
Sideswipe: "Bumblebee, come in! Strongarm, is this your idea of payback?"
Vertebreak: "Oh, this is not payback, I assure you."
Sideswipe: [gasp] "Not good, not good! HELP!"
Vertebreak: "No one will hear you! These walls, they're very thick."
Sideswipe: [struggling] "Who-- Who are you?!" [gasps]
Vertebreak: "No one. Compared to you. I watched you and your friends enter the tunnels. They'd all make excellent specimens, but you. You're agile, quick, stealthy. Everything an Autobot should strive to be."
Sideswipe: "Uh... Thanks. Hey, how about you untie me, and I shake your hand... things."
Vertebreak: [startled for a moment, then wild, angry laughter]
Sideswipe: [also laughs, very nervously] "It's not that funny."
Vertebreak: [continued laughter]
Bumblebee: "Who are you?! Where's Sideswipe?!"
Vertebreak: "Right here. Well-- most of him, anyway."
Bumblebee: "What did you do to him?"
Vertebreak: "Your Autobot's speed, his agility. They're amazing. This test run is going splendidly!"
Bumblebee: "Where is he?! Tell me!" [shouts as he takes a wild swing]
Vertebreak: [dodges and laughs] "Oh, I did tell you! And the remainder of Sideswipe is resting comfortably. All his attributes-- they're mine now!" [flips Bumblebee and laughs] "And with the help of your friend's abilities, those fools on Cybertron will regret ever crossing me! Not that they'll recognize me in this body of course. I'll take them completely by surprise!"
Bumblebee: "I'll never let you reach Cybertron."
Vertebreak: "Strong words for a bot on his back."
Bumblebee: [cries out as Vertebreak twists his arm]
Strongarm: [over comms] "Lieutenant! No sign of the fugitive or Sideswipe."
Bumblebee: "Strongarm! Get--" [grunts as Vertebreak slams ver foot down on his comm]
Vertebreak: [laugh] "Oh, you may not be challenge enough to demonstrate what my new body is truly capable of, but your friends might be. I know they heard you cry out, and that's fine. I want them all waiting for me." [wild laughter]
Vertebreak: "You have no chance, Autobot. In this form, I'm practically unstoppable!"
Grimlock: "You don't mind if I test that, do ya?!"
Vertebreak: "Oh, on the contrary. I'd love it!"
Vertebreak: [slamming Strongarm into the wall] "Boring!"
Vertebreak: [quiet grunt as ve pushes verself to ver feet; soft surprised voice] "What?"
Autobots: [transform back and get into battle-ready postures]
Vertebreak: "Huh, thank you for the save, Autobots."
Bumblebee: "Four against one, Vertebreak."
Sideswipe: "Well, three and a half."
Bumblebee: "Do you really wanna take us all on again?"
Vertebreak: "Oh, you may have caught me off guard for a moment. But now I can put this form through some new paces: Weapons training!"