Editing Destiny, Part Five

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|title="Destiny" Part Five
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[October 23]], [[2013]]
|coverdate=October 2013
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|penciler=[[Guido Guidi]]
|inker=[[Stephen Baskerville]]
|colorist=[[John-Paul Bove]]
|letterer=[[Shawn Lee]]
|editor=[[John Barber]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
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'''As battle rages on Cybertron's surface, the Wreckers infiltrate the Warworld, but when their confrontation with Bludgeon goes wrong, help arrives in a most unexpected form!'''

==Synopsis==

[[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] is a battlefield: [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] grapple, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] engage in a sonic duel, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] leads the charge against the army of [[Blitz Engine]]s, and the airborne [[Autobot]]s unleash their combined firepower against the [[Warworld]]. [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] permits the [[Decepticon]]s to join the fighting themselves, but surprises them by electing to remain on the Warworld, secretly aware that the [[Wrecker]]s have managed to land a ship on the giant craft's surface and have penetrated its hull.

In the [[Primus]] chamber, deep within Cybertron, [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] awakens, free of possession by Primus and needing to be brought up to date by his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. As they attempt to talk, the [[demon]]s come spilling into the chamber, and a furious Grimlock, his eyes glowing with the power of Primus, transforms to dinosaur mode. The roar he unleashes takes the fight right out of the creatures and sends them into genuflections. The Dinobots proceed to head back to the surface, and the demons loyally follow their new master, prompting [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] to recall [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]]'s plan to reintegrate the Cybertronian race, and Grimlock to speculate that this is all part of some grand plan...

Aboard the Warworld, Bludgeon launches a sudden, vicious solo attack on the Wreckers, affecting their perceptions with his [[Metallikato]] mind-tricks and walking all over them. [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] urges [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] to escape and locate their primary target—the reservoir of [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] energy animating the Blitz Engines—but Bludgeon pursues the elderly Autobot as he makes for the craft's bridge on a rail-transport car.

Down on the planet's surface, the Decepticons join the fight, pushing the Autobots back even further. [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] is not optimistic for the conflict's outcome, but Ultra Magnus holds out hope for a miracle, even as the bridge his team is standing on is blown out from under them. But he is not wrong to hope: that miracle soon arrives in the form of the Dinobots, who, along with the loyal demons, tear into the Decepticons and their weapons or war. The tide of battle is turning, as Blaster claims victory over Soundwave, circumventing his opponent's senses-distorting sonic trickery by simply bombarding him with face-rocking tunes.

On the Warworld's bridge, Bludgeon stands over a fallen Kup, preparing to deliver a killing stroke with his sword, when suddenly, in a flash of light, Hot Rod returns from his trip through [[Zero Space]], now transformed by the power of the Matrix into Rodimus Prime! Stunned by Rodimus's ability to snatch his sword out of the air, Bludgeon realizes that Rodimus is the opponent who is fated to destroy him, and demands that he grant him his destined death. Rodimus is only too happy to oblige, seizing the skeletal samurai's leg and hurling him through the Warworld's "windshield". Sent hurtling down to Cybertron's surface, Bludgeon burns up as enters the planet's atmosphere, and dramatically explodes on impact. Just when Rodimus and Kup think they have a moment's respite, however, the Warworld begins to quake: [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], urged on by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], has had an attack of conscience, and has returned with the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] to bring the legendary vessel's firepower to bear on Bludgeon's ship! As the Warworld comes apart around them, the Wreckers race to abandon ship.

Down below, the fight has definitively tipped in the Autobots' favor: with the Warworld crumbling, the flow of Matrix energy being projected to the Blitz Engines ceases, and the drones begin staying down under the Dinobots' and demons' assault. Magnus leads one last mighty push back against the Decepticons, and Omega Supreme triumphs over Monstructor, blasting him to bits. The Warworld explodes, filling the sky with fire, but as the onlooking Autobots cheer, aboard the Wreckers' craft—safely making its way back to the planet's surface—Rodimus Prime is not yet ready to celebrate. The visions shown to him by Primus in Zero Space still haunt his memory... as within Cybertron, the face of the Transformers' creator-god begins to glow...

==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks or visions.)<br>
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*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (1)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (6)
*[[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (7)
*[[Doubleheader]] (8)
*[[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]] (9)
*[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (10)
*[[Dogfight]] (11)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (12)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (13)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (14)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (15)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (16)
*[[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]] (17)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (27)
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*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (28)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (29)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin|Rack 'n' Ruin]] (30)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (31)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (32)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (33)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (34)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (35)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (36)
*[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]] (41)
*[[Groove (G1)|Groove]] (42)
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (43)
*red and blue generic? (44)
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (45)
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] (47)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (49)
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*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (50)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (51)
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (52)
*green generic? (53)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (54)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (55)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (56)

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*[[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] (2)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (3)
*[[Weirdwolf]] (18)
*[[Fangry]] (19)
*[[Stranglehold]] (20)
*[[Krok (G1)|Krok]] (21)
*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (22)
*[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] (23)
*[[Skullcruncher]] (24)
*[[Horri-Bull]] (25)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (26)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (39)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (40)
*[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]] (46)
*[[Needlenose]] (48)
*''[[Galvatron II|Galvatron]]'' (59)
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*''[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'' (58)
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*[[Demon]]s (37)
*[[Primus]] (38)
*''[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'' (57)
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==Quotes==

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Snarl's popped back up after being oddly absent from [[Destiny, Part Four|issue #94]]; guess he was just off-panel for the whole thing!
*We saw Bludgeon's vision of his own death in [[Destiny, Part Three|issue #93]]. That seemed to imply he had died on the battlefield, but that's not quite how things unfold here.

===Transformers references===
*Let's be straight-up, here: Blaster and Soundwave never had any kind of rivalry in the Marvel comics. Their grudge match here, along with Omega's throwdown with Monstructor, feels a lot more like Simon Furman tying off stories he started over in the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]]—specifically, in ''[[Spotlight: Blaster]]'' and ''[[Spotlight: Optimus Prime]]'', respectively—that he never got to bring to a conclusion before his time on those books ended. [[File:Rodimusprimerequestdenied.jpg|right|thumb|275px]]
*The more detailed rendering we get of the partially-reconstructed Thunderwing lets us see his inner robot within his [[Pretender]] shell, something that never appeared in the Marvel US comics (but did put in a brief appearance in the UK series).
*On page 12, Monstructor clobbers Omega with a statue of [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]].
*"Well, that's just prime!" quips Rodimus on page 18, stealing the catchphrase of [[Optimus Primal]].
* When Bludgeon demands death, Rodimus responds with a grim "Request granted." This echoes back to one of his more famous scenes in the Marvel UK series (pictured), from [[Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!|issue #14]], when he slew a Decepticon begging for mercy with a roar of "Request denied!"
*Grimlock instructs the demons to "munch metal", one of his more famous quotes from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
*Magnus squeezes two [[Furmanism]]s into one speech balloon as he declares the demons are "[[Furmanism#FIGHT AND DIE|fighting and dying]] for Cybertron! [[Furmanism#CAN I DO LESS?|Can '''we''' do less?]]"
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===Real world-references===
*Grimlock quips that he "never look gift dinohippus in mouth". The ''[[Wikipedia:Dinohippus|Dinohippus]]'' was a kind of prehistoric horse; see, 'cause he's, like, a ''dinosaur'', so he talks about prehistoric equivalent of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don%27t_look_a_gift_horse_in_the_mouth looking a gift hose in the mouth].
*When Blaster unleashes the sonic blast that fells Soundwave, he strikes an [[Wikipedia:Air guitar|air guitar]] pose. The sound effect that accompanies this, "Keraaaannng!", is of course an onomatopoeic rendering of an electronic guitar power chord, but is also likely a reference to UK rock music magazine ''[[Wikipedia:Kerrang!|Kerrang!]]''.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:'''  Rodimus versus Bludgeon, by [[Andrew Wildman]] and [[Jason Cardy]].
*'''Cover B:'''  Blaster versus (purple!) Soundwave, by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Grimlock and the demons versus a Blitz Engine, by [[Geoff Senior]] and [[Josh Burcham]].
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