Decepticons Underground

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 182px"><A class=image title="The public wants what the public gets." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Decepticonsunderground.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=268 alt="The public wants what the public gets." src="Decepticons Underground - Transformers Wiki_fichiers/180px-Decepticonsunderground.jpg" width=180 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Decepticonsunderground.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Decepticons Underground - Transformers Wiki_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>The public wants what the public gets.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Decepticons Underground is the tenth and final in the <A title="Ladybird Books" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ladybird_Books">Ladybird Books</A> series of Transformers storybooks.

Written by: <A title="John Grant" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/John_Grant">John Grant</A><BR><B>Illustrated by:</B> <A class=new title="Glenn Steward" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Glenn_Steward&action=edit">Glenn Steward</A>

• Cast (in order of appearance): <A title="Optimus Prime (G1)"

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(G1)">Optimus Prime</A>, <A title=Kup href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kup">Kup</A>, <A title=Highbrow href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Highbrow">Highbrow</A>, <A title=Brainstorm href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brainstorm">Brainstorm</A>, <A title=Quickswitch href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quickswitch">Quickswitch</A>, <A title=Scoop href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scoop">Scoop</A>, <A title="Quickmix (G1)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quickmix_(G1)">Quickmix</A>, <A title=Fangry href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Fangry">Fangry</A>, <A title=Horri-Bull href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Horri-Bull">Horri-Bull</A>, <A title=Squeezeplay href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Squeezeplay">Squeezeplay</A> <A name=Summary></A> <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Summary" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Decepticons_Underground&action=edit&section=1">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Summary</SPAN></H2> <DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 152px"><A class=image title="Quickmix concretes all the Decepticons into a living death. Nice one!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Quickmix_ladybird.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=162 alt="Quickmix concretes all the Decepticons into a living death. Nice one!" src="Decepticons Underground - Transformers Wiki_fichiers/150px-Quickmix_ladybird.jpg" width=150 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Quickmix_ladybird.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Decepticons Underground - Transformers Wiki_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Quickmix concretes all the Decepticons into a living death. Nice one!</DIV></DIV></DIV> Concerned with a lack of recent <A title=Decepticon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon">Decepticon</A> activity, Optimus Prime has Kup arrange a series of long-range patrols to ferret out the villains. As the reports come back in with no success, it becomes apparent that there is one area of <A title=Nebulos href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nebulos">Nebulos</A> that has not been searched – a mysterious region known as the "Nebulos Triangle," where electronics systems malfunction, and Nebulans have vanished over the years. Convinced that the Triangle is the location of the Decepticons’ base, Prime dispatches Quickswitch, Scoop and Quickmix to investigate.

When the trio of <A title=Autobot href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot">Autobots</A> enters the Nebulos Triangle, they quickly lose control of their vehicle mode steering, and have to unsteadily continue on foot. They discover the ground to be metal underfoot, and follow a stream to a massive lake of mercury. While the two <A class=mw-redirect title="Double Targetmasters" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Double_Targetmasters">Double Targetmasters</A> are left with no option to exit the Triangle to go around the lake, Quickswitch assumes his hovercraft form and heads out across it, only to wind up being sucked into a whirlpool.

Quickswitch finds himself in an underground cavern, but after exploring his puma mode, has to use his drill tank form to make an exit – an exit that leads him straight into the Decepticons' secret underground base! Quickswitch accidentally alerts the Decepticons to his presence when he bumps a stack of fuel containers, and flees to the surface, where he meets back up with Scoop and Quickmix. With the Decepticons hot on his tail, Scoop bulldozes the tunnel, collapsing rocks on the pursing Decepticons, which Quickmix then seals in place with a dose of concrete mixed from the mineral <A class=new title=Nebulite href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Nebulite&action=edit">Nebulite</A>. With the Decepticons contained, the trio head back to base to report to Optimus Prime. <A name=Errors></A> <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Errors" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Decepticons_Underground&action=edit&section=2">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Errors</SPAN></H2>

• Amongst the patrols of Autobots sent out is a jet with <A

title="Starscream (G1)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(G1)">Starscream’s</A> color scheme. <A name=Items_of_note></A> <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Items of note" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Decepticons_Underground&action=edit&section=3">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Items of note</SPAN></H2>

• Dude, this book is about Quickswitch and the

Double-Freaking-Targetmasters. That’s an item of note right there.

• Visible members of the Autobot patrols include <A title=Grapple

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grapple">Grapple</A>, <A title="Hoist (G1)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hoist_(G1)">Hoist</A> (notable purely for being featured at a time so long after their toys had ceased to be available in shops), a fire engine that’s either <A title=Hosehead href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hosehead">Hosehead</A> or <A title="Inferno (G1)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Inferno_(G1)">Inferno</A> and <A title="Landfill (G1)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Landfill_(G1)">Landfill</A>.

• Quickswitch "hoses out Quickmix's drum". That sounds really dirty.
• Being the last book, and with all the Decepticons apparently entombed,

this is the action that presumably ends the Ladybird continuity war. Huh.