Bad at Fighting? Rescue Team Protectobots, Dispatch!
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| "Bad at Fighting? Rescue Team Protectobots, Dispatch!" 戦いは苦手? レスキューチームプロテクトボット出動!
(Tatakai wa Nigate!? Rescue Team Protectobot Shutsudō!) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | TakaraTomy | ||||||||||||
| First published | March 5, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| By | Makoto Wakabayashi | ||||||||||||
A Decepticon theft becomes a chance for First Aid to find his reason for fighting.
Synopsis
[edit]The Protectobots are deployed to help the injured during a Decepticon attack, but First Aid is hurt in the process of protecting some humans. Later at a bar, he spills his heart out to Hot Spot, confessing that he's useless in combat and only good for being a medic. Hot Spot assures his comrade there are battles to save people that only he can fight, but is interrupted by a transmission from Optimus Prime: Swindle has stolen Metroplex's transformation cog! Realizing he's being relied upon to fight for the sake of saving someone, First Aid regains his self-confidence and leads the Protectobots in chasing down Swindle.
Swindle combines with the Combaticons to form Bruticus, but the Protectobots won't be outdone and become Defensor, who knocks the Decepticon combiner flat with a mighty Scramble Punch. First Aid returns the stolen cog to Optimus Prime, who is surprised to find him treating the defeated Combaticons. The medic explains that helping the injured, no matter who they are, is his personal battle.
Featured characters
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Notes
[edit]Transformers references
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- The story of First Aid's doubts and Swindle's theft of Metroplex's cog is lifted from the Generation 1 cartoon episode "The Ultimate Weapon".
- The bartender is based on the recurring moustachioed Maccadam's bartender. The appearance of Lander, Phoenix and Sixshot in the background of this scene, meanwhile, is a direct reference to the original art of Maccadam's Old Oil House created by Guido Guidi for Transformers: The Ultimate Guide (pictured at right), which featured those characters (or rather, their American counterparts Landmine and Cloudburst).
- Defensor's "Scramble Punch" attack is named after Scramble Power, a power possessed by combiners in Japanese Generation 1 continuity.
- The two human boys in the second panel are based on the prototypical designs of the boys who would become Tobio Fūma and Isami Tatewaki from Transformers Go!
