TFCC - A Flash Forward #5

Plot

Jhiaxus explains to Pyro (behind his jail bars) that all he wants is peace, no war, no factions etc and shows him his new generation, made of clones of other Transformers, from both factions. He notices that there's one Autobot missing from the group and asks Nightracer to go find him in the base, she complies, but is hit on by Side Burn, whom she just rides off from, claiming he's too yound for her (despite him being much older). Runabout convinces Side Burn to chase her, and the Battlechargers follow too.

Side Burn almost runs into Sky-Byte and a Sharkticon, so Sky-Byte shouts after him in haiku, whilst the Sharkticon slips away and enters the cloning room, where he morphs into Sideswipe. Sideswipe looks at the tubes in the room and is shocked to find his own clone inside one. Ironhide and Soundwave walk in as they detected movement in the room and witness the Sideswipe clone's tube smashing open and Sideswipe falling out (having disguised himself as his own clone and hiding the clone nearby.

Sideswipe (disguised as his clone) is taken to see Jhiaxus, who greets him as a son and asks Soundwave to check the data flow, to see if that's why Sideswipe seems to be unaware of what he is (a clone), whilst Jhiaxus takes his new "son" to see the Autobots, once there Sideswipe manages to signal Pyro that it's really him, and on Pyro's command blasts the jail cell, freeing the trapped Autobots.

Characters

Autobot

Pyro - Fire Engine

Side Burn - Blue Flame Speedster

Sideswipe - Sports Car

Hubcap - Smooth Talking Drifter

Blaze - Winning Formula

Rest of Pyro's Team (Mentioned)

Optimus Prime (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Jhiaxus - Fiery Flier

Runamuck - White Tasty Tuner

Runabout - Black Tasty Tuner

Flamefeather - Brutal Bird

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Sky-Byte - Submarine

Sharkticon - Submarine (Sideswipe's disguise)

Megatron (Mentioned)

Clones

Nightracer - Lean Machine

Soundwave - Sound Machine

Bumblebee - Sports Car

Frenzy - Sports Car

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Mirage - F1 Race Car

Sideswipe - Sports Car (Inactive)

Other Clones in Tubes

Notes

• This story shows that the clones Jhiaxus made are from before the war really picked up, so they have no knowledge of Autobot/Decepticon propoganda
• Nightracer seems a bit uneasy around Side Burn...maybe he hit on her past self some time?
• Sideswipe is shown to be able to change his shape entirely rather than just changing colours
• The Sideswipe clone is number 80253, since we've only seen 6 clones active so far, it implies that there was a fair few errors
• Jhiaxus actually DOES seem to want peace, he just goes around it rather heavy handed.
• Runamuck and Runabout seem to act like Side Burn's "little angel and devil on the shoulder" with Runamuck giving him good advice (like leave Nightracer alone) and Runabout giving him bad advice (go after her!)
• It's not clear why Megatron's mentioned here rather than Galvatron....

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