Comic 4: Von Nebula Rising
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Von Nebula Rising is the fourth comic in the Hero Factory series. It was based off the script for the fourth television episode called Episode 4: Von Nebula. It was made by LEGO, and published by DC Comics.
Plot Summary
Senior Hero Factory Heroes of Alpha 1 Team are dispatched to New Stellac City to assist with a natural disaster. Dunkan Bulk notices that there is a monument in the center of the city with a plaque dedicated to Preston Stormer, inferring that Stormer must have been sent on a mission here previously. After Jimi Stringer re-reads the plaque, Bulk remembers that New Stellac City was the last place rookie Hero Von Ness was sent on a Hero Factory mission before he became the villain known as Von Nebula. Stormer justifies Bulk's hypothesis after remembering it himself, along with the conclusion that this incident was not a natural disaster. The senior heroes are then attacked by Thunder and Corroder.
Rookie Heroes William Furno and Natalie Breez are observing the attack from Mission Control as Mark Surge runs in. They decide that they will go to assist the other team members, getting their weapons upgraded to help on the mission and getting into their Drop Ship to get to the mission site. Beforehand, Furno had been researching New Stellac City, finding out that Stormer and Von Ness had been sent there before, when they were on their first team led by Thresher. He describes the mission as an unpredicted battle against a giant drone, where Stormer and Von Ness were left to fight for themselves after Thresher was injured. Stormer went off to fight the drone himself, leaving Von Ness to watch after the injured Thresher. Instead, Von Ness fled in the team's Drop Ship, leaving Stormer to be the only one to stop the robot from destroying the city. Stormer's bravery allowed him to take on the drone, destroying its optic circuits, and then the drone was destroyed, with Stormer saving the city. The citizens built a monument out of the drone's parts in honor of Stormer's bravery and loyalty.
Later, the rookies arrive at the scene, not finding the other Heroes. XPlode and Meltdown join the villains, changing the odds of the battle. As the villains attack, the senior Heroes save the rookies just before a black hole opens. Stringer suggests the team to link together to reduce the pull of gravity on the Heroes, though Stormer instead goes in it to find the one responsible: Von Nebula. Furno refuses to let Stormer go alone, and follows him into the black hole. Von Nebula appears, trapping the Heroes into the vortex. Furno attempts to counteract the force by using the antigravity thruster rings that allow Heroes to fly. Believing that Stormer has the rings, Von Nebula attacks him, though is proven incorrect. Stormer counterattacks the villain with his own staff called Black Hole Orb Staff, trapping him there, and freeing the Heroes. Meanwhile, the other team members contain and arrest the villains, completing the mission and saving the city. Stormer and Furno get out of the black hole and go back to the city to reunite their fellow Heroes. Stormer tells his five fellow Heroes to put the staff in an isolation cell in the Hero Factory. He witnesses a robotic fly accidentally being absorbed into the staff.
Characters
Heroes
- Preston Stormer
- William Furno
- Jimi Stringer
- Dunkan Bulk
- Natalie Breez
- Mark Surge
- Thresher (In a flashback)
Villains
Trivia
- Comic 4 was never published in print, and was only available through certain websites. The comic was released in November 1, 2010 while the television episode aired on September 2010.
- Like the first three comics, the comic has some differences from the episode:
- The comic is a short version of the episode, as it does not have Nathaniel Zib, Quadal, Daniela Capricorn, the Particle Separators, or a scene where Furno and Stormer's Alpha 1 teammates are fighting Von Nebula's henchmen. Zib, Quadal, and Capricorn never had sets, and the Particle Separator never had set pieces, anyway.
- The comic had a different title from the episode. It is unknown why the episode did not have the same title as the comic.
- In the episode, the plaque on the monument says "In honor of the Hero Factory with special thanks to Hero Preston Stormer for saving our city." However, in the comic, it says "In honor of Hero Factory with special thanks to Stormer for saving our city."
- In the episode, Thunder uses the Nebula Gas Cannon to fire Nebula Gas, but in the comic, he uses his Meteor Blaster to fire the gas. This is because the Nebula Gas Cannon piece was never produced.
- In the episode, Furno, Breez, and Surge used three Hero Pods to get to New Stellac City, but in the comic, they used a Drop Ship.
- In the episode, the Anti-Gravity Thruster Rings are silver with blue glowing lines, but in the comic, the rings are red and do not have glowing lines.
- In the episode, after Stormer and Furno escaped Von Nebula's exploding black hole base, they went back to the Hero Factory building. Von Nebula's staff is placed in an isolation cell in the Hero Factory building, and then the staff sucked up a robotic fly into its orb part. However, in the comic, right after Stormer and Furno escaped the black hole base, Stormer witnessed the staff sucking up a robotic fly.
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