The Spacehikers found Blaster and Allan removed the mode lock, allowing him to transform into Robot Mode and save them from a falling electrical tower. However, combaticon-combined Bruticus soon defeated the protectobot gestalt Defensor, and turned his attention to Blaster and the humans. Blaster tricked Bruticus into believing that he was a traitor by firing his non-loaded weapon at Sammy, who amicably played the role of falling to the ground dead.
With Bruticus distracted by the humans' reaction, Blaster was able to overload him and knock him into his seperate pieces with the downed electrical tower. The protectobots, seeing Blaster's compassion and selflessness, released him. Allan placed the mode-lock on Blast Off, and Blaster took the Spacehikers into orbit in gratitude for their help.
However, the newly repaired Ark launched from the Earth's surface and fired on them. Blaster was ready to give himself up to save them, but the Spacehikers threw him out into space just before they were captured by Grimlock. Wheeljack fitted them with environmental spacesuits (including Daisy, after Robin objected that it had been left out). They were then brought before Grimlock, who sentenced them to death for assisting Blaster's escape.
Grimlock's intention, as stated to Snarl, was not so much to kill the humans as to lure Blaster out to rescue them. However, Wheeljack signalled the nearby Sky Lynx to rescue them as soon as they "walked the plank" of the Ark. A brief battle between the Ark and Sky Lynx ensued, but Sky Lynx fled to an asteroid belt. The Dinobots disembarked the Ark to pursue, just as Blaster entered it from the other end. However, the Dinobots managed to surround Sky Lynx, and Blaster was forced to surrender to save the humans, whose air supply was running low.
Sky Lynx was presumably given the ability to refuel the humans' air supplies in the exchange, and right before he was scheduled to return to Earth, he and the children received an advertisement for a "cosmic carnival" in the area, and they decided to check it out. Once there, the lack of currency made it difficult to get in, and Sky Lynx agreed to perform for awhile in exchange for their debt.
The children were also signed up, and put into a sideshow exhibit. They stayed there for months until the newly-created Optimus Prime and the Steelhaven saw Sky Lynx in the ad. With the help of another human there, Burko, Optimus Prime and Goldbug rescue the Spacehikers and Sky Lynx. Sky Lynx returns them to Earth shortly afterwards, announcing his arrival in advance.
It becomes a heavily publicized press event, and initially they are happy with Sky Lynx's arrival. But soon "anti-robot" hysteria provokes an attack from the crowd, and Sky Lynx leaves bitterly, as the Spacehikers watch him depart sadly.
Article submitted by jerry@linux.hartford.edu.
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