Optimus Prime gives a stirring speech as he and the Rescue Bots prepare for a running race. As Doc Greene tells them to get set, Frankie Greene suddenly comes from behind riding Trex and calls "GO!" herself. The Rescue Bots pursue, prompting Optimus to transform to his Tyrannosaurus mode and join in, passing Boulder. As they reflect whether The Little Engine That Could or The Tortoise and the Hare would be a more apt story to apply to Boulder, Heatwave trips, resulting in Boulder passing him. Cody is alarmed when Optimus begins acting strangely, stopping mid-race and blasting the Rescue Bots with a sonic wave. Suddenly feral, Optimus sprints off with Cody still inside, and almost runs Huxley Prescott off the road. Optimus reaches Griffin Rock proper, terrorizing the residents, all the while being filmed by Prescott's cameras which are transmitting the footage around the world - a transmission which is being picked up by one particularly interested party.

The Rescue Bots are having no luck slowing down the rampaging Optimus when a strange helicopter appears, scooping Optimus up in an energy field. After it shoots off at high speed, Chief Burns grabs Prescott's footage of the kidnapping as evidence. On another island, Quint Quarry announces to a camera that Quarry Safariland is back in action. As filming continues, he has his Q-Drones drop Optimus in the forest just outside his compound. The still-savage Optimus runs off, and Quarry announces he's starting his own hunt. Back in Griffin Rock, Dani has used the Internet to identify the owner of the helicopter as Quarry, who is known for running illegal safaris. Chief checks with Graham, Boulder and the Greenes, who are working on diagnosing what happened to Optimus - they think reduced energon caused the dino DNA to take over and Boulder's working on a solution.