The Super Optimus Brothers

Part 1



Everything in bold is copyrighted by Hasbro and their affiliates and everything in green belongs to Nintendo and their affiliates! It is just my fiction of them being introduced to eachother and has never actually occured officially.

Time frame: c. Fifteen years before the Unicron incident and about the same year as the rerelease Super Mario Bros. 2 (Super Mario All-Stars)
*I also included use of my creative license.

In what appears to be the heart of Cybertron, Shockwave -- the Military Commander -- is twisting a wrench against a nut in a dark tunnel with metal walls. The shadows of Frenzy and Rumble can be made out standing with him as Shockwave moves his glowing eye back and forth at them, scowling at their irritable manners.

Frenzy: (waving his hand) Come on Shockwave! Megatron said: "Fix the Space Bridge as soon as you can!"

Rumble: (pointing his finger at Shockwave) …And you know that means now!

Shockwave: (eye glows brightly) I'm working as fast as I can, you decept-i-munchkins. (Twisting his nut) When the Space Bridge does operate, I intend for it to work properly for his Mightiness, Megatron.

In the background of the tunnel, around a curve, Frenzy hears a noise. He turns around, simultaneously voicing his surprise. Rumble follows suit by transforming his hands into giant crushers, yelling "Who goes there?!"

Shockwave: (to Rumble) HALT! Keep your hands to yourself, Rumble! I will use my light ray to shine that way, firstly. (pointing his arm cannon down the tunnel hallway) No harsh moves!

Frenzy: (Looking down the hallway) There's nothin' there! Don't tell me my optical sensors're playin' tricks on me!

Shockwave: (shaking his cannon arm at Frenzy) You'd be wise not to hear things you're supposed to be keeping an eye on! (pointing down the hallway) Go with Rumble and take a look! I can finish the mission from here. (tightens the nut with the wrench and leans back into his taller stature.)

Rumble: Aw, me 'n' you again, Frenzy?

Frenzy: (looks at Rumble and walks down the hallway, using his chest discs to flash with new light) With that one eye of his, he probably thinks he's seein' double anyway, Rumble. Let's go.

Rumble follows Frenzy deeper into the tunnel with his crushers still implemented onto the tips of his arms, but not activating them. Frenzy spots a glimpse of Ravage in the light, a fellowship to him -- courtesy of Decepticon Soundwave.

Frenzy: Oh, now would you look at that? (pointing) It's just Ravage, lookin' fer his litter box!

Rumble: (Transforming his hands) That wouldn't be the first black cat who tried to spook me, (pointing his finger at Ravage and moving in close like he's going to poke him) but it better be the last! I almost leveled the interior of Cybertron because of you!

Ravage growls back and takes lead back toward Shockwave.

Frenzy: Hey, Shockworm! (gesturing to Ravage) We found your pet heap of junk!

Shockwave: He isn't mine, Frenzy, because then that would mean that you're mine, too and I would never have you. I have a job for you. (points down the hallway at some wrecked "original" machines from eons and eons ago, ancient TransFormers) Clear away that wreckage so we can obtain access to the final branch of the Space Bridge's Meta-Chamber Theta.

Frenzy: Aw, man. How many more of these do we hafta go through, Barney!?

Shockwave: (pointing his arm cannon up and shaking in frustration, then aims it right at Frenzy) I told you not to call me that!

Rumble: (steps between Shockwave's Laser Cannon and his prototype brother Frenzy) Frenzy, you've got to get your rumble circuits and your bumble circuits uncrossed, because that's our cue! (pulls Frenzy toward the wreckage and transforming his crushers back in over his hands) Don't you want to do this for Megatron?

Frenzy: (looking back at Shockwave, whose cannon is being withdrawn to fall at his side) Yeah. (transforming his hands into crushers and moving toward the wreckage) For Megatron!

Shockwave: (lifting his hand arm to his forehead, and to Ravage) I wish your master would learn a thing or two about repairing this Space Bridge, Ravage.

Ravage snarls and jumps into the blackness of Meta-Chamber Theta. He runs through halls and tubes, occasionally using the rocket thrusters of his side-mounted launching mechanisms to advance further in height through the other platforms and levels of inner-Cybertron. Once he has found his way to Shockwave's military outpost, he transforms into a standard-issue audio cassette and inserts himself into Soundwave, as if the information interceptor was created fully aware of this sudden comeback and was prepared to receive him.

Soundwave hits a button on Shockwave's computer that is looped to Megatron on Earth. Once Megatron's stern face appears on the monitor, Soundwave hits his playback button located on his shoulder and says in monotone: "Ravage, report!"

Ravage plays back Shockwave barking orders at Frenzy "Clear away that wreckage so we can obtain access to the final branch of the Space Bridge's Meta-Chamber Theta." Frenzy is also in the mix, complaining "Aw, man. How many more of these do we hafta go through, Barney!?" Shockwave's screaming back at Frenzy follows, "I told you not to call me that!"

Megatron can't see the events having already taken place but a certain look crawls over his face that means he can imagine what it must've looked like. With ferocity and authority, Megatron shouts at Soundwave "Keep a close eye…and an even closer ear…on that repair team, Shockwave. Their incompatibility is perhaps more annoying than all of Starscream's audio percepti-fier chips put together."

Soundwave: (nodding, and obediently in monotone) Yes, Megatron.

Decepticon-Decepticon Flashover

(segue way)

Starscream, as always, is right beside Megatron -- this time on the top of a steep hill, where there is energy theft taking place at a power plant placed inset the surrounding valley. The scientist-would-be-warrior jet robot is taunting the leader's leadership and as ready for a Decepticon overthrow as ever. The Constructicons are toting, lifting and piling energon cubes lower in the valley as fast as Mixmaster, Skywarp and Thundercracker can fill them.

Starscream: (teasingly) Ready to fail again, mighty master Megatron?

Megatron: Again, I don't know what you're rambling on about, Starscream. The Autobots are not aware of our plan. (shaking his fist at the new work) …and they won't be!

Starscream: (haughtily) Time will tell exactly how shortly the Autobots fall onto the certain knowledge that you're going to take over Cybertron twenty years into the future and harness the power of Unicron through Galvatron… and there will be Optimus Prime right there to stand before you again, raining acid rain on your parade… unless you know something I don't, as usual, your Mightiness.

Megatron: (gesturing to Starscream with his cannon arm) Your ignorance, Starscream…My bliss! Your speed into the forbidden will be the death of you, Starscream. Be sure that I will not let you pull me down with you! Be wise. I am going to take this shipment of energon directly to Cybertron so we can proceed with the … massive undertaking! (evil laugh follows, as Megatron metallically slaps Starscream with the back of his hand) I will undertake YOU if the Autobots find out all this prematurely!

Starscream lands in the valley, where he is eyeballed by his prototype brothers Skywarp and Thundercracker.

Skywarp: If you keep buggin' Megatron, Starscream (turns invisible) …you're gonna end up looking like this! GONE!

Thundercracker: You always did drown out my impressive thunderclap, Starscrap! (grabs a hose that's squirting pure energy) Why don't you take a dip? (points the hose right at Starscream's mouth, suffocating him)

Megatron: (laughing) Well put, Thundercracker! If there's any way to waste energy, it's by putting Starscream out of his misery. (ferociously) NOW FILL ALL THE CUBES SOUNDWAVE LEFT FOR YOU RIGHT NOW! The SPACE BRIDGE IS ALMOST DONE! I WILL NOT BE CAUGHT OFF-GUARD OR, SO BE IT, I WILL EXECUTE YOUR FOR INSOLENCE!

Skywarp: (turns visible, having not moved an inch, but whose glare is fixed on Megatron) Yes, master. Thundercracker, Starscream, let's move it or lose it!

Thundercracker and Starscream fill cubes with Mixmaster and Skywarp to the tune of Megatron laughing down at the valley from the top of the central peak. Inevitably, Starscream pipes up so only the robots in the vicinity can hear him.

Starscream: One day, I will be the leader of the Decepticons, and Megatron can go right where he mega-belongs!

Decepticon-Autobot Flashover

The humans Spike, Sparkplug, Chip Chase and high school cheerleader Carly are all at Autobot headquarters with the robots Wheeljack, Bumblebee, Hoist, Cliffjumper, Hound, Perceptor, Blaster, Jazz and Tracks. Standing over his Autobots in elite fashion is their leader, Optimus Prime.

Bumblebee and Cliffjumper are engaged in video game battle, and the game is Super Mario Kart. Bumblebee is in the car of Donkey Kong and Cliffjumper chose Luigi.

Cliffjumper: (annoyed by Bumblebee's advantage) I'm going to catch up with you, Bumblebrat.

Bumblebee: (laughing) You can't beat me in real-life, and you can't beat me in here either, Cliffjunker.

Cliffjumper: (punches Bumblebee in his chest, knocking the yellow robot off his guard and making him crash) I'll teach you a thing or two about speed, Monkey-breath.

Bumblebee: (scowling at the red car-robot Cliffjumper) You're about as gallant in battle as you are here…and that's still in another world! (laughs and smacks Cliffjumper in the face)

Cliffjumper's face turns as red as his chromanium-plated body and puts Bumblebee in a headlock, inviting Optimus Prime to take control of the argument in his behalf with just a look.

Optimus Prime: (pointing at Cliffjumper) That'll be enough, guys. (To the humans) What is that curious contraption?

Spike: What, that? That's a Super Nintendo, Optimus! It's designed for recreation!

Chip: (enthused) Yeah! We have a lot better simulations where I come from, Optimus, but this a consumer-level fun machine! You can be in the shoes of anyone from any dimension, with any possible mission, depending on who programmed the game in the first place! My favorite game is Metroid because it not only refreshes my scientific and chemists' instincts, but it still gives me a hand up in my hunting prowess!

Sparkplug: Oh it's prowess now, huh, Chip? (gives Chip a nugee like it was his son)

Chip: Well, it beats the hell out of Dr. Mario. (looking at Carly)

Carly: (laughing) Well, what did you expect, …John Madden Football?!

Spike, Wheeljack, Sparkplug and Tracks can be seen laughing their tail-lights off. Optimus Prime points at the screen as Bumblebee races Donkey Kong past Yoshi.

Optimus Prime: (pointing at the screen at Yoshi) What is that strange creature!?

Spike: That's a dinosaur, just like Grimlock, Optimus!

Optimus Prime: (raising his fingers to his mouth plate, near his chin, decisively) …Just like Grimlock?

Wheeljack chuckles and listens in close. Spike notices Wheeljack's reaction and gives the Autobot an ounce of credit.

Spike: (To Optimus Prime) Well, not exactly like Grimlock, Optimus. This one's made of flesh and he's magic.

Wheeljack: (astounded) Magic? How?

Spike: Well, he's green now, but if he eats a certain fruit then he can transform into another colored dinosaur!

Wheeljack: (even more astounded by Spike's choice of phrases) He can transform!?

Spike: In a Super Mario Brother-type of way, not in an Autobot kind of way, Wheeljack. Then, when he's done transforming he can influence very un-Super Mario conditions on the atmosphere and Super Mario's enemies.

Optimus Prime: I guess we'll have to find out what the Super Mario Brother way is before we can conclude what "very un-Super Mario" is.

Spike: (embarrassed by the power of his explanation to Optimus Prime, but trying to hide it in his obedience of Prime's personality) Yeah, Prime. We'll have to see.

Optimus Prime: For now, if I could, I have to use Teletran 1 to get an update from Jetfire & Powerglide.

Carly: (grabbing the RF switch from the back of Teletran 1 and turning it from the Super Nintendo back to the Autobot super-computer's services) Right away, Optimus!

Chip hits a button on the panel and the monitor follows Jetfire in his transformed jet mode with Powerglide hanging out of his storage area in his robot mode.

Optimus Prime: Powerglide, report.

Powerglide: Hi, Optimus! We've scanned Decepticon activity all the way up the Colorado river! They're going to use a clearing for something I bet, but so far, following Laserbeak and Buzzsaw has just led us further up the river.

Optimus Prime: I bet they know you're on their tail, guys. Maybe you should back off for a while and come back when the timing's right!

Jetfire: (veering off course by executing a hard barrel roll away from Teletran 1's airborne optical drone) Copy that, Optimus! We'll grab 'em both and pull their video sensors through their output modules just as soon as they lead us to the rest of the Decepticons!

Optimus Prime: We're probably not giving you anything you can't handle, Jetfire, but please radio in for back-up before you make any airstrikes that might get Megatron's unwanted attention. I just want to know what he's doing first!

Powerglide: (hanging out of Jetfire's door as far as he can, unwaveringly observing the zoomed-in view of Laserbeak & Buzzsaw's flight path) You got it, Prime. Lock, load, but no leaping.

Optimus Prime: (nodding to Chip to end transmission) However you care to put it, Powerglide, just don't put it out at Megatron. Radio back in with results.

Powerglide nods at Optimus Prime right before his head turns back to view the cassette-tape/birds with his built-in binocular vision. The transmission ends right there.

Optimus: (to Carly and Spike) You may play your Nine-ten-do on Teletran 1 again, now for fifteen earth minutes, guys. That should give Powerglide and Jetfire ample time to throw off Buzzsaw and Laserbeak and follow them back on track right in to the arms of the Decepticons.

While Carly throws the RF switch back into position, Spike smiles at Optimus Prime and asks, "Do you think Jetfire and Powerglide will fall right into the waiting arms of the Decepticons?"

Optimus Prime: (walking out of the room) Of course not, Spike. That would be very un-Optimus like.

Spike: (smiling) Aw, shucks, Optimus. We all know what that's like. (winks)

Optimus Prime winks back by flashing an eye and waves to Spike. Just before Optimus Prime makes his way through a sliding door of the Ark, he hears Hoist saying something about him and Donkey Kong that zooms through his logic circuits in an odd, askew path.

Hoist: Jazz, Optimus Prime as an ape? That's not even the slightest bit funny.

Jazz: (to Hoist in a jive-like manner) I didn't mean nothin' personal by it. I just thought it sounded Super Mario-like.

Wheeljack: (focusing intently on Yoshi, and makes a verbal note to himself) A dinosaur that can transform into other dinosaurs... It's just canny, but I think it would work … (shrugs)

Autobot-Decepticon Flashover

Shockwave, Rumble and Frenzy are together in the bowels of Cybertron during the elapsed time, still fixing the meta-chamber energy-branch mechanism that's inside Meta-Chamber Theta. With the device fixed, the Space Bridge would be operational again at the behest of Megatron.

Soundwave enters the energy branch of Meta-Chamber Theta and asks for a report from Rumble and Frenzy in his monotone voice.

Rumble: Frenzy and I can rumble and tumble with the best of 'em, Soundwave, but our glorious military commander and all-around boob -- (pointing) Shockwave's slowing down the Decepticon cause faster than his own multi-processor can handle.

Shockwave: (twisting his last nut) That'll be enough, Ramble. The Space Bridge's repair is 100% complete. (To Soundwave) We can depart and report at once to Megatron!

Decepticon-Decepticon Flashover

At Shockwave's base of operations, Shockwave and Soundwave collaborate their report into one that's more easily fed to Megatron.

Shockwave: Operation is complete, Megatron. The Space Bridge will be operational in seventeen-thousand astro-seconds.

Megatron: Magnificent, Shockwave! Be prepared to receive me, your master, and ten-thousand mega-units of energon.

Starscream: (complaining) What about us!? Don't we get to go back to Cybertron?

Megatron: Starscream, you FOOL! If I allow you imbeciles to return to Cybertron WITH me, then that would leave a way for the Autobots to invade my objectives! This is a solo operation; So-Low I don't want to see YOU (points to Starscream) anywhere near Cybertron! UNDERSTAND!?

Starscream: Yes, mighty Megatron. (quietly) I will stay here with (his tone changes into a very agreeable one) …the other Decepticons!

Megatron: (grunting at his distaste) Very well, but don't get any ideas. You are to hold off any Autobot intrusion, only, ,…and that is my command! LOAD THE ENERGON into the Space Bridge!

Thundercracker: Yes, sir. You heard him! (gestures to Skywarp and the Constructicons) Load 'er up!

Scavenger: Megatron, I have an idea how to load your Space Bridge faster than your optical sensors can blink! (to the rest of the Constructicons) Bonecrusher, Hook, Long Haul, Mixmaster …Scrapper! Now that you're already in transformation modes - Phase 1 - then motivate into Phase 2, and transform into …

Mixmaster lines up next to Scrapper to form the legs of Devastator, followed by Long Haul and Hook to form his body and head. Bonecrusher and Scavenger complete the entire body as they form his grappling members, his arms and hands.

Devastator: …Devastator!!!!!!!

Megatron: (chuckles victoriously) Yyyyes, Devastator! Perform with expedience!

The Constructicon super-robot easily lifts the stack of energon and places it into the Space Bridge, knocking a screaming Starscream out of the way, along with his "brothers" Skywarp and Thundercracker.

Megatron notices the arrival of Soundwave's closest bird-friends Laserbeak and Buzzsaw, and holds his arms out in invitation for them to perch on his body to return to Cybertron and Soundwave.

Megatron: Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, report! Did you see any Autobots?

Both birds nod affirmatively.

Megatron: (upset, pointing his arm cannon at Laserbeak) Did they follow you back?

Buzzsaw lunges forward, panicked and nods a definite "no."

Megatron: (suspiciously aware) For your sake -- (eyeballing Laserbeak)…both your sakes -- you had better hope the Autobots do not find out anything!

Decepticon-Autobot Flashover

Jetfire is miles and miles away from the location of the Space Bridge along with Powerglide, who spies away at the valley where Devastator, Megatron and his air attack team work. Powerglide can see everything as he hits his radio button frantically, trying to radio to Optimus Prime.

Powerglide: (desperately) Prime, can you hear us? Powerglide to Prime. Prime, it's an emergency!

Back at Autobot headquarters, Optimus Prime hears the call of Powerglide on his personal built-in radio.

Optimus Prime: Yes, Powerglide!?

Powerglide: Obtain visual for our location as fast as you can! We've got something you're dyin' to see!

Optimus Prime: (runs toward Teletran 1) Right away.

In the distance, Starscream notices Jetfire's body all those miles away, since Starscream's vision is extraordinary like that of a bald eagle. Surprised as he is by the appearance of his old friend, he does not tell Megatron about Jetfire. Instead, the jet leader rushes headlong into battle, or at least to find out the presence of other Autobots.

Powerglide: (on the radio with Optimus Prime as he bounces around the Autobot headquarters to observe Teletran 1's monitor. Powerglide also pans in on Starscream transforming and approaching fast) Starscream has spotted us, Prime, but I want you to see as much as you can before we get shut off.

As Optimus Prime enters the computer room of Teletran 1, Carly is alone with Bumblebee playing the two-player version of Dr. Mario. Neither Carly nor Bumblebee are aware that their game is about to be interrupted and Optimus Prime doesn't give much warning to Teletran 1, either, since he is a hurry to beat Starscream. Optimus Prime dodges Bumblebee and Carly and then slaps a button on the panel of Teletran 1.

All of a sudden, Mario, the hero and plumber of many video games from Nintendo, explodes in a mix of colors first on the monitor, then apparently out of Teletran 1's screen through the lens of the optical drone, and the mustached Italian man starts running toward a collision with Starscream.

Mario reacts surprised. "Mama-mia!" he exclaims and starts to run back toward the optical drone with fear in his eyes. The backside of his brother Luigi, visible back at headquarters on Teletran 1, blocks out the rest of the actions of Mario, until a second later when Luigi bounces over him completely, just in time to see Starscream stop flight and transform into a robot. This chain reaction is repeated almost like Abbot and Costello (but if Lucy got to the show) as Luigi turns around in fear and bumps into Princess Daisy who is coincidentally also following Luigi out of the lens of the optical drone via Teletran 1.

Bumblebee: Super Mario? Outside the game?

Carly: (surprised) They're making these video games more real everyday!

Optimus Prime: You mean that's not part of the game?

Carly: It's impossible, unless the Nintendo is glitching on the same frequency as the computer, Optimus! But if Super Mario isn't real, then why would Starscream be pointing his firepower at the new guests? (points at the monitor where Starscream is surely pointing his firepower at Luigi and Princess Daisy)

Starscream: My null ray should do the trick on that optical drone!

Starscream fires his null ray, destroying it and inspiring Powerglide to transform and retreat with Jetfire. An unsuspected stowaway also catches hold without instant detection. Starscream does not notice Mario's departure, but his absence is noted momentarily.

Starscream: (yelling to Luigi and Princess Daisy) I thought there were three of you! I bet the one in the red shirt escaped with those AutoBozos! No matter… Megatron will still be pleased as punch to hear I chased away two Autobots and another one of you despicable flesh creatures (transforms into a jet, stuffing Luigi and the Princess away in his cockpit) and he'll be even more pleased that I captured YOU! It's off to see the WIZARD, the WONDERFUL WIZARD OF the Decepticons! (laughs)

Powerglide: (on the radio with Optimus Prime at Autobot Headquarters. Mario is safe in his cockpit) They just jumped right out of the drone's eye, Prime. I couldn't begin to explain it! You think those humans were always in there, or they just snuck in there recently?

Optimus Prime: No, Powerglide. They are replicas of what I believe to be… fictional characters.

Jetfire: (listening in) That is most interesting, Prime. Unfortunately, my old friend Starscream is up to his old tricks. Namely: capturing earth creatures. It would appear that the one in the green and the one in the pink dress are just such the victims this time.

Optimus Prime: You're kidding me.

Powerglide: No jokes, I'm afraid, Prime. What's more, the two brothers got separated from each other, and one's with us!

A replacement optical drone picks up Mario in Powerglide on visuals for Optimus Prime and the other Autobots to see back at Headquarters.

Optimus Prime: (proudly) It's regrettable that the brothers had to be separated, Powerglide, but it may be just the leverage the Autobots need to win this battle.

Jetfire: (humorously) I don't know what the monkey joke meant that Jazz was talking to us about earlier on the radio, Prime, but this little guy looks a little bit like you.

Optimus Prime: (looking at Jazz) Monkey joke?

Jazz: (lively) I can explain, Prime!

Ironhide: (new to the group, but not new to the joke.) It's better you don't. (chuckles and places a hand on Jazz's shoulder to stop him) It's better you don't.

Optimus Prime: Whatever the case, get Mario back to us at headquarters safely, Powerglide. We can do without any more sudden Decepticon tragedies.

Powerglide: I won't even let him get bumped by a goombah, Prime.

Optimus Prime: (confused) Whatever that means….

Autobot-Decepticon Flashover

Megatron is back in the valley, along with Thundercracker, Skywarp, Devastator, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. Megatron is captured in conversation with Starscream about the two prisoners, held captive by Thundercracker and Skywarp.

Megatron: You said there were two Autobots, Starscream?

Starscream: Yes, mighty Megatron. I fought them and they fled with their engines between their legs, like they always do and I captured these two humans who were with them.

Luigi smiles and winks reassuringly at Princess Daisy from the grip of Skywarp. Princess Daisy tries to smile back realistically.

Luigi: Well, we're not exactly all human…

Megatron: SILENCE, FLESH CREATURE! YOU ARE WHATEVER THE DECEPTICONS IMPLY, AND JUST AS WORTHLESS AS THAT IS!

Luigi: (takes a big gulp and tries to swallow it) Yes, Signore.

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Starscream: Now can I return to Cybertron, master Megatron? That fleeting glimpse of Jetfire has brought me memories that leave me squirming in my cyber-ceptors to breathe the air up there just once more!

Megatron: Why, Starscream? …are you afraid that you left your energon sink on back at home?

Starscream: (frustrated) NOTHING I DO IS EVER GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, MEGATRON! (pleading pathetically) Please, Megatron! You don't want to leave me here with these blasted Decepti-clods, do you!?

Skywarp and Thundercracker give Starscream a very long and dirty look.

Megatron: (decisively) You gave me a good idea, Starscream. These two … whatever or whoever they are … will escort all the Decepticons back to Cybertron to witness the end of their world… or at the very least… their entire universe! (evil laugh) Decepticons! Get into the Space Bridge!

Devastator disunites back into Mixmaster, Long Haul, Scavenger, Scrapper, Bonecrusher and Hook, who transform into robots individually and fly to the Space Bridge to meet Megatron and his air attack team, add Luigi and Princess Daisy. The Space Bridge awakens from it's programming in conjunction with Cybertron's matter-transfer coordinates to send the group back to their home planet, and Luigi and Princess Daisy as far away from their dimension as they can get.

Decepticon-Autobot Flashover

Chip: In the name of Shigeru Miyamoto….

Mario is standing with Spike, Sparkplug, Chip Chase and Carly and the other Autobots; the plumber from inside the game is trying to piece together what happened himself.

Optimus Prime: So what you have here, Mario, is a misplacement that should never have occurred.

Mario: (looking around at the Autobots and their headquarters very nervously) …non esperto…

Wheeljack: He does speak English, right, Spike?

Perceptor: Negative, Wheeljack. He's speaking Italian. Everyone adjust your audio converters to comply with the Italian language, and we'll be able to understand the little uomo!

Cliffjumper: (chuckles to Jazz) You know, if I didn't know uomo meant something normal in Italian, I coulda' sworn Perceptor just called Mario a "homo."

Blaster: (To Cliffjumper) Okay, Cliffjumper, I heard that. Let the little guy speak! Look at that red and blue outfit. He's almost like Optimus Prime with a mustache!

Cliffjumper: (crossing his arms) Looks like Optimus. Yeah right. Next thing you're tellin' me will be that Bumblebooboo here can fly around like Starscream.

Bumblebee: (looks at Cliffjumper, disgruntled) Hey, I resent that remark! (puts Cliffjumper in a headlock to pay him back from earlier)

Wheeljack: GUYS! Your audio converters, please!

Bumblebee: (switching on his converter) Of course.

Cliffjumper also complies with Wheeljack's request and makes the adjustment to his language converter.

Optimus Prime: (to Mario) Sono Optimus Prime, guida dei Autobots.

Mario: (impressed at Optimus Prime's grasp on the Italian language, he lets his Brooklyn side shine through) What in the Mushroom Kingdom are Autobots?

Spike: Millions of years ago, the Autobots crash-landed on this planet and ever since then, they've been saving it from the Decepticons!

Mario: (To Powerglide) The airplane that I saw before I grabbed a hold of your wing. Was that also a Decepticon?

Wheeljack, Optimus Prime and Blaster look at Powerglide, ready for him to answer affirmatively.

Powerglide: (depressed) Yes, Mario. That was a Decepticon, one of the more annoying ones.

Mario: (angry) Nobody captures my brother, let alone Princess Daisy.

Optimus Prime: And the Decepticons don't capture anyone under my watch! Ironhide, Jazz, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Blaster, Tracks, Hoist, Hound, transform! Jetfire and Powerglide, you transform and lead the way towards the Space Bridge! Perceptor and Wheeljack --

Wheeljack: (bored, cocking his head to the side) Yeah, Prime, stay here and do scientific stuff, right?

Optimus Prime: (with confidence) If there's a way for Mario to get out of the Nintendo, then there must be a way to get him back in, too! For the moment, we'll take Spike and Mario and follow Jetfire and Powerglide to the Space Bridge while you combine your efforts with Carly, Chip and Sparkplug to obtain results!

Perceptor: Always willing to lend a hand, Optimus, (transforms into a microscope) and a very peeled-eye for detail.

Wheeljack: I'm working on something pretty fantastic anyway, Optimus.

Optimus Prime: Excellent, and I don't need to tell you -- .

Carly: No video games until our homework is done, right, Optimus? (winking)

Optimus Prime: (self-assured) Exactly, Carly. (to the others) Autobots! Transform and roll out!

Spike pulls up along side Mario in Bumblebee with an open door, inviting him to ride in the yellow Volkswagen bug with him.

Mario: Thanks, trooperoni, but if it's all the same, I might like to take the van. (winks at Spike)

Spike: No problem, Mario! Ironhide will be happy to take you with us to Colorado River!

Up ahead, the red van robot Ironhide hears the exchange and slows down and waits for Mario to board his transformed state.

Mario: (happy) Excellente!

Ironhide: I'll try to keep the turtles off ya, little guy.

Autobot-Decepticon Flashover

Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp and the Constructicons are on Cybertron with Luigi and Princess Daisy, who are still held captive. Megatron is pointing at the playback of a tape from Astrotrain's security monitor of him and some other Decepticons being hastily thrown out into deep space.

Megatron: (pointing at the screen) Shockwave, you say you peered into the future as a result of an electrical disturbance and downloaded that? And you continue to say Unicron was my undoing?

Shockwave: Correct, master Megatron. He never would have laid a hand on you if not for … (looks around at the air attack team, specifically the loudmouthed leader) Starscream! I saw the whole thing!

Megatron: (laughs) If you hadn't intended to kill me that day, Starscream, it's either your worse mistake ... or I could kiss you. (disgusted) But enough of that. It's time to go the future and (shaking a fist) bleed it bone dry of energy. It will serve our privacies much better if we transport the energy from the future back to today in our modern times. Then I'll be unstoppable!

Starscream: How on Cybertron do you think you'll take over Unicron!?

Megatron: Starscream, unlike you, thankfully I don't have to think. (stands peacefully as Shockwave adjusts some levels in Megatron's circuit box) With my electro-feedback's increased polarity level nagging away on Galvatron's circuitry, I can reverse the mind control that Unicron had over my other half, Galvatron, and send the planet-eater to do my bidding! He will collect gads and gads of energy and then he will beg for a chance to kneel before his master! AKA Me ... at full strength! (evil laugh)

Starscream: I stand corrected, oh mighty leader. But if you may continue, tell me how you will gain access into Galvatron to do as you speak?

Shockwave: It's probably hard to believe I have the exact coordinates where Megatron, or Galvatron, was held suspended as he and his army were transformed, Starscream. It will be a snap to get Megatron into the future Galvatron. From there, it will be up to our master to escape Unicron's grasp undetected.

Megatron: While your explanation was clear, Shockwave, you err in assuming I will be "escaping" anybody. I will not have to move an inch to reverse the mind control. In fact, the closer I am to him, the better, lest he should escape me. I am ready to board the time device now, Shockwave.

Shockwave: Yes, master.

Megatron: (to Soundwave) Soundwave, make sure you keep close tabs on everyone here. Apparently, I have already fallen victim to Starscrape. I will not fall victim to the same mistake twice in a row (eyeballs Starscream)… even if I have not fallen victim to him yet.

Soundwave: (nodding, and in monotone) Yes, Megatron. Your wish is my command.

Megatron: Shockwave! What are you waiting for!? Send me through!

Shockwave: (preparing computations) Yes, mighty Megatron.

Luigi, Princess Daisy and all the Decepticons view Megatron's dismissal into the time travel device, which is actually the Space Bridge, newly revised with some major calculative electric, quantichronomatic and geographic modifications and specifications.

Soundwave: (quietly mentioned in monotone to Starscream) I am watching you.

Starscream: I would do the same to you if you weren't so damn ugly, Soundwave. (punches him in the face)

Megatron laughs a maniacally evil laugh from within the Space Bridge. From within the time travel chamber, he speaks over Shockwave's monitor.

Megatron: When I gain control of Unicron, I will eventually gain control of the Prime Matrix as well… if I only knew who had it. But you have to admit, Vector Sigma was doing a number on everybody when it made me!(evil laugh) It's time to eat the breakfast of a billion, QUADRILLION champions! (prolonged evil laugh)

Starscream: (to Shockwave) Shockwave, what did Megatron mean when he said 'If he only knew who had the Prime Matrix?' Doesn't he know that Optimus Prime is the lone disciple of the said artifact?

Shockwave: It's a long, complicated story, Starscream. To sum it all up, Optimus was relieved of duty in the future by an unknown Autobot champion who claimed the Prime Matrix for the benefit of all Autobots everywhere.

Starscream: (impatiently) Well, who was it!?

Shockwave: (upset) Unfortunately, we don't know. Perhaps mighty Megatron would've known (shaking his arm cannon at Starscream) had you let him lived in the future.

Starscream: (grabs Princess Daisy and points a finely-tuned ray right at the control panel of Shockwave's computer, ruining it and simultaneously transforming into jet mode to stow away on the "time bridge" with the Princess in his cockpit) Now is my time to please Megatron in no way any other Decepticon can! By blocking your pathways through!

Shockwave: Starscream!...No!

Shockwave, Soundwave, Skywarp and Thundercracker urge him back out, but nobody is altering Starscream's mainframe. Starscream disappears through time before Skywarp and Thundercracker even have a chance to transform.

Luigi silently grimaces at the fate of the universe…and Princess Daisy.

TO BE CONTINUED

(by NYB = xxxnybxxx@yahoo.com)