Editing Partners (RBA)

{{disambig2|the Rescue Bots Academy episode|the Prime episode|Partners (Prime)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy]]'' ep 68
|image=
|caption=
|prev=Museum Mystery
|next=Critical Condition
|title="Partners"
|airdate=[[May 16]], [[2020]]
|production company=[[Allspark Animation]]
|writer=[[Jody Reynolds]]
|animation studio=[[Boulder Media Studio]]
|director=[[Pete Slattery]]
}}

'''The entire Academy face an epic mission to rescue Cody's best friend, Frankie, who's trapped inside a seemingly impenetrable dome that's shrinking by the minute.'''

==Synopsis==
The recruits extol the virtues of their respective mentors, though [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] is not terribly enthusiastic about [[Heatwave (RB)|his]]. [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] calls them to the [[GroundBridge]] room to brief them for a very important mission—[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] was demonstrating his new force field dome to a school field trip when a student triggered the device, creating a dome over the lab which is slowly shrinking.

The group arrives on site and starts trying to work out a plan of action. [[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]]'s attempt at brute force fails, and when he and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] try to dig under the dome, they find it's actually a sphere. [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] also tries brute force, but only makes the dome shrink more. Elsewhere [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] struggles to put out the fires that are flaring up until Heatwave turns off the downed power lines. Though [[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]] is unable to get a reading on the sphere, [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] recalls it's constructed from a particle that may be susceptible to magnetism, so they send [[Medix (RB)|Medix]] up dangling from [[Blades (RB)|Blades]]'s winch. Medix successfully opens a hole in the force field which [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] is able to use to start extracting the children inside. They succeed in rescuing all the kids, however [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] is still inside as her father is refusing to leave his life's work behind. Hot Shot manages to talk him out of it, and Hoist extracts him and Frankie before the sphere completely collapses, destroying the lab.

Later, the recruits are back playing basketball and Whirl expresses the sentiment that Chase is the best mentor for her, just as the other mentors are the best for the other recruits.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] (1)
*[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]] (2)
*[[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]] (3)
*[[Medix (RB)|Medix]] (4)
*[[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] (5)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (6)
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (7)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (9)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (10)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (11)
|c3=
*[[Cody Burns]] (8)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (12)
*[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] (13)
|}}

==Quotes==
"So much for plan B, huh HW? Aw come on, plan bee as in Bumblebee? Ugh, I am wasted here."
:—'''Hot Shot'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
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===Transformers references===
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===Real-world references===
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===Animation and technical errors===
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===Trivia===
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===Foreign localization===
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==Home video releases==
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[[Category:Rescue Bots Academy episodes]]