Original subtitles

[water dripping]

- OK, team.

It should be right up here.

One, two, three.

[thuds]

- I thought you guys said this place

was packed with Decepticons.

- It was before.

Humans were watching them fight over Energon.

- Humans did this?

[somber music]

But how could they?

♪ ♪

- So what happened to Grimlock?

- He started tearing the whole place apart.

- Right after we knocked this off him.

- It's some sort of cognitive inhibitor,

a mind control chip.

- So when bots don't want to fight,

humans can just make them anyway?

- But where'd these people get this kind of tech?

- Excellent questions, Maltobots.

Now let's fan out and look for clues.

- Does that count?

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Kids, get back.

♪ ♪

Brawl!

Twitch, get him down.

- On it.

- [gasps] Brawl, are you--

[somber music]

♪ ♪

He's been drained of Energon.

I fought him in the ring, but I--

I didn't think--

- Is this what they do

to every Decepticon who loses a fight?

- Who could treat a living being this way?

- Someone who thinks bots aren't people.

♪ ♪

- [sighs]

[buzzing]

Huh? Everyone, get down.

[loud explosion]

- Ugh!

- Ugh! Ahh!

- Ugh! - Ugh!

- [groaning]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Mandroid?

- Maltos.

- Wh-- how are you even alive still?

- Isn't it obvious?

I have evolved.

Nothing can kill my noble purpose,

not the loss of my resources, not injury, not even death.

♪ ♪

- Of course, you're behind Bot Brawl.

- It'd be comforting if that were true, wouldn't it?

However, the Bot Brawls were happening

long before I arrived,

and they'll continue long after I leave.

Even if I were to vanish,

the desire for an Earth free of alien scum

burns in the hearts of humans everywhere.

♪ ♪

- Some people might think like you,

Mandroid, but not everyone.

And I want you to know it's never too

late to do the right thing.

♪ ♪

- [laughs]

[coughs]

Says the descendants

of warmongering aliens who brought their violent

war to my planet.

It's you and your kind who make this world unsafe for me

and mine, so I'm glad you're here

to test my latest Cybertronian annihilation tool.

♪ ♪

[rope whipping]

[gasps]

- Hey!

- [grunts]

♪ ♪

[groaning]

- He's stealing Bee's Energon.

- [cackles]

[coughs]

- You are not getting away.

- Wait.

Bee comes first.

- No.

Go get Optimus and Megatron now.

- We're not leaving you, Bee.

They're just Arachnomechs.

We can take them.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- [roars]

- Good monster.

We're cool, right?

- Not even close.

[dramatic music]

- Watch out.

- Kids.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[tires squealing]

- Over here, thousand eyes.

♪ ♪

[tires squealing]

♪ ♪

- Are you two OK?

- We never trained for a mega boss fight like this.

♪ ♪

- That thing's big, but it wasn't always that way.

What comes together can be torn apart.

Ah!

both: Whoa!

Whoa!

♪ ♪

all: Ugh!

Wait, you can control the subway cars?

Hashtag.

Mo, Robby, get out of here now.

Ugh!

- Twitch.

♪ ♪

- Hey, over here, you big, ugly arachnopede.

- Mo, run.

♪ ♪

[thudding]

both: Ahh!

♪ ♪

If we survive this, you can be the big sibling from now on.

- Don't worry.

We're coming.

♪ ♪

Cannonball!

♪ ♪

- Thrash, now.

- You got it.

Oh, arachnapede, come bite this.

♪ ♪

- Hashtag, full speed ahead.

[train horn honking]

- All aboard the Hashtag Express.

♪ ♪

[train horn honking]

♪ ♪

- Now this we can manage.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[train horn honking]

- What?

♪ ♪

[train horn honking]

♪ ♪

- [growls]

♪ ♪

Just a little more time.

♪ ♪

- Argh.

Mandroid, I'm not going to let

you hurt my family ever again.

- As if you could control me.

- Hashtag, are you OK?

- [groaning]

- Ahh!

- Twitch.

♪ ♪

- While, I wish I could stay for this heartwarming

family moment, today's success means

my next project can begin immediately.

[laughs]

[coughs]

Hashtag, your badge will lead you back to me.

Bring me your family in pieces if necessary.

[ominous music]

[cackles]

♪ ♪

- Malto.

- I'm only getting-- it's just static.

Why can't I feel it, Robby?

- Hashtag, it's us, your family.

♪ ♪

Ahh!

- Everyone, regroup.

We have to get that badge off without hurting her.

- Right.

She can't take us all at--

augh!

♪ ♪

Ahh!

- I got you.

You got me. Ahh!

- Thrash, now.

[grunting]

Augh!

Ugh! Ahh!

Huh?

- Oh, no, you don't, sister.

- Nightshade, Hashtag.

♪ ♪

- Go.

They need you more than I do right now.

♪ ♪

- [grunting]

Ahh! Ahh! Ahh!

Ahh! Ugh!

Augh!

Ahh!

Ahhhhh!

Ugh!

I can't get close.

The badge, it has some kind of force field.

♪ ♪

- Huh? What happened?

Inside my head, connected to the whole city?

Augh!

What? Why can't I leave?

- [cackles]

I'm afraid you're not going anywhere.

- Mandroid, what have you done--

- I'm more than enough to control you.

- Augh!

What do you want?

- Only what all humans want, a world without Cybertronians.

- No, my family doesn't feel that way back home.

- Home?

What home?

You don't belong here.

- You don't belong anywhere.

- No!

♪ ♪

[engine revving]

[tires squealing]

- Did the distance sever Mandroid's control?

- Her eyes are still white.

- But she's not trying to squish us.

[tires screeching]

- She's tapped into the city Wi-Fi.

Get down.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Hmm? Ahh!

- It's dangerous here.

Get to safety, civilians.

♪ ♪

- [grunting]

- Oh!

- [grunting]

- Ahh! - Ugh!

[engine revving]

both: Ahh!

- We can't beat her.

I'm so scared.

- Imagine what she's going through.

[together] You have no home.

You're alone here.

Nobody loves you.

- Stop.

Leave me alone.

♪ ♪

- You are alone.

♪ ♪

- What are we going to do?

- What can we do?

She's a tank.

- We got to go get Bee.

- No.

We're not leaving Hashtag.

She's family.

She needs us now more than ever.

Hashtag, I know you're in there.

♪ ♪

[groaning]

Hashtag.

I'm not going to run away, not after everything

we've been through tonight.

We're leaving together or not at all.

♪ ♪

- Together it is.

[uplifting music]

♪ ♪

- Whoa.

It's like that time we were supercharged on cave water,

like, times a billion.

- This feels like a lot.

- Wait.

Somehow, I'm feeling Hashtag.

- I sense her too.

She needs our protection.

- She's hurt.

Hashtag?

[energetic music]

♪ ♪

- Argh!

♪ ♪

- Hashtag.

- What? No.

- Listen to us.

We know you're scared and angry.

- But we're here for you.

- No matter what.

- You'll always have a home with us.

- No!

- Because home isn't a place.

- It's the people who love you.

- Augh!

Don't listen.

They're lying to you.

- You're wrong.

I was never alone.

- No!

[uplifting music]

♪ ♪

Ahh!

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

- Sorry.

Sorry, I didn't mean--

Mandroid was in my head.

He was telling me that people hate us and I was alone.

- You did nothing wrong.

We're family, and we'll always stick

with you through anything.

And we love you.

♪ ♪

- [laughs]

[footsteps tapping]

- [groaning]

Huh?

- Hey, over here.

- How about that freaky power, though, right?

No idea what that was.

But whoo, what a rush.

- I thought it was kind of scary.

- Never thought I'd say this, but I really miss Witwicky.

Can we go home now?

- But we never found Grimlock.

- Still no chatter about a Dinobot in the city.

If he went through what I just did,

he's definitely going to look for somewhere safe.

- But what about all the Decepticons on the run?

They can't rest.

- Yeah.

Won't they just go to another Bot Brawl?

- They might have to.

It will be really difficult to change things for the better

as long as hateful people try to control what

Cybertronians need to survive.

- But we're not giving up.

Right, Bee?

- OK, but Mom and Dad will wake up soon,

and we don't need to get ourselves in any more

trouble tonight.

- [sighs]

You all go.

I need to stay back and lay low for a while.

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

- [groans]

[sighs]

[rattling]

[sighs]

[creaks, thuds]

- Bee! - Bumblebee!

♪ ♪

- [snoring]

- He's OK, just tired.

[laughter]

- Maltobots...

Roll out.

[tires squealing]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

[ominous music]

[coughs]

[gasps]

- Finally, face-to-face after all this time.

[gasping]

♪ ♪

So glad to be working with you again, Doctor.

Let's aim for a better ending this time around.

- I managed the Dinobot problem and saved

your Bot Brawl enterprise with just one of these.

Imagine what could be achieved with more.

- Yes.

Well, I heard about tonight's collapse.

Minor setback.

How quickly can you engineer more badge controllers?

- To continue, I need Energon.

Give it to me.

[coughs]

- One now, and one after I see some progress.

- [gasping]

♪ ♪

[gasps]

I require test subjects.

- Take your pick.

They're all disposable.

♪ ♪

- Show me where I'll be working.