A Team Effort

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"A Team Effort"
Publisher	Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published	September 23, 2010
Written by	Jesse Wittenrich
Illustrations by	Casey Coller
Continuity	Wings of Honor
Page count	42pp

A strange meteorite approaches Cybertron as the Decepticon Warlords struggle for power.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Halonix Maximus (4) Sprocket (14) Rumbler (15) Tap-Out (18) Powerflash (19) Sentinel Major (20) Delta-Seeker (23) Magnum (24) Ricochet (25) R-Third (26) Rest-Q (28) Crosscut (29)	Abacus (1) Datamine (2) Deadbolt (3) Trannis (5) Straxus (6) Shockwave (7) Zardak (8) Cannonball (9) Preditron (10) Hook (11) Reflector (12) Falcon (13) Gutcruncher (16) Charger (17) Take-Off (21) Axer (22) Roadgrabber (27) Deathsaurus (30) Lyzack (31) Starscream (32)

Quotes

• TBA

Notes

• A poll was held on the Official Transformers Collectors Club' forums to choose which Elite Guard team would be the subject of the next prose story. The Stealth Team won with nearly half the overall votes, beating the Recon Team, Artillery Team, and Fast Attack Teams.
• It was presumably Padlock, the Artillery Team's sighter, who laser-painted Datamine before Halo bombed the improper fractions outta him.
• Fourteen Decepticon Warlords are identified in this story. Legonis, Octus and the previously mentioned Thunderwing and Blue Bacchus have already been dealt with. Hook and Reflector are absorbed into Megatron's forces. Gutcruncher, Preditron, Straxus, Zardak, Cannonball and Trannis are dealt with during the story, leaving only Megatron and Deathsaurus as rivals for power.
• Several details about the make-up of the Elite Guard are mentioned for the first time outside of the OTFCC panel at BotCon 2010.
  • Seven Elite Guard squads exist, including the missing Combaticons.
  • The Combaticons are also known as the Special Ops Team, in addition to Metalhawk's Strike Team, Powerflash's Stealth Team, and the Fast Attack Team.
  • Roadfire and Halonix Maximus command two other squads which go unnamed in this story, although they were revealed at BotCon 2010 as the Recon Team and Heavy Artillery Team.
• The proper military designation for several squads is also revealed: the Strike Team (201st), Stealth Team (45th), Roadfire's squad (349th) and Halo's squad (116th).
• Thunderclash's Alpha Team is not mentioned in Sentinel's deployment. Possibly they're still on the space mission assigned them in The Coming Storm: Part 2.
• Sprocket's imaginary friends include Councilor Halogen, Grandus, and Sensei Yoketron.

Real World References

• The story's title is a reference to The A-Team, a popular action show from the 1980's. The Stealth Team's make-up mirrors the A-Team itself, including a leader who uses unorthodox plans, a mechanic with an attitude, a pilot who is legitimately crazy, and a disguise expert.

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