Foundation and Wreckage Part 1: Deadly Aim
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"Deadly Aim" | |||||||||||||
Publisher | Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive) | ||||||||||||
First published | May 27, 2016 | ||||||||||||
By | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
Story | Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
Illustrations by | Tomoya Hosono | ||||||||||||
Colors by | Josh Burcham | ||||||||||||
Cover | Marcelo Matere and Josh Burcham | ||||||||||||
Continuity | Of Masters and Mayhem | ||||||||||||
Page count | 24pp |
The Wreckers recruit two more members in their attempt to get revenge against Thunder Mayhem...but they may have created an even greater monster in the process.
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Synopsis
On the planet Abraxas, the former Aerialbot trainee Alpha Bravo has laid low on the planet, after the razing of Cybertron at the hands of Thunder Mayhem. Integrating himself as a helicopter in the emergency services, he believes himself to be the last Cybertronian left, and now spends his days as a seemingly ordinary vehicle, rescuing those in need. One day, however, changes all that: when reports of a meteorite blare across the Abraxan radio frequencies, Alpha Bravo's sensors are able to tell that the seemingly ordinary "rock" is actually a Cybertronian ship. Excited by the prospect of meeting another survivor, Alpha Bravo quickly activates a hologram of his pilot, Junior Lieutenant Jorrval, and heads out to the impact zone. Finding the crashed ship—more of an escape pod rather than a space-worthy vessel—Alpha Bravo lands and transforms, initially believing that it might have just been a derelict ship. However, inside the flames, he spots something he hasn't seen in years; a fellow Cybertronian.
Much later, Alpha Bravo and his new friend, the former Stunticon Offroad, have gotten used to their lives as rescue vehicles on Abraxas, growing close to one another. However, they are eventually are approached by Impactor and the Wreckers, who seek to take down Thunder Mayhem. Offroad—pretending to be bored by the prospects of living on Abraxas forever as a lifeless machine—quickly accepts Impactor's offer. Alpha Bravo, having grown to enjoy to his new life, is initially reluctant, but eventually accepts as well, happy to be with the remnants of his own kind. Brought on board the Wreckers' ship, Impactor explains his plan: to create a combiner of their own to take down Thunder Mayhem. Alpha Bravo points out that they'll need an emotion strong enough to unite them, but Fractyl begins to explain that the Mayhem Attack Squad have a different source for their power. Counterpunch interjects, pointing out how all the other combiners had just as strong of a will uniting them up against Thunder Mayhem—a will to live—and yet they still fell before him. Counterpunch's comments cause Impactor, Alpha Bravo, and Offroad to grow gloomy, remembering what had happened to Superion and Menasor, while the warped Toxitron, trying to obfuscate his excitement to finally be a part of something bigger than himself, cracks some twisted jokes. Fractyl resumes his explanation: having hacked Shockwave's encrypted files at the base where Toxitron was frozen, he has discovered the source of Thunder Mayhem's power: a sixth spark! Not merely the result of a merging of personalities, Thunder Mayhem is his own entity, taking control of the combined Mayhem Attack Squad. The Predacon scientist then reveals that Toxitron also has a link with Thunder Mayhem. Created as a clone of Optimus Prime, Toxitron was used by Shockwave to grow a replica of the Creation Matrix's container—a revelation which causes Toxitron to fume with anger, remembering the torture he experienced under the hands of Shockwave and his assistants. Shockwave proceeded to implant a powerful spark within this "matrix", extracted from the Decepticon mad scientist Thunderwing, who turned his spark green when experimenting with his CNA. Finishing, Fractyl explains that while he can't replicate Thunderwing's process with any of their sparks, the greenergon that he picked up while on Chicxulania radiates the same energy signature as Thunderwing's spark. For the first time in a long time, Impactor smiles: the Wreckers have a shot.
On Abraxas, Offroad has taken well to his new job as the truck for excitable Junior Lieutenant Feenliess, while Alpha Bravo is still piloted by Jorrval, now promoted to Captain. For the most part, their tasks have been fairly menial, but their biggest rescue yet occurs when a Ghepisn Manufacturing chemical plant goes up in flames. Alpha Bravo and Offroad quickly arrive on the scene, and while the Decepticon wishes to join his partner in getting closer, Feenliess leaves him parked away from the flames. Alpha Bravo and the other helicopters try dousing the flames with water, but the highly combustible fuel additive the plant manufactures proves tenacious. Offroad radios Alpha Bravo, asking him to provide for a distraction; the Aerialbot begins to complain, but when one of the vats inside erupts in a tower of flame, Alpha Bravo is engulfed within it, distracting the rescuers on the ground as Offroad slips away. He drives around to the back of the facility and busts through, finding himself in the warehouse containing the fuel additive ingredients. Offroad's sensors pick up a muffled cough, and tries to push through the narrow aisles in vehicle mode, the heat melting his tires. Finding a freezer, Offroad uses his energy axe to free four Abraxan scientists trapped inside. They quickly enter Offroad's cab (with the Decepticon generating a hologram of his driver to calm them), and as he cranks his air conditioning to the max, Offroad tries his best to rush out of the warehouse, struggling to gain traction with his metal tires. He finally escapes, and the carbon monoxide emitted from his engines deprives the fire of oxygen, giving the rescuers outside a better shot at putting out the flames. Several hours later, Alpha Bravo and Offroad return to the station with the other rescuers; Offroad is given new tires, while Alpha Bravo is given a wash. After finishing up, Jorrval and Feenliess head out to get a celebratory drink together, allowing Offroad and Alpha Bravo to transform. Offroad is upset he didn't get a bath as well, but Alpha Bravo points out that he did get new tires. When Offroad mopes about missing his old ones, Alpha Bravo playfully tells the Stunticon that he'll get use to them, and Offroad smiles, noting that anything is possible now that he's gotten "used to" Alpha Bravo as well...
In Fractyl's lab, the Predacon geochemist gets to work extracting a sample of the greenergon to test in conjunction with Toxitron's fluids, believing that it should work similarly to Thunderwing's spark and its relationship with the artificial matrix. Toxitron, however, makes his work difficult, his passive aggressive comments annoying the smaller Transformer. When Fractyl mentions Thunder Mayhem's name, Toxitron works himself into a tantrum, complaining about how Shockwave only cared about his "perfect" experiments, leaving him and all the other "ugly" ones to be forgotten. Toxitron lets out a roar of frustration, startling Fractyl; the energy scalpel he was using accidentally cuts all the way through the greenergon crystal, sending it flying across the room. Falling into a beaker of thiotimoline, the crystal causes the usually innocuous solvent to foam, and Fractyl throws it out of his lab. The beaker flies past Alpha Bravo and Offroad as they head towards the command deck, and Alpha Bravo pulls Offroad back as the beaker explodes, knocking the doors off the cargo bay. Alpha Bravo worriedly checks over his friend, while Impactor comes to investigate. After Fractyl explains what thiotimoline is, Impactor orders the scientist to put all the remaining thiotimoline in the hold. Fractyl grabs the flasks while Toxitron, satisfied with getting a rise out of the Predacon, heads off. Alpha Bravo and Offroad sit still for a second, before bursting into laughter over all the little drama.
Nearly a year after the chemical plant explosion, the investigators have come to a conclusion: the "accident" was intentional, caused by the four scientists whom Offroad found in the facility. Unfortunately, the four are now held up in an office building with 20 hostages and barrels of the fuel additive that they stole. Alpha Bravo and Offroad hurry to the scene, as Captain Jorrval and Lieutenant Feenliess coordinate with the other units along the way; the two are nervous, having never been in a situation on Abraxas as serious as this. Once they arrive, Jorrval checks inside the building, seeing that the four hostage takers have split up on individual levels, with four hostages for each, the location of the final four unknown. The captain orders everyone to stay where they are until they find the missing hostages, and tries to call the suspects for their demands, but when he hears that the building is owned by Wesxliff Industrial Trust, Alpha Bravo realizes what's about to happen. Calling Offroad, he informs him that the four intend to blow up the building; Ghepisn was a shell corporation owned by Wesxliff, and the suspects want revenge. Wesxliff has made deals with most of the provinces on the planet to obtain the rare element thorrinault for their fuel additive, but not all the provinces agreed. The four are now prepared to strike back, believing that Wesxliff intruded on their turf without permission. Hurrying off while Feenliess is occupied, Offroad finds an underground parking lot for the office building and transforms, making his way up the cramped stairs. Encountering the first group, Offroad's appearance causes both the hostage taker and the hostages to freeze in fear, until Offroad knocks out the criminal with his carburetor carbine's knock-out gas. Offroad advises the hostages to stay put, since the stairs have begun to crumble, and continues on up the building, taking out two more of the hostage takers. Alpha Bravo radios in to tell Offroad that the final suspect is trying to call the others, and that he needs to hurry; the Decepticon complies, though he grimly lets Alpha Bravo know that he found the remains of the other four hostages. Unfortunately, his increased pace causes the strained stairs to fall away completely. With Offroad unable to get to the last group, Alpha Bravo quickly takes off, as Jorrval is occupied with trying to negotiate with the final suspect. Crashing through the windows, Alpha Bravo transforms and tries to grab the detonator from the leader...but the man has the resolve to complete his mission. The building goes up in flames as the fuel additive explodes, and while Offroad and Alpha Bravo survive the explosion, the hostages aren't so lucky.
In Fractyl's lab, the Wreckers have finally managed to get Toxitron in stasis for operation. Fractyl has prepared a makeshift matrix containing the greenergon, which will provide the Wreckers the power they need to stop Thunder Mayhem in combined form. Impactor gives Fractyl his energy blade to cut into Toxitron's back—where Fractyl believes their combined form's chest will be. Alpha Bravo and Offroad, who have been watching the progress up to that point, leave the room, unwilling to watch. Fractyl, too, is somewhat queasy—he's never had to cut into another Cybertronian before, and he's not really a medic. Impactor offers to get him open for him, and as Fractyl heads out to wait, Impactor grabs a container from his back, frowning as he makes sure the receiver works...
Six months after the the disaster, Captain Jorrval has a date with a desk jockey...but she's more focused on trying to figure out why her helicopter hasn't been working. Lieutenant Feenliess playfully tries to get her friend's focus back on her date, and though Jorrval is reluctant to go, she finally gives in. Watching them as they head off, Offroad transforms and heads over to Alpha Bravo, muttering about how their pilots don't realize they're happiest together. Alpha Bravo remains silent at first, and Offroad tries once more to tell Alpha Bravo that what happened wasn't his fault. The Aerialbot transforms and curls up into a ball; Offroad tries to tell his friend that he's the bravest person he's ever known, and that he'll always be there for him. Alpha Bravo cuts him off, telling him just to promise everything will be alright. Offroad promises, and the two sit in silence together; the Decepticon wonders how long the captain's date will last, wanting to stay with Alpha Bravo for the rest of the night...
The Wreckers land on a strange planet, with Impactor only informing that that they'll test their combination here. Disembarking from the ship, the Wreckers find themselves in a cable-like jungle, the atmosphere acrid smelling of death. Counterpunch detects several large lifeforms heading there way, when several large, spherical red robots bursts out of the ground: this is the homeworld of the Mecannibals, who are all too excited to see such rare delicacies on their doorstep! Toxitron rushes to the aliens, allowing one of the creatures to take a bite out him...but it proves immune to the acid touch, their durable hides protecting acidic fluids of their own! The Mecannibals, finding Toxitron's ooze delicious, begin tearing into him while he laughs from the pain, as the other Wreckers watch on in terror. Impactor dully informs that he brought them here because, as far as anyone knows, no one has ever been able to kill a Mecannibal; what better choice for a test run for an unstoppable combiner? As Toxitron gets loose while the Mecannibals squabble over him, the other Wreckers reluctantly initiate the combination sequence, transforming into their limbs and connecting to Toxitron, his internal force fields protecting them from his ooze while he regenerates. Alpha Bravo feels as his mind links up with the others, catching flashes of places, people, and things from the others, until the combiner's mind is finally one. Impactor, for the first time in a long time, feels triumphant, as the combiner declares his name: Wreckage. Undeterred, the Mecannibals rush towards their massive meal, who barely notices them...but when one of them bites into the combiner, Wreckage howls in fury, and grabs the robot, the greenergon allowing him to crush it with his bare hands. The Mecannibals freeze in horror, before rushing back to their hive. Wreckage kills several more, but when the rest manage to escape, the rage-filled combiner looks for something else to crush, and turns to Impactor. The Wrecker commander orders them to disengage, reaching for a device in his back. Wreckage refuses to listen, and tries to crush Impactor...until the part of him that is Alpha Bravo screams from within his head for him to stop, and the combiner falls apart into his individual components.
Several hours later, Alpha Bravo wakes up, the combination having rattled him. Counterpunch, already awake, lets him know that Impactors going to want to see them all once everyone's awake; Alpha Bravo tries to ask him if he was horrified as well, but Counterpunch, used to having multiple lives, brushes off his concerns. Stumbling back to his quarters, Alpha Bravo realizes that in trying to stop a monster as powerful as Thunder Mayhem, they've created a monster of their own, and that Impactor doesn't care if he unleashes a worst monster on the universe. Grabbing a flask of energon, Alpha Bravo knows he cannot let Wreckage come back. Lost in thought, he barely reacts as Offroad comes in and tries to reassure his friend, telling him that they have to meet up with the others, not nearly as rattled as the Aerialbot. Ignoring his friends words, Alpha Bravo comes to an unfortunate conclusion; with Toxitron's regenerative abilities, Counterpunch's general wariness, and Fractyl's seemingly-invulnerable Furmanite armor, he can't take any of them out, and that even if he kills himself, Impactor would absolutely be willing to take his place. As Offroad turns to leave, Alpha Bravo calls out to him, and when the Decepticon turns around, his friend blasts him in the chest. Rushing to his friend, Alpha Bravo tries to reassure his dying friend. Alpha Bravo hugs him tight, and doesn't react when Toxitron bursts in, stabbing Alpha Bravo through the spark in retaliation. It doesn't matter; Alpha Bravo had already broken his spark himself.
The remaining Wreckers gather together, trying to puzzle out Alpha Bravo's actions. Counterpunch solemnly realizes that Alpha Bravo was trying to stop Wreckage from becoming the ultimate monster; Impactor, in his cold fury, reveals that he had everything under control. Fractyl, having noticed that one of the beakers of thiotimoline was missing, realizes he implanted it within Toxitron as a fail safe, but Impactor believes it doesn't matter anymore; they've lost. Toxitron, furious over both Impactor's treachery and having his chance to destroy Thunder Mayhem taken from him, storms out of the room and takes out his wrath on the ship. Counterpunch starts to clean up the mess, but is interrupted when the ship's computer has picked up another Cybertronian lifesign...back on Cybertron.
And years ago, on the day that changed everything, Alpha Bravo lands and transforms, initially believing that the pod that crashed was just a derelict ship. However, inside the flames, he spots something he hasn't seen in years; a fellow Cybertronian. Holding out his hand, Alpha Bravo helps the Transformer out of the blaze. The Transformer asks him if he's worried about trusting him, causing Alpha Bravo to notice his Decepticon symbol...but Alpha Bravo figures that none of that matters now. Unable to fix his ship, the Cybertronian—Offroad—is ready to find a different way to live. Promising to help him find a new purpose here, Alpha Bravo tells Offroad that they'll be inseparable in no time.
Featured characters
Characters in italics appear only in flashbacks or in visions.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
Notes
- Characters mentioned but not seen include: the Mayhem Attack Squad, Thunder Mayhem, Superion, Defensor, Bruticus, Menasor, Wheeljack, Powerglide, the Aerialbots, Shockwave, an information thief, Optimus Prime, Jetfire, Thunderwing, Needlenose, Gnash, J'oh, and the Vespoids.
Continuity notes
- Counterpunch joined up with Impactor in "The Truth We Make", where he was rebuilt into his combiner form on Paradron. The two then picked up Fractyl in "Life Finds a Way" from Chicxulania (where he was given his new combiner body after changing back from his brief time with a Pterosaur alt-mode) and Toxitron from Cybertron in "The Toxic Transformer" (where his past as part of an experiment at the hands of Shockwave and his assistants was told).
- Fractyl obtained Shockwave's files on Thunder Mayhem at the facility where Toxitron was abandoned, as seen in "The Toxic Transformer".
- The Wreckers picked up the greenergon on Chicxulania in "Life Finds a Way". Fractyl brings up the power exhibited by the Raptoricon Gnash in that story, a mutated Cybertronian who was extremely powerful, and whose systems required greenergon to balance out her power levels.
- Images and words in Wreckage's mind include: torture at the hands of Loudpetal (Toxitron, from "The Toxic Transformer"); the Vespoids (Fractyl, from "Life Finds a Way"); a fractured set of lives (Counterpunch, "The Truth We Make"); and Offroad sitting with Alpha Bravo to comfort him from this story.
Transformers references
- The story's main two stars, Alpha Bravo and Offroad, were new characters introduced in the 2014 Combiner Wars toyline, new characters who (for a brief time) replaced Slingshot and Wildrider on the Aerialbots and Stunticons, respectively; this story notes that they were trainees for the team, never actually becoming full on members. While they both made appearances in IDW Publishing's various comics (including the "Combiner Wars" event), they hadn't really done much of anything up to this point. Their depiction in this story, for the most part, ignores the profiles printed in their pack-in comic; Offroad is especially different from the creepy depiction he was given in his toy profile.
- The flashback sections all take place on Abraxas; this planet is named in reference to the Abraxan Blue Lava Fireball, a drink mentioned in issue #52 of the Marvel The Transformers comic. The story mentions them as being made from the fuel additive seen in this story, bringing up the Black Hole Bar and Grill and its bartender J'oh, where the drink was served as seen in issue #52. Unfortunately, the story's authors hadn't realized that The AllSpark Almanac II had given the drink's planet of origin a name already: Abrax.
- Alpha Bravo and Offroad serve as seemingly-ordinary rescue vehicles, helping out the Abraxans while hiding their true nature, homaging the set up of the first three seasons of the Rescue Bots cartoon.
- The whine of the engines of Offroad's ship "met [Alpha Bravo's] ears" like the sub-sonic jingle of the Cosmic Carnival, a spacefaring circus seen in issue #44 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.
- Alpha Bravo's energon pump sputters when he meets Offroad for the first time, a piece of Cybertronian anatomy mentioned in the original The Transformers cartoon episode "Sea Change".
- The end of the prologue and the beginning of the epilogue are marked with a "symbol-switch" image inspired by the scene transitions from the original The Transformers cartoon, which were often used in earlier Timelines stories. It goes from the Autobot insignia to the Wreckers symbol created by 3H Productions, and vice versa.
- The Pit is sworn by several times in the story, the Cybertronian version of Hell first mentioned in the Beast Wars cartoon.
- Impactor remembers how Wheeljack upgraded Superion, with Powerglide joining as a "Targetmaster"; evidently, Superion's components were upgraded to their Combiner Wars toys—including the Autobot Mini Vehicle, whose toy could become a gun for Superion to wield. Presumably, Menasor, Bruticus, and Defensor were also upgraded to their Combiner Wars forms.
- When talking about Shockwave's files, Fractyl recalls an information thief he used to know, unable to recall his name other than that it might be "Data Pack" or "Data Rat". This is, of course, Packrat, the Maximal thief from Beast Wars that Fractyl was sold with at BotCon 1997.
- When Fractyl mentions Toxitron's resemblance to Optimus Prime, Alpha Bravo jokes that he's also been compared to other Cybertronians before; shortly after being revealed, many fans commented on both his color scheme's similarity to the Aerialbot he replaced, Slingshot, and his physical resemblance to the Combaticon Vortex, whose Combiner Wars toy would end up being a redeco of Alpha Bravo.
- Fractyl mentions how the Decepticons briefly held the Creation Matrix, using it to created Jetfire, until he defected to the Autobots. In the first arc of the Marvel The Transformers after the initial four issue mini-series (from issues #5 to 12), Shockwave held Optimus Prime's head hostage, attempting to use the Creation Matrix to bring online new Decepticons. Jetfire was built in this time, but Prime had already hidden the Matrix's power inside Buster Witwicky, and so appeared at first as a non-sentient drone. He would be brought to life by Prime and defect to the Autobots in issue #14.
- Unsurprisingly, Thunder Mayhem's source of power is revealed to be the spark of Thunderwing. His depiction as a mad scientist trying to perfect the Cybertronian form, along with his role in the devastation of Cybertron, homages Thunderwing's counterpart in IDW Publishing's comic continuity, in which he served as the main antagonist of the Stormbringer mini-series, having driven himself mad with his experiment Pretender technology. In this continuity, he experimented on his CNA (the genetic code of Cybertronians, first given a named in IDW's Spotlight: Arcee), and ended up giving himself a green spark (AKA a Point One Percenter, a powerful spark-type first introduced in IDW's More than Meets the Eye comic). Thunderwing's implantation into a Matrix also serves as a homage to his Marvel counterpart, who obsessed over obtaining the Creation Matrix.
- Fractyl's Furmanite armor was introduced in the BotCon 1997 comic, "Ground Zero", where it allowed Fractyl (and Packrat) to shield themselves from the natural energon permeating prehistoric Earth.
- Toxitron's laugh is compared to a vapor-rat caught in between two thermo-cogs. Vapor-rats were previously mentioned in a post on the Facebook page Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, itself derived from an unused Shattered Glass story author Jesse Wittenrich was writing.
- Offroad sarcastically tells Alpha Bravo that he'll be as silent as a Metallikato master while heading up the Wesxliff building stairs; Metallikato was a Cybertronian martial art first mentioned in the tech specs for the 1989 Decepticon Pretender Bludgeon.
- The Mecannibals were spider-like cannibalistic robots who served as the main antagonists of issues #52 and #53 of the Marvel The Transformers comics. Their home planet has never been seen in a story before now; the web-like spires that make up their hive are similar to the structures seen on their ship in those issues.
- When thinking about whether or not he can get the drop on Counterpunch, Alpha Bravo compares him to a pneuma-lion, a Cybertronian animal mentioned in the Wings Universe prose story "Flames of Yesterday".
- While ranting about Alpha Bravo's actions, Toxitron's voiced is said to simmer like the smelting pools of Darkmount, introduced in issue #17 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.
Real world references
- The title "Deadly Aim" was taken from a lyric in the then-popular 2015 musical, Hamilton.
- Offroad crash-lands in a flornseed field, named for the planet Florn from the former Star Wars Expanded Universe.
- Lieutenant Feenliess believes herself to have "thundercougar-like reflexes"; this is in reference to the Thundercougarfalconbird, a hovercar model from the adult animated comedy Futurama.
- The planet where the Raptoricons and Vespoids resided was unnamed in "Life Finds a Way"; here, it's named Chicxulania, after the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, believed to the impact site of the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
- The previously aforementioned thermo-cogs are named for Thermocog, a family name for gnomes from a name generator on the website Dungeon Master's Vault, a fan community site for Dungeons & Dragons.
- Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound from 1948 short story "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline", written by author Isaac Asimov.
- Wesxliff Industrial Trust is named for Westcliff, the name of a few towns around the world, while Ghepisn Manufacturing is named for gypsum, a kind of mineral.
- When prepping to cut open Toxitron, Fractyl quips that he's "a geochemist, not a medical doctor", paraphrasing the catchphrase of Doctor McCoy from Star Trek: "I'm a doctor, not a [x]!"
- Alpha Bravo believes that if he let Wreckage combine again, he "would become fear. He would become death. He would become the destroyer of worlds." This is paraphrased from the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hindu scriptures, which would be quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer to describe his feelings after the first successful nuclear bomb detonation.
- Toxitron wields the Agonizer Blade, named for the Agonizer, a torture device from the mirror universe of Star Trek.
Errors
- On page 11, when Alpha Bravo is talking about Abraxas' provinces, the story accidentally uses the similarly spelt word "providences".
- On page 22, Toxitron's Agonizer Blade is misspelled "Angonizer Blade".
Other trivia
- The art on the cover reuses the linework Marcelo Matere did for the Transformers Figure Subscription Service 4.0 Spinister and Ruckus figures.
- It's all but said that Alpha Bravo and Offroad are in a romantic relationship with one another. However, they're only ever referred to as "friends" – this is, supposedly, due to the Of Masters and Mayhem universe being a Marvel-style universe, where there are "no men, no women... no mates"[1]... though Of Masters and Mayhem has had multiple female characters up to this point. Their unsaid romance is mirrored by their pilots, Captain Jorrval and Lieutenant Feenliess.
- Originally,[2] the Combiner Wars Protectobot Rook was going to be in this story in place of Offroad; however, Fun Publications decided to make the first incarnation of Wreckage a Decepticon by majority.
- Alpha Bravo covers up the missiles in his helicopter mode with holograms of medical stretchers.
References
External links
- "Deadly Aim" at The Official Transformers Collectors' Club