His helicopter is shot down by Shatter, but Burns is saved by Bumblebee. Burns also intervenes and defends Charlie. After fighting past Burns' obstruction and attempt to re-secure Bumblebee with the help of Memo and Charlie's family, Charlie and Bumblebee set out to prevent Shatter and Dropkick from contacting the Decepticons using a radio tower at a nearby harbor. Powell is killed by Dropkick.Ĭharlie electro-shocks Bumblebee back to life, restoring his memories. After alerting Burns to the truth about the Decepticons, Dr. They leave him for dead after revealing their plan to bring the Decepticons to Earth. Shatter and Dropkick torture Bumblebee into revealing the Autobots’ whereabouts, discovering that the Autobots are coming to Earth. Charlie finally expresses her pain over her father’s death and makes amends with her brother Otis, who helps Charlie follow Burns to the Sector 7 outpost where Bumblebee is being held.
Bumblebee is captured while Charlie and Memo are returned home. When Sally blames Charlie for the destruction, Charlie angrily leaves with Bumblebee and Memo, only to be intercepted by Sector 7 and the Decepticons. Left alone, Bumblebee accidentally destroys Charlie’s home and causes an energy spike that attracts Sector 7’s attention. Bumblebee is discovered by Charlie's neighbor Memo, who agrees to protect their secret due to his feelings for Charlie. She then unknowingly unlocks a message from Optimus urging Bumblebee to defend Earth in their absence, which restores some of his memories. While Charlie attempts to fix the Beetle, it transforms into B-127, whom she befriends and nicknames "Bumblebee". Powell and the rest of Sector 7, despite Burns' disagreement, to help them find and capture B-127, whom they claim is a fugitive and a traitor. The pair head to Earth where they gain Earth vehicle forms and pretend to be peacekeepers, persuading Dr. When trying to start it, Charlie unknowingly activates a homing signal that is detected by Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick as they interrogate and execute the Autobot Cliffjumper on one of Saturn's moons. Charlie finds a yellow Volkswagen Beetle in a scrap yard belonging to Hank, who gives it to her as an 18th birthday present. Meanwhile, teenage girl Charlie Watson remains traumatized by the death of her father, and resentful of her mother Sally for remarrying. Before collapsing from his injuries, B-127 scans a nearby 1967 Volkswagen Beetle.
When B-127 refuses to reveal Optimus's whereabouts, Blitzwing tears out his voice box and damages his memory core despite this, B-127 stabs and kills him with one of his own missiles. B-127 scans a Willys MB Jeep and flees into the forest, where Blitzwing, a Decepticon scout, ambushes him. Colonel Jack Burns presumes B-127 to be a hostile invader and attacks him. In 1987, B-127 reaches Earth alone, crash-landing in California and disrupting a training exercise by Sector 7, a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
A Decepticon force, led by Soundwave and Shockwave, intercept them during the evacuation, and Optimus sends Autobot scout B-127 to Earth on an escape pod in order to set up a base of operations where the Autobots can regroup. On Cybertron, the Autobot resistance, led by Optimus Prime, are on the verge of losing the civil war with the Decepticons and prepare to evacuate the planet.