IDW - Robots in Disguise #7

Comic Staff

Title: Interference Patterns

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Brendan Cahill

Colours by: Joana Lafuente

Letters by: Shawn Lee

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Storyline

A Decepticon ship appears out of nowhere above Cybertron and wants to land on the now rebooted planet. Bumblebee calls Wheeljack to help them figure out how they appeared from nowhere, and whether it's a cloaking device of some sort. The ship lands and Prowl's team surrounds it, ready to take down the occupants on Bumblebee's orders, but Metalhawk advises them caution, however when he sees that it's Turmoil on the ship he changes his mind and tells them to just kill him on sight.

Bumblebee and the others meet with Turmoil later and he claims the device he used isn't a cloaking device, but something more beneficial to everyone. Metalhawk tells everyone to not trust him, and it's revealed to him that Turmoil wasn't involved in the Dabola campaign, which caused Metalhawk to leave the war, but Drift was.

Later Starscream takes Metalhawk to Maccadam's to see Blurr, one of the surviving members of the team that supposedly killed Turmoil before, and he agrees that Turmoil is too dangerous to keep around. Elsewhere, the Autobots decide to investigate what Turmoil used to get this close to Cybertron unnoticed, and Wheeljack infiltrates the ship (which is shown throughout this issue in pieces). Wheeljack learns that the device is actually a time machine, not a cloaking device, and that it was created by a race of aliens that Turmoil imprisoned, who were then ejected into space when they heard the call to return to Cybertron when Vector Sigma was rebooted.

Wheeljack is caught hacking into the ship's systems by Turmoil, who summarily blasts a hole through the Autobot's chest, just as he goes to finish him off though, Wheeljack places his new invention around Turmoil's leg and traps him in a bubble. Turmoil tries to break free with his cannon, but it just explodes inside the containment field.

The rest of Turmoils men appear and start beating on Wheeljack, who is then suddenly saved by Metalhawk, who had infiltrated the ship like Wheeljack had. Wheeljack recovers the belt from Turmoil's injured body and Wheeljack and Metalhawk roll out in the bubble it generated, eventually smashing out of the ship. Metalhawk called for Prowl and his team to raid the ship and arrest every Decepticon, all whilst Wheeljack decides to keep the Time Machine, just in case.

Character List

Autobot
Bumblebee - Car
Wheeljack - Car Injured by Turmoil
Prowl - Car
Broadside
Blurr - Race Car
Jazz - Car
Streetwise - Car
Drift - Car (Mentioned Thought to be Dead
Kup's Team (Mentioned)
Lost Light Crew (Mentioned) Thought to be dead

Decepticon
Starscream - Jet
Turmoil - Tank Injured by Wheeljack, Imprisoned
Turmoil's Crew Imprisoned

NAIL
Metalhawk - Jet
Sky Byte - Flying Shark
Tappet - Car
Hipotank - Tank

Other
Crystal City (Mentioned)
Cybertronian Crowds
Varta's People (On Monitors) Killed by Turmoil's crew

Notes

• Turmoil somehow survived the explosion of his ship from Spotlight: Drift
• It's revealed here that the planet from the start of the Drift mini-series is called Dabola, and that Metalhawk wasn't aware that Drift led that attack.
• Metalhawk didn't run from the war out of fear after Dabola, he left because he was afraid of the anger that he felt growing after the battle
• Jazz and Sky Byte seem to have bonded, with them forming a music-poetry duet
• This story seems to imply that Sandstorm was either killed in the Chaos story, or left on the Lost Light (as it's claimed that Roadbuster and Blurr are the only ones left from the team in Spotlight: Drift left). Roadbuster's also been forgotten about, as he's on Debris looking after Springer right now!
• The alien species who build the Time Machine for Turmoil are the same species as Varta from Spotlight: Wheelie
• Metalhawk's wings act like swords
• This story ends with Wheeljack seeming to keep hold of the Time Machines...could this have any bearing on the message from the future from MTMTE#1?
• Unusually the front cover of this comic (well the one I have anyway) looks like an extended view of a scene that actually happened in the comic itself!
• Wheeljack's new "toy" is a belt that can generate a bubble around him that allows him to defy gravity and is protected from attacks...he likes to mess with science!