Shattered Hope
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| "Shattered Hope" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #52 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Benson Yee & Pete Sinclair with Matt Frank | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Matt Frank | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Matt Frank | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Thomas Deer | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Shattered Glass | ||||||||||||
The Maximals hunt for the Origin Matrix and their lost energy purifier.
Synopsis
Scylla wonders Megatron is up to, but as their leader manipulates the equipment in the cave they've found, Snaptrap asserts that whatever it is, it's going to be big.
Over in the Graviton, the Maximals are tying the ship's sensors in to Depth Charge's probes so they can search for the Matrix. Prowl points out that the impure energon outside is contaminating the fuel on the ship which is going to cause them problems. The ship's energy purifier fell out during the crash, so the Maximals configure the probes to search for that too. They start taking turns at watch, and eventually Ironhide is woken up by an alert that the purifier has been found.
Unfortunately by the time the Maximals get there, the Seacons had beaten them to it. Ultra Magnus demands they turn it over, at which point they merge into God Neptune. Undaunted, Ultra Magnus has the other Maximals execute their own surprise: Prowl, Ironhide and Silverbolt merge into Magnaboss. While the two combiners clash, Magnus and Grimlock move in to secure the purifier, but are hit by an explosion from Autolauncher's guns. Autojetter grabs the device, and after God Neptune levels Magnaboss with a typhoon attack, the Predacons depart, leaving the Maximals stunned on the ground.
Back at the ship, Depth Charge gets the alert that the probes have detected the Origin Matrix.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Quotes
"Five of us, three of you- I like those odds!"
"Very clever. With five brains, you can actually count!"
- —God Neptune and Magnaboss exchange smack talk.
"That...could have gone much better."
- —Ultra Magnus, face-trunking.
Notes
Trivia
- Visible on the monitors Megatron is working on are images which look suspiciously like Gigastorm, the upgraded form of Megastorm. Gee, we wonder...
- That three of the Maximals can combine into Magnaboss should not be a surprise though Piranacon's name change might be. It's not unjustified as he has a new component, so he's not purely Piranacon any more, plus it fits with the whole Beast Wars II vibe.
