Ace of Swords

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"Ace of Swords"
Published in	November 2009
Story	Hirofumi Ichikawa
Art	?
Packaged with	Cliff Supreme Red Pearl

Cliffjumper travels through time to strike at the beast Hytherion.

Synopsis

Learning that Hytherion's next goal is to consume a galaxy at the moment of its birth 2.4 billion years in the past, Cliffjumper is dispatched back in time to safeguard the lives of all the beings that will be erased from time if the galaxy is destroyed. Arriving before Hytherion, Cliffjumper does not have long to wait before the beast materializes before him. Overcoming his fear at the terrifying sight of the giant creature by remembering that Hytherion's strength is not determined by its size, Cliffjumper uses his wave-functional pointer-guns to mark Hytherion's location with markers that transmit co-ordinates back through time to the Alternity in the future. Using these signal pointers, the Alternity target an incredible space-time weapon on the beast, which they trigger at Cliffjumper's signal. The lights and gases of space coalesce into a breathtaking "sword of the heavens" that slashes into Hytherion and then wraps around it, dispelling the beast from that time period. Although elated over the victory, Cliffjumper remarks to himself that the Alternity are still full of it, but if he could pull the trigger on a weapon like that, he'd probably be full of it too.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Others
Cliffjumper (1)	Hytherion (2)

Notes

• TBD

• The universe being "2.4 billion years old" statement is not remotely close to any modern estimate of the age of the universe. The universe is estimated to be around 13.75 ± 0.11 billion solar years. Possibly 2.4 billion is the age of the universe in Cybertronian years. Please mind that the last part would be conjecture, as the length of Cybertron's years has not been canonically defined.

Reference

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