Beast Wars
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Season 1
Beast Wars 1
Beast Wars 2
The Web
Equal Measures
Chain of Command
Power Surge
Fallen Comrades
Double Jeapordy
A Better Mousetrap
Gorilla Warfare
The Probe
Victory
Dark Designs
Double Dinobot
The Spark
The Trigger 1
The Trigger 2
Spider's Game
Call of the Wild
Dark Voyage
Possession
The Low Road
Law of the Jungle
Before the Storm
Other Voices 1
Other Voices 2
BEAST WARS: Part 1
Written by Bob Forward
Act 1
Scene opens in space. A spatial rift opens, and the Predacon ship emerges. It is being fired upon. The Axalon emerges and pursues the Predacon ship, which is now returning fire. Both ships are heading for a large planet. A closeup of the Axalon shows pieces flying off.
Cheetor: Ah, hull breach in sector 7. Guidance systems failing.
Scene change: the Axalon's interior.
Rattrap: Oh man, this is ridiculous. We're an exploration ship, not a battle cruiser.
Optimus: No choice. Our ship was the only one that could lock on to Megatron's warp signature.
Cheetor: Shields are doin' a major fade.
Optimus: Plasma cannons to full power.
Scene change: the Predacon ship.
Dinobot: Their shields are down. Destroy them!
Megatron: Now where's the fun in that? A little torment, I think, first, yes. Side guns!
The Predacon ship slows and moves beside the Axalon. Guns emerge from the top of the Predacon ship and fire, blowing holes in the Axalon.
Cheetor: Rupture! The stasis hold is failing.
Rhinox: We're goin' down.
Optimus: Launch all pods. Get them into safe orbit.
Spinning down to the planet's surface, the Axalon begins to launch stasis pods. 19 pods emerge from the back of the ship. Another view shows a large number of pods in orbit.
Optimus: All plasma cannons - fire!
As the Axalon spins, its forward cannons fire on the Predacon ship, blowing holes in it. It tumbles out of control and one of its wings breaks off. Both ships begin to heat up as they enter the atmosphere.
Scene change: the planet's surface. In the blue sky, two white streaks appear, falling toward the ground far away. The streak on the left falls into an area from which black smoke is rising. When they hit, a smoke plume is generated from each one, and the shock wave shakes the camera a few seconds later.
Scene change: a river valley. The Axalon has slid to the edge of a canyon. The nose of the ship actually bridges the canyon. Smoke and steam are emitted from hull breaks.
Optimus: Damage report.
Cheetor: Believe me, you don't wanna know.
Optimus: Oh, that's what I thought.
Scene change: the Predacon ship. It has crashed in the center of a lava field. Smoke and steam are emitted from its hull breaks as well.
Megatron: Navigation - is this the right planet?
Scene change: Predacon ship interior. Megatron sits at a three-dimensional display.
Computer: Unknown. Course settings were accurate, but readings are inconsistent with those expected for intended destination.
Megatron: Never mind that. Tell me there is Energon here.
Computer: Confirmed.
Megatron: Yes! The planet has Energon.
Computer: Too much Energon. Field readings are off the scale. Continued exposure to robotic forms will result in permanent damage.
Megatron: Then we will create alternate forms based on the most powerful local creatures.
Tarantulas: Scanners, heh heh, activated, heh.
Scene change: Predacon ship exterior. A scanner flies up above the ship and begins scanning. Its scan moves past three dinosaur skeletons. Tarantulas watches his panel as the dinosaurs register on it. A wasp menaces a tarantula, and the scan passes through them.
Scene change: the Axalon exterior. Its scanner is activated. The scan passes through a rhinoceros, a gorilla, and a rat. They register on a view screen. The scan then passes through two cheetahs. The scanner shuts off.
Rhinox: Scanning and replication of local life forms complete. You may emerge.
Scene change: the Axalon interior. Cheetor stands up and walks to a reflective surface to look at himself.
Cheetor: Hey, look at me, I'm a cheetah. No, no, I'm Cheetor!
Optimus: Hmm...interesting.
Cheetor: Interesting? Rroww! Optimus, the word is spot on smooth! (purrs) Heh, it's a crime.
Rattrap: Eh, tacky, heh, ya never had taste, did ya kid? Now this...this is what class is all about. Call me Rattrap.
Cheetor: Oh yeah, how's about I cut meeses to pieces?
Rhinox: Ease back, Cheetor, livin' large is for forms like me...Rhinox.
Rattrap: Yeah, heh, and just consider yourself lucky I didn't get rough on youse.
Optimus: (emerging from CR chamber) Moderate your conflict circuits, Maximals. Remember, these beast forms are to protect us from the long term effects of the Energon fields out there. We may need Energon for power, but this is too much of a good thing. Our robot forms will start to short out after a few minutes exposure. This is one unusual planet, whatever it is.
Rhinox: Or whenever. The transwarp drive can go through space AND time. We were locked on to Megatron's warp signature. We could be any place, any time.
Optimus: Yes, and our crew is orbiting the planet in those stasis pods we lost in battle. They're protected from the Energon fields, but...it means Megatron has us outnumbered.
Scene change: the Predacon ship. Waspinator and Terrorsaur fly above the ship. Tarantulas, Scorponok, and Dinobot walk out of the ship. Dinobot holds a golden disk.
Dinobot: No, no, no! It's all wrong. This cannot be Earth. Megatron, you've failed. Not only did you fail to destroy the Maximals when you had the chance, you failed to bring us to the right planet. We stole the golden disk for nothing. You idiot! (throws the disk into the ship)
Megatron: Heh, I beg your pardon. What did you call me?
Dinobot: You heard. You are an idiot and an incompetent leader, and I am taking over. Dinobot, terrorize! (transforms to robot mode) I challenge you to battle, Megatron. The winner shall lead the Predacons and the loser shall be destroyed.
Megatron: Ah, you're so impulsive, Dinobot. Brave, but misguided.
Dinobot: Do you accept my challenge?
Megatron: Heh heh, there's more to being a leader than simple courage. Well there's cleverness and cunning as well. Isn't that right, Scorponok?
Scorponok fires a missile at Dinobot, blowing him far out of the scene.
Megatron: Loser. What does it matter which planet we're on? We came looking for Energon, and this planet is rich with the element. Enough Energon to power the Predacons' entire galactic conquest. Only the Maximals could give us trouble now, if they survived the crash. Find them! (addressing Scorponok, Tarantulas, Terrorsaur, and Waspinator) And if you find them...destroy them. (the other Predacons leave)
End of Act One
Act Two
Scene opens at the Axalon. Optimus and Rhinox are outside. Rattrap comes down in the elevator and throws out a piece of wreckage.
Rattrap: Man, all this for a golden disk.
Optimus: It was Cybertron's most carefully guarded relic, Rattrap. It gave the location of a major Energon source. That's why Megatron stole it.
Rattrap: Yeah, like I care. You know, we were supposed to be doin' deep space exploration. Playin' galactic patrol wasn't nowhere in my job description, you know what I'm sayin'? You sure you're cut out for this commander gig?
Optimus: Remember the great war, Rattrap. If the Predacons get enough Energon, they'll start it again. We can't let that happen. Besides, you wanted exploration, and here we are on an unknown planet. What more do you want?
Rattrap: Well, call me picky, but a working spacecraft might be nice.
Optimus: Eh, just no pleasin' some people.
The elevator comes down again, and Cheetor leaps off. He sees two cheetahs running in the distance.
Cheetor: Hey, check it!
Optimus: They're fast, all right. You chose a good form.
Cheetor: Hey, you think that's speed? You ain't seen the Golden Rocket. Check this! (runs off)
Optimus: Cheetor! No!
Optimus: (on the radio) Cheetor, return to base immediately. We don't have time for this.
Rhinox: No good. The Energon fields mess up the comm links. Anything over a hundred meters, they ain't worth scrap.
Optimus: Well, that's just prime.
Rattrap: So, uh, this your first day on the job, or what?
Optimus: Shut up, Rattrap.
Rattrap: Oh, yes sir! You know, I feel just heaps better knowin' that our lives are in your capable hands. We're all gonna die.
Cheetor catches up with the other two cheetahs.
Cheetor: The name's Cheetor. What's shakin', cats?
The other two cheetahs react in fear and run away. Cheetor skids to a halt.
Cheetor: What, is it my breath? Hey, wait. (runs after the cheetahs)
As the three approach a large tree, Waspinator flies up from behind it. The two cheetahs skid to a halt. As Cheetor arrives, they run off.
Cheetor: Hey, what? It's just a big bug. Hmm...the way those two reacted, that's no natural life form. And if we're talkin' unnatural life forms, then we gotta be talkin' about just one thing...robots in disguise! Cheetor, maximize! (transforms to robot mode) Time for this cat to pounce! (fires at Waspinator)
Waspinator: (dodging Cheetor's fire) Waspinator under attack. Waspinator engage enemy. Waspinator, terrorize! (transforms to robot mode, fires back at Cheetor)
Back at the Axalon, the Maximals see the explosions in the distance.
Rattrap: Uh-oh.
Optimus, riding on Rhinox, picks Rattrap up as they ride toward Cheetor.
Optimus: Move! Move!
Cheetor and Waspinator continue to fight. Rhinox heads directly for a pile of boulders that block the path.
Rattrap: Hey, heads up, roadblock!
Optimus: Veer left, there's a clearing about a hundred meters.
Rhinox runs through the boulders and they scatter.
Optimus: Ah, yes, silly me.
Cheetor runs up a hill as Waspinator fires at him with his gun and with eye beams. At the top of the hill, Cheetor is hit. Waspinator flies up as Cheetor tries to get his gun to work.
Cheetor: Ah, of all the times for a quasar jam!
Optimus: (shouting from a nearby hilltop) Cheetor! Get to cover! We'll swat that pesky Predacon!
Megatron: (shouting from another hilltop) Oh, I would not count on that, Maximals, no, heh heh heh, for I believe that you are soon to have, how shall I put it, difficulties of your own, yessss.
End of Act Two
Act Three
Scene opens at the Maximal-Predacon standoff.
Optimus: We don't have to do this, Megatron. There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries. Why start this up again?
Megatron: Peace perhaps on your side, Maximal scum, yessss, but not on ours. Permit me to inform you that an enemy which appears to be peaceful may in fact be merely biding its time.
Cheetor: (unjamming his gun) Finally!
Megatron: We Predacons have never abandoned our rightful goal of galactic conquest, no. We have merely been waiting for the right moment...to strike!
Cheetor: You mean like this? (shoots Megatron)
Optimus: Cheetor!
Megatron: Ah, a treacherous, underhanded sneak attack. Ho ho ho, I like you, pussycat, yessss. But it shall avail you not, no. For now the power gauntlet has been cast. Predacons, terrorize!
Optimus: Do it! Maximize!
Everyone transforms to robot mode.
Tarantulas: Tarantulas, terrorize!
Rhinox: Rhinox, maximize!
Scorponok: Scorponok, terrorize!
Rattrap: Rattrap, maximize!
Terrorsaur: Terrorsaur, terrorize!
Megatron: Megatron, terrorize!
Optimus: Optimus, maximize!
Megatron: Now! Obliterate them!
The battle begins. The Maximals dive behind rocks for cover. Scorponok fires at Cheetor, who is caught out in the open. Cheetor tries to take cover, but the missile knocks him back into some rocks, and a boulder falls on his leg, trapping him.
Cheetor: Ah! I'm stuck!
Optimus: Rattrap, help Cheetor. We'll cover you.
Rattrap: Heh, yeah, right.
Optimus: That's an order, Rattrap!
Rattrap: Yeah, and you can just kiss my skid plate, fearless leader, cause I ain't goin' out there and gettin' my pelt punctured.
Optimus: Gah! (flies toward Cheetor, but is shot by Megatron)
Rhinox: Optimus!
Rattrap: Hey, see? Told ya!
Optimus lands near Cheetor and blasts the rock that is trapping his leg.
Megatron: Do not let them escape!
Rhinox grabs Rattrap by the back and lifts him up.
Rattrap: Hey, lemme down, ya big bulldozer.
Rhinox: Cover fire...they need it, we give it...now! (stands up, holding Rattrap, as they both fire at the Predacons)
As Scorponok and Tarantulas are knocked down and Megatron is also hit, Optimus and Cheetor run up the hill toward the Maximals.
Optimus: Back to the base. Let's go, let's go! (the Maximals start running back toward the Axalon)
Megatron: After them! Go, you... (goes into Energon overload)
Waspinator, firing at the Maximals, also goes into overload and crashes to the ground.
Waspinator: Waspinator cannot move.
Megatron: Energon field buildup. Convert back to beast mode. (transforms to beast mode)
Scene change: the Maximals on their way back to the Axalon, Optimus and Rattrap riding on Rhinox again. Optimus grabs Rattrap and holds him at arms length.
Rattrap: Hey, hey what's got your servos so bent?
Optimus: Let's get one thing straight, Rattrap, I am commander of this group, and when I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed.
Rattrap: Oh yeah? So I get vaped because you're too chicken to go yourself.
Optimus: I will not give an order I would not be willing to do myself. But I was capable of giving you better cover fire. You were not. (puts Rattrap back behind him again)
Rattrap: Eh, come one, what are you shortin' about? We got out of there alive, didn't we?
Optimus: But injured. It'll take time for our beast forms to effect internal repairs.
Rattrap: Yeah, well, better you than me.
Cheetor: (running up from behind) I think we gave 'em the fade, Optimus.
Optimus: Keep your sensors on full. According to the golden disk theft reports, there were six Predacons. One of them was missing from the battle.
Rattrap: Yeah, well uh, maybe he was destroyed in the crash.
Rhinox: That kinda luck we haven't been getting much of lately.
Cheetor: Tell me about it - look!
Dinobot stands on a narrow land bridge, blocking the Maximals' path. Optimus dismounts, and the Maximals look at Dinobot.
Rhinox: Shall we blast him?
Optimus: Keep that option open. But...hang on. (walks toward Dinobot)
Dinobot: Attention, Maximals. My name is Dinobot. I have left the Predacons to join your group...as leader.
Cheetor: What? Did I hear the word...leader?
Rhinox: This guy's got bearings of chrome steel.
Dinobot: I hereby challenge you, Optimus Primal, to a one on one battle. The winner shall lead the Maximals, and the loser shall be destroyed.
Optimus and Dinobot face each other on the land bridge.
The End
