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Episode
Review:
The
Agenda (Part 3)
Season
2
Reviewed
by Sapphire
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Megatron,
hovering above Ravage's ship, combines his fire with that of the
ship and fires at Optimus, Cheetor and the Axalon. They
manage to escape getting hit, but Quickstrike, riding on Rampage
(in tank mode) fires a blast at Optimus, knocking him to the ground
and sending Cheetor leaping for cover. They then target
the base as well.
Inside
the Axalon, Rhinox tells Rattrap that the shields won't hold for
long. Rattrap collects a gun, slipping in an energon
crystal. He then takes a few mini-bombs. Rhinox
notices this and asks what Rattrap is doing. He responds:
"This mouse is goin' cat huntin'! Knieval
mode!" He transforms to vehicle mode and his blasters propel
him up a ramp and out of the roof hatch. He transforms to
robot mode in mid-air and lands on Ravage's passing
ship. He crouches and takes out his energon gun. He
starts making a hole in the ship's roof.
Rhinox
turns the eternal auto guns online.
Below,
an auto gun and Cheetor take out Quickstrike, who is then run
over by Rampage. Optimus cringes at the sight.
Megatron knocks them both down!
On top
of the ship, Rattrap's energon gun is depleted, but he has succeeded
in making a partial hole in the roof. "Now ya stinkin'
Decepticon piece 'o cheese, let's see how ya fair against da
stainless steel rat!" He transforms to beast mode and rips
the remainder of the metal over the area off, with his teeth.
Back
in the Axalon, the shields are on the brink of failing.
Rhinox claims this is just dandy, goes outside and waits for the
shields to fall. Rampage blasts it to bits and Rhinox
promptly opens fire on the crab-bot, and a battle between them
ensues.
Meanwhile,
Ravage orders Tarantulas (inside the ship) to channel all power
to weapons. Tarantulas does this and we see a HUGE missile
position itself to be fired from the front of the ship.
Just then, Rattrap has made a large enough hole to enter, and he
blasts away what's left of the area he's been working at.
He slips inside holding onto a his tail (working as a rope),
much to Tarantulas' dismay. Rattrap tosses a few bombs at Tarantulas
(who stupidly catches them!) and pulls himself back out of the
ship. The bombs explode, sending a ball of fire through
the ship. Ravage sees it coming for him and yells "Decepticons
forever", gets fried and the ship begins to descend.
Rattrap is sitting on top of the missile. The ship heads
towards an opening between two huge rocks and Rattrap hops
off. The ship chases Rampage into the crevice, but it
stops just before cornering him and pinning him to the
rock. He thinks he's escaped being blown up, and laughs in
the face of the missile on top of the ship. Suddenly, it
fires, he screams and the next thing we see is a huge
explosion. Rhinox, along with Cheetor and Optimus, look up
and hear a yell growing louder. Rattrap, flying through
the air towards them (because of the blast) ends up landing in
Rhinox's arms. He looks at Rhinox and says: "My
hero!" and gives him a bugs-bunny smooch. "Oh
get down," Rhinox says and drops him. Optimus points
out Megatron is not heading back to base and he thinks this
ordeal is far from over.
Rhinox
gets on Optimus' hoverboard and Rattrap hops on Cheetor. The
Maximals fly after Megatron.
Back
with Blackarachnia and Silverbolt, and the two of them gaze at
the stars. Silverbolt tells her Venus reminds him of
her. She says: "Oh? Hot, poisonous and
deadly? You're sweet." She walks away and he
watches her softly. Then, what she said sinks in and he says
that's not what he meant!
Optimus
and co are following Megatron. Cheetor asks him where he's
heading and Optimus says: "To the beginning of everything,
Cheetor, and quite possibly the end."
We're
with Blackarachnia and Silverbolt again. There are only a
few more rocks left to be removed, but Silverbolt decides to
blow them up. They enter the tunnel which leads to a huge
ship, which Blackarachnia declares as 'The Ark'. She
explains to Silverbolt that eons before the Predacons and
Maximals existed, the autobots launched a pod containing their finest
heroes. It was shot down over Earth by a Decepticon
warship and it landed here, inside this volcano. She goes
onto say that when the volcano erupts in 1984, their ancestors
will awaken to start the Great War. Silverbolt exclaims
how powerful it must be, and she says yes, and it's all
hers! Suddenly, they are shot. Silverbolt is blasted into
the Ark's shield, which electrocutes him and sends him sprawling
to the floor. She turns to see Megatron. He grins
and lands in front of her. Megatron then blast the tunnel entrance,
causing an avalanche of rocks. Outside, the Maximals land
near the newly closed opening. Optimus instructs them to
dig.
Inside
the cave, Megatron realizes Teletran One (The Ark's defense
program) is still active and Blackarachnia says: "Shame, don't
you have the codes from the disk?" He picks her up by
four of her spider legs, attached to her arm. He tells her
that she has them and downloaded them from his back-up data
tracks before she destroyed them. She says so what,
they're hers now! He throws her off the mini ledge and he
lands beside her. "What are you going to do, shoot
me? You still don't have the codes!" she
hisses. He aims his gun at Silverbolt, telling her he was
never planning on shooting her. He demands she produce the
codes....
The
Maximals are still trying to get through the entrance and
continue digging at a faster pace.
Blackarachnia
refuses to give him the codes, and he strikes Silverbolt.
They hear the Maximals getting closer and she tells Megatron
they'd better get out. He says perhaps, but first he'll vaporize
a possible menace. Just before he shoots Silverbolt, she
exclaims: "Wait!" She says she'll do it but only
because they have to get to cover anyway. She pushes past
him and begins downloading the codes into Teletran One. It
works and Megatron and Blackarachnia finally get inside.
Just then, the Maximals break in, but the doors have already
closed behind the Predacon duo. Suddenly, the Ark's guns
come online and start firing at the Maximals. Inside,
Megatron tells Blackarachnia to keep them busy while he effects
a more permanent solution.
The
Maximals fire at the guns, while Megatron enters the halls of
the Ark. He hovers past Autobots and Decepticons, still
frozen in emergency stasis. He reflects on the outcome of
the Great War. The Autobots won, which meant the Maximals
would rule the Predacons. He finds Autobot leader Optimus
Prime (who contains the Matrix) and hovers above him,
aiming his laser tail at him. Megatron states:
"It has all come down to this. The
ultimate risk, for the ultimate price! A day of reckoning,
with those who made us slaves!"
Outside,
Rattrap blasts the Ark's fusion cannon. They are no longer
under fire and move in.
"So,
we are now face to face, Optimus Prime. In one future you
awaken and become the great leader of the Autobots; but time
will take a different track now," Megatron says. He
converts all his power to his primary weapon and prepares to
fire at Prime.
Back outside,
the Maximals desperately try to get the doors to open.
Rhinox gets impatient and blasts the controls which make the
doors lock. He then tries to pry them open with his sheer
strength. The doors slowly begin to budge.
Megatron
says farewell to Optimus Prime, and shoots his head.
The
Maximals shield their eyes as a great white light pours through
the half open doors and envelops them. It spirals up
from the Earth as a huge time storm and smothers Earth and the
rest of the solar system, spreading still further. The
Maximals keel over in agony and Optimus says: "Time itself
is all...being...destroyed!" He flickers from his
transmetal and original modes, and from robot modes to both
beast modes. Megatron appears at the doorway. He
laughs and tells them that the future has changed, the Autobots
lose, evil triumphs and they no longer exist!
'To be
continued'? is displayed teasingly on our TV screens. This
episode marks the end of Season Two.
Reviewed
by Sapphire
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Rattrap fries a hole in Ravage's ship |

All power to weapons! |

A sleeping Optimus Prime |
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