( engines revving )
( tires screeching )
( upbeat rock theme playing )
( grunts ) ( brakes screeching )
( gasps )
Dude, I'm sorry. What was that?
( dramatic theme playing )
Huh? Huh.
You want a ride back?
( tires screeching )
( dramatic theme playing )
♪ Transformers ♪
♪ Robots in disguise ♪
( roars ) ♪ Robots in disguise ♪
( dramatic theme playing )
( grunts )
Hey, Strongarm. Nice day.
For sneaking back into the base, that is.
Heh. I wasn't.
I--I was just on patrol.
Okay, I was out on a training exercise.
I was working out a cramp in my lateral flexor?
No, no, no. You were away from base without Bee's permission.
Must've been someplace really embarrassing, too,
if you don't want your hero to know about it.
Sideswipe, please.
No worries. I'll keep your little secret.
That's the kind of thing teammates do for each other.
Thanks, Sideswipe. Really.
You know what else teammates do?
They cover each other's patrols.
Sure, no problem.
And they do other favors
pretty much whenever they're asked.
Ugh.
( suspenseful theme playing )
DENNY: Eureka! Ugh!
Sorry, Bee. Did we startle you?
Ugh. Maybe a little. With no Decepticon activity lately,
I've been kind of jumpy, because--
I mean, I know something's coming,
I just don't know when.
So all I can do is obsess about it, and...
Ugh. I guess I just don't know how--
Good news! Uhh!
To relax.
What's going on?
Either Fixit and Denny were about to tell me,
or they were gonna give me a third unnecessary jump-start.
Sorry, sir, but Denny and I have finally succeeded in creating
two working duplicates of your Decepticon hunter.
Really?
( grunts )
Sideswipe like.
Want to give it a try? Unh!
Oh!
This would meet department specifications.
Sorry, we don't have one for you yet, Grim.
We used the Scrapyard's entire supply of platinum
just to power these two.
That's okay.
I prefer old-fashioned weapons, anyway.
No, you're not getting a Decepticon hunter.
( sighs )
( alarm blaring ) ( grunts )
A Decepticon alert.
Oh, thank goodness.
Our dry spell is over.
The signal's coming from under Crown City,
in the flood control tunnels.
Come on, team.
What-- What is it?
( chuckles )
Oh. Uh... Let's speed and succeed!
( cat yowls )
Well, come on, I mean, we-- You-- You put me on the spot.
( dramatic theme playing )
What are these tunnels, sir?
Storm control. If the city gets too much rain,
the excess water flows through here and out to the river.
Ugh. Along with a lot of other stuff.
( shudders )
Split up and keep your comm channels open.
Hey, Strongarm, switch tunnels with me.
( gasps )
Ugh. No way. Gunk up your own finish.
Okay, I'll follow Bee.
I'm sure there's lots we can talk about.
Understood.
( dramatic theme playing )
Unh! Ugh!
Team, I found fresh tracks. Looks like whatever made them
wasn't going straight ahead, but side to side.
Converge on my position.
( metal clatters )
Cybertron police! Come out with your hands where I can see them.
Now.
Did I say "hands"? Let me tell you something.
The last chump who came too close,
I crushed his transport.
Yeah. You don't want to mess with me, Law-Bot.
Sure he does, Decepticon. We all do.
Okay, okay, okay, don't shoot, huh?
I'm just tryin' to lay low,
stay away from the law, which is you.
Ooh, but there's this other convict out there.
Oh, he's got it in for me.
Just don't hurt me, all right? It makes me so--
Crabby? ( all laugh )
Ahem.
That's hilarious. Never heard that one before.
But this other bot, he wants to tear me to pieces,
and I just wanna be left alone.
Maybe you and me can make a deal or something?
Here's the deal.
You go back in your stasis cell. Sideswipe?
Strongarm has it, sir.
Aah!
( gasps )
Who moves like that? It's just weird.
( muttering )
( suspenseful theme playing )
Ha, ha! End of the line, Crusty.
( yells )
( all scream )
( all screaming )
( coughs then groans )
( suspenseful theme playing )
Oh, this is no good. This is no good at all.
I gotta away. Unh! Uhh!
I gotta get further away, where no one's ever gonna find me.
( grunting )
( suspenseful theme playing )
Let me guess. Aah! Aah!
Autobot trouble.
Hey! Stay away! I ain't goin' back to the big house, no way.
Oh, you have me all wrong, brother.
I've been watching you, but I'm no Autobot.
In fact, I'd like to make you
and your very impressive claws a proposition.
Fixit, this is Bumblebee.
Our fugitive resembles an Earth crab. Can you ID him?
Checking the prisoner man-purse-- manifold--
manifest.
( beeping )
FIXIT: Found him. Your bad bot is Clampdown,
an expert in digging up dirty secrets
and using them for personal gain.
Clampdown tried to blackmail a member of the High Council
and wound up on the Alchemor.
He doesn't sound all that dangerous.
Ugh. Just creepy.
Don't underestimate any 'Con.
Clampdown may be capable of things we haven't seen yet.
He might shoot lasers out of his eyes
or blow flames from his tailpipe.
It's always something.
( clears throat )
All right, split up and run a search pattern
along the riverbank.
( dramatic theme playing )
Fracture, Underbite, meet the newest member of our crusade
to turn this into a world for Decepticons.
This is Clampdown.
( growls )
Heh, heh. Hey, guys, good to meet you.
Thanks for lettin' me join up, huh?
Go, Decepticons.
Hey, Steeljaw, I set up the, uh--
Ay-oh!
Hey. Ha, ha, ha. How you doing?
Come here, you lying no-good bag of bolts.
I assume you two know each other?
That lowlife's the reason I wound up on that prison ship.
That was a misunderstanding.
Unh!
You cut a deal with the Autobots
to keep your own shell out of prison
by tellin' 'em about my operations.
You call that a misunderstanding?
Well, I was settin' 'em up for ya, Thunderhoof. Believe me.
You better believe I'm gonna stomp you into scrap.
That is enough.
The past is the past. Clampdown could be of great use to us.
End of discussion.
Now, let's consider how--
Ay-oh! Uhh!
( dramatic theme playing )
Unh!
( suspenseful theme playing )
This is Strongarm. I have eyes on our fugitive.
He's on a garbage barge heading South on the river.
Copy that. Bumblebee to Command Center.
Denny, are you there? Right here, Bee.
The garbage barges on your river. Where do they go?
To no man's land.
( suspenseful theme playing )
( laughs )
Free, free, free. A clean getaway.
Ha, ha, ha!
End of the-- Ugh. --line, Decepticon.
Aah!
Thank the AllSpark I found you.
He found us?
You gotta help me. I need protection.
Those other creeps, they wanna crack my shell.
Aah! Get away! Get away!
What other creeps?
Uh, Come on, come on, let's make a deal.
We don't make deals with criminals.
But-- But-- But-- I have a secret to trade, see?
Now, I tell you what:
you promise not to throw me back in the deep freeze
for bailing from the Alchemor,
and I'll tell you where this gang is hidin' out.
Huh? What do you say?
Deal. What?
Clampdown, why did you run off so fast from your new friends?
( growls )
This Bot is in our custody, Steeljaw.
Just like you're going to be.
Oh, I highly doubt that.
( screams )
( grunts )
( suspenseful theme playing )
( grunts )
( both laugh )
( grunting )
You want a piece of this, Dinobot?
Yeah, piece by piece work for you? Unh!
( tense theme playing )
Me and Wacko Eyes have business to settle.
Afraid I can't do-- Whoa!
( grunts )
( screaming )
( dramatic theme playing )
( grunting )
( machinery whirring )
Huh?
( chuckles )
( groaning )
( machinery turns off )
Ugh. Clever.
( grunting )
( suspenseful theme playing )
( both grunting )
Thanks, Sideswipe. Just stopped by on my way
to deliver some payback to Fracture.
You good? I'll manage.
( suspenseful theme playing )
( all grunting )
Oh, yeah!
Tough, toned and talented!
Get ready to say hello to Earth's moon, Dinobot.
Open wide!
( gulps )
Is that--? Ugh!
Is that plastic?
Aw, I'm gonna be sick.
You're gonna be out, muscle mouth.
( groans )
( grunts )
You're out of your league, kid.
Hunh! Actually, I think I'm ready,
thanks to what you've taught me.
Yeah? What's that?
Play dirty. Hunh!
( both grunting )
Master, no!
( both grunting )
Consider yourselves stopped, in the name of the law.
( suspenseful theme playing )
( groans )
Thunderhoof, let's-- let's just talk this out, huh?
You've talked enough, Blabbermouth.
( grunts then groans )
( dramatic theme playing )
STRONGARM: You cuff Clampdown, and I'll--
Actually, why don't you cuff 'em both yourself...teammate.
( groans )
( upbeat theme playing )
SIDESWIPE: Nice haul.
Let's pat ourselves on the backs
after we get these 'Cons in stasis pods.
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. We had a deal, Autobot.
You promised you were not gonna arrest me for escaping.
I'm not arresting you for escaping.
I'm arresting you for assaulting officers of the law.
Remember? Back in the pipe?
( dramatic theme playing )
Ah, this feels good.
Maybe going out on missions is my version of relaxing.
( handcuffs release ) Huh?
You were saying something
about not patting ourselves on our backs?
( suspenseful theme playing )
Stay!
( dramatic theme playing )
( grunting )
And off on our starboard side,
you'll notice a hideous impending collision.
( screams )
( suspenseful theme playing )
( grunting )
All hands on deck!
But Steeljaw is going back for the other prisoners.
( grunts )
( tense theme playing )
( alarm blaring )
( grunts )
( dramatic theme playing )
( Clampdown screams )
There. It's official. Clampdown is one of us now.
How do we know he won't turn on us
the first time things get tricky?
Clampdown realizes that, after all we've done for him,
if he sided against us,
I wouldn't rest until I'd made him eat his own claws.
( chuckles )
( suspenseful theme playing )
SIDESWIPE: Listen, when we get back to the Scrapyard,
Bee's going to want me to go on patrol,
but I'd really rather do, well, nothing,
so would you be a good teammate and--?
STRONGARM: No. ( brakes screeching )
Say what? No.
No more, Sideswipe. I have had it.
( yawns )
Are we there yet?
I'd rather take my punishment like a warrior
than be your lackey for another nanocycle.
( engine revs )
What's the matter?
Strongarm was just telling me about
the most interesting field trips she's been taking.
You mean she's been sneaking off base? I know all about it.
And I know Strongarm wouldn't do anything to jeopardize
our robots in disguise status.
I trust her. Thank you, sir.
I also know that Bots who use their teammates' secrets
against them get assigned double shifts.
But just out of curiosity,
where have you been going, Cadet?
SIDESWIPE: A car wash?
That's your big secret?
Wow, even your secrets are boring.
I come here to maintain a clean, professional appearance.
And I won't lie, after tough missions--
BUMBLEBEE: This is so relaxing.
Whoo!
I haven't felt this good in cycles.
( dramatic theme playing )