"I still function!"
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With the Autobots under pressure from constant attacks, things take a turn for the worse as Megatron returns from the dead.
Summary
"Galvatron is no more... behold: Megatron!" ...whaaat?
As Inferno records in his personal log, over the past several months the Autobots under the command of Optimus Prime have been on edge due to the ceaseless attacks by the Terrorcons. As the enemy swoops down on Snow City, Inferno's command, he believed that this time the Autobots were ready for them, Snow City's defensive cannons blasting the Divebomb drones out of the sky. On the moon, Jetfire leads Terrorcons over the remains of the Autobot base where cannons appear out of the ground, swiftly destroying the drones. At Canyon City, Ironhide uses a similar tactic to lure Battle Ravage drones into the firing line of artillery cannons embedded into canyon rock. Alpha Quintesson expressed frustration at the new defenses on Earth preventing their quest to secure energon.
At Jungle City in the Amazon, as they watch Skyblast Omnicons install defense cannons into the city, Kicker congratulated Misha on coming up with the idea to use energon to power their weapons. She dejectedly responded that in truth, that idea was unintentional, as she was researching peaceful usages for energon. Kicker tried to cheer her up by explaining that their weapons are to defend themselves. As Misha explained what a mentor Dr Jones had been to her, Kicker senses an imminent attack on their location. Outside, Optimus Prime defended Jungle City against the first wave of Terrorcons lead by the treacherous Cyclonus. As the city explodes around them, the Omnicons were annoyed at interruptions to their important work. Misha ordered the human crew to open their unfinished artillery bays and fire on the enemy. The Omnicons finally complete work, but the humans need to wait for their energon levels to rise.
Meet my subordinates... ...General Foot and Major Fist!
Kicker lassoed a Battle Ravage drone and allowed it to lead him to Jungle City's energon mines and sniff out the energon for the grateful Omnicons. With their power at maximum, the defensive artillery send Scorponok, Tidal Wave and the surviving Terrorcons packing. Inferno and Ironhide arrived via the Space Bridge soon after the enemy retreat, with the younger Autobot expressing disapointment at missing out on battle.
Inside Unicron, Alpha Quintesson angrily berated Scorponok for their defeat, stating that they don't have enough energon to revive Megatron, and even more for Unicron. Inside the cavern with Megatron's corpse, Cyclonus and Tidal Wave apologise to their dead leader for not securing the energon needed to revive him. Cyclonus then told Tidal Wave that they will never revive Megatron, kicking his leader's corpse. Suddenly, Megatron's voice filled the cavern, telling his former minion to stop doing that. When Tidal Wave defended Megatron, Cyclonus reminded him how badly they were always treated and that he preferred Megatron to stay this way, kicking the corpse again. And again Megatron asked Cyclonus what he just said. Scorponok entered brandishing Megatron's spark-sword, claiming that Megatron has been stealing their energon reserves and intended to rectify the problem to the shock of Cyclonus and Tidal Wave. Megatron began to drain energon from Unicron, prompting stab the spark sword into Megatron's chest, stopping the energy flow. Suddenly, the energon drain violently restarted, and pulled the spark sword completely into Megatron's chest. As the other Transformers watched in awed shock, Megatron burst out of his old body like an insect in a cacoon.
Megatron demanded to know who had dared use his power, and promised the transgressor would pay for their disrespect. Quickly destroying Scorponok's summoned Divebomb drones, Megatron tore off the Terrorcon general's tail and proceeded to beat him into a mangled pulp. Forcing Scorponok into submission, he branded the Terrorcon with a Decepticon symbol then forced him to lead Megatron to Alpha Quintesson. Realising that Megatron had taken control of the Terrorcons, Alpha Quintesson runs to what appears to be a dead end. As Megatron gloated, Alpha defiantly declared that while Megatron may have been stealing their energon, only the Quintesson had been carrying out Unicron's agenda. With that, the section Alpha Quintesson had taken refuge in split apart from the rest of Unicron's body, revealing itself to be the Chaos Bringer's head. Megatron could only watch as the head warps itself to destinations unknown, but quickly declared to his men that they should forget the treacherous alien and concentrate on attacking the Autobots and securing energon, despite Scorponok's advice of extreme caution.
At Ocean City, Kicker demands the Space Bridge be opened, for radar had picked up an attack on Plain City. Despite Ironhide's assurances that Hot Shot would be able to handle it, Kicker doubted that they could deal with the new threat. At the battle of Plain City, Megatron holds the battered Scorponok as his personal shield against the Autobot defense artillery before throwing the Terrorcon commander into the water below. On the ground, Hot Shot could not believe his optics as Megatron flew into his line of fire. It was the next morning as reinforcements arrived at the devasted Plain City, greeted by a victorious Megatron. Noting their obvious surprise, Megatron tossed Hot Shot's stasis-locked body at the Autobots' feet, to the shock of Ironhide.
Stats
Original airdate: March 6, 2004 (North America)
Written by: ???
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Regulars
Guests
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Quotes
"He's alive... ALIVE!"
- -- Cyclonus, reacting to Megatron's apparent resurrection
"Megatron lives! Megatron lives! Megatron lives!"
- -- Tidal Wave reacting to Megatron's resurrection
"Who is this one? Who dares to use my power? Tell me!"
- -- Megatron demands to know who has been using his spark-sword
"Ha,ha,ha! I have never felt more alive! For that I thank you, Scorponok!"
- -- Megatron gloats as he holds Scorponok's torn off tail
Megatron: "I commend you on your fortitude, Scorponok. Yet did you really believe you could keep me in a coma?"
[Megatron attempts to crush Scorponok with his heel, only for the Terrorcon leader to grab it at the last moment]
Megatron: "It's good to be back. So good."
Cyclonus: "Uh, Megatron sir? Don't you think the poor guy's suffered enough already?"
Megatron: "Don't be silly! Why, I'm just getting started!"
[Megatron steps down hard, breaking Scorponok's elbow and crushing it]
- -- Megatron punishes Scorponok for his treachery
Other Notes
Animation and/or technical glitches
- When Ironhide rubs his nose, his forearm clips right through his chest.
- This is one of several early episodes where Misha is referred to as Mika.
- When Optimus Prime appears at the beginning of this episode in vehicle mode, his front wheels are missing.
- Not really a glitch or mistake, but the animators cheated by having Optimus Prime's transformation into robot mode covered by an explosion.
- After Megatron picks Scorponok up by his head, as the camera pans down to reveal Megatron's fist hitting Scorponok's chest, Megatron's own chest is missing his Decepticon symbol.
- When Ironhide reacts to Kicker's panic of the attack on Plain City, his bicep clips through his forearm as he bends his right arm.
- The left arm Megatron uses to toss Hot Shot to the Autobots is disembodied, not connected to anything, and it immediately dissapears after Hot Shot has left his hand.
Continuity errors
- After transforming, Optimus Prime turns to his trailer, which then tips over to launch his Prime Force drones. For some reason Optimus Prime's order for them to deploy is not dubbed in.
- When Optimus Prime combines with his drones into Super Mode, actor Garry Chalk does not enough time to order Submarine Four to combine before the footage cuts to the next segment of the stock footage.
- It is not clear why Alpha Quintesson claims they were to resurrect Megatron, yet sent Scorponok to eliminate him.
- It is unclear why Optimus Prime's reinforcements took so long to reach Plain City.
Transformers references
- When Alpha Quintesson escapes from Megatron, Unicron's head detaches from his body, a visual homage to the Unicron's destruction in the 1986 Transformers animated movie.
Real-world references
Miscellaneous trivia
- When Jungle City's defense cannons reveal themselves, Tidal Wave reacts with a comical anime giant sweatdrop, one of the few times the Unicron Trilogy series used traditional anime visual gags.