01x17 - One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing

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Hike!

( dramatic theme playing )

( grunts ) That one was right there! You're a junk receiver, junkyard boy! Are you just going to let Butch trash talk you like that?

You think Bronko Kowalski ever let his teammates talk smack to him?

Do I look 8 feet tall to you, Butch?

Because that's where you threw it!

- What?

That wasn't too

- RUSSELL: Ahem! Okay, maybe it was a little high.

Next one'll be perfect.

Ah.

Thanks.

I owe you one.

Nah, just pay it forward.

What's that mean?

She said it means now I gotta help somebody.

So anyone been pushing you around?

You kidding?

Nobody pushes me.

But if they did, I like pushing back.



( grunts ) See?

Totally pushed that air.



( alarm blaring ) We have incoming!

( dramatic theme playing ) Fixit, it looks like an escape pod.

FIXIT

( over comm ): I'm detecting a life

-form inside.

Could be a Decepticon.

Or maybe some bot just got lost.

Somebody to punch.

Please be somebody to punch.

Either way, high alert.

Denny, Russell, hang back.



( mysterious theme playing ) ALL: You?

! Transformers Robots in disguise Robots in disguise

( roars ) Robots in disguise Robots in disguise

( alarm blaring ) BUMBLEBEE: Jetstorm?

!

( sighs) Fixit, false alarm.

Turn off the klaxon.



( alarm stops )

( dramatic theme playing ) Not my lawn gnomes!

( whimpering ) I apologize for my unannounced arrival.

It's cool?

Where's Drift?

I was forced to leave the master's tutelage.

He cut you loose?

My actions I had to leave.

I doubt you would ever do something that bad.

Why'd you come to Earth?

I hoped you might accept me as your student, Commander Russell.



( groaning )

( screams )

( groans )

( gasps )

( dramatic theme playing ) Fellow rebels, fear not! I shall release you and we shall escape to freedom together before our captors return!

( pod powering up ) Do you know where to find the lost city of Doradus?

The spirits have chosen me to claim its riches.



( croaks ) Doradus?

That's just a myth.

This is what silence earns you!

( grunts ) Impressive.

I'll bet he'd be just as impressive against any Autobot trying to recapture me.

You will join your friend if you continue to keep me from Doradus and its fountain of Energon! QUILLFIRE: I know the way to Doradus.



( grunting ) Why should I believe you?

The spirits! They tell me

- Doradus is far from here and

- RUSSELL: I told Jetstorm I'm not really a commander.

BUMBLEBEE: Well, he's here because he thinks you'll be a better teacher than Drift.

Or nicer, anyway.

Tyrants! Come with me.

You can protect We can protect each other.

I'll lead you to Doradus! First a false alarm, now some of the stasis pod sensors are damaged?

I seek Jetstorm.



( gasps ) Drift?

! What are you?

Why would Jetstorm be here?

Slipstream, search the area.

Found him, master.

Drift.

Didn't expect you to visit again so soon.

You swore an oath to study and serve.



- How could you?



- Did you follow Jetstorm to Earth just so you could yell at him some more?

Okay! Son, let's step back and let the super

-powerful alien robots work this out between themselves.

Stasis pod sensors back online.

Two units compromised.

Quillfire and Springload.

They seem to be traveling together.

Their course will take them very close to a human m*llitary base.

Time to bring the zoom and lower the boom!

( all sigh ) Oh, never rhyme.

Never rhyme.

My craft is not far from here.

We are leaving.

Now.



( growls ) Drift, please assist my team as we hunt down these fugitives.

Your assistance would honor us.

Very well.

Jetstorm, come.

Commander Russell?

Seriously, I'm not a com

( sighs ) What do you think is best?

Should we face battle, I am trained to deploy from Master Drift.

Why do we see no signs of Doradus?

Uh, Doradus is still far, far away.



( croaks ) Aah! Take me to Doradus! Uh! Spirits?

What's that you say?

We need to confuse our pursuers.

If the tyrants are able to follow, they'll pillage Doradus! Pillage Doradus?

! The unworthy will never do so!

( grunting ) And worse awaits any who keep me from Doradus, by force or lies.

Uh, yes.

Lies are very bad.

Doradus is right this way.

This is not Doradus.



( dramatic theme playing ) That will help us reach Doradus.

Is it worthy to carry us to the sacred city?

It must be.

The spirits brought us here, didn't they?

And that vehicle will offer me an extra measure of protection from the Autobots should you prove unworthy, my traveling companion.



( suspenseful theme playing )

- This will do nicely.



- Hmmph! Truly, this vehicle is worthy.

Doradus, we come to you! BUMBLEBEE: Status update Fixit.

Quillfire and Springload's signals are moving away from the base.

And I've intercepted a m*llitary transmission concerning a stolen classified vehicle.

I don't like how fast Jetstorm went back to Drift.

Drift is just gonna push him around again.

STRONGARM: Jetstorm only re

-joined for this mission, Russell.

And while it wouldn't have been my choice, no one forced him.

We might not know the whole story.

Hey, I bet those m*llitary trucks are chasing the stolen vehicle.

Time for Operation: Pulling Rank.



( Strongarm honking )

( triumphant theme playing ) Lieutenant, I'm Major Thaddeus Q.

Flieber.

And I'm his superior officer, General McPlank.

New recruit.

A real jokester.

Well, we'll take it from here.

Head back to base.

HQ, you know anything about a Major Fleiber?

FIXIT: Ooh, is General McPlank with him?

They're the best of the best.

Please tell them I said hi, and Um, confirmed.

Major Flieber's unit was sent to re

-acquire Quire Quire Quire the stolen vehicle.

All yours, major.

Great.

BUMBLEBEE: Good work, Denny.

Fixit, where are the fugitives now?

FIXIT: They're on a winding road ahead of you approximately 12 klicks.

DRIFT: The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

BUMBLEBEE: Agreed.

Team, we're gonna short

-cut on foot through the woods and come out ahead of our 'Cons.

Watch my flank.

Jetstorm, this rift destroys our team.

Please make amends.

Maybe your hardheaded master should apologize for once, for treating you both like scrap.

I cannot undo the wrong that has been done.

Even I do not know what the wrong is that you speak of.

It is so shameful.

I polished the Master's sword in a clockwise motion, instead of counter

-clockwise.

Drift kicked you out for that?

It is a serious error, to be sure,

- but not one that should merit

- Dude, that is it! It is time someone told Drift to lay off! No! Please.

SIDESWIPE: Bad bots headed our way, right on schedule.

BUMBLEBEE: Joy ride's over, Decepticons.

The deceivers who thwarted my last attempt to locate Doradus! QUILLFIRE: They shall pay for their tyranny! Look out!

( all grunt )

( action theme playing ) Whoa! It looked like you needed a hand.

Oof! Make sure Sideswipe's okay.

I'll get Bee and the others moving.

That should please the spirits.

It didn't please them.

No! None shall block our path to Doradus!

( dramatic theme playing )

- Master Drift

- Silence.

I am formulating a plan.

You will disable the vehicle's locomotion.

I will draw their fire.



- But, Master I

- Do as I say! Come out and face me with honor!

( Drift grunting )

( grunts )

( groaning ) Master!

( grunting )

( grunting )

( grunting ) SIDESWIPE: Is Drift all right?

Master will recover.



( grunting ) BUMBLEBEE: Keep the Decepticons' attention!

( dramatic theme playing ) Doradus! Take me to Doradus!

( both grunt ) Let's pop 'em out of tha can and Whoa! The spirits say we must defeat the tyrants here, or they will hound us all the way to Doradus! I am not certain you actually hear the spirits.

But the course you suggest is one they would approve.

Scrap! Come on!

( dramatic theme playing )

( Drift groans )

( Denny panting ) What What'd I miss?

My students failed a simple mission and have disappointed me.

Particularly you, Jetstorm.

Not to mention how you ran off on your own to Cut it out! You can't lay into your Mini

-Cons every time they make a little mistake! You don't lead by talking smack about your team! Huh.

Okay, seriously, kiddo, you have to stop yelling at the out

-of

-town guests with the really powerful weapons.

So Jetstorm didn't polish your sword right.

He still polished it! My sword?

Master, I know there is much confusion right now, but if I may suggest a plan I do not wish to hear a plan from

( Russell clears throat ) Tell me quickly.



( ominous theme playing ) BUMBLEBEE: Take out the weapons!

- Drift, stay back! My team is

- DRIFT: I heard your plan.

My team is seeking access to the t*nk so we may disable its operators.

BUMBLEBEE: A two

-pronged att*ck.

Good.

Autobots, keep the Decepticons focused on us so Drift and his students can do their thing.



( dramatic theme playing )

( grunts )

( both yelling )

( yelling )

( grunting )

( dramatic theme playing ) Miniature oppressors! Unworthies, send your minions large and small, None shall sway me! Unh!

( panting )

( grunting ) Ow! Fool! You strike the leader of the revolution! The spirits demand your punishment! The spirits would never harm me!

( croaks ) You are a deceiver!

( both grunt )

( croaks )

( screaming )

( groans )

( t*nk powering down )

( metal clanking ) Pupils, evacuate!

( both groaning ) Don't rush me.

He has acid skin, you know.



( grunts )

( Springload groans ) I gotcha, I gotcha! Nah.

QUILLFIRE: Ow!

( metal creaking )

( grunting ) Jetstorm!

( grunting )

( all grunt )

( heroic theme playing ) Many thanks, Master Drift.

I apologize to you for the inconvenience of catching me.



- I shall depart now, never to

- DRIFT: Wait.

You left because you polished my sword improperly?

I knew you would be angered, so to spare us both the embarrassment of my termination, I left.

Never make assumptions, pupil.

Mistakes are part of learning.

You left without word or reason.

That is what angered me.

I can only offer my apologies, master.

Your apologies are

( Russell clears throat ) Sufficient.

And your performance in the field today was exemplary.

Communication is key to the master/pupil relationship.

Perhaps we can all work on that together, should you choose to remain under my tutelage.

I did some assuming too, Drift.

I'm sorry.

Your assumption was not unreasonable.

But your expression of it was highly insubordinate.

BUMBLEBEE: Thank you, Drift.

Thank you all.

We're sorry to see you go.

- We are not departing.

- ALL: Huh?

My pupils can only be as good as their master, and I still have much to learn.

We will stay here and learn from you, Bumblebee, the lessons of teamwork and communication.

And we will assist you when possible.

Awesome! Uh, terrific.

Welcome to the team.

We're Oh.

Honored.