The Secret of the Ruins

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<tr style="font-size:14px;"> <td class="tti_buttonlink">« </td><td>Transformers: Robots in Disguise ep <strong class="selflink">6 </strong>

</td><td class="tti_buttonlink">» </td></tr></table> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px; background-color:#ffffff;" align="center"> <img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/3/3a/Thesecretoftheruins_titlecard.jpg/300px-Thesecretoftheruins_titlecard.jpg" width="300" height="224" border="0" /><br />This looks familiar... </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color:#e7d492; color:black;font-weight:bold;" align="center"> "The Secret of the Ruins" <div style="font-size:x-small;font-weight:normal;">ギガトロンの襲撃! <br />(Gigatron no Shūgeki!) <br />"Gigatron's Raid!"</div> </td></tr>

<tr> <td> Airdate </td><td> 10 May, 2000 (Japanese)<br />October 11, 2001 (English) </td></tr>

<tr> <td> Written by </td><td> Junki Takegami (Japanese)<br />Tom Wyner (English) </td></tr>

</table> Predacons attack.<br /> Invasion of the city.<br /> Sky-Byte finds ruins.

Synopsis

I'm telling you the cafe is right around here!

In daylight, in the middle of Metro City, Megatron and his Predacons attack, hoping to draw out the Autobots. T-AI contacts the Autobot Brothers, but can only find Prowl and X-Brawn, who report they're busy looking for Side Burn and Koji, who've gone to explore some old ruins. T-AI orders Team Bullet Train into the city instead. The three trainbots transform and walk through the city towards the Predacons, who immediately attack with Gas Skunk's acid breath. Railspike uses missiles to ignite Gas Skunk's breath, and the incompetent skunk runs around, frying his two teammates. From the base, Optimus Prime notes that the Predacons apparently aren't trying to heist some energy supply, and he is suspicious that the attack might be more than meets the eye.

Sky-Byte, who wasn't at Megatron's attack on the city, explores a mountain range, looking for mysterious ruins, which the Predacons learned about by using the psycho-probe to take the information from the mind of Dr. Onishi. Sky-Byte spies Side Burn, who is in the area with Koji to search for the same ruins, which Koji explains were left by the "Piyuma" Native Americans.

Koji, I can't see!

Koji and Side Burn find the ruins and enter inside on foot. Sky-Byte, who has followed the pair, fires missiles inside after them, trying to trap them inside. Side Burn detects the missiles in advance, and he tries to race through the cave (passing by Kelly, who also happened to be exploring the ruins). After he eventually dodges the missiles, Side Burn radios a mayday message to base for help.

The Predacon Trio continue to get beaten by Team Bullet Train. Megatron, tired of waiting for Prime, engages the Autobots. Instead of helping out in the city, Prime goes to aid Side Burn.

Jaws V: The Reconciliation

Sky-Byte, unaware that he's failed to kill Side Burn and his human friend, and also unaware that more Autobots are on the way, voyages into the ruins to find whatever made them so important to Dr. Onishi, assuming that it must be a source of power. Prime arrives and uses his flying fist to knock Sky-Byte down some stairs. Rather than fight Prime, Sky-Byte grabs the chest that holds the ruins' prize and races outside.

Megatron, hearing that Sky-Byte has completed his mission, calls off the urban attack. Instead of letting him escape unharmed, Team Bullet Train combine into Rail Racer and deliver a solid punch. The wounded Megatron retreats in his jet mode.

Exiting the ruins, Sky-Byte runs into the Autobot Brothers. The three blast Sky-Byte, who drops the chest in defeat. Prime catches the chest. With both Predacon attacks over, the Autobots open the chest and discover the prize: a photo of Koji and Dr. Onishi that the doctor stashed in the caves last time he and his son visited them. But more importantly, in the frame of the picture, the Autobots find a microchip that could advance the plot.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

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• Optimus Prime (6)
• T-AI (7)
• Prowl (8)
• X-Brawn (9)
• Railspike (10)
• Rapid Run (11)
• Midnight Express (12)
• Side Burn (13)
• Rail Racer (16)

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• Megatron (1)
• Dark Scream (2)
• Slapper (3)
• Gas Skunk (4)

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• Koji Onishi (14)
• Kelly (15)

Guests

• Dorie Dutton (5)

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Notable quotes

"It's the talking car. And guided missiles—but they didn't talk."

—Kelly

"Now, Autobots... Let's see how you do against a real opponent. You'll soon discover that all your powers combined won't be enough to defeat me."<br /> "Do you talk this much all the time, or only when you've got two mouths?"

—Megatron fails to intimidate Rapid Run.

Other notes

Animation and/or technical glitches

• This is one of the most disjointed episodes of the series, with lots of re-edited and repeated footage to cover the cut-down city fight between Megatron and Team Bullet Train. This has introduced errors such as Megatron randomly changing modes from shot to shot.
• After Side Burn ditches the missiles and transforms, the smoke around his feet appears to move backwards and forwards.

Continuity errors

• Optimus Prime describes Sky-Byte as "very clever."
• Dark Scream's "center laser" acts as a freeze-ray whereas it's never been used as such before.
• Dr. Onishi was previously presented as an energy expert, but Koji explicitly refers to him as an archaeologist in this episode.

Real-world references

• Images in Dr. Onishi's mind include the Statue of Liberty, Arc De Triomphe and London Bridge.

Miscellaneous trivia

• Due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the completed English dub of this episode was held back and re-edited for content. The original opening scene of the episode, featuring scenes of city destruction, was removed and replaced with animation of Megatron's attack on New York from the first episode, and Tifanie Christun's lines for Dorie Dutton were re-recorded by Sandy Fox, sans a reference to "robo-terrorism of the mid-1980s". The episode did not air until the following month, well into the multiple-episodes-per-week run of the series. It has never been broadcast in its original dubbed form, and the redubbed episode is the only version included on the R2 DVD set.
• This episode shows one of the only times a Transformer has switched to robot mode while carrying a human passenger. Rather than being squished to death, Koji is ejected.

External links

• The Secret of the Ruins on RiDForever.info