Hot Rod and Soundwave venture back to the room where the other Cybertronians are kept to confront the Quintesson Scientist. The Scientist ignores Hot Rod's threats, explaining that he was making duplicates of Soundwave from each universe. When the real Soundwave freezes up again, the Scientist fixes him, only for that Soundwave to shoot him upon being fully repaired. Hot Rod and the real Soundwave then try to free everyone from the loop only to be confronted by multiple duplicates of the Scientist. In response, Soundwave sends one of his cassette minions, Laserbeak, to help the other Cybertronians to break in and free all Autobots and Decepticons from the loop. Unfortunately, the Quintessons' tower and ship combine and generate a forcefield...
When Bumblebee can't remember what his current mission on Earth is, Windblade repairs his memory chips, enabling him to rediscover his past adventures on Cybertron. When his memories are being repaired, Bumblebee gets a clue that will lead both him and Windblade to complete their mission and save their friends, unaware that Megatron sent his Decepticon assassins to hunt them down.