Our Heroes Respond
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 Penance Stare! | ||||||
| "Our Heroes Respond" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios, Machinima | |||||
| Airdate | November 14, 2017 | |||||
| Written by | F.J. DeSanto | |||||
| Animation studio | Tatsunoko Production | |||||
With Trypticon on a rampage, the people of Cybertron begin weighing their options.
Synopsis
As the resurrected Trypticon begins rampaging through Metroplex City, Windblade communes with Metroplex, discovering that he was planning to leave Cybertron. Metroplex explains that Titans were meant to bring Cybertronian life to other habitable planets, helping to colonize them and propogate life, then sleeping in city form until they reawaken and repeat the process. Metroplex vows to try and stop Trypticon, but Windblade protests, claiming he is too badly damaged and won't survive. Metroplex forcibly ends their commune, telling her he promised Optimus Prime that he would defend their species to the end, and begins preparing as much as he can for the inevitable battle.
Windblade begins looking for fighters to aid them, but she only finds Perceptor, who is preoccupied with studying a unique atom he discovered in Starscream's molecular structure, the properties of which suggest the Enigma of Combination may predate the Primes themselves. Before he can continue, a sudden explosion heralds the approach of Trypticon, and the two head to the Primal Basilica, where the Mistress of Flame is waiting. As they explain the situation, the Mistress of Flame concludes the only way to defeat Trypticon is with the aid of a second Titan, but Windblade asserts that Metroplex alone won't be enough. The Mistress of Flame decides to call on the Elite Air Resistance Squadron for aid, but worries for what may happen should both they and Metroplex fail. Metroplex begins slowly moving towards Trypticon and orders the citizens to evacuate, prompting Windblade to return to his side. Perceptor tells the Mistress of Flame there might be another way to stop Trypticon, telling her of another Titan, Fortress Maximus, who was built during the Great War and decommissioned after its end. While Perceptor doesn't know where to find the Titan, he suggests Computron may be able to access historical battle records to determine the answer. The Mistress of Flame sends the Combiners to seek out and awaken Fortress Maximus, but recognizes she may need the help of a military strategist.
As Hot Rod continues to cruise the streets of Cybertron enjoying his newfound freedom, he receives a call from the Mistress of Flame. When she discovers he has given up the Matrix of Leadership, she is enraged, asserting that they need the Matrix's wisdom to stop Trypticon. Hot Rod notes that Metroplex won't be enough to stop Trypticon and decides to rush to the battlefield, figuring he'll come up with a plan as he goes. As the Mistress of Flame laments his impetuousness, the Elites take to the skies and begin firing upon Metroplex, but the Titan effortlessly wipes them all out. Down to their last line of defense, the Mistress of Flame can only pray as Metroplex and Windblade approach Trypticon.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Camiens |
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Quotes
Notes
Continuity notes
- Immediately after being informed that Computron may know where Fortress Maximus is.. she sends him to battle with the other combiners, to his potential doom. Great going there.
Transformers references
- Metroplex's tale of the Titans is almost entirely drawn off of the IDW Generation 1 continuity, where it was first alluded to in the first issue of the original Windblade miniseries and further expounded on in the second volume to explain the origin of various Transformer colony worlds. In that universe, however, it was made clear that the colonization expeditions were the final voyages that each Titan would undertake, either dying or being cannibalized for parts by the civilizations they birthed; here, it's established that Titans could seed many worlds with life.
Animation and technical errors
References
External links
- "Our Heroes Respond" on Go90 (US only)
