Interference Patterns

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« The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #7
"Interference Patterns"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published July 4, 2012
Cover date July 2012
Story by John Barber
Art by Brendan Cahill
Colors by Joana Lafuente
Letters by Shawn Lee
Editor Carlos Guzman
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2012)

Wheeljack investigates when a squad of suspiciously beneficent Decepticons mysteriously return to Cybertron.

Synopsis

While in the process of testing a new personalized containment field generator, Wheeljack is summoned to the Autobot command centre by Bumblebee with news of a newly-arrived ship. This craft is more than a mere NAIL vessel, however: it is branded with the Decepticon insignia, and materializes in the skies seemingly out of nowhere, without warning. Suspecting the possibility that a potential invasion fleet may be lurking in waiting, hidden by similar cloaking devices, the Autobots cautiously watch as the ship sets down and opens, revealing itself to be captained by Turmoil. The Decepticon enigmatically claims that they have no cloaking device, but rather something much more interesting and beneficial to Cybertron, which they will share if they are allowed to peacefully return to the planet. Well-acquainted with Turmoil's brand of villainy from a campaign on Dabola that convinced him to abandon the war, Metalhawk surprises all assembled by foregoing his normally altruistic approach and proposing the Decepticon be killed where he stands, but Turmoil turns the tables on the Autobots by explaining that Dabola was not his work, but that of his turncoat lieutenant... the once-Decepticon, now-Autobot Drift.

Angry at having this truth kept from him, Metalhawk is taken by Starscream to Maccadam's Old Oil House to talk the matter out, explaining his genuine desire to see the new Cybertronian government work out and asking bar owner Blurr to tell Metalhawk of his own experiences with Turmoil and Drift.

Back at their base, lacking Metalhawk's conviction in Turmoil's evil, the other Autobots discuss what to do, and Wheeljack decides to sneak aboard Turmoil's ship to discover the truth of his claims. Evading the Decepticon troops on board and taking them out where necessary, Wheeljack makes his way into the depths of the vessel and discovers that they are indeed lacking in a cloaking device: what they actually have is a time machine. Knowing that neither Turmoil nor his men could have built it, Wheeljack uses the time machine to access a portion of the ship's security footage that has been deleted, and discovers that the device was built by organic alien slaves, who Turmoil then had executed to hide this fact from the Autobots. No sooner has he discovered this, however, than Wheeljack is attacked from behind by Turmoil, a giant hole blasted through his torso. Fortunately, he is able to strap a containment field generator to the Decepticon warlord and seal him in bubble, but before he can make his escape, he is surrounded by Turmoil's men. Suddenly, Metalhawk appears from behindto cleave the Decepticons with his wings and rescue Wheeljack, who activates another containment field around both of them, providing them with protection as they make their way out. As they go, Metalhawk confesses that when he abandoned the war, it was not out of cowardice: it was a product of the incredible anger that Turmoil made him feel, an anger that he refused to let take hold of him. It it because Bumblebee, Starscream and the others genuinely seek to find a new path in life, as has Metalhawk done, that he has sided with them.

After escaping Turmoil's ship, Wheeljack and Metalhawk call in Prowl's forces to storm the craft and capture the Decepticons. Wheeljack realises that the lesson of this entire experience is that he must be ready for anything, and that despite the fact the time machine was built using slave labour, the advantage it can conceivably provide means that there may not be room to feel guilty for keeping it...

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