A long time ago Megatron gave Starscream a task to track down an Autobot hideout that was generating money for the Autobot army. Not understanding why, Megatron said he should be able to find them by scanning for an unusually high heat signature coming from the building that they are hiding in. After flying around for weeks, Starscream finally found a building which was giving off a surprisingly high amount of heat and noise. He setup an ambush party and attacked during the night.
He told Megatron that they raided the place and killed the 2 Autobots that were stationed there and that he disposed of the two bodies near Richmond. He also proudly admitted to adding a touch of Decepticon graffiti on the Autobot Hideout.
He showed Megatron his work:
Not caring at all what they did with the Autobot hideout or bodies, Megatron demanded that he tell him the good news and that they recovered the money and an Energon cylinder that was hidden somewhere around there.
Starscream said "We could not find the Energon cylinder, but we did recover the money... the stupid Autobots had it just sitting on a table beside a board game.".
Starscream showed Megatron the money that he found:
Enraged, Megatron screamed "STARSCREAM, YOU IDIOT! That is Monopoly money! Surely there was something else in that building..."
Starscream explained how the building was full of a bunch of computer type boxes that were giving off lots of heat and had really loud fans, also, as they were torturing the Autobots, they found that they were really annoying, so he smashed them all.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU FAIL ME YET AGAIN, STARSCREAM!" exclaims Megatron. "I don't know how it works yet, but I have reason to believe that the money was in those boxes.. but now you destroyed them. What about the Energon cylinder, did you even find it?"
Starscream explained that he has a lead... but could not find it. As they broke into the place, the second Autobot was hiding in a shed... he heard him sending out a radio broadcast to his fellow Autobots. Fortunately, Decepticon Headquarters also picked it up. Starscream had a print-out of the message and showed it to Megatron:
Fellow Autobots, the Decepticons have found us. I suspect they are too dumb to recover our money, or to even find the Energon cylinder that we hid nearby.
These inspirational quotes will help you find the way:
"Time and ₿alance; the two most difficult things to have control over, yet they are both the things that we do control."
"Perfectly ₿alanced, as all things should be..."
"A wise Autobot once said, the real struggle with finding a ₿alance in life, is to determine how many Decepticons to kill, and how many geocaches to find per day."
Of course the last clue needed to find the Energon cylinder is:
3MBDKa1wWon1sxXBV3e2Mu7dQsDjr5Shs7
Once you discover the 7 digit number you can call this "X" (Depending on how you represent this number, you can leave out any leading zeros - ex: 0.0??????? = ???????).
X - 2219438 = the north coordinates to use
X + 870131 = the west coordinates to use
Good luck Autobots, hopefully you find our lost Energon cylinder before the Decepticons do.
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Transformers: Robots Geocaching in Disguise - Season 2 - Autobot Hideouts
For a list of every cache in this series, look at the bottom of the 1st cache of this series here: GC7YCMK_autobot-hideout-1