Divination

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"Divination"
Publisher	Fun Publications
Published in	Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #70
Writers	Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair
Pencils	Dan Khanna
Inks	Jake Isenberg
Colors	Evan Gauntt
Letters	Jesse Wittenrich
Managing editor	Pete Sinclair
Continuity	Of Masters and Mayhem
Chronology	2020

Thunder Mayhem is here!

Synopsis

Aboard the bus transporting the Autobot Pretenders and their allies, Vroom is having trouble wrapping his mind around the identity of their guest: Megatron. Metalhawk is similarly skeptical, not believing that any Megatron would flee while his troops died, but Megatron believes himself to be a survivor: the last of the Decepticons, compelled to survive so that the Decepticon culture does.

On New Cybertron in the Shattered Glass universe, leaders of the heroic Autobots and Decepticons review the status of their foes, while Grimlock is approached by the Acolytes of Unicron, whom he has asked to see. What Grimlock really wants is to see Gaea, which the Acolytes claim to be impossible; but some "persuasive tactics" from the Dinobot result in him being brought in for an audience with the deity, within the planet. Grimlock has seen what the humanity inspires in "lovey-dovey" Autobots like Ultra Mammoth, and wants to know what Gaea did with the humans, thinking that the Autobots and Decepticons of New Cybertron now need them; but Gaea disagrees, seeing that their universe has a bright future. The same cannot be said of the universe that she sent the humans to, however; though she believed the Cybertronians of that reality were few enough that humanity would be safe, she was wrong, and now their Earth has become a target. As such, it will be up to the Pretenders to defend humanity as the guardians they were trained to be...

As Megatron insists that the Pretenders help him to fight their foe, a blast of energy sends their bus toppling off the bridge it is on and into the Parque Zoologico de Merida. Spike, Elizabeth and the Pretenders jump into action to try and get the humans on the bus medical attention, but Megatron sees that they have a bigger problem: Thunder Mayhem has arrived, and is destroying the bridges around the area! The Pretenders suit up to engage with their foe, while Elizabeth phones the local authorities to notify them of the emerging situation. Spike manages to evacuate the bus, but while getting a child and his father out, the wreckage slips and falls into the pit below along with Spike and the humans; their lives are saved at the last minute, however, when Garry the gorilla leaps to their rescue, leaving the humans to marvel at their savior!

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Heroic Autobots	Heroic Decepticons	Evil Autobots	Evil Decepticons	Others
Vroom (2) Metalhawk (3) Crossblades (4) Ultra Mammoth (6) Grimlock (10)	Galvatron (9)	Rodimus (image only) (8)	Megatron (1) Classics Megatron (image only) (5) Thunder Mayhem (15)	Nova Prime (7) Gaea (12) Spike Witwicky (13) Elizabeth (14) Acolytes of Unicron (11) Garry the gorilla (16)

Quotes

"I believe this is an abyssal mode of transportation for a leader of the autobots to be able to secure."
"... I've only been at the travel agency for a few weeks... transportation perks kick in at six months."

—Megatron and Metalhawk discuss the perks of riding on a bus.

Notes

Continuity notes

• Gaea recaps the events of The Future Buried..., in which she sent the humans of the Classicsverse Earth to another world.

Errors

• On the second page, part of Grimlock's dialogue is mis-emphasised as "they are".