The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two

2019-07-14T04:32:46Z

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|seriesissue=''[[Transformers (2019 comic)|Transformers]]'' #8
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|title="The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[July 3]], 2019
|coverdate=June 2019
|written by=[[Brian Ruckley]]
|art by=[[Anna Malkova]] (pg. 1-7), [[Angel Hernandez]] (pg. 8-14), [[Beth McGuire-Smith]] (pg.15-20)
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]] & [[Josh Burcham]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[David Mariotte]] and [[Tom Waltz]]
|continuity=[[Transformers (2019 comic)|2019 IDW continuity]]
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'''As Megatron meets with an old mentor, Bumblebee struggles to settle into a new life, and Prowl and Chromia receive some unexpected assistance.'''

==Synopsis==
In the [[Memorial Crater]], [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] reports the recent sabotage of the communications cables that she's been laying down to [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]], who orders her to keep an eye out for the culprit. The impulsive [[Decepticon|Ascenticon]] has ''other'' ideas, however, and the moment she spies the perpetrator she makes her move...only to find that she's bitten off more than she can chew—she's run into an irate [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], whose initial charge sends her flying! Though Flamewar surprises the larger Cybertronian with her built-in flamethrowers, her gadgets and trickery have nothing on the old warhorse, who decisively overpowers her and warns her to stay down. The fight takes a new turn when Shadow Striker arrives; ignoring the wheedling of his hallucinatory companions, Cyclonus uses Flamewar's discarded blaster to kick up a smokescreen, then hurls the defeated Flamewar at her compatriot as he transforms and blasts off towards the nearby city of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. As she fires one last rocket at Cyclonus's retreating form, Shadow Striker scolds Flamewar for her recklessness: her thirst for action has jeopardized their clandestine, tightly-knit operation.

Elsewhere in the wilderness, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] arrives aboard a floating elevator to the doors of a massive fortress—the [[Termagax's fortress|fortress]] of [[Termagax]], founder of the Ascenticon movement and her new home following her self-imposed exile. Ever the engineer, Termagax has spent her long solitude building and inventing whatever she pleases. As Megatron soon learns, she has no time for visitors and even less time for idle chatter; brushing off Megatron's news of the explosion at their latest rally, and his concerns that whoever carried out the attack could very well choose to attack ''her'' next, Termagax tells him that she's utterly unconcerned with what has transpired beyond the walls of her fortress: in her eyes, the Cybertronian race is diminished since the [[Age of Expansion]], stagnant and afraid of change. Until the day that the Cybertronians remember and celebrate their past, rather than bury it beneath the [[Nominus Edict]], Termagax is uninterested in their dealings, and takes the opportunity to remind Megatron that [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] and the [[Senate]] will ''never'' embrace that change. Secretly, however, this is exactly what Megatron has hoped to hear: as he departs her fortress, he puts in a call to [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], and informs his second-in-command that there will be no interference from her...

At Ascenticon headquarters, meanwhile, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] is still coming to grips with life as a member of the [[Ascenticon Guard]] under the supervision of [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]], remembering his old life as a member of [[Security Operations]]. Elita makes it clear that she doesn't intend to dig up the past any more than necessary, and wishes that the other two members of the Guard—veteran soldiers looking for any excuse for violence—could be more like him. On the other hand, however, Elita muses that [[Quake (G1)|Quake]] has gone missing, which is all the stranger considering his history of sociopathic behavior. The conversation turns to [[Rubble]] again, and Bumblebee confesses his worries about the state of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. As if to underline this, Elita reveals to Bumblebee that Megatron will require an escort during the Senate's next emergency meeting—and that escort is Bumblebee, chosen for his history with the Autobots and his security training. 'Bee immediately recognizes that he's being used as a trophy for Megatron to parade about, but brushes it off: after all, there are worse things in the world...

Elsewhere in Iacon, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] have brought in [[Froid]] for questioning regarding Quake and his connection to Rubble's murder—a case made all the more urgent by the fact that Quake has disappeared, one more name on the list of the hundreds of Cybertronians who have abruptly vanished. Froid can't offer any concrete answers and, when Chromia pushes this line of questioning, the psychologist finally snaps back: the postwar Autobot philosophy has been built around the [[Nominus Edict]], a doctrine of self-control and restraint... and that kind of restraint, on a planetary scale, simply cannot last forever. When the metaphorical dam bursts, ''everything'' will come spilling out... and the frontline enforcers of Autobot philosophy, the 'bots of [[Security Operations]], will be the first ones to feel the effects of that wave. As if to punctuate this, the battered form of Cyclonus crashes into their tower! Wounded but still functioning, Cyclonus grimly tells them what he found out in the wilderness: the missing 'bots are out there somewhere, building up their numbers, intent on staying undiscovered—and backing up that intention with lethal force.

After Chromia grills Cyclonus for their specific location, and Prowl prepares to escort him to [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] to receive medical attention, Froid tells the old warrior to talk to [[Paragon]]—the 'bot that, in his opinion, Cyclonus needs to see. In the meantime, however, Chromia tells [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] to call in [[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]] and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and break open the arsenal, with or without [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]]'s authority... because they're going in.

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in hallucinatory form. 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=

|h2=[[Decepticon|Ascenticon]]s|c2=
* [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] (1)
* [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]] (2)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (6)
* [[Termagax]] (7)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (8)
* [[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]] (9)

|c4=
* [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (3)
* ''[[Gridlock]]'' (4)
* ''[[Grudge]]'' (5)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (10)
* [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (11)
* [[Froid]] (12)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"Isn't that Shadow Striker?" "I can't even remember. These crazies have got illegally '''good guns''', too."
:—'''Gridlock''' and '''Grudge'''

"Careful. That could turn everything up to your elbows into an '''ionized mist'''. It's pretty, but you'd probably find it inconvenient."
:—'''Termagax'''

"I owe you more than I can ever repay, Termagax. I am proud to carry your banner and your legacy. But I never once met anyone who entirely '''chose''' what they cared about." "Enjoy the novelty while you can, since the chances I'll let you in again are not currently on an upward trajectory."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Termagax'''

"I just want to know if Quake is '''capable''' of something like this, Froid. That's all." "But it's a hopeless question! Of '''course''' he is. Have you '''seen''' him?" "Oh, for—'''psychologically''', we mean. We don't need you to tell us he's big."
:—'''Chromia''' interrogates '''Froid'''

"We are wilful, protean, creative, curious, assertive, troublesome beings. Restraint and constraint were '''never''' going to work forever."
:—'''Froid'''

==Notes==
*'''First appearances:''' [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]]
*'''Mentioned but not yet seen:''' [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Pyra Magna]], [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], [[Paragon]]

===Continuity notes===
* This issue kicks off just before the final scene of the [[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One|the previous issue]], showing events from Flamewar's perspective.
* Hundreds of Cybertronians—Flamewar and Shadow Striker now revealed to be among them—were revealed to have abruptly "gone off the grid" in [[The World In Your Eyes Part Five|issue #5]].
* Termagax was previously mentioned to have gone into exile in [[The World In Your Eyes Part Four|issue #4]]; her engineering skills were alluded to in [[The World In Your Eyes Part Two|issue #2]], which also explained that she was the engineer who designed and oversaw the construction of the [[Winged Moon]].
* A dead [[Voin]] appears as one of the many artifacts in Termagax's possession, as does... Gridlock's severed head?! The mystery behind Cyclonus's ghostly companions grows deeper...
* Termagax reveals a name for a previous era of Cybertronian history: the "[[Age of Expansion]]." Given this name, it's likely that the war against the [[Threefold Spark]], combined with the explicitly anti-expansion [[Nominus Edict]], were responsible for ending this era.
* Continuing from some pretty heavy implications in [[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One|the previous issue]], this comic reveals that both [[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor]] and [[Flywheels|Skytread]] were soldiers in the war against the Threefold Spark, and also suggests that Shadow Striker was also involved.
* Froid made his last appearance in [[The World In Your Eyes Part Three|issue #3]]; that issue also revealed that he had also served as Quake's psychotherapist in the past.
* After crash-landing, Cyclonus refers to Chromia's veiled threat against him in issue #4, in which she ordered him to report for questioning at the Iacon precinct office lest she bring him in by force.

===Transformers references===
* [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]] makes a surprise debut as a member of the Ascenticons; while the name has belonged to a variety of female Decepticons in the past, this incarnation is pretty specifically based on her [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|''Cyberverse'' counterpart]] from the concurrently-running [[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|''Cyberverse'' cartoon]] in a bit of unexpected brand synergy. This version of the character is drawn to resemble her original, pristine form, as seen in the episode "[[Shadowstriker]]," but it's anyone's guess as to whether or not she'll meet with a gruesome accident as per ''Cyberverse'' lore...
* Termagax describes a previous age of Cybertronian history as the "[[Age of Expansion]]." The term was first used in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The Allspark Almanac II]]'' to describe a similar era of interstellar colonization and outward growth.
* Termagax namedrops [[Pyra Magna]] during her monologue, wondering if she has been "let out;" in the same breath, she goes on to mention the "artifacts," and whether or not they've been recovered. As Pyra Magna's [[2005 IDW continuity|original IDW incarnation]] was specifically introduced as an archaeologist-type, who sought out Cybertronian relics in the [[Sea of Rust]] with her [[Torchbearer]]s, it certainly seems as though there's a connection being implied here...

===Other trivia===
* Originally solicited for an end-of-June release, this issue arrives one week late, landing in the first week of July.
* Print copies of both this issue and [[The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One|the preceding one]] feature free trading cards for use in the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]].

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A''': Cyclonus squares up for a fight by [[Anna Malkova]]
* ''''Cover B''': Megatron gives a speech, by [[Casey Coller|Casey W. Coller]] and [[Josh Burcham]]
* '''Retailer incentive cover''': A retro-styled tourism poster advertising the previously-unnamed "[[Cybertronian Mountains]]" that appeared in [[The World In Your Eyes Part One|issue #1]], by [[Jeffrey Veregge]]

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==External links==
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