Movie Prequel issue 2

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|title=
|image=Prime Directives 2a.jpg
|caption=Megatron's first, and last hockey lesson
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[March 21]], [[2007]]
|story=[[Chris Ryall]]
|script by=[[Simon Furman]] and Chris Ryall
|art by=[[Don Figueroa]]
|colors by=[[Josh Burcham]], [[Mark Bristow]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Dan Taylor]]
|continuity=[[Movie continuity]]
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'''Our world.'''

== Synopsis ==
In his inner monologue, Megatron recounts how he began the war, not to conquer [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but to possess the [[AllSpark (Movie)|All Spark]]. Despite Megatron's determination to gain the All Spark, Optimus Prime was just as determined to stop him, eventually jettisoning the All Spark into space and condemning Cybertron to death. Megatron muses that he and Prime are not all that different. Locating the All Spark on [[Earth]], the [[Decepticon]] leader loses contact with it upon reentry. Heading to the North Pole, Megatron crashes through the ice. Low on [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] and with his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron goes into stasis.

Millennia later, in 1897, the National Arctic Circle Expedition under [[Archibald Witwicky]] discovers something within the ice. Witwicky is driven blind and insane by what he sees, but his tales attract the interest of a group of spooks, who begin unearthing Witwicky's "Ice Man". Six years later, a Cube is discovered with [[Cybertronian languages|symbols]] similar to those on the Ice Man.

In 2003, the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] tracks an impact on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. [[Sector Seven]], hoping to find raw materials to <s>exploit</s> examine, plans to secure their new visitor.

Bumblebee.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] (1)
* [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
|c2=
* [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] (2)
* [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]] (3)
|c3=
* [[Reginald Danco]] (5)
* [[Archibald Witwicky]] (6)
* [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] (7)
* [[Walter Simmons]] (8)
|}}

== Errors ==
* Yet another case of galaxy/[[solar system]] confusion, as Megatron claims he traveled across "countless solar spans, through myriad galaxies, nebulae and systems". That's a bit like saying "I've searched the whole city, through myriad planets, states and cities."
* This story appears to present [[Sector Seven]] as having existed since the 19th century, predating Megatron's discovery, while the film would state they were formed under [[Herbert Hoover|President Hoover]]. Since the [[Sector Seven (game)|Alternate Reality Game]] states they were formed over a century before 2007, it's possible they were older in an early version of the script. Years later, IDW's ''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' comic book series would smooth this error over, by establishing that the two men in this issue are ''not'' from Sector 7, but are two independent adventurers named [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells|Theodore Wells]], whose experiences with the otherworldly and fantastic saw them drafted by the president to deal with Witwicky's case. They would go on to found the actual organization of Sector 7 decades later, working with Hoover before he became president.
**''Sector 7'' would apparently swap the pair's "[[character model]]s", however; this issue depicts the mutton-chopped, bespectacled character as having a family and developing an obsession over Megatron, but these are traits ''Sector 7'' gives to Simmons, while depicting this character as Wells.
* In another continuity error, this issue has the AllSpark being found in 1902, while the movie itself states it was found in 1913. Again, ''Sector 7'' would clarify this a few years later, stating that while the cube was ''found'' in 1902, it took eleven years to divert the Colorado River around it, and they didn't ''excavate'' it until 1913.

== Items of note ==
* Sector Seven's headquarters as seen on page 15 features several interesting artifacts, among them what looks like blueprints of a [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]-like flying saucer, a map of Skull Island from the Peter Jackson ''King Kong'' movie and a fragment of a [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]] inside a trophy case.
* A bot matching [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]'s appearance is seen fighting in the flashback war scenes........ only as a Decepticon. Then again, it may be a Decepticon [[Drone Unit (Movie)|Longarm drone unit]], as there was another one exactly like it standing not far away. But how do we explain the lack of one eye...

===Covers (3)===
—''all by Don Figueroa''

* '''Cover A:''' Megatron in ice
* '''Cover B:''' Decepticon symbol
* '''Cover RI:''' Uncolored sketch of cover A
<gallery>
Image:Prime Directives 2a.jpg|Cover A
Image:Prime Directives 2b.jpg|Decepticons rule!
Image:Prime Directives 2ri.jpg|Cover RI
</gallery>

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