- Optimus Primal: That pod's Maximal property!
- Terrorsaur: [blasting him out of the air] Which the Predacons will gladly steal!
- Optimus Primal: This makes three straight operations ambushed.
- Rhinox: Hmm. Sounds mighty suspicious.
- Cheetor: Like some rat's slipping info.
- Rattrap: Hey!
- Cheetor: I'm speaking metaphorically, that is.
- Dinobot: It was Rattrap who led us into the box canyon and nearly to termination.
- Rattrap: What are you tryin' to say, you big lizard-head?
- Rhinox: That's ridiculous.
- Cheetor: Yeah, Rattrap wouldn't do that.
- Optimus Primal: Well, I'm not so sure.
- Rhinox: [surprised] What?
- Optimus Primal: Rattrap, I wanna have a word with you. In private.
- Dinobot: Now I will terminate the traitor myself!
- Optimus Primal: No! Allow me... to congratulate him.
- [shaking hands]
- Optimus Primal: Well done, Rattrap. You have the chip?
- Rattrap: [holding it up] It's a Maximal decoder. They must have recovered it from our wreckage crash.
- Cheetor: No wonder they hacked our communications. They were using our decoder.
- Dinobot: You mean his capture, his betrayal, were all a set-up?
- Rattrap: Yeah.
- Rhinox: Why didn't you tell us?
- Optimus Primal: We had to keep it a secret to keep his cover safe. Especially during the battle...
- [rubbing his shoulder where Rattrap shot him]
- Optimus Primal: ...although you didn't need to make it that believable.
- Rattrap: Hey, uh, what can I say? I was trying to miss.
- Rattrap: Maximal command, this is Rattrap. My "recon mission" indicates nothing here but melting rock. You happy?
- Optimus Primal: One more sweep, Rattrap, then bring it in.
- [at their base, the Predacons eavesdrop on them]
- Optimus Primal: Check sector 12.8 by 1-22-9.
- Megatron: Ah, the simple pleasures of code-breaking, yes. Terrorsaur, would you pay our Maximal friend a visit?
- Cheetor: You don't really think Rattrap's hacking with the Predacons, do you?
- Rhinox: Not a chance.
- Rattrap: [nearby] Oh, get scrapped, Optimus! You think I was working for the Preds? Ooh, you got a whole 'nother program to run, you oversized buffoon!
- Optimus Primal: Maxmials, Rattrap's loyalty to us has been brought into serious question.
- Rhinox: Oh, come on, Optimus. He's no spy.
- Optimus Primal: The repeated ambush of Maximal operations suggests otherwise. We'll see. Rattrap, I'm ordering you on a solo mission. You're to search for Energon. In sector 12.
- Cheetor: The lava pits? That's a death sentence, Optimus. 12's one big Energon storm.
- Rhinox: And within weapons range of the Predacon ship.
- Optimus Primal: Think of it as a test of loyalty.
- Rattrap: Ah, thanks for nothing, comrades. I'm blowing this taco stand. Beast mode!
- [he transforms and leaves]
- Rhinox: I know you're hot about losing the pod, but you don't really think...
- Optimus Primal: This mission should answer that question... once and for all.
- Terrorsaur: Prepare to terminate, Maximal!
- Rattrap: Wait! I beg for mercy.
- Rhinox: [listening in] What?
- Terrorsaur: Mercy? At what price?
- Rattrap: You name it. I-I got no links with the Maximals anymore. I'm a free agent.
- Terrorsaur: Well, well. Finally, a Maximal with logic circuits. Very well, I will spare you, in exchange for certain considerations.
- Rattrap: All right. What have I got to lose? I'll do whatever you say. I'll even become a Predacon.
- Cheetor: Rattrap? No, he couldn't!
- Dinobot: Will you still defend your friend, or will you see him for what he is? A traitor.
- Rhinox: You're a fine one to talk.
- Megatron: A Maximal traitor and a deposed Megatron, yes. We are an unlikely pair. I will consider your fate after my restoration. Computer, process voice recognition command.
- Predacon Computer: Megatron, confirmed.
- Megatron: Open cell, summon platform.
- [his cell opens and a platform floats to him]
- Megatron: The wise tyrant always ensures his prisons are designed for his personal escape.
- Rattrap: [to himself as Megatron leaves] And the wise Maximal traitor always makes sure he's carrying a handy infiltration kit.
- Optimus Primal: Base camp, confirm our position. Are we near the stasis pod?
- Rattrap: Well, if it was a snake, it'd bite ya. You should be within a few feet of it.
- Optimus Primal: [spotting the pod above him] We're within a few feet of it horizontally. Vertically is another story.
- Cheetor: What do you mean go after Rattrap? You mean rescue him?
- Rhinox: Why? Let him go.
- Optimus Primal: He's too dangerous a weapon to fall into Predacon hands.
- Dinobot: Agreed. He should be neutralized and returned here to answer for his treachery, and to be brought to justice.