Whiteout

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"My legs are frozen solid! You're going to have to cut them off with a saw!"
"Whiteout"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	September 29, 2018
Writer	Kate Leth
Directors	Robert Cullen & Ehud Landsberg
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

A mysterious clue from Bumblebee's memory leads Windblade on a treacherous journey.

Synopsis

At some point in the past, a disoriented Bumblebee comes to on an icy mountainside, and is briefly confused by a mountain goat.

In the present day, Windblade, still inside Bumblebee's mind, finishes watching yet another memory. Although Bumblebee still can't remember anything meaningful about the location of the Ark, Windblade finds the image of the mountain familiar and consults the ship's logs to determine that they're in the Himalayas. Leaving a disappointed Bumblebee to guard the ship, she sets off. In the meantime, Bumblebee distracts himself by watching some human television on the scout ship's monitors.

Having arrived in the Himalayas, Windblade is unaware that her communications with Bumblebee have been picked up by the Decepticons Thundercracker and Nova Storm. Their commander Slipstream instructs them to follow the signal while she catches up with them.

Somewhere in the upper slopes of the mountain range, Windblade arrives at the spot she saw in Bumblebee's memory and uses her fans to reveal a stasis pod of Autobot manufacture and a blaster, both left abandoned in the snow. Unfortunately, that's all she finds: her scans are unable to pick up the Ark itself, and she's unaware that the Decepticons have tailed her to her present location until the three Seekers reveal themselves!

Captured by the Decepticons, Windblade is interrogated by Slipstream for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, her glib answers only infuriating Slipstream and providing her with the window to break free and escape. A battle ensues as Windblade makes her escape, and though Windblade is able to send Thundercracker tumbling off a cliff but is fine, Nova Storm proves a tougher foe, and Windblade herself is thrown off the same cliff, then transforms flying up and knocking Nova Storm unconscious, then uses her fans to drop Slipstream before finally escaping.

Back at the ship, Windblade catches up with Bumblebee about her adventure, and happily presents him with his old blaster. Now, Windblade is certain that they're on the right track: the Ark is somewhere on Earth, and they'll have to find it before the Decepticons do!

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Bumblebee (1) Windblade (2)	Thundercracker (3) Nova Storm (4) Slipstream (5)

Quotes

"All I can remember is those little creatures. They were very kind - they took me in, they treated me as one of their own. They even kept butting me with their cute little heads."

—Bumblebee

"Found you!"
goat bleats
"Not you."
-Windblade

Notes

Continuity notes

• The crew of the Ark entered stasis during their deep space voyage in "The Journey," though how the ship got from there to Earth is a tale that has yet to be told.
• Windblade warns Bumblebee not to push the ship's buttons, a callback to "Memory (Cyberverse)," where his impulsive button-pushing blew their cover.

Transformers references

• TBD

Real-world references

• Bumblebee is shown watching a spoof of the game show Wheel of Fortune.

Trivia

• Mountain goats don't actually live in the Himalayas, though the closely related Himalayan tahr does exist there.

Animation and technical errors

• TBD

Continuity errors

• TBD

Foreign localization

• TBD

Home video releases

• TBA