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====1985====
In 1985, {{storylink|The Transformers issue 21/The Chromobots|''The Chromobots'' issue 21}} the life of young comics reader [[Dudley]] was turned upside down by the arrival of the [[Chromobot]]s, {{storylink|The Transformers issue 12/The Chromobots|Issue 12}} {{storylink|The Transformers issue 13/The Chromobots|Issue 13}} a team of interstellar policemen tracking down an escaped criminal by the name of [[Predator]]. {{storylink|The Transformers issue 16/The Chromobots|Issue 16}} Two weeks after Dudley's first meeting with [[Mikros]] and [[Transmute]], the trio encountered Predator in the process of kidnapping nuclear arms designer [[Tessa Stone]], with the plan of using her knowledge to destroy the Chromobots' home planet, [[Chromos Five]]. {{storylink|The Transformers issue 17/The Chromobots|Issue 17}} {{storylink|The Transformers issue 18/The Chromobots|Issue 18}} After a late night tip-off from the [[Chromatic Star Federation]], {{storylink|The Transformers issue 21/The Chromobots|Issue 21}} the third member of the squad, [[Shield]], took Dudley, Transmute, and Mikros out to the countryside, a location where Predator's distinct teleportation pattern had been detected. {{storylink|The Transformers issue 22/The Chromobots|Issue 22}} There, they fell through a time shift to the year [[#2535|2535]], where Earth was an apocalyptic wasteland. {{storylink|The Transformers issue 23/The Chromobots|Issue 23}} This timeline was prevented by Dudley's theft of Predator's [[time modulator]] and subsequent return to 1985, where Shield destroyed it. {{storylink|The Transformers issue 26/The Chromobots|Issue 26}}
 
On Saturday '''September 12''', 1985, the ''Bugle''{{'}}s headline news story was "GIANT ROBOTS ON RAMPAGE! Invasion from Space". By this point, the press was speculating that the Transformers were an alien invasion, or controlled by a foreign power. {{tfstorylink|The_Icarus_Theory|The Icarus Theory}} (By early 1986, {{TF|Intelligence_and_Information_Institute|Triple-I's}} {{TF|Walter_Barnett_(G1)|Walter Barnett}} would run the cover story that the Transformers were all controlled by Robot-Master, a supervillain played by [[Marvel Comics#In fiction|Marvel Comics]]' {{TF|Donny_Finkleberg|Donny Finkleberg.}} {{tfstorylink|I,_Robot-Master!|I, Robot-Master!}})