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Verity is Dying
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  • Verity is dying, possibly of stomach cancer, which would explain her being in pain and vomiting. That would also serve as a catalyst to her blackmailing Prowl, because she doesn't have much to lose and her time is running out.
    • Confirmed. It was the exposure to Aequitas during the download that caused this.
  • Verity is also showing symptoms of paranoia, possibly as a result of some developing mental condition. Perhaps her medication isn't working and makes her ill in the process? Hardly something I'd wish for her, but less dreary than the other outcome.
    • Her paranoia appears to be related to the death of Iron Fist and the information she learned about Prowl in Last Stand of the Wreckers, not due to a psychological disorder.
  • Though if she has it left in her to say "Life persists, then you die," it will almost be worth it.

The Big Bad is...
  • Ironfist. Unbeknownst to everyone, Ironfist figured out how to stop the bullet burrowing into his brain, but, disgusted by the full knowledge of the Aequitas trials and no longer trustful that High Command would declassify them, he decided to fake his death and bide his time to see how the issue would be resolved. After the war ended and the trials remained undisclosed, he works his way back to Prowl, the guilty party, and kidnaps him, either to prevent Prowl from sabotaging his efforts to leak the trials, or give him the option to scapegoat himself and claim executive responsibility for all sorts of horrible things to prevent the leak from tarring the entire Autobot faction with the "obstructionist war criminal" brush. For what it's worth, his way of dealing with Skyfall shows that he's got both the cleverness and the mean to pull off exposing Aequitas to the masses, and the 'bot in the Noisemaze has a pretty Ironfist-y silhouette...
    • Jossed. As it quickly became obvious, it is indeed Tarantulas. That said... Right after Hubcap executes Claw Jaw and Verity blacks out again, he moves into comfort her, with a Face Framed in Shadow that's a ringer for Ironfist.

You can thank Prowl for Springer's curiously selective coma.
  • Springer indeed overcame his zero point in the eponymous story, but Prowl likely figured that the problematic Wreckers would fall apart without a disciplined leader and arranged for a stasis lock to be implanted in his body after Garrus-9. Come an emergency and the lock is remotely switched off, allowing Springer to leap off the med-slab to his rescue... Though how the Wreckers will refrain from reenacting Pyro's demise with the unwilling strategist when this comes out in the wash is a mystery.

Mesothulas is...
  • another name for Tarantulas. Mesothulas is clearly kind of unhinged with a mad scientist thing going on and seems to have a fondness for webs.
    • Mesothelae, where his name comes from, is a suborder of spider.
    • Confirmed in the preview for issue #3.

Verity's sickness is energon poisoning.
  • Or some related condition as a result of her exposure to space and Cybertronian technology during her time with the Autobots. It flares up every time a Cybertronian comes near her, possibly indicating that their presence triggers something. It seems likely that she would have gotten splashed or accidentally ingested some, given how messy the whole G-9 incident was.
    • Confirmed, somewhat: It's her exposure to Aequitas at the time of the data download.

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