Shattered Bridges

***"Shattered Bridges gets that feeling too. We are but playerzzz and all the world izzz a stage."***

**SPOILER ALERT!**

This article contains Story information (most likely a brand-new Spotlight Mission), and if you haven't played it, reading ahead will spoil your enjoyment of Shattered Bridges. If you haven't played it yet, **go back now.**

**Shattered Bridges** is October 2019's Spotlight Mission

## Synopsis

According to this...

*Optimus is missing, Prowl is missing, Wheeljack and Jetfire have disappeared into a Chrono-Mission, new dangers are appearing at every turn. Important intel comes to the Autobot base from a questionable source and it sends two uneasy Autobots on a journey with brave new partners.*

*Will mysterious evil forces be sent back? Will friends and foes join together? Will anyone survive? Follow the path if you dare, because a dangerous journey awaits on the other side of SHATTERED BRIDGES!*

## Transcript

THIS SPOTLIGHT MISSION IS BRAND NEW, SO TO BE SURE...

***"Shattered Bridges gets that feeling too. We are but playerzzz and all the world izzz a stage."***

**SPOILER ALERT!**

This article contains Story information (most likely a brand-new Spotlight Mission), and if you haven't played it, reading ahead will spoil your enjoyment of Shattered Bridges. If you haven't played it yet, **go back now.**

**SPOILER. *ALERT.***

### Chapter 1 - Snap

#### Mission 2 - Pop and Lock

##### Part 1

Part 2

* Starscream: *We just gotta' round up the bad guys, bring 'em home, and leave you to be...but I'm always open to some help on a hard mission.*
* Bumblebee: *I hear words coming out of you, but my processor won't accept the order I'm receiving them in.*
* Starscream: *I know, right? I'm talking to the dreaded Bumblebee, the death-stinger, the doom-bringer, the most feared Autobot lieutenant!*
* Jazz (Shattered Glass): *Him? FEARED? You're singing the wrong tune Decepti-coward!*
* Megatron (Shattered Glass): *Jazz! friends find cover and protect one another! Defend the humans!*
* Jazz (Shattered Glass): *Oh you have meat with you? I'll grease my wheels with them as I dance on your graves!*

Part 3

* Optimus Prime: *If that is how Autobots behave on your world, it may indeed be wise to combine efforts.*
* Starscream: *Megatron, Sir! I'm showing the doctor of destruction up ahead.*
* Megatron: *No Starscream, call a monster by his name: Ratchet.*
* Optimus Prime: *Ratchet? He is our chief medical officer. What is he in your world?*
* Ratchet (Shattered Glass): *Someone who dedicated myself to learning the anatomy of Bots, so I can prolong their tortures or instantly snuff the Ember of say...Megatron.*
* Starscream: *Get behind me! No one will harm Megatron while I still function!*
* Ratchet (Shattered Glass): *Good, he'll get to watch you get flatlined before I pull the optics from his head!*

### Chapter 2 - Fractures

#### Mission 1 - Splitting Up

Part 1

* Megatron: *This is a larger escape than we anticipated, we may have to split up.*
* Optimus Prime: *Agreed, Bee you take Starscream. Megatron and I will head over that ridge and will be in continual radio contract.*
* Starscream: *May the light of the noble and honorable Liego Maximo shine on you my heroic brothers.*
* Megatron: *And may your loyal Ember lead you back to us, my most trusted colleague.*
* Optimus Prime: *Yes. Good. All of this is good. We should be on our way.*

Part 2

* Bumblebee: *So you and Megatron, Together forever, huh?*
* Starscream: *Not forever. One day I shall lead the Decepticons and he shall no longer be with me.*
* Bumblebee: *HAH! I knew you'd be the same deep down.*
* Starscream: *He has witnessed so much war, so much pain. One day he shall live his cycles out in peace. Then I shall have the great burden of requesting to lead.*
* Bumblebee: *....Right. Oh hey! Look! An actual Decepticon!*
* Motormaster: *Little lethal lady I met said to take your heads as trophies. Says you should back off or get knocked off.*
* Bumblebee: *I'm weirdly glad too see you. Starscream, let's jack-knife this joker!*

Part 3

* Arcee (Shattered Glass):  *I see that pathetic delivery-boy failed to give you my message.*
* Bumblebee: *Arcee? You're looking a tad aggressive.*
* Arcee: *Ahhh, the bumbling Bee. It would be more satisfying to cut the stinger off someone who posed a challenge. But your screams will suffice.*
* Bumblebee: *The Autobots of your world are very...threatening.*
* Starscream: *Their tongues are as sharp as their blades. They take pleasure in cutting us with their words as well as their weapons.*
* Arcee: *Is that your engines whining on you? I'm going to blast you open or go out swinging, wither way let's see what you're made of!*

#### Mission 2 - Patched Together

Part 1

* Optimus Prime: *Your Starscream seems to be a very trusted companion.*
* Megatron: *Without the trust of my team how would I have been elected their leader?*
* Optimus Prime: *Elected. The Decepticons of your world are a democracy?*
* Megatron: *Of course, we cannot rely on the whims of the universe. We must take charge and know our vision is represented. How do you rule?*
* Optimus Prime: *I do not...rule exactly. I was...it is very complicated. We should stay alert. Scan the area.*
* Megatron: *Very advisable. That will give us intel, and good intel is fifty percent of the combat engagement.*

Part 2

* Megatron: *Signals up ahead, one of your dimensions's Decepticons and one of my Autobots.*
* Wheeljack (Shattered Glass): *You pathetic, chittering, slag-heap! This garbage you brought me is worthless!*
* Kickback: *But Wasp and Scorpion were gathering it to make a space bridge-bridge!*
* Wheeljack: *So you can't even steal from thieves correctly? My materials must be absolutely flawless for my perfect designs to function!*
* Optimus Prime: *And just what is it you think you are building?*
* Kickback: *Prime-Prime! Don't worry science friend, we just found a new source of scrap-scrap!*

Part 3

* Wheeljack: *Well Kickback was right about new scrap, I can use parts of him for support beams at least.*
* Megatron: *You dastardly fiend, what is your cracked clockwork mind ticking towards?*
* Wheeljack: *We escaped here, but we left some friends behind. I'm just making sure the door stays open, maybe get a few more timelines in like I've witnessed on this world.*
* Optimus Prime: *You mean to strand more bots here? There is no escape from this vacuum of realities.*
* Wheeljack: *Better to rule in this pit, than kneel on Cybertron. Speaking of kneeling, a little groveling may spare you from my wrath.*
* Megatron: *You speak bitter lies, mercy is never part of your cruel calculations.*
* Wheeljack: *I forgot how well you know me Megatron. Truth then. None shall be spared.*

### Chapter 3 - Bursts

#### Mission 1 - Animal Magnetism

Part 1

* Optimus Prime: *Bumblebee, Starscream, what did you find?*
* Starscream: *Arcee has recruited Motormaster. Bumblebee and the Commander did a commendable job in settling the situation with minimal damage.*
* Bumblebee: *Yeah we hit them a bunch until they stopped. What about you two?*
* Megatron: *Took in intel, quelled a chance for this to spread. Escapes seem to be contained to the one timeline fro our dimension.*
* Scorponok: *You guys here to take away my new best friend? Because I swear to Primus I'm about to lose it.*
* Megatron: *Who or what is that?*
* Optimus Prime: *The answer is, as always, trouble.*

Part 2

* Scorponok: *He ain't a Predacon, but he sure ain't acting like no Maximal I've ever seen. Except that one time with Rhinox...*
* Bumblebee: *What are you talking about?*
* Scorponok: *...Dropped those boxes on me...made me all flat. OH! Right! I'm here to protect my friend and destroy all who oppose him.*
* Optimus Prime: *Your friend likely poses a threat to the delicate fabric of reality as we know it.*
* Scorponok: *Yeah and he keeps trying to claw my face but friends around here are slim and I takes what I gets. So prepare for a fight!*

 Part 3

* Optimus Prime: *If it was a Maximal teaming up with Scorponok that means that multiple timelines from your world have diverged here as well.*
* Bumblebee: *And I think I'm seeing the bot that jumped all nine of their lives over here.*
* Cheetor: GRRRWAAAARRRWLLLLL!
* Stascream: *Good Kitty! Nice Kitty! Maybe let's put those claws away huh?*
* Bumblebee: *Yeah, I don't think he likes being called kitty...or chatting.*
* Cheetor: *METAL! ENERGON! FEED! HUNGRY!*
* Megatron: *I agree with Bumblebee, words may fail us here.*
* Cheetor: *TALK TO MUCH! FIGHT NOW! FEEEEEED!*

#### Mission 2 - Second in Demand

Part 1

* Optimus Prime: *This has been a deeply trying and troubling endeavour.*
* Bumblebee (Shattered Glass): *And the hits just keep on comin'!*
* Bumblebee: *Oh, come on!*
* Starscream: *Keep your distance! He is driven only to destroy. If he's this close we may be already out of time.*
* Megatron (ROTF): *Out of time? Yes.*
* Megatron: *I can not hide my disgust at this twisted abomination.*
* Megatron (ROTF): *I assure you the feeling is mutual.*

Part 2

* Megatron: *You are a Megatron! Namesake of the noble Megatronus who gave his life to protect the Prime he loved! How dare you side with this death-bringer?*
* Megatron (ROTF): *Your dimension sounds quaint, our Megatronus embraced all the darkness within him. So much so that he seems to have slipped into the shadows of this world.*
* Optimus Prime: *Megatronus is missing? I thought he was powering up to some grande finale.*
* Megatron (ROFT): *Well if it's any consolation, you wouldn't have lived to witness it.*
* Bumblebee (Shattered Glass): *Enough of your posturing Megatron, prove yourself or move aside!*
* Megatron (ROTF): *I must prove nothing! But I will take pleasure in eliminating this threat to our plans.*

Part 3

* Bumblebee (Shattered Glass): *Pathetic failure after failure. No Prime can match me, mo Megatron, none even pose a challenge.*
* Bumblebee: *Where is your Prime? A Bumblebee without an Optimus is lost, I should know.*
* Bumblebee (Shattered Glass): *Last I saw him, I was tossing his tattered body into the void of space as he tried to convince me he still functioned.*
* Starscream: WHAT KIND OF MINDLESS MONSTER WOULD DO THAT?
* Megatron: *Team, we may not end this threat today. We may face further terrors in the days to come. But we will not allow Bumblebee one step further into this world.*
* Bumblebee (Shattered Glass): *Draw a line, and watch me cross it.*
* Megatron: *You heard him. DECEPTICONS! ROLL OUT!*

## Gallery

### The *Shattered Glass* Bots

MegatronStarscreamJazzRatchetArceeWheeljackCheetorDOTM Bee

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