IDW - Spotlight Bumblebee

Title: The Question

Story by: John Barber

Art by: David Daza

Colors by: Zac Atkinson

Letters by: Shawn Lee

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Editorial Assistant: Thomas Boeing

Plot

Bumblebee, Hot Spot and Groove are out looking for the Decepticons still hiding on Earth some where, but are getting nowhere, when they return to Omega Supreme Prowl isn't impressed, and orders Groove to join him on a mission to help him and Streetwise spy on Spike, ignoring Bumblebee's commands.

Bumblebee goes to talk to Thundercracker, who has no intentions of helping him, however during their discussions about a previous time they met, during the search for Metroplex they both realize that Megatron has somehow managed to copy Metroplex's space bridge technologies, and plans to use it to summon the Earth Decepticons to attack the Autobots. Thundercracker still wont help him stop the Decepticons from using this to overwhelm the Autobots, but he will give Bumblebee the data he collected on Metroplex in the past, so he can search for similar energy signatures.

Bumblebee visits his friend Sanjay Bharmaney and manages to locate the signature somewhere in America, Bumblebee heads out alone and finds the Decepticon army ready to receive Megatron's signal, Bumblebee goes to sabotage the Space Bridge but it activates and shows the Decepticons where he is. They get ready to tear him apart, but Starscream orders everyone but the Stunticons to enter the Bridge.

The Stunticons proceed to pummel Bumblebee (yay!) but Bumblebee jabs his cane into the Space Bridge's systems, making it overload and knocking out the Stunticons. Bumblebee later returns to Omega Supreme with the Stunticons in a net and starts taking charge properly and starts giving orders. Prowl's happy that Bumblebee has started acting like a real leader at long last.

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Muscle Car

Prowl - Police Car

Streetwise - Police Car

Groove - Police Motorcycle

Hot Spot - Fire Engine

Ultra Magnus - Car Carrier

Omega Supreme - Tank, Base and Rocket (Rocket in Space)

Optimus Prime - Truck (Mentioned)

Metroplex - City/Space Ship (Mentioned)

Wheeljack - Race Car (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Thundercracker - Fighter Jet

Motormaster - Truck Defeated and Captured by Bumblebee

Drag Strip - F1 Race Car Defeated and Captured by Bumblebee

Dead End - Sports Car Defeated and Captured by Bumblebee

Breakdown - Sports Car Defeated and Captured by Bumblebee

Wildrider - Sports Car Defeated and Captured by Bumblebee

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Shockwave - Ray Gun

Soundwave - Cassette Player

Astrotrain - Train/Space Shuttle

Blitzwing - Tank/Jet

Megatron - Stealth Bomber (Mentioned)

Other Decepticons

Human

Sanjay Bharmaney

Serena Bharmaney (Mentioned)

Spike Witwicky (Mentioned)

Other

Primus (Mentioned)

Notes

• This story is set during the first part of Police Action, and during the Chaos event, showing what Bumblebee was doing during the storyline, which wasn't really shown in the earlier comics, and shows how the Decepticons got from Earth to Cybertron
• This story confirms that Megatron's (then) new body used some of Metroplex's design features to giving him Space Bridge generating properties
• Bumblebee gets the inspiration for his future electrical discharge cane here when he uses his can to overload the Space Bridge
• Dr Bharwaney from the Bumblebee Miniseries is renamed/misnamed here as Dr Bharmaney, and seems to have kept Bumblebee as his ally
• Starscream seems to have his Robots in Disguise body rather than his Earth body
• Due to the art style and coloring here I can't tell who all the background Decepticons are, so I won't even try