Search for Treasure Under the Sea
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| "Search for Treasure Under the Sea" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Books | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Dwight Jon Zimmerman | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Carlos Garzon and Joe Giello | ||||||||||||
The Decepticons plan to recover enough shipwrecked gold to buy the world's factories.
Synopsis
After the usual meet-and-greet with the Autobots and Decepticons (during which we learn that Megatron is "twice as mean when disguised as a gun"), we look in on the Decepticons' base, which has nice shrubs outside the windows. Megatron declares that sunken ships from the Alaskan Gold Rush have made the coast a treasure trove, while pointing at Montana on a map. The gold will allow them to buy the factories they need to create an Autobot-crushing army!
The spying Bumblebee overhears the plan. Soundwave sees him outside the window, but Megatron decides to let him go so they can trap the Autobots.
Bumblebee reports the Decepticons' dastardly scheme. Wheeljack announces that he's created a cargo-freighter-sized ocean going ship to follow the Decepticons. The Autobots sail to Alaska. Suddenly, Ravage leaps from a drifting iceberg to attack Hound and Spike! But Ravage leaps right through them—he's fallen for Hound's trick light[1]! Outnumbered, Ravage retreats.
Prime sends Bumblebee underwater to find the Decepticons. Bumblebee finds all sorts of things under the water... including a cassette player and cassette, which sure would make a nice gift for Spike! But to the surprise of nobody but Bumblebee, they're really Soundwave and Rumble! They take him prisoner and deliver him to Megatron.
Megatron gloats over all the treasure they've found, and says they can load it in a truck which conveniently appears out of nowhere just then. But it turns out the truck is Optimus Prime!!! Who could have guessed! The Autobots attack. Megatron calls in the jets for reinforcement; the Autobots transform. The jets attack Brawn, but the rockets just bounce right off. Cliffjumper gives Thundercracker the glass gas treatment. Rumble tries to bury the Autobots with an earthquake, but it ends up swallowing the Decepticons instead. The Autobots are victorious!
Quotes
"The Decepticons are going to try to rule earth [sic]!"
"We must stop them!"
- —Bumblebee gives a thorough and detailed report to Optimus Prime
"Yahoo! Those rocket blasts are bouncing off like rain!"
"Right! Nothing can hurt me!"
- —Spike and Sparkplug learn what we already know: Brawn is indestructible!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Notes
- Various activities are interspersed through the story, such as connect-the-dots, unscramble-the-message pages, and Megatron's Undersea Decepticon Maze.
- This book takes a special delight in showing characters in mid-transformation.
- Bumblebee, Soundwave and Rumble are clearly toy-based, while Megatron is the early black-helmet version. Wheeljack and Hound appear to be based on their package art.
- Megatron totally smashes the hell out of some little model Autobot he's got.
Footnotes
- ↑ A hologram light is what he uses.
