Transformers: Beginnings

Our world was created by a miraculous force called "The AllSpark".

With the AllSpark, there was no strife, no inequity and no need for war.

In my life time and that of a generation before me, we knew only peace.

A peace that flourished under the reign of Optimus Prime...

...and the Lord high protector, Megatron.

At first, Prime and Megatron ruled as equals,...

...the one fair, the other firm.

Then something changed in Megatron.

And what happened next none of us saw coming.

He struck us from within, his goal to possess the all-powerful AllSpark...

...for his own twisted purposes.

Those of us loyal to Optimus Prime,...

...swore to defend the AllSpark at all costs.

None of our lives matter!

The AllSpark is all. With the AllSpark...

...new life can arise. Whether here or elsewhere.

Only a trusted few know this...

...but preperations are underway to send the AllSpark into deep space.

Better that than allow, Lord Megatron to possess it, to corrupt it.

Remember, as long as there is hope...

...there is life.

The AllSpark!

Prime, you fool! Even now you underestimate me!

My job is done. The AllSpark is finally beyond your reach.

You! You have cost me the AllSpark! You!

It seems I must do this the hard way.

It may take longer, the result will be the same.

On the day I claim the AllSpark as my own...

...all of Cybertron will fall and the universe itself will tremble.

My arm has eventually reattached...

...but my voice capacitor had shattered beyond repair.

It is decided, we too must venture out beyond Cybertronium space...

...to find the AllSpark before Megatron.

I still wonder, did I do enough?

Perhaps like Megatron said, all I did...

...was delay the inevitable. And perhaps helped spread our war...

...to other worlds.

It is near. It calls to me.

The AllSpark!

Terra firma... Seems anything but to me.

The matter beneath my feet is both unknown and unstable.

Too late. I realize, my own massive and external body temperature...

...spell my downfall!

No! The AllSpark! Not when I was so close!

Over here!

What is it, Danko?

Something under the ice, captain.

Whatever it is, it set the dogs off something rotten.

It's big. Must be down, what, ten, fifteen feet?

- Wiencke, hand me a pick. - Captain Witwicky, wait!

We had more'n our share bad luck this vogaye.

Perhaps it's the Fates, telling us to leave well 'nuff alone.

Sorry, Danko.

But I didn't come all this way to be well 'nuff alone.

I tell you, I saw the face of the devil!

It's eyes burned.

And that... was the last thing that I saw.

That's not quite true, is it Captain Witwicky?

In fact, according to those members of your crew we interviewed...

...you retained measure of sight for some three months after the incident...

...in the Arctic Circle, during which time...

...you filled no less than 176 sheets of these papers...

...with these curious designs.

Care to tell us what they mean?

Mean?

I... I... I was possessed.

That thing... looked into my soul!

I saw the future.

Their war. Our world.

Yes, well... We'll get back to you.

- Well? - Irredeemably insane.

Brought on by the extreme rigors of the voyage.

At least that we'll put out.

- So, you believe him, then? - Oh, yes. He saw something.

It's just the matter what exactly?

What about Witwicky's personal effects?

They can go to the family, after all he's hardly likely to be needing these.

When do we leave?

Morning tide. The legislature has granted us unlimited funds.

And kiss your wife and children if I were you, you may not be seeing them for some time.

Call this intuition but I have a feeling that after this one...

...nothing will ever be same again.

Where is he?

Where'd you think?

- He's talking to it again, is he? - Ah-ha. Downright strange, if you ask me.

I didn't.

Won't be long now.

As soon as the environment dome is complete, we can begin the excavation properly.

You and I, we're going to make history.

You what? No. No, honestly I don't think...

...he'll care what you've found in Colorado.

Wild horses couldn't drag him away from his so-called "Mega-man".

Symbols, you say. I don't...

I thought that'd get your attention.

Whatever's down there, is not only generating more power than Chicago...

...it's covered with the same symbols your Captain Witwicky got all worked up about.

- Quite something, isn't it? - Yes, I suppose it is.

You were there, weren't you? When they dug him out of the ice?

Yes, I was there.

In many ways "Project Mega-man" has been my life's work.

And now he is coming here, to the Hover Dam.

Yes.

Do you know what Captain Archibald Witwicky was...

...purported to have said after they dragged him screaming from that icy crevasse.

No. What?

"Mine eyes have seen the glory!"

I believe I know what he meant.

Do you think they'll come? Others?

Not in my lifetime, maybe not even in yours but they will come.

We could pour other six million tons of concrete on top of it...

...and they still sniff it out.

- If they do find it... - Not if... when?

Uplink enabled. Downloading images to your VTP site now.

Roger, Hubble. Processing data stream.

Get me the watch commander!

It's confirmed. We have a visitor.

We sectioned all of Hubble's routine surveillance footage of Mars...

...for the immediate period before and after the planetfall.

As you can see, it's what we've been waiting for.

- Same species? - Looks that way.

As far as we can tell...

...it arrived under it's own steam, within some kind of space going carapace.

On touchdown, it transformed.

- Then Mega-man has a relative? - Exactly.

Tactical teams are on stand by. As soon as the visitor makes his move...

...we make ours.

Now, that is what I called a sand trap.

Hilarious. This is him, right? N.B.E-2?

Right. But where is he? We tracked him the entire way down...

...and had the impact area secured within ten minutes.

It should be still here, inside our perimeter.

What's over there, beyond those trees?

The I-64.

Come on, come on.

Damn!

Get me satellite surveillance! Target is mobile.

I repeat, target is mobile!

Show me.

Here's the specific grid vector surveillance footage you wanted.

Based on your rough time frame.

I've enlarged and enchanced the image.

What? What am I supposed to be looking at?

I'll freeze the image. There.