Big Small Rescue
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| "The Big, Small Rescue" | ||||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | February 23, 2019 | |||||
| Writer | Danny Stack | |||||
| Director | Pete Slattery | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
The bots are surprised to discover that their important off-planet mission is actually to save a single tiny plant.
Synopsis
The recruits celebrate another successful training rescue, but are interrupted by Boulder who has an actual rescue for them. The recruits are excited when Boulder tells them to head to the space bridge, as that means they're headed for another planet. They land up in a cave on the rock planet of Parvus, which as they quickly observe, is very unstable. Boulder briefs them—they've come to rescue the Galax, a plant which lives somewhere in the caves and which is the last of its species. As the caves are too unstable for Boulder to go any further, the five recruits head in and soon locate the Galax, perched on a ledge on the other side of a chasm. Whirl attempts to transform, but sets off a fresh set of tremors—they realize they're going to have to stay in bot mode for the entire rescue.
Hoist uses a cable to get them to a ledge closer to the Galax, though they're still not quite close enough to reach it. Hot Shot's attempt to dig up the plant with his water blasters isn't helpful, so they get Wedge across to the ledge it's living on. His attempt to use his power drivers to dig it up is aborted when it sprays him with a sticky substance as part of its defence mechanism, and the others have to pull him back to their ledge. Another tremor causes their ledge to collapse, bringing them level with the Galax. They still have the issue of how to safely dig the Galax up, however Whirl comes up with the idea of making tiny tools to dig the Galax up, and Hoist manages to assemble some using parts from the other Bots.
Armed with the newly constructed tools, the recruits dig up the Galax, but a cave in seals the entrance they came through, and though Boulder radios them an alternate route, they come up against another cave in. With the help of Wedge's vehicle mode, they get through. As they're running through the next cave, Whirl falls into a sinkhole. Luckily the Galax's defence mechanism helps keep her and the plant safe so the others can dig them out. They finally get back to Boulder and head back to Earth, where the Galax is put in a terranium and a second plant sprouts up next to it.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
"No plants are getting smooshed on my watch, and I don't even wear one."
- —Whirl
"-And that's how it should work. Any questions?"
"Seven hundred and fifty two, but I'll save them for later."
- —Hoist and Medix
"Small to be big, slow to be fast. Does any part of this mission make sense?"
- —Wedge
Notes
Continuty notes
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Transformers references
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Animation and technical errors
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Trivia
- "Parvus" is Latin for "small" or "little". While the Bots are speculating on what the rescue might be, Medix suggests they'll be "protecting the giant moon of Gigas"—"Gigas" being Latin for "giant", naturally.
Foreign localization
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