Paranoia

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"Paranoia"
Publisher	Fun Publications
Published in	Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #56
Writers	S. Trent Troop & Greg Sepelak
Pencils	Naoto Tsushima
Inks	Naoto Tsushima
Colors	Evan Gauntt
Letters	Jesse Wittenrich
Managing editor	Pete Sinclair
Continuity	Beast Wars: Uprising
Chronology	Circa 2384

Protoform X, seemingly all alone, tries to fight the madness.

Synopsis

On board a ship transporting prisoners, Protoform X is dragged to cell, and sealed inside. Clawing at the door proves of no use, but salvation soon comes when the ship is mysteriously destroyed, sending X plummeting into the atmosphere of a nearby planet. All the while, Protoform X knows that no matter how much the pain, he will survive. He always survives. Upon impact, the skeletal X pulls himself out, beginning to regenerate; having been unable to kill him any other way, Protoform X believes his jailers are trying to starve him. Additionally, upon sensing something familiar, X realizes he isn't the only one one the planet...

A whole day passes by until X is near fully healed. Paranoid and insane from years of torture, Protoform X begins yelling at himself for consuming so much energy, trying all the while to convince himself he's in control. Seemingly spotting a figure out of the corner of his optics, begins firing off his cannon, every shadow and rock appearing to be a Maximal. As the figure he spotted watches him from the distance, Protoform X is nearly consumed by his rage, until he spots a groove in the ground. Believing it to be vehicle-mode tracks, Protoform X is delighted, transforming and declaring that he is now the hunter...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Others
Protoform X (1) Unknown female figure (2)

Quotes

"Come out, Maximals! I am the horror you have birthed, your greatest sin given form!"

—Protoform X

"You stalk, you torment, you spy... but you cannot run! Now I become the hunter!"

—Protoform X