- Waspinator: What is this? "Program does not respond!" Waspinator does not understand!
- Starscream: [taking over Waspinator's body] I'll bet Waspinator seldom does! But try not to let it depress you, bug-face...
- Megatron: Quickly, damage report!
- Waspinator: Damage moderate... Waspinator in pain... but still functional!
- Megatron: Not you, imbecile! THE COMPUTER!
- Blackarachnia: I scanned your file. You didn't get blasted to scrap metal by Unicron, you got blasted by Galvatron after you betrayed him.
- Starscream: Galvatron was a fool! I deserved to lead! So, you know my little secret. Then, the question remains, why did you not expose me to Megatron?
- Blackarachnia: Well, I thought you might make me a better offer.
- Starscream: [chuckling] Greed and self-interest, eh? Excellent. I believe I discern a protege.
- Optimus Primal: I have to tell you, Starscream, you're giving space debris a bad name.
- Starscream: Optimus. We've been impetuous. Surely we can work something out... Blackarachnia! Destroy him and we can still triumph together!
- Blackarachnia: Are all your dreams in technicolor?
- [ignites a small cache of energon underneath Starscream]
- Starscream: Energon? You've betrayed me!
- Blackarachnia: I studied with the master.
- [With a scream, Starscream's spark is disgorged from Waspinator's body]
- Optimus Primal: Hasta la vista, Starscream!
- Starscream: [through Waspinator's body] Allow me to present myself: Air Commander Starscream of the Decepticon Battle Fleet!
- Optimus Primal: [under a surprise Predacon attack] Take unawares. I'm a fool!
- Megatron: At long last, Primal, we agree on something.
- Optimus Primal: [the Maximal base is under attack] We've got to get out of here! Regroup and recover!
- Rattrap: What, and leave the place to the Preds?
- Optimus Primal: There's no choice, Rattrap! On my signal!
- Rattrap: [to Rhinox] Yeah, right. Like this rat needs instructions on leaving a sinking ship.
- Blackarachnia: The Decepticons were our ancestors. For centuries, they warred with the Autobots.
- Megatron: The ancient ancestors of the Maximals.
- Starscream: That war was lost, alas.
- Blackarachnia: And you were destroyed. It's written in the chronicles of Cybertron.
- Starscream: Ah, so it was believed. I fell defending my leader, Galvatron, against the most powerful enemy of all, the giant Transformer, Unicron. My exostructure was destroyed but, miraculously, my spark endured, drifting helplessly through the depths of space, beyond the reach of time itself!
- Megatron: Hmm. And now that you're here, Air Commander, what do you want?
- Starscream: Uh, why, to pledge allegiance to the glorious Megatron and fight as your loyal lieutenant.
- Megatron: Well, you'll forgive the glorious Megatron for not melting into a puddle of gratitude. Tell me, why should I trust you?
- Starscream: Because I can show you how to crush the Maximals and win the Beast Wars once and for all!
- Optimus Primal: You'll make a full recovery. That's one less concern, at any rate.
- Dinobot: You should have stayed, fought to the bitter end.
- Optimus Primal: And it would have been bitter, Dinobot. But there's no time for this. Apparently, Waspinator is Starscream, or he thinks he is. Either way, it's become a major problem, especially since the files on him were classified by the Maximal elders.
- Dinobot: Fools! Fortunately, I have long studied military history.
- Optimus Primal: Go on.
- Dinobot: Starscream was deceitful and scheming, the most notorious traitor of all.
- Optimus Primal: And now he's back and pledging his loyalty to Megatron.
- [thoughtfully]
- Optimus Primal: Hmm...
- Rattrap: [giving a "bad news, worse news" report] The last hit breached the outer wall in vector 7.
- Rhinox: And this was only the bad news?
- Rattrap: Eh, the worse news is it knocked out all the surveillance sensors along the southwest perimeter. Man, we might as well put up a sign saying "Welcome, Predacons, enter here."
- Optimus Primal: Hmm. With any luck, they're having problems of their own.
- Waspinator: Ohhh... Waspinator has a headache in his whole body... Ohh!
- Blackarachnia: It was the only way. I had to play along with Starscream to find out his "true" intentions.
- Megatron: You are smooth, Blackarachnia. Very smooth. But it does not inspire confidence, though. NO!
- [Megatron, like his predecessor, uncovers treachery from...]
- Megatron: Argh! Starscream! And Blackarachnia! I'll have both their treacherous hides! Yesss... I'll, I'll melt them down and use them for aluminum siding! Oh, yeesss, indeed!
- Optimus Primal: Cheetor, planning to help with the clean-up?
- Cheetor: [looking through a telescope] Ah, just checkin' for new constellations. Twinkle, twinkle, little Starscream...
- Megatron: Starscream, perhaps the centuries of weightlessness have taken a toll on your neurological circuitry...
- Dinobot: I do not think we have much to worry about...
- Rhinox: What?
- Dinobot: Remember the Cybertronix Dictionary? All records replaced "traitor" with the name "Starscream" and stuck in an image for good measure. Soon, hopefully very soon, Megatron will have other concerns besides Maximals to deal with...
- Optimus Primal: True. But in the meantime...
- [Starscream lulls Optimus Primal into meeting him alone]
- Starscream: Good. Now, you reap the appropriate reward for your trust and good faith...
- [Scorponok appears]
- Starscream: Disarm him, force him to transform, and then chain him in the hold or somewhere!
- Rattrap: You're nothin' but a schemin' snake in the grass!
- Starscream: Ah, flattery will get you flattened, vermin...
- [last lines]
- Starscream: [floating in space] I'll be back! Even if it takes a thousand years, I'll be revenged on you all!
- Rattrap: Would you lie down, and groan, for crying' out loud? You're supposed to be half-dead.
- Dinobot: If you do not shut up, vermin, you shall be my role model!
- Rattrap: Oh, yeah, and who's gonna...
- [Tigatron growls]
- Rattrap: All right. All right. I'm shutting' up. If it ain't the dinosaurs up your nose it's the felines!