Bumblebee to the Rescue!

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{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[Marvel Books|''The Transformers Coloring Book'']]
|prev=Search for Treasure Under the Sea
|next=Decepticon Patrol
|title="Bumblebee to the Rescue!"
|image=Bumblebeetdr-cover.jpg
|caption=Hello, DAD. I'm in JAIL!
|publisher=[[Marvel Books]]
|coverdate=1984
|written by=[[Dwight Jon Zimmerman]]
|art by=[[Steve Ditko]] and [[John Tartaglione]]
|pagecount=48pp
|ISBN=ISBN 0-87135-010-6<br>ISBN 9780517556412
}}

'''Optimus Prime and the Autobots go to Autobot prison!'''

==Synopsis==
Meet the [[Autobot]]s! They're nice. Meet the [[Decepticon]]s! They're not nice! [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] is super-smart and can split into three pieces! But [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] would love to wreck the [[Earth]] and smash the Autobots.

At Decepticon headquarters, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] has a brilliant plan—trap the Autobots and put them in a [[special Autobot prison]]! Then the Decepticons can rule the Earth forever!

[[Image:Bumblebeetdr-photofinish.jpg|left|100px|thumb|That's a big-ass Polaroid.]]
Meanwhile, [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] are racing to see who is the fastest, with [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] serving as judge. The result is a photo finish, which incites the two Autobots to argue... until they're interrupted by the Decepticons! [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] attack with knock-out [[Sleep Net]]s, knocking the Autobots and Sparkplug out. "ZZZZZZZ!", snores Sparkplug.

Meanwhile, Optimus Prime and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] are walking in a canyon when [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] attacks with an earthquake. Gears attempts to warn Prime of the danger, but his words are horribly scrambled. Prime uses his [[Combat Deck (G1)|Combat Deck]] to blast the falling boulders and sends [[Roller (G1)|Roller]] for help, but it is no use. [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] ambushes Roller and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] knocks out Gears by ''yanking a bunch of wires out of his neck''. Prime has no choice but to surrender to Megatron, lest the Autobots be executed.

[[Image:Bumblebeetdr-fakeautobot.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Say hi to MOM, from JAIL!!]]
At the Decepticons' prison, it is revealed that [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] has been captured as well, leaving [[Bumblebee (G1) |Bumblebee]] the only Autobot still free. The Decepticons dismiss him as harmless, but Bumblebee has a plan. Sparkplug and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] build a giant cardboard cutout of an Autobot warrior and prop it up outside Decepticon headquarters. In the ensuing confusion, [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] flips out and runs away, and Megatron leads a horde of [[generic]] Decepticons to face their new foe, leaving the prison unguarded. Sparkplug and Spike flee, their ruse a success. "A fake Autobot!" Megatron realizes soon after.

Bumblebee unlocks the Autobots' prison door, freeing them. Optimus Prime leads the troops to teach the Decepticons a lesson! Trailbreaker traps Soundwave and company with a force field, Bluestreak and Sideswipe shoot down the jets, and Prime wraps an iron bar around Megatron. Bumblebee is feted as the hero that he truly is. Hip Hip HOORAY, indeed.

==Quotes==
"We must trap the Autobots and throw them into my special Autobot prison! With the Autobots behind bars, we can rule earth forever!" {{sic}}
:—'''Megatron''' reveals his greatest scheme yet

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (2)
* [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (3)
* [[Bluestreak (G1)|Blue Streak]] (4)
* [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (5)
* [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (6)
* "[[Giant fake Autobot]]" (16)

|c2=
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (9)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (10)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (11)
* [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (12)
* [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (13)
* [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (14)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (15)
* Various generic Decepticons

|c3=
* [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (7)
* [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (8)
}}

==Notes==
[[Image:Bumblebeetotherescue-sparkplug.jpg|right|150px|thumb|I LIKE it here! I'm gonna STAY here!]]
[[Image:Bumblebeetdr-trailbreaker.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Yeah! Throw away the key!]]
* Various activities are interspersed through the story, including The Transformers' Name and Face Match!, connect-the-dots, mazes, and unscramble-the-messages.
* That is seriously the scariest Sparkplug ''ever''.
* Gears is apparently powered by a pair of heavy-duty, three-pronged power cords. Like, the kind you can buy at Home Depot.
* The art isn't nearly as nutty as that of "[[Decepticon Patrol]]". Nearly everyone is based on their animation models except Bumblebee, Gears and Rumble, who are entirely based on their toys, Megatron, who uses the early "black helmet" model, and Trailbreaker, who is a HIDEOUS HOMUNCULUS with huge goggles making up most of his head. He is based on the toy's [[package art]], with the artist misconstruing his headpiece as part of his face.
* Bluestreak is largely drawn as Prowl throughout the story, at one point having his police lightbars. His name is mis-parsed as "Blue Streak" in one of the activity games.
* Seriously, Trailbreaker's model in this story is ''horrifying''.
* The "solutions" to the Name and Face Match! in the back have a few problems. Starscream is pointing to two faces, one of which is also being pointed to by Thundercracker. Considering the similarities of the faces, that does make sense. But Bluestreak and Rumble are both pointing to the same face, with nothing pointing to Bluestreak's true face.

==External links==
*[http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~sstoneb/tf/books/coloring/bumblebee.html "Bumblebee to the Rescue" at Steve-o's Transformers Site.]

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