Spotlight: Nightbeat
Script: Simon Furman
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- Major characters (in order of appearance): Nightbeat, Optimus Prime
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Synopsis
Nightbeat is an Autobot officer attracted by mystery and enigmas; when a mercenary offered him the flight recorder of the Ark (the first Autobot space ship which had disappeared many eons before) he accepts, but he finds his body dead for good; so he put himself on the scent, that leads on remote planet Gorlan.
The detective reformats himself to disguise as local car and heads for the nearest city; oddly Gorlan's people has a technical development more advanced than Cybertronians believed; all indicates an external work. When curiosity and lack of prudence take him under the surface to a kind of portal, Nightbeat is surrounded by small Transformers (probably Micromasters), then some creatures (not visible to our poor readers) exit from the portal. Nightbeat runs for his freedom, but it's all useless; he is strapped on an operating table, while one of creatures (who has a face like a Quintesson) alters his brain, configuring him into a sleeper agent.
Later, Nighbeat is on his ship, unable to remember anything. At that moment, Optimus Prime calls, needing his services on Earth.
