Dreamwave Armada issue 6

Desperate for more power, Megatron captures the Air Defense Team and reworks them into the Star Saber.

Dreamwave Armada issue #6

Script: Simon Furman
Pencils: Pat Lee
Inks: Rob Armstrong
Lettering: Dreamer Design
Colors: Espen Grundetjern, Felipe Smith, Trang Dang, Mike Majestic, Gary Yeung, Rob Ruffolo
Editor: Roger Lee

• Major characters (in order of appearance):Megatron, Leader-1, Alexis, Carlos, Rad, Optimus Prime, Hot Shot, Runway, Jetstorm, Sonar, Sparkplug, Starscream, Cyclonus, Demolisher, Laserbeak (voice only), Sureshock, High Wire, Grindor, Longarm, Jolt
• Originally published: December, 2002

Synopsis

Megatron tries to force more power out of Leader-1, but the Mini-Con tells him that their powers are not limitless. Megatron announces that if he cannot get more power out of his Mini-Cons, he will simply have to get more Mini-Cons. Meanwhile, the Air Defense Team is discussing the situation. They've decided that they don't want to get in the middle of the war, and that they have to find a way off the planet somehow. Just then, Megatron and the rest of the Decepticons burst in. Back in Lincoln, the kids are playing the forest, when they run into the Autobots. Optimus Prime tells them that he doesn't want them to become involved in their war. Sparkplug starts to give his agreement, when he suddenly gets an emergency transmission on the Mini-Cons' private frequency. The Decepticons successfully capture the Air Defense Team, and Leader-1 assures Megatron that he blocked the distress call. Back at the Autobot base, Laserbeak tells the Autobots that he saw three Mini-Con captives before he was spotted and had to flee. Sparkplug, Jolt, and Longarm want to mount a covert mission to rescue them, but Optimus Prime is against it. He fears what might happen if they were to be captured and put to use by the Decepticons. Despite his orders, the three Mini-Cons go with the kids to the Decepticon base at Silver Ridge. They successfully sneak in, but are discovered by Starscream. In the ensuing battle, the supports are damaged and the ceiling collapses on top of the Decepticon. Elsewhere, Megatron holds up the newly completed Star Saber...

Errors

• Sparkplug is shown to have the ability to powerlink With Optimus Prime. However, it had already been established that the ability to powerlink was due to Decepticon rewiring on Mini-Con internal systems, and Sparkplug was never captured by the Decepticons. It was later retconned that the Mini-Cons could always powerlink to larger Transformers, and the Decepticon working only made it so the powerlinking could be forced.

Items of note

• The names Runamuck and Runabout have been spray-painted onto a sign outside the Air Defense Team's base.
  
  
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