Written and Drawn by: Nick Roche
Colours by: Josh Burcham and Joana LaFuente
Letters by: Tom B. Long
Editor: John Barber
Publisher: Ted Adams
Plot
The Wreckers, strapped up to the Impetus device, are forced to relive their darkest moments, and speak them out loud.
In Roadbuster's memories, he relives how he murdered his cadets because he was ordered to by the dark god, Mortilus, who he has been hearing in his head recently, before he can throw the dying cadets down a pit for his god however, he is stopped by Prowl and his security forces, who detain him, and work on saving the cadets, all whilst Mortilus suddenly goes silent, driving Roadbuster further mad.
Back in the present, Tarantulad turns off Impetus, having shown off how it works to Prowl. Roadbuster recognizes Tarantulas' voice as Mortilus' and Tarantulas reveals that he reduced himself to his tiniest size and whispered into his ears to use him for the raw materials from his cadets. At the same time, Hubcap reveals that he was one of his cadets, who happened to survive the incident.
Hubcap reveals that he joined Tarantulas following the discovery that Prowl released Roadbuster from jail after an insufficient amount of time, and Tarantulas used him and his Outlier skills to monitor all Autobot transmissions, and learned about Aequitas etc through this. He agreed to use the information to destroy Prowl in exchange for Chimeracon upgrades.
Hubcap begins to applaud himself and Verity for being brave enough to fight Prowl, but Verity reveals that she only tried to blackmail Prowl because she wanted him to come to Earth to give her a cure for her illness, which was caused when she was exposed to the Aequitas energies. Her threat was always empty.
Tarantulas attempts to force Prowl into Impetus, to force him to reveal all his undisclosed secrets, but Prowl stuns Tarantulas by suddenly claiming that he killed their creation, Osteros, rather than saving him in the past, causing Tarantulas to attack him.
During the attack, Kup contacts Prowl using their uplink, telling him that the other Wreckers are coming in using a back-door they have, but assure him that they are only saving him due to him being an asset to thee Autobots, and is not due to him being a good person who deserves to be saved.
Soon, the Wreckers activate their portal, and the space station, Debris, begins to punch through into the Noisemaze, beginning to destabilize it due to it's size.
Hubcap and Tarantulas go to his control room, to prepare to send out the Aequitas files to the universe, whilst Tarantulas sends the Chimeracons to attack the Wreckers, but Prowl manages to convince Hubcap that releasing the data would destroy the new found and fragile peace on Cybertron, much to Tarantulas' anger.
At the same time, Arcee and the others are freed from their restraints and led to their weapons by a mysterious party, they arm up and go after Tarantulas and Prowl.
Outside the base, the Chimeracons take on Impactor and the others, when Tidal Wave begins to try and break into the Noisemaze too, despite his size being too much for it to handle safely.
Carnivac contacts Tarantulas to report on Tidal Wave's actions, but before Tarantulas can advise him any further, the Wreckers enter the room and destroy his computers. Springer frees Prowl and orders him to get himself and Hubcap to safety in order to prove he was worth saving, whilst the team go up against Tarantulas.
Outside, Carnivac prepares to disable Tidal Wave, when Impactor attacks him, but before the fight goes too far, Tidal Wave has entered the Noisemaze, kicks Impactor, and sends him flying into a building.
Tarantulas is easily handling the Wreckers, but Roadbuster makes a unilateral decision, transforms and rams himself ans Tarantulas out the window, and plummet to their deaths. Springer and the others mourn his sacrifice, but they need to leave.
On their way to Debris, Hubcap talks to prowl, and says that he knows he has to go to prison after all he's done, but he's glad it's done...but Prowl has his gun pointed to Hubcap, intent on killing him to keep his secrets safe. Hubcap manages to convince Prowl that this isn't the way to solve this situation, and he needs to change his ways before all this happens again, and Prwl lowers his gun.
Impactor however decides that Hubcap IS too much of a liability though, and shoots him, having followed them from his crash-point, and assures Prowl that no one changes, and he'll always be there to do the dirty work when Prowl chickens out.
At his crash site, Roadbuster wakes up, but hears Mortilus in his head again, he asks if he remembers this feeling, before expanding back to a full-sized Tarantulas, exploding Roadbuster's head in the process. Leaving Roadbuster's corpse, Tarantulas sees the chaos in the Noisemaze and decides to "close up shop".
The Wreckers reunite in the tunnels heading to Debris, but Prowl cconvinces the group to help him destroy Tarantulas' research and materials before they leave, as a way to atone for his sins. They agree, but only because it's a danger to everyone.
The Wreckers soon arrive at the fuel station, and plan to set explosives, they plan to have Prowl return to Debris with verity, to keep her safe, and begin treatments for her illness, but she suddenly realizes that she feels healthy now...she has a sudden realization that Tarantulas has done something "weird" to her when they were knocked out.
Tarantulas agrees, and promises to do something "weird" to the others as well, as he lowers himself towards the Wreckers.....
Characters
Autobot
Prowl - Police Vehicle
Arcee - Sports Car
Springer - Helicopter/Rocket Car
Impactor - Tank
Kup - Pick Up Truck
Guzzle - Tank
Roadbuster - Jeep Killed by Tarantulas
Hubcap - Car Killed by Impactor
Ironfist - Van (Flashback) Dead
Roadbuster's Cadets (Flashback) Dead
Security Force - Cars (Flashback)
Pharma - Jet (Flashback)
Ratchet - Ambulance (Flashback)
Stakeout - Police Car (Mentioned)
High Command (Mentioned)
Mayhem
Carnivac - Wolf
Tidal Wave - Whale
Overbite - Shark
Stampy - Rabbit
Generic Chimeracons
Other Cybertronian
Tarantulas - Spider
Ostaros (Mentioned) Dead
Primus (Mentioned)
Mortilus (Mentioned)
Human
Verity Carlo
Notes
- Wow, there's a new issue of this thing! (It was worth the wait <.<)
- The Roadbuster affair is finally revealed as being the time he thought Mortilus was telling him to "kill, kill, kill"
- In Roadbuster's flashback, Pharma comments on how bad "mode drilling" is, he will later cause a situation where transforming causes a virus to activate and slowly kill you.
- Hubcap's motives for joining Tarantulas are revealed as being due to him being a survivor of the "Roadbuster Affair" and then learning that Prowl released Roadbuster early on the request of Impactor. So I guess it had nothing to do with Pipes after all.... :(
- Verity's illness is confirmed as being caused by exposure to the Aequitas energies during Ironfist's download. Though she is seemingly cure of it at the end of the issue.
- Huh...turns out the shark Chimericon is Overbite, and not Cybershark after all...oh well!
- It's unclear who released the Wreckers from Impetus and opened the doors for them. If I had to guess though, I'd say it was Hubcap.
- As seen before, the portal to the Noisemaze is inside Tidal Wave, so it really is confusing as to how be managed to enter it.
- We get a full body view of Tidal Wave at last, and he is designed as the Armada character of the same name, just with organic whale bits showing in places.
- Verity's armour has inbuilt blasters on the forearms....this is cool/dangerous!
- Okay Taranulas...now I'm afraid of giant spiders exploding my head....THANKS!
- Now, due to this issue coming out a little later than originally planned, we know that Prowl survives these events, we also know that Kup and Arcee return to the main Autobot forces on Earth, as this is set before the concurrent stories from the Ongoing series. This means that the only major characters in this story that are currently unaccounted for are: Springer, Impactor, Guzzle, Verity, Tarantulas and the Chimeracons. I think it's safe to assume the villains are all killed/captured after this, and that at least one Wrecker will die next issue.
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