The Razor's Edge
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 There's fighting on the left And marching on the right Don't look up in the sky You're gonna die of fright! | |||||||||||||
| "The Razor's Edge" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Transformers Collectors' Club | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 6, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Benson Yee from a story by Pete Sinclair and Benson Yee | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Jake Isenberg | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Jake Isenberg | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Thomas Deer | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars continuity | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 45pp + 1 page prologue | ||||||||||||
Climb this high she looks beautiful
Like a child I feel tears.
And I want to scream.
You know what I mean cause this is hurting no one.
An erazor of love.
Synopsis
Prologue
Airazor and Optimus Primal fly to the scene of Megatron's latest scheme: a orbital weapons satellite that when launched, will be able to fire anywhere on the planet. Airazor, having only come online a few weeks prior, has doubts about herself, but leaves them aside, focusing on the mission. Cheetor and Rhinox have already arrived, trading fire with the ground based Predacons. Scorponok attempts to sneak up on the Maximals, but Airazor manages to take him out of the fight. Primal commends her work, but is blasted out of the sky by Terrorsaur and Waspinator, the former wanting revenge for his humiliating defeat at Airazor's hands. Airazor preforms a swift divebomb, turning parallel to the ground just fast enough, causing Waspinator to crash. Terrorsaur, however, also manages to turn, so Airazor leads him into some nearby rocks, turning 90 degrees at the last second, and causing the reptillian Predacon to crash. Airazor heads over to Megatron, the Predacon leader standing at the control panel to launch the satellite. Airazor begins to fire on him. Megatron absorbs most of the blasts, and when Airazor is distracted by Cheetor and Rhinox setting off landmines set up by Tarantulas, Megatron blasters her out of the sky. Falling to the ground, and with Dinobot and Tigatron still racing from the Axalon, Airazor feels her confidence slip away. Megatron grabs her with his dinosaur jaws, and as she begins to slip into stasis lock, she remembers something Dinobot told her: for a warrior to find true strength, they must know themselves. Trouble is, all Airazor knows for sure is her name...
Chapter One
Wing Saber wakes up in a small dark room. A Maximal spy, she had been sent to observe a Predacon operation, and nearly complete her task before being found and attacked. With blaster marks all over her, her optics on the fritz, and her weaponry removed, she finds herself at the mercy of a Predacon named Steelgrave. Steelgrave is impressed by her stealth, and attempts to question the Maximal. When the initial questioning reveals nothing, Steelgrave unleashes his torture weapons. Wing Saber, thinking fast, distracts her torturer by asking him if he knows that one can alter their transformation subroutine. Before the annoyed Predacon can stop her, she rotates her wings to vehicle mode position, cutting her energon bonds, and flips herself backwards. Steelgrave is knocked back by the chair, allowing Wing Saber time to activate an old welding drone, which rushes at the Predacon. Wing Saber rips the wires out of the door's control panel, and runs as quickly as she can. Stopping at a corner, she listens as two Predacons, Bolar and Sawtooth, talk about how annoying they think Steelgrave is. With the Predacon torturer not far behind, she takes her chances and jumps in front of the two Predcons. Pretending to be Steelgrave's subordinate, she announces to him that Bolar and Sawtooth were mocking him. Momentarily distracted, and with tensions raised, the three Predacons begin to fight one another. Wing Saber takes her chance, grabbing Bolar's gun, and blasts a hole through a wall. Unfortunately, the room other side of that wall is filled with Predacons. Wing Saber quickly rips out the spare power pack on the weapon, throwing and shooting it, and takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to turn into vehicle mode and fly out of the base. Wing Saber deactivates the Chromia 10's cloaking device, and activates the ships preprogrammed flight path to Cybertron, whisking the Maximal to safety.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons | Nibarians |
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Notes
- Mentioned characters include:
Continuity notes
- The events of the prologue and epilogue take place during the Beast Wars cartoon, two weeks after "The Spark". Several events from the episode are mentioned, including Cheetor giving up one of his parts for Airazor, and Terrorsaur being defeated by her.
- The exact continuity "The Razor's Edge" is in is...confusing, to say the least. With the appearance of Flamewar, this story was thought to be a sequel to "Descent into Evil". Pete Sinclair, however, would state that that they weren't in the same universe, despite no reason for them not to be. Years later, Jesse Wittenrich stated that it was, in fact, written to be a sequel.[1]
- The epilogue to the story makes no sense without the prologue which was published separately in Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #14.
Transformers references
- Wing Saber mentally refers to Steelgrave as a "spawn of a scraplet"
- The mass-produced drones made in the factory are based on the design of Beast Machines Scavenger.
Real world references
- Many of the Predacons in-story are based off of characters from the Tomy Starriors toyline. In particular, there is:
- Steelgrave, who has his Starriors counterpart's chest weapon.
- Bolar, who has his Starriors counterpart's bola.
- Sawtooth
Errors
- Steelgrave looks far different in the illustration he appears in from how he's described in-story.
- One of the paragraphs on page 41 is repeated.
