Transformers: The Last Knight Page #7

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What's "ah"?

You know,

i could do that, too.

"Oh, I'm English,

"and I'm too cool

for feelings."

What, I've come here

to be insulted

by some over-educated

ivory-tower Princess

in a stripper dress?

Stripper?

Well, only in America

is a finer education

an insult.

And if my dress makes

you feel uncomfortable,

then maybe

i could take it off.

Okay.

That's enough!

- What's your problem?

- No, no, no!

Cogman?

Shall I take

his head off, madam?

Tempting, but, um,

i can defend my own honor.

But I do so very much want

to crush his windpipe.

Control, cogman.

You must learn to

control that impulse.

Channel it into

other things.

Yes, my lord.

Like making beds

or cooking food.

Polishing the silver.

I am trying, my lord.

- He is a "headmaster."

- A very rare breed.

That dude

is disturbed, yeah?

Like, seriously evil.

Like, split personality.

Good.

Cogman?

Glass 17c is missing.

Did you break it?

I've been a Butler

for the aristocracy

for 700 years.

You are the worst

I've ever worked for!

Ah, these were

all my predecessors.

They're all folgans.

And that was my aunt there.

My great-great-

great-great aunt.

She poisoned

my great-great-great

uncle for some reason.

She was barking mad,

she was an absolute b*tch.

There's my grandfather

over there, aloysius.

And that's Arnold,

my third cousin.

He drunk sewage water,

committed suicide.

He was quite mad.

They were all mad, really.

There's bullet holes.

Uh-uh.

No, no. Nasty critter.

No, no, no, no, no.

That's the watch

that killed Hitler.

Don't screw with it.

These are all

the witwiccans.

In our halcyon days

we were quite the club.

Brilliant minds,

explorers, scientists,

artists, world leaders.

Renaissance thrill seekers.

People like

Catherine the great,

empress of all Russia,

general Washington,

William Shakespeare,

queen Elizabeth of england,

Abraham Lincoln,

Frederick douglass,

Harriet tubman,

the Wright brothers,

giotto, Michelangelo, Darwin,

Churchill, Einstein,

Stephen Hawking, Henry v,

Leonardo Da Vinci,

Newton, de lavoisier, Mozart,

Beethoven, mahler,

Edmund Hillary,

Teddy Roosevelt, copernicus,

Tesla, Galileo.

They all belonged

to a secret society,

you see.

All united in one cause.

To protect

the secret history

of transformers.

Here. On earth.

Now, this is

the witwiccan family tree.

Merlin, Viviana.

Goes back 40 generations.

Go over to that desk.

There's a photograph there.

Your father was a member.

He very much wanted

to tell you that.

And my own family

had some...

Small part in all this.

Zb-7.

That looks just like bee.

It is. He was attached

to the devil's brigade.

Pretty vicious military unit.

Helped turn

the tide of war, you know?

We're not invited.

- Bee?

- Yeah.

But he's so nice.

Behind the lines,

during the war,

they called him many things.

"Nice" was never one of them.

It all began in 484 ad,

when king Arthur

and his wizard, Merlin,

stared down and vanquished

the Saxon hordes

at mount badon.

That's his sword

and his mace there.

It's a myth.

Yeah,

every legend, every myth,

every story whispered

around the campfire

has a logical explanation.

Oh, with that

i agree wholeheartedly,

but logic has

left the building.

You're talking about magic.

What, like your walking,

talking lamborghini?

"Any sufficiently

advanced technology

"is indistinguishable

from magic."

Arthur c. Clarke.

Impressive.

Yeah. And count 'em,

zero student loans,

doctor,

or professor, philosopher,

whatever you call yourself.

It's all of the above.

Now, this place was built

around the original

round table.

Percival, gawain,

Tristan, Lancelot.

They sat right here.

Twelve in all.

And behind them sat the 12

who came from cybertron.

We fight for honor.

We fight for the human race.

For all

that is good in mankind.

To brothers old

and brothers new!

To brothers old

and brothers new!

No sacrifice, no victory!

Twelve alien knights

who saw in Camelot

what the human race

could be at its finest.

A race of honor.

Cogman?

Hmm?

You ruined

the moment again!

I was making

the moment more epic.

Just be quiet.

What's the matter

with you?

If I could find his neck,

I'd strangle him.

This belonged to

king Arthur himself.

Now, legend held that

one last knight would

someday be chosen

and the struggle to save

the world would begin.

It would appear,

Mr. Cade,

that that last knight

is you.

What?

You're saying

he traveled the whole

universe to find me?

No, not you

specifically.

Not a failed inventor

from the state of Texas.

No, god forbid.

Stop it!

What?

You know,

if you don't stop it,

I will send

you back to cybertron

in a little tiny box.

Oh, scary.

I am not

a failed inventor.

No, he meant the qualities

of a knight, Mr. Cade.

Miss viviane,

the qualities of a knight,

if you please?

Qualities of a knight,

purity of heart,

valor, honor,

virtue, integrity.

I have those.

Oh, and

most importantly...

Is he chaste?

Chased?

Dude, I was getting chased

when your little weirdo buddy

brought me over here

on the plane.

"Chaste."

C-h-a-s-t-e.

"T."

Celibate?

Yeah, I know...

I was making a joke.

You don't think

i know how to spell?

I know what he meant.

Sure you were.

No whoopee, Mr. Cade?

It's been a while.

Well, how long's "a while"?

A week? A month? A year?

None of

your business.

Well, we need to

ask you the question.

A while!

Huh.

Hmm.

"Huh"? What is this?

Is that, like,

another English thing?

No, no.

Just a curious thing.

Well, maybe

I'm saving myself.

What are you saving

yourself for, old age?

You, English lady,

shut it.

What is this?

Some sort of a map?

Oh, this table

is from cybertron.

It's a puzzle

I've been working on

for some time.

My entire life, actually.

And what do

these glyphs say about it?

They're

olde cybertronian.

A mantra whispered

through the cosmos.

"Seglass ni tonday."

Wait a minute.

I heard that before.

A knight on a ship.

What does it mean?

"With your dying breath,

protect the staff."

Okay, this

is ridiculous.

They had their name for it.

We have ours.

The staff of Merlin.

Bequeathed to him

by an alien race.

Fused with his DNA.

So that only

he would have the key

to unlock its alien power.

Or as they knew it

in those days,

magic.

The staff was buried

with Merlin's body.

A thousand years

we've kept it hidden.

If it ever fell

into the wrong hands,

it would mean

the imminent destruction

of everything

we know and love.

The 12 guardian knights

combined into a mighty

dragon to protect it.

And now it is

in great danger.

Megatron.

He was after this.

So the battle is upon us.

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