TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED SERIES / CARTOONS
Season 4
Episode 2. The Rebirth (Part Two)
2. The Rebirth (part 2)
Spike finishes the modifications on the heads of Brainstorm, Arcee,
Hardhead, Chromedome, and Highbrow for them to become Headmasters
with Gort and the Nebulons. Each of the four leaders must choose which
Autobot they want to bond with. Duros picks Hardhead, Arkana picks
Brainstorm, Styler picks Chromedome, and Gort is stuck with Highbrow,
who is the loudmouth of the bunch. Arcee reserved her space for Daniel
and Spike helps his crippled sun into Arcee's head and takes the life
support machine off him. The Nebulons and Daniel in their new Autobot
heads merge with their bodies and become Headmasters. After everyone
gets acquainted, they set out to battle the Hive's machines out in
the forest. With the Nebulons and Daniel helping them, the five Autobots
easily defeat the Hive's machines and they are destroyed. Meanwhile,
Zarak and the other Hive members observe that Gort and his rebels
are now in the bodies of the Autobots and Zarak starts thinking up
a plan on what to do about the Headmaster Autobots and Nebulons. Meanwhile,
Cyclonus, Scourge, and the other Decepticons are questioning the six
Autobots that they captured about the whereabouts of the plasma energy
key, but they won't talk. Suddenly, the five Headmaster Autobots show
up and the Decepticons think that they are fools to fight all of them.
Without warning, the Headmasters transform into their robot modes
and their heads split off into the Nebulons and Spike in robotic exosuits
made from the heads. The Decepticons are getting pounded by the Autobot
Headmasters and the Nebulons and they try to retreat, but their ship
gets destroyed by the Headmasters. They then leave on their own to
see what they can do against the Autobots' new forms. After they leave,
the Headmasters rescue Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, Pointblank, Crosshairs,
and Sureshot from the torture devices and they leave the area as well.
Meanwhile, on Cybertron, Fastlane, Cloudraker, and Punch report to
Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus and tell them that they can't find
the missing Autobots or the key to the plasma energy chamber. Optimus
senses that something is wrong and goes to "find some answers". Back
on Nebulos, the Decepticons are trying to figure out a plan on how
to fight the Headmaster Autobots. All of a sudden, the Decepticons
are attacked by the Hive's machines and are dropped into a hole. They
ride a conveyor belt and drop into the Hive's secret underground city.
Zarak introduces himself and the Hive members to the Decepticons.
Zarak tells them that he has a little deal to make with them, one
that will help them to defeat the Autobots, and all it will cost them
is.....their heads. Zarak tells the Decepticons that they get to defeat
the Autobots and that the hive members get new bodies in the form
of robotic exosuits made from the Decepticons' heads. Scourge tells
Zarak that the Decepticons don't make deals with organic creatures,
but Zarak says that they don't have a choice. Without warning, mechanical
devices come out of the walls and try to remove the Decepticons' heads
from their bodies. The Decepticons give in and say that they will
make a deal with Zarak. The Decepticons are released from the devices
and Cyclonus tells the Hive that they can only have the heads of the
animal Decepticons: Weirdwolf, Skullcruncher, Mindwipe, Apeface, and
Snapdraggon. Apeface tries to object to Cyclonus, but he is shot before
he can say much. Zarak then asks Cyclonus, Scourge, Triggerhappy,
Misfire, and Aimless what the five of them will offer the Hive. Cyclonus
then says that the Hive can use their weapons to be modified like
they would the heads and Zarak agrees with the idea. He then tells
the Decepticons that the bargaining is over and for the five animal
Decepticons to remove their heads and for the five Decepticon jets
to relinquish their weapons and the transformation begins. Back on
Cybertron, Ultra Magnus follows Optimus Prime in the Vector Sigma
chamber. Optimus plans on using the shell of the Autobot matrix to
merge with Vector Sigma so that he can ask his dead creator, Alpha
Trion, where the missing Autobots and the key to the plasma energy
chamber is. Optimus is successful and he meets with Alpha Trion. Alpha
Trion tells Optimus that the missing Autobots are on Nebulos. Alpha
Trion then tells Optimus the story of how the Autobots' ship was hit
with only one volt of the plasma energy and it sent them millions
of miles through space. Alpha Trion then tells Optimus that plasma
energy is RAW energy. It seeks out any entity that transforms matter
into energy and overloads it totally. Alpha Trion then tells Optimus
that only organic life is unaffected by the plasma energy chamber.
Alpha Trion then tells Optimus that a second Golden Age of Cybertron
is almost at hand, but whether this comes to pass, depends on the
merging of an Autobots' life with that of a human being. Optimus asks
Alpha Trion how he knows all this and Alpha Trion then tells Optimus
that Vector Sigma told him of all this and that it was Vector Sigma
itself that arranged for Galvatron and the Decepticons to learn of
the key's existence. Optimus then says that that doesn't make any
sense, but Alpha Trion replies by saying not according to Vector Sigma's
motives and that the parameters of its design are far greater that
Optimus could imagine. Alpha then gives Optimus the final warning
that no matter what happens, the key to the plasma energy chamber
must not be destroyed because Vector Sigma commands it!!!! Optimus
then appears outside of the Vector Sigma chamber with Ultra Magnus
and Alpha Trion has disappeared. Optimus tells Ultra Magnus that he
got his answers, and every answer led to a bigger question. He also
tells Ultra Magnus that something is happening on Nebulos. Back on
Nebulos, the Hive and Decepticon modifications on their bodies are
almost finished. Zarak informs the group that he will stay to work
on another plan, one that involves the entire Hive city. Back on Cybertron,
Optimus tells Ultra Magnus that he is leaving for Nebulos so that
he can find the lost Autobots and the key. He then informs Ultra Magnus
that while he is gone, that Ultra Magnus is to lead the fight against
Galvatron and the remaining Decepticons until he returns with the
missing Autobots and the key. Optimus then leaves in his ship for
Nebulos. Back on Nebulos, the Hive and the Decepticons have finished
the modifications on their bodies. The animal Decepticons, along with
Vorath, Monzo, Spasma, Krunk, and Grax, have become the new Decepticon
Headmasters. Also, the Decepticons now have an advantage over the
Autobots with the new Decepticon Targetmasters: Cyclonus and Nightstick,
Scourge and Frakus, Triggerhappy and Blowpipe, Misfire and Aimless,
and Slugslinger and Calliburst. The Decepticons and Hive then leave
the secret underground Hive city to go find the Autobots so they can
be destroyed. Meanwhile, the Autobots and the Headmaster Autobots
are returning to the Nebulon's cave hideout with the wreckage of the
Decepticons' ship, when they see Cerebros fall down a hill. Cerebros
is barely able to tell his Autobot friends that he found a city. They
take Cerebros back to the cave and the Nebulons tell their Autobot
friends that maybe he found the lost city of the Hive, the city that
they lived in before they developed their mental powers and moved
underground. Just as they finish talking, the Decepticon Headmasters
and Targetmasters, along with the Hive, arrive to destroy the Autobots
and Nebulons. Because of the new advantage of the Targetmasters, the
Decepticons easily defeat the Autobots and Mindwipe, along with some
of the Hive members, manage to take the plasma energy key away from
Brainstorm. Before the Decepticons can leave, Brainstorm grabs hold
of Nighstick (Cyclonus' new Targetmaster gun) and has Arkana to run
a full scan of the Hive members' body. It is done, but Nightstick
manages to escape and leave with the Decepticons who were ordered
to return to the Hive city under Zarak's orders. After they leave,
the Autobots, Nebulons, Spike, and Daniel observe the blueprints that
Brainstorm and Arkana got from Nightstick and they see how the Decepticons
and Hive were able to make the Targetmasters. The Autobots then decide
to have six of the remaining seven Autobots (except for Cerebros who
is injured) to merge with the last six members of the Nebulon warriors
to make Autobot Targetmasters. Just as Spike gets done with the modifications,
Optimus Prime arrives at the cave in his ship to find the other Autobots
and the new Autobot Targetmasters introduce themselves to Optimus.
They introduce themselves as: Kup and Recoil, Hot Rod and Firebolt,
Blurr and Heywire, Pointblank and Peacemaker, Crosshairs and Pinpointer,
and Sureshot and Spoilsport. The five Headmaster Autobots then trasform
to their vehicle modes to show Optimus their new partners. Optimus
asks how this all happened and Kup says that it is a LONG story, with
a couple of hitches in it. Hot Rod then tells Optimus that the Decepticons
are now Headmasters and Targetmasters too. Brainstorm then tells Optimus
that they have the plasma energy key to and Optimus says that it is
time to get it back. Back at the Hive city, the Decepticons are getting
impatient because Zarak told them to wait outside until he is done
with his plan. Just then, Optimus Prime, along with the Autobot Headmasters
and Targetmasters arrive to fight the Decepticons and get the key
back. The fight starts and the Decepticons begin to lose. Arcee and
Daniel then figure out that Scourge has the key and they go to get
it from him. Arcee runs over Scourge in her car mode and takes the
key out of his chest. She then runs to Optimus with the key and he
congratulates her and Daniel for their work. Kup then tells the Decepticons
that they won't get the key back either. Just then, Zarak tells Kup
that he is wrong and a huge city rises from beneath the ground. It
is the Hive's secret underground city built into a Decepticon city.
Zarak then tells the Autobots to get ready to feel the sting of.....Scorponok!!!!!
The huge city then transforms into a giant robot scorpion and starts
attacking the Autobots.