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...
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.
- What exactly this continuity is in is...confusing, to say the least. Originally, with the appearance of Flamewar, this story was though to be a sequel to Descent into Evil. Pete Sinclair, however, would state that that they weren't in the same universe, despite any reasons for them not to be. Years later, however, Jesse Wittenrich would state that it was, in fact, written to be a sequel to DiE. [1] (Whether or not you really care is subjective.)
- The epilogue to the story makes no sense without the prologue which was published separately in Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #14.
- The mass-produced drones made in the factory are based on the design of Beast Machines Scavenger.
Errors
- One of the paragraphs on page 41 is repeated.
