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Title: Scavengers (part 2): Who's afraid of the DJD?
Written by: James Roberts
Art by: Alex Milne
Colour by: Josh Burcham
Letters by: Shawn Lee
Editor: John Barber
Years ago, Fulcrum and his fellow K-Class Decepticons are airdropped onto Clemency during a battle, where Fulcrum doesn't seem too happy about things.
Back in the present the Scavengers are all panicking about the D.J.D. coming to kill one of them, and decide between them that their only chance is to fight them, Krok even has plans to use the still stasis-locked Grimlock as well.
On the Lost Light, Skids and Chromedome have met up in the Oil Reservoir, where Skids asks Chromedome to read his mind so he can remember his lost memories.
On Clemency the Scavengers have set up Grimlock's "coffin" with circuit speeders (taken from the Monstercon they found before) that when opened will give Grimlock an adrenaline boost. Tarn contacts the Scavengers and they say the traitor has been killed and is in a coffin for them to pick up. Tarn reveals that he's upset that he can't kill Fulcrum himself. The group look at Fulcrum, who starts to explain what he did, but is cut short when the D.J.D. land on Clemency.
Tarn opens Grimlock's coffin and the Dinobot immediately attacks him, but he is easily subdued, which Krok can't understand why. Helex appears behind the Scavengers as they try to escape and they're drawn into fighting the D.J.D.
Back on the Lost Light, Chromedome cuts the mind-reading short when he starts seeing disturbing things, and certain song that he never wants to hear really, and says that Skids doesn't want to remember these things as the memories weren't suppressed they were destroyed.
On Clemency Tesarus puts Flywheels through his mincing chest, which shreds his upper body into little pieces. Kaon restrains Krok whilst Vos puts his spike-backed face mask over Krok's own face, causing immense pain, Misfire tries to save him, but ends up shooting him instead. Misfire is attacked by The Pet, who starts chewing his arm. Crankcase is thrown across the battlefield by Helex and lands near Fulcrum, who runs off, however Crankcase sees something and remembers what Worldsweepers were famous for.
Tarn starts using his weaponized speech to try and kill Grimlock, but is stopped by Crankcase inside a ginat battle suit. The D.J.D. fight Crankcase in his new suit and destroy it.
Fulcrum decides enough is enough and declares to the D.J.D. that he's not afraid any more, and that he thinks the Scavengers are worth ten of them, he then transforms to his bomb mode and launches towards Tarn, intending to kill himself and the D.J.D. He lands with barely an explosion, but before anything else can happen Kaon informs Tarn that he's located where Overlord is. The group leave immediately to hunt down their primary target, and Tarn reveals that all of the Scavengers are now on his list to kill.
The Scavengers find Fulcrum still intact, and Misfire reveals that they removed his explosive before he woke up (in case he blew up on them), and he then explains how he was arrested for cowardice and sent to Styx, but before he could be killed there he was conscripted into the K-Class by Megatron, and his team were deployed as weapons against the Autobots on Clemency. Crankcase brings back Krok, badly hurt, but still alive. Misfire tries talking to Grimlock, but discovers that his brain is basically destroyed, which explains why he was left behind on that ship. The Scavengers decode to head back to Cyberton with Grimlock in tow, to use him as a bargaining chip. Either as a gift to Megatron if the Decepticons won, or to return him to the Autobots if they won, for leniency. Before they leave however they scavenge through Flywheels' remains for anything they can find.
18 months later a robot (most likely the Necrobot) arrives on Clemency and adds/removes Flywheels' name to his list, right after Hound, Chromedome, Dipstick, Drift and Ultra Magnus....
Characters
Autobot
Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex Mostly Brain Dead
Chromedome - Car
Skids - Van
Rewind - Memory Stick
Pipes - Truck
Swerve - Van
First Aid - Ambulance
Ultra Magnus (On the List)
Hound (On the List)
Dipstick (On the List)
Drift (On the List)
Diplomatic Corps (Mentioned)
Decepticon
Misfire - Jet
Spinister - Helicopter
Krok Face Crushed by Vos
Crankcase
Flywheels - Tank/Jet Killed by Tesarus
Fulcrum - Disarmed Bomb
Tarn - Tank
Kaon - Electric Chair
Tesraus - Metal Mincer
Vos - Sniper Rifle
Helix - Mobile Smelting Pool
Torque - Bomb Dead
K-Class Cons - Bombs Dead
A Monstercon (Mentioned) Dead
Megatron (Mentioned)
Genericons (Mentioned)
Banzai-Tron (mentioned)
Overlord (Mentioned)
Other
"The Pet"
Tailgate - Car
Proteus (Mentioned)
Mortilus (Mentioned)
Necrobot
Notes
- The K in K-Class/K-Cons likely stands for Kamikaze
- Rather than splitting into 2 vehicles, Flywheels is a triple changer (as he was shown converting into tank mode last issue, and jet mode this issue)
- The Lost Light has Movie Nights...this is awesome!
- This story references the events of the 2012 Annual, but the book was postponed to after this issue
- Tarn's transformation addiction is shown in this issue, he's shown changing from tank-bot-tank-bot within 4 panels and even changes to tank mode during his fight with Grimlock as well (and then changing back again)
- The song Skids keeps hearing is called The Empyrean Suite, this is likely the song Tarn plays as well
- Vos' line of "Wear My Face" is clearly an inversion of Optimus' line "Give me your face" from ROTF
- This issue shows that Sparkeaters can come in various forms (the one from the Lost Light was more standard robot-like, whilst The Pet is a Turbofox)
- Boy Kaon sure does looks like an evil version of Rung doesn't he?
- The Worldsweeper ships come with several "Cybernaughts", giant battle suits for Transformers to ride in
- Tarn has read Banzai-Tron's files of every Decepticon, and has ranked everyone in order of importance etc
- Grimlock has been rendered basically brain dead since he was last seen. This is likely due to Overlord torturing him on G-9. How he got off the planet is still a mystery though.
- It's assumed that the robot on the last page is the Necrobot, but there's actually no actual proof of that (he probably is though)
- Krok is usually shown holding a small rod in his hand, this is something connected to his squad, which he seems to think is still around. The others think they aren't.
- Despite being dumb as toast, Spinister is actually a skilled surgeon! (Maybe the Lost Light can get him to work on Rung?)
- The list on the last panel is most likely misleading on some of those names, as shown earlier in both MTMTE and RID, some characters have shared names (Prowl on Delphi and Prowl on Cybertron, Autobot Skydive and Decepticon Skydive) so some may be misleading like that, such as with Hound or Drift (though unique names like Ultra Magnus are unlikely to be duplicated).
- Krok is referred to as a Genericon by Kaon, this is most likely just an insult, and doesn't mean he's part of the same group as the guys shock in the Delphi storyline.
- In the background, Spinister can be seen using his rotor blade as a sword...awesome
- Fulcrum didn't turn into his bomb mode in the first place because he was too afraid of dying, and this was his D.J.D. crime as well, he lived.
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