Transformers Generation One, Part Three, First Half, Vol. 5

This volume is the fifth in the series, corresponding to Dreamwave's Transformers Generation One, Part Three, issue 5, "Original Sin," written by Brad Mick and Adam Patyk and drawn by Don Figueroa. The story picks up directly from the previous issue: the giant guardian Omega Supreme has been struck down by the enhanced clone warrior Sunstorm and lies on the ice field. Bumblebee, wrestling with a crisis of faith, listens as Jetfire recounts how he and Omega Supreme years earlier carried out "Operation Containment," tracked the missing Ark, were attacked by Scourge above Earth, and were both buried beneath the Alaskan ice. After Omega Supreme comes back online, he tactfully lets his subordinates continue the pursuit while he stays behind to wait. Bumblebee and Jetfire then catch up with Sunstorm and Starscream, who are trying to open a vast Autobot facility beneath the Gulf of Alaska; through some connection to Megatron, Starscream breaks the seal, and they all fall into a hidden cavern filled with organic-looking cables and pools of purple plasma. In the melee Sunstorm seizes Bumblebee and Jetfire restrains Starscream; the standoff is finally broken by a modified disruption ray from Starscream—he blasts Sunstorm into the abyss, knocks down Jetfire in passing, and leaves only a gravely wounded Bumblebee. Meanwhile, on Cybertron, Prowl and Perceptor continue investigating the link between Shockwave's cloning laboratory and Vector Sigma.