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« The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #15 »
Combiner Wars #7
"Plan for Everything"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published March 27, 2013
Cover date March 2013
Written by John Barber
Pencils by Andrew Griffith
Inks by Brian Shearer
Colors by Josh Perez
Letters by Chris Mowry
Editor Carlos Guzman
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2013)

As the new Devastator tears through the city, old friends return to join the fight, and Arcee at last reveals where her true loyalties lie.

Synopsis

At the Iacon med-center, Fixit attempts to raise the command center on the comm-net, but gives up when there is no response, turning his attention back to his patients, regardless of faction. Jazz bursts in, carrying a wounded Mirage, and urges everyone to clear out, but before they can, the reason for Jazz's distress makes itself apparent: Devastator, with Prowl as his new head, rips the roof off the med-center. Jazz instructs Fixit and Sky-Byte to get the wounded to safety; Sky-Byte wants to stay and help his musical partner, but Jazz insists that he go. Things go from bad to worse when Turmoil's forces arrive to help take down this last bastion of Autobot resistance, felling Hipotank and others, but just as they close in to finish off Jazz's team... Slag bursts through the smoke and takes Needlenose down! Ironhide and the other Dinobots follow quick on Slag's heels, and battle is renewed, with the titanic clash of Superion and the Bombshell-controlled Devastator at the centre of it all.

Back in the Black Room, Megatron laughs off both the appearance of Superion—a brain-damaged prototype in comparison to Devastator—and (the still-living) Bumblebee's claim that Optimus Prime will soon return to stop him—since he knows that Prime is currently occupied chasing Jhiaxus thanks to the efforts of Shockwave, who has disappeared from the room. Grudgingly accepting that Megatron does seem to have all the bases covered, Bee turns to Arcee to ask how she fits into the scheme, as he is unable to figure out why she would side with anyone whose ranks included her oldest nemesis, Jhiaxus. She casually explains that she had a lot of time to think, and came to an important conclusion—she really hates Decepticons. She punctuates this declaration by suddenly stabbing Bombshell through the head, taking out Devastator's controller and causing the combiner to shut down, and calling on Sideswipe, who she had apparently killed, to open fire. Having merely pinned been to the wall harmlessly by her sword rather than slain, Sideswipe caught on to her deception as a result, and a firefight suddenly explodes into life in the Black Room as weapons flare. Arcee explains that she has always been on the Autobots' side, but that she had been unable to act before now: she had long known that Prowl was under Bombshell's control, but destroying him would accomplish nothing since Devastator's new modular design would have allowed the Decepticons to continue their plan with a replacement 'bot, forcing her to wait until she could take out Bombshell himself. Starscream mocks the failure of Megatron's plan, but is dragged away by his former leader with a fearsome revelation ringing in his ears: Prowl was only ever a test subject, and Megatron himself will soon take his place as Devastator's head to finish the battle. Now seeing the genuineness of Starscream's desire to make Cybertron better through discourse rather than destruction, Metalhawk urges Bumblebee to go after him, and Dirge elects to stand by their side.

Out in the city, Superion lays out the unconscious Devastator, but the Decepticons, though shaken by the loss of their trump card, still try to press their attack. They rally behind Frenzy, who turns his upgraded sonic battle-cry on the Autobots, but Ironhide strides through the sonic onslaught and pistol-whips the little punk into submission. Skywarp cuts out, and the tables appear to be turning... but Devastator soon begins to stir. From within the gestalt, Prowl has watched the battle, helpless to do anything but remember the chain of events that brought him here: the way the new experiences he had on Earth led him to think he could change his path in life... and the way Spike Witwicky shattered that dream by serving as a mirror that reminded him of his own past, mired in shades of grey. And it is to Spike Witwicky that Prowl's thoughts now turn... to the human that all the other Constructicons hate just as much as he does, for his murder of Scrapper. In this terrible moment, all six minds are united as one in their shared hatred, and Devastator is truly born: a unique, independent entity with his own mind, free of Bombshell's control. Approaching Superion from behind, Devastator tears the Autobot combiner to shreds with the chilling vow that he will never allow himself to be controlled by anyone again.

To be concluded!

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons NAILs

Quotes

"Y—tzzzk—you're not gonna get away with this. Optimus Prime will come back. He'll destroy you, even if we all fall."
"'Get away with this' indeed, little Bumblebee. Did I crush your cliché inhibitor along with your face?"

—Bumblebee and Megatron


"Sideswipe... you know what I've done. And I remember everything you did to me—but the time has come to put that aside. I know it's Starscream, but even if we have to shoot our way through hundreds of Decepticons, I can't turn—"
"Stop, stop. You had me at 'shoot our way through hundreds of Decepticons.'"

—Dirge and Sideswipe

Notes

  • Prowl states that Devastator is "mass-displaced", confirming what has been implicit for a long time, given the size of the combiner versus his components. IDW was one of the first continuities to actually address the concept of mass displacement in a Transformer story, way back in Escalation #3.
  • Sky-Byte remarks that he and Jazz are "partners on stage", referring to their double-act seen in issue #7.
  • Jazz counters that with the claim that he has always been a killer, hearkening back to his bloodstained past as a special operations agent, alluded to in All Hail Megatron #6, and more recently, his unfortunate killing of the human John Powell in issue #17 of the ongoing series.
  • Prowl notes that he can "track over 800 objects and calculate their trajectories", a specific ability of his described in his original Universe profile, which has been mentioned a few times over in issues #1 and #10 of sister title More than Meets the Eye.
  • Turmoil makes reference to Ardurian rocs, which were originally name-dropped back in Spotlight: Hardhead and made their only actual appearance in issue #6 of this series, in which they displayed the cowering trait Turmoil here highlights.
  • Prowl's narration for the issue, relating how his experiences with Spike Witwicky back on Earth during the "Police Action" storyline in the final stage of the ongoing series caused him to re-evaluate himself, was also the subject of his last bout of internal narration, back in issue #4. His final complete line before Devastator deactivates—"When I feel doubt creeping in?"—was, verbatim, the penultimate line of his narration from issue #4. Any readers who remembered his final line from that issue may have seen the ending of this issue being foreshadowed, as he then speaks it as Devastator reawakens: "I think about Spike Witwicky."
  • Just how long has Arcee known about Prowl? Well, back in issue #5, she told him she "knew his secret"—that was the issue right after Bombshell took control of him, so that's how long!

Errors

  • As in the previous issue, all the Decepticons are wearing the narrower, diamond-eyed Decepticon insignia usually found on movieverse Decepticons.

Covers (4)

  • Cover A: Arcee leaping into action, as Bumblebee and Megatron's heads look off into the middle distance, by Andrew Griffith and Joana Lafuente.
  • Cover B: Megatron throttling Starscream and Bumblebee, by Casey Coller and Joana Lafuente
  • Cover RI: Monochrome red bust shot of Starscream by Marcelo Matere, continuing the previous two months' "bust" theme for the RI covers, paralleling the RI cover to More than Meets the Eye #15.
  • Hasbro exclusive cover: Artwork of Air Raid from the Transformers Legends mobile game, exclusively available with Generations Deluxe Air Raid. Rebranded as Combiner Wars #7.

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