Verity Carlo

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:''Verity Carlo is a [[human]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[Image:Veritycarlo.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Rare moment of not doing wild takes.]]
Make no mistake; '''Verity Carlo''' is intelligent, nimble, resourceful, self-reliant and cunning. Problem is, she likes to think she's tougher, smarter and has more guts than pretty much everyone else. It's a good part of what allows her to maintain her rootless teen-aged existence hitch-hiking across the [[United States of America|United States]], living on theft and what little kindness she receives from strangers (although two mace sprays nestled in her backpack attest to how little she's willing to trust said strangers).

Something happened to Verity when she was a child, though, something that hurt her so badly that she refuses to form a serious bond with anyone or show any sign of fear. It's been with her so long that she abandoned several foster homes and (presumably) welcoming families when she was in her mid-teens. Because of that hurt Verity sees most people as marks, dupes or threats. Fear of getting hurt again keeps her moving when she maybe ought to settle down, and makes her abrasive and superior.

Whether it'll get her killed one day is anyone's guess, but joining the [[Wrecker]]s sure doesn't help.

{{quote|''Fh''. I've not been wanted anywhere, by anyone, since I started crawling. Why should it be any ''different'' this time around?|Verity reacts to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] being a prick|[[Escalation issue 1|''Escalation'' #1]]}}
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==Fiction==
===IDW comics continuity===
[[Image:VerityCarlo thievery MINE.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The inside of her mouth turns white when she lies.]]
While on the run, as usual, Verity had the (mis)fortune of stealing the [[SM-40|palm computer]] of a [[Machination]] agent—a computer she couldn't know mapped out secret [[Decepticon]] bases. After fleeing the bus the two were on and hitching a ride with [[Hunter O'Nion]], the [[Battlecharger]]s and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] pursued the pair, destroying Hunter's bus. Fortunately, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] was nearby, and offered them aid. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 0| Infiltration #0}} They fled to the garage of Verity's friend [[Jimmy Pink]], but they had been followed, and Jimmy was forced to join them on the run. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 1|Infiltration #1}}

[[Image:Infiltration3 VeritySURPRISE.jpg|right|250px|thumb|That's right Bobby! As a woman, I have no testicles!]]
Verity was not content to just wait at [[Autobot]] HQ, though. When the Autobots discovered the Decepticons' abandoned [[Oregon]] base, Verity, Hunter, Jimmy, Ratchet, and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] disobeyed orders in order to reconnoiter it. Verity was almost killed by Decepticons trying to cover their tracks when she went deeper into the base, finding the corpses of people turned into [[Facsimile construct|facsimiles]], and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 4|Infiltration #4}} She went into shock at the sight of Megatron, fear shattering her tough image, and had to be rescued by her friends when the Decepticon base began to collapse and almost buried her alive {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5|Infiltration #5}}, but initially still tried to act unbothered and like she wanted to continue. Hunter had to tell her that in this situation, it was okay to show she was scared. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

[[Image:Infiltration5 VerityMegatron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Ask to be [[Sam Witwicky|his pet]]. You just might live.]]
When the Machination seemingly killed Hunter and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] while under [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime's]] orders to return the humans home, Verity became visibly distraught, despite her "tough girl" personality. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1|Escalation #1}} The hope that Hunter could still be alive compelled her, Jimmy, Ratchet, and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] to break Autobot orders again. Jimmy's mechanic skills and Verity's hacking skills led the quartet to a Machination facility in [[Fort Wayne]], [[Indiana]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 3|Escalation #3}} Verity and Jimmy managed to break into the compound, hidden under an auto parts store. Verity located a strange business card, emblazoned only with an "M". Unfortunately, soon after, the two were knocked out with gas. {{storylink|Escalation issue 4|Escalation #4}} Ironhide and Ratchet managed to save the duo, but at the expense of Ironhide; the facility exploded, severely damaging Ironhide. No one knew it yet, but the unconscious Verity, safe inside Ratchet, was clutching the "M" card. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}

The palm-top which Verity stole was examined by [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and contributed to the Autobots' decision to relocate the ''[[Ark-19]]''. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} Unfortunately, the vessel was shot down by [[Sixshot]]; Ratchet, Verity and Jimmy ejected in an escape pod before the crash. {{storylink|Devastation issue 2|Devastation #2}} Verity was injured by Sixshot's attack, but Ratchet's [[holomatter|avatar]] was able to treat her wounds. Sixshot located the Autobot and his human guests and gave chase. When escape seemed impossible, Ratchet dropped off his human friends for their own protection. {{storylink|Devastation issue 3|Devastation #3}}

[[Image:Hunter_reunion.jpg|right|250px|thumb|After all you've been through Hunter, couldn't they fix your hair?]]
As the other Autobots arrived and battled Sixshot, Verity overheard plans for an all-out human airstrike on the warring parties. She and Jimmy stole a motorboat and police megaphone, using them to warn Ratchet of the incoming strike. With seconds to spare, Ratchet took the two humans along with him as the Autobots escaped via [[Orbital jump|orbital bounce]] to the orbiting ''[[Ark-32]]''. But the process was too traumatic for the humans to endure, leaving them lifeless. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} Ratchet did manage to restore Verity and Jimmy's vital signs, but only after a prolonged flatline whose final effects on the pair were unknown. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} The ''Ark-32'' then left orbit for [[Garrus-9]], apparently with the two humans still aboard. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

Verity and Jimmy apparently survived the ordeal just fine, even getting some new clothes to replace their very smelly [[Earth]] duds. They had a joyful reunion with Hunter after his rescue from the Machination. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}} [[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|Too bad it didn't last]].

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers-Verity.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Transformers meets Dresden Codak.]]
Two years later, Verity began working with the Wreckers and became a valuable member of the crew, handling a variety of duties on the ship's bridge. She also developed an antagonistic relationship with fellow Wrecker [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. She'd been doing this for a year when the mission to reclaim [[Garrus-9]] came up, and she greeted a new batch of rookie Wreckers. [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] responded to her presence with some incredulity, figuring she must be kept around because she was a "good cleaner". Verity mocked his "cyber-sexism" and assured them that she was a valuable asset. En route to Garrus-9, their ship was blocked by a badly damaged Decepticon dropship. Verity, who was manning the ship's computers, noted that the ship was about to explode. It did, but emerging from the remains was a [[Impactor (G1)||familiar face]]... {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}}

At the mission briefing, Kup explained to Verity who Overlord was, at which she was flabbergasted. Later, in defiance of Ultra Magnus going back to Earth, she stowed away in one of the drop pods as it went down to Garrus-9. It crashed into the main prison building on Garrus-9. As Verity emerged from the wreckage in her exo-suit, she was met by Overlord, towering over her... {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2}}

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers3-Verity.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]

Even joined by her "fellow" Wreckers, Verity didn't stand a chance against Overlord. He remorselessly killed Rotorstorm right in front of them, prompting Perceptor to instruct [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] to keep Verity safe while the Wreckers counter-attacked. Unfortunately, Pyro tended to mimic his hero Optimus Prime in appearance, not spirit; after stuffing Verity into his chest cavity, he quickly forgot about her as the Wreckers made their escape. Verity was twisted up inside his chest like no human should be, and she failed to get his attention even by banging constantly to be let out. When Pyro finally remembered his "passenger" and released her, the jerk responded to Verity's complaints by merely scoffing at how fragile humans were. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}

As the Wreckers attempted to secure [[Aequitas]], Perceptor revealed that with none of Garrus-9's personnel left, Aequitas could only be unlocked by the willing donation of a [[spark]]. Once again, Pyro earned Verity's scorn when he had an ego trip about being the same type of mech as Optimus Prime and insisted that he was a better Autobot and Wrecker than [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] because he had done "great things". Verity stingingly retorted that Pyro was no Prime and was barely even an Autobot with his self-centered egotism. However, the issue was decided when [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] stepped up and sacrificed himself to give him and his branched-spark brother [[Twin Twist]] a dignified death. As Verity mourned Topspin's death, Ironfist downloaded the contents of Aequitas into his brain. Soon after he completed the task, a new problem presented itself: The Decepticons were burning down the door to the chamber, and the only way to stop them was to use Aequitas to detonate the [[deterrence chip]] inside the head of every prisoner at G-9, which included Impactor. Pyro and Verity voted against this, but Perceptor stated that her vote didn't count and Ironfist's vote would decide. She scoffed at the idea that Impactor's biggest fanboy would sentence him to death, but to her shock, Ironfist, now with the knowledge of Impactor's crimes, voted to detonate the chips. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}}

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers5- Ironfistaneurism.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"And he owed Verity money".]]

Verity argued vigorously against setting off the deterrence chips, and finally convinced Perceptor to rescind his idea. Instead, Pyro volunteered to sacrifice himself, buying precious time for the others to run free. They made it outside and joined Springer against Overlord, causing the Phase Sixer tremendous damage...but he still kept coming. In the end, it was Verity who delivered the most crushing blow of all against Overlord: the fact that Megatron was already dead. Unlike Overlord, his great and terrible nemesis had gone on with his campaigns without a backwards glance. To him, Overlord had been nothing more than a distasteful moment in time. The beating Impactor gave him after that was hardly necessary — Overlord was defeated in his own mind already.

In the aftermath, the few survivors made it back to Ultra Magnus, and Verity finally returned to Earth. Ironfist, the Wrecker she had grown closest to, died on the way to Earth. One of his own [[cerebro-centric bullet]]s had been making its way through his head since before the mission even began, and his number finally came up. As she went back to her normal life, Verity chronicled the final volume of ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'' for Ironfist, number 332 in a 4-issue limited series. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}} She still has one last thing to remember Ironfist by: a second backup he took of the Aequitas trials, given to her for safe-keeping. {{storylink|In Word and Deed}}

==Items of note==
*In ''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|issue 1]], Verity sports a small green alien head tattoo on the back of her right shoulder, in memory of her late friend [[Hunter O'Nion]], who wore an "Alien Death Ray" shirt with a similar head on it throughout ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]''.
*In ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|issue 2]], Verity is seen having a photo of herself, [[Hunter O'Nion]] and [[Jimmy Pink]] in their ''Infiltration''-era clothes, acting goofy. One could say they never really had time to have such a picture taken, but the Autobots ''did'' have a camera trained on them while they had the three in custody.
* At the end of ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|issue 5]], Verity is seen owning a book by or about renowned British poet [[Wikipedia:Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]].

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