Editing Linkage Part 11

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|seriesissue=[[Linkage (comic)|Linkage]] #11
|prev=Linkage Part 10
|next=Linkage Part 12
|title=Linkage Part 11
|image=Arm-art_Linkage11-Title.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[Columbia Music Entertainment]]
|date= [[February 25]], 2004 (with ''[[Micron Legend 11]]'' DVD)
|writer=[[Hirofumi Ichikawa]]
|artist=Hirofumi Ichikawa
|letterer=???
|editor=???
|continuity=[[Armada (cartoon)|''Armada'' cartoon]]
}}
'''Redline attempts to rescue Twirl and stop Unicron's agents from destroying the Linkage.'''

==Synopsis==
Redline chases after Ravenus, who had kidnapped Twirl, but even with his new powers, catching him is tricky.  The rest of the [[Super Stunt Mini-Con Team]] and the [[Sonic Assault Mini-Con Team]] use the [[Master Key]] to evolve, causing Stella to note their ability to speak proper English now and color-changing skills... the latter Stella is mildly jealous of, since she thinks she'd like to be a blonde.  Falcia discourages this, then jets off to help Redline.

Stella realizes that they need more help, so she releases the [[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]] [[Impulsor]] and [[Quench]] from the final two [[Mini-Con storage panel|Mini-Con storage panels]].  Flat-Out interrogates the [[Aqua Raider Mini-Con Team]] about the [[Doomstone]], but Bilge claims there's no way to safely defuse it. Ravenus begins to activate it, but [[Kingbolt]] drops from the sky (apparently summoned by Impulsor and Quench), drop-kicking Ravenus and dislodging Twirl from him, stopping the Doomstone energies from entering the [[Linkage (dimension)|Linkage]].  Kingbolt and Redline team up to destroy Ravenus, but Twirl yells for them to stop, as she had found out during their Powerlinx that Ravenus is actually an Autobot!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=Free Mini-Cons|c1=
* [[Sonic Assault Mini-Con Team|Sonic Assault Team]]
** [[Falcia]] (1)
** [[Twirl]] (7)
** [[Combusta]] (11)

* [[Super Stunt Mini-Con Team|Super Stunt Team]]
** [[Flat-Out]] (3)
** [[Servo]] (4)
** [[Redline]] (5)

* [[Hazard Mini-Con Team|Hazard Team]]
** [[Impulsor]] (9)
** [[Quench]] (10)
** [[Kingbolt]] (18)

|h2=Unicron|c2=
* [[Magnawing]] (6)
* [[Ravenus]] (8)
* [[Aqua Raider Mini-Con Team|Aqua Raider Team]]
** [[Bilge]] (12)
** [[Freeboot]] (13)
** [[Sunburn]] (14)
* [[Run-Over]] (15)
* [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]] (16)
* [[Vorpal Saber]] (17)

|c3=
* [[Stella Holley]] (2)

|c4=
}}
==Notes==
* This comic was available only with the eleventh volume of the ''Micron Legend'' DVD in Japan, along with the [[exclusive]] Kingbolt toy. Later pressings of the DVD did not include either.

===Transformers references===
* After all this time and a lot of dancing around the issue, [[Unicron]] is ''finally'' explicitly named in the comic. The DVD this issue came with contains "[[Miracle]]", the episode that finally name-drops Unicron for the show's viewers.

[[Image:NemPrimeUT-Linkage.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Now, darken our brightest hour!]]

* [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]] is shown in Bilge's explanation of the Doomstone's creation, clutching the [[Vorpal Saber]] and [[Run-Over]] (Run-Over's only fictional appearance). Of note is the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-like design in his chest when he pulls in the "death agonies" of the world he's destroying... a design the Nemesis Prime toy doesn't have.  Presumably he stopped having this (fictionally) once he passed on the Doomstone to [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]]. Nemesis also makes his one and only cartoon appearance in "[[Puppet]]", contained in the DVD attached to this issue.

* When Kingbolt descends, four other green glowing lines appear; more Mini-Cons who were still on Earth. This sets up the scene in "Miracle" where hundreds of Mini-Cons the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s didn't realize were left on Earth arrive at the [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]-bound ''[[Axalon (Armada)|Axalon]]'' in space.

* Ravenus' revealed Autobot sigil looks like an old [[rubsign]], down to the colors.  It's even in the place of the rubsign on the [[Transmetal]] [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] toy that Ravenus is based on.

===Real-world references===
* Kingbolt and Redline's combo attack is a visual reference to the Big Magnum, the hero's final attack from the [[wikipedia:Metal Hero series|Metal Hero series]] ''Space Sheriff Shaider''.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Four pages again, and a lot of text. A lot of backstory is having to be crammed in here, because the cartoon sure couldn't be bothered to explain what the hell is going on.

* Impulsor and Quench appear, but are unnamed. By this time, the book ''[[Micron Legend Year Book 2003]]'' had come out, naming the two upcoming toys in its toy section... but it got their names swapped. Whoops.

==External Links==
*[http://members.fortunecity.com/msipher/transform/linkage/linkage.html "Official" Linkage mini-comic translations]


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