In the National Interest
Joy Meadows and the Dinobots are going to blow the whole Robot Master story wide open. The Decepticons and Triple I don't want this to happen...
Marvel UK issues #74-77
Writer: Simon Furman
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- Main Characters: Professor Morris, Joy Meadows, Grimlock, Snarl, Slag,Sludge, Swoop, Centurion, Megatron, Soundwave, Mixmaster, Scrapper, Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Hook, Long Haul, Laserbeak
- Originally published: 16th August 1986 – 6th September 1986
Synopsis
Joy Meadows is on a TV talk show announcing that she will expose the claims of Robot Master that he leads the Transformers for the sham that is. Meanwhile Triple I are watching and decide that she must be silenced. At the same time Professor Morris is standing trial for murder when the courtroom is invaded by four armed men who kidnap Morris. He then find out he has been captured by Triple I to control their new mechanism Centurion in order to stop Joy wrecking their Robot Master scenario.
Meanwhile, back at the Ark the Dinobots are bored as they are confined to the Autobot base as their forms make them too conspicuous. Grimlock decides they need to go find some action when Sludge rushes in and states that he's seen Joy on TV. The Dinobots go out to find Joy and are just in time to save her from an ambush laid by Triple I. Grimlock tells Joy about the fights between the Autobots and Decepticons and works out that Robot Master is a pippet of the government. Joy sets up an interview with one of the Dinobots and Swoop sets off to pick up her film crew.
The Decepticons (who are searching for Robot Master) pick up the signal and Swoop gets involved in a fight with Megatron while picking up the film crew. Swoop is saved by the arrival of Centurion (controlled by Morris who is disobeying Triple I orders, and has sealed himself in the control room), but as Swoop flies off he is hit by a homing beacon fired by a Triple I employee. The signal from this leads the Decepticons to the Dinobots location.
Centurion arrives as the Dinobots are getting defeated and attacks the Decepticons, bringing the battle back into the balance. Soundwave takes the recordings off the film crew and destroys them, threatening the humans with an unpleasant fate if they ever try to compile further evidence. The Decepticons leave and the Dinobots lick their wounds.
Meanwhile Morris decides that he is going to bury Triple I once and for all......
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- "OOH 'ECK! DECEPTICONS!" Slag has the campest warning ever.
