IDW - Micronauts 2017

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Marcelo Ferreira

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz

Letters by: Tom B Long

Edits by: David Hedgecock

Editorial Assists by: David Mariotte

Published by: Ted Adams

Plot

One of the Time Travelers looks over the problems happening in Microspace, and laments how the Ministries of Defense and Science are fighting eachother, rather than working together, but he also follows the Micronauts onto Earth to keep an eye on them, to make sure they succeed in their mission to save the Universe.

On Earth, the Micronauts are flying through a city, following the instructions of the Time Mask to one of the Interdimensional Portals that can take them back to Microspace, but before they can find it, they come across another Microspace-originating vessel, which attacks the Heliopolis. The new ship is stronger than the Heliopolis, so the crew leave the vessel to handle it themselves. Unfortunately, the rival crew have the same idea...no shockingly, as they are ALSO the Micronauts, but from the future!

The present day crew are shocked by coming face-to-face with their future selves, when their counterparts open fire on them, taking the shock to their advantage. The crews clash, but the future crew are stronger, as can be expected, and they want to stop their past selves from returning home. Throughout this battle, the past and future are being flashed, showing how everyone began, and where their lives are headed, as if their mere proximity is messing with time-space itself. During the battle, the future Larissa, now donning a version of Baron Karza's armour, fights her counterpart, whilst remarking about how she should have told the others the truth about herself from the start, and now she'll be forced to.

The battle culminates when the two Oz's clash, and Future Oz confirms that he IS his future self, and if they return to Microspace now, then they will fail in their mission to save it, and also reveals that the Time Mask is lying to him. Oz isn't sure about that, especially since his future self seems to be wearing the same mask, but his future self shows him how wrong he is...he removes the mask, whilst expressing how he once trusted it, and reveals that his head now seemingly houses the Entropy Cloud itself!

The two crews call a truce, and meet up on the ground, the future crew reveals that they had to fight with the past crew, as they knew they would never have listened to them, due to being too stubborn. Future Oz warns the crew not to return home yet, as they will fail the mission if they do. Biotron is confused, since the fact that they came to this battle as a result of failing, then that means they must fail for this to happen. The future Oz states that "Time is all things", the same thing that all Time Travelers say.

Future Oz turns to energy and gives the Micronauts a glimpse of the future, and the horrors of the upcoming Earthwar, and they can only save both universe by staying behind, and changing the future once more. With that, the future crew vanish, seemingly back to the future.

In the aftermath, Oz tries to get the Time Mask to explain what happens in the future, but he remains silent. The crew decide to remain on Earth to try and change their futures, unaware that the Interdimensional Portal is still open, and that an army of Acroyear II's are flying through it....

Characters

Micronauts

Oziron Rael

Larissa

Phenolo-Phi

Acroyear

Microtron

Biotron

Time Mask

Future Micronauts - Returned to Future

Oziron Rael Enerchanged with Time Mask and Entropy Cloud

Larissa Now in Baron Karza Armour

Phenolo-Phi Enerchanged with Reptos

Acroyear Enerchanged with Daegon's Steed

Microtron Fused with Biotron

Biotron Fused with Microtron

Other Microverse Denizens

Time Traveler

Acroyear II Army

Giant Acroyear (Flash Forward)

Baron Karza (Flashback and Flash Forward)

Shazraella (Flashback and Flash Forward)

Reptos Army (Flashback and Flash Forward)

Micronus Prime (Flashback) Comatose

Baron Daegon (Flashback)

Time Casket (Flashback) Dead - Time Mask as only remains.

Kronus Settlers (Flashback) Dead

Phen's Family (Flashback) Dead

Microtron's Brothers (Flashback)

Other Pharoids (Flashback) Enerchanged with Time itself

Ministry of Defense (Mentioned)

Ministry of Science (Mentioned)

Macroverse Denizens

Optimus Prime (Flashback)

Soundwave (Flashback)

Scarlett (Flashback)

Snake-Eyes (Flashback)

Rom, the Space Knight (Flashback)

Dr Dell (Flashback)

Dire Wraiths (Flashback)

Random Humans

Human Soldiers (Flash Forward)

Notes

• The first five pages of this comic basically acts as a "previously" section
• Though briefly mentioned in issue 9, this issue basically acts as a prelude to the upcoming "Earthwar". This is likely the plot of the upcoming Wrath of Karza series.
• It is seemingly confirmed here that the Time Travelers DID cause the Entropy Cloud, and judging from future Oz's appearance, they are the future forms of the Pharoid race.
• In the glimpse of the Revolution event, it looks like Optimus and Soundwave are fighting, but they are allies at the moment....
• One of the women that the Heliopolis flies past assumes it is just an annoying drone....I want that as a toy NOW Hasbro!
• I don't know what figure the future crew's ship is based on, I can't find it  anywhere on the resource sites...
• The future Microtron has been fused inside of Biotron, after both were badly injured during a future battle
• Future Acroyear appears to have Enerchanged with Baron Daegon's horse, whilst Phen has fused with a Reptos. Amongst the dead in the flash-forward are some Reptos, it can be assumed she fused with one of those.
• Future Larissa is revealed to now wear Baron Karza armour, and through the flashbacks, it seems that she was genetically modified by him, perhaps as his successor.
• Future Oz now has the Time Mask over his head, and also houses the Entropy Cloud inside his body, and acts like a Time Traveler. His appearance also now resembles the old Pharoid toy, with a shiny head.
• Since Future Phen doesn't look like she's aged too much, it can be assumed that the Earthwar is sooner rather than later.
• Acroyear's flashback shows that he was originally humanoid, but had the Acroyear armour grafted onto him...it looks painful!
• The future crew are revealed to have been able to return to Microspace by following the Mask's instructions, but that course led to their massive injuries and changes in the future.
• Future Phen refers to the Time Mask as "The Traitor", implying that we really cannot trust that thing!
• It's unclear if the future crew are real or just a manifestation of the Time Traveler from the start of this story. Also, if they are real, then that would seem to suggest that Oz turns into the bald Time Traveler that we've seen a couple of times in the series now.
• The Time Traveler refers to Micronus as being in "his 'final' resting place". This implies that he could come back to life in the future...maybe that's why Microspace is dying? Micronus is waking up!