Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63

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漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第63話
First published	February 24, 2018
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Additional colors	Kinotukimi
Continuity	Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Chronology	2018 (Legends World)
Packaged with	Legends LG63 G2 Megatron

When Beast Megatron is turned into an evil Headmaster by the Concurrence, G1 Megatron has to find a way to fix him.

Synopsis

With G1 Megatron having left Tera-Kura Co. to become mayor, president Beast Megatron is once again in charge... until the company is suddenly invaded by Concurrence troops led by Old Snake, who needs resources to recover from the setback of being discovered by the Universal Peace Alliance. Snake proceeds to place Megatron in a tube and extract his "beast portion", transforming him into a wholly robotic Headmaster loyal to the Concurrence. Seeing their plot for world conquest as a way to take revenge on G1 Megatron for overthrowing him, Beast Megatron happily uses Tera-Kura's facilities to mass-produce Concurrence weapons, including a tank transtector that he uses to personally lead an attack on the mayor's office, Trypticon.

To Starscream's shock, G1 Megatron is unwilling to fight back, not wanting to see a subordinate get hurt ever since a previous incident, and instead looks for a way to undo Beast Megatron's brainwashing without harming him. Soundblaster explains that Old Snake has previously turned Transformers into artificial humans and has used the same technology in "reverse" on Beast Megatron, but they can likely restore him to normal if they can recover his extracted beast portion. The Decepticons find that the beast portion, calling itself "Noble", was unceremoniously tossed aside by the Concurrence and picked up by Nightscream, who's gotten him a job as an opera singer at Weirdwolf's circus. G1 Megatron goes there and explains the situation, convincing a reluctant Weirdwolf to let him bring Noble and Beast Megatron together by telling him the Concurrence is a threat to the circus too. With help from the still-loyal Slipstream, Blackarachnia, and Nightbird, he then takes over Tera-Kura, luring Beast Megatron and Old Snake back to the office where he's waiting in a borrowed tank body of his own.

G1 Megatron tries to talk Beast Megatron down, but his brainwashed counterpart only responds that he'll take over the world and become Decepticon leader in G1 Megatron's place, and the two come to blows. Beast Megatron manages to grab his opponent's gun during the battle, only to find it part of G1 Megatron's plan—the gun is in fact a transformed Noble, who transforms into beast mode, plucks Beast Megatron off of his body and combines with him. Their union restores Beast Megatron's mind, and he joins forces with G1 Megatron to send Old Snake and his forces fleeing. In the aftermath, Beast Megatron remains split between two bodies and assumes an evil personality whenever he's separated from Noble, though Noble tries to keep him on the right path.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

• Soundblaster recalls Old Snake's synthoid scheme from "Only Human".
• The Concurrence forces include multiple Vipers, based on the Combiner Wars toy.
• The friendly brown Decepticon is the one from G-2 Part 3, whose death ignited the G-2 Wars.
• Noble's existence as Megatron's discarded organic portions taken in by Nightscream comes straight from his Beast Machines incarnation, although Savage has appeared separately in the Legends World as Nightscream's pet.
• The tank body used by G1 Megatron is the same Titans Return/Legends Triple Changer Megatron mold but colored after his first Generation 2 toy. This tank is first seen used by Old Snake in a reference to Cobra's role in building Megatron's body in the Marvel Generation 2 comic.
• In a third variation of how to transliterate Tera-Kura Co.'s name into Latin letters, it is now rendered as "Tera Crush Company".
• When the Concurrence first arrives in the Legends World, in what is probably a coloring mistake, General Kreiger is colored like Abdul Fakkadi.