Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
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Based on	Transformers: Prime
Written by	Duane Capizzi Marsha Griffin Steven Melching
Directed by	Vinton Heuck Scooter Tidwell Steven Melching
Starring	Peter Cullen Steven Blum John Noble Frank Welker Nolan North Daran Norris Kevin Michael Richardson David Sobolov Sumalee Montano Will Friedle Jeffrey Combs Michael Ironside James Horan Peter Mensah
Theme music composer	Brian Tyler
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci
Running time	65 minutes
Production company(s)	Hasbro Studios K/O Paper Products Polygon Pictures Darby Pop Productions
Distributor	Shout Factory (DVD)
Release
Original release	October 4, 2013 (2013-10-04)

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising is a 2013 American computer animated action adventure television film that concludes the Transformers: Prime television series. It was first broadcast on Hub Network on October 4, 2013. After the Autobots victory on Earth, Unicron returns in possession of Megatron's body with the intent on destroying Cybertron, forcing Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons to form an unlikely alliance to counter this threat.

Not long after Megatron's demise and the restoration of Cybertron, the Autobots celebrate as Optimus Prime promotes Bumblebee to warrior class. The festivities end, however, when Optimus sets out on a journey to find the AllSpark, the source of new life on Cybertron, and takes Wheeljack with him to find it so that new Transformers can come into being. Ultra Magnus is left in charge in Prime's absence to hunt down the missing Shockwave and Starscream with the other Autobots. Meanwhile, on Earth, at the bottom of the ocean, Megatron's consciousness is reawakened by Unicron, who seeks to destroy his arch-enemy Primus, the very core of Cybertron, and requires Megatron's body to do so. Unicron reformats Megatron's lifeless husk into a perfected body with new upgrades before heading to Cybertron. In the meantime, Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen continue to search for the fugitive Decepticons in the Sea of Rust, but are soon attacked by the Predacons Skylynx and Darksteel. After a brutal fight, Magnus is severely damaged and Smokescreen is barely able to save his life and make it through an emergency space bridge with him. The damage is so critical that the Autobots are forced to call in Ratchet from Earth for assistance while the Autobots deduce that the two new Predacons must be creations of Shockwave. Meanwhile, Shockwave and Starscream are revealed to have restarted "Project: Predacon" and plan to create an army with Skylynx and Darksteel being their first creations.