History Recap / TransformersPrimeS2E2OrionPaxPart2

* BadLiar: Orion says Starscream didn't tell him any troubling. Megatron observes to Soundwave that Orion was always a bad liar.

--> '''Decepticon Mook:''' Command, this is [=SpaceBridge=] Control! We are under attack!
--> *''Commlink static''*
--> *''Punch''*
--> '''Ratchet:''' *''holding radio jammer''* Shhh.
* BreakTheCutie: Arcee when Jack says he admires getting to see another planet, when it's her home world destroyed and stripped of all traces of civilization.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Optimus / Orion Pax still hasn't completed decoding Iacon, making Megatron impatiently and anxiously await the opportunity to terminate him once he's done especially since Starscream crammed the words "Optimus Prime" right down Orion's ears while addressing Orion. The bad news for Megatron is that Orion is (secretly) choosing to put off Project Iacon so that he can decode Soundwave's barriers on the Cybertronian database records of Optimus Prime.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Megatron kept Orion around because he was an expert archivist that can decrypt anything, incuding the Iacon files. Despite Megatron's best efforts to keep hidden, Orion starts getting into the Decepticon archives to find the truth that Starscream accidentally lets slip.

--> '''Orion Pax:''' You are not suggesting that our leader would speak... falsehoods?
--> '''Starscream:''' ''({{Beat}})'' ... BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, you really ARE being kept in the dark, aren’t you?
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's ultimately Starscream who reminds Optimus Prime of his identity and also had to de-bug Orion's mind of the lies Megatron told him.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Optimus / Orion Pax still hasn't completed decoding Iacon, making Megatron impatiently and anxiously await the opportunity to terminate him once he's done. The bad news for Megatron is that Orion is (secretly) choosing to put off Project Iacon so that he can decode Soundwave's barriers on the Cybertronian database records of Optimus Prime.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Averted. Optimus / Orion Pax still hasn't completed decoding Iacon, making Megatron impatiently and anxiously await the opportunity to terminate him once he's done. The bad news for Megatron is that Orion is (secretly) choosing to put off Project Iacon so that he can decode Soundwave's barriers on the Cybertronian database records of Optimus Prime.

* GhostPlanet: While previous entries to the ''Transformers'' franchise show Cybertron as occupied or barely livable, this version shows the planet as completely barren with no robots residing on it after ages of countless war. Well... almost.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Megatron kept Orion around because he was an expert archivist that can decrypt anything. Despite Megatron's best efforts, Orion starts getting into the Decepticon archives to find the truth that Starscream accidentally lets slip.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Having been addressed as "Optimus Prime" by Starscream, Orion now has critical information regarding his missing identity. Megatron fears that this will lead to Orion choosing to rebel against the Decepticon cause, and tells Soundwave that Orion needs to be executed after Project Iacon is finished.

On the Nemesis, Starscream points his missiles at Orion Pax and habitually addresses him as "Optimus Prime". From Orion's reaction, the former Seeker realizes something is wrong. Through a brief conversation, Starscream learns of Megatron's deception of Orion, and he states that the archivist has much to learn. Orion asks what Starscream knows, but as Starscream begins to speak, he is interrupted by a team of Vehicons. Starscream leaps into action and makes a quick escape, and Pax is ordered to stay in his quarters, his curiosity piqued.

Back at base, Ratchet finishes adjustments on the Ground Bridge's power level, hoping to increase its range. Raf pilots a test subject—a toy car—into the bridge, but instead of teleporting, it is destroyed. Raf consoles Ratchet on the failure, saying it was only the first try, but Ratchet thinks it was a doomed idea from the start. In an effort to cheer him up, Raf tells the story of his slow triumph over the rope climb in gym class, but it falls on oblivious ears, since Ratchet doesn't understand what gym class has to do with increasing the Ground Bridge's power level.

In the halls of the ''Nemesis'', Starscream deftly manoeuvres his way past many guards, blasting a door out in his bid for freedom. Seconds away from escape, he takes a laser blast to the tail and spins to the ground. Orion is soon visited by Megatron, who apologizes for the commotion. Orion asks why Megatron told him Starscream was dead, and the Decepticon replies that Starscream is dead to the Decepticon cause—a defector to the Autobots. Megatron departs, but Orion is still curious over Starscream's reference to him, and he begins to read more about this "Optimus Prime". On the database page for Optimus Prime (which displays a false image of a menacing-looking robot), Orion reads that the name belonged to the leader of the Autobot faction, who was not Ratchet, as Megatron told him.

Bulkhead arrives at base and reports no leads on the location of the Decepticons' space bridge. About to send Bulkhead on his way to the next search quadrant, Ratchet receives a high-frequency message of peculiar nature: It is addressed to him and is from Starscream. The message states that he must come alone with a medical kit to repair Starscream, in exchange for valuable intel about Optimus.

In a forest, the Ground Bridge portal opens to reveal Ratchet and Bulkhead, to the wounded Starscream's surprise and dismay. Ratchet plays no games with his help, refusing to repair the Decepticon unless he gets some useful information. Realizing his compromised position, Starscream reveals Prime's status, mental state and location, but is horrified to find the Autobots already know all that and plan to abandon him as a result. As Ratchet and Bulkhead depart, the medic responds to Starscream's pleading with the ultimatum that unless he knows anything about the space bridge, he's going to rot. The jet is amazed that his troops finished his project while he was gone, then realizes that this is the information Ratchet is looking for. He smugly shows the Autobot where it hurts.

The group convenes at base to discuss the plan of action for seizing the space bridge. June voices her concern at the prospect of Jack traveling to another planet, but is reassured by Arcee and Fowler, and realizes the necessity of his mission. Ratchet works out a plan in which all four Autobots storm the space bridge chamber, jamming communications to block the deployment of Decepticon reinforcements. Fowler offers Jack a spacesuit for use on Cybertron, and Arcee volunteers to go with him. The Ground Bridge opens, and the team enters.

At the Space Bridge complex, the team makes quick work of the guards. One attempts to send a message to control, but is stymied by Ratchet's scrambler and Bulkhead's fist. They arrive at the bridge, and Jack, fully decked out in a donated spacesuit from NASA, is bridged to the location. The space bridge is activated, and the duo step through to Arcee's homeworld and Jack's destiny.

In the complex, the remaining Autobots are stopped in their tracks by a transmission from Breakdown, asking for a status report. As the demands for a report continue, they fumble over who should take the call, since Ratchet and Bulkhead's voices would be recognized and Bumblebee can't speak at all. Ratchet settles on Agent Fowler and has him patched through. Fowler manages to field the call and turns it around, asking Breakdown how he is, to surprising success.

Meanwhile, Orion searches through all files he can on "Optimus Prime", only to find that they have been altered, the true files encrypted, to his chagrin. However, Orion, a skilful hacker, manages to get past the encoding and find an image that shocks him: He is Optimus Prime! This does not go unnoticed by Soundwave and Megatron. The latter vows that he will see to it that Orion completes Project Iacon, even if he has to inflict grievous pain on his former friend and disciple.

On Cybertron, Jack and Arcee follow the Key's signal and are surprised to find that it leads to Kaon, the Decepticon capital, which is now abandoned except, as Arcee puts it, for "vermin". As they advance on foot, they cross a bridge, unaware that underneath them, one such vermin is transforming and beginning to follow them.

To be continued...

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: You have a transportation base with intergalactic range. Why would the owners ''not'' have progress reports?
** PlayedForLaughs with Ratchet and Bulkhead hiding where they got the location of the Space Bridge. Arcee remarks "Thank you, Starscream" to Bulkhead's surprise. As she points out, he was the only logical source of information who could have given them location of the Space Bridge.
** That Autobots have shown before that they have trouble tracking the ''Nemesis''. Starscream managed to find it, but it took him months and since it moves, he doesn't know its current location.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Averted. Optimus / Orion Pax still hasn't completed decoding Iacon, making Megatron impatiently and anxiously await the opportunity to terminate him once he's done. The bad news for Megatron is that Orion is (secretly) choosing to put off Project Iacon so that he can decode Soundwave's barriers on the Cybertronian database records of Optimus Prime.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: To Agent Fowler's surprise, Decepticons do have a way of opening and closing conservations with each other on how their day is going.

* ShoutOut: Agent Fowler's conversation with Breakdown is reminiscent of [[StarWars Han Solo's]] conversation over the detention level comlink, though ironically it's a reference to a plan that didn't work. Here, it actually does.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Raf tries to deliver one to Ratchet after he fails to build a [=SpaceBridge=]:
--> '''Raf:''' Y'know, there's this thing in gym class where you have to climb a rope, all the way up to the ceiling. It's really hard, and I've never been able to do it. But when I told 'Bee about it, he believed in me, which made me practice a ton. Finally, just a couple of weeks ago, I made it to the top!"
--> '''Ratchet:''' [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy What does any of this have to do with GYM CLASS??]]
** By the time the episode finishes, though, Ratchet seems to have picked up Raf's meaning. When the 'Bots get ready to [[StormTheCastle storm the SpaceBridge Command:]]
---> '''Ratchet:''' Rafael climbed to the top of the rope in gym class...we can do this.

* RealityEnsues: You have a transportation base with intergalactic range. Why would the owners ''not'' have progress reports?
** PlayedForLaughs with Ratchet and Bulkhead hiding where they got the location of the Space Bridge. Arcee remarks "Thank you, Starscream" to Bulkhead's surprise. As she points out, he was the only logical source of information who could have given them location of the Space Bridge.
** That Autobots have shown before that they have trouble tracking the ''Nemesis''. Starscream managed to find it, but it took him months and since it moves, he doesn't know its current location.

** In the same scene, the Autobots and humans both get this when Agent Fowler, still pretending to be a Vehicon, reflexively asks Breakdown how he is. They thought for sure their cover had been blown from that, but thankfully it went by without suspicion.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's ultimately Starscream who reminds Optimus Prime of his identity and also had to de-brainwash Orion's mind of the lies Megatron told him.

--> '''Ratchet:''' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What does any of this have to do with GYM CLASS??]]

* ShoutOut: Agent Fowler's conversation with Breakdown is reminiscent of [[StarWars Han Solo's]] conversation over the detention level comlink, though ironically it's a reference to a plan that didn't work.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TransformersPrimeS3E2Scattered It's later revealed]] that the false "Optimus Prime" image in the Decepticon database was actually a picture of Ultra Magnus.

* SaveTheVillain: To Ratchet's annoyance, he has to repair to Starscream to get the location of the Decepticon Space Bridge.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's ultimately Starscream who reminds Optimus Prime of his identity.

* WhatsInItForMe:

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Averted. Optimus / Orion Pax still hasn't completed decoding Iacon, making Megatron impatiently and anxiously await the opportunity to terminate him once he's done. It really helps that Orion is (secretly) choosing to put off Project Iacon so he can decode Soundwave's barriers on the Cybertronian database records of Optimus Prime.