

Getaway: "I've tried! But the "little punk" won't tell me!"īlackjack: " Can't tell you, can't tell you! Are you deaf, Autobot? Do you think I want to die?"
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Kup: "Getaway, ask the little punk how to stop the countdown!"
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Megatron finds that Bumblebee has gotten a serious upgrade in the firearms department "He doesn't hear as well as he used to, does he?" "I was going to say Goldbug, but it seems I'm back to being Bumblebee again! Ah, well, it doesn't matter! One or the other of me will blow big holes in you if you don't let Ratchet go!" Outside, the Autobots and Decepticons cease fighting as a sudden, massive explosion consumes the entire base, and apparently Ratchet and Megatron along with it. Panicking, Megatron attempts to throw himself through the portal to safety, but Ratchet tackles him. Furthermore, as Megatron sees with his own eyes, Ratchet wasn't trying to escape, he was bringing the Ark's explosives to the fortress. Ratchet corrects him, informing Megatron about the glitch he installed in Starscream's new software. Believing the Autobot is attempting to escape, he bats him aside and begins to gloat over the sprawled body that all his enemies will soon be dead. In his fortress, Megatron catches Ratchet fiddling with the trans-time dimensional portal. The whiny coward is back, and he quickly assesses the situation and begs Scorponok for lenience and sanctuary. As Scorponok joins in, a circuit is completed, and suddenly Starscream's personality shell program gives way, just as Ratchet intended. However, one of his earlier victims, the Autobot Hot Rod, manages to regain his senses long enough to photon-blast Starscream's Pretender shell, and the impact is strong enough to send sympathetic waves of pain back to the owner. The battle against Starscream is not faring very well at all, as he disables the last of the operational Transformers besides Optimus and Zarak. At that moment, Ratchet is trying to make contact with the Ark, in the hopes of helping them with their little "exploding" problem. Bidding his Powermaster and Micromaster servants to go after the Pretenders and keep them occupied, Megatron devotes his time to searching out the missing Ratchet and whatever other little surprises the medic might have in store. On Cybertron, Megatron removes the threat of the Autobots by tossing each of them out through the side of his fortress, one at a time. Knowing that they'd be unable to escape the blast radius in time, much less evacuate all their wounded from the medical bay and stasis chambers, Kup continues working on the bomb in a desperate attempt to bypass the booby-traps and disarm it. Their prisoner, Blackjack, is less than helpful, as he says the timing sequence simply cannot be stopped once it's begun.
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The Autobot shuttle has successfully redocked with the Ark, but even with the full allotment of Autobots available, they are having little success disarming the bomb. At Zarak's bidding, the remaining Decepticons leap into the fray as well, only now on Prime's side. As Optimus Prime finally starts to wise up on everything that's been happening over the past few hours, Starscream sends his new, invincible Pretender shell to destroy the Autobot. Meanwhile on Earth, Starscream has begun to destroy Scorponok's Decepticons in the glorious name of Megatron.


After catching up with Bumblebee and informing Jazz of the extent of his new Pretender powers, Ratchet takes off to deal with the situation on the Ark. The Decepticon laughs at Ratchet's meager attempt at treachery, but the surgeon taunts him back with the assertion that his little mindless engine of destruction, Starscream, isn't quite as perfect as he'd like.īefore he can push the issue further, Megatron is interrupted by Bumblebee, who manages to delay the fiend temporarily by blowing several neat holes in his chest. Still reeling from his recovery, though, he is easily dispatched by Megatron. No sooner is he reactivated that he goes right for the kill, tackling Megatron in his dino-mode.

Grimlock has never been one to mince words-only metal. Ratchet cares not for your maturation and wishes you were more like 1984.
