Shockwave

Shockwave is a brilliant Decepticon scientist and a former member of the scientist caste in the industrial city of Kaon. In a reversal of the usual order, he was swayed by the ambitions of the former mining caste member turned gladiator Megatron. Serving as Megatron's "pet mad scientist" and a joint second-in-command of the Decepticon forces, along with Starscream and Soundwave, he saw to the fighter's armament during his rise to prominence, all the while fantasizing on the prospect of mass producing such warriors by taking damaged Decepticons and turning them into super-soldiers. Thankfully, Megatron's more practical nature reined in Shockwave as the movement which became the Decepticons finally moved out of the shadows. He is available in DLC 1.

Biography[]

Voice actor: Steven Blum (English)

Shockwave is emotionless and detached from others, which allows him to use pure logic in order to further his own plans. Experimenting with Space bridge technology, Shockwave is able to open portals to other worlds and extract images of native lifeforms. He's known for using his scientific knowledge to reformat prisoners of war into hideous abominations.

War for Cybertron[]

Shockwave was at the Energon Purification zone when the Decepticons had used it for their stores of Energon. Shockwave challenged Megatron and his troops to a fight, saying if they beat him, he'd join their ranks. Shockwave was indeed defeated, and somewhat reluctantly joined the Decepticon ranks.

Rise of the Dark Spark[]

During this time which is between wfc and foc, shockwave was traveling in the ruins of an ancient autobot city. Accompanied with starscream and soundwave, were assigned by megatron to retrieve the dark spark from an old cypertronian vault. Once they have entered the vault. They had to deal with waves of insecticons. Shockwave then decided to put a stop to the infestation and went to the upper levels of the vault which he had his first encounter with the insecticons hardshell, sharpshot and kickback. He found the treo fascinating since they are primitive lifeforms but they took his fascinations of describing them as an insult. After they were defeated, Shockwave offered a choice for them to join the decepticons instead of being terminated which they soon agreed to. After regrouping with soundwave and starscream. Shockwave had the group split up to find and shut down the security system to the vault. When they took down the defenses, they entered the room where the dark spark is being held only to see the autobots ironhide and sideswipe take it away. They had escaped with the dark spark and the decepticons were trapped in the room with laserbeak having to find a way out of it. Shortly after when Shockwave and Soundwave escaped while followed the autobots trail, Shockwave then was moving through a crash site of a autobot transport which He found optimus and the other autobots regrouped from the crash. Sharpshot had found shockwave and told him the dark spark was located somewhere in a different direction. Shockwave seemed egred and had sharpshot lead they way to it. When they left the rubble of the crash, ironhide had the dark spark guarded but got easily defeated. Ironhide tried to stay standing but shockwave karate kicked him out of the way and took the dark spark. After they finally left the area and made it to the sea of rust. The combaticons onslaught, vortex and swindle found them and were ordered to escort shockwave and the dark spark to kaon. Soon shockwave had to travel to kaon through the sea of rust with sharpshot and swindle which swindle didn't seem to like sharpshot that much with the dark spark. After an encounter with cliffjumper, they made it to the gates of kaon but there was an autobot ambush at the gates. Shockwave and swindle had to make their way to the gates with the rest of the combaticons and then combined and formed bruticus to defeat the autobot forces. Before they could enter the gates, autobot cliffjumper made a surprise attack trying to plant a detpack on bruticus which he failed. Shockwave then left laughing with bruticus holding cliffjumper hostage into kaon. When optimus prime finally made it into kokollar. Shockwave had build a machine that was hooked up to the dark spark which megatron had him invent. Megatron then had shockwave turn the machine on which drawed energy from the dark spark and used the energy on a few dead autobot troopers. That power ended up bring the dead troopers back to life but into zombie like decepticons that say "hail lord megatron!". Optimus soon destroyed the machine and faced off with megatron using both the matrix and dark spark fight against each other. The matrix ended up defeating the dark spark causing it to blast out of megatron and into deep space. Shockwave they help assist the weaker megatron out of the room for repairs and that's the rest we see of shockwave in this game which at this point, he most likely will begin experiment and studying the insecticons for foc.

Fall of Cybertron[]

When Cybertron was beginning to shut down, Shockwave wanted to reboot it, but to do this, he needed an energon supply. A big one. As he searched for one, he discovered an ancient technology called Space Bridges. Using them, Shockwave began searching for new planets that he could suck the life out of, one of which happens to be Prehistoric Earth. Seeing potential in the large reptilian creatures and insects that inhabit the planet, he returned to Cybertron and experimented on five captured autobots, giving them new forms based on the reptiles and lowered intelligence to be controlled more easily. With this success, Shockwave also upgraded several Decepticons based on the insects he saw. Naturally, the so-called Dinobots broke free and trashed Shockwave's lab. Despite the chaos being caused, Shockwave considered this a test, and monitored Grimlock closely. Much later, Grimlock had attempted to attack Shockwave at the Space Bridge, but he was quickly restrained. Shockwave taunted Grimlock, calling him a pet, which enraged Grimlock enough for him to transform into his Tyrannosaurus mode and attack Shockwave. Grimlock knocked Shockwave away with his tail, and began making his escape as the Space Bridge reached critical mass.

Abilites and Weapons[]

Shockwave carries a Neutron Assault Rifle, has the abilities Hover and Shockwave, and is a Scientist chassis.