One Shall Rise, Part 2

2011-10-09T17:15:23Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 25
|prev=One Shall Rise, Part 1
|next=One Shall Rise, Part 3
|image=OneShallRise2-shake.jpg
|caption=One shall stand, one shall...also stand.
|title="One Shall Rise, Part 2"
|airdate=[[October 8]], [[2011]]
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}

'''The Autobots team up with a surprising ally to save the Earth.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:OneShallRise2-bigdude.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Sure, he doesn't look quite planet-size here, but he's really [[:Image:UnicronEatsGalvyMmmm.jpg|not all that much smaller]] than he was in the [[The Transformers: The Movie|movie]].]]
[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] is battling a small army of [[Unicron|Unicrons]] made from mountain rocks. Team Prime wish to back him up, but Optimus belays the order, for as Prime he is the one Unicron is after. Team Prime, against his orders decide to back him up, and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]], and [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] arrive to the area by [[GroundBridge]]. Optimus is angry that they disobeyed him but Arcee reminds him that since he is Unicron's target he should retreat back to base. Optimus tells them that Unicron can find him anywhere and that it would only be a matter of time before Unicron could find him even if he hid at the base. Arcee then asks him to let him take the lead, which he allows. They fight the Unicrons until a giant Unicron rises from the ground and comes close to killing Optimus before a blast knocks off its head. [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] reveals himself to have fired the shot.

After Optimus and Megatron do their usual archnemesis banter, Megatron reveals his reason why he's there. He wants to team up with the Autobots to destroy Unicron. The Autobots question this truce but Megatron assures them that he is the only one who can lead them to Unicron and that Optimus, the last Prime, is the only one who can defeat him. Optimus deduces that since Unicron is at the center of the planet they will have to GroundBridge to the Earth's core, much to Ratchet's dismay. This also means that they will need to GroundBridge Megatron to base.

Back on the ''[[Nemesis (Prime)|Nemesis]]'', [[Airachnid]] tells [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] that it seems that Megatron has abandoned them since he has been gone so long and that they should begin looking at a future without him.

[[Image:OneShallRise2-Ratchethumans.jpg|right|thumb|300px|This is as close to the action as any of them are going to get.]]

Listening back at base, [[Jack Darby|Jack]] wonders if they can't just transport Unicron out of the core, but [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] and [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] tell him that he '''is''' the Earth's core and that messing with him could bring the destruction they're trying to avoid. Optimus agrees and believes that the only way to destroy Unicron is for him to unleash the full power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] onto Unicron's spark. Ratchet explains to Fowler and Jack that the Matrix is the combined power of all the Primes and that it exists within Optimus Prime himself.

Before they can discuss any further another giant Unicron rise from the ground. Optimus calls for a GroundBridge and Megatron goes off to distract Unicron as the Autobots go back to base. They argue about the details of Megatron coming to base and decides that he can come to base. Jack wonder what will happen to Optimus when he unleashes the power of the Matrix, Optimus does not give him a direct answer but tell them that he is willing to do what is needed to be done and that the rest of the Autobots will carry on. Optimus calls in Megatron and the Decepticon finishes off Unicron's rock giant and enters the base. After bantering for a while, they get ready to leave. But before they leave Optimus meets Jack in private, impressed with how much Jack has grown since they first met, and entrusts him the key that controls the GroundBridge operations until he returns.

[[Image:OneShallRise2-inside.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Unicron]] was kind enough to have constructed sidewalks all over his insides.]]Team Prime and Megatron leave for the core. After arriving in a cavernous interior with crisscrossing constructs, Arcee wonders how long it will be before Unicron discovers them. Megatron tells her that he already knows as, unbeknownst to them, a giant optic watches overhead.

[[One Shall Rise, Part 3|To Be Concluded...]]
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (3)
*[[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (4)
*[[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] (5)
*[[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] (6)
|c2=
*[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] (7)
*[[Airachnid]] (13)
*[[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] (14)
|c3=
*[[June Darby]] (8)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (9)
*[[Jack Darby]] (10)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (11)
*[[William Fowler]] (12)
|c4=
*[[Unicron]] (2)
}}

==Quotes==
"Optimus! Have you uncovered any further sign of Unicron's emergence?" 
'''"Unicron is power incarnate, and you, the last of the Primes, shall perish!"''' 
"I take that as a yes."
:—'''Ratchet''' finds out that '''Unicron''' has awakened

"The last time we met, you were desperately seeking to extinguish my spark." 
"That option is still viable."

:-'''Megatron''' and '''Optimus''' talking about the good times they had trying to kill each other.

(GroundBridge opens up next to Bulkhead, Arcee, and Bumblebee) 
"Wait. We're opening up a direct path into our base with Megatron standing right there?!" 
"And seriously, he's gonna risk his own spark to save us?" 
"(Laughter) Hardly my nature!"

:—'''Arcee''' and '''Bulkhead''' question Megatron's trustworthiness; '''Megatron''' finds it funny that they would think such things of him.

"It appears our leader has abandoned us while this world erupts in chaos. I believe we must consider the possibility of a future without Megatron."
:—'''Airachnid''' fills the quota for scheming in Starscream's absence.

"So this is where the magic happens. Quaint."
:—'''Megatron''' enters the Autobot base.

"You! I never forget a face, even if it is human."
:-'''Megatron''' remembers Jack quite easily and can tell him apart from the other humans, unlike [[Blitzwing (Animated)|some]] [[Starscream (Animated)|Decepticons]].

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===

*When Raf runs out to confront Megatron in the Autobot base, Arcee puts herself between the humans and the Decepticon leader to keep the latter from possibly harming the former. However, a few screen cuts later when Jack and the rest are walking back, we see Megatron behind Jack, but no Arcee standing between them.
*When using the Ground Bridge to go into Unicron, Optimus is the last one to enter the Ground Bridge, yet is the first Autobot to appear behind Megatron when they get out of the Ground Bridge.

===Continuity notes===
*Ratchet comments that making a GroundBridge happen in space and a moving train is hard enough, recalling "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]" and "[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]".
*Megatron still remembers Jack's face from "[[Rock Bottom]]". Though he still has yet to "share the details of their little conversation" with Optimus as he claimed he would.
*Raf hasn't forgotten what Megatron did to him in "[[One Shall Fall]]".
*Miko comments on how she is the only one out of the three kids to have not seen Megatron before this episode.
*Optimus being impressed with Jack's growth is similar to what Ratchet said about Jack back in "One Shall Fall".

===Transformers references===
*The [[Matrix of Leadership]] can harm Unicron, echoing ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Real-world references===
===Trivia===
* This episode aired in Singapore on [[October 3]], 2011, ahead of its American showing.
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