King of the Hill (Part 2)
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 I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. | ||||||
| "King of the Hill (Part 2)" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | April 29, 2017 | |||||
| Writer | Adam Beechen | |||||
| Director | Frank Marino | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures | |||||
Team Bee find themselves struggling to contain the Stunticon while trying to avoid the potentially catastrophic detonation of a nuclear waste disposal site.
Synopsis
As five guided missiles head towards them, the Autobots turn tail to try to draw them away from the nuclear waste disposal site in Grand Valley, but swiftly realise Grimlock is lagging behind. Drift fortunately recognizes the type of missile and the Autobots are able to use their comms to remotely short out the detonators. That dealt with, they return to the task of apprehending the Stunticon and start making their way towards his hiding place on a rocky outcropping.
Russell's football game is not going well, and he dejectedly leaves the field, believing he can't make a field goal while the opposing team has that one really tall kid.
When Sideswipe and Strongarm reveal that they encountered a hermit before, Bumblebee tells them to go make sure he leaves the area. The Autobots split up, with Bumblebee and Drift finding their path goes through a disused gas station. Observed by the mysterious Mini-Con, the pair start making their way across, only to find the Stunticon's scattered oil-filled barrels around. The boastful Heatseeker appears and starts blowing the barrels up with missiles, forcing the pair to take cover.
Strongarm and Sideswipe find the hermit, who is still determined to find some aliens. Sideswipe takes the initiative to transform to robot mode and reveal that he's an alien. He's about to go contact the army, but when the pair try to talk him out of it, he concludes he's hallucinating due to being drugged by the government, and drives off in panic.
As Grimlock joins Bumblebee and Drift, Bumblebee asks him to create a distraction. Grimlock charges at Heatseeker and finds himself blown up by exploding barrels, but successfully allows his fellow bots to sneak up behind the Stunticon. Heatseeker takes out Drift using a stunt flip, then sends Bumblebee hurtling into a huge pool of oil. Bumblebee desperately tries to get traction with his tires as a missile streaks towards him... and then suddenly the Mini-Con links with him, giving his vehicle mode flight capability.
Russell packs away his helmet, and when Hank questions him, he claims he's injured his ankle. Denny relates a story about how he was similarly demoralised after getting a bad grade.
Bumblebee takes a moment to enjoy his new flight mode before trying to question the Mini-Con. He doesn't get anywhere before more of Heatseeker's missiles appear. The rest of the Autobots pick Drift up and observe Bumblebee's flight as he shakes the missiles. They all head after Heatseeker, who's found the hermit trying to fix his broken-down RV. They manage to surround the Stunticon, and as Heatseeker prepares to fire more missiles, they dogpile him. There's an explosion, a blinding flash of light, and Team Bee is merged into one big robot. Heatseeker departs, picking up a Cybertronian device as he goes.
Russell returns to the football game, volunteering to kick a field goal. By kicking a higher arc, he's able to clear the extremely tall kid and score.
Ultra Bee decombines, and the Autobots regain consciousness none-the-wiser as to what's happened. As they try to work out what's happened, Bumblebee realizes his Decepticon Hunter is missing, and they decide to head home and prepare for future confrontations. Heatseeker meets with his chief, and shows off the tracking device he found. Meanwhile the Mini-Con, in possession of the missing Decepticon Hunter, opens a GroundBridge portal through which Soundwave orders him to bring the weapon.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
Notes
Continuity notes
- Soundwave was trapped in the Shadowzone waaay back in the Prime episode "Deadlock", and escaped briefly in "Portals" before being chucked back in by the Bee Team.
Transformers references
Real-world references
Animation and technical errors
- When the Bee Team de-combine, Strongarm and Sideswipe are in different positions than they were in as parts of the recumbent combiner: right-arm Strongarm ends up to the left of Bee, and left-arm Sideswipe on Bee's right. Drift also, well, drifts from where he should be as a sword held in Ultrabee's left hand, but not as egregiously.
Trivia
- Drift notes that an explosion atop the nuclear waste facility could potentially cause the storage drums to leak, and later implies that radiation from the storage site is what is interfering with their communications. However, the entire point of a storage site is to have the waste drums buried deep underground where the radiation, if there was any escaping in the first place, would be absorbed by the soil and rock between the storage levels and the surface.
Foreign localization
French
- Title: Le Roi de la Montagne ("The King of the Hill")
- Original airdate: April 25, 2017
