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The Transformers: Redux, Issue 27: Shattered Glass, Chapter Four

     Date: 9/4/2012

NOWHERE TO RUN

    (Roadbuster's team are underground)

    ROADBUSTER: Did we lose 'em?

    ROTORSTORM: Looks like it. I think Evil Optimus is just killing his subordinates.

    ROADBUSTER: Let's just double check. (He shoots to cause a cave in)

    IRONFIST: That's one way to keep 'em out.

    TWIN TIWST: I've seen better... way better. (On his wrist screen, he's keeping tally of how many kills he and Topspin have. Twin Twist = 0, Topspin = 5)

    ROADBUSTER: All right, guys, let's go!

    IRONFIST: Man, this underground is pretty wide...

    ARCEE: Sure is... makes you wonder if it's for a reason.

    (On the surface...)

    SPRINGER: All right... I think we lost 'em.

    BULKHEAD: Great, so now what do we do?

    SCATTORSHOT: Hang on... those Autobots back there were evil, right?

    TOPSPIN: Yeah...

    SCATTORSHOT: So, maybe somewhere out here, there are good Decepticons!

    SPRINGER: That... sounds plausible.

    WHIRL: But why would we go looking for them?

    SCATTORSHOT: Maybe they might know what's going on.

    SPRINGER: It's worth a shot. Wreckers... let's roll!

    (Meanwhile, on the real Cybertron...)

    FIRST AID: Mayhem Attack Squad?

    AIR RAID: Yeah, they pounded us like we were scrapmetal!

    JAZZ: Look, I know they're a strike force - like the Wreckers - and I know that they've always been dangerous...  but back there, they acted ten times worse than usual.

    PHARMA: First Aid! I found another survivor!

    FIRST AID: Dogfight!

    DOGFIGHT: Must... warn...

    JAZZ: Man, I thought you were dead! What--?

    DOGFIGHT: T-the Storm...

    JAZZ: What?

    DOGFIGHT: T-they told me... about... their plan. The Storm... the Stormbringer... Thunderwing... they're... going to Nebulos... and... and-- (He falls to the ground)

    JAZZ: He's... dead.

    FIRST AID: Pharma, alert Ultra Magnus about this.

    PHARMA: Right.

    JAZZ: I'll contact Nebulos. Whatever's going on... it's gonna be big!

    (Back with Roadbuster's team; they've found a huge room with lots of machinery and monitors)

    IRONFIST: This place is huge.

    ROADBUSTER: Yeah. Kinda scary too. Looks like this is some sorta torture chamber.

    TWIN TWIST: What's with all of the monitors?

    IRONFIST: Um, guys? We're not the only ones here. (He points to a petrified bot sitting nearby)

    TWIN TWIST: Hey, mind telling us where we are?

    (Silence)

    TWIN TWIST: Uh, hello?

    (The bot's head falls off)

    IRONFIST: Uh, I think we should leave, guys. I mean, call me paranoid, but I think we've walked into a trap.

    (Behind him, one of the monitors turns on)

    ???: You have.

    (A bunch of guns unfold from the ceiling)

    TWIN TWIST: Scrap.

    (SG Wheeljack's face appears on the monitor)

    WHEELJACK (SG): Heh-heh-heh! You thought you could escape, didn't you? But now you are surrounded, and left with two options. You can fight here and die... or you can turn yourselves in and answer for your mistakes in siding with Springer.

    ROADBUSTER: Give us everything you can throw at us.

    WHEELJACK (SG): If you insist...

    (A door opens to reveal SG Hot Rod, Jetfire, and Drift)

    WHEELJACK (SG): It's been a while since Hot Rod and his friends have gotten any action.

    HOT ROD (SG): Right then... who wants to die first?

    (Meanwhile, the real Cybertron)

    ULTRA MAGNUS: Primus, I'm having a bad day.

    RED ALERT: I know it's hard to believe, sir, but we have to do something.

    ULTRA MAGNUS: Did Dogfight say anything else besides the Mayhem Attack Squad going to Nebulos?

    PHARMA: Yes, sir. He said something about a "storm" or a "stormbringer."

    ULTRA MAGNUS: Anything else?

    PHARMA: He mentioned someone called Thunderwing.

    ULTRA MAGNUS: Thunderwing, huh? First Aid, where's Optimus Prime?

    FIRST AID: At the court tower.

    ULTRA MAGNUS: Tell him I'll be there. This is bad....

    (On the fake Cybertron)

    ROTORSTORM: This is awesome! Haven't had this much fun since the Battle of Technar!

    ROADBUSTER: Can the attitude, kid! It's all fun and games 'till someone gets their head blasted off!

    HOT ROD (SG): Say now, that's an idea! Jetfire?

    JETFIRE (SG): With pleasure. (He unfurls his shoulder cannons and hits Ironfist in the shoulder)

    IRONFIST: Ye-oww!

    ARCEE: Ironfist!

    DRIFT (SG): Heh-heh-heh! (He clashes blades with Arcee only to get shot in the back by Twin Twist)

    TWIN TWIST: Laugh at this!

    DRIFT (SG): Ow.

    ROADBUSTER: Wreckers! Transform and roll out! (They do so)

    JETFIRE (SG): They're getting away!

    HOT ROD (SG): Let them run, Jetfire. They aren't out of the woods yet. Something big awaits them...

    WHEELJACK (SG): You know what this means, Perceptor.

    PERCEPTOR (SG): Affirmative. Release him.

    GRIMLOCK (SG): Me Grimlock... SMASH!

CHARACTERS

    Autobots: Air Raid, Arcee, Bulkhead, Dogfight, First Aid, Ironfist, Jazz, Pharma, Red Alert, Roadbuster, Rotorstorm, Scattorshot, Springer, Topspin, Twin Twist, Ultra Magnus, Whirl

    SG Autobots: Drift, Grimlock, Hot Rod, Jetfire, Perceptor, Wheeljack

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