As the Decepticons aboard Scorponok's Transtector head back towards Earth, they run into an asteroid field, and despite Sixshot's recommendations Scorponok orders them to plow right through rather than going around. Cerebros chooses to take Battleship Maximus around instead, which allows them to intercept the Decepticons and attack them. In the ensuing battle both Sixshot, who was sent out to attack the Autobots in space, and Daniel, who snuck into one of the battleship's laser ports prior to the conflict, are drawn into a vortex-like stream of asteroids, which ends up dumping them on the planet Daira...