Out Of The Dead Land

"Someone's killing Shockwave...why do we want to stop this?"

Great use of the RX-8's folding torso to simulate Grimlock ripping Shockwave apart to get at his spark chamber. That was a suitably visceral "Grimlock is annoyed" move, and a great way to use the toy's transformation sequence to sell some Dinobot brutality.

I could almost hear the deadly calm in Prime's voice when he said he needed to know there would be no problem, too. That was actually my favorite part of the update: we all knew Grimmy would kill Shockwave in some excessively brutal way, and I wanted to know how Prime would react to that. You didn't make me wait at all. Well done, sir.

Oh, and welcome back to the boards! Life is treating you better, I hope.

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Well, knew it was going to end this way. Shockwave was pretty much a goner the moment Big Grim showed up. Epic ending for ole' Cyclops here.

That was glorious. Tho it would have been cool to have Shockwave beg for mercy.

"T'is but a scratch!"

Beating someone to death with their own soul. It's Dinobot for "I don't like you."

Hey now, would Silverstreak do that to Mir...y'know what, yeah, forget I said that.

From Grimlock's point of view, killing Shockwave was totally kosher. In fact, he would have felt he'd betrayed Slag, Snarl, Swoop and Sludge had he NOT done it.
However, he is very much aware that Prime and a lot of the Autobots will certainly not see it that way. He's totally expecting to face some serious music for what he's just done, but for him that's just another occupational hazard for living by a code he swore his life to. It also worth pointing out that Grimlock in OOTDL has a deep, DEEP respect for Prime (backstory coming later down the line to shed a little light on Prime and Grimlock's past), which is why he'll go to the stockade on Prime's word, rather than just tell him to frag off.
Prowl, however, would have totally gotten told to frag off.

As for Twitter...Grimlock might well mention this incident at some point...
(Oh, and great DOTM reference!)

Me Grimlock could, but it would result in universe exploding. Which would be awesome. But Me sort of like universe. All my stuff is there.

Out Of The Dead Land still has some tale left to tell. We're in Season 3 and I reckon we'll be about 6-7 seasons for the whole thing.
I'm currently averaging about 1 season every two years....I need to speed this up!

As for Swindle and Dead End, they were indeed last seen plummeting off a cliff. We didn't actually see the impact or the bodies, but a fall like that must have killed them, right?


Me Grimlock know no other way. And if there is other way, Me Grimlock really bad at learning it.

Me Grimlock categorise them by colour, size and sparkley-ness. Sometimes Me use them as lamps, or glow-sticks for one of Blaster's rave-parties. It funny, people get really prissy when you start waving the souls of fallen foes around on the dance floor.

I forsee you might well be right.

Sort of Altered Carbon style? Or as Prime did in the IDW Furman run? That would be cool, actually. Science Fiction does certainly hold that out as a good escape option. However...
...yep. In this case, Shockwave is gone. Spark and mind, all gone.

That's an interesting point, isn't it. It's probably not just Optimus as well. It's the kind of issue that might cause quite an argument between quite a number of the Autobots...

Me Grimlock enjoy revenge. Hot? Cold? Me say it best served with total fear and shattering pain.
But then, Me something of a sentimental old thing.

Thanks AMG.

How the Autobots deal with Grimlock is going to be something of a story point going forward. It will have implications...

Thanks dude.

But Shockwave doesn't known anyone called Richard....

Me Grimlock say: It not so much one-upping as trying to teach by example. Movie Prime still too fluffy and cute for my liking, Me trying to teach him bloodlust.

Pretty much. The next season is all about getting the My Little Ponies invited around for a tea party. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle have been SO looking forward to it, and apparently Wheeljack has found a way to distill energon into cake and sweets, so everyone can have a great time!

Wheeljack assures me that there is no truth to the rumour that energon cakes have the same effect on ponies as concentrated LSD. None at all.

Sunstreaker assures me that if Wheeljack is wrong, he's got more than enough softcore antipersonnel rounds the armoury to cope. Can't have powerful magical wildlife trippin' balls in the Autobot base. No way. Ain't right.

Me Grimlock always like to set new challenges for creative maiming. Me once set myself goal of beating Starscream to death with his own spine. But Me look, and look, and could never find the damn thing...

Also, Me Grimlock say

Me Grimlock like you. You have firm grasp of reality. Prime his own worst enemy sometimes, but Me Grimlock tell him time and again and he never listen. Sometimes, better to not let him make the mistakes he might regret, hmm?

Thanks dude. Life is up and down right now, got my new job and my new home, which is cool. Also got a family member in hospital, which isn't cool, but they appear to be over the worst and have started on the road to recovery, which IS cool. It's one of the reasons why the update was a little delayed.

There's also ANOTHER reason for the delay, which could be SUPERCOOL but also might amount to nothing, but if anything ever develops on that front I'll post about it in more detail. For now, I don't want to jinx it.

I'm really glad the RX-8 has an opening chest, it saved me a ton of FX work. One of the nice things about Transformers having TF schemes and pop-off limbs and kibble is that your GIMP time can be carefully cut down if you plan your injuries well. Laziness drives everything I do

Yep. One damaged and disarmed Shockwave, one undamaged, armed and furious Grimlock. It was pretty much always going to go this way.

I did consider something like that, but in the end I decided that Shockwave wouldn't do it. He knows, logically, that he's finished, and that nothing he can say can stop Grimlock, so he decided to hang on to his dignity and face death without pleading. (Well, hang onto as much dignity as you can whilst being force-fed your own soul.) He's made of stern stuff, Shockwave.

Well, as they say: "Revenge is a dish best served cold."

That was cold. XD

Amazing storytelling, good shots and posing. And hell, I've read through 3 years of awesome story telling!

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The more I read, the more I feel for Windcharger and Grimlock. This is fragging good!

You know, shockwave COULD have switched bodies (to a cybertronian all surface dragster maybe?) and that was a "clone" with a modified spark, maybe a corrupted old autobot spark?


...nah.



And Coolhand, you and your wheeljack got 20% cooler with that energon cake study.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG.

Ripped his spark out and fed it back to him. Nice.

There's just no luck for Shockwave this year

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XD As if in piercin' someone with the ribs you tore out of'em...

But yeah, this is one of those times when someone actually just effin' takes out the villain who's had it coming for a long time. Usually very satisfying, even if Shockwave was a cool rather than just simply despicable villain.