TFCC #70 Of Masters and Monsters Part 4

Title: Divination

Writers: Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair

Pencils: Dan Khanna

Inks: Jake Isenberg

Colours: Evan Gauntt

Letters: Jesse Wittenrich

Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair

Plot

The Pretenders and Megatron are heading towards a city in Mexico in a bus where the Autobots interrogate Megatron about why he went into hiding, to which he claims to be trying to protect his culture as the last "true Decepticon".

Meanwhile, in the Shattered Glass universe, the leadership of New Cybertron are discussing the recent return of Classics Megatron and the workings of Rodimus. Grimlock forces the Acolytes of Unicron to take him to meet with Gaea, the new core of this planet and asks her what she did with the Humans, as he thinks they need them back to balance out the Autobots, keeping them on track.

Gaea refuses to locate them, but does concede that she made a miscalculation, and the universe she sent them to has a horrible terror coming up, but she also points out that she sent the Autobot Pretenders as guardians for a reason...

Back on New Earth, the bus is attacks and plummets into a zoo, the passengers work on escaping, when Megatron points out their attacker: Thunder Mayhem. The Autobots take on their true forms and attack the giant Decepticon. Before all the humans can escape the bus, the bus loses balance and tumbles into a gorilla compound, but Spike and some other humans are rescued by a strangely robotic-acting gorilla....

Characters

Autobot

Metalhawk - Fighter Jet (With Human Pretender Shell)

Crossblades - Dragster (With Human Pretender Shell)

Vroom - Dragster (With Human Pretender Shell)

Garry the Gorilla/Optimus Prime - Pick Up Truck (With Gorilla Pretender Shell)

Ultra Mammoth - Mammoth

Grimlock - Raptor

SG Nova Prime - Truck

SG Rodimus Prime - Sports Car (Footage Only)

Decepticon

Megatron - Tank (With Human Pretender Shell)

Thunder Mayhem - Mayhem Attack Squad Gestalt

SG Galvatron - Rescue Helicopter

Classics Megatron - Tank (Footage Only)

Human

Spike Witwicky

Elizabeth

Random Humans

Other

Gaea - New SG Cybertron

SG Acolytes of Unicron

Notes

• The screen-cap comic reveals to us that the cause for the "Uprising" continuity was because the original BW Megatron succeeded in killing G1 Optimus Prime at the end of "The Agenda", and rewrote history, however Blackarachnia also tries to kill G1 Megatron at the same point with her venom, thus making the Hunger Games Uprising storyline.....thanks....
• The arrival of Classicsverse Megatron on New Kaon at the end of "Another Light" is briefly mentioned here, but since Fun Pub are losing their Transformers licence at the end of the year, I doubt it'll be resolved before then.
• Gaea reveals to Grimlock that she sent the Humans to a version of Earth where humans didn't evolve, and thus never got involved in the Cybertronian war. She also reveals that she sent the Pretenders to the new Earth as a precaution in case of any future problems
• I wonder if it was just a coincidence that this, the first issue to fully show Thunder Mayhem is the first one to be released following the last member of his team being released for the Sub Service....huh?

Other Features

Cold-Casted Part 3 - Article on Diamond Select toys

Beast Wars Continuity Tree - Transtech Rhinox sends the Legends Beast Wars characters an article on their brand-heritage

A New Agenda - A two page screen-cap comic showing why "Uprising" happened

Gnash and Thrashclaw profiles

SDSG - SG Rhinox reveals how he fakes his medical know-how

Botcon 2016 left overs sale!