Title: Headmasters
Written by: Tom Scioli and John Barber
Art, Colours and Lettering by: Tom Scioli
Production by: Chris Mowry
Edits by: Carlos Guzman
Plot
Mindbender straps Scarlett into a Brainwave Scanner to try and make her believe that the Transformers and GI Joe are just fictions, even dismissing Bumblebee's severed head as just Dr. B's project to recreate her favourite childhood TV character....yeah he thought this was a good plan....
After an in-determinant amount of time, Scarlett is "cured" of her delusions and is reunited with her husband and children.
Scarlett goes about her normal life with her family, but is being haunted by some ghosts she can't quite understand. She goes a bit mad one day, and shears her hair off revealing a subspace transmitter under her scalp, which Flagg uses to contact her, to which she says she needs more time to resolve this mission.
Later, Scarlett is at her welcome home party when she sees that her fellow Joes don't know anything about their pasts and all think this is real.
On his way home from the party, Mutt is "attacked" by his old partner and pet dog Junkyard, which jogs his memories of his GI Joe life.
That night, Scarlett kills her husband, and burns her children alive, along with their family home, she heads outside and finds the rest of the Joes have been released from their brain-washing too.
The Joes rescue the captured Autobots, who are trapped in vehicle mode and use them to escape the city, which is revealed to be on Scorponok's back. Once outside, the Autobots are released from their binds and transform too, to find Optimus has arrived on the planet with Bumblebee's headless body in tow.
Scarlett returns to Mindbender's hospital and fights with the doctor, and her burned not-children, but before long she manages to strap Mindbender into his own Brainwave Scanner, whilst she goes elsewhere, following the voices of the ghosts. Outside her final destination, she encounters a clone of herself and fights her off, allowing her to attack Zarak inside Scorponok's control room.
Outside, Scorponok gently delivers Bumblebee's head to Optimus, whilst the Joes and Autobots watch on....why not just crush the fool Scorpy!?!?
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Truck
Bumblebee
Arcee - Car
Seaspray - Hovercraft
Inferno - Fire Truck
Decepticon
Scorponok - Scorpion with a city on his back
Zarak
Mindwipe
GI Joe
Scarlett
General Flagg Hologram
Mutt
Junkyard
Gung-Ho
Alpine
Beachhead
Steeler
Dusty
Quickkick
Doctor Venom
Unidentified Joes
Duke (Mentioned)
Cobra
Dr Mindbender
Dr B
Fred Killed by Scarlett
Scarlett's Kids Burned alive by Scarlett
Springfield Synthetics
Snake-Eyes (Mentioned)
Other
Billy
Nebulon Ghosts
Notes
- Aww, turns out this crappy series is real after all...:(
- Cobra was shown making synthetic humans in a lab in Trypticon previously, here we see some in action.
- Scarlett really had no reason to suspect that she was being tricked in this story, so all her actions could be treated as her just having a major breakdown.
- The magazine that Mutt uses to smack Junkyard with is this one.
- Speaking of which, why was Ultra Magnus on the cover at all? He has no role in this comic whatsoever
- Mutt's whispering "Yo Joe." into Scarlett's ear just makes me think of the whole "Hail Hydra." whispering thing they had going on in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD
- So the fake Springfield has been built in the couple of days the Decepticons and Cobra have been allied huh?
- Also if it's open air above it on Scorponok's back why didn't any of the captured Joes notice planet Earth ABOVE them, or the city borders being metallic and green?
- Zarak's appearance here, and the ghosts of the dead Nebulons would explain where Galen camme from too.
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