Crossing Over, Part 1
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 "All right, do-over. This time I'll skip the visions of doom, and you won't get yourself tangled up with Cobra. Deal?" | |||||||||||||
| "Crossing Over, Part 1" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #13 | ||||||||||||
| Plot by | Forest Lee, Dan Khanna | ||||||||||||
| Script by | Forest Lee | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Dan Khanna | ||||||||||||
| Inks by | Terry Pallot | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Krista Ward, Joe Givens | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Tim Smith | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 2006 | ||||||||||||
Skyfall and Landquake arrive in a new universe and face a frightening new enemy.
Synopsis
[edit]Awakening on a strange organic planet, Skyfall and Landquake find themselves staring down the fusion cannon of Megatron, delighted to have a gift delivered to him from nowhere. Before he can actually take the shot, however, the group known as RUNT blast Megatron's backside, angering the Decepticon leader. While Megatron is distracted with vaporizing the humans, Skyfall rouses Landquake to his senses; the Decepticon, however, does not seem to recognize this being as Megatron, and questions where they are. Skyfall ignores this, and pleads with him to help save the humans.
Meanwhile, Megatron, having torn apart most of the machines, begins firing on the fleeing humans. Skyfall interrupts his attack, telling the humans to escape while he holds Megatron off, and as the RUNTS radio in for back up, Megatron fires his fusion cannon, which is somehow able to pierce Skyfall's forcefield. Skidding back to Landquake, the damaged Skyfall pleads with him to help, but just as Megatron is about to disintegrate the Velocitronian, Megatron is blasted in the head. Megatron scowls as Optimus orders Mirage to help with the humans, while Prime and the rest deal with Megatron...
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- Characters mentioned but not seen include: a different Megatron and a different Optimus Prime.
Continuity notes
[edit]- Picking up where the last chapter of the previous years stories left off, Skyfall and Landquake have been blasted to the Classics universe (a continuation of the Marvel US The Transformers comics). This isn't clear to the two of them yet.
- Megatron was last seen deactivated inside the remains of the Ark in The Transformers issue #79. Evidently, he's come back online in the intervening years.
- Later chapters would indicate that RUNT is the successor to RAAT, who bedeviled the Autobots and Decepticons throughout the first half of the original Marvel comic.
- Mirage and Jetfire were last seen being deactivated by Starscream in The Transformers issue #50, and presumably were either among those repaired by the Nucleon infusion by Grimlock, or were brought back online in the intervening years.
Transformers notes
[edit]- Everybody is, of course, in their new Classics toy bodies.
Real-life references
[edit]- One of the RUNTS calls in for air assistance from the Raptors, which later chapters will show are the real-life F-22 Raptor.
Errors
[edit]- Megatron's gold parts are colored as orange.
Other trivia
[edit]- Skyfall briefly mistakes the humans for Mini-Cons.
