"Linkage", part 12

Credits

Written and Art by - Hirofumi Ichkawa

Story

Ravenus gets his freak on

As more upgraded Minicons join the fight against Ravenus, the Aqua Raiders exploit the distraction and escape through a dimensional gate. Ravenus screams in agony at being separated from the Minicons, but Combustia, Twirl, and Falcia begin to use their combined powers to revert him back to normal.

The Doomstone, however, remains a dangerously unsable artifact, and Redline has to find a way to stop it immediately! Some of the Minicons urge him to throw it through the Aqua Raiders' dimensional gate, but he refuses -- and stores it in his own dimensional compartment instead! Falcia and Flat-Out question his decision, but Redline explains that the Doomstone contains the soulful sorrow of thousands of beings, and cannot be discarded like so much trash...

Later, after the Minicons have been freed from their servitude by the Master Key, they unanimously decide to take the war to Unicron itself. As the Axalon signals for the Minicons, Redline and Stella say their goodbyes; Stella is deeply distraught that they're leaving, and Redline explains the cause for her affinity -- that the souls of the Minicons were split off from those of humans in the distant past. Accepting this intimate connection to them, Stella gives the Minicons one last farewell hug, then watches them fly away with a promise to give her a sign of their fate...