Title: The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle
Written by: James Roberts
Art by: Alex Milne
Colours by: Joana LaFuente
Letters by: Tom B. Long
Editor: John Barber
Publisher: Ted Adams
Plot
In orbit around the Necroworld, the Galactic Counvil ship, The Retaliator, is waiting for Overlord to finish off Megatron, whilst still complaining about how the DJD arrived on the planet before him. Getaway contacts them to find out whether they kept their promise on the safety of the other Autobots with Megatron, which the commander denies ever promising with a smile, all whilst pondering the use of a secret weapon...
On the planet's surface, Megatron is kneeling to Overlord and Tarn with their cannons, but activates the panic bubble from Trailcutter's corpse and protects himself from the shots, sending the Decepticons flying.
Tarn starts to panic about losing his chance to get Megatron, and has the rest of the DJD join him in attacking the forcefield manually, and orders Deathsaurus to send his troops to attack the other Autobots. Inside, Rewind activates the conscience weapon to affect any Decepticons who are susceptible, seemingly only hitting Deathsaurus, who is feeling guilty for the deaths of his men on this mission.
Nickel takes control of the situation and orders Deathsaurus' troops back to the Peaceful Tyranny to leave the planet with her, as she has lost faith in Tarn's vision now.
Overlord decides to leave now, as he sees no reason to go after Megatron any more, having seen him cower in fear inside a panic bubble.
Inside the fortress, Brainstorm questions how Megatron can use the panic bubble, since he's not an Outlier like Trailcutter was, but Ravage explains that Megatron always has a plan, and reveals that he also stole the Time Case following Brainstorm's time travelling attempt on his life as an escape plan, but gave up on that plan after visiting the Necroworld with the crew, and seeing all the death's that he had caused.
Outside, Tarn and the DJD have managed to smash their ways through the forcefield and prepare to finish off Megatron once and for all, however once inside, Megatron reveals that he wanted this all along, and easily tears off Tarnal fusion cannons, whilst mocking all of them.
Megatron reveals that he has finally mastered the ability to use a black hole to control antimatter, and now plans to use it to destroy every thing inside the panic bubble. Megatron unmasks all the DJD and destroys them with the antimatter, until just Tarn is left.
Whilst the Autobots are watching these events from the fortress, they are shocked when the long-lost Roller amongst others enter the room, asking what's happening, and Rodimus notices that Roller is holding one of the Time Cases.
Inside the bubble, Megatron has torn off Tarn's mask, revealing him to be the outlier Glitch, and declares himself a Decepticon once more before death. However Rodimus appears inside the bubble using the Time Case as a teleporter, and manages to get Megatron to escape with him just as Tarn is killed, and the bubble is filled with an anti-matter explosion.
Rodimus and Megatron return to the fortress, but the Time Case has burned out. Ratchet rushes Megatron to Ravage, who is getting worse, Ravage touches Tarn's mask on Megatron's chest and asks him not to change back, just as he dies from his injuries.
At that moment, at the Sanctuary Station, Soundwave feels the death of his long time ally and mourns him....
Back at the fortress, Megatron flips the table with Ravage's corpse on it, and threatens to kill everyone, following his harrowing experiences today. He decides to leave the crew....the from the shadows, his old friend Terminus appears, and is confused about where he is, Megatron ejects his fusion cannon and discards Tarn's mask, and embraces his long lost friend, stating that he lost his way.
The following day, Rewind explains to everyone that the new arrivals on the planet were actually people from the list of the lost, who the Necrobot decided to rescue following his discussion with Nightbeat on his last visit. However after a while he discovered that some of the people he rescued were actually just hiding, since they were on the DJD's list, and him bringing them to the Necroworld led them to him, so he hid them in stasis pods, disguised as organics, leading to his death.
Rewind walks off with Ambus to finally talk to him about his brother's death, whilst Drift and Rodimus wonder what Rung and Nightbeat found under the planet, as they have still not returned yet...
Inside the planet, Rung and Nightbeat discover that the planet appears to be a mould for Cybertron itself, and the sheer force of the anti-gravity inside it has been messing up their internal chronometers, making them think it's only been about 3 hours.
Suddenly two lights appear inside the mould, which Nightbeat recognizes as a geobomb, a weapon that the Galactic Council has been known to use, and they look ready to explode, leaving the interior in a bright white explosion....
Characters
Autobot
Rodimus - Car
Megatron - Tank
Minimus Ambus - Minesweeper
Drift - Car
Ratchet - Ambulance
Velocity - Race Car
Brainstorm - Jet
Whirl - Osprey Helicopter
Swerve - Van
Chromedome - Car
Rewind - Data Slug
Tailgate - Car
Nautica - Submarine
Wavelength
Syphon
Skids - Van Dead
Nightbeat - Car Caught in possible Geobomb Explosion
Rung Caught in possible Geobomb Explosion
Dominus Ambus - Turbofox (Name Only) Dead
Getaway - Car (Mentioned)
Trailcutter - Van (Mentioned) Dead
Decepticon
Ravage - Cassette Died from injuries caused by Tarn
Tarn/Glitch - Tank Killed by Megatron
Tesarus/Scissorsaw - Mobile Metal Shredder Killed by Megatron
Helex/Crucible - Mobile Smelting Chamber Killed by Megatron
Vos/Forestock - Rifle Killed by Megatron
Overlord - Tank and Jet
Deathsaurus - Dragon
Nickel
Deathsaurus' Crew
Soundwave - Personnel Carrier (At Sanctuary Station)
Shockwave - Flying Artillery (Mentioned)
Cybertronian
Cyclonus - Jet
Ten
Roller - Truck
Terminus - Mining Vehicle
"The Disappeared"
Censerre/Necrobot (Flashback) Dead
Other
General Neech
Crew of The Retaliator
Galactic Council (Mentioned)
Notes
- This issue reveals that Getaway actually made his deal with the Galactic Council and not the DJD. Also he asked explicitly for the Autobots to not be harmed, which obviously hasn't been complied with....
- Also, the reason for this plan was because the Lost Lighters had started rescuing organic life rather than just mechanical, thus making the Galactic Council seem needless.
- Trailcutter's hand was stolen by Megatron following his death at Kaon and Vos' hands, he had Ravage steal the last Time Case following the time travelling story, and abandoned it when the Lost Light located the Necroworld after that
- Megatron "swallowed" Whirl's arm in the opening story of season two, and is revealed to have been trying to locate it with his black-hole skill ever since.
- All members of the DJD with alias' have had their real names revealed as of this issue, except for Kaon who was killed by Tarn for his emotions.
- Also, it seems that the Autobots, or at least higher-up ones already know who the DJD really are.
- So...yeah...Tarn is NOT Roller, like everything pointed to...Roberts is evil. Glitch was a member of the Outlier team who helped Optimus out a few times, but seemed to stay in the background most of the time.
- Regarding Glitch, his Outlier power is revealed to have evolved from just disabling machinery to disabling fully-sentient machines, as shown by his "talking to death" skill.
- Also, Glitch was just a nickname from him due to his abilities, his real name was Damus, so Megatron calling him that as his "real name" was a bit wrong...
- Soundwave previously prematurely mourned the death of one of his cassettes when Frenzy appears to die in All Hail Megatron.
- Please note, in every panel she appears, Nautica is STILL crying into Skids' corpse, seemingly unwilling to leave him
- The stories of the Necrobot and his Portable Apothecary are revealed to have been created by the Necrobot time travelling with the Time Case to save certain Cybertronians from going missing.
- Hopefully Nightbeat and Rung aren't dead....but I doubt they are, Rung's alternate mode mystery is still unresolved, and Nightbeat has a new Titans Return toy out.
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