The back story of this "Convoy" occurs more or less after his
Laser RodConvoy incarnation.
"The Matrix", feeling a disturbance in the force
, okay, I exaggerate a bit, 1st revives Ultra Magnus (another Matrix bearer) from his grave in Japan (refer to the Headmasters series) in order to counter the threat of Galvatron 2 from an alternate universe (the default colored Galvatron back in the 1986 toyline,
not the purple colored psycho in the movie/anime. This Ultra Magnus
is the e-hobby Laser Rod Convoy with UM "color" applications). Anyway, UM gets his robo butt kicked despite being "recalled" by the Matrix with extra powers.
Cue (with the Touch), Convoy/Optimus Prime comes to the rescue with his new black armor body. It enhances his combat abilities with the extra solar energy absorbing abilities of the armor. Though powerful in this form, he overheats quickly so he has to beat his foe in so short a time.
The story sort of ends in a cliffhanger when Convoy confronts Galvatron 2( who remarks if he got his new form from the "land of the living")apparently, in the alternate universe, the story still follows the 1986 Movie storyline of Convoy dying and Megatron being reformatted into Galvatron.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/MP-1B_Cybertron_ ... _Black_Ver.