Darkness Rising, Part 1
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| "Darkness Rising, Part 1" | ||||||
| Airdate | November 26, 2010 | |||||
| Written by | Duane Capizzi | |||||
| Directed by | David Hartman | |||||
| Animation studio | Digitalscape | |||||
Optimus Prime and the Autobots investigate the return of the Decepticons while forced to account for a group of young humans who have unwittingly become involved in their centuries-old conflict.
Synopsis
Cliffjumper is on the open road when he finds a large amount of energon nearby. As he goes to investigate, Eradicons drop from the decepticon shuttle and attack him, destroying the energon. On board the shuttle, Starscream executes Cliffjumper. The Autobots arrive at the energon site to help, only to find that they're too late. Meanwhile, Jack Darby just got done serving burgers at "KO Burger", when a lovely motorcycle catches his eye. After talking too it, and being harassed by a few girls, the bike starts to drive off on its own, pursued by 2 muscle cars. As the chase rages, another car arrives to help them out. As they chase comes to a close, the robots fight under a bridge as Jack, and another kid watch on. Yet another robot joins the fight, and the two Eradicons flee. At Autobot headquarters, Optimus Prime informs the Autobots that since the Decepticons have seen the humans, they may be targeted. At Jack and Raf's high school, Bumblebee and Arcee come to take them to HQ, when yet another kid sees Arcee in robot mode. After they are taken to Autobot HQ, Optimus informs them of the transformers war and his concern about Megatron's return. Somewhere, not far from Earth, Megatron emerges through the Space bridge, announcing his return.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
"We are autonomous robots from the planet Cybertron..."
Optimus Prime likes to repeat the same introduction over and over again.
"Decepticons! I have returned."
Megatron likes to state the obvious.
Notes
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Transformers references
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Trivia
- So Megatron just happens to return just as Optimus just happens to be expressing his fear of that exact event. Riiiiiight.
