IDW - Sector 7

Plot

In 1898 Gentlemen Explorers Theo Wells and Walter Simmons narrowly escape from a strange group of monsters from a cave, before they can really recover though Agent Billy North comes to them and tels them that they're needed to look over a man who went insane in the Arctic. After meeting with Captain Witwicky they decide to go to the Arctic to look into his claims of a giant ice man, and are joined by Witwicky's first mate, Reginald Danco and 3 others, making their number 7.

Later the newly formed Sector Seven arrive in the Arctic and find the ice man's cavern and are excited. Far away Jetfire, who was disguised as a ship transforms and takes off to look into the strange energy he just detected.

After some investigation of the Ice Man Jetfire arrives and is disappointed as he thought it would be The Fallen, Jetfire attacks the mostly inert Megatron as he is annoyed, and the humans believe him to be hostile towards them, North starts shooting at the Decepticon and Jetfire kills him for it. The humans run away, and Megatron wakes up briefly, before Jetfire blasts him into the ice again, freezing him once more. Jetfire leaves afterwards and the humans mourn their loss.

By 1913 the Allspark has been found by S7 and the dam has begun being built around it, and Simmons has had his family moved to the middle of nowhere in Nevada to be near it, his wife, Clara is furious about it, and his daughter Margo seems to not care though.

With his new team members, Lou and Herbert Hoover and Ray Thompson begin to extract the cube from the ground and wonder how it relates to Megatron, since they are both so far away. Once the cube is moved they notice some strange lights underneath and decide to investigate. Below in the tunnels they find several charred and dead mutated animals, that remind Theo and Walter of their earlier adventure when they come across Jetfire, who remembers Theo and Walter from the Arctic. The humans leave and Jetfire follows (As Lou shot at him with her guns) and he's shocked to find the Allspark dangling above him. He touches the cube and it sends out a surge, turning all the nearby machinery into robots.

Jetfire is overloaded by the energy and uses a space bridge to escape. The robots are stopped from causing much havoc by opening the dam up and crushing them under the pressure. One car-robot escapes however and drives off alone.

Seeing how obsessed Walter has become with the cube and it's related creatures Theo goes to Clara and tells her to leave with him and be happy...she seems to agree.

In 1934 Bonnie and Clyde rob a bank and escape in a strange transforming car. Later Margo Simmons and Roy Thompson are paired up to investigate the situation, and wait out for them to return to rescue a friend of theirs from jail. Bonnie, Clyde and the car attack the jail and break several prisoners out, Bonnie is injured in the gunfight and captured by S7 and the escapees leave with Clyde.

Later, the car demands that they rescue Bonnie now, and even kills one of the prisoners in the process, causing the others to run away in fear, and Clyde agreeing. Clyde meets with S7 on the road and the car reveals that he really meant that he doesn't want her to be in prison, so he kills her instead. A gun fight ensues and Clyde is killed as well. Margo uses her specially modified gun to kill the car as well

By 1944 Margo has been dead for a while, but her son Billy is now a private in the military. Billy is called in to see his grandfather Walter at Hoover Dam to be debriefed on a mission to Germany where some robot-like experiments have been detected.

Billy is given the tour around the base and inducted into S7 and given a team to lead on the mission. On their way in their ship is attacked and during the airdrop and journey to the castle they are meant to investigate some of the team is killed and Billy loses a hand in laser fire.

Inside the castle, the German's robots (powered by soldiers plugged into them) fight the remaining Americans until he frees Jetfire by accident. The two of them join forces and destroy the German robots and the research created from them studying Jetfire for all these years. Jetfire then takes on a jet mode and flies Billy back home.

In 1954 the S7 base in the Arctic has gone into lock down mode for some reason, with Bill Simmons and some others trapped inside and the power failing inside, meaning that Megatron is defrosting. Walter is called in and calls for B-2's with liquid nitrogen bombs equipped to be ready, just in case, even if it means his grandson dies as well.

Inside the team are worried about what's going on and start arguing. Nolan starts attacking people as he's a bit drunk and he's locked up by Fontaine and Bill whilst Joe Danco is working on Megatron's storage and Anne is just worried all the time.

Fontaine is later found dead and the controls for Megatron are smashed, meaning he'll defrost much quicker. Nolan thinks that someone on the team is a Transformer disguised as a human, so they all take a blood test, during the test it's revealed that Anne is pregnant with Bill's child and they're happy, but none of them is a robot.

Later Bill takes everyone down below to the entrance to some tunnels which lead all the way to Hoover Dam and other locations filled with strange dead creatures, he explains that that's why he there, to investigate the creatures inside there. Suddenly Danco pulls a gun out and points it at the other, revealing that he works for the Soviets now and he's going to use the tunnels to escape and to give information of the robots to his leaders. He's doing this as Reginald Danco was forgotten about by Walter and the others and he wants revenge.

Megatron wakes up and starts smashing around, causing the ice to collapse around Danco and Bill. The liquid nitrogen is dispatched, but Jetfire, disguised as one of the jets swoops in and protects Anne and Nolan before it hits and Megatron is frozen once again. Jetfire returns the two humans to Walter, and Walter is thankful, and asks Anne to keep her baby, but to keep him away from all this (obviously she doesn't keep that promise)

Characters

Human

Walter Simmons

Theodore Joseph Wells

Agent Billy North Killed by Jetfire

Reginald Danco

Jack Arden

Philippe Bowen

Theodore Grant

Margo Simmons nee Carlson Dead

Roy Thompson

Herbert Hoover

Lou Hoover

Clyde Barrow Killed in Shootout

Bonnie Parker Killed by the Car

W.D. Jones

Bill Simmons Missing under Ice

Joe Danco Missing under Ice

Tova Anne Fischer

Philip Nolan

Archibald Witwicky

Clara Simmons

Fontaine Killed by Joe Danco

Horwitz Killed by Nazis

Louie Corliss Killed by Nazis

Sergeant Donovan Killed by Nazis

Garcia Killed by Nazis

Newcombe Killed by Nazis

Lupton Killed by Panzer Giganten

Seymour Simmons (Mentioned)

POTUS (Mentioned)

Clyde's Brother (Mentioned) Dead

Sector Seven

Nazis

30's Cops

30's Escaped Prisoners

Other Humans

Decepticon

Jetfire - Condor One B-2 Jet (Formerly US Navy Boat and 40's Jet)

Megatron Frozen

The Fallen (Flashback)

Allspark Mutation

Bonnie and Clyde's Car Killed by Margo Simmons

Crane Flooded

Radio Flooded

Gun Flooded

Cave Brutes Killed by Jetfire

Nazi Robot

Tanks Destroyed by Jetfire and Bill

Panzer Giganten Destroyed by Jetfire

Notes

• This story shows the early years of Sector Seven, a lot of the Simmons family history, and some of what Jetfire was up to on his journey's around Earth
• The strange monsters seen at several points in this story are actually Allspark Mutations, albeit organic ones.
• Megatron is shown in his ROTF body, but he should be in his original one instead
• This story includes several real life people and events and connects them to either S7 or the Transformers in some way
• S7 have created weapons to battle the Transformers by the time of 1934
• The last story in this comic is set in 1954, this can easily mean that there's still more like 50 years of S7 history to show in a potential future comic
• Joe Danco is shown to have survived the ice collapse and gives information to the Soviets in Rising Storm.
• Anne is shown to be pregnant with Seymour in 1954, this means that in the first Transformers Movie he would be about 53 years old