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"The Everlasting Voices (3): You Are Here" {{#if: |
"You must've got the easy ones. 'ere, did'ja get Rewind?" "Was I supposed to?"
Cyclonus and Tailgate return to the giant floating Matrix, where most of the rest of the group have now gathered with their loved ones, waiting for the moment of ascension. Tailgate is particularly excited to see Chromedome and Rewind happily holding hands with Dominus Ambus and another Rewind; the quartet tells him they are "all sorted" and "happy." Swerve assures the group that their ascension will happen soon, because they are happy and want it to, and Velocity compliments him on his heartfelt honesty.
Thinking that Nautica is a guard, the Scavengers muscle past her and make a break for it, but she stops them in their tracks with a bluff, pretending Brainstorm has built a gun into her hand. Familiar enough with Brainstorm to believe it's plausible, the Scavengers stop, explaining that while they were only in the cell by accident, and that they don't want to fight. Confusion soon arises, though, when Nautica tells them they're in the Afterspark, while they're convinced they're in Garrus-9. Spinister indicates a sign on the wall identifying the prison, but where he points, Nautica sees a plaque bearing a religious quote. The group realizes they're seeing two different things, which causes the illusion to collapse, revealing the real sign, which reads "M10." Following the arrow painted on it leads the group to a door with a large "M" shaped logo, which Nautica pushes open...
Elsewhere in the same building, in "Ward Zero," Rodimus, Ratchet, and Drift find themselves under attack by a group of stone golems, which Rodimus recognizes from his adventure on Ki-Aleta, where they were left by the Omega Guardians to protect the Magnificence. Fortunately for the trio, Ultra Magnus returns to aid them, and the golems soon fall before them, noticeably less tough than they were when Rodimus first encountered them. Ratchet proceeds to examine the cylinder of "trapped light" in the center of the room, deducing it to be the Afterspark's "power supply," channeled from the comatose alien "patients" lying around it. While Ratchet works, Magnus receives a call from Whirl, who is unconvinced by this whole "Afterspark" scenario and suspects foul play is involved. Unfortunately, given what they've learned, Magnus can't reassure him otherwise, and tells him to simply stay on the line as Ratchet prepares to disconnect the "power supply." Drift begs Ratchet to reconsider; he might be right, but he might also be wrong, and if this is the Afterspark, Ratchet will be damning them all. Ratchet needs barely a moment to deliberate... and hurls a chair through the cylinder, shattering it.
"You must've been playing like puddings! No wonder you only scored 4%."
All across the "Afterspark," the illusion slowly collapses. The same "M" logo appears on a wall-screen in Ward Zero, which is all Ratchet needs to tell where they really are: the ancient medical hub known as Mederi, an artificial moon constructed millions of years ago by the Omega Guardians. Via a console, Drift pulls up datalogs that explain what has happened: Mederi is a euthanasia clinic, and the alien "patients" are actually telepaths, who tap the minds of terminally-ill new arrivals to create tailored illusions based on their desires and expectations that will help them die in peace and happiness. Team Rodimus simply crashed there when they abandoned Skip, and the telepaths latched onto the strongest desire amongst the group to fabricate an illusion for them—Cyclonus's desire to go to the Afterspark, where he could reunite with the dead Tailgate. Just as the group thinks that all the answers have been revealed, however, Nautica and the Scavengers burst in with the corpse of Axe, just one of hundreds of Mederi's dead they found in Morgue 10. Realizing that Axe was a member of the Circle of Light, Rodimus has a brainwave, and instructs Drift to plot a course from Mederi to Cybertron and put it on the screen. Everyone gapes as a familiar pattern takes shape in front of them: the pattern of the map hidden within the Matrix of Leadership. Rodimus has realized the truth: they have reached the end of their quest. Mederi is Cyberutopia!
At Rodimus's direction, Drift pulls up treatment logs of the first Cybertronian patients to ever arrive on Mederi: the Knights of Cybertron, who came there ten million years ago seeking treatment for Atrophosia, a Cybercrosis-like disease contracted via contact with organic lifeforms. Sick and scared and longing for home, but still explorers seeking new worlds, the Knights' conflicting desires were resolved by Mederi's telepaths into one perfect illusion: the illusion of the perfect Cybertron. Lost in the illusion and forgetting their reality, the Knights placed a map to this "Cyberutopia" within the Matrix, and sent it back home so others could unwittingly join them in "happiness." So, now that their quest has ended with a surprisingly mundane reality, the question hangs in the air... what do our heroes do now?
Back with the main group, Whirl—briefed over the comm by Magnus—shares the truth of their situation with everyone, even as the illusory "loved ones" begin to fade away. Cyclonus and Tailgate are shattered by the revelation; in the moments before Tailgate disappears for good, Cyclonus is finally able to tell the little 'bot he loves him, and embraces him tightly, waiting for the end. As Rodimus and the others arrive to tell the full story, Whirl angrily silences them, then gently tries to get Cyclonus to stand... only for the still very-much-alive Tailgate to suddenly pop out of Cyclonus's arms, surprised to discover that he's not an illusion, but is, in fact, the genuine article! The question of how this can be is just one of several about the events leading up to the team's arrival on Mederi that remain unanswered... but even the ever-rational Ratchet is willing to allow it to go unexplained if it means the team gets to enjoy a happy ending.
Unfortunately... things aren't over yet. Fulcrum points skyward, and everyone looks up to see a cluster of Transformers descending toward them, including Perceptor, Hoist, Hound, and Mainframe... all transformed into voracious, monstrous sparkeaters!
Rodimus: "You're not going to believe this, but I know these guys." Drift: "Old friends, right? Please say they're old friends." (An Omega Guardian punches Rodimus.) Ultra Magnus: "To be fair, that's not conclusive proof either way."
"Hmm. Some sort of energy. It's being generated by the patients and flowing into the chamber. Weird set up. Probably best not to tamper with it."
"Er... what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to tamper with it."
—Ratchet and Drift
"Just tell me what you've done."
"Excuse me! I haven't done anything!"
"Forgive me, but the last time we spoke on the phone, I was asking you to let the hostages go."
"Yes, well, I was a different person then."
"Yes—you could be reasoned with."
—Ultra Magnus and Whirl
"Religion-wise, I don't so much lack faith as actively hate god."
—Whirl
"Don't go. I can't lose you again."
"You and me, eh? I guess some things were never meant to—"
"Shut up. Shut up and let me say this while you're still around to hear it. Because I don't care: real, fake, alive, dead... I love you."
"There. That wasn't so difficult, was it?"
—Cyclonus and Tailgatethink they're saying goodbye
Journey's end. And almost journeyers' end, as well.
The second Rewind is, of course, the "original" version of the character who died back in More than Meets the Eye #15.
As referenced in a footnote, the stone golems that attack Rodimus and co. first appeared way, way back in Spotlight: Hot Rod. In that story, they were referred to as the "Omega Guardians," but issue #14 explained that they were "throwbacks" who served the real Omega Guardians, a much more advanced race who have received several namedrops throughout More than Meets the Eye and Lost Light, and are in this issue revealed to be key to its mytharc.
Nautica refers to Brainstorm with his birth name, "Genitus," which we first learned (from her!) in More than Meets the Eye #40.
The Scavengers were transmatted to Mederi (telepathically disguised as Garrus-9) back in issue 15, using coordinates supplied by the Magnificence. Note how the Magnificence spoke up before they could finish asking where Garrus-9 was, funnily enough ("Erm, anyone know how to get to –"). And note that the issue never said they were in G-9, just somewhere "far away". Now, actually showing Garrus-9 from the outside was a bit of a cheat, but now we know it was all part of the disguise.
Misfire explains that the Scavengers and Brainstorm had a "bit of a swapsies thing going on," referring to their trading of tech and information, as was hinted at in earlier stories and confirmed in More than Meets the Eye #46.
Magnus refers to a past incident in which he negotiated with Whirl when the unstable Autobot took hostages. This seems likely to have occurred after Whirl was ejected from the Wreckers and went off the deep end, a little while before the beginning of More than Meets the Eye.
Mederi was first mentioned in issue #8, in which it was said that Velocity left Caminus to study at one of its offshoots, Mederi Seven.
Mederi is noted to sit on the same "spiritual leyline" as Troja Major. That leyline was said to have begun to "warp" in issue #14...
Axe originally appeared in the first Drift mini-series. Presumably, his presence here indicates he's one of the Circle of Light members the Lost Light crew encountered on Luna 1 in More than Meets the Eye #17-21, who were inspired to undertake their own quest for Cyberutopia in issue #22.
The panel in which Rodimus makes the deduction that Mederi is Cyberutopia is a recreation of the first panel of the first issue of More than Meets the Eye, the end of the quest paralleling its beginning.
In the video footage of the Knights' arrival on Mederi, they are all emerging from a city-mode Titan, since we know from the 2012 More than Meets the Eye annual that the Titans served as their ships. The banners they carry bear the gear-like hieroglyph that has been a recurring image in the series, revealing that it specifically belongs to the order of Knights who found "Cyberutopia," who are only one of five orders know to exist. So now the big question remaining is, how does the Grand Architect fit in...?
Continuing the homages to the very first issue, Misfire parrots Swerve's introductory line of "love a quest"; back in More than Meets the Eye #13, Rewind lampshaded how similar Swerve and Misfire were.
The group of mutated sparkeaters descending upon Team Rodimus on the last page are, of course, all part of Getaway's crew of mutineers, who allegedly arrived on Cyberutopia in issue #12. Their "Cyberutopia" looked identical to the model of the "Afterspark" shown in issue #16 (as we observed in our notes for that issue), with their appearance here seemingly confirming that all our heroes and mutineers are indeed now gathered together in the same place at last.
Not to mention, the sight of sparkeaters descending from the sky calls to mind Drift's vision from issue #1...
While listing subjects related to the principle of ascension that he could be talking about but isn't, Swerve mentions "the five-faced incantation." We'll leave speculation on its relevance up to you, but any mention of "five faces" in a Transformers story should immediately start ringing some Quintesson-related alarm bells...
The title of this multi-part story is taken from the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}W. B. Yeats|{{#if:||W. B. Yeats}}]] poem, "The Everlasting Voices".
In his list of subjects, Swerve mentions "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}metousiosis|{{#if:||metousiosis}}]]," a Greek word with religious connotations meaning "a change of essence."
While discussing the illusion, Krok quotes a real-life proverb of supposed Chinese origin: "There's your truth, there's my truth, and then there's the truth." Nautica attributes it to Chief Justice Tyrest.
The concept of a facility that shapes itself to resemble whatever its observer most desires - only to collapse when observed by more than one person at the same time - has, shall we say, very strong parallels with the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Red Dwarf|{{#if:||Red Dwarf}}]] episode "Camille."
{{#if: "He committed suicide, he committed suicide, and the fish committed suicide. There's a pattern here." |
"Give us some room, would'ja chaps?"
"You helped an enemy of democracy escape! She was carrying an apple of The People!"
Lost Light Volume 3 – cover art by Jack Lawrence and Joana Lafuente
The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 86: The Everlasting Voices – cover art by Dreamwave and Jack Lawrence
