KidsWB Oct 19, 2005 Transformers Cybertron Ep 23 Trap

In the forests of Alaska, the Autobot Crosswise has escaped his icy prison and is in the process of evading the humans searching for him. Transforming to vehicle mode and hiding amongst ordinary traffic, Crosswise reflects on his past as a "monster hunter," hunting down and sealing away mysterious creatures that threatened humankind thousands of years ago. Fearing for the security of the seal keeping the monsters trapped in their underground prison, Crosswise races against time to reach it. In the fire dimension, Megatron rages at his troops over their three successive failures, having lost the Omega Lock and the Cyber Planet Keys from Velocitron and Jungle Planet. He is about to destroy the Planet Map in his fury when Starscream stops him. Taking the map into his own hands, Starscream gets it to offer up the supposed location of the third Cyber Planet Key, and Megatron immediately takes his troops into space to find it. When Sideways notices that Starscream does not depart through Megatron's dimension gate, he pauses, and watches as Starscream opens a gate of his own, to Earth. Suspecting that Starscream is at last about to make his long-foreshadowed move, Sideways decides to accompany him. The Autobots, meanwhile, have returned to Earth, with Snarl in tow. The wolf-bot is ill at ease in the artificial enclosure that is the Autobots' base, but Jetfire and the kids offer to help him get acclimated by giving him a tour. Elsewhere on Earth, the mysterious government agent that has long been observing the Transformers—at last identified as "Colonel Franklin"—is mobilizing the armed forces to capture the fugitive Crosswise. The Autobot soon comes across a roadblock intended to apprehend him, and uses his Cyber Key power to blast out the guard wall of the road, allowing him to escape by going off-road. The light from his Cyber Key attracts the attention of Starscream and Sideways, who track him until he arrives at the site of his still-intact seal. Crosswise remains on guard when Starscream approaches him, and asks him a question that makes Sideways start in surprise: Starscream believes that the third Cyber Planet Key is on Earth, and that Crosswise knows where it is! A two-on-one battle erupts, but Crosswise is wise enough to know when to cut-and-run, so Starscream has Sideways pursue him while he investigates the mysterious subterranean seal. Back at the Autobot base, the team prepares to add Jungle Planet's Cyber Planet Key to the Omega Lock. Optimus Prime offers the task to Snarl, but he defers to Leobreaker, who he deems much worthier, and all the other Autobots support the choice. Leobreaker nervously carries out the task, at which point the Omega Lock explodes with a golden radiance that engulfs everyone present. No sooner has Vector Prime identified the glow as the light of Primus than the world fades away around the assembled Autobots and humans, and is replaced with a purplish, featureless void. Vector Prime speculates that they have been drawn into the consciousness of Primus himself, and his theory is soon borne out, as the Mini-Cons begin to glow golden. Primus's powerful, booming voice speaks through the tiny robots, who serve as mediums for the deity, and he tells his children to "protect the balance, until all are one." As the light fades and reality returns, the Autobots' alarm system begin blaring, once again alerting them to the presence of something in the North Pole. Meanwhile, another of the Autobots' acquaintances is running afoul of Colonel Franklin's blockade: Lucy Suzuki is trying to get back to her lab to analyze the date she has gathered in her research. She is eager to know why Crosswise was hidden in ice, and, impatience getting the best of her, she gets out of her car to ask when the blockade will be lifted. It turns out Colonel Franklin himself is present to supervise, and he greets her with a warmth that leaves her quite surprised. Not that far away, Optimus Prime, Jetfire, Leobreaker and Landmine arrive at the site of the signal, which turns out to be the site of Crosswise's seal. Unaware that the massive tunnel that lies gaping before them has been blasted open by Starscream, three of the Autobots venture into the huge tunnel while Jetfire waits up top. The tunnel leads them deep into the bowels of the Earth, where discover a massive chamber full of strange metallic "eggs", which Jolt remotely analyses and deduces are stasis pods containing creatures emitting Transformer-like life signals. Starscream suddenly appears and quickly takes down the three Autobots, before grandiloquently addressing the heavens and blasting the central column of the chamber, deactivating Crosswise's seal and opening all the stasis pods. As Bud and the others stare with wide eyes at the scene unfolding on the monitor before them, monstrous, shadowed creatures emerge from the pods, which Bud is able to identify as werewolves, vampires, Bigfoot and more. Starscream then reveals that these are not mythological beasts, but the ancient Decepticons who once lived on Earth millennia ago, and Bud puts two and two together, realizing that all the legends of terrible creatures from Earth's past were really stories about Decepticons! At Starscream's command, the ancient Decepticons stride forward, their true robotic natures revealing themselves, and converge on the three Autobots before them. Unable to fight against a horde of such numbers, the Autobots are forced back, at which point Starscream blasts open the roof of the cavern, allowing his new army to escape, and entombing Prime's team. Jetfire spots the escaping Decepticons and attempts to engage Starscream, but quickly breaks off when the Decepticon informs him of his leader's fate. Soon after, Starscream addresses his assembled army, promising to bring about a new world order for the Decepticons. In the process, he is reminded that he needs to check in on his other plan... Somewhere in space, not too far from the Jungle Planet, Megatron and the other Decepticons have followed the map to the supposed location of the next Cyber Planet Key. Thundercracker observes that the map is doing something strange, and the other Decepticons lean in to look. Crumplezone is crowding Ransack, so the smaller 'bot shoves him back...which spares Crumplezone from what comes next! The Planet Map suddenly begins to glow, and when the light fades, all the Decepticons save for Crumplezone are encased within a massive metallic sphere! Starscream projects his image through the duplicate map, informing Megatron that he is in command now, and Megatron bellows Starscream's name deep into the cosmic night...