Title: The Speedway of Central Consciousness
Written by: Erik Burnham
Art by: Winston Chan
Colours by: Sidvenblu
Letters by: Jake M. Wood
Assistant Editor: Riley Farmer
Editor: Jazmine Joyner
Supervising Editor: David Mariotte
Plot
The Maximals and Predacons battle it out on an Energon crystal field, but at one point an errant blast hits one of the crystals, knocking out Cheetor...
Cheetor wakes up on Cybertron, before the launch of the Axalon, but still remembers the events of the Beast Wars. Upon waking up, he is asked by multiple people about how Protoforms are modified, confusing the former racer, but eventually he remembers the explosion, and thinks that he's just dreaming following the trauma.
Soon, one of the Vok, Pakak, appears before him in a dark version of his own form and tries to force him to give up the information for him to use on the Protoforms in the real world, since he cannot unlock the information, for now. During his torture, Cheetor realizes that Palak needs him to live to get the information, which further infuriates Pakak.
The Vok offers Cheetor a deal, if he can win in a race against him, he will be awoken, but if Cheetor loses, he has to give up the information. Cheetor agrees, but soon regrets it when Pakak changes his form to Blurr's, the greatest racer in history.
After a close race, Cheetor manages to win, but Pakak reveals that he didn't care, as their race was along circuitry inside of Cheetor's own mind, allowing him to access the information he wanted. Pakak still frees Cheetor from his mind as a reward to winning, but causes a hard reboot of his systems upon reawakening, just after Cheetor mentions the word "Vok" to Optimus Primal and Rhinox, before returning to Subspace for their master plan with the Protoforms...
Characters
Maximal
Optimus Primal - Gorilla
Cheetor - Cheetah (Race Car in Dream)
Rhinox - Rhino
Rattrap - Rat
Nyx - Bat
Dinobot - Velociraptor
CatSCAN - Car (Dream Only)
Science Ministry (Mentioned)
Predacon
Megatron - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Skorponok - Scorpion
Tarantulas - Tarantula
Skold - Alligator Snapping Turtle
Waspinator - Wasp
Vok
Pakak - Cheetah (as Cheetor), Race Car (as Blurr)
Other Vok (Mentioned)
Other Cybertronian
Cheetor's Fans (Dream Only)
Random Cybertronians (Dream Only)
Blurr - Race Car (Disguise Used in Dream) Implied Dead
Other Racers (Flashback Only)
Afterburner - Speedbike (Mentioned) Implied Dead
Rev (Mentioned)
Crashed Protorform Pods (Mentioned)
Notes
- CatSCAN's design is based on a version of the Transtech version of Cheetor, rather than using Cheetor's Cybertronian node from this series, to better differentiate the characters this issue.
- The shorter of Cheetor's fans seems to use a modified version of Swerve's Titans Return design.
- I really hope we get a Pakak repaint of Cheetor from his appearance this issue... They could just call him Nemesis Cheetor for marketing if they need to!
- Pakak indirectly mentions that Blurr is dead by the present day in this issue. Similarly, an "Afterburner Memorial Speedway" implies that the Technobot is dead too.
- The "Tiwaz Maneuver" mentioned a few times this issue is just a red herring, from Cheetor's days as an athlete, but due to its repeated use, I'm going to guess it'll reappear later in the series.
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