Transformers Prime Season 3 Episode 5 Project Predacon
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00:00 [Music]
00:10 Ron, what we have here is an experimental all-terrain expeditionary fighting vehicle
00:17 designed by the finest engineers in our mask division.
00:20 Thank you, Agent Fowler. This will most certainly do.
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01:10 [Music]
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01:30 [Music]
01:40 Return trajectory fluctuations have been stabilized.
01:45 Ultra Magnus, we are ready to receive you.
01:49 [Music]
01:57 [Music]
02:06 We didn't find much else in the rubble of the former base.
02:10 You call this not much else?
02:15 Huh?
02:17 Whalejack, you could have caused serious damage.
02:24 To me?
02:27 [Music]
02:29 What in the Sam Hill?
02:32 [Music]
02:37 A little help here?
02:40 What were you thinking, soldier?
02:43 I was thinking Bull could catch that lob.
02:47 Allow me to make myself clear.
02:51 This is Optimus Prime second in command. I have no intention of tolerating wrecker behavior.
02:57 Some things never change.
03:01 Jackie?
03:06 Need I remind you that it was Optimus Prime himself who assigned me to command your wreckers back on Cybertron,
03:15 and get you loose cannons under control.
03:19 An active combat unit begins with discipline.
03:22 If you won't accept that, feel free to choose the path of least resistance, as you did before.
03:30 If my ship weren't a twisted wreck at present, I'd do that, sir.
03:39 [Music]
03:47 [Sigh]
03:49 So, any word from Optimus?
03:53 He's investigating recent Decepticon activity. Hopefully an energon mine.
04:00 [Music]
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04:22 [Explosion]
04:26 [Music]
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04:48 How rad would it be if you all had jetpacks like Optimus?
04:53 Quite rad, Meeko. But the Forge has been depleted of its power to do that.
05:02 Now it's only good for pounding out dinks.
05:05 [Music]
05:13 Smoke screen?
05:15 [Music]
05:17 Aw, what gave me away?
05:20 Come on. Robots in disguise, right?
05:26 Where have you been, soldier?
05:31 Scanning new war paint. Thought I'd be proactive to follow Optimus's lead. And Bumblebees.
05:38 Now you can look your best while stacking those empty cubes.
05:44 Yes, sir.
05:47 I was nearly a Prime, but somehow I'm still a rookie.
05:52 What was that about a Prime?
05:57 Uh, no, time. Time to stop acting like a rookie.
06:03 Smoke screen was the only one who went back. If it weren't for him, Optimus might not be with us today.
06:17 RC, we were under the strictest of orders. The three of you had your human partners to protect.
06:26 But we are fortunate that Smoke Screen is inexperienced enough not to have followed protocol.
06:32 There! I can see it!
06:42 Abandon the excavation.
06:49 Now!
06:55 [Music]
06:57 Attack!
07:01 [Music]
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07:33 [Music]
08:02 Optimus, did you find Energon?
08:05 No, but I did uncover this.
08:10 It cannot be.
08:16 Be what?
08:20 The ancient remains of a Predacon.
08:27 [Music]
08:30 Though it remains unclear why such a skull would be found on your planet,
08:38 its presence reveals all too much about the Predacon which Megatron recently sent in pursuit of us.
08:45 You mean that dragon bot we put on ice?
08:50 Except that Predacons have been extinct since, well...
08:55 Since before most life began on Cybertron.
08:59 They're like Earth's dinosaurs.
09:02 Which means for you guys, running into one would be like us meeting a T-Rex.
09:07 So then what were Dinobots?
09:10 Totally different.
09:12 With Megatron's seeming new interest in the excavation of prehistoric skeletons,
09:19 and a certain scientist back among the Decepticon ranks...
09:22 It would stand to reason that Shockwave cloned the beast from one such find.
09:30 And now Megatron's looking to clone another.
09:34 What makes you think Buckethead would stop at just one?
09:39 We could have beast wars on our hands.
09:44 And if Shockwave only requires a single strand of CNA from which to clone a beast...
09:50 He already possesses what he needs to engender this one.
09:56 Autobots, we must become beast hunters.
10:01 One thing still doesn't follow.
10:05 Predacons went extinct on Cybertron.
10:08 So what would their bones be doing here?
10:12 On Earth?
10:14 I mean, isn't it just a little preposterous?
10:21 They are not the remains of Predacons, Starscream.
10:26 But rather, the remains of Predacon clones.
10:31 For you see, our recent Autobot hunter wasn't the first beast used super soldier
10:39 that Shockwave ever attempted to breed from prehistoric matter.
10:43 During the war for Cybertron,
10:47 I sanctioned the dispatch of a small army of these Predaclones to Earth
10:53 to unleash the beasts of unwitting Autobot forces stationed here.
11:00 Once they accomplished their mission,
11:04 the surviving Predacons held Sentinel on this very world for ages to come,
11:09 guarding the Energon reserves they had managed to secure while awaiting my arrival.
11:17 Of course, our reunion here was much delayed.
11:21 It would seem we lost the beasts to the ravages of time.
11:27 But not their endomatter,
11:31 from which I am logically able to extract their very CNA.
11:36 Another scavenger hunt?
11:39 How logical would it really be to locate all the dusty remains of your former pets?
11:48 You are not suggesting that I would send my creations to a distant planet
11:54 without first having them microchipped?
11:59 Well, I was. But seriously, you did?
12:05 From our historical texts.
12:14 But those are metal versions of creatures from our Greek mythology and medieval literature.
12:20 Not dinosaurs.
12:23 It would stand to reason that Predacons did indeed walk upon this Earth in ancient times,
12:29 as they seem to have been the basis for much of humankind's folklore,
12:35 illustrating once again that the pasts of Earth and Cybertron are inextricably linked.
12:43 (music)
12:48 Synthetic Energon?
13:01 Indeed.
13:03 I am concerned that without access to any Energon reserve since our base was destroyed,
13:10 our ability to deal with impending crises will be severely hampered.
13:14 A wise decision, old friend.
13:17 Just please, manage your expectations.
13:22 I am working with even more rudimentary hardware than before.
13:26 Prime!
13:28 Satellite surveillance has picked up two signs of Decepticon activity.
13:32 One near an oil field outside of El Paso, the other near the Hibertes Bluffs in Skaban.
13:39 So don't forget to pack your kilts.
13:41 We must divide our resources.
13:44 Ultramagnus, lead the Wreckers to the Bluffs.
13:49 Yes, Optimus.
13:51 What's a kilt?
13:57 Agent Fowler can at times be oblique.
14:03 I find it best to simply nod and mobilize.
14:09 Vulcan, Wheeljack, let's roll.
14:11 Optimus, I know there are many emotions tied to the Forge.
14:21 This is no time to stand on ceremony.
14:25 I would be honored to put this to some practical use.
14:36 [Rumbling]
14:39 I will search this quadrant.
14:56 [Rumbling]
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15:28 [Rumbling]
15:31 Hey, B.
15:51 Have you ever thought you might want to be a Prime?
15:56 [Rumbling]
15:58 Not now.
16:00 Someday.
16:02 [Rumbling]
16:05 Warrior.
16:07 You and me both.
16:09 But I've seen you in action. Optimus knows you can scrap with the best of 'em.
16:14 Why won't he just promote you from Scout already?
16:17 [Rumbling]
16:19 Your choice.
16:25 So why wait?
16:26 [Rumbling]
16:31 Guess it would be more meaningful to graduate back home.
16:38 On Cybertron.
16:40 You're one patient guy.
16:42 I should take a cue.
16:44 [Rumbling]
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18:18 Like I said, you got nice chops for a Scout.
18:22 [Rumbling]
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19:00 How epic was that?
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19:51 Woo! And that's why he's a Prime!
19:58 [Rumbling]
20:02 [Rumbling]
20:05 Soundwave.
20:13 [Rumbling]
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21:02 Enough!
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23:15 No!
23:19 We have all that we need.
23:24 [Ringing]
23:27 [Ringing]
23:31 [Ringing]
23:38 [Ringing]
23:41 A single strand of CNA.
23:51 Shockwave.
24:06 I understand that you engaged Optimus Prime in the field.
24:11 Only in order to secure the specimen, Lord Megatron.
24:15 I believed that you had perished once, my most prized engineer.
24:22 And I highly doubt that Project Predacon can be completed without you.
24:28 I shall leave the fetching of bones to Starscream, and confine myself to my laboratory.
24:35 In order to accelerate results.
24:38 Excellent.
24:40 For I am rather impatient to witness my army of beasts trample humankind underfoot.
24:52 [Rumbling]
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25:21 (dramatic music)