The Autobots and their human allies go into action to corral the mistrust spreading through their alliance.

Synopsis

Following the revelation that the Decepticons have infiltrated the Binaltech Project, distrust and suspicion threaten to tear the Autobot-human alliance apart. To prevent things from spiralling out of control, the alliance quickly puts together "Operation: Carwash", an undercover intelligence ops investigation unit to contain the situation and seek to answer the question of how the Decepticon had infiltrated the project in the first place.

Human operative D.R. Faireborn is teamed with Jazz to head up Operation: Carwash and restore trust to the alliance. Jazz was one of the few Autobots who had avoided infection by the Decepticons' Cosmic Rust attack and had consequently not taken on a Binaltech form, but given the dangerous situations his undercover investigations would put him in, he agreed to be upgraded into a Binaltech body equipped with the GT System. Jazz is joined in his special operations work by an artificial intelligence drone built in his image and painted red, affectionately nicknamed "Zoom-Zoom".

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

• This chapter of the Binaltech story was printed in the pack-in booklet included with the Meister Binaltech toy. Jazz's upgrade and the story of Zoom-Zoom is covered in the bio and Tech Specs also included in the booklet, rather than in the story chapter itself.
• "D.R. Faireborn" is Flint (real name: Dashiell R. Faireborn) from G.I. Joe. He was established to be the father of E.D.C. member Marissa Faireborn in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "The Killing Jar".

References

• Complete text of "Operation: Carwash"
• Author-endorsed translation of "Operation: Carwash" at Ben's World of Transformers (archived)
• "Director's Cut" of "Operation: Carwash" published by Ichikawa at Ben's World of Transformers (archived)