Beast Wars Episode 2
Betrayal
Prologue: Chancellor Predacus has gained utmost favor by the other members of the Federation Senate, but others have suspicious thoughts about him. Because the Adromadons tried to take over Cybertron 10 years before, they have been banned from all planets under the federation rule, and the leaders, Nute Gunray and Rune Haako, were imprisoned in the hovering Jail fortress, Alcatraz IV.
Anakin has grown
and trained to become a full fledged Jedi, just one more exercise he has to
complete in order to be authorized to go out on missions and have the privilege
of speaking to the Jedi council in person.
The planet of
Cybertron has gone through a full planetary upgrade, turning everything from
Autobot in design to Maximal in design. So most transformers are about this
size of humans.
The home planet of
the Adromadons, the Planet of Char, has also been going through an upgrade,
using technology from trading with Cybertron through secret agents on the
planet.
*The camera starts high
above Planet Earth, and zooms in to a large, majestic building, it has a row of
guards all around the outer fence, armed with laser rifles. On the roof of the
building are unmanned mini-guns, constantly swinging back and forth, scanning
for any intruders, the outer fence is 20 feet tall, topped by marines with
sniper rifles in towers at the corners and an electrified barbed wire running
the length of the fence between the towers. *
*The camera switches scenes
to inside the palace, inside a large, mammoth sized room, with a dark royal
chair on the back wall. *
*A blue, human sized robot
approached Chancellor Predacus, Predacus signals his guards to leave the room,
and the door closes soon after.*
Rumble: "sir, the newest reports have
come in, Cybertron is finished its upgrade."
Predacus: "Any news from the Planet of
Char?"
Rumble: "Yes, with the technology
traded from Cybertron, they have perfected the technology of cloning, they have
to find an insect specimen that is powerful, yet not bulky.
Predacus: "That is good news, you
shall be rewarded for your resourcefulness."
*Rumble
turns to walk towards the door. *
Predacus: "You have some other news
you would like to share?"
*Rumble
faces Predacus again. *
Rumble: "Its concerning the humanoid, Anakin,
the Jedi."
Predacus: "I already know he's
becoming a full fledged Jedi, He is none of your concern."
*Rumble
nods and leaves the room. *
*The camera switches scenes
to a busy part of Cybertron, outside of the Citadel, transformers and vehicles
running about the streets.
The Citadel is protected by a force field dome, which opens and closes for High level personnel. *
*The camera now views the
inside of the Citadel, inside a long dark hallway, empty except for one
transformer, and a shadowy figure approaches him. *
Figure:
"You promised the shield will be down in 2 days, it has been a week."
RatBat:
"The Maximals use a code sequence that takes a long time to break through."
Figure:
"Sidious wanted it down in 2 days! He is sending in someone else to take over.
"
RatBat:
"Tell him I need more time!"
Figure:
"Failure is not an option. "
RatBat:
"No, wait! I can get it down!"
*The
shadowy figure doesn't respond and moves closer to RatBat. The camera moves away to face the wall, the
hallway lights up for a few seconds as sparks fly across the camera view. A sickening *thud* is heard and the camera views in on the mangled head of RatBat,
separated from the rest of the body, with electrodes and cables coming out of
the bottom of the neck. *
*He
vanishes into the darkness of the hallway. *
*The lights in the hallway
flicker on, Springer rushes over to RatBat, picking up the pieces and taking
them to the medical bay. *
Springer:
"I found him in a hallway. "
*Percepter analyses
the body for a few moments. *
Percepter:
"by my visual analysis, the transformer's cranial area was severed at the base
of the neck forcefully at about 12:30 am human time."
Springer:
*sighs*
Percepter:
"Ahem, what I mean is, his head was ripped off about 6 hours ago. "
*Optimus
comes into the room. *
Optimus:
"I was summoned?"
Percepter:
"Yes, apparently, someone killed our main engineer."
Optimus:
"Decapitation, I see, so we know who did it?"
Springer:
"Not a clue."
Percepter:
"There is one thing I called you for Prime."
*Percepter
hooks cables from the head to the computer, information runs across the screen.
*
Optimus:
"He's been trying to decode our shield deactivation codes."
Percepter:
"Yes."
Springer:
"My only conclusion, is that he didn't succeed in the time he was given, and
killed."
Optimus:
"Which is why we have been having shield problems lately. Whoever sent him could be sending in
another.'
Percepter:
"um, Prime?"
Optimus:
*turns to face Springer and the body. *
Percepter:
*removes part of the chest armor, to
reveal a Predacon insignia. *
Optimus:
*taps his comm. Link* "Ultra Magnus,
run a planet wide scan for Predacon signatures."
Ultra Magnus: "Hang on" *time passes* "Prime, there are no
Predacon signatures on the planet, what's this about?"
Optimus:
"I am not sure."
Scene:
in the basement of the Citadel
*The
camera centers in on a dark room, the only thing that has any source of light
is a holo-projection of Silver Sidious. *
Sidious: "Is he dead."
Secktor: "Yes, decapitation."
Sidious: "Excellent, the former
Decepticon known as Ravage will be with you shortly, he will take over RatBat's
spot of engineer to the Citadel."
Secktor: "What are your instructions
for me?"
Sidious: "watch over Ravage. If he
screws up, you know what to do."
*The holo-image of Sidious vanishes. *
Scene:
Senators Palace, in the throne room
*Camera
centers on a conversation between a shadowed bot and Predacus. *
Russian voice: "you have summoned me,
lord?"
Predacus: "Yes I have, you shall go to
Cybertron and sign up as their new engineer. You will proceed to continue on
RatBat's work of taking down the shield."
Russian voice: "Yes my lord." *the bot bows and leaves the throng room. *
*The camera centers on the
starport closest to the Citadel. A transport shuttle lands and one bot comes
out, Ravage, in the form we saw him in the Beast Wars Agenda mini-series. *
*Ravage approaches the
entrance to the force shield, and it stopped by armed guard. *
Guard
1: "Please remove any metallic objects you would be carrying."
*Ravage
proceeds to do so, removing any earth coins and keys
Guard
2: "Please show some identification."
*Ravage
hands him his identity card, and the guard scans it. *
*A
few minutes pass by of no response from the computer, and Ravage seems to get
restless, wondering if the scanner knew the card was fake. *
Guard
1: "You're free to go."
*A
small doorway opens in the shield, and closes after Ravage went through. *
Scene:
Control center of the Citadel
Prime:
"Springer, a new engineer just entered the building, keep an eye on him."
*Springer
nods as a pre-earth Lazerbeak designed flying camera flies out of the room, and
down towards Ravage. *
Scene:
Shield Generator room
*Ravage knows what is going
to happen if the shield isn't down within a few days, he activates his
cloaking, which hides him from any sensors. *
*The flying spy camera can't
find a lock on Ravage, so it flies back to the control room. *
Scene:
Control room
Springer:
"Prime, the new engineer, he's not being detected on sensors."
Prime:
"Put the Citadel on full alert, nothing is coming in or out!"
Springer:
*activates the high alert and mini-laser
turrets appear from the ceilings in the hallways. *
Prime:
"Magnus, activate Cybertron wide broadcasting systems."
Magnus:
"activating sir" *a few moments pass*
"You're on the air"
*The camera centers on a
large crowd in downtown Cybertropolis, who are gathered in front of an
extremely large screen composed entirely of energy, showing Optimus Prime's
face. *
Prime:
"Today we learned that a transformer looking like this" *image of Ravage in bot mode shows up in a corner. * "Has
disappeared from our sensors, if anyone comes into contact with him, take him
to one of our police stations and he'll be dealt with"
*The screen de-activates and
the crowd goes about its business. *
Scene:
Citadel control center
Magnus:
"And you're off the air."
Prime:
"Hopefully that will drive out this mysterious bot."
Scene:
Citadel: holo-training room
Hot
Rod: "You are becoming much more then an apprentice, you are becoming a full
fledged Jedi master."
Anakin:
"I am feeling something strong, and I know its not from the light side, it has
a dark force behind it."
Hot
Rod: "Every Jedi is tempted by the Dark side because it offers immediate power
and respect, you must learn to fight it, and choose the path of good to
overcome evil."
*An overlay of Senator
Predacus's head is seen on the camera, overtop the image of Hot Rod and Anakin,
and he is repeating something in his mind Come to the Dark Side Anakin, for
it is your destiny. *
*Anakin suddenly feels
dizzy, and falls to one knee "I feel dizzy master Hot Rod". *
Hot
Rod: "I feel what this force is, it is the Dark side, but the source is
unknown, try to fight it."
*Anakin begins to sweat
profusely as he tries desperately to stop the Dark influence on him. *
*Predacus stops influencing
Anakin, making sure the source isn't revealed. *
*Anakin stands up, the
dizziness has subsided "I'm ready for my last training sequence". *
Hot
Rod: "Alright, Every Jedi acquires some unique ability or trait besides the
abilities of the Force, I myself have been given an elemental ability,
electricity, which is incorporated to my wrist lasers. You will find yours in
time."
*Anakin nods. *
Hot
Rod: "Your last training sequence will be a live lightsaber battle simulator,
your opponent will be a scaled down Galvatron. You are to disarm him of the
cannon, and then begin the saber fight."
*A holographic Galvatron,
not much bigger then Hot Rod, appears, and begins to fire his cannon at Anakin. *
*Anakin flips over the shot
and slices the cannon off, forcing Galvatron to activate his own lightsaber. *
*Anakin slashes at
Galvatron, Galvatron blocks easily with one hand controlling his saber as
opposed to Anakin using 2 hands to use his saber. *
*Anakin sends a slash to
Galvatron's side, and the lightsaber goes through the metal skin, Galvatron
retaliates by sending an invisible force ball towards Anakin, knocking him
over. *
*Galvatron stands over
Anakin, pointing his saber at Anakin's head. *
*The camera moves around
Galvatron and Anakin Matrix style, and we see Galvatron bring the saber down at
Anakin, but Anakin manages to flip out of the way of the slash, kicking
Galvatron in the head on the way. And the Matrix-action stops. *
*Anakin flips over
Galvatron, and retrieves both lightsabers, activating them, then standing over
Galvatron. *
*Galvatron gets up, going down on a knee for a rest. Anakin takes this opportunity to decapitate Galvatron, using the lightsabers as scissors, and the hologram fades out. *
*Senator Predacus got into
the training room somehow, and begins to clap for Anakin's performance. *
Predacus:
"Well done boy, I'll be sure to send the recording of this to the Jedi council,
so they can see how good you've become"
Hot
Rod: "Once the Jedi approves, you'll be able to go on away missions to settle
disputes."
Anakin:
"Like you and Kup once did."
Hot
Rod: "Yes, like Kup and myself once did."
Scene:
Senator's Throne room
Predacus:
"The boy is getting too dangerous. Secktor, make sure you keep Hot Rot busy
until the boy is turned."
Secktor:
"Yes master" *he bows and vanishes in a
column of light*
Scene:
Jedi Temple
*The Jedi masters are in
their usual seats, watching a video of Anakin beating the crap out of Galvatron
from a holo-projector. *
Luke: "You have learned much in such short time,
Anakin. The Council and myself will
review this video more until we have reached a decision"
*Anakin and Hot Rod bow
their respects to Luke, and they walk out of the room. *
Scene:
Corridor
*A loud beeping is heard
from Hot Rod's wrist, and he activates his comm. link. *
Hot
Rod: "Yes Optimus?"
*Over the intercom* "Hot Rod, return to Cybertron,
bring Skywalker with you."
Hot
Rod: "Yes, of course" *Anakin and Hot
Rod run to the starport. *
Scene:
Senator's throne room
Predacus:
"Secktor, follow the Cybertronian space shuttle to their destination."
Secktor:
"Yes Master"
Predacus:
"I will have the boy on the dark side"
Scene:
Cybertronian starport
*Anakin and Hot Rod are seen
walking out of the star hopper towards Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and many
other Maximals. *
Hot
Rod: "What is this about?"
Optimus:
"We are going to colonize a planet, the planet Alpha-9. To also free the slaves there."
Anakin:
"You mean, my mom will be free again?"
Ultra
Magnus: "That's exactly what it means."
Springer:
"Lets go then."
*The entire group goes down
another hallway towards a massive ship. Secktor was watching all the time and proceeds to his shuttle. *
Scene:
Tatooine city
*The transformers and Anakin
enter the city. Anakin walks towards
his old house while the rest go towards The Quintisons palace. *
Scene:
Inside Anakin's old house
Anakin:
"Mom! I've come to free you now" *no
response* "Mom?"
*A tall man emerges from
Anakin's bedroom, looking straight at him "You're mother died 2 years ago, her
last words were 'Anakin, I want to see you once more'. She died of a nasty
virus"*
Anakin:
"No! I won't believe it!"
Tall
man: "I'm sorry Anakin, this planet has no cures for viruses, when the slaves
die, the slave masters don't care, they get a new slave"
*Anakin looks pissed and
storms out of the house. *
*The tall man laughs to
himself darkly, and leaves the house. *
Scene:
Outside of a very large palace.
Optimus:
"This doesn't look well guarded."
Springer:
"Who cares, as long as we get inside."
*The group approaches a
large metallic door. *
*The door opens, and the
group goes inside. *
Scene:
Inside the Quintison Palace, at the Sharkticon pit.
*One Quintison is by a large
control console, and one faces a human prisoner. *
Quintison
1: "The magistrate will now deliver the verdict, guilty or innocent?"
Prisoner:
"You are cowards to let a perfectly healthy slave die to his death!"
Quintison
1: "I repeat, guilty or innocent?"
Quintison
2: "Innocent."
Quintison
1: "Feed him to the Sharkticons."
*The platform the prisoner was standing on
dematerializes and the prisoner falls into the water. Hundreds of Sharkticons attack him, killing him. *
*The Maximal group breaks
through the large doors that lead to the pit area, aiming their weapons at the
Quintisons. *
Quintison
1: "What is the meaning of this?"
Optimus:
"You're under arrest under the anti-slavery law of 2027 under Federation rule.
"
*The Dinobots enter the room
in their alternate mode, looking down at the Sharkticons threateningly. *
Optimus:
"Well?"
Quintison
1: "Release the slaves"
*Quintison 2 presses in a
long command at the console, and the slave chips de-activate. *
*Anakin storms into the
room, with his lightsabre activated. *
Hot Rod: "Anakin, we solved the problem."
Anakin,
trying not to show anger: "My mother died, 2 years ago."
*The tall man from the house
suddenly appears. *
Tall
man: "It is Hot Rod's fault. He took
you from your mother at a young age, he kept you from your mother due to Jedi
training. You could have returned at any time. Blame Hot Rod on your mother's death"
*Hot Rod is detecting a very dark source in the room, which is emitting from the Tall man. *
Optimus:
"Anakin, listen!"
Hot
Rod: "Prime, I'll handle this."
*Anakin roars out of anger,
raising his lightsaber. *
Anakin:
"NO you won't handle this!"
*Anakin rushes Hot Rod as he
activates his lightsabre. *
*Anakin keeps striking at
Hot Rod, Hot Rod keeps blocking and stepping backwards towards the platform. *
*Both of them stop on the platform and Anakin takes a swipe for Hot Rod's legs. Hot Rod jumps up to avoid being sliced in half. *
*Anakin keeps trying to
strike at Hot Rod in a fury of rage and anger. *
*Hot Rod's leg is sliced
open, causing a constant stream of mech. fluid to leak out. *
*Anakin strikes at Hot Rod
again, Hot Rod sends a force ball towards Anakin, making him loose balance,
falling off the platform*
*Hot Rod rushes to the edge
of the platform, trying to reach out and grab Anakin, but is too late by a
microsecond. *
*The Sharkticons attack
Anakin viscously, the water turn a slight shade of red. *
*Optimus Prime quickly puts
in some commands in the control console, and the Sharticons retreat from Anakin. *
*Part of the roof opens up,
and Senator Predacus is lowered from the Senators transport on a platform to
where Anakin's body is. *
*Senator Predacus hauls
Anakin's body onto the platform and it begins to ascend up to the transport
again. *
Hot Rod: "I don't trust him for some reason, I'm going to earth to monitor Anakin."
Prime: "I have to make a trip to earth anyways, We'll go then. The bots who stay here will be the volunteers who want to free this planet."
*Prime, Magnus, Springer, and Hot Rod run to the Transport. *
Scene: Earth, Senator's Palace
*Predacus, Secktor and 2 Dark Advisors are walking down a corridor while Predacus is pushing a clear, hovering casket looking container with Anakin inside. *
Secktor: "My lord, are we going to revive the human?"
Predacus: "Yes, but he won't be human when he wakes up"
*Dark music plays in the background. *
To be Continued..