Trapped

Trapped is a Toonami comic that was released, on Toonami.com, on November 27, 2016, after the final installment of The Intruder III concluded. The comic is a prequel to The Intruder III, taking place before the events of that Total Immersion Event. The plot involves TOM 5 exploring the surface of Shogo 162 and coming across another being, who gives TOM a new exoskeleton so he can defend Shogo 162 from a menacing beast.

Plot
TOM is finally able to leave the Vindication and explore the planet Shogo 162. During his exploration, he comes across a colony, and a crashed ship. After entering the ship, he hears three taps and realizes that he is not alone. He comes upon a control room and slowly approaches the occupant who is facing the monitors. The occupant states that TOM is an "intruder". TOM attempts to explain himself but ends up being electrocuted by the occupant's chair, blacking out. TOM wakes up and realizes that he is in another body. The occupant explains that he gave TOM a new body in order to "defend Shogo". TOM bargains with the occupant - he kills the creature, the occupant saves SARA.

Running out of the settlement, TOM notices a motorcycle and mounts it. The creature appears, and chases after TOM. TOM rides towards docking bay 94, and enters through a door, falling a great height, only to catch himself with a grappling hook. Pulling himself to a landing, he notices a new, larger robot body which he dubs "New TOM". Before he can do anything else, cords attach themselves to his body which allows him to control "Big TOM" to combat the menacing beast. Big TOM breaks free of the docking bay, and battles the beast. As the battle ensues, the beast destroys the occupant's base, much to the horror of TOM. A knife protrudes from Big TOM's wrist and he stabs the beast in the stomach, before finishing the beast off by decapitating it.

After killing the beast, TOM runs back into the crashed ship, pleading with the occupant for his help but TOM instead only finds the occupant's skeletal remains. TOM then realizes he is back in his original body, questioning if the entire experience was a dream. Outside, he sees the skeletal remains of the beast he just fought, but notices that they look much older than they should. He runs back to the Vindication, yelling for SARA. Upon re-entry, TOM and SARA converse about what just occurred. SARA scans TOM's body and shows him a hologram of the occupant who was a warrior that settled on the planet 10,000 years ago. Upon hearing this, TOM surmises that the warrior's cockpit must have shown the memories to him from all those years ago. He ended the conversation by stating that he's "happy to be home."

Trivia

 * This is the only Toonami comic, so far, that was printed as a physical comic book.