Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Transformers Regenerated Comic: Issue 17 - Spotlight: Dead End

     Date: 10/15/2013

    This is the last completed issue I wrote for this series.

HORRORCONS RISING PART 2: EVE OF TERROR

    DEAD END: (narration) *sigh* Just what is the point? I mean, we go about fighting and killing each other... but we're all gonna die anyway.

    DRAG STRIP: Ya' gonna make a move already? (They're playing Battleship)

    DEAD END: *Sigh* (He makes a move)

    (Drag Strip makes his move)

    DRAG STRIP: Ha! I sunk your battleship! Go me! Go me!

    MOTORMASTER: What... are you doing? Nevermind, don't care. Get to your stations, boys... we're expecting an Autobot attack.

    BREAKDOWN: So... we're really are at war?

    MOTORMASTER: Yes, Breakdown. Megatron has spoken... we're back at war!

    (Meanwhile)

    SILVERBOLT: All right, guys, this mission should be fairly easy... We fly in, take down their defenses, get their experiment, and then fly off. Sounds good?

    AIR RAID & FIREFLIGHT: Yes, sir!

    SILVERBOLT: Then let's move...

    (Battle breaks out)

    MOTORMASTER: Move it, Decepticons! We must ensure Oil Slick's protection! Not that I give a darn about his survival.... Breakdown, Dead End, keep an eye on the scientist!

    DEAD END: As if I had anything better to do. Oil Slick? Oil Slick! Yo, canister-head! Where are you?!

    BREAKDOWN: They've taken him.

    DEAD END: Who?

    BREAKDOWN: The Horrorcons. They always come around this time, on the eve of this orbital cycle. They come, they seize... and they never see you again.

    DEAD END: Uh-huh. What's this?

    BREAKDOWN: Synthetic Energon. It's what Oil Slick's been working on.

    DEAD END: Hmm... (He starts injecting it into himself)

    BREAKDOWN: What are you doing?! Don't--

    DEAD END: I have nothing to lose, Breakdown.

    BREAKDOWN: Oh, Primus, I can't watch...

    DEAD END: What's wrong with you? I feel fine--! Hrk! What the--? My... module. Ah, I knew this would happen... sooner or... later... (His eyes turn green)

    BREAKDOWN: Dead End...? You okay?

    DEAD END: Hm? Oh, I'm fine... just feelin' a little thirsty.

    (Beat)

    VEHICON: Hey, Motormaster needs--

    (Breakdown shoves him in as he leaves the room, slamming the door behind him)

    VEHICON: What the--? (He sees Dead End) Mommy....

    (Later)

    MOTORMASTER: Well done, Decepticons. We've won.

    VEHICON: Um, sir? We have a situation.

    MOTORMASTER: Dead End? Are you-- Oh, Mortilus...

    (Dead End has dismembered his Vehicon victim)

    DEAD END: Energon... I need energon! RAAG! (He lunges at Motormaster only to be shot down)

    MOTORMASTER: Vehicons, take him to the medbay. Breakdown, Drag Strip, start looking for Oil Slick. Unless he's already dead!

    (Elsewhere)

    NIGHTSCREAM: Hmm... It seems the experiment was successful.

    OIL SLICK: It better be. The dangers of Synthetic Energon are numerous. I must ask... why do you require a... vampire? What good does it do for the Decepticons?

    NIGHTSCREAM: Ah, you shall find out in due time, Oil Slick. I promise you.

    (Later)

    MINDWIPE: Wake up... Wake up! Ah, good. I was afraid that-- Never mind. Come, we are needed.

    DEAD END: Wh-who are you? What's going...?

    MINDWIPE: There's no time. Come!

    (Dead End takes his hand and they teleport away. A Vehicon enters the room)

    VEHICON: Time for your medi-- cine. Scrap, I'm fired.

    (Mindwipe and Dead End arrive to a new place)

    DEAD END: Where the heck are... we?

    NIGHTSCREAM: You're home, Dead End... you'll fit right in!

    (The other Horrorcons are based on various horror icons. Most notable is a bot based on Crossovers Ghost Rider)

    DEAD END: Uh... what's--?

    NIGHTSCREAM: We are the Horrorcons. I am Nightscream, your humble host.

    DEAD END: I... don't understand--?

    NIGHTSCREAM: We are, how shall we say, a splinter group of Decepticons. After the knowledge of Dark Energon became widespread, I, like many others, became intrigued. Through my researches, I discovered that Dark Energon could not only power the living... but bring back the dead. Naturally, I kept my knowledge away from the likes of Megatron and eventually gathered my own group of followers.

    DEAD END: So, what's your objective?

    NIGHTSCREAM: Simple. We raise an army of Terrorcons, destroy both the Autobots and the Decepticons, and rule the world!

    DEAD END: ...Lame.

    NIGHTSCREAM: Yes, you may think so. But you need only do one thing.

    DEAD END: What do I get in return?

    NIGHTSCREAM: Eternal gratitude.

    DEAD END: Name it.

    (Later)

    VEHICONS: *Sigh*

    VEHICON 1: I wish something would happen.

    VEHICON 2: Yeah.

    (Dead End appears behind them)

    VEHICONS: SHEEAGH!

    MINDWIPE: They're distracted, Nightscream.

    NIGHTSCREAM: Excellent, Mindwipe. Thunderblast, Bomb-Burst, you know what to do.

    BOMB-BURST: Certainly. (They break in) Jackpot. Thunderblast, get the controls.

    COMPUTER: Systems offline. Subject activated.

    BOMB-BURST: Welcome to the party... Toxitron!

    TO BE CONTINUED [Never because I stopped making these... and started writing the current iteration of Regenerated!]

CHARACTERS

    Autobots: Air Raid, Fireflight, Silverbolt

    Decepticons: Breakdown, Dead End, Drag Strip, Motormaster, Oil Slick, Vehicons

    Horrorcons: Bomb-Burst, "Ghost Rider," Mindwipe, Nightscream, Terrorcons, Thunderblast, Toxitron

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