Tales of the Fallen issue 6
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 6, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | January 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Alex Milne | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Josh Perez | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Associate editor | Denton J. Tipton | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Movie continuity | ||||||||||||
Arcee finds herself as the subject of a twisted Decepticon experiment.
Synopsis
As the ship Arcee is on enters a planet's atmosphere (probably Earth), Thundercracker appears and blasts the ship from the sky. Arcee is trapped in the ship's remains as her shipmates leave the wreckage to battle Thundercracker. As she finally frees herself, she finds it has gone strangely quiet, as Thundercracker has emerged from the battle victorious. As he approaches her and says he's glad to see her, she blacks out.
She wakes up later with a scream, horrified by seeing her dead and dissected body on a table in front of her. She is in the laboratory of Flatline, a Decepticon field medic, and her spark has been transferred to a protoform body. Flatline notices she is awake and reports to Thundercracker that he thinks her spark is not strong enough to power "the rest". Thundercracker disagrees and tells Flatline to try again, without making any more mistakes, as they're running out of protoforms. As Thundercracker heads down to see their new warriors for himself, Flatline leaves to gather more supplies, telling Arcee to stay put.
As she looks around, Arcee is surprised to see Skids and Mudflap in an energy cage. The Twins note that Arcee "doesn't look right", "none of them do". This leads Arcee to further notice the two lifeless protoforms next to her, and wonder aloud what is going on. The Twins debate over which one should answer her, but when she cuts them off and demands they just tell her, Flatline returns and answers her for them: Arcee's spark was saved by the medic as part of an experiment to speed up the development of new protoforms and quickly produce more Decepticon soldiers.
Flatline also explains that he only did part of the dissection, with most of the initial damage having been caused by Thundercracker. The mech in question comes in just in time to hear this, and claims he was happy to do so. Arcee feels a surge of hatred over Thundercracker killing her teammates, but can't yet remember his name.
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Quotes
- TBA
Errors
- TBA
Items of note
- Cameos: Breakaway, Clocker, Optimus Prime, Starscream (all in flashback)
- This issue finally gives a reason behind Arcee's new robot mode and how she came to be a Tripartite Cybertronian, previously explained away by... absolutely nothing.
- It also "explains" the twins' dopey behavior in the film as the result of Flatline's attempted reprogramming of their brains. So... brain-damage makes you talk "street". Gee.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: The three Arcee "sisters" by Alex Milne
- Cover B: The Arcee sisters fighting Thundercracker, art by Carlos Magno and colors by Josh Perez
- Cover RI: Text-free version of Cover A
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