IDW - Transformers Halloween

Written by: Dan Watters

Art by: Beth McGuire-Smith

Colours by: Nahuel Ruiz

Letters by: Jake M. Wood

Editor: Riley Farmer

Supervising Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Word has been spread that the Autobots are roaming in the area outside of Iacon, plotting to retake it from the Decepticons, so Megatron is planning a hunting party.

Initially, he plans to have Starscream lead the team, but after Sixshot questions his loyalty, he relents and appoints Soundwave instead.

Starscream, having overheard this conversation storms outside, where he encounters the Battlechargers, who say they have heard a strange howl in the wastelands.

Determined to prove his skills, he decides to investigate himself, having explored the area when he was newly forged with his mentor, Cryak.

Eventually, Starscream finds the source of the sound, an enslaved-organic that has been separated from his Voin master, but is trapped by a cable. 

Starscream intends to put the creature out of its misery, but as soon as he stabs the cable with his blade, he is electrocuted, and knocked out.

Starscream wakes up inside the organic, trapped, but soon encounters another spark inside the organic, Cryak, who was trapped in there when her spark was accidentally caught in the organic's cable and trapped her inside it.

Cryak soon shows Starscream how to manifest a "physical" form inside the organic, to make it easier to communicate, but she reveals that her time inside the organic has warped her mind, and driven her to hate the concept of Cybertronians emulating organics in several ways, and intends to use Starscream's body to "liberate" every Cybertronian she can, and reduce them to their true spark forms.

Starscream draws a line at genocide however, and fights off his former mentor, resulting in him escaping the organic, and returning to his body.

As punishment for her actions, he leaves the organic alive, thus condemning Cryak to his body as a prison...

Characters

Decepticon

Megatron - Tank

Sixshot - Tank/Jet/Car/Fun/Winged Beast

Starscream - Jet

Runabout - Car

Runamuck - Car

Soundwave - Hovercraft (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

Cryak - Buggy Spark Trapped Inside "Ook"

The Autobots (Mentioned)

The Unaligned (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

Other

"Ook" Ensnared by Control Wire

Voin

Other Enslaved-Organics

Notes

• This issue shows us that the organic aliens are still in Iacon...I wonder how long it'll take for the Decepticons to start using them for target practice.
• Starscream is revealed to have joined the Decepticons this issue, but it's not clear if he is truly loyal to Megatron yet. He is still mentioned as being the head of intelligence though, so I guess Megatron trusts him at least a little bit.
• This issue shows us at least part of the process of a character going Immersant, with Cryak laying down, allowing cables to enter Cybertron and pass her spark into the planet and her body to be recycled into it too.
• Cryak's beliefs that Cybertron is Primus' body are reminiscent of Reversionist beliefs, implying that she was probably one before she died.