Post by charlesrocketboy on Jun 17, 2009 16:25:33 GMT
TRANSFORMERS: CONTINUED TITAN VOL.1 #26
“Over, Finishedâ€
FREE! N.E.S.T. DOG TAGS!
PREVIOUSLY…
Megatron captured the All Spark in 2007, and the world was nearly destroyed (several times!) in the following two years! But now North America is liberated, the Decepticons are exiled to a dead Cybertron, and their mind-controlled slaves freed! Now, the clean-up begins…
PAGE 1.
1. Huge, splashy image – Optimus Prime and several humans (including Ban Ki-Moon, Obama, Brown, and Merkel, if we’re allowed!) stand outside the UN offices in Vienna. A huge crowd is cheering and waving signs.
BAN KI-MOON (loudspeaker)
…and with the signing of the Takara-Xaaron Act, securing a permanent alliance between humanity and the Autobots…
LINK
…we can declare the threat of alien invasion to be…
LINK
[title logo]
2. Inset panel, along the bottom of panel 1. Ironhide and General Seward stand together in a dark room.
SEWARD
That’s the official story, anyway.
IRONHIDE
But it never really ends…
PAGE 2.
1. Angle change – we’re in a darkened meeting room, with a dozen or so soldiers of various races (including several women) in NEST uniforms. This is a briefing.
SEWARD (off-panel)
The Decepticons are gone, their mind-controlled slaves all liberated. But they’ve left a big mess behind – not least of which is an exhausted, shattered North America.
LINK (off-panel)
Earth is vulnerable. That’s where you come in.
2. Establishing shot of Diego Garcia’s bases – human ground crews guide in an Autobot shuttle (resembling the Straxus from #19 and #21).
CAPTION
Diego Garcia.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“Officially, NEST* is merely a military alliance the UN set up just in case.â€
FOOTNOTE
* Networked Elements: Supporters and Transformers
3. Outside shot. A human drill sergeant and Armorhide watch a row of soldiers (including Skids and Mudflap) at a firing range. The drill sarge is barking orders at a guilty-looking Mudflap.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“Unofficially, you recruits are going to find the reason our training is so infamous…â€
4. A sleek, futuristic lovechild of the stealth-bomber and Hercules transport plane hovers in the night sky. We’ll call the plane the Sky Link.
CAPTION
Republic of Ireland. NEST carrier “Sky Linkâ€.
5. The inside of the plane: eight NEST redshirts and Sideswipe & Bumblebee (car modes) stand ready.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“…is we’re already in the thick of it!â€
PAGE 3.
1. A comms-and-control room in the plane. Kaminari Ishihara (thirty-something Japanese woman) and Hacker X-3 (2008 “Real Gear Robotâ€) are giving a report to NEST soldiers Mikaela (wearing her goggles from Twilight’s Last Gleaming) and Robert Epps. Epps is slouching casually. Hacker’s calling up a hologram image of a downed Decepticon ship.
I.D. CAPTIONS [one next to each character]
Dr Kaminari Ishihara
Hacker X-3
Mikaela Banes
Group-Captain Robert Epps
HACKER
Drone carrier. It’s been there for two years – RAF shot it down before it could enter UK airspace…
ISHIHARA
The Irish Defence Force were concerned about reactivating the drones, so…
EPPS
So they call in the experts.
MIKAELA
What drones are talking about here?
2. Hacker, in thought (his optics glow) – a super-deformed image of Swindle appears on his chest screen.
HACKER
Well, if I log in and have a look at the decommissioned ‘Con files from the time, they’re…
LINK
Swindles! Also, I found Barricade’s eBay password!
3. The Sky Link’s landed next to the downed carrier ship, which is stuck in a field and looks vaguely Ark-like. The Link’s ramp is down, and the NEST team head down it (drive in the Autobot’s case).
EPPS
Two teams, constant communication – standard decommission job, which means don’t blow the damn thing up, Sideswipe, we’re trying to stay low-key.
4. The Autobots transform. Sideswipe’s razors jut out as he does so, startling a soldier.
SIDESWIPE
It’s quicker.
SFX
SHKKK!
5. Bumblebee and Mikaela, looking suspiciously at the carrier ship’s open door.
BUMBLEBEE
I’ll tell you what else is quicker…
LINK
…when someone’s opened the door for us. And it wasn’t open before got here…
PAGE 4.
1. Scene change to Savannah in the evening. The Decepticon base has been turned into a friendly Autobot base, and construction Autobots are around building residential towers. Optimus Prime and Strongarm watch.
CAPTION
Autobot City: US. Formerly the centre of Decepticon Heartland – formerly the human city of Savannah, Georgia…
STRONGARM
Look, Prime, the humans didn’t want to come back. I don’t get the guilt here.
OPTIMUS PRIME
They didn’t want to come back to their homes because they didn’t want to live next to Transformers anymore.
2. Prime, morose.
OPTIMUS PRIME
The Decepticons displaced them – twice – and our earlier presence only invited attack.
LINK
With Cybertron gone, our people need a home. I didn’t want to cost others their homes.
3. Strongarm yells at workers off panel.
STRONGARM
Look, once – no no no, you’re putting it in backwards! – once Earth gets used to us being here when there’s not a war on, things will – it ain’t break yet, Hoist! – things will get better.
OPTIMUS PRIME
And you think the war’s over?
4. Strongarm, slightly rattled.
STRONGARM
The Decepticons are gone! They literally can’t come back!
OPTIMUS PRIME
The Decepticons on Earth, true, but we know there are small groups out in space. We can’t assume…
5. Strongarm walks off, joining some bored construction Autobots. He’s not a happy man.
STRONGARM
Look, I can’t keep talking and oversee things at the same time, I’m gonna have to go –
STRONGARM (thought bubble)
Don’t even joke about that, Prime! It’s over, we can relax -
PAGE 5.
1. A five-man-and-one-Autobot NEST team, including Bumblebee and Mikaela, creep through the carrier’s corridors. Half the lights are shattered, giving the place eerie lighting.
CAPTION
“- nothing’s gonna happen!â€
NEST SOLDIER 1
So we’re all agreed the drones are active and this is a big fat trap, yeah?
MIKAELA
Always the optimist, eh?
2. Bumblebee holds up a hand – “quiet!â€.
BUMBLEBEEE
Stay focused, men. We have to assume they know we’re coming…
LINK
…but they’ll still be damaged from the crash, and still Swindles. Nothing you haven’t faced before.
3. Tight panel. Mikaela close-up.
MIKAELA
Checking thermal imaging.
4. POV shot through her goggles, in infra-red – a door up ahead as faint blotches behind it.
VOICE
Guess what’s behind door number one…
5. Bumblebee activates his entire arsenal, two NEST soldiers aim their guns. Another NEST guy, O’Hanlon, is on the radio.
BUMBLEBEE
Right – I blast it down and give ten seconds of sustained fire. Slot anything that drives out under it.
LINK
O’Hanlon, call it in.
O’HANLON
Two to One, we’re about to engage. Received, over?
6. A clawed robot arm smashes through the door! It’s definitely not a Swindle’s…
VOICE (off panel)
Two to OH HELL-
PAGE 6.
1. A gang of Sideways’s are tearing through the door towards the team! Everyone’s startled, Bumblebee’s trying to retract some of his weapons.
BUMBLEBEE
Too close for the full salvo -!
MIKAELA
What the hell are -
O’HANLON
Two to One, priority – under attack -
2. Bumblebee fires his cannon point-blank as a Sideways almost gets him.
BUMBLEBEE
Withdraw!
SFX
CHOOOOM
3. One of the NEST soldiers who’d been aiming is now on the ground, firing up in desperation as a Sideways looms up with its circular saws.
SOLDIER
No no no
4. The Sideways brings the saws down. We don’t see the killing, but the whole panel is red.
5. Bumblebee is in car mode, the NEST crew piling into him.
BUMBLEBEE
In, now!
LINK
O’Hanlon, how’s Group One?!
PAGE 7.
1. Sideswipe drives away at full speed from pursuing Sideways drones, one of which has transformed. A NEST soldier fires out of a window at the drones.
VOICE (off panel)
Two men down in one minute, both groups in retreat!
LINK
What are those things?!
2. Inside of Sideswipe. Epps is not happy, neither are the other two NEST types (gun-man is still leaning out).
SIDESWIPE’S VOICE
Sideways drone series – very fast, very lethal, very many blades on them. In this tight a space…
EPPS
Okay, so we just find a less tight space…
3. Epps, defiant.
EPPS
Head for the ship’s bridge!
4. Bumblebee and Sideswipe meet up in a corridor, both screeching hell for leather towards another door (which Bumblebee is blasting down).
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“Because if we get there first…â€
5. Both cars are in the abandoned, wrecked bridge of the ship – the humans are piling out and Sideswipe is transforming.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“We’ve got…â€
6. The Sideways head towards the bridge door, in single file so they fit…
PAGE 8
1. A Sideways comes through the door – right into a hail of gunfire!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“…a bottleneck!â€
2. The Sideways look at the dead drone in shock. They’ve ground to a halt.
3. Sideswipe, leaping through the door.
SIDESWIPE
That series never did like it when they could take damage…
LINK
And with them bunched up like that, not moving…
4. Sideswipe has landed wheel-first onto the right-side wall and is driving down it, his arm blades sticking out – meaning he’s slicing through every Sideways in the row.
SIDESWIPE
…they’ll take a lot!
5. The NEST crew look in surprise.
O’HANLON
It’s like Limerick on a Friday night.
MIKAELA
You’ve never been.
O’HANLON
That’s because it’s like that on Friday night…
PAGE 9
1. Back to the Diego Garcia briefing room. Epps is talking to Ironhide.
EPPS
Ishihara and Hacker checked its black box – that ship had been carrying Swindles. Someone snuck in and replaced them with Sideways, Ironhide, they wanted us to be caught out…
IRONHIDE
It gets worse.
2. Ironhide close-up, grim.
IRONHIDE
Sideways drones were never on Earth. This “someone†brought them here…
3. The undersea Decepticon base from earlier issues. It’s still active…
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“There’s still Decepticons on Earth!â€
VOICE
Oh well, what can go wrong will etc etc – that’s a scientific law, honest!
4. Close-up on Scalpel AKA the Doctor, skittering along a computer monitor and jabbing keys.
SCALPEL
Still, a valuable experiment, eh? We now know a bit more about the enemy! Now to run the next experiment…
LINK
Ha, yes, too right! Oh, this is nice. Under others it was all “shut up, Scalpel, stop defiling the dead, Scalpel†– but you, you’ve broken the glass ceiling!
5. We now see Scalpel’s talking to the silent, brooding form of Scorponok (in his 2009 toy body, natch).
SCALPEL
You’re the best Decepticon leader ever, Scorponok!
PAGE 10
1. Optimus walks through Autobot City as night falls. Civilian Autobots are walking around some of the completed buildings, looking contented. Longarm is one of them.
2. Arcee drives up in her three motorbike forms. Arcee is a bit bemused.
ARCEE [all bikes]
What’s the human phrase? Ah yeah – “penny for ‘emâ€.
OPTIMUS
Arcee. I still don’t understand this new form…
3. Arcee’s bikes transform and combine.
ARCEE
You know me, always looking for a new body…
LINK
…and I thought “hey, combiners are quite interestingâ€â€¦
LINK
…“wonder if I could combine with myself!â€. Maybe it’ll start a new trend!
LINK
You’re dodging the question, Prime.
4. Optimus gestures at Autobot City.
OPTIMUS
Do you think this will last? This peace and calm?
ARCEE
No.
OPTIMUS
I wish I could disagree. But I have the feeling…
5. Knock Out drives up and transforms, waving his arms widely.
KNOCK OUT
Prime, Arcee! There’s – oh, er, NEST private Knock Out, remember me? I was – anyway…
KNOCK OUT
We’re picking up a possible Decepticon transition form heading towards China!
OPTIMUS
…something’s…
PAGE 11
1. Optimus Prime, reeling slightly – everything around him is going a bit woozy.
OPTIMUS
…cominggggg…
VOICE (demonic)
Prime.
2. Optimus, a tiny figure, with part of the Fallen’s face looming above him.
THE FALLEN
You cannot stop me.
THE FALLEN
You cannot save anyone.
THE FALLEN
Give up.
3. Prime is on the floor, still woozy. Arcee and Knock Out are over him, looking worried.
ARCEE
Optimus! Are you –
OPTIMUS
I, I, I saw… a warning…
LINK
A threat…
4. Optimus, getting to his feet.
OPTIMUS
Whatever’s coming to China…
5. Demolishor’s transition form streaks forwards Shanghai – the ghostly image of the Fallen’s eyes glare out of the sky at us.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“… is just the start of something worse!â€
TO BE CONTINUED
STAR SCREAMS
Don’t think that just because I’m stuck on Cybertron that your feeble little scribblings are safe from criticism! No, keep sending them in – we’re out of fuel, we need some rubbish to make a fire with.
All letters should be marked All Hail The Fallen or we will mark you for the labour gulags when we get off this dirtball!
“Over, Finishedâ€
FREE! N.E.S.T. DOG TAGS!
PREVIOUSLY…
Megatron captured the All Spark in 2007, and the world was nearly destroyed (several times!) in the following two years! But now North America is liberated, the Decepticons are exiled to a dead Cybertron, and their mind-controlled slaves freed! Now, the clean-up begins…
PAGE 1.
1. Huge, splashy image – Optimus Prime and several humans (including Ban Ki-Moon, Obama, Brown, and Merkel, if we’re allowed!) stand outside the UN offices in Vienna. A huge crowd is cheering and waving signs.
BAN KI-MOON (loudspeaker)
…and with the signing of the Takara-Xaaron Act, securing a permanent alliance between humanity and the Autobots…
LINK
…we can declare the threat of alien invasion to be…
LINK
[title logo]
2. Inset panel, along the bottom of panel 1. Ironhide and General Seward stand together in a dark room.
SEWARD
That’s the official story, anyway.
IRONHIDE
But it never really ends…
PAGE 2.
1. Angle change – we’re in a darkened meeting room, with a dozen or so soldiers of various races (including several women) in NEST uniforms. This is a briefing.
SEWARD (off-panel)
The Decepticons are gone, their mind-controlled slaves all liberated. But they’ve left a big mess behind – not least of which is an exhausted, shattered North America.
LINK (off-panel)
Earth is vulnerable. That’s where you come in.
2. Establishing shot of Diego Garcia’s bases – human ground crews guide in an Autobot shuttle (resembling the Straxus from #19 and #21).
CAPTION
Diego Garcia.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“Officially, NEST* is merely a military alliance the UN set up just in case.â€
FOOTNOTE
* Networked Elements: Supporters and Transformers
3. Outside shot. A human drill sergeant and Armorhide watch a row of soldiers (including Skids and Mudflap) at a firing range. The drill sarge is barking orders at a guilty-looking Mudflap.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“Unofficially, you recruits are going to find the reason our training is so infamous…â€
4. A sleek, futuristic lovechild of the stealth-bomber and Hercules transport plane hovers in the night sky. We’ll call the plane the Sky Link.
CAPTION
Republic of Ireland. NEST carrier “Sky Linkâ€.
5. The inside of the plane: eight NEST redshirts and Sideswipe & Bumblebee (car modes) stand ready.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“…is we’re already in the thick of it!â€
PAGE 3.
1. A comms-and-control room in the plane. Kaminari Ishihara (thirty-something Japanese woman) and Hacker X-3 (2008 “Real Gear Robotâ€) are giving a report to NEST soldiers Mikaela (wearing her goggles from Twilight’s Last Gleaming) and Robert Epps. Epps is slouching casually. Hacker’s calling up a hologram image of a downed Decepticon ship.
I.D. CAPTIONS [one next to each character]
Dr Kaminari Ishihara
Hacker X-3
Mikaela Banes
Group-Captain Robert Epps
HACKER
Drone carrier. It’s been there for two years – RAF shot it down before it could enter UK airspace…
ISHIHARA
The Irish Defence Force were concerned about reactivating the drones, so…
EPPS
So they call in the experts.
MIKAELA
What drones are talking about here?
2. Hacker, in thought (his optics glow) – a super-deformed image of Swindle appears on his chest screen.
HACKER
Well, if I log in and have a look at the decommissioned ‘Con files from the time, they’re…
LINK
Swindles! Also, I found Barricade’s eBay password!
3. The Sky Link’s landed next to the downed carrier ship, which is stuck in a field and looks vaguely Ark-like. The Link’s ramp is down, and the NEST team head down it (drive in the Autobot’s case).
EPPS
Two teams, constant communication – standard decommission job, which means don’t blow the damn thing up, Sideswipe, we’re trying to stay low-key.
4. The Autobots transform. Sideswipe’s razors jut out as he does so, startling a soldier.
SIDESWIPE
It’s quicker.
SFX
SHKKK!
5. Bumblebee and Mikaela, looking suspiciously at the carrier ship’s open door.
BUMBLEBEE
I’ll tell you what else is quicker…
LINK
…when someone’s opened the door for us. And it wasn’t open before got here…
PAGE 4.
1. Scene change to Savannah in the evening. The Decepticon base has been turned into a friendly Autobot base, and construction Autobots are around building residential towers. Optimus Prime and Strongarm watch.
CAPTION
Autobot City: US. Formerly the centre of Decepticon Heartland – formerly the human city of Savannah, Georgia…
STRONGARM
Look, Prime, the humans didn’t want to come back. I don’t get the guilt here.
OPTIMUS PRIME
They didn’t want to come back to their homes because they didn’t want to live next to Transformers anymore.
2. Prime, morose.
OPTIMUS PRIME
The Decepticons displaced them – twice – and our earlier presence only invited attack.
LINK
With Cybertron gone, our people need a home. I didn’t want to cost others their homes.
3. Strongarm yells at workers off panel.
STRONGARM
Look, once – no no no, you’re putting it in backwards! – once Earth gets used to us being here when there’s not a war on, things will – it ain’t break yet, Hoist! – things will get better.
OPTIMUS PRIME
And you think the war’s over?
4. Strongarm, slightly rattled.
STRONGARM
The Decepticons are gone! They literally can’t come back!
OPTIMUS PRIME
The Decepticons on Earth, true, but we know there are small groups out in space. We can’t assume…
5. Strongarm walks off, joining some bored construction Autobots. He’s not a happy man.
STRONGARM
Look, I can’t keep talking and oversee things at the same time, I’m gonna have to go –
STRONGARM (thought bubble)
Don’t even joke about that, Prime! It’s over, we can relax -
PAGE 5.
1. A five-man-and-one-Autobot NEST team, including Bumblebee and Mikaela, creep through the carrier’s corridors. Half the lights are shattered, giving the place eerie lighting.
CAPTION
“- nothing’s gonna happen!â€
NEST SOLDIER 1
So we’re all agreed the drones are active and this is a big fat trap, yeah?
MIKAELA
Always the optimist, eh?
2. Bumblebee holds up a hand – “quiet!â€.
BUMBLEBEEE
Stay focused, men. We have to assume they know we’re coming…
LINK
…but they’ll still be damaged from the crash, and still Swindles. Nothing you haven’t faced before.
3. Tight panel. Mikaela close-up.
MIKAELA
Checking thermal imaging.
4. POV shot through her goggles, in infra-red – a door up ahead as faint blotches behind it.
VOICE
Guess what’s behind door number one…
5. Bumblebee activates his entire arsenal, two NEST soldiers aim their guns. Another NEST guy, O’Hanlon, is on the radio.
BUMBLEBEE
Right – I blast it down and give ten seconds of sustained fire. Slot anything that drives out under it.
LINK
O’Hanlon, call it in.
O’HANLON
Two to One, we’re about to engage. Received, over?
6. A clawed robot arm smashes through the door! It’s definitely not a Swindle’s…
VOICE (off panel)
Two to OH HELL-
PAGE 6.
1. A gang of Sideways’s are tearing through the door towards the team! Everyone’s startled, Bumblebee’s trying to retract some of his weapons.
BUMBLEBEE
Too close for the full salvo -!
MIKAELA
What the hell are -
O’HANLON
Two to One, priority – under attack -
2. Bumblebee fires his cannon point-blank as a Sideways almost gets him.
BUMBLEBEE
Withdraw!
SFX
CHOOOOM
3. One of the NEST soldiers who’d been aiming is now on the ground, firing up in desperation as a Sideways looms up with its circular saws.
SOLDIER
No no no
4. The Sideways brings the saws down. We don’t see the killing, but the whole panel is red.
5. Bumblebee is in car mode, the NEST crew piling into him.
BUMBLEBEE
In, now!
LINK
O’Hanlon, how’s Group One?!
PAGE 7.
1. Sideswipe drives away at full speed from pursuing Sideways drones, one of which has transformed. A NEST soldier fires out of a window at the drones.
VOICE (off panel)
Two men down in one minute, both groups in retreat!
LINK
What are those things?!
2. Inside of Sideswipe. Epps is not happy, neither are the other two NEST types (gun-man is still leaning out).
SIDESWIPE’S VOICE
Sideways drone series – very fast, very lethal, very many blades on them. In this tight a space…
EPPS
Okay, so we just find a less tight space…
3. Epps, defiant.
EPPS
Head for the ship’s bridge!
4. Bumblebee and Sideswipe meet up in a corridor, both screeching hell for leather towards another door (which Bumblebee is blasting down).
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“Because if we get there first…â€
5. Both cars are in the abandoned, wrecked bridge of the ship – the humans are piling out and Sideswipe is transforming.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“We’ve got…â€
6. The Sideways head towards the bridge door, in single file so they fit…
PAGE 8
1. A Sideways comes through the door – right into a hail of gunfire!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“…a bottleneck!â€
2. The Sideways look at the dead drone in shock. They’ve ground to a halt.
3. Sideswipe, leaping through the door.
SIDESWIPE
That series never did like it when they could take damage…
LINK
And with them bunched up like that, not moving…
4. Sideswipe has landed wheel-first onto the right-side wall and is driving down it, his arm blades sticking out – meaning he’s slicing through every Sideways in the row.
SIDESWIPE
…they’ll take a lot!
5. The NEST crew look in surprise.
O’HANLON
It’s like Limerick on a Friday night.
MIKAELA
You’ve never been.
O’HANLON
That’s because it’s like that on Friday night…
PAGE 9
1. Back to the Diego Garcia briefing room. Epps is talking to Ironhide.
EPPS
Ishihara and Hacker checked its black box – that ship had been carrying Swindles. Someone snuck in and replaced them with Sideways, Ironhide, they wanted us to be caught out…
IRONHIDE
It gets worse.
2. Ironhide close-up, grim.
IRONHIDE
Sideways drones were never on Earth. This “someone†brought them here…
3. The undersea Decepticon base from earlier issues. It’s still active…
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“There’s still Decepticons on Earth!â€
VOICE
Oh well, what can go wrong will etc etc – that’s a scientific law, honest!
4. Close-up on Scalpel AKA the Doctor, skittering along a computer monitor and jabbing keys.
SCALPEL
Still, a valuable experiment, eh? We now know a bit more about the enemy! Now to run the next experiment…
LINK
Ha, yes, too right! Oh, this is nice. Under others it was all “shut up, Scalpel, stop defiling the dead, Scalpel†– but you, you’ve broken the glass ceiling!
5. We now see Scalpel’s talking to the silent, brooding form of Scorponok (in his 2009 toy body, natch).
SCALPEL
You’re the best Decepticon leader ever, Scorponok!
PAGE 10
1. Optimus walks through Autobot City as night falls. Civilian Autobots are walking around some of the completed buildings, looking contented. Longarm is one of them.
2. Arcee drives up in her three motorbike forms. Arcee is a bit bemused.
ARCEE [all bikes]
What’s the human phrase? Ah yeah – “penny for ‘emâ€.
OPTIMUS
Arcee. I still don’t understand this new form…
3. Arcee’s bikes transform and combine.
ARCEE
You know me, always looking for a new body…
LINK
…and I thought “hey, combiners are quite interestingâ€â€¦
LINK
…“wonder if I could combine with myself!â€. Maybe it’ll start a new trend!
LINK
You’re dodging the question, Prime.
4. Optimus gestures at Autobot City.
OPTIMUS
Do you think this will last? This peace and calm?
ARCEE
No.
OPTIMUS
I wish I could disagree. But I have the feeling…
5. Knock Out drives up and transforms, waving his arms widely.
KNOCK OUT
Prime, Arcee! There’s – oh, er, NEST private Knock Out, remember me? I was – anyway…
KNOCK OUT
We’re picking up a possible Decepticon transition form heading towards China!
OPTIMUS
…something’s…
PAGE 11
1. Optimus Prime, reeling slightly – everything around him is going a bit woozy.
OPTIMUS
…cominggggg…
VOICE (demonic)
Prime.
2. Optimus, a tiny figure, with part of the Fallen’s face looming above him.
THE FALLEN
You cannot stop me.
THE FALLEN
You cannot save anyone.
THE FALLEN
Give up.
3. Prime is on the floor, still woozy. Arcee and Knock Out are over him, looking worried.
ARCEE
Optimus! Are you –
OPTIMUS
I, I, I saw… a warning…
LINK
A threat…
4. Optimus, getting to his feet.
OPTIMUS
Whatever’s coming to China…
5. Demolishor’s transition form streaks forwards Shanghai – the ghostly image of the Fallen’s eyes glare out of the sky at us.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
“… is just the start of something worse!â€
TO BE CONTINUED
STAR SCREAMS
Don’t think that just because I’m stuck on Cybertron that your feeble little scribblings are safe from criticism! No, keep sending them in – we’re out of fuel, we need some rubbish to make a fire with.
All letters should be marked All Hail The Fallen or we will mark you for the labour gulags when we get off this dirtball!
