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Chase (episode)

2010-04-28T17:04:59Z

209.82.191.236: /* Quotes */

{{disambig3|Chase}}

{{episode|
|series=Armada
|series2=Micron Legend
|ep=24
|prev=Rebellion
|next=Tactician
|title=Chase
|japanese=幻影 (かげ) - chase
|romaji=Gen'ei [Kage]
|translation=Illusion (Shadow)
|image=Arm 24 - Chase titlecard.jpg
|caption=[[Chip Chase|Chip]]'s lesser-known brother.
|production code=TF: A-24
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Ryō Motohira]]
|director=[[Mihiro Yamaguchi]]
|animation studio=[[Actas]]
|airdate=[[January 27]], 2003 (UK)<br>[[January 29]], 2003 (US)<br>[[June 20|20 June]] 2003 (Japan)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''The kids and their transforming partners are sucked into a digital world of Sideways' creation, where they meet a truly frightening harbinger of Chaos.'''

:''Polish title:'' "'''Porwanie'''"

==Synopsis==
Carlos complains about being bored with hanging out in the [[Autobot]] base all the time. Alexis tells him that being in the Autobot base is serious business. Rad does his best to calm down Alexis and Carlos references the Autobots' sound defense system, but Alexis refuses to chill and assertively walks off with Sureshock.

Elsewhere, the Autobots fight the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]].

Alexis panics because she can't locate anything on the Autobots' radar, as the Autobots' monitors are all solid black. When Alexis's own laptop freezes Rad speculates that the technical problems could be attributed to an internet virus or a hacker. Alexis confirms Rad's suspicions and takes counter measures, but it's too late. The kids watch as the virus devours their system.

Desperate, Alexis tries to hard reboot, then disconnects by removing her computer's network wire. The Mini-Cons try to deactivate the rest of the Autobot computers, but physics take a back seat as the digital disruption spreads off the monitors and forms a spatial anomaly inside the room, solidifying into the shape of Sideways.

With Alexis's best efforts at a technical solution rendered useless, Rad tries to disengage Sideways by literally smashing the Autobots' computer consoles. Alexis and Carlos join in the destruction, which causes Sideways to disintegrate and be sucked into a vortex on one of the Autobot monitors.

[[Image:Screenshot-arm-24-1.jpg|left|133px|thumb|Rad and Carlos catch a bad case of Photoshop.]]In Sideways's place, a colorful show of light shines on the kids and their Mini-Cons, sucking the "spirits" out of their bodies and sending the kids into the same vortex that swallowed Sideways.

At the battle, Prime notices [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] fall (and Megatron steps on it). Hot Shot knows this means something has happened to the kids.

Billy and Fred arrive in the Autobots' control room, and find the bodies of their friends unresponsive to any stimuli, and glowing in eerie inverted colors. The Mini-Cons are also affected, and Fred concludes that their friends have been turned into [[zombie]]s.

The three kids and the Street Action Team (who are not zombies) find themselves in an area with no ground, only a few abstract shapes floating in the air. Soon as Rad and Carlos begin to have fun swimming around this reality, Sideways drives up and introduces the kids to Cyberspace. He claims there's no way out of Cyberspace, and tries to take one of their Mini-Cons. The kids speed away from the Decepticon.

[[Image:Screenshot-arm-24-2.jpg|right|170px|thumb|The recolors now show up before the actual character.]]
Eventually the kids fall into an area that looks like outer space, with the six of them floating towards what appears to be [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Passed by two flashes of light, the kids see a strange glowing purple shape, followed by a dark blue shape with yellow bursts behind it.

Passing right through Cybertron (instead of crashing), Sideways reappears (holding Sureshock) and reveals that everything the kids see in Cyberspace is an illusion. Alexis considers this, and openly speculates that if Sideways was in control of the illusion, he could just seize all the Mini-Cons and wouldn't need to make demands. Sideways gets angry, confirming her theory.

In reality, the Autobots have returned from battle and are confused by the comatose kids and smashed machinery. Fred suggests using Alexis's laptop as a starting point for figuring out what's going on.

[[Image:Screenshot-arm-24-3.jpg|left|133px|thumb|Look familiar?]]
In Cyberspace, Sideways grows frustrated with the kids, who have figured out that they can't really be harmed. Grindor escapes Sideways' non-existent clutches and floats back to his friends. Seriously angered, Sideways opens fire on the kids, but the kids are entirely unharmed.

When a roaring is heard, Sideways suddenly apologizes to the kids and asks them to keep the entire encounter a secret. Alexis gets a strong feeling of some overwhelming evil, and Rad thinks that's a sign the kids should go, now. Possibly thanks to Red Alert's programming, a white square becomes visible in Cyberspace. The kids head for the light, and just barely escape consumption by a large circular singularity.

At the Autobot base, Rad wakes up and finds the other two kids and the Mini-Cons made it out of Cyberspace alive. Even Laserbeak survived being stepped on. Everybody has a big laugh, and Rad closes by wondering about what that ominous evil force was.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (7)
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (10)
*[[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] (11)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (15)
*[[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] (16)
*[[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] (17)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (9)
*[[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]] (12)

|c3=
*[[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] (1)
*[[Alexis]] (2)
*[[Rad White|Rad]] (3)
*[[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] (13)
*[[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] (14)

|h4=[[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]]|c4=
*[[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] (4)
*[[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] (5)
*[[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] (6)

|c5=Other|c5=
*[[Unicron]] (18)
}}

==Quotes==
"Holy Guacamole! It's Sideways!"
:—'''Carlos''', not being a horrible ethnic stereotype at all

"I guess this means I'm gonna miss lunch. My blood sugar is getting dangerously low, Billy!"
:—'''Fred''', with his mind on the important things.

"Oh yay. I'm surrounded by morons."
:—'''Alexis''', in exasperated female anime cliché mode (but can you blame her?)

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Micron Legend''===
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
[[Image:Chase Prime.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Yeah, baby. Sing...for the King."]]
* In the Autobot group scene where Red Alert reports that his scans indicate the work of Sideways, Optimus Prime's crotch is huge.
*The kids call Sureshock "Grindor" when telling the Mini-Con to escape from Sideways.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
*One of the brightly coloured objects that the kids pass before they go through Cybertron is [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] in his Cybertronic form, drawn as Generation 1 [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire's]] VF-1S fighter mode.
*The other brightly colored object, outlined in purple, is [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]]'s Cybertronian form. It actually somewhat resembles Generation 1 [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in his laser cannon mode. Perhaps not coincidentally, Tidal Wave was known as Shockwave in Japan.
*Sideways also apologizes to an unseen entity, presumed to be Unicron. However, the fact that Sideways is actively speaking to him seems to contradict his statement in "[[Mortal Combat]]" that Sideways is an extension of Unicron himself.

==Home video releases==
{{note|All releases listed are in English audio unless otherwise noted.}}
;DVD
*2003 — ''Transformers: Micron Legend'' — Volume 6 ([[Columbia Music Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only.
*2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Battle for the Mini-Cons ([[Kid Rhino]])
*2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Season One: Part One (Kid Rhino)
*2008 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Volume One ([[KSMFilm]]) — English and German audio.

[[Category:Armada episodes]]

Prehistory

2010-04-28T16:22:21Z

209.82.191.236: /* Quotes */

{{episode|
|series=Armada
|series2=Micron Legend
|ep=12
|prev=Ruin
|next=Swoop (episode)
|title=Prehistory
|japanese=理由 (いきさつ) - prehistory
|romaji=Riyū [Ikisatsu]
|translation=Reason (Whole Story)
|image=Prehistory-Autobots vs Decepticons.jpg
|caption=Attack of the Clones
|production code=TF: A-12
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Shōji Tonoike]]
|director=[[Keisuke Ōnishi]]
|animation studio=[[Actas]]
|airdate=[[November 22]], 2002 (English)<br>[[March 28|28 March]] 2003 (Japanese)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''A Mini-Con is located on a volcanic island which soon erupts.'''

:''Polish title:'' "'''Prehistoria'''"

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Prehistory-Battlefront.jpg|left|155px|thumb|When faction symbols attack!]]
Standing over the [[Mini-Con storage panel|Mini-Con panel]] retrieved from [[Antarctica]], [[Rad White|Rad]] muses that at last he knows [[Ruin|what happened to Atlantis]].

Up on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] grumbles about the dormant [[Mini-Con]] they've picked up. Despite provoking some small amount of activity from it, he's unable to activate it.

Rad asks [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus]] if there's any way to stop the ongoing war with the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]], and the [[Autobot]] leader explains how the war began four million years ago when the Decepticons began overrunning [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with their troops. Once the planet was divided into Decepticon and Autobot halves, the Mini-Con faction began to appear and join with both Decepticons and Autobots to increase their power. Realising that they were causing the war, the Mini-Cons opted to leave Cybertron. The Decepticons attempted to block them, but with the Autobots' help, the Mini-Con ship was able to escape. It crashed on Earth, and the rest is history. When Rad and Carlos found the first Mini-Con, they activated a signal which alerted the inhabitants of Cybertron, who sent teams to Earth.

The Mini-Con alarm goes off, and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] quickly fixes the location of the latest Mini-Con on a volcanic island. The Autobots rush there with their young friends. The Decepticons also detect the Mini-Con.

[[Image:Prehistory-Panels made to last.jpg|right|155px|thumb|The world's first hot plate.]]
On the island, Rad asks if there's any way to avoid involving the Mini-Cons in the battle, but Optimus says use of the Mini-Cons is the only way they can effectively stop the Decepticons from gaining more Mini-Cons. While they're talking, Megatron appears and opens fire on them. The Autobots return fire, with Optimus using his [[trailer]] as a weapons platform. [[Alexis]] attempts to convince Rad and [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] that they should search for the Mini-Con, so Rad dispatches [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] to scout the island.

[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and Megatron powerlink with their Mini-Cons, prompting the Autobot-aligned Mini-Cons to man the weapons on Optimus's trailer. Everyone is surprised, but Carlos points out that they're just fighting back. Meanwhile, Laserbeak spots the Mini-Con panel they're searching for at the end of an incomplete rail tunnel. Optimus orders his men to cover him while he retrieves the Mini-Con, but the battle is interrupted by the volcano erupting. Lava erupts from the end of the rail tunnel, carrying the Mini-Con panel. Optimus finds himself falling into an opening fissure in the ground as the lava begins spread across the island.

Red Alert tells [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] to get the kids to higher ground and has [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] dig a trench to divert the lava. Taken to safety, the kids spot the Mini-Con floating on top of the lava, but so do the Decepticons. Starscream prevents Hot Shot from getting it first, but the Decepticons are halted by a burst of energy from the newly arrived Optimus. [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] grabs the Mini-Con but is fired on by [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]], [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] and drops it. After Red Alert snatches the Mini-Con out of mid-air, the Decepticons retreat. Once the Mini-Con panel cools down, the kids watch as the ghostly form of a Mini-Con manifests over it.

[[Image:Prehistory-Even when he loses, he wins.jpg|right|155px|thumb|"Rumble, bring me a newspaper!"]]
Back at base, Red Alert says that the Mini-Cons may be the key to peace in the Universe. The only way to solve the riddle as to how is to collect all of them.

Megatron tries again to awaken the Mini-Con from the ruins and at last succeeds, revealing [[Sonar (Armada)|Sonar]], one of the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Air Defence team]] who form the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] sword. Megatron laughs in triumph.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (8)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (9)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (10)
*[[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] (11)
*[[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] (18)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (2)
*[[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (12)
*[[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Rad White]] (1)
*[[Alexis]] (6)
*[[Carlos Lopez]] (7)

|h4=[[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]]|c4=
*[[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] (3)
*[[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] (4)
*[[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] (5)
*[[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] (13)
*[[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] (14)
*[[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] (15)
*[[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]] (19)
*[[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] (20)
*[[Sonar (Armada)|Sonar]] (21)
}}

==Quotes==
"Hurry up! Destroy those Autobots! You will not escape my wrath!"<br>
"We can't do that, Megatron! If we do, it'll give away our position!"

:—'''Megatron''' and '''Demolishor''', the latter of whom doesn't appear to notice that the Autobots already know where they are.

"Luckily, I fell into a chasm and the lava passed right over me. I had to dig my way out, but I'm all right."

:—'''Optimus''' explains how he survived the lava by ignoring the laws of physics.

"They're fighting to protect the universe!"

:—'''Alexis''', '''Carlos''' and '''Rad''', in unison.

"Niiiice"

:—'''Smokescreen''' responds in awe to '''Red Alert''' and '''Hot Shot''' powerlinxing

"Fire away, gentlemen."

:—'''Megatron''' is uncharacteristically complimentary to his troops

"Cyclonus failed me again. That figures."

:—'''Megatron''' not surprised at '''Cyclonus's''' failure

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Micron Legend''===
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
[[Image:Prehistory-Jetfire in charge.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Gesundheit."]]
*Optimus leaves Cybertron in [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]]'s hands. This seems quite odd to say the least, and no one shows any surprise or mentions any changing of sides when Thrust arrives in the present, on the Decepticon side and apparently having always been. Given Armada's problem with [[Leader-1 (Armada)|keeping names straight]], it's possible that "[[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]]" is actually [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] - "Thrust's" head looks a little like Jetfire's in a silhouette.

===Continuity errors===
*Megatron wonders why the Mini-Con retrieved in the previous episode won't wake up, but when he collected it, he stated that there was a reason why it won't wake up.

[[Image:Prehistory-Smokescreen takes up gardening.jpg|right|200px|thumb|He found the secret zipper.]]
*Smokescreen's small hook makes a surprisingly large trench while diverting the lava

===Other errors===
*Optimus Prime says the lava passed over him while he was in a chasm. Somehow, this lava doesn't respond normally to gravity.

===Transformers references===
*Cybertron is seen in Prime's flashback, as well as practically everyone's Cybertronian form.
*In Optimus Prime's flashback, several G1 [[Character model|character models]] were used as [[Generic|generic]] Transformers, including those of [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] and [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]].

===Real-world references===
*Rad seems to think the underwater city in the previous episode actually was [[Atlantis]].

===Miscellaneous trivia===
*Over a quarter of this episode is taken up with the flashback recounting the history of the war.

==Home video releases==
{{note|All releases listed are in English audio unless otherwise noted.}}
;DVD
*2003 — ''Transformers: Micron Legend'' — Volume 3 ([[Columbia Music Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only.
*2003 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Vol:04 ([[Warner Bros.|Warner Music Video]])
*2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Flashbacks ([[Kid Rhino]])
*2004 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Season One: Part One (Kid Rhino)
*2005 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Vol:04 ([[Universal]])
*2008 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Volume One ([[KSMFilm]]) — English and German audio.

[[Category:Armada episodes]]