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'''On the run from the Decepticons, Ratchet and the humans find safety with the Autobots... or do they?'''


'''Ratchet reaches safety with the Autobots, or does he?'''
==Synopsis==
[[File:Infiltration2-innow.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Confronted by [[Battlecharger|two menacing robots]] demanding that she turn over her stolen [[SM-40|palmtop computer]], [[Verity Carlo]] and her companions [[Hunter O'Nion]], and [[Jimmy Pink]] can only stand and gawk in horror at the spectacle. Their mysterious ambulance driver companion has other ideas, however: using [[holomatter|a holographic decoy]] of the computer, he feigns surrender... and then disappears in a blaze of electricity when the two robots reach for the prize. The trick stuns [[Runabout (G1)|one of the robots]], who topples into the garage wall, sending collapsing rubble everywhere. Just in time, their ambulance transforms into [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|a third giant robot]], who uses his massive body to shield the humans from the debris!


== Synopsis ==
As [[Runamuck (G1)|the white robot]] draws a weapon, their robotic rescuer deploys an ink spray to blind his attacker; with his opponents on the backfoot, the ambulance decides to get out while the going's good and, ordering his passengers to get inside, reassumes his [[alternate mode]] to ferry the three [[human]]s to safety. As the ambulance peels out, heading for the interstate, Jimmy can't help but lament the destruction of his garage. In [[Arizona]], a police detachment finds the dead body of the [[Stoker|businessman]] who had previously possessed the computer. The corpse has no ID of any kind, confusing the officers. One member of the forensics team, however, surreptitiously places a call to a faraway boardroom to report the death—a boardroom adorned with [[Machination|a massive letter "M"]].
[[Image:Siege mode bunker.jpg|left|200px|thumb|It is an avatar of apocalyptic prose, the herald... of overwrought narration!]]
Confronted by two menacing robots, the stunned Verity, Hunter and Jimmy can only stand and gawk as the ambulance driver disappears in a blaze of electricity. That blaze stuns one of the robots, sending it into the garage wall and scattering concrete everywhere. The ambulance itself transforms into a third giant robot, who shields the three humans from the rubble. As the white robot draws a weapon, the third robot deploys an ink spray, blinding his attacker, then transforms back into an ambulance once again and orders the three humans inside. As the ambulance peels out, Jimmy laments the destruction of his garage.


Back in the wilds of Arizona, a police detachment finds the dead body of the mustached businessman. He has no I.D., but one of the officers recognizes him and makes a phone call to a group of people in a boardroom to report the death. Behind them, the wall is adorned with [[Machination|a massive "M"]].
[[File:Infiltration2-symphonyofdestruction.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]


Traveling on a crowded freeway, the ambulance is once again picked up by the blue jet fighter and narrowly avoids a pile-up caused by the jet's sonic boom. This allows the two sports cars—who identify themselves as Runamuck and Runabout—to catch up, partially transforming to deploy weapons. According to the ambulance, this is a very disturbing sign, as Decepticons never break cover, let alone in such a brazen fashion.  
The ambulance hightails it along the freeway, weaving in and out of the traffic as the three humans struggle to come to grips with the situation as the ambulance fills them in. His team had been tracking a coded [[Decepticon]] pulsewave, noting that a specific human, the former carrier of the palmtop, had been targeted by the Decepticons for elimination. But before their rescuer can tell them ''why'' he'd been selected, a massive sonic boom alerts them to the return of [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|the blue jet fighter]]. The sonic boom causes a massive pileup, forcing the ambulance to swerve around one car after the next, and the chaos creates the perfect opening for the two sports cars, who identify themselves as [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] and [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]], to catch up and deploy an arsenal of hidden weapons as they try to run the ambulance off the road. This is a bad sign, the humans learn: Decepticons ''never'' break cover, and this brazen aggression means that Verity's picked up something that they ''really'' need....


In Oregon, Starscream and Blitzwing marvel at the ore that they have discovered. They anticipate refining more, and getting some kind of unfriendly response for breaking protocol.  
In [[Oregon]], [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] marvel at the [[Ore-13|ore]] that they have discovered. Starscream is eager to refine more—even if means breaking [[Infiltration protocol|protocol]], the Decepticon leader is confident that he'll have enough time to prepare a response.


Some more fancy driving allows the ambulance to shake Runamuck and Runabout. Verity, who on top of fleeing for her life has had reality turned upside down on her, screams for them to stop and jumps out.
Pursued by the two Decepticons, the ambulance manages to shake its pursuers by swerving hard into an oncoming tanker-trailer. While the medical vehicle manages to get out of the way in time, the two Battlechargers aren't so lucky. The ensuing collision sends both Decepticons flying off the highway to crash in a fiery conflagration. It's all too much for Verity, and as the ambulance rounds a cliff, she screams for it to stop so that she can get some air. Jimmy follows to try and calm her down, while Hunter tries to pry more details out of their rescuer, who finally introduces himself as [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]]. Before he can get any more information out of Ratchet, the jet comes back for another pass and fires a homing missile at the group.


While Jimmy goes to calm her down, Hunter tries to pry more detail out of the ambulance—starting with its name, Ratchet—but before he can get far, the jet re-acquires them. With everyone back inside, Ratchet pours on a burst of speed. In the middle of the desert, three more cars with weapons that spring from hidden compartments appear in their path and shoot the plane down. These cars then transform, draw weapons, and the [[Prowl (G1)|leader]] informs Ratchet of the statutes of the Autobot [[Code of Interplanetary Conflict]] that he has violated. In his defense, Ratchet offers only two words: [[Siege Mode]]...
[[File:Siege mode bunker.jpg|thumb|left|200px|It is an avatar of apocalyptic prose, the herald... of overwrought narration!]]
{{-}}


As everyone scrambles aboard, Ratchet deliberately waits until the last second to escape, pouring on a burst of speed to outrun the explosion as the homing missile impacts against the cliff. As they zoom through the desert with the jet on their tail, unexpected help arrives in the shape of three more automobiles — a [[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|yellow sports car]], a [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|red minivan]], and a [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|police car]] — who deploy some concealed weapons of their own to blast the airborne Decepticon until he retreats.
Ratchet reveals to the grateful humans that they're his allies, who he'd covertly summoned while he was receiving maintenance in Jimmy's garage... but their jubilation is short lived when the three cars transform into more robots and draw their weapons. Their leader [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] lays into Ratchet for dereliction of duty and violating statutes of the [[Code of Interplanetary Conflict]]. Having glimpsed the photos on Verity's computer, Ratchet has finally realized why the Decepticons were so intent on recovering the device, and so he offers two words in his defense: "[[Infiltration protocol|siege mode]]"...


==Featured characters==
==Featured characters==
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{{featuredcharacters
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|c1=
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (5)
* [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] (5)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (14)
* [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] (12)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (15)
* [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] (13)
* [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (16)
* [[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]] (14)
|c2=
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* [[Runabout]] (1)
* [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]] (1)
* [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (6)
* [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] (6)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (11)
* [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]] (9)
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (12)
* [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]] (10)
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (13)
* [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (11)
|c3=
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* [[Hunter O'Nion]] (2)
* [[Hunter O'Nion]] (2)
* [[Jimmy Pink]] (3)
* [[Jimmy Pink]] (3)
* [[Verity Carlo]] (4)
* [[Verity Carlo]] (4)
* Police (7)
* [[Stoker]]'s corpse (7)
* [[Stoker]] (deceased) (8)
* [[Abraham Dante]] (8)
* Medical examiner (9)
* [[Machination]] spy (10)
}}
}}


== Errors ==
==Quotes==
* None yet identified.
"'''No disintegrator ray?!''' What kind of aliendeathwarmachine '''are''' you?"
: '''Verity'''
 
 
 
"You and me, we belong out here, on the '''edge.''' There's a '''word''' for our sort, some new-age, PC bit of psychobabble... oh yeah, that's it... '''freak!'''"
:- '''Jimmy''' tries to console '''Verity'''


== Items of note ==
==Notes==
* '''Cameos:''' More Machination employees, including [[Abraham Dante]]
===Continuity notes===
* The truck that rams the Battlechargers may be a reference to [[Optimus Prime (G1) toys|Laser Optimus Prime]].
[[File:Infiltration2-secretweapons.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Maybe this is where [[Miles Mayhem]] [[The Divine Source of Liberty|got the idea.]]]]
* As with last issue, we see that all Transformers feature heavy (retractable) armament in vehicle mode. Runabout, Runamuck and Sunstreaker have missiles, Ironhide has a roof mounted cannon, and Prowl has machine-guns behind his headlamps. Also, in addition to the weapons shown last issue, Ratchet has a turbo-booster. They are all hardcore.
* In what might be called a [[Stealth Force|vision of things to come]], this issue and the one that precedes it establishes a new power for all Transformers: every Autobot and Decepticon features a suite of [[M.A.S.K.]]-style weaponry accessible while in their [[alternate mode]]s: Runabout and Runamuck possess recessed battering rams, Prowl sports machine guns behind his headlamps, and so on. This isn't an entirely new idea in the ''Transformers'' franchise — the Autobot [[Triggerbot]]s and Decepticon [[Triggercon]]s possessed similar gimmicks, for instance — but this is the first time that the power's been extended to every Cybertronian, regardless of subgroup affiliation. The concept nicely ties into the "cloak and dagger" themes of the early IDW universe, but this "power" will eventually be dropped with little fanfare as the universe changes writers.
* The "Decepticomments" section featured mail answered by Chris Ryall and short ads for next month's issues: [[Infiltration issue 3|''Infiltration'' #3]], [[The Gathering issue 2|''The Gathering'' #2]], [[Generations (comic reprints)|''Generations'' #1]] and the ''[[War and Peace]]'' reprint.
 
===Transformers references===
* On page 12, Ratchet gets himself between two oncoming semitrucks — one black with a gray trailer, and the other red with a gray tanker trailer. It's not too much of a stretch to think someone was recalling [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].
 
===Errors===
* Jimmy tells Verity he's eighteen years old, but just last issue he told Ratchet he was seventeen.
 
===Other trivia===
* Ratchet mentions "chronoticks" as a method of timekeeping on page 1; it seems that this was an abortive attempt to establish an alternate method of Transformer timekeeping in the IDW continuity.
* The "Decepticomments" section featured mail answered by Chris Ryall and short ads for next month's issues: [[Infiltration issue 3|''Infiltration'' #3]], [[The Gathering issue 2|''The Gathering'' #2]], [[The Transformers: Generations (comic)|''Generations'' #1]], and the ''[[War and Peace]]'' reprint.


===Covers (7)===
===Covers (7)===
* '''Cover A:''' Battlechargers by [[E. J. Su]], half of the RI-B cover
<gallery>
* '''Cover B:''' Thundercracker attacks Ratchet by [[Guido Guidi]]
File:Infiltration 2a.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover A''' - Everyone do "The Jerk"!
* '''Cover C:''' Prowl threatens Ratchet by [[Andrew Wildman]]
File:Infiltration 2b.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover B''' - Can I have a ride?
* '''Cover D:''' Thundercracker attacks humans by [[James Raiz]]
File:Infiltration 2c.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover C''' - Prowl, being his usual self.
* '''Cover RI-A:''' Starscream by Guido Guidi
File:Infiltration 2d.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover D''' - This will teach those meddling kids!
* '''Cover RI-B:''' Battle wraparound cover by E. J. Su, first part of a continuous image
</gallery>
* '''Cover RI-C:''' Ratchet by Guido Guidi (includes 3 mini-prints)
 
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover A:''' the Battlechargers, by [[E. J. Su]]. Half of the RI-B cover.
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover B:''' Thundercracker attacks Ratchet, by [[Guido Guidi]].
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover C:''' Prowl threatens Ratchet, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover D:''' Thundercracker attacks humans, by [[James Raiz]].


<gallery>
<gallery>
Image:Infiltration 2a.jpg|Cover A
File:Infiltration 2ria.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover RI-A''' - Half a [[conehead]].
Image:Infiltration 2b.jpg|Can I have a ride?
File:Infiltration 2rib.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover RI-B''' - Do "The Jerk" and kill the doc!
Image:Infiltration 2c.jpg|Crap cover
File:Infiltration 2ric.jpg|'''''Infiltration'' #2 cover RI-C''' - If the G1 toy merged with the [[character model]].
Image:Infiltration 2d.jpg|Cover D
Image:Infiltration 2ria.jpg|Half a conehead
Image:Infiltration 2rib.jpg|Cover RI-B
Image:Infiltration 2ric.jpg|Cover RI-C
</gallery>
</gallery>
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover RI-A:''' Starscream, by Guido Guidi.
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover RI-B:''' Battle wraparound cover, by E. J. Su. First part of a continuous image.
* '''''Infiltration'' #2 cover RI-C:''' Ratchet, by Guido Guidi (includes 4 mini-prints).


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===Reprints===
<small>Other than [[The Transformers: Infiltration#Collections|reprints of the full series]]</small>
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Confronted by two menacing robots demanding that she turn over her stolen palmtop computer, Verity Carlo and her companions Hunter O'Nion, and Jimmy Pink can only stand and gawk in horror at the spectacle. Their mysterious ambulance driver companion has other ideas, however: using a holographic decoy of the computer, he feigns surrender... and then disappears in a blaze of electricity when the two robots reach for the prize. The trick stuns one of the robots, who topples into the garage wall, sending collapsing rubble everywhere. Just in time, their ambulance transforms into a third giant robot, who uses his massive body to shield the humans from the debris!

As the white robot draws a weapon, their robotic rescuer deploys an ink spray to blind his attacker; with his opponents on the backfoot, the ambulance decides to get out while the going's good and, ordering his passengers to get inside, reassumes his alternate mode to ferry the three humans to safety. As the ambulance peels out, heading for the interstate, Jimmy can't help but lament the destruction of his garage. In Arizona, a police detachment finds the dead body of the businessman who had previously possessed the computer. The corpse has no ID of any kind, confusing the officers. One member of the forensics team, however, surreptitiously places a call to a faraway boardroom to report the death—a boardroom adorned with a massive letter "M".

The ambulance hightails it along the freeway, weaving in and out of the traffic as the three humans struggle to come to grips with the situation as the ambulance fills them in. His team had been tracking a coded Decepticon pulsewave, noting that a specific human, the former carrier of the palmtop, had been targeted by the Decepticons for elimination. But before their rescuer can tell them why he'd been selected, a massive sonic boom alerts them to the return of the blue jet fighter. The sonic boom causes a massive pileup, forcing the ambulance to swerve around one car after the next, and the chaos creates the perfect opening for the two sports cars, who identify themselves as Runamuck and Runabout, to catch up and deploy an arsenal of hidden weapons as they try to run the ambulance off the road. This is a bad sign, the humans learn: Decepticons never break cover, and this brazen aggression means that Verity's picked up something that they really need....

In Oregon, Starscream and Blitzwing marvel at the ore that they have discovered. Starscream is eager to refine more—even if means breaking protocol, the Decepticon leader is confident that he'll have enough time to prepare a response.

Pursued by the two Decepticons, the ambulance manages to shake its pursuers by swerving hard into an oncoming tanker-trailer. While the medical vehicle manages to get out of the way in time, the two Battlechargers aren't so lucky. The ensuing collision sends both Decepticons flying off the highway to crash in a fiery conflagration. It's all too much for Verity, and as the ambulance rounds a cliff, she screams for it to stop so that she can get some air. Jimmy follows to try and calm her down, while Hunter tries to pry more details out of their rescuer, who finally introduces himself as Ratchet. Before he can get any more information out of Ratchet, the jet comes back for another pass and fires a homing missile at the group.

It is an avatar of apocalyptic prose, the herald... of overwrought narration!

As everyone scrambles aboard, Ratchet deliberately waits until the last second to escape, pouring on a burst of speed to outrun the explosion as the homing missile impacts against the cliff. As they zoom through the desert with the jet on their tail, unexpected help arrives in the shape of three more automobiles — a yellow sports car, a red minivan, and a police car — who deploy some concealed weapons of their own to blast the airborne Decepticon until he retreats.

Ratchet reveals to the grateful humans that they're his allies, who he'd covertly summoned while he was receiving maintenance in Jimmy's garage... but their jubilation is short lived when the three cars transform into more robots and draw their weapons. Their leader Prowl lays into Ratchet for dereliction of duty and violating statutes of the Code of Interplanetary Conflict. Having glimpsed the photos on Verity's computer, Ratchet has finally realized why the Decepticons were so intent on recovering the device, and so he offers two words in his defense: "siege mode"...

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Quotes

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"No disintegrator ray?! What kind of aliendeathwarmachine are you?"

Verity


"You and me, we belong out here, on the edge. There's a word for our sort, some new-age, PC bit of psychobabble... oh yeah, that's it... freak!"

- Jimmy tries to console Verity

Notes

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Continuity notes

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Maybe this is where Miles Mayhem got the idea.
  • In what might be called a vision of things to come, this issue and the one that precedes it establishes a new power for all Transformers: every Autobot and Decepticon features a suite of M.A.S.K.-style weaponry accessible while in their alternate modes: Runabout and Runamuck possess recessed battering rams, Prowl sports machine guns behind his headlamps, and so on. This isn't an entirely new idea in the Transformers franchise — the Autobot Triggerbots and Decepticon Triggercons possessed similar gimmicks, for instance — but this is the first time that the power's been extended to every Cybertronian, regardless of subgroup affiliation. The concept nicely ties into the "cloak and dagger" themes of the early IDW universe, but this "power" will eventually be dropped with little fanfare as the universe changes writers.

Transformers references

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  • On page 12, Ratchet gets himself between two oncoming semitrucks — one black with a gray trailer, and the other red with a gray tanker trailer. It's not too much of a stretch to think someone was recalling Motormaster and Optimus Prime.

Errors

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  • Jimmy tells Verity he's eighteen years old, but just last issue he told Ratchet he was seventeen.

Other trivia

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  • Ratchet mentions "chronoticks" as a method of timekeeping on page 1; it seems that this was an abortive attempt to establish an alternate method of Transformer timekeeping in the IDW continuity.
  • The "Decepticomments" section featured mail answered by Chris Ryall and short ads for next month's issues: Infiltration #3, The Gathering #2, Generations #1, and the War and Peace reprint.

Covers (7)

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  • Infiltration #2 cover A - Everyone do "The Jerk"!
    Infiltration #2 cover A - Everyone do "The Jerk"!
  • Infiltration #2 cover B - Can I have a ride?
    Infiltration #2 cover B - Can I have a ride?
  • Infiltration #2 cover C - Prowl, being his usual self.
    Infiltration #2 cover C - Prowl, being his usual self.
  • Infiltration #2 cover D - This will teach those meddling kids!
    Infiltration #2 cover D - This will teach those meddling kids!
  • Infiltration #2 cover A: the Battlechargers, by E. J. Su. Half of the RI-B cover.
  • Infiltration #2 cover B: Thundercracker attacks Ratchet, by Guido Guidi.
  • Infiltration #2 cover C: Prowl threatens Ratchet, by Andrew Wildman.
  • Infiltration #2 cover D: Thundercracker attacks humans, by James Raiz.
  • Infiltration #2 cover RI-A - Half a conehead.
    Infiltration #2 cover RI-A - Half a conehead.
  • Infiltration #2 cover RI-B - Do "The Jerk" and kill the doc!
    Infiltration #2 cover RI-B - Do "The Jerk" and kill the doc!
  • Infiltration #2 cover RI-C - If the G1 toy merged with the character model.
    Infiltration #2 cover RI-C - If the G1 toy merged with the character model.
  • Infiltration #2 cover RI-A: Starscream, by Guido Guidi.
  • Infiltration #2 cover RI-B: Battle wraparound cover, by E. J. Su. First part of a continuous image.
  • Infiltration #2 cover RI-C: Ratchet, by Guido Guidi (includes 4 mini-prints).

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