TFNation - Signal of Doom

Written by: Ralph Burns & Andrew Turnbull

Illustrated by: Nate Webb

Cover Art by: Ed Pirrie & Matt Marshall

Plot

This story is a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, so where the story would deviate to a bad ending, I'll mark it in parentheses, bold and italics (as such) Anything outside of these are the ideal storyline. Occasionally a bad route can be taken, but can be reversed to a good route, but I am just taking the most direct routes here.

Battle Unicorn (You) returns to Cybertron, but finds the planet under radio silence and with no life signs anywhere, until he receives an SOS from the planet.

(Battle Unicorn opens the SOS, and is directed to the Central Spaceport and decides to head there to investigate, however he finds a strange group of Cybertronians there, that he doesn't recognise, and before he can do anything he is ambushed and his spark is extracted)

Battle Unicorn hovers above the planet in his ship, and decide to land in Cybertropolis instead of the Central Spaceport, you see a group of Cybertronians you don't recognise, but smartly decide to leave them be

(You are foolish and approach the Cybertronians and get your spark extracted)

You walk towards the Central Spaceport to investigate the area from afar, but are surprised when a blinding light hits you and you plummet into a tunnel system, you see some lights down the tunnel, you ignore them, and head further into the darkness, where you encounter the Oracle itself, who tells you about Megatron conquering Cybertron and is calling wayward Cybertronians back to the planet with a fake distress signal to capture them too. The super computer gives you the option to help it...

(You decide to run away from the Oracle and proceed with you own mission to stop Megatron, but soon realise that you may have led the Drones to the Oracle's chamber, you return to save it, but you are instead captured, and you witness the Oracle being dismantled...)

You decide to accept help from the Oracle and are reformatted. You learn how to control your new form and are sent on a mission to destroy the Transmission Facility and proceed with you own mission to stop Megatron, and make it to the surface, you make your way to the Central Computer, where you link up to the computer to figure out where the Transmitter Facility is...

(You decide to stay hooked up for a while longer to determine what Megatron's plan really is, and you learn that he, after the Beast Wars on Earth returned to Cybertron and created his virus to conquer the world. Infuriated, you decide to go after Megatron at his fortress in Cybertropolis. He is, however, soon ambushed and is attacked by Jetstorm...ending his story there...)

You disconnect from the network and start to leave, you are attacked by a group of Tank Drones however...

(You go on the offensive and charge at them, but you are eventually caught by them, and are taken out)

You use your beast mode's seismic hooves to send the Vehicons flying and you run for your life, you see a load of Drones assembled

(You try sneaking past them, but they notice you and are captured and taken out by Jetstorm)

You go for higher ground to avoid the Vehicons, and are near the Tramsitter, but find a Transit Tube, that would get you to the Transmitter controls in record time

(You take the tube, but are ambushed by Jetstorm, who fires missiles at the prone vehicle, destroying it, and you along side it...)

You realise it would be foolish to take the Tube, so you enter the building and take the walkways instead, you follow the paths laid out for you, when you come across a small gap you can leap over

(You ignore the leap and continue down the pathway, but you made a mistake, and are taken out by a missile from Jetstorm)

You leap across the small gap, and continue doing that between buildings, until you start finding the gaps too far apart

(You return to the pathways, but are quickly dispatched by Jetstorm with a missile)

You make your way to the ground, and have eye-contact with the transmitter, you notice no Vehicons between you and the facility

(You rush out to the facility, but are quickly flanked upon, and taken out of commission)

You pause, and a Drone passes by you, not noticing you in the shadows, you dash towards the facility, where you see it is guarded by an army of drones.

(You try to sneak into the facility, but you trip the alarms and you are overcome with the Vehicons, who take you down, and extract your spark)

You transform and bellow out a threat to the drones, causing them to chase you

(You head to the transmitter controls, you enter the deactivation code, and it works and the transmission is stopped...however you realize that this was too simple, and the transmission can simply be reactivated, you should have gone to the power planet instead! With that, Jetstorm appears and take you out)

You diverge from the original plan and head to the power plant, you arrive and realize you don't have energy weapons any more..

(You try to overload the consoles, but cannot do so in time...Jetstorm arrives and takes you down)

You use you battle axe to smash the console apart and cause a chain reaction that causes the entire plant to go up. You resign yourself to you fate, when you are teleported to safety by the Oracle.

You have succeeded in this battle, but the war is not over and Megatron must still be defeated, and you will be hiding in the shadows until the day you can make your move....

Characters

Maximal

Battle Unicorn - Technorganic Unicorn (Killed/Spark Extracted by Vehicons - Bad Endings Only)

Vehicon

Jetstorm - Jet

Aero Drones - Jets

Tank Drones - Tanks

Cycle Drones - Motorcycles

Mole Drones

Megatron - Dragon (Mentioned)

Autobot

Sparkless Shells

Xaaron (Mentioned)

Admiral Rodney (Mentioned)

Other

The Oracle/Vector Sigma (Dismantled by Vehicons - Bad Endings Only)

Cybertronian Population (Mentioned) Sparks Captured by Megatron

Notes

• This is the TFNation 2019 exclusive fiction.
• This year we have a choose your own adventure style book, as such the plot synopsis will feature the "bad endings" as well as the "true ending"
• The timing of this story is unclear, but the presence of Jetstorm implies that this happens during the events of Season One of Beast Machines....but where are Optimus and his crew then? As soon as Botanica arrived on the planet they went out to try and save her!
• The branching options on page 9 make no sense. if you choose the "bad road" on page 19, you speak about how the Oracle is being dismantled and how you'll never learn of Megatron's secret plans....you haven't been informed of EITHER of those things in the story yet!
• On Page 11 to can decide to run away from the Oracle BEFORE you get reformatted on the next page, yet you are later referred to as Technorganic, and can complete the story from then on
• The comments about Battle Unicorn waiting in the shadows may be to explain why he never encounters Primal and his team...
• So...the Oracle can teleport at great distances? WHY DID IT NEVER DO THAT TO HELP THE MAIN CHARACTERS?!?!?
• Quite a few references are made in this story to things like "Pretenders", the "Multiforce" etc, but since context isn't ever given I'll only mention them in the character list if they are definitive names of characters etc

TFNation - The Decepticons' Time-Terror

Written by: Ralph Burns and Matt Marshall

Illustrated by: Garry Bodsworth, Kris Carter, Matt Dallas, Herzspalter, Chris McFeely, Umi Mayao/Coralus, Sora L Pereira, Chris Philips, Ben Pirrie, Ed Pirrie, Liam Shalloo, Shibara, Kris Smith, Gavin Spence, Vanessa Sutherland, Alex Tarca/EPH, Joe Teanby, Andy Turnbull and Adam Worden/Zerokaiser

Plot

The year is 1993, and the Autobot Skram has been demoted to a maintenance worker following a mistake at Atlantis that led to the death of Thunderclash and the theft of a load of artefacts by Megatron. Pyro gave him this punishment due to his lack of teamwork and his impulsiveness leading to the death of his teammate.

In the UK, Spike is now working in the Greenwich power plant with some of the Autobots, including a miniaturized Ultra Magnus, whom now resembles a watch, who are looking into new energy sources and mysteries in the area, especially after finding a strange crystal skull under a ley line. Pyro, the leader of the Autobots on Earth has become obsessed with the idea that Earth has several alien secrets on it, especially under the Nazca Lines, Ley Lines, Pyramids and even Stonehenge. Spike assured Pyro that there's nothing under Stonehenge or the other places though...

Meanwhile, at the Decepticon's base, under Stonehenge, Megatron has now completed a new invention that he intends to use with the aid of a Decepticon "Time Warrior", Scorpia; The Cybernet Space Cube, which he will use to conquer Earth from the start of it's development.

Later, Skram is sent on a delivery run to the UK with some bottles of the Aquaspeeder's special water attached to his trailer for them to refill with. On his way there, he is forced off the road by a random shopping trolley and ends up crashing, spilling the water all over him.

At that moment, the Decepticons attack the Greenwich base and capture the human and Autobot staff, and use their machinery to complete the time machine and walk through...changing the present day...

At the Greenwich Power Station, the heart of the Decepticons' empire for sending Energy to power their empire, the king of the slaves in the UK, Spike Witwicky is being tended to by his own slaves, as well as the Decepticons' Earth leader, Clench, and with his miniature ally watch, Galvatron on his wrist. Everything is good for Spike, until suddenly Clench's head explodes!

The Autobot Skram appears, and explains that history has been altered by the Decepticons in some way. During their discussion, in which Spike doesn't accept Skram's alternate history, it is revealed that the Aquaspeeders are also in the base, but in a jail cell.

Spike takes Skram to the cells, intending to play along just to get him captured and rewarded by Emperor Megatron.

Skram leaves to try and find some clues to what happened, and whilst he is gone, the Aquaspeeders manage to make Spike realise that his current timeline is wrong, and that being a slave is wrong. Skram soon returns, with Ravage stuck in his cassette mode, giving them the full story about Megatron's plan!

In ancient Pangaea Megatron captured the first land-walking fish and enslaved it to produce power for his empire, thus planting this mentality in all it's descendants, aka the human race.

Soon, the Autobots and Spike wind up in the past, having found the Decepticon time machine, and Spike has his original memories restored, as well as his original Ultra Magnus watch. Soon, the Autobots find Pyro, who was taken with the Decepticons so he couldn't stop them himself and free him from his chains.

Soon the Autobots discover the pyramids being created and them sending energy to Cybertron for the Decepticons to come to Earth and enslave it, and they realize that the mysterious locations on Earth were INDEED created by aliens, Transformers in fact! Soon, they find a circuitry layout connecting the devices, which all leads towards Stonehenge!

The Autobots attack Megatron and his Decepticons, leading to a battle, with Speedstream holding off Devastator, Jetstorm fighting his Decepticon same-name counterpart and Skram and Deluge fighting Ramjet and Starscream. Soon Jetstorm appears and helps with the fight, leaving Skram to fight with Megatron.

Pyro joins in the fight to help Skram defeat Megatron, finally teaching Skram about teamwork. The battle between the two leaders ends up with the time stream warping around them, changing other character's colours, and ghosts from across time circle them. In the process the Galvatron watch returns and starts to fight with the Magnus watch.

Soon, Skram notices that Megatron's face plating is broken and he has a crystal skull underneath, meaning that it was HIS skull they found in the UK, meaning that they have already defeated him in history, so they can do it again.

the Autobots all work together to weaken the ground and, with the help of the Pangaean fish they knock Megatron into a chasm, leading towards the Earth's core, defeating him forever...

Back in the present, the Autobots debrief over what has happened, and Pyro starts on a theory he has that something is happening under the mysterious pyramids of Antarctica, which Spikes completely dismisses...

Meanwhile, in the pyramids of the Antarctic, the newest leader of the Decepticons, Starscream, plots his next move....

Characters

Autobot

Pyro - Fire Truck

Skram - Muscle Car

Speedstream - Race Car

Deluge - Race Car

Aquafend - Baja Buggy

Jetstorm - Rally Car

Ultra Magnus - Wrist Watch

Rodimus - Caravan (In Time Stream Only)

Thunderclash - Truck (Mentioned) Killed by Megatron

Optimus Prime - Truck (Mentioned)

Bumblebee - VW Beetle (Mentioned)

Wheeljack - Race Car (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Megatron - Tank Reduced to Crystal Skull by Autobots in Earth's Core

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Ramjet - Fighter Jet

Stalker - Missile Launcher Truck

Scorpia - Time Machine

Jetstorm 2 - Baja Buggy Killed by Jetstorm

Deluge 2 - Race Car

Afterburner - Fighter Jet

Eagle Eye - Fighter Jet

Windrazor - Fighter Jet

Terradive - Bomber Plane

Devastator - Constructicon Gestalt

Constructicons

Clench - Truck (Alternate Timeline) Killed by Skram

Galvatron - Wrist Watch (Alternate Timeline)

Ravage - Cassette (Alternate Timeline)

Scorponok - Scorpion/Base (In Time Stream Only)

Human

Spike Witwicky

Human Slaves (Alternate Timeline)

Other

Pangaean Fish

Time Ghosts

Notes

• This was the (now seemingly annual) exclusive book for TFNation. This time in the style of a Ladybird book, here remade to "Ladybug"
• The Ladybug logo has been redesigned to be the G2 version of Bumblebee, who was red and black, much like a Ladybird. Despite this, Bumblebee only gets a mention in the story, and doesn't actually appear.
• The back cover includes a list of other Ladybird/Ladybug books. The first ten listed are real books, but the last two "Erector at the Pole" and "Thundercracker's Revenge" are fake titles...could these be future exclusives being hinted at?
• The front cover includes a special piece of art by Mike Collins, the artist of the first four Ladybird books, and is coloured by Kris Carter
• In the credits for the artists involved, Coralus is listed twice, I'm not sure if this was on purpose, but I'm going to guess it was just a mistake.
• On page twenty of the book, there is an alignment error that has the image of the page covering Spike's dialogue, making it very confusing why Skram is arguing against something that wasn't even said! (You can just see the bottom of the lines under the image)
• Pyro's thoughts about aliens being trapped under the Nazca lines is reminiscent of the Decepticon Pretenders in Masterforce being hidden under them too
• The Cybernet Space Cube stolen by Megatron is based on the main framing device of the short-lived G2 cartoon series, where the cube would be showing events and added a frame to some scenes.
• The Decepticon Scorpia in this story is actually historically an Autobot.
• In the alternate timeline, it seems that Megatron and Galvatron are not the same person, as both exist at the same time, one as a watch, and the other as the supreme ruler of the universe.
• In the alternate timeline, Spike's outfit keeps changing between a loose robe with no under-shirt and a white shirt with a red cape (then changing to a yellow shirt after time travelling)
• With the reveal that the Aquaspeeder's water not having any special qualities...why did they and Skram not get affected by the time change?
• Skram's feeling of deja-vu at seeing the Ravage statue is due to it using the classic stock design of Ravage pouncing seen in a lot of older comics and Ladybird books.
• The pyramids being energy distributors here is likely a reference to the use of the Great Pyramid in Revenge of the Fallen as a Sun Harvester.
• Devastator changing to an orange colour during the time-stream battle, and Megatron turning purple are references to repaints and even a new toy of Megatron's from the G2 era
• Ultra Magnus and Galvatron having to have another fight, despite being reduced to watches is a reference to their long-standing rivalry in comic history
• Megatron's crystal skull is an obvious reference to the Crystal Skull from the Indiana Jones movie of the same name, which starred Shia LaBeouf, who also played a major role in the first three Transformers movies
• I guess the implication is that when Megatron fell into the Earth's core his body dissolved away, leaving just his crystal skull, but it's not clear how his skull survived, or how his brain was removed in secret...

TFNation - Animated: Trial & Error

Script: Chris McFeely and Jim Sorenson

Cover Art: Josh Perez

Chapter One Art and SFX by: Ed Pirrie

Chapter Two Art by: Herzspalter, Colour Assist from Nathalie Suter

Chapter Three Art by: Gavin Spence

Lettering by: Andrew Turnbull

Plot

At the Metroplex in Iacon, Alpha Trion has called Sari Sumdac as well as some of her Autobot allies, along with her father, to a meeting to discuss the situation with the Allspark. Whilst he is glad that the Allspark has returned to Earth, and under Autobot custody, he is worried that due to it missing several shards, due to being used to create several Transformers on Earth, it is not at full power. He wants Sari to go to the Well of Allsparks to return the Allspark to it, and restore it to full power, due to her noted natural affinity with it. Isaac Sumdac is at first upset with this idea, but agrees when Sari simply states that she has to do this, as she can feel something calling to her. Bumblebee and Bulkhead join her as her bodyguards, which Trion agrees to.

Meanwhile at the Fortress Maximus, Sentinel has officially announced Megatron's trial as a public event, that will be televised across the planet. Optimus is unsure about how this will go down, but Sentinel is sure he can handle any possible insurgencies caused by this with the help of his new Powermaster armour, and he has some plans for how to render Megatron helpless during the trial as well.

At Trypticon Prison, Megatron is musing in his cell, following the failed rescue attempt by Team Stunticon, leading to their imprisonment too. Megatron gets the attention of one of the Mini-Con guards and requests to send out a message...

Sari and her group are led to the foot of Metroplex, where a tunnel will lead them directly towards the Well, during their goodbyes, Alpha Trion receives a message that distracts him and the groups split up. Sari is in good spirits to finally travel to the centre of Cybertron and learn who she really is...until some time passes and she gets bored in the long tunnels. Along the way, Bulkhead finds some etchings on the walls that explains the story of how the Allspark was a holy object that creates Cybertronians, and was one day placed into a contained, built by a powerful individual using a hammer that fell from the skies, and became the symbol of the Cybertronian leader, aka, the Magnus. Bumblebee interjects that the story is just a fairy-tale that was made up to show how strong the Autobots are. Bulkhead keeps on reading, and learns that the primitive Cybertronians created Centurion Droids to guard the Well from anyone who may want to harm it, including the monsters in the tunnels. Bumblebee dismisses the idea of monsters in the tunnels...until one appears behind them and attacks the group!

Elsewhere, at the Metroplex, Optimus Prime has been summoned by Alpha Trion on Megatron's request for him to act as his defendant, due to him being honourable and Megatron not trusting Sentinel to fairly conduct the trial. Though wary of the decision, the two Autobots agree to this request. At the Fortress Maximus, Sentinel is talking with a mysterious individual over the communicator, when he is interrupted by Cliffjumper informing him about Optimus' appointment as Megatron's defendant. He screams loud enough to interrupt the protestors below his office (they're unhappy with how the Decepticon prisoners are being treated)

Back in the tunnels, Sari and the others encounter another monster, and are trapped in a large spider-web. Soon, Blackarachnia appears along with Waspinator, and reveals that the two monsters are two of her new Predacons, Inferno and Antagony. Sari questions how she survived the transwarp explosion that seemed to kill her on Dinobot Island. Blackarachnia doesn't go into too much detail, but explains that she got the attention of the Decepticons by using residual transwarp energy from Waspinator's body. Arachnia plans to experiment on Sari to explore her technorganic origins to further her own research, but Sari uses her blades to free herself and the Autobots from the web, and run away...right into a chamber filled with Centurion Droids guarding the Well of Allsparks!

At the Jekka Amphitheatre, Sentinel begins the trial of Megatron, and reveals his plan to humiliate the Decepticon leader, by having him carted in on a pedestal, reduced to only his head. Alpha Trion reads Megatron a list of the crimes he is being tried for, and he declares himself as "Not Guilty". Sentinel screams at Megatron for his plea of innocence, and starts calling witnesses against the Decepticon...

In the Well Chamber, the Centurions prepare to attack the Autobots to defend the Well from attackers, but stop when they see Sari is carrying the Allspark, and declare their loyalty to her. The Predacons enter the chamber, and the Centurions attack them, in order to protect both the Allspark and it's bearer. Sari and the Autobots run towards the Well's inner chamber, whilst the Predacons are distracted.

They enter the inner chamber, and the Allspark reacts to the Well, and levitates itself into the Well. After a few seconds of nothing happening, the ghost of Prowl appears from the Well, and thanks Sari for what she just did, then shares the Allspark's power with her and the other Autobots to show her why she was created. The Allspark can see through history and knows everything that will ever happen, so it sent a special Protoform, designed to perfectly mimic humans when it was touched by one, and was able to access the full powers of the Allspark itself, to Earth as it knew it would eventually wind up there. Prowl fades back into the Allspark, but issues one last mission from it to Sari and the others...

Back at the trial, the witnesses, aka the inner-circle Decepticons, are declaring how Megatron will conquer Cybertron, and are making it so much harder for Optimus to defend him. Optimus eventually gets his turn to call witnesses, which Optimus simply calls one, Megatron himself.

Megatron addresses the court and paints himself as a freedom fighter against the oppressive Autobots, and claims that all of his actions were to protect Cybertron. The crowd appears to be wavering to his way of thinking, which Optimus suddenly realizes was Megatron's plan all along, to corrupt a younger generation of Cybertronians who never experienced the war, and to ensure Optimus made it happen

Trion calls for order in the court, but Megatron comments that it was long enough. Optimus notices this, as well as a beeping sound from Sentinel's wrist, just as one of the walls cave in, and Team Chaar, led by Strika, break in. The Autobots charge against them, whilst Sentinel sneaks away to get into his Powermaster armour, only to be disabled by Scalpel slicing into his neck and disabling him.

With Sentinel disabled, Strika has the rest of the team release a new body for Megatron, which he is attached to by Scalpel, greatly pleasing the Decepticon....

Inside Omega Supreme, Ratchet is too preoccupied on watching the trial on the monitors to notice that Cyclonus has entered the medical bay, and is heading towards Ultra Magnus, planning to kill the Autobot's true leader.

Megatron tears through the Autobots with his new triple changer body, leading to the Autobots being outpowered, and the remaining Decepticon prisoners being freed and joining the battle. Suddenly the Autbots, Predacons, Centurions and Sari from the tunnel are plonked into the court, having been teleported there by the Allspark. Sari is now fused with Allspark power, and shares a vision into the past with everyone present. Sentinel was contacted by Strika earlier, claiming to want Megatron executed during his trial, so she can take full command of the Decepticons, then Sentinel can "defeat" them using his new armour to be the hero for all of Cybertron. Which he agreed to.

In the aftermath of this revelation, the Autobots pretty much disown Sentinel, and Megatron gloats on his inevitable victory, however Optimus has taken the Powermaster armour, and wears it himself (much to Sentinel's horror), with the Magnus Hammer in hand to boot. Optimus and Megatron lead their respective armies in a final battle to decide Cybertron's fate once and for all.

Sari slips away to get to Omega Supreme, where she exposes Cyclonus' assassination attempt before he is successful, having been warned of it by the Allspark, she uses her new powers to recreate the Allspark Key and uses it to power up Ratchet, allowing him to overpower and blast Cyclonus out of the ship.

The battle at the court is fairly even, however Sari arrives to help out Optimus, she uses her abilities to superchange the Magnus Hammer, which exudes the Allspark energy throughout it, and Optimus, allowing Optimus to charge at Megatron, and cleave his head back off the Triple Changer body, defeating him, and dissuading the other Decepticons...

Some time later, the defeated Decepticons have been captured, and forced to work in the Nucleon mines, Megatron, still just a head, is under heavy guard and Alpha Trion has been named the new interim-Magnus. Sentinel has been demoted and removed from the Elite Guard, and now works as a repair-bot with Hosehead, Nightbeat and Siren, who are driving him mad. Optimus has been given Sentinel's old position in the Guard, and Sari is now the official liaison to the Allspark.

Optimus visits Ultra Magnus to tell him all about this, but just as he goes to leave...Ultra Magnus wakes up, and says that he was wrong when he told Optimus that he wasn't a hero...

The End.

Characters

Autobot

Ultra Magnus - Missile Truck Comes off Life Support

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Sentinel (Magnus) - Cybertronian Truck Loses Rank

Alpha Trion

Bumblebee - Hatchback

Bulkhead - SWAT Van

Ratchet - Ambulance

Prowl - Police Motorcycle Dead, Part of Allspark

Jazz - Sports Car

Arcee - Sports Car

Rodimus Prime - Car

Ironhide - Treaded Vehicle

Red Alert - Ambulance

Brawn - Treaded Vehicle

Hot Shot - Car

Jetfire - Jet

Jetstorm - Jet

Safeguard - Jet Twin Combiner

Perceptor - Mobile Laboratory

Wheeljack - Race Car

Cliffjumper - Car

Autotrooper - Treaded Vehicle

Horsepower - Motorcycle

Sparkride - Motorcycle

Omega Supreme - Starship Orion

Dug Base - Mobile Platform

Leader-1

Grindor

High Wire

Jackpot - Car

Ransack - Motorcycle

Rattletrap - Motorcycle

Scrounge - Wheel

Lickety-Split - Motor-Trike

Lightbright - Hovercraft

Seaspray - Hovercraft

Wheelie - Car

Moscardo - Car

Tap-Out - Car

Mirage - Race Car

Tracks - Car

Botanica - Car

Glyph - Car

Warpath - Radar Tank

Chase - Car

Cosmos - Mobile Observatory

Rosanna

Sedan - Car

Ferak - Car

Star Upper

Dai Atlas

Chromia - Motorcycle

Hosehead - Snow Plough Pick Up Truck

Nightbeat - Sports Car

Siren - Hatchback

Cybertron Civilians/Crowd Filler

Powered Convoy Magnus - Armoured Vehicle (Flashback Only)

Wreck-Gar - Garbage Truck (Allspark Vision Only)

Blurr - Race Car (Allspark Vision Only)

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex (Allspark Vision Only)

Snarl - Triceratops (Allspark Vision Only)

Swoop - Pternodon (Allspark Vision Only)

Shattered Glass Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Allspark Vision Only)

Shattered Glass Bumblebee - Hatchback (Allspark Vision Only)

Decepticon - All implied to be incarcerated by end

Megatron - Tank/Jet, Formerly Osprey Helicopter Incarcerated

Blitzwing - Tank/Jet

Lugnut - Bomber Plane

Shockwave - Tank/Crane/Lomgarm

Strika - Battle Tank

Oil Slick - Motorcycle

Cyclonus - Space Jet

Sky-Byte - Bomber Plane

Scalpel

Mindwipe

Blot - Treaded Vehicle

The Motor Master - Truck

Drag Strip - Sports Car

Wildrider - Muscle Car

Dead End - Sports Car

Breadown - Race Car

Toxitron - Truck

Reflector - Light Cannon (Flashback Only)

Straxus - Jet (Flashback Only)

Starscream - Harrier Jet (Allspark Vision Only)

Slipstream - Harrier Jet (Allspark Vision Only)

Ramjet - Harrier Jet (Allspark Vision Only)

Skywarp - Harrier Jet (Allspark Vision Only)

Sunstorm - Harrier Jet (Allspark Vision Only)

Swindle - SUV (Allspark Vision Only)

Soundwave - Van (Allspark Vision Only)

Dirt Boss - Fork Lift Truck (Allspark Vision Only)

Scrapper - Excavator (Allspark Vision Only)

Mixmaster - Bulldozer-Mixing Truck (Allspark Vision Only)

Devastator - Constructicon Gestalt (Allspark Vision Only)

Predacon - All implied to be incarcerated by end

Blackarachnia - Spider

Waspinator - Wasp

Inferno - Wasp

Antagony - Wasp

Other Cybertronian

Sari Sumdac - Young Human Woman

Centurion Droids

Primitive Cybertronians (Carvings Only)

Lockdown - Muscle Car (Allspark Vision Only)

Shattered Glass Sari Sumdac - Young Human Woman (Allspark Vision Only)

Human

Isaac Sumdac

Master Disaster (Allspark Vision Only)

Headmaster (Allspark Vision Only)

Slo-Mo (Allspark Vision Only)

Professor Princess (Allspark Vision Only)

Angry Archer (Allspark Vision Only)

Nanosec (Allspark Vision Only)

Porter C. Powell (Allspark Vision Only)

Meltdown (Allspark Vision Only)

Other

A Rocklord (Allspark Vision Only)

Kremzeek (Allspark Vision Only)

Notes

• This is a non-canon comic made for TFNation 2017 to help conclude the Animated TV series. It also has visual references to previous follow-up comics/stories, The Stunti-Con Job and The Return of Blurr.
• This comic utilizes some plans and concepts for the fourth season of Animated, a lot of which could be found in the Allspark Almanac books.
• This story is introduced by Vector Prime, simply explaining that he wanted to finally give some resolution to this universe. This design was made by Andrew Turnbull, the letterer for this comic.
• The new Centurion Droids were designed by Cover Artist, Josh Perez
• The two new Predacons, Antagony and Inferno, as well as Blackarachnia's new colour-scheme were first shown in the Almanacs
• One big difference in this comic to the information from the Almanac is that Ultra Magnus was going to eventually succumb to his injuries, but here he manages to survive.
• In the original plan, Megatron's trial would have been interrupted by Trypticon Prison being launched into space and towards Earth, leading to his experimentations with Blackarachnia to create his new Triple Changer body. This was fast-tracked here of course.
• The new Powermaster armour, which can be used by both Optimus and Sentinel is a detail lifted from the plans for the franchise from the Almanacs, though here we actually see it in full colour rather than a resin prototype.
• Unnamed here, the figure shown in the flashback to early Cybertron is Powered Convoy Magnus, the precursor to Ultra Magnus.
• The rat seen in the sewers is based on the Special Edition Japanese Metals Rattle (Rattrap) toy
• Quite a lot of the crowd-filler characters are generics, which seems a bit odd, since a lot of characters from the Almanacs didn't appear in this book, including most of the multitudes of Bumblebee mould-mates
• Amongst the crowd-fillers is a white Bumblebee remould with long ears. I'm not sure why, but I get a Ferak vibe from him, and so I will name him that! :D
• The flashback to Omega Supreme during the war is based on a planned scene from Transwarped that was scrapped, where Straxus and Reflector were due to appear too.
• The view into time from the Allspark shows us a few more aborted plot lines, including the Constructicons working on creating the Devastator Combiner, the Shattered Glass Animated Universe, and even the line up of the Autobots on Earth for Season Four (Ironhide, Elite Guard Bumblebee and Ratchet, all in new colours)
• Prowl returning as an Allspark ghost was also a planned plot point too, though he would have possessed other Allspark-powered Transformers in the series proper
• Megatron's new Triple Changer mode was first shown in the Allspark Almanac as well, in the series it would have been made by studying Blitzwing, but removing the insanity part, but here it was just gifted to him by Blackarachnia. His head was based on his first Beast Machines body
• The epilogue gives us a nice little bit of vengeance for Optimus, he swaps ranks with Sentinel, with Sentinel becoming a repair-bot, and Optimus becoming second-in-command for Alpha Trion, the new Acting-Magnus.
• Whilst it is unsaid, it seems likely that when Sari used the Allspark Key on Ratchet, the energies helped to heal Ultra Magnus, leading to his ultimate revival.
• Megatron's guards in the Epilogue are the very obscure characters Horsepower and Sparkride from the Jet Twin toy tie-in comic.
• I can understand Dirge and Thrust not getting shown in the Allspark vision...but where is Thundercracker?!