It was Brains who made the startling discovery that Megatron lived, and was manipulating KSI to build him a new body as Galvatron. Brains was put to work to help KSI engineer their own Transformers, performing mental "autopsy" on the fallen Decepticons gathered from Chicago. He now sported a makeshift crutch made of pieces of his destroyed leg and a neck brace. Having survived the battle of Chicago (albeit losing a leg in the process), Brains found himself captured and forced into slavery by Joshua Joyce and KSI. Unfortunately, Brains and Wheelie were left behind by the Wreckers when they were done distracting Shockwave, having fallen off while they were firing.īrains learns the hard way that robotics with Ami Mizuno is not a dream come true. Brains declared to them that no one was going to exile the Autobots, and they soon marched off to battle, riding Leadfoot into the city. Thankfully, Brains and Wheelie survived along with the rest of the Autobots by hiding in one of the booster rockets, and came to the aid of Sam, Epps and the human race in Chicago. The duo, along with the other Autobots, were presumed to be killed when Starscream destroyed the Xantium shortly after take-off. They begged for help from Sam, warning him the whole thing was a Decepticons trap. However, when the Autobots were forced to leave Earth by the human authorities, both Brains and Wheelie were captured and shoved into a small cage.
Brains later did research with Sam, Seymour Simmons and Dutch, and learned that two Russian cosmonauts in hiding after a canceled mission to the moon. During the meeting with Mearing, Brains found himself briefly tied to Wheelie's vehicle mode, and his attempts to establish a bond with Mearing earned him the threat of gunfire. The duo went with their human housemates to the NEST base to reveal information to the Autobots, however their offer of help was turned down by Charlotte Mearing.