Set Course for Earth

(We start at the destroyed bunker on Cybertron. The Autobots still question Vector Prime's motives.)

Optimus Prime: Vector Prime, I presume?

Backpack: Wait! You two met before?

Optimus Prime: Indeed. Vector Prime was one of the Thirteen Primes before me.

Vector Prime: And the only one who can control time and travel through it, both back and forward.

Inferno: Yeah, but we still don't get about that hole you sent Guardshell through!

Vector Prime: I opened that rift in the space-time continuum, and sent your friend somewhere safe from harm's way.

Backpack: Safe?! Safe?! Listen, old man! Guardshell was plummeting to an unknown planet and he'll get killed from that great of height. Even worse, Megatron followed him, and Bumblebee followed him! We don't know what will happen to them! We don't even know if they'll make it or not!

Inferno: Then we have no choice! A select few of us need to find them, wherever they are.

(Just then, Arcee arrives.)

Arcee: Sorry, no can do!

(She then transforms from her alt form to her robot form.)

Optimus Prime: Arcee, what's the problem?

Arcee: The Decepticons have destroyed the lanching pad on Iacon as well! There's no way we'll be going anywhere!

Optimus Prime: Or so they have thought. Vecotr Prime, where did you sent Guardshell too?

Vector Prime: I sent him to a planet called...Earth.

Optimus Prime: And that's where we're going! Vector Prime, can you open a rift big enough for a batch of stasis pods to sent to Earth?

Vector Prime: I'll do my best.

(Meanwhile, the other Autobots are still struggling to keep the Decepticons at bay. Jackshot was hurt.)

Jackshot: I'm hit! (groans in pain)

Ironhide (picking Jackshot up): Are you alright, soldier? Red-Alert, help him!

(Red-Alert steps in to aid him.)

Red-Alert: How bad was it?

Ironhide: Pretty bad. Can you get him to safety?

Red-Alert: I'm on it!

(Red-Alert takes an injured Jackshot to a nearby rock, shielded by barricades. He proceeds to repair him.)

Red-Alert: Just hang on.

(We cut back to the laser-bullet-filled battle.)

Hot Rod: This isn't looking good!

Demolishor: You can say that again! Blackout, Powerlink!

(His Mini-Con partner Blackout arrives, transforms to vehicle mode, and attaches to Demolishor's arm. He then fires two powerful rockets at the Autobots. But Optimus Prime arrives at the knick of time, and pushes the rockets up in the sky before they exploded.)

Demolishor: What the heck?

Shockwave: So you're not a coward after all!

Optimus Prime: You've already lost! Megatron is missing!

Shockwave: I have no idea what you're talking about!

Optimus Prime: Sparkplug, Powerlink!

(His Mini-Con partner Sparkplug converts to vehicle mode, attaches to the back of Optimus' left leg, and and his Ion Blaster glows bright red and fires a powerful beam at the Decepticons. This blows them away.)

Cyclonus: Ow, my back!

Optimus Prime: Autobots, follow me! This is an emergency! (throws a couple of pellets that induce a smokescreen, blinding them)

Demolishor: I can't see a thing!

(The smoke clears up, and the Autobots are no where to be found.)

Cyclonus: Uh, where'd they go?

Shockwave: Emergency, eh? Thundercracker, find them and spy on them! But don't attack them!

Thundercracker: You got it, partner! (converts to alt mode and flies off)

(Meanwhile, somewhere at Iacon, Optimus is assembling as many Autobots and Mini-Cons as he can so they can go into stasis pods set for Earth.)

Optimus: Everyone, listen up! Bumblebee and Guardshell have been sent to Earth! And Megatron may be hunting them down there! Somehow, we must stop Megatron and save them! Due to the launching pad demolished, Vector Prime here will open up a rift in time to send down stasis pods to this planet. We will travel here in them.

Ironhide: Makes sense to me.

Inferno: Looks like we have no choice.

Jackshot: Then it's settled. We'll use that probe to hold the pods in.

Red-Alert: Will the Mini-Cons come with us too?

Optimus Prime: I'm afraid the answer is no. The risk is too great. The Mini-Cons will have to go to Earth in a slightly different method.

(Mini-Cons Perceptor, Cliffjumper, Skyboom, Pulse, Wreckage, Iceberg, Dune Runner, Winch, Jolt, Bumper, Six-Speed, Sparkplug, Gauge, Comettor, Hook, Blades, Rollbar, Longarm, Grip-Lock, Roost, Wrench, Liftor, Heavy-Lift, Turbo, Scattor, Tankor, and Steamhammer are sent to a little probe.)

Optimus Prime: I'm sorry, but you are too important to us. If the Decepticons find you, they will capture you and use you for destruction against your free will, the same way Megatron and his men used some of your brethren. To prevent this, we are sending you somewhere to Earth so hidden, that only we can know where you can be found.

(Sparkplug is not too happy about this idea.)

Optimus Prime: I know, Sparkplug. But if you go with us, Megatron may easily spot you. You have to stick with your kind, and depart somewhere safe and hidden. (Turns to Perceptor) Perceptor, you're the captain of this vessel. This is your responsibility to ensure the safety of your crew. Will you make the safety of this voyage possible?

(Perceptor then converts into the three robot forms of Grindor, Sureshock, and High Wire. High Wire complies.)

Optimus Prime: Thank you. Vector Prime, it's time.

Vector Prime: Understood.

(Vector Prime then opens a hole to an uncharted cavern on Earth. The probe for the Mini-Con closes, and flies in the rift to the cave. After arriving, the Mini-Cons then download themselves into hexagon-shaped tablets.)

Vector Prime: The Mini-Cons are now secured.

Optimus Prime: Excellent. Now we depart too! Autobots, strap in!

(Optimus Prime, Red-Alert, Hot Shot, Ironhide, Ratchet, Excellion, Vector Prime, Inferno, Jetfire, Backpack, Arcee, Jackshot, Roadbuster, and Blockrock head to a huge cargo shuttle with stasis pods as they board up and lock themselves in the pods, sans Vector Prime who then opens a huge rift below the shuttle.)

Vector Prime: We're off.

(However, Thundercracker was watching all of this from above.)

Thundercracker (to Shockwave on the com): Howdy, sheriff! The Autobots are heading to Earth, by some big, portal-hole thingy. I think they are trying to find Megatron before we do.

Shockwave: (shocked) They dare?! (cools off) Stay where you are. We'll board one of our ships to pursue them. When you see us, join us there.

(And the Decepticons Shockwave, Demolishor, Cyclonus, Starscream, Barricade, Hardtop, Runabout, and Mini-Cons Leader-1, Crumplezone, Blackout, Zapmaster, Frenzy, and Skidmark did just that.)

Shockwave: For the sake and glory of Megatron, blast off and follow them before the rift closes!

(The ship then blasts off. When the Autobot shuttle got through the rift and zooms to Earth, the Decepticons ship follows them with Thundercracker joining them so he can go on board. The ship got through as well without the Autobots knowing. However, a meteor strikes the Decepticon ship on its thrusters, damaging it and setting off an alarm.)

Shockwave: What's going on here?!

Hardtop: A meteor hit the thrusters! We're losing control and going down fast!

Shockwave: Brace yourselves!

(The plummeting ship bumps into the Autobot shuttle as well. The two vessels then land on Earth, crashing into a huge mountain. And then, a lot of time passes by, with landmass and plant life changing over time. We then cut to the year 1897, as famed explorer Captain Archibald Witwicky and his crew were on an expedition at the Arctic Circle.)

Explorer #1: The ice is freezing faster than it's melting!

Explorer #2: Move faster, men! Chop, heave!

Captain Witwicky: No sacrifice, no victory! We'll be here eventually!

(During all that, a couple of the dogs were barking at something.)

Explorer #3: Captain, I think the dogs have found something!

Captain Witwicky: Step aside.

(After a few strikes while digging, Captain Witwicky fell through an underground snow cavern under the shattered ice. After he landed, he got up after a few seconds.)

Explorer #4: Captain! Are you alright?

Captain Witwicky: I'm fine, lads! (then sees the head of Megatron's lifeless corpse) My word, what is that?

(Captain Witwicky has found Megatron, all as his lifeless, freezing body. He thinks he made a discovery.)

Captain Witwicky: Men, this is a miracle of ancient hostory!

(Without taking much consideration, he activated his navigation system. From that, Megatron's eyes flashed on the captain. He is paralyzed and screaming in pain. The homing signal to the Allspark is now imprinted on his glasses.)

Explorer #2: Oh no, something's wrong with the captain! Help me pull him up!

(Later, the captain was sent to the hospital in dire condition.)

Man #1: When will he be able to regain his bearings?

Man #2: As of now, we may not know.

(The two men leave and close the door. The glasses are shown, still having the homing signal to the Allspark <and Guardshell holding it.> The episode ends.)

## Trivia

* Compared to the events of the 2007 film, where Captain Witwicky goes insane and sent to the mental ward after activating Megatron's navigational system, he is paralyzed in pain and sent to the hospital in dire condition. But he still shares his visions and symbols with the caretakers, even though he does so in a calmer way in contrast to the latter events.