TRANSFORMERS ALIENS IN DISQUISE
                            Transport To Oblivion Part 5
 
    Back inside the cave the Commandos struggle to stay alive and find another escape from their predicament they are now in.  Joshua Sweet goes to inspect Paul Phoenix sprawled on his backside and unconscious.
 
JOSHUA SWEET
    Hey Phoenix looks like you can use some repairs. <He begins fixing his damaged circuits> This might get a bit hot. <Then suddenly> Rourke!  A bank of Paul's memory chips have been altered.
LYLE ROURKE
    Paul, the spacebridge.  Where did you see it?
PAUL PHOENIX <Struggles to remember>
    The cave, I mean...<Then it comes back in a flash> I remember now!  The riverbed in the desert.
LYLE ROURKE
    Commandos, concentrate firepower.
 
    Together they open up with their pulse laser guns blowing away the boulders blocking the mouth of the cave until the entrance is clear again.  Then the soldiers rush outside and morph to vehicular modes.
 
LYLE ROURKE
    Roll out! <Commands the convoy to hurry> We must save Ash Ketchum before it's too late.
 
    While simultanously back at the gateway control station it might appear that all may be lost.  Archer is receiving info from his master via the comlink with warning about how long the portal will remain open.
 
DAHLI LLAMA
    The spacebridge will be operable for a maximum of 5 to 10 minutes.
ARCHER
    That will suffice master, thank you for the warning.
 
    Not far away Ash and Pickachu are trapped within a glowing cage-cell guarded by Ravage who growls & snarls at his hostages.  Then MewTwo steps towards the pokemon grand master and his pet.
 
MEWTWO
    Ravage stand aside. <The terminator obeys and backs off>
 
    He then raises one of his 3-fingered hands and the energy-bars dissapear from view.  Ketchum believes he is released from captivity.
 
ASH KETCHUM
    So! <Defiantly> I've served my time and I'm free to go, right?
MEWTWO <Glowers down at him>
    Oh, you're free all right but not the way you think.  Free to go to Alpha Prime.
 
    Ash cannot believe it, not again he says to himself.  But before he knows it he is once again strapped inside the rocketsled about to be teleported through the space-time continum to another planet.
 
ARCHER
    You will be riding on a beam of light.  Concentrate on that beam or you will fly off course.  Into the cold dark void and cease to exist.
ASH KETCHUM
    Commander Rourke and the Elite will rescue me.
ARCHER
    The Elite? <Giggles> Hehehehe, don't count on it little hero.  Sorry to pop your bubble so to speak but we've left them buried in a heap of rubble.
 
    Ketchum recoils or flinches from this shocker.  No way!  Not his new friends from another world!  They can't be dead he asks himself.  Meanwhile the gorgonyte addresses his boss one last time over the comlink.
 
ARCHER
    Ready to send energon cubes my master.
DAHLI LLAMA
    Ready to receive my apprentice.
ARCHER
    Commence transport.
 
    MewTwo engages the controls and the sled speeds down the chute towards the dome when at that same moment from high above a ridgeline a squadron of cars & trucks come to a stop and a familiar voice rings out loud & clear.
 
LYLE ROURKE
    Commandos transform!
 
    One by one the soldiers under his command converge back to humanoid forms and ready their guns.  Shocked & startled at the sight of the enemy back and alive the mutants are too stunned to move at first.
 
ARCHER
    The Elite?!  Take cover before they...
LYLE ROURKE
    Attack! <Orders his men & women to open fire>
 
    A shower of laserbullets pelt/pepper the helpless Syndicate who retreat, fall back as they return fire to cover their escape.  Sliding into the canyon one of the Commandos spots the sled approaching the dome's entrance which opens to admit the vehicle inside.
 
NINA WILLIAMS
    TJ!  The energon cubes!
T.J. COMBO <Aims his pulse rifle>
    Don't worry, I'll blow them up to Alpha Prime as dust.
MRS. KETCHUM <Blocks his path>
    Stop!  Don't shoot!  My son's on that thing.
PAUL PHOENIX
    I got him into this mess, I'll get him out. <Quickly he morphs and speeds off>
LYLE ROURKE
    I'll assist you Phoenix. <Aims his pistol>
 
    Lyle tap-fires his weapon like the Duke "John Wayne" does in his western movies.  The first shot shatters the glass canopy above Ash & Pickachu's heads and both look up startled by the explosion of breaking glass.
 
PICKACHU
    Piccaaa! <Shrieks>
ASH KETCHUM
    Whoa!  What the h***?!
 
    Then two more laserbullets slice through the restraining straps securing Ketchum to the seat and again both he and his pet look around in stunned suprise at who or what is shooting at them when a familiar vehicle comes racing after the speeding sled honking its horn madly.
 
PAUL PHOENIX
    Hurry Ash, Pickachu, jump!
ASH KETCHUM
    Phoenix?  You're back?
PAUL PHOENIX
    Quick, no time to argue.  Jump!  I'll catch you.
ASH KETCHUM
    C'mon Pickachu, let's go.
PICKCAHU
    Picccaaaa! <Agrees with his master>
 
    Together they leap from the sled and land perfectly onto the hood of Gravedigger and the monster truck slows to a stop, U-turns around and races back the opposite way to safety.  At the same time Lyle readies his troops for the finale.
 
LYLE ROURKE
    Prepare to fire.
 
    Now driverless the out-of-control sled crashes into the side of the open doorway of the dome and topples onto its side spilling energon cubes out its cargobay onto the ground.  Horrified Archer runs towards the disaster before anything else happens to screw up his plans.
 
ARCHER
    I must get those cubes through the portal before it closes.
 
    Reaching the wrecked sled he picks up the cubes and is about to toss them into the portal and get clear when suddenly Rourke gives the signal for his troops to open up on the gorgonyte warrior.  A combined blast of firepower slams into the leader of the Syndicate lifting him off his feet end-over-end before slamming him flat on his butt & backside into the dome itself as the door closes.  In the next the teleportation system activates with the storm-effects kicking in full power of howling winds, darkening skies, flashing lightning, booming thunder.  The BLACK HOLE VOID appears overhead in the towering clouds and the laserbeam rises into the darkness carrying a screaming Archer, energon cubes & all until they dissapear from view.  The other mutants; MewTwo, She-Lion, Rhei Rat, Prince Leon, Ivan, Kendo, Foxy gasp & gawk with open mouths & wide eyes.  All except a sneering, grinning Ninjara who believes at last, her time has come.
 
NINJARA
    Return to base.  Archer is dead, I'm the leader now.  Follow me! <She leads the Empire back to HQ>
 
    A cheering-whooping contingent of Commandos congratulate one another for another job well done.  Ash is reunited with his mother again.
 
ASH KETCHUM
    Thanks Paul.
MRS. KETCHUM
    Thank you so much for saving my boy.
PAUL PHOENIX <Morphs>
    You're welcome madame. <Bows> This is the happiest day of my life.  Archer fell into his own spacebridge.  He's lost forever.
LYLE ROURKE
    I wish I could believe that. <He stares into the heavens>
 
    Meanwhile lightyears away on Alpha Prime the portal opens on the other side as the special delivery reaches its destination.  Dahli is shocked to see his student appear in the doorway, face twisted into a mask of hate and pile of energon cubes scattered at his feet.
 
DAHLI LLAMA
    Lord Archer! <Goes to him> What happened?
ARCHER
    The Commandos robbed me of my victory.  But they have not seen the last of Archer.  I shall be avenged! <Fire burns in his eyes>
 
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