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Transformers: Cybertronian in New York
By: Ashes Date: September 2, 2014, 10:49 am
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A fluke journey through a temporal vortex lands the Maximals in
1930s New York. In a once-shining city stung by recession, our
heroes find someone who shouldn’t be, government conspiracies,
and an unusual threat. How potent is advanced technology, and
what lies can it cover – or uncover? Starring Daniela Bobadilla,
Susan Eisenberg, Brendan Hines, Wendee Lee, Jocelyne Loewen,
Scott McNeil, Tuppence Middleton, Ron Perlman, Paul Rudd and
Johnny Yong Bosch.
A.
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Re: Transformers: Cybertronian in New York
By: Ashes Date: September 20, 2014, 12:27 pm
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CYBERTRONIAN IN NEW YORK
Airdate: Saturday 20th September 2014
Synopsis: An Imperial bot introduces himself as Morphose and
tells his captive that they are to be sent out into the wilds of
time as punishment for their fraud. We see that the captive is
none other than Freeline, who insists that she has no idea what
Morphose means. He leads her, linked by a long-chained handcuff,
to a large temporal vortex – however, Freeline takes the
opportunity to fight her captor, a short affair that sends him
tumbling through the vortex. Triumphant, Freeline takes a moment
to recall the cuffs, before being dragged through herself.
[logo only]
Scale is flying the Dawn Katana with Paladin and Andromeda
using the computers in the bridge, when Prophecy runs in
excitedly. After a confused moment, she heads off again, before
returning a moment later in the same manner – just as a chaotic
temporal vortex generates immediately ahead of the ship. Scale
fails at avoiding the vortex, and the ship falls through,
setting off an alarm as temporal energies crackle against the
hull. Waspinator, Mirage, Wildfire and Swingback rush into the
bridge, in time to witness a new night-time vista which the ship
identifies as New York, Earth, in 1934, before reporting damage
from the journey. Scale struggles to fly the ship through the
dark city, narrowly avoiding landmarks. Swingback points out
Central Park, and Scale manages to control the ship enough to
land down, although the Dawn Katana warns of a large number of
sentient organisms present nearby. Mirage notes that she saw
campfires burning, just as spotlights hit the ship and suited
agents surround the vehicle. One of the agents beckons for them
to step outside; Waspinator suggests the others remain inside as
he heads out, and introduces himself. The agent likewise
identifies himself as William Lincoln, and states that he needs
the extraterrestrials to accompany him on behalf of Earth.
William: My name is William Lincoln. I’m a government agent, and
I need you and your vehicle’s crew to accompany me, on behalf of
the United States of America and the planet Earth.
Waspinator complies, ordering the others out and for the Dawn
Katana to put itself on lockdown once they leave. The rest of
the team step out, and William escorts them underground,
introducing them to the United States Extraterrestrial Relations
Agency’s New York branch, a sprawling facility located
underneath Central Park. He designates Waspinator
Semi-Biological Entity 03, or S.B.E-03, giving the others
ascending numbers. Paladin notes that this implies two others
having been found, and William explains that two were
encountered a few nights ago, although one managed to escape. As
they are presumably of the same species, he is taking them to
see S.B.E-01… and as they reach the cell, Waspinator is shocked
to see Freeline.
The Maximal leader immediately flips out, stating that there is
no way for Freeline to be alive, as she died on the planet Arkon
in timeline a. Taken aback, Freeline points out that they often
come back after dying.
Waspinator: No… no, this doesn’t make sense, it’s wrong! You
died-
Freeline: I know.
Waspinator: - you died on Arkon-
Freeline: I remember.
Waspinator: - you can’t be here, you shouldn’t even be alive!
Freeline: Well…
*she ponders, as Waspinator and the others watch on*
Freeline: It’s not exactly unusual for us to come back to life
after dying, am I right?
Mirage adds that the Arcrise Machine supposedly revived the
Maximals who had died, but Waspinator points out that it was
only those who had passed into it one way or another – Freeline
died before the Machine was built, and none of those who died
before it have returned. Andromeda suggests that Freeline is an
alternate version, but the cat-bot insists that she is from
universe 1, timeline a. Unconvinced, Waspinator notes that
Freeline shouldn’t be, before William states that he would like
to speak with the group. In a conference room, he explains to
the Maximals that since the arrival of S.B.E-02, people have
been appearing from various points in the future – some as close
as a month in the future, some over a century. USERA has no
means of returning these people to their own time; they believe
that S.B.E-02 is behind it, but they have been unable to track
him. Studying S.B.E-01 for a hint at how to detect their kind
proved fruitless. Waspinator states that they should be able to
track the bot, but requests that, if they help USERA find him,
they must be allowed to leave without handing over any
technology. William is taken aback, and Waspinator remarks that
he knows of these organisations’ desire to make use of alien
technology – his team are not just extraterrestrial but
time-travellers, and their tech would be too much for humanity
at present. Wildfire questions how they shall explore a bustling
human city, and William assures him that he has a way. Later;
the city is waking, and Morphose is hidden in an alley. He scans
a passing business man and transforms into him, heading off in
the opposite direction. Unfortunately, he quickly bumps into a
friend of the man he scanned, and is forced into excited
conversation, much to his frustration.
William hands over visual cloaking devices to the Maximals,
allowing them to generate human disguises (Paladin questions how
“monochromatic” they are, and Waspinator suggests he not press
the matter in this time). Freeline greets them, appearing as a
blue-haired, diminutive Japanese school-girl; Waspinator asks
how she escaped her cell, and she notes that she always could
and just did not feel like doing so, while William forces her to
assume a more appropriate disguise. Swingback asks where USERA
got the technology from, and William remarks that many alien
races have passed through. New York, in fact, is a hot-spot of
extraterrestrial immigrants. He adds that they have made fine
use of their technologies, giving Waspinator a cold stare. The
Maximals head above surface with some USERA agents, to find the
landing site of the Dawn Katana surrounded by high walls. One of
the agents explains that they need to keep the ship hidden, but
Mirage questions if they are actually dismantling the ship for
its technology.
Agent 1: Central Park has become a makeshift residence for those
affected by the Great Depression. We can cope with them making
use of the area, but we cannot allow them to witness
extraterrestrial craft.
Mirage: And you can’t allow us to witness you dismantling our
ship. I’m sure you wouldn’t, though, right? You did give us your
word.
As they exit Central Park, Waspinator suggests they split into
three teams – Paladin and Freeline with him, Scale leading
Swingback and Prophecy, Mirage leading Wildfire and Andromeda.
They split up, agents tagging along with each group. Scale and
Swingback quickly find themselves having to keep an excitable
Prophecy in-line. All the while, Morphose is hiding in another
alley, still in human form; he takes out an odd device, and
attempts to programme it, with little luck, managing only to
generate crackles of temporal energy. As Freeline explores
ahead, Waspinator asks Paladin if he can use his residual
telepathic ability to scan Freeline’s mind. The lyrebird-bot
struggles, and only gets flashes of Arkon, noting that it is too
difficult without the fragment.
Down in USERA’s base, William is ordering other agents to
gather equipment needed to break into the Dawn Katana. He notes
that the ship no doubt contains technology beyond anything they
can imagine. Wildfire and Andromeda chat, discussing the cities
and complementing one another’s human guises (Wildfire getting
very flustered, as ever). Exasperated, Mirage is left to track
S.B.E-02 on her own. Waspinator asks Freeline what memories she
has since Arkon – she recalls waking surrounded by Arkonian
scientists, before heading out of the universe and joining the
Total Conflict, on the fringes. She recently encountered the
Empire, to her surprise, and was captured. Her captor claimed
she was a fraud and was going to throw her out through time, but
they ended up both passing through. She turns a corner and bumps
into someone… who curses human crowds, before recognising who he
has bumped into, noting that he can feel her fake spark.
Waspinator, Paladin and the USERA agents order him to freeze,
and he remarks that he is busy talking to his captive –
Waspinator steps up to him, stating that he is outnumbered in an
unfamiliar time and place. He asks how the Imperial bot can
transform into human form, as it is generally difficult to
attain another sentient species as an alternate mode; Morphose
introduces himself and announces that he is an advance-former.
Waspinator: How have you managed to conceal yourself for this
long? It’s supposed to be impossible for us to transform into
other sentient beings… I’ve only seen it once before. What are
you?
Morphose: Technology is wonderful, isn’t it? I’m an
advance-former, engineered to transform into anything I choose.
He questions if “your impostor friend” is some kind of
advance-former too, before using his device to generate a man
reading a newspaper. Both the man and the crowds fall into
panic, and Morphose slips away. Freeline collapses against a
wall in shock, while Waspinator orders Paladin to follow
Morphose and contacts the other teams to do the same. As Paladin
leads the agents off (and others tend to the time-displaced
man), Waspinator tends to Freeline, who mutters that she knows
who she is.
Morphose almost manages to lose Paladin in the crowds, and
scans a cab, quickly transforming and driving off. One of the
agents throws a tracking device onto the vehicle as it drives
off, and Paladin sends the coordinates to the others as the
agents generate car-like vehicles for all three groups, quickly
given local car disguises. Waspinator questions Freeline, and
she confesses that she had been subconsciously rejecting the
truth gradually returning to her mind – she is an Arkonian.
After Cybertronians came to Arkon, the natives became curious of
the Total Conflict; they used frightening new technology to turn
her into a duplicate of Freeline, in body and mind, and sent her
off to the Total Conflict.
Freeline: When… when the Maximals, the Predacons and the
Overreach Fleet all came to Arkon… we- they… we grew curious.
The cultural leaders wanted to investigate the Total Conflict,
and there were bodies still around. I put myself forward… We’d
managed to secure technology that totally reconfigures a body.
Scary stuff. They hooked me and Freeline up to it, and zap! I
was her. My body, my mind, everything was her. I forgot about me
– I’d become her, become Freeline.
She had a link that returned what she saw to Arkon without her
needing to know her role, but the new timeline means that there
is no one to receive her information – in terms of universe 1,
the Arkonians never created her. All the while, the other
Maximals and USERA agents continue tailing Morphose through the
streets of New York. Prophecy clutches her head in pain, and
regains her clarity; Scale suggests she help them, but she
claims that she has something else to handle, clambering onto
the moving vehicle’s roof and chronoskimming. Not much earlier,
William breaks into the Dawn Katana – he views Prophecy’s
painting, a rack with the Ignition keys and the Lokon blade, and
even finds the Matrix. However, it hovers out of his hands;
Prophecy is stood behind him, and tells him that he must not
interfere with the course of reality. He notes that there are
technologies here far exceeding anything he knows, but she
claims that it has to stay this way. She teleports him out of
the ship, and joins him, manipulating his mind to convince him
that he has no need to explore the ship. Waspinator comforts a
disturbed Freeline, insisting that he knows what it is like to
recall an old life. What matters now is that she is, for all
intents and purposes, Freeline… and she is needed.
The chase reaches New York Harbour, and Morphose quickly scans
a gull, flying across to the island. The USERA vehicles halt,
and one of the agents explains that the Statue of Liberty
contains a transmitter for extraterrestrial visitors (Swingback
finds this unsurprising). The agents beckon the Maximals towards
an underwater tunnel leading to Liberty Island, but find the
door already open. Morphose lands down on the Statue’s torch,
and opens it up to incorporate his device… only for Prophecy,
crazed again, to greet him.
Prophecy: Ohai Mr Morphose sir! The view’s great up here, isn’t
it? I can see the Statue of Liberty’s head from here!
The other Maximals arrive to find Morphose being kept busy by
Prophecy, and notice Waspinator flying over with Freeline. The
two land down at the torch, and Morphose states that he must
return to the future, just as Freeline receives a tap on the
shoulder – a second Prophecy. Morphose knocks Prophecy away, and
she chronoskims, which Freeline quickly gathers has resulted in
the one behind her – Waspinator engages in combat against
Morphose, while Prophecy guides Freeline to the torch covertly.
The other Maximals reach the torch, and quickly overpower
Morphose, while Freeline takes the temporal device. Noticing
this, Morphose charges her, and she fires the device at him,
sending his neck and chest to an unknown point in time and
letting his body tumble off of the Statue. Back at USERA’s base,
the group are sending the time-displaced back with the fixed
device – Waspinator sees the latest man’s newspaper, from
September 18th 1984 with an article about Mt. St Helens, and
notes to William that in some 50 years, their species will
become intertwined forever… but until then, he cannot allow
their technology, even Morphose’s remains, to remain here.
William complies, surprising Waspinator. With the displaced
returned, the Maximals prepare to leave. William thanks them for
their help, and with the device connected to the Dawn Katana’s
computers, they fly off and manage to return to their present.
As the Maximals celebrate in the bridge, a message comes
through from Uproar, requesting urgent help and giving
coordinates. Freeline notes that she will handle this, and
downloads the coordinates into the device and removes it from
the ship’s computers. She adds that she will be there before
Uproar knows it, giving a nod to Prophecy, before vanishing via
the device. Mirage asks Waspinator if he learnt what Freeline
is, and he states that she is herself, nothing less.
Cast:
Morphose – Billy West
Freeline – Wendee Lee
Scale – Ron Perlman
Andromeda – Daniel Bobadilla
Paladin – Paul Rudd
Prophecy – Jocelyn Loewen
Waspinator – Scott McNeil
Mirage – Tuppence Middleton
Wildfire – Johnny Yong Bosch
Swingback – Susan Eisenberg
Dawn Katana – Joe Thomas
William – Brendan Hines
Agent 1 – Scott McNeil
80s man – Paul Rudd
Agent 2 – Brian Drummond
[hr]
A.
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