02x03 - Orion Pax, Part 3

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Previously on Transformers Prime...

With the power of the Matrix
no longer within him...

it would stand to reason that Optimus
has reverted to his pre-Prime state.

A high-frequency signal...

with an embedded message.

Where is Optimus?

Unless you know where Megatron
is hiding his Space-bridge...

Space-bridge!

They actually finished building it
without my supervision?!

Once we secure the Space-bridge
we'll send for Jack.

You three need to hold it long enough for
Jack and me to get to Cybertron and back.

How could I possibly be "Optimus Prime"?

Vector Sigma's true location
shrouded in myth and rumour, Jack.

It is said the path of the Primes
leads there.

2x03 - Orion Pax,
part 3

We must be close.

Vector Sigma is... down here?

Kaon didn't always belong to the Decepticons.
Megatron took it as a capital.

Apparently without ever realising
what lay beneath their feet.

Arcee!

We are being att*cked by some
kind of...

giant bug-beetle!

- An Insecticon!
- A what?

What are Decepticons doing on Cybertron?

A few remained in stasis.
Sentries, should the... enemy return.

Jack! Go!

Seriously?

Without Arcee?
She's his guide!

No, nurse Darby, Arcee is Jack's backup.

The Key-Card is his guide.

Do it!

Listen to her, Jack.

You've made it this far.
Optimus is counting on you.

Roger that, mom.

Orion!

Have you made progess with project "Iacon"?

It seems I am a bit rustier than I thought.

Might that have anything to do
with the nature of your after-hours research?

Did I fail to mention that we
will be tracking your activities?

Why does history portray me siding with the Autobot aggressors?

And why did Starscream call me a Prime?

I must know! Who am I?

You are my clerk. Now get back
to work and decode that database.

No. I would rather erase my
findings

than make them available
for your questionable use.

Did you really think that we
wouldn't be tracking and documenting

every iota of your invaluable
research?

One of our sentries was activated...
on Cybertron?

You told me our planet was dead.

That is beside the point.
Guards!

You will finish project
"Iacon" by the time I return

or I will carve out your
Spark before your very eyes!

The activity log indicates my Space-bridge
was set for Cybertron... and remains open?

The only possible reason the
Autobots would take such a risk...

...would be to restore
their precious Optimus Prime.

Everyone! I'm in.

Sweet!

This is...
Wow.

Commencing download...
I think.

Soon, Optimus.

No one told you to stop, Pax.

I believe Megatron intends to use whatever he
finds on project "Iacon" to harm the Autobots.

Please. We can warn them.

This is taking a while.

Of course it is. We are talking about
the collective wisdom of the Primes.

What is it, Jack?

Scraplets!

What's a scraplet?

Why did it have to be scraplets?!

If they chew through Vector Sigma
before the Matrix fully reloads...

So Vector Sigma is more than legend.

You Autobots have gone to impressive
lengths to recover your Leader.

Be assured,
I shall never underestimate you again.

Now... I assume the one called Arcee
will be stepping through that portal...

with the reloaded
Matrix of Leadership in hand.

We hold the Space-bridge at all costs!

You're going down, Bucket-head!

Jack?

Oh no-no-no-no,
don't quit now!

Arcee?

Back off, bug!

Hey, guys!
The main course!

I have the Matrix.

Let's roll.

You have to admit, it's a privilege to
stomp a former leader of the Autobots.

No, please... stop.
Enough!

I'm...
I'm armed?

We're almost there.

Ratchet, we have the Matrix.
We're coming through.

Ratchet?

Something's wrong.

We can't knuckle through, can we?

Come, Arcee. So that I might end
the lineage of the Primes for all time.

I cannot allow that to happen, Megatron.

And why should you care, Orion Pax?
You are no Prime.

That may be true. Or yet another deception?
But this much I do know:

My sympathies lie with the Autobots
and you are not one of us.

Your Spark may be at the right place, Orion.

But you have much to learn before you can hope
to ever again stand your ground against me.

A moment, sadly,
which shall never come.

Are you... certain I'm worthy?

You have no idea.

How nice of you to
join our tender reunion.

Now, if you please... the Matrix?!

Noo!

Megatron...

Be gone!

Ratchet!
How did we arrive here?

Long story, old friend.

Base to Arcee!

We're reading five Autobot life signals
down there. Is Prime with you?

And Jack.

Yes!

It's ours!

Autobots, fall back!

This time he's coming with us.

Nooo!

Jack!

Optimus?

Hello, Rafael.

- Wooow.
- The Big Guy remembers us! Woo-hoo!

Although it seems
there is much I do not remember.

Optimus,
it has truly been our darkest hour.

But know this:

From every indication your Spark
never ceased being that of an Autobot.