Driving a Wedge

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Wedge, he needed that!
"Driving a Wedge"
Production code	130
Season	1
No. in season	30
Production company	Allspark Animation
Airdate	February 23, 2019
Writers	Ciarán Morrison and Mick O'Hara
Director	Pete Slattery
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

Griffin Rock Teen Pioneer Wes wins a day at the Academy to spend with each of the Recruits in turn. However, Wedge keeps avoiding spending time with him as unlike the other bots he doesn't think that a mere construction bot has anything to offer.

Synopsis

Wedge is excited because he's heard a rumour that there'll be a guest visiting the academy, and he's assuming it's Bumblebee. Heatwave, however, introduces them to Wes, a Teen Pioneer who won an emergency response competition and gets to spend the day with the recruits. Hot Shot volunteers to show Wes around the base, and is impressed when the human reveals he knows Hot Shot is a Cube player. Wedge is uninterested in the whole thing and announces he's heading for the lab. Hot Shot is soon showing off his skills at a agility course to Wes, who also manages to successfully complete the course, despite it being built at Bot size. Wes finds Wedge working on an hydro-fusion drive but when Wedge sees who's joined him, he gathers up the drive and goes elsewhere. Medix senses Wes is unhappy and offers to spend some time with him.

Wedge bumps into Heatwave, who suggests he spend some time with Wes. Wes, meanwhile, has finished bandaging up Tough Luck Chuck and goes to find Wedge again. He offers to help Wedge with the hydro-fusion drive, but Wedge again blows him off and Wes instead goes to spend time with Hoist. The pair practice their lassooing in a Hero Hall simulation, though Hoist ends up tangled in ropes. They go to look for Wedge, but when he can't be found, Wes instead goes flying with Whirl. The other recruits find Wedge hanging out in the garden, but he's still disinterested in spending time with Wes. Whirl and Wes find Wedge, and Wes attempts to show Wedge something from his journal, but Wedge leaves and a despondant Wes throws his journal away.

Whirl finds Wedge outside and Wedge admits he doesn't think hanging out with him is going to be very exciting since he just turns into construction equipment. Whirl shows him Wes's journal and reveals that he's Wes's favorite Rescue Bot recruit. Wedge realizes he's messed up big time. The alarm draws them to the GroundBridge, where it turns out that there's an emergency in Griffin Rock, and Wes has run through the GroundBridge ahead of everyone else. The recruits rush through to find Wes helping out some workers at a construction site as the building they're working on threatens to collapse. Wedge supports the building while Wes gets a worker clear, but has to get Wes's help to activate his fusion clamps. Back at base, Wedge apologises for the way he's treated Wes. The other recruits are ready to spend more time with Wes, but Wedge announces it's his turn.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Humans	Others
Wedge (1) Hot Shot (2) Hoist (3) Medix (4) Whirl (5) Heatwave (6)	Wes (7)	Tough Luck Chuck (8)

Quotes

"Very impressive! You have taken to pressure bandage application like a water fowl to H₂O."
"You mean like a duck to water?"

—Medix and Wes

"Can you explain why humans love watching videos of kittens?"

—Medix

"OK, see what I just did? Don't do that."

—Hoist

Notes

Continuity notes

• TBA

Transformers references

• Wedge just swore by Scraplets.

Animation and technical errors

• TBA

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "Wedge, mon héros" ("Wedge, my hero")
• Original airdate: ?