Post by charlesrocketboy on Jun 18, 2009 12:17:36 GMT
TRANSFORMERS: CONTINUED TITAN VOL.1 #27
"Dawn of the Devastators! Part 1"
FREE! DECEPTICON NEUTRON DISK BLASTER!
PREVIOUSLY…
The human/Autobot team NEST defends a post-Decepticon Earth from further assault and cleans up Megatron's old mess – but it seems some Decepticons are still around! Now, Optimus Prime is having visions of a demonic force, and a Decepticon has landed in China…
PAGE 1.
1. A building site in Shanghai – Demolishor, in crane mode, is throwing a light-armour tank at Elita One! Another tank has already hit a NEST truck: we can see an unmoving NEST soldier, and a Chinese NEST man screaming into his radio.
CAPTION
Shanghai, China… and NEST's plan has already gone wrong!
DEMOLISHOR
Will we never be rid of your interference?!
ELITA
Htt!
SOLDIER
Medic, for god's sake! MEDIC!
PAGE 2.
1. Demolishor transforms into his unicycled self, while Elita One fires on him.
ELITA
Nah, you're stuffed!
LINK
What the heck's your name, anyway – Wheelie?
2. Demolishor hits hard, shattering around and knocking the gun from her hand.
DEMOLISHOR
I AM DEMOLISHOR!
3. Elita One is down, Demolishor beating down on her.
DEMOLISHOR
And you will not stop his rising!!
4. Ironhide and a NEST jeep bomb down deserted Shanhai streets. Epps and his crew are in the jeep, O'Hanlon on the radio.
O'HANLON
Half of Echo Team is down – so's Elita One!
IRONHIDE
Damn it! This is why we never use non-lethal force!
LINK
"Take him prisoner", Optimus says…
PAGE 3.
1. Demolishor advances on an ice-cream track – Skids and Mudflap's combined alt mode.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…the Con's not going to be taking the twin's prisoner, is he?!"
ICE CREAM TRUCK BACK (MUDFLAP)
I told you we didn't need a stealthy alt mode for this gig!
ICE CREAM TRUCK FRONT (SKIDS)
Broken clock is right three times a day, big deal – open fire!
LINK (ICE CREAM TRUCK BACK)
With what, the 99 flakes?!
2. Demolishor slams down on the truck – or where it was, cos it just split into its component robots.
SKIDS
Fine – scatter!
DEMOLISHOR
Insolent specks of nothing!
3. Skids has grabbed hold of Demolishor's arm and is swinging around on it. Demolishor is understandably annoyed and trying to shake him off.
DEMOLISHOR
Insolent-
SKIDS
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
4. Skids somersaults off the arm and rebounds off a pile of building materials. Demolishor's firing and missing.
SKIDS
A little help here, bro!
SFX
PTMM!
5. Mudflap does a sliding tackle across the ground, getting Demolishor's attention.
MUDFLAP
Oh yeah, now you admit you need me -
6. Split panel – Mudflap fires a load of liquid ice-cream at us; Demolishor's optics are covered.
MUDFLAP
Hey look, guess I can fire the 99's!
SFX
SPPPTTT-SPLAT!
PAGE 4.
1. The jeep and Ironhide arrive; Ironhide transforms, the jeep is carrying on.
IRONHIDE
I don't believe it – they did pay attention in boot camp!
IRONHIDE
Get Alpha Team ready, Epps! See…
2. Ironhide fires his gun three times.
IRONHIDE
…there's a reason unicycle structures went out of fashion for heavy robots millennia ago…
3. Demolishor is hit in his shoulders and his top wheel. He's falling over…
4. Demolishor falls!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…no balance!"
5. Epps team fire inhibitor claws onto Demolishor's fallen form. They glow purple on impact.
EPPS
Get the inhibitor claws on! He stays down!
FEMALE NEST SOLDIER
Sir!
PAGE 5.
1. Ironhide congratulates the twins, who look totally excited by this. Behind them, a NEST medical chopper is arriving.
IRONHIDE
You did good, kids.
MUDFLAP
W-W-W-We eheheheh -
SKIDS
Aww, shucks, it weren't nuffin sir I mean it was an honour sir -
2. A grim looking NEST soldier looks up from Elita's fallen body. Skids and Mudflap are suddenly horrified, Ironhide is stoic.
SOLDIER
Ironhide, sir… Elita One's spark is offline.
LINK
I'm sorry.
3. Ironhide close-up, angry.
IRONHIDE (whispering)
This prisoner better be worth it…
4. An Autobot medical room. Optimus Prime is sat down, devices attached to his head, while Ratchet scans readouts.
CAPTION
Diego Garcia. Autobot Medical Ward.
RATCHET
Well, we can rule out any processor deterioration, viruses, or an accidentally accessed horror vid-file, Prime…
5. Optimus is getting up, pulling the devices off.
RATCHET
…and that's the bad news, because that means…
OPTIMUS
My vision was real.
6. Small panel. Optimus is deep in thought – a flashback to the Fallen's eyes can be seen.
OPTIMUS
Some frightening powerful THING is out there, and it knows us.
PAGE 6.
1. Optimus responds to a call.
OPTIMUS
With luck, this new Decepticon can give us some information -
RADIO CRACKLE
Prime, this is T-Ai in Operations – we got a problem.
2. An Operations room in the base – as well as humans, there's a Movie-TF version of RID's T-Ai looking intently at a monitor screen, which shows seven radar blips around a model Earth.
T-AI
I just re-checked some of our Near-Earth Object scans, see if Demolishor came from any base within this solar system -
LINK
There were other Decepticons coming in, just two minutes after him – but they only showed up for a second, nobody saw it first time round! Someone on Earth jammed our instruments -
3. The inside of the Decepticon base. The Constructicons are here, and do not look happy with Scorponok and Scalpel!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"There are seven other hostiles on Earth!"
SCRAPPER
Scorponok! I'm expected to follow Scorponok – after you two sacrificed Demolishor like a drone?!
SCALPEL
Well we did have to distract NEST somehow, Scrapper, he was the most expend-
4. Scrapper swats Scalpel away, as he advances on Scorponok.
SCRAPPER
No Constructicon is expendable! Unimaginative, newly-built upstarts like you dare to assume importance –
LINK
Dare to claim you represent the Fallen?! Well, no more -
5. Scorponok close-up, his optics glinting.
VOICE (off-panel)
I'm taking command of the Decepticons, and you -
PAGE 7.
1. The Constructicons look on in horror – Scalpel has skittered up onto Hightower's shoulder.
VOICE (off panel)
AAAAAIIIIIIIIII
SCALPEL
Oh come on, who didn't see that coming? You saw it coming, right Hightower?
LINK
No? Just me then?
2. Scalpel leaps down to the side of Scorponok – Scrapper's on the floor behind them, grimacing in pain.
SCALPEL
Very true, boss, very true! Oh, your wit slays me!
SCRAPPER
hhk
SCALPEL (LINK)
And we need all seven of you for our big plan anyway! I worked all night setting it up, you'll love it -
3. Scene change. Optimus Prime faces Demolishor in a hanger. Demolishor is restrained by chains and inhibitors.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"Just remember who's in charge."
OPTIMUS PRIME
Who is in charge, Demolishor?
4. Optimus again.
OPTIMUS PRIME
I know you have a commanding officer taking over where Starscream and Megatron left off, but there's someone else, isn't there?
LINK
They're the reason you're on Earth. They sent me a vision, told me to give up – as you'll find, I do not give up.
5. Optimus gets in Demolishor's face.
OPTIMUS PRIME
Who is he?
6. Demolishor close-up.
DEMOLISHOR
The original Transformer. The last of the true Primes. The death that walks.
DEMOLISHOR
The Fallen.
PAGE 8
1. Demolishor's head over a flashback – Transformers painting a painted-glass style mosaic of several ancient, saint-like Primes.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"The Dynasty of Primes, who you crib your name from? The great, heralded thirteen original Transformers? He was one of their number – the greatest of their number!"
2. A distorted, Giger-like image of the Fallen.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"They wanted to restrain our race, bind us to protect the organic filth! He ended them for that, fell ensuring we were free of them…"
3. Megatron is contacted by the Fallen through the Fallen's Decepticon-logo obelisk from IDW's Defiance.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"He was the one who made Megatron realise what we could be!"
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"The Decepticon insignia is in his image!"
4. Optimus Prime, arms folded.
OPTIMUS PRIME
I could have done without the hyperbole.
LINK
Why should I believe that none of this is myth, distorted from a forgotten history?
5. Demolishor, slightly insane.
DEMOLISHOR
Because I was there when he slew them.
LINK
You have no idea how long he's been waiting, how long he's been planning.
LINK
You have no idea what's coming for you!
PAGE 9
1. Greece, the Parthenon. Tourists are around.
CAPTION
Athens, Greece. Home to many old structures…
2. The tourists look over in dawning shock as the panel rumbles…
SFX
RMMMBLLLL
3. Long Haul (vehicle mode) and Rampage (robot) are attacking! People flee!
CAPTION
…but, once Long Haul and Rampage are done, possibly not for much longer!
RAMPAGE
Anyone in our way gets fragged!
LINK
PLEASE get in the way!
4. Back to NEST Operations – General Seward is present, while T-Ai and various humans panic.
T-AI
Enemy contacts in Greece – Iraq – Belize – England!
LINK
All centred on ancient archaeological sites!
SEWARD
Blast! Three escalating incidents in less than twenty-four hours – guess this is where we find out…
5. Scene change - Scalpel fires an undersea cannon of strange design.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…if our work was good enough!"
SCALPEL
Go!
PAGE 10
1. Diego Garcia – NEST soldiers and Autobots (Arcee, Ironhide and Sideswipe) are mobilising.
IRONHIDE
Everyone arm up – we don't know how many people we'll need!
2. Scene change - Optimus begins to walk out, while Demolishor looks sinister behind him.
OPTIMUS
I have work to do. We'll discuss this la-
DEMOLISHOR
There won't be a later for you.
3. Scene change - T-Ai and a black techie in Operations, looking panicked at a radar read-out.
TECHIE
Please tell me I'm seeing things -
T-AI
You're not! Oh slag -
4. Scalpel and Scorponok.
SCALPEL
Well, I'd wondered it for years – all the bits left over from transition forms, what would happen if we saved it?
LINK
And then, say, gathered the bits from seven people, stuck it together into a "transition form"…
5. Inset-image of T-Ai yelling – but the main image is of a solid transition form (but with no Transformer in it) screaming out of the sky towards Diego Garcia. Scalpel has inscribed a smiley-face icon with four Decepticon eyes on it.
T-AI
INCOMING! EVERYONE TAKE COVER!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…and sent it somewhere?"
PAGE 11
1. The transition form hits the main building on the base. Boom.
SFX
BOOOOOOOM
2. Montage – Epps shields himself from the light of the explosion; the roof comes in on Optimus; Scalpel grins.
SCALPEL
My hypothesis is it would be devastating.
TO BE CONTINUED
STAR SCREAMS
Bay's newest Autobot propaganda film comes out in two days time – and if we catch you watching it, it'll go badly for you! We don't forgive easily (or ever, for that matter…). But if you buy my toy, I might make an exception.
All letters should be marked All Hail The Fallen or we will mark you for the labour gulags!
>> Good stuff! (Even though I haven't a clue what's going on, not having read
#1-25.)
>> Martin
Humans can read? I thought you mobile sacks of fluid just stared at the pretty pictures and drooled a lot. Why do you think we're reprinting All Hail Megatron?
>> If only I had known, I would have had him in mind!
>> Lord Starscream, I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
>> Oh, and I love the cheek of 'continuing' a comic that technically isn't actually cancelled! Hilarious!
>> -Ralph
Now that's the sort of letters we need! When Scotland is turned into our refuelling station, you alone shall be spared, Ralph! Unless I just can't be bothered. Don't overestimate your own importance, you walking bacterium.
"Dawn of the Devastators! Part 1"
FREE! DECEPTICON NEUTRON DISK BLASTER!
PREVIOUSLY…
The human/Autobot team NEST defends a post-Decepticon Earth from further assault and cleans up Megatron's old mess – but it seems some Decepticons are still around! Now, Optimus Prime is having visions of a demonic force, and a Decepticon has landed in China…
PAGE 1.
1. A building site in Shanghai – Demolishor, in crane mode, is throwing a light-armour tank at Elita One! Another tank has already hit a NEST truck: we can see an unmoving NEST soldier, and a Chinese NEST man screaming into his radio.
CAPTION
Shanghai, China… and NEST's plan has already gone wrong!
DEMOLISHOR
Will we never be rid of your interference?!
ELITA
Htt!
SOLDIER
Medic, for god's sake! MEDIC!
PAGE 2.
1. Demolishor transforms into his unicycled self, while Elita One fires on him.
ELITA
Nah, you're stuffed!
LINK
What the heck's your name, anyway – Wheelie?
2. Demolishor hits hard, shattering around and knocking the gun from her hand.
DEMOLISHOR
I AM DEMOLISHOR!
3. Elita One is down, Demolishor beating down on her.
DEMOLISHOR
And you will not stop his rising!!
4. Ironhide and a NEST jeep bomb down deserted Shanhai streets. Epps and his crew are in the jeep, O'Hanlon on the radio.
O'HANLON
Half of Echo Team is down – so's Elita One!
IRONHIDE
Damn it! This is why we never use non-lethal force!
LINK
"Take him prisoner", Optimus says…
PAGE 3.
1. Demolishor advances on an ice-cream track – Skids and Mudflap's combined alt mode.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…the Con's not going to be taking the twin's prisoner, is he?!"
ICE CREAM TRUCK BACK (MUDFLAP)
I told you we didn't need a stealthy alt mode for this gig!
ICE CREAM TRUCK FRONT (SKIDS)
Broken clock is right three times a day, big deal – open fire!
LINK (ICE CREAM TRUCK BACK)
With what, the 99 flakes?!
2. Demolishor slams down on the truck – or where it was, cos it just split into its component robots.
SKIDS
Fine – scatter!
DEMOLISHOR
Insolent specks of nothing!
3. Skids has grabbed hold of Demolishor's arm and is swinging around on it. Demolishor is understandably annoyed and trying to shake him off.
DEMOLISHOR
Insolent-
SKIDS
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
4. Skids somersaults off the arm and rebounds off a pile of building materials. Demolishor's firing and missing.
SKIDS
A little help here, bro!
SFX
PTMM!
5. Mudflap does a sliding tackle across the ground, getting Demolishor's attention.
MUDFLAP
Oh yeah, now you admit you need me -
6. Split panel – Mudflap fires a load of liquid ice-cream at us; Demolishor's optics are covered.
MUDFLAP
Hey look, guess I can fire the 99's!
SFX
SPPPTTT-SPLAT!
PAGE 4.
1. The jeep and Ironhide arrive; Ironhide transforms, the jeep is carrying on.
IRONHIDE
I don't believe it – they did pay attention in boot camp!
IRONHIDE
Get Alpha Team ready, Epps! See…
2. Ironhide fires his gun three times.
IRONHIDE
…there's a reason unicycle structures went out of fashion for heavy robots millennia ago…
3. Demolishor is hit in his shoulders and his top wheel. He's falling over…
4. Demolishor falls!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…no balance!"
5. Epps team fire inhibitor claws onto Demolishor's fallen form. They glow purple on impact.
EPPS
Get the inhibitor claws on! He stays down!
FEMALE NEST SOLDIER
Sir!
PAGE 5.
1. Ironhide congratulates the twins, who look totally excited by this. Behind them, a NEST medical chopper is arriving.
IRONHIDE
You did good, kids.
MUDFLAP
W-W-W-We eheheheh -
SKIDS
Aww, shucks, it weren't nuffin sir I mean it was an honour sir -
2. A grim looking NEST soldier looks up from Elita's fallen body. Skids and Mudflap are suddenly horrified, Ironhide is stoic.
SOLDIER
Ironhide, sir… Elita One's spark is offline.
LINK
I'm sorry.
3. Ironhide close-up, angry.
IRONHIDE (whispering)
This prisoner better be worth it…
4. An Autobot medical room. Optimus Prime is sat down, devices attached to his head, while Ratchet scans readouts.
CAPTION
Diego Garcia. Autobot Medical Ward.
RATCHET
Well, we can rule out any processor deterioration, viruses, or an accidentally accessed horror vid-file, Prime…
5. Optimus is getting up, pulling the devices off.
RATCHET
…and that's the bad news, because that means…
OPTIMUS
My vision was real.
6. Small panel. Optimus is deep in thought – a flashback to the Fallen's eyes can be seen.
OPTIMUS
Some frightening powerful THING is out there, and it knows us.
PAGE 6.
1. Optimus responds to a call.
OPTIMUS
With luck, this new Decepticon can give us some information -
RADIO CRACKLE
Prime, this is T-Ai in Operations – we got a problem.
2. An Operations room in the base – as well as humans, there's a Movie-TF version of RID's T-Ai looking intently at a monitor screen, which shows seven radar blips around a model Earth.
T-AI
I just re-checked some of our Near-Earth Object scans, see if Demolishor came from any base within this solar system -
LINK
There were other Decepticons coming in, just two minutes after him – but they only showed up for a second, nobody saw it first time round! Someone on Earth jammed our instruments -
3. The inside of the Decepticon base. The Constructicons are here, and do not look happy with Scorponok and Scalpel!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"There are seven other hostiles on Earth!"
SCRAPPER
Scorponok! I'm expected to follow Scorponok – after you two sacrificed Demolishor like a drone?!
SCALPEL
Well we did have to distract NEST somehow, Scrapper, he was the most expend-
4. Scrapper swats Scalpel away, as he advances on Scorponok.
SCRAPPER
No Constructicon is expendable! Unimaginative, newly-built upstarts like you dare to assume importance –
LINK
Dare to claim you represent the Fallen?! Well, no more -
5. Scorponok close-up, his optics glinting.
VOICE (off-panel)
I'm taking command of the Decepticons, and you -
PAGE 7.
1. The Constructicons look on in horror – Scalpel has skittered up onto Hightower's shoulder.
VOICE (off panel)
AAAAAIIIIIIIIII
SCALPEL
Oh come on, who didn't see that coming? You saw it coming, right Hightower?
LINK
No? Just me then?
2. Scalpel leaps down to the side of Scorponok – Scrapper's on the floor behind them, grimacing in pain.
SCALPEL
Very true, boss, very true! Oh, your wit slays me!
SCRAPPER
hhk
SCALPEL (LINK)
And we need all seven of you for our big plan anyway! I worked all night setting it up, you'll love it -
3. Scene change. Optimus Prime faces Demolishor in a hanger. Demolishor is restrained by chains and inhibitors.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"Just remember who's in charge."
OPTIMUS PRIME
Who is in charge, Demolishor?
4. Optimus again.
OPTIMUS PRIME
I know you have a commanding officer taking over where Starscream and Megatron left off, but there's someone else, isn't there?
LINK
They're the reason you're on Earth. They sent me a vision, told me to give up – as you'll find, I do not give up.
5. Optimus gets in Demolishor's face.
OPTIMUS PRIME
Who is he?
6. Demolishor close-up.
DEMOLISHOR
The original Transformer. The last of the true Primes. The death that walks.
DEMOLISHOR
The Fallen.
PAGE 8
1. Demolishor's head over a flashback – Transformers painting a painted-glass style mosaic of several ancient, saint-like Primes.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"The Dynasty of Primes, who you crib your name from? The great, heralded thirteen original Transformers? He was one of their number – the greatest of their number!"
2. A distorted, Giger-like image of the Fallen.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"They wanted to restrain our race, bind us to protect the organic filth! He ended them for that, fell ensuring we were free of them…"
3. Megatron is contacted by the Fallen through the Fallen's Decepticon-logo obelisk from IDW's Defiance.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"He was the one who made Megatron realise what we could be!"
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"The Decepticon insignia is in his image!"
4. Optimus Prime, arms folded.
OPTIMUS PRIME
I could have done without the hyperbole.
LINK
Why should I believe that none of this is myth, distorted from a forgotten history?
5. Demolishor, slightly insane.
DEMOLISHOR
Because I was there when he slew them.
LINK
You have no idea how long he's been waiting, how long he's been planning.
LINK
You have no idea what's coming for you!
PAGE 9
1. Greece, the Parthenon. Tourists are around.
CAPTION
Athens, Greece. Home to many old structures…
2. The tourists look over in dawning shock as the panel rumbles…
SFX
RMMMBLLLL
3. Long Haul (vehicle mode) and Rampage (robot) are attacking! People flee!
CAPTION
…but, once Long Haul and Rampage are done, possibly not for much longer!
RAMPAGE
Anyone in our way gets fragged!
LINK
PLEASE get in the way!
4. Back to NEST Operations – General Seward is present, while T-Ai and various humans panic.
T-AI
Enemy contacts in Greece – Iraq – Belize – England!
LINK
All centred on ancient archaeological sites!
SEWARD
Blast! Three escalating incidents in less than twenty-four hours – guess this is where we find out…
5. Scene change - Scalpel fires an undersea cannon of strange design.
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…if our work was good enough!"
SCALPEL
Go!
PAGE 10
1. Diego Garcia – NEST soldiers and Autobots (Arcee, Ironhide and Sideswipe) are mobilising.
IRONHIDE
Everyone arm up – we don't know how many people we'll need!
2. Scene change - Optimus begins to walk out, while Demolishor looks sinister behind him.
OPTIMUS
I have work to do. We'll discuss this la-
DEMOLISHOR
There won't be a later for you.
3. Scene change - T-Ai and a black techie in Operations, looking panicked at a radar read-out.
TECHIE
Please tell me I'm seeing things -
T-AI
You're not! Oh slag -
4. Scalpel and Scorponok.
SCALPEL
Well, I'd wondered it for years – all the bits left over from transition forms, what would happen if we saved it?
LINK
And then, say, gathered the bits from seven people, stuck it together into a "transition form"…
5. Inset-image of T-Ai yelling – but the main image is of a solid transition form (but with no Transformer in it) screaming out of the sky towards Diego Garcia. Scalpel has inscribed a smiley-face icon with four Decepticon eyes on it.
T-AI
INCOMING! EVERYONE TAKE COVER!
NARRATIVE CAPTION
"…and sent it somewhere?"
PAGE 11
1. The transition form hits the main building on the base. Boom.
SFX
BOOOOOOOM
2. Montage – Epps shields himself from the light of the explosion; the roof comes in on Optimus; Scalpel grins.
SCALPEL
My hypothesis is it would be devastating.
TO BE CONTINUED
STAR SCREAMS
Bay's newest Autobot propaganda film comes out in two days time – and if we catch you watching it, it'll go badly for you! We don't forgive easily (or ever, for that matter…). But if you buy my toy, I might make an exception.
All letters should be marked All Hail The Fallen or we will mark you for the labour gulags!
>> Good stuff! (Even though I haven't a clue what's going on, not having read
#1-25.)
>> Martin
Humans can read? I thought you mobile sacks of fluid just stared at the pretty pictures and drooled a lot. Why do you think we're reprinting All Hail Megatron?
>> If only I had known, I would have had him in mind!
>> Lord Starscream, I love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
>> Oh, and I love the cheek of 'continuing' a comic that technically isn't actually cancelled! Hilarious!
>> -Ralph
Now that's the sort of letters we need! When Scotland is turned into our refuelling station, you alone shall be spared, Ralph! Unless I just can't be bothered. Don't overestimate your own importance, you walking bacterium.
