during the ascenticons' new campaign, bumblebee has an altercation with skytread. he later sneaks inside soundwave's encrypted files, attempting to confirm his suspicions related to brainstorm and rubble's deaths, discovering that soundwave deleted the files related to sixshot and quake. while ratchet and chromia continue to check on the list of suspects for the murders, sentinel prime is under pressure for an election demanded by the cybertronians, while dealing with risers who searching for an energon facility located in an immersant titan. when sideswipe and springer arrive, ruckus' risers attack them. back on iacon, ratchet suspects of frenzy, a former riser who used to be a miner and intelligence operative.