Sunrise
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| "Sunrise" サンライズ
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| Publisher | Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive) | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 7, 2016 | ||||||||||||
| By | Andrew Hall | ||||||||||||
| Illustrations by | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Shattered Glass, GoBots, Classics | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 12pp | ||||||||||||
A team of GoBots surveys Earth.
Synopsis
On Earth, at the fancy Dancitron, Soundwave loudly regales Blitzwing with the Solarbot encounter he had. Who could these six Ember-lacking 'bots Solarbot wanted be? Ha, get this, Slugfest thinks they must be cyborg alien invaders, what a putz!
Meanwhile, in Gargent 984.08 Alpha, the cyborg alien GoBots are informed that the protections put in place by the Beast Sage have failed and the Cataclysm has returned to destroy the universe. Worse, some major dimensional shift is cutting off contact with the reinforcements they sent and the Guardian leadership think they can only trust in their allies. Cy-Kill thinks that's a load of crap! They need to evacuate now! Even as the Guardian leader speaks fine words about trust and spending the last time with your loved ones, Cy-Kill knows they've got three days, seven hours, eighteen minutes, and four seconds to go...
Back at Earth, the GoBot specialists are cautiously checking out Utah in the hope of finding what on this world is damaging theirs. Tension is up as they have to keep two factions together and Bug Bite keeps disappearing to do who knows what, leaving remaining Renegade Bad Boy on edge. Their reinforcements arrive in the form of Man-O-War, Rest-Q, and... some other dude, all in local guises (battle-ready on the assumption it was a search-and-rescue), but the meeting goes sour when Man-O-War hears about Bug Bite's vanishing acts. Treds already has bad history with Man-O-War, and seethes as he's berated and rank is pulled on him, before Path Finder tries to calmly turn things back to the mission and finds herself slagged off for planning to talk to the local Autobots.
That's when the third reinforcement reveals himself to be the utter weirdo, the Buggyman, a Renegade navigator whose bug drones have IDed the Autobot's base. This allows Path Finder to pull off her plan, while Man-O-War assigns himself to an advance aerial unit for diplomatic reasons (and totes not to avoid dusty roads). The GoBots hit the road, splitting into two groups.
Which they probably wouldn't do if they knew they were being watched...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Heroic Decepticons | Guardians | Renegades |
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Quotes
"Earth, again? Honestly, human names... why not go for something patriotic, like 'Peopletron,' or something?"
- —Treds finds Earth names to be stupid.
"The Buggyman is master of not just insects... I have metal maggots, turbo-worms, and botspiders, too... You will love them!"
- —Buggyman
“That means you’ll be the one in charge of the ground team’s safety, Treds. You sure the perilous wilds of Potato won’t be too much for you?”
“I’ll get them to the Autobot base safely, or I’ll turn in my Guardian badge.”
“I’ll hold you to that, soldier.”
- —Man-O-War and Treds
Notes
- Characters mentioned but not appearing in the story proper are Solarbot, Colton, Ravage, Optimus Prime, Terrorcons, Cold Slither, Seacons, Vehicons, Slugfest, Recordicons, the Beast Sage, Doctor Go, the Last Engineer, and Bug Bite.
Errors
- This story refers to Doctor Go while "Withered Hope" referred to "Herr Fiend". It is uncertain if this is a correction from "Withered Hope" or an error in coordination.
Continuity notes
- This delves into the long fallow GoBots plot of the Fun Pub stories. Noticeably:
- The Cataclysm was the reason the GoBots were turning up since waaaay back in "Games of Deception". That plot was quietly wrapped up in, off all things, The Complete AllSpark Almanac, which said the events of 2012's "Invasion" had sorted it. Now it's back again!
- This story follows on from the end of "Withered Hope", where the team are on Earth and reinforcements are picked up, which happened in 2008.
- Lio Convoy visited Gobotron in "Ask Vector Prime, 14/5/2015".
Transformers references
GoBots references
- Small Foot refers to a previous fight with Buggyman from Challenge of the GoBots.
Real world references
Other trivia
External link
- Spatiotemporal Challengers Part 1: "Sunrise" at The Official Transformers Collectors' Club
