Quest for Survival

The Autobots find themselves outnumbered when facing an Insecticon Clone Army and look to find a robotic insecticide to destroy them. However, their problems are just going to get bigger when spores from alien plants on Cosmos begin to grow rapidly....

Detailed synopsis

The Decepticons have turned the Insecticons' cloning ability to new heights, to be an unstobbable force that will devour Earth's food resources and convert it into Energon. Like a horde of mechanical locusts (literally in the case of Kickback's clones), they will devour Earth's crops and cause the human race to starve to death. The Autobots make an attempt to stop the Insecticons, but they are too many in number, and are forced to retreat. At the Autobot base, the Autobots explain what happened to Optimus Prime, when Bumblebee, Spike Witwicky, and Cosmos contact Prime, saying that they found some robotic insecticide on Floron Three. As they leave, however, something grabs hold of Cosmos, and and he is barely able to escape. Returing to the Decepticon base, the Insecticons convert the food they've eaten into Energon, but only get one Energon cube each. Megatron claims that this is because of the costly energy conversion process, but in another room, the Decepticons are busily converting massive amounts of energy into Energon. Megatron muses that the Decepticons would be deadly if they weren't so stupid.

On his reapproach to Earth, Cosmos discovers that spores from whatever attacked him are growing across his hull, and he is losing control of his systems. Bumblebee and Spike manage to abandon ship before Cosmos crashes, and go to get help. Arriving back at the base, Bumblebee discovers that spores are attached to his body, but Ratchet manages to get them off. Prime attempts to contact Cosmos, only to discover that the valley he crashed in has ben overtaken by the planet like machines. As the Autobot leader leads a rescue mission, Laserbeak learns of the Insecticide, and reports it to Soundwave. Megatron takes a team to retrieve it before the Autobots can...and in case he might need the insecticide himself.

At the base, Perceptor and Prowl discover that the spores are Morphobots, a plant like species that the Transformers believed was extinct. They contact Prime, warning him that the Morphobots are particularly fond of robotic lifeforms. Elsewhere, Thrust is overseeing the Insecticons, when Megatron orders him to warn the Insecticons to stay away from the valley. The Insecticons suspect that Megatron is hiding something, and attack Thrust, after which they take the entire clone army to the valley.

At the valley, the Decepticons arrive first, only to discover the Morhpobots. Starscream fires first, only to have the blast from his null-ray deflected right back at him. Before Megatron can choke a bitch properly admonish Starscream, Soundwave detects the Autobots. Megatron decides to let Prime do the work of getting the Insecticide for him. Warpath fires a blast, but gets nowhere; Ironhide's liquid nitrogen only freezes them momentarily. Blaster begins broadcasting, which causes the morphobots to recoil. Bumblebee, Ironhide, Hoist, and Blaster take Cosmos out of the field. Then, Megatron and the Decepticons attack, destroying the insecticide. However, the morphobots also attack the Decepticons. As things get bad, the Insecticons arrive. Megatron believes the noble creatures are coming to save them. Obviously his logic circuits fail to tell him just how many things are wrong with his idea. Believing them to be food, the Insecticon clones fly straight into the field, and the morphobots consume all the clones. The original Insecticons manage to escape, and the Decepticons follow.

At their base, the Autobots have loaded the morphobots into a shuttle, intended to take them to a world with a large robotic insect population. However, Perceptor requests that a second shuttle be prepared as soon a possible, as the morphobots he has been studying have become a little too friendly for his tastes.

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Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Others
		Regulars Guests

Notable quotes

"If the Insecticons had brains, they'd be dangerous MUHAHAHAHA!"
-- Megatron after tricking the Insecticons that there was not enough energon to give them.

"You'll never get away with this Megatron."
"And who will stop me Prime?"
-- Optimus Prime and Megatron, the latter of the two not noticing a Morphobot about to attack.

"Just don't stand there with your cockpits open you fools!"
-- Megatron While being drug along the ground by a morphobot.

"The Insecticons! Those noble creatures have come to save us, despite the danger to their own lives."
-- Megatron seeing the Insecticon army approach the battlefield.

"Looks like Megatron is in trouble."
"If I wasn't so hungry, I would help him out. HAHAHAHAHAH!"
-- Kickback and Bombshell as they lead the Insecticon army onto the battlefield.

"You didn't tell us they'd bite back!"
-- Kickback as he sees the Insecticon clones get eaten by the Morphobots.

"I don't believe it, those plants just ate the entire Insecticon army!"
"But those three ingrates got away."
"I think we better get out of here!"
-- Starscream and Megatron after seeing the entire Insecticon army, except the three original Insecticons, get eaten by the Morphobots.

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Miscellaneous trivia

• Okay, seriously...robotic insecticide?

Keywords

Robotic insecticide, Morphobot, Energon convertor

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