Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One

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"Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One" ターゲットマスター編最終章 レジェンズ世界危機一髪!前編 (Targetmaster Hen Saishūshō Legends Sekai Kikiippatsu! Zenpen)
First published	August 6, 2018
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Color	Gufu Kandagawa[1] (page 1-3)
Continuity	Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The defenders of the Legends World are faced with their greatest challenge yet when Scorponok makes his move.

Synopsis

Brought to the Wolf Circus by his loyal troops, Scorponok explains that he had been wandering space following the black hole battle until Devil Z took control of him and had him build a transtector. Now that he's free, he plots to apply his usual plot to the Legends World—blowing it up and absorbing its energies for himself—and to do so he needs the plasma energy within the six Targetmasters, currently held by the Autobots who are attempting to restore them to normal. As the first step of his plan, Scorponok summons the second transtector Devil Z had him make on Beast: the gigantic Majin Zarak, a machine with the instincts of a beast and a veritable "god of destruction", whose origin comes as a surprise to Leo Prime.

When the police set out to protect the citizens from Majin Zarak, Scorponok's agent Flywheels sneaks into the police station and breaks out Slugslinger, Misfire, the Sweeps and Katsu Don, the latter agreeing to an alliance since his goals overlap with Scorponok. Katsu Don attacks the Autobots and steals the Targetmasters for the Decepticons before summoning the rest of his race to participate in the final battle, but the Zamojin army is in turn attacked by Skids, Sky-Byte, and the Dimensional Patrol. Rattrap is confused as the Dimensional Patrol previously considered the Legends World problematic, so Sky-Byte explains that he convinced them that it's a beautiful world that deserves to be protected, and he even managed to get the other three Predacons inducted as well. The Patrol easily holds the Zamojin at bay thanks to Neo Brave Maximus's robot mode, and before Scorponok can intervene, Majin Zarak is attacked by Leo Prime, Lio Convoy, and Optimus Primal, who has transformed himself using Transformers sickness once again. Scorponok calls upon Weirdwolf, but he has gone to Tera-Kura Co. to convince Noble to join them, having grown attached to the wolf and not wanting him to be killed in the universe's destruction, though Noble refuses and instead suggests Weirdwolf himself switch sides. Weirdwolf is left torn—compared to their previous destruction of Cybertron, which neither he nor Scorponok felt attached to, he feels a connection to the Legends World where his living transtector, Rarigo, and Butla were all born, and he knows in his heart that what they're doing is wrong...

Clouder and the SDF confront Majin Zarak and keep it busy while Megatron's Decepticons mobilize Trypticon, but even the Titan is dwarfed by Majin Zarak who destroys him with a single giant beam. Blown away by the same attack, Leo Prime realizes that they're going about it the wrong way: since Majin Zarak isn't destined to be destroyed until their battle in the future, they simply cannot defeat it here and now. Meanwhile, Scorponok has modified the Targetmasters into new plasma energy bombs to be placed around the Legends World and detonated, restraining Slugslinger and Misfire when they protest. All hope is not lost, however, as in the city, Chromedome is approached by Pointblank, Sureshot, and Crosshairs, who have finally arrived in the Legends World and acquired transtectors from Kup's shop.

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Notes

Continuity notes

• The comic's title is based on "Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!", the Beast Wars II movie that first introduced Majin Zarak and the events of which Leo Prime recalls.

Transformers notes

• Majin Zarak's origin here canonizes an unused idea for the Beast Wars II movie that would have used G1 Scorponok/MegaZarak as the antagonist, hence Majin Zarak's name.
• Majin Zarak was given a different origin over in the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime, but hey, not only is the multiverse a big place, but the whole point of that series was that Vector Prime's multiversal knowledge was gradually disintegrating.
• Crosshairs's transtector is a "virtual redeco" of Titans Return Kup with Flywheel's head, Pointblank's transtector is from Hot Rod with Metalhawk's head, and Sureshot's transtector is from Full-Tilt with Quake's head.

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