"Sick Beats"
Writer: Tony Fleecs
Artist: Tony Fleecs
Flats: Lauren Perry
Colours: Tony Fleecs
Letterer: Jake M. Wood
"The Beauty of Cybertron"
Writer: James Asmus
Artist Priscilla Tramontano
Colours: Luis Antonio Delgado
Letterer: Neil Uyetake
Editor: Megan Brown
Consulting Editor: David Mariotte
"Sick Beats" Plot
Following their arrival on Cybetron, and witnessing several Ponies and Decepticons being mind controlled by King Sombra, Octavia and Vinyl decide to hide, until they can find a way home.
While hiding, they come across some of the students from the School of Friendship, who they intend to find a way home for, however they are soon encountered by Soundwave, who intends to capture them for Megatron to drain their magic.
A quick battle takes place, but it just results in the two groups being trapped in rubble. The groups continue to argue, and can't get themselves free, but soon they decide to work together to break out. Soundwave is told that the Equestrians can freely share their magic with him, simply by being friends.
When outside, Soundwave realises that something has happened, and Megatron has been compromised, so he needs to join up with the Equestrians to help him...
"The Beauty of Cybertron" Plot
Ratchet and Rarity have joined up to try and find a cure to the mind control, and manage to capture Knock Out, who isn't actually mind controlled, but just rioting for the fun of it. Ratchet forces him to help them out by placing a (fake) bomb to his shoulder as leverage.
The trio travel through Cybertron, with Knock Out also trying to prove to Rarity that Cybetron is more than just danger, and is a truly beautiful place too, when the group come across a group of mind controlled bots gathering Energon for Sombra, including Knock Out's partner Breakdown.
The trio combine Rarity's magic with Ratchet's neural disruptors and brainwave inhibitors, plus Knock Out's love for Breakdown manages to break him out of the spell. The group try to figure out a way to use this for everyone else, but unknown to them, Sombra is watching, and monologues that it is already too late...
Characters
Autobot
Ratchet - Ambulance
Decepticon
Megatron - Tank Under Sombra Mind Control
Soundwave - Cassette Player
Knock Out - Car
Breakdown - Van
Thundercracker - Fighter Jet
Laserbeak - Cassette
Ravage - Cassette
Other Cybertronian
Mind Controlled Bots
A Titan
Equestrian
Rarity
Twilight Sparkle Under Sombra Mind Control
Fluttershy Under Sombra Mind Control
King Sombra
Octavia Melody
Vinyl Scratch
Sandbar
Tina
Solder
Silverstream
Ocellus
Gallus
The Equestrian Princesses (Mentioned)
Other
The Radiant Shralls
Notes
- Oddly, the two stories this issue are set at the start of the crossover, just after Sombra mind controls the crowd at the Spacebridge, and seemingly near the end of the crossover, with Ratchet and Rarity figuring out a "cure" to the mind control.
- We saw Octavia and Vinyl being abducted with their stage by the Decepticons in issue one.
- The "Young Six" are revealed to have been at the musical event along with the "Mane Six" when the Decepticons started their abduction, and apparently everyone there was transported to Cybertron (though we didn't see that part)
- Ocellus refers to Vinyl as "Miss DJ" likely as a reference to her alternate official name if DJ Pon-3 (or maybe they just forgot which name they were using in this story)
- The end of the first story shows the Spacebridge seemingly repaired. I'm pretty sure it was completely destroyed in issue one, which this issue is set during/just after.
- Knock Out is a transplant of his Prime counterpart, along with Breakdown from the same series, with them identified as "partners" here, as they werw previously shown to be in the old IDW continuity.
- The Cybertron in this crossover is shown to be similar to that of the concurrent main Transformers continuity, with organic aliens on the planet, and Titans acting as buildings and part of the landscape.
- Sombra makes his first appearance since the very first story of issue one.
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