03x24 - Dweller in the Depths

[bunniefuu]

Okay, looks like we're good to

go.

- I'm going to plug the tracker

in.

Transfer should begin in

three...

two... one.

We did it.

It worked.

We'll find the last two Shards,

and Windblade will be good as

new!

(RUMBLING)

(CRASHING)

(IMPACT YELLS)

(GRUNTS)

(GROWLING)

NO!

(MUSIC BUILDS)

Windblade!

♪ More than meets the eye ♪

[Woman] This is where we lost

her signal.

- The Argon Sea?

Great.

Nobody even knows what's down

there.

- The scanners aren't

penetrating the gases.

We've gotta go in.

(ENGINE SOARS)

The creature that took Windblade

must be around here somewhere.

♪

- Rack'N'Ruin and Ratchet's

report suggests that the

Decepticons will soon att*ck.

We must prepare for the--

Optimus?

(WHIRRING)

♪

(DRAMATIC CHORAL VOICES SING)

(THUNDER ROLLING)

Uh...

(GASP)

(SNARLING)

(SQUEAKING)

(GASP)

Bumblebee: I had no idea

anything lived here!

It's beautiful.

♪

I wonder-- Look!

There he is!

(SNARLS)

Let's get 'em!

(GROWLING)

♪

(SNARLS)

(SNAPPING)

(CREAKING)

(CRASHING)

Agh!

(GROANING)

♪

He tried to crush us!

I've got a feeling we better

find Windblade.

Fast.

♪

Help!

Help!

HELLLLLPPP!

Windblade!

Where are you?

- Where'd she go?

- She must be

farther down.

Woah!

Ugh!

(SNARLING)

Not very friendly down here,

are they?

- Fellow Primes,

why have I been summoned?

- MacCadam!

- Optimus!

Shields failing!

(ZAPPING)

Shields down!

(IMPACT GRUNTS)

Aaahhhhh!

(THUD!)

That's it!

I've had enough!

(SNARLING)

Chromia: Bee! Are you crazy?!

Yes.

(CHARGING CRY)

Agh! Whoa!

Rrraaaggh!

(IMPACT GROWL)

WHOAAAAAA! (THUD!)

WAAAAHHH!

(THUD!) (IMPACT GRUNT)

Bee!

♪

Chromia: Bumblebee come in.

Bumblebee, where are you?

Ugh!

How dare you truss me up here

like some lowly bottom feeder!

You took my friends and att*cked

my ship!

I did not!

How ridiculous!

I am Hammerbyte.

Guardian of the Argon Sea.

I protect all within it.

Well, you're doing a scrap job.

(THUD)

Oof!

♪

Nice crown.

How did I get here?

Where's the Dweller?

The what?

The Dweller in the Depths.

After all these cycles,

something has awoken it.

I went to confront the dweller

when suddenly,

I saw only darkness and then

I...I uh...

I don't remember.

What is this Dweller?

The Dweller is an ancient evil

at the bottom of the Argon Sea.

And it's my duty to make sure it

stays in the depths.

(GASP)

You mean down there?

Where Bumblebee just fell?

Hammerbyte: How unfortunate.

Welcome to the

Depths.

♪

The Dweller is vast.

It is everywhere below us now.

- What's that...?

Bee!

- He's waving at us.

Odd.

♪

- Bee went in there!

We should be very cautious.

Everything here is part of the

Dweller's domain.

- Let's go in.

- Huh?

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(HISSING)

(GROWLING)

No sign of Bee...

(THUD!)

(GRUNTS)

(GROWLING)

(IMPACT GRUNT)

Why are you doing this?

(FIGHTING NOISES)

(EFFORT GRUNT)

(THUD!)

(SNARLS)

♪

Bee! There you are.

We have to--

Mistress of Flame!

(CHARGING CRY)

(EFFORT GRUNT)

♪

(GROWLING)

Chromia: Scrap!

(GASP)

♪

The Dweller: Welcome,

new citizen.

♪

Windblade!

Long have I awaited

for new citizens

to repopulate my body.

Citizens to repopulate your

body?!

You're a Titan!

Yes.

This City Speaker's Psychic

Shard awoke me.

She was incomplete...

like me.

I made Hammerbyte fetch her body

so I could make her whole again.

Now she will make me whole

again.

That is the creepiest thing I've

ever heard.

With the power of my City

Speaker,

soon all will become

my citizens.

Yeah.

That's not gonna happen.

- Seize her!

Ugh!

(IMPACT CRIES)

(EFFORT GRUNTS)

(EFFORT CRY)

(IMPACT GRUNTS)

(CHARGING CRIES)

(IMPACT GRUNT)

(FIGHTING NOISES)

(EFFORT GRUNTS)

(COMBAT NOISES)

(EFFORT GRUNT)

Huh?

(PAINED GRUNTS)

Chromia?

Agh!

♪

Windblade!

The Dweller: No citizen shall

escape.

(HISSING)

All will be mine!

Hammerbyte, grab Windblade!

♪

(BOOM!)

(DRAMATIC CHORAL SINGING)

(SNAPPING)

♪

(DEEP ROAR)

(CLAMP!)

♪

♪

I apologize for what I did under

the Dweller's influence.

I must go.

The Argon Sea needs me now more

than ever.

♪

(MUSIC BUILDS)

- How is this possible?

How are you here, MacCadam?

You knew me as MacCadam,

but I am Alchemist Prime.

I always have been.

(CHUCKLES)

But, this is not about me.

This is about you.

And what you must do.

You must destroy

Megatron's Matrix of Leadership.

You and the other Primes are

inside that Matrix.

And so is a part of Windblade.

(GASP)

I cannot destroy any of you.

- The lives of everyone you know

depend upon it.

Oof!

Gather everyone.

The Primes have spoken.

♪

More than meets the eye.