War Dawn

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War Dawn is an episode from the Transformers cartoon.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Starscream and the other Decepticon jets have kidnapped many of the Earth's leaders. The Aerialbots rescue them, but they do not really understand why the Decepticons are evil and why they have to fight them.

Meanwhile on Cybertron, Megatron is building a time machine to travel back to the "Golden Age" of Cybertron before the Great War, in order to get more Energon. When the Autobots learn of this, they send a team consisting of Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Ratchet and the Aerialbots to Cybertron onboard Omega Supreme to stop him.

Orion Pax and Ariel on Cybertron.

Megatron has placed a trap in the time machine, trying to send the Aerialbots to a time prior to even Cybertron's creation. Optimus Prime disrupts the trap, which then sends the Aerialbots back nine million years to the "Golden Age" of Cybertron. There, they meet Orion Pax and his girlfriend Ariel, who are working at a dock unloading Energon for storage. Suddenly, they see Megatron and the Decepticon jets approach the dock. Ariel says she has heard rumours of Megatron destroying entire cities but the other Autobots do not believe her.

Megatron and the Decepticons land near the storage bay and attack the Autobots, nearly killing them. The Aerialbots come to rescue them, carrying them to a safe place for repairs. There they meet a young Alpha Trion who is busy repairing his drones. The Aerialbots ask him to repair the damaged Autobots.

Alpha Trion nine million years ago.

While the repairs are taking place, Megatron lays siege on the other cities but the massive Guardian robots try to stop him and restore control. When Alpha Trion finishes his repairs, he has rebuilt Orion Pax into Optimus Prime and Ariel into Elita One.

In the present, the Autobots have fixed the time machine, but before they can recharge it and bring the Aerialbots back, they are ambushed by the Decepticons and a Guardian robot.

In the past, Megatron is rallying his troops to fight the Guardians, when suddenly Optimus Prime attacks him. The Aerialbots now see the the evil nature of the Decepticons and understand why they have to be stopped. They take a few Energon cubes to refuel Omega Supreme and blow up the rest of the storage bay. Suddenly, both the Aerialbots and Megatron are returned to the present time, where they continue their fight. The Aerialbots transform into Superion, destroying the Guardian robot and forcing the Decepticons to retreat.

[edit] Trivia

In an interview for the Transformers Season 3 boxed set, David Wise, the writer of this episode, claimed that the original meeting between Orion Pax and Megatron happened differntly. Megatron would shoot Orion in the shoulder, then take his disembodied arm and use it to decaptitate Orion. Understandibly, Sunbow changed that scene.