01x08 - Decoy
Posted: 07/23/23 06:35
- [snarls]
- Hand over the badge, Ravage.
[axe whooshes]
[grunts]
[w*apon pulses]
Plan on helping, Megatron?
- I have my own burden.
- [screeches]
Ah!
[electric guitar blares]
- Too loud for you?
Frenzy likes it loud.
- That one's on you.
- [laughs]
- Stop pulling your punches.
These Decepticons
are criminals.
- These Decepticons simply
wish to live in peace.
- Which is why
they ambushed Schloder
and stole his badge?
- A childish prank.
These Cassette Bots
wouldn't hurt a fly.
- You were saying?
- Cassette Bots,
Tri-Tone activate!
[pulsating tone blares]
- Ugh!
[pulsating tone blaring]
- Field report,
Twitch still hasn't fallen
for my amazing decoy.
Fluffy Ears remains cute.
- And a horrible source
of cover.
- Thrash!
Robbie needs you to test
his new bike ramp!
- Who has three wheels
and zero fear?
[engine rumbles]
This guy!
- No, remember the lesson!
It's a--
- Decoy!
[electricity crackles]
- [grunts]
-Easy EM-Peasy!
- Ah!
- Ha!
I totally decoyed you!
[humming melody]
Ah, hey!
- I decoyed you first.
- Nuh-uh!
- Yeah-huh!
- You saw me decoy you!
- Nuh-uh, ugh, please.
- I hit you with my wheel!
- [sighs]
I miss adults.
[pulsating tone blaring]
- [screeches]
- [snarls]
Ha!
[growls]
- [grunts]
Megatron, use your cannon!
- It is not for swatting flies.
- [screeches]
- [snarls]
- [grunts]
- [hisses]
- Final warning, stand down.
[pulsating tone blaring]
- Remember, the key to decoys
is to draw
the enemy's eye away, then...
boom, bang,
ruin their day.
[laughter]
- Nice rhymes.
I think you just invented
a mission theme song.
- ♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
[together]
♪ Then boom, bang ♪
♪ Ruin their day ♪
[together]
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
- Uh, I don't care
how you learn this,
so long as you learn it.
[phone rings]
- Optimus Prime
has your number?
- Hi, Mr. Optimus.
Are you calling to wish me
a happy half-birthday?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Okay, got it.
I'll let Bee know.
- So you're
on Team Optimus now?
- He's in the middle
of a fight,
and his comm doesn't work,
so he asked me
to tell you to send him backup.
- Finally, a chance to use
our training on a real mission.
- [laughs]
I was born
to back up the big guy!
- [laughs]
Oh, you're not joking.
Okay, look, in a real fight,
there's no do-overs.
You're not ready yet.
If Optimus needs help,
I want to make sure
I send him the best there is.
- Elita- ?
- Wheeljack is a solid choice.
- No, me!
I'm talking about me!
[engine rumbling]
- Arcee?
- [gasps]
It really is her!
- Arcee, what are you--
[gasps]
[chuckles]
Arcee, great to see--
no, no, no, no!
[grunts]
- Wait, she's a good guy?
- [laughs]
Miss me?
- Yeah, but you didn't miss me.
[chuckles]
Ow.
- Just thought I'd check in
on my favorite Autobot.
- Twitch Malto,
huge fan of your work,
especially
the humiliating stuff
you just did to our teacher.
- Meet Mo, Robby,
and the Terrans.
Arcee is, uh, gonna be your
substitute teacher for the day.
- Wait, what?
Sure, I could teach 'em plenty.
- What are we
gonna learn first?
- Hand-to-hand combat?
- Trick sh*ts?
- Or teach us your awesome
berserker battle rage?
- Oh, you're gonna love this.
[engine humming]
- [humming melody]
- [laughs]
Well, you excited yet?
- Yeah!
We're learning
how to fight the ground?
- Better!
You're digging trenches!
[grunts]
[both gasp]
[pulsating tone blares]
[both grunt[]
- Get back here,
you deranged pigeon!
[grunts]
[pulsating tone blares]
- [laughs]
[w*apon pulses]
[metal creaks]
- [growls]
[snarls]
- Bumblebee?
Why aren't you
with the Terrans?
- You wanted help,
I wanted time with adults.
Win-win.
Where's the fight?
- Ugh, get off my face!
Ugh!
- [laughs]
- You need me
for Cassette Bots?
- I expected you
to send someone else.
If GHOST learns you're alive,
they'll have
big questions for me.
- I brought restraining bolts.
[bolt whirring]
[bolt whirrs]
- [sighs]
You can stay for now.
- I will never touch
those...things.
- A means to an end, Megatron,
safely transporting
our quarry to GHOST.
- Optimus,
does it not concern you
that our human allies
control where Decepticons live
and what form they take
even in times
of so-called peace?
This is not freedom.
- GHOST made a bargain with us.
That stands.
You do remember what it means
to give your word?
- [laughs]
You think GHOST
has been keeping their bargain?
- [metal clanking]
- Get away from him!
- He's just doing his job.
- These do not deserve
a lifetime of imprisonment!
- You forget
your oath, Megatron.
- I gave you my fealty
to save our people,
not to be GHOST's lackey.
- Lackey?
- Well,
it's getting pretty late.
We should probably
hit the road.
[thrusters whooshing]
- Ha!
- Oh!
Uh, requesting
trench inspection, ma'am!
- Yep, you're done,
but you know
what they say about trenches.
The only thing better
than digging 'em
is fillin' 'em!
- I'll just get right up.
- What's the point of making us
undo what we just did?
- You'll thank me later.
Time to patrol the perimeter!
[cow moos]
Time to stack the hay!
Now clean and polish
that tractor.
[raccoon hisses]
- No.
- I'm sorry.
What did you say?
- No, we're not doing any more
of your pointless chores.
If you won't train us
as warriors, we quit.
- And you all feel this way?
- You seem different
in the comics.
- You're not
teaching us anything.
- Bumblebee
might not be perfect,
but he's a better leader
than you are!
Okay, might've gone too far.
- [laughs]
Congratulations!
You pass!
Took you long enough.
- Hold up,
you're happy we complained?
- This world
will take advantage of you
any way it can.
If things don't feel right,
you gotta speak up.
- So this was a lesson?
You actually were teaching us?
- [chuckles]
More than you know.
- There's still time
to show us your battle moves
before Bee gets back
from his mission.
- His what now?
- You know, the thing Optimus
called him for.
It's why you're our sub.
- We wanted to go with him,
but he said we weren't ready.
- Enough training.
Who's up
for a real Autobot mission?
- Nothing like the open road
after a hard day at work,
huh, guys?
- [sighs]
- [chuckles]
Like the other day
after training,
Thrash wanted to try
drag racing against me.
I mean, obviously I won
with my energon boost...
- [crackling and whirring]
- My energon boost,
but he called that cheating!
I mean, can you believe that?
[chuckles]
Guess you had to be there.
[humming melody]
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
- [sighs]
- We should part ways soon,
Bumblebee.
There's a GHOST checkpoint
a few miles ahead.
- [chuckles]
- Something funny
to you, Megatron?
- Just that you
cannot trust GHOST
with the knowledge
of your own scout,
yet you're content to deliver
every Decepticon you encounter
into their hands.
- Doesn't sound like he
actually thinks that's funny.
- Unlike you, Megatron,
I don't have the luxury
to throw a tantrum every time
things don't go my way.
- At least I do not
follow orders blindly
like a coward.
[high-pitched pulsing]
[electricity crackles]
- Target acquired.
[metal feet clanking]
Soundwave, destroy!
- [humming melody]
Curse that
annoyingly catchy tune.
[high-pitched humming]
[both grunt]
[metal feet clanking]
- Soundwave?
- Attack Megatron.
[beams whooshing]
- Do not make this personal,
Soundwave!
- It already is.
[palms humming]
[blade rings]
- Autobot sympathizer.
- [grunts]
[w*apon hums]
[energy w*apon thundering]
[palms hum and pulsates]
[deep pulse]
- Still want
to give up teaching?
- Is part-time an option?
[engines rumbling]
[together]
Hi, Bumblebee!
- No, no, no, no, no, no!
- [grunts]
- Ugh.
- My arm.
[energy w*apon thundering]
[electricity crackles]
- [grunts]
- Thanks.
Wait, you left the kids
alone up there?
- With Optimus and Megatron.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
- Megatron.
- Soundwave, surrender,
and I will see
you are well treated.
- [radio crackling]
[as Megatron]
This is not freedom.
- You dare use
my own words against me?
- [palm hums]
- Try us, beak breath!
[pulsating tone blaring]
- I didn't know sound
could hurt!
- We need to block it out!
[pulsating tone blaring]
- ♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
[together]
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang ♪
- ♪ Ruin their day ♪
Okay, that's catchy.
[beams whooshing]
-Woo hoo!
- Yeah!
- Get 'em!
- I'm gonna enjoy this.
- I just want to warn you,
I've watched hours
of pro wrestling.
[metals crashing]
[energy w*apon thundering]
- [palm hums]
[palms whooshing]
[cannon hums]
- Traitor.
[cannon hums]
Autobot scum.
- Megatron
is a better protector
of our kind
than you will ever be.
- We are more
than Autobots, Soundwave.
Would you like to see how well
I work with my new team?
[electricity crackles]
- No encore tonight.
- What even is
a cassette anyway?
- That was too easy.
I think you're losing
your touch, analog boy.
- [growls]
- That was easy?
- Will be
once I finish schooling you.
We'll do drills, sparring--
- Uh, Arcee,
you were just a substitute.
I'm their teacher.
- Yeah, I think
they like me better.
- These are my students,
my responsibility, my mission.
I'm the one that belongs
at their side.
- Congratulations, you passed.
[laughter]
- It was good
to work together again, Bee.
- [sighs]
Thanks, Optimus.
Guess I'd better be getting
back to my real assignment.
Those catchy battle songs
won't write themselves.
- Of course, but since you
abandoned your post,
no matter how well-intentioned,
I'll need you
to update Teletraan I
with a full report
of today's encounter.
- Ooh,
not even I give homework.
Hey, race you on the rollout?
- [laughs]
Whoo!
- Bye, Megatron!
- Bye, Mr. Optimus!
- Thank you for having my back
with Soundwave.
I said some things you might
not have appreciated today.
- I needed to hear them.
If you choose to vouch
for these cons,
I will...look the other way.
[electricity crackles]
- Please let us go.
- You will only get
one second chance.
Do not throw it away.
- Perhaps your leadership style
is not so different
from my own.
- Or maybe you're growing
to appreciate mine.
- We're free now.
You don't have
to follow him anymore.
[lights on]
[locks open]
[laser door closes]
- Decoy successful.
[palms hum]
Recon...ravage
- [growls softly]
- [laughs]
- Hand over the badge, Ravage.
[axe whooshes]
[grunts]
[w*apon pulses]
Plan on helping, Megatron?
- I have my own burden.
- [screeches]
Ah!
[electric guitar blares]
- Too loud for you?
Frenzy likes it loud.
- That one's on you.
- [laughs]
- Stop pulling your punches.
These Decepticons
are criminals.
- These Decepticons simply
wish to live in peace.
- Which is why
they ambushed Schloder
and stole his badge?
- A childish prank.
These Cassette Bots
wouldn't hurt a fly.
- You were saying?
- Cassette Bots,
Tri-Tone activate!
[pulsating tone blares]
- Ugh!
[pulsating tone blaring]
- Field report,
Twitch still hasn't fallen
for my amazing decoy.
Fluffy Ears remains cute.
- And a horrible source
of cover.
- Thrash!
Robbie needs you to test
his new bike ramp!
- Who has three wheels
and zero fear?
[engine rumbles]
This guy!
- No, remember the lesson!
It's a--
- Decoy!
[electricity crackles]
- [grunts]
-Easy EM-Peasy!
- Ah!
- Ha!
I totally decoyed you!
[humming melody]
Ah, hey!
- I decoyed you first.
- Nuh-uh!
- Yeah-huh!
- You saw me decoy you!
- Nuh-uh, ugh, please.
- I hit you with my wheel!
- [sighs]
I miss adults.
[pulsating tone blaring]
- [screeches]
- [snarls]
Ha!
[growls]
- [grunts]
Megatron, use your cannon!
- It is not for swatting flies.
- [screeches]
- [snarls]
- [grunts]
- [hisses]
- Final warning, stand down.
[pulsating tone blaring]
- Remember, the key to decoys
is to draw
the enemy's eye away, then...
boom, bang,
ruin their day.
[laughter]
- Nice rhymes.
I think you just invented
a mission theme song.
- ♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
[together]
♪ Then boom, bang ♪
♪ Ruin their day ♪
[together]
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
- Uh, I don't care
how you learn this,
so long as you learn it.
[phone rings]
- Optimus Prime
has your number?
- Hi, Mr. Optimus.
Are you calling to wish me
a happy half-birthday?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Okay, got it.
I'll let Bee know.
- So you're
on Team Optimus now?
- He's in the middle
of a fight,
and his comm doesn't work,
so he asked me
to tell you to send him backup.
- Finally, a chance to use
our training on a real mission.
- [laughs]
I was born
to back up the big guy!
- [laughs]
Oh, you're not joking.
Okay, look, in a real fight,
there's no do-overs.
You're not ready yet.
If Optimus needs help,
I want to make sure
I send him the best there is.
- Elita- ?
- Wheeljack is a solid choice.
- No, me!
I'm talking about me!
[engine rumbling]
- Arcee?
- [gasps]
It really is her!
- Arcee, what are you--
[gasps]
[chuckles]
Arcee, great to see--
no, no, no, no!
[grunts]
- Wait, she's a good guy?
- [laughs]
Miss me?
- Yeah, but you didn't miss me.
[chuckles]
Ow.
- Just thought I'd check in
on my favorite Autobot.
- Twitch Malto,
huge fan of your work,
especially
the humiliating stuff
you just did to our teacher.
- Meet Mo, Robby,
and the Terrans.
Arcee is, uh, gonna be your
substitute teacher for the day.
- Wait, what?
Sure, I could teach 'em plenty.
- What are we
gonna learn first?
- Hand-to-hand combat?
- Trick sh*ts?
- Or teach us your awesome
berserker battle rage?
- Oh, you're gonna love this.
[engine humming]
- [humming melody]
- [laughs]
Well, you excited yet?
- Yeah!
We're learning
how to fight the ground?
- Better!
You're digging trenches!
[grunts]
[both gasp]
[pulsating tone blares]
[both grunt[]
- Get back here,
you deranged pigeon!
[grunts]
[pulsating tone blares]
- [laughs]
[w*apon pulses]
[metal creaks]
- [growls]
[snarls]
- Bumblebee?
Why aren't you
with the Terrans?
- You wanted help,
I wanted time with adults.
Win-win.
Where's the fight?
- Ugh, get off my face!
Ugh!
- [laughs]
- You need me
for Cassette Bots?
- I expected you
to send someone else.
If GHOST learns you're alive,
they'll have
big questions for me.
- I brought restraining bolts.
[bolt whirring]
[bolt whirrs]
- [sighs]
You can stay for now.
- I will never touch
those...things.
- A means to an end, Megatron,
safely transporting
our quarry to GHOST.
- Optimus,
does it not concern you
that our human allies
control where Decepticons live
and what form they take
even in times
of so-called peace?
This is not freedom.
- GHOST made a bargain with us.
That stands.
You do remember what it means
to give your word?
- [laughs]
You think GHOST
has been keeping their bargain?
- [metal clanking]
- Get away from him!
- He's just doing his job.
- These do not deserve
a lifetime of imprisonment!
- You forget
your oath, Megatron.
- I gave you my fealty
to save our people,
not to be GHOST's lackey.
- Lackey?
- Well,
it's getting pretty late.
We should probably
hit the road.
[thrusters whooshing]
- Ha!
- Oh!
Uh, requesting
trench inspection, ma'am!
- Yep, you're done,
but you know
what they say about trenches.
The only thing better
than digging 'em
is fillin' 'em!
- I'll just get right up.
- What's the point of making us
undo what we just did?
- You'll thank me later.
Time to patrol the perimeter!
[cow moos]
Time to stack the hay!
Now clean and polish
that tractor.
[raccoon hisses]
- No.
- I'm sorry.
What did you say?
- No, we're not doing any more
of your pointless chores.
If you won't train us
as warriors, we quit.
- And you all feel this way?
- You seem different
in the comics.
- You're not
teaching us anything.
- Bumblebee
might not be perfect,
but he's a better leader
than you are!
Okay, might've gone too far.
- [laughs]
Congratulations!
You pass!
Took you long enough.
- Hold up,
you're happy we complained?
- This world
will take advantage of you
any way it can.
If things don't feel right,
you gotta speak up.
- So this was a lesson?
You actually were teaching us?
- [chuckles]
More than you know.
- There's still time
to show us your battle moves
before Bee gets back
from his mission.
- His what now?
- You know, the thing Optimus
called him for.
It's why you're our sub.
- We wanted to go with him,
but he said we weren't ready.
- Enough training.
Who's up
for a real Autobot mission?
- Nothing like the open road
after a hard day at work,
huh, guys?
- [sighs]
- [chuckles]
Like the other day
after training,
Thrash wanted to try
drag racing against me.
I mean, obviously I won
with my energon boost...
- [crackling and whirring]
- My energon boost,
but he called that cheating!
I mean, can you believe that?
[chuckles]
Guess you had to be there.
[humming melody]
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
- [sighs]
- We should part ways soon,
Bumblebee.
There's a GHOST checkpoint
a few miles ahead.
- [chuckles]
- Something funny
to you, Megatron?
- Just that you
cannot trust GHOST
with the knowledge
of your own scout,
yet you're content to deliver
every Decepticon you encounter
into their hands.
- Doesn't sound like he
actually thinks that's funny.
- Unlike you, Megatron,
I don't have the luxury
to throw a tantrum every time
things don't go my way.
- At least I do not
follow orders blindly
like a coward.
[high-pitched pulsing]
[electricity crackles]
- Target acquired.
[metal feet clanking]
Soundwave, destroy!
- [humming melody]
Curse that
annoyingly catchy tune.
[high-pitched humming]
[both grunt]
[metal feet clanking]
- Soundwave?
- Attack Megatron.
[beams whooshing]
- Do not make this personal,
Soundwave!
- It already is.
[palms humming]
[blade rings]
- Autobot sympathizer.
- [grunts]
[w*apon hums]
[energy w*apon thundering]
[palms hum and pulsates]
[deep pulse]
- Still want
to give up teaching?
- Is part-time an option?
[engines rumbling]
[together]
Hi, Bumblebee!
- No, no, no, no, no, no!
- [grunts]
- Ugh.
- My arm.
[energy w*apon thundering]
[electricity crackles]
- [grunts]
- Thanks.
Wait, you left the kids
alone up there?
- With Optimus and Megatron.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
- Megatron.
- Soundwave, surrender,
and I will see
you are well treated.
- [radio crackling]
[as Megatron]
This is not freedom.
- You dare use
my own words against me?
- [palm hums]
- Try us, beak breath!
[pulsating tone blaring]
- I didn't know sound
could hurt!
- We need to block it out!
[pulsating tone blaring]
- ♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
[together]
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang,
ruin their day ♪
♪ Draw the enemy's eye away ♪
♪ Then boom, bang ♪
- ♪ Ruin their day ♪
Okay, that's catchy.
[beams whooshing]
-Woo hoo!
- Yeah!
- Get 'em!
- I'm gonna enjoy this.
- I just want to warn you,
I've watched hours
of pro wrestling.
[metals crashing]
[energy w*apon thundering]
- [palm hums]
[palms whooshing]
[cannon hums]
- Traitor.
[cannon hums]
Autobot scum.
- Megatron
is a better protector
of our kind
than you will ever be.
- We are more
than Autobots, Soundwave.
Would you like to see how well
I work with my new team?
[electricity crackles]
- No encore tonight.
- What even is
a cassette anyway?
- That was too easy.
I think you're losing
your touch, analog boy.
- [growls]
- That was easy?
- Will be
once I finish schooling you.
We'll do drills, sparring--
- Uh, Arcee,
you were just a substitute.
I'm their teacher.
- Yeah, I think
they like me better.
- These are my students,
my responsibility, my mission.
I'm the one that belongs
at their side.
- Congratulations, you passed.
[laughter]
- It was good
to work together again, Bee.
- [sighs]
Thanks, Optimus.
Guess I'd better be getting
back to my real assignment.
Those catchy battle songs
won't write themselves.
- Of course, but since you
abandoned your post,
no matter how well-intentioned,
I'll need you
to update Teletraan I
with a full report
of today's encounter.
- Ooh,
not even I give homework.
Hey, race you on the rollout?
- [laughs]
Whoo!
- Bye, Megatron!
- Bye, Mr. Optimus!
- Thank you for having my back
with Soundwave.
I said some things you might
not have appreciated today.
- I needed to hear them.
If you choose to vouch
for these cons,
I will...look the other way.
[electricity crackles]
- Please let us go.
- You will only get
one second chance.
Do not throw it away.
- Perhaps your leadership style
is not so different
from my own.
- Or maybe you're growing
to appreciate mine.
- We're free now.
You don't have
to follow him anymore.
[lights on]
[locks open]
[laser door closes]
- Decoy successful.
[palms hum]
Recon...ravage
- [growls softly]
- [laughs]