The Return of Blurr
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| "The Return of Blurr" | ||||||
| Original presentation | 12:00pm June 21, 2015 (BotCon) | |||||
| Written by | Marty Isenberg | |||||
| Continuity | Animated cartoon continuity | |||||
While on a field trip to the Metroplex with her classmates, Sari stumbles upon a certain incapacitated Autobot Intelligence agent.
Synopsis
Sari Sumdac, having joined her Autobot friends on Cybertron to learn more about her heritage, is joining Arcee's class on a field trip to the Metroplex. While Arcee welcomes her to the group, her classmates Nightbeat, Hosehead, and Siren are a bit hung up on her techno-organic nature. As the class enters the Metroplex, Sari gets out a burger and cup of soda from Burger Bot, which her father has sent her via the SpaceBridge. Her classmates are openly disgusted by the Burger Bot fare and the idea of anyone ingesting it.
Embarassed, Sari decides to quietly dispose of her soda cup in a disposal hatch, but she loses her balance and tumbles down the chute along with it, unnoticed by Arcee or her classmates. Sari lands in a dark room, on top of a pile of trash and debris, and touches a compacted metal cube. The cube then begins to glow and starts speaking, revealing itself as Blurr. While Blurr very quickly recaps how he ended up in this state, Sari realizes that some lingering AllSpark energy from when she upgraded herself must have reactivated Blurr.
Sari searches for an exit and comes across an access panel. Making use of her ability to communicate with machines, she attempts to use the panel to open a door. She succeeds, but in doing so also inadvertently awakens an energy-based being that the narrator reveals to be Kremzeek.
Meanwhile, Arcee takes a headcount once her group reaches the Council chamber, finally noticing that Sari is missing. An alert sounds, saying there's an intruder in the recycling center, and Arcee takes it as a clue to Sari's whereabouts.
The scene cuts back to Sari and Blurr, who have ended up on a conveyor belt in the Central Cybertronian Recycling Plant that leads to a variety of nasty machines designed to reduce recyclables to scrap. Blurr informs Sari that the plant has thankfully been non-operational since the Great War, but unfortunately Kremzeek zaps into the machinery and reactivates it. Blurr voices an adamant desire to avoid repeating his compacting incident--or facing a smelter. Sari attempts to communicate with the machinery and discovers Kremzeek's presence. Kremzeek in turn lashes Sari to the conveyor belt to prevent her escape and trap her and Blurr on a course to the furnace.
Featured characters
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Notes
- The cast:
- Brian and the two Lauras were the winners of the So You Think You Can Voice Act? auditions held earlier in the day.
- This story takes place during the events of "The Stunti-Con Job".
- The live script reading was accompanied by five illustrations projected on the screen, with lineart by Naoto Tsushima and colors by Josh Perez.
