Freedom Fighters

« Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) ep 71
"When I found you, I saw raw, untamed power. And beyond that, something truly special."
"Freedom Fighters"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	November 4, 2017 (United Kingdom) November 11, 2017 (United States)
Writer	Adam Beechen
Animation studio	Polygon Pictures

As the Bee Team struggles to liberate Cybertron from the Decepticon controlled High Council, Optimus and his All-Stars fight back the advance force of an Earth-bound Cybertronian invasion!

Synopsis

"This is not going to go the way you think!"

"Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That's the only to become what you were meant to be."

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"I've seen this raw strength only once before. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now."

"We are the spark...that will light the fire that will burn the First Order down."

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
High Council troopers (1) Drift (2) Strongarm (3) Heavy troopers (4) Grimlock (5) Flying trooper (6) Bumblebee (7) Sideswipe (9) Fixit (11) Dropforge (12) Cybertron Police officers (13) Bulkhead (14) Optimus Prime (15) Ratchet (16) Jazz (17) Windblade (18) Slipstream (24) Jetstorm (25) Cybertronian civilians (26) Ultra Bee (28)	Steeljaw (8) Cyberwarp (10) High Council infiltrators (19) Cyclonus (20) Riotgear (21) Skyjack (22) Treadshock (23) Galvatronus (27)	Denny Clay (29) Russell Clay (30)

Notes

Continuity notes

• The members of the High Council are revealed to be Decepticons masquerading as Autobots with light benders. In other words, real robots in disguise.
• Galvatronus lists off the actions of the High Council in Season 3 namely freeing Steeljaw's Pack to kill the Bee Team and freeing Soundwave from the Shadowzone to summon Megatron "to lead our forces"; apparently the Council hasn't gotten the memo about Megs' change of heart, or simply doesn't believe it.
• While combined as Ultra Bee, the Autobots refer to their fights against Menasor.
• Dropforge and his three officers were made immune to the High Council's mind control and left for Cybertron back in "Five Fugitives".

Transformers references

• The Space Bridge receiver is a near dead-ringer for the Earth-bound Space Bridge rings in the original cartoon.

Trivia

• It remains unknown if Clampdown, Quillfire, Underbite, Thunderhoof, and Wingcode were returned to Cybertron.
• This is the final episode of Robots in Disguise 2015 and, with the announcement of Transformers: Cyberverse and the plot bearing no references to this series, may be the end of the Aligned continuity family unless Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy is set in the same continuity.