The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!
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| "The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!" ビーストウォーズ "ネオ" 開戦!!!
(Beast Wars "Neo" Kaisen!!!) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Comic Bom Bom | ||||||||||||
| First published | February 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | March 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Artist | Shōji Imaki | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars | ||||||||||||
A new menace is emerging, and a new hero is about to be born.
Synopsis
Following the explosion of Nemesis, Lio Convoy and the members of his team have been scattered across time and space due to the blast of Angolmois energy.
After awaking one night in a blizzard, Lio Convoy finds he is alone on an unknown planet. He tries to use his onboard computer to gain the coordinates, only to realizes the onboard computer is inoperative.
Lio Convoy then wanders in the snow field alone, wondering where the other members of his team are. He then runs into a gang of rampaging animals, consisting of a Quetzalcoatlus, a Elasmosaurus, a Triceratops, a Stegosaurus, a Dimetrodon and an Ammonite. The gang, led by a Giganotosaurus, attack other animals. At first, he thinks it was a hunt, but it is a massacre instead. Lio Convoy saves a dear cab and fires Lio Missiles toward the Giganotosaurus. He is surprised to find the missile didn't killed the dinosaur —in fact, the Giganotosaurus is completely unharmed. The Giganotosaurus fights back by firing missiles. When it is about to kill Lio Convoy, he is saved by a mammoth, who gives him a ride and helps him escape.
The mammoth takes Lio Convoy to a hot spring to heal his wounds. He then begins to tell his story: His name is "Big", the leader of a group of native wild animals. He tells Lio Convoy that the Giganotosaurus's gang is a bunch of rowdies who became more vicious and killed his friends after a meteorite fell on the planet. Lio Convoy asks Big to take him to the place where the meteorite fell.
Upon arriving at the cliff above the place mentioned by Big, Lio Convoy soon realizes the meteorite is an Angolmois energy capsule. He then descends into the valley to take an examination of the capsule. The energy restores his onboard computer and gives him the time-and-space coordinates. Lio Convoy is shocked when he learns he is on a distant planet in a time before he was born.
While Lio Convoy is examining the capsule, Big is wondering what he's doing in the valley before the gang comes to the spot and attacks him. Though wounded, Big pushes the gang into the valley after Lio Convoy gets out. The impact causes the capsule to explode and the two breathe a sigh of relief. In the pit, the gang evolves in the blast of Angolmois. The gang then rises out of the valley front of Lio Convoy and Big. Their leader, now named "Magmatron", thanks Big for his effort, which has made them stronger than ever before. The gang then transforms, ready to kill Big and Lio Convoy. Lio Convoy immediately transforms and fights the gang. He defeats the henchmen with ease, but Magmatron takes him out with one blast.
Some time later, Lio Convoy comes to and learns he is still alive because Big used his body as a shield to protect him. However, Big is mortally wounded. Lio Convoy decides to use his Energon Matrix to cure Big. During the treatment, the only thought on his mind is curing Big and feeling concern about his teammates.
After a while, Big dreams about Lio Convoy, who calls out his name and tells him to transform. Suddenly, Big awakes and transforms, standing up in a snowstorm at the darkest night.
Featured characters
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Notes
- "The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!" seems to be the narration in the last page, however, due to the lack of any knowledge about the issue title, TFwiki uses it as the page title for now.
- According to Lio Convoy, it seems interfering an ecosystem is against the regulations in Maximals.
- Big calls Lio Convoy Lio.
- Big saves Lio Convoy three times in this issue.
- Dead End can float in mid-air in beast mode after evolving into a Transformer.
- The rest of the members of Lio Convoy's crew arrive on various planets, respectively:
- Apache arrives on the home planet of Longrack.
- Bighorn arrives on the home planet of Break, turning the penguins, the native species, into Transformers. Bighorn is later worshipped as a god by the natives, as revealed in "A Battle Fought Alone".
- Diver arrives on the home planet of Heinrad.
- Scuba arrives on Jörmungandr, the home planet of Cohrada, turning the cobras, the native species, into Transformers. The process is possibly the effect of Angolmois energy. Scuba is later worshipped as a god by the natives, but left for an unknown reason regarded as "rage of the god", as revealed in "A Battle Fought Alone".
- Tasmania Kid arrives at the home plane of Stampy, turning the rabbits, the native species, into Transformers. Kid is later worshipped as a god by the natives, as revealed in "A Battle Fought Alone".
- The fates of Apache and Diver are unknown.
- Big's home planet seems to be more bio-divergent than other planets mentioned above, which might be only resided by one major species.
- Angolmois energy can influence organic creatures as well as the Transformers. Those effects of Angolmois energy include giving a normal animal the ability of speech, concealed weapons withing bodies, and making bodies stronger enough to resist Lio Missiles.
- Angolmois energy can fix a malfunctioning machine.
- Both Angolmois energy and the power of a Energon Matrix can evolve normal animals into Transformers.
- The fate of Lio Convoy is untold and remains a mystery until the final issue, "Return to Zero", in which he is implied to be dead.
