Dinobot Island, Part 1

The Dinobots are sent to a mysterious, prehistoric island for training. But the Decepticons intend to plunder it's energy resources.

Synopsis

Bumblebee and Powerglide are dispatched to investigate mysterious energy readings emanating from from the sea. What they discover is an island filled with long thought extinct lifeforms, including Dinosaurs. Returning to the base, they inform Optimus Prime and the Autobots. Spike is fascinated, but Cliffjumper dismisses it, what with the problems the Dinobots cause them. Wheeljack defends the Dinobots, and brings Grimlock out to show them. Grimlock displays his "finesse" by using his fire breath to turn on Blaster, impressing Prime and causing Ironhide, Trailbreaker, and Sideswipe grimace in pain. Hearing the commotion, the other Dinobots arrive, and cause Grimlock to mess up, sending his fire breath all over the place. Prime realizes that the base is too small for the Dinobots to train in, and decides to have Powerglide lead them to Dinobot Island, as Spike has called the island. However, Ravage overhears this, and Soundwave sends Laserbeak to follow them.

Arriving at the island, the Dinobots are impressed with the wide open spaces. However, Spike gets into trouble with the local fauna, nearly getting eaten twice. Spike decides to go home with Powerglide, while the Dinobots work on their skills, such as Slag's "fire stuff", Snarl's "tail stuff" and Swoop's "flying stuff". However, Laserbeak reports his findings back to Megatron, who decides to plunder the island's multiple energy sources.

Spike, having had enough of real dinosaurs, decides to check out some books with Bumblebee. However, while at the library, they see a temporal distortion, out of which comes barbarians riding wholly mamoths. They begin randomly attacking things, destroying the library and burying Spike and Bumblebee under a ton of rubble. At Dinobot island, the Dinobots discover the Decepticon presence, and attack. However, Megatron causes the native Dinosaurs to stampede toward the Dinobots, causing them to fall into a tar pit, which they sink into.

To be continued...

Quotes

"What that is, Sludge?"
"Uh, Sludge not know. Maybe it time to do our thing?"

-- Slag and Sludge

"Slag, Sludge, go away! Me Grimlock demonstrating finess. Whatever that mean."

-- Grimlock

Notes

Animation errors/glitches

• An unnamed Pterosaur (with an appearance that fits the description of a Dimorphodon, only much, much larger) somehow manages to catch Spike and fly with him to her nest. There, Spike founds himself among three giant eggs. I maaay be nit-picky here, but each of those things is in fact bigger than the animal that laid them. The mother actually looks like a newly hatched chick next to them. I don't even want to know how she managed to lay those eggs...

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Transformer references

• This part featured the first appearances of the Autobots Red Alert, Blaster, Grapple, Tracks, Hoist and Smokescreen, and the Decepticons Ramjet, Thrust and Blitzwing.

Real world references

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Miscellaneous trivia

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