Dinobot Island, Part 2
Title card via TFWiki, fan-archive fair use
The Decepticons strip the island's energy as time distortions begin spilling dinosaurs and cowboys into the modern world.
After forcing the Dinobots into a pool of tar, Megatron is convinced he's won. He orders the Decepticons to resume the collection of energon. However, Starscream fears that Megatron's plundering may have disastrous consequences for the island... and the Decepticons.
Meanwhile, the Autobots finish repairing the control room. However, Teletraan I alerts them to a temporal anomaly near the library where Spike and Bumblebee are. While going to investigate, the Autobots find barbarians making a mess of things. Hound locates Spike and Bumblebee under the rubble of the library, where Sideswipe drills them out. Bumblebee is able to cover Spike and prevent any harm, while the Autobots round up the time displaced Viking barbarians and woolly mammoths.
Optimus Prime orders the Autobots not to use lethal force, as they are living creatures here by accident. Sunstreaker, Huffer, and Sideswipe manage to round up the mammoths. Ironhide wrangles the barbarians by squirting them with glue and sticking them to the ground. Optimus knows just where to put them, and the Autobot leader has them store the mammoths in his trailer (poor Roller), while Ironhide immobilizes the barbarians. However, the portal is closing fast. The Autobots send the barbarians and mammoths back through the anomaly, which closes just in time.
Returning to the base, Chip Chase, Perceptor, and Beachcomber begin research into what is causing all this. Before they do, however, two more anomalies are discovered: one at sea, one out in the country. Seaspray, Tracks, and Cliffjumper go intercept the sea-based anomaly, which is a pirate ship attacking a man and two women on a yacht. The Autobots free the yacht and push the pirate ship back through the anomaly.
In the country side, Prowl, Jazz, Red Alert, and Inferno find that a group of old west outlaws have encountered a biker gang. After a brief rustle between the two gangs, the Autobots force the outlaws back through the wormhole. Resuming their analysis at Autobot headquarters, Chip learns that the disturbances can be traced to Dinobot Island. Optimus Prime orders his team to fly there using jet packs.
Meanwhile, the Dinobots have managed to free themselves from the tar pit, thanks to Slag setting it on fire, only to see that Dinobot Island is in danger. Concluding that the Decepticons have done "bad stuff" to the Island, the Dinobots decide it's time to do "more badder stuff" to the Decepticons. The Autobots arrive, and attack the Decepticons. Prime and Megatron trade shots while Warpath takes on Blitzwing in a tank-on-tank duel. Just as the Decepticons get the upper hand, Grimlock inspires the island's dinosaur population to attack the Decepticons, forcing them to retreat.
With the Decepticons gone, the Autobots destroy the energon cubes, causing the energy inside to return to the places it was taken from, stabilizing Dinobot Island. Optimus declares that the Dinobots have proven that they can control their powers and that they have demonstrated loyalty to the Autobot cause. With that, the Autobots and Dinobots return home.
—Starscream and Megatron discuss technobabble.
— The Barbarian on his mammoth, making a thought out and well articulated point.
—Optimus Prime placing a higher value on woolly mammoths than Decepticons.
—Sunstreaker blasts the barbarians for pounding on him with their weapons.
—Pirate captain and Cliffjumper
- The initial dialogue of the "Barbarian Chieftain" was written out in the dialogue script as "Ura manamabirno! Ramballalala uramala! Ya gagga nagonda! Gagga nagonda! Hai, yamaral! Ira, lura lura! Haya, luramala!", and he was supposed to exclaim "Bunga Dorg!" when he confronted Sunstreaker. The actor playing the Barbarian Chieftain does not seem to have stuck to this very closely—but, hey, gibberish is gibberish.
- The dialogue script states elsewhere that the barbarian who robs the jewelry store is supposed to be saying "Gunda nah? Naga gunda?" (CONTENTED GIBBERISH) "Wunga ga dindy! Dindy wah!", which also doesn't quite seem to be what's said in the finished episode. Besides these examples, no other barbarian dialogue in the episode is scripted.
- The explicit character introductions continue in this episode, with Perceptor and Beachcomber both giving self-explanatory spiels, and Tracks spouting some lines based heavily on his bio, while showing off his special gun.
- The original script for this episode called for Trailbreaker to protect Dinobot Island from any further external threats by shielding it with one of his force fields. Although Optimus Prime's line explaining this was deleted during production, the visuals of the episode itself feature something of a vestigial reference to this, with the Autobots all flying off in large groups and Trailbreaker being the last to depart, taking to the air solo. In addition, in the background of the final shot of the episode as the Autobots fly away, Dinobot Island can be seen with a violet sphere surrounding it, which was presumably intended to be the force field. Ultimately, though, it's probably for the better; Trailbreaker's force fields were never shown to be self-sustaining, which this one would have to have been.
- The empty energon cubes in this episode have little round tubes at the bottom to draw in energy.
- Gadgets and powers: Ratchet uses a welding apparatus that slides in/out of his wrist, similar to the ones used by Brawn and Gears, but without the hooked tip.
Screencaps via TFWiki (Teletraan I), used under fan-archive fair use.