Armageddon Part 4
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| "Armageddon Part 4" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Dreamwave Productions | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | May 2005 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Dreamwave Armada continuity | ||||||||||||
The Autobots mount a rescue mission while Megatron seeks to return to Unicron.
Synopsis
As if the Autobots weren't facing enough problems already, Megatron's Decepticons suddenly add to their woes when they attack one of the planetary shield generator towers en masse. Megatron has decided that it is time to confront the fear that has gnawed at him, to return to Unicron and to confront and destroy Alpha Quintesson, and for that to happen, the shield must be deactivated so he can teleport to the planet-eater via space bridge. A response team is dispatched by Jetfire, but resources are stretched dangerously thin. There is, at least, some good news amidst the chaos: Rad's Alterenergy team, now with added Autobot back up in the form of Wing Saber, Cliffjumper and Rodimus, have tracked down Demolishor and the captive Kicker in Mexico.
On Unicron, Optimus Prime completes his perilous ascent through the layers of the chaos-bringer's form and emerges on its surface. He sets about using one of Unicron's external sensor arrays to broadcast a message to the Autobots on Earth, needing to both alert them to Unicron's advanced state of restoration (owing to the Energon siphoned from Nervissa), and to his own need to be rescued from Unicron before the seismic-shock warhead planted inside it by Avalon detonates. Although besieged by Terrorcon drones, he succeeds in getting his message off, and it is picked up by Perceptor on Earth. With the news that Optimus Prime is alive, Jetfire immediately has the planetary defense shield lowered, sending Omega Supreme to join the fight against Unicron's Four Horsemen on Mars, while he heads to Unicron himself to aid Prime.
With his grand plan now well in motion, Alpha Quintesson triggers the Initiator, which opens a portal to a parallel universe in skies above Cybertron and unleashes a mass of Quintesson warships that lay siege to the planet. This task done, Alpha Quintesson then prepares the satellite that will link the Energon cores of Cybertron and the parallel-universe Quintessa, putting the Quintessons in complete control of Cybertron and allowing Alpha Quintesson to fulfil his long-held dream: the destruction of Unicron! Kicker is to be a vital component in this satellite, his unique physiology taking the place of the "Conduit" that was destroyed ages ago. But when Alpha Quintesson contacts Demolishor to have Kicker sent to him over the space bridge... Kicker is gone! While Demolishor has been held at bay by Rad's team, Rad himself has freed Kicker from the Energon-counteracting forcefield he was trapped in, and he's now on the run. And as if things couldn't go worse for the multi-faced mastermind, Megatron suddenly appears before him, having teleported into Unicron when the planetary shield went down. But Megatron had been unaware of how close Unicron was to restoration, and before he can finish Alpha Quintesson off, he realizes with horror... Unicron lives!
Featured characters
Characters are ordered as mentioned in Furman's outline.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- This issue was never released. This article's summary is derived from a series of blog posts made by Simon Furman in late 2010.
