The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!
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| "Beast Wars Neo: Prologue" ビーストウォーズネオ プロローグ
(Bisuto Wuōzu Purorōgu) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Comic Bom Bom | ||||||||||||
| First published | February 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | March 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Artist | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
A new menace is emerging, a new hero is about to be born.
Synopsis
The explosion of Nemesis causes Lio Convoy and the member of his team scatters across the time and space due to the blast of Angolmois energy.
After awaking in a blizzard at night, Lio Convoy finds he is alone on an unknown planet. He tries to use onboard computer to gain the coordinate, only to realizes the onboard computer is in a malfunction.
Lio Convoy then wanders in the snow field alone, wondering where are other members before he runs into a gang of rampaging animals, consisting of a Quetzalcoatlus, a Elasmosaurus, a Triceratops, a Stegosaurus, a Dimetrodon and a Ammonite. The gang, lead by a Giganotosaurus, starts to attack Lio Convoy upon seeing him along with the gang members. Lio Convoy is soon saved by a mammoth, who gives him a ride to run away from the gang.
The mammoth takes Lio Convoy to a hot spring to heal the wounds. He then start to tell the story: His name is "Big", the leader of a group of native wild lives. He tell Lio Convoy that the gang is a bunch of rowdies who became more vicious and killed his friends after a meteorite fell on the planet. Lio Convoy then asks Big take him to the place where the meteorite fell.
Upon arriving the cliff above the place mentioned by Big, Lio Convoy soon realizes the meteorite is an Angolmois energy capsule. Lio Convoy then descend into the valley to take an examination on the capsule. The energy restores his onboard computer into function and give him the time-and-space coordinate. Lio Convoy is shocked when he learns he is on a distant planet in a time before he was born.
While Lio Convoy is examining the capsule, Big is wondering what is he doing in the valley before the gang comes to the spot and attacks him. Though wounded, Big pushes the gang into the valley after Lio Convoy gets out. The impact causes the capsule explode and the two breathed a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, the gang starts to evolve in the blast of Angolmois energry. The gang then shows up in front of Lio Convoy and Big. Their leader, now named "Magmatron", thanks Big for his effort which make them much stronger than ever before. The gang then transforms, ready to kill Big and Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy immediately transforms and fights the gang. He defeats them with ease, except for Magmatron, who easily defeats him with one blast.
Some time later, Lio Convoy comes to and learns he is still alive because Big used his body as a shield to protect him. However, Big is mortally wounded. Lio Convoy decides to use his Energon Matrix to cure Big. During the treatment, the only though on his mind is curing Big and feeling concern about his team mates
After a while, Big dreams Lio Convoy, who calls his name and tells him to transform. Suddenly, Big awakes and transforms, standing up in a snowstorm at the darkest night.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons | Animals |
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Items of note
- Big calls Lio Convoy Lio.
- Big saves Lio Convoy for three times in this issue.
- Dead End can float in the mid-air in beast mode after evolving into a Transformers.
- Magmatron's gang are no match for Lio Convoy except for Magmatron, who is apparently more powerful than Lio Convoy.
- The rest members of Lio Convoy's crew arrive various planet respectively:
- Apache arrives the home planet of Longrack.
- Big Horn arrives the home planet of Break, turning the penguins, the native species, into Transformers. Big Horn is later worship as a God by the natives.A Battle Fought Alone
- Diver arrives the home planet of Heinrad.
- Scuba arrives Jörmungandr, the home planet of Cohrada, turning the cobras, the native species, into Transformers. The process is possibly by the effect of Angolmois energy Scuba is later worship as a God by the natives, but left for unknown reason regarded as "rage of the Gods".A Battle Fought Alone
- Tasmania Kid arrives the home plane of Stampy, turning the rabits, the native species, into Transformers. Kid is later worship as a God by the natives, but left for unknown reason regarded as "rage of the Gods".A Battle Fought Alone
- Big's home planet seems to be more bio-divergent than other planets mentioned above, which might be only resided by one major species.
- Angolmois energy can cause effect on organic creatures as well as the Transformers.
- One of the minor effect of Angolmois energy can give a normal animal the ability of speech.
- Both Angolmois energy and the power of a Enegon Matrix can evolve a normal animals into a Transformer.
- The fate of Lio Convoy is untold and remains a mystery until the final issue "Return to Zero", in which he is implied dead.
