Transformers: Armada
“Ruin” – Episode 11
Written by Terry Klassen and Ward Perry
Transcription by Brandon Williams

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Rad (VO): Hi, my name’s Rad and I wanna tell you about the Transformers, two races of mechanical beings from another world. There’s the Autobots, the good guys and then, there’s the Decepticons, a bunch of greedy bullies. They’re all fighting over a smaller race of robots called the Mini-Cons. The Mini-Cons crash landed on Earth thousands of years ago and they’re scattered all over the planet. The Decepticons want to enslave them and use them to increase their power, but the Autobots will put a stop to that evil plan.

[Transition]

Carlos: Aw man, this is totally driving me nuts! Okay, in here. Hey Rad! You figure it out yet?

Hot Shot: Hey, guys. I’m working on it.

Carlos: Aw man.

Rad: C’mon, Carlos. You know these things take time.

Carlos: We don’t have time! We gotta do something. I can’t take this!

Optimus: Hahaha. So much for patience. He’s certain anxious.

Red Alert: Is this about the girl on the monitor?

Hot Shot: ‘Cause she’s just a hologram.

Rad: …So what?

[Transition]

Carlos: Is she there?

Alexis: Yeah. See?

Carlos: Ahh, she’s back.

Girl: Please listen. We desperately need your help immediately.

Carlos: So where do you think that signal’s coming from?

Alexis: No clue. But that girl’s obvious in some kind of trouble.

Carlos: That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everyone. We gotta hurry up and find her.

Rad: Hey, are you guys coming or what? We’re ready to launch.

Optimus: Final sequence initiated. All systems go for ignition. Launch in three… two… one!

Hot Shot: We have lift off! Yahoo! We’re outta here!

Carlos: Hey guys, check it out. Do you think it’s safe down here?

Rad: I wouldn’t worry about it, Carlos. The Autobots wouldn’t take us down here if it wasn’t.

Carlos: Hey, Optimus, that girl wasn’t underwater in her transmission, so what are we doing down here?

Optimus: We’re homing in on a Mini-Con signal, Carlos.

Carlos: Boy, do I ever feel stupid right now. I thought we were going after the girl, but nobody listens to me.

Alexis: There it is! And it looks like we’re closing in on it.

Carlos: It’s real close. Maybe we can spot it.

Rad: Yeah!

Carlos: Ah, nothing out there. Oh, hang on. Ah, forget it. Just a couple of dolphins. I say this is a waste of time.

Alexis: Where’d those dolphins come from?

Carlos: I dunno. Back there, I guess.

Rad: Optimus!

Optimus: Right. We’ll sit down here, men.

Hot Shot: Time for a little recon mission. Don’t wait up for me, boys! Ahh! I almost bought it.

Alexis: You okay, Hot Shot?

Hot Shot: I’ve had better days. Wait! Wait!

Alexis: You see something?

Hot Shot: Whoa… You’re not gonna believe this.

Rad: C’mon, tell us.

Hot Shot: There’s a city down here.

Carlos: Okay, guys, it’s official. Hot Shot has finally gone off the deep end.

Rad: You serious?

Carlos: I don’t believe it. This place is totally freaky.

Alexis: It looks like the ruins of some sort of lost civilization, like Atlantis or something.

Rad: Whoa… I wonder who built all this.

Carlos: You think anybody still lives down here, Rad?

Alexis: I kinda doubt it. It looks deserted to me. My guess is it was built thousands of years ago and over the centuries it began to sink, because of the movement of the Earth’s crust.

Carlos: Hey guys, you think that girl’s from down here?

Red Alert: Megatron!

Megatron: Let’s give ’em a warm Decepticon welcome, men. They’ve arrived. Finish them off.

Decepticons: Yessir!

Megatron: And you two, find the entrance to this dump.

Hot Shot: It’s an ambush!

Red Alert: What do we do, sir?

Optimus: Smokescreen, let’s head down and find the entrance. Hot Shot and Red Alert, you back us up.

Red Alert & Hot Shot: Transform!

Red Alert: Hot Shot, fire up a flare, stat!

Hot Shot: You got it.

Megatron: It’s time to get serious.

Optimus: Hang on, kids!

Carlos: Wake me when this is over!

Rad: Aw, man. Optimus can’t fire back in vehicle mode and he can’t transform when we’re inside.

Carlos: Oh, no! We’re sunk!

Alexis: And how are we supposed to plug that giant leak?

Rad: We’re drowned rats!

Carlos: Give me a hand!

Rad: Optimus!

Optimus: Hold your breath. We’re going up.

Carlos: No way, we’ll be all right.

Alexis: Have you lost your mind, Carlos?

Carlos: Betcha that girl’s from down here. And if she can survive underwater, then there’s no reason we can’t.

Optimus: Hang tough, kids, I think I see a reason up ahead. Cover me, Hot Shot!

Smokescreen: Don’t worry. I’m already on it, Optimus!

Alexis: No!

Rad: We’re doomed.

Carlos: C’mon, hurry up and do something, Optimus. We’re running out of time.

Megatron: Hmmm… There you are.

Smokescreen: Hurry, this way!

Megatron: Thanks for your help, metalhead. Remind me to destroy you later.

Optimus: I see an air pocket, kids! We made it.

Rad: Nice work.

Alexis: Thanks, Optimus.

Carlos: See? What’d I tell you guys? Ha, I knew we’d make it.

Optimus: Transform! Try to find the Mini-Con while I look after the Decepticons.

Carlos: Consider it done.

Rad: Let’s do it. High Wire!

Megatron: Why you little!

Alexis: No wonder the air’s so fresh. It’s like a rainforest down here.

Rad: Hey… What’s that?

Alexis: A fountain. Why, what’s wrong?

Rad: No. Can’t you feel the ground shaking?

Carlos: Ah, it’s just all the Transformers trancing around outside.

Rad: No, it’s not that. It’s like there’s something underneath us.

Alexis: Don’t worry, Rad. It’s probably just the seabed shifting a little.

Carlos: Yeah, I agree with Alexis. And besides, we still gotta find that girl!

Alexis: Forget her. We’re looking for a Mini-Con.

Rad: Right.

Megatron: After them, men!

Girl: Welcome. I’ve been expecting you.

[Commercial]

Carlos: It’s her!

Rad: No! Carlos, hang on! What’s going on?

Alexis: Everyone here is a hologram.

Rad: A hologram?

Alexis: Yeah. Somehow this civilization was advanced enough to preserve its images in holographic form.

Rad: And that girl we saw was —

Alexis: — It’s just a hologram. I hope you’re not disappointed.

Rad: No, of course not.

Alexis: Yeah, like I’m buying that one, Rad.

Rad: Hey, would you just get off my case already?

Alexis: Hmph!

Carlos: Hey guys! Over here, and hurry!

Alexis: Boys, huh.

Rad: What is she talking about?!

Carlos: They call me Carlos. So what’s your name? Huh? What the?

Rad: She’s not real, Carlos.

Carlos: W-what are you saying?

Girl: He’s right. I come from a great civilization that was lost centuries ago, after the arrival of the Orihalcons. But please, do not be afraid.

Carlos: This isn’t making any sense to me.

Alexis: A Mini-Con!

Girl: Yes, Mini-Cons as you call them, were the instigators of a great war that devastated all my people.

Alexis: One of them must be the Mini-Con we detected on the Autobots’ radar.

Girl: When the Mini-Cons joined together, they became a formidable sword of fire. A weapon that had no equal.

Alexis: I get it now! The only way those Mini-Cons could power up is when they combined!

Girl: Eventually, my people found a way to harness the Mini-Cons’ energy and control it. It became our one passion, our obsession. And eventually, it led us to battle other civilizations on continents far away. The sad truth is, it was the beginning of the end for my people.

Alexis: So is she telling the truth?

Girl: Why can’t people ever learn that trying to gain power over people always ends in their own destruction. We thought the sword would protect us, but over time we became the enemy of the entire planet. Our cities were destroyed, and our people — well, they did not survive our enemies’ wrath.

Carlos: Man, that’s harsh…

Girl: It became clear that this was a war we could not win, and we were resigned to our fate. In the end, our cities were destroyed, and sent to the bottom of the sea.

Rad: That’s terrible. I mean, I never would have thought that the Mini-Cons controlled so much power on their own.

Girl: Our civilization survived for years, but just barely.

Megatron: You incompetent oafs. I thought I’d asked you for cover.

Cyclonus: Give us a break. We’re fighting underwater.

Starscream: Ah! This just isn’t my day.

Megatron: I’m getting sick and tired of playing this mindless little game of Chess. Time to bring out the heavy artillery. Evolution Transformation!

Red Alert: Uh oh…

Optimus: Smokescreen, be careful.

Smokescreen: Don’t worry, Optimus. I’ll take care of him personally.

Girl: My city lay in ruins here on the ocean floor and then, without any warning, the Mini-Cons fell into a dormant state. Eventually, we preserved our images as holograms, in order to warn future civilizations not to disturb these Mini-Cons for fear that if they had ever reunited, they too would be doomed to the same fat as ours.

Rad: Oh wow.

Alexis: There’s no way she’s gonna tell us where those Mini-Cons are. What in the world is going on out there?

Rad: Forget that, we’ve gotta find those Mini-Cons.

Carlos: Hang on, youse guys, didn’t you just hear anything she just told us?

Rad: You mean the part she said about the Mini-Cons falling into the wrong hands, Carlos?

Alexis: We’re working for the Autobots, not the Decepticons.

Carlos: Yeah, I know, but —

Girl: I implore you to heed my warning. You do not know the powers the Mini-Cons possess. And I must caution you against finding them. Please leave here and forget about them. It’s your only chance to survive. Don’t make the same mistake that we have. Save yourselves and this planet.

Carlos: C’mon guys, let’s get outta here!

Girl: If you retrieve the Mini-Cons, then all that I have done here has been in vain. History repeats itself and you are doomed.

Carlos: No! We’re not doomed and neither are you. You’re coming with us.

Alexis: Hey Carlos, have you lost it? She’s only a hologram. She doesn’t even exist anymore.

Carlos: What are you talking about, Alexis? She’s standing right infront of us.

Rad: I get it. Carlos is saying he wants to save her image.

Alexis: What do you mean?

Rad: I mean we don’t let the Decepticons destroy the holograms.

Megatron: Hahahaha. Is that the scent of a Mini-Con I smell in here? Oh, so you pathetic little runts think that you can gang up on me, do you?

Optimus: Mini-Cons, stand down!

Alexis: Oh no, we’re surrounded.

Carlos: Do some damage, Optimus!

Megatron: Listen, Leader-1. Search out the Mini-Con while I take care of this outdated circuit board.

Girl: Be warned that you retrieve them at your own peril.

Megatron: You lose, Prime. Ah… Ha, ha, ha.

Girl: The mistake you’re about to make can never be reversed.

Megatron: Interesting. This is one of those Mini-Cons that will remain dormant while one of its own —

Rad: An earthquake!

Demolishor: Megatron!

Megatron: Our work here is done! Retreat!

Cyclonus: Hahaha, I’d love to stick around and chit chat, Autobots. But it looks like this party is about to crash! Hahaha!

Alexis: Come on, we’ve got to get outta here.

Hot Shot: Transform! Get in, kids.

Rad: Hey, Carlos! Now what?

Girl: The mistake you’re about to make can never be reversed.

Carlos: I’m sorry. I really wish we could’ve helped you.

Alexis: C’mon, Carlos! Forget her, she’s just a hologram.

Rad: Hello, reality check, Carlos. We’ve gotta get outta here, fast. So forget about her.

Carlos: I can’t just leave her.

Optimus: We’re running out of time.

Rad: You coming or what, Carlos?

Carlos: See you around, kid.

[Commercial]

Megatron: Hahahaha! Gentlemen, do you realize the significance of our victory today? We have captured one of the most powerful Mini-Con combinations in the universe.

Alexis: So, Megatron only captured one of the three Mini-Cons that had to combine to form the sword?

Red Alert: Yes. He still needs the other two.

Optimus: Which would be our demise.

Hot Shot: Yeah, that means that we’re gonna have our work cut out for us trying to get to them first.

Smokescreen: Yeah, no kidding.

Alexis: Yeah, I know. I’ve never seen Carlos and Rad go so gah-gah over a girl.

Rad: Hey Carlos, I think I know how you feel, buddy. And it’s okay, really.

Carlos: It doesn’t matter.

Rad: You just gotta remember, she was only a hologram. She doesn’t really exist. You do understand that, don’t you, Carlos?

Carlos: Yeah.

Rad: Good.

Carlos: You gotta admit, she did look real. At least to me she did. And I guess I let my heart get in the way of my head.

Rad: Yeah, when you think about it, she did look pretty life-like.

Carlos: Even when you got up close she was. Did you think she was good looking?

Rad: Uh, sure. I guess.

Carlos: Hey, you know what? I bet you she was a princess, no question. A princess, definitely. And when she grew up, she became their queen!

Rad: Haha. Oh, you’ve got quite the imagination, buddy.

Carlos: I don’t think I’ll ever forget her.

Rad: Yeah, and maybe one day, we’ll see her again. I gotta feeling her hologram still exists. And maybe one day, it’ll come to the surface.

Carlos: Yeah! It could happen, couldn’t it?

Rad: Hey, forget about her. What about us? Buds for life, right?

Carlos: Buds for life!

Rad: Haha!

Carlos: Yeah.

[End]