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[wind whistling]

[drones whirring]

[Megatron] It is my unfortunate duty

to report to you that the Autobots,

led by Optimus Prime,

have callously murdered one of our finest soldiers...

a Decepticon patriot, Impactor.

Autobots, for the good of Cybertron,

immediately find the nearest Surrender Station.

We have made it easy... [voice fades out]

[coughing and gasping]

[grunts]

[gasps]

[Impactor gasping]

If you're here to kill me...

[gasps]

you're too late.

Mm...

[Prowl] Looking for next steps, Elita-1.

Do we prep for more of the fight or get everyone ready to run?

There will soon be nowhere else to run.

If Megatron finds the Allspark, he'll control the entire planet.

Nowhere would be safe on Cybertron.

[gasps softly] Optimus?

What if the Allspark was no longer on Cybertron?

[Elita] What... do you mean?

We find the Allspark and we will take it off Cybertron.

What happens to Cybertron without the Allspark?

If you believe the old religions,

remove the Allspark and Cybertron dies.

We will not let that happen.

[Starscream scoffs] I hear that Megatron wants to reformat the Autobots.

I find his plan disgusting.

You're treading dangerous ground.

[Starscream] If you ask me, that would dilute our race as Decepticons,

ruining our honorable warrior heritage.

Can you imagine one of them as one of us?

They wouldn't be true Decepticons.

It's a mistake

and evidence of Megatron's weakness of heart.

[Decepticons murmuring in agreement]

-[Jetfire] I'm willing to wager... -[Decepticons gasp]

...it won't be Megatron's plan

that leads to your doom.

Your false sense of superiority

will take care of that.

And your blind loyalty will be the death of you!

[both growling]

Anyone who has a problem with my vision for Cybertron

will not have a place in it.

Yes. Of course, Lord Megatron. We--

Should be on patrol!

Uh, yes. Of course.

Seekers, to the sky!

[engines blasting]

Starscream has his uses,

but never forget, he's just a weapon.

If you ask me, he's more like a tool.

And tools are easily replaced.

[Elita] Optimus, you're so caught up on what if and not--

[sighs] Elita, we all know what will happen if Megatron--

If we find the Allspark,

how in the name of Primus do we get it off Cybertron?

Even if we had enough energon to launch the Ark,

the Decepticons would shoot us out of the sky!

Unless we don't give them the chance.

What are you talking about, Wheeljack?

I, uh...

was trying to tell you when I was out with that scavenger Bumblebee.

We discovered the remains of a Spacebridge.

I think it can be repaired.

A Spacebridge? You've gotta be kidding.

Normally, I'd say that kind of tech is beyond me,

but I know an expert who's great at putting things back together.

[Prime] Excellent, Wheeljack.

If we can repair the Spacebridge,

that will be our way off the planet.

-Wheeljack, let us go... -[Prowl sighs] This is madness.

[Elita] No, worse. It's desperation.

[Shockwave] No luck finding the Autobots as of yet, sir.

I have not been able to extract anything of use.

A simple request easily within your abilities.

You impose too many safeguards on my methods--

[weapon cocks]

Do not lecture me, Shockwave.

[weapon firing up]

[gasps] Megatron!

[weapon firing down]

You are now free to use whatever methods you see fit.

[snarls] But find the location of the Autobots!

[Decepticon laughing]

Hail, Decepticons.

[Spinister] Hail, Decepticon.

What are you doing here?

[Skytread] This is our sector.

I've been tracking a lead on a possible Autobot encampment.

[Spinister] Good. We'll join your hunting party.

Always looking to add to our kill count.

[Mirage gasps]

[Decepticons sniggering]

What was that?

[inaudible]

His disguise isn't gonna hold.

Nothing. A malfunction.

[Spinister] Wait, he's...

An Autobot spy!

-[blast] -[Skytread grunts]

-[blast] -[Spinister grunts]

Autobots, forward!

[Spinister grunting]

-[Prime grunts] -[Spinister groans]

[Decepticon growling]

[weapon cocks]

[Mirage grunts]

[he laughs and grunts]

[Elita grunts]

[Prime grunts]

-[Spinister groans] -[Prime grunts]

[Spinister screams]

[electricity crackling]

[Mirage gasps]

[Decepticon grunting]

[Decepticon screams and groans]

[Decepticon groaning]

[Decepticons grunting]

We need to move now!

[Chromia sighs]

We should go.

This was... a theater?

It's hard to remember a Cybertron that celebrated arts and music.

That is the Cybertron we fight for.

[Bot] Is it, Prime?

That Cybertron is long gone...

because of you.

Uh...

hiya, Ratchet.

[Ratchet] And I told you never to bring anyone here.

I asked Wheeljack to bring us here.

It is my hope to end this war.

I'm sure it is.

What do you want?

[Wheeljack] We need help.

I need help fixing something big... really big.

I don't do that anymore.

You were an engineer.

Your inventions, your manufacturing, your weapons are the stuff of legend.

We even knew of you on Caminus.

Yeah, well, I don't do that anymore.

If someone is in need of healing, fixing or repair, you're welcome to stay.

Otherwise... leave.

This is admirable, Ratchet.

I don't need your praise.

Ironic.

Weapons of war turned into...

I'm way past irony.

I realized my former solutions were making things worse.

I respect your decision to heal instead of harm, Ratchet,

but the fate of everyone on Cybertron is upon us.

I gave up my old trade.

Don't ask me to go back to that life.

It's not what you think.

-[weapon cocks] -Leave! Now!

[grunts] We don't have time for this!

[Impactor] No!

[Mirage grunting]

-[Elita grunting] -[Impactor grunting]

[grunting continues]

Impactor?

You treat Decepticons?

I treat anyone in need of care.

[sighs] Do you have any idea what they're doing to us out there?

Autobot... elitist scum!

[Elita and Mirage grunt]

Do you have any idea what you did to us for a millennia?

[growls] Of course you don't.

Too busy sipping energon behind your gilded walls,

you spoiled little--

You have no idea what I'm about!

[groans]

I was predetermined to slave away in the mines,

pulling energon from the core until death or deactivation,

so you could just race through life.

-[growls] Enough! -You don't command me, Prime!

You weren't down there in the muck like Megatron and me.

[Ratchet] Prime is right.

Enough.

I didn't patch you up just so you could blow a valve here.

You and your team are upsetting my patients.

I suggest you leave.

[Prime] I apologize.

Autobots, we're leaving.

Ratchet,

can you just listen to what he has to say before we leave?

[Ultra Magnus groaning in agony]

[Shockwave] Once again,

where is the location of Autobot Command?

Help me end this war before it destroys us all.

[breathing heavily]

[breathless] You... started this war.

Prime...

will finish it.

[mechanism clanks]

-[Ultra Magnus groaning] -[electricity crackling]

I will have to use more unorthodox methods.

Do it.

Jetfire!

With me.

[Ultra Magnus breathing heavily]

[weapon cocks]

Megatron!

[Megatron] At ease, Jetfire.

Turn around!

[breathing heavily]

No.

Turn around and face me, Megatron!

Pull the trigger.

You have too much honor

to shoot someone in the back...

even me.

[Jetfire grunts]

[footsteps approaching]

Magnus,

you should have taken the shot.

You could have ended the war.

[Ultra Magnus grunts]

Let that be a lesson to us both.

Always take the shot.

Understood.

[Ratchet] I'm dealing with life and death every astro-second,

and you want me to go fix a Spacebridge?

The answer is no.

What? Are you planning on spreading the war to more planets?

Megatron is looking for the Allspark.

He plans to weaponize it.

That can't be.

The Allspark is a vessel of life.

[groans] In the hands of Megatron...

There's no telling what he might do with it.

[Ratchet sighs]

I'll do it,

but not for you and your war...

I'm doing it to keep everyone here safe.

I understand.

Thank you, Ratchet.

-[Impactor] Here. -[Autobot] Mm.

What's the matter? Never seen a Decepticon help an Autobot?

Actually... I haven't.

One of my rules...

everyone I help has to help everyone else.

Impactor,

I need you and the stronger bots to keep watch

while I help Prime fix a Spacebridge.

-What do you mean "help Prime"? -[scoffs] Here we go.

Listen here, you Decepti--

[Ratchet] Quiet!

Megatron has crossed a line that threatens everyone in this camp.

I don't like it,

but helping Prime may be the only way to save them.

Ratchet, you helped me,

now I'm gonna help you.

I'm coming along to make sure you get back in one piece.

-[Mirage] No way! -Absolutely not!

Optimus, he's a Decepticon!

We can't trust him!

[Impactor] You're right.

I am a Decepticon,

but long ago, way before that,

I swore an oath to protect the people of Cybertron.

I didn't swear it to Megatron or the Autobots.

I swore it...

to myself.

[Prime] Ratchet?

Fine by me...

if these two can get along.

Keep your optics on him.

Autobots, let's move.

-[electricity crackling] -[Ultra Magnus groaning]

I ask again,

where is the location of Autobot Command?

[continues groaning]

[screaming]

[groaning] Don't...

make Cybertron suffer.

Don't become like those we rose against.

[groaning continues]

Shockwave...

[Ultra Magnus screaming]

No. All right.

All right!

[murmurs] I will tell you.

[panting]

[groaning] I... will tell you where they are.

Okay, this is as far as we go.

[Wheeljack] It is?

We don't go any further until Impactor's comm is deactivated.

Wait just a nanocycle!

Our intentions here were very clear!

It's okay, Doc.

Meant what I said.

No more factions, no more Autobots, no Decepticons.

[grunts]

Of all the blasted, suffering, miserable things...

taking out someone's comm.

[Jetfire] Impossible. Did you pick that up, too?

[Skywarp] Wait... Impactor?

[Jetfire grunts] Come on!

We found them...

all of them!

Autobot Command...

We'll slaughter every single one of them!

Commander, we should report to Megatron immediately.

[Jetfire grumbles]

Yes... we should make certain.

[Skywarp growls] Megatron will reward us greatly.

We'll annihilate them!

Annihilation of an entire race

shouldn't be the price of peace.

Commander?

We should give them the option to surrender.

No, we kill all of them

while they cower in their hole!

[sighs] I'll report to Megatron myself.

I can't let you murder!

[Skywarp grunts]

[snarls] Starscream was right about you!

[Jetfire] No!

-[blast] -[Skywarp grunts]

[Skywarp growls]

Traitor!

I'm...

sorry.

[Megatron] My fellow Cybertronians...

we have uncovered evidence

that the Autobots now seek to defile the holiest of relics.

[Decepticons growling]

Optimus Prime seeks to destroy the Allspark itself...

the very heart of our beloved planet!

[Decepticons gasp and grumble]

[Megatron] I enlist all Decepticons in the search for the Allspark.

We must keep it out of the hands

of Optimus Prime and his Autobots!

-[Starscream] Skywarp! What has...? -[Megatron] Once we have...

[Skywarp spluttering]

[groans] Jetfire...

betrayed...

[Megatron] ...use it to reformat the Autobots.

[Decepticons cheering]

We will overwrite their faulty programming

and put an end to their war!

We will finally be one!

[Decepticons continue cheering]

Till all are one!

[Decepticons chanting] Hail, Megatron!

Hail, Megatron!