Endgame, Part I



'''Shockwave prepares to use Arcee's access codes to clone Omega Supreme. Meanwhile, the Autobot leader becomes a flying Autobot himself.'''

Synopsis
Jazz is helping Prowl complete his cyber ninja training, when Bulkhead and Bumblebee find Omega Supreme on the moon.

Meawhile, Shockwave was busy stealing access codes from Arcee, However, he wound up in a fight with Lugnut, who was jealous after Starscream needled him over Shockwave being Megatron's apparent new favorite. The distraction allowed Starscream to escape to the abandoned Nemesis.

Once inside, Starscream prepares his new body, but Megatron later enters the ship and destroys the clones made by Starscream. He used the stolen protoforms to create clones of Omega Supreme.

Back on Earth, Bumblebee gets volunteered for the task of going to the moon to plant the bug to spy on the Decepticons. Transwarping there via the Sumdacs' improvised space bridge. Unfortunately, the transmitter was destroyed. Looking for a place to hide, Bumblebee snuck aboard Omega Supreme and met Arcee, active but believing herself to be a school teacher back on Cybertron, her role before the Great War. Bumblebee was unable to rescue Arcee due to the wiring attached to her brain, but he was able to complete his mission after a fashion, turning Arcee's comlink on.

When he came back, he turned on the transmitter to her what Shockwave is saying only to loose contact after Shockwave pulls out the wires.

Back in the moon, Megatron decided he did not need Starscream anymore and blasts half of his body. It is unknown if he has survived this. Later, Shockwave and Lugnut gave the Omega Supreme clones faces that resemble Lugnut's face and send them to Earth.

Back on Earth, Optimus with his new jet pack and his crew were about to face the final Transformers Animated battle.

Quotes
Ratchet: Are you out of your motherboarding mind?! Autobots can't fly!

Bulkhead: What about Jetfire and Jetstorm?
 * Ratchet creates a curse, and Bulkhead points out what everyone in the fandom has been screaming.

Animation and/or technical glitches

 * Right before Optimus flashes back to the energon mining days, he doesn't have his wings on. When Bulkhead points out the energy signals heading their way, he has them on again. So..are they detachable?

Continuity errors

 * In a flashback, it's revealed that Prowl was found by Bulkhead and Bumblebee on an asteroid. After his ship was destroyed, he is offered a ride by Optimus after their work is done. While in the first episode of Transformers Animated, Prowl remarks "not this speech again" to Optimus. Either Prowl permanently became a member of Optimus' team or Optimus must have said that speech a lot in that short amount of time.
 * To be fair, Optimus did say it would be about 50 to 60 stellar-cycles...


 * Omega Supreme took at least a dozen Autobots and presumably months to build. How in the name of Primus did four Decepticons (more likely two, considering Starscream being reduced to a head and Megatron probably just supervising) build THREE of him in a matter of hours?
 * Probably because they had Omega Supreme to basically copy. The Autobots built the original from the ground up, possibly as a prototype.


 * Omega Supreme is yet again omitted from a list of flight-capable Autobots. Geez, give him some recognition, for spark's sake - he's only the guy who won the war for you.

Transformer references

 * The title of the episode might be a reference to the last episodes of Beast Machines cartoon.
 * This episode is of the same name as the last level in the DS version of the Transformers The Game in the Autobot Campaign.
 * With his jet pack, Optimus resembled God Ginrai, as well as his Super Mode in Transformers Cybertron. Whether or not this Optimus' wings and jetpack form from his trailer remains to be seen, as he has yet to assume vehicle mode.
 * The jet pack itself resembles G1 Jetfire's booster pack.
 * Most likely, this will result in the Wingblade Optimus Prime figure.
 * The bit when Megatron was making giants out of Autobots is a bit of a reference to War Dawn from G1.

Real-world references

 * In Optimus' flashback, Ultra Magnus refers to the situation as "more than meets the optic sensors." Yeah...

Miscellaneous trivia

 * We finally know what became of the stolen protoforms.


 * Starscream makes a new body for himself only to have it blown to pieces by Megatron... maybe he can take someone else's body ?


 * We find out the real reason behind Optimus's explusion from the academy: Sentinel let him take all of the blame for the incident that saw Elita-1 become Blackarachnia. In other words... Sentinel is a jerk. And it seems that now that the decision has been made, even Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus can't override it and make him eligible for Elite Guard status again. Now, in Mission Accomplished, Sentinel offered to have this done if Optimus were to go along with hiding the truth of the Decepticons' activity. Of course, Sentinel could have been making promises he knew he couldn't keep -- he is, after all, a jerk.


 * Prowl pulls an Allspark fragment out of nowhere via Processor Over Matter... although it's possible that this one particular fragment was almost completely vaporized originally.


 * Blitzwing gets a mention, though he is not seen or heard, having been captured back in Decepticon Air.


 * Seeing as how Female Starscream mistook Optimus for Starscream even though he's bright red, while Starscream is grey and dark reddish, transformers really are colorblind. Though to be fair, different shades, even of the same kind of color, can appear similar from longer distances.


 * It's also curious that the female clone hates Starscream enough to take a shot at him. While we knew she didn't respect him very much, this is... a little overboard. Where this enmity comes from, and when whatever events inspired it could have happened, is unknown.


 * Shockwave's Longarm Prime disguise keeps its old colors, instead of having Shockwave's new purple color scheme.


 * Female Starscream debuted in the two part season finale for season two, then dissapeared until the two part season finale for season three. So...what was she doing and how did she evade the Elite Guard, who managed to catch EVERY OTHER 'Con on Earth? Its fairly obvious she wasn't trying very hard to hide, seeing as she was WALKING DOWN A STREET IN ROBOT MODE...


 * Shockwave repairs and revives Arcee surprisingly easily despite Perceptor's assurance that she's just an empty shell. Her being in stasis and Omega Supreme's ignoble fate hints at a possible Autobot cover up of their little WMD project after the war.