03x19 - Thunderhowl

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(PANTING)

Let this serve as a warning for

all future travellers!

(HOWLING)

(SCARED GASPS)

(YELLING)

♪

(GROWLS)

(HOWLING)

(MUSIC BUILDS)

♪ More than meets the eye ♪

- So Windblade's mind shattered?

And it's scattered all over

Cybertron?

- City Speaker powers have

limits.

And Windblade pushed herself way

past hers.

♪

But this ancient psychic tracker

from Caminus

was made for this exact

situation.

- So it's worked before?

- Yeah.

Well, kind of...

they didn't find all the pieces

of the last City Speaker.

So it didn't work.

It works. See?

(MACHINE BEEPING)

It senses Windblade somewhere in

this forest.

Oh, you mean the forest "that

must not be entered

lest you be devoured."

That's the one.

Let's go.

(CHIRPING)

♪

(SQUAWKING)

Hmm.

(SHRIEKING)

♪

Where do you think Windblade's

psychic shard's gonna be?

Typically it would lodge in some

kind of powerful artifact.

(GASP)

Bee, look!

(WHINNYING)

Bumblebee: A singlehorn!

- Windblade would've loved this.

- Definitely.

(MACHINE BEEPING)

(SHOCKED WHINNY)

(NEIGHING)

Oh. Wow.

Windblade's that way! Come on!

♪

What is this...?

The legends are true.

Crystal City!

(MUSIC BUILDS)

-Whoa.

-Come on!

♪

♪

Why do the stories say never

to come here?

This place is beautiful.

It's beautiful,

but all these crystals

are messing up the tracker.

Let's keep moving.

♪

(MUSIC BUILDS)

(MACHINE BEEPING)

Oh, come on!

I can't tell which way to go!

- Then we'll split up.

- Okay.

Let me know if you find

anything.

(FRUSTRATED SIGH)

Huh?!

Hey Chromia,

I think I'm going in circles.

(STATIC CRACKLING)

Chromia?

Aw, scrud.

Hmm?

Chromia?

Are you okay?

What happened to you?

Chromia?

(MUSIC BUILDS)

Bee, I got the tracker working!

We're close, we're really--

(CLANG!) Oof!

Bee?

You look... weird.

(GROWLS)

Bee!

(EFFORT GRUNT)

(GROWLING)

(EFFORT CRY)

Bee, what are you doing?

(IMPACT GRUNT)

(w*apon f*ring)

(b*llet RICOCHETING)

Agh!

(EFFORT GRUNT)

Uh oh.

(FIGHTING NOISES)

Chromia!

What are these things?!

Crystal City made crystal copies

of us!

But why?!

(FIGHTING NOISES)

(FIGHTING NOISES)

(IMPACT GRUNTS)

Whoa!

Agh!

- Ahh!

- Bee!

(STRUGGLE GRUNTS)

Autobots Unite!

(SHATTERING)

(SHATTERING)

♪

Chromia!

Are you okay?

(SINISTER MUSIC)

(GASP)

(SNARLS)

♪

Uhhhh...

(SNARLS)

Oh...

Not okay.

(GROWLS)

WHOA!

(ZAPPING)

(SMASHING)

(FIGHTING NOISES)

♪

(MUSIC BUILDS)

(SMASH!)

I thank you, strange travellers,

for awakening me from my

crystalline imprisonment!

You're welcome.

Uh...

Who are you?

How did you get here?

I am Thunderhowl,

Knight of the Primes!

I was captured by this vile

place

while on a noble quest.

I swore to my liege Prime

that I would destroy this evil

place.

Alas... I was defeated when I

stared too long

at my own reflection and it

att*cked me!

I thank you for freeing me.

My sword is at your service.

- That's a big sword.

- We need your help.

We're looking... uh-- questing,

for our friend Windblade,

who is lost in this place.

If she is here, then she is

surely trapped.

I will help you find your

Windblade,

and we will destroy this crystal

abomination together!

Let the quest begin!

- Tell me, small friend,

I know not how long I was

imprisoned

inside these crystals.

Is the Great Titan Iaconus

still conquering the untamed

worlds?

Uhhhh... No,

he's kind of taking a break

right now.

I see. And who is your liege

Prime?

I guess that'd be Optimus Prime.

Optimus Prime?

I have not heard this name

before.

This is it!

I think we're-- (GASP)

We are here.

Within these walls

dwells the evil heart of

Crystal City.

Forward!

Yeah! Like he said!

♪

♪

Windblade is definitely in this

castle.

Then let's go find her.

Wait.

We stand before a great and

terrible danger.

None have ever passed through

the Crystal Labryinth alive.

Once we step inside, every image

will be our enemy.

We will take every step, backs

to each other,

guarding against any possible

att*ck.

By maintaining extreme vigilance

and engaging in the constant

clash of combat,

some of us might succeed!

Bumblebee: That sounds like a

nightmare.

- Scrap that!

- Heh.

Autobots Unite!

(SMASH)

Oh?

♪

(SMASH!)

(SMASHING)

♪

Huh?

(IMPACT GRUNT)

(EFFORT GRUNT)

(CLANG!)

(IMPACT GRUNTS)

(EFFORT GRUNT)

♪

(SMASHING)

♪

(SMASH!)

♪

Behold!

The Crystalline King!

- Woah. Really?

That thing?

Windblade's psychic shard is

inside that thing.

By order of my liege Prime,

your reign comes to an end on

this day

Crystalline King!

♪

- Windblade!

- That's not her!

♪

(FIGHTING NOISES)

(SMASHING)

(EFFORT GRUNTS)

(EFFORT GRUNTS)

(FIGHTING NOISES)

(FIGHTING NOISES)

You need to free Windblade.

Clear a path to the

Crystalline King!

(GROWLS)

(SNARLING)

I got it!

♪

(THUD!)

(IMPACT GROANS)

(STRUGGLE GRUNTS)

Agh...

(MUSIC BUILDS)

Autobots Unite!

(BLAST!)

(BOOM!)

Windblade!

(ZAPPING)

We've got her.

We did it!

We did. And so we should--

(RATTLING)

(CRACKLING)

RUN!

(SHATTERING)

(MUSIC BUILDS)

Good work. We'll get started on

this right away.

♪

(STRUGGLE GRUNTS)

(EFFORT GRUNT)

(HOWLING)

What are you doing?

- I am pledging my sword to you,

Optimus Prime.

I am Thunderhowl!

Knight of the Primes!

Defender of the realm!

Loyal servant to--

Optimus Prime:

Yes, yes.

Welcome to the Autobots.

♪

More than meets the eye.