- On Christmas Eve, Optimus Prime patrols the city in search of Soundwave. With Porter C. Powell selling Soundwave action figures, Optimus is paranoid that the real Soundwave is out there. When the Autobots drift off to sleep, they awake as full fledged humans. Now they must figure out what happened to them while dealing with a Decepticon onslaught.
- Sari is at Autobot headquarters, helping them decorate for Christmas. Optimus Prime is out on the town, worried about the line of Soundwave toys Porter C. Powell has put on the market. He sees one walking, and its eyes shine red, so he tries to chase it but gets stopped by a train. The others convince him to come home. Another toy breaks out of a box at headquarters and does something to the "oil nog" Sari mixed up for them. After drinking it, they are all very tired, and Sari goes home.
Optimus Prime wakes up the next morning to discover he is human. He rushes into the hall, where Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Ratchet have made the same discovery. When they settle down a little, they realize Prowl is not there. They find him outside, enjoying the snow, and he says that he has often hoped to find out what it's like to be human, but something feels wrong. Ratchet scans Optimus and sees a human skeleton inside. They conclude that their minds have been transferred into human bodies, and they decide to see if Isaac Sumdac can help them.
On their way walking to the tower, Bulkhead's stomach starts to rumble, so they go to Burger Bot for food. During their meal, Prowl is playing peek-a-boo with a baby, enjoying being human.
Meanwhile, Sari opens presents with her dad. The gifts include a Soundwave toy, which he likes and she doesn't, and a jet pack, which she loves. She flies out the window to go visit the Autobots.
As they leave Burger Bot, Decepticons attack and start a fire. Bumblebee and Bulkhead start to extinguish it, and Prowl rescues a child from the second floor, doing acrobatics his human body shouldn't have been able to do. Before he has a chance to think about how he did it, they have to fight Starscream. Optimus gets his leg broken, and as they say each other's names, Starscream realizes who they are. However, they disappear into the crowd before he can attack again.
After Optimus's leg is patched, the Autobots get on a bus to resume their journey to Sumdac Tower. They finally arrive, but before they can enter, Cybertron descends into the sky, and Megatron, claiming to have taken over, arrives with a full-scale Decepticon assault. When one Autobot exclaims that this can't be happening, Optimus realizes he is right, and stands on his no-longer-broken leg. Prowl immediately understands, and explains that this is not real. They all fight the Decepticons in their human forms and are able to do serious damage.
Sari arrives at Autobot headquarters to find it empty, though the monitor shows their energy signatures are present, so she begins to search for them. She sees Laserbeak, and then a host of Soundwave toys rising from the floor. She destroys them and then takes the same platform down.
Having routed the Decepticons, the Autobots will themselves back into their own forms (though Bulkhead needs some help first). A huge robot hand emerges from the ground, lifing them up, and Soundwave's huge head appears.
In the basement, Sari finds the real Soundwave, with all the Autobots hooked into a virtual reality machine. She damages him, but he pushes her back with the sounds of his electric guitar, which then transforms into Laserbeak and chases her away. He lets her go, thinking one human can do nothing significant, but she vows to return and save her friends.
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