IDW - First Strike - Micronauts

Written by: Christos Gage

Art by: Chris Panda

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz

Letters by: Shawn Lee

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The Micronauts, still on Earth following the Earthwar have landed in the garden of a house where they are trying to figure out what to do now, since their leader is gone with the Time Travelers, and their new leader is Larissa, whom they have only recently learned is the daughter of Baron Karza himself, so they are unsure about how to fully trust her.

Before they can decide to do anything however they are "attacked" by some of the human giants with a giant killing machine (some gardeners with a lawnmower), luckily Larissa uses her forcefield generator to jam the blades and allows them to escape to their new ship.

The gardeners examine their "jammed" lawnmower when one of them is stung by a strange fly...and then suddenly explodes into a mess of Dire Wraith goo. The Micronauts go to assist the humans and are attacked by the flies themselves. They learn when one tries to infect Phen that the flies appear to be only able to infect humans, allowing the Micronauts to tear them apart without fear of infection too. Soon, the flies and even the infected gardener all turn to ash, Biotron captures on of the flies before it dies and scans it, determining that it was altered by Dire Wraith "magic". The Micronauts determine that they need to go after the Wraiths to stop this plot...

The Micronauts head into a hidden tunnel in the sewers where they decide to try and locate Rom, a member of the Solstar Order who is currently stationed on Earth. However they find the Dire Wraiths first and manage to take down all the minions with relative ease. The Sorcerer Wraiths use their powers to cast a spell that appears to harm the Micronauts. They manage to struggle their way to their ship and escape to get help from Rom after all. One of the Sorcerers attempts to go after them, but his superior is fine with them leaving, as it is all going to plan...

The Micronauts recover from their attack on the Wraiths and manage to find Rom, however his Analyzer detects that the Micronauts are Dire Wraiths, and prepares to Neutralize them!

To be continued....

Characters

Micronaut

Larissa

Phenolo-Phi

Acroyear

Biotron

Microtron

Oziron Rael (Mentioned) Ascended to a Time Traveler

Baron Karza (Mentioned)

Solstar Order

Rom, the Space Knight

Other Solstar Knights (Mentioned)

Dire Wraith

Wraith Holiness

Wraith Acolyte

Wraith Hound Killed by Larissa

Wraith-Flies Turned to Ash

Other Wraiths Killed by Acroyear and Biotron

Human

Gardener Ernie

Gardener Jimmy Killed by Wraith-Flies and turned to Ash

Other

Cybertronians (Mentioned)

Notes

• Whilst being part of the First Strike event, it has nothing (bar a brief mention of the incident on Cybertron) to do with the event. It mostly acts as a backdoor pilot to the upcoming "Rom and the Micronauts" series.
• This issue takes place shortly after Wrath of Karza, it introduces us to the Micronaut's currently unnamed new ship as well as Oz being gone due to him ascending to a Time Traveler
• The worm that Biotron holds up has some angry eyes on him...I'm pretty sure worms don't have visible eyes....
• Biotron mentions how Rom and the Earth are uneasy allies due to the Solstar Knights destroying Wraith-infested planets....unless this is mentioned in the final issue of Rom, this information should only really be known to the Knights themselves
• It looks like the Dire Wraith's spell have changed how Rom's Analyser sees the Micronauts, and makes them appear as Wraiths themselves. I seriously doubt they are now actually Dire Wraiths themselves.
• Where is Livia? Is she with Orphion following the events of the Rom series? Did she end up dying again? Guess I'll have to wait for next issue...