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Synopsis
Drake and his team use a sophisticated VR simulation to train on how to destroy a Transformer. This setup turns out to be in the back of a large camper van parked near Lake Michigan.
At the bottom of said lake, aboard Ark-19, Ratchet is informing the humans that Prowl has decided to send them back to their normal lives. Ratchet and Jazz have both grown fond of their human charges, but it is Sunstreaker and Ironhide who are tasked with ferrying the humans back home—and although Ratchet and the humans blame Prowl, it seems the Autobot lieutenant was acting on Optimus Prime's orders.
In the meantime, after having been briefed on Ore-13 by Astrotrain, Megatron brings his wayward unit to heel, and then issues an order to begin Phase Two by activating "the facsimiles."
As the two Autobots surface from the bottom of Lake Michigan, they are immediately picked up by Drake and his team, who make their move near the city of Lebanon in the US state of Michigan. While the Autobots are separated in traffic, Drake's team causes a jam, deploys a smoke screen, then temporarily immobilizes Ironhide while moving in on Sunstreaker with a disabling electrical charge. Ironhide, with Verity and Jimmy aboard, frantically weaves through the other cars caught in the jam, but the humans deploy a bazooka—and by the time Ironhide catches up with Sunstreaker, the yellow Autobot, with Hunter inside, is already a burning wreck...
Credits
Script: Simon Furman
Art: E. J. Su
Colors: John Rauch with Zac Atkinson and Aaron Myers
Lettering: Chris Mowry
Editors: Chris Ryall & Dan Taylor
- Originally published: November 29, 2006
- Continuity: IDW continuity
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Regulars
Guests
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Errors
- None yet identified.
Items of note
- Among the reports that Prime monitors in the issue's opening pages are:
- Ultra Magnus, bringing in Swindle.
- Jetfire (with his battle helmet), reporting on a finding, presumably at the site of Bludgeon's lab
- Springer, reporting on an unknown battle
- Blades, reporting that a Decepticon infiltration unit is laying low.
- Wheelie, complaining that noone listens to him
- The same cross-story technique is later used in Spotlight: Optimus Prime.
- The "Decepticomments" page has readers' mail answered by Chris Ryall and ads for Transformers: The Animated Movie #2 and Spotlight: Hot Rod.
Covers (4)
- Cover A: Sunstreaker; art by E. J. Su
- Cover B: Ironhide; art by Klaus Scherwinski
- Cover RI-A: cover A uncolored
- Cover RI-B: cover B uncolored
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