Wreckage (issue)

	"Wreckage"
Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	March 13,2013
Story by	Chris Metzen&; Flint Dille
Art by	Livio Ramondelli
Letters by	Tom B. Long
Editor	John Barber
Continuity	2005 IDW continuity
Chronology	Before the war

The name or term "Wreckage" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, seeWreckage (disambiguation).

As the Dynobots continue their robberies and Scorponok's leadership of the Decepticons is met with opposition, Megatron proves to be more tenacious than his usurper thinks...

Synopsis

At theRust Bucket,three of theDynobotsare discussing their next high-risk heist whenSlagstarts accusingGrimlockof purposefully leading them on small-time jobs because heenjoyshis exciting life on the run. Before the two can come to blows they are broken up bySwoop,who reminds them what would happen if they were to lose their tempers and transform, then gives them the details about their next job: robbing theToraxxis mega-refinery.UsingSludgeas a wrecking ball, they break into the refinery and are briefly overwhelmed by sentry drones until Grimlock kills the overconfident guard controlling them. With the resistance gone, they hunker down and wait forSnarlto arrive with their tanker so they can drain the refinery ofenergon.

Meanwhile,Megatronbrutally fights off the hostilenativesofJunkionwith his bare hands and comes out victorious. He then falls, having lost an arm to the fighting, but refuses to stay down. He uses junk parts littering the planet to patch himself up, leaving him with a mismatched body and a new, monstrous arm. As he rises again in this patchwork form, he prepares to show the Junkions who's in charge.

AtKolkular,Scorponokannounces to the amassedDecepticonarmy that he is their new leader, having banished Megatron for his failure to captureIacon.His declaration is met with mixed reactions, but the only one willing to speak up isHun-Gar,who believes he failed to destroy Megatron out of fear, making him an unsuitable leader. He lets Scorponok know that hisTerrorconswill deal with him soon enough, but first they intend to travel to Junkion and achieve what he could not: finishing off Megatron.