- Silverbolt: You wanted to see me?
- Optimus Primal: I did. I don't know how long this has been going on, but it stops right now, understand?
- Silverbolt: I am not sure to what you are referring to.
- Optimus Primal: I'm talking about you and a certain female Predacon. Or am I wrong? Tell me I'm wrong, and I'll apologize right now.
- [beat]
- Optimus Primal: Hmm?
- [Silverbolt looks down as if he's guilty of something]
- Optimus Primal: [sourly] Well. That's just prime.
- Silverbolt: Sir, I believe that I can bring her around.
- Optimus Primal: [Optimus explodes, banging a fist on a table so hard it smashes] Oh, don't be an IDIOT! She may have been made from Maximal parts, but she is Predacon to the core!
- Silverbolt: As was I once...
- Optimus Primal: YOU didn't KNOW better!
- [heavy sigh]
- Optimus Primal: Silverbolt, you are one of the noblest individuals I have ever met. That is your strength. It is also your weakness. Blackarachnia is USING you!
- Silverbolt: I do not believe that, sir.
- Optimus Primal: Whether you believe it or not is immaterial. The fact is, your emotions have jeopardized our situation far more than you realize. If we weren't holding Megatron...
- [He breaks off, turns away]
- Optimus Primal: You're confined to quarters. I'll send Cheetor to bring in the spider-woman.
- Silverbolt: [worried protest] Sir!
- [Optimus looks back warningly]
- Optimus Primal: You have something else to say, Silverbolt?
- Silverbolt: Sir -- um Optimus -- I believe that Blackarachnia will not hurt me. But she would have no such compunction about Cheetor. For his sake if no other, please. Send me instead. I will bring her in.
- [Optimus looks at him for a long beat]
- Optimus Primal: You're confined to quarters, Silverbolt.
- [into comlink]
- Optimus Primal: Cheetor. Report to me at once.
- Cheetor: On my way, Big Bot! Aw right!
- [He strides pridefully down the corridor, then suddenly reacts as he passes a closed metal door. He stops pensive a moment, then backs up, knocking tentatively on the door]
- Cheetor: Uh... Silverbolt?
- Silverbolt: Yes?
- Cheetor: Uh -- I just kinda wanted t'say I'm... sorry about all this... and well I... I promise I'll bring her in with, like, minimal damage, okay?
- Silverbolt: Well, that is very considerate of you, Cheetor. And I am sorry too.
- Cheetor: Sorry? For what?
- Silverbolt: For this!
- [His fist crashes through the metal door and cracks Cheetor across the chin, spinning him against the opposite wall. The door opens, and Silverbolt steps out, grabbing Cheetor concernedly]
- Cheetor: Owh!
- Silverbolt: Cheetor! How do you feel?
- Cheetor: Whoa! Li'l dizzy, but... I'll be okay...
- Silverbolt: Then I am again sorry.
- Cheetor: What...? Ugh.
- [Silverbolt decks him with another right cross. This time Cheetor goes down in a heap, Silverbolt considerately easing him to the floor]
- Rattrap: Hey. Why you sucker-punching spaniel.
- [Silverbolt runs away]
- Rattrap: I used to be young like that.
- Optimus Primal: What?
- Rattrap: I mean we've got trouble, all right. Trouble with a capital B.
- Silverbolt: I know how you're feeling. You don't know whether to kiss me, or kill me.
- Blackarachnia: [leaning close] I'm a black widow spider, you idiot. I can do both...
- [fuzzy lens occurs]
- Waspinator: Not fair! Waspinator minding own business when BANG, gets whole stasis pod right up the kazoodie!
- Optimus Primal: How's the head?
- Cheetor: More fat-headed than fractured, big bot. Man, I'm a cat. I ought to know better than to trust a dog.
- Optimus Primal: Silverbolt believed he was acting in your best interests.
- Cheetor: Yeah, well, I look forward to returning the favor. KAPOW!
- Optimus Primal: There's the cave. Let's get that Energon. The sooner we get Megatron off this planet, the better.
- Ravage: You are a piece of work. Even in prison, you still operate your own agenda.
- Megatron: I am not naive. You have no intention of returning me or any of us to Cybertron alive.
- Ravage: That is true. But your crew is scattered. And I want no witnesses. Still, why should I tolerate your existence any longer?
- Megatron: Did you ever wonder why I stole the golden disc in the first place?
- Ravage: You were looking for Energon.
- Megatron: That was a bonus. It allowed me to recruit a crew, and gave potential for power. But the real reason was this: the golden disc was launched from Earth aboard the Voyager spacecraft, just as the secret war between the Autobots and Decepticons began. The original Megatron, your commander, had every intention of winning, but, like myself, he covered his bets. He inscribed a secret message into the golden disc, a message which I myself discovered and decoded.
- Ravage: I'm expected to believe you? You said yourself the disc was destroyed. Arm autoguns, target the prisoner.
- [his computer acknowledges]
- Ravage: Release the power bonds.
- Megatron: [as his bonds are released, he reveals a fragment of the disc] The disc was destroyed, but a fragment remains. And I'm not expecting you to believe me.
- Optimus Primal: Optimus to Maximal base. What is your status? Report.
- Rattrap: Well, I got good news and bad news, fearless leader.
- Optimus Primal: All right, what's the good news?
- Rattrap: Well, the good news is we don't have to count out of that stinkin' Decepticon any longer.
- Optimus Primal: And the bad news?
- Rattrap: [Ravage's ship appears behind Optimus and Cheetor] Uh, well, the bad news is... HE SWITCHED SIDES!
- Rattrap: Man, this thing wasn't built, it was poured.
- Optimus Primal: Diecast construction... It's a lost art.
- Silverbolt: What is it?
- Blackarachnia: The Ark.
- Silverbolt: I've heard only legends.
- Blackarachnia: Oh, it's no legend, Bowser. This ship contained some of Cybertron's greatest heroes. When it explodes in 1984 our ancestors will awaken and start the great war.
- Silverbolt: This must have been why Optimus was so worried. This ship's power must be immense.
- Blackarachnia: It is and it's all mine.
- Blackarachnia: What are you looking at?
- Silverbolt: That star. It's a planet really. It's Venus. It reminds me of you.
- Blackarachnia: Dark, deadly, and poisonous? You're sweet.
- Silverbolt: No, wait. That's not what I meant.
- Megatron: This is Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. And if you're hearing this, it means I've failed... THIS time.