IDW - Till All Are One #11

Title: If I Know You

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Blast Off assures Onslaught that despite some minor memory loss, the team are fine, and he should just ask him to fill in any gaps. Starscream arrives to see how his bodyguards are doing, and offers them a rest to get over their injuries. Outside, a doctor asks him to come with him as he has an issue to discuss with him.

Starscream is immediately annoyed when he finds that the doctor wants to discuss Windblade, whom is currently comatose, and written off as dead by Stascream, however the doctor corrects him that Windblade isn't dead, but rather her body is housing two minds at the moment, which both of them determine to be Vigilem. The doctor wants to have Starscream's permission to look for another surgeon to look at her, but Starscream refuses, not wanting people to see her as the hero who saved Cybertron, when that is what he's trying to do, so he leaves.

Outside the room, the "ghost" of Bumblebee appears and snaps at Starscream for not admitting that he wants to help Windblade, since he knows it's a lie, since he keeps thinking about her. Starscream screams at Bumblebee that he's doing this because he has to be alone, because any time he's ever tried to do otherwise, life has taken it all away from him, and even demands that Bumblebee leaves too. This outburst draws the attention of the medical staff, but he ignores them, now noticing that Bumblebee has indeed now left him alone....

In her comatose mind, Windblade flies away from the manifestation of Vigilem, who is tearing through the cityscape that forms her mind, he dismisses her efforts to evade him, and points out that when the city is all gone, then so will her life. At this, Windblade fights back and attacks the Titan, growing in size and power to match him, however the Titan fights back and messes with her mind, making her believe that if they work together they can overthrow Starscream, due to his clear madness, he even brings up how Windblade has compromised her strong morals in the past, hiding Chromia's murders, bribing Starscream, manipulating Navitas, and even spying on Starscream and his crew and seems to make her think....

Back in the waking world, Starscream goes on with his life, but becomes unnerved by the lack of Bumblebee. Soon, Onslaught and Blast Off arrive, having finished their guarding jobs for him for the day, so Onslaught heads off. Blast Off is left alone with Starscream and Blast Off insists on seeing Swindle, who Starscream has kept hidden still, despite his freedom being a part of their deal. Surprisingly Starscream agrees!

In her secret lab, Airachnid is patching up a newly revived Swindle, whom she has managed to fix. This cheers up Blast Off, and he has a chat with his long lost friend. Whilst the Combaticons are talking, Starscream asks Airachnid about Windblade's case, as she has made herself familiar with it, and explains that due to Camien and Titan mind signals being similar it will require another mind to join with them to destroy the remains of Vigilem, allowing Windblade to wake up, however by doing so it will put added stress on her brain, risking all three minds in the process.

That night, Starscream is in his hab-suite telling himself that he won't do this as it is stupid, but soon realizes that he NEEDS Windblade, as she is a public figure that people like, and this will help him in the long run. He tells the nothingness around him that he hates it...to which a shadowy figure of Bumblebee replies that he knows....

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet Comatose

Bumblebee - Car Hallucination

Chromia - Speedbike (Flashback)

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Metroplex - Iacon City (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Tank

Blast Off - Jet

Swindle - Van

Brawl - Tank (Mentioned)

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat

Windblade's Doctor

Medical Staff

Other Cybertronian/Colonist

Airachnid - Spider

Vigilem - Carcer Starship Trapped in Windblade's mind

Mistress of Flame (Flashback)

Windblade's Training Partner (Flashback)

Windblade's Teacher (Flashback)

Solus Prime (Mentioned) Dead

Liege Maximo (Mentioned)

Elita One (Mentioned)

Chromia's Victims (Mentioned) Dead

Notes

• This issue begins where the previous issue leaves off, with Onslaught and Blast Off holding hands
• The medical staff featured in this issue all share a colour scheme with Ratchet, Ambulon, First Aid and Pharma, further showing the "uniform" of the Cybertronian medical staff, though one of these guys seems to turn into a tank....YIKES!
• Windblade's confusing status since her melding with Vigilem is revealed now, she is in a comatose state due to Vigilem downloading himself into her brain just before his death.
• Bumblebee's sudden vanishing, and latter reappearance, complete with a shadow, is likely because of the recent revelation in the Transformers Annual that he is still alive in the Crystal City, stuck in the singularity in the Rust Sea.
• Though saying that, I still hope this is just Centurion coming to Cybertron to mess with Starscream's head :D
• As Windblade fights with the Vigilem construct in her mind, she gains extra adornments that somewhat resembles her Combiner Hunters version, but with extra tassels and pins.
• Similarly Vigilem changes into a darker version of Windblade, but with a flame effect instead of her headdress...I smell a repaint!!!!
• Windblade's old teacher during her flashbacks looks a little like the Animated version of Rodimus
• The cityscape in her mind looks like how Cybertron did before the reformatting of the planet...why does Windblade have this image in her mind? (From what we've seen of it, Caminus looks very different).
• Swindle sure looks perky for a guy who was shot in the chest and was braindead for like a year or two huh?
• Airachnid knows about Starscream's "hallucinations" but Starscream appears to not want her to remove him...guess he wants his little angel on the shoulder.