A Treasure Lost
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| "A Treasure Lost" 奪われた宝
(Ubawareta Takara) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | e-HOBBY | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 29, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | CrankShaft'S | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
Abducted by unknown alien forces, Kup and Scrapheap search for Rodimus Prime within a living historical archive.
Synopsis
[edit]As valuable as the piece of Optimus Prime's armor is to him, Rodimus Prime announces that there is no treasure more valuable than life, and instructs Scrapheap to hand it over to Galvatron in order to save Kup. Before the Junkion can comply, however, a booming voice rings out from on high calling the battle to a halt. The Transformers all look heavenward for the source of the voice, and are amazed to see a giant crystalline fortress-ship appear in the sky above them. The voice continues that it has judged them worthy to be part of its collection, after which four rays of light fly from the ship and envelop Rodimus, Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge. Kup and Scrapheap are also caught in the beams, standing as they were right next to Rodimus and Galvatron, and the six Transformers, along with the ship, promptly vanish.
Scrapheap and Kup awaken a short time later in a corridor that appears to be made entirely of glittering transparent crystal, with space visible on the other side of it. Naturally, they conclude they must be inside the ship that they saw earlier, and set out to find Rodimus Prime. As they walk, Scrapheap deduces that the ship is not really transparent, and that it's just an illusion: after all, they can't see anyone or anything else around them. Kup takes a moment to grasp the idea, confused by Scrapheap's logical explanation, and quips that he talks more like a scientist than your typical TV-spouting Junkion. Scrapheap takes this badly, and snaps that he's an appraiser, and not happy to be treated like scrap, startling Kup and causing him to take a step backwards. In doing so, Kup bumps into the wall, and at his touch, the walls, floors and ceilings ripple, and on their surface, images from all through Transformer history begin playing. Scrapheap realizes that the whole ship must be a giant recording apparatus, taking in data, keeping that which is valuable and discharging that which is unwanted... and begins to draw uncomfortable parallels between it and his own existence as a Junkion. As he rambles, the pair come upon a door at the end of the corridor, lying open as if waiting for them... and in the room it leads to, four Transformers are held in glass tubes! The ship, Scrapheap realizes, has found its treasures!
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- Among the images from Transformer history described in the story are Orion Pax becoming Optimus Prime from "War Dawn", the Transformers awakening after their four-million-year sleep from "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1", the creation and rampage of the Dinobots from "S.O.S. Dinobots", the creation of the Combaticons from "Starscream's Brigade", and Megatron and Hot Rod's transformations into Galvatron and Rodimus Prime from The Transformers: The Movie—all moments of creation or recreation, a theme the significance of which will be expanded upon in the following chapter.
