Taking place 300 years prior to the events of the first film in the then-present-day 2009, the narrator describes how the government knew what was happening.

At Edwards Air Force Base, an NSA officer informs her superior about intercepting a signal.

It ends up being Jake, the afformentoned narrator, an old friend of Madison, who hasn't seen her since returning from military deployment.

A man is driving an SUV when his GPS gives him a five seconds warning to exit the vehicle, before shooting him in the forehead with a laser.

After surviving an assault which kills Hadley, a small group learn that aliens are changing the water and the atmosphere to fit their physiology.

This has a negative effect, though: the release of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, to which the machines have adapted, and Jake sends a signal to other surviving humans, who have taken refuge underground, directing them to join him.

Transmorphers: Fall of Man was released June 30, 2009 (less than a week after the premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen).

[2] Transmorphers: Fall of Man was met with a mixed critical reaction, and a considerably favorable one to its predecessor.