Transformers Robots in Disguise

Given a mysterious request by believed-dead OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE begins a new mission on Earth, accidentally joined by enthusiastic Autobot law enfrorcement cadet STRONGARM and bad boy SIDESWIPE. Investigating a crashed Cybertronian prison ship that has spilled the worst Decepticon fugitives all over the planet, the unlikely team encounters human father and son DENNY and RUSSELL, prison ship caretaker Mini-Con FIXIT, apparently-wrongly-convicted Dinobot GRIMLOCK, and UNDERBITE, a metal-consuming Decepticon fugitive who most definitely was not wrongly convicted, and who sets his sights on the gleaming skyscrapers of a nearby metropolis.

Bumblebee's new team and their allies struggle desperately to keep Underbite from chowing down on the metal spires of Crown City, but their unfamiliarity with each other creates much conflict before the Autobots finally figure a way to bring the Decepticon down, assisted by Optimus, who is apparently not quite deceased. With their mission accomplished, Optimus tells Bee and his squad that capturing the escaped Decepticon fugitives isnﾒt the only, or hardest, task they will face in the near future. Denny and Russell agree to let the Autobots use the Scrapyard as their home base for the duration of their stay on Earth.

Bumblebee tries to build trust between his young charges in order to make a better team, but their immaturity makes the job difficult. Sideswipe and Strongarm in particular have a love-hate relationship, so when two Decepticon alerts come in simultaneously, Bee sends them to check out one while he and Grimlock investigate the other. Sideswipe and Strongarm encounter Steeljaw, a sly ﾑCon with designs on turning Earth into a Decepticon homeland, while Bee and Grimlock confront Hammerstrike, a Sharkticon looking to pump oil into the waters off Crown City in order to make it more like his natural habitat. The two pairs of heroes only succeed when they work together, a small step on the road to becoming a formidable team.

As Russell struggles to fit in with local kids by joining their touch football game, Fixit's feeling a little left out among his fellow 'Bots, given that he remains behind when they go on missions. Fixit gets his chance to go where the action is when Decepticon combiner Chop Shop, who can split his body into five independent pieces, steals jet fuel for a ship he's building to help him escape Earth. When one of his pieces is waylaid, Chop Shop forces Fixit to become his fifth piece. The Mini-Con discovers unknown depths of courage, fighting Chop Shop's control enough to allow his friends to bring the Decepticon in. After the mission, Fixit decides to stay in the Scrapyard, where he can be most of use to the team.

With Bumblebee struggling to find his own leadership style and not simply ape Optimusﾒ, the Autobots head into Crown City for the first time when they learn scientists have located a stasis pod and taken it to the Natural History Museum for study. With Denny and Russell providing a cover story, the ﾑBots sneak into the museum, but not in time to keep Buffaloid Decepticon Terrashock from breaking out of his pod. While chasing Terrashock through the museum and apprehending him on the streets of Crown City, Bumblebee learns the best way for him to lead is to simply be himself and trust his own instincts.

Strange purchase requests by locals visiting the Scrapyard lead our heroes to realize that a Decepticon is posing as a local legend in order to acquire the parts he needs to build a SpaceBridge that will let him escape Earth. Tired of taking orders, Sideswipe breaks off from the team during the search, and when the Decepticon is revealed as Cybertronian crime-boss Thunderhoof, the young Autobot seems to seriously consider the ﾑConﾒs job offer, since it will get him off Earth. But Sideswipeﾒs crisis of loyalty proves to be a ruse, and he turns the tables on Thunderhoof, helping his friends apprehend the crook and destroy the SpaceBridge.

A giant crow-like Decepticon named Filch has been obeying its obsessive urges and stealing shiny objects around Crown City, from motor homes to power poles to bridge supports. Bee and his team go out after the criminal, with Denny providing a cover story, leaving Russell, Fixit and Grimlock behind to deal with Larry LaRue, an unscrupulous memorabilia collector with a new scam for getting his hands on Denny's collection. Meanwhile, Filch mistakenly grabs Denny for her own collection, putting him atop the Crown City Colossus statue. The Autobots stage a daring raid to rescue Denny and capture Filch.

After an unsuccessful mission, Grimlock suddenly and unexpectedly attacks his teammates without provocation. After Grim threatens Russell and then makes off with the stasis pod holding Underbite, the Autobots wonder if Grimlock is simply showing his true colors as a Decepticon. But they study the clues and determine the Dinobot has been “possessed” by MINITRON, a small Decepticon with the ability to seize control of the brain and body of another. Our heroes track Grimlock to an abandoned steel mill, where they learn Steeljaw is pulling Minitron’s strings in an effort to build his army for a takeover of Earth. The Bee Team frees Grimlock from Minitron’s control, but Steeljaw manages to escape.

After weeks of pleading to be allowed to go on a solo assignment, Strongarm gets her wish, only to be followed by worry wart Bumblebee, who frets over the dangers she might find. At first furious over Bee’s over-protectiveness, Strongarm agrees to let him tag along as an “observer.” Soon they find a maniacally obsessed Decepticon, Springload, searching jungle ruins for the mythical Cybertronian city of Doradus. He’s determined to find the city at all costs, and Strongarm must put aside her pride and accept the help of her team leader if they’re going to capture this dangerous enemy.

Renowned Autobot Jazz pays a visit to Earth to check on his old pal Bumblebee, and Sideswipe becomes determined to impress him. His efforts drive the team to distraction, and endanger their mission when a crafty, but insecure, Decepticon named Ped plots to steal our heroes' supply of Energon from the Scrapyard. First, Ped tunnels under Crown City, destabilizing its foundations, to draw the Bots away from home. When that problem is solved, the Bee Team returns to the Scrapyard and play a dangerous game of 'whack a mole' with the criminal. Only when Sideswipe learns not to worry so much about what others think and just be himself are the Autobots able to make the capture.

While in pursuit of a porcupine-like Decepticon named QUILLFIRE, Bumblebee is struck by the fugitive's quills, which lower his maturity level to that of a hyperactive child. The rest of the team, left without a leader, has their hands full trying to keep Bee and his pranks under control, but when Quillfire, a self-styled militant, attacks a fair, seeking to free the animals there in the name of the “revolution,” Bee flees his friends' custody to see the carnival. Bumblebee's new temperament and energy level bring about the solution for capturing Quillfire. Their quarry secured, the Autobots chain Bee up until the toxin wears off and heﾒs back to normal, leaving a very confused team leader wondering what happened.

Investigating a Decepticon signal, the Bee Team is surprised to find two Cybertronian bounty hunters, both Deployers of Mini-Cons: Honor-driven DRIFT and his students JETSTORM and SLIPSTREAM, as well as duplicitous FRACTURE and his henchbots AIRAZOR and DIVEBOMB. Both are out to collect a bounty on Bumblebee, but when Bee saves Drift's life, Drift pledges to keep Bee safe from Fracture. Fracture engineers a nefarious trap that waylays most of Bee's team. Bee and Drift butt heads over Drift's rigid ways, but find enough common ground to come together and defeat Fracture. Drift and his pupils depart, promising to never return seeking the bounty.

Bee is frustrated because his team members are distracted from their work by petty things, and Bee's frustration distracts him as well! When a band of Skunkticons threaten a local dam, the various distractions make the Bee Team easy prey for the Decepticons, until Bee remembers a valuable lesson given to him by Optimus. Only then can Bee get his teammates on the same page and rally to defeat the Skunkticons. Meanwhile, in the Realm of the Primes, Optimus struggles with a challenge presented to him by Micronus that apparently puts human lives at risk. Optimus battles bravely, but it isn't until he sees through the combat to the real objective of Micronus' test that he is successful.