IDW - Micronauts #5

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: David Garcia-Cruz & Ander Zarate

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Karza is informed that the Pharoid in the Ministry of Science's custody is the one who escaped from the communing with the Entropy Cloud, Karza decides that Daigon is to use the knowledge from the Pharoid to take an advantage, so he sets out to settle the score, once and for all. He orders Commander Raith to capture him whilst the rest of his forces take down the rest of Daigon's troops, whilst Karza Enerchanges into his Andromeda centaur form, ready to fight Daigon himself.

At the Ministry of Science's outpost, Oz is taken back to his cell after his interrogation, but hasn't given any information yet. He's planning to stall the procedures some more until they can find a way to escape, when the chief interrogator for the Ministry, Membros, appears, ready to use more invasive means to extract the information.

Before he can do anything, Karza's attack begins, and the cell is breached by several Acroyears, during the battle, they identify Larissa and Oz as their targets for different reasons, and prepare to kill the others, however Oz does something to one of the ship pilots, and manages to slice the Ministry of Defense shuttle in half with the outpost's shields, slicing it in half and causing explosions.

The Micronauts escape, with Acroyear taking the lead as the only one with access to their main weapons (he just summons his sword from sub-space). Both Oz and Larissa ignore the questions about what they're doing and why they were targeted in particular, and they head to the storage area.

The team recover their equipment and Oz enters the Biotron so they can fight against the invading Ministry of Defense troops. They start to fight, but Oz is confident that they want him alive, so he lowers his guard, utterly shocked as Commander Raith stabs him through the heart, to everyone's shock, and Oz starts to die....

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael Stabbed by Raith

Larissa

Phenolo-Phi

Microtron

Acroyear

Biotron Stabbed by Raith

Ministry of Science

Membros

Troopers

Baron Daigon (Mentioned)

Ministry of Defense

Baron Karza

Shazraella

Shazraella's Attendants

Commander Raith

Raith's Squad

Acroyear Army

Other

Time Travelers (Mentioned)

Notes

• As mentioned in issue 4, this issue begins right after the discussion between Karza and Shazraella in issue 3
• Despite them having been retired, Karza still has at least one Acroyear I at his disposal
• Karza's Enerchange into a Centaur-monster in this issue is based on his toy, where he can combine with his horse, Andromeda, which here appears to be his battle mode.
• This issue spells Daigon as "Daegon" again, it is back to normal next issue.
• Membros seems to be based on the same type of body as the Assassin from issue 3
• Larissa is identified as a "secondary target" in this issue, implying  that Hezlee sent her with Oz and the others to hand her over to the Ministry of Defense due to whatever her secret past is.
• I hope the bio-weapon managed to get vented out of Biotron before Oz went inside his cockpit!