IDW - Till All Are One #12

Title: Your First Mistake

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

Inside her mind, Windblade is defending her brain from Vigilem, and is able to just about hold him off, knowing that she isn't strong enough to defeat him, she is content with simply biding her time, until her body just gives up due to all the extra activity inside. This is going well, until Starscream appears, having been hooked up to her brain by Airachnid, and attempts to help her. Windblade is instantly angered however, since Starscream hasn't had her mental training, and is just going to give Vigilem an easier target to control.

Starscream is confident that he can handle him, however Vigilem takes on the form of Megatron and attacks the fearful Starscream. Vigilem drags Starscream back into his own mind, and prepares to take over. Windblade chases him, and finds Starscream's mind taking the form of a destroyed Kaon, and manages to locate Vigilem, busy tearing away the different bodies of Starscream, until he is left at a much earlier design, which Vigilem seems happy enough with, and exposes his spark, intending to extinguish it, and take over the body easily.

Windblade manages to rescue Starscream's spark and hides with it. Vigilem begins to merge himself with Starscream's mind, and starts reshaping it, whilst Windblade realizes that Starscream's spark is strange, and learns through it's memories that Starscream is a Cold Constructed Transformer, and theorizes that Starscream's constant body changes and attitude are because he is unhappy with who he is. She decides to help him by showing him what he's been missing.

Windblade manifests Solus Prime's hammer and starts smacking it against the spark, emitting ghostly manifestations of everyone who has "touched" Starscream's spark in some way, including Optimus, Bumblebee and Metalhawk, amongst many more. The manifestations restrain Vigilem, stopping him from altering the mind any further, and Windblade hits the spark one more time, allowing the spark to take on it's true, destined form, a red, white and blue robot, who Starscream would have been if he had of been allowed to be born properly. This true Starscream stomps on Vigilem, and defeats him.

Windblade, taking on a Titan-sized form, takes Vigilem and places him inside her spark chamber, deciding to "embrace" him, but in the process incinerates the Titan, leaving nothing behind....

Windblade and Starscream wake up in Airachnid's lab, where Starscream tells her that this experience can't change him, but she declares the opposite, she has decided to stop speaking on behalf of others, and start speaking for herself, and she hopes that he agrees with what she says....

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mental Illusion Only)

Bumblebee - Cybertronian Car (Mental Illusion Only)

Ironhide - Van (Mental Illusion Only)

Wheeljack - Race Car (Mental Illusion Only)

Jetfire - Fighter Jet (Mental Illusion Only)

Chromia - Speedbike (Mental Illusion Only)

Metroplex - Iacon City (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Megatron - Gun (Mental Illusion Only)

Shockwave - Flying Artillery (Mental Illusion Only)

Soundwave - Cassette Player (Mental Illusion Only)

Ravage - Cassette (Mental Illusion Only)

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat (Mental Illusion Only)

Colonists

Airachnid - Spider

Mistress of Flame (Flashback)

Elita One (Mental Illusion Only)

Other Cybertronian

Vigilem - Spaceship Carcer Destroyed by Windblade

True Starscream - Jet (Mental Illusion Only)

Metalhawk - Fighter Jet (Mental Illusion Only)

Solus Prime (Flashback)

Starscream's Construction-Mates (Flashback)

Starscream's Spark Handler (Flashback)

Primus (Mentioned)

The Primes (Mentioned)

Liege Maximo (Mentioned)

Caminus - City (Mentioned)

Notes

• This is the final issue of Till All Are One, excluding the upcoming Annual issue coming out either later this year, or early next year.
• All of this issue, excluding the final three pages takes place in the minds of Windblade or Starscream.
• The three forms Vigilem takes when fighting Windblade are his appearance from the flashbacks of him, his current day body, and the corrupted Windblade version from last issue.
• The Megatron that Vigilem takes the form of here appears to be the version of his body from All Hail Megatron.
• It's revealed here that Starscream, and presumably others, change their bodies so frequently because they aren't happy in their "skin". This is likely most common with Cold Constructed Transformers since they were artificially placed into a body instead of being allowed to form a body naturally
• Okay, people at Hasbro...GIVE ME A TOY OF THE TRUE FORM OF STARSCREAM!!! (Please)
• We were told before that the Annual will show us a political battle between Windblade, Starscream and Elita One. This issue ends with Windblade deciding to "speak for herself" from now on. I think this is leading to that :). Though judging from that Prime poll Hasbro did, it seems more likely that Optimus Primal will win in some way instead of any of them.
• Jetfire being amongst the people who have touched Starscream's spark is likely a reference to the G1 cartoon where they were friends before the war. Though Jetfire was a Decepticon in the early years of the war in IDW, so maybe they were friends for a little while here too?