The Ultimate Doom, Part 2

The Transformers episode 12
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Cybertron's presence begins to destroy the Earth.
Original USA broadcast date: November 10th, 1984

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Notes
3) Errors


Synopsis

Cybertron has been brought through the space bridge, but Spike realigns on of the pylons and activates it, causing it to shoot and destroy another pylon. Cybertron's gravity begins to effect the Earth, causing storms and other disasters. The Decepticons attempt to fight the Autobots, but earthquakes and powerful winds cause them problems. Megatron orders Soundwave to clear the area, so Soundwave uses his audio disrupter waves to make everyone clear out. These waves also effect Arkeville's slaves, freeing him from the influence of his hypno-chips. Megatron tells Arkeville he will be provided with more slaves.

Arkeville's slaves use machines to draw energy from the disasters, which is used to fill up many energon cubes. The first shipment is placed into Skywarp, along with Sparkplug, as Megatron believes the Autobots won't try to interfere if a human is onboard. Skywarp and Sparkplug fly to Cybertron, whilst the Autobots do their best to stop the disasters happening across the planet. Optimus learns the Sparkplug has been taken to Cybertron, so Spike, along with a group of Autobots, fly there.

Spike, Bumblebee and Brawn enter the Decepticon's headquarters and learn about the hypno-chips. They then hear someone coming and hide, but Spike see that it's his father. Sparkplug sees a wrench Spike left out for him, and seems to recognize it. Spike walks out and Sparkplug sees him, but then his hypno-chip takes over his mind, causing him to run off and activate an alarm!

Notes

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-Ratchet's repair base makes makes its return, which was last seen in part 2 of More than Meets the Eye.

Errors

-The opening recap features animation of human slaves loading energon cubes into Megatron's starship -this hasn't actually happened yet, it won't be seen until the next episode.
-The scenery for the opening scene is very different from what was seen at the end of the last episode -it's flat with lots of grass, in the previous episode it was in a wasteland with lots of cliffs.
-Soundwave's disrupter waves take out the hypno-chips on most of the slaves, but for some reason, Sparkplug isn't effected.
-A few times in this episode, Autobot HQ is colored purple instead of orange.
-When the Dinobots are revealed, Grimlock has his original head design. It changes to his newer design between shots.
-Ironhide is seen boarding Skyfire and briefly appears with the Autobots on Cybertron, but then disappears. The next episode shows that he stayed on Earth. The scene showing the Autobots boarding Skyfire wasn't in the script, which may have been what caused this mistake.
-As Brawn runs towards the trapdoor, his head is colored orange instead of gray.