Prehistory

"Prehistory" is the first episode of Season 2.5 of Transformers Loud, and is the fourty-third episode of the series overall.

## Summary

On the first night of a family camping trip, Team Rodimus shares with the Louds a brief history of the Cybertronian race and how they all joined the Autobot Resistance.

## Featured Characters

* Springer
* Jazz
* Skids
* Sideswipe
* Smokescreen
* Mirage
* Hoist
* Tracks
* Wheeljack
* Omega Supreme
* Ultra Magnus
* Ironhide
* Kup
* Scourge
* Cyclonus
* Leni Loud
* Luna Loud
* Luan Loud
* Lynn Loud Jr.
* Lincoln Loud
* Lucy Loud
* Lana Loud
* Lola Loud
* Lisa Loud
* Rita Loud
* Lynn Loud Sr.
* Omega Sentinels
* Orion Pax
* Ariel
* Dion

## Synopsis

After their first full day out, the Loud Family & Team Rodimus have made camp inside of Omega's base mode. At the "traditional" campfire & marshmellow roast, Sideswipe perks up to ask for a campfire story. Leni asks that the story not be too scary, to which Lucy "protests" until Lincoln says they should take it easy for the first night. But Rodimus says that they actually had it covered. Skids pops open his trunk and pulls out a large golden disk. He and Jackie explain that they were used by early Cybertronian explorers to record information about the various planets they discovered, sort of like a DVD or CD; and by pure happenstance, the Ark had two blank disks stored away. So, in preparation for the trip, the team decided to record some "Cybertronian fun facts" as they put, and how they became the dashing Mechs they were today. With that, Skids popped the Disk into Omega's recording system and the Guardian began projecting the disc's recordings. And this is the story they told...

Millions of years ago, Cybertron was created. None know how precisely; perhaps it was through the natural evolution of gears and pulleys into life, maybe they were created by an otherworldly mechanical entity, or they may have just been some type of cosmic coincidence. But however it came about, on the metal planet birth an entire race of advanced robotic organisms with the unique ability to change their shape - to transform. For the first few millenia of their existance, the planet lived in peace, with astronomy and culture florishing the most. But no paradise is without its serpent. What happened next nobody saw coming. From seemingly nowhere, an enormous army calling themselves "The Decepticons" sprung up from the shadows and launched an attack on the entire planet. Led by a madman calling himself Galvatron, they sought to take control of the entire planet and make it as strong as they believed it should be, in a twisted ideology of survival of the fittest. The war spread all across the entire planet, city after city burning to the ground, and casualties climbing up to the billions. Not even Cybertron's leader Nova Prime was able to stand against them, as Galvatron tore him apart, taking his Matrix of Leadership as a prize.

But from the ashes rose a young Bot that was determined to take the planet back: his name was Sentinel. Once just a humble data courier, he was thrown into the Decepticons' Gladitorial arena in their city of Tarn. But soon enough, he and a small band of fellow prisoners broke free and, through carefully-calculated strategies, struck major blows to seemingly hundreds of Decepticon camps and gained more and more followers. Sure enough, Sentinel's forces gained enough strength to launch a counterattack, eventually managing to push the 'Cons back to Tarn. In one final strike, Sentinel took Galvatron head on; and, after a bloody, long-lasting battle, and after almost a thousand Earth years of conflict... Sentinel emerged victorious.

Lynn interjects about how "awesome" this Sentinel guy is, and how it sucks that the Cybertron he fought for had to go down the toilet like it has. Rodimus just told her to keep watching.

## Notes

The episode's title is taken directly from an Armada episode of the same name, mainly because it just fit this episode's purpose quite nicely.

The first half of the episode is set up to give the audience a proper "history lesson" on the history of this version of Cybertron.

This episode is actually the first mention of Sentinel himself.