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"'''Move it''', guys—'cause '''business''' is about a ta get '''rumbly!'''"<br>
"'''Move it''', guys—'cause '''business''' is about ta get '''rumbly!'''"<br>
''<Rumble generates a quake, but Devastator is unaffected>''<br>
''<Rumble generates a quake, but Devastator is unaffected>''<br>
<font color=#DF01D7>'''"PATHETIC!"'''</font color><br>
<font color=#DF01D7>'''"PATHETIC!"'''</font color><br>

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« The Transformers vol. 2 #38 »
"The Onyx Interface
Conclusion: The Obliterati"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published March 4, 2015
Cover date February 2015
Written by John Barber
Art by Andrew Griffith
Colors by Josh Perez & Thomas Deer
Letters by Tom B. Long
Editor Carlos Guzman
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era

The battle for the Enigma of Combination reaches fever pitch as the Autobots, Decepticons and EDC alike are all threatened by a berserk Devastator, and Thundercracker tries to prevent all-out war from breaking out once again.

Synopsis

As Devastator begins tearing into Onyx's Wanmu facility in order to seize the Enigma of Combination, the Decepticons—along with reluctant allies Arcee and Jimmy Pink—arrive on the scene. Garrison Blackrock is unfazed by the giant robot destroying his building; he has already remotely activated the Earth Defense Command's army of Thrust and Ramjet drones to come to his aid, who are at this very moment buffeting Thundercracker around in the skies over Bikini Atoll. After he realizes he is not being attacked, Thundercracker leaves Buster in the care of Sanjay Bharwaney and heads off after the drone army, worried about their destination.

As Devastator's giant fist reaches inside the Onyx building, Blackrock trips a security device that shields the Enigma and sends it down a drop shaft. Unfortunately for him, Devastator's massive mitt easily smashes through the shield and into the shaft, snagging the Enigma, which grows to gigantic proportions for him to easily hold in his grasp, as the energy of combination flows between it and the gestalt. Spike Witwicky chooses this moment to make his dramatic entrance, dropping out of a ventilation shaft; Faireborn and Jones both draw on him, but Spike is able to get the drop on Marissa by playing dumb, pretending that she is an old romantic conquest of his, allowing him to grab her. This doesn't dissuade Jones from shooting Spike, but before she can, things go extremely wrong: the sight of Spike awakens old grudges in Devastator, and the shared hatred Prowl and the Constructicons have for the human overpowers all other objectives. Before he can reach for Spike, however, the Decepticons open fire on Devastator, and Marissa clobbers the distracted Spike with an elbow to the face.

Following the drones over the Pacific Ocean, Thundercracker contacts Soundwave, who is taking in the sights at Mikumi National Park in Tanzania. Aghast to hear of the drone army's existence, Soundwave is conflicted; he fears the outbreak of war once again, which will surely be the result if the drones engage Galvatron, but at the same time, is disgusted at the prospect of keeping their existence a secret and allowing the humans' duplicitous behavior to stand. He is leaning toward letting humanity suffer for their deception, but Thundercracker beseeches him to help save Earth not for the humans, but in spite of them, so that it can be a world for the Decepticons as well. Soundwave reluctantly agrees, and easily cracks the control signal for the drones, deactivating them and letting them fall out of the sky... but warns Thundercracker not to contact him again.

Arcee attempts to appeal to Prowl within Devastator, but the giant's rage has subsumed the Autobot, and he is so driven to kill Spike that he actually hurls the Engima at her. Galvatron is amused at the sight, but finds himself laughing out of the other side of his face when Devastator seizes him and flings him over the horizon. Spike taunts the deranged combiner, and is saved from being crushed by Jimmy, riding Frenzy, while Rumble tries taking Devastator out with his piledrivers, to no effect. As Devastator turns back to the Onyx building, Galvatron comes flying back onto the scene—just in time to see parties unknown absconding with the Decepticons' shuttle. Before he can do anything about it, however, he is attacked by the newly-arrived Sky Lynx, who then turns his flame-breath on Devastator. As things only get more and more chaotic, Arcee realizes that the Enigma has disappeared, stolen by whoever has left in the shuttle—but she is able to use this fact to finally reach Prowl and calm Devastator down. Refusing to leave empty-handed, Devastator steals the space bridge from Blackrock's collection, and the Autobots retreat before local authorities arrive.

As local EDC forces arrive, Jones, Rumble and Frenzy take Spike and Jimmy into custody, while Galvatron expresses his discontent at the secrets Faireborn has been keeping from him. Blackrock has grumbles of his own, unhappy about the loss of the Enigma and his space bridge, but despite that, he considers himself to have had a good day: millions of people have downloaded his new "Onyx Interface" system, and he now activates the "Earth Enigma" protocol embedded within it...

Aboard Sky Lynx, Prowl—nose streaming energon—roars at the Constructicons, blaming them for taking control of Devastator away from him. Both they and Arcee make it clear that the process doesn't work that way, and that Prowl was as much as part of the combiner's loss of control as any of them, but Prowl just changes the subject, accusing Arcee of conspiring with the enemy. Arcee merely encourages Prowl find a way to explain his actions to Optimus Prime, and suggests he wipe his nose.

On the Nemesis, resting at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Skywarp announces the return of Soundwave before teleporting the communications officer in. Soundwave lies about his whereabouts, merely reporting on the process of the Jupiter commune's construction, before Galvatron tells him that the Enigma of Combination was found, but has been stolen—stolen by Scoop, who even now speeds back to Cybertron, to deliver it to Starscream. Galvatron predicts the end of Cybertronian society...

...but that is of no concern right now to Thundercracker, who happily reunites with Buster on the beaches of Bikini Atoll.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans Others

Quotes

"I'd've loved this in 1991, but living in a John Woo movie is still pretty nice..."

—Blackrock on Spike's dramatic entrance


"Move it, guys—'cause business is about ta get rumbly!"
<Rumble generates a quake, but Devastator is unaffected>
"PATHETIC!"
"Aw. An' such a cool line, too."

—Rumble goes up against Devastator


"I came to this planet for the sake of truth. The truth of the Decepticon way. If the humans' duplicity pushes us to war... well. We owe humanity nothing save retribution."
"This isn't just us and the humans! I—we have responsibilities! This world—it can be ours, too! We have to save it despite the humans, not for them!"

—Soundwave and Thundercracker


"SPIKE! STEP FORWARD AND DIE! DIE LIKE I DIED! YOU KILLED ME, SPIKE! YOU KILLED SCRAPPER! NOW YOU ALL DIE!"

—Devastator is haunted by the memories of his former self


Prowl: (to Constructicons) "We had the enigma in our hands and you threw it away!"
Arcee: "That's not even a metaphor."
Prowl: "You. You colluded with the enemy!""
Arcee: "At least I didn't become him. Now figure out how you want to explain this to Prime."
Prowl: "We got a spacebridge! That's a success however you—"
Arcee: "Wipe your nose. You're leaking all over Sky Lynx."
Hook: "OoOoOoh."

Notes

Continuity notes

  • Rumble and Frenzy have hologram riders while in motorcycle mode. If these are true holomatter avatars (as opposed to just "ordinary" holograms), this would be the first time a Decepticon has had one in IDW continuity.
  • Soundwave left the Decepticons on a "personal errand" back in issue #35, which turned out to be a meeting with Thundercracker in the following issue. It's not clear if he's doing anything in Tanzania beyond taking in the natural beauty.
  • Scoop was revealed to be working for Starscream in issue #33, in which it was also established that Starscream was attempting to rebuild Superion.
  • Prowl has been calling various Constructicons "Scrapper" since they came back to Earth. With Devastator's proclamations this issue, it's clear that Scrapper's proverbial "ghost in the machine" still haunts the combiner's mind, and that Prowl is taking a little of that away with him after each combination.

Transformers references

  • Rumble attempting to use his piledrivers on Devastator feels like a reference to when he did the same in The Transformers: The Movie, though he has far less here success than he did there.

Real-life references

Errors

  • Up until now, this multi-part story has been called "Onyx Interface." In this issue, it's "The Onyx Interface."

Other notes

  • Originally intended for release in February 2015, continuing delays to all of IDW's titles due to port closures along the west coast of the United States led to this issue being pushed to the first week of March.

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