Comments on this week's episodes.

Ep 9 - The Trial.
The 5th episode of the 13 episode story arc about the Quintesson invasion of Cybertron... we are introduced to the 5-face judge. A similar concept to the one in the 1986 Movie, but with 2 female faces and a crazy face.
The team inside Iaconus figure out that they need Windblade as a city-speaker, to be able to wake up the Titan, so they go back to try to free her, but they end up freeing Soundwave, who isn't removed from the virtual world completely.
We get another comment about Hound being another one that they tried removing from the virtual world, but something went wrong, and it sounds like he must have died.
We saw some more Sharkticons, but it is strange that they are not really linked to their season 2 appearance, as they are now working for the Quintessons and don't care about the Autobots they befriended.
The Judge tells us that they are multi-verse travellers, going to every Universe to destroy each one (the trials are meaningless as they are always found guilty)... which seems a little pointless, since they also said that there are infinite Universes, so the mission will never end. I also don't think they explained believably why they are doing it, and this sort of concept was the purpose of Unicron in Gen1 comics.

Ep 10 - The Prisoner.
Soundwave tries to take command of the group, as he would probably be the highest ranking person on both sides, but uses a mission to capture a Sharkticon to force Clobber to try to kill Hotrod. Soundwave's glitches are getting worse, while the captured Sharkticon tells them that they need to talk to the Quintesson Scientist.

Ep 11 - The Scientist.
For some strange reason, we get a prologue flashback of Soundwave capturing Laserbeak sometime in the past, because Laserbeak was now going to feature a fair bit over the next few episodes... and yet, Laserbeak had appeared in two previous episodes, so it seems strange that we get this big introduction for a character that has already been in the show at that stage. It is also strange that Laserbeak gets so much attention, but doesn't even have a Cyberverse toy... only a gimmick pop-out thing in one of the Soundwave toys. It's like Dead End, who is one of the main cast for several episodes, but only has a single Scout toy. (and then we have Astrotrain in a few episodes time, which looks like a very impressive toy on the cartoon, but doesn't actually get a toy at all)
The Scientist is a strange creature, who reproduces bodies when one is shot... another similarity to the Matrix movies, in which the Agents could reappear inside the body of another person whenever they are killed.
We get to see a LOT of Soundwaves from other universes, each in a different colour. If Cyberverse was a popular series or supported fan-focussed exclusives, we could have seen a number of redeco Soundwave toys.
The team finally manage to get everyone out of the virtual world (they were seen to be dying as their sparks were completely drained to feed the new Judge that was growing in the Scientist's lab), and Soundwave's glitches are fixed.
The "new Judge" is said to be the judge for this universe, as the main judge only overseas the operations as the travel to each universe.

Ep 12 - The Alliance.
The Autobots and Decepticons have to work together to destroy the Quintesson ship because it is still draining the Allspark in the centre of the planet... but Megatron doesn't want to join in. To help each side to work together, they go into the Iaconus training rooms in groups, and practice until they like working together.
Windblade tries to wake up Iaconus and fails, so everyone goes in-force to the Quintesson ship to take on the forces guarding the ship.
The attack fails and the alliance retreats, and Windblade tries to wake Iaconus again. He starts rising from the ground, but Maccadam stops her.

Ep 13 - The Judge.
The alliance tries to attack the Quintesson ship again, but decide that they need a distraction, and turn off the cloaking device on the Titan, forcing almost all of the Quintessons, including the main Judge, to launch an attack on the Titan.
Meanwhile, Dead End has gone off to tell Megatron something about the plan.
With the Quintesson ship mostly empty, a small team go inside and attempt to reprogram the Multiverse Drive so that the ship will be sent to another Universe. (That doesn't seem like an Autobot thing to do, sending a deadly force onto other innocent victims)
Just as they are about to deal with the Multiverse Drive, Megatron appears and with Dead End's help, takes it and flies off into a portal to another Universe.
Meanwhile, the alliance has managed to take down the main Judge, who crashes into the rest of the Quintesson ship, destroying it... seemingly, with Optimus, Bumblebee and Wheeljack inside.
Out of the wreckage, the new Judge for this Universe awakens, and we find that one of the 3 faces is Starscream.

Ep 14-17 - The End of the Universe parts 1-4.
This four part story is being narated by Kup for some reason.
Starscream and the Titan (Croaton) that he was stuck on in season 2 came across the Quintessons, who disabled and captured the Titan.
Now to me, this is the main error of this story arc - Starscream convinces the Quintessons to spare him if he shows them the way to a vast power source on Cybertron... but the thing is, the Quintessons already know about Cybertron, because they have already destroyed dozens of them (the Scientist has a collection of Soundwaves, one from each Universe). So why wouldn't they already know about Cybertron, or know where it is.
We learn that Optimus, Bumblebee and Wheeljack ended up escaping the exploding ship by jumping through a portal to another Universe, which turns off when they jump through. But somehow, Wheeljack is able to turn it back on.
Wheeljack manages to kill the Scientist when they return, who ended up being a little creature that was animating all of those Scientist drones.
Iaconus finally rises, and fights Croaton, who arrives under the control of the Quintessons... which Windblade has to break the control after Starscream manages to kill Iaconus by disolving his head with un-space.
Iaconus transforms to a city where he lands.
Sad to see Maccadam die... and so easily too, as he could have just moved to one side to avoid being hit. (he also transforms to fight off Quintessons, but we don't see it)
Croaton flies off after the battle, taking an unconcious Windblade with him.
The Autobots and Decepticons take half of the planet each, and agree not to tresspass into the other half - that's an original idea (I think) to allow the story to continue without constant fighting.
Megatron returns and says that he has been hopping across the different Universes, aquiring new powers, and a Matrix it seems.
(Megatron saves the day, and Optimus even says that he ows him for it... that's surely going to bite him in the ass later.)
The new power-up gimmick that Megatron brings back feels like a toy gimmick, but I don't easily recognise it - if it is the clear plastic flip-up armour toys we had this year, they don't match up to the ones that get powered up on screen.
He brings back Insecticons... more things that are drawn with more detail than a generic bot, to look like they were based on a toy, but we didn't end up getting one.
Astrotrain looks impressive.
Starscream appears to be destroyed by the power of the matrix (two actually, as Megatron captured one from another universe), but as I've noted previously somewhere else (I think it was in Cyberverse too), that the Matrix is not a projectile weapon. It did seem to have the power to destroy Unicron in the 1986 movie, but it is supposed to be a reservoir or sparks or intelligence.

Ep 18 - Enemy Line.
Windblade is rescued by Bumblebee from the Decepticons... and Megatron (like the Beast Wars Megatron) says that he has more important things to worry about than Autobot intruders. Sounds ominous.
So... Windblade was carried off by Croaton, which appears to now be a city within the Decepticon half of the planet.
Clobber is now an Autobot.... and Hotrod has now returned to being red all of a sudden.
It also looks like some Decepticons are still on friendly terms with the Autobots, after the planet-saving alliance.