Battle Lines, Part 1
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| "Battle Lines, Part 1" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 36 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Rik Alvarez & Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Pete Sinclair & Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Dan Khanna | ||||||||||||
| Inks by | Dan Khanna | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Evan Gauntt and Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Wings of Honor | ||||||||||||
Side Burn pretends to be Dion to pick up tail.
Synopsis
In a bar on Cybertron, an Autobot has unloaded his pain on supportive audio receptors. He recalled his time as a dock worker on storage yard 67, innocent times with friends like Orion Pax and Ariel. Then the horror of watching their murder at the hands of Megatron, minutes before experiencing his own death.
The Autobot remembered his reawakening, his reprisal from eternity, and a second chance. Rebuilt from the ground up, he was now a solider, fighting a war. He noted the cruel cylindrical nature of existence. He made new friends, rebuilt his life, only to see it all shatter again in the cold face of the enemy. Such was the fate of Dion, last survivor of the Elite Guard.
Oh, except this wasn’t Dion telling Dion’s story. This was Side Burn trying to use Dion’s tragedy to score with some bar chicks.
After he exposed the ruse, Prowl yanked Side Burn out before his angry new acquaintances could have at him. Prowl was aghast at Sideburn’s lack of decency, and reminded him that impersonating an Elite Guard was a felony. For now, though, both Autobots had greater duties to attend.
Meanwhile, at Deathsaurus’ Lair, Starscream reported that the Combaticons mission was a success. The Elite Guard were destroyed. However, Stascream was concerned about the Combaticons being allowed into the Decepticon ranks, claiming that were only interested in furthering their own power, and would betray him the first chance they got. Deathsaurus assuaged Starscream’s fear, telling him that such ambitions were what made them the perfect Decepticons, It was what separated them from the “stagnation and complacency of the Autobots”.
Preparing for their return, Starscream ordered Lyzack to ready the medical bay, as well as paying her some condescending flirtations. While Lyzack was modest towards her commander she harbored resentment in secret.
Back at the Citadel, Magnum gathered the remaining members of the Elite Guard, including the real Dion, to reassure the Autobot High Council that the Guard is still in operation. Their plans were halted by the assembly in the auditorium with Optimus Prime accepting his position as leader of the new Autobot Military.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
- TBA
Notes
- The opening page recounts some of the events of "War Dawn." Though we knew these events were in Dion's backstory, this is the first time we've seen them (and Dion's pre-Elite Guard body) in this continuity.
- This is the first fictional appearance of both Cop-Tur and Road Rage.
- The red waitress Transformer that Side Burn is trying to pick up looks like T-AI but is not T-AI. She's only supposed to look like T-AI. We are silly for thinking she's supposed to be T-AI. [1]
- Like Side Burn's Robots in Disguise counterpart, he's berated by his universe's Prowl for being a good-for-nothing doofus.
- Similar to the Cybertronian altmodes seen in the first episode of the original cartoon, Prowl's robot mode still looks like it transforms into a Datsun, but his trans-form is a vehicle that looks completely different.
- Both Ironhide and Ratchet are shown in their Descent into Evil bodies, as Wings of Honor continues to feature the BotCon 2005 exclusives.
