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1. Beast Wars (Part 1)
06/15/1999
Megatron: "... we will create alternate forms based on the
most powerful, local creatures."
Optimus Primal: "These beast forms are to protect us from
the long term effects of the energon out there."
Optimus: "This is one unusual planet, whatever it is."
Rhinox: "Or whenever. The transwarp drive can go through space and
time. ... We could be any place, any time."
Dinobot: "This cannot be Earth. ... We stole
the golden disk for nothing."
Megatron: "There is more to being a leader than simple
courage. ... there's cleverness and cunning as well."
Optimus: "... you wanted exploration, and here we are, on an uncharted
planet in an unknown section of space. What more could you want?"
Rattrap: "... call me picky, but a working spacecraft might be nice."
Optimus: "Just no pleasing some people."
Optimus: "That's just prime."
Rattrap: "We're all going to die."
Cheetor: "... if we're talking unnatural life form, then
we've got to be talking about just one thing, robots in disguise."
Megatron: "... an enemy which appears to be peaceful, may
in fact, be merely biding it's time. ... 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?"
Optimus: "Cheetor!"
Megatron: "Ahh! A treacherous underhanded sneak attack. Ho, ho,
ho! I like you pussycat, yes."
Megatron: "... now the power gauntlet has been
thrown."
Rhinox (re: Dinobot): "This guy's got bearings of chrome steel."

2. Beast Wars (Part 2)
09/15/2000
Dinobot (to Optimus): "I, Dinobot, challenge you for leadership
of the Maximals."
Rattrap: "Let chopper-face and the boss monkey duke it. No
fur off of my tail."
Optimus: "I wouldn't send anyone to do anything I wasn't willing
to do myself."
Dinobot: "I prefer to defeat my opponents the old-fashioned way
-- brutally!"
Optimus: "For a Predacon, Dinobot, you have qualities I could like!"
Dinobot: "And you have proved to be a worthy adversary. I will
have you recycled
with full honors!"
Optimus: "Well, that's just prime!"
Dinobot: "Release me, let me fall and save yourself."
Optimus: "Now, where's the honor in that?"
Rattrap: "Oh, for booting up cold, you're not going to believe a
Predacon, are you?"
Rattrap: "Once a Pred, always a Pred. ... I don't
trust Predacons."
Optimus: "We've got enough trouble with Megatron's crew without
fighting amongst ourselves."
Optimus (to Rattrap): "That's right, says me! You want to question my orders one
more time?"
Megatron: "... if I must die, I shall take you with me."
Optimus: "So, for now, let the battle be here on this strange
primitive world. And let it be called Beast Wars."

3. The Web
01/28/2000
Cheetor (to Scorpinok): "Clicking makes me twitch."
Optimus (to Cheetor): "We're in a war for survival and you treat it like
a game."
Rattrap (to Cheetor): "... that is why you mess up, kiddo. You
don't have the sense to be afraid."
Dinobot: "We waste too much time talking. We must act."
Optimus: "Rushing in head long won't help."
Tarantulus (to Cheetor re: eating Cheetor): "It's the act I enjoy more
than the nourishment."
Tarantulus (after Rattrap rescues Cheetor): "I hate that rat."
Rattrap: "Everybody makes mistakes...."
Cheetor: "From now on, this cat is a team player."
Rattrap (to Cheetor): "If I told Optimus about your little play date
with Tarantulas, he'd kick my sweet pink butt too! ... ... if you
ever pull a stunt like this again, I will personally rearrange your spots."

4. Equal Measures
01/28/2000
Optimus: "Looks like one extremely ill wind is blowing our way."
Cheetor: "I can outrun anything the skies can dish."
Optimus: "Defeating them does not mean we have to annihilate them."
Terrorsaur (to Cheetor after having been transported to the Predacon base):
"Welcome to the dark side."
Cheetor: "Cheetor! Maximi -- did that already."
Dinobot (to Terrorsaur after being transported to Maximal base):
"Welcome to Enemy Arms, my former comrade. I hope you'll enjoy your
stay."
Dinobot: "... could it be that an accident of technology and nature has
actually created a transporter."
Cheetor: "Shredded or sizzled! What a choice."
Dinobot (to Terrorsaur re: partnership): "In case you had not realized, needle-nose,
I am not a
team player."
Dinobot: "Somehow, the relay posts, the storm and the energon have all
conspired to create a transporter which connects our com room to theirs."
Rattrap: "You may have stepped in it, kid, but you came out smelling
like a rose."
Cheetor: "All part of being perfect."
Optimus (to Cheetor): "If you ever pull another stunt like that again, I'll
have your tail in a sling!"
Cheetor (re: disobeying orders): "I'll never do it again -- until the next time."

5. Chain of Command
01/28/2000
Megatron: "No energon crystal too small, I always
say."
Dinobot (awakening after repair and seeing Maximals):
"Maximal torture chamber."
Cheetor: "Whoa. Hey, power down. You're on our side now,
remember."
Dinobot: "Affirmative."
Rattrap: "And Maximals don't have torture chambers, although, you know, I
could get behind that idea."
Rattrap: "Woh died and made you Prime, scale face?"
Dinobot: "Optimus is certainly scrap and I, as the most powerful of the
group, shall replace him. ..."
Rhinox: "We're not Predacons here. We'll settle the chain of command
in traditional Maximal fashion -- by secret ballot."
Rattrap (to Optimus): "... command's a pain in the
tail. Especially with this pack of hyenas. You can keep it."

6. Power Surge
10/05/2000
Terrorsaur: "It's good to be a Predacon."
Terrorsaur: "I'm invincible."
Cheetor: "Jumping gyros."
Terrorsaur: "... I am assuming command of the Predacons.
..."
Megatron: "I thought you'd already learned your lesson about
challenging me, Terrorsaur."
Terrorsaur: "Today, I'm the teacher if you have the courage."
Megatron: "Very well, I could use some amusement."
Terrorsaur: "Megatron is scrap, yes."
Rattrap: "... let me finish this hand. I'm in to this
stinking 'puter for half a million."
Rhinox: "... if the Energon was unstable, and if there was a big enough
concentration of it, it could lift a mountain!"
Optimus: "My thoughts exactly."
Rattrap: "Man, oh, man. If I wanted to fly, I would've
become a bat, not a rat."
Rattrap: "And what if he blasts you into itty-bitty pieces? It's a long way
down!"
Optimus: "Sure is."
Rattrap: "I hate a wise-bot...."
Tarantulas: "You can't win, vermin. I am your
superior."
Rattrap: "Stick it in your command module, eight eyes."
Optimus: "My arms feel like refried rubber bands."
Rattrap: "You do know that was crazy."
Optimus: "Well, sometimes crazy works."

7. Fallen Comrades
10/05/2000
Megatron: "The Maximals will surely attempt to dispatch their
only flyer to reach the pod first, yes. Let us insure that he encounters
turbulence."
Dinobot: "I am not normally an advocate of caution, Optimus
Primal, but in this case, I must register my concern. Megatron does not
always behave as one might expect."
Optimus: "He'll want to reach the pod first, same as us. Right
now, it's a race, pure and simple."
Optimus: "One of my comrades is out there somewhere and every
second counts."
Dinobot: "Your emotion chips are overriding your caution
circuits."
Dinobot: "Fear not, Optimus. I shall insure that your
funeral is a glorious one, as befits a warrior who died in battle."
Optimus: "Afraid I'll have to miss it, Dinobot. I'm not scrap
yet."
Dinobot: "Are you certain? It would be a triumphant
passage."
Rattrap (to Dinobot): "Hey! You can just kiss my pink hairless...."
Tigatron: "I didn't know who I really was or which side I was on
until -- until I saw you risk your lives to save us."
Tigatron: "I am still more tiger than Maximal. ... I
feel my place is here, in the wilds, with my kind but you may count on my
loyalty."
Tigatron: "Let the trails lead where they may. I will follow."

8. Double Jeapordy
10/05/2000
Dinobot: "Our strategic disadvantage is considerable."
Optimus: "Work with it."
Tarantulas: "Meet Black Arachnia."
Black Arachnia: "Black Arachnia, terrorize."
Tarantulas: "Oh, be still my spinnerets."
Megatron (re: Black Arachnia): "Tarantulas, I detect an ulterior motive behind your
Beast form selection...."
Cheetor: "You don't really think Rattrap's backing with the
Predacons, do you?"
Rattrap: "Get scrapped, Optimus. You think I was working
for the Preds, ooh, you got a whole 'nother program to run, you oversized
buffoon."
Megatron: "Ah, the simple pleasures of code breaking."
Terrorsaur (to Rattrap): "Your marksmanship is
unimpressive."
Rattrap: "I got no links with the Maximals anymore. I'm a
free agent."
Terrorsaur: "Well, well, finally a Maximal with logic
circuits."
Rattrap (to Terrorsaur): "I'll do whatever you say. I'll even
become a Predacon."
Megatron: "The wise tyrant always insures that his prisons are designed for his
personal escape."
[Megatron leaves]
Rattrap: "And the wise Maximal traitor always makes sure he's
carrying a handy infiltration kit."
Megatron: "A wise tyrant always allows a fool to take the lead in
a crisis."
Waspinator: "Waspinator rules!"

9. The Probe
10/05/2000
Cheetor: "Last one back to the base is Predacon chow."
Rattrap: "No way, furball. I ain't staring at no hairy cat
butt."
Rattrap: "Don't cats ever get tired of being stupid?"
Optimus: "When you're outside the base, you pay attention."
Rattrap: "Strip my gears and call me a pole lamp."
Tarantulas: "Isn't life full of surprises?"
Tarantulas: "Don't cats ever get tired of being stupid?"
Optimus: "You're a Maximal now, and we'll see that you're treated as one."
Dinobot: "And what makes you think that I want to be?"
Megatron: "No Predacon will become a Maximal prisoner while I
rule."

10. Gorilla Warfare
Optimus (while berserk): "But if your caution circuits are overriding your
courage, then smelt you all!"

11. A Better Mousetrap
12/18/1999
Black Arachnia (to Waspinator and Terrorsaur): "I'm soiled enough just
being around you two."
Black Arachnia: "I'm the brains of this group, not the brawn."
Tigatron: "There are few who can sneak up on me like that."
Optimus: "You can learn a lot from Rattrap, if you can stand him."
Optimus: "Looks like Waspinator's been on a sugar binge."
Rhinox (to Dinobot): "What's gumming your gears?"
Dinobot: "Lethal threats demand lethal response."
Rhinox: "Sentinel thinks we're intruders."
Rattrap: "... since I turned this thing on, I'm the one that's got to
turn it off. -- Oh man! I'm starting to sound like Optimus
Pinhead."
Optimus (after losing sight of Waspinator): "Did you see him?"
Tigatron: "No, but I can still smell him. He's here somewhere."
Tigatron: "I need no help hunting Predacons, and I prefer to prowl
alone."
Cheetor: "Gigabummer! Sentinel's locked us out."
Dinobot (re: Rattrap being trapped inside the Maximal base by Sentinel):
"Apparently, you've built a better mousetrap."
Rattrap (re: Sentinel): "This ain't a security grid. It's a gym,
just for spy guys like me."
Rattrap: "Keep it up Sentinel. You don't have a chance. I'm
a stealth fighter, master marksman and demolition expert."
Dinobot (eulogizing Rattrap): "I won't disgrace his memory with lies! He was a
stinking, omnivorous pestilence! Still, in some perverse way, I will miss him."
Rhinox (eulogizing Rattrap): "Sure, he smelled bad. He was a rat.
But he was my
best friend."
Rattrap: "Ain't a defense system made that I can't get around."

12. Victory
12/19/1999
[Maximals watching events occurring at the Predacon base via spy
camera and commenting on those events.]
Terrorsaur (in Predacon base): "I've had enough. I refuse to serve
such an incompetent leader any longer. You've wasted our precious energon
crystals for the last time, Megatron."
Cheetor: "Whoa! Bad Karma at the loser lair."
Waspinator (in Predacon base): "Waspinator wants to fight now."
Dinobot: "It appears serious this time."
Megatron (in Predacon base): "You will regret this rebellion, Terrorsaur,
yes."
Optimus: "That's dissension all right."
Cheetor: "Cool! Now aren't you glad we got cable."
Rhinox: "Looks like we hard-wired that spy camera just in time."
Rattrap: "We! Hey! It was my fuzzy butt on the line out
there."
Optimus: "Shh! Look."
[Megatron backs away from the other Predacons before the other Predacons start
shooting]
Megatron (in Predacon base): "No! You fools. You'll hit the
energon."
[An explosion blacks out the spy camera and is felt at the Maximal base]
Rhinox: "I detect no signs of life. Not a Pred energy
signature anywhere."
Dinobot: "Can that be confirmed?"
Rattrap: "Hey! His sensors don't lie, Dinodip."
Optimus: "... we may have to accept a rather unexpected
development friends. It looks like the Maximals have won the Beast
Wars."
Rattrap: "All right! Let's pillage and plunder."
Optimus: "Only for space drive parts. It is a Predacon ship and still
very dangerous."
Rattrap (re: Dinobot): "Man! I'm pushing all of his
hot buttons and I'm getting nada."
Rattrap: "What are we going to do with Dinobot?
... Man, look at him. He's still a Predacon. He's only with us
because he knew we'd win. Not because he believed in what we stood
for. He's a soldier. With the enemy gone, who else is he going to
fight?"
Dinobot (hold some legs belonging to Tarantulus given him by
Cheetor): "Alas, poor Tarantulus, I knew him Cheetor. This is the leg
that stalked so many victims. And it should come to this."
Cheetor: "Aw! Do you need a hug?"
Rattrap: "I can just hear the dames crying for me."
Dinobot: "Perhaps it is the thought of your return that causes their
unhappiness."
Rattrap: "Hey, hey, hey! Chopperface! Whoo! An actual
comeback. A little lame, but, hey, I can tell you're feeling better."
Dinobot: "And for good reason. I shall not see you again."
Rattrap: "Whoa! Another dig."
Optimus: "What are you saying, Dinobot? You will not return with us
to Cybertron?"
Dinobot: "No! On Cybertron, I will merely be a Predacon
criminal. But on this planet, I have no equal. I shall remain to
conquer and rule."
Optimus: "I understand. None the less, let the record
show that I advise against this action. It will eventually lead to your destruction."
Dinobot: "Eventually! Eventually can be a long time, Optimus Primal.
I salute my former Maximal leader and my former comrades. Good-bye."
Tarantulus: "If Waspinator does not stop
cuddling me like a stuffed toy when he sleeps, I'll eat him...."
Megatron: "... thanks to Terrorsaur's
inadvertent discovery of our enemies' spy camera, we were able to pull this
little deception, yes."
Tigatron: "It feels strange to be inside an
artificial structure."
Tigatron: "I cannot sit idle while my
comrades battle the enemy. Tigatron, maximize."
Rattrap: "We're all going to die."
Dinobot: "Wait. Look. Down in the sky. Is it a
bird?"
Rhinox: "Maybe a plane?"
Rattrap: "Nah! It's Optimus."
Rattrap: "Man! You know, it's your
fault that I ain't kicking back on Cybertron right now, you overgrown stinking
iguana."
Dinobot: "I've done the planet a favor."
Rattrap: "Hey! Hey! You want me to show you just how
velociraptors got extinct. ..."
Dinobot: "Go scurry through a maze mouse."

13. Dark Designs
12/19/1999
Megatron: "Nowhere to run and no place to hide, yes."
Megatron: "It shouldn't be this easy, no, but mustn't complain."
Rhinox: "There's more than one way to skin a cat, so to
speak."
Optimus: "Well done old friend. Steady nerves and
quick thinking."
Rhinox: "Comes with the job description."
Optimus: "No, I'm serious. If you ever wanted to, you'd make one
prime leader."
Rhinox: "Thanks anyway, but I'll leave that sort of thing to you. I'd
rather just tag-along behind and smell the flowers."
Megatron: "The rhinoceros, I do believe I may have
understand him, yes. And I could find use for someone like that."
Megatron: "The transmutor, megacycles in the design, but
infinitely, well worth the effort."
Rhinox: "If you're going to finish me any way, then do me a
favor. Shut up and get on with it."
Predacon Rhinox: "Rhinox, terrorize. Afternoon
all. This a private club or can anybody join?"
Megatron: "Let me be the first to welcome you. Everyone, meet our new
Predacon."
Cheetor: "Better dead than Pred."
Rattrap: "Optimus, you got a few hugs in your system
directory?"
Optimus: "No, but I've got a hunch that Megatron's bitten off a little more
than he bargained for, yes."
Predacon Rhinox: "Destruction is always good."
Scorpinok (after Predacon Rhinox asked how long repairs would
take, supposedly for Megatron): "Tell him not to get his software in a
snarl. First I have ot figure out what the slagging problem is."
Rhinox: "One false move and you're a new fast food
sensation, Pterodactyl Hot-Wings."
Optimus: "If we intervene now, we're facing seven Predacons,
including Rhinox."
Rattrap: "And if we wait, we're facing six Preds and a large collection of
rhino bits."
Megatron: "Ah, Rhinox, a pleasure to see you again."
Predacon Rhinox: "Always a treat to see you, too."
Megatron: "Traitor!"
Predacon Rhinox: "Yep. You got a point there."
Predacon Rhinox: "They're playing our song, Megatron. Time to dance."
Predacon Rhinox: "Reprogramming me was the worst mistake you ever made 'cause now
that I'm a Predacon, I'm just a little too crafty for you. ... It's
called irony, sport. I take over and you head straight for the recycling
bin, yes."
Megatron: "So it would seem. And even now, Rhinox, you're teaching me
a valuable lesson."
Predacon Rhinox: "Yeah, what's that?"
Megatron: "Sometimes Predacons gloat too much."
Cheetor: "Okay, so how about we just punt your butt a couple of hundred
yards down field."
Rattrap: "Yo, everybody, out of the pool."
Cheetor: "... what's it actually feel like, being a Pred?"
Rhinox: "Like you're three gigabytes of attitude on a two-gig hard drive.
No wonder they got personality problems."

14. Double Dinobot
01/03/2000
Megatron: "I present to you a perfect clone of Dinobot.
And all I needed was a speck of that traitor's DNA. ... ... he'll
provide us, shall we say, an unfair advantage by infiltrating the Maximal base
and shutting down their defense grid. Of course, he can't transform, but I
doubt it will be necessary."
Scorpinok: "Are you certain this zombie bot can pull it off?"
Dinobot clone: "Not only will I pull it off, I'll chew it up and spit it
out."
Megatron: "It's Terrorsaur's job to
eliminate the real Dinobot. Yes. Then I'll send in the clone."
Dinobot: "By the inferno, I am bored.
There's never a Predacon around when you need one."
Terrorsaur (after trapping Dinobot in a cave):
"Rust in peace, old comrade."
Optimus: "... there's no reason to fight a
battle we can avoid."
Rattrap (being led on a wild goose chase in
search of Predacons by Dinobot clone): "So, where's these Predacons?
It's as quiet as an oiled bearing out here."
Rattrap (to Dinobot clone after being told by
Dinobot clone that Predacons should be right over the next ridge): "...
we'd better transform. Rattrap, maximize. -- What are you
waiting for, micorbrain? Settle into the metal."
Rattrap (after Dinobot clone pushed him off a
cliff): "I just knew I smelled a rat, and it wasn't even me."
Optimus: "Rattrap's a pain in the circuits,
but I'd hate to lose him."
Rattrap: "I was almost deep fried rat."
Rattrap: "... once a Pred, always a Pred."
Rattrap (re: Dinobot's clone alone at base):
"That's just prime."
Dinobot: "... what are you waiting
for? Transform so I can finish you with honor."
Dinobot clone: "I -- I can't."
Dinobot: "Of course, you're nothing but a clone. Well, far be it from
me to fight an inferior foe."
Dinobot clone: "Fortunately, I don't share your stupid sense of
honor."
Dinobot (pretending to be Dinobot clone):
"... your brilliance is an inspiration to me."
Megatron: "... you are a most enchanting creature. I may just close
the rest of my troops."
Megatron: "So, you ungrateful clone.
You're as treacherous as the real Dinobot."
Dinobot: "Correction. I am the real Dinobot."
Optimus (to Dinobot after reporting the he had
eaten the clone, flicked a piece of food from between his teeth onto Optimus and
burped): "You're disgusting."

15. The Spark
12/19/1999
Rhinox: "This proto-form is dying."
Cheetor: "A spark."
Rhinox: "Yep! The very thing which makes us what we are. Every
Cybertron, Maximal or Predacon, has one. And each is different. When
a spark goes online, there's great joy. When one's extinguished, the
universe weeps."
Cheetor: "... how do you dance with all those skinny legs?"
Black Arachnia (referring to an earlier encounter with Tigatron): "This
must be my day for cats."
Air Razor: "Air Razor, maximize."
Cheetor: "Pay no attention to the rodent. He was born with a major
glitch."
Optimus (to Airazor): "You'll get used to everything in time, including them,
maybe."

16. The Trigger (Part 1)
01/06/2000
Tigatron: "... though I am close to these rugged lands,
they still have their mysteries."
Waspinator: "Waspinator love victims that are
punctual."
Rhinox: "It would almost seem that one of the moons is
lighter than it sould be. Not enough mass for its size. It's as
though it were hollow."
Rattrap (to Tigatron): "What's new pussycat?"
Optimus: "Tigatron may have been destroyed."
Megatron: "... a flying island, concealed from view, which
contains a powerful weapon. This could be useful, yes. Such a
tactical advantage could end the Beast Wars once and for all."
Optimus (re: Tigatron): "He'll defend himself, but total
destruction goes against everything he believes in."
Dinobot: "He's a fool then."
Tigatron: "It would seem that energy weapons are not
welcome in this peaceful land. So be it. Beast mode. Let me be
a visitor, not an invader."
Air Razor: "What's this? Black Arachnia tries to lasso
a cloud? -- More surprisingly, she seem to have succeeded."
Tigatron: "Air Razor has been damaged. She and I are
trapped on a mysterious flying island. This island is a self-contained
ecosystem guarded by powerful weapons of alien design. Black Arachnia and
Scorpinok hav already managed to invade. If they gain control of the
island and its weapons, the Predacons will be able to destroy the Maximal base
... and win the Beast Wars."

17. The Trigger (Part 2)
01/06/2000
Tigatron: "It is as though I have come home. Though
my heart is a Maximal fluid pump, my soul is that of a tiger. And on this
strange flying island, despite its weaponry, I, at last, feel myself at
peace. It must not fall into the clutches of the Predacons."
Black Arachnia (after falling through a trap and saving herself
with her own web): "There are times it pays to be a spider."
Rattrap (riding on Optimus' back as Optimus flies toward the
flying island): "... I still don't see shy I got to be the one to get
carried like a sack of rusty nuts."
Optimus: "Because you're the only one I can fly this whole distance.
Besides, Tigatron's message said the flying island was booby-trapped. and
no one knows traps like Rattrap."
Rattrap: "... the curse of a great reputation. ...we get beverage
cart service on this flight?"
Optimus: "Just make sure your seatbelt is securely fastened."
Optimus (under attack by Waspinator and Terrorsaur): "I
can't maneuver with a passenger."
Rattrap: "Well, excuse me. I'm the one holding on by their little
pink toes here. I can't even transform like this."
Rattrap (after being knocked off of Optimus' back): "Slag
heap city! I'm going to die. I'm falling, pitiful and
helpless."
Terrorsaur (taunting the falling Rattrap): "A scared little
mousie. This is just too good to be true."
Rattrap: "You know, beak-face, you're right."
[Rattrap transforms and blasts Terrorsaur]
Terrorsaur (coming out of a spin): "Beast mode."
[The falling Rattrap lands on Terrorsaur's neck]
Rattrap: "... Just had to get you close enough to hitch a ride.
... Now, fly you featherless freak or I'll toast your tachyons."
Optimus: "You're a real piece of work, Rattrap."
Rattrap (riding on Terrorsaur's back): "Ain't it the truth."
Rattrap: "You mean that whoever built this place went to
all the trouble of making traps and then marking them? And it won't let
you use energy weapons?"
Optimus: "What are you getting at, Rattrap?"
Rattrap: "I'm saying that this ain't no paradise, it's a puzzle. This
whole place is designed to attract intelligent species and ... then test
them."
Air Razor: "Test them? Test them for what?"
Rattrap: "I don't know, bird-lady, but I'll tell you this. Generally
speaking, being a guinea pig ain't a long-term career gig, you know what I'm
saying. I say we get off this flying sod farm."
Tigatron: "No! This is a land of peace. I will protect
it."
Black Arachnia: "This flying island and all it's power will
soon be mine to control. ... It's mine. This island's weapons
will give me the power to defeat even Megatron. I will destroy the
Maximals and rule the Predacons."
Black Arachnia: "I have the control. Let there be
light."
Rattrap (addressing the alien obelisk): "Listen up, you
oversized thumb tack."
Tigatron: "May I be forgiven for what I must do."
[Tigatron blasts the power core of the island causing the island to crash]
Tigatron: "We were given a paradise. All we had to do
was live there in peace. But we proved unworthy. And the paradise is
no more."
Optimus: "Yeah, it's and old story. Maybe, someday, we'll
learn."

18. Spider's Game
01/06/2000
Black Arachnia (to Tarantulus): "So this is where you've
been hiding. Cozy, in a hideous sort of way. ... Cool your
gears, tall, dark and gruesome. I haven't spent all this time finding your
lair just to shoot it out with you."
Tigatron (seeing a Maximal stasis pod fall to earth): "A
stasis pod. Another of our Maximal warriors arrives. ... I
must get to the pod before the Predacons find it."
[Tarantulus and Black Arachnia have already arrived at the
stasis pod]
Black Arachnia: "Ooh! You are a clever one. No wonder Megatron
fears you."
Tarantulus: "Is that why you're helping me betray him?"
Black Arachnia: "Megatron is powerful, but inferior. I would make a
much better leader. Besides, you're so cute."
Tarantulus: "My intent was to create another of our kind,
but the pod's computer has already selected a form. ... But,
whatever it is, it will be a Predacon."
Waspinator: "Tiger-bot is all alone. Waspinator will
destroy. ... Now Waspinator says good-bye to tiger-bot."
[Waspinator is blasted by Air Razor]
Waspinator: "Waspinator remembers bird-bot. Waspinator will
scrap."
Air Razor: "I'm flattered -- but hardly impressed."
[Air Razor shoots off Waspinator's wings]
Waspinator (with head buried in sand and a rodent pulling at his antennae):
"Waspinator hate bird-bot."
Black Arachnia (seeing the new Predacon rise from the pod):
"... Another insect. How depressing."
Inferno (protecting the pod from Tarantulus and Black Arachnia):
"Spiders dare invade the colony. Inferno, terrorize. ...
Destruction to all who threaten us. The royalty commands it."
Black Arachnia: "That six legged freak nearly roasted
us. I thought you said he was a Predacon."
Tarantulus: "His beast mode is dominating his logic circuits."
Black Arachnia: "He thinks he's a real insect?"
Tarantulus: "Precisely. And he sees the pod as his colony.
Anyone who threatens it is his enemy."
Black Arachnia: "My cyber-venom will make him more friendly."
Tarantulus: "No! I don't want to risk damage to the pod."
Air Razor (to Inferno as he flies to her location): "As
Cheetor would say, that flight mode is ultra-gear. I'm Air Razor, who are
you?"
Inferno: "Defender of the colony, and you are an invader."
[Inferno fires on Air Razor]
Air Razor: "You're not Maximal."
Black Arachnia (after firing on Air Razor): "Destruction to
the Maximals, the enemies of the colony."
Inferno: "... Yes, they are enemies, but you're not of the
colony."
Black Arachnia: "Actually, I'm a personal friend of the royalty."
Tarantulus (grabbing the pod for return to his lair): "At
last, I have the means to escape this dust ball."
Black Arachnia: "You're a Predacon, like me. It's our
destiny to conquer and rule."
Inferno: "No! Only the royalty rules. As soldier, I defend --
the colony."
Air Razor (to Tigatron): "Predacons got here first.
They turned the proto-form into one of them."
Air Razor: "You might need backup."
Tigatron: "I hunt better alone."
Air Razor: "... sometimes you can be too alone."
Tigatron (after destroying the pod): "You won't be getting of our
secrets from that pod, Predacon."
Black Arachnia (coming up behind Tigatron): "Ane you won't be getting any
older, Stripes."
Inferno (re: destruction of pod): "The colony. Whoever has done
this thing will burn. Inferno, terrorize."
Megatron (witnessing Inferno's transformation and attitude): "Ooh, I like
him, yes."
Optimus (after rescuing Tigatron from Inferno and Megatron): "Air Razor suggested you might need a lift."
Tigatron: "That's another of my nine lives I owe her."
Megatron (to Scorpinok re: Inferno's destroyed body): "Gather up that
junk pile and bring it to the base."
Tigatron: "I prefer the wild land."
Tarantulus: "Megatron does not see the webs within the webs."
Black Arachnia: "We're two of a kind. We should stick
together."
Tarantulus: "It would make no difference if we did. This planet is
doomed."
Black Arachnia: "So, that's why you wanted the stasis pod. To build
an escape ship. ... I can help."
Tarantulus: "Leave my lair."
Black Arachnia: "... at least consider it. We could be a great
team."
[Black Arachnia walks away]
Black Arachnia (whispers): "Lunatic!"
Tarantulus (whispers): "Witch!"

19. Call of the Wild
01/28/2000
Rattrap (to Optimus): "... Don't get your bananas in
a bunch."
Rattrap (re: Cheetor): "Man! I swear, them polka-dots
go clear through to the brain."
Rhinox: "The Predacons took our rectifier coil.
Without it, the base is no longer energon shielded."
Rattrap: "... You mean we got to wear these fur coats day and
night?"
Optimus: "That could be a problem."
Rattrap (forced to remain in beast mode): "... I hate
working with these short little arms and legs."
Rhinox: "We've been in beast mode too long."
Rattrap: "I'm a robot trapped in a rat's body and the rat is taking
over."
Megatron: "... Exactly as my research on Maximal
programming postulated. ... Their beast forms have taken over.
In their exhaustion, they are sleep prowling. Which means that tonight, we
hunt."
Megatron: "... If at first you don't succeed, try,
try again."
Tigatron: "The night is wild and we have much to do."
Waspinator: "Waspinator love it when prey cannot
shoot."
Terrorsaur: "Hunting from the air with automatic weapons.
Now that's a
sport!"
Air Razor (re: Predacon base): "Lights are
on but nobody's home, except the automated defense, of course. Oh,
well. She stoops to conquer."
Tigatron: "Once, we were merely robots in
disguise, but on this planet, we Maximals have become something more.
Maximal programming was designed to block our beast urges -- but that has proven
to be an error. Our beast forms are part of us. Fighting their
nature only made them stronger. We must accept both beast and robot
forms. Feel your core consciousness. Find the programming block and
delete it. Bring your beast and robot forms together. Let them work
in harmony. And let them both make you stronger than you were
before."
Rattrap: "Rat! Robot! Rat!
Robot! I'm a robot and a rat. ... Yeah. I like it."
Tigatron: "Remember, do not fight your beast instincts. Let them
help your robot forms, both in battle and in peace. ... But for now, let us Maximize ... and slag some butt!"
Cheetor: "... Beast or bot, we're still the baddest."

20. Dark Voyage
01/28/2000
Dinobot: "I'm better at everything than Rattrap."
Rhinox: "I feel like I got hit by a whole Pred fleet."
Rhinox: "I'm blind."
Rattrap (also blind): "It's darker than the inferno out
here."
Rhinox: "You've all got to calm down."
Dinobot: "Calm down? We can't see!"
Rhinox: "There's more than one way to see...."
Rhinox: "We just follow our noses...."
Rhinox: "Maximals don't abandon their own kind."
Megatron: "Seek and destroy."
Cheetor (after being blown into water by Waspinator): "I've
had enough water to last me a stellar lifetime."
Dinobot: "What irony, for a warrior like me to go out
blind, wet and helpless."
Rhinox: "... we're not finished yet."
Dinobot: "Spare me your eternal optimism."
Waspinator (seeing that Maximals had survived the attack that
dumped them into the water): "Waspinator is sick of stupid Maximals."
Dinobot: "How can we hit what we cannot see?"
Rhinox: "... all in all, I'd say it was a good experience
for us. ... We never really appreciated what we're capable of in
beast form. Now we know. -- I'm going to smell some
flowers. --"
Rattrap: "... you got to love the big lug nut."

21. Possession
01/13/2000
Scorpinok: "So, there you are."
Starscream (in Waspinator's body): "Yes, here I am -- at very long last!"
Megatron: "What happened to your voice?"
Starscream: "Allow me to present myself. Air Commander Starscream of
the Decepticon battle fleet. ..."
Black Arachnia: "But you're ancient history."
Starscream: "Ancient, yes. History, no."
Scorpinok: "What's he talking about?"
Black Arachnia: "The Decepticons were our ancestors. For centuries,
they warred with the Autobots."
Megatron: "The ancient ancestors of the Maximals."
Megatron: "Now that you're here, Air Commander, what do you want?"
Starscream: "Why to pledge allegiance to the glorious Megatron and fight as
your loyal lieutenant."
Megatron: "Well, you'll forgive the glorious Megatron for not melting into
a puddle of gratitude."
Optimus: "Taken unawares. I'm a fool."
Megatron: "At long last, Primal, we agree on something."
Cheetor: "Don't you know that gate crashing is just plain rude.
Next time, try knocking."
Megatron: "We must pay attention, Dinobot. Otherwise, deary me, look what happens!"
Megatron: "First we conquered. Now we divide."
Megatron: "... you are rewarded for your loyal service."
Dinobot: "... I have long studied military history. Starscream was
deceitful and scheming, the most notorious traitor of all.
Starscream (to Black Arachnia): "Greed and self-interest, eh, excellent.
I believe I discern a prot�g�."
Optimus: "Starscream, we come to surrender."
Rattrap: "Would you lie down -- and groan, for crying out loud?
You're suppose to be half-dead."
Dinobot: "If you don't shut up, rodent, you shall be my role model."
Rattrap: "If it ain't the dinosaurs up your nose, it's the
felines."
Starscream (to Black Arachnia): "Lesson One: Always show
compassion. It's a useful cover for your true motives."
Tigatron: "We had an agreement, Starscream."
Starscream: "And, now, we have another one."
Rattrap: "You, you're nothing but a scheming snake in the grass."
Starscream: "Flattery will get you flattened, vermin."
Optimus: "Betrayed, shackled and caged. In other words, so far, so
good."
Starscream (to Black Arachnia): "Lesson Two: They're always more
gullible than you'd hope."
Optimus: "Lesson Three: Disregard lessons one and two."
Optimus: "I have to tell you, Starscream, you're giving space debris a
very bad name."
Starscream: "You betrayed me!"
Black Arachnia: "I studied with the master."
Optimus: "Hasta la vista, Starscream."
Waspinator: "Waspinator has a headache in his whole body...."
Megatron: "You're smooth, Black Arachnia. Very smooth! It does not inspire
confidence. No."
Cheetor: "Twinkle, twinkle, little Starscream."

22. The Low Road
01/15/2000
Rattrap: "Oh, man! I signed up as an explorer -- an adventurer --
you know, your basic galactic hero. -- Since when does that include
gardening duty?"
Dinobot: "One must always be on the alert for the sneak attacks."
Dinobot: "Unlike you, cheese eater, I do not run from battle."
Cheetor: "... are you sure it was a good idea sending those two out
together?"
Optimus: "To be honest, no. Their squabbling has caused problems
before. They'll
either learn to work together or they'll destroy each other. -- Right now, I don't
really care
which."
Dinobot: "I detect a scent. -- Vile corruption, a whiff of
festering putrification."
Rattrap: "So, I ate a limburger sandwich for lunch. I'm a rat.
Give me a break."
Dinobot: "I have been uncomfortably aware of your stench for the past hour,
vermin. This is something else."
Dinobot: "Leave battle to the warriors, mouse."
Tarantulus (to Dinobot and Rattrap): "Playground's closed, minimals."
Cheetor: "Those sinus torpedoes of Rhinox's are draining us dry."
Rattrap (to Dinobot): "Pre-evolved bird-brain!"
Rattrap: "This day just keeps getting better and better."
Dinobot: "Yes. There is little I enjoy more than hauling an
unconscious arachnid through underground tunnels."
Rattrap: "Listen, we need spider-boy here to whip up an anti-virus! And you know
this tunnel's got to lead to his lab."
Dinobot: "I know nothing of the sort. Unlike you, I am not used to crawling through
sewers."
Rattrap: "Well, a sewer smells better than your breath, bronto-brain."
Dinobot: "You'll soon get used to it after I bite your worthless head off."
Rhinox: "If I'm going to wreck the wallpaper, I might as well do it on
Pred turf."
Megatron: "A bargaining chip should remain in play 'til the game is
over, yes."
Black Arachnia: "Why do you always talk to yourself?"
Megatron: "I simply have a penchant for intelligent conversation."
Megatron (to Scorpinok, Inferno and Waspinator): "Hold you fire, you
fools. Wait for a target."
Dinobot: "There are times when I would prefer to be a Predacon."
Megatron: "A bargaining chip is always useful."

23. Law of the Jungle
01/15/2000
Inferno (to Tigatron): "The Royalty commands your wreckage, destroyer of my
Colony!"
Tigatron: "Snowstalker! -- Good-bye, Snowstalker. Let
your hunting ground shelter you now."
Cheetor: "It's never easy to bury a friend."
Tigatron: "In my lust for battle, I caused the death of an
innocent."
Dinobot: "There are no innocents. This is war."
Tigatron: "From this moment on, I am no longer part of the Beast
Wars."
Waspinator: "Megatron not like failure."
Waspinator: "Waspinator like signals."
Dinobot (to Tigatron): "You have the instincts of a warrior. You
know when danger's approaching."
Dinobot (pointing out a tiger capturing a deer): "That is the law of the
jungle. The hunters and the hunted. Scrap or be scrapped."
Tigatron: "Animals hunt to survive."
Dinobot: "What do you think was is about? Maximals, they believe in
peace, but Predacons -- you do not really know the Predacons -- we -- they --
live for the glory of conquest."
Tigatron: "Peace will never come until someone agrees not to
fight."
Dinobot: "The Predacons will not allow it. They will destroy you or
reprogram you."
Dinobot (to Tigatron): "If you're not with us, then you're against
us."
Dinobot (to Optimus and Tigatron): "Sentiment! The more time I
spend with you Maximals, the more I wonder how you've survived so long."
Tigatron: "We don't belong here, Optimus."
Optimus: "But we are here, and as Maximals, we've got a duty to explore and
defend this world."
Tigatron (to Inferno): "Back off Predacon. You will kill no more
beasts today. -- You -- will -- leave the wild alone!"
Tigatron: "Once again, the planet pays the price for our war.
... I must still grieve for my friend -- but as long as there are
Predacons to harm this world, we Maximals must protect it."

24. Before the Storm
12/11/1999
Megatron: "Go repair yourself. I have much to think about."
Inferno: "Yes, my Queen."
Megatron: "... I wish he wouldn't call me that."
Optimus (to Megatron hologram): "I'd say it was good to see you but my
truth circuits would overload."
Optimus: "When Predacons talk truce, it just means they need time to
reload their weapons."
Optimus: "I'm a Maximal. I have to give peace a chance, no matter
how unlikely it seems."
Rattrap: "Ain't there a rule that us hero types got to get more
dignified transportation?"
Rattrap: "... we're gonna die!"
Air Razor: "Isn't there a rule that heroes have to face destruction with
dignity?"
Rattrap: "Hey, what's the fun of dying if you can't enjoy it?"
Rattrap: "I feel naked without my gun."
Terrorsaur (after catching Tigatron sneaking around the Predacon base):
"Looks like curiouslity just claimed another cat."
Terrorsaur (to Tigatron): "Don't even twitch your whiskers pussy cat, or
I'll fragment your hard drive."
Megatron: "To think that I once would have been satisfied with mere
energon! To
think that my ambitions once lofted no higher than the conquest of Cybertron!"
Megatron: "When one is serving bait, presentation is everything."
Optimus: "That's just prime."

25. Other Voices (Part 1)
01/15/2000
Optimus: "Just what we need. A visit from the
landlord."
Megatron (re: Tarantulus and Black Arachnia): "The
inevitable treachery, yes. Properly guided, it should serve me well."
Waspinator: "Waspinator find spider-bot and tear him a new
waste disposal unit."
Waspinator: "Not fair! Waspinator always gets slag
assignments."
Megatron: "May I remind Waspinator that the current cease fire applies only
in reference to Maximals."
Rattrap: "Strip my circuits and call me a toaster."
Rattrap: "It's amazing how sweet we're all being these
days."
Rattrap: "... you fight with a rat, you better fight
dirty."
Rattrap: "Robo-noogie!"
Optimus (re: alien construct): "Is there a way in?"
Rattrap: "You see a doorbell anywhere?"
Rattrap: "Holy Swiss cheese, we're in for it now."
Optimus: "Since our arrival on this planet, we haven't exactly been the
best of tenants. The aliens have a right to expect some answers."
Inferno: "Spiders spin their own web of intrigue."
Megatron (re: hearing Optimus scream in pain): "Ah, would I could have that sound to lull me to
sleep each night."
Rattrap: "Ours is not to reason why, but to blow this joint before we die!"
Optimus: "Unicron!"
Alien: "We have no physical form you could comprehend. We chose this
figure of authority from your data tracks."
Optimus: "If you've scanned me, you know that we did not come to this
planet by choice."
Alien: "Yet, you are here."
Optimus: "We mean no hare, to you or this planet."
Alien: "It is too late. You and your enemies have already
contaminated the project. The harm has been done. That which does not
become part of the one shall become Void."
Optimus: "No! Wait! We can fix whatever damage was done."
Alien: "We are not interested. The experiment will be
sterilized."
Optimus: "You can't do that. There are living creatures here.
You, with all your power, even you have no right."
Alien: "We have no choice. There is more danger than you know.
Begin termination sequence."
Rattrap: "Hey, big banana, what gives?"
Optimus: "They called it a termination sequence. We'd better get out
of here."
Rattrap: "You just said my favorite phrase."
Megatron: "Fortunately, there is still another hand to be
paralyzed."

26. Other Voices (Part 2)
04/30/1999
Megatron: "Brilliant! They're causing a chain reaction which will rip this
planet to ribbons and destroy all traces of them, simply to deal with us. What sheer
ruthlessness. What disregard for sentient life. I rather like these
aliens."
Waspinator: "Waspinator not want to be destroyed. Waspinator has
plans."
Rattrap: "... suicide ain't in my job description."
Optimus: "Sometimes crazy works."
Rattrap: "... in case you don't make it back ... can I have your quarters?"
Optimus: "No."

27. Aftermath
12/11/1999
Rattrap: "My gear box hanging out, or something?"
Air Razor (to Cheetor and Rattrap): "The quantum surge
must have mutated your superstructures."
Rattrap: "Hey! I'm gorgeous."
Megatron: "... I've had a change -- for the
better -- yes."
Waspinator: "Waspinator is glad to see end of alien machines! And Optimus
Primal."
Megatron: "Yes ... I am good, aren't I?"
Rattrap: "... when we woke up, Cheetor and I were these, uh, transmetals."
Rhinox: "I'm in a bad mood."
Rattrap (re: new Transmetal bodies): "This ... is going to take some getting used
to."
Black Arachnia: "Tarantulas? Where are you ...?"
Tarantulas: "... I'm inside your pretty little head, controlling your pretty little
thoughts!"
Black Arachnia: "Things have changed around here."
Air Razor: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Megatron (re: Cheetor and Rattrap): "New packaging, same product!
Losers!"
Rattrap: "... the Beast Wars just got a whole lot weirder."

28. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)
Inferno: "Fool! Pain is my friend! Allow me to introduce you to it!"
Megatron: "Good-bye Bad Cop, hello Good Cop. Yes!."
Rattrap: "Get yer shiny new butt skyward and scout around."
Cheetor: "You mean fly?"
Rattrap: "Do I mean fly? -- No, I meant take a submarine!"
Rhinox: "Travel well, friends. You are part of this planet, let its heart guide
your own."
Silverbolt: "Who are you? For that matter, who am I?"
Quickstrike: "I don't know. but I do know one thing, and that is ... I bet I can
thrash your tail!"
Silverbolt: "What?!"
Quickstrike: "You and me! C'mon, fuzz and feathers! We're going to tango! Right here!
Right now!"
Silverbolt: "I think my name is... Silverbolt! Yes! Strong, pure, and fast!"
Megatron: "... yes. Of course. Ahem."
Silverbolt: "We've done nothing to him! Surely there must be some
misunderstanding."
Quickstrike: "Yeah. Ol' Blender-Butt there misunderstands my need to kick his
keister!"
Waspinator: "Oh sure, don't mind Waspinator ... Waspinator just lie here and
suffer, drag himself to CR tank....

29. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)

30. Tangled Web
04/30/1999
Quickstrike: "Destruction is better than construction."
Quickstrike: "Still, Megatron's pretty tough...."
Tarantulas: "I see. You fear him."
Quickstrike: "What? There ain't nothing that walks, flies, crawls or swims that I'm
afraid of!"
Quickstrike: "There just ain't no figuring a female...."
Tarantulas: "A fact of life, Fuzor."
Silverbolt: "Be careful, my friend! We don't know what we're getting into!"
Rattrap: "Have we ever?"
Silverbolt: "It's not right to strike a female."
Tarantulus: "It's amazing what one well placed charge will
do."

31. Maximal, No More
01/19/2000
Rattrap: "Nothing like traveling trans-metal
first-class...."
Dinobot: "Predacons live to command."
Dinobot: "We're on Predacon ground.
There is always battle here."
Waspinator: "Waspinator not serve.
Waspinator rules."
Megatron: "Damage me and you'll be scrap in
a nano-click. --"
Dinobot: "As might you be if your loyal troops open fire. But that
would be a waste of two good Predacons."
Megatron: "Predacon? I thought you were a Maximal now. --"
Dinobot: "Times have changed."
Megatron: "Treachery keeps the wits sharp."
Dinobot: "Indeed -- and yours are razor sharp."
Dinobot: "Computer -- voice code Dinobot. Change activation
code."
Computer (female voice re: Dinobot changing to Predacon): "Activation code
change complete."
Dinobot: "From this moment on, I am Maximal no more."
Megatron: "Simple rules. Survivor wins."
Quickstrike: "Nobody bites my tail and gets away with it."
Megatron: "Inferno, aid Quickstrike."
Inferno: "Yes, my queen."
Dinobot (to Megatron): "I was not aware you had given yourself a new title."
Megatron: "The ant has some faulty programming, ... but his loyalty is
without question."
Dinobot: "Your ambition has made you insane, Megatron.
You will destroy both Maximal and Predacon and all who came before."
Silverbolt: "I was a Predacon once. You gave me a
chance."
Computer (male voice re: Dinobot changing back to Maximal):
"Activation code change complete."
Rattrap: "Maximal taxi on the way home. You need a
ride?"
Dinobot: "So, I am to be punished after all."

32. Other Visits (Part 1)
12/28/1999
Black Arachnia: "Being loyal to Megatron sure is
boring."
Tigatron: "Wherever we go, my spark will find yours."
Air Razor: "And mine yours."
Waspinator: "Waspinator pinned like iron butterfly."
Inferno: "I don't rock and roll. I burn."
Megatron (to Tarantulas): "So, you act out of hate. That's an emotion I can trust."

33. Other Visits (Part 2)
01/28/2000
Rattrap (sarcastically): "... I forgot how much fun energon
surges are."
Megatron: "A show of massive force, direct and to the point. I
do like these aliens."
Optimus (re: aliens): "Their power is beyond what you can
imagine. You can't control it."
Megatron: "I am the power."
Rattrap: "... Looks like we lost this one, big
time."
Optimus: "We lose when we quit, and I'm not ready to
quit."
Rattrap: "I hat it when he talks like that."
Megatron: "I am done hiding. Megatron,
terrorize. -- ... my theory proved true. The quantum surge
which changed our bodies has rendered us invisible to the aliens."
Tarantulus: "More accurately, we are one with them now."
Optimus: "We could try knocking."
Rattrap: "Yeah. Like Megs is going to invite us in for oil and
cookies."
Optimus (re: being attacked by Predacons): "Let's
mingle."
Megatron: "Waspinator. Inferno. I have a most
important job for you."
Waspinator: "Ooh! Finally, Waspinator get important job."
Silverbolt (using Maximal base scanners to locate alien vessel):
"I would have more luck finding that alien horror with my nose."
Rhinox (after having been damaged by the alien vessel):
"I'm getting sick of waking up in the slagging R chamber."
Dinobot: "Better that than the scrap heap."
[Waspinator and Inferno transporting trans-warp cells]
Waspinator: "Waspinator not think this job so important."
Inferno: "Every job for the royalty is a gift."
Waspinator: "Ant-bot is major suck-up."
Tarantulus (working with Maximals to stop Megatron): "Your
comrades fight well."
Rattrap: "Well, you Preds give us plenty of practice."
Rattrap (re: destruction of alien vessel): "... When
these alien gizmos blow, they really blow."

34. Bad Spark
04/30/1999
Megatron: "Spiders spin their webs ..., but I spin them larger."
Black Arachnia (to Silverbolt): "Come on! Fight back! How
far will you carry this silly chivalry? 'Cause this dark damsel is not
impressed."
Black Arachnia: "Megatron is a slag sucking saurian."
Silverbolt: "Though threatening you own comrade is, no doubt,
business as usual in the Predacon guide to villiany, it is simply unacceptable behavior in
my book."
Silverbolt: "Are you damaged?"
Black Arachnia: "Just enough to make me interesting."
Black Arachnia: "I consider myself a creature of darkness, but this
place is making my skin crawl."
Black Arachnia: "Are you damaged?"
Silverbolt: "Just enough to make me interesting."
Dinobot: "Victors do no spurn opportunity."
Megatron: "Time, now, for my surgical strike."
Protoform X / Rampage (to Silverbolt): "Is that fear you're feeling
Maximal? Mmmm, yes! My spark feeds on terror. Let it grow. Let it
consume your circuitry. Feel it! Yes, feel it! Feel the fear!"
Protoform X / Rampage: "Your persistence is futile. I rise
again."
Silverbolt: "In that case, let us give you further to fall."

35. Code of Hero
01/11/2000
Optimus: "We'd better start increasing the base
defenses."
Dinobot: "The base remains infested with vermin, I
see."
Rattrap: "Yeah! Funny! You know, not much changes around here,
except maybe the occasional allegiances."
Rattrap: "Guess we live and learn."
Dinobot: "Destiny has one great test in store for us all.
Has mine already come and have I failed it? A deed once done cannot be
undone. But, perhaps, it may yet be mitigated."
Dinobot (to Tarantulus): "Sickening spider! Your base
was betrayed by the stench of your perversions."
Dinobot: "When reality alters, the future alters with
it. With that golden disk, Megatron's power is limitless."
Megatron: "... according to this disk, the human race is
destined to emerge from this valley. Mmm, humans! Thanks to their
interference, the Autobots defeated the Decepticons, and thus, it is the
Maximals which rule us. But no longer, no. Destiny is about to
undergo an improvement."
Tarantulus (blasting Dinobot): "Shouldn't' take your eyes
off a spider. They tend to be venomous."
Dinobot: "But they still squash."
[Dinobot blasts a rock above Tarantulus which falls on Tarantulus]
Megatron (to gathered Predacons): "Destroy this valley and
everything in it. The human race will never have existed."
Dinobot: "The question that once haunted my being's been
answered. The future is not fixed. My choices are my own. And
yet, how ironic, for I now find I have no choice at all. Let the battle be
joined."
Rattrap: "... no matter how soon we get there, it's going
to be way too late."
Rhinox: "Do you always have to see the bright side?"
Rattrap: "Dino-butt against six Preds. There won't be enough left of
him to make a toaster."
Megatron (re: Dinobot after he's disabled Inferno, Black
Arachnia, Waspinator and Rampage): "One lonely turn-coat battling on
against almost impossible odds. I'm almost touched. Fortunately,
such moments pass quickly."
Quickstrike (to Dinobot): "Don't bother getting up.
I'll just kick you while you're down."
Quickstrike: "So, what's a warrior without weapons?"
Dinobot: "A warrior still."
[Dinobot beats Quickstrike]
Megatron (to Dinobot): "Where are we now? I have the
golden disk. I have the power to change the future. And the only
remaining obstacle in my path to unimaginable glory is yourself.
Exhausted, damaged beyond recovery, defeated."
Megatron: "Oh, really, Dinobot. A stick against a
trans-metal? I think not. ... Oh, please! Face it,
Dinobot. You're old technology. Obsolete. What can you
possibly do?"
Dinobot: "Improvise."
[Dinobot knocks the golden disk from Megatron using a rock on a stick and used
the last of his energy weapons to destroy the disk]
Optimus: "Well fought, my friend. You saved the
valley. You saved the lives of those who live here and of those who are
still to come."
Dinobot: "Then, there is nothing to regret."
Rattrap: "Like I said, you're just a blasting, slag-spouting saurian, but
it's nice to know where you stand."
Dinobot: "Upwind of you, for preference, vermin. -- Tell my
tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, my evil deeds along with the good,
and let me be judged accordingly. Arrest is silence."
Optimus: "He lived a warrior, and died a hero. Let
his spark join the Matrix, the greatest of Cybertron."

36. Transmutate

37. The Agenda (Part 1)
Rhinox: "We're going home."

38. The Agenda (Part 2)
09/18/2000
Silverbolt (re: Black Arachnia): "Sir, I believe that I can
bring her around."
Optimus: "Oh, don't be an idiot. She may have been made from Maximal
parts but she is Predacon to the core."
Silverbolt: "As was I, once."
Optimus: "You didn't know better. Silverbolt, you are one of the noblest
individuals I have ever met. That is your strength. It is also your
weakness."
Covert Agent Ravage: "I served under the original Megatron.
You have his name but not his army."
Ravage: "Permit me to introduce Lieutenant Tarantulus of
the Predacon Secret Police."
Cheetor (after being beat by Silverbolt): "I'm a cat.
I ought to know better than to trust a dog."
Optimus: "The sooner we get Megatron off this planet, the
better."
Black Arachnia: "Get a clue you canine creton. I'm a
Predacon. I'm evil."
Silverbolt: "I know how you're feeling. You don't
know whether to kiss me or kill me."
Black Arachnia: "I'm a black widow spider, you idiot. I can do
both."
Black Arachnia: "Oh, no. You're not saving my life
again. Even after I shot you?"
Silverbolt: "It's my duty ma'am, as a Maximal and as a heroic
character."
Black Arachnia: "You know I like them big and stupid, but you're really
pushing it."
Ravage: "Decepticons forever."

39. The Agenda (Part 3)

40. Optimal Situation

41. Deep Metal
09/06/2000
Optimus: "We have to hold the line as long as we can."
Optimus: "I'm not sure what I know any more.... None
of us are quite who we were when we began this war. And neither is our
universe."
Depth Charge: "Slag the High Council."
Computer: "Energy signature of Protoform X detected."
Depth Charge: "Yes. Lock on and follow."
Inferno: "I will attack the Fuzor and the traitor to out
colony, drawing Optimus out. When he joins the battle, target him with all
your firepower. Understood?"
Rampage: "Hmmm! Hardly a difficult concept, is it?"
Waspinator: "Ingerno blow up, Waspinator must
salvage. Waspinator blow up, nobody salvage. Oh, why universe hate
Waspinator?"
Depth Charge: "Felling all right, pussy cat?"
Cheetor: "Who, the spotted heck, are you?"
Cheetor (after com-link and jets failed): "I hate
water."
Rampage: "Your pain is lovely, but where is your
terror. It would make this so much more amusing. ..."
Depth Charge: "You want amusing, creep. ..."
Rampage: "You're trickier than before. I like that."
Rampage (to Depth Charge): "Ignore the pain. It's
only going to get worse."
Rampage: "I'm flattered you chased me so far.
-- But then it was you who caged me the last time, wasn't it?
--"
Depth Charge: "This time, I won't bother with a cage, creep."
Rampage (to Depth Charge): "I'll filet you for that."
Quickstrike (to Depth Charge re: Rampage): "That crab may
be ugly, but he's a Predacon."
Rattrap (re: Depth Charge): "Who is this herring any
way?"
Cheetor: "I'm Cheetor. Thanks for pulling me out of the
water."
Depth Charge: "Go chase a mouse."
Depth Charge (to Optimus re: Protoform X): "I was searching
the galaxy for your mistake."
Rattrap (re: Depth Charge going after Rampage): "The Preds
will change his mind, or make him into fish sticks."
Optimus (to Depth Charge): "We're in a war to save our own
future."
Optimus: "Stop looking for revenge and do something to
help."
Depth Charge: "It's not revenge I'm looking for. It's justice."
Depth Charge (to Optimus re: Rampage being part of Predacons):
"When you screw-up, you do it big time."

42. Changing of the Guard

43. Cutting Edge
Cheetor: "No matter what some people may think, this cat
can handle a situation."
Megatron: "Welcom, yes, welcome Trans-metal II Dinobot; to
a new body, a new mind, a new allegiance to Predacons."
Waspinator: "Waspinator not like new lizard-bot."
Depth Charge: "I agree with the bug, but, then, I'm not crazy about any of
you."
Megatron: "The other equipment has been salvaged but you
took the alien transmetal unit. Where is it?"
Depth Charge: "Gone. Ain't that a kick in the lug nuts."
Quickstrike: "Heh, snotty little flounder, ain't he. Let me gut him
for you, boss."
Rampage: "No, he's mine. I shall feast upon his still pulsating
spark."
Optimus (to Depthcharge): "... you will talk, or I will rip out your
core processor and extract the information personally...."
Cheetor's conversion into a trans-metal II is completed.
Black Arachnia (to Cheetor): "... I'm sick of your stupid
crush."
Black Arachnia: "Silverbolt is every bad girl's dream but
his Maximal pals would rather slag than let me be what I am. So, I guess
this gig's over."
Black Arachnia (to Dinobot): "I'm beginning to like you,
skull-face. Let's play."
Black Arachnia: "Calling me a coward is one thing but
nobody calls me a Maximal."
Rattrap (to Silverbolt re: Black Arachnia): "Wise up
bird-dog. A Pred is a Pred."
Silverbolt: "... She would not betray us."
Rattrap: "... And I hate cheese."
Silverbolt: "You trusted the old Dinobot."
Rattrap: "And regretted it -- more than once."
Rattrap (re: allowing Silverbolt to go after Black Arachnia
without reporting such to Optimus): "I must have a glitch."
Black Arachnia (re: Silverbolt): "... Why are the cute one's always tube heads?"
Black Arachnia (to Silverbolt re: leaving the Maximals):
"It's time for me to go. It's been a surge."
Cheetor (to early humans Una and Jack): "... here's a
tip. When you're battling bots, hack at the hinges."
Rattrap (to Cheetor re: early humans): "Give it up, will
you Blondie? These kids are primitive. They're way out of their
league."
Waspinator (on communicator to Megatron re: capture of Una):
"Waspinator to Megatron. Waspinator has female fleshy bot, but there
is problem."
Megatron: "She had better not be injured."
Waspinator: "No! She injuring Waspinator."
Megatron: "Ah, situation normal then. Yes. Well, make sure she
arrives safely. Megatron out."
Waspinator: "Waspinator want to renegotiate contract."
Waspinator (just prior to falling apart): "Waspinator
deliver fleshy bot safe and sound."
Rattrap (riding atop Depth Charge and seeing glowing mountain
top where Predacons are building a disruptor ray): "What the slagging
binary bucket is that?"
Depth Charge (to Rattrap after being hit by the disruptor ray):
"I don't have a glide mode, mouse."
Depth Charge (to a butterfly that lands on his crashed
super-structure): "What are you looking at?"
Rattrap (to Depth Charge after prying his super-structure from
the ground and pushing it into the water): "Let's haul some keel."
Depth Charge: "Still can't move."
Rattrap: "Well, then, just make like a boat and float, you big mackerel."
Rattrap (to Una): "You'd better bail sister. The ray won't hurt you but
our exploding bodies might."
Rattrap (to Una re: threat of Depth Charge): "Say, Una.
Cheetor ever show you my recipe for fried flounder?"
Black Arachnia (to Silverbolt): "You enjoy this hero stuff. Me,
I'm a bad girl at heart."
Black Arachnia becomes a Transmetal and a Maximal.
Megatron: "... beware the dragon's wrath."
Megatron combines his spark with the spark of the Decepticon Megatron and
becomes a dragon in beast form.
Waspinator: "Waspinator likes defense. A little more defense
and maybe Waspinator not get blown up all the time."
Aliens took the superstructures of Tigatron and Air Razor and combined them
into Tigerhawk. The aliens inhabited the Tigerhawk superstructure and returned to
the planet to stop Megatron. Tarantulas drove the aliens out of Tigerhawk but
Tarantulas was destroyed in the process. The sparks of Tigatron and Air
Razor then
inhabit the superstructure of Tigerhawk.
Optimus: "And a mighty warrior came down from the sky, and
a rainbow was upon his head, and his feet as pillars of fire. And the
great dragon was cast out onto the earth and his followers were cast out with
him."
Rattrap: "What -- what in the seven spiral galaxies are you jabbering
about?"
Rhinox: "The Covenant of Primus. Data track 7.613. Only two
exist. One was aboard the Ark."
Rattrap: "Oh, please. Sure. Okay. Dragon-breath lost his
base and we added Thunder-butt there to the team. But you don't got to
claim it's ordained."
Inferno: "The royalty will triumph. All we need is a
new colony, and I shall find it."
Waspinator: "Ant-bot not find own thorax with both hands and a road
map."
Inferno (planning to take cave settlement from early humans):
"The royalty demands a new colony and we shall take it, by force."
Waspinator: "Dragon-bot command you sub-commander
Kiss-butt. Dragon-bot not command Waspinator. Not any more.
Waspinator sick of bing evil, sick of being Predacon. Waspinator
especially sick of getting blown to scrap all the time. So, Waspinator
quit, as of now. Which means Ant-bot and Two-heads can just pucker their
mandibles and plant bug wet juicy one right here on Waspinator's big fat stripy
..."
[Waspinator is blasted by Inferno and Quickstrike]
Optimus: "They're under water, which means you're our only
hope. ... You have to stop Megatron at any cost."
Depth Charge: "Consider it done."
Megatron: "That is the most powerful Decepticon warship in
Transformer history. The ship that shot down the Ark itself. The
Nemesis."
Optimus: "Nemesis is the flag ship of the ancient
Decepticon space fleet. It shot down the Ark before crashing itself.
Apparently Tarantulus found it and now Megatron may have it."
Tigerhawk: "And if he does?"
Optimus: "The Primus help the universe."
Megatron: "Excellent! Even after his demise, the
spider's treachery remains my best asset. Observe, a refurbished whip with
a transwarp cell, a Predacon control console and best of all, a Covenant of
Primus. It was from these tracks that I took my name. And how
fitting, since space and time are now mine to command."
Megatron: "And as it were a great mountain raging with fire
arose from the sea."
Optimus: "Depth Charge has done it. It's all
over. ... But I'm afraid that Depth Charge has paid the ultimate
price."
Optimus: "Optimus to Rhinox. We have a code one
alert. Deploy Operation: Eternity."
Megatron: "I am that which is, which was and is yet to
come. And you will know my name is Megatron. ... I lay my vengeance
upon you."
Dinobot: "You have already read the Covenant of Primus?"
Megatron: "Just the good parts."
Megatron: "... I'll say one thing for my namesake. He
liked his artillery big and plentiful. Now, where was I? Ah, yes,
mindless destruction. Good for the spark, I always say."
Tigerhawk (to Optimus): "Go to your fellow Maximals.
Prepare them. If Megatron destroys the Ark and its occupants, history, as
we know it, will unravel."
Rattrap: "Operation: Eternity? What the heck is
that? And how come I never heard of it?"
Rattrap: "Pop-bot calls up with his gears in a grind, and
suddenly I'v got to pack up my Pred parts collection? ... you know how
many pieces of Waspinator I've got?"
Rhinox: "Rattrap, we may have to move the Ark."
Megatron: "I suppose, given my imminent godhood, these
primitives should really be beneath my attention. Still, no score is too
small to settle, I always say."
Dinobot: "You would turn the full fury of this mighty warship on a lone
anthropoid? Tell me, Megatron, where's the honor in that?"
Megatron: "You dare use the 'H' word to me?"
Dinobot: "... I apologize. I merely felt our power should be
conserved for the larger battle."
Megatron: "Duly noted -- and ignored."
[Megatron begins destroying the primitives caves, destroying Inferno and
Quickstrike in the process]
Megatron (using a tractor beam to make an opening in the
mountain over the Ark): "And the stone of their protection shall rise
upward for ever and ever, as they who live and war as beasts confront their
final cycle."
Megatron: "Soon, it will all be over. Any Maximal
still alive will perish along with their ancestors. And the new, glorious
era of Predacon rule will have begun."
[Optimus stopped the rock crushers long enough to climb aboard
Nemesis and face off with Megatron]
Megatron: "Oh, well! Come on! Let's have it! The usual
'destiny and honor' speech."
Optimus: "Speech this!"
[Optimus hits Megatron in the face with his fist. Megatron hits Optimus in
the face with his fist. Optimus spits out a tooth."
Megatron: "And there came a hero who said hurt not the
earth, not the sea, not the trees, nor the very fabric of time. But the
hero would not prevail."
Optimus: "Finish the quote Megatron. Nor would he surrender."
Rattrap (After the connection to Teletran 1 fails): "No
power. No weapons. We're all going to die."
Rhinox (usually the optimist in the group): "Yep."
Megatron: "I am alpha and omega, Optimal Optimus. Now
and for ever, until the end of time."
Megatron: "What possible reason do you have to disobey
me? I am your master. I am your creator. --"
Dinobot: "And I have my honor."
[The Maximals fly the Autobot shuttle through the bridge of the Nemesis,
catching Megatron on the front of the shuttle. Optimus flies out behind
the shuttle. Dinobot gives his life, going down with the Nemesis.]
Optimus: "It's done. All is as it should be. At
last -- the Beast Wars are over, for now."
Optimus: "In the spark of an enemy, there will be
salvation. And in the darkest hour, there will be a light."
Rattrap: "Yeah, from a very unexpected source, old Chopper-face's
clone. Who would have thunk it?"
Optimus: "And let us never forget those other brave bots whose sacrifice
safeguarded past, present and future."
Rattrap: "And you know what the best thing is? We don't have to see
Megs butt-ugly mug again till we get back to Cybertron."
[The scene cuts to Megatron, strapped to the outside of the shuttle]
[Scene cuts to primitives using parts of Inferno and Quickstrike
as drums, reminiscent of the end of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
The scene continues on to a raised platform where Waspinator is sitting and
relaxing]
Waspinator: "Waspinator happy at last."