The Other One
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| "The Other One" | ||||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | February 26, 2020 (UK) | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
The Autobots and Decepticons confront The Other One, a powerful being from another universe... and a Megatron more tyrannical than the primary universe's.
Synopsis
Chromia, Ratchet and Bumblebee stand before Windblade, preparing to upload what they have of her mind. Just as they finish, a shark-bot breaks into the sickbay and steals their friend. Taking a shuttle, they follow the thief to the Argon Sea, and dive under.
Meanwhile, Optimus assembles the current Autobot troopers in a strategy meeting. Just before he finishes, he freezes, and the Matrix of Leadership floats out of his chest.
In the Argon Sea, Bee and Chromia find a beautifully populated landscape under the surface, chasing the thief as soon as they find him. Unfortunately, he topples the metallic structures to throw them off, and upon escaping, dive deeper to find a giant transmission of Windblade's face screaming for help. It disappears, and they end up attacked by the local wildlife.
As Optimus manifests into the Matrix, he finds Maccadam has managed to join him.
The creatures manage to damage the shields on the shuttle, and once they leave, the shark-bot arrives and smashes the window, leaving Bumblebee to take matters into his own hands. While the scout manages to mount and incapacitate the shark-bot, he pays the price and ends up falling deeper into the ravine. Chromia follows him down, and the shark-bot awakens, grumpy with his position. An argument soon breaks out, and the shark-bot introduces himself as Hammerbyte, the Argon Sea's Guardian. He quickly explains about the Dweller, and they set off to rescue Bee and Windblade.
Finding Bumblebee, they follow him down a hatchway, though just before Hammerbyte enters, a tentacle appears and hits him with an orange gas, sending him in a trance. He quickly catches up to Chromia, who flees until she reaches Bumblebee... Also in a trance. Evading both of them, Chromia reaches a large room with Windblade floating up in the middle, in front of the Dweller. Quickly working out it is a Titan, Chromia strands defiant, leading to the Dweller siccing Bumblebee and Hammerbyte. Engaging her friends, Chromia quickly turns Bumblebee's stinger against them, breaking them out of their trances doing so.
Not willing to lose potential citizens, the Dweller releashes more hypnotic gasses, but the trio manage to grab Windblade and escape... though at the cost of their shuttle. Returning Windblade to her friends, Hammerbyte apologizes for his Dweller-induced actions and heads back into the Argon Sea.
Pondering how Maccadam is in the Matrix, Optimus's inquiry is answered: all along, he was one of the Thirteen: Alchemist Prime. He then instructs Optimus to do the most apalling act for a Prime: the destruction of Megatron's Matrix.
As Optimus returns to the real world, he rounds up the troops; the have a world-saving mission on their hands.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Alternate Universe Duplicates |
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Notes
Continuity notes
- The Tarn-esque soldiers are revealed to be Megatron's race of perfect Decepticons that he intended to have Vector Sigma and the AllSpark create back in "Megatron Is My Hero."
- The alternate Megatron's timeline diverged during the third flashback of "Megatron Is My Hero." This also reveals that those events took place after Megatron killed the High Council and Optimus received the Matrix of Leadership in the eponymous episode.
- Upon seeing Shadow Striker, the alternate Megatron comments that she looks like one of Shockwave's experiments, referencing her reconstruction by ol' one eye in "Shadowstriker"—evidently, her near-death experience at the hands of Bumblebee was not something that happened in this Megatron's timeline.
- The alternate Megatron defeated his reality's version of the Quintessons with a laser snare, the device that Shockwave used to destroy the Ark back in "The Battle For Cybertron II."
Transformers references
- Prima and Micronus are revealed to be among this universe's version of the Thirteen.
- Megatron quotes Optimus Prime's famous line from The Transformers: The Movie: "One shall stand, one shall fall."
Real-world references
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Other trivia
- In an interesting blink and you'll miss it moment, Soundwave and Shadow Striker can be seen celebrating Windblade's revival alongside the Autobots, suggesting that Megatron's request for the split control of Cybertron was repealed following his death.
Animation and technical errors
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Foreign localization
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Home video releases
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