Title: The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage
Written by: James Roberts
Art by: Alex Milne
Colours by: Joana LaFuente
Letters by: Tom B. Long & Christa Miesner
Editor: John Barber
Publisher: Ted Adams
Plot
The abandoned Lost Lighters are fighting with the DJD, but are surprisingly doing well despite the impossible odds, with even Chromedome punching Overlord away after being angered by him. Tarn dismisses this as just a "final flail" but Deathsaurus disagrees, thinking they've been tricked somehow.
A little earlier, during the group hug, Ratchet comments that Tailgate's grip feels like a car compactor, which gives Velocity an idea, using her new knowledge about Tailgate affecting the security team who were near him with his spark detonating, so thinks that if they can replicate the effects then the Lost Lighters can have a fighting shot however to do this the person who's spark detonates will be put to death's door. Nautica and Ratchet think that it's amoral to do this to someone, but Skids volunteers.
Skids tells Chromedome to reveal his hidden memories to him, as he knoes that they will be an extreme trauma and will give the crew a power boost. Chromedome agrees due to the circumstances, and triggers his memories by mentioning Quark's name. This causes his spark to detonate, combined with the residual temporal energies in his system to give an added power boost to the rest of the team.
Back in the present, the Lost Lighters are taking down the DJD, and Rodimus even uses his old "flame out" trick to incinerate a few of them, but then suddenly starts losing power.
Back at the Fortress, Skids is hooked up to a life support machine, with his spark being just a pinprick now. Megatron comes in when Ratchet asks him to help look after Skids whilst Ratchet joins the fight. Megatron admits that he's not afraid of the DJD, but he's afraid of what will happen when he fights again, and worries he'll turn evil once more if he has any violence exposed to him.
Ratchet reveals that Megatron's "Fool's Energon" is just a placebo, as any real inhibitors wouldn't work due to what Shockwave did to Megatron's internal organs, and that Megatron has been purposely supressing his power to not harm anyone, like Whirl, Perceptor and Tailgate over the past year or two. On the monitor behind Ratchet, Megatron sees Tarn tearing Ravage into two pieces.
Skidsfalls out of his bed and tries to find Brainstorm to tell him what happened to Quark in Grindcore prison, as that was the whole purpose to him creating his time machine for hundreds of years. Ratchet tries to get Megatron to help him put Skids back on life-support, but the former Decepticon has gone missing....
On the battlefield, Brainstorm attacks Lugnut, but finds that his power boost, as well as everyone else's has been depleted, he bumps into Skids' memorial statue, but notices that his holographic statue has just vanished, as Skids has just passed away as Ratchet watched.
The Lost Lighters are surrounded by the DJD, and all seems lost, until a sudden fusion cannon blast takes out several members of the DJD. Megatron has taken the new fusion cannon built by Brainstorm and has joined the battle
Megatron slaughters the DJD, nearby Tarn has Vos recall the rest of the main DJD to safety, whilst having Deathsaurus's troops sacrifice themselves to weaken Megatron for them.
Megatron collects up Ravage's front half and gives him to Rodimus to return to the Fortress with so Ratchet can save him. The Lost Lighters leave Megatron to take down the DJD alone.
Megatron's fusion cannon is shot by Nickel and Vos, rendering it useless, and Megatron appears to give up, falling to his knees.
Inside the Fortress, the crew have learned about Skids' death, which visibly hits Nautica the worst, and the crew watch the footage of the battle on the monitors whilst Velocity starts working on Ravage's injuries.
Tarn and Overlord approach the defeated Megatron, aim their cannons at him and decide to execute him together.
Three gun shots ring through the air.....
Characters
Autobot
Rodimus - Car
Megatron - Tank
Maximus Ambus - Vehicle Transport
Skids - Van Died by Spark Detonation
Drift - Car
Swerve - Van
Rewind - Data Slug
Chromedome - Car
Ratchet - Ambulance
Velocity - Race Car
Nautica - Submarine
Tailgate - Car
Whirl - Osprey Helicopter
Brainstorm - Jet
Quark - Electron Microscope (Flashback) Dead
Ironhide - Van (Statue Only)
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)
Perceptor - Tank (Mentioned)
Powerflash - Jet (Mentioned)
Strafe - Jet (Mentioned)
Rewind Mk I - Data Slug (Mentioned) Dead
Dominus Ambus - Turbofox (Mentioned) Dead
Decepticon
Ravage - Cassette Torn in half by Tarn
Overlord - Tank and Jet
Deathsaurus - Dragon
Tarn - Tank
Nickel
Vos - Rifle
Helex - Mobile Smelting Chamber
Tesarus - Mobile Metal Shredder (Mentioned)
Lugnut - Jet
Blue Bacchus - Helicopter
Doryu
Deathsaurus' Troops Most Slaughtered by Lost Lighters and Megatron
Leozack - Jet (Mentioned)
Shockwave - Mobile Artillery (Mentioned)
Warriors Elite (Mentioned)
Other
Cyclonus - Jet
Ten
Notes
- Maximus Ambus' armour is large enough for at least two Mini-bots to sit in the shoulder sections. This makes it somewhat similar to the Optimus Maximus toy from Transformers Prime who had a similar feature.
- Rewind has still not told Ambus about what happened to his brother.
- Ambus comments that he can't "deal with that now" in this issue. This is a reference to the 80's movie.
- Velocity appears to have some super-speed abilities here. This could be partly due to the effects of Skids' spark detonating, or a skill we simply haven't seen before.
- Overlord claims that he slowly killed the original Rewind to Chromedome in this issue, but due to the physics of the Slow Cell, it seems unlikely that he had the time to do anything to the poor little guy.
- We get to see Deathsaurus' alternate mode this issue. It is both adorable and fearsome :)
- Skids' memories of Grindcore and what happened to Quark are fully revealed to him in this issue...it doesn't go too well!
- Rodimus uses his "flame out" ability that we last saw in Maximum Dinobots. It appears to have a side-effect of him using up a lot of energy in the process however.
- Megatron's "Fool's Energon" is revealed to just be a placebo, and is simply just unfiltered and untreated Energon to make it taste different. Megatron's apparent changes since his trial are therefore purely psychosomatic.
- Tarn tears Ravage in half just like how Overlord did to Guzzle back in Last Stand of the Wreckers.
- Brainstorm uses his vehicle mode jet boosters to propel himself during his fight with Lugnut
- Megatron's fusion cannon blasts are now Autobot-orange instead of Decepticon-purple.
- Several of the Lost Lighters who were part of the battle with the DJD are unnacounted for at the end of this issue, including Swerve, Rewind, Ambus, Cyclonus and Tailgate. Nightbeat and Rung are still investigating the hollow planet under the fortress. Lets hope the former guys are all okay.
- Nautica hugging her dear friend Skids' corpse and crying into his chest is an image that will haunt me for the rest of my days....I JUST GOT THE SKIDS TOY AS WELL!!!! BLOODY ROBERTS!!!
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