Fate
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| "Fate" 因縁
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| Publisher | e-HOBBY, TakaraTomy Mall | ||||||||||||
| First published | December 13, 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Story by | Makoto Wakabayashi | ||||||||||||
| Illustrated by | Hidetsugu Yoshioka | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Cloud | ||||||||||||
Optimus Prime and Megatron confront each other.
Synopsis
[edit]Once, in times past, Megatron worked alongside Optimus Prime as an officer of the Spacetime Police. The two often clashed on the best way to steward SARA's power and maintain spacetime; Optimus wanted only to use SARA to bring peace, but Megatron sought to use her powers to obtain control over the multiverse. Eventually, when the schism between the two grew too wide to overcome, Megatron gathered those who believed in his vision together beneath him, and they staged a rebellion. Defeated by Optimus's side—though only just—Megatron and his Decepticons were banished to the Underground beneath Metropolis. Now, they have returned...
As Megatron tears through Metropolis, Starscream arrives to cheerfully report the success of his and Thundercracker's attack on their designated sector of the city. Having always considered Starscream a nuisance at the best of times, Megatron quickly tires of his unique mix of flattery and boastful swaggering, and orders him to get back to the post he has abandoned, as the Autobots will be exploiting his absence to organize a counterattack. Before the faltering Starscream can compose himself enough to go on his way, however, Optimus Prime appears to challenge his old enemy. The pair share a little trash talk, but Starscream has no tolerance for their war of words and interrupts with a volley of missiles. Prime skilfully dodges every one, closing in on Starscream as he weaves through them, and clobbering the Decepticon flier. Megatron orders Starscream away and leaps in to engage Prime, though the fight between the two is slow to truly begin as the two opponents silently size each other up, tensely waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Abruptly, a nearby explosion breaks the silence, distracting the two. A split-second later, Megatron is seemingly the first to recover and uses the opening provided to lunge at Prime with this sword—except Prime has already exploited the distraction to transform to vehicle mode, causing Megatron to misjudge his strike and miss. He quickly shifts back to robot form and opens fire on his enemy, but Megatron accomplishes the impressive task of slicing the laser beam with his sword, refracting it into a shower of laser shards that rain down on the hapless Starscream off in the distance. The two foes continue to fight at close quarters; Optimus is forced to use his blaster to intercept a sword slash from Megatron, embedding the blade in the gun and costing both opponents their weapons, but they merely continue to fight hand-to-hand. Optimus eventually begins to weaken in the face of Megatron's attack, and falls to his knees, but as Megatron looms over him and prepares to deliver a killing blow, Prime transforms the energy unit on his back into a cannon and fires off a single blast. Unfortunately for the Autobot, Megatron has a second, smaller sword, and proves just as able to slice the blast with it as he was with this larger sword. The pair break apart and try to gather themselves for further combat, but just then, Ratchet radios Optimus with distressing news: while they have been battling, the Decepticons have abducted SARA!
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- Megatron and Optimus's fight makes some specific use of the features of their Cloud toys. Prime spends most of the fight using his primary weapon, the blaster made from the toy's smokestacks, then uses the secondary gun which transforms from his toy's wind vane, which can mount on the figure's back in either form.
References
[edit]- "Fate" at e-HOBBY
- "Fate" at TakaraTomy Mall (archived)
- Machine translation of "Fate"
