Go! Go! issue 52
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | December 15, 2025 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Haruka Oda | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Minoko | ||||||||||||
How the Seekers (Almost) Stole Christmas.
Synopsis
[edit]It's Christmas day at the Decepticon base, but Starscream is stuck on warehouse cleaning duty under orders from Megatron, a role he sees as beneath his status as Decepticon second-in-command. His Seeker cohorts, the prankster Skywarp and the lethargic Thundercracker, are likewise less than enthusiastic about their boring menial task. That's when Starscream gets an idea – they can go "clean up" those pesky Autobots instead! Jumping on the chance to partake in some action, Skywarp teleports the trio away...
...and they appear literally right in front of Perceptor, Cliffjumper, and Bumblebee as the Autobots help Santa Claus deliver his presents. Starscream and Thundercracker berate Skywarp for blowing their element of surprise, a distraction Bumblebee takes advantage of to allow Santa to slip away. However, Bumblebee's mention of Christmas ticks off the already irate Seekers, who turn their anger towards attacking the Autobots! (Thundercracker is not so willing, but Starscream and Skywarp browbeat him into participating.) The Autobots rally against the Seekers, but Thundercracker's powerful sonic booms and Skywarp's unpredictable teleporting leave them disoriented and wide open for a missile barrage that blows them off their feet. The three Seekers wrap the defeated Autobots up as a present for Megatron...
...but that's when Optimus Prime comes charging in, called in as reinforcements by Santa and his trusty reindeer! Optimus promptly turns the terrified Seekers into roadkill with his truck mode before transforming and reassuring everyone that the danger has passed. However, making the journey to call Optimus has left Santa's reindeer exhausted, requiring Autobot aid to deliver his presents in time. Looking at the defeated Seekers, Optimus gets an idea... forcibly conscript the Seekers into pulling Santa's new sleigh, complete with antlers and red noses, with Optimus himself presiding as passenger to make sure they behave! As the bickering Seeker sleigh races across the night sky, the Autobots wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Everyone except a very furious Megatron, that is, who's left with a whole warehouse to clean and no Seekers to order to clean it.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- This story was published as the December 2025 issue of the web comic and advertised Studio Series War for Cybertron Thundercracker, War for Cybertron Skywarp, and Transformers One Starscream, as well as the Transformers Fan Book 2025 and the second collected edition of Go! Go!.
Transformers references
[edit]- Thundercracker and Skywarp debut here sporting character models based on their War for Cybertron: Earthrise toys, naturally matching Starscream whose model is likewise Earthrise-based.
- While Skywarp's prankster personality aligns well with other portrayals of the puerile Decepticon teleporter, Oda has reinterpreted Thundercracker's "uncertainty towards the Decepticon cause" into a perennial state of Dead End-esque lethargy.
- Starscream uses his chest-mounted missile clusters from "Fire on the Mountain" when the Seekers launch their missile barrage.
- Optimus says "I have a good idea..." as he looks over the defeated Seekers, dropping his famous catchphrase from the Japanese dub of the G1 cartoon.
Continuity notes
[edit]- The Autobots have helped Santa out before in "The Big Operation to Help Santa!", in which the jolly old man also needed help delivering presents after his vehicle was rendered incapable of flight.
External links
[edit]- Issue 52 at TV Magazine
