Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1
The Decepticons were thought to be defeated and the Autobots, now led by Rodimus Prime, are looking forward for a more peaceful future. Well, they can’t be more wrong about that.
Detailed synopsis
It is the year 2005. Autobots had reclaimed Cybertron while the Decepticons, now squabbling with each other for energon, retreated to the planet Chaar. Cyclonus realize that to return the Decepticons to fighting form, they need drastic measures.
Somewhere else, the first Galactic Olympics are being held. Blurr is griping about being stuck in a mission with Wheelie when he wants to join the events. But Perceptor wants them to go to Autobot City on Earth, to deliver the new transformation cog for Metroplex (his old one was damaged during the Autobot battle in the movie).
Meanwhile, the Galactic Olympics were being sabotaged. In the middle of the confusion, Spike, Kup and Ultra Magnus were kidnapped. Rodimus Prime suspects Decepticon shenanigans. Arcee and Springer follow the saboteur’s spaceship escaping the now supposed-to-be quarantined planet.
Cyclonus sneaks into Unicron’s memory banks to watch how Rodimus Prime shoves Galvatron to space. He then did some fast calculations and comes up with Galvatron being in the planet Thrull. There they see their leader soaking up in the hot lava pools.
On Earth, Blaster and Outback goes to Federated Republic of Carbombya to investigate EDC reports of Decepticons in that country. Outback, equipped with a “Decepticon detector”, then flushes out Dirge and Ramjet. The two Autobots get the coordinates of Chaar from them… which they report to Rodimus Prime who wants to there to investigate.
Arcee and Springer, meanwhile, commandeered the Skuxxoid's (that alien mercenary guy) bigger but uglier spaceship. The alien guy escapes and then calls his benefactor to confirm that the Autobots indeed suspect the Deceptions to be behind the disruption. The tentacled, egg-shaped benefactor listens to the report and then tunes out as he looks on as their prisoners, Spike, Kup and Ultra Magnus, were being led by a sharkticon.
Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps return to Chaar, where the rest of the Decepticons are convinced that the solution to their problems was to have a strong leader again. They cheered when they heard that Galvatron lives, and were desperate enough that they give their remaining scraps of energon for reviving him. Rodimus Prime, with Grimlock,were spying nearby and realizes that the Decepticons are too down on their luck to be the ones responsible for the sabotage. Their cover suddenly gets blown and the Decepticons attacks...
