Act Ten

Back in the Maximal base, Lori is still in the command centre having a talk with the Maximals.

Lori: Look. I would like to help, but I can't be involved in fighting. I don't even know how to do it.

Optimus: You don't need to fight. Just leave the rest of the work to us, while you stay on our side.

Ramulus: You will help us save our race. [whispers] I feel it, in my hooves.

Rattrap: Hey. What makes you think you can feel things with your feet? That ain't worth scrap, unlike my toys.

Ramulus: No matter what bomb you set is still bomb.

Rattrap: You should recall, old goat. I'm dealing with Proton Bombs. They're a real bargain.

Lori: On top of it all, I have a family that might be worried sick for me. I need to get back home.

Dinobot: [to Lori] Well… if you need to alert your relatives, you should know it is unwise to travel there alone. We should accompany you.

Lori: Appreciated, but I can't accept that. Ottawa's not a place where aliens or robots come over.

Dinobot: Megatron's forces know where you live. You must have backup.

Optimus: Perhaps you can "call" them to secure them.

Lori almost forgot about having her cell phone. She takes out her phone to call home, but no answer. She tries Kristy's cell, but nothing. She then realizes Rhinox saying something about their "spacebridge" teleporting matters through space.

Lori: What about using the spacebridge?

Rhinox: Good idea. But it'll take time to recharge its power. You're gonna have to wait.

Optimus: But while you're waiting, feel free to explore the ship. But don't touch any button, unless one of us can tell you what it means.

Accepting the Maximal leader's words, Lori heads on to look around the base to check things out a little while waiting for the spacebridge to recharge. With her out of the control room, the Maximals begin their private conversation.

Rattrap: Oh man. All this for a carbon-based life form.

Optimus: She possesses a spec of Cybertron's very existence, Rattrap. Only bits of the Allspark's knowledge and power flows in her blood. That's why Megatron's after her.

Rattrap: Er, maybe… you're forgetting something, boss monkey. We were supposed to be doing deep space exploration. Playing galactic patrol is never in my resume, y'know what I'm saying?

Optimus: We can't take any chances. The Predacons are under the leadership of someone with extreme determination and willing to slaughter for the goal. We can't let that happen to get her. Besides…. You wanted exploration, and here we are on a primitive planet. What more do you want?

Rattrap: Well, uh, call me picky but a working spacecraft might be nice.

Optimus: [sighs] Just no pleasing some people.

Dinobot: How pathetic. We've been on Earth since the late 1800s and the vermin still wishes to cower home.

Rattrap: Hey, hey, hey, shut up!

Meanwhile, Lori continues walking through the hallway until she finds an open door to a room labelled in alien language. But she sees the writing as it's translated "Cheetor's Room". She enters it and finds Cheetor playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on PlayStation 4.

Cheetor: [to Lori] What brings you here?

Lori: Just to wait for the spacebridge to recharge. And I didn't know you guys have a PlayStation 4.

Cheetor: Pretty cool, huh? I found it in New York and Rhinox was able to repair it for me.

Lori sits cross legged beside Cheetor as his avatar on screen is shooting some campers. Just then it's shown getting killed, showing the text: - Headshot. Spawning back to life, the avatar continues marching forward and shooting. But it's shot immediately.

Cheetor: Damn. I almost had it.

Lori: Here, let me try.

Cheetor lends Lori his controller before the avatar respawns. It marches forward, sees one camper wielding a rocket launcher. Before the final blow, the avatar fires with an AK-47, making a headshot.

Lori: I used to beat my brother at this.

Then, the avatar immediately gets stabbed by another camper, showing the text: - Stabbed!

Cheetor: Well… at least you tried.

Without any objection, she gives Cheetor his controller to continue playing.

Lori: Hey… Cheetor. I just wanna say thank you for saving my life.

Cheetor: Anytime. It's my job to shred some Pred.

Lori: But can I ask you something?

Cheetor: Sure. What?

Lori: Why were you stalking me?

Cheetor: Oh, that? I'm the team's scout. I was appointed to keep an eye on you since… the Predacons attacked a military fortress.

Lori: But that light from your eyes. What was that about?

Cheetor: Well, I needed it. You see, my previous beast mode was a wild dog. I was called K9. But I didn't like it; I saw a cheetah close to the base, and it took off before I could DNA scan it. That night when you saw me, I noticed that fur scarf you had, and I finally took my chance to scan.

Lori: And, Dinobot. What's with him?

Cheetor: Oh. He… was a Predacon once. In 1971, Megatron fought us in Vietnam and abandoned Dinobot. He challenged Optimus, but he lost… and chose to be on our side. He often acts this way, but he isn't so bad afterwards.

Lori: I hope so. Because I feel like he would strike someday.

Cheetor: You know, Rattrap had the same feeling when we brought Dinobot in decades ago. But you mustn't know people by the way they look.

Suddenly, the base begins to rumble hard from some kind of hit. The alarm is even triggered.

Lori and Cheetor run to the control room, only to find the Maximal team looking so alarmed for a reason.

Optimus: The base is under attack.

Dinobot: [to Cheetor] I told you. Violation.

Lori: What violation?

Cheetor: The law was to not bring you to base. Because… the Predacons know where we're stationed!

Outside the base, the Predacons in robot mode are shooting their energy weapons at it to break in. But Megatron, Rampage and Inferno are nowhere to be found.

Rattrap: Oh, fer bootin' up cold! Just when things were going okay. Now, it's too late. We're all gonna die.

Ramulus: No! No! No such thing as too late!

Optimus: Ramulus's right. We'll draw their fire away from the base. Rhinox will bring Sentinel online.

Lori: I'll help.

Rattrap: Sorry, kid. But you stay here with Rhinox. He needs all the help he can get.

Act Eleven

As the Predacons continue shooting, the base door opens and the Maximals deploy for the attack. The Maximals take cover behind the trees, coordinating their strategies.

Ramulus: [to Rattrap] Keep them away from human.

Rattrap: Oh yeah, sure. Lend us the dirty job.

Rattrap draws out his Plasma Pistol to fire at Triple Punch's area. Outraged, Triple Punch charges his grenade launcher rack up, only before Dinobot fires his laser vision at him. Iguanus then drops in to blast her Plasma Guns at the base's ray shield.

Meanwhile, Lori is assisting Rhinox to re-establish the security system at the control console "steadily" before it's too late.

Lori: How long will this take?

Rhinox: Just with a few adjustments and Sentinel will be online. It'll take a few seconds without disruption from the outside.

But suddenly, a blast from the battle outside makes an earthquake messing with Rhinox's steadiness.

Rhinox: [dismayed] I miss my parents' house.

Back outside, Dinobot wields his Rotary Scythe Shield to deflect Terrorsaur's firing Null Ray. Rattrap takes out one of his Proton Bombs. He dials one for 50 meter radius, 5 seconds, and throws it up high. The bomb explodes and creates a blast within a 50 meter radius that sends Triple Punch flying off to a baobab tree.

Rattrap: Proton Bombs, pincher-hands.

Dinobot: That's no good compared to hand-to-hand combat.

Rattrap: Hey, shut up, chopperface!

Optimus and Ramulus are side by side firing their Ion Rifle and Scrapmaker Cannon at Iguanus. But Ramulus sees Waspinator coming in from the sky.

Ramulus: Optimus. Big bug incoming.

Optimus: I'll handle this. Prime jets on!

Then he retract wings on his back and his rocket boots are online, giving him the ability to fly. Waspinator gets closer, but Optimus blasts him with his Ion Rifle. On the other side of the base, without anyone noticing, Rampage makes a hole to get inside. He enters before Megatron follows.

Iguanus jumps over Dinobot and bites him on the shoulder. Falling back, the female Predacon turns back and fires lasers from her eyes at the Predacon deserter.

In the control centre, Rhinox finally brings the defence system synchronized.

Rhinox: It's good to go. Sentinel, online.

Sentinel has been activated and auto-guns outside the base fire at targeting Predacons. But inside, Rampage breaches the command centre. Lori hides underneath the table in horror. The alarm is triggered for Optimus to hear it during the fight.

Optimus: The base's breached. Cheetor!

Cheetor: I'm going in.

Cheetor disarms himself before his feet fold out roller skates allowing him to rollerblade to the base quickly.

Optimus: Rattrap. Help Cheetor. We'll cover you.

Rattrap: [sarcastic] Yeah, right.

Optimus: That's an order, Rattrap!

Rattrap: Oh, I agree with you, big ape. But in this circumstance, I would get my pink ass toasted.

With anger for Rattrap disobeying, the Maximal leader flies to Cheetor's position himself but is hit by a Predacon fire, much to Rattrap's smug delight.

Rattrap: [to Optimus] See?! Told ya!

Rhinox arms himself with a Buzz Saw Chain Gun to fire at Rampage, but the Predacon fires his Plasma Cannon to knock the Maximal out. Cheetor bursts inside shooting his pistol to knock out Rampage. Then Megatron in beast mode shows glaring at Cheetor.

Megatron: Step aside, Maximal. The indicator is coming with us, yeesss.

Cheetor: Over my dead body, mega-dork.

Megatron: That can be arranged. Megatron, terrorize!

He transforms into robot mode, and fires his Bone Collector Cannon at Cheetor. Lori aids him but only to find herself in Megatron's sight.

Megatron: Lori Roswell.

As he gets closer, Lori gets a little more frightened than she once was. Cheetor is okay, but unconscious.

Megatron: I've been looking all over for you.

Lori: You stay away from me.

Megatron: Now, now. I have no means for violence. If you come with me, we shall be of no trouble for you.

All of a sudden, Optimus shows up and pushes a button on the wall. Before Megatron would reach Lori, a hidden gun pops out and tangles the Predacon leader with an energized whip. Cheetor is waking up and Lori helps him to get up. The enraged Megatron breaks free from the restraints fastened around him and attacks Cheetor, but misses and impales his teeth on the controls for the entire base's defense grid.

Back outside, with Rampage rejoining the other Predacons, the battle outside is still going on. Dinobot is in a one-on-one battle with Iguanus. Suddenly, the Maximals began sparking up like overloaded machinery.

Lori: What's wrong?

Cheetor: The Energon surge. We've really taken heavy fire.

Ramulus: Transform to beast mode.

Rattrap: But we can't-

Ramulus: That's an order.

The Maximals transform into beast mode, but only to find themselves defenceless against the Predacons. Terrorsaur swoops down to the ground and smirks at the helpless robots.

Terrorsaur: Well now. Four defenseless animals protecting a human? This is our lucky day. And your last.

Suddenly, Megatron is flung out of the base through the windows, and the Predacons look at the scene in shock.

Dinobot: Well. Still feeling lucky, Terrorsaur?

The Predacons have to withdraw at once to avoid the trouble. Suddenly, the Energon build-up succumbs the Predacons, forcing them to revert beast mode. Though the Maximalss won, the base is blaring an alarm. Everyone gets back in the base, trying to figure out what's going on.

Rattrap: The show's over, Rhinox. Shut it off.

Rhinox: I can't. The console's junked. Megatron took a massive chew on it.

Lori looks over at the main terminal, seeing the readings. In her vision, it translates "self-destruct in thirty clicks".

Lori: Not good. The base is gonna blow.

Optimus: We must evacuate, and fast. Rhinox, the spacebridge!

Rhinox dials on the console and pulls the lever, opening a portal outside the base. As the timer dials, everyone runs out to get to the spacebridge. They all get in, right before the base explodes into oblivion.

The Predacons, however, stalk the leaving team in the trees. The recovered Megatron joins in.

Terrorsaur: What now, Megatron? The indicator's lost to us.

Megatron: True, but we still have her signature, yeesss. And without their base, the Maximals will be vulnerable. [to his comm. link] Inferno. Open the spacebridge to our coordinates.

Inferno: [through comm. link] As you command, royalty.

Act Twelve

All the way at Universal's Islands of Adventure, a family of tourists are at Diagon Alley, taking a picture of the dragon on top of the building. All of a sudden, a spacebridge portal opens from above, and something shoots out into the Leaky Cauldron.

Woman: What was that?

Man: Don't know. I'll go check.

The tourist enters the place, looking for whoever just fell from the sky. He hears a bang coming from the cauldron nearby. He tip-toes to peer into it, then Rattrap pops out, screaming and blinded with a wizard's hat on him. The man screams too, causing a panicked frenzy in the Leaky Cauldron. Rattrap blindly runs around.

Rattrap: I can't see! I can't see! I'm on a dark, lifeless planet that smells like corn dogs!

In another part of Universal, Lori is flown in the air, and lands safely on the grass, next to a Jeep

A bit far away, Ramulus is hanging on top of Cinderella's castle at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom.

Ramulus: [groans] That was not too bad.

Back with Lori, she looks around to find out she's in the Jurassic Park River Adventure. She regains her bearings, seeking to find the Maximals.

Lori: Cheetor? Rattrap?

[girl screams]

Hearing that scream, Lori rushes over to find Dinobot scaring the tourists with his beast mode. As the park guards arrive at the scene, Lori rushes over to stand defensively in front of Dinobot.

Lori: No, no! It's okay. It's just, uh… just a costume.

Guard: Is it?

Lori: Yeah, sure. We're sorry, again. Bye.

Lori manages to push Dinobot away from the crowd to keep him away from them.

Back in Diagon Alley, Optimus is standing on top of a building and he looks down to find Rattrap running amuck. Optimus slides down, reaches down to grab him and pulls him back, right before the guards arrive at the scene.

Optimus: Rattrap, you alright?

Rattrap: [panicked] Alright?! We're lost and it-

But Optimus removes the hat off Rattrap's face, now giving him the chance to see where he is.

Rattrap: Whoa. When did we go into Harry Potter?

Back with Lori, she and Dinobot are still walking away from the scene to make sure no one's looking at them.

Lori: Did you really attack them?

Dinobot: Of course not. I am not some serial killer who murders someone in broad daylight. Besides, I prefer to take on someone my own size. Now, do you know where we are now?

Lori: If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say… Universal Studios, California.

But then, Optimus swings on the trees, holding onto Rattrap, and lands right next to the two.

Optimus: Not really. It's Orlando. We were just in Harry Potter.

Dinobot: Well, did the vermin actually end up in a witch's pot? [snickers]

Rattrap: Yeah, but it was empty, and it's about your size.

Lori: Where are the others?

Optimus: Rattrap was able to trace them. They're in another park, not too far from here. We'll have to fly there, fast. Optimus, maximize.

Optimus transforms back to robot mode, and holds onto the others before his wings retract, and he takes off into the air. A random tourist spots them from the take off.

Tourist: Whoa. Is that guy from Star Trek?!

Cheetor is in the middle of a plain, and he wakes up to find out where he is, but he has no clue.

Cheetor: Guys? Anyone? Lori, you nearby?

He walks down to a pond, searching around. Unbeknownst to him, a Nile crocodile is stalking him. Close enough, the croc lunges at Cheetor, snapping its jaws, but Cheetor quickly dodges the blow. And then, more crocs show up, coming after him.

Cheetor: Oh Primus, this is really bad.

Cheetor hops on the rocks, getting away from the crocs, and makes it out safely. But he finds himself at the east African port village of Harambe, where the people are having a parade with animal-themed costumes. Cheetor tries to sneak his way out of the area, but he gets spotted by a toddler boy, who just comes over and pets him.

Toddler: Good kitty.

Immediately drawn by the petting, Cheetor begins purring like a house cat. But Ramulus arrives in his beast mode, and shoves the cat-bot away from the crowd and back into the trees.

Ramulus: That was a close one. You know better than that.

Cheetor: Relax, Ram. I was still in beast mode.

Ramulus: No time for corrections. I have found Rhinox, and we must go now.

Rhinox is with a herd of grazing rhinos. Rhinox is walking past the herd to a bunch of flowers, sniffing them and enjoying it. Just then, Cheetor and Ramulus both come over to him.

Rhinox: Ah. You're both here too.

Cheetor: Yeah, but where's big-bot and the others?

Before Rhinox can answer, Optimus shows up flying in the air, but quickly succumbed to the Energon surge. He drops the other three down on the ground, and reverts back to beast mode.

Lori: We're all together again. But why here?

Rhinox: The near-explosion of the base might've unstabilized the spacebridge's frequency. It was supposed to take us here in Disney's Animal Kingdom, but I guess it only worked for three of us.

With a growl, Optimus looks upset with something and picks Rattrap up by the fur.

Rattrap: Hey, easy on the fur coat.

Optimus: Let's get something straight, Rattrap! I am in charge of this team, and when I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed.

Rattrap: Hey, hey, here. I wanted to obey, but there were too many Preds back then.

Dinobot: There were not. We outnumbered them two to one, vermin. You were too scared.

Optimus: That's enough, Dinobot. And Rattrap? You're lucky I managed to reach the blast doors, otherwise you wouldn't be safe for now.

Lori: So that dinosaur back then. That was Megatron?

Cheetor: Yeah. The meanest Pred ever to lay eyes on.

Dinobot: But it won't be long until he comes after us again. We must come up with strategies to counteract Megatron's forces, if they ever come here.

Ramulus: Not around here. Too many peoples.

Lori: And another thing. This is Disney's Animal Kingdom, a zoo even. It's filled with animals, probably endangered. If any one of us would harm any one of them, and we'd all be charged with trying to force a race into extinction.

Optimus: I agree. It's never our protocol to simply harm innocent animals too.

Dinobot: I somehow doubt the zebras would be critically endangered, but very well. We shall use no firearms, but I can handle melee weapons.

Rattrap: Eh, you all forgot something? We've lost the base, our health shielding is slowly coming back, and we're low on Energon.

Lori: Don't worry. We could try, uh…. Camping, maybe?

Rhinox: Great idea. And I know just the right place.

Rhinox walks away from the flowers, and adjourns elsewhere with the rest of the team following him. He makes a stop at a rock where he begins digging a hole to show something that's glowing inside. He reveals to them blue crystals, much to the Maximals' surprise.

Cheetor: Energon. This is raw Energon crystal. Way to go, rhino.

Lori: That's what Energon looks like?

Cheetor: Sometimes.

Rhinox: I scanned the readings around here yesterday, so that's when I thought this may be a good fallback spot.

Dinobot: Hmm, good thinking there. Unless the Predacons found this first.

Optimus: If they did, this wouldn't be here.

In the Predacon base, the Predacons are looking at the holoprojector to get a signal from Lori's DNA signature, and they trace it to Orlando, Florida.

Megatron: There they are. It looks like they're stationed at a human's theme park.

Iguanus: I've heard of this place. They kept saying it was supposed to be the happiest place on Earth.

Megatron: And it would be for us all, yeesss. Now we know where they are, we must deal with it before the Maximals find the Disk first.

Terrorsaur: I must interject here. We would have more enemies worse than the Maximals.

Waspinator: Yes. Fleshy-bots have government to tear us apart when we get spotted.

Megatron: Hmmm, that is ultimately true. But instead of a random assault on the park, we simply sneak inside the gates, and when they're too low on power at dawn, we strike! Yes. Terrorsaur, you will find us a remote location anywhere in the park, but accompanied by Inferno and Scourge. When you find one, contact us.

Scourge: On my way, boss.

Inferno: [bows] As you command, my queen.

Megatron: [growls annoyed] And I wish you would stop calling me that.

Rampage bursts his body out of a white-hued tub, which is repairing his damaged body like magic.

Rampage: My liege, let me go there. I can-

Megatron: Denied. You've failed me due to your bad timing. I will need you here until we're ready for the final battle against the Maximals, and that is final.

Back in Disneyworld, it is nighttime. All the animals are tuckered in for the night, and Rattrap is looking up on the trees to find the tourists leaving and closing the park for the night.

Rattrap: It's closing time. We're in the clear.

Rhinox is working on a cone-shaped device with some scraps and metallic material, but it sparks up and short-circuits.

Rhinox: Slag. Building a device to shield us from the atmosphere won't work. I regret informing you Optimus, but we're gonna have to be in beast mode as long as possible.

Optimus: Well, that's just prime.

Rattrap: So, er, this your first day on the job, or what?

Optimus: Shut up, Rattrap.

Rattrap: Oh yes sir! Y'know, I feel just heaps better knowing that our lives are in your capable hands. [sighs] We're all gonna die.

Cheetor looks up ahead, finding a pair of cheetahs running through the wide-open fields. He is about to take off, but Ramulus stands in his way.

Ramulus: Cheetor, do not try it. We have no time for games.

Sitting on top of a tree, Lori tries to call her folks again. But she gets no luck reaching them. Optimus climbs up the rock, lounging next to her, and eating a banana.

Optimus: Still no luck in contacting?

Lori: Not really. I don't get it. My mother always calls me back, and if she doesn't call me, then my brother would. I even tried my grandmother, but none of them called me back.

Optimus: I wouldn't be too worried. I'm sure they may be alright. Surely your father would keep them safe without you.

Lori: He can go to hell.

Optimus squeezes the banana out of the peel from hearing that statement as he abruptly sits up.

Lori: Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to say that, but…. It's a long story. I can just say he's addicted to gambling, always coming home drunk smelling like a skunk until my parents have a devorce.

Optimus: [concerned] You had family problems, didn't you? I had the same thing with my brother.

Lori: "Brother"? I mean, you had a brother? Like having….

Optimus: Cybertronians can have families, just like humans. Parents, siblings, cousins….

Lori: But how is your brother? Because now I'm curious.

Optimus: [sighs] Lost. He was a fine warrior in the Maximal Army, until the new leader of the Predacons: Megatron. He was responsible for… my brother's devastation.

Lori: Oh. I'm sorry to ask.

Optimus: Don't be. I'm sure things will turn out right for me. Now, you'd best get some sleep.

Lori nods in agreement as Optimus swings back down off the trees. She gets herself tuckered in on the branch, and she falls asleep.

Act Thirteen

The next morning, the sun shines over Epcot. A duck waddles at the Morocco Pavilion, approaching an alleyway. All of a sudden, Iguanus pops her head out and begins eating the duck, much to Terrorsaur's disgust, who's right beside her.

Terrorsaur: Stop slobbering like that, Iguanus!

Iguanus: I am feasting!

Waspinator: Give Waspinator more room! Iguanus fat enough already!

Iguanus: If Waspinator does not stop cuddling me like a stuffed toy when he sleeps, I'll eat him as well!

Terrorsaur: I can't stand this anymore, Megatron.

Scourge: Too bad, cause you're stuck here, needle-nose! [cackling]

Scourge is cackling so loud, Triple Punch has to shut him up by smacking him with one of his pincers and he knocks over Terrorsaur.

Triple Punch: We wouldn't be here if you picked a proper location.

Megatron: Rest assured, my Predacons. We just have to wait a little longer, yeesss.

Inferno: But the longer we wait, the slower we get to apprehend the child.

Megatron: True, but let me explain. The Maximals are currently unstable at the time without the atmosphere shielding from their base. Now they've become nomads, they have nowhere to go, no. They'll be forced to remain in beast mode, which may dominate their logic circuits, and we'd have the advantage to pulverize them and capture the indicator with no one else getting in our way to victory. [to Terrorsaur] So no one leaves!

Terrorsaur: [nervously] Leaving? So said anything about leaving?

[bells ringing]

Megatron: What was that?

Scourge: Sounds like a bell. The parks are opening now.

Megatron: [dismayed] Blast! Took shorter than I thought. Predacons, go find them now!

Meanwhile, Lori is still sleeping on the branch, but this time Cheetor is sleeping on her like a blanket. She wakes up, finding who's sleeping on her, and he pets him, making Cheetor pur. One by one, all the Maximals wake up from their sleep, and gather together with Lori coming over to them.

Lori: Okay, so what's the plan now?

Rhinox: Now we're okay Lori, you can now help us. Can you try… navigating the Golden Disk for us?

Lori: I can't. It's weird enough to translate an alien language. I don't think-

Optimus: Lori. The galaxy's depending on you. We know you can do it.

Optimus sits down cross-legged, and he motions Lori to kneel on the floor. The Maximals back up to give them space.

Optimus: Free your mind. Let go of your thinking. Focus on the power within.

Lori: I feel kinda stupid doing this. Maybe if you give me a command code, like the way you transform, and it's done.

Optimus: It's not that easy, Lori. When mastering the power of the Allspark, it must concentrate on your skills and mentality. Both of them require mastering yourself.

Lori isn't sure how to navigate something, but since the Maximals help her, she has no other choice. She drops her head down with her eyes closed, but still doesn't know how to do it.

Lori: But what if it doesn't work?

Rhinox: Concentrate. You can do it.

Keeping her eyes closed, Lori heeds Optimus's guidance. She can only see blankly, but something unusual happens to her. She starts seeing a white dot flying around the void and heads straight for the Earth, appearing out of nowhere. The dot approaches the planet, heading for the west of the US, but the dot flies east to Florida and there is the Predacon insignia appearing through the Earth like a wall of paper. Lori opened her eyes in shock, startled and gasping.

Ramulus: What happened? What is it?

Lori: Trouble. Heading this way!

Up in the air, Scourge flies towards the group, buzzing over the trees and about to snatch Lori. But she jumps out of the way, just before the bug would get her.

Scourge: Oh, you ain't gonna like slipping my grip like that. Scourge, terrorize!

Scourge transforms, firing rockets from his wings. Dinobot converts to robot mode and he draws out his rotating shield made with scythe blades, deflecting the blow. He fires his laser beam, sending Scourge away. Then more Predacons arrive, blasting their firearms and starting a gun fight.

Optimus: Cheetor, get Lori out of here. We'll swat that pesky Predacon.

Cheetor: Got it! Maximize!

Cheetor changes to robot mode, holding onto Lori in his arm. His feet roll out wheels, and he rolls away from the scene. Scourge regains his bearings and flies over to chase after the runway scout. Lori has to do something. She snatches Cheetor's gun holsted on his back, and fires at Scourge, sending him away to crash into the trees.

Cheetor: What was that?

Lori: I fired.

Terrorsaur is flying above the trees, watching over the Maximals' fight with Scourge, but he notices Cheetor is absent and so is Lori. He looks ahead to find them both running away. He takes up with his Null Ray Rifle, but when he pulls the trigger, it's out of ammo.

Terrorsaur: Dammit! Can't be out already!

But he looks down to find a Trekkie in a crowd, holding onto a fazer gun in hand. That gives Terrorsaur an idea.

Cheetor continues rolling down the field with Lori to get away from the scene, but then Terrorsaur drops down in front of them, holding onto the stolen fazer gun.

Terrorsaur: You won't get away this time. There's nowhere for you to run.

Cheetor: Run from you?

Cheetor grabs a pole and throws it to Terrorsaur, but Terrorsaur evades it by flapping his wings to thin air, and lands back. Now ready, the Predacon takes aim with the fazer gun, but nothing comes out.

Terrorsaur: What?! For Primus' sake! I'll just have to-

Then Lori fires Cheetor's pistol, blasting Terrorsaur away and into a parting crowd on Main Street of the park.

Terrorsaur: [groans] Shit.

Then the Trekkie from a while ago comes over with the police at his side.

Trekkie: That's him! He stole my fazer gun!

Cop: Okay, we're taking you in, sir.

The police are apprehending Terrorsaur, but he breaks free from their clutches and draws his scythe.

Terrorsaur: Stand back! Or suffer the wrath of the great and mighty Terro-

Suddenly, a cop fires him with a taser gun, stunning him and destabilizing him.

Meanwhile, Cheetor makes it out of the jungle, and puts Lori back on the ground. But then, Megatron emerges from hiding, growling at the two. Cheetor stands in front of Lori, protecting her. Megatron transforms, blasts Cheetor away.

Lori: Cheetor!

Megatron: You're coming with me, child.

Optimus: This is unnecessary, Megatron.

Megatron turns to his right, seeing Optimus standing by. Lori stays by Cheetor while he is still down.

Megatron: Optimus Primal. I haven't seen you since our last battle. The human is under my influence now. But I'd be willing to leave her, if you'd be willing to tell where the Golden Disk is.

Optimus: For the thousandth times, I don't know. It was in an escape pod.

Megatron: Exactly! Don't think I don't remember. All escape pods don't deploy until the impact coordinates are set, and your ship launched one.

Optimus: Even if I remember where I dialed the impact point, I'd never tell you.

Megatron: Then it looks like I'll have to kill you.

Both leaders draw their melee weapons: Optimus has a Nexus Sword and Megatron with his Dominator Mace. They clash their weapons together, starting a fight. But Megatron quickly reverts back to beast mode, bites down on Optimus and throws him away. The Predacon leader converts back to robot mode, aiming at Optimus with his Bone Collector Cannon.

Megatron: Too bad for you, Cybertron was never big enough for the two of us, brother.

Suddenly, gun fires come from the sky. There are government CH-53K helicopters hovering the battle scene aiming only at Megatron. Outnumbered with the helicopters closing into the ground, the Predacon leader has no choice but to hide in the trees.

Lori aids Optimus as the helicopters land and a few agents deploy to aid the Cheetor. Getting out from one of the choppers is special agent Owen Black coming over to Lori.

Owen: Lori Roswell?

Lori: Yes?

Owen: I'm special agent Owen Black. We were at your house, but you weren't in presence. We anticipated the Maximals bringing you to their base.

Optimus: [to Lori] Don't worry. Agent Black's an ally to the Maximals.

Owen: I see you've had your hands full, Optimus. And wrecking the happiest place on Earth?

Optimus: It was never part of the plan.

Lori: [to Owen] My family. Where are they?

Owen: They're okay. We've stored them at Level 3's secret base. I think it's time we take you all there.

Optimus: Wait. My time.

Owen: Already taken care of. We picked up the others, sent away the Predacons, but the police captured one. I figured we would hold him in for interrogations.

Having no other way, Lori climbs into the helicopter. Optimus carries Cheetor to get him on the chopper, then he climbs in before it takes off into the air to fly away.

Megatron reaches a swamp, where he meets up with the other Predacons, except for Terrorsaur, in robot mode.

Megatron: Failure, again.

Triple Punch: This would've worked if I had another chance.

Iguanus: Well, you're the one with the extra servos, and you lost the girl back then.

Triple Punch: What were you doing, eating a mouse?!

Inferno: Enough! Our second-in-command has been taken by the pests, and we must rescue him.

Waspinator: Waspinator say we forget needle-nose. Needle-nose always thorn on our side.

Megatron: Maybe so, but we still have things to worry about, yeesss. Terrorsaur won't be out of our reach. With the base, we can trace his Energon signature anywhere in the States. Waspinator, follow those aircrafts. But be as far away from them as you can, now go.

Waspinator salutes, and reverts to beast mode before flying off into the air.

Scourge: But Waspinator has a point. Terrorsaur is nothing to worry about.

Iguanus: And besides, he's always been a walking disease.

Megatron: But for me, when it comes to finding something as important as the Golden Disk, easy or hard, I require every Predacon in my aid.

Scourge: Then why aren't we going now?

Megatron: Not yet. Waspinator will find the landing zone for Terrorsaur, once he's done his mission, we all have the right time to strike. Yes! Follow me.

Act Fourteen

All the way in Arizona, the helicopters fly over the land to go somewhere. In one of the CH-53K's interior, the Maximals in beast mode lie still there with Lori beside them. Cheetor starts waking up.

Ramulus: Cheetor, are you alright?

Cheetor: Yeah. Mega-dork really did a number on me.

Lori: But Optimus. You told me you lost your brother.

Optimus: [sighs] I did… to the enemy. He ceased to be a Maximal and became a Predacon. When that happened, the Megatron I knew was vanquished. What I told you was true, from a certain point of view.

Lori: [incredulously] A certain point of view? First someone tells me a bad robot turns good, and now you're telling me it can happen vice versa? How do I know I can trust you?

Rattrap: Eh, who can blame ye? You're just a human being, and we're a couple of alien robots. Way to point that out.

Optimus: Lori, listen to me. I know this is all happening to you so quickly. We all may be different, we share some similarities. We have emotions, and that makes choices for us all. His choice was to be a leader, mine is to protect all life-forms if it kills me.

Lori: But I never asked to be a part of this! I didn't even want some stalker cat to drag me into something I don't know!

Cheetor: [offended] I'm sorry you were dragged into this mess, but once we've reclaimed the Disk, we'll never bother you again.

Cheetor walks away from Lori, sitting down by himself. Lori looks at him, feeling sorry for what she said with her attitude. She walks over to the Cheetor, petting him on the back.

Lori: I didn't want to offend you. What I mean to say is… I appreciate you letting me tag along. [pauses] You guys are the only friends I ever had.

No longer offended, Cheetor rubs his head on Lori's, purring and letting her hug him. Optimus comes over, putting his hand on her shoulder.

Optimus: We do whatever it takes to protect you, by whatever means.

At the moment, Lori is clearing her mind. Her vision is blank just like before, but shows the Earth and the white dot making a stop in between Arizona and Nevada. She opens her eyes, stunned.

Ramulus: Lori? What happened?

Lori: [panting] I think… I located something. I felt it had a strong energy signature. And it's in between… two States.

After a while, the helicopters arrive at Hoover Dam. A large hole opens allowing them to hover low before it sealed itself. They land safely there, opening the interior hatches to release the Maximals and Lori to get a glimpse at the base.

Owen: Welcome to Level 3.

Cheetor: Cool. So now you're letting us in.

Owen: Miss Roswell, a few of my colleagues will take you to your folks.

A few of Owen Black's agents lead Lori across the hall to the door for another room. She opens it, revealing her family (Kristy and Roman) in storage there. Kristy, looking so worried, comes to Lori before hugging her.

Kristy: Thank goodness you're safe.

Roman: Where were you, huh?

Lori: I was sidetracked by… alien robots, but I met some helpful ones.

Kristy: I thought something terrible happened to you. The people said you're involved with all this. Why?

Lori: Well… the Maximals said I have a fragment of something from outer space.

Kristy and Roman look confused. They have no idea what she's talking about. Then a man comes in interrupting their moment. All of a sudden, Roman gets in a panic and points at his sister.

Roman: She did it! She did it! She's the one you want! All right? I was just sitting at home watching cartoons, playing video games with my grandmother, and she came in there. And then…

Lori: Roman, would you-

Roman: Hey! I am not going to jail for you or anybody else! I have done nothing bad my entire life!

Man: Son, screaming won't help-

Roman: Okay, so what- I've uploaded a couple of Grand Theft Auto V scenes on YouTube. Who hasn't? Who hasn't? I promise!

Lori: Roman, shut up!

Roman: No, you shut up! Don't talk to me! Don't talk to me, criminal!

Roman pauses for a bit, then he lets out a deep breath, finally calming down.

Roman: [sighs] That was intense.

Kristy: Roman. Let the man finish.

Man: Thank you. You are all coming with me.

Meanwhile, Agent Black escorts Greg's team into a room where the soldiers will find out something interesting.

Greg: Pardon me, agent. But as I remember, you were going to show us….

Then Black stops as Greg and his team see something that shocked them. The three of them see the Maximals right before their eyes.

Owen: These are our secret friends. The Maximals. Alien robots.

[4 second silence]

Greg: Uh…. [to Optimus] Sergeant Greg Oswald.

Optimus: I am Optimus Primal. Leader of the Maximals. We mean you no harm.

Travis: It's cool to meet robots from outer space… but we like to know what's going on.

Optimus: You were attacked by a few of our enemies: the Predacons. I will explain it to you.

The Roswell family enters the room to the Maximals where they've been waiting for Lori's return. Kristy and Roman are shocked to see those six foot robots right before their eyes. And Greg and his team come over, glimpsing upon them. Greg sees Lori before coming over to her.

Greg: You're Lori Roswell, am I right? Sergeant Greg of the US army. We heard about you on the way here.

Travis: What did they get you for?

Lori: Uh… I was translating a few alien hieroglyphics.

Owen: You see, Mrs. Roswell. Your daughter was one of the few who intercepted acquaintance with alien androids.

Kristy: But how? She's never met any strangers.

Cheetor: Well… I kinda dropped in to save her from meaner robots.

Optimus: All will be explained.

Act Fifteen

Outside the base, a government semi-truck carrying a trailer is driving on a road to a dead end. The wall opens revealing a secret door to go into the base. But up high, Waspinator spots the scene, scanning the truck with x-ray to find Terrorsaur inside before the wall seals itself again.

Waspinator: There you are. Needle-nose inside. This will be easy.

Back with Lori, she along with her family, Greg's team and the Maximals are led by Black across the hall to the basement. Lori tells her family everything aboutwhy she's involved with this.

Owen: Level 3 was commissioned by our 26th president Theodore Roosevelt in 1913. Our objective was to analyse any unnatural items in the globe. What we have here may originate from the Maximals' home planet.

Arriving at the basement, Travis and Roman find scratch marks on the walls.

Roman: Oh, wow.

Travis: What's that? Freddy Krueger done been up in here or something?

Roman: No way. Freddy Krueger has four blades, man. That's only three; that's Wolverine! Hrr! [laughing] Right? That's Wolverine!

Rattrap: [sarcastic] That's very funny.

Suddenly, everyone stumbles upon something shocking. There are four escape pods from the Maximals' downed ship, hanging by the ceiling three feet off the ground.

Rattrap: Hey. Are those…?

Rhinox: Yep. Our escape pods. They're all here.

Lori: But how did they get this?

Owen: The first one on your left? That's the first one we've found. After doing a little research, president Roosevelt has ordered Level 3 to recover it. We've been having it since 1935. Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind. Fact is, you're looking at the source of the modern age. Microchips, lasers, iPhones, Touchscreen, everything to do with high-tech by studying them.

Optimus: But agent Black, one of the pods had the Disk. If you've found the pod, where is it?

Owen: Right there.

Owen pointed to his right, showing the group something. Something both Maximals and Predacons have been looking for years. The Golden Disk itself. Contained in a glass cube. It's solid gold, two feet wide and has Cybertronian encryption on it.

Kristy: Good lord. What is that?

Lori: The Golden Disk. Our ancestor, Alistair Drummond, discovered it long ago.

Optimus: We finally found it.

All of a sudden, Dinobot growls as he grapples Black by the shirt and pulls him up.

Dinobot: And you didn't tell us from the beginning?

Owen: I had no choice. Our mandate was to keep everything inside the base classified. And besides, we recently found out it contains high energy, enough to give a signal, which is why we kept it in the dam.

Lori: Dinobot. Let him go. It's not his fault.

Dinobot stares at Lori with a growling face. But slowly calming down, he lets Black go.

Dinobot: Don't expect something pleasant from me, human.

Dinobot decides to go on his own. Lori watches as the former Predacon marches out of the basement to somewhere else.

Greg: [to Owen] And you didn't think the United States military might need to know that you're keeping alien artefacts in the basement?

Owen: Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security.

Greg: Well you got one now. So what's so important about some coin?

Optimus: The Disk was forged as a compass to find anything in the universe. We were using it to find the Allspark.

Travis: Allspark? What is that?

Rhinox: The heart of our race. We Maximals need it to rebuild our home planet, but the Predacons want it to take over the galaxy. Starting with Cybertron.

Outside the Dam, without being seen, Dinobot stands there watching the Black Canyon as he thinks for himself.

Dinobot: For years we've allied with agent Black, but he never had the nerve to tell us. What other surprises do I need to hear?

Back in the basement, the Maximals and their human allies are still having a talk about the Golden Disk.

Kristy: Wait- wait. Agent Black. You said something about the disk having an energy. What kind exactly?

Owen: Good question. Anybody have any mechanical devices? BlackBerry, key alarm, Bluetooth, cell phone?

Roman: I got a phone.

Roman hands Black his old phone. Opening the glass container, he taps the phone on the disk which makes a glow and it transforms into a tiny robot. The robot looks vicious with sharp claws and guns. It tries to escape, but Black shoots it with a pistol to destroy it.

Owen: We've been analysing it for years, and it's still unknown to us. You use too much of it and electronics go berserk.

Optimus: The energy the Disk contains is a piece of the Crystal. Alistair Drummond jettisoned its power into his blood.

Ramulus: And now it is in Lori's.

Roderick: Cool. But how does it work?

Optimus obtains the disk in his hands to give off a demonstration. He decides to use it on Lori.

Optimus: Lori. It might react if you carry it.

Lori calmly holds the Golden Disk in both of her hands. Suddenly, it glows gold. Everyone awes as it's happening. She stares at the coin and her face grows a smile, amazed. But the glow begins to fade away.

Kristy: Sweetie? Are you…?

Lori: I'm okay, mom.

Owen: I'm confused. What was that magic all about?

Rhinox: The piece was split in two for years. This is how Allspark fragments react when they're reunited.

Rattrap: Screw the hocus-pocus. We need to know where the Crystal is.

Lori almost forgot about that. She tries touching one of the hieroglyphics on the cover to see if she can navigate the Crystal. She gets a little information inside her head. Lori stops looking at the disk and looks paranoid.

Cheetor: What is it?

Act Sixteen

In the parking lot, a trailer truck is parking at the corner. They pull out the restrained Terrorsaur out on a bed. Suddenly, a spacebridge portal opens in thin air, the Predacons rush through it and attack the base. The alarms are triggered everywhere in Level 3's base. Megatron comes over, freeing Terrorsaur from his restraints.

Terrorsaur: Lord Megatron, I am greatly honoured for my rescue.

Megatron: This is merely a commandeer rather than a rescue, Terrorsaur.

Scourge is shooting everything in sight, cackling like a lunatic.

Megatron: Control yourself, you fool. You'll scare away the target.

Back in the basement, everyone around Lori is alarmed as well as she is.

Lori: The Predacons! They're here!

Owen: Impossible! This base is top secret. No one can get inside easily.

Optimus: Megatron must have found a way getting inside.

Roman: What do we do now?

Greg: If they want the coin, they'll have to fight for it.

Owen: Negative. This place is full of hydroelectricity. Fighting inside? That's worse than setting a bomb in your bed.

Optimus: I'm afraid we have no choice… we have to fight the Predacons either in or out of a city.

Greg: The closest one is Boulder City.

Travis: We cannot make a stand without the Air Force.

Owen: There's an old army radio console.

Greg: Will it work?

Owen: I don't know.

Suddenly, the basement door is bashed open through by Scourge, Iguanus and Terrorsaur. The agents fire their weapons as the Maximals leave with Lori still having the coin. Iguanus sees the Golden Disk within Maximal reach.

Iguanus: There! They've got the Golden Disk!

Terrorsaur: Predacons-terrorize!

The Predacons transform into robot mode and fire their own weapons at the humans. Agent Black has Kristy and Roman with him heading to the radio console. The Maximals and Greg's team are split up from Lori when she tries to find someone she almost forgot.

Back outside, Dinobot sees Lori coming outside to come for him.

Lori: Dinobot! They're here! The Predacons are-

Suddenly, Triple Punch (chasing after Lori) fires a grenade at her side. She doesn't get hurt; she runs back the moment it happens.

Dinobot: [growls] Dinobot, maximize!

Dinobot transforms into robot mode, but Triple Punch fires another grenade at him, flying him off to the edge. After Triple Punch leaves, Lori drops the disk and aids Dinobot to pull him up.

Dinobot: What are you doing? I'm too heavy for you.

Lori: No shit, but you can't die like this.

Dinobot: Release me! Let me fall and save yourself.

Lori: Now, where's the honour in that?

Lori's hold on Dinobot's with her hands weakens. She uses all her power to try saving the Maximal.

Dinobot: You have no choice.

Lori is about to fall as well, but the pair gets saved at the last moment by Rhinox.

Lori: Rhinox!

Rhinox: Going up.

Dinobot reverts back into beast mode before Lori regains the Golden Disk she dropped and they rendezvous with the others. They find a truck and climb in before driving away, and the Predacons, except Scourge, burst out of the dam and chase after the vehicle.

Back in the base, Black, Kristy and Roman make it to a radio console. The special agent goes to one of the radios covered in dust.

Owen: Give me a minute. Give me a minute. Come to me, Maxwell, come to me. Plugged in there... We're hot! We're live!

Roman: Where are the mikes?

Owen: ...Mikes?

Roman: This doesn't work without mikes.

Owen: No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!

Kristy: Roman.

Roman hears his mother calling from one of the computers. He comes over along with Black to see what it is. Kristy is setting up her son's laptop she pulled out from his bag.

Kristy: Can you hack with your laptop to transmit a tone- through the radio?

Roman: What good is that?

Owen: Morse code! You can use it to transmit it through that!

Roman: Okay, I'll do it! No one knows computers like I do.

Roman sits at the desk and starts hacking. Suddenly, the moment is interrupted as the locked door begins to rattle. Black and Kristy look towards the door as the rattling becomes more intense. Agent Black puts Lori's mother behind his arm, protectively.

Kristy: Who's that?

Owen: I believe it's one of them.

Roman: Master search…. I- I got it! We're transmitting!

Owen: Send exactly what I say! This is special agent Black.

Roman: Uh-huh?

Owen: Get me NORTHCOM commander, presidential order. Authenticate emergency action. Blackbird 1195-

Suddenly, Scourge bursts in through the door making Kristy and Trek shriek.

Scourge: [cackling] Looks like I hit the mother-load. Scourge, terrorize!

Reverting to robot mode, the psychotic Predacon fires his Semi Automatic Heat Laser and rockets from his wings trying to sabotage their frequency. Black picks up his gun to shoot the crazy machine. Kristy and Roman have their heads down while there's a battle going on.

Roman: Shoot that motherf- whoa!

But looking at the computer screen from his laptop, Roman finds out the Air Force's reply.

Roman: [to Owen] The Air Force! They're responding!

Still shooting, Black manages to aim a bullet into Scourge's left eye. Firing his Semi Automatic Heat Laser forward, the Predacon hops forward to the humans.

Owen: You are crazy, buzz boy!

Scourge: And that's why I have no fear! [cackling]

But then, Kristy sticks a gun into Scourge's jaw and pulls the trigger to kill the robot.

Owen: Nice one.

Kristy: Thanks.

Roman: Yes! They're sending F-22s to the city!

Owen: Good work, son. Now we have to hope our friends can handle it.

Act Seventeen

On the Great Basin Highway to Boulder City, the Maximals are stashed in the trailer truck with Lori inside with them to hide themselves from any humans. Driving the truck are Greg and his team, and the Predacons are chasing after them. Iguanus jumps onto an Audi R8 before taking a bite on it. Her feet turn into wheels and she has the power to drive with high velocity. Inferno flies with his beast mode abdomen splitting open to form spinning blades surrounding a quad-jet thruster. Megatron charges through the cars before breathing fire at the truck. The trailer gets force-opened and Lori hides beside Cheetor in terror.

Cheetor: You okay?

Lori: I'm scared.

Dinobot: Leave this to me.

Dinobot reverts to beast mode and stays behind to stop the pursuers. Rattrap decides to tag along by jumping onto Dinobot's back.

Dinobot: Get off me, vermin.

Rattrap: Sorry, chopperface. The big ape's had enough of you going alone.

Rattrap takes out his Plasma Pistol and manages to shoot Inferno from above. He then digs his Electro Whip into Rampage, and steers him into the firing line of Dinobot before hurling him into oncoming traffic to damage him. Terrorsaur and Waspinator swoops down to snatch the trailer, but Ramulus fires his Scrapmaker Cannon to send them flying away. Ramulus and Rhinox revert to beast mode to help out the others. Iquanus drives a little closer to the truck, but Optimus blasts her away.

Optimus: Cheetor. Think you can get Lori to safety?

Cheetor: Sure thing, big bot.

Cheetor transforms before Lori, still holding the disk, mounts on him. Jumping out of the trailer, Cheetor makes a turn to Nevada Way. Waspinator flies by himself to chase after him. With the Maximals in beast mode, they go back into the truck before they would make a drive over the hill to make a shortcut.

Cheetor reverts into robot mode before his feet fold out roller skates for a fast manoeuvrability across Nevada Way. He manages to reach Wilbur Square but Waspinator fires his Javelin Sniper at his leg, causing him to collapse into the grass. The people in the park run away as they believe there's a battle going on.

Lori: Cheetor!

Cheetor: I'm okay. Just a shot on my lap.

The truck parks at the edge of the park before the Maximals and Greg's team aid Lori and Cheetor. But then, the Predacons arrive at the other side of the park.

Megatron: At long last, we've come to this, but we must know the resuit. The Golden Disk is my property in the end, Optimus Primal, yeesss. Any last words?

Optimus: I'd say that's prime.

Megatron: It's time to end this conflict once and for all. Predacons, terrorize!

Optimus: Maximals, maximize!

One by one, each side reverts into robot mode and arm themselves for battle.

Iguanus: Iguanus, terrorize!

Rhinox: Rhinox, maximize!

Triple Punch: Triple Punch, terrorize!

Rattrap: Rattrap, maximize!

Terrorsaur: Terrorsaur, terrorize!

Dinobot: Dinobot, maximize!

Inferno: Inferno, terrorize!

Ramulus: Ramulus, maximize!

Megatron: Megatron, terrorize!

Optimus: Optimus Primal, maximize!

Greg and his team are armed for battle, making a perimeter to guard Lori and Cheetor as both sides eye each other across a pass through the park.

Megatron: Obliterate them!

Optimus: Let's do it.

Both sides charge and begin tearing one another. Dinobot is fighting Triple Punch, Rattrap against Iguanus, Ramulus against Inferno and Waspinator, Rhinox against Terrorsaur, and Optimus against Megatron. A lot of people in Boulder City evacuate to avoid themselves from getting hurt. Greg's team look bummed for not getting into all the actions.

Roderick: C'mon. How come we don't tag along?

Then Rampage shows up breaking through some trees.

Rampage: Because you get the best for me. Rampage, terrorize!

Rampage reverts into robot mode and fires his Plasma Cannon at them. The team, however, begin firing at the Predacon as they did once long ago.

Ramulus rams forward to defeat Waspinator, but Inferno aims his Backdraft Cannon, destroying the Maximal. Dinobot slashes Triple Punch with his Raptor Hook flipping out of his forearm, then kills him by cutting his head off with his Tail Katana. After that, he rendezvous with the humans to help shoot Rampage down. Later, Rhinox and Rattrap tag along to help them out.

On California Avenue, Optimus and Megatron continue fighting with their melee weapons. Reverting into their beast modes, they begin their brawl. The Optimus roars at Megatron aggressively, while the Predacon gives a loud bellow in return. At first, the Megatron has the upper hand of the fight, able to grab onto Optimus's arm and bites deep into him and shoves him to the road.

After regaining his focus, Optimus frees himself from the Megatron's jaws, after knocking down a tree which nearly crushes a dog. Optimus roars and snaps at Megatron which is backing up, roaring back. The two leaders bite and snap at each other's flanks, and the Predacon leader manages to charge at his brother, pushing it forward.

Megatron: Admit defeat, Maximal. The indicator shall be our's.

Optimus: Not if I can help it.

Using all his strength, Optimus grabs and tosses Megatron away to get his head stuck in a tanker truck. Reverting to robot mode, he manages to get unstuck from the tank.

Optimus: Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Megatron: Then they should stay out of my way!

After firing his Bone Collector Cannon, Iguanus and Inferno come over to attack Optimus while Megatron leaves to go somewhere else. Optimus draws his sword and slices Iguanus in half that kills her and kicks Inferno away into the air.

Back on Wilbur Square, Greg's team are still fighting Rampage until Greg gets interrupted by Black contacting him through his walkie-talkie.

Owen: Sergeant Greg. Do you read?

Greg: I read ya, Black. What's the stat?

Owen: Alright, listen up. We've been able to inform the air force. They're sending F-22s to your area.

Greg: That's good. Cause we're taking heavy fire out here.

Owen: Don't worry. I've sent Black Hawks to Boulder City to pick up the girl to another location. She'll be safe there.

After putting down his walkie-talkie, Greg comes over to Lori to hand her some flares and tell her the plan

Greg: Lori. Listen up. All right, I can't leave my guys back there, so here, take this flare. Okay, there's a high school building on Avenue G. Go to the roof, set the flare.

Lori: No.

Greg: Signal the chopper and set the flare-

Lori: No, no. I can't leave Cheetor!

Greg: L-Listen to me! You're a soldier now! All right? I need you to take that disk, Get it into military hands while we hold them off, or a lot of people are gonna die. We're depending on you.

Lori never felt so depended on by anyone in her whole life. It feels like she finally made friends. She takes somoe time to breathe and recollect herself.

Lori: Okay. I'll do it.

Travis: [at his walkie-talkie] Army Black Hawk requested. Immediate evac for civilian girl with precious cargo. Headed to the rooftop marked by flare.

Cheetor: Don't worry about me, Lori. I'll be fine.

Rhinox: Rattrap and I will take you there.

Rattrap: Wha- wha- wha?! You go get yourself scrapped. Cause I ain't-

Then, Rhinox grabs Rattrap by the head to convince him to come.

Rattrap: Alright- alright. Maximal school bus on the way.

Rhinox reverts into beast mode before Lori and Rattrap mount him. He runs across Utah Way while Dinobot and the humans are fighting against Rampage. Rhinox doesn't have Cheetor's sleek manoeuvrability, but he's got the speed and massive power of a runaway freight train. Lori and Rattrap look forward to seeing their path blocked by a city bus parked sideways.

Rattrap: Hey, heads up! Roadblock!

Lori: Rhinox, go left! There's a clearing there!

Lori and Rattrap close their eyes as they are quickly getting closer, then Rhinox rams through the bus at full speed like it's a piece of paper. The pair open their eyes, realizing they've made it.

Lori: Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

Suddenly, Terrorsaur shows up far ahead of the charging Rhinox getting ready to slice him with his scythe.

Terrorsaur: You've got nowhere to go! Time for you to-

But before he can finish, Rhinox rams Terrorsaur out of the way, sending him flying off into an ice cream store.

Back on Wilbur Square, Rampage is still shooting his weapons and Dinobot deflects the blasts with his rotary shield. Dinobot charges for the attack and Rampage pulls out his Metal Eating Teeth (a chainsaw) to fight against the Predacon deserter.

Rampage: You're a fool joining these insects.

Dinobot: And Megatron is a bucket of slag. He deserves to die from my honour for mistreating me.

Dinobot fires lasers at Rampage's face, and Greg kills him with his rocket launcher. And thus, the battle has won.

Travis: Yes! We did it!

Dinobot: No time to celebrate. Lori is still in need.

In the air, the F-22s arrive, targeting the Predacon flyers. Waspinator and Terrorsaur are chased away while Inferno engages three jets with his armoury.

Inferno: Your power is useless against the royalty, fools!

Suddenly, a jet fires at him, sending him into the ground. And the impact kills Inferno.

On Avenue G, Rhinox manages to get close to the high school, but Megatron ram him over, causing Lori and Rattrap to fall off. Lori holds the Golden Disk in her arms as Megatron chases after her to the parking lot.

Megatron: Give me that disk, anthropoid.

Rhinox and Rattrap transform and distract Megatron by shooting him. Rhinox knocks over a tree to ground the Predacon leader, and a ratball special puts Rattrap into position to pump gunfire into Megatron. Then Megatron manages to blast them away as Lori finds a door left open and goes inside the building.

Lori: [whispers] Get away from me. Get away from me.

Without using the door, Megatron bursts through the wall and chases after her. Lori climbs up the stairs before Megatron can lose her in his sight.

Megatron: [growls] You can't hide for long, child.

Lori climbs up high to the very end of the stairs and the rooftop of the building. She sees an incoming Black Hawk helicopter coming in before lighting up a flare to give a signal.

Lori: [to the chopper pilot] HEY! OVER HERE!

The pilot sees the ignited flare and lowers down to pick her up. But she finds Terrorsaur closing in through the air and arming his Null Ray Rifle.

Lori: Look out!

The Predacon fires at the helicopter's rotating wings, forcing it to fall down and impact on Avenue G. Lori is now stranded on the roof.

Terrorsaur: Your flight's been cancelled, Roswell.

Megatron in beast mode smashes through the door and sneers at Lori being helplessly trapped on the roof. Terrorsaur resumes his post to defeat the remaining Maximals in the city. The Predacon leader walks closer to Lori as she glimpses at him in terror while being on the edge.

Megatron: I'm impressed, yeesss. Your new courage suits you. The regular you wouldn't make it this far.

Lori: Stay away from me.

Megatron: I'm offering you a choice, Lori-Roswell. Give me the Golden Disk and your planet will be spared.

Lori: And…. And if I refuse?

Megatron: You cannot refuse, noooo. Not if you want to survive. Obey me or perish.

Lori doesn't want to let her new friends down by handing their enemy that disk. She recollects herself again and looks at him with refusal.

Lori: I would rather be burned alive!

She ignites another flare and throws it into Megatron's eye. So much pain, Megatron winces and shakes his head before turning around. But a swing of his tail sends Lori flying off. She screams with her arms wrapping the disk and her legs tucked. But before she would impact on the road, Dinobot swoops in and rescues her. Dinobot gets a bit damaged from the rescue, but Lori's unharmed.

Lori: Dinobot? You saved me?

Dinobot: My action wasn't involving loyalty, but I owed you my life. Now it makes us… even.

Dinobot regains his bearings by the time Megatron shows up but with so much rage. Lori hides behind Dinobot believing he would protect her. Then, Optimus finally jumps onto his brother to continue his fight.

Optimus: You have no right to claim my team's fate, nor my friends'. It's over.

Megatron: It is never over! No!

The two of them fight each other with their melee weapons. Lori watches as Optimus is taking a beating. She can't stand there and watch her friend get killed. She glimpses the Golden Disk to think of something. She knows it will mean the end of something, but it might be worth it.

Optimus is brutally damaged and Megatron has his foot on his brother's back.

Megatron: As weak as ever. I always was the best fighter on Cybertron, yeesss.

Lori: But not on Earth, mega-dick!

Lori throws the disk like it was a Frisbee right into Megatron's chest plate.

Megatron: AH! You insolent brat! I-

That much power in the Golden Disk is so powerful, it kills the Predacon leader. But the energy in Megatron's body and the hard pressure for the disk causes it to destabilize. Up in the air, Waspinator and Terrorsaur see the disk's going to blow.

Waspinator: Not good at all.

Terrorsaur: Let's get out of here! Beast mode!

The remaining Predacons revert to beast mode and fly off to a far away area. The Maximals are all together along with their human allies, but see the Golden Disk going to react.

Optimus: Beast mode, Maximals, and prepare for Energon waves!

They head for cover as it builds to overload. A huge explosion acquires within a hundred meter radius, shutting down all electronics, depleting most of the disk's energy and reducing it to fragments.

Act Eighteen

From up high, the Predacon fliers stop and watch in horror as they see Megatron's dead body. They revert to robot mode and hover in the air.

Waspinator: Megatron? Destroyed?

However, Terrorsaur smirks because this is the opportunity for his leadership.

Terrorsaur: I'm afraid so, Waspinator. It is with deep sorrow that I note the log… Megatron's spark… has been extinguished. However, to be sure the Predacon cause will keep going until the end of time, I shall nominate myself as the new leader.

Waspinator: Wait. Needle-nose too usurping to be leader. Waspinator says Waspinator rule Predacons.

Terrorsaur: You'd get scrapped on your first day.

Back in Boulder City, everyone stops hiding and comes over to see Megatron's dead body. Lori feels ashamed for destroying it.

Roderick: Whoa. And I was expecting an earth-shattering kaboom.

Rattrap: Same here, but what in the galaxy was that?

Rhinox: The disk had a rough touch of machinery. The power it contained had to implode.

Lori: I'm sorry, guys. I didn't mean to destroy it.

Cheetor: And yet you saved big-bot.

Optimus: Cheetor's right. You did the right thing. Am I right, Ramulus?

But there's no response from their other Maximal. Dinobot shows up carrying Ramulus's dead body to him.

Dinobot: I'm afraid… we've lost Ramulus. His spark was extinguished by Inferno.

Taking pity on Ramulus's death, Optimus glares at his body but focuses on Greg and his team.

Optimus: We lost a great comrade. But we gained new ones. We thank all of you for helping us. You honour us with your bravery.

Greg: It's our job to help others in need.

Travis: At least Megatron's gone and so is the Golden Disk. So it's over… uh… isn't it?

Optimus: No. Even with the Allspark's location unknown to us, Energon is now the target for our enemies. Terrorsaur may be back and the Earth is rich with energy. If they ever get enough, they can still conquer the galaxy. But for now, the battle is won.

A few weeks later, it's night time back in Greenland Crescent. Lori is in her bedroom sitting on her desk looking very blue. It's her birthday today, but she has no one to come over. Her mother opens the door to see her daughter.

Kristy: Something wrong, sweetheart?

Lori: It's just the same as all of my birthdays. Nobody to come over to my party and have cake and ice cream.

Kristy: Well, don't look so blue. Come downstairs. I have a surprise for you.

Escorting Lori, blindfolded, downstairs, Kristy smiles with excitement for some reason. She brings her to the living room before leaving her to stand.

Kristy: Now open them.

Lori removes the wrapping around her eyes, but she gets surprised when some people call out loud something. Some confetti pops at her, making her stifle a scream in surprise.

People: SURPRISE!

Lori's eyes widen when she sees a surprise party in the living room. The Maximals, Greg's team and agent Black are there with the birthday cake in the middle.

Lori: What- what are you guys doing here?

Greg: Why wouldn't we? We won the battle because of you.

Rattrap: Yeah, kid. So we came to your party to wish ya a happy birthday, and a… thanks.

Roderick: The same thing with us.

Dinobot: I suppose we… owe you our lives for doing an honourable way of saving Optimus.

Owen: The president has heard of your actions back in Boulder City. He's very pleased with you saving us.

Optimus: And when your mother told us about your birthday, we decided to come over.

Lori: Wow, mom. Really?

Kristy: This is something you've longed for, Lori. You've finally got friends, all to come over for your birthday.

Cheetor: And I have something to say too, Lori. Optimus gave me permission to stay with you. If that's your choice.

Lori never feels this happy in all her life. It's so pleasing, she burst into tears with joy.

Lori: Thanks, you guys. And yes, Cheetor. You can stay.

She comes over and embraces herself to Cheetor.

Roman: Come on, sis. Make a wish.

With a bright smile, Lori comes to the cake and blows out her candles before everyone cheers for her.

Everyone has cake and ice cream as the whole gang are getting very much acquainted with each other. Lori is in the backyard with Cheetor lying behind her watching the stars. Optimus stands on the rooftop watching the night sky as well. This is something you've longed for, Lori. You've finally got friends, all to come over for your birthday.

"With the Allspark lost, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward- A new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage. I am Optimus Primal. And I send this message to any surviving Maximals taking refuge among the stars. Our battle lies here in this primitive world. And let it be called… Beast Wars."

The End