Is there a universe in which Twincast was an active clone of Blaster?
From an early age, Shockwave had been fascinated by cloning technology; in the past, Exarchon had used his fascination with this forbidden science to deliberately lure him over to the Threefold Spark when the mad warmonger attempted to conquer Cybertron, and their joint experiments yielded Soundblaster and many Skywarp clones.
In the immediate aftermath of the battle of Darkmount, which ended with Optimus Prime and many of the Autobots fleeing Cybertron aboard the Ark, the Decepticons turned their attention to imposing some kind of order in the territories they controlled. However, Megatron’s nascent movement lacked the manpower they required to effectively maintain martial law, and the Decepticons had suffered heavy casualties in the final battle against the Autobots. With the Pyramid out of commission, Megatron ordered Shockwave to reactivate his mothballed cloning program in the hope of mass-producing a temporary wave of “stopgap soldiers” until the Decepticons could return the building to functionality.
With the assistance of Soundblaster, Shockwave returned to his laboratory and embarked on a fresh wave of cloning experiments. In addition to creating a new cohort of Seeker clones, he obtained samples of Blaster’s CNA and used them to produce “Twincast”, who would hopefully support Iacon’s communications facilities; further experimentation yielded “Magnificus”, a scientist who emerged from his cloning chamber with all of Perceptor’s theories and papers pre-loaded into his mind and was tasked with restoring the Pyramid to full functionality. However, while Magnificus was content to be a loyal cog in the machine, Twincast quickly grew beyond his initial programming and came to doubt his place in the Deception war machine. Before long, Twincast abandoned the Decepticons and vanished from the grid, using his own subsonic signals to mask his energy signature; when he next surfaced, it was as a member of Elita-1’s resistance movement, where he helped to battle the tyrannical order he’d been created to uphold.
