- Masquerade
- Megatron gives the Stunticons orders to get three components. The Stunticons leave the
Decepticon headquarters and head for the components. The Autobots detect the Stunticons
and send out patrols of their own. Breakdown and Wildrider get the first component:
laserlenses from a scientist. Dead End and Dragstrip get the second component: an
experimental generator from the army. Motormaster gets the last one: a perfect ruby from a
museum. Grapple, Hoist and Inferno stop Wildrider and Breakdown. Warpath and Tracks stop
Dragstrip and Dead End. Optimus Prime stops Motormaster himself in a head to head
collision. The Stunticons are improsend and the Autobots examine the components that the
Stunticons stole. They have no idea what the Decepticons were planning with those items.
They decide to change the appareance of five Autobots to resemble the Stunticons:
Windcharger as Wildrider, Sideswipe as Breakdown, Jazz as Dead End, Mirage as Dragstrip
and Optimus Prime as Motormaster. The five Autobots with the components head to a place
that Hound managed to retrieve from the Stunticon minds: a deserted crater. In the crater
the Constructicons are building a large weapon, the Autobots are able to fool Megatron.
Meanwhile the Stunticons are able to break free from their prisons in the Ark, they form
Menasor and he heads for the crater. The weapon is ready and Megatron dismisses the
Constructicons. When they have left Menasor arrives. Windcharger and Mirage manage to fool
Megatron by making the Autobots form a second Menasor. The two Menasors start fighting and
very soon the masquerade is over. Megatron fires the weapon a few times at the Autobots
but suddenly it starts to overload and the entire weapon explodes. The other Autobots also
arrive and the Decepticons decide to flee. Then it becomes clear why the weapon exploded:
the Autobots had changed the real ruby for a false one.