Beast Wars: Transformers (1996) s03e05 Episode Script

Feral Scream (Part 1)

[dramatic music]

[rumbling]
[roar]
- BEAST WARS!
[hissing]
[growl]
[thunder rumbling]
[buzzing]
[buzzing]
- [growls]
[laughs]
[radio static]
- NOT A PING, BLIP, OR BURP, BIG BOT.
MAYBE IT WAS JUST A LITTLE FREQUENCY FLACK
FROM THE CHARGED AIRWAVES.
- NO, IT WAS A BEACON.
THERE'S A STASIS POD OUT HERE SOMEWHERE.
- THEN SOMETHING MUST BE JAMMING IT.
- MORE LIKE "SOMEONE."
- [buzzing] - [growls]
- GEE, I WONDER WHO.
[electric humming]
HEY!
- OOH!
- [screams] - [gasps]
UNH!
- PROTECT THAT POD WITH YOUR LIFE, WASPINATOR!
YOUR LIFE!
[grunts]
[growls]
- NO!
[grunts]
- [screams] - [laughs]
- [screams]
UNH!
- [laughs]
- [groans]
HANG ON, BIG BOT!
I'LL GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO FRET ABOUT!
[target system beeping]
[target system beeping]
- NO, CHEETOR!
[screams]
- OH, NO! OPTIMUS!
[laughter]
[thunder rumbling]
- [coughs] BIG BOT?
OH, NO.
[ominous music]

- AND CARVED INTO THIS LOFTY PEAK,
WHERE TEMPEST DWELLS,
A NOBLE BIRTHPLACE.
IT IS TIME.
[growls]
- [whimpering]
YES, MIGHTY MEGATRON.
YES!
[laser blast]
[air hissing]
- [grunts]
[loud crash]
[gun cocks]
AAH!
UNH!
HEY, TAKE IT EASY WITH THE POWER PIZZAS!
- LOOKS LIKE YOU HAD TROUBLE.
- [groans]
- MEGATRON AND WASPINATOR. - AND RAMPAGE?
- UH, NO. WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED HIM.
- I'VE TUNED MY SCANNERS TO HIS SPARK.
[scanner beeping]
THE READING IS THIS WAY!
- WAIT!
YOU ARE NOT TO ENGAGE THEM WITHOUT BACKUP!
DO YOU HEAR ME? DEPTHCHARGE!
[groans]
THAT BIG WATER-BAT TOTALLY SHINED YOU!
- SEEMS TO BE A TREND.
YOU PUT THAT PROTOFORM AT RISK, CHEETOR!
- HUH? I WAS TRYING TO SAVE OUR CIRCUITS!
- EVEN SO
WE DON'T TRADE ONE LIFE FOR ANOTHER.
- BUT IT WAS A BLANK.
EVEN IF MEGS IS ABLE TO FIRE IT UP,
IT'S JUST GONNA BE A PRED!
- I CAN SEE HOW THAT MIGHT MAKE SENSE.
BUT RIGHT NOW, CHEETOR, IT'S INNOCENT!
[metal grinding]
[groans]
- [gasps]
- I'M GOING FOR REPAIRS.
YOU GET SOME BACKUP, THEN ASSIST DEPTH CHARGE.
- BACKUP. UNINSTALL THAT.
NO MATTER WHAT SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK,
THIS CAT CAN HANDLE A SITUATION.
[catlike growl]
- THE CLONE CELLS, WASPINATOR.
INFUSE THEM INTO THEIR NEW HOST.
- YES, MEGATRON.
[whimpering]
[electricity buzzing]
UNH!
- INSTALL THE TRANSMETAL DRIVER.
- YES, MASTER.
[laughs]
- AND NOW I BEQUEATH YOU HALF A SPARK,
THE VERY CORE OF A NIGHTMARE!
- HUNH!
AH, HUNGRY FOR LIFE, YES!
READY!
- [whimpering]
- STAND BY!
- [laughs]
ORGANIC TRANSMETAL UNIT ONLINE!
[laughs]
- FROM THE TEMPEST'S FURY, THE SPARK IGNITES!
[laughs]
TO SIRE NEW LIFE, TRANSMETAL 2 LIFE!
[laughs]
[growling]
- AHH, YES.
- [growls]
[roars]
- WELCOME.
YES, WELCOME, TRANSMETAL 2 DINOBOT,
TO A NEW BODY, A NEW MIND,
A NEW ALLEGIANCE TO THE PREDACONS.
- [buzzing]
- [growls]
- [whimpering]
WASPINATOR NOT LIKE NEW LIZARDBOT!
- I AGREE WITH THE BUG.
BUT THEN, I'M NOT CRAZY ABOUT ANY OF YOU!
- AH, WE HAVE A GUEST.
A STERLING OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, HMM
TEST YOUR METAL, DINOBOT.
- [growls] - [laughs]
- AND TO THINK I WAS WONDERING WHO TO SHOOT FIRST!
- UNH!
- [roars]
- UNH!
- [snarling]
- YOUR SPARK. IT STINKS OF RAMPAGE!
- PERHAPS.
BUT IT IS THE SPARK THAT KEEPS ON SPARKING, UNLIKE YOURS!
DINOBOT, YOU MAY START THE FEAST.
- HEY!
LET ME ADD SOME HOT CHEETOR PEPPER TO SPICE THINGS UP!
- [whimpering]
- [grunting]
- YAAH!
UNH!
- [roars]
- AAAH!
UNH!
IS THAT
DINOBOT?
- SOME KIND OF CLONE.
TRANSMETALIZED WITH THAT ALIEN UNIT.
[electricity crackling]
- NOW, THERE'S SOME TECHNOLOGY
IN THE WRONG HANDS.
- [grunts]
- AAH!
- HUH?
UNH!
WHEE!
DEPTH CHARGE, GO DEEP!
- UNH!
- [growls]
- [screaming]
- [screams]
UNH!
[groans]
AAH!
CHEETOR.
- COMMUNICATIONS ARE STILL SHOT,
AND YOUR SYSTEMS AREN'T MUCH BETTER.
YOU'RE IN NO CONDITION TO PICK A FIGHT.
- FIGHT'S BEEN PICKED.
[alarm beeping]
WHERE'S CHEETOR?
- CAT WAS TOUGH. HE WENT OUT FIGHTING.
FUNCTION SCAN, ALL VARIABLES.
- [computer voice] DATA UNKNOWN.
DEVICE IS OF ALIEN MANUFACTURE.
FUNCTION HAS BEEN ALTERED BY MEGATRON.
TRANSMETAL QUALITIES ENHANCED BEYOND KNOWN PARAMETERS.
- HAS IT, NOW?
NEVER AGAIN, MEGATRON.
- HMM.
- CHEETOR.
THIS IS MY FAULT, RHINOX.
I WAS ROUGH ON HIM, SO HE--
SO HE TRIED TO PROVE SOMETHING.
- DON'T GIVE UP HOPE.
I'LL TRY TO GET THE LONG-RANGE SCANNERS ONLINE.
- [grunting, panting]
[painful grunts]
[screaming]
[screams]
- YOU GAVE THIS THE CORE OF MY SPARK?
I SHALL RIP IT FROM HIS CHEST AND RESTORE IT WITHIN ME!
[growls]
- [snarling]
- [screams]
- [laughs]
AS YOU SEE, THAT WILL NOT BE EASY.
BESIDES, ONLY I HAVE THE TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
TO ACCOMPLISH SUCH A FUSION.
- [groans]
- FOR NOW, YOU MUST SHARE.
I NEED YOUR NEW HALF-BROTHER FOR ANOTHER MISSION.
DINOBOT, THE ALIEN TRANSMETAL DRIVER.
DEPTH CHARGE HAS IT.
YES.
GET IT BACK.
- [roars]
- [angry gibberish]
[beeps and buzzes]
- [computer voice] ATTENTION. RAMPAGE SPARK DETECTED NEARBY.
- WHERE?
- SUBGRID ZARAK. TRACKING.
- [squeals]
[high-pitched growl]
[thunder rumbling]
- OPTIMUS TO RHINOX.
GRID DARCERIN COMPLETE.
NO SIGN OF CHEETOR OR THE NEW DINOBOT.
- [distant roar]
[roar]
- THE ALIEN TRANSMETAL DRIVER.
NOW.
- DON'T HAVE IT.
- [growls]
TOO BAD FOR YOU.
- THE OTHER EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN SALVAGED.
BUT YOU TOOK THE ALIEN TRANSMETAL UNIT.
WHERE IS IT?
- GONE.
AIN'T THAT A KICK IN THE LUG NUTS.
[laughs]
- HEH, SNOTTY LITTLE FLOUNDER, ISN'T HE?
LET ME GUT HIM FOR YOU, BOSS.
- NO, HE'S MINE!
I SHALL FEAST UPON HIS STILL-PULSATING SPARK!
MINE!
- [distant roar]
[distant roar]
[growling]
[growling]
[roars]
- [screams]
UNH!
[groaning]
[grunts] WHAT IS THAT THING?
- DON'T KNOW, BOSS. SOME KIND OF GHOST, MAYBE.
OR IT WILL BE WHEN I'M DONE WITH IT!
[laughs]
YEE-HAW! HERE COMES POISON!
[laughs]
YEE-HAW!
[fighting sounds] [cat roars]
- [groans]
- [mumbling]
- [grunts]
[fighting sounds]
- UNH!
[grunting]
- WHO?
- [roar]
- FIRE! FIRE!
[grunting]
NO, YOU FOOLS!
- [roar]
- [whimpering]
- [roar]
- AAH!
- [groans]
- [panting]
- UNH!
[screaming]
[screams]
[groans]
RETREAT.
- [growling]
[growling]
- [panting]
- [growling]
[roars]
- DEPTH CHARGE!
- [roars]
[roars]
- WHAT WAS THAT THING?
- I GOT THROUGH TO THE OTHERS.
THEY'VE BEEN WARNED ABOUT THE CREATURE,
WHATEVER IT IS.
- OR WHO.
- WHAT?
- NOTHING.
SILVERBOLT AND BLACKARACHNIA ARE COMBING SECTOR TALLORIES.
YOU JOIN RATTRAP IN--
[alarm sounds]
[gasps]
- [groaning]
- CHEETOR?
- [groaning]
- CHEETOR!
[dramatic music]

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