Shattered Destiny
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| "Shattered Destiny" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #54 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Benson Yee & Pete Sinclair with Matt Frank | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Evan Gauntt | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Evan Gauntt | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Thomas Deer | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Shattered Glass | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Earth prehistory | ||||||||||||
The battle for the Origin Matrix comes to a head.
Synopsis
Outside of the alien chamber, Megatron stands encased in his saurian Gigastorm Armor, demanding the Maximal's surrender. Undeterred, the Maximals fire upon the titan, and manage to cause great damage...but the regenerative Pretender technology quickly heals the armor's wounds, and Megatron orders his Predacons forward. God Neptune and Magnaboss merge and enage; Grimlock takes on Autolauncher on the ground; and Depth Charge dogfights with Autojetter and Dirge. Ultra Mammoth demands that Megatron come on out and face him, but Megatron reveals that even if he wanted to, his armor is now one with him. Ultra Mammoth realizes that by hurting the suit, he hurts Megatron, and fires his cannon at full blast. Unfazed, Megatron transforms into a battle platform, unleashing his firepower on the battlefield. With the other Maximals down, things look dire, and Megatron moves in to take the Origin Matrix. Mammoth, however, does not back down; using the Origin Matrix as a power source, Mammoth opens a rift in spacetime, sucking Megatron and the other Decepticons in. Depth Charge tells Mammoth and the others to follow the Decepticons and protect the multiverse from his evil. Mammoth is reluctant to leave him behind, but when two heavily-damaged ships emerge through the portal, Mammoth is force to leave Depth Charge to deal with the two temporally displaced intruders. Depth Charge wishes him luck, and flies out to investigate.
Arriving at a lush, grassy area where one of the ships has crashed, Depth Charge moves in to inspect the crash. A hatch opens on the side of the ship, and Depth Charge is taken aback as a strange, oddly peaceful group of Predacon s emerge from the ship, wondering where they are. Depth Charge sighs, resigned at the prospect of doing it all again.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons | Shattered Glass Predacons |
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Quotes
"Your warriors have fallen, you are weakness incarnate, and I hold all the power! You don't even deserve the mercy of surrender - I will take what you found. Now."
"No Megatron... what you don't understand is that it is always darkest before the dawn!"
- —Megatron and Ultra Magnus
"Aaaaaaand here we go again!"
- —Depth Charge senses impending Beast Wars.
Notes
Continuity notes
- The same issue's Transformers I.Q. reveals where Magnus ends up—the modern day of the Shattered Glass universe where he meets with Aquarius. The story of Ultra Mammoth's team would be continued in the 2015 magazine comic arc, Another Light.
Transformers references
- Megatron's giant mech is named the "Gigastorm Armor" in reference to Beast Wars II Gigastorm.
- The two ships crashing at the end of the story is obviously a callout to the start of "Beast Wars (Part 1)".
- Quite fittingly, future era Megatron's only line of dialogue is, "Oh noooo...".
