Dawn of Future's Past

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"Dawn of Future's Past"
Publisher Fun Publications
First published September 28, 2006 (BotCon 2006)
November 22, 2006 (retail ed.)
Cover date Fall '06
Story Pete Sinclair
Story consultants Bob Forward and Benson Yee
Writers Forest Lee, Pete Sinclair
Pencils Dan Khanna, Alex Milne, and Marcelo Matere
Inks Jake Isenberg and Terry Pallot
Color Drew Eiden, Josh Perez, and Thomas Deer
Letters Junemoon Studio
Continuity Beast Wars continuity
Wings Universe

A rogue Predacon steals a Maximal relic. A group of Maximal explorers must pursue.

Synopsis

Two Maximals, Unit 1 and Unit 2, are in pursuit of several Predacon criminals. Asking for details from the Maximal Defense Command Center, Unit 2 is informed that the intruder's most likely objective is to steal the Golden Disk; what exactly the Golden Disk is remains need-to-know information. The two are ordered to bring the criminals back alive; Unit 1 objects, but is suddenly blasted, knocking out his transformation cog. Unit 2 transformers into robot mode, checking up on his partner, before taking off after the Predacons. Nearby, Megatron holds the Golden Disk with anticipation, and orders for his crew to withdrawl. His lieutenant, who has been blasting at the pursuing Maximals with his eye beams, objects, feeling there is no honor in what he perceives as cowardice. Megatron grabs him and raises him to his eye level, telling him to never use the word honor again. Letting go, his lieutenant questions him what he plans to do, but Megatron pushes him along, not having the time to explain his plan in detail. Meanwhile, in a chamber beneath Cybertropolis, a mysterious benefactor, pleased with Megatron’s results, calls in two of his agents, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. He informs them he has procured a ship for Megatron’s crew, and that they are to ensure he reaches his destination, without being noticed by any Maximals. Back on the surface, Megatron radios the rest of his crew, telling them to hurry with their ship, and as one of the troops radios back, the massive warship they have stolen, now called the Darksyde, brings them on board. Arriving too late to stop them from taking off, Unit 2 is authorized to commandeer a ship to chase them. Driving up to the Chromia 10, it’s pilot is resistant at first, but when she’s informed that he needs it for a chase, she allows him on board, telling him to get ready for a ride.

At the Maximal Defense Command Center, a status report is being compiled. The Tripredacus Council denies any involvement, and have been trying to capture him themselves for some time, which for once, seems to be the truth. The ship Megatron and his crew have stolen is equipped with a transwarp drive, and the only ship available with a transwarp drive and able to track them is the Axalon. The ship is currently being loaded up by its crew on a space station, one of whom is upset with the constant monotony of their mission, while Optimus Primal tends to one last piece of very special cargo. While Laserbeak and Buzzsaw inform their commander they are in position, the Axalon leaves the space station. Primal informs his crew that the Maximal Council contacted them to rid themselves of cargo on a barren moon in the Alpha Quadrant before returning to their mission. The unhappy crew member objects even more, but before Primal can explain the cargo’s significance, another crew member informs Optimus that they have an incoming audio-only transmission from Maximal Command. Bringing it up, Command informs them that they are assigned to intercept the Darksyde and retrieve the Golden Disk, and that this takes priority even over their mission to the Alpha Quadrant. But before they can, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw begin an assault on the Maximal ship, knocking out their engines, locking their energon flow system, and causing their shields to lose power. Before the two former Decepticons can complete their attack, however, the Chromia 10 swoops in, attacking the two Predacons while the Axalon’s crew attempt to get its engines back on. The two Predacons begin causing heavy damage to the Chromia 10, breaching the hull, but before they can finish them off, the engines of the Axalon come back online, and the Maximal ship blasts the two Predacon birds into oblivion. Chromia 10’s crew’s signals are very faint, and with no time to get them out before their reactor explodes, the ship’s Rhinox science officer only suggestion is to perform a remote spark core transfer to some of the blank protoforms in the cargo hold, a process which may cause them to lose much of their core mainframe, which Primal, unable to see any other option, orders him to do.

Half a mega cycle later, onboard the Darksyde, a plant by the Tripredacus Council informs his superior that his analysis of the Golden Disk has revealed some interesting properties. Promising to transmit more data later, he ends his communication as Megatron messages him for their coordinates, and to bring the Golden Disk back up with him. As Megatron removes his armor, another member of his crew informs him of the Axalon’s approach. Megatron orders his lieutenant to prepare for the transwarp jump, knocking him back when he objects, and orders for his crew to hail the Maximal ship. Back aboard the ship, Primal responds to Megatron’s message, who informs him he is now leader of the Predacons. Primal informs Megatron that he is to surrender the Golden Disk, but the Predacon has his lieutenant fire upon to fire upon them, and the transwarp portal opens to the Predacon’s destination. The Maximals, still alive, quickly follows through, and the portal closes behind them, the two ships heading for destinations.

Many stellar cycles later, Megatron’s secret benefactor, Divebomb, now reformatted to a technorganic form, informs his commander that the Golden Disk was destroyed in the Beast Wars, and that Megatron died in the Battle for the Sparks. With him gone, the true leader of the Predacons can now return…as Razorclaw, revived in a technorganic form, announces the Maximals will tremble before him!

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals Predacons

Notes

  • The mass-retail release of this comic featured several pages of bonus material: some sketches by Marcelo Matere, and profiles for Optimus, Megatron, Cheetor, and the Maximal Command Security Force.

Errors

The spellchecker was already "excecuted" by this point.
  • Early in the comic, it is established Terrorsaur gave the Darksyde its name. Divebomb is seen referring to the ship by that name too not much later, despite that he can not know it (unless he has somehow intercepted their communications).
  • When Megatron orders Waspinator to execute the transwarp jump, "execute" is misspelled "excecute". This was later fixed in the 2011 re-release.


Transformers references

  • Rattrap calls Rhinox a "rhinoceros". In "Beast Wars (Part 1)", he calls Rhinox a "bulldozer".
  • On the space station, Rhinox and a group of armed guards can be seen loading Protoform X's stasis pod onto the Axalon.
  • One of the Maximals in the Defense Command Center has the head of Armada Blurr.
  • Cicadacon can be seen in the reflection on Tarantulas's head.
  • The Timelines Megatron toy is a redeco/retool of Cybertron Red Alert, but here it is revealed that that body is actually a suit of armor, accounting for why the BotCon toy looks different from the pre-beast Megatron seen in "Beast Wars (Part 1)". This could also explain why Megatron's Tail Weapon was removable.
  • Razorclaw's appearance is based on the Leobreaker toy with a new head; this design would become a toy for BotCon 2009. He also sports a new Predacon symbol. The Transformers standing behind Razorclaw seem to be based on Transmetal 2 Cheetor, Longhorn, and Backstop, though artist Dan Khanna says these resemblances were not intentional. This scene was said by Pete Sinclair to take place 50–100 years after Beast Machines. He also stated that the original Rampage, Tantrum, and Headstrong died at the end of the Great War, and the guys standing behind Razorclaw are their descendants.
  • Waspinator wants to call the ship Buzzer-Bot.


Trivia

Covers

  • BotCon Edition: The Maximals have Megatron surrounded; by Makoto Ono.
  • Diamond Edition: Pre-beast mode Maximals versus Predacons; art by Joe Ng.
  • Shout! Factory DVD Edition: Same as the BotCon Edition.
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