#cemetery wind

[rorythehedgehog]

MECH, G.H.O.S.T. and Cemetery Wind: “Do you really thing you can beat us?”

TFO Optimus Prime: “Not me, for sure. But they can!” He points at the TFO Thirteen Primes beating and tearing apart Quintesson soldiers.

The Thirteen Primes come in the direction of the human units: “So… we heard how you were treating Cybertronians. Do you want to talk about it?”

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Yes. The TFO Thirteen Primes found out about some human organizations chasing, killing and experimenting on Cybertronians. Autobots and Decepticons from those universes don't interfere because it's better not to deal with angry Primes.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime

How did Tyran cluster's Howlback fight Bumblebee? What kind of mission was she on?

Dear Retro Reconnaissance,

Following the battle at Half Dome, Soundwave and Bumblebee clashed several more times throughout the early ‘90s. During that time, Soundwave disguised himself as a van, and was experimenting with subtler means of manipulating human minds than direct blackmail. In Detroit, together with his Pretender partner, Doombox, he infiltrated the techno scene, promoting his shows on the nascent worldwide web, and using a combination of music, psychedelics, and hypnosis to influence the behaviour of club goers. From there, he began distributing mini-cassettes to susceptible individuals with government connections, hoping to gain access to isolated federal networks. Bumblebee was able to uncover and dismantle the scheme, thanks to the help of Dairu and Zauru—but with exception of Garboil, all of Soundwave’s minions were able to escape, amongst the dozens of tapes being copied and circulated within the subculture.

Bumblebee finally settled the score with Soundwave during the Battle of Chicago, turning the tables right as the Decepticon was about to execute him. In the aftermath, the Autobots were forced back into hiding, but Bumblebee nevertheless continued to protect humanity from the shadows. While on the road, the Autobots tracked a Decepticon energy signature to Silicon Valley. There, Doombox had leveraged his Princeton connections to get in on the ground floor of a music streaming startup, and had secured a small data centre. It turned out that, before his death, Soundwave had spent years seeding the internet with viruses, tiny shell scripts that each contained some fraction of his own programming. And in a data center at the heart of the Bay Area, industrial servers were collecting and processing petabytes of concert recordings, music reviews, playlists, listening data, mashups, and the lingering consciousness of a digital ghost. Disguised as smartphones, Howlback, Buzzsaw, and Frenzy (who had escaped Seymour Simmons’ basement after the ex-agent’s rather hasty emigration to Cuba) were able to totally control the actions of the company’s founders, and Bumblebee had no way of reaching them without breaking cover. But when it became clear that they intended to turn the entire city into a new body for their master, he convinced Ratchet to help him destroy the data using an EMP blast. It was during this altercation that Howlback fought Bumblebee one-on-one, seeking revenge for Garboil, Ravage, Laserbeak, and of course Soundwave—in her UAV mode, she had him effectively pinned down, until a reckless dive-bomb brought her within reach of his new energon axe. After that, he was able to keep Frenzy and Buzzsaw busy just long enough for Ratchet to wipe the last traces of Soundwave from existence.

Alas, this brief exposure was what ultimately allowed Cemetery Wind to track down and murder Ratchet, with Lockdown’s help. As for Doombox… well, startups come and go. With access to such a heady mix of personal data, cryptocurrency, nootropics, and warm bodies, I cannot imagine he found it difficult to steal a new identity, slip into a life that was waiting for him and his cronies. Rumor has it that they are creating new life, in Silicon Valley… a form of life designed not to live on that planet, but on the next.

[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

What were Daniel Witwicky, Shawn Berger, and Dr. Fujiyama/Hamada like at Tyran cluster?

Dear Human Ally,

“Daniel” is actually an old Witwicky family name. Archibald Witwicky had an older brother named Daniel who tragically died fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. Herbert Witwicky would consequently name one of his sons Daniel in his honor, though he didn’t quite live up to his namesake’s legacy, ending up as a failed stand-up comedian-turned-Burger House manager. Still, he was always a highlight at Witwicky family reunions for the younger members of the family, particularly for the mischief he would get up to with his nephews Sam and Butch, the latter whom he affectionately called “Buster.” After the Battle of Chicago, Buster married his high-school sweetheart Jessie and they had their own son Daniel, named in honor of his great-uncle. The rise of Cemetery Wind soon put a target on most of the Witwicky family due to their affiliations with the Autobots, and Buster was forced to go into hiding alongside his partner Backfire to protect his family. Still a baby when his father left, Daniel heard stories about him from his mother and is now determined to find out what became of him following Cemetery Wind’s dissolution.

Shawn Berger was a human collaborator of the Decepticons in the 1980s. Through his cutthroat business practices in real estate markets and on Wall Street, he helped move money around to finance the Decepticons’ numerous machinations over the decades. Berger also had political aspirations, which were thankfully never realized once he had outlived his usefulness and was killed by Laserbeak.

Dr. Hamada Fujiyama was a scientist studying Transformium for Kinetic Solutions Incorporated. He was instrumental in the development of their Transformer program and personally assisted in the creation of Galvatron. After their creations rebelled, Fujiyama was thrown under the bus and fired by the company. Before leaving, however, he stole a sample of Transformium for himself, planning to continue his research alone.

[askvectorprime]

Hello!

I was curious about something in the Bayverse movies. How did Brains lose his leg? During the ship crash, or was the leg ripped off when KSI took him?

Dear Limbic Learner,

As the climactic Battle of Chicago reached its end, Wheelie and Brains crash-landed in the Chicago River, where their purloined starship swiftly sank—while Wheelie struggled to shore, Brains was swept downstream and emerged far from the main battleground. Unaware that humanity had turned against the Cybertronians, Brains spent the next few months on his own, futilely trying to re-establish contact with NEST and the other Autobots.

After six months of living alone, Brains picked up an Autobot distress signal emanating from a nearby park. Believing that he’d found another survivor of the battle, he moved to investigate—but promptly blundered into a booby trap, deliberately left by Cemetery Wind operatives as part of a “sweep and clear” approach to flushing out any remaining Cybertronian stragglers. With his leg pinned in an electrically charged snare, with armed soldiers and helicopters closing on his position, Brains had no other choice but to gnaw his own leg off in a desperate bid for freedom; while the gambit succeeded, he could only hobble a few hundred yards before he was scooped up and shipped off to Kinetic Solutions Incorporated.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, how did Wheelie survived the Battle of Chicago? Last we saw him, he and Brains were trapped inside a Decepicon cruiser as it crashed. Five years later, the Autobots found Brains forced to work for KSI. He looked worse for wear and maybe going through survivors guilt. Then in the Last Knight, Wheelie is miraculously alive.

Dear Chicago Chicanery,

During the ship's crash, the pair managed to swim to safety. However, after an encounter with a rather large fish, the frightened pair got split up. Brains was recovered by a NEST team that was eventually subsumed by Cemetery Wind, who turned him over to KSI. Wheelie, meanwhile, hit his head on some masonry, and slept in stasis lock for about two years until he woke back up.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, would you like to tell us more about DOTM Big Hoss?

Dear Macho Minder,

I would much rather not, but very well.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but he represented the worst of what some might call "Autobots in name only"—the only reason he was not a Decepticon was that he thought of them as losers. He cared nothing for protecting humanity or other species, was rude to everyone he met, and had a single-minded obsession with his weaponry. He followed Optimus Prime only because Prime gave him access to a large assortment of weapons; Big Hoss was particularly taken by the Mega Striker cannons, thanks to his “bigger is better” philosophy.

In the end, his guns weren’t enough to save him from Cemetery Wind, who used his frankly astonishing vocabulary and willingness to cause collateral damage in their propaganda for years to come—with his Autobot insignia in full display.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, would you mind telling us what Dino is up to in these times? Between his apparent avoidance of being hunted by Cemetery Wind and never joining up with Optimus’ Autobot team I am worried of his well-being. Much thanks.

Dear Dino Delver,

In the days that followed the Battle of Chicago, Dino was one of the Autobots stationed at NEST headquarters when Cemetery Wind launched their first ambush on the unprepared Autobots inside. The humans had underestimated his speed and cunning, however, and Dino managed to evade the villains. In the months that followed, he did what he did best and stayed one step ahead of them—he misdirected them with holograms, set up embarrassing booby traps for his pursuers to blunder into, and generally made himself an expensive, resource-draining nuisance; the more men they committed, the less they had to track down other Autobot fugitives.

By the time that Lockdown arrived on Earth, Dino had already fled the country by hitching a ride aboard a northbound freight train and smuggling himself to Canada. He spent the subsequent three years lying low on an abandoned farm somewhere in northern Saskatchewan after first shedding his flashy, overly conspicuous vehicle mode in favor of something better suited for the local environment.

[ensignauthoress]

I had a dream last night where Cemetery Wind came to my family's farm and demanded to have a look at the hay bales we've gathered for our horses to eat over the winter. Dad and I went over to the hay bales with Savoy and his goons, and a couple of men started to peel hay from one of the bales. But what was weird was that the hay that came off of that bale ended up not being hay, but somehow became black industrial foam.

I looked at this weird phenominon for a little bit, vaguely wondering why the Cemetery Wind guys working on the supposed 'hay' weren't questioning why the hay wasn't hay but instead foam. But then my dad made this pit-awful groan that instantly alerted me that something was wrong with him. I turned to look at him, just in time to watch him keel over and fall onto his back. I cried "Dad!" and rushed over to him. I slid to my knees and leaned over him, cradling his head.

Somehow I knew he was dying, and I was pleading with him to not to. I eventually began to yell at him.

And then, after a blink, the Cemetery Wind guys disappeared and I was suddenly standing on the deck that runs along the front of my house. The deck is big and doesn't have railings yet, so I felt quite exposed.

Suddenly, Crosshairs of all bots appears, standing next to the deck like he wasn't bothered that I was human and that he probably doesn't trust the human race yet after the events prior to and in Age of Extinction. But then he starts talking to me about things I can't really believe are leaving his mouth, slowly pacing the length of the deck, back and forth, as he did so.

And then, for some

reason, I come to the conclusion that Crosshairs is somehow my dad and that he had always been a Cybertronian???

It was a really weird dream, but it was also really cool :3

(also, according to him, I was also a Cybertronian, and that my spark could be transferred to a Cybertronian frame if I wished).