Desertion of the Dinobots
Part 1-2
The Transformers begin to suffer
the effects of the decay of a rare internal element, Cybertonium,
which does not exist on Earth. The Earth-built Dinobots are not
affected, but being disenchanted with always doing the Autobot's
dirty work, they leave Earth for Cybertron during a botched operation
to retrieve some of the element form the Decepticon spacebridge.
Carly and Spike pursue them to Cybertron and team up with Swoop
who is the only Dinobot to escape Decepticon capture on Cybertron.
Together the three rescue the others and after a brief history lesson,
the Dinobots are convinced to return to Earth with the Cybertronium
for the Autobots.
Blaster Blues
Blaster feels unappreciated for his ability to pound
out the tunes, but other tunes are overwhelming Earth, as Megatron
uses a radio-jamming device on the moon to disrupt all radio signals.
The Autobots assist the radio-less humans in any way they can, while
Cosmos and Blaster try to stop the Deceps. They are captured, but
Blaster uses his own music to jam the Deceps' radio jammer. Meanwhile,
Omega Supreme and Astrotrain duke it out for control of the jamming
base.
A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Warpath, Hoist, and Spike are fighting Starscream,
Ravage, Rumble, and Ramjet when the Decepticons go in a cave to
escape, pursued by the Autobots. Everyone is suddenly transported
back to medieval times. The Decepticons hook up with one Lord, while
the Autobots hook up with another knight whose daughter Spike is
attracted to. Spike gets a full suit of armor and rides Warpath
in a joust against Rumble and Ramjet. The joust is not spectacular,
because the Transformers are low on fuel. The Decepticons kidnap
the knight's daughter, and are able to repell the Autobots because
their human ally provided them with an energy source (right before
they betrayed him, of course). They also have an advantage because
they have made a primitive gunpowder. The Autobots eventually win,
the daughter agrees to marry her kidnapper, and the Transformers
go back to the cave helped by a wizard who promises to send them
home, although first they must duck a dragon to get to the cave.
They succeed, and find themselves back in the middle of the battle
they left.
The Golden Lagoon
Warpath, Smokescreen, Skids, Powerglide, and Beachcomber
end up in a firefight with Megatron and several Decepticons. Beachcomber
and Thrust become separated in the conflict and end up in a forested
area. Beachcomber finds a hidden lagoon with a pool of electrum.
Unfortunately, Thrust discovers that if one coats oneself with this
electrum, one becomes invulnerable. The Decepticons coat themselves
with the electrum and trash the Autobots. Eventually, the Autobots
figure out what is going on, find the pool, and coat themselves
with electrum too. Megatron tries to destroy the pond before this
can occur, but the Autobots arrive just before the Decepticons and
bathe in the liquid.What follows is a stand off in the secret lagoon,
and eventually the Decepticons' coating of electrum wears off and
they flee, but before retreating, Megatron destroys the electrum
pool and the resulting explosion destroys all life in the area.
The once beautiful lagoon is now wasteland and Beachcomber is horrified
at the fighting he has brought to the peaceful forest.
The God Gambit
Cosmos discovers an energy source on Titan (a moon
of Saturn), but is pursued and disabled by Astrotrain. Astrotrain
persuades Titan's inhabitants to worship him as a god, and to help
him mine the energy crystals. Omega Supreme, with Perceptor and
Jazz aboard, arrives and eventually drives off the Decepticons.
Make Tracks
Tracks is stolen by a human and his abilities to
talk and transform are lost. Once reconnected, he reveals who he
really is and the two work together to discover that the Decepticons
have hired humans to steal a total of 500 cars which they are converting.
The Decepticon-controlled cars are unleashed and the Autobots spread
out over the city to stop them. They are highly outnumbered, though,
when the cars all turn into Decepticons drones. They are finally
stopped by Blaster disrupting their remote control signals.
Child's Play
Through a freak accident with
the space bridge, a group of Autobots and Decepticons find themselves
transported to another world where they are the size of toys. A
child helps the Autobots, but the other aliens believe theyare dangerous
and want them dissected. They finally escape using a toy rocket
modified by Perceptor.
Quest for Survival
Cosmos, Spike, and Bumblebee are bringing robotic
insecticide to Earth to stop the Insecticons when they are caught
by robotic plants called Morphobots. They manage to escape, but
carry the plants with them unwittingly. Cosmos goes down and the
Morphobots multiply quickly. The Decepticons discover what is going
on and try to claim the insecticide for themselves. The Autobots
get through the Morphobots by using Blaster's music, but the insecticide
is destroyed. The Insecticons try to feed on the Morphobots, but
instead are eaten by them (except the original Shrapnel, Bombshell,
and Kickback who escape). The Autobots shoot the Morphobots back
into space in a rocket.
The Secret of Omega Supreme
Omega Supreme tells the story to Optimus Prime of
how he was guardian of Crystal City on Cybertron. There he was friends
with the Constructicons until Megatron changed them and they destroyed
the city. Now he seeks revenge and has pursued them to Earth.
The Gambler
(Chronologically comes immediately after Child's
Play) En route to Earth from the planet of giants, the Autobots
are captured and de-energized by a gambler and con-man. Smokescreen
is unaffected and teams up with the being to win - via gambling
- enough energon to restore the ship and the Autobots. The Decepticons
Astrotrain, Dirge, and Ramjet attempt to interfere, but are driven
off with the help of another Autobot, Defcon.
Kremzeek!
Somehow, an energy being is created who is small compared
to the Autobots, and runs around yelling Kremzeek! Kremzeek! He
goes into electrical lines and ends up in Japan. At some point,
a Japanese scientist helps the Autobots. An army of little Kremzeeks
becomes a very big Kremzeek but the Autobots transmit it into the
Decepticon base using the 'cons energy magnet..
Sea Change
Seaspray falls for a girl on another planet. She is
a resistance fighter against a robot called Deceptitran. There is
a pool that changes beings into anything they want. The girl and
Seaspray change into merpeople and go to the underwater base of
the rebels. In the process, Rumble is tricked into becoming a tree.
Triple Takeover
Blitzwing and Astrotrain are dissatisfied with the
Decep ranks and take off on their own. They dupe Starscream into
leading himself and Megatron into a trap. Blitzwing takes over a
stadium and abducts a football coach, believing him to be a strategic
genius. The Constructicons build a fortress and maze around the
stadium, and build four Autobots into a throne after they are defeated.
Meanwhile, Astrotrain makes an "army" of subway trains
and uses them to collect power. Megatron eventually gets loose,
and brings down the rebellion.
Prime Target
A (stereotypical) British hunter wants to get the
ultimate prize, the head of Optimus Prime, mounted over his fireplace.
So, he manages to lay several clever traps for other Autobots including
Grapple, Inferno, Beachcomber and Blaster, and takes them hostage
in his castle. He then challenges Prime to come and release them.
Prime works his way past many other complex traps, and naturally
frees his comrades and escapes with his head.
Auto-Bop
Megatron is using a dance club to play hypnotic music,
which he uses to force humans to help him construct buildings. Tracks
and Blaster infiltrate the place with the help of Tracks' pal Raul
and his buddies. Raul discovers the best cure: a splash of water.
Tracks frees the humans while Blaster has a one-on-one battle with
Soundwave--"all talk, no shock".
The Search for Alpha Trion
Shockwave discovers that "female" Autobots
have been raiding the Decepticon energeon stockpiles. Megatron sends
Starscream and a few other Decepticons to capture their leader,
Elita-1. They do so and blackmail Prime into coming to Cybertron
to rescue her. He is captured and is executed by Starscream. Elita-1
uses her time-freezing ability and saves Prime, but it nearly costs
her her life. Only Alpha Trion can save her. Meanwhile, Powerglide,
Inferno and Ironhide have come looking for Prime and they join forces
with the other females to fight off the Deceps. It is also implied
in this episode that Alpha Trion created Optimus Prime and Elita-1.
The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
A spoilt, rich teenage girl gets attacked at a carnival
in honour of her birthday by the Decepticons. Powerglide saves her,
and she falls for him. She tries to tag along with him. The Decepticons
want her because they believe she has the secret of her father's
last invention. The Decepticons capture her and try to suck the
info out of her brain, but she is too much for Megatron and infuriates
him and manages to escape. Meanwhile, Powerglide has severely been
beaten up. She looks at the locket that her dad said never to take
off, which happens to contain the invention's secret, and throws
it into some machinery, saving Powerglide. Powerglide opens his
chestplate, and there is an outline of a glowing heart.
Hoist Goes Hollywood
Hoist saves some stuntmen in a Hollywood movie and
is asked to star himself. He is quickly joined by Tracks, Warpath,
Sunstreaker, and Powerglide who all want in on the movie business.
They unwittingly stumble upon the Decepticons as they try to rescue
Dirge and a machine stolen from Wheeljack's workshop on Cybertron
which has crashed at the studio. The Decepticons are stopped and
Wheeljack reveals that the machine never really worked anyway.
The Key to Vector Sigma Part
1-2
The Decepticons seek out Vector
Sigma in order to give their new warriors, the Stunticons, life
(so they can have an advantage on the ground).The Autobots pursue
them to Cybertron, but the Decepticons get the key to Vector Sigma,
and they manage to succesfully gain access to the supercomputer
and give the Stunticons life. Later, they discover that the Key
has the power to transmute organic material into metal and Megatron
plots to make Earth into a second Cybertron. In order to stop them,
the Autobots create the Aerialbots, but the cost is Alpha Trion's
life. The Aerialbot leader, Silverbolt, must overcome both his companions
disinterest in the humans and Autobots, and his fear of heights
in order to succesfully defeat the Stunticons.
Aerial Assault
Somewhere in the Mid East, the Deceps and an arms
smuggler have kicked the local prince out of his palace and are
using his resources to steal airplane parts. The planes are disassembled,
built into harmless looking vehicles for transport, and then taken
apart to be used to build an airfortress. The Aerialbots are sent
to investigate, and Sky Dive and Slingshot go undercover. They are
partially taken apart, and befriend a teenager named Hassan who
helps them reconstruct themselves. Slingshot is still without a
weapons console as the other Aerialbots fight the Combaticons and
the new airfortress. He and Hassan make the repairs just in time
to form Superion and win the day. Of course, everyone is surprised
to find out that Hassan is the ousted prince.
War Dawn
The Autobots and Aerialbots
travel to Cybertron in Omega Supreme to stop Megatron's latest plan.
The gullible Aerialbots are tricked by the Decepticons and sent
back to the beginning of time, but due to the timel yintervention
of the Autobots, are only transported back a few million years where
they observe how Transformer Orion Pax and his friends were recreated
by Alpha Trion into Optimus Prime and others and became leaders
of the Autobots on Cybertron to fight the forces of Megatron. Despite
the Decepticon's best efforts, the Autobots rescue the Aerialbots
form the past at exactly the same time as the Aerialbots stop the
Decepticons from winning the battle in the past to conquer Cybertron.
Trans-Europe Express
A million dollars is given to the select charity of
a trans-Europe race, where several Autobots participate. The race
is actually set up by the Deceps, who are searching for the weather-controlling
Pearl of Bahoudin and need a metal from the race car of snobbish
driver Augie Canay to contain it. The Stunticons trash most of the
Autobots during the race, leaving only Bluestreak, Tracks and Bumblebee
to retrieve the pearl and Augie's car. Augie sacrifices his car
to defeat Menasor, while the others destroy the pearl once it has
been released from its protective shell.
Cosmic Rust
(aka Rust in Piece) Decepticons are dying of a Cosmic
Rust that Megatron picked up on a lost robot colony. They kidnap
Perceptor to diagnose it and come up with a cure. Perceptor says
the cure is element X, which the Autobots used to coat the Statue
of Liberty. The Decepticons get the element to cure themselves,
and infect Perceptor when he is rescued, along with the rest of
the Autobots. Blaster radios to Cosmos in space that there is no
more element X to be found. The Autobots do battle with the Decepticons
at the Statue of Liberty so they can scrape off some element X,
win, go back to the Ark and use the element to cure themselves.
Starscream's Brigade
Starscream is banished by Megatron
to an island where he discovers the remains of several WWII vehicles.
He masterminds a plot in which he steals five personality components
from Cybertron and installs them in the vehicles, reforming them
into his forces, the Combaticons. He then uses them to take out
his revenge on Megatron, who cannot stop the Combaticons as Bruticus,
even with the help of Devastator. The Stunticons arrive at the last
minute and defeat Bruticus, and Starscream and the Combaticons are
banished to an asteroid.
The Revenge of Bruticus
Starscream travels to Cybertron where he continues
his plots against Megatron. Earth is driven towards the sun via
the space bridge, and the Protectobots evacuate humans from dangerous
situations. Megatron and Prime team up to stop Bruticus, who is
out of control on Cybertron. Starscream volunteers the information
on Bruticus' weak points and he is seemingly defeated. In reality,
Megatron has gained control of the Combaticons and Prime has been
fooled.
Masquerade
After several skirmishes with the Stunticons, the
Autobots finally manage to capture them as they are trying to steal
mysterious mechanical parts. The Autobots place them in special
cells so they can't form Menasor, and Wheeljack then comes up with
a special camoflage paint to allow the Autobots to disguise themselves
as the Stunticons, thereby sneaking in close to Megatron without
him knowing it. Sideswipe, Prime, Mirage, Windcharger, and Jazz
disguise themselves as Breakdown, Motormaster, Dragstrip, Wildrider
and Deadend to find out what the spare parts are for. The gambit
succeeds, and they find out the parts are for a super laser, but
Breakdown causes his cell to malfunction and he breaks free. He
frees the other Stunticons and they return to Decepticon camp to
warn Megatron. When they arrive at camp, Megatron cannot distinguish
between the two groups of Stunticons. As a test, he commands them
to form Menasor, and whoever can't will be destroyed. Surprisingly,
both groups do. Prime has Windcharger use his magnet beam to hold
the Autobots together while Mirage creates an illusion of Menasor.
The real Menasor then unfortunately hits the fake one, however and
the Autobots come apart. The charade discovered, the Autobots manage
to destroy the laser and barely get away from the Decepticons alive.
B.O.T.
Three college students are forced to build something
as a science project, and they end up creating B.O.T. Meanwhile,
the Protectobots end up fighting the Combaticons, who are trying
to upgrade themselves without Megatron's knowledge. They end up
destroying all the Combaticons except Swindle, who escapes. Swindle
sells the spare parts of his comrades for money, but when he tells
Megatron what happened, Megatron gets angry and has a bomb placed
in Swindle's head that will blow up in a set amount of time if Swindle
fails to rebuild the Combaticons. In the meantime, the three students
need a computer board to make their robot work. They think they
find what they need when they pick up Brawl's personality board.
After inserting the board into the robot, it goes berserk and rampages
through the city. Swindle rebuilds the Combaticons, but without
Brawl's personality board they can't form Bruticus. Swindle finds
B.O.T. and restores Brawl's brain, and Megatron orders the Decepticons
to the Ark. Megatron has a new weapon that when fired, will obliterate
the Ark and the Autobots. The Protectobots are called to the scene,
and they merge to form Defensor, who puts up a shield to buy time.
The college kids eventually get their robot on-line who saves the
day by getting close enough to the cannon to destroy it by self-destructing.
THE MOVIE
"There is an evil new force in the Universe.
A monster planet, that devours everything in its path, and it's
heading for the small planet of Cybertron, where a unique race of
Transforming robots continue to fight a civil war, a war between
good and evil that has raged for millions of years. The evil Decepticon
Transformers, led by the maniacal Megatron, have sworn to crush
their enemies, the Autobots. To this end, they have relentlessly
pursued them accross the galaxy, from planet Cybertron, to planet
Earth, and back again. But the heroic Autobot Transformers and their
courageours leader Optimus Prime, are not easily defeated."
