Battle Drive
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| "Battle Drive" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Ballantine Books | ||||||||||||
| Imprint | Find Your Fate Junior | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Barbara and Scott Siegel | ||||||||||||
| Illustrator | William Schmidt (interior pencils and cover painting) | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0345341532 ISBN 0-345-34153-8 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 73 | ||||||||||||
- Battle Drive is a multipath adventure in Generation 1.
Featured characters
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Synopsis
Bumblebee learns the Decepticons are destroying farmland to control the world's food supply. In reality, it's all a clever ruse to draw the Autobots into battle on flat farmland with no cover, and destroy them.
Meanwhile, Sparkplug has discovered a fatal weakness in the Decepticons' circuits, and is hiding from Decepticon search parties.
Will the Autobots be destroyed? Can Sparkplug be saved? The answer to these questions... is up to you.
Notes
- The authors dedicated this book to their friend Steven J. Kleinman
- The Deluxe Insecticon Ransack is among Megatron's forces, one of his rare appearances during the original G1 era.
- One ending has the adventure stop abruptly, when you, the reader, wake up. It was all a dream... or was it?
- Sparkplug's plight goes unmentioned if you do not encounter Buster. This actually makes a good deal of sense if the Decepticons were unable to find him, since Soundwave overhears Buster explaining to you that Sparkplug went to the hills to hide.
- The Autobots compose a fightin' song to commemorate their victory over the Decepticons. Awesome.
- In one story path, the Autobots are about to walk into a trap, and the text asks the reader to warn them by writing on the page. Sadly, the fourth wall's sacrifice is in vain, as the Autobots notice the message(!) but ignore it.
- This book was available individually, or as part of a six-book box set with the other five "pre-Movie era" books in the series.
- Battle Drive's cover art was used for the box set's sleeve.
