TFCC - Dawn of Futures Past

Staff

Writers: Forest Lee, Pete Sinclair

Pencils: Dan Khanna, Alex Milne, Marcelo Matere

Inks: Jake Eisen, Terry Pallot

Colours: Drew Eiden, Josh Perez, Thomas Deer

Letters: Junemoon Studio

Plot

Megatron and his team steal the Golden Disk and the Maximal Security Force are in pursuit, Unit-1 is disabled during the battle so Unit-2 (Tigatron) is forced to hunt them down himself.

Elsewhere, Divebomb (of the original Predacons) orders the Decepticons Laserbeak and Buzzsaw to assist Megatron is his usage of the Golden Disk (as it was G1 Megatron's goal originally for this to happen). The Predacons under Megatron's command steal a Transwarp ship, the Darksyde and they leave the planet. Tigatron commandeers the Chromia-10 Pilot's (Airazor) ship, along with her to chase them.

Maximal Command are worried that Tigatron won't be able to stop them in time, so they decide to call in reinforcements.from a nearby ship. On a space station the Axalon is being filled with it's cargo, including Protoform X's Stasis Pod, and their crew in their own Stasis Pod's too (for the long journey). The Maximal's under Optimus Primal's command on the Axalon start on their mission to drop off Protoform X and then return to their true scientific mission when Maximal Command contacts them and informs them about Megatron stealing the disk, they're ordered to chase the Predacons and recover the disk before the Preds can escape.

Before the Axalon can hunt down the Darksyde, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw attack the ship, causing quite a lot of damage, however they're saved when Airazor and Tigatron attack the Decepticon ship at the cost of their own ship. Tigatron and Airazor's spark's are transplanted into some blank protoforms in storage so that they can be rescued. The Maximals proceed to hunt down the Predacons.

On board the Darksyde, Tarantulas is communicating with the Tripredacus Council about the start of his secret mission, when Megatron asks him for a progress report on the disk, which he's been analyzing. On the ship's bridge the crew detect the Maximal ship approaching them, and Megatron orders the Transwarp Drive to be prepared, Dinobot is angry that they're running away again, instead of killing their foes. Megatron opens a channel up to contact their pursuers before they disappear. He greets the Maximals and taunts them before opening fire.

The Transwarp portal opens up and the two ships enter it, fighting, and that leads into the start of the Beast wars TV series.

Many years later Razorclaw and some other Predacons have returned to the technorganic Cybertron and declares that the Maximals will fall at the hands of him and the Predacons.

Characters

Maximal

Optimus Primal - Rocket Car

Cheetor - Racing Convertible

Rattrap - Motorcycle

Rhinox - Front End Loader

Tigatron/Unit-2 - Racing Convertible Spark Transplanted into Protoform

Airazor - Twin Nosed Jet Spark Transplanted into Protoform

Nitrostreak/Unit-1 - Racing Convertible Injured by Predacons

Maximal Council (Mentioned)

Maximal Command

Space Station Crew

Axalon Crew (In Stasis Pods)

Predacon

Megatron - Tank

Dinobot - Excavator

Scorponok - Scorpion Tank

Tarantulas - Truck

Waspinator - Jet

Terrorsaur - Jet

Razorclaw - Lion

Divebomb - Falcon

Rampage - Tiger

Headstrong - Rhino

Tantrum - Bull

Cicadacon (On Monitor)

Decepticon

Laserbeak - Falcon Killed by the Axalon

Buzzsaw - Falcon Killed by the Axalon

Ravage (On Screen)

Other

Protoform X (In Stasis Pod)

Notes

• Pretty much every character shown here uses another toy model as the basis (including those from the 2006 Botcon boxset) from a variety of toylines
• Most of the characters are unnamed in this story, this fits with the storyline where they re-name themselves upon taking on Beast Modes in Beast Wars. But for the sake of identification, I'm naming them by their Beast Wars names.
• Scorponok uses Energon Scorponok's toy as his basis, although he's much smaller than the toy would be compared to the other toy-based character models
• Considering the Maximal space station seen around an alien world...do you think they would still be active after Megatron's take-over of Cybertron, or even if they knew about it?
• Tarantulas places the Golden Disk into a device that make's it look like the ones released with some Club Toys, including Razorclaw, shaped like the Planet X Cyber Keys from the Cybertron series.
• Megatron's Cybertron Red Alert based body is just a removable suit it seems....I bet the toy can't do that...
• Airazor and Tigatron acting like new-borns on Earth is explained here as being because they lost a lot of their memories during the spark transplant used to rescue them from their destroyed ship.