The Transformers Page #3

HOT ROD:

Not bad for an old timer!

KUP:

(gruffly)

Old timer?! That's something you'll never be if

you don't get back to the city. You know what we

used to do with cocky, insubordinate upstarts?

HOT ROD:

(interrupting)

Save it.

STARSCREAM:

transforming into jet mode, fires on them with laser bursts

which...

... chew up the ground beside them.

HOT ROD AND KUP:

with Daniel race toward Autobot City, transforming into vehicle

mode as shots gouge the terrain around them.

CUT TO:

PERCEPTOR IN MICROSCOPE MODE ON "BATTLEMENT" OF AUTOBOT CITY

he watches...

PERCEPTOR'S POV - THE DECEPTICON ATTACK

Megatron, Insecticons, Constructicons, and other Decepticon

forces attack the city from the sky and ground.

PERCEPTOR:

transforms to humanoid and runs toward......

... Three new Autobots, ARCEE, a lovely female Autobot of about

Hot Rod's age, SPRINGER, a very muscular and bantering "Indiana

Jones" type Autobot and ULTRA MAGNUS, the large and soldierly

City Commander.

PERCEPTOR:

Ultra Magnus.....a cursory evaluation

of Decepticon capability indicates a

distinct tactical deficit!

ULTRA MAGNUS:

In other words, Perceptor...

SPRINGER:

(translating)

We're outnumbered!

He turns and FIRES from his hip.

DIRGE IN JET MODE

Zooms in to strafe as...

SPRINGER'S BLAST...

...Explodes on his wing tip.

SPRINGER, ULTRA MAGNUS AND OTHERS

as Decepticon BOMBS AND LASER FIRE pour in on the City.

ULTRA MAGNUS:

Springer, Arcee, transform Autobot City!

HIGH ANGLE - LOOKING DOWN ON COURTYARD - TRACKING SPRINGER AND ARCEE

STARSCREAM (V.O.)

Pathetic fools!

STARSCREAM:

TRANSFORMS and hovers in robot mode, firing all around

them as they...

..dive for the switch and pull it down.

STARSCREAM:

There's no escape...Uuuuh!

Just then, the floor of the courtyard STARTS TRANSFORMING -

- the center line of the floor snaps shut like the halves of a

gigantic steel shelled clam, trapping Starscream's foot.

STARSCREAM:

Agggggggh! My foot!

ANGLE ON SPRINGER AND ARCEE

as they make it through an archway which TRANSFORMS INTO A STEEL

SHIELD as they run through

ON STARSCREAM - HIS FOOT STILL CAUGHT IN "CLAM" OF COURTYARD

He struggles to get free before he is crunched by the still

transforming city.

In the nick of time, he shoots a "shoe horn" like projection from

his wrist and pulls his boot free, then...

...dodges away.

... The "clam" shape RETRACTS COMPLETELY and more armored

shielding SLIDES INTO PLACE TO COVER where the Courtyard was.

He winces in mid-air and flies away as the city continues to

transform to a fortress below.

CUT TO:

ANOTHER ANGLE - THE TRANSFORMING CITY

The towers and buildings of the city, picot and retract..

... withdrawing like periscopes, turning and vanishing into

steel shield coverings.

ON MEGATRON:

as he FLIES OVER SCENE, BLASTING this way and that, shouting

MEGATRON:

Breach their defenses!

ON INSECTICONS:

who are trailing Megatron, attack the fast CLOSING CITY, trying

to GNAW AND DEVOUR their way through the PORTS and BRIDGES

leading inside.

KICKBACK:

(Chewing on jamb of doorway

near bridge)

Delicious, eh Shrapnel?

SHRAPNEL:

(CHEWING on draw-bridge to

City)

A little heavy on the electrons. Electrons.

ZOOM UP TO:

KUP, HOT ROD AND DANIEL

as Kup and Hot Rod are racing down mountain toward the

transforming city's drawbridge.

KUP (V.O.)

The Insecticons are in our way.

HOT ROD (V.O.)

Wrong! They're our way in! Yaaaaaaay-hah!

ANOTHER ANGLE:

Hot Rod speeds up, passes Kup and...

... rides up and over Kickback's back, using it like a stunt

driver's ramp to...

... hurtle across the open space between Kickback and the doorway

into the city.

ON SHRAPNEL:

As Shrapnel looks up and reacts...

...Kup hurtles up and over Kickback's back just as Kickback is

starting to rise to see what knocked him face down onto the

bridge in the first place.

... Kup goes SAILING OT OVER OPEN SPACE between Kickback's back

and the doorway into the city-

-clobbering Shrapnel, who is in the way and landing on the city

doorstep, driving in as...

THE DOORWAY:

transforms, shutting down with metal shields with a "clank" sound

as Kickback and Shrapnel both leap at is to...

... bite Kup and Hot Rod and instead BREAK THEIR TEETH on steel

door, falling face down with a grunt as LAST BITS OF CITY

TRANSFORM.

CUT TO:

INT. CITY SIDE OF DRAWBRIDGE

as Kup and Hot Rod roll in and TRANSFORM where Ultra Magnus is

waiting for them with Perceptor. Other Autobots are moving into

battle stations in the b.g. and ALARMS SOUND.

Daniel looks on in awe.

ULTRA MAGNUS:

(sternly)

You can explain your security violation later,

Hot Rod! Now, man your battle station.

HOT ROD:

I don't have to explain my so called violation

to you or anyone...

KUP:

(tugs him along roughly)

He said "later!"

Kup moves OFF with Hot Rod and Daniel.

CUT TO:

BLASTER ON FORTIFIED " CROWS NEST" LOOKOUT TOWER

The "Crows Nest" has windows all around and Blaster's

seat rotates so he can watch action and broadcast battle reports

like a Top 40 Deejay.

Perceptor climbs up ladder into "Crows Nest" from lower level.

As Blaster speaks, we see Decepticons FIRING at the windows of

the Crows Nest but the bursts explode harmlessly against the

glass

BLASTER:

Lookout and shout! Yow!

Explosions rock the Crows Nest.

Blaster swivels around and tilts to see...

BLASTER'S POV - INSECTICONS

Chewing on armor plating at the lower edge of the fortified,

transformed city.

BLASTER:

activates turret type LASER CANNON

BLASTER:

Gonna lay some slugs on those overweight

bugs!

(FIRES Laser Cannon)

CANNON SWIVELS:

LASER BLAST cooks out and we FOLLOW IT OFF SCREEN to...

THE INSECTICONS:

as a Laser BLAST hurls Bombshell up and out of sight and causes

Shrapnel and Kickback to get sucked into the vacuum.

BLASTER:

Perceptor joins him.

BLASTER:

(joyful at his direct hit)

I'm talkin' hits here, Autobuddies! Hits

with a capital "aitch" like in Hard, Heavy and...

(sees Perceptor)

Hey, Perceptor, what's shakin' other than

this fortress?

BLASTS of enemy fire continue to rock the crows nest as Perceptor

answers

PERCEPTOR:

Blaster, Ultra Magnus sends orders to contact

Optimus Prime for reinforcements.

BLASTER:

Alright! Cover your receptors, Perceptor!

Blaster transforms to ghetto blaster mode and broadcasts VISIBLE

waves...

THE WAVES:

rise and expand into space

BLASTER:

Optimus Prime... Do you read me? The Decepticons

are blitzing Autobot City. We're really takin' a

pounding. Don't know how much longer we can hold out.

ON WAVES SPREADING THROUGH SPACE

CUT TO:

MEGATRON LEADING ASSAULT ON TRANSFORMED AUTOBOT CITY

He is FIRING at ARMORED DOOR, trying to melt through when he

reacts to SOUND of Blaster's broadcast for help, stops, and looks

up at CROWS NEST.

MEGATRON:

Soundwave! Jam that transmission.

ON SOUNDWAVE:

SOUNDWAVE moves forward and starts heaving CASSETTES upwards

toward Blaster's Crows Nest position.

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