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Guión: | Bob Budiansky |
| Dibujo: | William Johnson | |
| Entintado: | Kyle Baker | |
| Letra: | Rick Parker | |
| Color: | Nel Yomtov | |
| 22 páginas |
Resumen:
While Shockwave prepares for the transport of Optimus Prime's head, Ratchet searches the Savage Land -- a prehistoric preserve hidding in Antarctica -- for the missing Dinobots. He finds Slag buried in a tar pit, then digs him out and taps his memory banks. It turns out that the Dinobots defeated Shockwave previously (from issue #4) by luck; they were knocked into the tar pits by Shockwave, but manage to knock him in as well by creating an avalanche. Slag then suddenly wakes up; after a moment of confusion, he offers to help Ratchet.
Back in Portland, Oregon, the U.S. Army has surrounded G.B. Blackrock's captured aerospace plant. Shockwave easily penetrates their defenses and slips inside, while an enraged Josie Beller watches from her hospital room. Inside the plant, Shockwave prepares Optimus' head so the Creation Matrix can be used to make six new Decepticons.
Later at the Ark, Megatron receives a transmission from Ratchet. Ratchet shows him a video of the Dinobots defeating Shockwave, then arranges to meet Megatron at the mountains of a nearby ski resort.
When Megatron arrives at the rendezvous point, he announces that he will not return the Ark to Ratchet. Ratchet admits that he had anticipated treachery from Megatron, then unveils the revived Dinobots. Though outnumbered, Megatron still manages to defeat the Dinobots. In desperation, Ratchet charges at Megatron and tries to knock him off a cliff. Megatron does not fall, but the ledge -- weakened by the jolt of Ratchet's charge -- crumbles. Trying to minimize the damage of the fall, Megatron transforms into his lighter pistol mode, then disappears into the snow banks below.
At the hospital, Josie Beller destroys a computer monitor with a mere wave of her arm...
Hay una referencia al Universo Marvel al aparecer de nuevo la Tierra Salvaje.
En la página 10, Shockwave aparece coloreado como Megatron.
¿Quien rompió primero el pacto, Megatron o Ratchet? Mientras Megatron admite que él nunca pensó en devolver el Arca a Ratchet, él no rompió técnicamente el pacto hasta que rehusó cumplirlo. Por otra parte, Ratchet había prometido destruir a Shockwave, pero él nunca lo hace y aleja a Megatron del Arca con falsas pretensiones. Con todos los derechos, entonces es Ratchet el que falla, que es mas bien innoble para un Autobot.
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