JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Maybe the pack-in comic will feature the Destrongers finally breaking Devil Gigatron out of prison.
... and then he'll reveal his super-duper-ultra-secret 11th mode:
the Devil Ostrich... and then hightail it..
What I think would be really neat, but have every expectation for it to
NOT happen, would be for it to turn out that Devil Gigatron was actually already out of prison unbeknownst to the Combatrons and Gelshark, with Devil Gigatron having not only been freed but also upgraded further (into
Gigatron Z) by the power of Devil Z, tying all the Gelshark/Black Convoy/Baldigus post-Car Robots fiction in Legends and Unite Warriors with this
other post-Car Robots fiction that was previously released in the Spacewarp's Log guest column of the Ask Vector Prime Facebook:
Hey, here's one in the VP slush pile I can actually answer! No "Yadda Yadda 1234.56 Dipstick" or anything.
D̶e̶a̶r̶ ̶V̶e̶c̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶P̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ Spacewarp's Log,
Who is Gigatron Z?
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I've heard of one, though who can say if it's the one you were thinking of. It was right here in the Offworlder Zone. Big guy, green camo, looked a little like ol' Bucket Head, which was maybe why I was buying him a drink. Went by the name of Armored Corps, which isn't the silliest bot I've ever met but wouldn't make the top ten either.
Anyway, he was an interesting story, an Autobot-turned-Predacon. Turns out he was the warden at Garrus-7, which is where the big bad Devil Gigatron was being oublietted. Only Gigigatron, see, he has no desire to spend the rest of his days locked in an 8x8x8. (Armored Corps only said 8x8, but I'm a star captain, I think three-dimensionally) He gets to chatting with the Autobots who run the prison, and it turns out there's a lot of dissatisfaction. There's all kinds of special protocols for holding these guys, which don't make any sense to A.C. but sound to me like the kind of thing you'd put in place if you had a particularly dangerous time or dimension jumper and you really, REALLY didn't want him getting out.
Turns out, A.C. is the guy who has to oversee these and they're a major pain in his butt. Devil Gigatron, he's got vision and charisma, and A.C. is stuck in a dead-end job. Long story short, pretty soon the whole prison staff is starting to see the beauty of the Predacon philosophy. (None for me, thank you. Protoformed a Decepticon, gonna die a Decepticon, though preferably a long long long time from now. What's the point of being practically immortal as a species if you're just gonna kick the old-fashioned way? But I digress.)
So, Between A.C. and Gigatron, they manage to convince four of the guards, collectively the Scoutforce, to come over to their side. A.C. also pulls in his second in command, Stealth Saber, and his Amica Endura slash vehicle combiner Victory Bomber. (Who together form the imaginatively named Stealth Bomber. Hey, don't blame me, I'm just the messenger.) But the trouble is, even with half the prison on their side, D.G. is still locked up tighter 'n Unicron's docking bay. (Which is really tight, let me tell you. Never thought I'd be able to break into there, much less out!)
D.G., he's always got an angle. He sends Stealth Bomber and Scoutjet to a very specific set of coordinates, deep within the Dark Nebula, where a powerful force called Devil Z was residing. S.B. & S.J. proceed to plead their case for their new master's release, and D.Z. is moved. Or has an agenda. Or whatever. Bingo, Devil Gigatron gets an upgrade and busts free. He's now Gigatron Z, and let the universe tremble. Blah blah blah. So the eight of them go on a new rampage, and only Fire Convoy and his men can stand in their way. You know, the usual. By this time I'd already gotten A.C. hammered enough to roll him pretty good, so I never heard the end of it. I assume the Preds got their skidplates handed to them and A.C. ended up here, but you never know.
Me, I'm smart enough to stay away from mysterious godlike entities. At least, when Primus or Time or Fate or Whatever gives me that option.
Yes, those new Autobots-turned-Predacons would indeed happen to be the Korean-exclusive Car Bot characters who were all reissues of BWII toys.