LG49 Targetmaster Triggerhappy

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漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第49話
First published	October 28, 2017
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Packaged with	Legends LG49 Targetmaster Triggerhappy

When Blowpipe's plasma energy becomes uncontrollable, the police must turn to the only 'bot who can handle him: Triggerhappy.

Synopsis

While in police custody, Blowpipe begins emitting dangerous amounts of plasma energy that destroys all inorganic substances it touches, including the police officers' clothes and the back half of Ravage. Regular Transformers can't even approach the energy, and the still living Ravage informs his colleagues that there's only one who can—Blowpipe's Targetmaster partner, Triggerhappy. Triggerhappy is currently running a shooting gallery to earn money for a transtector, but his business is going poorly because whenever a customer misses a target, the gun-loving marksman is compelled to show them how it's done and shoots it for them, effectively giving away all his prizes.

Hot Rod approaches Triggerhappy and asks for his help with controlling Blowpipe, who has begun rampaging through the city, seeing as how he's been bathed in plasma energy before when the two were bonded and should be immune to his emissions. Triggerhappy argues that he can't combine with Blowpipe in his current Headmaster form, so the police provide him with a transtector that allows him to shrug off Blowpipe's plasma energy and blast the smaller Targetmaster into submission. Upon retrieving his old partner, he immediately tries to blast everyone else as well, but the clone beam instead ends up restoring everything Blowpipe destroyed, including Ravage's body. Unsure about what to do with him, Hot Rod and Shaoshao end up inducting Triggerhappy into the police force as well, seeing as that way they can at least keep an eye on him. The Targetmaster is happy with this since it means he gets to legally fire guns, though he ends up causing trouble by always going in guns blazing, even during delicate hostage situations.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots/Maximals	Decepticons	Humans
Hot Rod (5) Minor (8) Optimus Primal (9) Rattrap (11) Tigatron (12)	Blowpipe (1) Ravage (6) Triggerhappy (7)	Minerva (2) Ai (3) Shaoshao Li (4) Papika (10)

Notes

• Plasma energy is apparently ineffective against trademark accessories as it doesn't destroy Ai's hat nor Shaoshao's padlock necklace.
• The prizes available at Triggerhappy's stand include Q-Transformers Nazo Nazo Optimus Prime and Nazo Nazo Bumblebee.