Raf's Notes

Raf's Notes are a diary series of documents from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

"Dear Diary. I can't shake the feeling the Decepticons are spying on me somehow."

Since becoming involved with the Autobots, Raf Esquivel has felt compelled to start keeping a series of documents on his laptop which he has entitled Raf's Notes. For safety's sake, he keeps them triple-encrypted. It's important to note that these are not a diary of any kind. Diaries are for girls.

Entries

1. This Is NOT a Diary! — An introduction to the Autobots and Decepticons, how Raf was friends with Bumblebee, and how he was covering for his time at the Autobot base.
2. The Bigger They Are.... — Now Megatron was dead, the kids could work on their science projects with the help of the Autobots. Meanwhile Optimus Prime and Bumblebee had a fight with Skyquake that Raf wished he saw.
3. Scraplets Scare! — Bulkhead and Bumblebee brought a big pod back from the Arctic, and then Raf found a cute little bot that was like a friendly dog. But then it attacked Bumblebee and Raf had to kill it with a pipe. And then there were HUNDREDS of them and the kids had to fix an Energon pipe to get the GroundBridge working.
4. Don't Judge a Bot by Its Cover — One of Bulkhead's old friends came to visit, and they had a party. Miko's guitar playing seemed to be getting better, and Raf showed Bumblebee how to do the Robot. But Bulkhead said Wheeljack wasn't acting like himself and they realized they had a REAL LIVE CON in the base. Then the real Wheeljack came back and they had another party before he left for reals. Everyone was bummed.
5. One Laptop, Over Easy — The Autobots helped Fowler transport the Dingus, and Raf's laptop got fried in a hacking incident, so Ratchet helped him fix it.
6. Breaking and Energon — The kids broke into a museum to steal an Energon Harvester, but it was for a good reason, honest!
7. Playing the Race Car — Raf let Bee help Jack impress some girl and they all got in trouble with Optimus.
8. Bugging Out — Jack and Arcee had an encounter with Airachnid in the woods, and now Arcee's all quiet.
9. Inside Megatron's Mind — Optimus caught Cybonic Plague and Bumblebee entered Megatron's mind to find the cure. Now Bumblebee is acting funny.
10. Out of My Comfort Zone — Turns out Megatron was in Bumblebee's head. Raf had to stand up to him to help his friend.
11. Zoned Out — Miko got the kids trapped in a ghost dimension and owned up to it later!
12. Nervous Breakdown — Bulkhead helped rescue Breakdown, and Raf got the story from Miko afterwards.
13. Mom Meets MECH — Jack brought his mom in to see the base after she was kidnapped by MECH and Airachid.
14. Stuck With It — Raf is having trouble adjusting to Jack's mom hanging around all the time.
15. A Hard Place — Miko and Jack got stuck in a cave with Decepticons!
16. Split Decision — Raf is proud of Bumblebee for stopping Airachnid when she got hold of an Immobilizer.

Notes

• Raf's Notes were a special feature provided on The Hub's website as an addendum to the cartoon. Apparently, they were nice enough to hack into his laptop for the readers.
• Shortly after entries 3 and 4 went up, that section of the site was temporarily delinked from the rest of the site and reworked before it began updating again. The whole thing was discontinued during a site redesign prior to the start of season 2.
• Note 14 has a continuity error in it: Raf mentions the Decepticons got the Polarity Gauntlet, while in the episode it was last seen being handed to Ratchet, and in front of him! Misinformation campaign, perhaps?
• Raf will like to tell you that this is NOT a diary.

See also

• Archive of Raf's Notes