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Title: Syndromica (2)
Written by: John Barber
Art by: Livio Ramondelli
Letters by: Shawn Lee
Editor: Carlos Guzman
Plot
The Reflector Trio, fresh from stealing Turmoil's ship on Cybertron on Shockwave's orders, run into planet LV-117, a ghost world that appears from nowhere, and which starts sending the trio into the future, where they see Spectro dead in his chair with someone talking around him. When the vision ends the ship is sapped of it's energon and they fall into the planet's atmosphere. Orion Pax's ship follows them towards the planet, having picked up a Decepticon signal after hunting down Bludgeon and his crew, and mistakes them for them. Wheelie is frightened as he never wants to return to LV-117 when the crew also see the vision of Spectro's body. The team take their ship down to see what's happened.
On the planet's surface the team find the drained Decepticon ship, and find Spectro's dead body in his chair, just as they saw in the vision, and Hardhead says he's been there for over 70 years, despite them having just been following them 10 minutes before. Orion goes exploring and finds an orb (the time machine), and sees a vision of himself holding something and being told that Wheelie wouldn't leave without him. Orion touches the orb and is sent to another time where he sees a ship flying away whilst something screams behind him. He then warps to another time where Monstructor is being formed and defeats some local fauna, and then he reforms again, Bludgeon appears behind Orion and says that now they will understand all about "Ore-1", as he tried to explain before, but Orion's confused as Bludgeon never tried to explain anything last time he saw him on Arduria. Bludgeon is confused too, but then realizes that he hasn't had this conversation yet, and leaves on the ship with his master.
Orion is sent to another time, whee he finds Turmoil in front of his ship, where he has an army of aliens working on constructing his time machine, on Shockwave's orders he's there to investigate the effects of Ore-1 on the planet. After talking with the Decepticon for a while, Orion notices Bludgeon with one of the aliens skewered on his sword and chases after him. Turmoil tries to use one of the aliens as a bartering chip and threatens to kill him if Orion doesn't give up, but Orion just smashes his eye and runs off with the alien. When he jumps to another time again, along with the alien, whom he tries to communicate with, but is attacked by him (and introduces himself as Varta). Orion is able to calm down Varta, when they see the Decepticon ship falling from the sky, and Varta goes off to try and see what it is (leading into Spotlight: Wheelie). Bludgeon attacks Orion now, but doesn't seem to remember ever running from him before. The two are transported to the dark future (the planet is falling apart) where Orion meets with Wheelie and Varta, but of the past, Varta recognizes Orion and tells him to come with them on their ship before it's too late, but Bludgeon skewers the alien before he can finish.
Jhiaxus is there this time and reveals that when he saw the same future that Ironhide did after Chaos fell and that he now knows that his and Nova's old dream from the distant past is to come to pass. Jhiaxus declares that True Chaos is coming and that he plans to bring up the Gorlam Prime he saw, and the Orion will help him. Orion of course declines this offer, and Wheelie shoots at a door on his ship and releases two of the animals he was bringing with him to another world, who attack Monstructor, Wheelie then shoots at Jhiaxus and make shim drop the device he was going to use to bring forward the future of Gorlam Prime, which also helped to control the timeline too, which Orion catches and is sent back to his present where he finds the Time Machine ship gone, as well as the Decepticons and Jhiaxus, and he can't stop them, as he already saw them leave, so he can't alter the future, he's picked up by his crew and they tell him he was gone for a month and they leave the planet, having lost another 2 weeks and they try to figure out what Jhiaxus' true plan is by following him again, and also wonder what could have destroyed LV-117
Characters
Autobot
Orion Pax - Truck Cab
Hardhead - Personnel Carrier
Wheelie - Car
Wheeljack (Mentioned)
Prowl (Mentioned)
Decepticon
Bludgeon
Monstructor - Gesalt
Turmoil - Tank
Spectro Killed in Ship Crash
Viewfinder Killed by Wheelie in Spotlight
Spyglass Killed by Wheelie in Spotlight
Turmoil's Troops
Shockwave (Mentioned)
Other
Jhiaxus - Jet
Varta Killed by Bludgeon
Garnak
Arachnosaur
Chaosteros
Varta's People
Primus (Mentioned)
Nova Prime (Mentioned)
"True Chaos" (Mentioned as coming)
Notes
- Sorry if the plot section makes no real sense, but due to the messed up timeline here it's kind of confusing.
- This issue manages to sort out a few continuity burbs in the past, such as the Reflector Trio being killed in Spotlight: Wheelie, where Turmoil got his ship, where the ship went and a few more.
- The Reflector trio's deaths were shown in Spotlight: Wheelie
- This issue is very timey-wimey. Optimus and Bludgeon also seem to be meeting each other in the planet's timeline in opposite directions
- LV-117 seems to be being destroyed in a red field, much like what Unicron used on Lithone in the g1 Movie...hmmmm
- The planet LV-117 seems to be in a weird time-frame of it's own because of Shockwave's Regenesis Project, which seems to fling the inhabitants across time at random (with Orion etc being more affected due to the time machine ship. The era you are sent to is based on how you enter the atmosphere as well (which is why the Reflectors landed 70+ years before Orion and the others.
- Orion didn't know Turmoil is alive since he's been off Cybertron since he returned, this also places the attempt on his life (Spotlight: Drift) 5 years ago, however Turmoil is actually in an earlier time on the planet's history due to the planet's nature.
- The appearance of LV-117 fauna on LV-118 is explained here, as Wheelie bringing some with him to the planet when he left it (sort of like an Ark) This also shows that his ship was the Quintesson one he later used as a home on that planet, this implies that the Quintessons were on the planet at some time.
- Varta's people were indigenous to LV-117
- Orion is the one who smashed Turmoil's eye which needed him to wear a patch when we see him on Cybertron later (from his perspective)
- The Regenesis missile has a Quintesson image over the Decepticon insignia...dun dun dah!!!
- Due to LV-117's weird Ore-1 induced time-field it's impossible to tell if it's been destroy already or not (in terms of the present) However this does imply that Wheelie was still on LV-117 until the planet was destroyed and then left, being thrown back in the past (if it hasn't happened yet)....I know, confusing as hell!!!!
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