Reunification: Part 1
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| "Reunification: Part 1" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #25 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Forest Lee | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Robby Musso | ||||||||||||
| Inks by | Robby Musso | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Josh Perez | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Shattered Glass | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2009) | ||||||||||||
As Alpha Trion returns to his home dimension, his betrayal of Landquake and company continues to unfold.
Synopsis
In an abandoned laboratory on Cybertron, a light erupts, as a portal spits out the corpse of Skyfall, as Alpha Trion and his group arrive. Landquake asks how his friend died, but Alpha Trion ignores him. Knowing that scouts will be investigating the energy surge, the old Autobot begins directing his troops to gather up supplies and stay on watch. Angered, Landquake pointedly demands to know what happened to Skyfall. Alpha Trion gives him a hateful glare, before telling him that Skyfall was shot from behind before Trion could do anything. Their conversation is interrupted when Topspin spots a scout, Downshift, coming to investigate, and Trion orders everyone to hide. Downshift enters the facility, attempting to contact Hound, only to find his transmissions blocked as Alpha Trion suddenly appears. Downshift tries one last attempt to call Hound, warning him the "Old One" is back, as Trion cuts him in half.
Alpha Trion tells Topspin to keep watching, and orders Landquake to dispose of Downshift's corpse. Landquake, however, refuses, pointing out that Trion killed one of his own; this isn't the world of peace Trion promised. Trion, angered, tells the Decepticon that this is his Cybertron, but Breakaway interrupts the two. Breakaway has examined Skyfall's corpse, figuring out that he wasn't killed by an energy blast, but a blade. Alpha Trion sighs, and with his troops arriving, he orders them to take Landquake and Breakaway captive, as well as Topspin. Sky Lynx gives Alpha Trion a Decepticon scout as an offering, welcoming him back to Cybertron. Topspin begs his leader to know why he has done this to him, as he has been loyal. Trion tells him that his usefulness has ended, and that he, along with Landquake, Breakaway, and the corpse of Skyfall will be used as tools to conquer Cybertron once he finds the "fifth"...
Featured characters
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Quotes
"What happened?"
"Scouts will be here soon in response to the energy surge. We must be prepared..."
"I asked you a question, Autobot. What happened?"
"Nightscream, pack up what we need. We move as soon as the others arrive."
"You are ignoring me. What. Happened. To. Skyfall?"
- — Landquake gets the cold shoulder from Alpha Trion
Notes
- Kickback and Perceptor are the only new characters depicted here to have actual toys (repurposing Shothole and Magnificus). Downshift has Spyglass's colors. The Technobots are all in their G1 bodies, only with Terrorcon colors. Sky Lynx turns into a winged cat, and Dirge uses his "Games of Deception" design only with the colors of- well, he's a whole bunch of references rolled into one. Finally, Breakdown uses his G1 form only with the color placement reversed.
- The mix of evil guys in stolen TransTech bodies, evil Autobots, other evil Autobots, and evil Decepticons who should be good Decepticons makes it a leeeeetle confusing to keep track of who's on what side.
