The Coming Storm: Part 3
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| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 33 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Rik Alvarez & Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Pete Sinclair & Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Dan Khanna | ||||||||||||
| Inks by | Frank Milkovich | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Thomas Deer | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Wings of Honor | ||||||||||||
Metalhawk's squad and the Combaticons embark on a mission to take out some of the Decepticon leaders.
Synopsis
Weeks after their debriefing back at the Elite Guard Headquarters, Metalhawk, Onslaught, and their teams go about their mission on an unnamed world. Onslaught is reminiscing about one of his more humourus missions when he is interrupted by a suspicous vehicle hauling cube-shaped objects. As the truck speeds off, one of the cubes falls off and turns out to be a Decepticon. Metalhawk leaves it to the Combaticons to interrogate the 'Con in an abandoned structure. A loud scream is heard, and Metalhawk's concern is answered when Onslaught walks out and informs him that their prisoner initiated a self-destruct sequence (when it was actually Brawl who killed him). He also informs Hawk that he was able to get information on where their target was located. Both teams finally reach their destination at a well protected fortress, and Onslaught issues his plan: Metalhawk drops explosive charges from overhead, Vortex looks out for where the enemies will scatter, Swindle sneaks inside the officers' hideout to drop a fog grenade to flush out the rest, Over Run, Dion, Ironfist Brawl, and Blastoff distract the gunners, and Onslaught snipes the Decepticon leader. It all goes accordingly, and Onslaught has everybody covertly regroup. The bots congradulate each other, but on the contrary, Onslaught soon grows weary of the rather low difficulty of their mission, and decides that he and the rest of the Combaticons will investigate further while Metalhawk and his team report back to Magnum. Metalhawk wishes him the best of luck and heads back to Cybertron to inform Magnum of their victory with no casualties. Meanwhile, the Combaticons appear bound, beat, and seemingly defeated...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"So the Decepticon says, 'I may not have a gun, but I have a bomb!' And pulls the pin. Wouldn't you know it was a dud? So there he is, optics darting between us and the useless metal sphere in his hand, and he still has the gall to say, 'I AM THUNDERWING! ONE DAY YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR THIS!' I was afraid that not even the stasis cuffs were going to shut him up."
- —Onslaught regales everyone with a war story.
Onslaught: "Ironfist, do you have the charges?"
Ironfist: "Do I have the charges? Who do you think you're talkin' to, mate? An' I've been tinkerin' with them since Praxeeum. You kin expect them to be bigger an' louder!"
Metalhawk: "Bigger?!"
Onslaught: "Louder?!"
Ironfist: "Oh, yeeh! You kin count on it!"
- —Ironfist, cheerful Autobot mad bomber extraordinaire.
Notes
- Thunderwing and Blue Bacchus are mentioned as Decepticons that have been captured by the Elite Guard.
