Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome

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Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome is a one-shot motion comic released among Bumblebee movie's DVD edition bonus content; produced by Avalanche Comics Entertainment, animated by THINKWELL MEDIA and illustrated by Beni Lobel of Infinitoons Creative. It follows Seymour Simmons in 1989 encountering Bumblebee and Soundwave, two years after the former's arrival to Earth in Bumblebee, and serves to help bridge the gap between Bumblebee and the 2007 film.

Plot

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Bumbebee (6) Brawn (9)	Soundwave (5) Laserbeak (7) Ravage (8) Rumble (9) Megatron (11)	Seymour Simmons (1) Danny Bell (2) Neda March (3) S7 Soldiers (4) Tom Banachek (10)

Of course, this comic serves to help bridge the gap between Bumblebee and the rest of the live-action film series:

Simmons devlops his famous obsession with Transformers after this event.
Soundwave acknowledges Shatter and Dropkick's deaths and their failed attempt to contact the Decepticon Empire.
Brawn is present on Earth, indicating he was among the Autobots who arrived shortly after Optimus in the first mid-credits scene. While the fact that he vanishes after following S7 convoy, it is possible that this may directly tie to his chronologically later appearance in Nefarious #5, in which he is among the Autobots that have been captured and brainwashed by the Initiative.
Soundwave also mentions that he made a bet with Blitzwing to see which of them can reduce a human into at least one kilounit of water. Since the Bumblebee movie threw the Bumblebee Movie Prequel comic out the window and left us with no explanation as to how Blitzwing made it to Earth that was compatible with the movie series' current layout of continuity, it is likely possible that, based off this statement, Blitzwing was a crew member of the Nemesis.
After the battle, Agent March suggests Simmons to wear a t-shirt with S7's symbol; he will take it very seriously.
Tom Banachek, Sector Seven's director, appears at the end of the story.
Aaand of course Project: Iceman is nothing more than.... Megatron, frozen under Hoover Dam. According to Travis Knight a post-credit scene with a frozen Megatron was supposed to have appeared in the movie but was deleted from the final cut.

Like the other robot cast members in this comic, Laserbeak and (especially) Rumble's designs are influenced by their Generation 1 namesakes, right down to the cassette tape alternate modes.
Simmons describes the Transformers as "robots in disguise".
When Simmons orders retreat, he says "roll out".
At the end of the battle, Agent March asks Simmons if there could be "more than meets the eye" into the giant robots.

How could Soundwave be on Earth after leaving aboard the Longshot in 1979 (a whole decade prior to this comic), as chronicled in Convergence #4.
- Speaking of Convergence, Rumble was alive well after 1989, given the fact the he was the one who informed Soundwave of the makeshift space bridge on Mars. However, Rumble is (possibly) killed by Brawn during the battle in this comic. It there is a chance Rumble survived, it would become helpful when he does up in the present day during Nefarious.
How the hell did Brawn transformed into his vehicle form, given that the S7's payload had been activated?

Really? None of the soldiers noticed a strange military vehicle transforming into an Autobot and later hide among them?