LG56 Perceptor

« Transformers Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 56 »
漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第56話
First published	December 23, 2017
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Packaged with	Legends LG56 Perceptor

Perceptor has an unhappy reunion with Katsu Don and Nijika.

Synopsis

Having heard that the Legends World was created by the Zamojin, Perceptor travels to the dimension in search of his old friend, Katsu Don, whom he's lost touch with and worries about. Highbrow looks forward to investigating the dimension's mysteries together with his fellow scientist, though Perceptor's first duty is to fix up Ramhorn, injured in battle to the point where his cassette mode is beyond repair. Perceptor replaces it with a new tank mode, and while Ramhorn hates it, the scientist insists that he made the right choice giving him a more mobile altmode is better. The group is then interrupted by none other than Katsu Don, who says he's here to "take back Nijika" before tearing Perceptor's head off and running off with it. Highbrow and Perceptor's colleague Minerva are ready to make chase, but Ramhorn warns them that the Zamojin are strong and that they should bring some extra firepower in the form of Perceptor's body.

Katsu Don brings Perceptor to the headless new body of Nijika, damaged in a previous battle, and, having recalled that Perceptor's parts are compatible with hers, attaches the panicking scientist's head to it. The process is interrupted by the other Autobots, who have reconfigured Perceptor's body into its rarely seen tank mode, and a combined barrage from both it and Ramhorn distracts Katsu Don long enough for Perceptor to remove his head from Nijika. He returns it to his original body and takes aim at Katsu Don using Ramhorn's third mode, a handheld weapon, and the Zamojin retreats, swearing he will fulfill his dream of creating a full-scale Nijika someday. Admitting that he wasn't actually going to open fire on his old friend, Reflector hopes that Katsu Don will someday, on a night of falling stars, find the right path again.

After returning to Axalon, Perceptor figures that since his head was already separated, he might as well convert it into a small robot and live a comfortable, human-sized life. Unfortunately, this makes it less comfortable for him to use his microscope mode, as he now has to stand on Minerva's head just to look into the lens.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots/Maximals	Predacons	Others
Perceptor (1) Highbrow (2) Cargot (3) Ramhorn (5) Minerva (6) Rattrap (8)	Waspinator (7)	Papika (4) Katsu Don (9) Nijika (10)

Notes

• Perceptor befriended Katsu Don and had his parts used to repair Nijika in "The Face of the Nijika".
• Perceptor mentions hearing of the Legends World from his fellow scientist Jetfire, who was one of the first to discover it back in Vol. 7.
• Minerva appeared as Perceptor's colleague in several episodes of Victory, starting with "Ginrai Dies!!". Waspinator is shown trying to explain to a confused Rattrap how she's different from the human Minerva.
• Highbrow is still looking to solve the mysteries of the Legends World, an obsession he picked up in Vol. 33.
• Nijika was damaged during Katsu Don's battle with Leo Prime in Vol. 41. At the time she was small and represented by the Robots in Disguise Legion Windblade toy, and she has now been rebuilt in a larger body based directly on Titans Return Windblade sans head (and not the Legends version of the same mold, which has a different paint layout).