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Synopsis for "The Cure"

Continued from last issue...

A group of Autobot juice-boosters known as the Throttlebots are led into a trap laid out by Decepticon fuel auditor Ratbat. Having captured the group, Ratbat then shows them the situation on Earth: While attempting to deliver a special cargo and place device on an appropriate human, the Decepticon Triple Changers have been infected with Scraplets, metal eating robots from outer space. They also report that they have taken the Autobot, Blaster (also infected) as their prisoner. Ratbat then forces the Throttlebots to go to Earth and eliminated all the Transformers that have been infected by the Scraplets by spraying them with acid to ensure an outbreak doesn't return back to Cybertron or foil the Decepticons plans for dominating the Earth. He gives the Throttlebots 10 hours to complete the job or he will destroy the entire Earth.

Meanwhile in Arizona, Goldbug (who has also been infected with Scraplets) and Charlie Fong are running out of time. Goldbug is so weak from the Scraplets that he cannot drive and Charlie pushes him out of the desert to a nearby Blackrock gas station. When the attendants give Charlie some water, he accidentally spills some on Goldbug. To his surprise, the Scraplets exposed to the water suddenly die. Realizing that water is the cure, Charlie attempts to grab the water hose to spray Goldbug, but the attendants -- not knowing what he's doing -- attempt to stop him because there is a water shortage.

While at the crater, the Space Bridge returns and the Throttlebots cross over and are preparing to hose down the area with acid when they notice that there are tire tracks leading out of the crater and into the desert. Rollbar orders the other Throttlebots not to act until he gets back and leaves with Wide Load to find the Transformer who escaped. They track Goldbug to the gas station where they attempt to spray him with the acid, however, Charlie purposely infects Wide Load with the Scraplets to show him that he's found the cure. Convinced, the allow Charlie to hose down Goldbug curing him of the Scraplets. Goldbug then places in a call to G.B. Blackrock calling in a favor and gets him to ship in two tanker trucks full of water to the crater area.

Returning to the carter, Goldbug tells Blaster that they found the cure, however in curing Blaster they would also cure the Decepticon Triple Changers. Blaster orders Goldbug to use the acid instead, however while they are arguing thousands of Scraplets merge together into a gigantic form and attack the Throttlebots. Overpowered, Goldbug has no choice but to cure all the infected in the crater in order to save the Throttlebots from the giant mass of Scraplets. Within moments, the Decepticon Triple Changers brutally cripple the giant Scraplet mass giving Blaster a moment to toss a barrel of acid on it destroying it for good.

While everyone is distracted, Astrotrain fires the device he brought with him to Cybertron unseen onto the forehead of G.B. Blackrock. Blackrock is suddenly bombarded by a hypnotic flash of light however, this goes unnoticed. In the aftermath of everything, the three Decepticons manage to escape with the whatever cargo was in the alien ship. Despite this setback, Blaster and Goldbug reconcile with each other and Blaster is glad that Goldbug ran off and found the cure and knows that his partner is not a coward.

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