Transcendent: Part 4
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<td>Publisher </td><td> Fun Publications
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<td>Writer </td><td> Forest Lee
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<td>Pencils by </td><td> Evan Gauntt
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<td>Inks by </td><td> Jake Isenberg
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<td>Colors by </td><td> Josh Perez
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<td>Letters by </td><td> Jesse Wittenrich
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<td>Editor </td><td> Pete Sinclair
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<td>Published in </td><td> Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 22
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<td>Continuity </td><td> TransTech
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</table> As Skyfall and Landquake discuss their situation, Alpha Trion plans an assault on their TransTech overlords.
Synopsis
Later, as Skyfall and Landquake walk the streets of Axiom Nexus, they discuss the sanity of Alpha Trion, their new charge. Is partnering with this possibly insane mech their best chance at rescuing Breakaway, and will they be able to grab Topspin on their way out? They also bring up the known details of their largely unknown past. They have a purpose, they may be some sort of combiner, but memory problems prevent them from digging deeper.
Meanwhile, high-ranking TransTechs discuss the strange visitors to their universe. Senator Ratbat pleads with Optimus Prime to allow experiments on Breakaway to determine how much of a threat his kind poses. Optimus Prime is not convinced and believes Ratbat and Megatron's doomsaying is reactionary. Starscream has also been keeping an eye on Breakaway's companions, Skyfall and Landquake. He assures Prime that they will stay with Alpha Trion for some time without incident...at least until military intelligence can get the "harmless crackpot" out of the picture.
After Skyfall and Landquake return to Alpha Trion's lab, they are interrupted by Nightscream's arrival. He has discovered where Breakaway is being kept prisoner, a location not far from the portal to Alpha Trion's home dimension. Alpha Trion gathers his acolytes for an attack.
Quotes
"Look, we only have his word that the TransTech are bad guys. And he's a nutbar."<br />
- — Skyfall on Alpha Trion
"Whatever it is, it is what we were created for. It is our duty, and if duty calls for our deaths, then they will be deaths worth dying."<br />
"Guy, that is the least encouraging pep talk I've ever been given."<br />
- — Landquake and Skyfall
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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- Cheetor (4)
- Prowl (5)
- Optimus Prime (7)
- Alpha Trion (9)
- Nightscream (10)
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- Ratbat (6)
- Starscream (8)
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Notes
- Random Transformers seen as Skyfall and Landquake walk through Axiom Nexus include Salt-Man Z, Pick-Up, Waverider, Cohrada, Hydradread, Buzzer-Bot, Signal Lancer, Pipes, Breakdown, Soundwave (in his Laser Cycle body), Side Burn, and Jolt.
- Landquake notes that the Spark of Combination has "only been active for a few decades" as he and Skyfall discuss their purported ability to combine.
- TransTech Prowl appears, but he is not named until his profile is published in the following issue.
