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And then the shuttle crashes on him. ("Did we get him?", asks Hardhead.) | And then the shuttle crashes on him. ("Did we get him?", asks Hardhead.) | ||
The Primes have an opening but the D-Void is coming through, consuming [[Vector Sigma]] as it does. Rodimus realizes that the only way to stop it is, of course, the Matrix. Optimus Prime is against the idea, as with Sigma and Cybertron both lost, it's the only part of their heritage left; Rodimus argues that he just ''knows'' the Matrix can save them, but Prime remains doubtful. Those doubts allow Galvatron to shoot him in the back. He snarls that he is going to unite their race as their new leader, that there's no secret allies left to ambush him—and then [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] rams him, enraged by what he's been made to do to the planet he loved. Galvatron swats him aside | The Primes have an opening but the D-Void is coming through, consuming [[Vector Sigma]] as it does. Rodimus realizes that the only way to stop it is, of course, the Matrix. Optimus Prime is against the idea, as with Sigma and Cybertron both lost, it's the only part of their heritage left; Rodimus argues that he just ''knows'' the Matrix can save them, but Prime remains doubtful. Those doubts allow Galvatron to shoot him in the back. He snarls that he is going to unite their race as their new leader, that there's no secret allies left to ambush him—and then [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] rams him, enraged by what he's been made to do to the planet he loved. Galvatron swats him aside. Suddenly Galvatron begins to dissolve. Galvatron realizes his failure to see the true forces at work just in time to be vaporized by D-Void once and for all. | ||
Optimus Prime realizes he must use the Matrix after all, and opens it to the light the darkest hour... | Optimus Prime realizes he must use the Matrix after all, and opens it to the light the darkest hour... | ||
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| "Chaos Part Four: Genesis" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | November 16, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | November 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Story by | Mike Costa and James Roberts | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Mike Costa | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Livio Ramondelli | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Associate editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2011) | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
In the skies above Cybertron, Arcee and Hardhead try to explain current events to the Kimia Facility refugees. Thanks to Galvatron hacking his mind, which allowed him to do the same in reverse, Hardhead is able to lay an info dump and explain that Galvatron has been raising his armies and wielding the Heart of Darkness to try and stop the D-Void emerging into the universe, but the Heart is D-Void, conning Galvatron into turning the dead world of Cybertron into a Dead Universe portal so D-Void can make everyone dead. Swerve heroically simplifies the situation to "stop bad guys, save universe".
Down on Cybertron, everything is up the creek: the titanic D-Void avatar comprised of the Decepticons' bodies is tearing through the ruins, and only Megatron stands against it while the Autobots flee for their lives. Deep under the surface, Drift is bleeding out while Rodimus and Optimus Prime are aware, thanks to the Matrix, that Galvatron's going to doom them all. To Ironhide's dismay, he's being sent back to the surface to get help for Drift, rather than guard Optimus.
Despite horrific wounds, Megatron refuses to give in and blasts the D-Void's avatar to bits; deep underground, Galvatron feels the pain and can't work out why. As he reels, the Primes arrive to stop him before he can release the Heart... except he already has done so. Up in space, the Kimia shuttle's readouts tell it Cybertron is no longer there and navigation is impossible; Arcee, zen-like, points out you can see the planet because it's a planet. Unfortunately, the planet is being ripped apart by storms and the crew are forced to bail out for cover, while the Decepticons on the surface crumble to rust... And below, Galvatron bellows that he's won...
And then the shuttle crashes on him. ("Did we get him?", asks Hardhead.)
The Primes have an opening but the D-Void is coming through, consuming Vector Sigma as it does. Rodimus realizes that the only way to stop it is, of course, the Matrix. Optimus Prime is against the idea, as with Sigma and Cybertron both lost, it's the only part of their heritage left; Rodimus argues that he just knows the Matrix can save them, but Prime remains doubtful. Those doubts allow Galvatron to shoot him in the back. He snarls that he is going to unite their race as their new leader, that there's no secret allies left to ambush him—and then Cyclonus rams him, enraged by what he's been made to do to the planet he loved. Galvatron swats him aside. Suddenly Galvatron begins to dissolve. Galvatron realizes his failure to see the true forces at work just in time to be vaporized by D-Void once and for all.
Optimus Prime realizes he must use the Matrix after all, and opens it to the light the darkest hour...
And a long time after, when the glow fades and night has calmed, Optimus Prime remains kneeling in the new crater, the hollow halves of the Matrix at his feet.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"We've made it sound more complicated than it is."
- —Hardhead, master of plot summaries
"No, Ironhide. You're going to make it through this time, no matter what. Prime and I need to finish this. You save lives. Save this one more."
- —Rodimus
"Muster your parts - my own soldiers - for the final sortie. I can feel you in my head, trying to master my will. But I will not yield. I will not be conquered. I will not be defied.
I
AM
MEGATRON!"
- —You know who, staring down the Deceptigod
"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
- —You plonker, Galvatron
Notes
- The Matrix has been completely spent. (Mike Costa thinks the image of an empty Matrix was James Roberts's idea.)[1]
- The opening two pages, where Arcee and Hardhead explain the plot, are a loving fourth-wall-bending admission that, yeah, there's a need for some heavy exposition: Brainstorm asking it to be gone through again, characters calling it an "info dump", Hardhead trying to claim it's not as complicated as he made it sound and then admitting it is, Swerve trying to understand the plot and finally summing it up as "stop Galvatron, stop D-Void, universe saved"...
- This issue reveals that Galvatron's battle to defeat D-Void, i.e. everything involving him since Infestation, has actually been a plan of manipulation on the D-Void's part to kill everything. The D-Void is one clever spawn of a glitch.
- As in "Chaos Theory Part 2", Rodimus seems to be more in-tune with the Matrix than Optimus.
- Cyclonus was first established as a Cybertronian patriot in his spotlight.
- Just like the previous issues in the story, Part Four is named after a book of the Bible.
- It seems Galvatron is dead for good now. Hard to survive getting vaporized by the evil god that you relied on to keep you alive in the first place.
Errors
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Optimus Prime; art by Livio Ramondelli
- Cover B: Galvatron; art by Livio Ramondelli.
- Cover RI: Black & white art of Megatron; art by Livio Ramondelli.
