chromia's team attempts to interrogate ruckus' risers, but it turns into a shooting, until soundwave's ascenticons arrive. nautica tells ratchet that the murdered voin had previously traded information, and its death will bring consequences. when soundwave offers himself to negotiate with ruckus, bumblebee secretly follows him. refraktor is revealed to be a mole sent by starscream to spy on both the ascenticons and the rise. under megatron's orders, soundwave causes an explosion around the titan to extract ruckus' team.