- Optimus Prime: It is best that you three remain under our watch. At least until we can determine our enemies' intentions.
- Ratchet: Optimus, with all due respect, the human children are in as much danger here as anywhere.
- Jack Darby: Children?
- Ratchet: They have no protective shell! If they get underfoot, they will go... squish.
- Optimus Prime: Then, for the time being, Ratchet, we must watch where we step.
- Optimus Prime: Military involvement will only result in catastrophe. Perhaps you can condone widespread human casualties, Agent Fowler. I, however, cannot.
- Agent Fowler: Then do us both a favor and handle this, Prime... under the radar. Or I will.
- [Agent Fowler leaves]
- Bulkhead: Pretty big bearings... for a human.
- [Arcee almost faints. Bumblebee reacts with concern]
- Arcee: I'm fine, just... dizzy.
- Miko Nakadai: Robots who get dizzy?
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: Robots with emotions.
- Jack Darby: Robots... who can die.
- Starscream: Of the Energon deposits we have located while you were away, Lord Megatron, this one is by far the most significant. The drones have been mining without pause during your absence, and have amassed quite a stockpile. You there! Fetch me a sample!
- Megatron: Starscream! Now that I have returned, I will issue the commands.
- Starscream: I... understand, Lord Megatron. Then, as your humble servant, shall I ready the space bridge to bring forth the Decepticon army you have surely gathered during your three years in space?
- Megatron: My army will come, but my time away has yielded a more... intriguing means of materializing them.
- [Megatron pulls out a glowing purple crystal]
- Megatron: The solidified form of the matter the ancient texts refer to as "The blood of Unicron".
- Starscream: Unicron the Destroyer? But it is said his blood is the anti-Spark.
- Megatron: Plucked from cosmic shores, gaze upon... Dark Energon!
- Starscream: Legend tells that it holds the power to... revive the dead.
- Megatron: We require only a cadaver to be certain.
- [Looks over at Starscream]
- Megatron: Are you willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?
- Starscream: [reluctantly] Heh, heh heh... That... may not be necessary. if I may, Lord Megatron.
- [Starscream points over to Cliffjumper's lifeless body]
- Starscream: Consider it a welcome home present.
- Starscream: That's your plan? Bring Autobots back from the dead to attack us?
- Megatron: That is no longer an Autobot. Just a mindless beast, its only instinct to destroy anything in its path.
- Starscream: Lord Megatron, intruders have been detected in the mines.
- Megatron: Optimus?
- Starscream: Indeed.
- Megatron: I need more time to prepare an appropriate reception for my old friend. Ready the ship for departure.
- Starscream: But the Energon I've mined, the Autobots will seize it!
- Megatron: Then blow the mines!
- Jack Darby: What just happened?
- Ratchet: I transported them to the designated coordinates via the ground bridge.
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: What's a ground bridge?
- Ratchet: [weary sigh] A scaled-down version of space-bridge technology. Since we don't currently possess the means or the Energon required for intergalactic travel...
- Jack Darby: You're stuck here. On Earth.
- Ratchet: With the likes of you, yes. But I constructed the ground bridge to enable travel from here to anywhere on your planet.
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: Whoa! Does it work for humans?
- Ratchet: Naturally.
- Miko Nakadai: You mean I could just shoot on over and visit my parents in Tokyo?
- Ratchet: Within moments. In fact, allow me to send you there immediately, all three of you.
- Agent Fowler: Seven wrecks, 34 fender-benders, a three-hour traffic jam, and of particular note, numerous reports of a speeding motorcycle of unknown make and a black-and-yellow custom muscle car. So, anything you care to get off your tin chest, Prime?
- Optimus Prime: We have the situation under control, Agent Fowler.
- Agent Fowler: They're back, aren't they?
- Optimus Prime: If you are referring to the Decepticons, I have doubts that they ever left. Your planet is much too valuable.
- Agent Fowler: Then it's time to wake up the Pentagon.
- Optimus Prime: Hear me, Agent Fowler. We are your best, possibly your only defense against the Decepticon threat.
- Agent Fowler: Says you.
- Optimus Prime: And since you now know of our existence, I fear that, as of last night, the Decepticons know of yours.
- Jack Darby: Got it. If we spot any strange vehicles, call 911. Can we go now?
- Miko Nakadai: Are you insane? I'm living a dream here in "Bot"-swana. And I will not allow you or anyone else to shatter it!
- Jack Darby: [hearing an alarm] What's that?
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: [Bumblebee warbles] Proximity sensor. Someone's up top.
- Ratchet: It's Agent Fowler.
- Jack Darby: I thought we were the only humans who knew about you guys?
- Optimus Prime: Special Agent Fowler is our designated liaison to the outside world. As he tends to visit only when there are issues, it may be best if you do not meet him at this time.
- Starscream: I don't think you need worry about further Autobot interference, master. Not with Optimus gone.
- Megatron: And what evidence do you possess of this fact?
- Starscream: I destroyed the mines, as you instructed.
- Megatron: Optimus is not so easily destroyed. We have millennia worth of battles behind us to prove it.
- Starscream: Maybe you should take a break, my lord. I worry that too much contact with the Dark Energon might allow its properties to adversely affect you.
- Megatron: Or perhaps, Starscream, I have not permitted myself contact enough.
- Megatron: [he breaks off a Dark Energon shard] Wait! Lord Megatron, no! Not your spark chamber! You do not know what it will do!
- Jack Darby: [in his garage, Arcee revs her engine] Shh! Are you crazy? You'll wake up my mom.
- Arcee: Grab your helmet. It's go time.
- Jack Darby: It's Saturday!
- Arcee: You can watch cartoons back at base with Bumblebee.
- Jack Darby: [scoffing] Cartoons. I'm 16.
- Arcee: And leave a note for your mom! She worries!
- Jack Darby: [unable to get cell phone reception] Optimus, I-I hate to bug, but no bars.
- Optimus Prime: A security precaution. The silo walls isolate all radio waves.
- Jack Darby: Well, if I don't call my mom, like, now, I'm pretty sure the cops will be out looking for me.
- Optimus Prime: Have you broken a law?
- Jack Darby: Uh, curfew. It's after 10:00 p.m.
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: I better get home, too, or I'll be grounded for a year.
- Optimus Prime: Earth customs. I hadn't considered. But the issue of your safety remains. Bulkhead, accompany Miko home.
- Miko Nakadai: Awesome! My host parents will freak!
- Optimus Prime: And maintain covert surveillance in vehicle form.
- Bulkhead: Curbside duty. Got it.
- Miko Nakadai: [disappointed] Aw!
- Optimus Prime: Bumblebee, you'll watch over Raf. Ratchet?
- Ratchet: Busy.
- Optimus Prime: Arcee, you'll accompany Jack.
- Arcee: [dramatic sigh] Still dizzy.
- Ratchet: You're fine, says your physician.
- Miko Nakadai: What is this, anyway?
- Ratchet: Broken. Don't touch. Don't touch that, either.
- Jack Darby: Is there anything in here we *can* touch?
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: [Ratchet gets an error message] How come you guys are using human computers?
- Ratchet: It certainly isn't by choice. It was handed down from the previous tenants when we inherited this former missile silo. I make modifications as I see fit.
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: [he gets more error messages] I think I can fix that.
- Ratchet: Really? You know this is complex technology, don't you? I mean, it isn't a child's toy.
- Rafael 'Raf' Esquivel: [plugging in a laptop, he gains access to what Ratchet needs] Now try.
- Optimus Prime: Maximum overdrive!
- [the Autobots turn into vehicles and proceed to demolish the Decepticon drones and their mining machines]