Title: Enemy of My Enemy, Part 2
Story by: David Mariotte, Tom Waltz & John Barber
Written by: David Mariotte & John Barber
Art by: Alex Milne
Colours by: David Garcia Cruz
Letters & Design by: Jake M. Wood
Editor: Tom Waltz
Assistant Editors: Riley Farmer & Megan Brown
Plot
The T-800 interrupts Megatron's attempt to execute the inert Optimus Prime by shooting out his left eye, leading to him siccing Starscream and Soundwave on him.
Sarah Connor tries to escape from the Ark, but is noticed by Soundwave, who ejected Ravage to chase her.
Eventually Ravage chases Sarah to Teletraan-1's console, where the scanner is knocked to Optimus' body, who gets repaired and attacks Starscream immediately. Sarah realises there's two factions of robots and points the scanner at another boy with the same badge as Optimus, Bumblebee, who quickly joins the battle
Believing the Autobots are all waking up, the Decepticons retreat, leaving Optimus and Bumblebee to sort through the dead or inert Autobots still on the Ark.
The T-800 turns his attention to the Autobots, intending to kill them too, bit Sarah forces them all to stop killing for now, and demands that the future robot explain his mission, or she'll just let the Autobots finish him off now.
The T-800 explains that the Decepticons awoke in his timeline and soon conquered the planets military. Skynet was formed to stop them, but they "surrendered" to the Decepticons, using their truce to develop time travel and send the T-800 to the past to both defeat the Cybertronians and ensure Skynets creation.
Following this story, Optimus surmises that the Autobots weren't in his future, which is why the Decepticons were able to win so easily, so he has changed the future already, and suggests a truce between them. At Sarah's insurance, he agrees, for now. Optimus asks Sarah if she'll help them recover the other Autobots and navigate the Earth, she agrees, so long as they can give her a ride home afterwards, though upon seeing Optimus' new alternate mode, the truck the T-800 stole, she gets nauseous and passes on the offer...
Later, on the west coast of Oregon, Megatron is being repaired by Soundwave, when the other Decepticons return from their scouting mission, revealing that the dominant species on the planet are organic, and will be easy to conquer. Refraktor reports that he's found a robotics lab nearby, which could be where the smaller robot from the Ark was built, and could also provide them with the power generators they need.
The Decepticons soon arrive at Cyberdyne Systems, and attack the workers...
Sarah Connor tries to escape from the Ark, but is noticed by Soundwave, who ejected Ravage to chase her.
Eventually Ravage chases Sarah to Teletraan-1's console, where the scanner is knocked to Optimus' body, who gets repaired and attacks Starscream immediately. Sarah realises there's two factions of robots and points the scanner at another boy with the same badge as Optimus, Bumblebee, who quickly joins the battle
Believing the Autobots are all waking up, the Decepticons retreat, leaving Optimus and Bumblebee to sort through the dead or inert Autobots still on the Ark.
The T-800 turns his attention to the Autobots, intending to kill them too, bit Sarah forces them all to stop killing for now, and demands that the future robot explain his mission, or she'll just let the Autobots finish him off now.
The T-800 explains that the Decepticons awoke in his timeline and soon conquered the planets military. Skynet was formed to stop them, but they "surrendered" to the Decepticons, using their truce to develop time travel and send the T-800 to the past to both defeat the Cybertronians and ensure Skynets creation.
Following this story, Optimus surmises that the Autobots weren't in his future, which is why the Decepticons were able to win so easily, so he has changed the future already, and suggests a truce between them. At Sarah's insurance, he agrees, for now. Optimus asks Sarah if she'll help them recover the other Autobots and navigate the Earth, she agrees, so long as they can give her a ride home afterwards, though upon seeing Optimus' new alternate mode, the truck the T-800 stole, she gets nauseous and passes on the offer...
Later, on the west coast of Oregon, Megatron is being repaired by Soundwave, when the other Decepticons return from their scouting mission, revealing that the dominant species on the planet are organic, and will be easy to conquer. Refraktor reports that he's found a robotics lab nearby, which could be where the smaller robot from the Ark was built, and could also provide them with the power generators they need.
The Decepticons soon arrive at Cyberdyne Systems, and attack the workers...
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Semi Truck and Trailer
Bumblebee - VW Beetle
Hound Inert
Arcee Inert
Wheeljack Inert
Trailbreaker Inert
Prowl Inert, Seems Dead
Mirage Inert, Seems Dead
Sideswipe Inert, Seems Dead
Huffer Inert, Seems Dead
Other Autobots Inert or Dead
Bumblebee - VW Beetle
Hound Inert
Arcee Inert
Wheeljack Inert
Trailbreaker Inert
Prowl Inert, Seems Dead
Mirage Inert, Seems Dead
Sideswipe Inert, Seems Dead
Huffer Inert, Seems Dead
Other Autobots Inert or Dead
Decepticon
Megatron - Pistol
Starscream - Fighter Jet
Soundwave - Cassette Player
Thundercracker - Fighter Jet
Skywarp - Fighter Jet
Refraktor - Camera
Ravage - Cassette
Bombshell - Boll Weevil
Skrapnel - Scarab Beetle
Kickback - Locust
Future Megatron - Pistol
Future Starscream - Fighter Jet
Future Soundwave - Cassette Player
Future Thundercracker - Fighter Jet
Future Skywarp - Fighter Jet
Future Refraktor - Camera Killed by T-800s
Future Bombshell - Boll Weevil
Future Skrapnel - Scarab Beetle
Future Kickback - Locust
Megatron - Pistol
Starscream - Fighter Jet
Soundwave - Cassette Player
Thundercracker - Fighter Jet
Skywarp - Fighter Jet
Refraktor - Camera
Ravage - Cassette
Bombshell - Boll Weevil
Skrapnel - Scarab Beetle
Kickback - Locust
Future Megatron - Pistol
Future Starscream - Fighter Jet
Future Soundwave - Cassette Player
Future Thundercracker - Fighter Jet
Future Skywarp - Fighter Jet
Future Refraktor - Camera Killed by T-800s
Future Bombshell - Boll Weevil
Future Skrapnel - Scarab Beetle
Future Kickback - Locust
Other Cybertronian
Primus (Mentioned Only)
Sharkticons (Mentioned Only)
Sharkticons (Mentioned Only)
Skynet
T-800
Future T-800s
Future T-800s
Human
Sarah Connor
Beachgoers Killed by Starscream
Cyberdyne Systems Staff
Future Skywatch Army Destroyed by Decepticons
Future Skynet Scientists Killed by Decepticons
The Trucker Brutalized by T-800 (Mentioned Only)
Beachgoers Killed by Starscream
Cyberdyne Systems Staff
Future Skywatch Army Destroyed by Decepticons
Future Skynet Scientists Killed by Decepticons
The Trucker Brutalized by T-800 (Mentioned Only)
Notes
- In this continuity the Insecticons were apparently on the Ark when it crashed, rather than ejected from the Nemesis
- Arcee is amongst the Ark's crew members in this continuity too! She normally doesn't turn up until much later in G1 cartoon based continuities!
- It's implied that the Decepticons killed all the Autobots, leading to the conquering of Earth by Megatron. However we saw several Autobot corpses in the future scenes last issue, likely meaning the Terminator knew about the two factions and just wants to take both out.
- Skywatch, an organisation from the first IDW continuity, is revealed to have been the company that founded Skynet, with the latter being the science Division of the group that developed the Terminators
- The dune buggy driven by the humans on the beach appears to be based on Beachcomber.
- Cyberdyne Systems, seen at the end of this issue, was the company in the Terminator franchise that eventually created the technology that developed Skynet, using Terminator parts left in the past following the first movie.
- Reflector is now going by his trademark friendly toy name of Refraktor
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