Laserbeak takes some cheap shots at the streets while flying over New York. The Decepticons are arguing like an old married couple, and Megatron calls them on it. Longhaul is bored. Mixmaster shotos some acidy goop at the roof, and it falls down. Megatron: “Soon all of New York City Will be Mine” The Empire State Building is sinking.
Optimus rightly guesses that Megatron is behind the “disappearance” of the building (it sank, can they not find it now? the hell), and Autobots Transform and rendezvous at Central Park.
Decpticons ambush the Autobots in CP, and we’ve got a Robot Fight, but not much of one. Down in Decepticon HQ, Megatron makes Scavenger dig up under the fight, which causes the earth to swallow Optimus, who falls down into Megatron’s clutches. Megatron severs his motor functions, and pops out of the hole Optimus fell through. Megatron is ecstatic.
Megatron lands in Central Park to gloat, and has the other Decepticons raise the newly renovated Empire State Building as NEW CYBERTRON. The Autobots leave.
Commercial break.
Back in the Ark, Spike has an idea. Megatron gloats over Optimus, and orders hook to disassemble Prime, which he does “with pleasure”, but off-camera so as to spare our delicate sensibilities. Prime promises to fight Megatron as long as any power flows through his circuits. Megatron is keeping his head, which is badass, but also going to be his downfall.
Spike and the Autobots sneak back into NYC through the sewers. Topside, Constructicons transform and jabber about what they did with Prime’s remains. Down below, there’s a robot alligator in the sewer, and the Autobots Optimus-sensors are going crazy since he’s in pieces. Bumblebee and Spike escape into an abandoned subway car luring the gator inside, and Ratchet sends the car down the track away from them.
The Constructicons are enjoying working on NEW CYBERTRON. Ratchet and the others find Optimus’s head, left unguarded because Megatron is an idiot. They realize the alligator was made up of Optimus parts, which is why it was throwing off their sensors. They capture it, and Ratchet puts Prime back together, sans his right arm, which they can’t find.
The ‘Cons have turned most of NYC into NEW CYBERTRON at this point, complete with “Taxicons” patrolling the streets, and Optimus’s missing arm guarding the top of their Empire State Fortress.
Break.
Optimus’s arm is shooting at him, and Autobots Transform. Hound immediately drives into a giant pothole which leads to the Subway and a Starscream-piloted subway car. They shoot it, and it blows the hell up.
Megatron orders Battle Taxis into action, Optimus: “I may not have a weapon, but I can still transform and roll”, and he does, and runs the Taxis over, 18-wheeler style.
Prime and Ironhide go after the arm, with Bumblebee and Spike running after them. Megatron orders and air strike, and Starscream is instantly knocked out the air, because he’s a putz. The Constructicons transform into Devastator, and starts smashing buildings. He wants Prime like Ali wanted Frasier.
Spike and Bumblebee show up in Megatron’s command post, and call him Megaslow, which pisses him off to no end. He gives chase, and they wreck his command console. Nice one, Megatron.
Devastator grabs Prime in one hand, since he’s gigantic, and begins to climb the Empire State Fortress, like King Kong. Hearing that Megatron’s control is broken, Prime grabs his arm using his Robot-telepathy, and it shoots Devastator, who falls from the building. Ironhide nabs the falling Prime, and the Constructions beat cheeks. Megatron vows to return to New York.
Optimus and the Autobots overlook the restored NYC, and transform.
Moral of the story: New York City cannot defend itself. New Cybertron apparently uses union contractors, like you’d find in your local yellow pages, so it’s easy to reverse the changes. Starscream is a putz.
