Recap

Set one year after the events of my Age of Extinction rewrite, the Autobots with help from S.T.A.R.S. are still hard at work trying to repair their relations with the human race who are still distrustful towards Transformers. Desperate to return to a normal life after the battle of Hong Kong and with Tessa going off to College, Cade Yeager is reluctantly roped back into helping the Transformers save the day yet again when a little orphan girl raised by Autobots Hot Rod and Kup named Verity Carlo is being targeted by a gang of anti-transformer radicals upholding the xenophobic beliefs of the late Harold Attinger calling themselves the Initiative who may have had a hand in the disappearance of Bumblebee's sparkmate Arcee. meanwhile Megatron re-assembles the Decepticons to attack Earth in preparation for the planet's demise, as Earth is on a collision course with Cybertron of which Shockwave has converted into a superweapon capable of destroying entire planets. however, he needs Optimus Prime's matrix of leadership in order to activate it forcing Prime to make a difficult decision between saving either Cybertron or Earth.