The case of the missing military microchips (seen in Issue 8) is still felt even after the arrest of the responsible, as several more are missing. As feared, mysterious hi-tech minidroids appear through the town to start a criminal spree. In a seemingly unrelated plot, Donald meets Tempest band, the "Impact", and agrees to help them find a place where to held a concert. However...
This Issue contains examples of:
- Amoral Attorney: Grafton, a lawyer who defended many criminals in the past, is ready to become one himself, using an army of minimechas to do his bidding.
- Body of Bodies: The minimechas can combine together into various forms to make animals such as rats, cats, hawks or even a human or a giant missile. The more minidroids are employed, the better.
- Brick Joke: Halfway through, Donald persuades Lyo to let the Impact play inside the abandoned factory, promising that he'll put everything back to place after the concert. In the end, Lyo isn't happy to see the destruction caused by the minidroids.
- Call-Back: The events from Just a Friend are mentioned and this issue is pretty much a sequel.
- Combining Mecha: The minidroids can combine together to move around and de-combine to act.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Tempest Gale, which is revealed to be part of a music band.
- Dreadful Musician: The Impact are well named. Their music doesn't rely on quality but on sheer volume alone.
- Enemy Mine: When PK appears before O'Hara and Spader, the latter is initially hostile, but when PK points out that they can collaborate to take down the current threat, Spader decides to agree and join forces.
- Energy Weapon: The minidroids are equipped with these. So does the Extransformer, thankfully.
- Forced into Evil: Ray is a former criminal who'd rather leave his past behind and keep doing sculptures, but Grafton is blackmailing him into helping him make an army of minidroids.
- Implausible Deniability: The final panel, PK tries to convince a furious Lyo that the damage procured by the minidroids has always been there."I told you, it has always been like this, is just that you don't remember!"
- Intrepid Reporter: The newly introduced reporter Geena Onair, which becomes a regular.
- Lean and Mean: Grafton is morally corrupt and almost skeletal. Plays against him when he's captured by the much bigger Spader and easily subdued.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Ray feels guilty for helping Grafton, so much that he hid most of the chips in an expander belonging to a member of the Impact. It goes worse when Grafton forces the information out of him and use all the minidroids he has to get back the expander.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Grafton relies on his minidroids for anything. Once Spader finds him in the crowd, the threat is over.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Spader still thinks PK is a nosy obstacle, but is willing to form an alliance when he proposes one to take down the minidroid threat. He's genuinely surprised when PK refuses to get any merit for the operation, thinking that he should reavaluate the hero.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In the end, Birgit tries to force Spader to keep Ducklair's name out of this story. Spader openly defies her and reveals the truth.
- Special Effects Failure: In-Universe, when PK fights the minidroids on stage, one of the onlookers claims they're just lame special effects.
