Man and Machine, Part Four

'''A pretty crappy miniseries comes to an end? Would you prefer the Transformers crossover with Terminator?.'''

Writer: Stuart Moore Penciler: Tyler Kirkham Inker: Sal Regla Colorist: Anne Kwok Letterer: Todd Klein Cover Artists: Tom Raney


 * Release date: October 10th, 2007
 * Preceded by: Man and Machine, Part Three
 * Followed by: Devastation (issue 1)
 * Characters (in order of appearance): Runamuck, Runabout,Thundercracker, Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, Optimus Prime, Wolverine, Skywarp, Ratchet, Jazz, Bumblebee, Falcon, Captain America, Prowl,Megatron,Spider-Man, Octane, Ramjet, Doctor Doom.

Detailed Synopsis
With a surge of Spidey-strength, Spider-Man breaks free from his restraints. He thanks his irregular ally Doom for disabling Astrotrain. Ratchet and Prowl explain a bit of the situation to the webslinger, and what must be done.

Iron-Man, in his gigantic mech with power enhanced by energy contributions from the Autobots, faces against Megatron. To fight against his own draining energy, Tony's suit engages the suplmental power cells, but it's too much energy to be handled, and forces the suit into an overload. With a zzzzzzat, Megatron removes the head from the armor behemoth. As Iron Man lies on the ground, Megatron notices that several Autobots are missing.

Wolverine, Bumblebee, and Jazz arrive inside the Decepticon's dome. The three find Prowl and Ratchet using Megatron's technology to receive a power-up from Spiderman. Wolverine has the bright idea that his abilities can also be copied to enhance the good Transformers. When the Autobots are charged, Doom takes a few of party to destroy the Psycho-prism.

Outside, the enhanced Transformers and their amazing friends battle Megatron (including Iron Man, who wasn't killed by Megatron).

Inside, Doom's posse finds the Psycho-Prism. The Prism's defender, Ramjet, retreats rather than fight more. Wolverine destroys the prism with his adamantium claws. With the crucial weapon non-functional, the entire dome collapses.

The opperation a complete failure, Megatron commandes his troops to retreat. Before he can leave, Spiderman. the rest of the Avengers, and some of the Autobots, beat up on Megatron a bit more. While the avengers talk about the affair to each other, the Autobots sneak away. Leaving the sit of confict, the Avengers and Autobots both suspect that the identity of the Avenger's Quinjet has been taken by Ramjet, but that would be crazy.

Items of Note

 * Spiderman briefly sings a few lines from his original cartoon series.
 * The panel in which Spiderman takes down Megatron has many aspects lifted directly from the cover of ths third issue of Transformers (in which Spider-Man appeared): Prisoner of War!
 * If the Quinjet was Ramjet, then Spiderman's "Spidey-Sense" would tell him something is off.