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===Synopsis===
===Synopsis===
After the departure of the [[Decepticon]]s, the human military hunted down any remaining Transformers. Somehow Bumblebee got separated from his team in the ruins of [[New York City]]. He managed to avoid capture until he revealed his location to save some humans from a burning/collapsing building. He was injured by the military but saved by the arrival of the Autobots, who had figured that he would eventually expose himself to save someone.
Bumblebee finds himself hiding out in the ruins of [[New York City]] shortly after the rout of the Decepticons. Unable to contact base, he is forced to run when a squad of Cybertronian-hunting militia approach. However, his distinctive wheeled footprints give him away.
 
As they follow his tracks, two of the soldiers comment on a colleague's belief that there are both 'good and 'bad' robots; however, their orders are to take down any alien machines. Bumblebee manages to elude these first trackers, and continues to attempt contact with the Autobots, broadcasting 'in the clear' in the hopes that they are listening.
 
He mentions that most of the city's inhabitants have been moved, leaving their belongings behind, and considers turning himself over to ones of the human bases. He stumbles across a severed Cybertronian arm, and questions how the humans could do such a thing.
Across the street from his position, another squad blows up an ordinary car, mistaking the car's alarm for alien 'chirping'. The car's owner remonstrates with the soldiers, and reveals that he, his wife, children, and their friends have holed up in one of the buildings, not trusting in the safety of the camps set up for dispossessed refugees.
 
Bumblebee detects that the car's explosion has damaged the structural integrity of the building, and with no other choice breaks into the open to hold the wall up until the inhabitants can get out. The soldiers open fire on him as he does so, and as the last of the refugees escape, he collapses.
 
Before the soldiers can finish him, they are forced away by the arrival of Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Ratchet, Hound and Jazz. Bumblebee reawakens with Ratchet standing over him; the latter tells him that they found him thanks to the soldiers' radio conversations, and that Prime told them to listen in, believing that Bumblebee would eventually break cover to save someone.


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Revision as of 03:06, 20 October 2009

« All Hail Megatron #16
File:AHM16 cvr trevhutch.jpeg
Finally out of the AHM hole!
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published October 14, 2009
Cover date October, 2009
Written by Mike Costa "The Man of Steel"
Zander Cannon "Hidden"
Art by Guido Guidi "The Man of Steel"
Chee Yang Ong "Hidden"
Colors by Josh Burcham "The Man of Steel"
Moose Baumann "Hidden"
Letters by Chris Mowry
Editor Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor Carlos Guzman
Associate editor Denton J. Tipton
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology All Hail Megatron

Finally the last of All Hail Megatron. Huzzah!

"The Man of Steel"

Spike is now a hero who gets a unique opportunity.

Synopsis

Spike lies in a hospital, cared for by a number of nurses who seemingly forgot some part of their clothing... He is visited by three officials, who have an offer for him, but first want to know how he got into the miserable state he is in. Spike tells them that after the main Decepticon force war driven off, he became part of a team whose mission was to find any remaining robots, hidden and / or (partially) incapacitated and deactivate them. After a while, they stumbled across Ravage, who very nearly ended his life, but Spike finally made it, though badly hurt.

The visitors reveal that Skywatch shall become an international organization with the purpose of protecting earth from alien (read: Transformer) danger, and they want Spike to be the head of its strike force. He agrees, but is none to happy when he thereafter gets to know that his father is overall chief of Skywatch.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Decepticons Humans
*in flashback

Quotes

"Major Witwicky. A pleasure to meet you."
"Yeah, hi guys. It's gonna be a few weeks before I can do autographs. Sorry."

—Peter Dille and Spike Witwicky, who's getting a wee bit full of himself.

Errors

  • Nurses don't exactly wear that kind of uniform this century. Perhaps these were ... call girls? Maybe?

Items of note

"Hidden"

Bumblebee puts himself in danger to be a hero.

Synopsis

Bumblebee finds himself hiding out in the ruins of New York City shortly after the rout of the Decepticons. Unable to contact base, he is forced to run when a squad of Cybertronian-hunting militia approach. However, his distinctive wheeled footprints give him away.

As they follow his tracks, two of the soldiers comment on a colleague's belief that there are both 'good and 'bad' robots; however, their orders are to take down any alien machines. Bumblebee manages to elude these first trackers, and continues to attempt contact with the Autobots, broadcasting 'in the clear' in the hopes that they are listening.

He mentions that most of the city's inhabitants have been moved, leaving their belongings behind, and considers turning himself over to ones of the human bases. He stumbles across a severed Cybertronian arm, and questions how the humans could do such a thing. Across the street from his position, another squad blows up an ordinary car, mistaking the car's alarm for alien 'chirping'. The car's owner remonstrates with the soldiers, and reveals that he, his wife, children, and their friends have holed up in one of the buildings, not trusting in the safety of the camps set up for dispossessed refugees.

Bumblebee detects that the car's explosion has damaged the structural integrity of the building, and with no other choice breaks into the open to hold the wall up until the inhabitants can get out. The soldiers open fire on him as he does so, and as the last of the refugees escape, he collapses.

Before the soldiers can finish him, they are forced away by the arrival of Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Ratchet, Hound and Jazz. Bumblebee reawakens with Ratchet standing over him; the latter tells him that they found him thanks to the soldiers' radio conversations, and that Prime told them to listen in, believing that Bumblebee would eventually break cover to save someone.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Humans
  • unnamed sergeant (2)
  • Lopez (3)
  • Klonowski (4)
  • unnamed military (5)
  • Karen's husband (6)
  • Karen, and the rest of her family (7)

Quotes

"Hey, Dan-o, y'hear what Collins was sayin' back at Sat-Com?"
"No, what?"
"He said that the cars are the good robots, it's the planes that are bad." "Pff! What does Collins know? He just sits in front of a screen while we're the ones takin' these machines down. Besides, I saw that big construction one take out the Manhattan Bridge. That was no plane. It was like 60% cars - more if you include bulldozers."

— Lopez and Klonowski debate the finer points of altmodes

Errors

He stole that logo from somebody else.
  • Bumblebee appears not in his IDW body, but in a design that resembles the Bumblebee Guido Guidi drew for one of the covers of Infiltration issue 1. (The same mistake was made in the Avengers crossover. Perhaps Bumblebee occasionally moonlights in this design?)
  • In fact, most of the Autobots are not in their IDW bodies. Ratchet in particular is strictly based on this IDW art by Guido, and he has Animated Ratchet's rescue logos on his shoulders to boot. The real-life explanation for this is most likely due to the Red Cross's holding of the copyright for the standard medical symbol.

Items of note

  • The story is followed by Decepticomments with DoubleDenton.
  • Also included is an IDWords section featuring the upcoming ongoing series in an interview with Mike Costa and Don Figueroa.

Covers (4)

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