Title: The Falling Part 6: Unforgivable
Written by: John Barber
Art by: Kei Zama, Sara Pitre-Durocher, & Livio Ramondelli
Colours by: Josh Burcham
Letters by: Tom B. Long
Editor: David Mariotte
Publisher: Greg Goldstein
Plot
Devastator and Victorion continue their fight, with Victorion concerned about how Devastator is able to withstand her gravitational powers.
Elsewhere, Aileron and Jetfire have been brought to the Crystal City Singularity, which is now shrouded in Matrix energies and Shockwave declares that he needs their help with something, and explains that Optimus has been deduced to data inside the Singularity, with his physical body, including the Matrix being destroyed.
Arcee, having been captured by Liege Maximo and his Maximals is being taken into the Nemesis, thanks to the use of Ore-4, which creates a gravitational field. Arcee manages to break free and grabs her sword from Maximo, in turn throwing it at the Ore, shattering it, and causing the field to vanish. The Maximals, Maximo and Arcee all fall down, with Maximo being impaled on Devastator's crane and the other Maximals falling to their deaths too. Arcee is rescued by Aileron before she meets a similar fate.
Vicorion now realizes why her powers weren't affecting Devastator, the Ore was causing a second gravitational field, disrupting her own one. Now that she is unhindered, she shreds Devastator apart, killing him. In the aftermath, Arcee grabs Aileron for a kiss, to say thanks for the rescue.
Following their victory, the Torchbearers decombine and rush to Jetfire's aid, where Shockwave is revealed to Pyra to be Onyx Prime's true form. She attacks him, but he waves off the attacks, explaining that he needs HER, and was just using Jetfire as bait to draw her in. He wants to have her combiner-receptive mind to store Optimus' digital consciousness into her head to rescue him from Infraspace.
Shockwave used some of the tainted energon from Cybertron and places it into the Singularity, drawing Optimus and Bumblebee into Pyra's mind. Following this, Pyra attacks Shockwave and rips off his arm cannon, preparing to kill him for all he's done, without any contesting voices from Optimus or Bee...
Elsewhere, Soundwave prepares to assassinate Starscream, who is gaining followers for a new Decepticon movement, but Needlenose stops him, saying that this is all he knows to do. Kill people who get in his way...
Starscream notices the Nemesis, with the remaining Maximals aboard leaving, leading him to believe that Shockwave has been defeated. He then agrees to lead the new Decepticons and takes them with him to plan..
Left behind, Swift is disillusioned by all this, and questions her allegiance, whist the nearby Needlenose finds his brother Tracks, and decides to go with him, deciding to stick with people who care for him. Soundwave, now left alone is approached by Windblade, who invites him to join them at the council to start planning their next moves. Soundwave however is worried if he made a mistake by allowing Starscream to live.
The Nemesis leaves orbit, without any attacks from Carcer, on orders of Windblade. On the surface, Elita demands to know why they couldn't destroy them, and also why Shockwave is still alive, Mistress of Flame agrees since she still hates him for killing her friends in the past.
Pyra explains that they will have Shockwave brought before the council for judgement, so he can be punished properly, and so they truth about the Primes being just mortal beings be broadcasted to the people.
Upon hearing this, Shockwave declares that she is ready and implants some of the tainted energon into her head, giving her, Optimus and Bumblebee a shared vision of the upcoming threat....Unicron, and to deal with him, they had to accept that their religion was false and would hurt them in the long run...
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab Mind Displaced into Pyra Magna's Head
Bumblebee - Muscle Car Mind Displaced into Pyra Magna's Head
Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet
Arcee - Sports Car
Jetfire - Fighter Jet
Aileron - Space Shuttle
Tracks - Muscle Car
Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt
Pyra Magna - Fire Truck
Rust Dust - Motorcycle
Skyburst - Helicopter
Stormclash - Helicopter
Jumpstream - Sports Car
Dust Up - Sports Car
Superion - Aerialbot Gestalt (Flashback)
Optimus Maximus - Autobot Gestalt (Mentioned)
Chromia - Speed Bike (Mentioned)
Alpha Trion - Shuttle (Mentioned) Dead
Metrotitan - Autobot City (Mentioned) Dead
Decepticon
Shockwave/Onyx Prime - Flying Artillery Captured by Pyra Magna
Soundwave - Cassette Player
Devastator - Construction Gestalt Killed by Victorion
Needlenose - Fighter Jet
Swift - Helicopter
Fat Tankor - Tank
Tall Tankor - Oil Tanker/Cargo Plane
Acid Storm - Fighter Jet
Squeezeplay - Crab Monster
Flip Sides - Cassette
"Armada Thrust" - Fighter Jet
Menasor - Stunticon Gestalt (Mentioned)
Maximal
Optimus Primal - Gorilla
Beast Megatron - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Skywarp - Eagle Killed by Arcee
Bigmos - Mosquito Killed by Arcee
Insecticon - Beetle Killed on Impact with Devastator
Rartorata - Lionfish-Hornet Killed on Impact with Devastator
Nightglider - Flying Squirrel Killed on Impact with Devastator
Razorclaw - Fiddler Crab Killed on Impact with Devastator
Rhino - Rhino Killed on Impact with Devastator
Scorponok - Scorpion Killed on Impact with Devastator
Randy - Wild Boar Killed on Impact with Devastator
Retrax - Pill Bug Killed on Impact with Devastator
Scarem - Scarab Beetle Killed on Impact with Devastator
CatSCAN - Big Cat Killed on Impact with Devastator
Apelinq - Gorilla Killed on Impact with Devastator
Scissor Boy - Earwig Killed on Impact with Devastator
Rav - Raven Killed on Impact with Devastator
Mol - Mole Killed on Impact with Devastator
Dillo - Armadillo Killed on Impact with Devastator
Other Maximals Several Killed on Impact with Devastator
Other Cybertronian/Colonist
Starscream - Fighter Jet
Mistress of Flame
Elita One - Car
Liege Maximo Killed on Impact with Devastator
Vigilem - Carcer Ship Dead, Corpse used as ship
Civilians
The Fallen/Megatronus (Mentioned) Dead
The Thirteen Primes (Mentioned)
Scoop - Front End Loader (Mentioned) Died with Devastator
Praesidia Magna (Mentioned) Dead
Fastbreak (Mentioned) Dead
Magrada (Mentioned) Dead
Human
Marissa Faireborn
The Iron Ring (Mentioned)
Other
Unicron - Ringed Planet (Vision)
Primus (Mentioned)
Notes
- This issue fully explains that the Torchbearers left their position on Caminus due to the Mistress of Flame trusting a Prime (Optimus) despite her, and the Torchbearers knowing that a Prime (Onyx) was evil and killed their friends.
- It's revealed here what Shockwave was looking for when he was on Caminus, and killed Magrada and the earlier version of the Torchbearers, one of his Regensis Ores. In this case, it is Ore-4, Gravity.
- Even though some of the Maximals could have survived their fall from the Nemesis, it's likely that Victorion's gravity crushing attack would have killed them regardless
- This issue marks the first on-panel, on the lips kiss between two Transformers...the question is though...why was is Arcee and Aileron? Why not an established couple like the Torchbearer cars or Anode and Lug? This feels like it's just been shoe-horned in for some reason.
- We learn here that the area inside the mind of a combiner where the component parts can communicate is called Antespace.
- Optimus' brief stint as the torso of a combiner in Combiner Wars gets lip-service here. I thought IDW had forgotten about that!
- Windblade says "he found someone named Bumblebee?" as if she doesn't know who he is...she has mentioned him various times, and even screamed at Starscream for him being crazy for talking to his "ghost"
- Fat Tankor is mentioned as a Decepticon again in this issue, despite just last issue being identified as "unaligned"...MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!
- Likewise, Devastator is also shown in multiple views (even his components) with Decepticon insignias, so I guess he has re-joined them too?!
- So, Shockwave's ultimate plot has been to create the Primes, just so in the future he could reveal that they were a fiction and were not gods, giving the Cybertronian people the strength to deal with the upcoming Unicron, since they cannot rely on gods to save them, only themselves. This is a good idea, except one small thing....how did Shockwave know when Unicron was going to return?
- Shockwave mentions that the Maximals are going to join Unicron now, whilst we know this is true from Unicron #1, this doesn't explain how he knows this. Was he allied with Unicron in some way before his "defeat"?
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