Ruination Chapter, Part Two

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"Ruination Chapter, Part Two" バルディガス編 後編 (Baldigus Hen Kōhen)
Publisher	TakaraTomy Mall
First published	November 25, 2016
Story by	Hayato Sakamoto
Art by	Hayato Sakamoto
Color assist by	DAI-XT
Continuity	Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Chronology	2021

Many unite warriors are united in a war against Unicron.

Synopsis

"Scourge" explains that he's become Unicron's loyal Matrix Hunter and strikes Ruination with his sword, putting the combiner back under Unicron's control and causing him to start disappearing again. Ruination questions why he's not disappearing as well, given that he shares an origin with the Commandos, suspicions that are soon confirmed when the real Scourge shows up with Sky Byte, who blasts the impostor. Grand Scourge becomes "Scourge Grand Prime" by forcing Trickdiamond and Thrust to combine with him and attacks Scourge, targeting his Energon Matrix, but ends up blown off a cliff by Ruination's firepower.

Cracks then start appearing in space itself, Galvatron explaining that the dimensional borders are being weakened by the gathering of so many beings from different times and universes, himself included. He explains that after arriving in this world, he got fed up with being called a "second" Galvatron and traveled back in time to before the native Galvatron existed, becoming the commander of Trypticon. He was destroyed in a battle with Metroplex, but persisted as a ghost thanks to his ownership of the Creation Matrix. Galvatron's spirit abandons Cyclonus's body and targets Megaempress for possession, only to be grabbed by Grand Scourge, whose status as Matrix Hunter lets him manhandle anyone with a Matrix, even ghosts. Megaempress seizes the chance to knock both of them through one of the dimensional rifts to places unknown.

While the Autobots realize they must send everyone back to their proper times and dimensions to prevent the whole multiverse from being destroyed, Ruination sets out to stop Unicron by detaching his head from Cybertron. Optimus Maximus comes to his aid and Vector Sigma repairs the Disaster Relief Team's combiner joints, allowing them to join in with Sky Reign's beast mode. Cyclonus convinces his own team to form Grand Galvatron once more in defense of their planet, and with Megatronia offering her strength as well, the Unite Warriors all stand together against Unicron. With their help, Ruination is able to rip the chaos-bringer's head off the planet and toss it into space, where Megatronia destroys his combiner joint, but Optimus Maximus and Sky Reign are blown out of the sky before they can deliver the final blow. Roller comes to Optimus Prime's aid and forms Maximus's arm, allowing him to deliver a mighty punch that together with a barrage from the other combiners sends Unicron back to the Triple Z Point.

In the aftermath, the Combatrons depart for the future to free their leader, and Breakdown returns to his own dimension and to Knock Out. Megaempress and the 4 Guards continue plotting world conquest while Starscream flees somewhere far away from Lunaclub, and Thrust disappears, with Roller speculating that he, too, went to another dimension. Cyclonus sets out into space, planning to revive the Decepticons by becoming the new Galvatron. Roller himself has remembered that he's from this world to begin with, having been Optimus Prime's partner until he was lost in another dimension following Prime's first death, but his hopes to stay with Prime forever are dashed when Prime reveals his week-long lifespan. His seven days are spent creating happy memories with his friends, and once he passes away again, Roller takes on the duty of defending his body until a new power source even stronger than Vector Sigma can be discovered.

Featured Characters

Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons/Predacon	Humans	Others
Optimus Prime (14) Prowl (15) Sunstreaker (16) Optimus Maximus (17) Hound (19) Ratchet (20) Sky Lynx (21) Sky Reign (22) Roller (25) ? (31) Scattershot (32) Mirage (33) Trailbreaker (34) Wheeljack (35) Blades (38) First Aid (42)	Ruination (2) Grand Scourge / Scourge Grand Prime (3) Scourge (4) Sky-Byte (5) Trickdiamond (6) Thrust (7) Megaempress (8) Lunaclub (9) Flowspade (10) Cyclonus (11) Galvatron II (12) Trypticon (13) Breakdown (23) Starscream (24) Grand Galvatron (26) Megatronia (27) Knock Out (28) Moonheart (29)	Sue Faireborn (30) Marissa Faireborn (36) Minerva? (37) Daniel Witwicky (39) Cancer (40) Kelly (41)	Unicron (1) Vector Sigma (18) NUL-A (43)

Notes

Continuity notes

• Grand Scourge is revealed to be a servant of Unicron, not an illogical connection for a killer of Matrix bearers. Whether this means that he is indeed the same individual as Armada Nemesis Prime, also Unicron-aligned and known in Japanese as "Scourge", remains ambiguous.
• Vector Sigma mentions Sky Lynx helping him in the battle with Tornedron in "Call of the Primitives"—in Japan, the Oracle from that episode was retconned into being the past form of Vector Sigma.
• Unicron swears that Cybertron will be his someday, which will come to pass in Beast Wars Neo.
• Optimus Prime will be revived by a new power source, the Zodiac, in The Battlestars. Unfortunately Roller won't do his job very well, as these stories also feature Prime's body being stolen by Dark Nova.
• Galvatron II notes that he became the City Commander of "Dino-saurer" (ダイノザウラー Dainozaurā), the first version of Dinosaurer (ダイナザウラー Dainazaurā). Trypticon was referred to using the former in "Scramble City: Mobilization"; this retcon explains away the aberrant spelling and the different character model used by the OVA, as well as the longstanding continuity glitch in Japanese media that depicted Trypticon as active in the 80s when he would not be shown to be created in the cartoon itself until 2010. Turns out there were two of 'em!
  • Vol. 42 would go on to explain Trypticon's Japanese continuity history in further detail.
• Scourge, Sky-Byte, and the Commandos proceed to the future era to free Devil Gigatron, the goal of Scourge outlined in his pack-in Legends chapter. This plot thread next picks up in Ruination's pack-in story and Legends Vol. 43.
• Thrust and Trickdiamond will next appear in Legends Bonus Edition Vol. 42.

Transformers references

• Grand Scourge wears Commandos insignias while impersonating Scourge, then reveals his true faction in the form of Herald of Unicron/Blentron insignias. His toy comes with decals for both of these.
• The form Unicron takes is based on his original unreleased toy.
• The adventures Optimus lives in his week of life are the chapters of Unite Warriors Offshot printed with Unite Warriors toy packages (minus the Superion and Menasor chapters, which are later established to be set in the post-G-2 era).

Errors

• As mentioned above, this story places Unite Warriors Offshot in 2021. This creates some problems, however.
  • In the Guardian chapter, First Aid has his Unite Warriors body but is in his classic Generation 1 body circa 2035 in "Metrowars".
  • Meanwhile, the Convoy Grand Prime chapter, set in Hawaii on Earth, has figures appearing to be Minerva, Cancer, and Wilder, but those three characters are supposed to be in the Legends World, per the concurrent Legends storyline.
  • Said chapter also features Daniel Witwicky in his exosuit as seen circa 2035 in "Train Wars". It's not impossible that he has already acquired said suit, but the accompanying toy bio strongly indicates that he acquired it only shortly before the events of "Train Wars".

External links

• "Ruination Chapter, Part Two" at TakaraTomy Mall
• [http://imgur.com/a/N3swA Translation of "Ruination Chapter, Part Two"