After Megatron finds out what he did, he orders Swindle to gather all their pieces back together because he needs an intact Bruticus to use a cannon. This cannon will knock the Moon out of orbit, which will fill up a canyon with water, from which he will gain limitless power... somehow.
Swindle finds all the pieces except for Brawl's brain, which is recovered by three students from a junkyard, and with it they create a super-intelligent robot with it.
Tropes
- Bound and Gagged: Elise has her mouth taped by Roland and Martin at the end of the episode before they drag her away. In front of the Autobots, no less.
- Brainy Brunette: Elise Presser is a stereotypical nerd girl, with Nerd Glasses, matching clothes and the brains to go with them.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Martin and Roland are able to make a laser in school that can burn through walls, yet their professor berates them for not doing any useful work.
- Complexity Addiction: Assuming Megatron's plan ends with him building a hydroelectric plant at the flooded canyon, he could just build said plant at a random river.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Bruticus gets utterly destroyed with a single shot from Defensor. Only Swindle survives intact.
- Did Not Think This Through: When the Autobots are trapped in the school's break room, B.O.T blocks the entrance from the outside, and attempts to break it are ineffective. Elise points out there's another door, and they make their escape.
- Explosive Leash: Soundwave forces Swindle to reassemble his fellow Combaticons by installing a bomb in his head that will go off in 15 hours.
- Fun with Acronyms: B.O.T stands for Biotronic Operational Telecommunicator.
- Informed Ability:
- Despite the acronym, B.O.T is not biomechanical nor does he communicate.
- Megatron's cannon is supposedly powerful enough to knock The Moon out of orbit. However, the worst we actually see it do is knock a few Decepticons over.
- Lame Comeback: When Martin and Roland meet Elise, she mentions they'll be working together. One of the boys tells her "You'll be working together".
- Missing Steps Plan: It's not explained how exactly flooding a single canyon with controlled tides creates a limitless amount of power.
- Off-Model: This episode's animation is notorious for maybe two or three shots in the entire episode being on-model. It can't even keep day and night straight, as the humans build B.O.T. in the middle of the night only for it for to be broad daylight when the Autobots arrive; either the animators screwed up or everyone just sat in the building for several hours to wait for the Autobots, which makes zero sense given B.O.T. has already started rampaging by this point.
- Self-Destruct Button: Megatron's new device has a convenient "OVERCHARGE" button located on a human-level control panel.
- Vehicle-Based Characterization: Spineless but intelligent Elise drives a Volkswagon Beetle, the car of nebbishes everywhere.
- Who Even Needs a Brain?: Brawl is able to move about without a part of his brain, but cannot function well enough for the Combaticons to combine.
- Your Size May Vary: The Transformers franchise is full of this, but this episode is especially glaring with it.
- During the opening, all of the Combaticons, including Blast Off and Vortex, are able to drive on the city streets side by side comfortably.
- When the Autobots are in the school, the furniture and doors are drawn as if they were human-sized, but the actual humans are still dwarfed by them, so the surroundings seem far too big.
- Thanks to the flawed perspective when Optimus congratulates the three humans at the end of the episode, Bumblebee is again drawn as being ridiculously small, dwarfed next to Ironhide who previously was only about One Head Taller than him.
