Our fellow fans over at The Allspark have translated the final two chapters of the Transformers United EX story that came with Assault Master and Build Master. The identities of these last two characters are not left up to interpretation – Assault Master’s story chapter, Hope for the New Generation, outright states that Assault Master was meant to be a spare body for Optimus Prime himself, but ends up being piloted by the human, Clouder – a character from Masterforce better known as the double-dealing Doubleclouder. Build Master’s name is outright given in his bio as Gravedigger, a Constructicon introduced in a Find-your-fate book called “Dinobots Strike Back”.
The story chapters end on a bit of a ambiguous cliffhanger note, with the final fate of the characters in particular Clouder, who comes face to face with the Decepticon High Regent Scrash (a villain alluded to in Operation Combination’s phone-in stories in Japan in 1992). There’s also a very cool allusion in the Unearthed Future story chapter, implying that relics from the Beast Wars – namely, the lair of Tarantulas – is being unearthed in the United EX time period by the Decepticons of Master Chaos.
Although the story ends on a cliffhanger, the Allspark reports that the story may continue down the line in some form in other media. Here is hoping that such a story comes to pass, especially after an ending like that!
Autovolt 127
Battle Gaia has got to be made at some point.
Sol Fury
It's possible that the last two could be a Tokyo Toy Show exclusive set, if that were to happen logically there would be a chapter to go with them.
That being said I'm more willing to bet the next Tokyo Toy Show exclusive will be Battle Gaia out of FoC Bruticus. Ironically given the time period of the United EX story, that too could work as a vehicle for another story chapter.
Chris McFeely
Logically. But, alas, no, the writer's confirmed this is the last part, but that he does plan to carry the story on in some other form at some time.
SG Roadbuster
United Ex still hasn't released the Leadfoot or Smolder Powercore combiner mold yet, have they? Seems to me like there might be one more chapter to go, a two pack of those two
Chris McFeely
Daniel Witwicky, actually.
Kid_Convoy
Too bad this is the end of the United EX story so far, but it would have been cool to see the rest of Masterforce kids and see what they did after the series.
Leo Primus
They made a whole bunch of bodies for Optimus, huh? Guess Shuta is next to control one.
PoweredConvoy
The Allspark: Transformers News Movie Comics Animated – United EX Stories #9 and #10 – "Hope for the Next Generation" / "Unearthed Future" Translated!
Loved this story, totally made the crappy PCC's the awesome United EX's!
Randy