Issue: #31
Release: July 9, 2014
Tropes
- Call-Back:
- Once again, Ultra Magnus uses Verity as his holomatter avatar. Megatron even recognises her from somewhere, even if he doesn't know her name. Fitting, given it's dressed as Verity was during Infiltration.
- Megatron protests knowing what everyone's sparktypes are due to prior categorization, like the former apartheid of the Constructed Cold.
- Foreshadowing: A nasty version in the flashback, when Pipes is bugging Drift. What does Drift say?Seriously, Pipes. Don't make me put my foot down.
- Hypocrite: Huffer accuses Tailgate of being this when the latter defends Cyclonus regarding Crosscut's disappearance, despite accusing ex-Decepticon leader Megatron for it a few seconds earlier.
- Internal Reveal: The crew learn Ravage is aboard the Lost Light.
- Meaningful Name: The Lost Light is named after a Cybertronian festival for the dead that Drift, Pipes and Riptide purchased the ship at.
- Mexican Standoff: One builds up as accusations fly as to who is responsible for the random disappearances. It ends once Ravage has been discovered aboard the Rodpod.
- Mysterious Past: The Lost Light was found by its previous owners abandoned. And they were scared of it.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: A lot of the crew point out that were it not for Megatron and the war he started, they wouldn't have been born at all.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Riptide owes his missing the launch due to one of these, inflicted on him by the NAILs who sold Drift the Lost Light when he learnt they were trying to fob the ship off on someone.
- Not Quite Saved Enough: Nightbeat figures out what's going on... too late to stop the disappearances, since by then everyone who would've disappeared has already done so.
- Older Than They Look: As Nightbeat reveals, he's one of the first Constructed Cold ever. Exactly how old that makes him is unclear, but the answer would seem to be "very old indeed".
- Rewrite: In the original print, Nautica is said to have an Estriol-Positive Spark type, but Roberts had this removed when he realised the implications.
- Starfish Language: One exists that involves talking via hand-gestures. Drift is fluent in it, as are Megatron and Ravage.
- Suddenly Shouting: Huffer, when he calls Tailgate out on his hypocrisy.
- The Unreveal: Megatron's original spark-type and whether he's forged or constructed cold once again goes unanswered, since he refuses to allow himself to be categorized like that.
- Too Dumb to Live: With all the praise he's been receiving lately, Tailgate, without any real evidence, draws a gun on Megatron, believing him to be responsible for Crosscut's sudden disappearance.
- Training from Hell: All MTOs had to complete a comprehensive test, which Riptide regards as one, even millennia afterward. As soldiers were needed on the battlefield faster, a ten-step-plan was reduced to eight steps, to three, until a mech could expect to be on the battlefield within about an hour of waking.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Megatron calls Nightbeat out for caring more about the riddle connected to the disappearing 'bots and failing to save anyone.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Ammo turns out to have Coroda Gravis, an inevitably fatal rusting disease.
