Optimus Prime builds a new team of young Cybertronians to train as first responders at the Rescue Bots Academy.

Recruits (1)

Recruits (2)

Hot Shot learns to find his place on the Rescue Bot Recruit team with the help of the Mul-T-Cog and his friends.

Hot Shot has to baby-sit the damaged RBA Test Robot, who won't stay put.

Tough Luck Chuck

If at First...

Whirl's Police Bot attention to procedure and detail saves the day when the recruits get caught in a snow storm.

Whirl'd View

The Rescue Bots learn that every life on earth needs every other, so there are no small rescues.

Plan Bee

The Bot Who Cried Rescue

Mount Botmore

Mission Inaudible

Glitch

The Recruits worry that one of their team will be cut when they notice that there are five of them...And only four Rescue Bots.

Five Into Four

When Whirl is given a task she insists on doing it alone, discovering the hard way that there's no 'I' in Team.

Rescue Promo

Blaming his teammates for a failed exercise that made him miss a Cube game on Cybertron, Hot Shot tackles a rescue alone to show off his solo skill - with disastrous results.

Blame Game

Surprise, Medix!

Each recruit gets to train with the ultimate rescue tool, the TX3000, but Hot Shot has never used one before, and his reticence to admit his lack of experience almost botches a dangerous rescue.

The TX3000

Hoist needs to spend time in his stasis pod, but can't bear to miss out on the action and keeps heading back before he has recuperated.

Little Bot Peep

Griffin Rock Lad Pioneer Wes wins a day at the Academy to spend with each the Recruits in turn.

Driving a Wedge

The bots are surprised to discover that their big important off-planet mission is actually to save a single tiny plant.

The Big, Small Rescue

Go, Team, Go!

Heatwave brings back what he thinks is a sample from an asteroid, and blames the Recruits when it disappears.

About a Rock

When a cute dog follows the recruits back from a mission, the recruits decide to keep him as a pet, despite Academy rules to the contrary.

Dog Stray Afternoon

Hot Shot beats his bad luck with the help of Cody's good luck charm - a rubber ducky.

Lucky Ducky

The Secret of Flight

Battle of the Bots

Screen Time

Fright at the Museum

Space Case

Boulder leads the class on an underwater ocean clean-up mission, but the recruits are so busy competing with each other, they stumble into danger.

All at Sea

Hoist builds a cleaning droid to help scrub the academy, but instead it nearly destroys it.

All Washed Up

The bots swap roles with the teachers to show them that learning can be fun but their efforts backfire especially when they're called out on rescue.

Who's Teaching Who?

Balloon Up a Tree

The Mystery of Dragon Mountain

When Hot Shot replaces Chase's traffic stop simulation for his computer game—the recruits find themselves unprepared as they face giant hedgehogs.

Hack Attack

When the other Recruits tell Medix he's a 'stick in the mud,' he enlists Chase to help him learn how to loosen up. But Medix's newfound sense of humor threatens a rescue and his value to the team.

Life of the Party

Hoist is terrified by the Academy's new teacher, Grimlock... Until some intervention from his friends and Heatwave shows him everyone gets scared of something, but courage is proceeding anyway.

Tyrannosaurus Wrecked

Alone in the Academy with a Triceratops, Hoist must overcome his fear of dinosaurs and calm the savage beast.

Dino Hard

When the recruits take part in a training exercise for covert policing, Hot Shot is partnered with the least stealthy of all Rescue Bots, Grimlock.

Buddy Cop

When the team are sent to evacuate a colony of rare Yellow-Eyed penguins from an island, the approaching electrical storm affects the Trainees abilities and they discover the only tool they have left is their brains.

Escape from Penguin Island

Hoist uses an unfair advantage to win a search game, allowing him to choose the location for the next Sim Exercise. He picks the Old West, and as the Recruits search for gold, Hoist learns that winning isn't everything.

All that Glitters

Whilst looking for some crashed pieces of a space satellite, Wedge pulls off a spectacular rescue at Dig Fest and becomes an unlikely star of the show.

Dig Fest

Trick or Treat

Medix mistakes TV commercial for a real monster attack in Milford and sets off to save the city.

Monster Savings

Tune Out

On a field trip to an area of natural beauty the Recruits face a swarm of metalmunching Scraplets.

Metal Munchers

Wedge is excited when his hero Bumblebee visits the academy as a guest teacher, but the young bot's attempts to impress backfire.

Bee Prepared

When Whirl struggles with a tricky maneuver, she doubts her place on the team. Reassuring her, Blades mentions a distant Rescue Bot Guru who once helped him.

Whirl's Wise-Bot Quest

When the Bots go on a satellite repair mission, their carelessly discarded trash hurtles around the earth's orbit, growing into a problem big enough to destroy them and the Sigma.

Flying Hunk-A-Junk

The Recruits travel deep underwater to find an unmanned submersible. But a struggle to communicate effectively in the deep, dark waters nearly scuppers the mission.

Into the Depths

When the dogs start behaving strangely near the Academy, Hoist sees the investigation as an opportunity to try out his new communications system, but it's the comms that are the problem.

Milford Goes to the Dogs

The Ice Wave

Best Bots Forever (1)

Best Bots Forever (2)

Five students of the Rescue Bots Training Academy from Cybertron—Hot Shot, Whirl, Medix, Hoist and Wedge—learn to respond to emergency situations and become heroes.

Recruits (1)

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