Plot
The Avengers have been called to Latveria to investigate the increased hostilities between their people and the neighboring country of Symkaria, and to investigate a strange radiation signal from the country. They find a large dome-like building glowing and surrounded by deactivated Doombots. Several strange jets are seen flying around and airdropping Symkaria, which is provoking a reaction from the other country, who promise to retaliate within 24 hours if it doesn't stop.
The Avengers start to act a bit irrational and angry, and break into the building where they are scanned by unknown forces and are attacked and experimented on by the weapons. The unknown forces decide that Spider-Man is the perfect sample to take for their Mirror Response Mode and stun him, then a black car drives out of a wall and kidnaps him. The Avengers try to get him back, but can't find him, so they leave the building to recuperate. Once outside, the building is surrounded by a forcefield that they can't break through. Captain America calls in for reinforcements to help them, due to Luke Cage and Wolverine's failures.
The Avengers are being monitored by the Autobots from their ship and decide to travel to Latveria and help to stop this incident, since it's clearing Decepticon in design.
Inside the Domed building, Spider-Man is held in restraints and greeted by Megatron, who starts prodding him for his blood. Outside, Falcon and Ms Marvel arrive and everyone is at eachother's throats. The Autobots arrive on the scene (having oribital jumped there) and tell the humans to leave it to them, transforming to robot mode in the process. The Avengers attack the Autobots, as they are being affected by the Array in the building, making them angrier and more agitated.
The Autobots and Avengers fight, with the Autobots using minimal force so as to not kill the humans, the fight seems fairly even, but Doom arrives and uses his electric abilities to attack Wolverine and reduce his anger. Ratchet manages to get a device onto Captain America's back which calms him down too. Doom explains that the Avengers have been under the influence of a Mind-Altering Device, which Dooms powers can reduce, and Ratchet's devices reduce the anger inducing chemicals. Slowly the Avengers are all equipped with the devices and the Autobots explain briefly about their war with the Decepticons and that the array building is of their design, Doom explains that the array has been enhanced due to his Psycho-Prism, which was stolen by the Decepticons from Doom's lab and he says he wants to stop them as they're affecting his own people. Iron Man is on his way to the scene and verifies that the devices are safe to use.
Inside the array building, the Decepticons are being powered up by Spider-Man's blood synthesized into Energon, except for Ramjet, whom Megatron doesn't trust due to his ambitions.
The Autobots and Avengers try to break into the building, but are without luck. Doom goes off alone so he can try diplomacy with the Symkarians. The Decepticons suddenly leave the building and start attacking the Avengers and Autobots full on with their enhanced powers, and suddenly Iron Man arrives, in a giant suit.
The Giant Iron Man turns the tide of the battle clearly in favor of the Autobots and Avengers, but the suit is very power-inefficient. The Avengers and Autobots assist Iron Man in the battle, but the Decepticons are still able to fight back somewhat. Ratchet think's he's found a weakness in the forcefield, it needs to open to enable the Decepticons in and out. Blitzwing exits the building, and Ratchet, Prowl and Luke Cage enter the base whilst the forcefield is partially down. Prowl tells Ratchet that their only mission is to destroy the Psycho-Prism, Spider-Man is expendable, which Luke is a bit miffed, Prowl allows Ratchet and Luke to look for Spider-Man whilst he goes to "save the world" alone. Ratchet tells Luke that Prowl's a bit annoyed since Optimus has removed him from command with his arrival on Earth.
Ratchet and Luke find Spider-Man's holding room, but are attacked by Megatron, elsewhere, Prowl finds Ramjet in the room with the Psycho-Prism in it, but before he can grab it, he is attacked from an unseen assailant.
Outside the battle continues, and Iron Man is running low on power, the Autobots offer up some of their energy to recharge him, which gives him enough power to blast some of the Decepticon jets out of the sky. After this small victory Megatron appears on a holographic message, alongside his new ally, Dr Doom, who have defeated Luke, Prowl and Ratchet, and Megatron reveals that Doom has sold out the rest in exchange for becoming ruler over the remains of Earth after they drain it of life, and tells Optimus and the others to surrender now or their people will die.
Optimus' response is to resume destroying the array immediately, and reveals a plan to the humans to rescue their allies. Inside the array, Megatron is angry with Doom for assuming the Autobots and Avengers would surrender, and attacks him with his enhanced powers, and leaves him behind in the base as he leaves with Luke in his hands (probably to act as a human shield).
Inside the array, Spider-Man breaks free of his restraints, fully recovered due to his accelerated healing, and Doom blasts Astrotrain in the back, knocking him out. The two humans find Ratchet and Prowl, the two Autobots explain who they are to Spider-Man, and ask him to help them out.
Megatron is battling everyone outside, and is easily winning the battle and even manages to decapitate the Iron Man giant suit, when suddenly Megatron realizes that none of the other Autobots are around.
Jazz, Bumblebee and Wolverine use the Oribital Jump to enter the array so they can find Ratchet and the others, they break into the lab where they find Spider-Man being used to power up Prowl, Wolverine donates his blood for Ratchet to use, so Spider-Man wont be drained. Doom leads the team, minus Spider-Man, Prowl and Ratchet to where the Psycho-Prism is.
Outside, Megatron is getting ready to finish off Iron Man, when Prowl, Ratchet and Spider-Man use the Orbital Jump to escape the array and everyone gangs up on Megatron (and due to the powered up Autobots they take a lead).
Inside the array, the team find Ramjet about to steal the Psycho-Prism, but he gives up after seeing the superior numbers of the Autobots and Avengers, and so he flies off. Wolverine destroys the Prism, and the aggression wave is gone, and the array starts to explode.
Outside, the battlers witness the destruction of the array just as those who were inside escape, Megatron activates an Orbital Jump system and sends his Decepticons back to home base and gives up on Latveria. The Auobots and Avengers continue their attacks on Megatron, but he Orbital Jumps away before he is killed and promises to kill Optimus one day soon....
In the aftermath the team wonder what happened to Doom as he wasn't seen leaving, and they learn from SHIELD that the crisis has been averted, and they want to debrief the Avengers and Autobots on the situation, however the Autobots have disappeared and returned to Ark-19, their base.
Later, as the Quinjet takes off to leave Latveria, the Autobots are monitoring them, and both groups get the feeling that the Quinjet is acting differently (implying that it's Ramjet in disguise)
The End? (yes, it is the end)
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Truck
Prowl - Police Car
Ratchet - Ambulance
Jazz - Porsche
Bumblebee - VW Beetle
Wheeljack - Race Car
Decepticon
Megatron - Gun
Ramjet - Jet/Quinjet
Skywarp - Jet
Thundercracker - Jet
Runamuck - Sports Car
Runabout - Sports Car
Astrotrain - Space Shuttle/Train
Blitzwing - Jet/Tank
Avengers
Captain America
Spider-Man
Luke Cage
Wolverine
Falcon
Ms Marvel
Iron Man
Other
Dr Doom
Maria Hill
Silver Sable
SHIELD
Doombots
Latvirians
Symkarians
Kree (Mentioned)
Starjammers (Mentioned)
X-Men (Mentioned)
Notes
- Spider-Man has been in a crossover with the Transformers before, way back in the early days of the Marvel Comic days
- Most of the Transformers seem to be in character models based on their toys or cartoon character models. This is mostly noticeable with Ramjet, who looks like his toy, and is therefore missing his conehead.
- Ramjet was most likely originally written in as Starscream due to his characterizations, but was altered when it was made clear that Starscream was incapacitated by Megatron in Infiltration (set just before this story)
- Ramjet has only just arrived on Earth, explaining why he's randomly just appeared (and then he goes and get's himself killed in his Spotlight issue, set a very short time later)
- Where were the Avengers during Megatron's all-out invasion of Earth?
- The Decepticons causing Xenophobia between different countries is shown again in Escalation. In this case they use an array to artificially augment the anger, which affects Meta-Humans more that normal humans.
- Ratchet can deploy his steering wheel's airbag as a weapon if needed
- This story is set during Sunstreaker and Ironhide's mission to return the Humans back home, as evidenced by none of them being seen here.
- Ms Marvel saw several planets drained of life in her time in space, a result of Decepticon attacks...yet never saw any Transformers before now it seems, despite the Transformers being well known in the outer-universe.
- When there are planets with Meta-Humans on them, the Decepticons activate the Mirror-Response, which basically means they kidnap a Meta-Human and mimic their powers etc to aid them.
- Iron Man has a Transformer-sized suit because he heard rumours about giant robots hiding on Earth, most likely the same sources that Hunter used.
- Why is Luke Cage telling Wolverine to "represent X-Men Style" when he is not an X-Man himself?
- Autobots can use power cables to power up other machines, as shown with them powering up Iron Man's giant suit
- *GASP* The evil Doom was in fact working with Megatron all along!? Who could have suspected that?!...wait....
- Iron Man wa sinside his normal suit, inside his giant suit (much like how Crankcase would use a larger robot suit (the Cybernaut) in MTMTE8 many years later.
- It's implied that Ramjet takes on the form of the Quinjet at the end of this story...this is never brought up again!
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