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 mistery and enigms; when a mercenary offered him the flight recorder of the Ark (first Autobot space ship disappeared many eons before) he accepts, but he finds his bot 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; taken on an operating table, one of creatures (who has a face like a Quintesson) exchanges some parts of his brain mutating him into a sleeping agent (a Manchurian Bot, if you prefer).
Later, Nighbeat is on his ship and he doesn't remember anything; at that moment, Optimus Prime calls ordering he set a route for Earth, because the Autobot leader needs his services (see Escalation for understanding).
