Arcee and Cliffjumper are scouting for Energon in the Nevada area. About a minute into their conversation Cliffjumper picks up a reading of an untabbed deposit. As he is insepecting it the Decepticon warship carrying a strike force headed by Starscream arrives. The Decepticons engage Cliffjumper and eventually one of the shots hit a piece of Energon, destroying the whole site in a blue energon flame. Two of the Decepticons drag Cliffjumper onto their ship to Starscream. Cliffjumper remarks where Starscream's master is, and Starscream jabs him fatally in the chest and says he has no master, leaving Cliffjumper to fall dead in a pool of his own energon.