Intimidation Game

 

Performance date: September 24, 2005

This story is another script for an audio drama. Flamewar has survived the destruction of her ship by the Tripredacus Council in the previous story and is being interrogated by Ricochet, the Autobot on the secret infiltration team who exposed her true identity to Bumblebee; Obsidian, who was a bad guy on Beast Machines but is a good guy here apparently; and K-9, whose toy was just a repaint of Wolfang. They want her to help them assassinate Deathsaurus (sigh) but she refuses because she is a true believer in the Decepticon cause.

Ricochet tells her that they've planted a bomb inside her that will detonate unless she agrees to help them in exchange for a new identity to protect her from the Tripredacus Council. But she still refuses, claiming she would rather die than betray her people. The three Autobots and/or Maximals start laughing evilly and their holographic disguises fall away to reveal that they are really Predacons Scourge (not the Tracker, apparently? or maybe it is?? who knows), Buzz Saw, and Max-B (roger!). They were testing her loyalty to a completely unrelated faction to see if she could be trusted to join them!

Flamewar asks who they serve and they tell her she'll really get a kick out of this: it's a Predacon called... Megatron!! So I guess Beast Wars Megatron is out of prison by this time and actively recruiting followers to help him overthrow both the Tripredacus Council and the Maximal Council of Elders like he wanted to do in the cartoon. It seems like this should be fairly soon before Beast Wars begins then, despite taking place immediately after Descent Into Evil, which took place at the same time as or slightly after Dawn of the Predacus, which took place 300 years before Beast Wars. But maybe that isn't even in continuity, who the fuck knows.

Also this whole story is just one small section of the script, which also includes a play by “William Shakespearecon” and a commercial for the TV show The A-Team but With Transformers. I had to stop reading the rest of that shit because it was too cringe. Anyway this whole thing was completely pointless. Who keeps making all this crap?