IDW - Movie Prequel

Plot

The Allspark is launched into space by the Autobots, and after a while Bumblebee follows, knowing that the Autobots have to find it before the Decepticons do. Before it was launched, Bumblebee led a team including Arcee in a battle against the Decepticons at Simfur, as a distraction for Optimus and his crew, but the Autobots are losing, especially when Megatron arrives, and the Autobots fall into a hole in the ground. Down below, the Autobots are followed by Decepticons, so Bumblebee has his team blast the roof, to make it fall in on all of them, and they do.

Later, Bumblebee wakes up, now restrained to the rubble with Arcee and witness Swindle killing one of his men for information on where the Allspark is. Swindle gets ready to go to Bumblebee next, but Megatron enters the room and takes on the interrogation himself, tearing off his arm and damaging his voice box, before the ground starts shaking and Megatron sees the Allspark being launched into space, he gives chase to it.

Later the Autobots rescue the survivors and Bumblebee is hailed as a hero for being able to delay Megatron as much as he was able to, Bumblebee's arm is fixed, but his voice box is too badly damaged.

Megatron follows the Allspark to Earth, but ends up in the Arctic, but due to his body being heated up from reentry he melts the ice around him and falls below, freezing underneath.

In 1897 Captain Witwicky leads a mission to the Arctic Circle where he finds the "Ice-Man" and goes insane and blind. Later, he's taken to a hospital where Walter Simmons and Theodore Wells interview him and decide to take a look at the situation, forming Sector 7, they release his possessions to his family, including his glasses (which Megatron inscribed with the Allspark's location).

Over time, the Arctic becomes an excavation site for Sector 7 to retrieve Megatron's body, a few years later, Sector 7 find the Allspark, which they know is connected to Megatron due to similar symbols on them both, just over 100 years later Bumblebee arrives on the planet as part of the Autobot's search team, his arrival is detected by Sector 7.

By 1924 Captain Witwicky was institutionalized at Baton Rouge, where he screams about aliens and about the future where they are fighting in a city. By 1925 Hoove Dam has been built around the Allspark, and plans are being made for Megatron to be moved to the facility.

In 2003 S7 investigate the area Bumblebee landed in in Virginia and realize that he's already left in a disguise, which they work out to be an older Camaro model, based on surveillance footage. Bumblebee starts his search for the Allspark, meanwhile, Sam Witwciky is given Captain Witwicky's old artifacts as a gift, which he's not that interested in, but wonders if he can sell them. S7 begin a plan to track down Bumblebee.

Bumblebee uses the internet to research extraterrestrial sightings and finds information on Captain Witwicky, and takes that as a lead, S7 continue with their plan, whilst on Mars Starscream and his team arrive and destroy the Mars Rover and prepare to head to Earth.

On Earth, the Decepticons attack some Earth vehicles and take them on as disguises and then begin their search for the Allspark and Megatron in turn.

Sector 7 use a container with some energy similar to the Allspark's as bait for Bumblebee to hunt it down so they can catch him as a bunker in New Mexico. Meanwhile, Bumblebee arrives at Baton Rouge, but finds it dilapidated and leaves, two days later, S7 are still waiting, when Bumblebee picks up the "Allspark's" signature and heads towards it.

Whilst waiting for Bumblebee to appear, they get a shock when several aliens appear (in vehicle mode) and realize it's not really the Allspark, so they attack the base. The Decepticons try to hack into S7's network, as they believe that since they know about the Allspark, they would know where it is, and maybe Megatron, but S7 break the connection, stopping the hack. Blackout and Starscream leave, whilst Barricade takes up chasing Bumblebee.

All the pieces come together, ready for the real events to begin four years later...

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime

Bumblebee - Classic Camaro (Comet Formerly)

Arcee

Ratchet - (Hummer in Flash Forward)

Inferno

Jazz - Pontiac (Flash Forward Only)

Other Autobots

Decepticon

Megatron - Cybertronian Jet

Starscream - Fighter Jet Frozen on Earth

Blackout - Military Helicopter

Barricade - Police Car

Swindle

Payload

Dreadwing

Dreadwinf Drones

Longarm Drones

Brawl - Tank (Flash Forward Only)

Human

Seymour Simmons

Captain Archibald Witwciky Died of Old Age

Walter Simmons

Theodore Wells

Agent Seymour Simmons

Sam Witwicky

Ron Witwciky

Judy Witwicky

Miles

Danco

Oppenheimer (Picture)

William Hayward Pickering (Picture)

Witwicky's Crew

Doctors at Baton Rouge

Sector Seven

Roosevelt (Mentioned)

Notes

• This story is a prequel to the (then) upcoming 2007 Transformers Movie
• The events before and after this comic are built up upon in the later prequel stories
• Something to note here, Ironhide is totally missing from this story, but Arcee plays a main role in the first part, possibly a hang-over from when she was a character in the film instead of Ironhide
• The Mars Rover scene is re-made in this comic as well
• It's later shown that the Nemesis is on Mars as well...it's lucky that the rover didn't get a chance to photograph it, huh?
• Several vehicles seen in this comic are cameos to G1 characters, like Bumblebee, Ironhide and Optimus Prime.