Astrotrain, look out for those asteroids!
Well prime my heat shield!
Get a load of that, Blitzwing! The Autobot symbol!
In this part of the galaxy?
Our sensors show no sign of life.
Exercise Caution! They maybe deceiving our sensors.
It sure looks like a ghost planet.
Too bad. I've was looking forward to blasting a few Autobots.
Its not like the Autobots,
to leave a whole city to decay.
Its covered with inscriptions!
Too bad none of us reads ancient Autobot.
Starscream! Keep your grubby fingers off that! It could be a booby trap!
What trap?
This is a prehistoric communication device, you uneducated dolt!
If Cybertron be your home,
far away never roam,
Hear my message, listen and fear
Danger comes, the end is near
Just like us you soon will rust,
All shall be turned, to dust
Sounded like a-a curse.
He's right, the omens are ill.
Quiet, you superstitious fools!
It's an obvious trick designed to scare us off!
Megatron's right!
Where there's a curse on the door, there's treasure on the other side.
How cute. A lightning bug!
If that's a lightning bug, I'd sure hate to meet up with a dragonfly.
Let's see if we can make it operate.
I'll help you!
Stand aside, weaklings!
There you are!
Vaporized.
They sure don't make lightning bugs the way they used to.
No. How ironic.
The Autobots will be destroyed with a weapon they created!
Phew, sure glad we're outta there. That place was giving me the surges!
Faster, Astrotrain! We've got an asteroid on our tail!
Let's give it a little blast of my lightning!
I'm hit! damage extreme, but holding!
I'm hit too!
To Earth, Astrotrain!
Astrotrain will be laid up for weeks until replacement parts are manufactured.
Forget Astrotrain!
It is me who must be attended to.
That's a nasty tear in your shoulder, Megatron.
Brilliant observation, Starscream.
Now get that asteroid junk out of me!
Unfortunately, the operation is successful.
Your humor escapes me, Starscream.
What is this on my chest hole?
It looks like some sort of... rust.
That is ridiculous! We are rust-proof.
Perhaps you were made of shoddy materials, Megatron.
Thats absurd, you fool!
Usually our science achievement award goes to a human being,
but this year we are honoring Perceptor, the inventor of corrostop.
Thank you very much.
This is an honor and a privilege.
It is true that the Autobots plan to
coat all of the Earth's great monuments with corrostop?
We'd like to, eventually.
It, will help preserve them forever.
As you know, corrostop resists rust and corrosion,
and its stronger than any known metal.
Unfortunately, at this time, we only have enough corrostop to coat one monument:
The Statue of Liberty.
Its alloyed from a very rare element,
so of course we wouldn't want the formula to be discovered by the Decepticons.
I just checked with the repair bay.
Your replacement part will be ready as soon as they get around to it.
Replacing my chest won't be enough—
nor will your minimal knowledge!
I need an expert!
Order the Stunticons to seize Perceptor and bring him to me!
Do as I say!
Come on, Aerialbots!
We're gonna spray old Lady Liberty!
That non functioning old robot?
She's no robot! She's a hollow statue the earth humans constructed.
Okay, people, this is a mutiny! No No, a hijack!
I mean, we're taking over this boat! Step to it, everybody into the captain's cabin!
Corrostop will keep the Statue of Liberty safe from acid rain
or anything else thats harmful.
How did you ever come up with the formula, Perceptor?
I must apologize,
but I am unable to reveal anything about the compound.
Hey, fellows! Catch this wild action!
Hey, what do you think you're doing - a Stunticon!
You got it, and here's greetings from Megatron!
I'm trapped!
You can say that again!
Help! Optimus!
Well, Steelhead, we're almost done.
Optimus Prime, hurry!
Perceptor's been captured!
Aerialbots! Perceptor's gone!
Transform And Find Him!
Move it, into the hold!
You've got an appointment with Megatron.
There's Blitzwing!
And I'll bet my tail fin, he's got Perceptor!
Stay on his tail, Skydive!
Hurry! He's getting away!
Then let's fly!
Come in, Megatron!
I have Perceptor, but the Aerialbots are following me!
Ready air defenses!
They're on my tail!
Duck!
Come a little closer, Aerialmoths,
and get your wings singed!
It's some weird kind of heat ray...
and it works! Notify Prime!
Welcome - Perceptor.
Please dispense with the formalities.
You are my mortal enemy, and—
You have a unique opportunity, Perceptor—
to gain peace— in return for a favor.
What sort of favor?
Solve this little problem of mine.
If you're serious about peace, Megatron, then begin by surrendering your new weapon.
If you heal me, the weapon is yours.
Very well.
You've been infected by a metallic plague, Megatron.
Impossible!
Only organic forms of life can be infected by disease!
This is a rare metallic infection.
Legend has it, it wiped out entire races of robots,
like the black plague did to humans.
Its cosmic rust.
That is what caused the problem.
The asteroid, that hit you, is covered with cosmic rust germs.
Cosmic rust germs?
Yes, and the germs have been feeding off an alien energy source.
I sense energy... here.
- From my heat ray? - Yes.
Its making the disease spread faster!
We should destroy it now before I try to cure you!
This is not our agreement! Cure me! Cure me now!
Now look what you've done!
Well, perhaps a few drops of this will help.
What is that?
I call it corrostop. It is amazingly effective.
Give me that!
Decepticons, we are about to be cured!
Blaster, I have something terrible to report.
There is no more ingredient X, anywhere.
Man oh, man. Prime's really going to have the blues when he hears this news.
That we can't shop for more corrostop!
We pursued Blitzwing to the Decepticon Headquarters.
Yeah, and got blasted by this incredible heat ray!
My tail got sizzled!
Not to mention my wing! I need asome spare parts right now!
This is grim news indeed.
Greetings, Optimus Prime.
I come to you with a gesture of goodwill.
Goodwill, Megatron? I find that hard to believe.
Then hear this: I'm releasing Perceptor.
Where and when?
In Fox Creek Canyon, just three miles from your headquarters.
- When, Megatron? - He's there now.
But pick him up before noon.
What happens at noon?
At noon, the sun's rays will focus through his lenses,
and ignite the fuse of the bomb at the base of his microscope.
Autobots, I'm sure you're all aware that we're heading into a trap.
We must go or lose Perceptor forever.
Megatron will have us on his terms and on his turf.
Autobots, transform and roll out!
No sign of Megatron.
Autobots, stay back!
Optimus! You'll be infected with Cosmic rust!
If I don't save you, that bomb will blow you to bits!
No, Optimus! Move back! Save yourself!
Be quiet! And that's an order!
But... but—
You've got to leave me here, Optimus.
If I go back to the headquarters, I could infect everybody.
We're not leaving you anywhere, Perceptor.
You're coming with us right now.
This rust is caused by germs that devour cybertron alloys.
But where do the rust germs come from?
Maybe Teletraan 1 can tell us.
Checking files.
The germs originated on a planet called Antilla.
At the dawn of time, there was a thriving Autobot civilization.
Then dreaded asteroids began falling from the sky,
to spread the cosmic rust.
No cure was ever found.
The Thirteenth Legion - The Lost Legion -
was decimated by that malevolent scourge.
Now the plague has spread to the Earth.
Can't we do anything to protect ourselves?
Corrostop is the only known antidote.
But we can't make any more. We're out of the secret catalyst.
Wait, I have an idea. We could try to matter duplicate 'em.
The matter duplicator? But it doesn't work.
It never worked!
Hmm, thats strange.
Teletraan 1 must be having some internal probl— my hands!
Cosmic rust!
I... I had no choice.
I had to rescue Perceptor.
Ratchet! Blaster!
Oh no! What's going on here, man?
I'm too young and new to die!
Hey... i-its suddenly getting got in here!
Why not use it at full power and melt Autobot headquarters to the ground?
I don't want to melt them, Rumble.
I want to let them suffer. Slowly.
Soon, they'll all be nothing but rusted scrap.
He must be using that ray to spread the germs.
Then there is no time to lose!
Come, Wheeljack! We have work to do!
- Tremendous! - It works!
Well, Soundwave, has Laserbeak returned with the visuals?
Affirmative.
How terrible!
Somebody's got to get us back to Cybertron, Prime.
I never thought the end would come like this.
Too bad you used all the Corrostop on the human statue,
and gave the rest to me!
Well, rust in piece, Prime!
We did it! We're going to be saved!
What?
We finally got the matter duplicator working!
All we have to do is scrape some Corrostop from the Statue of Liberty,
and then we'll mass produce it!
- We must hurry! - What is our destination?
The Statue of Liberty, of course!
Pity it won't be there by the time the Autobots arrive!
Stunticons!
Transform and merge into Menasor!
Now the lightning bug!
You shal have the honor of firing the heat ray!
Drop it, Menasor!
Prime! Show yourself!
Retreat now, Megatron!
And who will make me, Prime?
You have no power left, Prime!
The cosmic rust has infiltrated your logic circuits!
Maybe so, but I'll bet it hasn't affected my aim!
Menasor, turn on the heat!
Attack!
I'm hit! Damaged!
Aerialbots, transform into...
Superion!
My heat ray!
Decepticons, abandon positions, and fly out!
I think we've seen the last of cosmic rust.
Yeah, and we saved the lady at the same time!
- Lady? - That one!