#Treadshot

[iamamazingmason]

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[story-weavr]

This gave me an idea for TFA:

Ultra Magnus is en route from a peace conference, escorted by Optimus Prime & crew. Unfortunately they get attacked by a one-femme + dog army : Treadshot & Catgut.

As Magnus and Optimus are taking cover from the sharp-shooter assassin, Ultra reveals why he hesitated in battle and is acting weird:

The Decepticon-allied mercenary was his ex-lover.

His VERY bitter ex-lover whom he had personally arrested after finding out whatever crime she was planning on doing.

Extra points if Sentinel is with them and his jaw drops.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, what can you tell me about IDW1 Treadshot? What was life like before Impactor ended him via harpoon?

Dear Gunman Gleaner,

Treadshot was originally incepted as part of the Silver Harvest, the mass population boom that filled Cybertron's city streets with life, and was assigned a fairly prestigious position as part of the artisan caste, like many who shared his body-type. Given a particle magnetizer, it was his job to paint murals depicting Cybertron's glorious past onto public buildings. Treadshot saw this as his calling, greatly admiring those ancient heroic deeds. He would speculate at length as to what life must have been like in those times, imagining what he might have done if he’d been there, and dreaming about what he’d say to various important historical figures—many of whom were still alive, naturally.

Misfortune first befell Treadshot during renovation of the Primal Basilica. While working on a fresco of Onyx Prime, a stately piece in the traditional triptych form, Treadshot fell from his hover platform, and impaled himself on the statue of Primus.

Though he recovered to working order fairly quickly, Treadshot found himself reassigned to lower-profile tasks. The official word was that Treadshot’s absentmindedness meant he posed a risk to others, but it was clear to everyone involved that his demotion would never have happened were it not for the fact that he had splattered a senator with his spilled oil.

Reduced to maintaining public buildings, he soon fell in with his fellow artisans Atomizer and Bricolo. The brothers spent both their work-cycles and off-cycles together, dreaming of bigger things. Their bar crawls eventually took them to the Dead End, where the three were introduced to the violent world of gladiatorial combat. Watching the combatants, Treadshot felt each and every blow in his spark—at one point almost literally, when a stray spear sailed into the crowd and pierced his abdomen. Once he came back online, Treadshot found he had a new calling… spraying elaborate warpaint onto gladiators like Skyquake. And much like he had while painting heroes of myth, he daydreamed of how it would feel to be the one fighting.

When Megatron’s grand uprising began, Treadshot finally got his wish. He joined up with the Decepticons to take part in the "Liberation of Kaon" (what Autobots would record as the start of the Fall of the First Five Cities)—and was even able to personally take revenge on the senator who'd been responsible for his fall from grace. However, when Megatron had his legendary battle with Sentinel Prime, Treadshot wound up pinned under the Prime’s Apex Armor. Had Megatron not thought to make the ruined battle suit a throne, they might never have discovered Treadshot crushed beneath, one of its many cannons nearly puncturing his spark. As it happened, Megatron took inspiration from the sight, and tore loose a warped piece of Treadshot’s spark casing, commanding that it be forged into a new Deceptibrand for Treadshot—the first instance of this barbaric practice.

This was as close as Treadshot ever came to entering into Cybertron’s mythology. He spent much of the war acting as just another soldier, with long periods of boredom punctuated by brief intervals of shocking violence. Through diligence over the millenia, he worked his way up the ranks, eventually finding his way into the Decepticon Secret Service as a troubleshooter—but after a disastrous mission to track down Monstructor and Jhiaxus, he was captured by the Autobots, who had to physically pry him from the wall where he’d been skewered.

Placed into Spark Extraction in Garrus-9, Treadshot was eventually reactivated during Overlord’s takeover, and was offered a position as one of the new prison guards. It’s impossible to say whether Overlord knew anything of Treadshot’s history for which to favor him, or if he was selected by chance—but if it was luck that governed his fate, it was certainly bad luck, and over the following three years Treadshot partook in brutality unlike anything in the Cybertronian legends which had once enthralled him. Perhaps, when his spark was reunited with his body, it fell through the holes that lingered from those old near-misses, leaving only an empty chamber to await Impactor’s harpoon.

[protagonistprime]

Coming to Legacyverse through negative polarity Stellar Spanner, Good Decepticon Treadshot hopes to uncover the mysteries of decaying multiversal walls...

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I don't know why but this mold suits this character really well and also i wanted to make this given how much i liked Crosshairs Productions depiction of character.

[nanikan]

[turborun97]

Universe 2008 Mini-Con Bios (Part 1)

Some bios I made for the Universe 2008 Mini-Cons, who never got any characterization (besides Stockade sorta in Beast Wars: Uprising). Starting with the 10-Pack Mini-Cons since they’re the only ones I own.

Battle Support Team

Sky Shadow: Sky Shadow is the leader of the Battle Support Team but finds himself ill-suited for the role. Back when he was part of a team with Crosshairs and Treadshot, Sky Shadow was content to let others lead while he took to the skies and bombed enemies from above without being seen. But the Mini-Con Civil War changed everything and Sky Shadow now finds himself leading a band of Mini-Cons that are just trying to stay alive in a world that is unfamiliar to them. While he does his best to keep everyone in line, sometimes he will let his guard down and allow others (namely Overcharge) to exploit him for their own means. The others recognize this and do what they can in helping him build up his confidence, even if they do sometimes get impatient with him from time to time.

Overcharge: Nobody really likes or even trusts Overcharge. Whenever he does something for someone, it’s almost always with the expectation that he will get something in return, usually in the form of monetary compensation. This infuriates his teammates to no end, who only tolerate his presence because of his keen sense of direction and knowledge of obscure paths and back roads that no one else knows, which comes in handy when the Decepticons are on their tail. Originally part of a Mini-Con trio, Overcharge joined the Battle Support Team after losing his teammates, and because Sky Shadow felt sympathetic for him, showing a soft part that the other members silently resent their leader for.

Ransack: Despite his fearsome appearance, Ransack is actually quite kind once you get to know him. While he is quite thorough when it comes to smashing things, he always stops to make sure that it is something that actually needs smashing rather than jumping the gun and doing it anyway. It is thanks to this foresight that he is able to restrain his friend Stockade from doing just that, something which his mentor Windrazor is grateful for. In a past life, Ransack had been the type of destroy things without much thought, but after seeing how both the Great War and the Mini-Con Civil War has affected people, he has come to realize that total destruction rarely accomplishes anything and that is far more productive to build rather than to break down.

Stockade: Stockade likes to think with her head, but not in the way most people view the term. Impatient and reckless, her first instinct when presented with an obstacle is to charge headfirst into it and worry about the consequences later—or, better yet, let others deal with the consequences. The only one who is able to hold her back is her good friend Ransack, who is always trying to convince her that not everything needs to be knocked down. Still, when some heavy muscle is actually needed, Stockade is the first to be called upon, and as frustrated as her teammates might get with her impetuous nature, even they have to admit that she gets the job done.

Windrazor: Windrazor is old, perhaps one of the oldest Mini-Cons to have ever lived. Once an advisor to the Council of Sages, Windrazor withdrew himself from society when civil war broke out, feeling that his advice had not been heeded. Taking his mentees Ransack and Stockade with him into exile, Windrazor eventually returned to join the Battle Support Team and give advice to their leader Sky Shadow. While nearly everyone else on the team believes that he would be better suited for leadership, Windrazor insists that his time of being a leader has come to an end and that it is time for others to lead for once. After all, it was the stubbornness and stagnation of the Council of Sages that had led to disarray in the first place, and he would be remiss to allow history to repeat itself again.

Ground Surveillance Team

Crosshairs: Crosshairs may have a keen military mind and an excellent strategist, but his people skills make him a terrible leader. He is constantly berating and verbally abusing those serving under his command, treating them like worthless pieces of scrap. He also has poor communication skills, always expecting everyone to know exactly what he is thinking and carrying out his plans exactly as he has foreseen them. Naturally, this creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where his lack of communication causes his team to mess things up, which causes him to berate them and then not speak to them out of spite, repeating the cycle again. The only reason the others put up with him is because they have no one else to go to and because Crosshairs seems to be the only one who knows what’s going on and where they’re going.

Longview: Longview is easily distracted. Soaring in the skies in her eagle alternate mode, she often finds her mind drifting off as she stares at the wonderful scenery around her. This infuriates her leader (and sole flying partner) Crosshairs to no end, and he constantly has to threaten her with repercussions to get her head back in the game. When she is centered and focused, Longview is a ruthless fighter, diving at Autobot foes and attacking them with her talons. While this might make her great fighter, her absent-mindedness causes her to fail in her primary function as aerial reconnaissance; the only reason Crosshairs keeps her in that role is because no one else on the team is suited for it and he has yet to find a Mini-Con willing to join him to take her place.

Scavenger: Scavenger’s function is his name, as redundant as it may sound. Still, it’s a function he carries out well, perhaps better than anyone else on the team carries out theirs. His keen olfactory sensors make him ideal for seeking out energon and other resources, and he has no qualms with picking things off of deactivated bots if he has to. Perhaps his greatest drawback is his ego; he is always bragging to anyone with functioning audio receptors just how good he is at his job and that Crosshairs could not have found a better bot than him to do the job. To say this annoys his teammates would be an understatement, but there is little they can do about it. If they complain, then Scavenger might find reason to withhold energon from them, and Crosshairs certainly isn’t going to listen to them over his most trusted follower.

Snow Cat: Snow Cat hates people. The only reason she is with the Ground Surveillance Team is because she still needs energon as much as any other ‘bot, and because she has run out of places to keep a low profile. She can’t stand her teammates’ personalities and the only orders she listens to are the ones that involve her clawing out Autobots’ optics. The only Mini-Con’s presence she can tolerate even slightly is Longview’s, and that’s only because Longview spends most of her time in the sky, away from Snow Cat, and is too distracted by other things to bother Snow Cat with pointless conversation.

Treadshot: Treadshot loves shooting things—a bit too much, actually. Twitchy and apprehensive, he is the physical manifestation of the phrase “jump the gun.” As soon as something or someone enters his line of sight without warning, he whips out his gun and starts shooting at it. Even when it’s a fellow teammate he’s shooting at, Treadshot doesn’t care and will proceed to brag about how good of a shot he is straight to the faceplate of the Mini-Con he just shot at. While the others would be more than happy to get rid of him, if only for their own personal safety, Crosshairs keeps him around because he would rather have a loose cannon he can control rather than have Treadshot end up with someone who could use the hyperactive tank against him.

[incomingawn]

Walk with me…

I'm trying to see something reblog with your weirdest tf ship

[04s-art-and-mocs]

Treadshot

[nu-reality]

I uh, did more art, forgot to post it. And then did another one. So now this is an Action Master doublefeature post! With... BT-42 Treadshot, and... *shuffles papers*. Hexbug Mainframe. Yeah! (blame @definitelyasfwaccount) I'm quite enjoying this whole design stuff, but I'm not sure where to go next. Might hit some Universe 08 designs. For fun!

[siphersaysstuff]

Transformers: Energon Autobot Air Team members Sky Shadow, Terradive, Treadshot, and Windrazor.

New card-art scans for TFWIKI.net

[blueikeproductions]

Transformers G1 S4 notes:

Set a few years after The Rebirth, the Autobots’ Galactic Alliance with humans and other alien races are going great. An explosion of technological evolution has occurred for humans and Autobots, resulting in the creation of Micromaster, Pretender and Action Master technology.

Micromasters for fuel efficiency and to better interact with smaller life forms.

Pretender technology exists for similar reasons, as well as espionage and better disguise to surprise Decepticon raiders on other planets.

Action Master tech is more experimental, but was designed for greater combat efficiency against Decepticons, Quintessons and other unscrupulous forces.

The Decepticons have been desperately trying to obtain a viable fuel source to properly revive the glory of the Decepticon empire, and have been reduced to desperate means. Unable to keep their normal sized troops efficiently powered, they’ve copied Micromaster and Pretender technology in an attempt at fuel efficiency. While Decepticon Micromasters have numbers on their side; they aren’t as suited for combat like their larger counterparts, are are pretty effortlessly swatted aside by the likes of the Dinobots. Pretender technology for the Decepticons have become more like life support suits, gleaned from the flesh of other aliens the Decepticons have captured and experimented on for their powers. Iguanus’ Pretender Shell was created from a peak specimen of Slizardo’s species as an example. The suits offer a bigger fuel advantage as it allows the Decepticons to ingest organic food, though this is seen by most, especially Galvatron, as disgusting and a perversion of the natural mechanical law.

In 2015, the miracle fuel Nucleon was discovered in a mysterious black hole in the Hydrus system by Optimus Prime, Wheeljack and Perceptor. Self sustaining and renewable, and highly efficient in running various machines, it was seen as a new form of clean energy beneficial to Autobots and humans.

Trial runs began on it being a fuel source for Transformers among volunteers, but Nucleon proved to have unusual affects on living machines. On top of removing the ability to Transform on all subjects, it caused bizarre mutations: Hot Rod shrunk into a Micromaster, Arcee and Daniel’s Headmaster partnership was severed, inadvertently curing and solving the now 16 year old boy’s need for a life support system but also rendering him partially cybernetic, and it caused Goldbug to revert into back into Bumblebee among other irregularities.

Action Master technology evolved to suit these handicaps until something could be done to resolve these issues.

The Decepticons had stolen a sample of Nucleon, but ran into similar problems of Mode Lock and mutations, with the Constructicons permanently merged into a downsized Devastator and Galvatron having devolved back into Megatron but was stuck in a comatose state, leaving Cyclonus, Scourge and Shatter in charge. Shockwave, stuck in his shrunken gun mode, was installed into a terminal in Scorponok’s city mode to compute solutions.

The solution arrived when Shockwave discovered a tremendous spike in pure Nucleon coming from the black hole, a burst that rocketed towards Lookout Mountain on Earth, and was discovered by the Bee Team (Pretender-Action Master Bumblebee, Daniel, Pretender Eagle Eye, Action Master Scrounge, Pretender Catilla, Action Master Mainframe and Action Master Moonracer). To the Autobots’ surprise, they’ve discovered a 14 year old alien girl called Nucle-Ai, a being radiant with the power of Nucleon.

A small squad of Decepticons (Targetmaster Scourge, Pretender Iguanus, Pretender Snarler, Pretender Shellrazor, Action Master Treadshot and Action Master Krok) tracked this immense energy to Earth, and began attacking the Autobots over Nucle-Ai. Protected by Daniel and Scrounge, Nucle-Ai took notice of the struggling Autobots’ being insufficiently powered by Nucleon, she used her power to fix an injured Bumblebee’s transformation abilities, turning the tide, but tiring the already exhausted Nucle-Ai, causing her to faint on Daniel’s lap to the boy’s blushing embarrassment.

Back at Scorponok, an undeterred Cyclonus and Shatter agree that the “Nucleon Witch” is what they need to re-energize the Decepticon Empire to its full glory and restore their leader Galva-er-Megatron. Starscream, spying on events with his own crew Bomb-Burst, Bugly, Take-Off and Gutcruncher, takes an interest in the Nucleon Witch for his own ambitions…

The Bee Team and Team Scourge are the main Autobot and Decepticon teams for this “season”, with guest heroes and villains rotating out in spotlight episodes.

Guest Autobots: Optimus Prime (Power Master, later Action Master), Perceptor (Action Master), Wheelie, Wheeljack (Action Master), Arcee (Pretender/Action Master), Seaspray, Waverider (Pretender), Splashdown (Pretender), Hot Rod (Micromaster), Wreck-Gar, Sandstorm, Sky-Lynx, Groundbreaker (Pretender), Chainclaw (Pretender), Grimlock (Pretender/Action Master), the Dinobots, Powerglide, Metroplex (via Autobot City), Jazz (Pretender/Action Master), Vroom (Pretender), Elita-1 (Action Master), Wideload, Quickmix, Devcon (Bounty Hunter), Firestar (Action Master), Chromia (Action Master)

Guest Decepticons: Galvatron/Megatron (Action Master), Blitzwing, Dropkick, Sweeps, Octane, Axer (Action Master/Bounty Hunter), Submaurader (Pretender), Octopunch (Pretender), Finback (Pretender/Bounty Hunter), Skullgrin (Pretender), Shockwave (Action Master), Devastator (Action Master), Soundwave (Action Master), Cassettes, Backdraft (Female “Dragon Lady” Pretender), Trypticon, Roadgrabber (Pretender Vehicle), Roadblock (Pretender), Stranglehold (Pretender), Combaticons (particularly Swindle), Stunticons (particularly Dead End)

Micromasters from both sides appear, but I can’t think of any specific examples to show case atm since there’s so many. Hot Rod in his shrunken state has taken a shine to being the leader of the Autobot Micromasters, far more manageable than his original Prime leadership in his mind.

The majority of the Autobot and Decepticon Head/Target Masters and related Rebirth showcase characters are on Nebulos fighting against the remaining Hive enemies, and are largely absent from this “season”.

Teenage Daniel, Carly, Chip Chase, Grandpa Sparkplug, Marissa Fairborn, Dirk Manus and their 11 year old daughter Sue are the main human allies working with Nucle-Ai and the Autobots.

The Quintessons are the primary secondary antagonists invested in the power of Nucleon, and seem to have a connection to the mysterious black hole that it and Nucle-Ai came from. They have the Pretender Monsters in their employ along with the Double Pretenders Oilmaster (gorilla) and Webmaster (spider). They seek to use Nucleon to render the Transformers completely unable to Transform, and therefore fight back, so they may retake control of Cybertron and their rebellious creations.

Nucle-Ai is shy but sweet. A little overwhelmed in her current life on Earth, but has taken a shine to Daniel, Bumblebee and Eagle Eye in particular, and knows she’s in good hands. Nucle-Ai appears to have a crush on Daniel, attracted by his bravery and looks (the boy has taken up weight lifting to help train in fighting the Decepticons and Quintessons), with the attraction being mutual. Her favorite Earth foods are pepperoni and mushroom pizza and blueberry pancakes. Her antenna are a secondary set of “eyes” that can detect other frequencies and energy, being something of a Nucleon and Energon detector and early warning system when the Decepticons and Quints attack. Her favorite past times are swimming, as her race descended from a fish like species despite her reptilian appearance, and reading space comics. She has the unusual power to harness Nucleon and her DNA appears to be intertwined with it. Her ability to “magically” wield it and repair issues with T-Cogs confounds Perceptor but Wheeljack finds it neat. All that’s known atm is her race originally discovered and harnessed Nucleon, but it’s unclear if her race can control it as she can. She apparently has two younger brothers that Wheelie and Wreck-Gar fondly remind her of, while Mainframe and Push-Button’s argumentative relationship reminds her of her parents, which causes her stress. Mainframe and Push-Button catch on to this and vow to put aside their differences for Nucle-AI’s sake.

The Action Masters primarily use drones or modified Mechanimals. This includes the scrapped animal masks seen in concept art used by the likes of Starscream, Jazz and Optimus. Accessories like the flight pack and heli pack are reinterpreted as Mechanimals, such as a Condor for Blaster and a CyberBee for Bumblebee that combine and become the equipment. Action Master Vehicles, as non living machines are fueled by Nucleon, and possess rudimentary T-Cogs that are unaffected by Nucleon’s inhibitions.

Those that are both Pretenders and Action Masters are simply a means to advertise both gimmicks without overshadowing each other and grant wider combat advantages.

In the Stranger Things-Heathers AU, sort of the pseudo companion AU, this came out as the 4th season and the toys included female Transformers for the first time, but were mostly limited to Action Masters because of design complications in transformation. Arcee got a Pretender toy, being the only preexisting Female Autobot to get one, but it’s a technical cheat as the inner robot is a retooled recolor of Landmine. Shatter, Shellrazor, Webmaster (despite being Quintesson aligned) and Backdraft are the first known Female Decepticons in this hypothetical context. Eagle Eye is the latest female Autobot in show and the second female Autobot toy after Arcee.

[autoacafiles]

For the Devs, any of them, have any of you guys seen Transformers Ascension? If so, what do you think of it, and is there a chance of those characters showing up?

Stone has. Sap and Dev have not.

Chances are, we probably won't see any version of the Ascension-verse characters on account of already having enough plans with the guys we do have. So, no pretender car SG Treadshot. No Exillion painting himself red and going by 'Hot Rod.' And no SG Autobots joining the Decepticons and going by different names.

If you want, you can pretend that AutoAca Sky Shadow has a similar voice to Ascension Black Shadow. And maybe it'll have some influence on Ironfist if he takes a major role.

[asknarashikari]

The Decade Cast are assigned some Autobots and Decepticons that they have to share amongst all four of them. Get ready for a long list Kari-chan because there are so many of these guys.

Their assigned Autobots are the Aerialbots, comprised of the Silverbolt the acrophobic Concorde leader, Air Raid the impulsive and fearless F-15 Eagle, Fireflight the absent-minded F-4 Phantom, Skydive the gifted strategist F-16A Fighting Falcon, Slingshot the insecure loud-mouthed Sea Harrier, Alpha Bravo the insecure slowpoke helicopter, Powerglide the show off A-10 Warthog, Universe Airazor the small but fierce F-22 Raptor, Barrel Roll the mellowed Cybertronian jet, Ro-Tor the AH-64 Apache helicopter, and Storm Fire the Space Shuttle, who five to six of them can combine to form stagnant Superion, the Air Team, comprised of Storm Jet the rowdy Cybertronian SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, Sky Shadow the A-10 Thunderbolt II, Terradive the A-10 Thunderbolt II, Treadshot the ambitious F-22 Raptor, and Windrazor the veteran F-22 Raptor, who combine into Superion Maximus, the naive and cocky Cybertronian jet twin brothers of Skyfire and Skystorm, who combine into the powerful Safeguard, and Breakaway the skilled F-35 Lighting II.

Their assigned Decepticons are the Seekers, comprised of Starscream the formerly treacherous now humble and deadly Air Commander, Skywarp the chaotic but dumb and cowardly jet, Thundercracker the egotistical jet who can write movies, Dirge the mournful and greedy conehead jet, Ramjet the dumb and lying conehead jet, Thrust the loud-mouthed and envious conehead jet, Bitstream the genius jet, Hotlink the gadget geek jet, Nacelle the eager jet, Sunstorm the sycophant and narcissistic jet, Acid Storm the quiet green jet, Ion Storm the blue jet, Nova Storm the yellow jet, Cloudcover the radioactive conehead jet, Sandstorm the desert warfare jet, Blazewake the young and brash jet, Red Wing the brave but cautious jet, Slipstream the strategic female jet, Cybertron Thundercracker the jokester and goofball jet, Armada Thrust the master manipulator and tactician jet, Dreadwing the cool-minded jet, Skyquake the short-tempered jet, Blitzwing the loudmouthed triple-changer tank and jet jerk, the Combatrons, comprised of BW Starscream the narcissist and snobby fighter jet, BB the dumb brute stealth bomber, BW Dirge the comedian and gourmet chef fighter jet, and BW Thrust the comedian figther jet, Darkwing the gloomy Tornado GR1 fighter jet, Dreadwind the depressed F-16 Fighting Falcon jet, G2 Dreadwing the dumb pacifist stealth bomber, G2 Smokescreen the manipulative fighter jet, and Megaplex, the F-22 Raptor fighter jet clone of Megatron who is good instead of evil.

All of these Autobot and Decepticons jets reside nearby within the giant Decepticon city Metrotitan. Optimus has assigned Starscream to lead this group and he also serves as a leader for the Decade cast because of the chaos duo being well look at them.

What are the Riders reaction to the Decade Cast's assigned Cybertronians being most of the flying ones and Starscream being assigned as the leader for both this group of Cybertronians, but also as the leader for the Decade cast due to the chaos duo being chaotic.

I think they would question anyone assigning Tsukasa and Daiki robots they could possibly order around to do their chaotic bidding... but I guess they'll all count on Natsumi, Onodera and hopefully Starscream to keep them in line

[thelastgherkin]

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[askvectorprime]

what did g1 cartoon megatron turn into on cybertron. what about blaster and perceptor? or the triple changers blitzwing and astrotrain?

Dear Alt-Mode Anxious,

It may not surprise you to learn that their alt-modes were similar to what they ended up having on Earth. As this may seem a little routine, I have elected to expand a little on their circumstances, as I understand some of their histories may not be as well known.

Megatron turned into a powerful fusion cannon, and along with Shockwave, Kiloton, and Treadshot, formed what was known as the "Kolkular Gun Club." They all had minds suited for strategy and warfare, and were among the elite of the Decepticons. Few were surprised when Megatron deposed Trannis and seized control of the faction. It must be stated that Megatron's size changing abilities were not tied to his alternate mode, which hovered above the battle, raining down fire upon his enemies. Instead the size changing came from a plot where Megatron and Soundwave tried infiltrating Iacon, having their power chip rectifiers modified to allow them to sneak in unnoticed. Teletraan-1 did take this power into account when choosing Megatron and Soundwave's new alternate modes.

Blaster turned into the core Iacon base's communications array, a powerful computer system that proved invaluable to the Autobot resistance. In fact, it was this alternate mode that made him the first to hear Teletraan-1's distress signal from the Decepticon attack on the Ark. He relayed this to Elita One, and she instructed Perceptor to try and find the vessel.

At the time, Perceptor turned into a powerful X-Ray telescope, although he had long held a distaste for this alternate mode, feeling a strong sense of disquiet from the empty cosmos. Of course, during war there was little time for comforts, and he dutifully scoured the skies for the likely location of the Autobot's last signal. When he located the, ahem, backwards system they'd likely be, Elita One dispatched the pair of them to go on a rescue mission. They managed to reach Earth, and had been scanning the system to locate the Ark.

Unfortunately a wave of energy disrupted their ship, sending it crashing to Earth where they slept for millions of years.

They were eventually dug out... by Megatron and the Decepticons, who found a group of Autobot warriors in stasis the perfect tool to strike against the Autobots. Having Soundwave wipe their memory circuits, Megatron easily deceived them into believing they were Decepticons, and they had been sent to kill Optimus Prime. He gave them alternate modes of his own design, and had them launch a surprise attack on a human city. Of course, the memory wipe couldn't erase their personalities. When they witnessed the Autobots risking their lives to save humanity, the two felt their inner Autobot programming emerging. Surrendering, they were welcomed back into the Autobots on Earth, although they still had trouble with the memories they had lost. Blaster never forgave Soundwave for his intrusion, and vowed to give him a taste of his own medicine one day.

As for Blitzwing, he had been just another Decepticon air warrior piloting the tetrajet-fighters across Cybertron. It took little effort to convince him to become one instead of merely piloting one, and he was enrolled as an early member of the Skyraiders.

When Megatron took over the Decepticons, he put Shockwave to work enhancing his army. One of the methods Shockwave came up with was the triple changer, with Blitzwing being his first experiment. He supercharged the Skyraider's transformation cog until he was able to coax out a destroyer tank mode, turning Blitzwing into the perfect Ground and Air Commando.

Astrotrain had been a lowly cargo hauler, one of the Decepticon workers who brought needed materiel from the weapons factories to the front lines. He jumped at the chance to become a triple changer, viewing it as a necessary upgrade to enable him to finally become a warrior. Unfortunately, he found himself gaining a courier shuttle and mass transit carriage modes, apparently further cementing his role as a cargo transporter. It wasn't until Megatron called for reinforcements on Earth, millions of years later, that he finally got to join the frontlines himself—even if his Earthly alternate modes ended up being similar to those on Cybertron.

[toyboxcomix]

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