Lee Hester’s second encounter with Black Bart has resulted in him being thrown through yet another storefront window and Cal getting beaten up just a little bit, but with some quick thinking and the front end of a stolen car they seemed to have subdued the mechanical villain. What they don’t know is before shutting down, Bart did manage to send out another of the strange cryptic shortwave transmissions that has now been identified by General Haddick’s team as something that could plunge the nation, and possibly the world, into a state of war.

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Archie Artursen, the engineer brought in by the Yomuro Group to make the robots work, has revealed to Cal that the hidden code buried in their firmware is based upon a program he had developed years ago for the U.S. Military before the project was scrapped–a program that would allow the defense computers which launch nuclear missiles to determine if we were at war even if all of their human handlers had vanished. And now that it’s obvious these robots have calculated there is indeed a threat, Arthursen is scrambling to find a way to override the code, before something very terrible happens.

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The robots are definitely spreading out across the city of Los Angeles with some moving north toward the valley, some moving west toward the ocean and others still completely unaccounted for. One thing is for sure, the location of one of Transistor Rodeo’s king of the beasts. After being “rescued” from the police by Black Bart’s robot horse, Cal is carried away through the streets of Chinatown and up into Dodger Stadium where Cal ends up laid out in centerfield in very close, or perhaps “scary” close, proximity to a robotic lion.

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Cal’s encounter with the robotic lion there in the cozy and darkened confines of L.A.’s own Dodger Stadium has him galloping away atop a mechanical moose and barely escaping by the hairs on his chinnny-chin-chin. Unfortunately for real Cowboy Cal Carpenter, his high speed escapade is marred by him not seeing the top metal crossbar of a nearby park swingset. Ouch. And now, Dean, still stuck with Daisy and Lee somewhere miles away, is worried about a father he doesn’t know is unconscious.

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To say that Dean’s nightmare of robots taking over the world is steeped in complete exhaustion and paranoia would be foolish especially if you hadn’t experienced the utter terror of fleeing from a massive mechanical T-Rex. The robot monster’s artificial intelligence is, for some yet unknown reason, causing it to follow Dean as the boy himself tries to locate his father. And now, miles away, Cal is finally coming back into consciousness but what he’ll discover may indeed put things further out of his control.

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Cal is discovered by a pair of cops wh point out that the mechanical moose that he rode out of Dodger Stadium has crashed into the front end of a semi and burst into flames. But now the truck’s driver has pulled a gun and taken Cal and the two cops hostage. Where he’s taking them though and what he plans to do with them, is anybody’s guess. And as Cal sits handcuffed in the back of the truck, the robots are still running loose.

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Held captive by Archie Arhtursen, Cal is told of the scientist’s scheme. Arthursen has used the robot’s unexptected malfunction to prove the capabilities of the scuttled military software program to elude capture. Arthursen cuts a shotgun wedding deal with Cal. He’ll signal the robots to come in from behind the curtain and Cal will take credit and receive 50 million dollars for his trouble. Money that may very well come from unscrupluous sources who end up as the highest bidder. It all doesn’t sit well with Cal, who manages his escape, just as Arthursen finds himself locked out of the robots network by the very robots themselves.

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After hearing Arthursen’s crazy plan to use the robot’s apparent ability to elude capture as a way to sell his programming knowledge to the highest bidder, no matter what country that may be, Cal has escaped and is now on the run from the thug driver who carted him there and intends to drag him back and comply with the scientist’s wishes. But the situation may have slipped beyond any of their control as the robots have apparently shut Arthursen out of their system. Daisy, Dean and Lee however are trying to outrun the robots in the police cruiser Lee, um, borrowed and are nervously watching in the rear view mirror as the Calbot and his posee close the gap on their mechanical horses.

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According to Arthursen the Transistor Rodeo robots have started an offensive plan based upon their perception of their human encounters that now leads them to believe they’ve been attacked. What this also means, According to Arthursen, is that its probably just a matter of time before the military steps in to do something about these robots. And unfortunately that very same military has little or no idea that the energy core powering these robots is running on nuclear material. However, Cal clearly sees the recipe for disaster here and has taken off on Black Bart’s horse to do something about it. But first, he has to find the one robot with the capability to transmit data to the rest of them.

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After getting duped by Lee Hester into being cornered by the press, Dean makes his escape through the all-too-eager throng of reporters. But what the boy doesn’t realize is that there is something else chasing him as well. A rather large robot he previously encountered the night before. Meanwhile, Cal has just made the harrowing trip down the hill from Dodger stadium atop Black Bart’s horse with a mission to stop the one robot with the power to broadcast instructions to the others and now he’s just noticed he has company in the form of one of the Calbot’s posse robots watching his every move.

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The posse robot that was following Cal has stolen the phone that was his only contact with his son and now he’s taken off atop Black Bart’s mechanical horse to get it back. Daisy and Dean continue to run from a mechanical life-sized T-Rex that seems intent on tracking them down and Arthursen has just realized the robots have activated a Zero Code, meaning their stolen military-grade firmware believes the country has fallen under attack. Positioned in a command bunker is General Haddick, air force at the ready. The fuse has been lit and the clock is running and with few options remaning, he is facing a catastrophic decision.

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FINALLY: THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO TRANSISTOR RODEO!
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