History Recap / TransformersPrimeS2E2OrionPaxPart2

* 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.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Due to Starscream running into Orion Pax and referring him as Optimus Prime, he began to get suspicious of Megatron's story. Starscream also helps him out more by saying Megatron is often dishonest.

--> '''Starscream:''' And in return?

* OhCrap: Once Ratchet, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee commandeer the Space Bridge, they get this when they hear Breakdown's voice demanding for a progress report. Bulkhead and Ratchet can't try to fake being vehicon mooks since Breakdown would instantly recognize their voices, and [[TheVoiceless Bumblebee]] is out of the question. In desperation to not blow their cover, they have Agent Fowler pretend to be a vehicon's voice.
** In the same scene, the Autobots and humans get this when Agent Fowler, 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: Due to Starscream running into Orion Pax and referring him as Optimus Prime, he began to get suspicious of Megatron's story.

---> '''Ratchet:''' Rafael climbed to the top of the rope in gym class...we can do this.

* OhCrap: Once Ratchet, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee commandeer the Space Bridge, they get this when they hear Breakdown's voice demanding for a progress report. Bulkhead and Ratchet can't try to fake being vehicon mooks since Breakdown would instantly recognize their voices, and [[TheVoiceless Bumblebee]] is out of the question. In desperation to not blow their cover, they have Agent Fowling pretend to be a vehicon's voice.

* OhCrap: Once Ratchet, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee commandeer the Space Bridge, they get this when they hear Breakdown's voice demanding for a progress report. Bulkhead and Ratchet can't try to fake being vehicon mooks since Breakdown would instantly recognize their voices, and Bumblebee is out of the question. In desperation to not blow their cover, they have Agent Fowling pretend to be a vehicon's voice.

* GenreSavvy: Arcee figures out that information on the Spacebridge came from Starscream, since there was no other way the Autobots could have learned it.

--->'''June'''.

* GenreSavy: Arcee figures out that information on the Spacebridge came from Starscream, since there was no other way the Autobots could have learned it.

--> '''Ratchet:''' *''holding radio jammer''* Shhh.

* ShoutOut: Agent Fowler's conversation with Breakdown is reminiscent of [[StarWars Han Solo's]] conversation over the detention level comlink.

--> '''Decepticon Mook:''' Command, this is SpaceBridge Control! We are under attack!

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Raf tries to deliver one to Ratchet after he fails to build a SpaceBridge:

* WorldofCardboardSpeech: Raf tries to deliver one to Ratchet after he fails to build a SpaceBridge:

* TheStoolPigeon: Starscream.
* VerbalBackpedaling: Megatron had told Orion [[BlatantLies that Starcream was dead.]] Of course, when Orion sees Starscream alive, Megatron has to revise his earlier statement, saying that Starscream was "[[DangerousDeserter dead to our cause.]]"

--> ''MegatonPunch''

* ShoutOut: Agent Fowler's conversation with Breakdown is reminiscent of [[StarWars Han Solo's]] conversation over the detention level comlink.

ShoutOut: Agent Fowler's conversation with Breakdown is reminiscent of [[StarWars Han Solo's]] conversation over the detention level comlink.

!!Tropes:

On the Nemesis, Starscream points his missiles at Orion Pax. Accidentally addressing him as "Optimus Prime", the former Seeker realizes something is wrong. Through a brief conversation, Starscream learns of Megatron's deception to Orion, and states that the archivist has much to learn. He begins to speak, but 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 in the form of 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, a laser blast catches his tail, and he 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 he replies that Starscream is dead to the Decepticon cause—a defector to the Autobots. Megatron departs, but Orion's interest is piqued by 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 plane tells him that he must come alone with a medical kit to repair him, in exchange for valuable intel about Optimus.

In a forest, the Ground Bridge portal opens, to the surprise and dismay of the wounded Starscream, for both Ratchet and Bulkhead step out. Ratchet plays no games with his help, refusing to repair him unless he gets some useful information. Realizing his compromised position, Starscream tells all, but succumbs to horror when he finds the Autobots already know it as well, 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 when 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 in 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, where 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.

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

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.