After the team located the Dark Spark, they are interrupted by Sideswipe and Ironhide who take the Dark Spark and retreat. They accepted the offer and the four of them returned to Starscream, Soundwave, and Laserbeak. After defeating the two of them Shockwave allows the trio a chance to live by joining the Decepticons. After a brief fight, Shockwave defeats Hardshell and is attacked by Kickback and Sharpshot. As the trio searched for the Dark Spark, Shockwave split up from his allies and located Hardshell. Shockwave was tasked alongside Soundwave and Starscream to locate and bring the Dark Spark to Megatron. Shockwave was indeed defeated, and somewhat reluctantly joined the Decepticon ranks. Shockwave challenged Megatron and his troops to a fight, saying if they beat him, he'd join their ranks. Shockwave was at the Energon Purification zone when the Decepticons had used it for their stores of Energon. Note: Shockwave was available as a downloadable content character. He ordered Shockwave to rebuild Cybertron and enslave the remaining Autobots. Shockwave promised Megatron that Cybertron would remain as he left it, the notion of which Megatron chastised. Shockwave remained on Cybertron in command of the Decepticons, while Megatron left with his elite soldiers on the Nemesis to pursue the Autobot Ark. Shockwave also used the Sparks of those killed in the capture to turn Trypticon into a Decepticon, able to spawn drones and Minicons in its corridors. Shockwave later subjected the two subjects to a deprivation study, and found it necessary to muzzle them as the duo agonized as a result of Dark Energon's absence in their bodies. When the Decepticons captured Trypticon Station, Shockwave oversaw two of Starscream's scientists ingest Dark Energon: the powerful result activated a security gyro-inhibitor charge which rendered Shockwave unconscious. He quelled dissent in both cities by requesting Vos' Air Commanders photon missile strike Tarn, for which he claimed the Autobots were responsible, and then had a photon missile strike (of supposedly unknown origin) ordered on Vos, killing the Air Commanders whose true loyalty lay with Starscream. Autobot sympathizers became fodder for experiments, while Shockwave's forces conquered Vos. Shockwave set up a laboratory in the ruins but was ordered to take command of the newly conquered city state Tarn. Megatron recognized two things about Shockwave: that he was bereft of any morality or ethics, and that while he was his most loyal ally aside from Soundwave, he would turn on him one day.ĭuring the Autobot-Decepticon war, Shockwave perfected his experiments with the Constructicons, creating a Devastator which was unleashed on Crystal City. He continued his combination experiments with the three Insecticons, whom Megatronus bested in combat: it was in this match that the crowd chanted a shorter name for the gladiator, Megatron. Shockwave moved to Kaon, becoming a surgeon for the gladiators, where he met Megatronus. There he began his combiner experiments, creating Bruticus Maximus, whose lack of intelligence in combined form made him a danger to friend and foe, and he was put in stasis lock. He was one of the scientists whose innovations allowed the mass production of stressed-crystal material used to build Crystal City. Shockwave was a scientist who lived on the fringes of Cybertronian society, admitting to Orion Pax he knew little of Iacon. Thankfully, Megatron's more practical nature reined in Shockwave as the movement which became the Decepticons finally moved out of the shadows. Serving as Megatron's 'pet mad scientist' and second-in-command, he saw to the fighter's armament during his rise to prominence, all the while fantasizing on the prospect of mass-producing such warriors. In a reversal of the usual order, he was swayed by the ambitions of the former mining caste member turned gladiator Megatron.

Shockwave was a member of the scientist caste in the industrial city of Kaon.

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