Prowl & Chase
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| "Prowl & Chase" プロール＆チェイス
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| Published in | July 2005 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Hirofumi Ichikawa | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Prowl | ||||||||||||
When the life of an Autobot is lost, Chip Chase take an incredible step that he may live again.
Synopsis
Things are looking up for the Autobots: with Decepticon activity at a low on Earth, the heroic robots are able to get proactive, and set out in search of their enemies on other planets. On Earth, Wheeljack's Project: Bodyshop sees production of Binaltech bodies accelerate, as personality data from other Autobots is installed within them so that they can function through use of the Genetronic Translink System. Things take a dark turn, however, when Prowl contacts Wheeljack in distress: he has located a Decepticon cell operating in the vicinity of Saturn, and is now under heavy attack. Wheeljack attempts a risky maneuver with the GT System, using it to transfer Prowl's spark out his body, through subspace, into one the Binaltech shell in his lab intended to serve as Prowl's secondary body. Alas, the unstable subspace interlink collapses in mid-transit, and Prowl's spark is lost to the impenetrable reaches of interdimensional space.
Unable to recover the lost life-force of his friend, Wheeljack sinks into helplessness, until Chip Chase points out that Prowl's personality data has already been encoded into the Binaltech shell, and that it needs only a lifeforce to animate it. Although he believes that Prowl will one day return, Chip declares that the the world needs the skills of Prowl, and, recalling his first contact with Prowl, when he controlled the Autobot's body from afar, makes a radical proposal: transfer his lifeforce into the body!
Notes
- This chapter of the Binaltech story was printed in the pack-in booklet included with the Prowl Binaltech toy.
- Chip recalls the events of the Generation 1 cartoon episode "Roll For It".
- It is noted that when the Binaltech shell was originally going to serve as a secondary unit for Prowl, it went by the name "Prowl 2", in reference to the Robots in Disgise figure of the same name. Like Mirage before him, RiD Prowl had two toys without any explanation, and as he did in "GT Units Online!", Ichikawa again suggests the Genetronic Translink system as an explanation for this.
- Prowl's powers include the ability to change his appearance to match police cars from all around the world, in reference to the different decos of the Binaltech and Alternators toys.
