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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | April 12, 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | March 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art by | E. J. Su | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | John Rauch | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Tom B. Long | ||||||||||||
| Edits by | Chris Ryall & Dan Taylor | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 2006-7 | ||||||||||||
Ratchet and Bumblebee contend with a Decepticon attack while the humans explore the abandoned Decepticon base.
Synopsis
Three years ago, a young Verity Carlo meets with a social worker after running away from yet another foster home. Her social worker sees right through Verity's tough façade and states that all she sees is a girl "in a world of hurt and pain".
In the present day, Hunter O'Nion, and Jimmy Pink watch as Verity rappels into the depths of an abandoned Decepticon fortress in the wilderness of Nebraska. Using their holomatter avatars, Ratchet and Bumblebee watch on; Ratchet is adamant that when this escapade is over, the humans are going home, while Bumblebee warns the trio to watch for booby traps.
As the two boys follow Verity into the shaft and split up to investigate, Bumblebee confides to Ratchet that he thinks that the Autobot medic might be right—but to change Prowl's mind, they'll need hard evidence that something's wrong... and the humans fall into the "acceptable losses" category if it means getting that evidence.
In Dallas, Texas, Drake meets with a group of humans in the Epsilon Holdings building—a front for the shadowy group known as the Machination led by Abraham Dante. Jolly reports on recent events: a series of anomalous vehicle attacks throughout the southwest United States have led the group to conclude that the "visitors" are moving into the next stage of their operations. Having received a homing signal from their deceased operative Stoker, Drake and his team of operatives are dispatched to "accelerate" their "acquisition strategy..."
Deep inside the Decepticon bunker, Verity discovers a strange sight: a jumbled series of glowing green tubes, each one big enough to hold a human. Ignoring Jimmy's warnings, Verity goes ahead and opens one... and is immediately confronted by the gruesome sight of a rotted corpse wearing a military uniform. Despite the shock, Verity manages to compose herself and move on; as she does so, however, she's unaware that, topside, the two Autobots have visitors of their own in the shape of Skywarp and Blitzwing. Paying no heed to the Autobots, the two fliers launch a massive bombing run on the base, forcing the two Autobots to outrun the explosions!
Ratchet yells for the humans to evacuate the base as fast as possible; while Jimmy and Hunter comply, Verity, determined to make up for losing her cool earlier, ignores Ratchet's orders and goes to investigate the last section of the base. As she does so, battle breaks out as the Autobots try to buy time for the humans—Bumblebee pits his superior processor speed against Skywarp's teleportation power and comes out on top, while Ratchet shoots Blitzwing out of the sky. When the medic goes to make sure that his opponent is downed for good, however, he's not so lucky, and is quickly taken out by a volley from his opponent's tank mode...
...and, underground, Verity discovers that she's not the only occupant of the Decepticon fortress as she enters the last room of the base and comes face to face with its other occupant: Megatron!
Featured characters
Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
|---|---|---|
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Quotes
"Autobots. What are they doing here?"
"Who cares?"
"MM. Good point."
- —Blitzwing and Skywarp talk tactics
"This is the bit where I wish I had a really big gu-nuuugh!"
"Lock... and load."
- -Ratchet and Blitzwing
Notes
Continuity notes
- The prologue to the story mentions that Verity ran away from home at least three years ago.
- The purpose of the human corpse isn't immediately elaborated on here, but later installments in the IDW continuity will shine light on the concept of facsimile constructs and their use in the infiltration protocol.
- Oh snap, it's Megatron! Who he's talking to on the other end of the screen isn't made clear, but Stormbringer #3, which is set just before this issue, will reveal that he's having a chat with Razorclaw.
Transformers references
Real-life references
- Some of the binary on Bumblebee's windshield on page 17 reads 'idw', 't' and 'f'.
- Hunter mentions "Snappy-Meal cartons," which seem like a legally-safe reference to McDonalds' Happy Meals.
Errors
- This issue has the same publish date as issue #3.
- Drake's team is assembled. None of them particularly resemble any of the members of the team as seen in Escalation.
Other trivia
- The "Decepticomments" section featured mail answered by Chris Ryall and short ads for next month's issues: Infiltration #5, The Gathering #4, Generations #3.
Covers (8)
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Infiltration #4 cover A - Starscream shoots his shot... ewwww! -
Infiltration #4 cover B - Skywarp likes it when bad things happen to Bumblebee. So do we! -
Infiltration #4 cover C - Transformers equivalent of the Big Johnson shirt. -
Infiltration #4 cover D - Hunter looks a little less goofy here.
- Infiltration #4 cover A: Starscream by E. J. Su, would later become part of the wraparound cover RI-A for issue #5.
- Infiltration #4 cover B: Bumblebee on Blitzwing's turret, by Guido Guidi.
- Infiltration #4 cover C: Bumblebee with giant-ass gun, by Andrew Wildman.
- Infiltration #4 cover D: Humans, by James Raiz.
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Infiltration #4 cover RI-A - Very Freudian -
Infiltration #4 cover RI-B - Trigger crotch, yeessssss! -
Infiltration #4 cover RI-C - Top o'the mornin' to ya! -
Infiltration #4 cover RE-A - What are Prime and Megs doing? I don't think I want to know!
- Infiltration #4 cover RI-A: Foil stamp of cover C, without the background.
- Infiltration #4 cover RI-B: (Mostly) toy-accurate Megatron, by Guido Guidi.
- Infiltration #4 cover RI-C: Saluting Bumblebee, by Guido Guidi (includes 3 mini-prints).
- Infiltration #4 cover RE-A: Megatron and Optimus Prime, by Andrew Wildman (drawtheworldtogether.com exclusive).
Advertisements
- Optimus Prime Alternators toy
- Infiltration #5, 2-page B&W sketch preview
- The Gathering #4
- 3-page preview of The Gathering #3
- Free comic book day
- Stormbringer (back cover)
Reprints
Other than reprints of the full series
- N/A
