knew you had potential, lad!
ANGLE ON RODIMUS PRIME
RODIMUS PRIME
Autobots, transform and roll out. Rodimus
Prime transforms into truck mode as the
other Autobots also transform. Daniel
and Spike jump into him. Then, in a
continuous line, he shoots off, the other
Autobots racing behind him.
SMASH CUT:
EXT. UNICRON
Rodimus Prime shoots out the second eye... Followed by the
others.
ANGLE ON UNICRON
An arm and a leg dangle uselessly as the Autobot essence
spreads throughout the body, blowing circuits. Suddenly,
Unicron lets out a loud agonized ROAR. SPARKS seem to shoot
out of every part of his body. Then, he spins in space like
some kind of a fireworks display, shooting off sparks. And
then...
110.
BANG!
We get the big visual explosion.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. SPACE - MUCH LATER
Unicron's head orbits Cybertron. PAN to Cybertron where and
PUSH IN on Rodimus Prime, Arcee, Kup, Springer, Ultra Magnus,
Wreck-Gar, Daniel, Perceptor, Blaster and Spike watch
construction being done on Cybertron below.
RODIMUS PRIME
Let this mark the end of the Cybertronian
wars as we move forward to a new age of
peace and happiness....
ALL
Until all are one!
THE END
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