Meanwhile, expecting mother Carly asks her husband, Spike, to ask the driver to slow down, only for Spike to learn that there is only a little girl in the car-and no driver! Ratchet tells them to keep quiet as he tries to find a hospital, only for the armored car knocked over by Wreck-Gar to land in his way. Seeing a passing armored car, Archer tells Wreck-Gar that they must "knock it over", so Wreck-Gar proceeds to chase the armored car and do just that.
He tries to explain that they steal from the rich and give to the poor (themselves), but Wreck-Gar gets the Archer's words confused. When Archer inquires as to his identity, the robot responds that he is "worthless-wreck-walking-pile-of-garbage" (all things he had been called by citizens who nearly slammed into him), so the Archer dubs him Wreck-Gar for short. Archer tells the robot to throw them aside so that they can escape, and the robot agrees. The police, pursuing the Angry Archer, crash into the robot, who subsequently asks them for help. Meanwhile, the new robot walks through downtown Detroit, nearly causing several accidents. Ratchet agrees to take them to the hospital, then jets off at high speed, despite Sari's warning to keep the mother calm. Heading through, they find a familiar couple who are expecting a child, but their car has broken down on the way to the hospital. Stuck in a traffic jam, Ratchet is about to display some serious road rage when Bumblebee puts on his siren and clears a path for them. Megatron's optical sensor begins to twitch noticeably. Megatron orders Lugnut to retrieve it, and Lugnut continues his glory-spouting as he leaves. If you call me your queen one more time.Īt the Decepticon base, Lugnut detects a surge in AllSpark energy, and Megatron concludes that another fragment must have turned up. Spying a passing hover-billboard with a sign for the Detroit police department with the slogan "We're Here to Help", the robot happily goes about trying to find the police for some help with his identity. The confused machine tries to figure out his identity using the scraps around him, but is unsatisfied with the results. Just before the Autobots depart, though, Sari's AllSpark Key glows, but she quickly disregards this, and so she misses the emergence of a junk-robot from the scow, brought to life by an AllSpark shard. Prime agrees and assigns Bumblebee and Sari to try and help out Ratchet while they work more on the garbage problem. Captain Fanzone arrives to break up the scene and remarks that Ratchet needs to work on his "people skills". Ratchet (who is *very* cranky due to the fact that they are cleaning up garbage when they should be looking for Megatron's hideout) ends up getting into a shouting match with an old man whose car ended up under a garbage mound, resulting in the car being dumped in the river and the two old grouches almost coming to blows.
In Powell's office, a technician demonstrates a new form of the nanobots that caused big problems a while back, designed this time to break down garbage into its component molecules, quickly and cheaply solving the garbage problem (while allowing Powell to charge the city a hefty fee).Įlsewhere, the Autobots are trying to patch up their still-damaged reputation by helping pile garbage into scows. Powell refuses to repair them until the city and he can come to an agreement on payment. Garbage is piling up all over Detroit, as the trash-bots are malfunctioning and Sumdac Systems CEO Porter C. "Too much garbage in your face? There's plenty of space out in space!"