Aerialbots over America!



Donny Finkleberg tries to escape from Ravage, and gets some help from Skids and a new friend.

=Marvel US issue #21= (Story also appears in: Marvel UK issues #89-90)

Script: Bob Budiansky Pencils: Don Perlin Inks: Ian Akin and Brian Garvey Lettering: Janice Chiang Colors: Nelson Yomtov Editor: Michael Carlin


 * Major characters (in order of appearance): Bombshell, Ricky Vasquez, Kickback, Megatron, Shrapnel, Ratchet, Skids, Optimus Prime, Donny Findleberg, Jetfire, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Silverbolt, Slingshot, Fireflight, Air Raid, Skydive, Ramjet, Dirge, Thrust
 * Originally published: October, 1986

Synopsis
Bombshell uses a cerebro shell to force hydroelectric engineer Ricky Vasquez to bring Megatron into the plant at Hoover Dam, as part of a plan to steal the plant's energy and transport it to Cybertron. Meanwhile, Skids returns to the Ark with Donny Finkleberg to inform them that seven Autobots were accidentally transported to Earth. Optimus Prime send Jetfire and Finkleberg to investigate. The Autobots then receive word of the invasion of the hydroelectric plant, and the Aerialbots, recently created by Wheeljack using the stolen combiner technology, are dispatched to deal with the situation. Only the Aerialbot leader, Silverbolt has been given a complete personality, and the other Aerialbots are not yet programmed to defend human life. When the Aerialbots combine into Superion, Silverbolt must fight to influence the combined form from within in order to keep Superion from killing Vasquez. Forced to disassemble rather than kill Vasquez, the mission seems doomed to failure. But Vasquez, seeing his daughter break through the police line to call out to her daddy, breaks through the cerebro shell programming, and fires Megatron into the space bridge, causing it to return to Cybertron. As the Aerialbots fly away, Bombshell hitches a ride on Silverbolt's wing. Meanwhile, at an airstrip in New Jersey, the new arrived Autobots from Cybertron have been found, by RAAT, led by Circuit Breaker!

Errors

 * On page 12, Jetfire refers to a game they played on Cybertron. Yet, having been given life on Earth (immediatel preceding issue 14), Jetfire has never been to Cybertron.

Items of note
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