The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2
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| "The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2" レジェンズ復活への道編2
(Legends Fukkatsu e no Michi Hen 2) | |||||||||||||
| First published | October 28, 2018 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 2011, 2025, 2035, 2038 | ||||||||||||
The return of Violen Jiger.
Synopsis
Having discussed the origins of Transformer life and the existence of their souls with Primacron in 2011, Wheeljack begins researching the subject by examining personality components, the part believed to contain a Transformer's essence. By 2025, he succeeds at extracting the elusive spark from his own personality component, proving once and for all that his species does have souls, though to Perceptor's horror the experiment causes Wheeljack's personality program to reset and leaves him without any memories. Finding records of the research results, Perceptor begins wondering what happens to sparks when Transformers die...
In 2035, the Powered Masters return to the Tenth Planet in response to a disaster, discussing Violen Jiger originating there as an aggregate of Decepticon ghosts and whether or not the location has anything to do with the reappearance of Starscream's ghost. Suddenly, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber are decapitated by none other than Violen Jiger himself, whose soul had not been vanquished but used the Tenth Planet's energy to resurrect himself. A couple years later in 2038, Megatron returns from the destroyed Legends World to his proper era and is met by Soundwave, who returned fifteen years earlier and has kept his mouth shut about knowing about Megatron's eventual return. He explains that all Autobots and Decepticons present in Legends World have a secret agreement not to talk about encountering people from the future in order to avoid causing any time paradoxes, though by now Optimus Prime has been informed and should be returning the Zodiac to Dai Atlas.
However, the robots that meet with Prime aren't Dai Atlas and his comrades at all, but Violen Jiger's components—Vion, Lenja and Igern—who are inhabiting the Powered Masters' bodies in order to take the Zodiac by force! His plot is foiled by the arrival of the real Powered Masters, who were saved by Perceptor and Wheeljack having used the Tenth Planet's resurrective properties to recover their sparks and place them in protoforms, allowing them to return in new Headmaster bodies. A heated battle breaks out as the Powered Masters use their teamwork and new Headmaster capabilities to best Lenja and Igern, but Vion, in the body of Dai Atlas, is able to defeat Optimus Prime and take the Zodiac. He points out that the Powered Masters' new bodies are lacking Powered Engines, devices granted to them by Vector Sigma, and that the reason Violen Jiger took their original bodies is because a Powered Engine allows him to use the Zodiac to its maximum potential.
Violen Jiger calls upon the Zodiac and transforms into Dai Atlas's Zone Mode, but fortunately Topspin and Twin Twist arrive and grant Dai Atlas access to their own Powered Engines by connecting their own Zone Modes to his, allowing Dai Atlas to counter Violen Jiger's attack. The blast causes the power of the Zodiac to run dry, so Violen Jiger retreats to replenish it with Energon Z. Optimus Prime intends to give chase, seeking to recover the Zodiac and create a new home for the displaced Legends World citizens, but Dai Atlas already knows where Violen Jiger is headed: the home of Energon Z, the Z Planet.
Featured characters
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Notes
- Wheeljack's meeting with Primacron took place in "Controverse".
- Among the technology Wheeljack uses are stasis pods, a spark extractor, and the device Rhinox uses to journey into the Matrix and revive Optimus Primal in "Coming of the Fuzors".
- Soundwave has evidently returned to a normal, Headmaster-less body by 2038, also reverting to being Soundwave instead of Soundblaster.
- Optimus Prime has been in possession of the Zodiac since the events of The Battlestars, where it was used to revive him.
- This story seems incongruous with previous stories in Japanese continuity that presented sparks as known to Transformers prior to 2025, such as Story of Binaltech. However, Binaltech made consistent mention of "life cores" instead of "sparks" in some chapters and "Controverse" itself seems to make Wheeljack ignorant of the existence of a Transformer soul, so it seems easier to handwave those pre-2025 references as unknown to Wheeljack or simply a third-party omniscient narrator.
