Title: Things We Said We'd Never Do
Written by: Mairghread Scott
Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher
Colours by: Joana LaFuente
Letters by: Tom B. Long
Editor: John Barber
Publisher: Ted Adams
Plot
Windblade arrives at Metroplex's brain chamber and asks him to monitor the rust corridors to look for both Onslaught and Swindle's body, Metroplex asks her why, but Windblade is unwilling to reveal that. Unfortunately for her, Chromia appears and forces her to reveal that she's doing surveillance work for Starscream because he is threatening to expose Chromia's crimes to everyone.
Windblade reveals to her that she's looking for Swindle and trying to find him before Onslaught can because Starscream thinks he can do something to him to hurt his leadership.
Chromia reveals that she has secured footage of the space bridge room during the Combiner Wars and brings it up, but finds it corrupted. Chromia starts working on de-corrupting it, which takes a long time.
Over the next two weeks, Chromia works on repairing the footage, whilst Ironhide is training up his new police force. After the montage, both Blast Off and Chromia manage to hack into the security footage, showing Rattrap and Wheeljack carrying off Swindle's body.
Chromia rushes off to find Wheeljack, and contacts Windblade to keep her informed, however Starscream wont leave her alone, since she hasn't given him any good information yet.
Chromia reaches Wheeljack's apartment and tries to speak to him, just as Blast Off and Vortex blow a hole in the wall, intending to take Wheeljack in.
After a short battle, Chromia is beaten, and Wheeljack reveals that he and Rattrap didn't try to hide Swindle's body, they were trying to save him as he claimed to have secret information on Starscream, but they were too late, and found him brain-dead.
Soon afterwards, Onslaught confronts Rattrap, but is stopped from hurting him by Blast Off, who has arrived with his own Autobot prisoners. Onslaught forces Rattrap to fetch "something" for him, whilst Wheeljack takes him to Swindle's body.
Wheeljack leads Chromia and the Combaticons to a hidden lab where they find a brain-dead Swindle lies hooked up to some machines. Onslught still seems hopeful to get the information from Swindle's mind, but Blast Off is fed up with this. They've found Swindle, but he's brain-dead, they have failed in their plans. Onslught manages to convince him to just help him once more, which Blast Off regretfully does.
Rattrap turns up and Onslaught takes the "something" from him....the Enigma of Combination! Onslaught plans to use this to combine the Combaticons with Swindle, so they can both get the information from his head, and also get revenge on Starscream....
Characters
Autobot
Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet
Chromia - Speed Bike
Ironhide - Van
Wheeljack - Race Car
Metroplex - Iacon City
Decepticon
Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Truck
Blast Off - Space Shuttle
Vortex - Helicopter
Brawl - Tank
Swindle - Van Brain Dead
Sparkstalker - Insect Monster
Fat Tankor - Tank
Tall Tankor - Truck/Jet
United Cybertron
Starscream - Fighter Jet
Rattrap - Mole Rat
New Badgeless Recruits
Colonist
Obsidian - Osprey Stealth Jet
Strika - Battle Tank
Moonracer - Sports Car
Knock Out - Sports Car
Tigatron - Tiger
Airazor - Falcon
Fireshot - Part of Jet
Elita One (Mentioned)
Other
Solus Prime (Mentioned)
Notes
- Windblade reveals to Chromia that Starscream is blackmailing her because of what Chromia did in the original Windblade mini-series.
- Despite not being a City Speaker, Chromia can communicate with Metroplex using a keyboard and monitors etc.
- Metroplex has seemingly grown some streets of apartments for the Cybertronians to live in!
- How did Rattrap manage to steal the Enigma of Combination here? Last time we saw it, it was under constant guard by at least two individuals.
- Despite what it appears to be, it looks like Blast Off is willing to abandon Onslaught and the other Combaticons after this mission to try and save Swindle, most likely as a consequence of his positive police training by Ironhide.
- On the other hand, Onslaught appears to be turning a little bit possessive and wants to merge with the Combaticons for ever!!!
- This issue came with a pull-out advert for the upcoming Revolution event.
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