Cobra Commander gains control of a wormhole that directly links to a Cybertron computer called Teletran 3. A team of Joes make a raid on this Cobra computer facility. During the battle, an explosion sets off the computer which zaps all the Joes, Cobras, and Starscream to Cybertron. At the same time it zaps several Transformers that are on Cybertron and sends them to different points in Earth's history. This time stream disruption will destroy the Earth, if the Transformers are not returned to Cybertron.
Zartan, Lady Jaye, Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow are sent back to Earth in 1970's where they retrieve Jazz, Bumblebee, Hot Rod and Blitzwing.