Table of Contents:
Series Overview
Characters
Episode Guide
Voice Actors

It is ten years after the events in Transformers: Generation One. The Autobots have retired to their home planet of Cybertron to rebuild their world after millions of years of civil war, and reintegrate their former enemies, the fierce forces of the Decepticons, into a new and prosperous society. Across the galaxy, entire worlds are breathing collective sighs of relief at the defeat of this great menace.

But the Decepticons scattered across the galaxy are not satisfied with the handouts their generals are accepting from the Autobots. Under a mysterious newcomer bearing the fearsome title of their history’s greatest general, these new Decepticons come into the limelight eager to take back their world. But a war for Cybertron will take enormous amounts of energy. And so, the new Megatron gathers his forces into five massive cruisers and sets a plodding course for the most readily available source of energy in the galaxy: Earth. The Armada will take several years to arrive, but the new Megatron is prepared for the wait, and devises a new strategy.

A task force arrives on the humans’ homeworld via a spacebridge, using the last of the Decepticons’ energy resources. No Autobot forces remain to protect their former adopted home when the Cons arrive. Worse still, Earth’s pleas for help go unanswered, either unheard by or unimportant to the new victors of Cybertron. Conventional weapons are useless against the Decepticons. Armed with rudimentary knowledge of Cybertronian technology, humans begin designing their own transformable battle vehicles. But their Vehicular Battle Frames are slow and clumsy, no match for the powerful, more nimble Decepticons. With the Armada only two years away, Earth seems a burning ship sinking quickly into the losing annals of history.

But amidst their impending defeat, a ray of hope shines forth. Four powerful V-Frames are developed, with four brave pilots to guide them into battle. Each of the V-Frames possess the radically new Biolinq technology, allowing their pilots to become the machines themselves. With such technology, the Decepticons believe their enemies to be robots like themselves, with no knowledge of the humans walloping them from inside.

Operating from a secret base in the Nevada desert, they utilize cutting-edge technology developed by the best and brightest minds of the United Earth Defense Command. They are the Sentinels, Earth’s most powerful guardians. Together, they will level the unequal playing field and defeat the Decepticon menace.

Sentinels- Main Cast
Lieutenant Jonathan Hunter
“We aren’t beat by a long shot.”

Hunter is a young commander eager to prove himself and drive back the robotic menace plaguing his world. Though comparatively inexperienced, he is easily the equal of more battle-seasoned commanders of greater rank, relying on his quick thinking and quicker reflexes to turn assured defeat into stunning victory. The only possible chink in his proverbial armor is his blind hatred of Decepticons. Luckily, his powerful V-Frame more than makes up for this, propelling him into battle as the Sentinel Commander Hurricane Prime.

Hurricane Prime [Helicopter]
Function: Sentinel Commander/Aerial Combat Specialist
“Gear up and roll out!”

Prime has never gone into combat with the advantage, and he’s never needed it. Rather, he has a certain knack for turning defeat around before his foes can even say ‘Retreat!” In Vehicular Mode, he hovers over the battlefield, shouting orders and raining destruction with his Multi-Rocket Assault System. As a robot, his Rotary Shield deflects lesser fire as he uses his Assault Lasers to blast a path to victory.

Sergeant Jacob “JT” Anderson
“Ain’t nobody slick enough to pull one over on me.”

The oldest and most experienced of the test pilots, Anderson’s toughest challenge is keeping McMilland under control. He often offers advice, but only when prompted by Hunter. Sage and cool-headed, he finds himself asked for options quite often, and always gives them with a smile. Slow to anger, quick to forgive, he is the glue that binds the team together, and the only thing keeping the other test pilots from going insane. In battle, his level-headedness and dead aim serve him well as Junkyard, the powerhouse of the Sentinel team.

Junkyard [All-Terrain Tank]
Function: Sentinel Mobile Artillery
“Line it up, lock it in, launch, and kaboom. It’s that easy.”

Propelled on six massive tires, the augmented tank Junkyard rolls over the toughest of terrain as easily as he does the smaller and most unfortunate of Decepticons. For those foes too large to squash, he uses his superior firepower to dominate the battlefield. At close range, a quartet of auto cannons tears his foes apart. Whether in V-Mode or Robot Mode, his massive quantum cannon can blow apart a Decepticon from up to five miles away. Tank or Bot, he’s the biggest, most powerful Sentinel on the team, capable of moving hundreds of tons with his bare hands.

Corporal Brian McMilland
“I’m great. Deal with it.”

McMilland lives for speed and action, two things he gets plenty of as a Sentinel. Though sometimes impulsive, he always puts the team first. But despite his devotion to his other test pilots, McMilland takes it upon himself to keep the team’s spirits light. Whether it’s a well-placed quip or an ill-timed prank, the Sentinels can always count on the quick witted pilot of Knightwheel for a cheap laugh or a disgusted moan, as well as rock-solid support.

Knightwheel [Sports Car]
Function: Sentinel Urban Combat
“Fast? Man, I leave ‘fast’ in the dust.”

The smallest of the Sentinels, Knightwheel is also the most nimble, and therefore the most difficult to hit. He often confounds larger Decepticons with his blazing speed and steady stream of trash talk before finishing them off in R-Mode with his Assault Laser Rifle. In V-Mode, he can reach speeds in excess of three hundred MPH. No matter his form, car or robot, no Con is fast enough to take Knightwheel down.

Starshriek/Eve
“No foe will face me without fear.”

As a Decepticon, the sister of the Con hero Starscream cut her own reputation across the galaxy, leaving behind a trail of trembling victims and a swath of destruction as a legacy. Thanks to a trick by her brother, Surge, she now fights for humankind in a cloned female body, the first woman of her kind: Eve. Calling upon millions of years of experience, Eve soars into battle as the powerful jet Valkyrie. Branded a traitor by her former Decepticon betrayers, distrusted by her new human allies, confounded by her own radically changed biology, Eve struggles to understand her new role in the universe.

Valkyrie [Jet Fighter]
Function: Sentinel Aerial Recon/Attack
“Destruction from above, glory to the skies!”

Riding a pair of powerful afterburners, Valkyrie dives down from dizzying heights with blazing missiles and powerful auto cannons. In the sky, she is without peer, tearing apart any Decepticon foolish enough to challenge her in a dogfight. On the ground, her powerful Lightning Cannon electrifies the opposition into sizzling submission. Once a Decepticon herself, Valkyrie possesses an understanding of their enemy the other Sentinels lack, giving the team a powerful edge.

Main Decepticons:
Jetstorm [Jet-Propelled Car]
Function: Sector Twelve Decepticon Commander
“For the glory of all Decepticons!”

Charged with conquering the western half of North America, Jetstorm is the first Decepticon to truly fathom the threat the Sentinels represent. As part of the Decepticon Earth Council, it is up to Jetstorm to help prepare the planet for the coming of Megatron and the Decepticon armada. As a vehicle, Jetstorm can reach unmatchable speeds. Transformed, he wields his Photon Cannon with deadly accuracy and cold malice.

Surge [Seeker Jet]
Function: Sector Twelve Aerial Command
“Power and glory to the deserving, and to slag with the rest!”

Taking after his deceased brother, Surge is a brilliant tactician, an unscrupulous backstabber, and irreparably insane. He lives for conquest, and won’t rest until he is leader of a great army of Decepticon warriors and well away from the miserable mud ball that is Earth. His total hatred of all organic creatures clouds his judgment from time to time, but it didn’t keep him from turning his sister into one.

Sci-Napse [Microscope]
Function: Sector Twelve Specialist
“Victory comes not from senseless combat, but from careful planning and analysis.”

Unlike his rash fellows, Sci-Napse is a cold, logical thinking bot, trained by Shockwave himself for strategic tactical analysis. His ruminations are brilliant, and could very well win the war, if only his commanders had the patience to enact his inexorable plans. Alas, his advice often goes unnoticed, and he remains the lonely voice of reason against over-aggression.

Deadbolt [Attack Jet]
Function: Decepticon Aerial Soldier
“I ride upon the wings of Death.”

Out of all the overzealous, treacherous, ambitious Decepticons, Deadbolt is perhaps the only one of their numbers who recognizes the value of loyalty and obedience. He disapproves of what Surge did to Starshriek, but will not take arms against his fellow soldier. However, he’s prepared to execute any Con who dares betray the new Megatron or the greater good of their cause.

Slagmaster [Tank]
Function: Decepticon Mobile Artillery
“Show your face, coward, so I can blow it off.”

The Decepticon Slagmaster rolls across the battlefield, heralded by the thunderous blast of his self-loading Rocket Cannon as he crushes any foe foolish enough to stand against him. His hatred matches Surge’s, but isn’t limited to organic creatures. Rather, he hates everyone and everything, including his own allies. Only a steady supply of energon and ammunition keeps him loyal to the Decepticon cause.

Syndrone [Hovercraft]
Function: Deceptidrone Coordination
“Superior numbers equals superior force!”

If a large force of Deceptidrones is to be deployed with exacting precision, Syndrone is your bot. Weaker than the rest of the other Con soldiers, his abilities lie in coordinating the new disposable soldiers augmenting their forces. When things get rough, he uses his Photon Pistol to drive back the UEDC mongrels until his beloved Deceptidrones rush to his rescue.

Secondary Decepticons:
Shadowshot [Cybertronian Racer]
Function: Decepticon Assassin
The greatest assassin in Decepticon history, Shadowshot is a force feared almost as much as Megatron himself. His talents don’t come cheap, but are worth every cube of energon.

Konk [Battle Platform]
Function: Sector Eight Decepticon Commander
Konk looks down on his fellow commander, Jetstorm, for his inability to defeat four pesky Earth-Bots. Too late did he realize the true threat that the Sentinels represented.

Paradoom [Seeker Jet]
Function: Sector Eight Decepticon Aerial Commander
Konk’s right-hand bot, Paradoom shares his leader’s dim views of their fellow Cons in Sector Twelve. Deadly in the air and possessed of razor wit, he’s almost a match for Knightwheel in sheer verbal garbage.

Hammerfist [HumVee]
Function: Decepticon Soldier
Soldier beneath Jetstorm. He enjoys collecting V-Frame heads, and looks forward to adding a few Earth-Bots to his collection.

Pan-Zarr [Tank]
Function: Decepticon Mobile Artillery
Brother to Slagmaster. Blown up in the third episode, the first notch on the Sentinels’ belts. That’s about it.

Starshriek [Seeker Jet]
Function: Decepticon Aerial Combat Specialist
Eve’s Decepticon form. Used as a table until she reclaims it in Episode Thirteen.

Runabout and Runamok [Twin Cars]
Function: Decepticon Morons
Seasoned Decepticon warriors and token guest stars of Transformers: Sentinels. They wandered by the set one day, and were offered fifty dollars apiece for their roles in Episode VIII.

Supporting Cast:
General Artemis Tyler

A seasoned battle commander from the days before Decepticons, V-Frames, and even the UEDC itself, Tyler struggles to keep up with a radically changing and shrinking world. Because of the danger and responsibility they face, Tyler generally allows the Sentinel test pilots a little extra leeway.

Doctor Joules

The finest British engineer, Joules leapt at the chance to apply his own tremendous brilliance toward reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology into the fantastic V-Frames of tomorrow. The Biolinq control systems, as well as the Sentinels themselves, are his latest and greatest achievements. Never one to linger on success, he constantly looks for ways to upgrade the Sentinels into a superior fighting force.

Jones and Smith

Eve’s tight-lipped escorts. They go wherever she goes, ensuring that she doesn’t break the limits of her conditional service to the UEDC.

Dunejumper [Desert Jeep]
Function: Desert Escort/Recon

A V-Frame utilized in Episode XIII. Designed as part of the Sentinel project, it never achieved full operational status, and was therefore not assigned as a primary V-Frame for the test team.

Blackhawk/Nosedive [B-4 Bomber/Jet Interceptor]
Function: Tactical Aerial Superiority

A massive team consisting of the UEDC’s first two Triple-Changers. The Auxiliary Modes of Blackhawk and Nosedive are, respectively, a tank and a stationary cannon. Due to the energon expenditure needed to power them, and the control problems encountered with Blackhawk, they never achieved full operational status, and were therefore not assigned as primary V-Frames for the test team.

Gear Up! Part I
The episode begins with a running gun battle between a Decepticon seeker jet and a squad of UEDC attack helicopters. They chase him to a series of bluffs, where he transforms, cradling a stolen weapon. The helicopters arrive and also transform, only to walk into an ambush as two more Cons pop up. During the fight it’s made clear that the Cons are faster and more powerful than any of the UEDC robots. In the end, only one pilot is left alive, watching the Cons escape from the wreckage of his V-Frame.

Six months later, that same soldier is called to Admiral Fairborne’s office in the Rocky Mountains. After a brief exposition session for the benefit of the viewers, she tells the soldier, Lieutenant Hunter, of Earth’s best chance; an experimental V-Frame with the power and speed to match any Decepticon. Hunter jumps at the chance to be this Frame’s pilot and lead the project test group, and is shipped out immediately.

On the other side, a Decepticon meeting occurs deep in the depths of the ruins of New York City. Jetstorm, leader of Conquest Sector Twelve, silences the outbursts of his newly-promoted lieutenant Surge in the Decepticon Earth Council meeting. He then speaks of their waning forces, to which Surge counters with plans for the Deceptidrones, mindless battle robots to bolster their numbers. One member of the council asks what Jetstorm intends to do about the rumors of a secret base in his sector and the supposed project there that could tip the balance of the war. A seeker jet like Surge enters, a fembot named Starshriek, enters with a sinister and disturbing plot to discover just what this project is.

Hunter reports in at Centurion Base to General Tyler. Tyler introduces him to his project leader, a scientist named Joules. Joules babbles about the disadvantages current V-Frame designs have to Decepticons and Cybertronians in general. Hunter points out that reaction time, an unavoidable side-effect of physical controls, is their biggest hindrance. Joules agrees, and introduces him to the future: V-Frames with Robot Modes not needing controls. In the expansive Vehicular Bay, Hunter sees his old V-Frame rebuilt and reengineered.

Episode Notes
- Surge and Starshriek are seeker jets, identical in design to Starscream. Surge even makes mention of their relation to “the greatest Decepticon ever!”

- Present at the Decepticon Earth Council: Soundwave, Bonecrusher, Swindle, and Scourge. Good to know they have some experience running the show.

- Decepticons still use the activation code, “Transform!” UEDC V-Frame pilots say “Reconfigure to V-Mode/R-Mode,” depending on which mode their Frame is in.

- A yellow Volkswagen beetle can be seen in the background of the Vehicular Bay.

- The four main Sentinel V-Frames are introduced; a helicopter, a jet fighter, an all-terrain tank, and a black sports car. Only one is named.

- Hunter originally pilots a helicopter he calls ‘Whirlwind’. After it’s reengineered as a Sentinel, Joules rechristens it ‘Hurricane.’

Episode Quotes

“Look at you, quaking in your podiatric extensions at the thought of a few meat sacks with Autobot envy.”
-Starshriek, to Decepticon Earth Council

“It’s them or us. And I intend to make sure it’s us. Ma’am.”
-Hunter, to Fairborne

H: “Lieutenant Hunter. And you are…?
J: [eyes hunter] “Less than pleased. But we’ll work with what we’ve got, I suppose.”
-Hunter and Joules meeting for the first time

Gear Up! Part II
Starshriek and Surge start off the episode in a mysterious lab. The fembot is hooked up to a sinister-looking machine. Surge, disgusted, asks if she’s ready. She seems hesitant, but tells him to shut up and start the process. Nearby, a naked human female floats in a clear tube of liquid, seemingly lifeless. The machine starts up, and Starshriek screams. Seconds later, energy flows into the woman, and she screams as well, opening her eyes.

In the meantime, Hunter is introduced to two other pilots on his team, Anderson and McMilland. The meeting is interrupted by warning klaxons; Decepticons are attacking a secret convoy headed for Centurion Base, a convoy that includes their fourth and last pilot. Hunter requests permission to intercept and defend using the new frames. Tyler is anxious to test their suits in battle, and ignores Joules’ warnings and allows them to mobilize. Hunter, McMilland and Anderson set out in their respective V-Frames, eager to try out the new Biolinq controls.

Hurricane, Knightwheel and Junkyard reach the line of cargo tankers. Surge and Hammerfist, accompanied by a squad of Surge’s new Deceptidrones, are tearing them apart. Still in V-Mode, the Sentinels tear through the drones with relative ease. But when they try to transform, they find they’re unable to make the V-Frames respond. They’re stuck in V-Mode, and get knocked around a while. The two Cons pull out on their own as conventional support forces arrive to back the Sentinels up. As the cleanup begins, a familiar young woman is found among the wounded, possessing no ID but wearing a UEDC uniform.

Back at base, Tyler chews out the Sentinel crew for their pitiful performance. Joules comes back with a few ‘I told you so’s. He insists that the pilots need extensive training before they can utilize the units’ R-Modes. The episode ends with the mysterious, raven-haired woman waking up in the medical bay with an ominous smile.

Episode Notes
- The machine used to make Starshriek human is similar to the one that changed Rodimus and the gang into humans back in G1.

- The pilot meant for the jet fighter dies en route. He does not appear, and is only mentioned, never named.

- Decepticons in this episode: Starshriek, Surge, Hammerfist, Jetstorm.

- Two of the Sentinel Frames introduced in the previous episode are named: Knightwheel (Street Racer) and Junkyard (All-Terrain Tank).

Quotable Quotes
“Why am I still a car? I’m supposed to be a robot!
-McMilland [in Knightwheel]

“Let’s go squash some robot.”
-Hunter [in Hurricane]

S: “This is the best they send after us? Earth-Bots that don’t even know how to transform?”
H: “I’ve never seen anything so sad. And I’ve fought Wheelie.”
-Hammerfist and Surge, during battle

Gear Up! Part III
Hunter starts the episode working on his mech, lamenting that Hurricane wouldn’t transform for him. Joules comes along and explains that it can take weeks, even months, to attune a pilot to a Biolinq system. He demonstrates with a test arm, barely getting it to jiggle with extreme effort.

Starshriek sneaks out of the medical ward in her human body and finds a communication station. With a little hacking, she contacts Surge and transmits the base’s location. Surge thanks her and, with a smile, wishes his sister a pleasant death with the meat bags. Starshriek is taking too much of his thunder. If she’s lucky, the humans will find her before he does. And just then, internal security responds, capturing her as Surge laughs on before cutting the link.

Now there’s no choice; the experimental Frames are the only ones on base at the moment. The conventional Frames en route to bolster their defenses were destroyed in the convoy. Joules is having a fit, screaming about having barely enough time to repair the units, insisting that they’ll never be ready, and wouldn’t work in R-Mode anyway. The decision is put on hold as Tyler and gang interrogate Starshriek, only to find that she’s all too happy to talk. The Cons are well aware of the base’s pitiful defenses. Only four Cons are coming, along with a large force of Deceptidrones. She seems confident that they’ll wipe out the secret base without difficulty. Her only regret is that she’ll never get the chance to kill her brother herself.

The General begins planning for a mass evacuation. Everyone knows full well the Cons will track the retreat and kill everyone once they’re finished with the useless prototypes. Hunter asks for one last chance. Against Joules’ protests, the V-Frames are prepped for battle. Hunter has a serious talk with Starshriek. She insists that she only cares about revenge, and will take any chance she can get, even if it means fighting with “the filthy humans.” With that, Hunter suggests she be given the jet fighter. Tyler agrees, but insists that an explosive device be installed under her seat to deter her from betraying them.

The fight ensues. The Deceptidrones fall readily to the Frames’ V-Modes. But as the Cons pair off man-to-man, the Sentinels find themselves outmatched. In desperation, Hunter forces himself into the circuitry of Hurricane via the Biolinq circuitry, actually becoming a part of the robot. The experience is dizzying, but ultimately effective, as he blows Pan-Zarr apart. Joules increases the power to the Biolinq tech in the other units, reproducing the results and allowing the rest of the Sentinels to transform. The remaining Decepticons are driven off, and the base is saved. But the fight has just begun…

Episode Notes
- The phrase “Gear up!” replaces “Reconfigure” as the Sentinels’ activation codes.

- The fourth and final V-Frame is named: Valkyrie (Jet)

- Centurion Base possesses the ability to raise and lower itself from the sand. In this episode, it did so to bring the defenses online to cover the evacuation.

- Hurricane is given the honorific ‘Prime’ out of respect for the Autobots’ leaders.

- Hunter still calls his Frame ‘Whirlwind’ in private, reminiscent of the days when it was a conventional Frame.

- With this episode, the gimmick of the series is revealed: in V-Mode, the Sentinel pilots use regular controls. They Biolinq their minds into the robots as they transform, negating the need for these controls in R-Mode. The Decepticons are unaware of the human pilots within the Sentinels, and believe these newer, faster, more powerful units to be living robots like themselves.

Quotable Quotes
J: “Your mind just isn’t in the right gear.”
H: “Then let’s GEAR it UP!”
-Joules and Hunter, via radio, during battle

“I want Surge dead. If you have a way for me to do that in this meat bag body, I’ll take it.”
-Starshriek

“You hate humans, ‘Shriek. Just think; Now you get a front-row seat to watch them all die.”
-Surge

Glitches
After two solid weeks of testing, Hunter tires of war games and practice. News of another of his friend’s death on the battlefield pushes him over the edge. He goes to Tyler and respectfully requests a real mission. Tyler reluctantly agrees and, against Joules frustrated protests, assigns the Sentinels to some light recon just west of the Rocky Mountains. There have been unsubstantiated reports of light Deceptidrone activity.

The mechs are decked out in mountain camouflage. Starshriek (now Eve) is allowed to accompany them, but the explosive is still under her seat. Their mission will take them in two passes along the zone, and then they’re to return to base.

For the first pass, everything seems fine. It looks as though their first mission will end in boredom, until Knightwheel encounters a lone Deceptidrone. He pursues it, making a game of catching it as he chases it into a cave. There, he finds Jetstorm and Sci-Napse with a horde of Deceptidrones. Behind them, an energon depot is hidden within the cave, turning energy running from solar panels concealed all throughout the mountain range into energon cubes. Knightwheel gets caught in massive crossfire as the other Sentinels rush to the rescue.

Anything that can go wrong does go wrong; Junkyard busts an axel on a rock outcropping, and is forced into R-Mode as he moves to intercept. Hurricane Prime’s rotor fails, disabling his Rotary Shield in R-Mode, and he takes a missile to the shoulder. They manage to grab Knightwheel and book it, barely avoiding detection and destruction in a crevasse.

Their radios are jammed, so Prime comes up with a plan on the fly. Knightwheel stumbles across the mouth of the bunker. The Deceptidrones swarm out, only to be caught in Junkyard’s guns, which are set up in stationary V-Mode (broken axel and all) nearby. Prime and Valkyrie charge in to mop up the remaining forces. Just as the two Cons square off with them, Valkyrie’s Thundercannon overloads. As it begins to shake and hum, Prime snags it and chucks it into one of the energon containment units. Everyone runs for it as part of the mountain explodes, then collapses, with the destruction of the depot.

In the end, the Sentinels return to base for extensive repairs and refitting. Hunter admits that they weren’t ready, and agrees to stick with simple testing until they are.

Episode Notes - Each V-Frame possesses Cosmetic Adaptive Exo-Armor, allowing them to alter their coloration when necessary. Their default colors are- Prime: Green, Valkyrie: Red, Knightwheel: Black, and Junkyard: White/Blue.

- Starshriek is now called Eve, as she is “the first woman of her kind.”

- When on mission, the Sentinels refer to each other only by codename.

Quotable Quotes
K: “This sucks. I’m bored…sir.”
J: “I’ll take boredom over dodging lasers any day, Knightwheel.”
-Knightwheel and Junkyard, on the first sweep of the patrol

E: “It was horrible. I reached twenty hours of operation time, and then shut down for no reason.”
M: “Sounds like you need to be introduced to a little human secret to success.” [raises mug of coffee]
E: [sniffs mug] “What is it?”
M: “Human energon.”
-Eve and McMilland, in the break room

“How did we go from yawn fest to impending death?”
-Knightwheel, after the initial encounter in the bunker

“Run! Run fast!”
-Hurricane Prime

Soldier Boy
Hunter is shot down behind enemy lines on a long range test. Injured, he manages to dive Hurricane Prime into a sand dune, helping camouflage him from the aerial Decepticon patrols looking for him. He tight-beams a distress call to Centurion Base. With no other forces available, Tyler sends the remaining Sentinels on a search and retrieval. Because of his greater experience, Anderson is placed in charge of the mission.

The Sentinels move out. Junkyard sends Valkyrie ahead to scout the area, looking for signs of Prime. Valkyrie insists that one man is an acceptable loss. This triggers a flashback to (then) Private Anderson’s mission, when the inexperienced non-com was trapped behind enemy lines with his sergeant, a man known only as Sarge. It’s through Sarge that Anderson learned what it means to be a soldier, and rule number one is that no man is left behind.

In the meantime, Hunter considers his options. He can’t allow the V-Frame to fall into enemy hands. He brings up Hurricane Prime’s self-destruct system and sits there, staring at the big red button. Through his injuries, he begins hearing voices telling him that no one is coming. He hears a flyby overhead, and almost presses it, never realizing that it’s actually Valkyrie.

Valkyrie reports back as Junkyard and Knightwheel move in: Prime’s hidden and intact, but the Cons looking for him are closing in, and she can’t raise him. They’ll have to hurry, or he’ll be lost. In the midst of thinking, Anderson again goes back to his first mission. Private Anderson was certain no one would find them. Sarge remained calm throughout, talking of life in war; either a soldier lives or dies, and it often isn’t up to the soldier which happens, but worrying about it won’t ever make a difference.

Hunter is delusional at this point. He screams at the voices to go away, threatening to push the button and silence them all. Then he realizes that one of the voices is Junkyard, calling him over the radio, telling him to send up a signal flare. The flare, of course, brings Surge and his drones right to Prime. Just as they’re about to destroy him, the other Sentinels pop out of the sand and target the lone Con. Surge laughs and points out that they’re badly outnumbered against his Deceptidrone army. Junkyard counters, illuminating Surge to the three guns pointed at his head. Surge is content to leave, promising to destroy Prime later.

In Medical Bay, Hunter thanks Anderson, calling him ‘Sarge’. Anderson smiles and says to call him ‘JT’, claiming he will never be worthy of such a noble title.

Episode Notes
- Anderson joined up while the UEDC was still using conventional vehicles to battle the Decepticons.

- Eve is escorted by two guards when not in the presence of the other Sentinels. Though it isn’t spoken aloud, their names are Privates Jones and Smith, and appear regularly throughout the rest of the series, never speaking (except in the season finale).

Quotable Quotes
“We may die. We may live. But whichever it is, we won’t be left here.”
-Sarge

V: “This is a waste of time.”
J: I asked for a flyby, not an opinion.”
-Valkyrie and Junkyard

“Stop laughing! You won’t laugh at me when I press this stupid button.”
-Hunter, inside Prime

H: “Seriously, JT. You’d make one prime officer.”
A: “Maybe. But I prefer to sit back and help things run smoothly. Running the show is too much worrying for me, sir.”
-Hunter and Anderson

Downshift
McMilland mopes around Centurion Base between tests. He spends all his time sitting behind the controls of Knightwheel and staring off into space. In his mind, he hears two younger boys talking excitedly about someday leaving L.A. and joining up with a pro racing circuit. The others are perplexed by his behavior, until Eve suggests he feels inadequate as the smallest and least powerful Sentinel warrior. With this in mind, each of them tries to cheer him up in their own way, only to fail.

In the Decepticons’ mountain stronghold, Surge is arguing with Jetstorm that the Sentinels are becoming an increasing threat. Jetstorm is forced to agree, and reveals his secret weapon; Shadowshot, a Decepticon brought from the outer rim via a space bridge. Surge is surprised that Jetstorm was willing to authorize such a massive energon expenditure, until he receives a personal demonstration from the Con assassin. His mission: Wipe out the Sentinels.

The team’s efforts continue to be unequal to the task of cheering him up. Nothing seems to break through. He goes to Tyler and requests reassignment to an urban assault unit, who recruit some of the fastest, most dangerous drivers in the UEDC. Tyler is reluctant to transfer a pilot from the test program when it’s going so well, but he’ll take it under consideration.

In the meantime, the Sentinels move out on a routine targeting test. McMilland uncharacteristically drifts off while in Knightwheel, fantasizing about racing pro, driving against his older brother. He’s pulled out of his fantasy by a Decepticon ambush. Shadowshot and a slew of drones pop out of the sand and disable Junkyard right off the bat, and scatter the rest of the Sentinels. Valkyrie and Prime fall quickly to Shadowshot’s lightning fast attacks. Knightwheel then leads him on a chase through a twisting series of rock spires and canyons. Shadowshot mocks the tiny Sentinel, then promptly winds up plowing into a canyon wall.

Having single-handedly saved the team from one of the deadliest Decepticons on file, McMilland seems all right with Tyler’s refusal of his transfer request. The wistfulness for a life he’ll never have is still there, but he seems to realize that he’s right where he needs to be.

Episode Notes
- This episode establishes that the Decepticons still possess space bridge technology, but cannot afford the energon it takes to use it often.

- Knightwheel’s land speed is in excess of 300 MPH

- McMilland was a street racer in his teen years before joining the UEDC

Quotable Quotes
“I know you’re gonna help me with this one, Jake.”
-McMilland[driving Knightwheel], racing Shadowshot

“Do you require sustenance? I find that my emotional grid fluctuates wildly without a regular nutrient supply.
-Eve

“Form up and hold tight, Valkyrie. We can take ‘em.”
-Hurricane Prime, seconds before Shadowshot blows his head off

S: “I’m better than you, Earth-Bot. Stronger. Faster. Superior!
[Shadowshot slams into a canyon wall]
M: “Yeah, but you don’t know the track like I do.”
-Shadowshot and McMilland [driving Knightwheel]

Only Human
The simple act of being human becomes more than Eve can bear. As a Con, her emotions rarely deviated from hatred and aggression, and never fluctuated so wildly. Depression is a new and common experience for her, and also an unpleasant one. What’s worse, no one seems to trust her, or even like her. The other Sentinel pilots begin avoiding her more than usual, acting suspicious of her every move. Even her guards remain silent in her presence.

With nothing else to lose, she manages to hijack Valkyrie and flies out of the base. Tyler is ready to detonate her onboard bomb, but Hunter pleads for a little time. Tyler agrees to send out search parties, but if they can’t find her in two hours (the time it takes to reach Con territory from Centurion Base), he’ll blow her up. He then denies Hunter access to the Sentinel V-Frames, unwilling to risk loss of any more of them. Despite this, Hunter jumps into Prime and sets out. With two renegade Frames, Tyler orders Knightwheel and Junkyard out to retrieve them both, operating in conjunction with local conventional V-Frames.

Prime tracks her down to a spot not too far from the Base, near a rock outcropping, where she sits in R-Mode. She threatens to shoot him, but he insists he’s only there to talk. Eve, now Valkyrie, explains how miserable she is, and how the only time she feels close to normal is when she’s biolinqed with her mech. Prime launches into a big, longwinded speech about the virtues of humanity, which falls on deaf ears.

Junkyard and Knightwheel, in the meantime, meet up with the other UEDC forces (scornful of the experimental bots). The other commander is eager to hunt down the “freak-bot” and eliminate a so-called threat. The two Sentinels detect, then cover for, Prime and Valkyrie, blocking the less-sophisticated sensors of the conventional Frames to give Prime a little more time.

Too bad for the Sentinels, the Cons have heard of Valkyrie’s defection over a tapped UEDC frequency, and are on the prowl. They find the two first and disable Prime, then start sweet talking Valkyrie into coming back to the Cons. She gives them a big fat ‘NO’, and they start firing. She’s in a bad spot, until a patched-up Prime dives to the rescue. Despite her angry insistences, he won’t retreat. It looks like they’ll die together, until the other Sentinels lead the UEDC forces to the rescue and drive the Cons off.

Back at Base, the Sentinels expect to be court-martialed for their repeated insubordinations. Instead, Tyler writes off the whole ordeal as a bold trap set for the Decepticons, and berates the other commander for botching it. Then, in private, he warns them all to never do it again, or he’ll have them shot. The rest of the pilots take Eve to the breakroom, where they reveal the reason behind their secrecy and suspicious behavior: a surprise party for her. Eve seems to be feeling better, and when asked, claims that it was Hunter’s remaining at her side, and not his idiotic speech, that changed her mind about humanity.

Episode Notes
- The Con assault force looking for Valkyrie consists of Surge, Deadbolt, Syndrone, and Slagmaster.

- Eve ends the episode playing air hockey in the break room with her two silent guards.

- The UEDC field commander pilots a helicopter V-Frame very similar to Springer of G1 fame.

- UEDC soldiers, just like the Decepticons, think the Sentinels are actual robots like any other Cybertronian, as they aren’t kept in the top-secret loop for security reasons.

- The rocks from Downshift make their reappearance as Valkyrie’s hiding spot.

Quotable Quotes
“You people spend two-thirds of your cycle eating, sleeping, and…relieving yourselves.”
-Eve

K: [downcast] “I think I spotted them. Two kliks south-southeast.”
J: [thinks a moment] “Just a sensor ghost. No need to report it. Let’s keep moving”
-Knightwheel and Junkyard, on patrol for Valkyrie

P: “You didn’t think you’d get away, did you?”
V: “I didn’t steal this rattletrap to escape. I took it so I could die like I lived…as a robot.”
-Prime and Valkyrie

T: “My robots were performing as ordered, and admirably. I suggest next time you make sure your men don’t screw up our operations.” [cuts channel]
H: “Thank you, sir.”
T: “Skip it. Next time you people decide to run off and play with billion-dollar equipment, save me the trouble and just shoot yourselves.”
-Tyler and Hunter, in Tyler’s office after the fiasco

“It took me eight million years to become the greatest Decepticon ever. I figure it won’t take me nearly that long to come out on top of the rest of you humans.”
-Eve, to Hunter

Viva Bot Vegas!
As a result of her recent dilemma, Anderson and McMilland convince Tyler to let them take Eve outside of the Base on a weekend pass. She reports for duty, only to be shanghaied by the duo and tossed in the back of a jeep. Before she can even protest, they haul her across the desert to Las Vegas, still open during the war to generate UEDC revenue. Their mission: to teach Eve all there is to know about being human.

They get there, and McMilland is immediately drawn to the roulette wheels. Anderson takes Eve to see a magic show, hoping a little entertainment will lighten the mood. Instead, Eve spends the entire show heckling the magician, until she gets the two thrown out.

Meanwhile, the two Decepticon brothers Runabout and Runamok are bored with watching Surge and Jetstorm plot their newest plan for conquest of the sector, and take off for the single largest human population center close to their mountain fortress, intent on having some fun.

Back in Vegas, Anderson and Eve meet back with McMilland, who has lost a lot of money. While they’re distracted, Eve slips away. As she wanders about, she encounters a fourth-grade class out on a class trip to the local amusement parks. They mistake her for one of the chaperones and hijack her, taking her to an indoor theme park. The children drag her on ride after ride and stuff her with cotton candy. Eve actually begins having fun, until the two Decepticons arrive and begin tearing apart the strip.

Civil defenses are caught off guard and prove to be no match for the experienced Cons. The three Sentinels regroup at the jeep and call for assistance, knowing full well it won’t arrive in time. Joules muscles in on the radio signal and tells them to use the V-Frame they already have; the jeep. McMilland and Anderson take some heavy artillery from the vehicle before Eve biolinqs with it and transforms into Dunejumper. With the help of the heavily-armed pilots, she manages to drive off the idiotic duo. Eve catches a flaming amusement park ride as it falls toward her kids, saving them and earning the cheers and adulation of the entire strip.

Episode Notes

- Runabout and Runamok from G1 are the featured Cons in the episode.

- This is the first episode to introduce a new Sentinel V-Frame, a jeep called Dunejumper.

- Hunter and the normal V-Frames do not appear in this episode.

- The two magicians Eve heckles pay homage to Siegfried and Roy, the tiger-taming magicians of Vegas fame.

Quotable Quotes
M: “We’re going to the happiest place on Earth!”
A: [confused] “Disneyworld?”
M: “What are you, ten?”
-McMilland and Anderson

“The albino avian was in his sleeve!”
-Eve, heckling the magicians

“Are they still talking?”
“Jetstorm can talk anyone into stasis lock.”
-Runabout and Runamok, bored at Decepticon HQ

“Do you build anything that doesn’t turn into a robot?”
-McMilland, to Joules

M: “I need to borrow some money.”
A: [sighs] “How much?”
M: “How much do you make in a year? [pause] Man, I hate Las Vegas.”
-McMilland and Anderson

“If the ride is totally safe, why are those people screaming?”
-Eve, in the theme park

Blackhawk Part I
The Sentinels are at last given an important mission, one whose success could turn the tide of the war. Up to this point, aid between North America and Euro-Asia has been all but impossible thanks to a pair of floating aerial assault platforms, one each operating in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The Sentinels’ job is to take out the Atlantic platform. Squadrons will be waiting on standby to assist, but for the most part, they’re on their own. Only the Sentinels have the power and skill to make it through and deactivate the platform’s antigravity generator, plunging it into the ocean. For this mission, only Junkyard will be used from their regular team, carried over by a new biolinq V-Frame, a B-4 Stealth Bomber named Blackhawk and a supplementary fighter named Nosedive. Blackhawk is so massive, it requires two pilots to biolinq together and motivate it.

With Junkyard mounted underneath, they set out for the Atlantic platform. The platform has a compliment of fifteen Decepticons, and is run largely with its thousands of Deceptidrones. The Sentinels make it past outside patrols, but begin catching fire as they embark on the platform. Nosedive detaches and begins tangling with the outer defenses to keep them busy. After dropping Junkyard, Blackhawk transforms into its secondary V-Mode, a tank. They begin plowing their way through the defenses, easily mowing through the drones. Halfway to the Antigravity Drive Room, they encounter a squad of actual Cons. As Junkyard holds them off, Eve and Hunter try to make Blackhawk transform into R-Mode.

Outside, Nosedive handles the Deceptidrones well enough. It’s only when Paradoom leads the drones in a coordinated effort that he is downed. He spirals down, flaming, through the clouds.

The fight isn’t going well for the remaining Sentinels. More and more drones are arriving to augment the Con squad. Hunter and Eve both strain to biolinq with the new mech. As they begin to succeed, something goes wrong, and both are knocked unconscious by a burst of feedback from their linqsuits. In desperation, Junkyard blasts a hole beneath them. They tumble into the black, and the episode ends.

Episode Notes
- The Prime, Valkyrie, and Knightwheel V-Frames do not appear in this episode. Hunter and Eve pilot Blackhawk, and McMilland pilots Nosedive.

- Konk returns from the first episode’s Decepticon Earth Council meeting. His lieutenant, Paradoom, makes his first appearance.

- Blackhawk is the series’ and the UEDC’s first Triple-Changer; a prototype previously developed and modified by Joules’ biolinq technology.

- Blackhawk and Nosedive are based loosely on the two-pack Decepticon toy set of Dreadwing and Smokescreen, respectively, from the Generation 2 toy wave.

Quotable Quotes
“I miss my car.”
-McMilland [in Nosedive]

P: “Earth-Bots? In our own base?”
K: “These Earthers are either very bold or very stupid. And I have yet to encounter a bold Earther.”
-Paradoom and Konk

M: “How hard could this be?” [sky grows dark with Deceptidrones] Wow. Quick answer.”
E: “Stop. Saying. Things.”
-McMilland [in Nosedive] and Eve [in Blackhawk]

J: [over radio] “Seriously, LT, becoming a big robot right now would be a really good thing.”
H: “Why won’t it transform?”
-Junkyard and Hunter [in Blackhawk]

“Gear up. [nothing happens] Gear up! Gear UP!”
-Hunter and Eve [in Blackhawk]

Blackhawk Part II
Sitting atop a floating, still-smoking Nosedive, McMilland sends out a distress call and explains the situation, taking the place of the ‘Last time on…’ His V-Frame is kept afloat by emergency floatation bags all around the edge of his fighter as he surveys the damage and attempts to jury-rig it back into operation.

In the meantime, Hunter and Eve awake, still alive and still inside Blackhawk. Junkyard explains how he pushed their tank into what appears to be an enormous storage bay. So far, no Drone patrols have picked them up, but it’s only a matter of time. Hunter instructs him to move out and continue on alone. Everyone understands that this may have become a suicide mission. As Junkyard heads out, Hunter and Eve begin trying to ascertain the problem with their mech.

Up in the command center, the Cons are beginning to sweat (figuratively). They detect a large UEDC force en route, and bring up the platform’s expansive weapons’ systems. Despite the opposing numbers, Konk seems confident their forces will prevail easily. When the matter of the Sentinels comes up, Konk claims to have guessed their strategy. He sends all his remaining Decepticons out to engage the UEDC V-Frames and lead them back to the platform, where its guns and drones will cut them apart. Konk will deal with the Sentinels personally.

There is nothing wrong with Blackhawk. On a hunch, Hunter disconnects the biolinq hardware from the control system, allowing him and Eve to try the act of linking without the risk of feedback, because they are linqing with each other and not the robot. That winds up being the problem. Eve insists it’s his fault, but agrees to practice. They slowly feed power into the biolinq circuitry, allowing their minds to settle together slowly instead of being forced together all at once. Hunter is overwhelmed by millions of years’ worth of memories. Eve is shocked at Hunter’s hatred of the Decepticons, and is moved to tears at the memory of his hometown being burned to the ground by Jetstorm and Surge. Then she’s shocked to discover that Hunter holds a deep respect for her as a warrior, and is also attracted to her!

Junkyard is fighting a losing battle against the Drones, until a familiar tank busts through the wall and transforms. With Hunter and Eve acting as one, Blackhawk is unstoppable. They reach the Antigravity Drive Room. There, Konk is waiting for them. None of their weapons seem to do him any significant harm. At the last second, Nosedive crashes in and transforms into a massive cannon. Putting all their power into one shot, they blast through Konk and destroy the antigravity drive. The Decepticons outside, so eager to lure the UEDC forces into waiting guns, find themselves pinned between their prey and the retreating Sentinels, who fly out of the crashing platform.

Episode Notes
- This marks the biggest victory the UEDC has seen to date.

- Nosedive, as it turns out, is also a Triple-Changer. His third mode is a gun useable by Blackhawk.

- This episode sets up events for Episode XII

- The V-Frames Prime, Valkyrie, and Knightwheel do not appear in this episode.

Quotable Quotes
“I really miss my car.”
-McMilland [in Nosedive]

H: “Gear-“
E: “-up.”
-Hunter and Eve [in Blackhawk]

“Stealth…in a tank. This plan is really getting thin.”
-Junkyard

P: “Fall! Fall, fleshling scum!”
N: [shoots Paradoom out of the sky] “Your turn to fall, loser!”
-Paradoom and Nosedive

And Baby Makes Five
Fresh from their victory in the Atlantic, the Sentinels are eager to take on more missions of great importance. Imagine their disappointment when their next assignment is to escort a flatbed filled with Joules’ pet projects to a colleague of his down in Ft. Worth, Texas. Even with the high-tech hover flatbed, the trip will take an entire day. Needless to say, the Sentinels aren’t happy with this, but orders are orders.

Though intra-comm griping is kept to a minimum, the general consensus between the now-debugged Sentinels is that this is a colossal waste of their time and talents. They’d rather be out fighting waves of Deceptidrones, or better yet, finding and destroying the Con’s mountain fortress. But amidst all that wishing, they’re caught off-guard by Surge and a massive swarm of Deceptidrones coming after their cargo. They barely manage to escape, sustaining moderate damage and forced to stop and regroup.

Once down, Joules levels with the team. The massive amounts of junk on his flatbed are merely a cover for the real cargo: the first human-constructed energon converter. Running off of Autobot leftovers and captured Decepticon converters has severely limited their forces to date, but with the first unit reaching a production facility in Ft. Worth, they can finally begin pumping out enough energon to power entire armies of V-Frames. But it’s clear the Decepticons won’t stop until they’ve captured or destroyed the converter. Hunter proposes that they allow the Cons to do just that.

Underway again, the Sentinels encounter a renewed attack by Surge and his increased force of Deceptidrones. A fight ensues that rocks the landscape. Then a stray shot strikes the flatbed, and it detonates in a brilliant fireball. Satisfied, Surge pulls his forces back and withdraws.

As the Sentinels arrive empty-handed at Ft. Worth, Joules disembarks from Hurricane Prime, whose arsenal was removed to make room for the components of the energon converter.

Episode Notes
- Joules’ first name is ‘Francis’.

- The Sentinel prototypes have been upgraded in status from ‘experimental’ to ‘limited/special duty’.

- The Sentinels’ adaptive camouflage returns in this episode; each V-Frame is given a desert camo theme for the mission.

Quotable Quotes
A: “What’re you doing, Eve?”
E: What? Nothing! I’m just standing here, standing and…nothing. Can’t a person stand? My guards are over there, they know where I am, so I can stand, because I’m doing nothing, and not…something.”
A: “Oh…kay.”
-Anderson and Eve, who has been caught staring at Hunter from the doorway of the break room

S: “Surrender the prototype, Earth-Bots!”
K: “Hey, psycho, we are the prototypes.”
-Surge and Knightwheel

M: “Can’t you just FedEx your crap like a normal human being?”
J: “I suggest we avoid your usual attempts at wit and disembark.”
M: “We? You’re coming too?”
J: Oh, marvelous. Your ears ‘do’ function as something other than decorative ornaments.”
-McMilland and Joules

Romantic Algorithms
Eve’s thoughts keep returning to Lt. Hunter and his feelings that she learned of when they were biolinqed in Blackhawk. Try though she might, she can’t shake him free of her mind. Distraught, she confides her problems in Anderson. Her distress becomes disgust when he tells her she has a crush.

Anderson and McMilland try to tutor her in the ways of love, if only to explain the concept to her. When they fail, Anderson gives her the ultimate guide to romance; a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy. Eve watches the vid, simultaneously horrified and intrigued by the banter and the rising tension between the main characters. Then the characters’ date ends, seemingly in the termination of their relationship and her feelings for him, culminating with her slapping him. Eve then reasons if she goes on a date with Hunter, her feelings for him will vanish, and things will be back to normal. With this in mind, Eve successfully asks Hunter out on a date.

Anderson uses the date as a bargaining chip to convince Tyler to allow him to organize a formal dance for Centurion Base. A band is produced and tuxedos and dresses are flown into the Base’s PX. No one quite knows how Anderson is managing all this, but no one seems to care that much, either. Hunter and Eve fret and primp for the big night, each with assistance from McMilland and Anderson, respectively.

The night comes, and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, except Eve. She hates the food, complains about the dress, and crushes Hunter’s foot with her high heels. Hunter tries his best, but Eve is bound and determined to ruin the night. The fact that nothing about the dance makes sense to her, and that her wild emotions are running all over the place, makes it easy for her to cause a big scene. She even remembers to add the slap before storming off.

The next day, during V-Frame tests, Eve is still feeling horrible about what she did. This is made even worse when she sees Hunter, who is more miserable than she is. She asks Anderson (who is still mad at her) about it, but he just rebuffs her inquiries. She goes back to the movie and watches through to the ending, where the couple reconciles their differences and comes together with a dramatic kiss.

Now more confused than ever, she finds Hunter in the V-Bay and tries to talk to him. Hunter isn’t certain what he did wrong, but he tries to apologize anyway. Eve can’t get a word in edgewise, and so she kisses him to shut him up, just like in the movie. The greatest shock is that she actually enjoys it. As the kiss breaks, Hunter asks her on another date. At her reluctance to gussy up for another dance, he smiles and assures her that they can find something they’ll both enjoy. The episode closes with the pair enjoying an action flick, as Eve allows Hunter to slip his arm around her shoulder.

Episode Notes
-This episode contains the first spit takes ever used in a Transformers series:
--- Anderson, when Eve tells him of her crush on Hunter
--- Hunter, when Eve asks him out
--- Tyler, when he learns of Hunter and Eve’s date
--- Eve, when she figures out what caviar really is

Eve’s guards help her get ready for her date, and trail the pair all through the dance with disapproving glares at Hunter.

Despite the extensive repair crews, Hunter still insists on working on his own V-Frame.

No Decepticons appear in this episode.

The main characters in Eve’s romantic comedy greatly resemble Hugh Grant and René Zelwiger.

A semi trailer appears in the background of the V-Bay, based off of Machine Wars’ Optimus Prime. This is the trailer to Convoy, the V-Frame Hunter will pilot in Season Two.

Quotable Quotes
“I find myself increasingly preoccupied with his buttocks.”
-Eve

E: “What’s this?” [sniffs cracker with caviar]
H: “Caviar. Try it.”
E: [nibbles, then engorges, cracker] It’s good! What’s ‘caviar’?”
H: “Fish eggs.”
E: [spits caviar in his face]
-Eve and Hunter, at the dance

A: “Love is kind of…it’s really just…Love’s like…”
M: “It’s like getting sick around just one person, all the time. But in a good way.”
-Anderson and McMilland, trying to explain love to Eve

E: “These shoes are very painful.”
A: “That’s just their way of telling you that you look fabulous.”
-Eve and Anderson, in preparation for the dance

E: “Sorry, I’m sorry.”
H: “No, no, it’s okay. Those toes are just for show, I didn’t need them anyway.”
-Eve and Hunter, after she high-heels his foot

Shattered
The word has come down from Decepticon Command, straight from the new Megatron himself; The Sentinels represent too great a threat to their earthbound operations. As region commander, Jetstorm is tasked with destroying them and their base at any cost. With Command approval at his fingertips, he gathers every Con they can spare to mount a full-out assault.

Tyler, in the meantime, announces that the Sentinel project is complete. Biolinq technology and training are already being implemented in other select units with rousing success. By the same time next year, every V-Frame in their arsenal will have a biolinq pilot, and the Cons will be outnumbered by Frames of equal power and speed. Of course, this means the test group is to be dissolved. Reassignments come in, and the process of saying goodbye begins. But nothing is said of what will become of Eve, who is still technically a POW.

In a private meeting, Tyler astonishes Eve by releasing her; she’s a free woman. He even suggests she might return to the Decepticons, if they’ll have her. As she tries to wrap her head around that, he begins explaining a strange request…

As base decommissioning proceeds, the perimeter alert is sounded. Decepticon forces, more than any ever encountered before, are on a direct course for Centurion Base. As the Sentinels armor up for one last mission, Eve shares a tearful kiss goodbye with a confused Hunter. She won’t be joining them for the last stand, and disappears into the scores of personnel running about to clear out the base ahead of schedule.

En route to the base, Jetstorm receives a communiqué from Eve. She claims she’s rigged the base to explode, and will destroy Centurion Base in exchange for her former position and former body. Jetstorm agrees.

Centurion Base rises from the sand as the remaining Sentinels charge out to meet the massive force. As Knightwheel and Junkyard remain back to defend the base, Hurricane Prime and Surge begin a grudge match. They end up shooting each other down. There, moments from stasis lock, Surge sees Hunter emerge from the wreckage of Prime, and makes the connection. He’s rescued by a pair of Decepticons and is hauled away from the battle, laughing maniacally.

As Junkyard and Knightwheel fall back with the retreating convoy, Knightwheel is struck by a stray ion blast. He goes down, unresponsive. Eve is picked up on a rock outcropping by Jetstorm. She triggers a remote switch, and Centurion Base is engulfed in flames.

At the fallback position, doctors attempt to revive McMilland, now free of Knightwheel. Instead, Knightwheel begins moving and speaking on its own, as if McMilland was still biolinqed. The episode ends inside a celebrating Decepticon stronghold. Eve’s body is set inside a tank, next to a familiar Decepticon body. With a burst of electricity, her human form falls limp inside the suspension fluid, and the optic sensors of Starshriek open once more.

Episode Notes
- Hurricane Prime is destroyed in this episode.

- Eve is once again a Decepticon, and back in her Starshriek body.

- McMilland’s mind is presumably disjointed from his body, stuck somewhere in Knightwheel’s biolinq circuitry.

- The Sentinels have been disbanded by the UEDC.

- The Decepticons now know that the Sentinels are human-operated suits, and not living robots.

- Seen guarding the evacuation are the Nosedive and Dunejumper. Their pilots are not named or revealed.

- Eve’s old Starshriek body served as a table in the Sector Twelve Stronghold until reanimated in this episode.

Quotable Quotes
“It is always satisfying to see the successful completion of a project. I never thought it could be sad as well.”
-Joules, saying goodbye

J: “Starshriek! Or, Valkyrie? How are you human again?”
E: “I never stopped being human, you idiotic tin can.”
J: “I don’t understand.”
E: “And if you ever want to, you’ll shut up and listen to me.”
-Eve calling Jetstorm

K: “Last mission.”
J: “Yup.”
K: “We’re probably going to die.”
J: “Yup.”
K: “Can’t you think of anything else to say?”
J: “Most Cons slagged wins. Loser buys drinks.”
K: [beat] “You’re on.”
-Knightwheel and Junkyard

E: “I’m really gonna miss you slobs.”
J: [pause] “We’ll miss you too, Eve.”
S: [sniffs] “Yeah.”
-Eve, Jones and Smith, saying their goodbyes.

“You taught me so much about being human. And in spite of this, I’ll always remember you fondly.”
-Eve, saying goodbye to Hunter

S: “If I have to go offline, at least I won’t be dragged into the Pit alone.”
H: [exiting cockpit w/bazooka] “Decepticon Surge, by the authority of the United Earth Defense Council, I hereby take you as a prisoner of war. So help me, if you move, I’ll blast a hole straight through your twisted spark.”
-Surge and Hunter

J: “How do you feel, ‘Shriek?”
S: [optics go online] “Positively inhuman.”
-Jetstorm and Starshriek, last lines of the series

Billy West - Hunter/Hurricane Prime/Additional Voices
Vin Diesel - Anderson/Junkyard
Ian James Corlett - McMilland/Knightwheel
Angelina Jolie - Eve/Starshriek/Valkryie/Additional Voices
R. Lee Ermey - General Tyler
John Cleese - Doctor Joules
Michael Dorn - Jetstorm
Doug Parker - Surge
Kevin Michael Richardson - Sci-Napse/Syndrone
Frank Welker - Deadbolt/Hammerfist/Paradoom/Additional Voices
Scott McNeil - Konk/Shadowshot/Additonal Voices
John DiMaggio - Slagmaster/Pan-Zarr
Ashton Kutcher - Runabout
Seann William Scott - Runamok