John Carl doesn't immediately realize it when he hits the Transdimensional Warp Point during a sail through the Bermuda Triangle, but he is now on a very different Earth than the one he's used to. When he heads for the shore of Bermuda, he is surprised to see a GIANT wind farm sticking out into the ocean. He wonders how he could have missed that and could swear it wasn't there when he left.
When he sees some of the windmills being maintained by giant robots, he knows for sure that something Big has happened. He assumes that it's a miracle and that he's been sent to preach the Word According to Himself to these new heathens!
He heads for shore, taking note of the robots pointing at him and his boat. He puts ashore and asks one of them where their master is...
And that's when he finds out that there is indeed, in his view, such a thing as "hell on Earth."
Barely restraining themselves from stepping on the little bipedal ant, the Decepticons explain that THEY'RE the masters! They tell him that he's just come through the Transdimensional Warp Point, a place long known to humans as being where ships and planes disappeared, but not explainable until the place was examined by Decepticon scientists.
Undaunted, he starts to spew his views. With a surprising burst of insight, Carl decides to hold back that "God gave Man dominion" part for now. He gets immediate agreement on the need to be armed and the fallacy of the desirability of peace. The Decepticons agree that Capitalism is good...and then mention that Carl would be worth about $500 on the slave market!
Missing just how likely it is that he'll be "cashed in," he launches into a tirade against immigrants. He is then told that they agree...and that HE'S the immigrant! He quickly changes the subject to homosexuality - a topic that always lit the fires of controversy back home. To his dismay, he is met with feigned yawns, and is finally told that robots are asexual and that they couldn't care less what humans did with their reproductive parts!
When he gets to evolution, they debate a bit. The Decepticons aren't dead-set against the idea of a creator, but if there is one, they're not impressed with his work. They pelt Carl with statistics about the "defect rate" of newborn biologicals and decry the "planned obsolescence" of human bodies. They let him know that the Decepticon on-activation defect rate is only 0.00001%, and that almost all of those few defects are completely repairable to fully-functional status. They boast about the fact that Decepticons can potentially live forever, and ask him whether he, too, will be functional in 150 years.
John Carl can't really think of anything to say to that, so he resorts to claiming that "well, God gave Man dominion over the Earth, so humans must actually be superior!"
That does it.
"Dominion?! Har har har, the human resistance fell like a house of cards when we invaded! All you puny creatures have 'dominion' over is the pickaxes you use to mine our ore for us! Here," one says, producing an empty Energon Cube, "I'll SHOW YOU who has dominion over the Earth!"
With that, he grabs Carl and throws him into the empty Cube, which now serves as a cage for the human. The Decepticon puts him up for sale on the slave auction site, and within minutes, the winning bid is in: $450.
In a few hours, Carl's new owner shows up and collects his purchase. Carl is told by his owner that he is now a mine slave, and he will honor the DECEPTICON dominion over the Earth for the rest of his life - OR ELSE!
Once in the mines, Carl is painfully forced to work 20 hours a day. As an unupgraded human, he would normally die of overwork, but Carl is different. He still can't keep his mouth shut, and immediately starts trying to motivate the other slaves to revolt against the "demonic forces" now controlling Earth and "restore Man's dominion."
The overseer hears this subversive talk, walks over, and very deliberately crushes Carl to death under his foot.
Without a comment, the other slaves continue working, faster now. They didn't understand Carl's words; they've never heard of demons or even encountered the idea that anything besides Decepticons even *could* have dominion over anything. What they do understand is that what he was saying was obviously wrong, and he was working too slowly. They make sure not to do such things themselves, lest they suffer the same fate.
