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Template:Episodenav Writers: Meg McLaughlin
A spaceship crash-lands on Cybertron, releasing a tentacled alien monster. The Maximals and Vehicons both rush to take control of the secrets of the ship.
Major Characters (in order of appearance): Silverbolt, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, Nightscream, Blackarachnia, Botanica
Minor Characters (in order of appearance): Thrust, mole drones, Areo-Drones, tank drones, Megatron
Original Air Date: March 15, 2000 (YTV); September 16, 2000 (FOX)
Summary
High above the planet of Cybertron, a mysterious spaceship and a cluster of asteroids prepare to make planetfall. But the automated space-cannons manage to destroy the asteroids and badly damage the ship, sending it plummeting towards the planet. Flying above the city streets, Silverbolt sends word of the ship to base.
Underground, a worried Optimus examines the wilting technorganic trees and ponders their survival and the future of Cybertron should they die. Cheetor tries to console him, but to no avail. Suddenly, Rattrap bursts in, telling the Maximals about the ship's crash. Megatron has also found out about the arrival of the ship and orders Thrust to destroy any survivors of the crash. Thrust obediently heads towards the site, turning this into a race against time.
As the Maximals head towards the crash-site, Thrust and his troops whiz by them. Several of the drones peel from the squadron and about-face, turning to fight the Maximals. Transforming into robot mode, the Maximals make short work of the Vehicons, but they have lost time. Primal splits them into three teams: He and Cheetor will travel on the surface, Rattrap and Blackarachnia will go underground, and Silverbolt and Nightscream will take to the sky.
In the air, Nightscream and Silverbolt destroy a squadron of Areo-Drones, but Nightscream still treats newcomer Silverbolt rudely, even after the latter compliments their teamwork together.
In the sewers of Cybertron, Blackarachnia laments to Rattrap of Silverbolt's lack of affection, even after she freed him from his Jetstorm slave form and reformatted him into his present condor form. In Darkest Knight However, the conversation is cut short as two mole drones burst in from the sides. Blackarachnia destroys one and Rattrap commandeers another, and the duo head towards the site much quicker.
On the surface, Cheetor and Primal are surrounded by a group of Drones. The two flying Maximals arrive to help them, and together they destroy the drones.
Eventually, the Maximals arrive at the ship. Stepping inside, they discover that the walls are covered with plant matter. Attacked by a tentacled plant beast, they fight it, but it escapes towards the Oracle. Primal manages to reformat the creature into a technorganic Transformer, which introduces itself as Botanica and destroys a troop of Vehicons.
Notes
This was the debut appearance of Botanica, unless you count Optimus Primal's prophetic vision. Fallout.
Technical/Animation Glitches
- Glitch
Continuity Errors
- Error
Transformers References
- References
Real-World References
- Nightscream and Silverbolt declare "Do not pass 'Go!' Do not collect $200!", a clear reference to the popular board game Monopoly.
- Nightscream at one point refers to Silverbolt as "Typhoid Mary", a reference to both the previous episode and the infamous real-life carrier of the Typhoid virus.
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