Transformers Prime (TV Series)

One Shall Fall (2011)

Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime

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• Optimus Prime : [Opening lines]  And it was written in the Covenant of Primus, that when the 47 spheres align, a perpetual conflict with culminate upon a world forged by chaos. And the weak shall perish in the shadow of a rising darkness.

  Arcee : No sky is raining fire?

  Ratchet : Goes without saying, it is a doom prophesy after all.

  Bulkhead : I say it's a load of hooey.

  Ratchet : I always assumed the ancients were referring to our home planet. But being that Cybertron has been dark for eons...

  Optimus Prime : And considering what has befallen this planet since Megatron's arrival here...

  Bulkhead : Wow, wow, wow... we've known about these superstitions for ages and never gave them a second thought.

  Arcee : Why all the ominous rumbling now?

  Optimus Prime : Because the planetary alignment to which the prophesy refers is nearly upon us.

  Ratchet : And it would seem it's end point... is Earth.

  Bulkhead : Uhh... crazy coincidence! Heh... R-right?

  Arcee : How long are we talking?

  Ratchet : A few days, at most.

  Optimus Prime : However unsettling this revelation may be, I am more concerned about those who might believe that the prophesy speaks to them alone.

• Optimus Prime : Ratchet, how is Rafael?

  Ratchet : It is too soon to know.

  Optimus Prime : He's in good hands.

  Ratchet : Not mine, Optimus. Curse my Cybertronian pride! We've accepted these humans into our lives yet I bothered to learn soo little of their science... or medicine.

  Optimus Prime : Pull yourself together, old friend. Rafael needs you.

  Ratchet : And I have grown to need him.

• Megatron : [arriving at the army base]  Optimus.

  Optimus Prime : Megatron, do you not see the folly in trying to force a prophecy to fruition?

  Megatron : Why leave matters to fate if one can forge one's own destiny? Ah, speaking of fate...

  [Optimus and the others turn around to see Bumblebee walking toward them, carrying a wounded Raf. Optimus's eyes widen with shock when he sees Raf] 

  Arcee : Raf!

  [she gently picks him up] 

  Arcee : He's breathing. Barely.

  Megatron : Ah, it would seem I've swatted a bee and squashed a bug.

  [Bumblebee shakes in anger and deploys his blasters] 

  Bulkhead : Bee, no!

  [restrains him. Optimus looks back at Megatron, who gives off a smirk] 

  Optimus Prime : Ratchet, bridge us back now!

  Ratchet : [at the base]  We must have an Autobot down.

• Jack Darby : Um, Optimus? You wanna see something funny?

  Optimus Prime : No.

• Optimus Prime : I have been foolish not to see what history has proven over and over again. That Autobots and Decepticons will never mend their ways. If there can be no diplomatic solution to this perpetual conflict, then I must not allow more darkness to fall upon this or any planet. Megatron must be destroyed!

• Optimus Prime : Megatron, today you answer for your crimes against Cybertron and against humanity. One shall stand...

  Megatron : And one shall fall. You, Optimus Prime!