DDP - GI Joe vs The Transformers II

Plot

Since the last time we saw them, Cobra has been reformed and has started selling Cybertronian technology to black market dealers etc, and have also been experimenting on their own troops. GI Joe has been working to counter them with their own Autobot-given battle suits.

GI Joe break up an arms deal between the Dreadnoks and some other guys and battle ensues, but the Joes manage to easily defeat the Cobra sub-group and take them prisoner. The next day, Cobra Commander visits Destro at his home in Portugal and informs him of a plan of his and Starscream's to send them to Cybertron to steal new technology to defeat GI Joe and conquer the world, and to use the transporter connected to Cybertron's Teletran-3 (created by Cobra with some parts found) as a teleporter to make them invincible etc. Destro agrees and one of his servants leaves, diving into the water behind the mansion, revealing him as GI Joe spy Chuckles, who warns the rest of the team about this plan.

On Cybertron Optimus is leading the Autobots as a resistance group against a Shcokwave-controlled Decepticon army, who rules over Cybertron.

Back on Earth GI Joe raid a warehouse in Boston where Cobra are just activating their transporter, linked to Teletran-3 where Lady Jaye accidentally shoots the device and causes an energy surge transporting everyone in the room to Cybertron, but upon being sent to the alien world Teletran-3 malfunctions and accidentally transports several Transformers at random into Earth's history. Shockwave comes with a small team of Decepticons to investigate and find the humans and Starscream, before they can kill them though Ultra Magnus and Perceptor break into the room, fight off the Decepticons and set up a force-field around the humans, themselves, Starscream and Teletran-3 and inform the humans about what has happened to the Transformers and ask for their help in retrieving them (because if they are left in their time-displaced locations then Earth will be destroyed as a result). The teams are being sent out in mixed groups of Cobra and GI Joe members and are sent into the past with tracers and disks to revive the Transformers, who would be mode-locked in that era. (There is an automatic recall set up by Teletran-3 for when all the displaced Transformers in an era are equipped with the disks).

The first team arrive in the 70's and almost immediately find Jazz, and then shortly followed by Bumblebee. They locate Hot Rod, but before he can be rescued he is stolen by a human. Jaye manages to trick the thief into a race bringing them to a hanger where the last Transformer, Blitzwing is being stored, both Transformers are revived at this point, but before Blitzwing can attack the others the whole group are recalled to the present day Cybertron. The second team arrive in 1937 and are almost run over by a gang-warring pair of cars.

The second team have arrived in New York in 1937 and narrowly avoid being run over by some gangsters and police cars, and they start their mission (all whilst Percy the Viper starts breaking down due to the situation). the group soon find Optimus Prime and Beachhead beats down the natives who were using him as a transport and also learns that someone called Tommy Fingers found this truck and that they keep the rest of them in his garage under a club. Optimus is revived soon afterwards and is caught up on the situation which he agrees to help deal with.

Back on Cybertron, the Decepticons are surrounding the Teletran-3 tower (on Shockwave's orders) whilst the humans and Autobots inside the force field  are worried about the mission, especially since the force field will collapse in about 6 hours times.

Back in 1937 the team have gone undercover into Tommy Fingers' club to gain access into his basement-garage. Baroness drugs Tommy and Roadblock beats up the guards, in the disguise of a musician. Inside, Optimus can't tell who the four cars inside are, and they're still missing one, who is transporting dynamite right now (which is dangerous if exploded, especially with this apocalypse thing happening too). Breakdown reveals that he's been fine all along an dtransforms, shooting Optimus and stealing the reactivation disks, placing them on his team-mates, who wake up as well.

Optimus and the humans drive off, forcing the Stunticons to chase him as they hunt down the last one, Motormaster. The Joes use their weapons to blast the Stunticons on a bridge, which injures and slows them, they then come across Motormaster, with his human passengers and dynamite. Baroness is sick of wasting time, so she shoots Motormaster, despite the dynamite and then slaps a disk on him. The group are returned to Cybertron, with Percy happy that he's still alive.

The third team arrive at their destination, the future, where Earth has been ruined...

On the future Earth (about 2034ish), the third team are hiding from the Sweeps scanning th rubble, the team use the tracerto learn there's only one Transformer from the present in this timeframe (which will be hard to find due to there being other Transformers there too). The group are found by the Sweeps, but are rescued by a group of aged Dreadnoks, who said that the others all died about 15 years earlier. The former Dreadnoks reveal that Shockwave led an army of Decepticons and conquered the planet on August 17th 2014 and most humans are now dead or captured. The team are taken to see Duke, who is now horribly scarred, implanted with cybernetics and in a wheelchair, who doesn't care about the past and the apocalypse and just has them all join up with his resistance. Torch however is fed up of this version of the future and wants to help them out by taking them to the Autobot they're looking for.

On Cybertron Shockwave and his Decepticons have started blasting the force field to try and burst it.

Back in the future the humans are heading to "the Autobot" as he's known to the resistance thanks to his own amnesia when they're attacked by a swarm of Insecticons, however Tomax and Xamot save the day by using their upgraded powers to blast them, and Torch uses a weapon designed to disorient Insecticons. The group run into a forest, where a Ravage clone army attacks them, but they're saved at the last moment by "the Autobot"...Ratchet!

Ratchet is told what happened, but he says that he has a mission to deal with first, the team from the past reluctantly agree to it, despite this future not even existing when they succeed. The group ambush the Decepticons guarding some human prisoners and Ratchet kills them violently, Ratchet decides he can't leave, however Barbecue takes the option to refuse away when he pushes a disk onto him, sending them all back to the present day.

The team return to modern day Cybertron, where ratchet is still angry, but before long he's shot in the back by Shockwave, knocking him out. Shockwave has taken down the force field and captured the Autobots. Tomax and Xamot link up to use their ability again, but Shockwave burns one of the twins to ash. The group are taken prisoner and Shockwave is gald about how Earth will burn if the fourth team is not recovered soon, he then reveals that most of the humans ran away when the Decepticons broke into the force field, and are now missing, and that he was responsible for the transporter on Earth somehow, in preparation for his future invasion...

On Cybertron the missing humans are hiding out from Shockwave, and Storm Shadow returns from a recon mission with his back scorched. He draws up a map of the route back to Teletran-3 and informs the rest that Shockwave has blocked the last group from returning so he can destroy Earth that way. The route up is full of sensors etc that detect metal, so Jaye and Roadblock strip to their underwear to break in through a shaft.

Cyclonus congratulates Shockwave on his plan to have the humans find the teleporter parts on Earth whilst the 2 Joes break in. Roadblock makes a distraction by grabbing a Decepticon's gun and setting it off whilst Jaye activates Teletran-3 and recalls the last team, along with the Dinobots!

The Dinobots immediately start tearing apart the Decepticons with their new, much more powerful bodies. The building starts to collapse around them, and Starscream escapes.

After a short battle, the Dinobots are victorious and the humans are freed from their cells and hiding places.

The next day Optimus and the others are back in their normal bodies and send the humans back home, with the promise that both sides must destroy their ends of this transporter system, so they can't cause this problem again.

Starscream is captured and taken to Shockwave's HQ where he begs for mercy, when suddenly Cobra Commander's voice comes from a recording on his body informing them all that Starscream has been outfitted with 45 pounds of plastic explosives, just as Starscream explodes, killing Shockwave and all the others gathered in the base.

Three Months later, Mindbender is in prison, but is taken out and taken for his expertise by Agent Kendall and Depree, at the base he finds two dead bodies (most likely the real Kendall and Dupree) and several Cobra-La agents greeting him and asking for his help in the upcoming arrival from Unicron....

Characters

Autobot
Optimus Prime - 30's Six Wheel Truck
Ultra Magnus
Perceptor
Ironhide
Wheeljack
Jazz - 70's Coupe
Bumblebee - 70's Ford Pinto
Hot Rod - 70's Ford Mustang Muscle Car
Ratchet - Road Warrior Truck
Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Swoop - Pteranodon
Slag - Triceratops
Snarl - Stegosaurus
Sludge - Apatosaurus
Junkions - Motorcycles (Future Only)

Decepticon
Shockwave - Ray Gun Killed in Explosion
Starscream - Blackbird Killed in Explosion
Cyclonus
Scourge - Space Shuttle
Ruckus
Venom
Ramjet - Cybertronian Jet
Dirge - Cybertronian Jet
Ravage/Generic with his design
Ratbat/Generic with his design
Frenzy/Generic with his design
Rumble/Generic with his design
Kickback
Octane
Buzzsaw
Divebomb
Blitzwing - 70's Commuter Plane
Dead End - 30's Car
Drag Strip - 30's Car
Wildrider - 30's Car
Breakdown - 30's Car
Motormaster - 30's Six Wheeled Truck
Menasor (Mentioned)
"Giant Decepticon" (Future Only)
Sweeps - Space Shuttles (Future Only)
Kickback Swarm - Locusts (Future Only)
Bombshell Swarm -Boll Weevils (Future Only)
Shrapnel Swarm - Stag Beetles (Future Only)
Ravage Clones (Future Only)
Reflector Trio (Future Only) Killed by Ratchet
"Decepticon Medic" Killed in Explosion
Generic Decepticons

GI Joe
Beachhead
Scarlett
Stalker
Chuckles/Wilson
Dialtone
Snake-Eyes
Lady Jaye
Cover Girl
Barbecue
Dusty
Shipwreck
Sci-Fi
Roadblock
Spirit
Jinx
Gung-Ho
Bazooka
Joe Battlesuits

Cobra
Cobra Commander
Destro
Baroness
Dr. Mindbender
Storm Shadow
Zartan
Tomax Killed by Shockwave
Xamot
Percy the Viper
Torch
Buzzer
Ripper
Iron Grenadiers
Cobra Vipers
Cobra-La
Pythona
Nemesis Enforcer
Royal Guards
"Agent Dupree"
"Agent Kendall"

Future Resistance
Torch
Buzzer
Ripper
Duke
Other
Teletran-3
Modern Day Mercenaries
Destro's Mansion Staff
70's People
1937 People
Tommy Fingers
Unicron (Mentioned and Effigies)

Notes

• The events of the previous series were 2 years ago
• Cobra's been using Cybertronian technology to create new weapons and even upgrade their troops with "powers" or built in weapons
• Starscream has been reduced to Cobra Commander's slave/captive since we last saw him
• The Transformers that returned to Cybertron 2 years earlier have reverted to Cybertronian modes instead of keeping their Cobra vehicle modes
• Jazz's Cybertronian robot mode looks a lot more black than it should...this isn't the case for his 70's mode though!
• Wheeljack is shown being zapped in to another timeframe, but is never seen being recovered, or even ever again! This means that either he was recovered "off-screen" or he was destroyed in the energy surge.
• Most Decepticons shown in this comic are generics who use random character modelsand colour schemes.
• The Transformers who were sent through time were mode-locked and converted into local era alternate modes, thus maintaining the timeline (except the potential apocalypse thing)
• Some of the Transformers don't seem to actually be mode-locked
• Percy is REALLY in the wrong line of work!
• Optimus wasn't actually drawn into this by accident like everyone else was, he dived into an energy stream to try and save Jazz
• Though it's mentioned that Menasor could be formed in this story, it's never seen...Imagine how cool a 1937 era Menasor would look though!!
• The Giant Decepticon based on Energon Scorponok from the dark future is only seen very briefly in this story, before being replaced by Scourge, The Sweeps, Insecticons and Ravage clones just afterwards
• The Future Dreadnoks use motorcycles based on the Junkions...they might actually be them, so I'll say they are!! BWHAAHH!!
• The Ratchet of the future is amnesiac for some unknown reason, possibly due to the method of time travel
• Tomax is shown being killed by Shockwave in this story, but in a later story he's listed as having been captured...hmmm....
• It should be mentioned here that Storm Shadow is shown being taken care of by Cover Girl, and then by the next storyline he's joined the Joes...coincidence?
• By the day after the main events of this comic the Transformers have reverted to their normal Cybertronian modes...seems a bit pointless to have done that straight away (except the Dinobots of course, who are seen in their Dino-modes in the next story)
• The Decepticon Medic seen in this story seems to use Ratchet's normal G1 character model as a basis
• The location Mindbender is taken to at the end would likley be near the Himalayas, since that's where Cobra-La is as well.
• Dupree and Kendall are most likely Royal Guards in disguise or something as the two dead corpse-like things look pretty human and are otherwise unexplained really.