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|prev=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next=Where Is Thy Sting?
|series=Anitoon
|ep=30, 31 and 32
|title="TransWarped"
|airdate=[[March 14]], 2009
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=
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'''In the aftermath of the battle at the mine, Sari and her father’s relationship takes a strange turn; the Autobots have their work cut out for them trying to contact Cybertron; and Megatron and Starscream find a new opportunity'''
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==Synopsis==
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===Part 1===
<td class="tti_buttonlink">'''<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Close%2C_Part_II" title="A Bridge Too Close, Part II">«</a>'''
[[Image:TransWarpedRodimusCosmicRust.jpg|thumb|180px|No fair, I just got here!]]
</td><td>'''''<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Animated_%28cartoon%29" title="Transformers Animated (cartoon)">Transformers Animated</a>'' ep <strong class="selflink">30, 31 and 32</strong>'''
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Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, a contingent of [[Autobots]] led by [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]] defends a [[space bridge]] against the Decepticons' "[[Team Chaar]]", led by [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]]. She, [[Oil Slick]] and [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] strafe [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]], [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] and [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by [[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]], who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the [[Elite Guard]] for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick and Cyclonus proceed to take down Brawn and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus on his own, at which point Blackout arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Strika contacts [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (Animated)|Cybertron]], who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...


[[Image:TransWarpedStarscreamsScream.jpg|thumb|left|180px|How... literal. And disturbingly yonic.]]
</td><td class="tti_buttonlink">'''<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Where_Is_Thy_Sting%3F" title="Where Is Thy Sting?">»</a>'''
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Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins bellowing back at Megatron, the [[AllSpark (Animated|AllSpark]] fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising transformation: his mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...


[[Image:TransWarpedProtoform.jpg|thumb|180px|Hush little baby, don't say a word. Sumdac's gonna buy you a mockingbird.]]
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<td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(231, 212, 146); color: black; font-weight: bold;" align="center"> "TransWarped"
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On [[Earth]], as the Autobots return to [[Detroit]], [[Issac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] explains [[Sari Sundac|Sari's]] origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its end when the group returns to [[Sumdac Tower]] and confronts [[Porter C. Powell]] and [[Henry Masterson]]. When the two men refuse to vacate the premises, Sari's hands transform into energy projectors that hurl the villains to the building's elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father, returning to the Autobots' base with her "fellow robots". While [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—Prowl departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots there of the traitor in their midst.


On a small planetoid somewhere in space, [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's [[Thundercracker (Animated)|egomaniacal]] and [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardly]] clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally running across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of Megatron's invasion plan.


Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits Omega's simple processor and convinces him to take him back to Cybertron "to face justice". Omega transforms back into ship mode and TransWarps off toward Cybertron.


Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a [[Plasmadynamic thruster|plasmadynamic thruster]] space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's headless body from the mine the night before.
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<td> '''Airdate'''
</td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a>, 2009
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At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, and quickly accesses his computers and scans the scientist in an attempt to learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee, and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads out to the mine to investigate.


With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to Sari that he is going to take her to [[Burger Bot]]. Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 pwN4ge!


===Part 2===


===Part 3===


{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (2)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (3)
*[[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]] (4)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (7)
*[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus]] (9)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (10)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (11)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (12)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (17)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (20)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (21)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (22)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (27)
*[[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] (28)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (29)
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (31)
*[[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]] (33)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (34)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (36)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (37)


|c2=
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*[[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] (1)
<td> '''Written by'''
*[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (5)
</td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marty_Isenberg" title="Marty Isenberg">Marty Isenberg</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Michael_Ryan" title="Michael Ryan">Michael Ryan</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marsha_Griffin" title="Marsha Griffin">Marsha Griffin</a>
*[[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] (6)
</td></tr>
*[[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]] (8)
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime/Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] (14)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (15)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Starscream clone|Starscream clones]]
**[[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp, the Coward Starscream II]] (30)
**[[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker, the Egomaniac Starscream]] (32)


|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac]] (24)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|The Headmaster]] (25)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (26)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (35)


|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (23)
*[[Rock creature|Rock creatures]] (38)
}}


==Quotes==
"Bulkhead and genius in the same sentance? I'll never get used to that."<br>
:—'''Bumblebee''' shows his high opinion of his best friend.


&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt; '''Directed&nbsp;by'''
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matt_Youngberg" title="Matt Youngberg"&gt;Matt Youngberg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Yoshio_Frank_Chatani&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Yoshio Frank Chatani"&gt;Yoshio Frank Chatani&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Tetsuro_Moronuki&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Tetsuro Moronuki"&gt;Tetsuro Moronuki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Yutaka_Kagawa&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Yutaka Kagawa"&gt;Yutaka Kagawa&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;


'''Masterson:''' Cut it out and fight like a robot!<br>
''[Optimus fully transforms]''<br>
'''Optimus:''' Why don't you try fighting like a jet? That is, unless you don't think you can handle transforming. It is pretty difficult. Especially for a "n00b" such as yourself.<br>
'''Masterson:''' N-Nobody calls me a n00b! NOBODY!<br>
:—Optimus hits the Headmaster where it hurts the most—his own vocabulary.




'''Ratchet:''' Last time I checked, I was this team's medic, and I've been doing it this way for over four million stellar cycles! Any bot got a problem with that?<br>
'''Prowl:''' Uh, no, not really.<br>
'''Bulkhead:''' No, I'm good.<br>
:—Ratchet lays down the law on the Autobots.




==Notes==
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===Animation errors===
&lt;b&gt;As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking
* The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the
* When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.  
traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon
* When Sari removes her key in order to place it in the homing beacon generator, the string doesn't actually go over her head... It just phases through her neck. Somehow.
a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate
* Once the key has been removed from Sari, the string attached to it mysteriously reappears.
Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.&lt;/b&gt;


===Continuity errors===
&lt;a name="Synopsis"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Synopsis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
* When Bumblebee gets blown away in Part 1 after being stabbed by Sari, he lands on his back. When it starts again in Part 2, he appears on his side.
&lt;a name="Part_1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Part 1"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Part 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
* Bumblebee’s rocket boosters seemingly appear out of nowhere. Maybe he had just stored them in his backpack?
[[Image:|left|180px|thumb|No fair, I just got here!]]
*Sentinel is back in his Earth body, despite reverting to his original in "[[Autoboot Camp]]".  
Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, a contingent of &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot"&gt;Autobots&lt;/a&gt; led by &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_Prime_%28Animated%29" title="Rodimus Prime (Animated)"&gt;Rodimus Prime&lt;/a&gt; defends a &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge"&gt;space bridge&lt;/a&gt; against the Decepticons' "&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Team_Chaar" title="Team Chaar"&gt;Team Chaar&lt;/a&gt;", led by &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strika_%28Animated%29" title="Strika (Animated)"&gt;Strika&lt;/a&gt;. She, &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Oil_Slick" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil Slick"&gt;Oil Slick&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_%28Animated%29" title="Cyclonus (Animated)"&gt;Cyclonus&lt;/a&gt; strafe &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brawn_%28Animated%29" title="Brawn (Animated)"&gt;Brawn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_%28Animated%29" title="Ironhide (Animated)"&gt;Ironhide&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_%28Animated%29" title="Hot Shot (Animated)"&gt;Hot Shot&lt;/a&gt;, badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_%28Animated%29" title="Red Alert (Animated)"&gt;Red Alert&lt;/a&gt; to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spittor_%28Animated%29" title="Spittor (Animated)"&gt;Spittor&lt;/a&gt;, who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Elite_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite Guard"&gt;Elite Guard&lt;/a&gt;
for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending
space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick
and Cyclonus proceed to take down Blurr and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus
on his own, at which point &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackout_%28Animated%29" title="Blackout (Animated)"&gt;Blackout&lt;/a&gt;
arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic
pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away
when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cosmic_Rust_%28disease%29" title="Cosmic Rust (disease)"&gt;Cosmic Rust&lt;/a&gt;. Strika contacts &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shockwave_%28Animated%29" title="Shockwave (Animated)"&gt;Shockwave&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)"&gt;Cybertron&lt;/a&gt;, who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Animated%29" title="Megatron (Animated)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/a&gt; himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...


===Transformers references===
*As Sari dismisses Isaac Sumdac's story of her origin, she suggests that he should have told her how he found her "in a cabbage patch", or the "stork brought me". These same ideas were suggested by Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead in "[[Return of the Headmaster]]".
*After Sari mentions those theories, Optimus Prime recalls how Sari told him of human manufacturing, which occurred in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".
*While lecturing her on taking it slow with her powers, Ratchet says that there's "more than meets the vis-scanners" on having powers, a clear reference to the time honored Transformers tagline "[[More Than Meets the Eye]]."
*Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are both modeled after Beast Era characters and Blackout's design is heavily influenced by the live action movie version.
*Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I imagined... okay, it's no AllSpark...", in reference to his use of the same phrase to describe the AllSpark in "Transform and Roll Out!" (Except in "Transform and Roll Out!" he added an ever after I.).
*Arcee's open head is based off of one of the covers for [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]", which in turn was based upon a scene in ''Akira''.{{fact}}
*Blurr races along a Saturn-style planetary ring, as [[Blurr (G1)|his namesake]] had done in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 3|Generation 1 season 3]] opening credits.
*The building in which the Autobot Elite Guard have their meeting looks [[Metroplex (G1)|somewhat familiar]].


===Real-world references===
[[Image:|right|180px|thumb|How... literal.  And disturbingly yonic.]]
Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Animated%29" title="Starscream (Animated)"&gt;Starscream&lt;/a&gt;
attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the
Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins
bellowing back at Megatron, the &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/AllSpark_%28Animated%29" title="AllSpark (Animated)"&gt;AllSpark&lt;/a&gt;
fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising
transformation: his mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the
cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two
villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28Animated%29" title="Omega Supreme (Animated)"&gt;Omega Supreme&lt;/a&gt; materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...


===Miscellaneous trivia===
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] confirmed via. Twitter after the show aired that it was made "as one 70 minute movie", although it was also cut into 22-minute episodes for syndication.<ref>[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] - http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450 - "We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s".</ref>
*Ultra Magnus builds a living WMD and makes him purposefully stupid so he won't question his lot in life. Optimus considers throwing an overloading Sari at said death machine in the hopes that if the kid blows, she'll take it with her. ''Damn''.


==References==
[[Image:|left|180px|thumb|Hush little baby, don't say a word.  Sumdac's gonna buy you a mockingbird.]]
<references/>
On &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth"&gt;Earth&lt;/a&gt;, as the Autobots return to &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit"&gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Isaac_Sumdac" title="Isaac Sumdac"&gt;Professor Sumdac&lt;/a&gt; explains &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sari" class="mw-redirect" title="Sari"&gt;Sari&lt;/a&gt;'s
[[Category:Animated episodes]]
origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his
laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari
finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its
end when the group returns to &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sumdac_Tower" title="Sumdac Tower"&gt;Sumdac Tower&lt;/a&gt; and confronts &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Porter_C._Powell" title="Porter C. Powell"&gt;Porter C. Powell&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Headmaster_%28Animated%29" title="Headmaster (Animated)"&gt;Henry Masterson&lt;/a&gt;.
When the two men refuse to vacate the premises, Sari's hands transform
into energy projectors that hurl the villains to the building's
elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she
walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father,
returning to the Autobots' base with her "fellow robots". While &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ratchet_%28Animated%29" title="Ratchet (Animated)"&gt;Ratchet&lt;/a&gt; examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prowl_%28Animated%29" title="Prowl (Animated)"&gt;Prowl&lt;/a&gt; departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Arcee_%28Animated%29" title="Arcee (Animated)"&gt;Arcee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bumblebee_%28Animated%29" title="Bumblebee (Animated)"&gt;Bumblebee&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bulkhead_%28Animated%29" title="Bulkhead (Animated)"&gt;Bulkhead&lt;/a&gt;
head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some
equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots
there of the traitor in their midst.
 
On a small planetoid somewhere in space, &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blurr_%28Animated%29" title="Blurr (Animated)"&gt;Blurr&lt;/a&gt; is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thundercracker_%28Animated%29" title="Thundercracker (Animated)"&gt;egomaniacal&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skywarp_%28Animated%29" title="Skywarp (Animated)"&gt;cowardly&lt;/a&gt;
clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the
egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr
immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally ''running''
across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including
the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of
Megatron's invasion plan.
 
Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's
body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his
internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits
Omega's simple processor and convinces him to take him back to
Cybertron "to face justice". Omega transforms back into ship mode and
TransWarps off toward Cybertron.
 
Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Plasmadynamic_thruster&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Plasmadynamic thruster"&gt;plasmadynamic thruster&lt;/a&gt;
space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While
Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by
Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's
headless body from the mine the night before.
 
At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, and
quickly accesses his computers and scans the scientist in an attempt to
learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck
back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an
exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his
past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee,
and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation
of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the
news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads
out to the mine to investigate.
 
With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up
the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to
Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to
Sari that he is going to take her to &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Burger_Bot" title="Burger Bot"&gt;Burger Bot&lt;/a&gt;.
Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious
at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the
Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through
bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 pwN4ge!
 
 
&lt;a name="Part_2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Part 2"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Part 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;a name="Part_3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Part 3"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Part 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;a name="Featured_characters"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Featured characters"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Featured characters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
 
 
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&lt;th style="background: rgb(255, 238, 238) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobots" class="mw-redirect" title="Autobots"&gt;Autobots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="background: rgb(238, 238, 254) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticons" class="mw-redirect" title="Decepticons"&gt;Decepticons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="background: antiquewhite none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Human" title="Human"&gt;Humans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="background: rgb(255, 238, 184) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; Others
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*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_%28Animated%29" title="Hot Shot (Animated)"&gt;Hot Shot&lt;/a&gt; (2)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brawn_%28Animated%29" title="Brawn (Animated)"&gt;Brawn&lt;/a&gt; (3)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_%28Animated%29" title="Ironhide (Animated)"&gt;Ironhide&lt;/a&gt; (4)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_%28Animated%29" title="Red Alert (Animated)"&gt;Red Alert&lt;/a&gt; (7)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_Prime_%28Animated%29" title="Rodimus Prime (Animated)"&gt;Rodimus Prime&lt;/a&gt; (9)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ultra_Magnus_%28Animated%29" title="Ultra Magnus (Animated)"&gt;Ultra Magnus&lt;/a&gt; (10)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jazz_%28Animated%29" title="Jazz (Animated)"&gt;Jazz&lt;/a&gt; (11)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sentinel_Prime_%28Animated%29" title="Sentinel Prime (Animated)"&gt;Sentinel Prime&lt;/a&gt; (12)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Longarm_Prime" class="mw-redirect" title="Longarm Prime"&gt;Longarm Prime&lt;/a&gt; (13)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28Animated%29" title="Omega Supreme (Animated)"&gt;Omega Supreme&lt;/a&gt; (18)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28Animated%29" title="Optimus Prime (Animated)"&gt;Optimus Prime&lt;/a&gt; (19)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ratchet_%28Animated%29" title="Ratchet (Animated)"&gt;Ratchet&lt;/a&gt; (20)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prowl_%28Animated%29" title="Prowl (Animated)"&gt;Prowl&lt;/a&gt; (21)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bumblebee_%28Animated%29" title="Bumblebee (Animated)"&gt;Bumblebee&lt;/a&gt; (22)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bulkhead_%28Animated%29" title="Bulkhead (Animated)"&gt;Bulkhead&lt;/a&gt; (23)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mainframe_%28Animated%29" title="Mainframe (Animated)"&gt;Mainframe&lt;/a&gt; (28)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Highbrow_%28Animated%29" title="Highbrow (Animated)"&gt;Highbrow&lt;/a&gt; (29)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Arcee_%28Animated%29" title="Arcee (Animated)"&gt;Arcee&lt;/a&gt; (30)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blurr_%28Animated%29" title="Blurr (Animated)"&gt;Blurr&lt;/a&gt; (33)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheeljack_%28Animated%29" title="Wheeljack (Animated)"&gt;Wheeljack&lt;/a&gt; (34)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Perceptor_%28Animated%29" title="Perceptor (Animated)"&gt;Perceptor&lt;/a&gt; (35)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cliffjumper_%28Animated%29" title="Cliffjumper (Animated)"&gt;Cliffjumper&lt;/a&gt; (37)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alpha_Trion_%28Animated%29" title="Alpha Trion (Animated)"&gt;Alpha Trion&lt;/a&gt; (39)
 
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*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_%28Animated%29" title="Cyclonus (Animated)"&gt;Cyclonus&lt;/a&gt; (1)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strika_%28Animated%29" title="Strika (Animated)"&gt;Strika&lt;/a&gt; (5)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Oil_Slick_%28Animated%29" title="Oil Slick (Animated)"&gt;Oil Slick&lt;/a&gt;(6)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spittor_%28Animated%29" title="Spittor (Animated)"&gt;Spittor&lt;/a&gt; (8)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shockwave_%28Animated%29" title="Shockwave (Animated)"&gt;Shockwave&lt;/a&gt; (14)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackout_%28Animated%29" title="Blackout (Animated)"&gt;Blackout&lt;/a&gt; (15)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Animated%29" title="Megatron (Animated)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/a&gt; (16)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Animated%29" title="Starscream (Animated)"&gt;Starscream&lt;/a&gt; (17)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_clone" title="Starscream clone"&gt;Starscream clones&lt;/a&gt;
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skywarp_%28Animated%29" title="Skywarp (Animated)"&gt;Skywarp, the Coward Starscream II&lt;/a&gt; (31)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thundercracker_%28Animated%29" title="Thundercracker (Animated)"&gt;Thundercracker, the Egomaniac Starscream&lt;/a&gt; (32)
 
 
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*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Isaac_Sumdac" title="Isaac Sumdac"&gt;Isaac Sumdac&lt;/a&gt; (24)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Headmaster_%28Animated%29" title="Headmaster (Animated)"&gt;Henry Masterson&lt;/a&gt; (26)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Porter_C._Powell" title="Porter C. Powell"&gt;Porter C. Powell&lt;/a&gt; (27)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Captain_Fanzone" title="Captain Fanzone"&gt;Captain Fanzone&lt;/a&gt; (36)
 
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*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sari_Sumdac" title="Sari Sumdac"&gt;Sari Sumdac&lt;/a&gt; (25)
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rock_creature&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Rock creature"&gt;Rock creatures&lt;/a&gt; (38)
 
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&lt;a name="Quotes"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Quotes"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Quotes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
"Bulkhead and genius? I'll never get used to that."&lt;br&gt;
 
 
:—'''Bumblebee''' shows his high opinion of his best friend.
 
 
'''Masterson''': Cut it out and fight like a robot!&lt;br&gt;
''[Optimus fully transforms]''&lt;br&gt;
'''Optimus''': Why don't you try fighting like a jet? That is, unless
you don't think you can handle transforming. It is pretty difficult.
Especially for a "n00b" such as yourself.&lt;br&gt;
'''Masterson''': N-Nobody calls me a n00b! NOBODY!&lt;br&gt;
 
 
:—Optimus hits the Headmaster where it hurts the most—his own vocabulary.
 
 
'''Ratchet''': Last time I checked, I was this team's medic, and I've
been doing it this way for over four million stellar cycles! Any bot
got a problem with that?&lt;br&gt;
'''Prowl''': Uh, no, not really.&lt;br&gt;
'''Bulkhead''': No, I'm good.&lt;br&gt;
 
 
:—Ratchet lays down the law on the Autobots.
 
&lt;a name="Other_notes"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Other notes"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Other notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;a name="Animation_errors"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Animation errors"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Animation errors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
* The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
 
* When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.
 
* When Sari takes her key and inserts it in the signal
retriever, she does not actually pull it over her head in any way...
The string simply passes through her neck. Somehow.
 
&lt;a name="Continuity_Errors"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Continuity Errors"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Continuity Errors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
*Sentinel is back in his Earth body, despite reverting to his original in &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autoboot_Camp" title="Autoboot Camp"&gt;Autoboot Camp&lt;/a&gt;.
 
&lt;a name="Transformers_references"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Transformers references"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Transformers references&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
*Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a
previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily
based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot
take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are
both modeled after Beast Era characters and Blackout's design is
heavily influenced by the live action movie version.
 
*Optimus mentions how Sari told him of human origins in "&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transform_and_Roll_Out" title="Transform and Roll Out"&gt;Transform and Roll Out&lt;/a&gt;". He &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Sariprime.jpg" title="Image:Sariprime.jpg"&gt;didn't like what he was told&lt;/a&gt;.
 
*Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I ever
imagined... okay, it's no AllSpark...", in reference to his use of the
same phrase to describe the AllSpark in "Transform and Roll Out!".
*Arcee's open head is based off of one of the covers for "&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spotlight:_Arcee" title="Spotlight: Arcee"&gt;Spotlight: Arcee&lt;/a&gt;".
 
*Blurr races along a Saturn-style planetary ring, as &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blurr_%28G1%29" title="Blurr (G1)"&gt;his namesake&lt;/a&gt; had done in the &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Generation 1"&gt;Generation 1&lt;/a&gt; season 3 opening credits. 
 
*The building in which the Autobot Elite Guard have their meeting looks &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Metroplex_%28G1%29" title="Metroplex (G1)"&gt;somewhat familiar&lt;/a&gt;.
 
&lt;a name="Trivia"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Trivia"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Trivia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
*&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Derrick_J._Wyatt" title="Derrick J. Wyatt"&gt;Derrick J. Wyatt&lt;/a&gt; confirmed via Twitter that "TransWarped" was made "as one 70 minute movie",&lt;sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="#cite_note-0" title=""&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; although it was also cut into 22 minute episodes in the same way as "&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transform_and_Roll_Out" title="Transform and Roll Out"&gt;Transform and Roll Out&lt;/a&gt;" was.
 
*Ultra Magnus builds a living WMD and makes him purposefully
stupid so he won't question his lot in life. Optimus considers throwing
an overloading Sari at said death machine in the hopes that if the kid
blows, she'll take it with her. Damn.
 
* Normally, an &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28Armada%29" title="Optimus Prime (Armada)"&gt;Optimus&lt;/a&gt; fuses with an &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28Energon%29" title="Omega Supreme (Energon)"&gt;Omega Supreme's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark_of_Combination" title="Spark of Combination"&gt;body&lt;/a&gt;. Now &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Animated%29" title="Megatron (Animated)"&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Animated%29" title="Starscream (Animated)"&gt;others&lt;/a&gt; have done so.
 
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&lt;span style="font-size: 125%; font-weight: 900;"&gt;Thanks for helping me... pull myself together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr&gt;
''This cartoon episode article is a [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Episode_Stubs" title="Category:Episode Stubs"&gt;stub&lt;/a&gt; and is missing information. You can help '''Transformers Wiki''' by &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit expanding it].''
 
 
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&lt;a name="References"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: References"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;References&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ol class="references"&gt;&lt;li id="cite_note-0"&gt;&lt;a href="#cite_ref-0" title=""&gt;↑&lt;/a&gt; Derrick J. Wyatt - &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450" class="external free" title="http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450&lt;/a&gt; - "We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s."&lt;/ol&gt;

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<tr> <td> Airdate </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a>, 2009 </td></tr>




<tr> <td> Written by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marty_Isenberg" title="Marty Isenberg">Marty Isenberg</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Michael_Ryan" title="Michael Ryan">Michael Ryan</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marsha_Griffin" title="Marsha Griffin">Marsha Griffin</a> </td></tr>



<tr> <td> Directed by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matt_Youngberg" title="Matt Youngberg">Matt Youngberg</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Yoshio_Frank_Chatani&action=edit" class="new" title="Yoshio Frank Chatani">Yoshio Frank Chatani</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Tetsuro_Moronuki&action=edit" class="new" title="Tetsuro Moronuki">Tetsuro Moronuki</a><br><a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Yutaka_Kagawa&action=edit" class="new" title="Yutaka Kagawa">Yutaka Kagawa</a> </td></tr>



</tbody></table> <b>As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.</b>

<a name="Synopsis"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Synopsis</span></h2> <a name="Part_1"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Part 1">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Part 1</span></h3> [[Image:|left|180px|thumb|No fair, I just got here!]] Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, a contingent of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobots</a> led by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_Prime_%28Animated%29" title="Rodimus Prime (Animated)">Rodimus Prime</a> defends a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridge</a> against the Decepticons' "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Team_Chaar" title="Team Chaar">Team Chaar</a>", led by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strika_%28Animated%29" title="Strika (Animated)">Strika</a>. She, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Oil_Slick" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil Slick">Oil Slick</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_%28Animated%29" title="Cyclonus (Animated)">Cyclonus</a> strafe <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brawn_%28Animated%29" title="Brawn (Animated)">Brawn</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_%28Animated%29" title="Ironhide (Animated)">Ironhide</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_%28Animated%29" title="Hot Shot (Animated)">Hot Shot</a>, badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_%28Animated%29" title="Red Alert (Animated)">Red Alert</a> to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spittor_%28Animated%29" title="Spittor (Animated)">Spittor</a>, who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Elite_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite Guard">Elite Guard</a> for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick and Cyclonus proceed to take down Blurr and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus on his own, at which point <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackout_%28Animated%29" title="Blackout (Animated)">Blackout</a> arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cosmic_Rust_%28disease%29" title="Cosmic Rust (disease)">Cosmic Rust</a>. Strika contacts <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shockwave_%28Animated%29" title="Shockwave (Animated)">Shockwave</a> on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a>, who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Animated%29" title="Megatron (Animated)">Megatron</a> himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...


[[Image:|right|180px|thumb|How... literal. And disturbingly yonic.]] Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28Animated%29" title="Starscream (Animated)">Starscream</a> attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins bellowing back at Megatron, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/AllSpark_%28Animated%29" title="AllSpark (Animated)">AllSpark</a> fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising transformation: his mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28Animated%29" title="Omega Supreme (Animated)">Omega Supreme</a> materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...


[[Image:|left|180px|thumb|Hush little baby, don't say a word. Sumdac's gonna buy you a mockingbird.]] On <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, as the Autobots return to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Isaac_Sumdac" title="Isaac Sumdac">Professor Sumdac</a> explains <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sari" class="mw-redirect" title="Sari">Sari</a>'s origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its end when the group returns to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sumdac_Tower" title="Sumdac Tower">Sumdac Tower</a> and confronts <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Porter_C._Powell" title="Porter C. Powell">Porter C. Powell</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Headmaster_%28Animated%29" title="Headmaster (Animated)">Henry Masterson</a>. When the two men refuse to vacate the premises, Sari's hands transform into energy projectors that hurl the villains to the building's elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father, returning to the Autobots' base with her "fellow robots". While <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ratchet_%28Animated%29" title="Ratchet (Animated)">Ratchet</a> examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prowl_%28Animated%29" title="Prowl (Animated)">Prowl</a> departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Arcee_%28Animated%29" title="Arcee (Animated)">Arcee</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bumblebee_%28Animated%29" title="Bumblebee (Animated)">Bumblebee</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bulkhead_%28Animated%29" title="Bulkhead (Animated)">Bulkhead</a> head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots there of the traitor in their midst.

On a small planetoid somewhere in space, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blurr_%28Animated%29" title="Blurr (Animated)">Blurr</a> is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thundercracker_%28Animated%29" title="Thundercracker (Animated)">egomaniacal</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skywarp_%28Animated%29" title="Skywarp (Animated)">cowardly</a> clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally running across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of Megatron's invasion plan.

Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits Omega's simple processor and convinces him to take him back to Cybertron "to face justice". Omega transforms back into ship mode and TransWarps off toward Cybertron.

Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Plasmadynamic_thruster&action=edit" class="new" title="Plasmadynamic thruster">plasmadynamic thruster</a> space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's headless body from the mine the night before.

At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, and quickly accesses his computers and scans the scientist in an attempt to learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee, and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads out to the mine to investigate.

With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to Sari that he is going to take her to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Burger_Bot" title="Burger Bot">Burger Bot</a>. Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 pwN4ge!


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</td></tr></tbody></table> <a name="Quotes"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Quotes">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Quotes</span></h2> "Bulkhead and genius? I'll never get used to that."<br>


Bumblebee shows his high opinion of his best friend.


Masterson: Cut it out and fight like a robot!<br> [Optimus fully transforms]<br> Optimus: Why don't you try fighting like a jet? That is, unless you don't think you can handle transforming. It is pretty difficult. Especially for a "n00b" such as yourself.<br> Masterson: N-Nobody calls me a n00b! NOBODY!<br>


—Optimus hits the Headmaster where it hurts the most—his own vocabulary.


Ratchet: Last time I checked, I was this team's medic, and I've been doing it this way for over four million stellar cycles! Any bot got a problem with that?<br> Prowl: Uh, no, not really.<br> Bulkhead: No, I'm good.<br>


—Ratchet lays down the law on the Autobots.

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  • The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
  • When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.
  • When Sari takes her key and inserts it in the signal

retriever, she does not actually pull it over her head in any way... The string simply passes through her neck. Somehow.

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  • Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a

previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are both modeled after Beast Era characters and Blackout's design is heavily influenced by the live action movie version.

  • Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I ever

imagined... okay, it's no AllSpark...", in reference to his use of the same phrase to describe the AllSpark in "Transform and Roll Out!".

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  • <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Derrick_J._Wyatt" title="Derrick J. Wyatt">Derrick J. Wyatt</a> confirmed via Twitter that "TransWarped" was made "as one 70 minute movie",<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> although it was also cut into 22 minute episodes in the same way as "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transform_and_Roll_Out" title="Transform and Roll Out">Transform and Roll Out</a>" was.
  • Ultra Magnus builds a living WMD and makes him purposefully

stupid so he won't question his lot in life. Optimus considers throwing an overloading Sari at said death machine in the hopes that if the kid blows, she'll take it with her. Damn.

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<a name="References"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=TransWarped&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">References</span></h2> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Derrick J. Wyatt - <a href="http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450" class="external free" title="http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450</a> - "We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s."</ol>