The Decepticons and Quintessons have just annihilated many of the earth's cities. Destroying the NEST base, Washington DC, and taken the president as a prisoner. Optimus Prime as summond the Autobot army to contour the massive Decepticon army. The Quintessons are threatened by no Autobot except for Grimlock and his team. The Quintesson leader Xitron intends to find the Dinobots before the Autobots.
After the Autobot army arrive military leaders have a meeting with Optimus prime to determine their next move.
Captain Lennox: The Decepticon attack whipped out a majority of our military fire power. The Pentagon as been destroyed along with many of the bases around the world. Communication is at a minimum. We do have confirmation of survivors trying to make their way here but some of them are as far as DC.
N.E.S.T. commander: They knew exactly where to hit us. How did we ever get so careless?
Lennox: Sir even if we knew this was going to happen I don't think there is anything we could have done. We have to move past that and try and survive.
Epps: he's right we have an entire Autobot army on our side right know. They know how to hunt and kill Decepticons. They're our only chance.
N.E.S.T commander: (turning to Optimus Prime with a desperate look on is face) on behalf of the entire human race we are asking for your help.
Prime: those were not Decepticons
Epps: Well they sure weren't Autobots
Prime: No, they were Quintessons.
Epps: Quin what?
Prime: They are decedents of the race that created the transformers.
Rachet: Their exoskeleton radiates pure Energon the life source of our species. Giving them the power to create life, making them extremely powerful.
Agent Simmons: So you're saying they can't be destroyed?
Prime: The only ones to ever challenge them was a group of Autobots lead by a powerful warrior Grimlock. They were the strongest Autobot team ever.
Epps: What happened to them?
Prime: Millions of years ago they were sent to find the All Spark. They arrived on earth before it crashed landed and caused your planet to enter what you call the "ice age". The explosion from its crash caused Grimlock and his team to be buried somewhere on earth.
Epps: So we just got to find these things and dig them up?
Prime: Yes but it is unsure as to their condition. They may be found but non functional.
Rachet: I don't think that will really matter.
Lennox: How so?
Rachet: During the attack I was able to extract what you call tissue from a Quintesson. With it I will be able to bring life back to these mighty warriors. Assuming we are able to locate them in time.
Perceptor: (with a surprised and optimistic tone) I think we have located them in time.
Lennox: Where are they?
Perceptor: My reading indicates Vinson Massif Mountain, Antarctica.
Epps: They going from the hottest desert to the coldest terrain on the planet.
Rachet: They alone could be enough to end this war.
Prime: He's right. We've got to move fast before the Decepticons are on to us. The Quintessons know how dangerous those Autobots are and will stop at nothing to destroy them.
Simmons: Then let's stop wasting time a find these gladiators!
Prime: I’m going with a team to locate the new Decepticon base and extract the human prisoners. I need a team to find our Autobot friends.
Silverbolt: Count me in
Prime: It's yours. Preceptor transmit those coordinates to Silverbolt.
Perceptor: On it.
Rachet: Wheeljack and I will go along to wake up those slumbering beasts.
Lennox: Antarctica has some elements you've never seen before. It's not forgiving.
Prime: That's why we need you to navigate us through it. Hound, Huffer, and Trailbreaker can accompany you.
Hound pounding his fist together: We're definitely built for the off road.
Breakaway: I'll go and be the eyes in the sky.
Kup: Sign me up too. I've heard too many stories about these Autobots.
Prime: The rest of the Autobots will stay here and protect what's left of the humans.
Silverbolt: Let's load up and move out!
EXT: DECEPTICON LOCATION OUTSIDE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The Decepticons have transformed the terrain into a machine like Cybertronian landscape.
INT: MAIN OPERATIONS ROOM
Shockwave enters to Megatron and the Quintessons leader Xitron.
Shockwave: Lord Megatron, Soundwave has reported Autobots are splitting up.
Megatron: Where are they going?
Shockwave: One team is coming this way and the other is headed toward what appears to be Antarctica.
Megatron: They're coming for the humans… but why Antarctica?
Xitron: Grimlock and his team
Megatron: Impossible, those Autobots have been dead for millennia.
Xitron: Do not be so unwise. The Autobots will attempt to bring them back (speaking in a very serious tone while looking at Megatron) and if they do, things could change quickly.
Megatron: Then we must stop them. Shockwave bring me the Predacons
Predacons arrive in the room Razorclaw, Rampage, Divebomb, Tantrum, and Headstrong
Megatron: Razorclaw there is a team of Autobots in Antarctica searching for a very powerful weapon. I need both of them destroyed.
Razorclaw: (acknowledges by shaking his head) Consider it done my lord.
Xitron: (bluntly adds in) I'm sending additional Decepticons to assist you.
Headstrong: We hunt alone!
Xitron: (Getting in Headstrong's face) I'm not taking any chances!
Rampage and Tantrum bow up at Xitron while two Quintessons stand between them and their leader
Megatron: That's enough! The Predacons will locate the Autobots, once they are found the other Decepticon team will finish them off.
Xitron: I want you to erase any existence of that Autobot team. You cannot fail!
The Decepticon team acknowledges.
Xitron: I want Soundwave to lead a team on the Autobot base. It will not be heavily guarded allowing us to stab them in the heart. Megatron have your troops ready for when the Autobots arrive. I want them eliminated.
Megatron: As you wish.
EXT: ANTARCTICA
The Autobots and N.E.S.T team arrive and begin to search on the ground. The entire surface is covered in snow. The weather is calm at the moment. They are several miles from the Vinson Massif Mountain.
Silverbolt looking around: According to the readings this is it.
Kup grabs a patch of snow: Everything is white. It's gonna be nearly impossible to locate their spark frequencies.
Silverbolt: I agree but this can't take long. Sensors are picking up a storm moving near.
Lennox getting out of Hound: He's right when that storm hits we'll lose visibility making it nearly impossible to navigate. We've got to search while it's still light.
Breakaway:" I'm gonna fly around and see if I can pick up anything."
Ratchet: Keep your eyes open for any Decepticons. It's only a matter of time before they arrive.
Breakaway transforms and flies off
Huffer impatiently pacing: We're not getting anything done with this chit chat.
Silverbolt: Easy Huffer. Lennox you and your team load up in Hound, Huffer, Kup, and Trailbreaker. I'm gonna fly around with Breakaway. I don't want to take any chances.
Lennox: We'll search the East side of the mountain for any signs
Rachet: Wheeljack and I will search the West side while Silverbolt and Breakaway search the very top.
EXT: ANTARTICA NEAR AUTOBOT LOCATION
A Decepticon ship arrives carrying the Predacons and other Decepticons. It lands with doors opening. Predacons standing at the doorway.
Razorclaw: (talking to Powerdive) We will contact you once we locate the Autobots
Powerdive: We'll be on stand by
The Predacons walk down the ramp and set out on their hunt.
Headstrong: (As they are walking away talking to Razorclaw) They underestimate us. We don't need their help destroying a few worthless Autobots
Razorclaw: What the Autobots are searching for is unlike anything you have ever seen. You don't want to be alone if they find it
Divebomb: I picking up a signal southeast
Tantrum: It's them!
The Predacons transform into animal mode and take off toward the signal
Huffer, Kup, Hound, and Trailbreaker driving on the east side of the mountain on a snowy ridge two hundred feet off the ground
Lennox: Anybody see anything?
Trailbreaker: Negative, just snow
Hound: It's gonna be tough from the surface. For all we know they're right in the middle of this mountain.
Kup: He's right we need to find a way to get inside
Huffer transformers into robot mode: "Then back out of the way"
Everyone transforms and backs up while Huffer's levels a massive cannon. Huffer's cannon shoots a laser directly into the mountain as a target sight followed by a powerful blast creating a massive tunnel in the mountain's side going several hundred feet in, the blasts echoes across the frozen tundra.
CUT TO: The other side Rachet and Wheeljack hear and feel the mountain shake from the blast
Wheeljack: Sounds like Huffer
Rachet shaking is head: He really likes that cannon
BACK TO: East side of mountain
Autobots and N.E.S.T blinded by the cloud of smoke and deaf from the blast
Lennox: (Looking at Huffer sarcastically) not sure that was loud enough
NEST Soldier Pete: I don't understand how you have the most advanced weaponry in the universe but no silencers.
Huffer: Don't hate
Kup: Hey ladies now that our position is given away let's just get inside
Hound: Best idea yet
Huffer: (looking at Hound)Suck up.
Hound: (looking at Huffer) After you.
The team makes their way into the newly formed tunnel
The sound of the cannon alerts the Predacons to the Autobots location. They stop suddenly and transform into robot mode.
Razorclaw: Did you hear that?
Rampage: It must be them
Razorclaw: Divebomb do you see anything?
Divebomb hovering several hundred feet off the ground.
Divebomb: A cloud is coming from the east side of the mountain
Razorclaw: (speaking into a wrist communicator) Astrotrain they're on the eastside of the mountain
Astrotrain: Acknowledged
Razorclaw: (addressing the Predacons) prepare for battle
Predacons transform back into animal mode racing toward mountain
INT: INSIDE MOUNTAIN TUNNEL
N.E.S.T member Pete begins to pick up a faint Spark signature
Pete: hey guys! I've got something!
Trailbreaker: Let me see
Pete shows Trailbreaker the energy signature.
Pete: It's weak but it's definitely not human
Lennox: Is that them?
Trailbreaker: Looks like it…..we need Rachet and Wheeljack
Hound (speaking into a comm.): Rachet, Wheeljack we may have found them
Rachet: On our way
Rachet, Wheeljack, Silverbolt, and Breakaway arrive
Rachet: (looking at the signal) has to be…..these frequencies are ancient Cybertronian
Wheeljack: that's great but I'm still not looking at them
Huffer: I can take care of that (as he forms the cannon again)
Ratchet: (pushing Huffer's cannon away) that's could cause the whole mountain to go. We need something more subtle.
Trailbreaker: (arm transforms into a thermal gun) I can take care of that
Rachet: Do it
Silverbolt: Huffer, Breakaway, and I will watch out for any Decepticons
Trailbreaker begins melting a tunnel through the mountain toward the signal
Predacons arrive to the mountain’s eastside. They see Huffer and Silverbolt standing guard.
Silverbolt and Huffer stand at the cliff of the mountain just above where the Autobots are searching. Breakaway has taken a flight around the perimeter. The Predacons have split up. Razorclaw and Divebomb are headed toward Silverbolt and Huffer to distract them while Headstrong, Rampage, and Tantrum attack the other Autobots.
As Razorclaw and Divebomb sneak up to Silverbolt and Huffer, Breakaway spots them and signals to Silverbolt
Breakaway: Silverbolt behind you!
Silverbolt turns to see Razorclaw charging at them in lion mode with 2 cannons coming out of sides.
Silverbolt pushes Huffer off the ridge has to Razorclaw begins to fire.
Silverbolt returns fire. They trade several blasts. Divebomb begins an aerial assault toward Silverbolt, but Breakaway intercepts Divebomb with multiple shots. Breakaway transforms into robot mode latching onto the top of Divebomb causing him to redirect his course. Meanwhile Razorclaw continues to charge at Silverbolt leaps toward him transforming into robot mode before landing on him. This slams Silverbolt to the snowy ground. Razorclaw lands several punches damaging Silverbolt's face and finally lands a large blast to his trunk sending him crashing off the ridge. Silverbolt slams to the icy ground followed by Razorclaw. With Silverbolt still on the ground Razorclaw walks over to him holding two curved Arabian swords ready to finish him. Huffer regains consciousness and fires several shots hitting him back stunning him. Huffer charges at Razorclaw tackling him off Silverbolt. The momentum of the tackle causes both to roll on the ground and then pop to their feet. Before Razorclaw can react his head is slammed into an icy wall by Huffer followed by a fist to the back of his head sending him to the ground.
Divebomb unable to shake Breakaway's grip transforms into robot mode to finally blasts him off causing Breakaway to crash onto the frozen tundra.
CUT TO: MOUNTAIN TUNNEL
As they melt through the ice the Spark signal continues to get stronger and stronger. They finally reach the signals max and find themselves in an open area. The Autobots shine their lights upon the walls to reveal what appear to be robotic dinosaurs preserved in the icy walls. Everyone is in awe of what they are seeing.
Lennox: This is unbelievable.
Rachet: Perceptor was right. Grimlock and his team survived.
Trailbreaker: What kind of shape are they?
Pete: Those are definitely dinosaurs.
Wheeljack: When the cube crash landed it changed their alternate modes into what covered the earth at that time.
Pete: So much for the big bang theory.
Lennox: So they're Dinobots?
Kup: They're the key to this war. With these guys we can make the Decepticons and Quintessons extinct for good.
Hound: Definitely like the sound of that
A loud noise is heard coming from outside.
Kup: What's going on up there?
Hound: Must be the Decepticons! Silverbolt what's all the noise about?
Silverbolt: Predacons! Three of them are headed your way!
Lennox: What's a Predacon?
Kup: They're part of the Decepticons who take the form of animals. Very strong and very hard to kill.
Lennox: We've got to cut them off before they reach us.
Kup: You and your team stay here. Hound, Trailbreaker, and I will handle this. Rachet we need those soldiers.
Rachet: I'm on it.
Kup, Trailbreaker, and Hound make their way back through the tunnel only to be met with heavy fire from Headstrong, Rampage, and Tantrum. The Autobots immediately take cover and return fire. Headstrong and Tantrum transform into rhino and bull mode charging toward the Autobots has they return fire. Tantrum strikes Hound in the chest with his horns pushing him into the wall of the tunnel piercing his body. Hound is then slung around like a rag doll before being thrown to the ground. Headstrong charges at Kup but is able to move at the last second causing Headstrong to crash into the tunnel wall. Rampage still exchanging blasts with Trailbreaker transforms into tiger mode to charge him. Kup is able to tackle Rampage before getting to Trailbreaker. After the two scuffle on the ground Rampage finally kicks Kup off.
CUT TO:
Razorclaw gets up staring down Silverbolt and Huffer. Razorclaw jumps on Huffer and the two exchange punches until Huffer is finally blasted causing him to stumble backwards. Silverbolt jumps in firing on Razorclaw until his gun is cut off by Razorclaw's sword and then kicked in the midsection finally flipped over Razorclaw's back. Huffer reengages firing a shot from his cannon only to be dodged. Before another shot can be fired Razorclaw cuts through Huffer's cannon followed by being stabbed in the chest. Razorclaw gives the sword a quick twist ensuring Huffer's spark is destroyed. Huffer falls to the ground lifeless. Silverbolt transforms into plane mode flying off. Razorclaw: "Puny Autobots". Silverbolt from the sky fires down on Razorclaw stunning him. Divebomb quickly approaches firing on Silverbolt. Silverbolt evasively maneuvers avoiding any shots while returning fire. From above Mindwipe and Thunderwing begin firing on Silverbolt.
CUT TO:
Headstrong, Rampage, and Tantrum surround the injured autobots. Headstrong transforms into robot mode as Rampage and Tantrum continue to circle:
Tantrum: "You Autobots are so weak. You do not deserve the right to live."
Kup and Hound stager to their feet to stand alongside Trailbreaker.
Hound: "Who gives you the right to make that choice?"
As Hound completes that sentence several shots stream by the robots. Lennox along with N.E.S.T charge up the tunnel.
Headstrong turns to look "pesky humans" as Rampage unleashes a loud roar.
From the back of the N.E.S.T charge emerges Diamond and Henderson carrying a large cannon pointed directly at the Predacons. The cannon fires a large blast at Rampage. Headstrong and Tantrum watch as Rampage is blown out of the tunnel down the ridge. The cannon is quickly reloaded sending another powerful shot carrying Tantrum out of the tunnel. Before Headstrong can react he is tackled by Kup and Trailbreaker knocking him out of the tunnel. They roll down the snowy hill where Rampage and Tantrum lay stunned. Headstrong falls to the bottom first followed by Kup who lands as solid hit to Headstrong's snow covered face knocking him back followed by Trailbreaker who fires several shots at Headstrong's right shoulder.
Hound quickly turns to look at Diamond and Henderson "Where have you been hiding that baby at?"
Diamond responds "We can't let you guys have all the fun"
Hound:"Bring that death cannon and let's kill these Predacons"
Hound transforms into jeep mode, the N.E.S.T team jumps, and drive down the hill. They arrive to see Kup and Trailbreaker attacking Headstrong. The N.E.S.T team hops out and Hound transforms as they run to their aide. Before they reach them Rampage leaps in front of them in tiger mode followed by Tantrum in robot mode. Rampage begins to run at Hound as he opens fire. N.E.S.T opens fire on Tantrum but he quickly blasts their cannon killing Henderson and Diamond. Rampage goes to pounce on Hound. Hound turns his body avoiding Rampages claws and grabbing his trunk pulling Rampage to the ground. Hound: "Where you going kitty"
Headstrong begins to overpower Kup and Trailbreaker. He lands a hard hit to Kup's knee causing him to hit the ground followed by an upper cut to the face. Trailbreaker is then kicked in the face followed by a blaster shot to the chest sending him flying across the terrain landing him at the bank of a frozen lake. Trailbreaker injured stagers to his feet. As he regains his footing several large tentacles emerge from behind. Kup see's this yelling "Move" Before he can turn his head the tentacles grab him at his waist and arms snatching him off the edge and into the freezing water. Lennox witnesses the act and is terrified has to what could have done that. From the same place in the lake Powerdive explodes through the ice landing where Trailbreaker had been standing followed by Venom (White Mercedes) and Blitzwing landing from a ridge next to Hound with a gun to his head. Lennox's head on a swivel at the Decepticons "This just keeps getting worse".