IDW - Transformers #32

Title: Lord of Misrule: Test Flight II

Written by: Brian Ruckley

Art by: Anna Malkova & Angel Hernandez

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz

Letters & Design by: Jake M. Wood

Editor: David Mariotte

Assistant Editor: Riley Farmer

Supervising Editor: Tom Waltz

Plot

In Exarchon's world, Jumpstream is berated by the despot inside Megatron, Onslaught and Shockwave's bodies, before they decide that she isn't worth their time, and sends her to be sold to the Voin.

After being escorted to the Thraal Mercenaries, she is dragged towards the Voin, and along the way she determines that this must be an alternate timeline where Exarchon won the war...

Before much more can happen though, a group of rebels led by Bumblebee find and rescue her, killing the Thraal. One of the rebels, Swift, is confused however, as she saw Jumpstream killed along with Cyclonus a long time ago. Unfortunately however, the group are soon tracked down by Exarchon's forces and are slowly killed, until only Bumblebee and Jumpstream remain. Bee gives Jumpstream his nucleon converter, as well as the now dead Powerglide's, to refuel her teleportation device, to allow her to return home, just as Beebis also killed.

Jumpstream is flung through the intermediate space again, catching the attention of a shadowy figure in there in the process, before falling out, back in Perceptor's lab, but unconscious.

Elsewhere, in Shockwave's lab, Sunstorm is trying to get Onslaught, and later Vortex, to let him out of his containment, so he can show everyone his new world...

At the Iacon Medical Center, Cyclonus rushes to Provoke's room, as she has just suddenly awoken, despite being essentially dead just a short time before...

Back at Perceptor's lab, Pyra Magna is furious with Perceptor for endangering her soldier like this, but he's more preoccupied by something else, despite him believing her jumps to enable her to cross dimensions with the upgrades, she isntead travelled to the future, and now they just need her to same up to tell them what she saw there...

In between the timeframes again, the shadowy figure finds a stream a light leftover by Jumpstream's recent jump, and uses it to follow her trip, allowing a long lost Skywarp to finally return to Cybertron!

Characters

Autobot

Pyra Magna - Truck

Jumpstream - Car Unconscious

Perceptor - Treaded Vehicle

Ratchet - Ambulance

Lancer - Car

Future Jumpstream - Car (Mentioned) Dead

Future Pyra Magna - Truck (Mentioned) Dead

Decepticon

Onslaught - Anti-aircraft Truck

Vortex - Helicopter

Sunstorm - Jet In Confinement

Threefold Spark

Exarchon 

Megatron - Tank Body controlled by Exarchon

Onslaught - Anti-aircraft Truck Body controlled by Exarchon

Shockwave - Flying Artillery Body controlled by Exarchon

Vortex - Helicopter

Triggerhappy - Jet Killed by Bumblebee

Clone Drone Swarm - Jets

Insecticon Clone Swarm - Insects 

Future Rebels

Bumblebee Killed by Threefold Spark Forces

Swift Killed by Vortex

Blackjack Killed by Insecticon Swarm

Powerglide Killed by Triggerhappy

Other Cybertronian

Cyclonus - Jet

Flatline - Van

Skywarp - Jet

Provoke

Future Corpses Dead

Primus (Mentioned)

Future Cyclonus - Jet (Mentioned) Dead

Cyclonus' Team (Mentioned) Dead

Other

Flyts

A skitter Eaten by Flyts 

Future Thraal Mercenaries Killed by Rebels

The Voin (Mentioned)

Notes

• The future Thraal in this issue use mech suits similar to their original counterparts from the Titan UK comics.
• The Thraal are a part of the Mercenary faction, based on their insignias, rather than just independent mercenaries.
• The brief appearance of the Skywarp Clones in jet mode makes it seem like they are on their Earth modes, possibly hinting that this is set after Earthfall.
• Powerglide using Sideswipe's Thermal Lance implies that he probably died in the past. Poor fella!
• The rebels have been forced to use Necleon for fuel for so long, that they've now lost their alternate modes. So essentially they are stuck as Action Masters....maybe death WAS a better option?
• Provoke waking up, after us being told that she was basically dead, after having her unknown surgery before being buried is quite suspect huh? I think we know where Exarchon was hiding...