Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos

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"Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos"
Production company	Allspark Animation
Airdate	February 24, 2020 (UK)
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

Bumblebee must travel to Cybertron's forbidden moon to help Windblade.

Synopsis

A bot finds a new planet and begins to scope it out with his partner Cosmos, who is attacked by their leader as the intro begins for... Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire! And Cosmos!

In the sickbay, Bumblebee finds another shard on Luna 3... the forbidden moon. Luckily, Chromia knows a bot who can break him in, and Bee follows her directions to a shuttle. Inside, said bot sits sulkily watching reruns of Alien Hunt! while chugging mugs of energon. The bot mourns the loss of his partner as he watches a rerun of her abduction. He turns off the screen as Bee enters, the scout becoming starstruck as he realizes he is speaking with Meteorfire, the star of Alien Hunt!. Explaining his circumstances, Meteorfire signs a mug and gives it to Bee, who loses the starstruck vibe enough to recruit him to infiltrate Luna 3. The former TV star agrees, and uses the opportunity to film a new episode for his show.

Disabling the quarantine generator, Meteorfire makes his way inside with Bumblebee close behind. Bee tracks Windblade's shard to the moon's dark side, though to his exasperation, Meteorfire instead opts to scout out the old communications hub. He finds the flier examining the computer terminals, but runs in fear at the sight of Shockwave's ghost trying to grab him. Making his way out, he is greeted by the ghost of Blurr, and later comes under siege from phantom Seekers. He returns fire, hitting a few before they disappear and also hitting one of Meteorfire's drones.

As they make their way closer to Windblade, Meteorfire alerts Bumblebee that he is possessed. They find Windblade's shard in what Meteorfire dubs a obicular-class parasitic entity, explaining its telepathic abilities were responsible for his possession and the visions of Bumblebee's fears. Although Meteorfire puts on a brave face, his fear overtakes him when the entity surprises him and begins consuming him. Charging up with multiverse energy, Bee kills the alien with a single punch, absorbing the free shard of Windblade.

Another surprise comes when Cosmos emerges alive from the wreckage, reuniting her with an overjoyed Meteorfire. As it turns out, the entity took Cosmos prisoner so she could take it to Cybertron, allowing it to feed off the whole planet. Her desertion was the result of her attempt to halt its plans. As the show returns to screen with Cosmos' return, Hot Rod points out to Grimlock and Arcee that Bee's on the show, while they simply express gratitude that the show is back on the air.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Ghosts
Bumblebee Chromia Windblade Meteorfire Cosmos Arcee Hot Rod Grimlock Perceptor	Shockwave Blurr Various Seekers

Notes

Continuity notes

• Among Meteorfire's alien junk is Starscream's Quintesson judge head, confirming his death in "The End Of The Universe IV".
• The entity haunts Bumblebee with the ghosts of Shockwave, who died trying to corrupt the AllSpark in "The Battle For Cybertron IV"); Blurr, who died from the Rust Plague breakout on Velocitron in "Terminal Velocity"); and several Seekers, who were killed by Starscream in "I Am The Allspark").

Transformers references

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Real-world references

• The (largely) possessed Meteorfire's head turns 180 degrees, an overused reference to The Exorcist.

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