Story by James Roberts, John Barber, Scott Mairghread. Art by Alex Milne, Hayato Sakamoto, Andrew Griffith, Sarah Stone, Livio Ramondelli, Marcelo Ferreira, Corin Howell.
The Autobots and Decepticons' uneasy peace is threatened by the flames of war. Starscream, ruler of Cybertron, makes contact with Windblade's homeworld-and the only defense against a new Cybertronian Empire is the Combiners-multiple Cybertronians joining together into huge, dangerous forms. Collects Transformers issues #39-43, More Than Meets the Eye issues #41-44, and Windblade, Volume 2 issues #1-5.