The Power of Bonds! Wildocking!
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| "The Power of Bonds! Wildocking!" (Kizuna no Chikara! Wildocking!) | ||||||
| Airdate | 2025 March 26 | |||||
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With Megatron returning to his evil ways, Optimus unlocks a new power to fight him.
Synopsis
Recovering from the ambush, Lightlong asks Optimus if Megatron was the friend he was talking about earlier, to which the Autobot leader confirms, albeit feeling something not being right with Megatron. Brushing aside Optimus' questions about what he's doing, Megatron then attacks Optimus again with another fireball attack, prompting him to jump, but the Decepticon leader takes notice and also leaps into the air before dropkicking Optimus into another part of the woods, boasting about the power of Elemental Energy.
Lightlong comes to the Autobot Leader's aid, and gives some exposition: the weird arm Megatron had on is Captain Volca, the leader of the Dinosaur Tribe, one of two tribes the Energy Beasts have organized themselves into (the other being the Animal Tribe), with mutually respected boundaries. When Lightlong questions Volca what he's doing in the Animal Tribe, the T-rex nonchalantly declares the territorial boundaries are no more, with henchman Leafback even saying that Megatron will lead the Dinosaur Tribe into ruling the planet.
With Megatron hellbent on becoming the strongest at the cost of the innocent, Optimus fights his former friend, able to mostly hold his own until Captain Volca sends him flying once more, this time with Lightlong being there to stop him from crashing again. The giraffe then has an idea: if Optimus was the hero of legend who descended from the sky, they can perform Wildocking, further confirmed by Optimus' chest popping open to reveal internal workings similar to Megatron's.
An irritated Volca sics Leafback at the duo, but Lightlong and Optimus manage to pull off the Wildocking process, turning the latter into Lightning Optimus, who easily sends Leafback flying far away and paralyzed as Optimus marvels at the power of the phenomenon.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
Continuity notes
- Lightlong and Optimus Prime perform the first on-screen Wildocking of the series.
- We see a few silhouettes in this episode in Lightlong's explanation about the Energy Beast Tribes, foreshadowing some of the later wave Energy Beasts in the series, aside from Hydrophant, the rest of their identities were unknown at the time of this episodes released:
- The lion and spinosaurus were later revealed to be Ignite Leo and Spirituan respectively in The Kindhearted Hydrophant.
- The name,"Drillnohorn", as mentioned in Leafbacks' online bio and first mentioned on screen later, being namedropped in The Kindhearted Hydrophant, but it wasn't until the reveal of the second wave of Energy Beasts that we learn the name belonged to the rhinoceros.
- The stegosaurus made an unnamed cameo in Courage to Protect What's Important .
