Transformers: Prime

Prime, what we have here is an experimental

All-terrain expeditionary fighting vehicle,

Designed by the finest engineers in our m.A.S.K. Division.

Thank you, agent fowler. This will most certainly do.

Return trajectory fluctuations have been stabilized.

Ultra magnus, we are ready to receive you.

We didn't find much else in the rubble of the former base.

You call this...

"not much else?"

Wheeljack!

You could've caused serious damage.

To me!

What in the sam hill?

A little help here?

What were you thinking, soldier?

I was thinking bulk would catch that lob.

Allow me to make myself clear.

As optimus prime's second-in-command,

I have no intention of tolerating wrecker behavior.

Some things never change.

Jackie...

Need I remind you that it was optimus prime himself

Who assigned me to command your wreckers back on cybertron

And get you loose cannons under control?

An effective combat unit begins with discipline.

If you won't accept that,

Feel free to choose the path of least resistance...

As you did before.

If my ship weren't a twisted wreck at present,

I'd do that... Sir.

So, any word from optimus?

He's investigating recent decepticon activity,

Hopefully an energon mine.

Hmm.

How rad would it be if you all had jetpacks like optimus?

Quite rad, miko.

But the forge has been depleted of its power to do that.

Now it's only good for pounding out dings.

Smokescreen?

Aw, what gave me away?

Come on, "robots in disguise," right?

Where have you been, soldier?

Scanning new war paint.

Thought it'd be proactive to follow optimus' lead...

And bumblebee's.

Now you can look your best while stacking those empty cubes.

Yes, sir.

I was nearly a prime, but somehow I'm still a rookie.

What was that about a "prime?"

Uh...No, time.

Time to stop acting like a rookie.

Smokescreen was the only one who went back.

If it weren't for him,

Optimus might not be with us today.

Arcee, we were under the strictest of orders.

The three of you had your human partners to protect.

But we are fortunate that smokescreen

Is inexperienced enough not to have followed protocol.

There. I can see it.

Abandon the excavation.

Now.

Attack!

Optimus, did you find energon?

No.

But I did uncover this.

It cannot be.

Be what?

The ancient remains...

Of a predacon.

Though it remains unclear why such a skull

Would be found on your planet,

Its presence reveals all too much

About the predacon which megatron recently sent

In pursuit of us.

You mean that dragon bot we put on ice?

Except that predacons have been extinct since, well...

Since before most life began on cybertron.

They're like earth's dinosaurs.

Which means, for you guys,

Running into one would be like us meeting a t-rex.

So then what were dinobots?

Totally different.

With megatron's seeming new interest

In the excavation of prehistoric skeletons

And a certain scientist back among the decepticon ranks...

It would stand to reason

That shockwave cloned the beast from one such find.

And now megatron's looking to clone another.

What makes you think buckethead would stop at just one?

We could have beast wars on our hands.

And if shockwave only requires a single strand of cna

From which to clone a beast...

He already possesses what he needs to engender this one.

Autobots, we must become beast hunters.

One thing still doesn't follow.

Predacons went extinct on cybertron.

So what would their bones be doing here?

Starscream: On earth?

I mean, isn't it just a little preposterous?

They are not the remains of predacons, starscream.