The 5 Rookies
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| The Five Rookies 5人の新兵
(Go Nin no Rūkī) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Comic Bom Bom | ||||||||||||
| First published | March 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | April 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Artist | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
A notorious soldier are going to be an instructor of a group of rookies.
Synopsis
On a battlefield in space, Big Convoy, a notorious one-man army among the Maximals, disregards his commander's orders to recon, rushing into a Predacon space fortress and blowing it up with Big Cannon. The shock wave of the blast caused damage to the Maximal Seventh Fleet. Crow Convoy, Big's commander, now is extremely furious because the shock wave caused his transformation circuitry malfunction thanks to Big's effort. Personal injury aside, Crow Convoy noted that Big Convoy's crimes included going against orders, destruction of property, and insubordination. Before Crow Convoy could finish dressing Big Convoy down, Great Convoy interrupted, berating Big Convoy for his over-zealous destructive attitude. Thus, Big Convoy is demoted and sent by the Convoy Council to the planet Gaea as an instructor for penalty.
After arriving the planet Gaea, Big Convoy just lies down on the job, sitting in the trainee ship Gung Ho parking on the orbit all day, and lets the rookies carry stimulative battle out repetitively on the planet.
Due to the monotonous training, the rookies get bored. Longrack, one of the trainee, proposes that they should do something more exciting — making an adventure to Predacon base and see what they can find. Thus, the rookies start to make their way to enemy's base.
Upon arriving the base, the rookies finds two dead dinosaur Predacons, who smell extremely stink due to the decomposition — one of them even has a strange flower growing on it. However, after turning back on them, the rookies are completely not aware the corpses start to move and transform. After the rookies find out, Longrack realizes and tells the rest they are dealing with Guiledart and Saberback, two of the most important high-ranked Predacons.
Naturally, the rookies are beaten by Guiledart and Saberback with ease. When the Predacons are going to give them a final blow, Big Convoy suddenly shows up, attacking the Predacons with his overwhelming firepower. Guiledart and Saberback is ordered to retreat and abandon the base along with the "Black Ball" by Magmatron. Thus, the rookies are saved.
The rookies soon finds a mysterious black spheroid object inside a room. After the Maximal returned to the Gung Ho, they attempted to analyze the Black Ball. However, the Black Ball suddenly activated the ship's warp engine. No one knows where the destination will be...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons | Others |
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Quote
"It's no suprise if you get sentenced to death. Ka ka ka."
- —Crow Convoy, laughing just like a crow, is happy to see Big Convoy get penalty for what he has done.
Items of note
- Though ranked as a Convoy, Big Convoy is under Crow Convoy's command.
- The flagship of Maximal Seventh Fleet is Nanatsunoko.
- Hardly no one feels repetitive training and stimulative battle not boring. Just ask Hot Rod.
- The organic part of a dead Transformer in Beast Era might really decompose, smelling stink just like a normal creature.
- The fake-dead mode of Guiledart and Saberback is the gimmick of their toys.
