Transformers: Robots in Disguise
“Sky-Byte Saves the Day” – Episode 22
Written by Matthew V. Lewis
Transcription by Brandon Williams
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Optimus: The ancient cavern ruins… The Cave of the Dragon… The Volcano of Montrose Island.
T-AI: Those are all locations that the Predacons have attacked.
Optimus: It looks as if Megatron has been using the psycho-probe to pry information from Dr. Onishi.
T-AI: Optimus, what are they searching for?
Optimus: I’m not certain, but it must have something to do with the research Dr. Onishi was doing just before they kidnapped him.
T-AI: We’ll need to re-analyze the data stored on Dr. Onishi’s microchip.
Optimus: Perhaps they’re looking for the O-Parts…
T-AI: Oh no! That could be terrible.
Optimus: In the wrong hands, it can be. We have to locate the missing O-Parts before the Decepticons do.
T-AI: From now on, the mission to find the O-Parts is the number one base priority.
Optimus: Thank you, T-AI. And continue to track Megatron closely.
Predacons: Hahahahahaha!
Sky-Byte: Sky-Byte, terrorize!
Slapper: Slapper, terrorize!
Dark Scream: Dark Scream, terrorize!
Gas Skunk: Gas Skunk, terrorize!
Dark Scream: This is supposed to be one of the tallest towers in the world.
Gas Skunk: Sure, maybe this world. The towers on Cybertron make this thing look like a toothpick.
Slapper: What if you dropped an Autobot from the top? How big a hole do you think he would make?
Dark Scream: Maybe we should try it out with fearless leader.
Sky-Byte: The CGA tower is truly in a class by itself. Predacons, it’s time to seize the day. Glory will be ours at 3:15 sharp this afternoon.
Slapper: Does anyone want to guess what the finhead is thinking?
Dark Scream: Probably just another diabolical plan to get us destroyed.
Gas Skunk: Yeah, he’s looking extra stupid right now.
Sky-Byte: Laugh. I have a perfect plan. At its grand opening this afternoon, we level the entire tower to the ground. Then all the reporters will want to interview us. The Predacons will become famous at last! Mwahaha! Imagine Megatron’s jealous look when he sees us Predacons on TV!
Slapper: On a scale from one-to-ten, that was stupid.
Dark Scream: An eleven on the stupid meter.
Gas Skunk: Real bad.
Sky-Byte: I’m not asking for your opinion, you babbling boneheads!
Koji: Wow! You can see the whole city from up here.
Jenny: It’s just like we’re on some tall mountain top.
Carl: Hey, look. You can almost see your apartment from up here.
Kelly: This is amazing! Everything’s so clear and peaceful today, and the new tower is beautiful! I’m just happy I finally decided to come to the opening.
Sky-Byte: Okay men… Aim! Savour the moment, gentlemen. We’re about to knock off the tallest building on this planet. And lock… Tsunami Blaster!
Kelly: Hey, I… Oh no. Not again.
Carl: Who’re they?
Koji: They’re Predacons!
Kelly: Preda — Predacons? This isn’t happening.
Sky-Byte: Everyone!
Dark Scream: Center laser!
Slapper: Right laser!
Gas Skunk: Left laser!
T-AI: Optimus, the Predacons! They’ve just attacked the new tower.
Optimus: Assemble the Autobots, T-AI. This is an emergency that calls for the Build Team.
T-AI: Build Team, come in. Emergency protocol. What’s your position? Please come in.
Wedge: I’m so proud of us. I didn’t think we’d complete construction on the south ocean underpass in anything less than a megacycle.
Heavy Load: Yep, that was something else, wasn’t it? I’d say we each deserve an oil bath.
Wedge: You bet. And the best part is we still had half a megacycle left for the western loop and beyond that, too. You guys, Build Team is gonna go down as the fastest crew in history.
Hightower: We did two global routes in one megacycle!
T-AI: This is T-AI. Build Team, please come in.
Grimlock: Not another construction job!
T-AI: Please return. The Predacons have attacked. They’re in quadrant three, sector A.
Wedge: Copy, T-AI. We’ll be there. Anything else we should know?
T-AI: No, not yet. At this point, you know as much as we do. Just keep your equipment ready and get there.
Wedge: Wow, the excitement never ends! First super-highways, now Predacons.
Heavy Load: Double luck day. The Build Team is ready.
Wedge: Roll out!
Build Team: Rollin’ out, knock it down, build it up, oh yeah!
Koji: Why’d they have to ruin a nice day like this?
Kelly: Don’t look down. Just don’t look down…
[Commercial]
Sky-Byte: It’s working!
Wedge: Wedge, transform! Let’s go!
Build Team: Build Team, transform!
Wedge: Hey, you little weasel. You want a piece of this?
Gas Skunk: Aw, how cute. The talking dump truck.
Heavy Load: Hey there. That’s ‘high-capacity vehicle’ to you, my furry friend. Now tell me, after you’re destroyed, are you willing to donate your parts for charitable construction?
Dark Scream: Well…
Slapper: He’s for real.
Gas Skunk: And how.
Sky-Byte: You fools! Watch! Destruct! Destruct! Destruct!
Slapper: Hey, why should Sky-Byte have all the fun? Let’s just wreak havoc. Right laser!
Dark Scream & Gas Skunk: Yeah!
Gas Skunk: Hey… The thing’s still standing!
Slapper: What now?
Sky-Byte: One small push.
Wedge: No! Don’t do it!
Heavy Load: That tower is barely holding on by a thread.
Wedge: Don’t harm the hostages!
Sky-Byte: Err, I hadn’t thought of them as my hostages, exactly, but then again, they could be.
Slapper: Hold on a second. No one ever told me we were taking any hostages.
Sky-Byte: Got a problem with that?
Slapper: Sorry. I was just a little concerned, that’s all.
Wedge: Sky-Byte, we want the hostages released safely. What are your demands?
Sky-Byte: What? Demands? (Thinking) A lifetime’s supply of energon! No! Total world domination! Think, what do you want, think!
Gas Skunk: Don’t just stand there!
Slapper: You can have anything you want in the whole wide world.
Dark Scream: You can everything… But where would you put it?
Wedge: Go ahead and name your price, Sky-Byte.
Sky-Byte: Don’t rush me. Do you know how… long I have waited for this? (Thinking) Don’t stand there, dunderhead, they’re all staring at you. Say something brilliant!
Wedge: The tower! Come on, speak up, Sky-Byte. Decide now.
Gas Skunk: Um, look. This isn’t a trick question, just make up your mind.
Sky-Byte: Uhh, I want to… talk to Optimus Prime!
Slapper: Heh, heh… You’ve got hostages. Why talk to that chump? Waste of time.
Sky-Byte: Maybe I should clarify. Get me Optimus Prime right now!
Wedge: You must be crazy! There’s no time to get him in here.
Sky-Byte: Uh, uh, uh! Get me Optimus. I insist. Get me Prime.
Slapper: Whatever was in that head, it ain’t workin’ anymore, y’know?
Gas Skunk: You got that.
Wedge: His one demand is that he talk to you, Optimus, and we’ll have to comply, fast.
T-AI: Put him on immediately.
Optimus: Better make it quick, Sky-Byte. What do you want from me?
Sky-Byte: I think you know… Don’t you, Optimus?
Optimus: I’m afraid I don’t know, Sky-Byte.
Sky-Byte: No, you know what I’m talking about, Optimus… That, uh… Thing-a-ma-jiggy you monitor at your headquarters.
Slapper: He wants a thing-a-ma-jiggy?
Gas Skunk: Ah…
Dark Scream: Sounds important.
Sky-Byte: My comrades know what I want.
Gas Skunk: Uh, of course… The thingy.
Slapper: Yeah, that whatcha-ma-call-it.
Dark Scream: Flim-flam with the flimmity-jimmit.
Optimus: I’m sorry. It’s a good description, but I can’t think of anything that would fit.
Sky-Byte: Don’t play coy with me, Optimus.
T-AI: Optimus, I just had an idea. What if the Predacons wanted the…
Optimus: They wanted the what, T-AI?
T-AI: You know, the Ooooo….
Optimus: The O-Parts?
Sky-Byte: That’s precisely what I mean. And now, you control what happens to my hostages. The O-Parts or else. Don’t make me fill in the blanks.
Optimus: I’ll bring all we have.
Gas Skunk: Hey, do we know what an O-Part is?
Slapper: Nope!
Optimus: I can’t let him harm innocent citizens. Sky-Byte, don’t hurt your hostages and I’ll bring you the O-Parts.
Sky-Byte: That sounds superb. Now get here and don’t worry about these people. And that, my fellow Predacons, is what sheer genius is all about. Mwaahahahaha! Oh…
Wedge: No!
Kelly: Why does this happen to me?
Scourge: Sir, as we speak, Optimus is bringing the O-Parts to Sky-Byte. He’s currently busy guarding the tower with the other Predacons.
Megatron: That’s marvelous. Remind me to commend Sky-Byte for a great bluff. It actually worked this time.
Scourge: Might I have the honour of seizing the O-Parts and bringing them back to you?
Megatron: Yes, whatever it takes.
Scourge: Yessir!
Sky-Byte: Don’t come near me! These are my hostages. I’m protecting them. I want my prize!
Wedge: I’m just trying to help, you stupid fish!
Sky-Byte: Well, then stay back. Gas Skunk, Dark Scream, Slapper! Anytime you want to help will be fine.
Gas Skunk: Would time for you be right after lunch?
Sky-Byte: Right now, mister!
Slapper: Push it right.
Wedge: Sky-Byte, do the right thing. Let’s get the people out.
Sky-Byte: My hostages, never!
Gas Skunk: This is not good. It’s gonna fall and squish us.
Heavy Load: Sky-Byte! Let us help!
Sky-Byte: Don’t come any closer. Do you hear me?
Wedge: Just do as he says! Everybody stand back.
Hightower: But Wedge!
Wedge: It’s crazy to me too, but he won’t let you come near us.
Optimus: Optimus to Build Team, hold tight. I’m on my way.
Ro-Tor: Hi, Optimus!
Optimus: Sorry, I don’t have time to play right now.
Ro-Tor: Oh yeah?
Movor: Fire!
Optimus: You’re going to have to fill in these potholes.
Rollbar: Attack!
Armorhide: Haha!
Mega-Octane: End of the road for you, Optimus Prime. Decepticons, combiner mode!
Commandos: Yessir!
Ruination: Ruination awakes!
Optimus: Transform! Now we’ll see what you’re made of.
Ruination: It’s hopeless for you, Prime. Give us the ransom now.
Optimus: No. I’ll only give the O-Parts to Sky-Byte.
Ruination: You’re giving them to me, Prime.
Scourge: Or to me.
Optimus: Back off, both of you. I promised Sky-Byte and I’m going to deliver.
Scourge: Very touching. Here is my answer. Now! Hahaha. Now, I want to take the O-Parts directly back to Megatron.
Optimus: You don’t understand, Scourge. Lives depend on this.
[Commercial]
Sky-Byte: Stand back!
Slapper: Oh, my arms! This thing weighs a Cybertronic tonne.
Gas Skunk: It feels like it weighs more because there’s still some foundation left. Unless someone cuts it out, we’re gonna be Predacon pancakes.
Sky-Byte: I’ll get it! Just wait one second. Shark Spike!
Wedge: No! Wait a minute! That was such a bad idea.
Sky-Byte: Everybody up on three. One… two… three!
Dorie Dutton: Good news at last. For reasons no one can explain, the Predacons are actually helping to keep the tower up.
Koji: Sky-Byte is our hero?
Carl: I don’t believe it.
Jenny: Huh? Let’s go, Sky-Byte! I believe in you! You’re doing a great job! Don’t give up!
Hostages: Keep it up, Sky-Byte! You can do it!
Slapper: Hey, wait — why would they like us?
Sky-Byte (thinking): They’re cheering… For me. I’ve never been cheered for in my entire life. I wish Megatron would cheer for me once. (Out loud) Come on, men. Save the hostages. Don’t let them fall!
Slapper: I’m never doing another plan on his again.
Sky-Byte: Keep your hands up, team. Together we can keep the hostages safe from certain doom!
Heavy Load: Okay guys, you’ve got a pothole about five meters to your left. Careful… Great job, keep it up.
Wedge: Okay.
Heavy Load: Good. A little to your left, Wedge. That’s it… That’s it…
Jenny: Oh no! They’re losing control again.
Kelly: And things were going so well.
Preds and Build Team: Whoaaa! Whoaaa…
Optimus: If you come between me and the safety of those humans, Scourge, I’ll take you apart servo by servo.
Scourge: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I can’t let that flounder get all the credit.
Optimus: I warned you, Decepticons. Blaze Blaster!
Mega-Octane: I swear I’m gonna make you regret this, Prime!
Scourge: Lucky move, Optimus. Now face me!
Optimus: All right! Transform! I’ve gotta make up for lost time.
Scourge: I’ll make sure he pays for that.
Gas Skunk: I can’t feel my arms here! And I know I’m gonna get crushed like a tin can. I got no help…
Sky-Byte: Oh, my back is starting to itch and I can’t reach around to scratch it!
Wedge: Hey Sky-Byte, do you need a little help up there?
Sky-Byte: From you? What could you possibly do to help, junior?
Wedge: Well… I could use my treads for one thing.
Sky-Byte: All right. Try them out.
Wedge: Okay. Here goes nothing. There!
Sky-Byte: Higher!
Wedge: Where? Up here?
Sky-Byte: No, a bit to the left.
Wedge: Here?
Sky-Byte: Yes, yes. That’s it. That’s it. Right there. Yes. Ahhh… (Thinking) That Autobot is so kind with the scratching of my back. How can he possibly be?
Wedge: Just imagine, for a second, if you had no hostages to take care of, you could scratch your back all you wanted to.
Sky-Byte (still thinking): That would be so nice.
Wedge: And Sky-Byte, imagine all your hostages. Cheering because you set them free and saved their lives.
Hostages: That’s it, Sky-Byte! Pull that up!
Sky-Byte: Look at that. They’re cheering for us! We’ve got to support them.
Slapper: Fine, but I can’t hold up much longer.
Gas Skunk: Right, me neither. My spine’s like an accordion.
Sky-Byte: Great. Then why don’t we take a little vote? Everyone in favour of freeing these innocent hostages, raise your hand. I didn’t mean to let go! Over here… Careful… Careful…
Gas Skunk: The tower’s more important.
Dark Scream: Yeah, we’ve gotta find a way to set it down now.
Optimus: Almost there.
Slapper: We got a rumble on our hands.
Scourge: Scourge, transform! Fine, now it’s time for payback, Prime.
Optimus: We’ll see about that. Battle mode! I told you, Scourge, I’m busy!
Gas Skunk: You may not have noticed, but we have a building thing happening here.
Slapper: Yeah, can the battle thing wait?
Sky-Byte: This is not the time. We’re tied up right now, Scourge.
Wedge: Do something quick, Optimus. Scourge won’t wait.
Scourge: The O-Parts or the tower.
Optimus: You don’t make the rules here, Scourge.
Wedge: Build Team, do anything you can. Stop Scourge’s attack.
Heavy Load: Count on us, Wedge.
Wedge: Do it!
Scourge: How many seconds will this tower stand?
Heavy Load: Incoming! Block and shield!
Hightower: I’m all over it.
Grimlock: Double shield!
Wedge: Sweet! Nice aim, Hightower.
Gas Skunk: We can’t keep… holding this tower with crossfire. It’s too hard to dodge the missiles.
Dorie Dutton: Sky-Byte and his crew are now helping to protect the tower. This is amazing. In an alliance never seen before, today they’ve teamed up with the Autobots!
Koji: Hey! All right, Sky-Byte! Wait to go!
Various witnesses: Hey! Sky-Byte!
Sky-Byte: Now, more than ever before, my dear hostages need me.
Heavy Load: We’ve been hit!
Wedge: Hang on! Save the tower!
Optimus: Big mistake, tanker breath.
Scourge: I will do what it takes until I leave with the O-Parts.
Optimus: You’ll be here to leave here with all of your parts. You’re going down with a bang and a whimper.
Scourge: You win this time, Prime. But I’ll be back.
Sky-Byte: I’m losing my grip!
Hightower: Okay, team. We need to think of a remedy and quick. Looks like the guys under the tower have just about run out of steam.
Grimlock: If we had Wedge here, we’d be all right. We could combine into Landfill and then secure that tower.
Heavy Load: We might just be able to get him.
Wedge: Guys! We’re gonna have to clear some land to put this tower down. Are you with me?
Heavy Load: You betcha! But check with Sky-Byte.
Wedge: Sky-Byte, I’m going to have to leave you guys to combine forces with my team. We’ll clear the area and make a foundation for this tower in no time flat.
Sky-Byte: Whatever you say, junior.
Wedge: Excellent.
Slapper: Hey! Whatever you do, do it fast!
Wedge: Build Team!
Landfill: Landfill! It’s time to dance.
Dorie Dutton: One of the Autobots seems to be going haywire. It’s been crushing abandoned buildings without justification for five minutes.
Koji: Oh no. Landfill looks upset.
Kelly: Ooooh! Should’ve gone skiing, or hiking, or boating, or shopping or anything but this!
Sky-Byte: Save my prized hostages!
Dark Scream: The hostages are mashing my motherboard.
Optimus: Sky-Byte, the foundation’s ready.
Sky-Byte: Thanks, Optimus. We’re on our way. Don’t let go!
Dark Scream: My back! My back!
Landfill: Okay, guys. Time to put down the tower and free the hostages.
Optimus: Everybody, get ready. One… two… three!
Slapper: Ugh! I won’t be able to transform again for three weeks! I need a chiropractor.
Sky-Byte: I’m kaput.
Gas Skunk: You can scratch yourself now, Sky-Byte.
Sky-Byte: Huh? You’re right!
[Commercial]
Koji: Oh yeah!
Carl & Jenny: Hahaha!
Koji: Optimus, that was awesome!
Optimus: Koji… Don’t tell me you were in the tower too.
Koji: Yeah! We got to watch the whole thing. I was really impressed by the way you guys handled Scourge’s attack. But one thing… Sky-Byte and the Predacons were going to destroy the building. Why did they decide to help the hostages after capturing them?
Optimus: Who knows… But I’m glad they did.
Gas Skunk: Ah, now this is the life.
Slapper: Yeah! It’s a good life when you don’t have to carry around a two million ton tower.
Dark Scream: Man, that was an unnecessary day. Why on Earth did we go through all that? Oh yeah!
Morons: The O-Parts!
Sky-Byte: I wonder… What are the O-Parts, anyway?
[End]