#tfe motormaster

[cutekittenlady]

Planes, Trains, and Autobots

Summary Fic Part 11

(why yes I am continuing this in spite of season 2 dropping. its a summary fic. Plus fanfic inherently ignores canon sooooo. Consider it an alternate events au if you want. Besides I cant even watch season 2 right now.)

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Back at the Maltos, Wheeljack has joined the group and has hooked up his experimental ground bridge outside the barn and is FINALLY ready to commence with the test. Ratchet made him re-rig the whole thing three seperate. First time because he caught him rigging it up in the dugout, second because the exit would hit the barn, and third because the exist would hit the house.

Wheeljack complains that things would probably just "work out" but Ratchet argues that he doesnt want to have to rebuild the Maltos house before everyone gets back. The terrans and kids immediately agree. Outvoted Wheeljack dejectedly turns back to his experimental ground bridge.

Wheeljack wonders where to aim the test run at. He speculates various locations before Ratchet tells him to just aim for somewhere within eyesight so a) they can make sure it works, b) he can apply emergency aid if or when it doesnt, and c) so they dont have to drag wheeljacks body very far if things REALLY go wrong.

Whelljack tells him theres NOTHING to worry about. He is something, like, 87.4% sure this will work.

In response Ratchet tells the kids to take cover in the dugout.

Wheeljack gives a "haha very funny" before starting the machine.

The ground bridge does nothing for few uncomfortable minutes, but just as Ratchet is about to say something it spurts to life.

Wheeljack gives a hoot of success and gives Ratchet a smug look.

Ratchet just responds that he, wheeljack, hasn't gone through the portal yet.

Ratchet goes over to the controls, puts in some nearby coordinates, and tells Wheeljack to brace himself.

Wheeljack asks where Ratchet is sending him, and Ratchet says its in a clearing within eyesight.

Wheeljak turns towards the portal. Then he turns back and asks Ratchet if hes sure the coordinates are right.

Ratchet rolls his eyes and double checks and confirms that, yes, they are correct.

Wheeljack nods and turns back to the portal. He then turns back again, and asks if the portal is fully charged.

Ratchet groan and says, yes, yes it is.

Wheeljack laughs uncomfortable and turns back towards the portal. He then turns back yet again and asks if they should maybe try throwing a very large rock or something through the portal first and-

Ratchet yells for him to stop stalling. If hes confident in his tech it should be perfectly safe. If hes not, then he'll just call Optimus and others and tell them they'll have to take the LONG way back with their prisoner.

Wheeljack clears his throat and steps through the portal.

Ratchet turns his attention back to the controls, making sure all the readouts are correct. He mutters to himself that he KNOWS Wheeljack could do this. Then, remembering hes talking about WHEELJACK, quietly prays the ground bridge doesnt explode.

A few seconds later a portal opens not too far away and wheeljack steps out.

Once hes out of the protal it quickly closes behind him.

Wheeljack stands stunned for a moment before looking himself over and checking for any missing pieces. After another moment he immediately starts whooping and hollering of how the tech works! It works!

The kids watch on and start celebrating too.

Back at the groundbridge controls, Ratchet gives a sigh of relief before shutting the machine down. He mutters a congratulations for Wheeljack.

Robbie, who is standing nearby, asks Ratchet to repeat what he said.

Ratchet raises his voice and says that he was saying hes happy he doesnt have to waste his time scrapping Wheeljack off the floor.

Robbie smiles at him making it clear that he knows exactly what he actually said making Ratchet blush.

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We cut back over to New Jersey where Optimus is just finishing his call with Ratchet confirming that they've gotten the ground bridge working. Megatron asks doubtfully if hes really certain that its working. Optimus confirms that Ratchet had Wheeljack test it to make sure.

Megatron still expresses doubts, wondering if perhaps Ratchet would have exaggerated its effetiveness.

Optimus tells him that while Ratchet might have a bad sense of humor about Megatrons history, he wouldn't risk the whole mission just to mess with Megatron. Besides which, while Wheeljacks inventions do have a... history he wouldn't approve the use of the groundbridge for others unless he was certain it would safely work.

Dorothy says that they can all go together only for Optimus to awkwardly correct her. The ground bridge is weaker than the ones they used during the war. It likely won't be big enough for them all to go at once.

Megatron asks if Optimus feels confident escorting Dead End on his own. Optimus hesitantly confirms and asks why he asks. Megatron says that he might as well get back "the old fashioned way". WIthout having to follow Optimus on the road, flying back to Witwicky should take no time at all. Around an hour or so at most.

Optimus tells him he doesnt have to do that. He knows Ratchet put his back out but-

Megatron cuts him off and tells him that thats not it. If what deadend told them was true and he truly hasn't seen the other stunticons since the war then they are likely going to have to track and find them all. its been months since Motormaster escaped from prison and Ghost fell. He, Dragstrip, and Wildrider could be anywhere.

They need to preserve the groundbridges energy if they want to gurantee they'll be able to get to the location of a sighting or lead ASAP. That means minimizing the number of trips and avoiding overusing the groundbridge for short trips. It shouldn't be used for any trip they can completely in the alt modes in just an hour.

Optimus is hesitant telling Megatron that splitting up isn't a good habit to get into. After all what happens if, once they're through the portal, Deadend tries to escape?

Megatron questions if he thinks thats likely. Besides which, Ratchet and Wheeljack are on the other side and Elita-one and Arcee are also stationed in Witwicky so its not like they don't have backup. he also says that he doesnt think Deadend is likely to try and escape again. Its hard to get him motivated again after he stops.

Optimus still doesnt agree but can see Megatron has made his decision. Dorothy decides to go with Optimus since they'll be arriving at her house and she wants to make sure deadend doesnt cause problems at her house. Twitch decides to go with Megatron to keep him company on the way back.

Megatron warns her that he intends to go full speed on the way back. This disheartens Twitch who acknowledges that her drone form likely won't be able to keep up at that speed and says she'll likely just go back with Dorothy and Optimus.

After a moment of hesitations, Megatron tells her she can ride along with him if she'd like. Twitch happily accepts and Dorothy gives Megatron a knowing look.

Megatron quicly asks twitch to "just please dont touch anything" and twitch promises.

Dorothy tells them to enjoy their flight and climbs into Optimus' truck form.

Optimus contacts Ratchet the start up the groundbridge. A portal opens up nearby and with one big honk of a horn for a goodbye Optimus drives through. The portal closing behind them.

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In the abandoned car factory a screen flashes an alert causing knockout to tap the screen irritably. He mutters about interference before digging through the data.

Motormaster asks what the hell is going on with the equipment.

Knock Out at first says that it must be interference before looking closer and cursing.

Motormaster demands to know what the problem is.

Knock Out groans and tells him hes not allowed to get mad at him.

Motormaster says he'll get mad all he wants.

Knock Out rolls his eyes and tells him he's picking up a bridging signal. Motormaster is shocked and knockout continues saying that since he built this sensor with stolen ghost tech it must still be connected with the Autobots signals. Which means that the autobots must have managed to rebuild some form of bridging tech.

Motormaster asks if they'll be able to pick up on the bridging tech Knockout has been working on.

Knockout gives an unconvincing shrug.

After some more shouting from Motormaster, Knockout bites back that hes a medical doctor NOT an engineer. The fact that hes been able to rig up as much tech as he has using a mix of stolen cybertronian and earth tech is, quite frankly, evidence that he, knock out, is an unappreciated genius. One that should NOT have to put up with Motormasters attitude.

The big combiner grabs and lifts Knock Out up by the arm. Knock Out protests but Motormaster ignores him. He demands to know if the autobots can use the same method to find them.

Knock Out tells him that they probably cant. Not only has he not actually tested his own attempt at groundbridging, but the groundbridge signal is only detectable when it is activated and something is moving through it. The more things moving through the portal the stronger the energy output. Plus his own mechanism is pretty... weak.

Motormaster asks HOW weak it is.

Knock Out says before he answers that question he wants to be let down.

Motromaster unwillingly does so and Knock Out brushes himself off muttering threateningly about what he'll do if the other bot had scuffed his finish. He'd JUST waxed it.

Motormaster growls at Knockout and Knockout picks up something like a staff or spear from a pile of crates. Knockout explains that he rigged the smaller mechanism to his old energon prod for easy use and so that they can pick up and move it on the go. Besides which they can actually carry it through the subsequent portal with them and use it to get back. None of that waiting for someone on the other end to open it up.

The rather critical and numerous downsides include them having to manually enter the coordinates every. single. time. And no chance for subtle variation which runs the risk of them transporting themselves into a room two times too small for them, or a place that was clear of rubble when they left but somehow has a pile of rocks when they try and get back. And if the coordinates are even a little off, theres a possibility of doing something like sending themselves a thousand feet into the air or deep into the planets crust. Knock Out doesnt know what a thousand feet of rocky pressure would do to his frame but he doesnt want to find out.

Beyond that theres the not so minor issue that the thing guzzles energon like no ones business so its not even like they can use all that frequently.

Aaaaand of course it has a limited transport capacity. They can do two average to smaller sized bots. Three assuming someone is willing to risk potentially losing a limb. He could potentially make it bigger assuming they're willing to burn through ALL of their energon reserves to make it happen, but that would also make it insanely unstable.

Knockout admits he doesnt know a lot about how bridge science actually works. He largely just repurposed and repaired what was already there. If anything goes wrong mid transport hes not going have any idea of how to fix it.

Because of ALL of that, theres a chance the energy the portal gives out wont be big enough for the autobots to pick up. Maybe. Probably.

Though if they're not careful they MAY be able to find one of their severed arms somewhere. Probably Motormasters, yknow, considering (here Knockout gestures to motormasters considerable bulk).

Motormaster actually seems thoughtful for a moment.

Knockout looks pleased with himself until Motormaster tells him that, in that case, that means Knockout will have to be the one to retrieve the stunticons. Alone.

Knockout freaks out a little. He points out that most of the stunticons are "crazy" and would rip him limb from limb. Motormaster tells him to shut up and just tell them that Motormaster sent him and that that ought to straighten things out. After a moment of hesitation Knockout unwillingly agrees.

He then tells Motormaster that since THATS sorted out he hopes he won't be upset about the other thing.

Motormaster asks what he means by the OTHER thing.

Knockout taps the screen again and says that, unless the equipment is very off the mark... the autobot transport signal they just picked up was right where deadend was supposed to be.

Motormaster proceeds to lose it.

[amateur-flamingo]

Can you pls give us some info about your Breakdown design? He seems really cool

OK, I think I'm ready for this post!!! I know that the question was back in July, when I drew a tfp Breaky as a human, BUT a lot of water has flowed under the bridge, I went deeper into the fandom, discovered the Stunticons and now I really, REALLY love them

so I'll tell you about my current design of Breakdown! Besides, I seem to have learned how to draw robots, and I'm no longer ashamed to post it here!)

initially, this is a design from ES, I don't even hide it. I really like it, and especially the fact that it's a Pontiac))

however, at the moment I'm basing it on the story of idw2005 (yes, I read the comics), and Breaky's plot is more likely from there there are very few Stunticons there, but I already have a habit of writing such characters, so yes, I have a story with him! buuut today I'm talking about design, so… it just plays a role too x)

when I reread Primacy, I noticed that there is no white car among the Stunticons

I know that this is more of a blooper, but because of this I got a headcanon that Breaky was repainted several times (with the help of Dead End) and that's why I have a design for his pre-war time and for the present (stolen from ES)

later I'm going to make designs for the rest of the Stunticons, but I haven't gotten around to it yet

this is by the way a headcanon about the Stunticons reflexively sticking to Motormaster in their usual positions in Menasor

there are a lot of sketches here because i still haven't learned how to limit the post

[transingthoseformers]

You know? I kinda wanna see someone with one of those GHOST transport vehicles as an altmode. Sound's cool to me.

[brandwhorestarscream]

Reincarnation au

1-I don't know many versions of breakdown, but he 100% had the tfe and Tfp versions (preferably twins)

2-What would the situation be like with the TFA blitzwing' alters/system?

1. Yes absolutely. Sweet and timid little G1 Breakdown and his crazy rambunctious twin boys that act more like their uncles Motormaster and Drag Strip 🤭 he's got his hands full for sure

2. As for TFA Blitzwing... that's a tough one. I can see it going one of two ways. First option is that he's born as a normal sparkling with just the one face, the way he was before being turned into a triple changer. As it's not his natural state, it would make sense for his spark and mind to completely revert when he's reborn. He could, maybe, have some sort of mental disorder due to the experimentation, possibly developing split personality disorder or possibly even schizophrenia, making him struggle with perceiving reality and himself. I do say that as a strong maybe, cuz I don't think I'm qualified to really speak on the matter. If anyone with experience would like to give their two-cents, please do. Alternatively, the three of them could be born as triplets, with Icy, Hothead, and Random each having their own separate body and the freedom to do as they please. Icy would exclusively be a jet, Hothead exclusively a tank, and Random has both in proper triple changer fashion

Thoughts?

[mixmasterr]

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Transformers muses: CANON: Breakdown(g1, tfe), Motormaster(g1), Mixmaster(g1, soup), Ratchet(tfp, idw, g1), Skyfire(g1, vr), Blitzwing(idw, tfa), Astrotrain(g1, idw) OCs: ... SHIPKIDS: Holzbien (blitzbee), Chaindrive (motorbolt), Streethop (breakstreak), Crashcourse (breakswipe), Rivet (dratchet), Inertia (dratchet), Tourniquet (dratchet)

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[cutekittenlady]

I feel like the stunticons ARENT happy Breakdown went to work for Knockout

Whaaaat? Nooooo.

Motormaster is TOTALLY stoked that one of his components men left the team at the first opportunity for bigger things in the med ward!

He DEFINITELY isn't angry he can't do anything about it!

He DOESN'T hate Knockout like hell for being one of the few decepticons he isn't allowed to touch due to his role as a combat medic!

And he just looooves how Knockout doesnt show any fear of him in the slightest and isn't afraid to just give him the business whenever he feels like in COMPLETE diregard for his authority!

He ESPECIALLY isn't mad that without Breakdown the stunticons can't form Menasor and therefore their effectiveness in combat decreases significantly.

He's just fine with everything!

Knockout? LOVE that guy! Definitely doesn't want to tear him limb from limb.

Nope.

Not. At. All.

[cutekittenlady]

Trains, Planes, and Autobots

Summary Fic Part 8

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Opening on a flashback to back during the war.

Breakdown is waiting somewhere on the Nemesis alongside Wildrider and Deadend. Breakdown is trying to avoid the two ganging up on him by letting Deadend spiral into another bout of existentialism and keeping Wildrider boasting about a pileup he caused on the freeway.

The three are waiting for Dragstrip and Motormaster to return from a meeting amongst the higher ranks of the Decepticons. Wildrider notices Breakdown not paying full attention to him. Breakdown tries to play him off, but Wildrider is still growing aggressive. Breakdown tries to appeal to DeadEnd who shrugs him off.

Just then Motormaster and Dragstrip return with Motormaster in a bad mood. Breakdowns relieved when Wildrider's attentions shifts to the two and asks Motormaster how the meeting went.

This turns out to be a mistake as Motormaster angrily shoved Breakdown aside. Dragstrip leans over Breakdown and yells at him to "read the room".

Motormaster rages in frustration and throws a fist at the wall leaving a dent.

Breakdown mentally hopes that they're out of the room before anyone can report the damage.

Motormaster goes on a minor rant about his authority being undermined and his efforts unappreciated.

Dragstrip suggests they "wreck that little red corvette"* but Motormaster immediately shuts her down. Saying that if they did that Megatron would have all their heads as string lights because "the little bastards 'irreplacable' at this stage in the war".

Breakdown asks "more than Menasor?" only for Motormaster to bark at him to shut up and order the group to move on out so he could blow off some steam. Breakdown considers asking if they've been given approval to leave the Nemesis, but not wanting to get shoved or shouted down again he holds his tongue.

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Back in the modern day, its the break of dawn and Breakdown comes out of his reflections on the past by Swindle asking him which way they need to go next. Breakdown pauses and transforms back into his robot form and looks at, of all things, a paper highway map.

Hardtop and Swindle give him "a look" and Breakdown asks what they think they're looking at.

Swindle asks Breakdown if his alt mode seriously doesnt have GPS to which Breakdown responds that hes never needed it because "some of us learned to read a map!" besides GPS is human tech that they could use to track them.

Hardtop asks why Breakdown is so on edge about them being traced. After all the autobots have plenty more to worry about than them. Breakdown doesn't answer and instead tells them the way they're going before immediately turning into his alt mode and driving off. The Con Bros look at each other before begrudingly driving after him.

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Back at the Maltos house Dorothy, Megatron, Optimus, and Twitch are up and ready to start their own mission.

Robbie and Mo are also up to see their mother and sibling off, though Robbie is obviously still tired. Not having been able to sleep from the worry. He feels theres more he should be able to do to help his family, and by extension the autobots and Megatron.

Dorothy reassures him and tells him, Mo, and the Terrans to look after one another and listen to Ratchet.

Schloder pipes in that Dorothy has nothing to worry about as he'll make sure to look after the kids.

Dorothy acknowledge that before leaning in close and whispering to the kids to take care of Schloder too and make sure he doesn't get in over his head.

Ratchet hears this and gives a small laugh.

Schloder doesn't notice and asks if they have all the information they need to track down the Stunticons. Megatron confirms they do, but asks to be given any updates he may be able to receive from any of GHOSTs remaining connections.

The three finally take off. Twitch bidding goodbye to her siblings and racing to stay caught up with Megatron and Optimus. Twitch asks who they're looking for first.

Optimus tells them that the nearest and most recent information they could find was on Deadend. So that's who they're gunning for first. GHOST had discoverd his location but never got a chance to follow up on the lead.

They were going to New Jersey.

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Hashtag brings the database up back at the dugout as the group looks at the lists of thousands of transformers.

Robbie takes charge and asks Hashtag if she and Nightshade were able to implement any kind of filters on the database. She responds negatively. They have the search engine, and can manually flip through the files, but thats about as far as they got programming wise.

Schloder points out that they DO have something. Him and Ratchet!

Ratchet is an experienced medic whose seen more bots in his life than anyone else, and he has extensively knowledge on various decepticons. Between them they should be able to help narrow down who the red transformers Jawbreaker saw was.

Ratchet is not as enthusiastic. He points out that a new paint job isn't exactly difficult to obtain. Besides which not all of GHOSTs information was up to date. For all they know the "red" cybertronian Jawbreaker saw could have changed colors five times by now. Or more.

Jawbreaker gives a disappointed, "Oh."

Mo suggests they try and help jog Jawbreakers memories. Maybe if they redo what they were doing when he saw the picture the first time around it might bring something back.

Ratchet tries to disregard the idea but Schloder is all in and the kids are already trying to figure out where everyone was standing at the time. It becomes increasingly clear Ratchet is going to get roped into pretending to explain Combiners again. He starts wishing he'd gone with Bumblebee or Optimus.

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In an abandoned car factory we find a shadowy motormaster talking to someone about any progress they've made.

The other responds that he's managed to get the general location of all of the stunticons, but warns that although GHOST is gone the autobots are still absolutely at large and likely looking for all the escaped decepticons.

Motormaster disregards this. Telling the other that he's just making excuses, and demands to know where the others are.

The other scoffs and sarcastically asks if hes that eager to go back into stasis.

Motormaster responds by asking whose fault they think it is that he was put into stasis in the first place.

The other (its clearly knock out but i like playing up the shadowy unseen person trope so let me be coy) sarcastically asks if its really HIS fault that he went on a rampage and nearly ran him and a bunch of other cons over.

Motormaster replies in the affirmative. Tearing into the other for allowing his "family" to get torn apart. Insisting that if the stunticons had not been disbanded, they could have torn Megatron apart the moment he defected and won the war.

THe other just sighs, clearly having heard all this before, and warns that be that as it may, they can't form Menasor. Not yet. Not until they find the stunticons and convince them to rejoin the "family". After that nobody will be able to hurt them and they can do whatever they want.

Motormaster laughs and suggests that as a reward for their help, the other (knockout) could form Menasors "posh little red hat" and bursts into further laughter.

The other gives a sarcastic "ha. ha. ha." before refocusing on a map and a pile of rigged up technology.

((

*So after doing some research Knock Outs alt mode in Prime is maaaaybe based off an Aston Martin? But going off a wiki page I found here, the make and model wasn't available until, like, 2009. But doing some math it looks like the war must've ended around 2008 in the Earthspark universe, and since this flashback probably takes place in the early 2000's at the earliest I decided Knock Out would probably have had a different alt mode. But since I'm dumb about automobiles I more or less picking sports cars at random. So KO gets a Corvette alt mode in the early 2000s because it was the first one I thought of and also a reference to the song "Little Red Corvette" because why not? He probably changes to a different sports car every couple of years. Lets face it, Knockout probably changes alt modes like humans change clothes.

))

[cutekittenlady]

Have more random headcanons for my earthspark kobd summary fic ideas and speculations. Largely just throwing it out into the internet to feel productive lol. Specifically about the stunticons.

Starting with Dragstrip.

So my version of earthspark dragstrip is a girl. They made her a girl in animated and tbh I think the stunticons having at least one girl on the team is fun.

As in a number of versions Dragstrip is the most loyal to Motormaster and frequently acts to win his approval and at his behest.

Shes the youngest member of the stunticons just behind Breakdown.

She legitimately views the stunticons as her 'family' and the others as her brothers. She doesnt call Motormaster "dad" but the way she acts with him definitely casts him as a kinda fill in father figure for her that shes desperate to please.

Because Breakdown is closest to her in age shes arguably closer to him than she is with Wildrider and Deadend. Sadly the feeling isn't really fully mutual as Dragstrip method of 'joking around' with her 'bro' involves tearing him down with insults, getting physically rough with him, etc. She has genuinely never considered that her behavior has made Breakdown believes she hates him.

Dragstrip is largely like this because she was born/came to be literally right before the war got started. As in she had, maybe, a few years TOPS of "normal" protoform development before getting dragged into the war. The civil war, the decepticons, and being a part of the stunticons has literally been her entire life and once the war on earth was brought to an end she was largely left desiring a return to what had previously been 'normal' for her. Its notable that the state of things for decepticons on Earth hasn't really helped any as she hardly has any real options for learning what a life of peace would even mean as she was chased and eventually imprisoned.

When the stunticons were disbanded she was reassigned to a strike force working under starscream where she saw little success as none of the other members had any patience for her attitude. She was punished and sent to the brig for insubordination more than once before the end of the war.

DeadEnd

If Dragstrip and Breakdown are the "kids" of the stunticons, and Motormaster is their leader/boss/master/"dad" then Deadend is the depressed weary uncle with an art degree he hasn't been able to use.

I like to think Deadends depressive and pessimistic attitude is largely sourced from a rough lower class background in Kaon, millions of years of non-stop war, and especially his losing faith in the decepticon cause. For a time "the cause" was the only thing that gave him any hope of his life improving.

Ironically he probably gets on the best with Motormaster out of all the stunticons. Though that doesnt protect him from motormasters abuse.

He and Motormaster are probably the 'brains' of the outfit so to speak. With Deadend being the more strategic one who tends to help come up with the plans for the group. Hes not a strategic genius by a longshot but amongst the stunticons hes more or less defaulted as the most analytical member. Despite not holding a candle to any of the wars actual military minds.

Amongst the stunticons he probably spends most of the time with Wildrider. The two have little to nothing in common and in truth Deadend finds him irritating. However he still suffers his companionship because hes the only member of the team who isn't "the boss" (motormaster) or "some kid" (breakdown and dragstrip).

After the stunticons were disbanded he was reassigned to the Decepticons communications division under soundwave where he actually did pretty alright but the other decepticons quickly lost patience with his dower attitude.

Wildrider

Wildriders a difficult one to come up with headcanons for initially because his love of destruction and "busting stuff up" kinda comes off as a bit one note. I'm still giving it a shot.

I think like Deadend, Wildrider also one of many decepticons from Kaon. Though in his case i think I could easily say hes a former gladiator from Kaon much like Megatron was.

Gonna take this a bit farther and say that Wildrider and Deadend were some of the earlier decepticon recrutis. Joining up back when it was a class uprising.

I'd say wildriders over the top love for violence may come from his gladiator days and the fact that he feels his ability to inflict violence is the only real thing hes good at.

As mentioned amongst DeadEnds headcanons, Wildrider hangs out most with Deadend. For Wildrider this is largely due to their similar background and the fact that theyre the same age. The best way I can describe their relationship is as reluctant drinking buddies. Two guys who hang out purely because they can only really relate to each other.

Once the stunticons were disbanded he was sent to the front lines of the war during the most destructive battles. He loved it. 10/10. Would go again.

Motormaster

Lets face it. Motormaster acts just like a mob boss. Thats why, in my mind, Motormaster has a history as an organized criminal on Cybertron which is how he picked up his skills in finding peoples weaknesses (or as he calls them "levers")

His connections with Cybertrons criminal underbelly is probably why the decepticons recruited him. Or otherwise Motormaster joined the decepticons in the hopes that it'd get him more influence/power.

In "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" I AM kinda characterizing MM as the evil villain/abuser. Its not super nuanced and its tropey as hell I know but it makes the story easier to write. Its not like Motormaster CANT have a complicated history or a more sympathetic characterization, but i dont think this will be the fic for that.

As mentioned in another headcanon post of mine, Motormaster uses the idea of the stunticons being a "family" to control its members. Especially breakdown and dragstrip when they first joined up. He used his position as the "family head" to justify everything from bullying and bossing the stunticons around to invading their privacy and controlling various aspects of their lives. Something that was incredibly easy given their bond as a combiner team and his role as their commanding officer during the war.

The most sympathetic headcanon I can come up with for Motormaster at the moment is that, just like Soundwave and many of the other decepticons, he was genuinely very loyal to Megatron and his goals. (Though is it headcanon if you can find plenty of evidence for it in the canon). This previous loyalty is why he wants to reform Menasor specifically to defeat Megatron after Knock Out breaks him out of prison. Since he was in stasis for much of the time after the war, Megatrons perceived betrayal is still very much a fresh wound for Motormaster. In fact, chances are high that when Motormaster finally interacts with Megatron again he's going to be taken aback by how much Megatron isn't the Megatron he knew which is only going to strengthen his desire to kill him. Rationalizing it to himself as just a necessary afterthought after the man he knew already "died".

Motormaster did try to accept Megatrons orders for the stunticons to be disbanded. Out of respect for the man if nothing else. But flew into a rage after finding out Breakdown was reassigned to work under Knock Out, the one who had gotten the group disbanded in the first place. Accusing the medic of doing this exclusively tor rub rust in the wound (He was right) he deliberately tried to run Knock Out over in vehicle mode forcing Megatron to subdue him and have him put into stasis.

Breakdowns not here due to me having a lot of dedicated BDKO headcanons before this post.