Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future
As the last two living Transformers on Cybertron, Optimus Primal and Megatron stage their final battle.
Summary
As Optimus lies defeated, Megatron stands gloating over his nemesis. To add insult to injury, Megatron has taken a new body...Primal's Optimal body, minus the beast mode. And, to make it just right, Megatron then adds the sparks of the Maximals to the spark containment chamber. Enraged, Optimus fights back, but Megatron punches him through the wall to the outside of the big floating head. Optimus manages to get in a few more shots, but stops sees the sparkless bodies of Silverbolt and Blackarachnia. Megatron takes a moment to rub it in, then attacks.
Primal flees through the city scape, flying a merry little chase, until he reaches a power generator storage area. As Megatron temporarily loses track of his prey, Optimus comes up from behind and destroys several generators. Optimus barely manages to escape the inferno, as Megatron's left arm is thrown out of the flames. After Primal makes a bad pun, Megatron emerges. As Primal jumps into a nearby river, he dives, only to have Megatron follow him in and shot a hole in the ground, causing them to sink into a whirlpool.
As Optimus wakes up, he realizes he is in the chamber of the Oracle. However, the technorganic orchard has been completely destroyed. Worse for Primal, he sees Rattrap and Botanica's sparkless bodies, lying on the ground, with their hands streched toward each other. Megatron then arrives, and takes him to the surface.
Heading toward the Council Citadel, Megatron activates a throne built into the Citadel to appear, then opens the spark chamber, absorbing the sparks and preparing to ascend to supplant the Matrix and achieve Godhood. As the sparks enter his body, Megatron grows in size. Primal tries to talk, saying that each spark is but a part of the Matrix and that together, they add to its totallity. Megatron then activates the Key to Vector Sigma, to be used against the organic core. However, Megatron cannot fully activate the Oracle, as he and Primal are linked. Megatron then severs the link, and Primal fears that he has failed.
However, the sparks of his comrades speak to him, inspiring him on. Shooting a beam at Megatron's throne, vines extend and grab Megatron's arms. Primal then tries to push him into the core. However, Megatron grabs hold of Optimus, who merely shoots off Megatron's fingers to sever the vine, allowing them both to fall into the core. As they plummet, Primal bids Megatron farewell. Upon impact with the core, both Optimus and Megatron die in a flash of light. From space, a bright light rises, then begins to cover the surface of Cybertron.
Waking up, the Maximals find themselves on a technorganic world, which they realize is Cybertron. Rattrap is somewhat worried, then Botanica appears, and he jumps into her arms. As Silverbolt sweeps Blackarachnia off her feet, Waspinator appears as a tiny, technorganic wasp, pissed that he's been screwed over again. Then, the Oracle shows Cheetor a vision of Optimus Primal's spark, flying away, telling him to "transform, and transcend". As it fades, Cheetor mutters that he understands. In the distance, the freed Transformers, their sparks once again in bodies, run over the horizon, ready to assume control of the newly technorganic Cybertron.
Quotes
"You and me Primal, or should I say, you and you."
- -Megatron before fighting Optimus notes the irony that he using a copy of Optimus's old body.
"We must seek the balance, Megatron. Not between the technological and the organic, but between eternal enemies. Between you and I!"
- —Optimus Primal
"The Great Transformation awaits, Megatron. Prepare to be... reformatted."
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- —Optimus Primal's and Megatron's last words. (Until Universe, that is.)
"The menace has passed. Now we can truly be together, dark venom of my heart."
"Oh, of all the corny..."
- —Silverbolt's attempt to woo Blackarachnia almost fails until she realizes that she doesn't care.
"At long last. Transform your destiny. Transform and... transcend."
"I... understand."
- —The Oracle and Cheetor
Stats
Writer: Robert N. Skir
Original air date: May 3, 2000 (YTV); November 18, 2000 (FOX)
Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
Continuity errors
- Oddly enough, despite basing his new body on the scematics of Optimus' 'Optimal Optimus' body, Megatron seems capable of going underwater with his new form, something Optimus indicated being incapable of in "Nemesis, Pt. 1" when he told Depth Charge that he was the only Maximal able to follow Megatron as he was underwater. Though it is possible that Megatron made some additional modifications to the design, it seems very unusual that he, being pressed for time as he was, would go through the trouble of designing it to be functional underwater.
- When Megatron blasts Optimus out of the Spark Chamber room, the deactivated body of Thrust is seen right next to those of Silverbolt and Blackarachnia. The problem with this is that Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were deactivated outside of the base, whereas Thrust was deactivated by Cheetor inside the anti-gravity engine room in the previous episode.
Transformers references
- When calling the sparks to him, Megatron says "let all become one!"
Other notes
- A redeco of the Optimal Optimus toy as "Optimal Megatron" seems like a sure-seller. Get on that, Hasbro.
- Depending on you view, this is the first case of an Optimus killing a Megatron.
