Grimlock begs to learn new fighting methods from reluctant teacher Drift and puts them into action when the Autobots travel to the Antarctic to battle the Decepticon Prong -- unfrozen from a melting glacier.

The Bee Team discovers a mysterious artifact that has a strange effect on Cybertronian minds, turning the bots against one another; the Bee Team must keep obsessed treasure-hunter Springload from accidentally destroying Crown City.