Leap
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| "Leap" 決意
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| Publisher | e-HOBBY, TakaraTomy Mall | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 31, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Story by | Makoto Wakabayashi | ||||||||||||
| Illustrated by | Hidetsugu Yoshioka | ||||||||||||
After confronting Megatron, who possesses the power of SARA, Optimus Prime is thrown to a very familiar place...
Synopsis
Jazz leads a group of Autobots on a raid on a decrepit building, in which they've detected SARA's energy signature. As Ironhide takes its occupants by surprise, Starscream whines that Megatron is never around when the Decepticons really need him. But just as the Decepticons had done when they attacked Metropolis, Jazz's team are actually diverting their enemies' attention from a secondary strike force.
Optimus Prime, Hot Rodimus and Brawn are underground, bypassing the scuffle above them to reach the Decepticons' inner sanctum. Optimus has tracked SARA's location to a nearby room. The trio charge in, only to find Megatron having wired SARA to his own body! The Autobots are taken aback by this development, and inform Megatron that if he is to drain all of SARA's energy into himself, the Cloud World will collapse, killing all of his subordinates. Megatron scoffs at the Autobots' concerns, roaring that the fate of the Cloud World matters not to him. With SARA's power, he plans to ascend as the ruler of all space-time! As Optimus realizes the true extent of Megatron's madness, the Decepticon sends Hot Rodimus and Brawn flying with a surge of energy.
Megatron next reveals that he intends to travel to the "OG World," from where all other universes were birthed, and to conquer it as his first step towards absolute supremacy. Optimus checks on his troops; Hot Rodimus has been knocked out, and Brawl is barely conscious himself. Knowing that he is the only one who can stop Megatron, Optimus transforms and rams into him. Upon impact, the flow of SARA's energy is disrupted. Optimus drifts into unconsciousness...
...And awakens to the sound of Ratchet's voice. Looking around, Optimus sees that he is in an organic forest, surrounded by strange faces. The one who sounds like Ratchet looks different than the Autobot he knows, and appears to have a much milder disposition. Thankfully, Optimus at least understands the strangers. Among the group, Optimus also spots a Wheeljack lookalike, and the truth dawns on him: he has been sent across dimensions, and is meeting the local counterparts to his team. In the group is Optimus's own doppelgänger, the Optimus Prime of OG001! Ratchet begins to repair "Cloud Optimus" while Ironhide warns his teammates that the newcomer might be a Decepticon spy. "G1 Optimus" informs the dimensional visitor that the Autobots were able to find him thanks to his companion. Cloud Optimus is puzzle by the figure G1 Optimus is pointing to: a small, robotic girl. Before he can make heads or tail of the humanoid, the Autobots come under attack from the local Megatron, lured to their location by a large energy reading. Though normally the residents of Cloud World would not intervene in other dimensions' conflicts, circumstances leave Cloud Optimus no choice in the matter. G1 Optimus Prime thanks Cloud Optimus Prime for his support, though he tells him he expects an explanation for his appearance later. The two Optimuses fire their blasters just as "G1 Megatron" fires his fusion cannon. The colliding blasts topples all of the combatants, though to Cloud Optimus's relief, the mysterious girl is unharmed. Then, the newfound calm on the battlefield is broken by the arrival of the one 'bot Cloud Optimus had hoped to never see again: "Cloud Megatron" has found his way to this dimension as well.
Featured characters
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Notes
- Generation 1 Jazz is included in the illustration, but not called out in the text.
Transformers references
- Cloud Optimus Prime is tossed to the time of the first episode of the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon, which is dubbed here as "OG001 Spacetime" (ＯＧ００１時空). This has yet to be edited to the new format of "N-XX Spacetime", as has happened to the designations of "Uprising".
- In an attempt to begin communication with Cloud Optimus Prime, Generation 1 Ratchet uses the universal greeting.
- To distinguish himself from Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Cloud Optimus labels his counterpart as "G1 Optimus" (and the accompanying Megatron as "G1 Megatron"). This same tactic was used to separate the Convoys in Robotmasters.
Errors
- Despite the OG World being the Japanese G1 cartoon, the local Optimus Prime is not referred to as "Convoy".
