Title: Unstopped and Unstoppable
Written by: John Barber
Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher
Colours by: Josh Burcham
Letters by: Tom B. Long
Editor: David Mariotte
Publisher: Greg Goldstein
Plot
Optimus awakens from a dream about the Dark Cybertron prophecy in a new body, having been removed from Pyra Magna's body by Wheeljack, he is soon reunited by the similarly revived Bumblebee, however before Optimus can talk with Bee, Windblade needs to speak to him.
Cliffjumper and a recon team were sent to Velocitron, after communications with them were lost, but when they arrived they were caught up in the attack of a giant monster planet, that Windblade has found out the name of is Unicron.
On Earth, Rom is involved in a fight with some humans that he has been tracing in relation to a Dire Wraith, when he is helped by Jazz, who has been following these humans for using stolen Cybertronian tech for a while, whilst the two are reuniting, Rom suddenly gets a pain in his head, telling him that Elonia is in dire danger, but he's too far away to help them. Jazz knows a way to get him there though...
On Cybertron, Shockwave is paraded through the streets of Iacon to his jail cell, where he is explaining how after he left Cybertron he made a home for him and his loyalists on Antilla, where they discovered that their new world was not just their's. Beachcomber, one of his guards tells him to give up, since no one is listening to him, however, someone in the crowd is listening, and understands...Rhinox…
In space, Starscdrive receives the same pain as Rom, and she wants to return to help Elonia, but Prowl convinces her to stay on their current mission, to follow the Maximals to their next target...
Back on Earth, the US President is angry with Trypticon's new placement on Earth, and wants Marissa to take him back to Cybertron, however before they can really get into it, Jazz appears with Rom, and offers to give himself up to the authorities of Earth for his murder charges in exchange for letting Rom use the spacebridge to get help from Cybertron.
At New Cybertron, on Bikini Atoll, Wreck-Gar tells the Autobot colonist about Jazz's arrest and Rom's trip to Cybertron. The Colonists are worrying about what is happening that could make Jazz give himself up, but are sure that Optimus will save the day. However Slide doesn't agree and even tries to turn Roulette against Optimus by bringing up how they've lost contact with Velocitron.
Later, Unicron has devoured the planet Elonia, leaving Rom with Optimus and his team of Autobots to mourn it's destruction. During this time, Pyra reveals that she is in contact with Prowl and that he has been following the Maximals, but elaborates that neither she or Prowl knew they were attacking Cybertron.
Pyra opens up a channel to Prowl, who is in the middle of a fight with the Maximals above Devisiun, there Prowl witnesses the planet being devoured and suggests to Optimus that their best bet is to use his attacks on the worlds to find out what it is and how to destroy it, much to Stardrive's disgust at the callousness of the plan.
On Cybertron, Starscream is trying to rally the Decepticons to follow his lead again, when he is approached by Rhinox, who summons him to see Shockwave in his cell, which he agrees to.
Elsewhere, Optimus begins the mission to defend Caminus from Unicron, and explains his and Prowl's plan to allow Unicron to devour Caminus so he can enter him and find a weakness.
On Earth, word of Unicron's attacks has reached New Cybertron, with the Colonists devastated that their homeworlds are gone. Midnight Express still has hope, but Slide reveals that Pyra told her about Optimus' plan to allow Caminus to die too, and rallies her fellow Colonists against their leader....
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab
Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet
Bumblebee - Hatchback
Pyra Magna - Fire Truck
Wheeljack - Race Car
Arcee - Sports Car
Aileron - Space Shuttle
Jazz - Sports Car
Tracks - Muscle Car
Prowl - Police Car
Goldbug - Sports Car
Beachcomber - Dune Buggy
Seaspray - Hovercraft
Slug - Triceratops
Slide - Front of Oil Tanker
Gimlet - Lobster
Bump - Armadillo
Roulette - Muscle Car
Midnight Express - Bullet Train
Metrotitan - Autobot City Dead
Cliffjumper - Car (Footage Only) Devoured by Unicron
Rest-Q - Car (Footage Only) Devoured by Unicron
Subsea - Submarine (Footage Only) Devoured by Unicron
Dinobots (Mentioned)
Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt (Mentioned)
Decepticon
Starscream - Fighter Jet
Shockwave/Onyx Prime - Flying Artillery
Soundwave - Cassette Player
Needlenose - Fighter Jet
Acid Storm - Fighter Jet
Tall Tankor - Oil Tanker/Cargo Plane
Fat Tankor - Tank
Galvatron - Tank (Head Only, in Dream) Dead
Bludgeon - Tank (Mentioned)
Junkion
Wreck- Gar (Head Only)
Detritus - Jeep
Maximal
Rhinox - Rhino
Archadis - Archaeopteryx
Maximal Army
Optimus Primal - Gorilla (Flashback Only)
Beast Megatron - Tyrannosaurus Rex (Flashback Only)
Other Cybertronian/Colonist
Stardrive - Car/Jet
Trypticon - Earth Embassy
Circuit
Swift - Helicopter
Cybertronian Crowds
Velocitronian Civilians (Footage Only) Devoured by Unicron
Navitas - Delta City (Mentioned) Devoured by Unicron
Primus (Mentioned)
Liege Maximo (Mentioned) Dead
Megatronus (Mentioned) Dead
Conctructicons (Mentioned) Dead
Council of Worlds (Mentioned)
Eukarian Survivors (Mentioned)
Devisiun Survivors (Mentioned)
Human
Madame President
Marissa Faireborn
Spike Witwicky
Talon
Anti-Cybertronian Activists
Earth Defense Command (Mentioned)
The NSA (Mentioned)
The Lakota Tribe (Mentioned)
Other
Unicron - Ringed Planet
Rom, the Space Knight
Garnak
Visionaries (Mentioned)
Dire Wraiths (Mentioned)
Elonian Survivors (Mentioned)
Notes
- The FCBD Unicron #0 issue is set in the middle of this issue
- The Dark Cybertron prophecy appears again, this time apparently referring to the oncoming Unicron. Considering this prophecy has been long known to have been created by Shockwave, could he have been using it to warn about Unicron?
- Optimus' new body is pretty much the same as he had before being killed by the Crystal City Signularity, however Bumblebee is now in his Evergreen design, as we have seen from the previously released Unicron issues.
- Cliffjumper's team is made up of Subsea, a hi and die character from the Marvel days, and the other member is Rest-Q, a character from Fun Publications, based on the prototype version of Hubcap, and named after the Gobot of the same name.
- Windblade assumes here that "Unicron" is the "uncreator" and the opposite of Primus from legend, but later issues of Unicron will reveal this to not be quite the case.
- Jazz has been chasing down illegally traded Cybertronian weapons and technology since he was last seen during the First Strike event
- Rhinox is seen again, we saw back in his last appearance, back in Robots in Disguise, that he was a follower of Onyx Prime, and here it's revealed that he's still around, but wasn't a part of his Maximal army
- Both Rom and Stardrive have a mental reaction to the incoming attack on Elonia. Maybe the Solstar Order put chips in the brains of their operatives to tell them about attackers?
- New Cybertron on Bikini Atoll sure has developed into a real Cybertronian looking city in the past few months since it was built huh?
- Quick question...why didn't any of the Velocitronians just run into the open space bridge when Cliffjumper exited it to escape Unicron's attack? Apparently some Eukarians and Devisiuns managed to do so before their worlds were eaten....
- Needlenose is amongst the Decepticons inside the Metrotitan...didn't he leave the faction to be with Tracks last issue?
- The events of Transformers vs Visionaries has occurred between the previous issue and this one.
- At the end of this issue Slide acts like it's Optimus' fault that Unicron has attacked and destroyed the colony worlds.....HOW?!?!
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