First (and Second) in Flight

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<tbody><tr style="font-size: 14px;"> <td class="tti_buttonlink"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Arrival_issue_5" title="The Arrival issue 5">«</a> </td><td align="center"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Arrival" title="The Arrival">Transformers Animated: The Arrival</a> #6 </td><td class="tti_buttonlink" align="right"> </td></tr> <tr class="tt1_secondarynav"> <td class="tti_buttonlink"> </td><td align="center"> </td><td class="tti_buttonlink" align="right"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="center"> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rise_of_Safeguard.jpg" class="image" title="Rise of Safeguard.jpg"><img alt="" src="Rise%20of%20Safeguard_files/230px-Rise_of_Safeguard.jpg" width="230" border="0" height="345"></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(231, 212, 146); color: black; font-weight: bold;" align="center"> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Publisher </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/IDW_Publishing" title="IDW Publishing">IDW Publishing</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Date published </td><td> 2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cover date </td><td> 2008 </td></tr>



<tr> <td>Story by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Eric_Siebenaler" title="Eric Siebenaler">Eric Siebenaler</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marty_Isenberg" title="Marty Isenberg">Marty Isenberg</a> </td></tr>










<tr> <td>Written by </td><td> Marty Isenberg </td></tr>

















<tr> <td>Art by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Boo&action=edit" class="new" title="Boo">Boo</a> (pp.1~12) and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Matthew_Frank&action=edit" class="new" title="Matthew Frank">Matthew Frank</a> (pp13~24) </td></tr>














































<tr> <td>Colors by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Liam_Shalloo" title="Liam Shalloo">Liam Shalloo</a> </td></tr>















<tr> <td>Letters by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robbie_Robbins" title="Robbie Robbins">Robbie Robbins</a> </td></tr>






<tr> <td>Edits by </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Kris_Oprisko&action=edit" class="new" title="Kris Oprisko">Kris Oprisko</a> </td></tr>









<tr> <td>Continuity </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Animated" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformers Animated">Transformers Animated</a> </td></tr>







</tbody></table> <b>The Autobot Elite Guard intends to use the captive Starscream to help create the first flying Autobot. But the resulting twin brothers Jetfire and Jetstorm are more than they bargained for.</b>

<a name="Synopsis"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Synopsis</span></h2> In the wake of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticon</a> uprisings on the rim of the galaxy, Ultra Magnus sends a secure transmission to the Autobot troops, stressing a need for a decisive show of force to remind the Decepticons of Autobot military superiority. Though he does not feel the situation is dire enough to revive <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28Animated%29" title="Omega Supreme (Animated)">Project Omega</a>, clearly action is needed, and he is willing to pursue unorthodox combat upgrade protocols for the Autobots. Back at the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_Elite_Guard" title="Cybertron Elite Guard">Cybertron Elite Guard</a> flagship, this is met with some skepticism by Sentinel Prime and Jazz. Ultra Magnus has suggested installing flight protocols into Autobots, a feat that is entirely unprecedented. Magnus stresses that they have a rare opportunity in the form of the captured Decepticon Starscream, and that downloading his programming may allow them to do what was previously thought impossible.

Unfortunately, Starscream escapes in the process, but soon Magnus is able to address the Autobot Council on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> and announce that the data download of the Decepticon's programming was successful. He turns this data over to the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Ministry_of_Science&action=edit" class="new" title="Ministry of Science">Ministry of Science</a>, tasking Perceptor with the means to commence with Project Safeguard. Perceptor expresses some unease at the risks involved, prompting Magnus to tell him not to endanger Elite Guard resources, and instead find test subjects that are expendable from the farms and refineries.


[[Image:|left|250px|thumb|The future of Cybertron, folks.]] As if on cue, a pair of refinery bots are engaging in grievous shenanigans while on the job, and as a result fall victim to a catastrophic industrial accident. Perceptor promptly has them shipped back to the Ministry of Science, sensing that his "volunteers" have been procured. Indeed, as the test-subjects are split protoforms, Perceptor crows that this is a grand opportunity to experiment a bit with the project. Wheeljack reins in his comrade's scientific glee with the possibility that the data-merge will have unfortunate side-effects upon the twins.

In an upgrade process that takes the better part of a deca-cycle, the twins' structures are reinforced to better withstand the stresses of the data-merge that Red Alert is providing. Even the considerable resources of the Ministry of Science are strained, and things get a bit touch-and-go for a bit. However, Perceptor is soon able to present the finished product to Ultra Magnus. Magnus assigns the twins to Sentinel Prime for training, who somewhat resents being busted back down to drill sergeant. Assigning the twins the codenames of Jetfire and Jetstorm, he laments that he's out of practice on naming. The twins pass his combat tests with flying colors, but sadly lay waste to most of the training grounds. Ultra Magnus arrives and recommends simulated combat in the future.

Jazz oversees the twins' servo-to-servo combat training. Initially he is able to defeat them easily, but as soon as he turns his back to them, they promptly kick his skidplate. He remarks to Magnus afterward that their flight abilities may be helping them ace the combat training, but that the twins are quickly becoming overconfident. Magnus agrees with these concerns, and Perceptor comments that Starscream's programming could be used to upgrade the combat simulator to give the twins a real challenge.

Strapped into the simulator, the twins make easy work of most of the drone troops sent after them, but have considerably more trouble once the machine tosses a simulated Starscream at them. Proving a much greater danger, Starscream brutalizes the twins up and down the battlefield, eventually grounding Jetstorm, whom he is about to mutilate out of a perverse sense of pleasure. Perceptor is alarmed by this, as it wasn't part of the program he'd prepared. Sentinel Prime goes to disconnect the twins before it's too late. This proves impossible, as the simulator rigs are arcing with electricity, preventing the Elite Guard from approaching.


[[Image:|right|250px|thumb|Rise of this, rise of that...]] Incensed by his brother's treatment at Starscream's hands, Jetfire manifests a previously unknown ability to project flames, blasting the Decepticon away from his sibling. This is mirrored by his body being immolated in the simulator rig, endangering the facility. Thankfully, his recovered sibling discovers a similar ability to use his wind turbines to produce intense cold, balancing out Jetfire. Starscream recovers from Jetfire's blast and once again floors the twins. They counter by initiating a third previously unknown ability and merge into a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Combiner" title="Combiner">gestalt</a> form. Now the potent Autobot known as Safeguard, they are finally able to dispatch Starscream, which allows Perceptor to end the simulation.

Convinced of their usefulness, Ultra Magnus inducts the twins as junior officers in the Elite Guard and assigns them to join Sentinel Prime in pursuing the Autobot traitor <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wasp" title="Wasp">Waspinator</a>.


<a name="Featured_characters"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Featured characters">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Featured characters</span></h2> (Numbers indicate order of appearance.)


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</td></tr></tbody></table> <a name="Other_notes"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other notes">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Other notes</span></h2>

  • This issue was available with the Jetstorm/Jetfire action

figure set. Originally, it was also supposed to be printed as the sixth issue of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Arrival" title="The Arrival">The Arrival</a> and sold through comic book retailers, but it was canceled on the basis that the Arrival edition of the story would have wound up being released before the toys were, thereby robbing the printing included with the toys of its promised-on-package exclusivity. The Arrival trade paperback collection will contain the issue, however.

  • When the comic was released in Europe, it was printed in a

"flip-book" style featuring two versions of the story, each in a tri-lingual style a la the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_%28mini-comic%29" title="Armada (mini-comic)">Armada mini-comic</a>: English, French and German, and Spanish, Italian and Dutch. Alas, this meant that the English language section had to be edited down from the original US printing in order to fit all the languages into speech bubbles. The lives of Europeans are, indeed, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/JaAm" title="JaAm">pAiN</a>.

  • So, the Elite Guard considers non-members to be "expendable",

has no problems with performing dangerous experiments on ordinary (but damaged) robots who don't appear to have volunteered, and Ultra Magnus thinks that Sentinel showed great initiative when he claims to have used live-ammo for a test which could have easily resulted in both Jetstorm and Jetfire dying if they hadn't happened to be so naturally adept at flying? And these are the good guys?

then, Jetstorm and Jetfire are created a Deca-cycle later, which, according to Magnus himself, is when he (Magnus) is able to contact Optimus and the Autobots. Then end of this episode seems to happen right before <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autoboot_Camp" title="Autoboot Camp">Autoboot Camp</a>.

<a name="Errors"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Errors">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Errors</span></h3>

  • <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_%28Animated%29" title="Red Alert (Animated)">Red Alert</a> is depicted as having a real left hand, when that should be the arm that ends in her hard-light surgical tool.
  • Although he doesn't transform, it's clear from several shots

that Sentinel Prime still has his Earth alt mode, despite the fact that he changed back into his Cybertronian alt mode <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autoboot_Camp" title="Autoboot Camp">soon after</a> he left Earth. Jazz also still appears to have his Earth-mode kibble, but since we never saw his Cybertronian mode, it's hard to say for sure. (It's also possible that Jazz kept his Earth alt mode, since he really seemed to like it.)

  • Even though the end of this book is before Season 3,

Ultra Magnus calls Wasp "Waspinator". However, since we still don't know whether or not he will get this name in S3, maybe this is Magnus' nickname for him or something.

<a name="Transformers_references"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Transformers references">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Transformers references</span></h3>

<a name="Real_world_references"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Real world references">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Real world references</span></h3>

  • Jazz continues to speak in 1950s beatnik slang, using words such as "clyde", "dig", "nowheresville", and "square".

<a name="Covers"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Rise_of_Safeguard&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Covers">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Covers</span></h3>

<table class="gallery" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0pt; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rise_of_Safeguard.jpg" class="image" title="Rise of Safeguard.jpg"><img alt="" src="Rise%20of%20Safeguard_files/80px-Rise_of_Safeguard.jpg" width="80" border="0" height="120"></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Jets. Jets with fire!


</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0pt; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Arrival_issue_6_unused.jpg" class="image" title="Arrival issue 6 unused.jpg"><img alt="" src="Rise%20of%20Safeguard_files/79px-Arrival_issue_6_unused.jpg" width="79" border="0" height="120"></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Alas, it was not to be.


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