Mutant Targetmaster Birth Chapter
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| "Mutant Targetmaster Birth Chapter" ミュータントターゲットマスター誕生編
(Mutant Targetmaster Tanjō Hen) | |||||||||||||
| First published | October 27, 2017 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
The story of the Targetmaster partners and how they ended up in the Legends World.
Synopsis
On the planet Master sometime prior to 2011, Scorponok has gotten his hands on some coveted plasma energy and found that while it usually destroys inorganic matter, exposing it to Transformer bodies in a certain way may let them develop new transformations and combinations. Seeking to make himself stronger, he captures six Master inhabitants who have not trained to be Headmasters—Peacemaker, Pinpointer, Spoilsport, Caliburst, Blowpipe and Aimless—and experiments on them by exposing them to the energy. Fortress finds out and puts a stop to the experiments, sparking the beginning of Scorponok's rebellion that sees him exiled from Master. The victims, who have lost the ability to speak, receive medical treatment for years until the day Scorponok returns with his MegaZarak transtector and attempts to recapture them, prompting the six to flee the planet and seek out Fortress. While helping Fortress clear the Battleship Maximus of plasma energy bombs, however, they are exposed to another wave of the energy and bonded with three Autobots and three Decepticons, becoming the Targetmasters.
In 2021, the Autobot Targetmasters rediscover their partners in the void of space following their disappearance during the black hole battle, but the six have merged together into a clump of guns infused with massive amounts of plasma energy. Despite their previous exposure to the energy, even the bodies of the Targetmasters begin eroding when they approach, but before things go bad the Targetmasters partners suddenly disappear: unbeknownst to the Autobots, their Decepticon counterparts in the Legends World have captured Alpha Trion and forced him to use his ultra-drill to bring the partners there. However, even Trion can't control the runaway plasma energy which somehow merges with the Zamojin power of the Legends World, allowing the Targetmaster partners to absorb the dimension's collective information about Transformers and begin transforming into an "ultimate weapon". As he knows such a weapon would be uncontrollable and the plasma energy burst will destroy both him and the Decepticons, Alpha Trion puts the ultra-drill into reverse, destroying the device and warping the six Targetmaster partners to random locations in the world.
Alpha Trion relays the recent events to the G1 World, where Shaoshao Li forwards the information to Galactic Peace Alliance chairman Spike Witwicky. Aware that Megatron is active in the Legends World, Spike orders Shaoshao to covertly recover the mutated Targetmasters before Megatron can learn of their existence. After Shaoshao leaves to fetch Hot Rod, however, "Spike" removes his mask and reports to his allies in the Concurrence that the Targetmasters are the perfect source of the plasma energy they need to destroy the Autobots, take control of the Galactic Peace Alliance and rule the galaxy!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Notes
- This comic again retells the Targetmasters' origin story from "Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)" and "Part 2" and elaborates more on the history of the smaller partners, explaining that they'd lost their ability to speak even before the incident.
- As Scorponok explains the properties of plasma energy, an image of the Plasma Energy Chamber as it appeared in Beast Machines is shown on a monitor.
