Before Optimus Prime can take action, Shrapnel presses a button on a black box. Immediately, the air vibrates with a terrible noise.

"It's an electro-disrupter!" gasps Ratchet.

"Your power is pitifully low," sneers Shrapnel. "You don't have the strength to withstand the disrupter. You won't even be able to move ... This will hold you while I go off and transmit my find to Megatron. He will reward me well for this!" Laughing evilly, he goes off to another canyon where the Insecticons are camped.

The Autobots are almost out of power. They are getting weaker by the minute.

"No ... strength ..." gasps Mirage. "Optimus ... what can we do?"

"We must ... try to fight," says the once-powerful leader.

"Wait!" says Sparkplug. "There may be a better way. Ironhide, is the Sun-Pak still intact?"

"Yes," says Ironhide. "But ... out of power ..."

Quickly Sparkplug removes the Sun-Pak from Ironhide's fuel feed. "I can change the wiring on the battery," he says. "I can rig it to give all Autobots full power for one hour. The only problem is that we need to charge it in the sun."

Continue.