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
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Comic Bom Bom | ||||||||||||
| First published | February 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | March 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Artist | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars | ||||||||||||
A new menace is emerging, a new hero is about to be born.
Synopsis
Following the explosion of the Nemesis, Lio Convoy and the members of his team have been scattered across the time and space due to the blast of Angolmois energy.
After awaking one night in a blizzard, Lio Convoy finds he is alone on an unknown planet. He tries to use his onboard computer to gain the coordinates, only to realizes the onboard computer is inoperative.
Lio Convoy then wanders in the snow field alone, wondering where the other members of his team are. He then runs into a gang of rampaging animals, consisting of a Quetzalcoatlus, a Elasmosaurus, a Triceratops, a Stegosaurus, a Dimetrodon and an Ammonite. The gang, led by a Giganotosaurus, start to attack Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy is soon saved by a mammoth, who gives him a ride and helps him escape.
The mammoth takes Lio Convoy to a hot spring to heal his wounds. He then begins to tell his story: His name is "Big", the leader of a group of native wild animals. He tells 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 asks Big to take him to the place where the meteorite fell.
Upon arriving at the cliff above the place mentioned by Big, Lio Convoy soon realizes the meteorite is an Angolmois energy capsule. He then descends into the valley to take an examination of the capsule. The energy restores his onboard computer and gives him the time-and-space coordinates. 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 he's 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 to explode and the two breathe 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 has made 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 the henchmen with ease, but Magmatron takes him out 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 thought on his mind is curing Big and feeling concern about his teammates.
After a while, Big dreams about 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.)
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Notes
- Big calls Lio Convoy Lio.
- Big saves Lio Convoy three times in this issue.
- Dead End can float in mid-air in beast mode after evolving into a Transformer.
- The rest of the members of Lio Convoy's crew arrive on various planets, respectively:
- Apache arrives on the home planet of Longrack.
- Big Horn arrives on the home planet of Break, turning the penguins, the native species, into Transformers. Big Horn is later worshipped as a God by the natives.
- Diver arrives on the home planet of Heinrad.
- Scuba arrives on Jörmungandr, the home planet of Cohrada, turning the cobras, the native species, into Transformers. The process is possibly the effect of Angolmois energy. Scuba is later worship as a God by the natives, but left for an unknown reason regarded as "rage of the Gods", as revealed in "A Battle Fought Alone".
- Tasmania Kid arrives the home plane of Stampy, turning the rabbits, the native species, into Transformers. Kid is later worshipped as a God by the natives, but left for unknown reason regarded as "rage of the Gods", as revealed in "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.
- In a twist, Angolmois energy can cause effects 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 Energon Matrix can evolve normal animals into a Transformer, it seems.
- The fate of Lio Convoy is untold and remains a mystery until the final issue, "Return to Zero", in which he is implied to be dead.
