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[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] is giving an impromptu lecture to the other [[Autobot]]s about the dangers of horses, using a toy rocking horse as a teaching aide. [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] is skeptical, but Strongarm maintains that since many of the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'''s inmates resemble Earth animals, it never hurts to be prepared. [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] is less than impressed, and heads off to train in the woods alone. | [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] is giving an impromptu lecture to the other [[Autobot]]s about the dangers of horses, using a toy rocking horse as a teaching aide. [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] is skeptical, but Strongarm maintains that since many of the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'''s inmates [[Animal Motifs|resemble Earth animals]], it never hurts to be prepared. [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] is less than impressed, and heads off to train in the woods alone. | ||
[[File:BuzzOnWindblade Sideswipe fights Windblade.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Only after we have mistakenly fought can we team up.]] | [[File:BuzzOnWindblade Sideswipe fights Windblade.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Only after we have mistakenly fought can we team up.]] | ||
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 "Windblade to Cybertron, I've got an AWOL Autobot." "Tell me I wasn't this delude-" "No backtalk! I have a sword and I will use it!" "You mean a sword made out of plastic?" | ||||||
| "The Buzz on Windblade" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | June 15, 2015 (Australian iTunes) August 22, 2015 (USA) | |||||
| Writer | Mairghread Scott | |||||
| Director | Todd Waterman | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures | |||||
The Bee Team encounters a new Autobot, sent to Earth long ago.
Synopsis
Strongarm is giving an impromptu lecture to the other Autobots about the dangers of horses, using a toy rocking horse as a teaching aide. Bumblebee is skeptical, but Strongarm maintains that since many of the Alchemor's inmates resemble Earth animals, it never hurts to be prepared. Sideswipe is less than impressed, and heads off to train in the woods alone.
While racing through the forest, Sideswipe overhears a fight, and stumbles across Scratch, locked in combat with a jet. The jet gains the upper hand and transforms into an unfamiliar Autobot, who overpowers and incapacitates the Decepticon. Sideswipe tries to compliment her on her takedown, but she mistakes him for another escaped Decepticon. The Autobot nearly takes him down until she notices his Autobot insignia. The Autobot introduces herself as Windblade, a fellow Autobot on a mission of her own.
Back at the scrapyard, the Decepticon is safely in a stasis pod. Windblade is quickly making friends with Bumblebee and his team, much to Strongarm's dismay. Strongarm asks if she was sent by the Council, but Windblade reveals Primus himself sent her to Earth! She recounts that a thousand years ago, Primus warned her of a rising evil, and sent her into stasis after modifying her body and enhancing her sensors. Having reawakened a month ago, Windblade has been secretly tracking down and imprisoning fugitive Decepticons. Strongarm is still skeptical of Windblades's story, but Sideswipe is even more impressed with her. Windblade detects another Decepticon signal nearby, and helps Fixit get a lock on it. The team rolls out after Windblade comes up with a catchy motto, impressing Bumblebee.
The team eventually arrive outside a nearby airfield, where a trio of human planes are behaving erratically. Strongarm is still unenthusiastic about having to work with Windblade, but finds herself partnered with Windblade, Grimlock, and Sideswipe. They work their way toward the airport's entrance, but Strongarm accidentally tips off one of the humans, who orders the nearest "drones" to divebomb the Autobots. The four Autobots make a run for the hangar — although Strongarm thinks that they should contact Bumblebee first — and manage to get inside.
Once inside, the Autobots discover their target: a bee-like Decepticon who controls humans with her toxic sting. Even worse, the Decepticon boasts that her loyal workers are planning to spread this toxin to airports all over the world! As the Autobots move closer, the Decepticon takes her two nearest workers hostage, and threatens to kill them if the Autobots try to arrest her. Windblade calls the bluff and promptly draws her sword, but Strongarm trips her before the Decepticon notices. Realizing that they cannot endanger innocent humans, the Autobots temporarily retreat.
"We can take 'em; it's not like they have man-made Transformers, right?"
Outside, Windblade confronts Strongarm about her interference. Strongarm retorts that all human lives are worth saving. Windblade is surprised, but realizes that Strongarm is right. After filling Bumblebee and Drift in on the situation, Bumblebee has Fixit try to find a match for their quarry. Fixit tells them that they're up against Zizza, a Decepticon who tried to pull a similar mind-control stunt back on Cybertron. Strongarm, having studied the behavior of Earth bees, hatches a new plan. Realizing that Zizza needs heat to stay active, Strongarm tells her allies that she knows how to make Zizza "chill out".
The group surrounds the hangar and swings into action; Grimlock distracts some of Zizza's drones while Slipstream and Jetstorm cut the power, deactivating Zizza's heat lamps. Fixit warns Bumblebee that there's a plane requesting landing clearance. Bumblebee orders Fixit to hack into the control tower and divert the plane. Meanwhile, the mind-controlled pilots move in to intercept the plane. Bumblebee asks Windblade to reach the landing plane first, and Sideswipe tags along to assist. After Sideswipe forces the brainwashed pilots to land, Fixit manages to hack into the Control Tower, and diverts the plane to another airfield.
Strongarm watches the interception, but then notices Zizza trying to flee. Strongarm tries to weigh Zizza down while dodging her stingers. Windblade and Sideswipe pass by, and their combined efforts manage to knock Zizza into a tanker filled with refrigerated foam, incapacitating the temperature-sensitive Decepticon and allowing Strongarm to slap a pair of stasis cuffs on her target.
With the airfield back to normal and the humans recovering with no memory of the event, Windblade announces that she's off to continue her own mission. Sideswipe begs her not to go, even pleading Bumblebee to say otherwise. Before she leaves though, Windblade makes amends with Strongarm, admitting that her reckless plan almost cost innocent lives. With a mutual respect slowly growing between the two, Windblade transforms and flies away. Sideswipe compliments Strongarm on her plan... leaving Strongarm wondering if she just heard a genuine compliment from her comrade.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
Strongarm: And the lower appendages, or 'hooves', of real horses can cause significant injury.
Bumblebee: Uh, Strongarm, horses aren't generally aggressive unless provoked.
Strongarm: Perhaps not, sir. But given how many of the Alchemor's inmates are analogous to Earth's animals, it is vital that we understand any-
Sideswipe: Enough!
- —In the classroom with Miss Strongarm
Windblade: Looks like this team you've put together has had a pretty high success rate. The mark of good leadership.
Bumblebee: [bashful] Heh, well… I had solid raw materials to begin with.
Windblade: If Slick here is any indication, I'd say that's probably true.
Strongarm: [muttering] Slick?
- —The rest of the team meets Windblade
Windblade: Let's crank some pistons and cross some distance!
Sideswipe: Yeah-ha-ha, alright!
Grimlock: That's how you do it!
Bumblebee: Now, how did you come up with that so fast? Cause I've had the worst time.
- —In which Bumblebee finds a catchphrase mentor
Notes
Continuity notes
- Windblade mentions having been reactivated a month ago, suggesting that is how much time has passed since the Alchemor crash.
Prisoner manifest
- In stasis: Hammerstrike, Bisk, Chop Shop, Terrashock, Filch, Minitron, Springload, Ped, Quillfire, "that one with all the eyes", Malodor and the Skunkticons, Nightstrike, Vertebreak, Octopunch, Groundpounder, Headlock, Scowl, Scratch, Zizza
- Known at large: Steeljaw, Thunderhoof, Underbite, Clampdown, Kickback
- Released: Grimlock
- Countless others all missing, presumed at large
Transformers references
- Per War for Cybertron, Primus is depicted as being the core of Cybertron.
- Sideswipe performs Jet judo.
Real-world references
- Grimlock clambers up the air control tower while being attacked by planes, an obvious homage to King Kong.
- Windblade's transformation by Primus is a direct reference to the transformation sequences in magical girl anime, most famously Sailor Moon.
Animation and technical errors
- When Drift and Bumblebee ward off the planes, Drift has his Mini-Cons un-deployed. When it cuts to him swinging his swords, the Mini-Cons are no longer there. They return when Drift is ready to deploy them.
Trivia
- Far be it from us to question the Lord of Light, but one does wonder why Windblade wasn't awoken to help deal with the Terrorcon apocalypse, Unicron's reactivation, or the potential obliteration of Earth's biosphere. However, it was previously implied in Prime (and various "Aligned" material), that Primus was dormant during the events of the Great War due to Dark Energon poisoning and was not revived until the core was purified after Megatron's defeat; therefore, he was unable to awaken Windblade until now.
- Later episodes ("Graduation Exercises", "Defrosted" and "Blurred") would seem to retcon this by implying that Windblade was active on Earth at some point in the past, before going into stasis. "Moon Breaker" would take this even a step further, with a line of dialogue implying she was active in other solar systems before that, as she had at least one cache on the moon, which she states was her "first cache in [Earth's] solar system".
- Strongarm brought up the fact that most of the Alchemor's prisoners resemble Earth animals, and how they share some of the same strengths and weaknesses.
- Like Filch, Zizza is unusual among the Decepticons in this series, having a bestial alt-mode, rather than an animal-styled robot mode and a vehicle alt-mode. A handful more beast-moded characters would go on to appear as the series went on.
Foreign localization
Danish
- Title: "Windblade flyver ind" ("Windblade flies in")
- Original airdate: ?
Finnish
- Title: "Mehiläiskuningatar"
- Original airdate: ?
French
Hungarian
- Title: "A királynő" ("The Queen")
- Original airdate: October 2, 2015
Italian
- Title: "Windblade"
- Original airdate: September 22, 2015
Japanese
- Title: "Densetsu no Joseisenshi, Windblade" (伝説の女性戦士、ウィンドブレード, "The Legendary Female Warrior, Windblade")
- Original airdate: November 22, 2015
Norwegian
- Title: "Det summer runt Windblade" ("Buzzing around Windblade")
- Original airdate: ?
Polish
- Title: "Ach ta Windblade" ("Oh that Windblade"; as in a 'Oh you' remark)
- Original airdate: September 18, 2015
Swedish
- Title: "Decepticon med sting" ("Decepticon with a Sting")
- Original airdate: ?
Home video releases
- DVD
2016 — Transformers Robots in Disguise — Season One (Shout! Factory)
2016 — Transformers Robots in Disguise — Battlegrounds (Beyond Home Entertainment)
