Things Fall Apart, Part 4: "Enemies of the System"

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"Enemies of the System"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published March 31, 2010
Cover date March 2010
Written by Mike Costa
Art by Don Figueroa
Colors by James Brown
Letters by Chris Mowry
Editor Andy Schmidt
Associate editor Denton J. Tipton
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2010)

As Prime and Spike talk (still), things go from bad to worse when Ultra Magnus leads a team to arrest "Rodimus Prime"...

Synopsis

Spike Witwicky and Optimus Prime continue their chat; Prime admits that he felt he was an ineffective leader once the Decepticons left. He also tells Spike how he admires the human race and their wisdom. He hopes his men will transform without him.

Ultra Magnus returns to the Autobots' cave and immediately states his intentions to assemble a team to arrest "Rodimus Prime". Bumblebee questions this, as well as Magnus's choice of the recently traumatized Blurr, but Magnus will have none of it and supersedes Bumblebee's complaints.

Spike takes a ride in Breakdown to clear his head, but is soon sideswiped by Drag Strip. He, along with Wildrider, had been looking for their fellow Stunticon and are disgusted that he's being driven by a human. They decide that they will wreck Breakdown in order to kill Spike, because Breakdown can be repaired later. Wildrider rams him next, but Spike retaliates with a weapon he brought along. He tries to lead the two Decepticons back to Skywatch, but Motormaster appears traveling in the opposite direction and runs Spike off the road, where he dives into a ravine. As Spike requests a pick up from Skywatch, Breakdown is recovered and brought back to Hot Rod's site.

At the site, Swindle spends a bit of time repairing Breakdown, and it attracts attention from Silverstreak, but Hot Rod dismisses his concerns. Ultra Magnus and his team arrive to arrest Rodimus, who explains that he isn't committing treason since the war is over. He tries to appeal to Bumblebee, but Magnus interrupts him. Just then, Swindle walks over and says that he'll take over now. Rodimus says that he has things under control, but Swindle drops the charade and says he plans to take the ship off the planet, and kill as many Autobots as he can before that. Magnus counters that the Autobots have him outnumbered, but Swindle gives the order for the Stunticons to merge into Menasor... his newest creation. Swindle tells Menasor to kill Magnus first...

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Quotes

"How fast do you think I'd have to go to squirt the human out of the window from a broadside? I say 200 mph."

—Wildrider, posing a simple math word problem. And they say education is dull.

Notes

Covers (3)

  • Cover A: The Stunticons; art by Don Figueroa and colors by James Brown.
  • Cover B: Ultra Magnus investigating some ruins; art by Andrew Wildman.
  • Cover RI: Concept art of Bumblebee (based off the first three issues); art by Don Figueroa.

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