Even as their fragile alliance begins to fray, the Joes and Cobra are sent into Earth's future to retrieve the displaced Ratchet—and are given a terrible glimpse of what humanity's fate could be. For in this possible future, the planet has been conquered by Shockwave and the Decepticons. It is a world in which massive Transformer city complexes roam the planet in robot form...where man has been all but wiped out...and the only resistance faced by the thinking machines are the freedom fighters called the Dreadnoks!