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Windblade (Cyberverse)

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

[[File:AwakenSleepingGiants-TheArk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Nothing could ruin this moment, except maybe a group of decepticons.]]

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:TheVisitor-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A typical day on the Ark.]]

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

[[File:Cyberverse Starsceams Children Windblade swarmed by scraplets.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"I'll admit, not my best plan."]]

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

[[File:Cyberverse-GhostTown-AllSparkPower.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey guys! Glad you came, I want to introduce my new friend!"]]

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

[[File:Cyberverse Battle For Cybertron Part 4 Windblade kicks Bludgeon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Yes, he [[Unspace|died]] from this.]]

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

[[File:Cyberverse The Alliance Maccadam saves Windblade.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Maccadam will allow no heroic sacrifices today.]]

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

[[File:Cyberverse The End Of The Universe Part 4 Windblade frees Croaton.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Remember to hit the glowing weak spots.]]

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

[[File:Cyberverse EnemyLine.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Not the [[Rubicon|first]] time she's ended up in a coma after saving Cybertron.]]

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

[[File:Cyberverse Dweller in the Depths Possessed Windblade.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Even Iaconus was friendlier than this.]]

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

[[File:Cyberverse TheOtherOne Ending.jpg|thumb|left|300px|All's well that ends well, at least until new episodes need to be made.]]

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

[[File:AwakenSleepingGiants-TheArk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Nothing could ruin this moment, except maybe a group of decepticons.]]

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:TheVisitor-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A typical day on the Ark.]]

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

[[File:Cyberverse Starsceams Children Windblade swarmed by scraplets.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"I'll admit, not my best plan."]]

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

[[File:Cyberverse-GhostTown-AllSparkPower.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey guys! Glad you came, I want to introduce my new friend!"]]

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

[[File:Cyberverse Battle For Cybertron Part 4 Windblade kicks Bludgeon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Yes, he [[Unspace|died]] from this.]]

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

[[File:Cyberverse The Alliance Maccadam saves Windblade.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Maccadam will allow no heroic sacrifices today.]]

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

[[File:Cyberverse The End Of The Universe Part 4 Windblade frees Croaton.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Remember to hit the glowing weak spots.]]

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

[[File:Cyberverse EnemyLine.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Not the [[Rubicon|first]] time she's ended up in a coma after saving Cybertron.]]

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

[[File:Cyberverse Dweller in the Depths Possessed Windblade.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Even Iaconus was friendlier than this.]]

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

[[File:Cyberverse TheOtherOne Ending.jpg|thumb|left|300px|All's well that ends well, at least until new episodes need to be made.]]

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

[[File:AwakenSleepingGiants-TheArk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Nothing could ruin this moment, except maybe a group of decepticons.]]

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:TheVisitor-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A typical day on the Ark.]]

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

[[File:Cyberverse Starsceams Children Windblade swarmed by scraplets.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"I'll admit, not my best plan."]]

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

[[File:Cyberverse-GhostTown-AllSparkPower.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

[[File:Cyberverse Battle For Cybertron Part 4 Windblade kicks Bludgeon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Yes, he [[Unspace|died]] from this.]]

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

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With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

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The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

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In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

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Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

[[File:Cyberverse TheOtherOne Ending.jpg|thumb|left|300px|All's well that ends well, at least until new episodes need to be made.]]

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

[[File:AwakenSleepingGiants-TheArk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Nothing could ruin this moment, except maybe a group of decepticons.]]

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:TheVisitor-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A typical day on the Ark.]]

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

[[File:Cyberverse-GhostTown-AllSparkPower.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

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In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot:

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

[[File:AwakenSleepingGiants-TheArk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Nothing could ruin this moment, except maybe a group of decepticons.]]

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:TheVisitor-Grimlock.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A typical day on the Ark.]]

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

[[File:AwakenSleepingGiants-TheArk.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Nothing could ruin this moment, except maybe a group of decepticons.]]

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

[[File:Cyberverse The Visitor Grimlock and Windblade.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A typical day on the Ark.]]

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot: added information for episode the perfect decepticon

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{{disambig3|Windblade}}
:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

When [[Astrotrain (Cyberverse)|Astrotrain]] warned the cybertronians of a threat worse than the other Megatron, the leaders of cybertron - including Windblade - discussed what to do. Windblade left this meeting at some point, but later called Optimus to tell him Cybertron was under attack. However, the situation was more complicated as the invading bots - Megatron's [[Decepticon supersoldier|perfect decepticons]] - were only attacking each other. The autobots made the first attempt to stop the fighting. Windblade received a force shield blaster to use for this, as well as dropping [[Gravity modulator|gravity modulators]] on the bots. The decepticons's attempt also failed, and the next solution was one offered by [[Tarn (Cyberverse)|Tarn]], one of the perfect decepticons who claimed to be different. Instead he betrayed the cybertronians and declared that the decepticons and autobots were at war once more. Windblade struggled to fight the perfect decepticons together with Hot Rod and the [[Dinobot (Cyberverse)|Dinobots]]. She called for a retreat and left with Hot Rod while the dinobots held off the perfect decepticons. The autobots were able to gather and create a plan to defeat Tarn. Wheeljack equipped everyone with the same teleporters used by the perfect decepticons. Windblade used this to teleport into the arena where Tarn was about to deactivate Optimus and blew Tarn away with her fans. The autobots and decepticons all gathered to fight Tarn and his army. During the battle, Teletraan-X even helped Windblade - though it still called her not-crew. Eventually Soundwave sacrificed himself to stop Tarn. Later Hot Rod gave a speech at Maccadam's in Soundwave's honor. Afterwards Windblade joined Optimus and Bumblebee outside and mentioned she wanted to visit Caminus with Chromia. Optimus then talked about his own plans to simply enjoy the peace, entrusting the leadership of Cybertron to Hot Rod, Windblade, Bumblebee, and Shadow Striker. The group then hugs.{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot: added information for episode matrix of leadership

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

Bumblebee was not happy about leaving Windblade behind. After talking to Teletraan-X and going through some of his memories, he decided that leaving her was a mistake and he would go back for her.{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

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====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Ratchet (Cyberverse)

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{{disambig3|Ratchet}}
:''Ratchet is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseRatchet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|At least ''this'' medic sees healing to be just as rewarding as hurting his foes.]]

Very dedicated and loyal to the Autobot cause, '''Ratchet''' can always be seen patching up his fellow Autobots after battles, and his medical skills make him a very desirable medical officer. However, he can also be ''so'' dedicated to caring for others that he ends up neglecting to care for his ''own'' well-being; often even needing to be reminded of this by his comrades.

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Todd Perlmutter]] (English), [[Yōji Ueda]] (Japanese)|[[Olivier Cuvellier]] (French), [[Stefan Bergel]] (German), [[Claudio Moneta]] (Italian), [[Luis Vicente Ivars]] (Castilian Spanish), [[José Luis Miranda]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e10-Maccadam's-Bumblebee-greets-Ratchet-at-Maccadam's.jpg|300px|thumb|left|"What am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?"]]

Ratchet was present at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] when the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon City]] [[Cube (sport)|Cube]] team won. {{storylink|The Citizen}} However, Ratchet had to rush out of the bar due to a medical emergency, not even having time to say hello to [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Ratchet was present during [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]]'s speech to the masses when he unveiled his Decepticons. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

During the war, Ratchet was a part of a retrieval group sent to extract Bumblebee from what was left of a crashed Energon Tanker. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}} Ratchet later kept [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] asleep but alive, saw [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] rise to [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], and was fetched by [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to tend to [[Prowl (Cyberverse)|Prowl]]. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

Ratchet was among the Autobots who made up the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]'' during their search for the [[AllSpark]]. {{storylink|The Journey}} When [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] found Bumblebee on [[Earth]] speaking through beeps and radio blurbs, she remarked that she had thought Ratchet fixed his voice box. {{storylink|Fractured}}

In a false memory of Shockwave's making, Ratchet celebrated when the AllSpark was stated to be found. However, the mood was soon dropped when Bumblebee sabotaged the engines and paralyzed Wheeljack, ejecting him to keep his cover. Unfortunately, Ratchet caught him in the act, and he watched as Bee ran out hailing Megatron. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Ratchet's stasis pod was seen on the ''Ark'' {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}, and he awoke to a Decepticon attack. Later on, he finally repaired Bee's voicebox this time. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}} Examining Bumblebee after the moon battle, he passed off his [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|"moon creature"]] sighting as a hallucination and later was victim to an overcharged [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]]. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Ratchet was stowing away some Energon canisters and ended up dropping a bunch after being surprised by Cheetor. He sent the cat-bot to try helping Wheeljack, though it began a loop ending with Prowl sending Cheetor back to him. The cat-bot later swiped an Energon canister from him as a part of Bee's scout lessons, which was later used to lure the [[Scraplet]]s to the [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]]s. He later saw Wheeljack take a frozen Scraplet to his lab. {{storylink|Spotted}}

When Optimus Prime was carried back aboard the ''Ark'' after using the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to defeat Starscream, Ratchet correctly surmised that the Autobot leader was not waking up because of something to do with the talisman, as there was physically nothing wrong with him. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

During a party thrown to celebrate their successful recovery of the AllSpark and flight to Cybertron, Ratchet made an Autobot soldier ill with a gruesome story until Grimlock suggested he lighten up a bit. Ratchet was one of the victims of Wheeljack's malfunctioning AllSpark energy emitter badges that flooded his systems with so much energy he went berserk, attacking the other Autobots. When the situation was resolved he, along with the others, were left dispirited until Optimus made a heroic sacrifice and danced, leading to the lightening of the mood and a reinvigorated party. {{storylink|Party Down}}

Ratchet was one of the Autobots on the bridge, cheering as the ''Ark'' neared Cybertron. {{storylink|The Crossroads}} As the ''Ark'' entered Cybertron's atmosphere, Ratchet eagerly awaited to return home. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}} However, along with the rest of the crew, he bailed out of the ship when Optimus suspected a Decepticon trap. He took part in the fight with the amassed Decepticon forces, during which he protected himself and an injured Autobot soldier from [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] using his [[force field]]. Despite getting attacked by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]]'s sonic attack, he and his patient were saved by the timely arrival of Grimlock. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

As the battle began to stalemate, gigantic versions of Shockwave's drones arrived, surrounding the Autobots.{{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}} Despite the drones' intimidating appearance, the Autobots soon overcame their shock and leapt back into battle, their nimbler frames allowing them to fell the war beasts before Bumblebee and Cheetor returned the Allspark to the Well, revitalizing the planet and ending the war.{{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

After the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]] ended in the Autobots' favor, Ratchet was among the Transformers captured by the [[Quintesson]]s, who outfitted them with control helmets that placed them in a simulation loop where they took part in a parade with varying differences each time. {{storylink|The Loop}} {{storylink|The Sleeper}} Ratchet was eventually freed from the simulation alongside the other Autobots thanks to the Cybertronian resistance, who got them to transform when they unleashed [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammer]]s into the Loop. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

Ratchet was among the Autobots and Decepticons imprisoned by Starscream. During the fight between [[Iaconus]] and [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]], [[Maccadam]] entered the Quintesson prison to free them. Ratchet noticed the guards apporaching and warned Maccadam, who quickly transformed and dispatched of them before freeing all the prisoners. Ratchet and his fellow Cybertronians, save for Maccadam, then fled the coliseum they were held in before it's destruction by the two titans. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

After Windblade's unconscious body was retrieved from the Decepticon side of Cybertron, Ratchet provided her with medical care, but claimed that there was nothing he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}} After traversing through the mystical [[Crystal City]] to find and free Windblade's psychic shard, Bumblebee and Chromia delivered it to Ratchet who quickly got to work on returning it to Windblade's body.{{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)}}

{{charstubfiction|}{{storylink|Rack 'n' Ruin 'n' Ratchet}}{{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)}}{{storylink|The Other One}}{{storylink|The Immobilizers}}{{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}}}

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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
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[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"By golly, Prime, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Scout Class, 2019, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Grapple Grab"

:Scout Class Autobot Ratchet transforms from robot into a vehicle-with-his-torso-sticking-out, officially called a "transformational mode". He features a "Grapple Grab" crane-arm gimmick, which is triggered on his right leg in vehicle mode. Interestingly, the vehicle grill and headlights are based directly on the ''Animated'' incarnation of Ratchet rather than the vehicle mode of ''this'' Ratchet.

:Ratchet has seen two releases: First in 2019 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in late 2021 in the then-current ''Dinobots Unite'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh. Another release in the ''Power of the Spark'' packaging style was also intended for late 2019/early 2020, but it appears the [[wave]] that version was supposed to ship in never made it to retail anywhere in the world.

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*'''Autobot Ratchet & Blizzard Breaker''' (Battle Class, 2019)
**''Spark Armor'': Blizzard Breaker
**''Takara Name'': '''Blizzard Rescue Ratchet'''
**''Takara Release Date'': [[November 9]], [[2019]]
**''Takara ID Number'': '''TCV-20'''

:Part of the second wave of "Battle Class" [[Spark Armor]] figures, ''Cyberverse'' Battle Class Ratchet is a downsized figure, transforming into a Generation-1-inspired ambulance while being roughly the size of previous Scout/Legends/Basic class figures. (But larger than contemporary ''Cyberverse'' Scout Class figures. Confused yet?) He comes with the "[[Blizzard Breaker]]" snowmobile that splits apart into his battle armor.

:Battle Class Ratchet was initially revealed in a UK Argos catalog before any announcement from Hasbro. In November 2019, Ratchet is released as one of TakaraTomy Mall's ''Cyberverse'' "Christmas Set" offers along with Shockwave.

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[[File:CV-toy TTC Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (Tiny Turbo Changer, 2020)
**''Series'': '''3'''
**''ID code'': '''F2'''

: Part of the third Series of ''Cyberverse [[Tiny Turbo Changers]]'', this version of Ratchet is a 1.5-inch tall soft-plastic figure that transforms into an ambulance in a few short steps. He manages to wear approximately 90% of his ambulance mode on his arms, making what little posability he has even more limited.

: Currently, Series 3 has not been spotted in the US, appearing only in Canada, Germany, Norway and Taiwan.

: This mold was also used to make [[Ironhide (Cyberverse)|Ironhide]].

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[[File:CV-toy OneStep Ratchet.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Ratchet''' (One-Step Changer, 2020)
**''Action Attack'': "Mega Chop"

:This Autobot Ratchet reuses the engineering from ''Robots in Disguise'' One-Step Changer [[Soundwave (WFC)/toys#One-Step Changers|Soundwave]] and transforms in one step from robot into a Cybertronian ambulance, featuring spheroid hover-wheels and a large backpack. He features a "Mega Chop" gimmick, with large spring-loaded blades unfurling from his forearms.

:He has (unpainted) crosses sculpted into his shoulders, which is notable since Ratchet now tends to have heartbeat lines on his shoulders instead of red crosses since you can't, you know, legally do that anymore.

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==Merchandise==
===McDonald's===
[[File:CV-toy McDonalds Ratchet 2021.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Ratchet''' (Happy Meal Toy, 2021)
:Released only in Singapore in January 2021, Ratchet is a non-transforming figure with limited articulation. The chest of the figure has a panel with a lenticular image sticker on it which changes angle when the left arm is moved. Moving the panel causes the image on his chest to change.

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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Ratchet-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|200px|How Ratchet got his hands back.]]
*As with many of the ''Cyberverse'' main cast, Ratchet uses an [[evergreen]] design (at right) inspired by his [[Ratchet (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]], However, the finalized ''Cyberverse'' rendition (at top) also takes inspiration from the [[Ratchet (WFC)|"Aligned" incarnation of Ratchet]].
*[[Mae Catt]] refused to state whether Ratchet finished medical school or not.<ref>"[https://news.tfw2005.com/2020/03/27/transformers-cyberverse-mae-catt-qa-session-408930 Transformers: Cyberverse – Mae Catt Q&A Session]"</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Ratchet''' (ラチェット ''Rachetto'')

==References==
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[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category: Hall of Fame characters]]

==See also==
{{OtherVersions
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*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], the party-loving medical officer from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], the peace-loving green medic from the [[live-action film series]].
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]], the bitter old-timer medic from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]].''
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]], the dry-witted medic and second-in-command from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

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[[Category:Cyberverse Decepticons]]
[[Category:Hall of Fame characters]]
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Windblade (Cyberverse)

2022-09-16T09:47:34Z

Starsbot: rewriting fiction section, clarifying some things and removing unnecessary detail in other places

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. She wasn't confident about splitting up, noting all of the the reasons that she worried Bumblebee wasn't ready to be on his own in what was supposed to be a pep talk. Ultimately however, Bumblebee called her attention to a distress call and the two decided to investigate it together rather than splitting up. This led them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X refused to answer Windblade's questions because she was not crew. Bumblebee was crew though, which meant Teletraan-X would help him - were it not for the fact that it was a trap set up by the seekers who quickly overpowered Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who quickly ran for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade had to bring the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the exit together and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers unfortunately arrived and Windblade chose to stay behind to give Bumblebee a better chance of escaping with Teletraan-X.{{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream woke her up and claimed that they were almost done and she was waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade saw through this, confirming with Thundercracker that it was a lie. This angered Slipstream who ordered Acid Storm to perform a mind rip on Windblade - increasing the intensity several times despite Acid Storm's warning about the danger. Slipstream soon left for a meeting, though the mind rip continued. This led to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up and tried to stop her. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. He found his home and entered it, and they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. After seeing a video of himself he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and subsequently relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

Their joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons had followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for the decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] he became very energetic, racing through the Ark's hallways with no regard for anyone or anything. The [[Mega Magnetizer]] was used to try to get him to stick to the ship and be unable to move. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] to find the [[AllSpark]]. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting were set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going and eventually night fell. [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand - putting an end to the ceasefire. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they ran into several decepticons that were frozen in place. Windblade scanned each of them, reaching the same conclusion every time: they were almost entirely drained of energon. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron frozen on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade. Starscream retreated and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. She also spoke highly of Slipstream for her willingness to look past their differences and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save Windblade. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos broke out immediately. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, even including Starscream, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

With the allspark in possession, the autobots planned to return to Cybertron. In order to do so they needed to get past the decepticons to reach the spacebridge. The autobots planned to draw the decepticons away with five remotely controlled spaceships. Windblade piloted one of them and declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge - the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and neither were the pilots. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark to restore the ark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge and joined Bumblebee's dancing when asked. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a blocked door and used her blade to hack away at the blockade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade spoke again, she spoke with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings were no longer glowing. She handed the allspark back to Cheetor and introduced Croaton, informing the others that he would speak through her. Her eyes turned red and her cityspeaker markings started to glow again as she floated upwards. Through her Croaton explained how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well]] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks and she relayed this information to Hot Rod. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after, she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and tried to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] to help against the Quintessons but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which was how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to Iaconus's cityspeaker chamber, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself out of the beam of light and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the Quintesson ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky - wrapped in Quintesson wires - to stand in his way. The two titans fought until Windblade noticed that Judge Starscream seemed to control Croaton and Iaconus made an attempt to take out Judge Starscream. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but she got no response. Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton. She used this to reach the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfall and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing more he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained to Bumblebee that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia and Bumblebee tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. Bumblebee found an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body, taking her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller spoke through Windblade to explain that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia rightfully called out how creepy all of this was. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that Megatron took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

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====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (G1)

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:''Windblade is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Revolution5-Windbladeprofile.jpg|thumb|upright=1.55|YOU MAAAAAAAAADE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]]

'''Windblade''' puts truth and duty first, even when both seem impossible. Although this youthful idealism sometimes exasperates her more cynical allies, it is also her greatest strength—her faith in the ability of others to do good has turned enemies to allies and struck fear into the [[spark]]s of those who prey upon the insecurities of others. A fundamentally honest 'bot, she struggles with uncomfortable moral choices and forcing her to compromise those principles can leave her withdrawn and depressed.

On the battlefield, Windblade is a better-than-average swordwoman and can wield her [[Stormfall Sword]] to great effect with her built-in turbines, which generate powerful gusts of wind and scatter foes like leaves in a hurricane. Her most unusual ability, however, might be her [[Cityspeaker]] talents, which allow her to communicate with and control [[Titan (group)|Titans]]. Windblade's natural compassion for these enormous beings is her most potent weapon—let's face it, "the power of friendship" doesn't seem quite so silly when you're using it to rouse a city block-sized battle machine into action.

{{quote|I am a child of the Titan '''Caminus'''. I am the cityspeaker for the last city on '''Cybertron'''. And '''both''' are my home. I have only '''begun''' to fight.|Windblade|[[Windblade issue 4|''Windblade'' vol. 1 #4]]}}

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|''Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye'' #26]]}}

====Cityspeaker====
[[File:Windblade4-leavingCaminus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Caminus's Angels]]

Windblade was a Transformer who hailed from the planet [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], born from the [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]] within the [[Caminus (Titan)|Titan]] who had colonized the planet long ago; as with other Cybertronian colonies, the inhabitants of Caminus, isolated from Cybertron, maintained gender dimorphism, with Windblade being female. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Like many Camiens, Windblade was a devout adherent of the [[Way of Flame]], which venerated the [[Thirteen]] [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]s as living gods and regarded [[Solus Prime]] as the greatest member of this pantheon. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} In her youth, Windblade was friends with [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] and [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]], and sometimes discussed science and engineering with the latter, {{storylink|An Axe to Break the Ice}} and eventually trained to become a [[cityspeaker]], throwing herself into her work even when others told her to hold back. {{storylink|If I Know You}}

Long cut off from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Caminus' isolation ended with the arrival of [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]]; Windblade, her bodyguard [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], and quantum engineer [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] joined his crew in hopes of reconnecting with their homeworld and gaining aid for their ailing planet. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} Secretly, however, Windblade wondered if she'd been chosen for the mission so that Caminus could be rid of her, and swore not to fail at the daunting task ahead of her. {{storylink|If I Know You}} {{storylink|The Chosen One}} Days after their joining Thunderclash's crew, his ship, the ''[[Vis Vitalis]]'', came across the Autobot sage [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], who informed them that his longstanding partner, the Titan [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], was grievously wounded and required help. With Trion unable to help due to a quest that otherwise occupied him, and Thunderclash unwell, Windblade and her friends boarded a fast shuttlecraft and sped to the ocean world of [[Hydrophena]], where Metroplex was currently in hiding as an [[alchemical virus]] ravaged his body. The trio set themselves up inside his body, and began attempting to repair him. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}}

[[File:BurningBright-Windblade.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|''They're Windblade and the brain<br>Yes, Windblade and the brain<br>One is an organ<br>The other's fan-made!'']]

After some time, Windblade's group was found by a team of Autobots from the ''[[Lost Light]]'', who had been summoned there through complicated means by Metroplex himself. Using their ship's engines, they were able to give Metroplex's [[spark]] a jump-start, giving him the strength to [[space bridge]] back to Cybertron, where a battle between its inhabitants and the [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]] was taking place. {{storylink|Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Burning Bright}} Though surprised by the sight of another Titan, Windblade and the other Autobots refused to abandon Metroplex's body; presently, [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] returned Metroplex's severed thumb, laden with the transmutative [[Ore-7]], to him, healing him allowing him to defeat the Necrotitan. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} Following the battle, Windblade asked Metroplex about the ore's origins, and he explained that he had picked it up during his travels and jettisoned it when he was attacked by [[Ammonite]]s. Windblade related her findings to [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]], but was unable to coax any information out of Metroplex that would help Magnus and the rest of the ''Lost Light'' crew in their search for the [[Knights of Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} Not long afterwards, Ammonites began to swarm Cybertron, forcing Magnus to radio Windblade to ask Metroplex for aid. The titan needed no encouragement, and began to fight the horde. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}} The Ammonites were subsequently destroyed by Metalhawk, after which Windblade and her fellow Camiens were called on by [[Mainframe (G1)|Mainframe]] to engage the splintered components of [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]]. {{storylink|...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale|...And the Damage Done}}

When the fighting was done, Windblade sought out [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], to pass on a one-word message given to her by Alpha Trion before she had parted company with him: "[[Earth]]". {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}} {{storylink|Earthfall Part 3: The Mind Bomb|The Mind Bomb}} Prime first had to preside over the trial of Megatron, which Windblade was in the audience for, {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} but after that was done, he prepared to leave to follow Trion's trail. Windblade and [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] stayed behind on Cybertron, now under [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]]'s leadership; Prime warned her to be wary of the Seeker, but Windblade simply returned that she was wary of ''everyone'' on this war-blighted world. {{storylink|Earthfall Part 1: Hello Cruel World|Hello Cruel World}}

[[File:BotAndHerCity-illustriousleader.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|But aside from that, he's great!]]

Six months after the battle of the Titans, Windblade had tried settling into life on Cybertron as it had settled into Metroplex. She had an important role as Cityspeaker to the heavily damaged Metroplex, though she was a novice at it and Starscream, the planet's leader, grew impatient and suspicious of her. Rolling blackouts threatened the city, and after she investigated the cause of those with Chromia, she also sought advice for how to best interact with Starscream. After talking with many of the denizens of [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]]'s bar, she came to the sobering realization that Starscream was a scheming opportunist who shouldn't be trusted. Not long after this revelation, an explosion seriously damaged her and put her under medical care. Moments before the explosion, she had seen [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], Starscream's henchman, leaving the scene, and as she awoke from her medical bed, seeing Starscream approach her, she suspected Cybertron's leader had tried to kill her. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}}

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After giving Windblade a veiled threat, Starscream and Rattrap departed. Windblade revealed to Chromia that she had found traces of explosives, before the bodyguard discovered reporters spying on them. Later the two of them met up with Ironhide, who they had sent to guard Metroplex's brain. Windblade searched Metroplex's brain for reasons why Starscream would cause the blackouts, when Chromia noticed that [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] had let slip in an interview that he knew something. Windblade was able to convince him to show her what he discovered despite his unwillingness to talk; a "mine" Starscream had built inside Metroplex, used to sift the Titan for the Regenesis ore in his body. Windblade returned to the reporters and brought them and the denizens of Blurr's bar down there to reveal the mine to them. Three of the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcon]]s guarded the mine, and they were more than happy to try to take down Windblade and her friends. {{storylink|A Long Way Down}} Though she fought back valiantly, at a moment of weakness Starscream and Rattrap interrupted the battle to arrest Windblade and the others (minus Chromia and Sky-Byte) for "crimes against Cybertron."

While the others were jailed, Windblade was interrogated violently by Rattrap. However, this interaction convinced her that while Starscream may be responsible for the mine, he was not responsible for the bomb that killed several citizens and nearly her. Then, Chromia and Sky-Byte invaded the compound to free Windblade and the others, and Windblade confided in her friend that she had discovered that Starscream was not the culprit they were after, to Chromia's shock. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}} Starscream and his goons were swiftly upon them, and the battle recommenced. Windblade and Chromia barely managed to duck inside Metroplex's brain room as Windblade attempted to hook up directly to Metroplex and solve everything. Merged mentally with Metroplex, finally she understood everything. She saw other Transformer colony worlds that had also broken off from Cybertron. She saw Caminus before he went lost. And, sadly, she saw Chromia in all her rage, and realized that her friend, her bodyguard, was the one who had placed the bombs in that street corner, that Chromia was willing to murder others to scare Windblade off the planet and to safety.

[[File:Windblade4-nolongerwindblade.jpg|thumb|left|350px|"I am the Windblade Collective."]]

Supremely disappointed in Chromia, Windblade nevertheless had to keep the peace for the greater good. She plotted with Starscream to keep things buried, so that there would be a Cybertron for those lost colonies to eventually return to. Windblade left the both of them, wiser, but morally compromised. {{storylink|Windblade issue 4|Windblade vol. 1 #4}}

Windblade was present when [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] emerged from medical rehabilitation. Recently betrayed by Chromia and bewildered by Starscream's machinations, Windblade sought out the nearly-murdered engineer as someone she could potentially trust. After Wheeljack reluctantly agreed to help rebuild [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], she and Ironhide observed in silent solidarity. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}}

When Optimus Prime returned from Earth, Windblade, Starscream, and [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] told him about a series of murders that were targeting Decepticons. {{storylink|City of Steel (issue)|City of Steel}} The murderer struck again outside of [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]]'s bar, killing one of his friends, and so she helped Optimus Prime follow this apparent lead. Inside the bar they found a very angry Gutcruncher and an expatriated [[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]]. It seemed to be a dead end, and the two left, but shortly afterwards the bar exploded, {{storylink|Fight or Flee (issue)|Fight or Flee}} killing everyone inside. After Windblade returned with them to investigate, Sandstorm snapped at Optimus Prime for killing his friends. This anger was short lived, however, ending when a new lead surfaced with the discovery of a an [[infernus bullet]] shell in the wreckage. {{storylink|Quest for Fire}}

This lead culminated in the brutal treatment and incarceration of the [[Firecon]]s, and Windblade took this opportunity to raise an eyebrow at the Autobots' violent methods. Things escalated further when it seemed [[Slag (G1)|Slug]] was responsible for the murders, causing Windblade to pull Optimus Prime out of an imminent battle with him. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}} Optimus Prime realized who the real culprit was, and he enlisted Windblade and Starscream to set up a ruse to draw him out. Ultimately, the murderer was revealed to be Sandstorm. Afterwards, Windblade accompanied Optimus Prime on a personal errand to return the remaining half of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to the spot where he had been given it millions of years ago. Optimus confided in Windblade that he was worried that violent Autobots like Slug and Sandstorm who had trouble acclimating to a post-war climate were the greatest threat to their race's newfound peace. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming (issue)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}

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On their way home, Optimus and Windblade were attacked by a group of angry Decepticons, but their attackers dispersed following the arrival of Ironhide and Chromia. The group returned to Metroplex, where Windblade finally revealed the culmination of her work: the Titan's space bridge was back on line, ready to connect with the long-lost Cybertronian colonies, including Caminus. Though Windblade knew that reopening contact between Caminus and Cybertron could mean that Cybertron could help her impoverished homeworld, she was ''also'' aware that Starscream could very well use the space bridge to build a new Cybertronian empire with himself at the head, and expressed her worries to Optimus.

These fears were proven immediately correct; when Starscream learned of the project, he chafed at the idea of forming representative government despite Optimus and Windblade's protestations, but only after a brief communique from the ''Lost Light'' did Windblade realize the true scope of Starscream's machinations: Ironhide and Chromia, who had been guarding the active spacebridge portal, had been struck down by [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], rebuilt by the powers of the recently purloined [[Enigma of Combination]], and, led by [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]], had staged an attack on Caminus. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}}

[[File:TheSumAndItsParts-MistressofFlame.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"Can't you see I'm a little busy~?"]]

After bringing the two guards round, the pair dashed into the portal after Menasor, and Windblade, aware that her colony would surely deify the Prime, instructed Optimus to stay behind. Once she was through to Caminus, Windblade helped rescue Chromia, and after sizing up the threat she contacted Optimus Prime for support. After [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] joined the battle and decisively ended it, Windblade met with her world's [[Forgefire Parliament]] and pleaded for understanding in response to Cybertron's terrible first impression, and then returned to Cybertron to explain the Way of Flame to Optimus: as a "living Prime," her people would surely regard Prime as a god, and follow his every command... and while this would surely undercut Starscream's own grab for power, Optimus was himself wary of harnessing this power for his own ends. As Windblade expected, when she and Optimus walked back to Caminus through the space bridge, the [[Mistress of Flame]] and her citizens immediately ignored Starscream's bloviating and circled around Optimus to bow. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}}

As Starscream tried to salvage his grab for power, having staged the entire incident as a way to win the goodwill of the people of Caminus, Optimus and the Mistress of Flame bristled at their differences—Optimus insisted on helping Caminus rebuild, the Mistress of Flame considered the Prime's devotion to the will of the people to be sacrilege, and Windblade grimaced at the awkwardness. Later on, during the relief efforts, Optimus fielded a call from [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]], and "neglected" to mention Superion's involvement in the attack. Windblade noted that recently Optimus had claimed he never lied. {{storylink|The Possible Light}}

Subsequent efforts to build a functioning parliament continued to stall, with Cybertronian and Camien representatives—including Windblade—at a deadlock regarding Optimus's status on the Council. Just as a group of representatives from the ''Lost Light'' had arrived, Windblade received word that Caminus was under attack by Prowl's [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], who was determined to cut off Cybertron from its colony worlds in order to stop Starscream from growing an empire. Though Devastator was then defeated by the newly created [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], Windblade insisted that Prowl would be tried on Caminus for his actions, saving him from an immediate execution on Cybertron. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}}

[[File:AllThatRemains-WindbladevsMenasor.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

Although she was busy with her political duties, Windblade found the time to work on Metroplex's space bridge with Wheeljack, where the two chatted about the future and the potential implications of re-contacting Cybertron's lost colonies. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} Events came to a head, however, when Menasor and a group of disenfranchised Decepticons sparked a riot at the spacebridge, and while Prowl forcibly took control of Prime through "[[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]]," Windblade helped provide crowd control alongside Starscream and the [[Badgeless]] while Windblade summoned reinforcements from Caminus, including Chromia and some emigrant Decepticons, and Windblade subsequently helped keep a defeated Menasor down while Optimus Maximus took on Devastator.

[[File:AnUneventfulNight-WindbladeArcee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Oh no, don't get her started on [[Spotlight: Arcee|that]] again.]]

After the conclusion of the "Combiner Wars", Windblade reported back to the Mistress of Flame and informed her that their long negotiations had finally borne fruit in the form of the "[[Council of Worlds]]:" an interplanetary parliament where Cybertron and its colonies would all have an equal voice, with Windblade the new delegate for Caminus, opposite Cybertron's delegate Rattrap and Council head Starscream. Although Windblade was still troubled by her looming duties and the prospect of having to keep Starscream's ambitions in check, the Mistress reminded her that a true servant of Solus Prime never stopped trying to forge a better world. {{storylink|All That Remains}}

The Mistress of Flame decided to celebrate the Caminus-Cybertron alliance by declaring an official holiday; Windblade temporarily donned some ceremonial paint in honor of the occasion. Windblade was soon contacted by Chromia, who informed her that [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] had just stolen the Enigma of Combination. The duo chased Arcee out to the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], where they encountered [[Pyra Magna]] and her [[Torchbearer]]s, Camien explorers on a mission of their own. In the ensuing fight, [[Rust Dust]] accidentally activated the Enigma, fusing the Torchbearers together into the huge and angry [[Victorion]]. After rescuing Arcee from the vengeful combiner and taking down the giant's weapons, Windblade was able to persuade Victorion to disassemble, and later returned the Enigma to Badgeless custody. Despite Arcee's objections, Windblade was able to cover up the events of the day so as to protect the fragile peace. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}
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====Representative of Caminus====
[[File:Windblade4-metroplexdescribesvelocitron.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

With the inauguration of the Council of Worlds as the newest addition to the [[Republic of Cybertron]], Windblade's status as official Camien delegate meant that she took the lead on a number of intercultural issues, including a dispute between some Camien immigrants over the Decepticon's siphoning of energy from Metroplex's structure. As a result, she was late for the first meeting between Cybertron and [[Velocitron]], another of the colony worlds, and as a result failed to impress Velocitronian ambassador [[Knock Out (G1)|Knock Out]], who declined their offer to join the Council. Windblade attempted to salvage the situation by inviting Knock Out and his cohort [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] to a party at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]], and learned from Moonracer that Velocitron was in a period of cultural stagnation. In the hopes of brokering an alliance, Windblade recruited the help of [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] to win the [[Benefit 500]], which would allow them to make a request of Velocitronian ruler [[Override (BWU)|Override]]. Though Metroplex's cryptic comments on his brother [[Navitas]] proved unhelpful, the group—joined by Chromia and Ironhide—secretly bridged to Velocitron... only to be confronted by freezing cold temperatures, a wall of fire, and the wheeled city of [[Delta]] bearing down on them. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}}

[[File:RaceAgainstTheLight-sowecanwin.jpg|thumb|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Windblade, champion of honor!]]

With Moonracer's help, the quartet were soon safely aboard, and on their tour of the city the group learned more about the stratified nature of Velocitronian society and the sharp social divide between racers and non-racers. While Blurr registered for the race, Windblade and Chromia met [[Clocker (G1)|Clocker]], who showed them to Navitas's brain chamber. Windblade had hoped to use her talents as a cityspeaker to help manipulate the track above to Blurr's advantage, but years of neglect had rendered Navitas all but senile, forcing Windblade to take drastic action. Clambering into the Titan's brain, Windblade took manual control of the Titan, eliminating the other competitors, guiding Blurr to a suitably flashy victory, and finally persuading the Velocitronians to join the Council. The mood was quickly squelched, however, when Wheeljack contacted her to reveal that Starscream had made his ''own'' play for power while Windblade was offworld, and had secured the allegiance of another colony planet. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

[[File:Windblade6-abloobloo.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66]]

That planet turned out to be [[Devisiun (planet)|Devisiun]], and after meeting representatives [[Vanquish]] and [[Fireshot]], Windblade confronted Starscream about his deceptions and the two reached a shaky agreement: they would visit the next planet ''together''. The next morning, the pair visited [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]], with Windblade receiving a helpful tip to lean on [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] from Rattrap, who had secretly visited the planet before. The Eukarian [[beast mode]] Transformers proved distrustful of Transformers with vehicle modes, and although Windblade's Camien origins allowed her to speak, the presence of vehicular "standard-formers" on the planet awoke Eukaris's Titan [[Chela]], intent on killing the intruders so as to fulfill the directives of his "master" [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]]. Though Windblade tried to reach his brain to negotiate, Chela manipulated his own internal structures to pin her down, and Starscream simply shot the Titan in his brain module, instantly killing the giant. Although Windblade was saddened by Chela's death, Blackarachnia consoled her by reciting one of her prophecies: Chela's death was the first step on changing Eukaris for the better. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

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Windblade returned to Cybertron disgruntled at how events had gone, but after some encouraging words from Chromia and Metroplex, was soon accompanying Starscream to visit the next Titan, [[Tempo]]. They found not the ship of pacifistic philosophers they were expecting, however; rather, they learned that this Titan had been renamed "[[Vigilem|Carcer]]," crewed by a group of warriors and led by the fearsome [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]]. Though Starscream's deceitful ways nearly persuaded Elita to execute the Seeker, Windblade was able to cover for her compatriot at the last moment, and persuaded the crew of the ship to join the alliance. She was disturbed, however, at the secrets Elita One's people were keeping, despite their vocal adherence to "truth:" Elita One claimed that her people had renamed Tempo to [[Vigilem|Carcer]], when Windblade knew from talking to Metroplex that "Carcer" was in fact the name of a different Titan. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}} Windblade went to confer with Metroplex regarding the names of the Titan and the lack of records on "Carcer" on either Cybertron or Caminus, but Metroplex, aware that "Carcer" was but an alias for the evil [[Vigilem]], whom he and his fellow Titans had banished at the conclusion of the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]], chose to keep the truth from Windblade. {{storylink|Rubicon}}

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With a steady tide of colonists travelling to Cybertron, Starscream suggested a new holiday in his honour: "[[Chosen One Day]]". Although Starscream's egocentric holiday didn't turn out as he had hoped, Windblade, her friends, and several Council members visited Starscream's quarters to throw him a party anyway, putting aside their differences for one night. {{storylink|Choose Me}}

Over the coming weeks, Windblade continued to serve on the Council while Optimus Prime and his group of Earthbound Autobots contended with [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s splinter cell of Decepticon radicals on Earth. When Optimus made a brief visit to Caminus to meet with the Mistress of Flame, Windblade filled him in on the situation on Cybertron, and the pair watched as the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s came into conflict with visiting Camiens [[Aileron]] and [[Sterling]]. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Starscream later contacted Windblade after [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]]'s Decepticons sparked a riot. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}}

[[File:NewWorldsOrder-WindbladeStarscream.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.66|"An empire has ''followed me home''!"]]

In the ensuing struggle, Windblade and her team tried to maintain order against those Decepticons who had chosen to join Galvatron and warp to Earth via Metroplex's space bridge as part of Galvatron's dream of conquering Earth. Even though both Victorion and Superion were called in to successfully quash the insurgents, with Wheeljack able to restore the device to full functionality, Optimus Prime saw a way to permanently forestall Cybertronian aggression and bridged to Earth to declare that the planet was now a protectorate of the Council of Worlds—much to Windblade's concern. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}}

The Council of Worlds held an emergency meeting to discuss Optimus's course of action, and though Windblade suggested that they hear Optimus out, she maintained that the Prime should not hold a seat on the council, and that the Council itself should only govern the interactions between those worlds colonized by Cybertronians. Starscream was left agitated by how Windblade was willing to give ''Prime'' that benefit, when it was worse than anything ''he'd'' done.{{storylink|New Worlds Order}}

At some point after this meeting, Windblade was left distraught by a broadcast from the crew of the ''Lost Light'': her old friend Velocity, among others, facing execution and making requests for her funeral. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

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While the Council tried to keep order on Cybertron itself, a slew of [[mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] attacks on Iacon's Decepticon population, including a supplier of parts for Carcer, forced a reluctant Starscream to investigate the matter at Windblade and Obsidian's demands. When the meeting had been adjourned, their guest Ironhide invited Windblade and Chromia to help him deal with a rowdy customer at Maccadam's, but Windblade declined, citing paperwork. However, things soon got out of hand, and [[Drunkatron|a bystander]] was killed in the incident. Windblade accused Starscream of orchestrating the attacks, causing Starscream to threaten to drop the news about Chromia's bombings... but before they could discuss this further, [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] revealed that footage of the shooting had already been broadcast live across Iacon. {{storylink|07:00:00}}

[[File:ApplicableSkills-windbladeandstarscream.jpg|left|thumb|300px|I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.]]

The footage incited an angry mob, who marched on Starscream's office demanding the truth about the attack, prompting Windblade to storm into Starscream's office and blame him for his increasingly totalitarian government. At a later meeting of the Council, Windblade was present when Ironhide volunteered to step up as the new head of the Badgeless. As the crowd dispersed, Windblade pressed Starscream for answers about Swindle - thought dead since the disastrous "Combiner War" - but Starscream refused to play along, putting Windblade in charge of shutting down Onslaught and the surviving Combaticons, and once again threatening to spill the beans about the Metroplex bombings. {{storylink|Applicable Skills}}

Following Starscream's instructions to keep watch on Onslaught, Windblade visited Metroplex's brain chamber; when Chromia arrived, she revealed that she was being blackmailed by Starscream. Neither one of them were able to recover a cache from Chromia's hidden files which documented the space bridge incident, which had been corrupted by someone else. As weeks passed, Chromia worked to unscramble the files while Windblade played along with Starscream's forces - until things finally came to a head when Rattrap revealed Swindle to the other Combaticons, using the Enigma of Combination to probe Swindle's mind and inadvertently creating a new combiner: [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]!. {{storylink|Things We Said We'd Never Do}}

[[File:TheLineBetweenUs-Windbladedroopy.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Droopy wings = Sad Windblade.]]

As Bruticus ran amok in the streets of Iacon, Starscream blamed Windblade for failing to keep an eye on the Combaticon leader and demanded that she kill the combiner. Windblade initially refused, but when Starscream threatened to reveal Chromia's secret Windblade finally pushed back and contacted Chromia. Windblade asked her to help the Combaticons expose Starscream's own dirty secrets and return to Caminus before Starscream could retaliate. Windblade tried to talk down Bruticus, but the combiner retaliated against her - only Ironhide's intervention saved the two Camiens. When Bruticus had been reduced to his components, Windblade tried to resuscitate the unconscious Combaticons in the hopes of getting them to talk. With no other alternatives, Chromia finally went on live television and announced that she was responsible for the Acrolight bombings. All Windblade could do was watch as her best friend was arrested. {{storylink|The Line Between Us}}

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Shortly after the conclusion of the Bruticus incident, the Council would meet with Optimus to hear his side of the story, and although Windblade tried to be diplomatic, [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] was quick to demand an explanation. Although Prime insisted that his motives were pure, Windblade couldn't side with Prime's recent actions, and the Council unanimously voted against allowing Earth a seat on the council. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|The Medium and the Message}} During a subsequent emergency meeting, however, footage from Earth that depicted Optimus raising the Titan [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] from the ground prompted the religious colonists to reconsider their vote, and it was decided that Earth, "ruled" as it were, by a Prime, would, indeed, received a seat on the Council. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}}

When a massive energy discharge was detected at the former site of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], Windblade pushed Starscream to investigate, and the two fliers headed out. Shockingly, they found the city intact within a crater, but this matter was quickly forgotten when the two received news that the [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] had seemingly returned from the dead, and was slaughtering Decepticons in their ghetto. When the ex-Prime attacked Starscream with a [[Spark disruptor]], Windblade was able to jump the disruptor onto her own spark, where its detonation was non-fatal thanks to the differing frequency of Camien sparks. The pair quickly flew to regroup with the forces fighting Sentinel Prime at the space bridge. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}} When Optimus and [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]] returned to Cybertron from their encounter with Sentinel on [[Prion (planet)|Prion]], Windblade met up with the duo, and encouraged the demoralized Autobot leader to take his victories where he could get them. {{storylink|White Heat}}

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Some time later, Pyra Magna and Soundwave called Windblade to Earth to help deal with the recalcitrant Metrotitan, who had gone dormant and refused to communicate with anyone. However, days of searching his systems turned up no mechanical faults. {{storylink|Informed}} In between repairs, Windblade remained on Earth for a time, helping to coordinate Prime's goodwill missions across the globe, meaning that she was on hand after a mysterious [[Ore-13]] explosion on [[Mount Olympus]]. The explosion coincided with Jazz and Arcee running afoul of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], Earth's newest defense force, in [[Oregon]], but the standoff was interrupted by the arrival of [[Rom]] the [[Space Knight]], who interrupted the fracas to kill several members of [[G.I. Joe]], including what appeared to be [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]] himself. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} Realizing that the Cybertronians would be blamed for the attack, the Autobots and Soundwave pursued the alien to [[Umpqua National Forest]], where the alien, Rom, explained that he was tracking the malevolent, shapeshifting [[Dire Wraith]]s, who had infiltrated the human forces. {{storylink|The Divine Source of Liberty}}

[[File:Informed-WindbladeLadyShazraella.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.85|[[George Takei|Oh, my.]]]]

Back at Autobot City, the efforts to communicate with Metrotitan continued, until Pyra Magna happened to suggest that the Titan hadn't "malfunctioned"—his silence was ''deliberate'', and he was waiting for a Prime to communicate with him. Unsure of Metrotitan's true intentions and unwilling to endanger Optimus, Windblade opted to merge her own mind with Metrotitan's. The Titan wasn't happy to be communicating with her; he explained that he was merely trying to pass on a message from one of the Thirteen before shunting Windblade's consciousness into [[Microspace]], where she encountered [[Micronus Prime]], its creator. The Prime warned her that she would have to experience his message for herself, and so her new avatar was set adrift in the destructive [[entropy cloud]] that threatened that realm. Before long, the forces of the evil [[Baron Karza]] found the young Camien, and Windblade was interrogated by his wife [[Shazraella|Lady Shazraella]]; there, Windblade learned about the war that threatened the stability of the Microverse. One of Shazraella's handmaidens sacrificed herself to set Windblade free as soon as her mistress's back was turned, allowing Windblade's avatar to fade away and return her consciousness to her normal body. Optimus was hesitant to follow through on her plea to help Microspace, wary of the dark lineage of the Primes despite Windblade's insistence that Primes were divine beings. Unable to blaspheme against Optimus Prime, Windblade grudgingly promised to follow her Prime and understand his motives. {{storylink|Informed}}

[[File:OShipOfState-Windblade.jpg|right|thumb|250px|You can feel the cyber-spittle splattering from here.]]

When the Transformers and Rom convened to strategize, Windblade continued to argue that assisting Microspace should be their top priority - a sentiment that Soundwave agreed with, believing that all of the recent events had to be connected. Optimus took command and decided that the Autobots would need to help Earth first. When Rom took matters into his own hands by sending Ore-13 through Metrotitan's space bridge to put them beyond the reach of the Wraiths, the Autobots moved to stop the Space Knight, and Optimus realized the error of his ways, resolving that they would have to find a way to save both worlds. {{storylink|O Ship of State}}

Meanwhile, [[Snake-Eyes]] had infiltrated Autobot City and distracted Windblade long enough to sneak into the complex. There, he encountered Arcee and the recently arrived ''[[Heliopolis]]''; crew member [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] joined the fight and drew the attention of the three Cybertronians. When Windblade investigated the tiny spaceship, she recognized the lifeforms from her own adventures within that realm. {{storylink|The New Colossus}} Things only got worse when Karza showed up in their universe, and fused with the Dire Wraiths and the technology of [[M.A.S.K.]] to form a gigantic, super-powered colossus. Windblade realized that the monster was speaking Ancient Cybertronian. Following an impromptu team-up with the resident do-gooders, the team hatched a plan to send Karza back to whence he had came, and in the ensuing batlte Windblade used her cityspeaking talents to activate Metrotitan's flight mode and lift the entire city to safety. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}
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====Vigilem====
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After helping to save the Earth and ensuring that Optimus and Earth's other heroes would help keep the planet safe, Windblade returned to Cybertron feeling very unsure of her role in the future of both worlds. Despite everything, Windblade was once again forced to step up when a horde of undead Titans—summoned by [[Infinitus]] several months ago after her encounter with "Sentinel Prime"—prepared to make landfall on Cybertron. As Starscream and the other members of the Council dug in for war, Windblade took control of Metroplex's combat functions as the [[zombies]] arrived but was unable to prevent the Titan from being dragged down by his undead brethren. {{storylink|Ping}} Trapped inside Metroplex, Windblade and [[Lightbright (G1)|Lightbright]] disconnected Metroplex's brain module so that the undead would think that Metroplex had perished. Regrouping at the [[Spire]], Starscream informed everyone that despite his repeated pleas, Elita One would ''not'' transform her own Titan to provide additional firepower, and so Windblade proposed a risky plan to sneak aboard Carcer and manually reactivate the Titan. After Lightbright had been given a holographic disguise to look like Windblade, the group boarded Carcer while Devastator led a frontal assault on Carcer as a distraction. {{storylink|Desperate Times}}

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While the disguised Lightbright and her team distracted Carcer's security forces, Windblade's managed to breach the Titan's brain module, only to be confronted by Obsidian, who refused them access. Though Windblade and her group brought down Obsidian, the subsequent mental merge revealed that Elita's Titan was neither Carcer, nor Tempo, but rather ''[[Vigilem]]'', villainous Titan of [[Liege Maximo]]. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|Desperate Measures}} As Vigilem struggled to awaken after millennia of hibernation, Windblade took control of his body directly to battle the horde, but the dual strain of resisting his whispers while puppeteering his form proved too much for her; instead, Vigilem agreed to a truce, taking partial control to destroy the zombies so that Vigilem himself could then take revenge on Cybertron. Indeed, as the last of the Titans were felled, Vigilem turned his attentions to Metroplex, until Windblade forced him away and then shifted her mental energies to try and stop him from freeing [[Liege Maximo]], imprisoned at the center of his body. Were it not for the last of the undead distracting her, she may very well have succeeded but Vigilem used her moment of weakness to seize control of ''both'' their bodies. When Elita arrived to destroy Vigilem's brain, the Titan downloaded his mind into Windblade's, sending her into stasis lock. {{storylink|Rubicon}} To the outside world however, Windblade appeared dead. {{storylink|If I Know You}}

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Her body was brought to a hospital where [[Windblade's doctor|a doctor]] deduced that Vigilem's mind had jumped into Windblade's own body; indeed, inside her mind, Windblade's consciousness was very much alive, forced to contend with Vigilem's own avatar, who tried to convince her to merge their [[Spark]]s into one so that they could both survive. Despite Vigilem's temptations and attempts to undercut her own morals, Windblade continued to resist, {{storylink|If I Know You}} doubling down on her attempts to safely contain Vigilem until she realized that such a feat was impossible; rather, she would defend herself until her mind collapsed from the strain, killing them both. This stalemate continued until Starscream, with the [[mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] assistance of [[Airachnid (G1)|Airachnid]], patched himself into their shared mind to rescue Windblade—unaware that Vigilem himself could make the jump into his ''own'' consciousness. Enraged by Starscream's recklessness, Windblade watched as Vigilem did just that: taking the form of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]], Windblade followed the pair into a mental representation of Kaon, rescuing Starscream's spark before Vigilem could obliterate it and seize control of the Seeker's body.

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Thinking his foe destroyed, Vigilem began rewriting the Seeker's mind while Windblade glimpsed Starscream's memories and was horrified at the process of cold construction by which he was created. Glimpsing Starscream's spark being placed in one of many identical, pre-built bodies, she speculated that Starscream's constant changing of bodies was his spark's attempt to find its "true form." Summoning a mental copy of the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], Windblade began forging Starscream's "true" form out of his spark, each strike summoning a spectre of a Cybertronian who'd had a great impact on Starscream's life to fight off Vigilem... and, eventually, Starscream's mental avatar was reborn into a towering vision of his "true form," which promptly stomped on Vigilem. Assuming a resplendent form of her own, Windblade defeated Vigilem by shoving his avatar into her own spark, "burning away" his impurities until only the truth of his being remained. Befitting the Titan of Liege Maximo, however, Vigilem's spark contained ''no'' truth, and the Titan's mind finally died.

Returning to the waking world, Windblade cheekily smiled at Starscream and told him that by helping him find his truth, she'd found her own as well. No longer would she be a mouthpiece for others, or subservient to the Way of Flame and the lineage of Primes: she would be her own 'bot, unafraid to speak her mind. {{storylink|Your First Mistake}}

[[File:FirstStrike1-RedShadows.jpg||thumb|left|300px|Ninja vs. geisha, in a battle of the pastiches!]]

Soon afterwards, the time came for [[Earth]] to properly join the Council of Worlds, having appointed [[Marissa Faireborn]] as an ambassador. Windblade was present in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] during the ceremony, but as Starscream prepared to give a speech, an explosion sent the crowd into a panic—unbeknownst to the Cybertronians, [[Joe Colton]] and his [[Iron Ring]] had chosen to launch a genocidal attack on Cybertron in the name of [[human]] sovereignty. As security conducted evacuations, Windblade attempted to help a fallen civilian... only for the wounded Transformer to reveal itself as a Trojan horse filled with a horde of [[Red Shadows]]. {{storylink|First Strike issue 1|First Strike #1}} Even with Ironhide's authorization of lethal force and Optimus Prime providing backup, she and the Prime retreated back to the [[Spire]], where the other members of the Council struggled to pick up the pieces—and Windblade's fears regarding Elita and Starscream's ability to work together was well-founded when Elita announced her decision to kill Marissa and all the other humans. {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}} When [[Skyburst (G1)|Skyburst]] and [[Stormclash]] arrived on Cybertron, they glimpsed Windblade exasperatedly throwing her hands up during a Council meeting before members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[M.A.S.K.]] were brought before them, with Elita ordering their execution. {{storylink|First Strike issue 3|First Strike #3}}

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Windblade objected to that, feeling the Council should not be reduced to genocide by fear, prompting Elita to instead propose mass deportation. After [[Scarlett]] had given something vaguely resembling an explanation regarding the [[Iron Ring]]'s plan, Starscream threw her and her forces in jail. Nonetheless, Starscream ordered a mobilization against the threat with Windblade volunteering to confer with Metroplex. When Optimus offered aid however, she coldly rebuked him, later explaining to Ironhide that she tired of his constant military mindset as she pulled up cameras in the central district, eventually finding the villains in the filtration systems. Observing everything from the security cameras, Windblade watched in shock and horror as Colton's forces easily routed both squads. {{storylink|First Strike issue 4|First Strike #4}} Windblade began brainstorming a plan, only to find Optimus had taken his leave. Intercepting Optimus outside the prison, a skeptical Windblade let he and his team pass, if only to prevent further damage to Iacon, but noted that that would be the last time she would bow to any [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. Windblade then went to Starscream to report on Optimus's actions only to find [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] had already done so. {{storylink|First Strike issue 5|First Strike #5}}

Windblade remained behind to keep an optic on Metroplex when the Council moved out to arrest Optimus, and after the battle in Cybertron's core concluded shortly thereafter, the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] that [[Merklynn]] had activated prompted a "scream" from the planet as the device corrupted Cybertron's supply of energon. Windblade was on hand to persuade Metroplex into translating the signal that Cybertron beamed into deep space, and its meaning was simple: "Welcome. Death." {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}}

====First Delegate====
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As Iacon began yet another reconstruction, Windblade was due to retake her spot on the Council of Worlds which Starscream had chosen to commemorate with a photo-op. When Windblade nearly let slip that [[Liege Maximo]] had escaped, Starscream kicked out the press shocking the cityspeaker that he hadn't told the populace. Learning that the Mistress of Flame supported this was the last straw for Windblade who stormed out and told [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] and [[Longtooth]] about the truth regarding "Carcer". The resulting news wave resulted in Windblade being banished from Caminus before she was attacked by a sympathetic Camien and a rather miffed Carcerian. After those two had been chased off, Windblade was approached by Blurr, Fat Tankor and Waspinator who pushed her to run for the post of Chancellor. She took their advice and soon garnered enough signatures to become a candidate but faced with the monumental responsibility, she caved and sought solace at Metroplex. She confessed to the Titan that while she did indeed want to rule Cybertron, she feared that her desire to do so was in fact a remnant of Vigilem's personality. Metroplex told her that Vigilem had listened to no one but Liege Maximo and if Windblade honestly listened to others and worked to make their lives better, she would know herself to be free of the evil Titan's impulses.

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Acting on that advice, Windblade organized an event in [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] where bots from all walks of life could come and vent their grievances while offering her advice on how to make Cybertron a better world. Once the event wrapped up, Windblade was approached by [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] who revealed that he was behind the recent [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] uprising presenting her with a briefcase full of devastating ''kompromat'' on Starscream. When Windblade queried as to why he didn't use the case himself, the ex-Autobot revealed his uncertainty about whether or not Starscream had genuinely turned over a new leaf... and also, since Windblade now knew about the briefcase, ignoring the contents was essentially endorsing them, so they were ''her'' problem now.

Windblade eventually read their contents and discovered Starscream's laundry list of crimes, swearing to the Seeker that she would expose him at the debates. At the debates, Windblade spoke briefly of her own past before she praised Cybertron for being a place that transcended differences and welcomed everyone. Starscream spoke next and, in the bravest act Windblade had ever seen, confessed to all his crimes. The result was a landslide victory for Windblade, who decided to change her title from "Supreme Ruler" to "First Delegate". Visiting Starscream in his cell, she presented him with a holo-image of his "true self" as means to symbolize his fulfilling the Chosen One prophecy— by having all of Cybertron turn against him, he'd finally united the planet. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

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In [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]]'s [[Starscream: The Movie (film)|biopic]] of Starscream, the meeting between the two jets was recreated with [[Aileron]] acting as Windblade. {{storylink|Starscream: The Movie (comic)|Starscream: The Movie}}

With Cybertron's energon unpalatable to its people following being tainted by the Talisman's [[magic]], Optimus Prime oversaw the extraction of a large supply of [[Ore-13]] from Earth which he delivered to the assembled Council of Worlds before a solar eclipse struck the planet. Though Windblade was correct in believing this was Liege Maximo's long feared return, the Prime of Lies was now a prisoner of [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] whom Optimus invited to the surface for a reasonable discussion. Onyx agreed to the request viewing Optimus as none other than [[The Arisen]]. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 1: Surfeit of Primes|Surfeit of Primes}} In the following discussion, Windblade tried to make her voice heard only for Onyx and the Mistress of Flame to defer solely to Optimus. When [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] attempted to defend Windblade and Onyx, the Mistress brought up the latter's attack on Caminus, an attack that Windblade demanded the Mistress tell her about before an explosion ripped through the [[Spire]]. With Optimus, Windblade shielded Marissa Faireborn before Soundwave drew attention to Alpha Trion's demise. Onyx took the opportunity to assert authority and declared Soundwave and his Decepticons would be tried by the Primes alongside Liege Maximo. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 2: Another Mine|Another Mine}}

Windblade and Optimus quickly came to Soundwave's defense, but Onyx used an old crime of Soundwave's to turn even his fellow Decepticons against him. Fighting broke out in the streets between the faithful, the faithless, and the merely angered. Windblade and Optimus tried to reach Onyx Prime, but they were shot at and Windblade lost her grip on Optimus. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 3: The Ground|The Ground}} He was rescued by Onyx, only to be tossed into the singularity at Crystal City. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} Windblade regrouped with the Mistress of Flame as they tried to restore order. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 4: The Hallowing|The Hallowing}} Windblade was unable to approach Onyx Prime's ship, the [[Nemesis (BW)|Nemesis]], no matter how well she flew. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 5: Endless Forever|Endless Forever}} Onyx Prime was eventually brought down and revealed as the lost Decepticon Shockwave. Windblade assured Soundwave no charges would be brought against him, but he had still lost the faith of the Decepticons by the revelations. {{storylink|The Falling, Chapter 6: Unforgivable|Unforgivable}} Once [[New Prysmos]] had begun to fill up with [[Prysmosian]] refugees, Windblade sent [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] and Ironhide to negotiate with the aliens while sending [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] and [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]] to examine the Talisman. {{storylink|Schismatic}}

[[File:UnstoppedAndUnstoppable-windbladebumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Why do I have a weird feeling that I should be helping [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|you]] [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|recover your missing memories?]]"]]

Some time later, Windblade sent a small group of Autobots to Velocitron to discover why Cybertron had abruptly lost contact with the planet; though they did not return, a fragmented video clip recovered from the mission depicted the planet's destruction at the hands of a monstrous planet. A second message beamed into space by the Talisman during the conflict with the Prysmosians dubbed the threat "[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]." {{storylink|Unstopped and Unstoppable}} Velocitron was but one planet targeted by Unicron; as the monster planet tore his way through the galaxy, Optimus Prime led a small Autobot detachment to the organic world of [[Elonia]] to coordinate that planet's evacuation before Unicron destroyed it, with Windblade heading a teleconference with the [[Elonian]] [[Space Knight]] [[Rom]] to explain the threat that Unicron posed. {{storylink|Our Darkest}}

Despite the best efforts of the Autobots, Unicron was able to consume almost all of the "thirteen colonies" affiliated with the Cybertronian race, until only Windblade's homeworld of Caminus remained. As Unicron and his [[Maximal]] hordes descended over the besieged planet, Windblade helped coordinate the evacuation efforts from Cybertron while Optimus attempted to defeat Unicron from the inside out. This was ultimately in vain, as Optimus was unable to find any clues on how to stop the beast as it overran and consumed Caminus. {{storylink|Last Stand (Unicron)|Last Stand}} As the forces of Cybertron coordinated their next move, Starscream—a Decepticon once more—announced his plan to unite the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]] for an all-out attack on Unicron, shooting down Windblade's proposal to add what remained of the Cybertronian fleet to his armada. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}

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As it turned out, the D.V.D. was a ruse, allowing [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] to doublecross and mutate the Decepticons with supplies of [[Ore-11]] to transform them into loyal servants of his own, and as Unicron appeared in the skies above Cybertron Windblade desperately weighed up their options with Starscream, Soundwave, and Optimus. Information obtained by Bumblebee revealed that Unicron was, in reality, [[Antilla]], the first planet to encounter the Transformers and the world where the terrible history of Cybertron truly began. Shockwave had planned this all, millions of years in advance, as part of a long game to kill Cybertron and its legacy for good, allowing the Transformers to begin again on Earth; though Windblade was initially furious at Caminus and the other colonies having to pay for the sins of Cybertron, it was Arcee who reminded her that Caminus, like the other Transformer worlds, had been built off the expansionism that began with Antilla. A furious Windblade flew away, to be followed by Arcee, and though the latter initially assumed that Windblade was simply running from her responsibilities, the Cityspeaker informed Arcee that she had a plan. {{storylink|Our Finest}}

At [[New Prysmos]], Windblade and Ironhide parleyed with [[Leoric]] for use of the Talisman, and as Unicron began his final attack on the metal planet the [[Spectral Knight]]s pooled their magic to activate the Talisman, projecting a beam of mystical light that began teleporting the inhabitants of Iacon to Earth. Ironhide and Windblade were the first to be saved, arriving in [[Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park]] on Earth, before they were joined by Metroplex and the millions of other Transformers who had narrowly escaped deactivation, {{storylink|Road's End}} regrouping in and around [[Victoria Falls]]. {{storylink|A Sunrise Dark}} That evening, Windblade and Chromia reunited, and the two joined the other high-ranking Autobots in Metroplex's command center for a briefing, where Jetfire explained that the [[black hole]] in the center of Unicron threatened the entire galaxy.

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The next morning, however, Unicron's Maximals descended on the planet, and their invasion prompted the population of Cybertron to begin their final do-or-die play against Unicron and his forces, with Metroplex and Trypticon teleporting into low Earth orbit with the assembled heroes and villains in a final battle. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}}

As they did so, Windblade, Jetfire and the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] arrived at [[Mount Rushmore]] in order to put a secondary plan into action, and though their efforts were briefly threatened by [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], their gambit worked, and using the [[Enigma of Combination]] Soundwave was able to tap into the afterlife, using the spirits of the deceased to bolster the spirit of Optimus Prime as he battled [[Unicron's creator]] in [[infraspace]]. When the threat had passed, Windblade and Chromia looked out upon their new homeworld, intent on fulfilling Optimus Prime's dream of uniting humanity and Cybertron. {{storylink|Ceremony}} Shortly afterwards, Windblade presided over Optimus Prime's funeral in [[Little Cybertron]], and quickly deviated from her prepared remarks to eulogize the ''true'' Optimus: that they would celebrate Optimus while denouncing the legacy of the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]s that he represented, so that they may move beyond them and build a new future on their adopted homeworld. {{storylink|Post}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
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Windblade was one of several Autobots under attack by [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. {{storylink|New Military Unit Combaticon! Bruticus, Combine!}}
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===''Legends'' comic===
[[File:Legends Business Trip 12 Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|The fan of the Windblade.]]
Windblade, "little sister" to [[Nijika]], was created by the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]] to keep watch on their dream world of the [[Legends World]], where wishes could come true. When it was decided that the experiment had come to a conclusion, Windblade announced the universe's imminent destruction to its denizens and used her fans to form a devastating storm. [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], realizing that the universe could grant any wish, summoned [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to his world; the gigantic robot pulled Windblade from the sky, causing her to reset in the process and forget all about her mission. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 12|Bonus Edition Vol. 12}}

[[File:TFLegendsAutobotsHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Darn it Japan! Wait, 80% of me ''is'' Japan.]]
Without any memory, Windblade fell into a waitress job at a "little sister cafe" in [[Akihabara]], where she proved skilled at selling very expensive lunches to adoring customers. She also ended up squatting at [[Tigatron]]'s home, much to the chagrin of [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. {{storylink|Windblade Sequel}} Windblade was among the dimensionally-displaced Autobots and [[Transformers sickness]]-afflicted Maximals who gathered to defend the Legends World from the intruding [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 16|Bonus Edition Vol. 16}} During [[Halloween]], she dressed up as a schoolgirl to attend a Halloween party with Tigatron and Airazor, but they were interrupted by the trick-or-treating Slipstream, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], and [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird Shadow]]. Windblade teamed up with the similarly dressed up [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] to stop the Decepticons' antics, but all three were defeated and tied up by Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 17|Bonus Edition Vol. 17}}

As the [[spirit energy]] generated by [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Megatron]]'s greed empowered the Zamojin, they began working to regain control of Windblade, causing her to fall ill. She collapsed in the street, prompting the nearby [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Starscream]] to fill in for her at the cafe. When she arrived there herself, she had fallen back under her makers' control and was muttering that she would destroy the world. Getting a hold of herself, she explained the situation to Starscream, lamenting that she was enjoying her new life in the Legends world and didn't want to destroy it. Starscream set out to put at end to Megatron's ambition, but warned Windblade that if it bad came to worse, he'd stop her himself. {{storylink|LG-18 Armada Starscream Super Mode Prologue}}

Megatron would not give up on his desires, however, and the Zamojin were able to take full control of Windblade. Starscream was ready to sacrifice himself to destroy her in a bid to save the world, but [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] found an alternate solution that led to both Megatron and Starscream being returned to their own universe. Restored to normal, Windblade was left chastising the local toy nerds for being just as greedy as Megatron when it came to rare toys. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 18|Bonus Edition Vol. 18}} When [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] arrived in the Legends World, Windblade and Chromia were ''very'' impressed with his handsome new body. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}} She was later caught up in another [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s attack on the city after he was turned into the insane [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 23|Bonus Edition Vol. 23}} Windblade was harassed by [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] while acting as cheerleader at a soccer game, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 29|Bonus Edition Vol. 29}} and witnessed [[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]]'s living [[transtector]] run away from him. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 30|Bonus Edition Vol. 30}}

Windblade was working at the cafe when [[Flywheels]] came to see her fellow waiter, [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]], {{storylink|LGEX Headmaster Set Chapter}} and was among the citizens pestered by [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]]'s clone army. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 47|Bonus Edition Vol. 47}} Metroplex later recalled how he was brought to the Legends World to defeat Windblade. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)|Bonus Edition Metroplex}} When the world was threatened by three out-of-control [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]] who overpowered any resistance, Windblade sought out her creator, [[Katsu Don]], and struck a deal: in return for her rejoining the Zamojin, he would convert her into a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] who could combine with the upgraded body of Nijika. With the additional power of her sister on her side, Windblade was able to capture [[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]] and use him to defeat the other Targetmasters, saving the world at the cost of becoming a Zamojin puppet once more. Before rejoining the Zamojin, she left a message for Tigatron, thanking him for their time together and asking the people of the Legends World to destroy her if she ever returned to attack them again. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 62|Bonus Edition Vol. 62}}

Indeed, it wasn't long before Katsu Don had Windblade assault the Legends World a second time, {{storylink|Jumpstarter Chapter}} this time using her connection to Pinpointer to take control of the other two Targetmasters and wreak havoc until confronted by the [[Wrecker]]s. She made short work of [[Twin Twist]] by decapitating him, but he survived using the [[Zodiac]] and separated her from [[Spoilsport]], who he then used to sever her connection to [[Peacemaker]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 65|Bonus Edition Vol. 65}} Windblade then clashed with [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] before teaming up with Katsu Don to battle the [[Jumpstarter]]s, only to be defeated by their combined mode, [[Attack Powered]]. Fortunately she was mostly unharmed and her defeat served to set her free from Katsu Don's control once more. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 66|Bonus Edition Vol. 66}} She later fought back against an army of other Zamojin summoned by her creator {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One}} and celebrated the defeat of [[Majin Zarak]], though ultimately the Legends World ended up destroyed and she and the rest of its residents evacuated to the [[G1 World]]. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}}

Windblade, [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]], and Perceptor traveled to [[Zamojin]] and asked Katsu Don for his assistance in restoring the Legends World. Windblade promised to the defend the world and Perceptor told Katsu Don the people of Legends World deserved to have their home back, or else he would be no better than the Quintessons. Katsu Don relented, and lent his psychic power to the Powered Masters and other forces to bring back Legends World. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}

===''TransTech''===
Two separate Windblades were members of a crowd of countless off-worlders in [[Axiom Nexus]]'s Under City on the morning of the [[Waruder]] invasion. One of them had [[Windblade (G1)#Legends|black thighs]], the other had [[Windblade (G1)#Generations|red thighs]]. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}
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===''Titans Return'' marketing material===
Windblade's Cityspeaker abilities meant that she could communicate with Titans telepathically, without the need of a [[Titan Master]] proxy. This put her into conflict with [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] when the rogue Autobot attempted to wrest control of a full-sized [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]].<ref>''Titans Return'' ''[[Titans Return (toyline)#Summer convention exclusives|Titan Force]] 3-pack'' bio material/instructions.</ref> Windblade later gained a Titan Master partner in [[Scorchfire]], who gave Windblade the ability to supercharge her swords. {{storylink|#TRDeluxe|''Titans Return'' Scorchfire & Windblade toy bio}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons===
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[[File:PreludeToCombinerWarsWindblade-Windblade.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|I'll cry when I'm done killing.]]
Windblade was a cityspeaker from Caminus. She resented the Mistress of Flame for abandoning the planet in favor of a position on the council on Cybertron. Giving up her job, she vowed to destroy the Combiners that had laid waste to her home world. {{storylink|Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Windblade}} She and [[Maxima]] encountered [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] shortly after the Combiner dispatched [[Computron (G1)|Computron]]. Windblade sliced Menasor in two, at which point he revealed that the council had the [[Enigma of Combination]] and intended to use it to create an army of Combiners. After mourning the loss of Maxima, Windblade headed to Cybertron. {{storylink|The Fall}}

There, she attempted to snipe the Enigma, only for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to knock her aim off target as she fired. {{storylink|The Council}} Attacking the former Autobot leader, Windblade asserted that the Autobots, Decepticons and Combiners were all alike. He eventually managed to relieve her of her sword; however, when she revealed that the council had the Enigma, he joined forces with her. {{storylink|The Duel}} The pair paid a visit to Megatron and managed to persuade him to aid them, though not before Windblade had to deck him. {{storylink|Unforgotten}}

The trio headed to the council tower where they were met with hostility. Windblade accused the Mistress of Flame of deserting Caminus and inevitably Megatron shot [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] resulting in a clash between the two groups. As the trio fought the automated defenses, Windblade heard a mysterious voice in her head. {{storylink|Homecoming (CW)|Homecoming}} The arrival of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] resulted in Optimus, Megatron and Windblade fighting him instead, as he tried to claim the Engima for the Combiners. Things were further complicated by the arrival of [[Victorion]], at which point Starscream used the Enigma to merge with all the Combiners as Windblade and the others watched. {{storylink|A War of Giants}}
[[File:Machinima-Titans-Return-Ep3-MetroplexWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Big Guy & Rusty the Geshia Robot.]]

Windblade attempted to attack the out-of-control Starscream, only to be blasted by lightning and fall lifeless to the ground. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (CW)|Darkest Hour}} Finding herself in a featureless void, Windblade spoke with [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and admitted she was wrong to want to destroy everyone. Recalling her role as a Cityspeaker, Windblade recovered and got Metroplex to crush Starscream, allowing Optimus and Megatron to finish him off. Megatron presented Windblade with the Enigma, and she passed it on to Victorion for safekeeping. As the Mistress of Flame congratulated Windblade on ending the Combiner Wars, the cityspeaker observed that now the Titans had returned. {{storylink|Destruction's Dawn}}

As the cleanup of the city progressed, Windblade was disappointed that Optimus had chosen to leave. She found [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] examining Starscream's remains and left him to it, returning to Metroplex just in time to see a distant light as [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] rose from the ground. {{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}} She communed with Metroplex and realized the Titan had been planning to leave Cybertron before Starscream's stunt with the Enigma. Metroplex prepared to battle Trypticon, though Windblade believed he was too damaged to stand up to the evil Titan. She and Perceptor located the Mistress of Flame in the [[Primal Basilica]] and raised the alarm. Windblade resolved to stick by Metroplex's side as he fought, even as the [[Elite Air Resistance Squadron|reinforcements]] the Mistress called in were destroyed. {{storylink|Our Heroes Respond}}

[[File:TR-Ep6-Desperate-Actions-Windblade-bonds-to-FortMax.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|left|"[[Evangelion Unit-02|Mama]], I understand the A.T. Field now! You were with me, protecting me all along!"]]
She continued to plead with Metroplex to not battle Trypticon, but her pleas went unheeded, and she was shocked when Trypticon spoke with Starscream's voice. {{storylink|The Fight Begins}} Joined by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], Windblade attempted to assault Trypticon, but was too late to prevent Metroplex from perishing. After Hot Rod rescued [[Emissary (TR)|Emissary]] from Trypticon, the [[Titan Master]] and Windblade headed off to find [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], {{storylink|At the Last Second}} arriving there to find Megatron brawling with the Combiners. Once that was resolved, Emissary linked Windblade to Maximus's mind so she could awaken him. {{storylink|Desperate Actions}} The process was painful, but Windblade managed to persuade Maximus to act before Emissary terminated the link for her own safety. {{storylink|Run for Our Lives}}

The trio headed back to the city, as Optimus Prime and the Combiners were battling Trypticon, arriving just in time to save Optimus. {{storylink|In Good Hands}} As Fortress Maximus faced off against Trypticon, Windblade and the others split up to work as a distraction; however, Trypticon ate Victorion, much to Windblade's horror. Trypticon used the Enigma to control the remaining Combiners into attacking Maximus, and when Windblade attempted to shoot them off, she herself was shot down by Computron. She was forced instead to once again convince Megatron to help out, for which he demanded a favor in exchange. {{storylink|Consumed}} The battle abruptly ended when Trypticon ate Perceptor, and the [[Matrix of Leadership]] which Perceptor was carrying rejected him. Once Trypticon expired, Windblade and the others were treated to an appearance by [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], who terminated Optimus before leaving with the Matrix and Enigma. Windblade was inclined to agree with Menasor's plan to kill Megatron, as he appeared to have betrayed them, but he convinced them that they instead needed to work together to face this new threat. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}}

Still indebted to Megatron for saving Fortress Maximus, Windblade followed him to [[Primal Swamp]] in search of the [[Requiem Blaster (Megatronus)|Requiem Blaster]]. While searching, their group were attacked by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. Windblade tussled with [[Slag (G1)|Slug]] before managing to toss him aside, only for the five to combine into [[Volcanicus (POTP)|Volcanicus]]. {{storylink|The Swamp}} She attempted to combat the Combiner, but he laid her out flat with one punch. Before he could finish her off, he was attacked by [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], who soon turned on Windblade and the others as well. {{storylink|Volcanicus (episode)|Volcanicus}} She held her own against Predaking, attacking until he released the captive Victorion, prompting her and the others to make their escape. All of them came to a halt, however, as they watched Megatron enter a strange dome. {{storylink|Without Warning}} As they waited, Predaking began attacking again. Windblade attempted to stop him, but was shot down. She recovered as Megatron emerged from the dome, Blaster in hand, and they discussed their next course of action. {{storylink|Primal (POTP)|Primal}}
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Following Megatron's lead, Windblade and the others traveled to [[Cataclysm Tundra]]. Though still unsure of Megatron's good intentions, [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] reassured her of his honesty as they located the entrance to the [[Athenaeum Sanctorum]]. As they began doing research, they were interrupted by [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] and Hot Rod, now redubbed Rodimus Cron. {{storylink|Athenaeum Sanctorum (episode)|Athenaeum Sanctorum}} Windblade did her best to fight against the two, calling Primal a coward when she caught him trying to escape with the Requiem Blaster. As Rodimus prepared to finish Megatron, Windblade stepped into his path to protect Megatron, but Rodimus began strangling her instead. She attempted to reach any remaining trace of the old Hot Rod, but the [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] within assured her there was nothing left and tossed aside her unresponsive body. {{storylink|Countdown (POTP)|Countdown}} When she came to, Megatron had destroyed Overlord with the Requiem Blaster. Megatron thanked her for saving him, saying they were square, as did Primal for stopping him from retreating. When Megatronus arrived to take back the Blaster, she tried to stop him, but was powerless against the Fallen as he and Rodimus escaped. Though she continued to believe Hot Rod could be saved, the others convinced her that if the time came, they might need to destroy him. After a speech encouraging Megatron to lead them, she and the others headed for the [[Well of All Sparks|Well of Sparks]]. {{storylink|Consequences}}
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In spite of being weakened by Megatronus's weapon, Windblade and the others reached the Well. She attempted to draw Megatronus's fire, but she was shot down and very nearly perished if not for Optimus Primal's intervention. Ultimately, she and the others were engulfed in Megatronus's flames, unable to fight back. {{storylink|Collision Course}} When the flames finally died down, Windblade nearly passed out, but finally got to her feet and resumed attacking the device, now less affected by Megatronus's shots thanks to his weakening state. After watching Primal transform into Optimal Optimus, she and the others tackled Megatron to prevent him from reclaiming the Enigma and Blaster. {{storylink|Megatronus Unleashed}} She helped restrain Rodimus, allowing Optimal to remove the [[Matrix of Conquest|Matrix of Chaos]] from him and return him to Hot Rod. When Unicron tried to take control of Megatron, necessitating they both be killed, she desperately sought another solution. Finding none, she was left to mourn her friend's sacrifice. She was, however, overjoyed to see Optimus Prime revived from the dead as a result of their efforts. In the aftermath of the incident, Windblade was named Magistrate of Cityspeakers and worked to coordinate the efforts of all those who communicated with the Titans. {{storylink|Saga's End}}
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===Transformers social media content===
[[File:Facebook-DatingProfiles.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Darn it Starscream]]
Windblade was unimpressed by Starscream's online dating profile.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/transformers/videos/1625292087540979/ Dating Profiles]</ref>
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===''All Spark'' comic===
Windblade was part of an Autobot team led by [[Ginrai (human)|God Ginrai]] who helped [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] defeat [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]. {{storylink|Looming Threat}}

===''Bumblebee'' graphic novels===
[[File:GoForTheGold-Windblade.jpg|thumb|left|200px|'Cause she's so hiiiiiii-i-iigh, high above me...]]
Windblade was one of a number of Autobots who took part in a battle over a fallen [[Cybertonium]] meteorite. Over the course of the struggle, she dogfought with [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] and [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] before spying some [[human]]s caught in the crossfire that [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] helped ferry to safety. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Go For the Gold|Go For the Gold}}

A few days later, Windblade was present aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' after Bumblebee returned to duty before flying out to survey the nearby coast for any signs of Decepticon activity. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee - Win If You Dare|Win If You Dare}}

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===''Star Trek vs. Transformers''===
[[File:Star Trek Windblade.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

When the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' departed Cybertron four million years ago, Windblade was among the Autobots who joined Optimus Prime aboard the ship, only for the vessel and its occupants to crash-land on prehistoric Earth alongside Megatron's Decepticons. When the two sides reawakened in the years before humanity's invention of warp travel, they secretly battled for control of Earth's resources... until the outbreak of the [[Eugenics Wars]] and [[World War III]] prompted the Autobots to flee aboard the Titan [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and travel the [[Milky Way]] in search of energon, unaware that the Decepticons had given chase aboard their ''own'' Titan, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]].

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After decades of travel, the Decepticons caught up with their quarry over the barren moon of [[Cygnus Seven]]; when Megatron and his forces attempted to board their ship, Fortress Maximus crashed into the planetoid, knocking everyone aboard into [[stasis lock]]. There they remained for two hundred years, dormant until Cygnus Seven was colonized by the [[Federation]], and a team of [[dilithium]] miners accidentally stumbled on the alien ship and triggered its repair protocols. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

After first reawakening the Decepticons, the still-dormant Maximus then reactivated the Autobots, with Prime immediately going forth to confront the Decepticons. The other Autobots came online shortly after [[James T. Kirk|Captain Kirk]] and his away team investigated the mineshaft; aware of the dangers that humanity posed to their kind, they demanded to know Prime's location. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part One}} The Autobots initially tried to subdue the [[Starfleet]] personnel until Kirk was able to convince them of their good intentions, but after the two parties agreed to an alliance the Decepticons bombarded the mineshaft, sealing them in. Undaunted, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] hatched a plan to bring Fortress Maximus back online. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Two}}

[[File:PrimesDirective3-insidefortmax.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Do you guys have a self-destruct code? Like 'destruct sequence 1-A, 2-B, 3-'" <br> "Thanks a lot, Takei, now ''everybody'' knows!"]]

A doubtful Windblade watched as Ratchet assembled a device that would bring Fortress Maximus back into fighting shape by analyzing Kirk's own memories for a suitable shape, but despite her worries over Kirk's mental fortitude the device was indeed able to reconfigure Maximus's alternate mode into a copy of the starship ''[[USS Enterprise|Enterprise]]'', allowing him to burst free from the ground—just in time to rescue Optimus, [[Spock]], and [[Scotty]] from [[Kuri]]'s group of Decepticon-allied [[Klingon]]s. With [[Hikaru Sulu]] riding in her cockpit, the pair engaged [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], before the arrival of a similarly rejuvenated Trypticon in the form of a Klingon [[Warbird (Star Trek)|warbird]] eventually prompted the Autobot Titan to transform into the mighty "Fortress Tiberius." {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Three}}

Regrouping with [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] and the other Autobots, Windblade watched as the two Titans battled it out... before the conspicuous absence of Starscream prompted Megatron to abruptly retreat. Windblade correctly deduced that Starscream had stolen a load of dilithium and blasted off in search of a world to claim as his own, and Kirk beamed the heroes aboard Fortress Tiberius to give chase, first rendezvousing with the damaged ''Enterprise'' and beaming the Autobots over to the starship. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Four}}

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After some deliberation, Kirk opted to pursue Starscream, with the two ships breaching the [[Neutral Zone]] to reach the [[Klingon]] homeworld of [[Kronos]], capital of the [[Klingon Empire]], only to learn that Megatron and his loyal Decepticons had wrested Kronos from Starscream, intent on turning the world into the capital of a new [[Decepticon Empire]]. Joined by a series of [[Crewbot|armored battlesuits]], the Autobots and their [[Starfleet]] allies took on the Decepticons with the help of Kuri and his Klingons, but were laid low by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s deployment of a paralyzing counterfrequency. Fortunately, Soundwave had reckoned without the Klingons being ''immune'' to said signal, and the Decepticons were summarily ambushed and defeated by the Klingon armada.

In the aftermath, Windblade and the other Autobots opted to continue travelling the universe aboard Fortress Tiberius, but pledged to assist the Federation should Kirk or the crew of the ''Enterprise'' ever require their assistance again. {{storylink|Prime's Directive, Part Five}}

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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The World In Your Eyes Part One|''Transformers'' #1]]}}

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A member of Cybertron's [[Security Operations]], {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} Windblade was present at [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s forging ceremony, eventually becoming good friends with him. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 2}} Upon meeting [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], Windblade assumed, like everyone else, that he was Bumblebee repainted, feeling that the colours didn't work on her friend. {{storylink|Wannabee, Part 1}} Windblade remained close to Bumblebee after he left Security Operations to pursue a career in search and rescue. One evening, she encountered him and the newly forged [[Rubble]] on a tour of Cybertron, scaring off a [[Voin]] scavenger along the way. She accompanied them to an energon station run by [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]], only to find signs of sabotage... and Brainstorm's dead body. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}} She was subsequently joined by Security Operations head [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] to scope out the crime scene, though their investigation turned up no new leads. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Two}}

At Chromia's request, Windblade directed Bumblebee to the [[Senate]] building. Being left to walk Rubble home, Windblade assured the newborn that, due to the [[Nominus Edict]] and its rare forgings, it was Bumblebee who was worried that he was failing Rubble. When the two arrived at Rubble's quarters, they found Chromia and [[Geomotus]] waiting for Windblade. After assuring Rubble that she'd catch up with him later, Windblade followed the two out, angry at Chromia surreptitiously installing a tracker in Rubble's communicator. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}} In the Badlands, the group came across [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], Windblade wrestling him down for a conversation, with Chromia ordering him to report to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] next cycle. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Four}}

[[File:TheCracksBeneathYourFeetPartThree SideswipeThermalLance.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]

Soon afterwards, tragedy struck when Rubble was found to have been murdered. Catching up with Bumblebee, Windblade assured her friend that it wasn't his fault before the two sat in silence. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One}}

After Cyclonus had directed Chromia to a [[The Rise|Rise]] base beneath the [[Memorial Crater]], Windblade joined her and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] in the raid, only to find the facility had been abandoned. As Chromia tried to hack the computers, [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] attacked. Though Windblade managed to impale him, he shook both off and managed to escape, priming the base's self-destruct, with Windblade unable to escape the explosion in time. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three}} Clinging to life, Windblade was brought back to Iacon and placed in a [[CR chamber|CR Tank]]. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Four}} Bumblebee later came to visit his friend where he was found by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]]. {{storylink|The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Five}} A later examination by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] showed her to be a few cycles away from rebooting. {{storylink|The Change In Your Nature Part One}}

Windblade awoke to a grim situation, the [[Tether]] having fallen onto Cybertron as a result of a Rise attack. Called into action by [[Firestar (G1)|Novastar]], Windblade was partnered up with [[Blades (G1)|Blades]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}}

[[File:Tremors-Windblade.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

After Bumblebee had been relieved of his mission to infiltrate the Ascenticons, Windblade came to check up on him before a massive [[hologram]] of Megatron interrupted their talk. Windblade was later called into action to engage a Riser group in the hinterlands. Windblade tried to shoot down [[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] only to be left in the dust by his speed before she just dodged [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Tremors|Tremors}} Sixshot was a major threat for Security, and he pointedly refused to let Windblade stab him again. Still, the colossal [[Leviathan]] provided aid to Security, and Sixshot fled with the Rise members he could save. Quake was taken into custody, but Windblade and Springer remained behind to watch over the injured Leviathan until repair services could reach her. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: Prisoners|Prisoners}}

[[File:Moon-WindbladeNovastar.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

As the Senate fell to the renamed Decepticon faction, members of the Rise traveled to the Winged Moon in an attempt to lay claim to its energon. Windblade and Novastar's unit flew out to intercept them. A battle erupted, but engineers loyal to the old government destroyed the energon stores to keep the Rise from taking them. Windblade and her team rescued the engineers and brought them home from the now useless moon. {{storylink|War World: Moon|Moon}}

Those who opposed the Decepticons gathered under the leadership of Senator Orion Pax, who claimed the Matrix when First Senator Sentinel Prime was killed. They fled to [[Crystal City]] and declared themselves united as the Autobot faction. When it was discovered [[Termagax]] held the [[Enigma of Combination]] out near the Sea of Rust, Windblade was one of the Autobots who flew out to protect her from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}} The rest of Novastar's unit and Pyra Magna's Companions soon joined them aboard Sky Lynx, building a perimeter of fire and trenches in advance of the arrival of the Decepticons. When the battle was joined, Windblade provided air cover for the Autobots. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust II|Sea of Rust II}} Unfortunately, the Enigma was lost to the Sea of Rust during the conflict, leaving neither side with the advantage. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Enigmatic|Enigmatic}}

[[File:ADustOfCrystals-Windblade.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

When Ultra Magnus was captured, Windblade joined a small squad of [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], Chromia, and Smokescreen to retrieve him from Iacon. The old Senate house had been turned into a prison, and Smokescreen's contact [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] suggested Magnus would be there. Inside, Windblade was horrified to see the captive Senators who refused to support Megatron slowly wasting away with energon starvation. Unprepared for a mass jail break, the Autobots could only promise to one day return for the political prisoners. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Two}} At [[Swindle's]], the Autobots prepared to escape through his smuggling tunnels, with Windblade's old friend Bumblebee in tow. They were forced to fight a squad of Decepticons led by Sixshot, but managed to escape. Windblade welcomed Bumblebee back to the right side. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part Three}} The Decepticons followed, and Crystal City was soon under siege. Windblade and Bumblebee fought in the streets, taking time to discuss how much Orion had changed since being claimed by the Matrix. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

Optimus Prime negotiated a truce at Crystal City, giving the Autobots time to address the other threats looming over Cybertron. Windblade and Novastar's response team were deployed to seek out the Insecticons's hive. Windblade, Springer, and Blades were sent out as a diversion so that the ground-based Autobots could infiltrate the hive with a receiver cobbled together at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. {{storylink|Radical Time}} They arranged for a data bomb packet to be transmitted through an Insecticlone and into [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], reprogramming the swarm to attack the rust worms, ending two threats for the price of one. {{storylink|End of Time}} Windblade rendez-voused with the Autobots at Darkmount, and soon the last of free Cybertronians left the planet aboard the last ''Ark'', with the planet remaining in Decepticon hands. {{storylink|Transformers: Fate of Cybertron|Fate of Cybertron}}

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===''My Little Pony/Transformers''===
[[File:TheFlyinFoxTrot-Autobots.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"This could be the most one-sided fight since 1973, when Ali faced an 80-foot-tall mechanical Joe Frazier. My memory's not what it used to be, but I think the entire Earth was destroyed."]]

While battling for control of a malfunctioning [[Space bridge|spacebridge]], Windblade was among the many Cybertronians [[magic]]ally transported to [[Equestria]] by [[Queen Chrysalis]]. She received an SOS from Optimus Prime and Bumblebee but noted that she would be unable to provide aerial rescue, instead coming face to face with some confused [[Wonderbolt]]s. {{storylink|Transformation Is Magic}}

Continuing to prowl the skies, Windblade quickly found a kindred spirit in [[Rainbow Dash]]. When the two decided on an Autobot/Equestrian race, Windblade called in [[Battle Unicorn]] and [[Mach Kick]] to handle the ground portion while she raced Rainbow Dash. Though she initially held the lead, the race was crashed by [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] and his [[Rainmaker]]s. Encouraged by Rainbow Dash to use speed to counter their numbers, the two friends managed to turn the Decepticons' own [[missile]]s against them. With their foes defeated, the two agreed to call it a tie. {{storylink|The Flyin' Fox Trot}}

Windblade was later part of the force that defended the [[Crystal Empire]] from the Decepticons and changelings, later returning to Cybertron. {{storylink|Finale (Friendship in Disguise!)|Finale}}
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===''Transformers vs. The Terminator''===
One of the many dormant Autobots aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] tried to repair the damaged Windblade before the [[T-800]] remotely destroyed the Autobot vessel and everyone aboard. {{storylink|Enemy of My Enemy Part Three}}

===''History of the Transformers''===
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===''Last Bot Standing''===
When Rodimus explained the Cybertronian race to [[Shib Wallkis]], he remembered Windblade as one of the Autobots who fought in the Great War before the conflict finally drained the universe of its resources. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing issue 2|Last Bot Standing #2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers Legends''===
Windblade and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] were dispatched from the ''[[Lost Light]]'' to explore a distant planet. There they met a group of Decepticons, and joined forces with them to battle their mutual foes, the Ammonites. Though several Ammonite attacks were thwarted by the alliance, soon differing opinions caused infighting in the group. Eventually, both the Ammonites and the Decepticons were defeated, and the two Autobots returned to their spaceship. {{storylink|Into the Abyss}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers''===
{{main|Silver#As Windblade}}
Windblade appears as a character unlockable in Challenge Events. She is portrayed by the newest bird of the flock, Silver. Ironically both are new to their series. She also appears as an [[Silver#As Energon Windblade|Energon version]]. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Windblade.jpg|thumb|thumb|upright=2]]
Windblade participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She was an Epic character who could be recruited by collecting 500 units of Cybermetal, 250 units of Transmetal, and 50 cores of this character. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Windblade-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=2|I think Windlade joined the Dark Side]]
{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}
*'''Class:''' Special
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 2 star (was 3 star)
*'''Weaponry:''' Wind has a rifle she fires a few shots from before slashing a target with her sword.
*'''Ability: Quick Strike:''' - Fires 6 rockets at a target, then lands nearby an empty space and engages it!
**'''Cost:''' 5 ability points +2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:windblade Windblade at Transformers : Earth Wars Wiki]

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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Windblade-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=2|Nice Sword]]
Windblade was one of the Autobots pulled from [[The Transformers (franchise)|her universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. She eventually joins the [[You|Commander]]. There are at least a few of her running around! As a Scout, her sword inflicts Critical Bleeding attacks, as well as a Power Gain-shutting Stormfall Blast Shocks and Armor Piercing. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}

[[File:ForgedToFight-Windbladepromo.jpg|thumb|left|250px]|She can defeat Cybertronians, but can she defeat AIRMAN?]]

A controlled Windblade was under the tutelage of Bludgeon. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|The Way of the Blade}} Windblade was again exposed to a refined strain of Dark Energon as a test by the Quintesson Scientist, hearing deafening voices in her head. Optimus urged her to focus and overcome the Dark Energon's effects of amplifying her cityspeaking ability, but she said the voices compelled her to focus on his destruction. She believed the spirits of the Titans demanded retribution for the wars and destruction wrought by Optimus. Optimus again urged her to resist the figments of her delusion, but she sought vengeance. Oddly, the Commander had a final showdown with Mirage instead of her. {{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight|Voices}}
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===''Transformers: Heavy Metal''===
[[File:TFHeavyMetal Windblade.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Windblade was one of the most important Caminites in the galaxy. She was paired with humans as part of the [[Guardian Program]] set up to defend Earth against Starscream's Decepticons. Her bodyguard Chromia personally screened the humans she worked with. {{storylink|Transformers: Heavy Metal}}

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==Toys==
===''Generations''===
[[File:Generationstoy-Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Built by the fans, for the fans, and... incorporating fans.]]
*'''Windblade''' (Deluxe Class, 2014)
**'''30 OF 30'''
**''Series / Number'': '''02 / #019'''
**''Accessories'': "[[Stormfall Sword]]", scabbard, tessen
{{toydesigner|[[Lenny Panzica]] (Hasbro)|[[You]] (initial concept)}}

:Part of the tenth wave of 2012-onwards ''[[Transformers: Generations#T30|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class toys, ''Thrilling 30'' Windblade transforms from a jet with tilting, spinning VTOL fans and fold in front landing gear, into a robot with 'facepaint' evocative of Japanese {{w|Kabuki}} theatre makeup. She comes with the Stormfall Sword, a translucent blade with a turbine at the hilt, which she can hold via its [[5 mm post]]. The sword sheathes into the included scabbard, which can be held or tabbed onto slots on her thighs and back/cockpit sides, as well as be stored underneath her jet mode. Her headdress can also detach and be used as a "tessen" fan. A port under her nosecone is compatible with some action figure stands.

:She comes packaged with a copy of "[[Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8]]", and has a designated number as part of the ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' celebration.

:Care must be taken when detaching her headdress, as its painted ''and'' clear-plastic nature makes it very tight and susceptible to breakage. It must be pulled/wiggled '''back''', not pulled up as the [[instructions]] say. Due to a combination of back-heavy kibble and weak swivel tolerances on her heels and hip joints, getting Windblade to stand can often prove difficult, as she will often collapse when trying.

:She was retooled to create ''Legends'' [[Slipstream (Animated)#Legends|Slipstream]], who was then redecoed into [[BotCon 2016]] souvenir [[Airazor (BW)#Combiner_Wars|Airazor]]. This mold also served as the basis of the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of [[Stiletto (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Stiletto]] and the ''[[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|Combiner Wars]]'' character [[Maxima]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2014/Autobot/GenWindblade/windblade.htm More information on Windblade at TFU.info]''

===''Legends''===
[[File:Legends Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Better red than dead.]]
*'''Windblade''' ([[February 14]], [[2015]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''LG12'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword, scabbard, tessen

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Windblade is a redeco of ''Thrilling 30'' Deluxe Class Windblade with various changes in color layout, mostly in [[Alternate mode|vehicle mode]] which features much more red. Her wings and much of her fuselage are cast in red, pushing most of the black to her tail section and some highlights such as around the VTOL fans. Her nosecone features more extensive white paint and some new yellow eye-like markings on her nosecone, as well as a translucent dark blue canopy. In [[robot mode]] she has some changes to be more comic-accurate, like a slightly different hue of her Stormfall blade, red pelvis with black upper legs and much more accurate facepaint.

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[[File:TF-Legends-LG-62-Targetmaster-Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Pinpointer? I barely knew 'er! (I'm sorry)]]
*'''Targetmaster Windblade''' ([[February 24]], [[2018]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''LG62'''
**''Accessories:'' Sword, scabbard, Headmaster, [[Pinpointer (G1)#Legends|Pointech]] Targetmaster partner

:The second ''Legends'' figure of Windblade is a redeco of her ''Titans Return'' Deluxe Class figure, once again featuring paint apps and plastic color changes that make her resemble her comic coloration a bit better. Among these are added blue paint apps on her brow with a less blank stare looking face paint, a white nosecone and VTOL fans, completely black shoulders, and black knees with blue highlights (similar to those seen in her character art at the top of the page). Interestingly enough her blue collar is translucent blue plastic with silver painted underneath, creating a layered effect, rather than directly painted blue like the Titans Return version. Windblade ditches the Titan Master-compatible swords in exchange for a sword and scabbard similar, if not identical, to her ''Thrilling 30''/''Legends'' one. She also gains a Targetmaster partner that uses the same transformation scheme as [[Recoil (G1)#Legends|Recoil]], but is decoed to resemble [[Pinpointer (G1)#Legends|Pinpointer/Pointech]]. Her Headmaster gimmick remains intact with additional paint apps on the mini figure's arms and shins.
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===''Combiner Wars''===
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[[File:Transformers-SDCC-Combiner-Hunters-Windblade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!]]
*'''Combiner Hunters''' (Multi-pack, [[July 9]], 2015)
**''Accessories'': "Stormfall Sword," scabbard, tessen, Spectrospear

:The ''Combiner Hunters'' [[redeco]] of Windblade not only has many of her coloring details changed, but in fact mostly stands out for its new accessory: a gigantic [[Spectrospear]] pole-arm which is taller than Windblade herself. The tooling for this weapon was originally used for the 16"-tall electronic version of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' ''[[Titan Heroes]]'' [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys|Bumblebee]].

:This version of Windblade was only available in a [[giftset|gift set]] together with ''Combiner Hunters'' redecos of ''Generations'' [[Arcee (G1)/toys#CHunters|Arcee]] and [[Chromia (G1)#CHunters|Chromia]], each with their own giant new melee weapons. In the U.S., this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2015. In Asia, it was also available at Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2015 and subsequently stocked by Toys"R"Us Hong Kong. Later, it was also available at The Falcon's Hangar booth at Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention 2015.

::*''[http://tfu.info/2015/Autobot/SDCCWindblade/windblade.htm More information on ''Combiner Hunters'' Windblade at TFU.info]''

===''Titans Return''===
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[[File:TF-Generations-Titans-Return-Titan-Force-Windblade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And next year, Hasbro will release a ''different'' version of me in an exclusive three pack.]]
*'''Titan Force''' (Multi-pack, [[July 21]], [[2016]])
**''Accessories:'' Sword, Sheath, Tessen

:Titan Force Windblade is a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Windblade (RID)#Warrior|Warrior Class Windblade]] in a colour scheme reminiscent of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. She was only available in a [[giftset|gift set]] together with ''Titan Force'' redecoes of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#SDCC2016|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Brainstorm (G1)#Titans Return|Brainstorm]].

:In the United States, this set was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Toy Shop]] website and the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at [[San Diego Comic-Con]] 2016. In the United Kingdom, it was exclusive to the A1 Toys website and their booth at London Film & Comic Con 2016 (with Brainstorm renamed into "Charon" for [[trademark]] reasons); in China, it was exclusive to Cybertron Con Shanghai; in Hong Kong, it was exclusive to Animation-Comic-Game 2016; and in Canada, it was exclusive to the HasbroStore booth at Fan Expo 2016.

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[[File:TitansReturn-Windblade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And then Hasbro said, "Wait, we can make ''anyone'' into Titan Masters?"]]
*'''Scorchfire & Windblade''' (Deluxe Class, [[2017]])
**''Accessories'': Swords, [[Scorchfire#Generations|Scorchfire]] Titan Master

: Windblade is an extensive [[retool]] of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Deluxe Class [[Highbrow (G1)#Titans Return|Highbrow]] (who was already an extensive retool of the same line's [[Scourge (G1)/toys#Titans Return|Scourge]], the three only sharing the innermost torso assemblies and the upper legs, and Windblade has Highbrow's heels for feet), transforming into a VTOL jet. She comes with the [[Titan Master]] [[Scorchfire#Toys|Scorchfire]], who fits into her vehicle mode cockpit and transforms into her robot mode head. As with other ''Titans Return'' toys, Windblade can accommodate any Titan Master figure in both robot and vehicle mode. Windblade's two swords can stow under her wings or combine into a larger weapon/Titan Master vehicle which can also attach just behind the cockpit in jet mode. Under the seat on each sword is also a silver-painted tab that can tab into the slots on her thighs.
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==Merchandise==
===McDonald's===
[[File:2018-McD-Authentics-Bumblebee-Windblade.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Windblade''' (Happy Meal Toy, 2018)
:Released as part of the [[McDonald's]] June 2018 Happy Meal Toys along with [[My Little Pony]], this Windblade is a [[super deformed]] toy with a big head. Her [[gimmick]] is that she has a button on her back that, when you push it, turns her turbines.

:The toy was available in South Korea, Italy, Russia, and Malaysia. This toy was rereleased in the US for the ''[[Bumblebee (franchise)|Bumblebee]]'' promotion, thus creating [[Windblade (BB)#McDonald's|a new character]].
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===''Transformers Trading Card Game''===
[[File:W2Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Windblade, Combiner Hunter''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2: Rise of the Combiners'''
**''Rarity:''' ''SRT'''
**''Card Number:'' '''T46/T46'''
**''Stars:'' 12

:Windblade, Combiner Hunter is one of forty-six character cards released in Wave 2 of the ''[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]'', Rise of the Combiners.

:The artwork for the card is based on the Windblade figure included in the [[San Diego Comic-Con|SDCC 2015]] exclusive ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]'' Combiner Hunters box set.

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[[File:W2SWindbladeDOT.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Windblade, Defender of Truth''' (2019)
**'''Wave 2S: Bumblebee vs. Megatron Starter Set'''
**''Rarity: '''''RT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T04/T04'''
**''Stars: ''5

:Windblade, Defender of Truth was released as part of the ''Transformers Trading Card Game''{{'}}s Bumblebee vs. Megatron Starter Set. The card was packaged alongside [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], Least Likely, Most Dangerous, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Cybertronian Tyrant, Decepticon Lieutenant, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Decepticon Lieutenant, and a 40 card ready-to-play deck of Battle Cards.

:The line-art for the card was drawn by [[Dan Khanna]]
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===''Mighty Muggs''===
[[File:MightyMuggs 2018 Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.44|The big red gap on her mouth is actually her lip]]
*'''Windblade''' ([[2019]])
**''ID number:'' '''06'''

: Part of the second wave of the 2018 [[Mighty Muggs]] relaunch, Windblade features sculpted turbine wings and a helmet that can be pressed down to change her expression. She features three different faces: neutral, appalled, and gleeful.
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===Figural Bag Clip===
[[File:FiguralBagClip Windblade.jpg|upright=1.22|thumb]]
*'''Windblade''' (Figural Bag Clip, 2020)
:Released by Monogram, this 2.5" 3D foam bag clip takes the form of a chibi Windblade.

:It was available only as part of a [[Blindpacking|mystery blind bag]] collection.
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===Furai Model===
[[File:Furai-Model-Windblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Windblade''' (2022)
**''Number'': 20
**''Additional parts/accessories'': 1 pair of sword-holding hands, 1 pair of open-palm hands, sword.
:Produced by [[Flame Toys]], ''Furai Model'' Windblade is a Voyager Class-sized {{w|Gunpla}}-style model kit. Using parts made of hard ABS plastic and some polycaps, She features a rather...unique stylized design that consists of a human-like female body designed by [[Ban]] (ばん!), a designer for very NSFW PVC statues. She comes with two additional pairs of hands and a sword.

:For straight-assembly builders, Windblade features a sheet of foil stickers for detail (notably the wings), though the kit can be panel-lined and touched-up with several panel-lining and paint markers (GSI Creos' ''Gundam'' Marker is recommended). If one desires; the kit's pieces, aside from the translucent parts, can be fully coated with spray paints to recreate the finished sample seen in the stock photos.

:After the prototype's reveal, the model kit also generated a fair number of controversies regarding her curvy proportions, notably her well-endowed rear skidplates. The official Facebook and Twitter pages later removed the prototype pics and posted an updated design on their Twitter page in late July 2020.

:Initially set for a November 2021 release, Windblade was delayed to January 2022.
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==Notes==
[[File:Windblade concept.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The face of [[democracy]].]]

*Windblade is the first "officially fan-created" Transformer ever, the culmination of [[Hasbro]]'s "[[Fan polls|Fan Built Bot]]" initiative program. Two polls on Hasbro's official website allowed fans to determine her character and physical traits (well, ''most'' of her traits - her [[Japan]]ese motifs ''weren't'' an option in the poll and seem to be the work of the design team).
**From [[April 18]]th to [[May 5]]th, 2013,<ref>http://investor.hasbro.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=757648</ref> fans decided her faction (Autobot over Decepticon), alternate mode (jet over car, truck, tank, spaceship, terran beast [land], avian beast [airborne], helicopter, motorcycle, and construction), signature weapon (sword over blaster cannon, flame thrower, mace, spear/harpoon, morning star, Cybertronian taser, nunchucks, crossbow, and long-range blaster), color scheme (red & black over green & gold, blue & silver, orange & white, or purple & bronze) and personality (valiant over sneaky, hotshot, secretive, wild man, and grumpy).<ref>http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fan-built-bot-poll/27089/</ref>
**From [[May 10]]th to [[May 17]]th, fans voted on name (Windblade over Autobot Eclipse, Charon, Centuritron, Cashtron, Autobot Wraith), gender (female over male), origin (from Kaon over Iacon, Altihex, Kalis, and Praxus) and specialty (telepath over combat medic, bodyguard, recon, and close combat specialist).<ref>http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fan-built-bot-poll-second-round/27272/</ref>
**Subsequently, Windblade was revealed at [[San Diego Comic-Con|San Diego Comic-Con 2013]], where concept sketches of her (and the piece of finished art to the right) were part of the ''Transformers'' brand presentation.
**Some of the concepts that fans voted for were tweaked or outright dropped when Windblade made her official debut. Rather than hailing from Kaon, she originated on the planet Caminus. Instead of being broadly telepathic, Windblade's job was being a cityspeaker for Metroplex.
*Concept sketches at San Diego Comic-Con showed that European knight (with visor, arm shield, and fencing foil-esque sword) and Roman warrior (with twin swords) concepts for Windblade were considered before her Japanese stylings were finalized. A different pre-production sketch gave her a Japanese hand-fan weapon in addition to her sword. Speaking of her Japanese motifs, her finalized helmet was apparently designed to resemble the hairstyle commonly worn by the ''{{w|onna bugeisha}}'', the upper-class warrior-women of feudal Japan.
*At [[Toy Fair 2014]], Windblade was noted as being the handiwork of designer [[Lenny Panzica]], who put "probably five times as much energy" into her as the rest of his workload. A [https://www.facebook.com/transformers/posts/723592181044312 gallery] of his work was posted by Hasbro on Facebook.
*Her name works on many levels: "Wind Blade" is a real variety of industrial fan blade; she turns into a jet with VTOL turbofans; Hasbro designers had said they envisioned her coursing more energy into her sword blade through a spinning turbine fan in the hilt; she has a tessen, or iron fan; and, of course, she was the fans' choice character.
*Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' manga, Windblade is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. She uses the [[Mirage (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Mirage]] helmet, the [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Starscream]] wing-pack and the curved blade first used by [[Insecticon (WFC)#Kre-O|Insecticon]] and [[Rampage (G1)#Kre-O|Rampage]].
*According to [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 3|''Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook'' #3]], Windblade is 26 feet tall and weighs 8 tons.<ref>For reference, this equals 7.9 metres and 7.3 metric tonnes.</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].
*[[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]], the protective friend to [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] from ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Transformers: Cyberverse]]''.}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{i|Windblade}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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Windblade (Cyberverse)

2022-09-04T19:59:52Z

Starsbot: added information for episodes enemy line, thunderhowl, alien hunt!, valley of repugnus, dweller in the depths, silent strike, the other one, the immobilizers

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. Although Bumblebee was confident in his abilities, Windblade tried to give him a peptalk by emphasizing how unprepared Bumblebee was and how far he was from being back to his old self. Right as she tried to end on a positive note, he interrupted her to bring her attention to an autobot distress signal. Deciding against splitting up, they decided to investigate the signal. This lead them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X identified Windblade as not-crew and refused to answer any of her questions. Bumblebee was identified as crew, and when he asked about the Ark Teletraan-X said it could not tell him the location because Teletraan-X was a trap. At this point, the seekers revealed themselves and quickly captured Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who made a run for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade brought the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the entrance and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers arrived and Windblade jumped down to stop them. She activated a system that would close off the silo's exit and told Bumblebee to leave with Teletraan-X, choosing to stay behind in the silo to slow down the seekers. {{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream then woke her up, claiming that they're almost done and that she's waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade asked Thundercracker if this was true, and he confirmed that it was not. Slipstream told Acid Storm to knock Windblade out again and rip out all of her data, no matter how dangerous that was for Windblade. Slipstream didn't find anything useful and she increased the intensity of the mind rip and ordered Acid Storm to find something before leaving the room. This lead to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, and Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. When he found his home and entered it, they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. Finally he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

The joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for a decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] and raced through the Ark's hallways, he was hit by the [[Mega Magnetizer]] in an attempt to stop him. As both Grimlock and the ship are metal, they hoped he would get stuck. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] in search of the [[AllSpark]]. She cheered when Optimus announced that Wheeljack had found the location of the allspark. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting was set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going until night fell and [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they found a decepticon unconscious on the ground and Windblade scanned him, determining that he was almost entirely drained of energon. As they kept finding decepticons frozen in place, Windblade scanned more of them and reached the same conclusion every time. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade - and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. During the fight she also spoke highly of Slipstream and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save her. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and then started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos quickly broke out. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

Windblade was one of the pilots for the five remotely controlled spaceships that were used to trick the decepticons. She declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge, and that the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and the ships were controlled remotely. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge. She also agreed to dance with Bumblebee despite her insistence that she didn't dance. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she only responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a door blocked by some sort of rock and started hacking away at it with her blade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade speaks again, she speaks with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings are no longer glowing. She hands the allspark back to Cheetor and introduces Croaton, informing the others that he will speak through her. Her eyes turn red and her cityspeaker markings start glowing again as she floats upwards. Through her Croaton explains how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting for a bit and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her psychic cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and wanted to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which is how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to the room that held Iaconus' head, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself away from the platform and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky to stand in his way. Croaton was wrapped in Quintesson wires. Windblade watched from inside the mind of Iaconus as the two titans fought. Judge Starscream started talking to Croaton and Windblade figured out that he must be controlling Croaton. With this information, Iaconus attacked Judge Starscream. During all of the fighting Iaconus shot a laser which Croaton deflected with his shield. Windblade helplessly watched as the redirected laser killed Maccadam. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but got no response. Then Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton which she used. She reached the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfell and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

In the aftermath of the battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron was split into two areas. One for autobots and one for decepticon. Croaton had settled down - with the unconscious Windblade still with him - in what would become a decepticon area. [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] found Windblade and did what she could to help her in secret. This left Windblade in a stable but still unconscious state. Meanwhile Bumblebee searched for Windblade, breaking the rules to enter decepticon territory. This eventually led him to Croaton's cityspeaker chamber where he found Shadow Striker rather than Windblade. Shadow Striker took him to Windblade and explained her situation. She then told Bumblebee to take Windblade and run. He ran into several hostile groups before [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] reached him to help carry Windblade to safety. Even then a group of seekers stopped them before they could get back across the border. Even [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] showed up to prevent the group from leaving decepticon territory. However, Optimus showed up just in time. Not wanting to restart the war, Megatron backed down and let Bumblebee and Whirl leave with Windblade. Later Ratchet provided medical care to Windblade but claimed that there was nothing he could do. [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] agreed with this but said there might be something she could do. {{storylink|Enemy Line}}

Chromia explained that when a cityspeaker overexerted themself their mind could shatter and the shards would be scattered. Additionally these pieces would typically end up in powerful artifacts. A device was made for these cases, a psychic tracker that could help find the pieces and bring them back. While no one had been able to fully restore a cityspeaker before, Chromia was confident that this time would be different. Chromia tracked the signal into a dangerous forest that contained the [[Crystal City]]. After they got past various obstacles and picked up a new ally in [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]], they reached the [[Crystalline King]]. Windblade's psychic shard was inside this and it generated several crystalline clones of Windblade to fight the bots. Bumblebee was able to reach and destroy it, and Chromia collected the first of Windblade's shards to return to her body. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}

The next shard was tracked to [[Moonbase 3|Luna 3]], the forbidden moon. On Chromia's recommendation Bumblebee was able to contact [[Meteorfire (Cyberverse)|Meteorfire]] to help him get there. This moon turned out to be haunted by an [[Obicular-class parasitic entity]], which Windblade's shard had lodged into. Bumblebee was able to power up and destroy this entity, after which he could collect another one of Windblade's shards. {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}}

A third shard was detected below the energon rivers. There was an entire society living under these rivers. [[Affluous]] was the leader of this society, though it was later discovered that he had created a tower that prevented anyone in range from transforming. Windblade's shard was lodged in this tower and Bumblebee was able to retriever her shard after destroying the tower. {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}}

Chromia returned the shards that had been found to Windblade's body, leaving only two left to find. Before the search could be resumed however, [[Hammerbyte]] crashed through the wall and stole Windblade's body and took her to the [[Argon Sea]]. Bumblebee and Chromia entered the sea in pursuit and received a telepathic call for help from Windblade. It soon became clear that Hammerbyte had been under control of the [[Dweller (Cyberverse)|Dweller]], a recently reawakened titan, when he abducted Windblade. He had brought her to the Dweller's cityspeaker chamber. When Chromia reached this chamber the Dweller explained that Windblade's psychic shard awoke him and he had brought Windblade to him so she could make him whole again and all could become his citizens. Although the titan had returned Windblade's shard to her, she was still missing one and so she was still unconscious during all of this. Chromia, Bumblebee, and Hammerbyte were able to rescue Windblade from the Dweller and leave. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}}

Optimus learned that Windblade's last shard was inside Megatron's Matrix that he took with him from another universe. This Matrix would need to be destroyed to free her. {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} He immediately mobilized all forces and made a plan to gain access to and destroy Megatron's Matrix. {{storylink|Silent Strike}}

Inside Megatron's Matrix, Windblade's final missing shard was conscious and recognized the names of the Primes. Optimus Prime took shape and explained where she was. Then he continued, mentioning that he had only met Windblade once. Windblade was confused by this, which was not helped by Optimus's explanation that she was only a shard of Windblade. He also told her that she needed to destroy the Matrix she was in. Outside Megatron's Matrix a struggle ensued for this Matrix which resulted in [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|the Megatron from that Matrix's universe]] using it in a direct Matrix to Matrix fight against Optimus. It seemed like he would win but the shard of Windblade destroyed his Matrix from inside out, giving Optimus a chance to gain the upper hand. With the Matrix destroyed Bumblebee collected Windblade's fifth and last shard. She was soon restored to consciousness and the autobots celebrated her return. {{storylink|The Other One}}

At the signing of the [[Treaty of the Wall|peace treaty]] Windblade was part of the autobot delegation that stood with Optimus during the signing. She was frozen in time by a group of mercenaries along with everyone else. [[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]] even stole her sword during this. Eventually she was freed along with everyone else. {{storylink|The Immobilizers}}

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====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

In one specific universe Windblade only met [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] once. This was the universe where [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] killed Optimus early on, which is likely the reason Windblade never met him again. {{storylink|The Other One}}

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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. Although Bumblebee was confident in his abilities, Windblade tried to give him a peptalk by emphasizing how unprepared Bumblebee was and how far he was from being back to his old self. Right as she tried to end on a positive note, he interrupted her to bring her attention to an autobot distress signal. Deciding against splitting up, they decided to investigate the signal. This lead them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X identified Windblade as not-crew and refused to answer any of her questions. Bumblebee was identified as crew, and when he asked about the Ark Teletraan-X said it could not tell him the location because Teletraan-X was a trap. At this point, the seekers revealed themselves and quickly captured Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who made a run for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade brought the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the entrance and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers arrived and Windblade jumped down to stop them. She activated a system that would close off the silo's exit and told Bumblebee to leave with Teletraan-X, choosing to stay behind in the silo to slow down the seekers. {{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream then woke her up, claiming that they're almost done and that she's waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade asked Thundercracker if this was true, and he confirmed that it was not. Slipstream told Acid Storm to knock Windblade out again and rip out all of her data, no matter how dangerous that was for Windblade. Slipstream didn't find anything useful and she increased the intensity of the mind rip and ordered Acid Storm to find something before leaving the room. This lead to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, and Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. When he found his home and entered it, they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. Finally he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

The joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for a decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] and raced through the Ark's hallways, he was hit by the [[Mega Magnetizer]] in an attempt to stop him. As both Grimlock and the ship are metal, they hoped he would get stuck. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] in search of the [[AllSpark]]. She cheered when Optimus announced that Wheeljack had found the location of the allspark. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting was set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going until night fell and [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they found a decepticon unconscious on the ground and Windblade scanned him, determining that he was almost entirely drained of energon. As they kept finding decepticons frozen in place, Windblade scanned more of them and reached the same conclusion every time. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade - and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. During the fight she also spoke highly of Slipstream and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save her. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and then started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos quickly broke out. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

Windblade was one of the pilots for the five remotely controlled spaceships that were used to trick the decepticons. She declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge, and that the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and the ships were controlled remotely. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge. She also agreed to dance with Bumblebee despite her insistence that she didn't dance. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she only responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a door blocked by some sort of rock and started hacking away at it with her blade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade speaks again, she speaks with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings are no longer glowing. She hands the allspark back to Cheetor and introduces Croaton, informing the others that he will speak through her. Her eyes turn red and her cityspeaker markings start glowing again as she floats upwards. Through her Croaton explains how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting for a bit and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her psychic cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and wanted to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which is how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

With both autobots and decepticons freed from the loop, the threat of the Quintessons wasn't over yet. Hot Rod and [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] made autobots and decepticons do training exercises together so they could learn to get past their differences. When Windblade approached the training room for her turn however, they informed her that she would be doing something else. They brought her to the room that held Iaconus' head, explaining that they would need Iaconus but weren't able to wake him up. But they weren't cityspeakers, and Windblade was. She tried to wake up Iaconus and stood on the platform. With a beam of light she floated upwards with glowing cityspeaker markings and it seemed to go well, but then she started reacting as if she was in pain. She activated her fans to blow herself away from the platform and interrupt the process. [[Maccadam]] entered the room and told Windblade that trying to wake Iaconus up could destroy her. He also insisted that this was not the right time for her to wake Iaconus up. Although Windblade wanted to try again, Hot Rod decided against it. The plan would instead be for Optimus to bring a bomb to the tower of the Quintessons and blow it up. Windblade was one of the bots that helped to cover his approach. When the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] blocked the cybertronians she tried to attack Lord [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Gnaw]] but he threw her into a building. This left her to watch from the top of the building as Lord Gnaw detonated the bomb Optimus was carrying. After the explosion she tried to contact Hot Rod and Optimus, but got no reaction. With the dire situation the cybertronians were in, she decided to fly back to Iaconus to make another attempt at waking him up. After a moment of hesitation, she stepped onto the platform and started the process. Although it hurt her she was able to partially awaken Iaconus, enough to raise him partially above the ground and scare the sharkticons away. Maccadam interrupted the process by jumping through the beam of light and carrying Windblade out of it. He told her he had lost too many cityspeakers this way. {{storylink|The Alliance}}

The cybertronians had a new plan which involved distracting the Quintessons so a small group could sneak onto their ship. As part of this Windblade led a group of flying bots to distract the [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]]. The plan succeeded and both the ship and Judge were destroyed, though a new Judge emerged with [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] leading. {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}}

Judge Starscream quickly defeated and captured the cybertronians. Soundwave was able to create a distraction to start an escape attempt, but only Windblade was able to get away. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}}

She returned to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]] and found that it had been taken over by a group of sharkticons. Despite the strict rule against fighting, Maccadam allowed Windblade to fight the sharkticons. At first she fought them with only her fists. Eventually there was only one sharkticon left, Gnaw. She used her sword to fight Gnaw and although she got injured she was able to defeat him. Maccadam offered Windblade a drink and Windblade commented that he didn't allow fighting. He laughed and told her that he could make an exception for her. Windblade then told him that she would have to wake up Iaconus, to which Maccadam agreed. He warned her that there were enemies everywhere on the way to the cityspeaker chamber, but that he would help her fight them. Together they made their way through sharkticons and Quintessons, until they reached the cityspeaker chamber. Here Maccadam warned Windblade that he and the other citizens set up a psychic trap in Iaconus to prevent any cityspeaker from waking him up again. Although Windblade wanted him to just tell her how to disable the trap, he only told her that she had what she needed and ran off to keep anyone from entering the chamber. Windblade stepped onto the platform and made another attempt to wake up Iaconus. In his mind she set off the trap by accident, but when she remembered Maccadam's advice she reached for Stormfall and used it to disable the trap. With the trap disabled she introduced herself to Iaconus and asked him to respond. After a few attempts, he did. Finally truly awakened, Iaconus rose from the ground. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}}

Inside the mind of Iaconus she asked for an exterior visual. This allowed her to see that Iaconus was destroying the city. She argued with him, insisting that he had to listen to her, and told him that he should focus on fighting Judge Starscream. Iaconus did listen to her and started running towards the Judge, but [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] fell from the sky to stand in his way. Croaton was wrapped in Quintesson wires. Windblade watched from inside the mind of Iaconus as the two titans fought. Judge Starscream started talking to Croaton and Windblade figured out that he must be controlling Croaton. With this information, Iaconus attacked Judge Starscream. During all of the fighting Iaconus shot a laser which Croaton deflected with his shield. Windblade helplessly watched as the redirected laser killed Maccadam. Iaconus soon gained the upper hand against Croaton but was prevented from landing a finishing blow when Judge Starscream used unspace to destroy Iaconus's head, killing him. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}}

The abrupt loss of Iaconus's mind left Windblade unconscious until [[Laserbeak (Cyberverse)|Laserbeak]] woke her up. She then received a message from Optimus that the fight was not over. After this she noticed Croaton destroying everything and stated that he must be stopped. She landed on Croaton and tried to reach out telepathically to talk to him, but got no response. Then Laserbeak created an opening for her to enter Croaton which she used. She reached the cityspeaker chamber and went into Croaton's mind. In here he was able to speak to her and explained that the Quintesson technology controlled all of his functions. In order to free him, Windblade used Stormfell and split into five copies of herself so she could destroy the Quintesson technology {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}. She succeeded but the overexertion shattered her mind, scattering parts of her across Cybertron {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}}. When Croaton did not hear a response from Windblade, he carried her away from the battlefield to find a place to rest. {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}}

{{Charfictionstub|{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}} {{storylink|Wiped Out}} {{storylink|The Sleeper}} {{storylink|Enemy Line}} {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}} {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}} {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}} {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} {{storylink|Silent Strike}} {{storylink|The Other One}} {{storylink|The Immobilizers}} {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did.
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Other One}}}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot: added information for the loop, the trial, the scientist

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. Although Bumblebee was confident in his abilities, Windblade tried to give him a peptalk by emphasizing how unprepared Bumblebee was and how far he was from being back to his old self. Right as she tried to end on a positive note, he interrupted her to bring her attention to an autobot distress signal. Deciding against splitting up, they decided to investigate the signal. This lead them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X identified Windblade as not-crew and refused to answer any of her questions. Bumblebee was identified as crew, and when he asked about the Ark Teletraan-X said it could not tell him the location because Teletraan-X was a trap. At this point, the seekers revealed themselves and quickly captured Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who made a run for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade brought the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the entrance and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers arrived and Windblade jumped down to stop them. She activated a system that would close off the silo's exit and told Bumblebee to leave with Teletraan-X, choosing to stay behind in the silo to slow down the seekers. {{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream then woke her up, claiming that they're almost done and that she's waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade asked Thundercracker if this was true, and he confirmed that it was not. Slipstream told Acid Storm to knock Windblade out again and rip out all of her data, no matter how dangerous that was for Windblade. Slipstream didn't find anything useful and she increased the intensity of the mind rip and ordered Acid Storm to find something before leaving the room. This lead to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, and Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. When he found his home and entered it, they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. Finally he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

The joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for a decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] and raced through the Ark's hallways, he was hit by the [[Mega Magnetizer]] in an attempt to stop him. As both Grimlock and the ship are metal, they hoped he would get stuck. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] in search of the [[AllSpark]]. She cheered when Optimus announced that Wheeljack had found the location of the allspark. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting was set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going until night fell and [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they found a decepticon unconscious on the ground and Windblade scanned him, determining that he was almost entirely drained of energon. As they kept finding decepticons frozen in place, Windblade scanned more of them and reached the same conclusion every time. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade - and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. During the fight she also spoke highly of Slipstream and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save her. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and then started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos quickly broke out. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

Windblade was one of the pilots for the five remotely controlled spaceships that were used to trick the decepticons. She declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge, and that the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and the ships were controlled remotely. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge. She also agreed to dance with Bumblebee despite her insistence that she didn't dance. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she only responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a door blocked by some sort of rock and started hacking away at it with her blade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade speaks again, she speaks with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings are no longer glowing. She hands the allspark back to Cheetor and introduces Croaton, informing the others that he will speak through her. Her eyes turn red and her cityspeaker markings start glowing again as she floats upwards. Through her Croaton explains how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting for a bit and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her psychic cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

When the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] arrived on Cybertron they placed every bot they could find into a virtual reality where they watched a parade in an endless timeloop. In this state everyone's sparks were diminishing in strength over time. Windblade was also placed in this loop, where she talked to Chromia and wanted to talk to Bumblebee as well. {{storylink|The Loop}}

Hot Rod wanted to wake up the titan [[Iaconus]] but found out that he would need the help of a cityspeaker for that. This led him to turn his focus to waking up Windblade from the loop. He led a small group of bots in a plan to help her understand the situation she was in and break free from it. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]], [[Dead End (Cyberverse)|Dead End]], and [[Whirl (Cyberverse)|Whirl]] approached Windblade in her physical location. Perceptor attached a device to her that could interrupt the signal of the loop and allow her to see what happened at the location of her body rather than what happened inside the virtual reality. Hot Rod and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] approached Windblade inside the loop with a [[Cortical psychic patch]] and Hot Rod tried to warn Windblade about what she would see. With this she was able to see Perceptor, Whirl, and Dead End as well as the Quintessons that soon attacked them. Unfortunately one of the Quintessons noticed the device that interrupted the loop and destroyed it. Windblade quickly forgot what she had seen, instead watching the parade and cheering for Optimus. Hot Rod's group was forced to retreat and leave Windblade in the loop. {{storylink|The Trial}}

Eventually Perceptor convinced everyone to transform - which is how bots left the loop - by creating a group of [[Air Hammer (Cyberverse)|Air Hammers]]. This freed every bot that hadn't been fully drained of life, including Windblade. {{storylink|The Scientist}}

{{Charfictionstub|{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}} {{storylink|Wiped Out}} {{storylink|The Sleeper}} {{storylink|The Alliance}} {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}} {{storylink|Enemy Line}} {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}} {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}} {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}} {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} {{storylink|Silent Strike}} {{storylink|The Other One}} {{storylink|The Immobilizers}} {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did.
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
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==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
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[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot: added information for episodes perfect storm, the crossroads, battle for cybertron (i-iv)

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:''Windblade is a [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:CyberverseWindblade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sailor [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]].]]
'''Windblade''' has put herself in charge of keeping her best friend [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] out of trouble, which isn't easy now that he's lost his memories on Earth. It's lucky that this [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]] has the skills to back up her stubborn determination and give the [[Decepticon]] [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] a fly for their money! <ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse Character bios] at the official ''Cyberverse'' website</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English), [[Aoi Yuki]] (Japanese)|[[Alice Bauer]] (German, first voice), [[Melanie Isakowitz]] (German, second voice), [[Cristiana Rossi]] (Italian), [[Andrea Makay]] (Hungarian), [[Ludivine Deworst]] (French), [[Amalia Cantarero]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jahel Morga]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Carla Martelli]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
An immigrant to Cybertron from [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Windblade's [[Cityspeaker]] talents gave her the ability to telepathically contact and communicate with other Transformers through her mind. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} Windblade was good friends with [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]] before she left Caminus, {{storylink|Maccadam's}} and upon arriving on Cybertron she initially fell in with the egotistical [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] friends. The group attended a [[Cube (sport)|cube]] match in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], where Windblade first met [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] after the yellow 'bot disguised himself to get into the stadium. After Bumblebee ran afoul of stadium security, Windblade contacted him telepathically and helped him sneak back into the stadium. After helping Bumblebee foil Starscream's plan to ruin the game with a tampered cube, Bumblebee invited her to meet some of his friends at his favorite bar, [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's]]. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} After rubbing shoulders with both [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], Windblade met the [[Maccadam|bartender]], who baffled both her and Bumblebee with some cryptic advice. {{storylink|Maccadam's}} During these early times on Cybertron, Windblade came to see [[Mount Helix]] as one of her favorite places to be. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Some time later, following the rise of Megatron and his [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the war, {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Windblade — now an Autobot — visited Maccadam's, where Chromia unsuccessfully tried to convince her to return to Caminus. Windblade was skeptical when Bumblebee introduced her to [[Drift (Cyberverse)|a potential Decepticon deserter]], though the conversation was cut short when Megatron broke into the bar. {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

At some point after the loss of Bumblebee's voice, it became clear that Megatron sought to seize control of the [[AllSpark]]. Windblade was one of the Autobots who took part in the battle to eject the artifact from Cybertron, taking down both Starscream and [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]] and opening the path for Bumblebee to activate the [[space bridge]] that would take the AllSpark offworld. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} Optimus soon announced his intention to leave Cybertron and recover the artifact, and though Windblade tried to persuade Bumblebee to stay with her on Cybertron, he too joined the crew of the ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]''. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} On the day of Bumblebee's departure, the two friends visited the ruins of Maccadam's, and were surprised to find that the bar was still open. Maccadam poured them a drink and told the pair that, although they would be separated, they would always remain friends... and informed them that, one day in the future, they would need to find "the king of the dinosaurs." {{storylink|Maccadam's}} Feeling reassured about her friendship with Bumblebee, she then joined him when [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] called the yellow 'bot to the ''Ark''{{'}}s launch site. There, Windblade finally bade her friend farewell. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} However, she remained in touch long enough to learn that [[Ratchet (Cyberverse)|Ratchet]] had been able to repair Bumblebee's damaged [[voice box]].

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e1-Fractured-Windblade-hugs-Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[:File:Primebumblebeehug.jpg|She isn't the first Autobot to hug him.]]]]

In Prime's absence, Windblade and the other Autobot stragglers fought on, though it soon became clear that the heroes were outnumbered by the Decepticons. Eventually, it became clear that the ''Ark'' itself had been lost, and when Megatron realized that the ''Ark'' had tracked the AllSpark to the distant world of [[Earth]], the Autobots soon caught word of this revelation. [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] was eventually able to repair Cybertron's space bridge, and Windblade travelled to Earth to search for the Autobot starship — a one-way trip, as the space bridge exploded behind her.

Windblade spent a long time on Earth, fruitlessly searching for the AllSpark or the ''Ark,'' until she eventually chanced across [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] on Earth, rescuing him from almost falling off a cliff (later, [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]] would reveal that this is when he first noticed the presence of transformers on Earth {{storylink|Dark Birth}}). She soon learned that Bumblebee had suffered damage, and was unable to remember her or his mission on Earth. The [[Decepticon]] [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] soon showed up to rain on their parade, and bested Windblade with ease. The [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] then tried to kill Bumblebee using Windblade's sword, but failed thanks to Bumblebee momentarily paralyzing him with his [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]. Windblade then blew the Decepticon off to parts unknown with her fans. She then attempted to connect with Bumblebee's mind and jog his memories with a [[cortical psychic patch]], but this procedure failed and left the two [[Autobot]]s unconscious after subjecting them to severe pain. {{storylink|Fractured}}
[[File:Cyberverse-s1e2-Memory-Windblade-in-Bumblebee's-mind.jpg|thumb|300px|I will tolerate no reenactment, whether it's ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ''Ghost''.]]
The cortical psyshic patch also released a powerful energy pulse, alerting the Decepticons Thundercracker and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]] to their location. Windblade, after coming to, immediately took to the skies to engage Nova Storm in a dogfight. She then instructed [[Stinger (weapon)|stinger]]-deprived Bumblebee to retreat to a nearby mineshaft, after which she used her detachable turbines to bury both Decepticons under a large pile of rubble. She then set off to found the Decepticons' ship, which she thought could be used as additional computing power for the cortical patch procedure, but discovered that Bumblebee had rushed in without listening to her carefully detailed plan about how to infiltrate the ship. Entering the bridge, she set up the cortical patch again to enter Bumblebee's memories, using her [[Cityspeaker]] skills to guide him through the process. While Windblade hoped to recover the current location of the Ark, Bumblebee only managed to recover a small fragmented memory detailing the ship's launch... and memories of Windblade herself, finally recognizing her as his old friend. The happy moment was unexpectedly cut short when [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] contacted the ship to know how his scouts were doing... only for Bumblebee to immediately seize the communicator and blow their cover, to Windblade's chagrin. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}}

After their cover was blown, Windblade and Bumblebee hijacked the [[Decepticon scout ship]] to get away, setting a course through a nearby mountain range. Bumblebee's piloting skills were so bad the scout ship nearly crashed into two mountains and caused the [[decapitation]] of a tree so Windblade told Bumblebee to land near some radio towers, even though there was only one visible. She also told Bumblebee that she would do all of the flying which made the little scout a bit sad. Later, she once again set up the cortical patch. She told Bumblebee to access the memory of the Allspark to help him remember what it was. Windblade confirmed Bumblebee's assessment that the Allspark contains infinite life before directing him to a memory which showed how they lost the Allspark. After the memory ended, Windblade reminded Bumblebee that the "awesome guy" was Optimus Prime. Windblade commented on how Bumblebee's memory was repairing itself. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

After the memory had ended, Windblade and Bumblebee had a chat about the other [[Autobot]]s. Windblade told Bumblebee that they might not have woken up and were still on the Ark.{{storylink|The Journey}}

[[File:Cyberverse-s1e5-Whiteout-Windblade-knocked-down-by-seekers.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"We want your lunch money!"]]

After going through Bumblebee's memory, Windblade noticed the mountains in the background and after coming to the conclusion that it was in the Himalayas, decided to check it out without Bumblebee. She found the stasis pod Bumblebee had emerged from and his blaster, but was ambushed by three [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] and captured. She was interrogated for information on the location of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots, but managed to defeat Thundercracker, Nova Storm and Slipstream before returning to the ship and giving Bumblebee back his blaster.{{storylink|Whiteout}}

Windblade was in Bumblebee's memories, trying to convince the young scout that Megatron wasn't a hero, telling Bumblebee that he was lying about what he said. Windblade did not want Bumblebee to relive a memory in which Megatron tore his voice box but he did so anyway. Bumblebee did seem fine after watching the memory, talking about how Megatron couldn't stop him from talking, Repeatedly saying the word 'talk'. This got Windblade laughing a bit, and she jokingly told him to in response. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

While Windblade was trying to find some Decepticon intel on the ship's computer, Bumblebee discovered a glowing cube that he couldn't identify. Windblade decided to help the young scout remember the game by patching into his mind and showing him the memory. After the memory ended, Bumblebee suggested that they should play a round of Cube on Earth. Unfortunately, neither of them remembered how to play the sport.{{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}}

Another failed search to Windblade retreating to the shuttle after contacting Bumblebee... only to find Acid Storm and Thrust attempting to board. Fighting off the seekers, she found Bee exploring his memories, forcing her to pilot the shuttle in a dogfight against the seekers and an ever-relentless Slipstream. She escaped by moving into orbit just as Bee woke up. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}} After failing to help Bumblebee rediscover some of his wartime prowess the physical way, Windblade decided to help him by jogging his memory. After looking through two memories, the two friends returned to their sparring. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

During an outer space battle with Slipstream and two Deception warships, Windblade was surprised when Bumblebee mentioned visiting Maccadam's. After landing nearby [[Bumblebee Cave|a Bumblebee looking mountain cave]], she entered Bumblebee's mindscape. She was baffled after the memory as in that memory as Maccadam had predicted the two of them hiding in a cave. The next memory also baffled her as in that memory, Maccadam had predicted Bumblebee shooting down a Deception warship. After the final memory, Windblade and Bumblebee concluded that they had to find the "king of the dinosaurs". {{storylink|Maccadam's}}

[[File:Cyberverse - Sabotage - It's all Shockwave's fault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Just pretend my hand's a chestburster, I'll use some CGI during post-production
to make my hand look like a chestburster."]]

While trying to find the "king of the dinosaurs", Windblade was ejected out of Bumblebee's mindscape by Shockwave who masqueraded as her. She attempted to salvage the connection, only for the ship's autopilot to suddenly turn on and start flying to an abandoned air hanger. She ended up getting captured by Slipstream and her seekers, though she was able to outsmart Thundercracker and Nova Storm, she couldn't escape the ship which was being controlled by Slipstream. After Bumblebee escaped his mind and arrived at the ship, Windblade told him to press the red button, which caused the ship to fly into the hanger and self destruct. While fleeing from Slipstream and her seekers, Windblade lamented how they no longer had a way to enter Bumblebee's memories, though Bumblebee himself was just happy to be alive. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

Having lost the ship, Windblade and Bumblebee struggled to blend in and Windblade suggested splitting up to find the Ark faster. Although Bumblebee was confident in his abilities, Windblade tried to give him a peptalk by emphasizing how unprepared Bumblebee was and how far he was from being back to his old self. Right as she tried to end on a positive note, he interrupted her to bring her attention to an autobot distress signal. Deciding against splitting up, they decided to investigate the signal. This lead them to an abandoned underground missile silo, where they followed the signal to a large room. Here they met [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], a backup system for the Ark's computer. Teletraan-X identified Windblade as not-crew and refused to answer any of her questions. Bumblebee was identified as crew, and when he asked about the Ark Teletraan-X said it could not tell him the location because Teletraan-X was a trap. At this point, the seekers revealed themselves and quickly captured Windblade and Bumblebee. Slipstream told Bumblebee to access Teletraan-X for her, with the seekers hurting Windblade to motivate him. When this didn't work, Thundercracker turned his taser on Bumblebee. Since Bumblebee was crew, Teletraan-X started bowling over seekers to protect him, freeing both Bumblebee and Windblade who made a run for the exit. As they ran, Windblade told Bumblebee that Teletraan-X was the key to finding the Ark and keeping it safe was their first priority. In the mazelike underground structure, Windblade and Bumblebee split up by accident and Windblade brought the ceiling down on the seekers that followed her. She quickly found Bumblebee again. At this point, Teletraan-X helpfully revealed it had a full map of the tunnels that could lead them out. They reached the entrance and started climbing the ladder to get out. However, the seekers arrived and Windblade jumped down to stop them. She activated a system that would close off the silo's exit and told Bumblebee to leave with Teletraan-X, choosing to stay behind in the silo to slow down the seekers. {{storylink|Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X}}

[[File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|"Hey Acid Storm, wasn't that stuff around her eyes red before?"]]

Having captured Windblade, the seekers locked her up and looked through an unconscious Windblade's memories with a cortical psychic patch in hopes of finding information about the Ark. Slipstream then woke her up, claiming that they're almost done and that she's waiting for the order to deactivate Windblade. Windblade asked Thundercracker if this was true, and he confirmed that it was not. Slipstream told Acid Storm to knock Windblade out again and rip out all of her data, no matter how dangerous that was for Windblade. Slipstream didn't find anything useful and she increased the intensity of the mind rip and ordered Acid Storm to find something before leaving the room. This lead to complications when Windblade (still unconcious) sat up and her cityspeaker markings started glowing until she released a wave of energy that briefly knocked out every seeker in the building. Then Windblade woke up and freed herself. She started looking through the decepticons' computer for information and found an autobot signal. She was interrupted when Acid Storm and Thundercracker woke up. She defeated them and fled to the exit, defeating two more seekers on the way there. Before she could leave Slipstream knocked her to the ground and took Stormfall from her. Slipstream used the blade to attack Windblade, who improvised by using her fans as weapons. Windblade defeated Slipstream and took her sword back, but just before she could leave Slipstream caught back up to her and tried to drag her down. Thankfully, Bumblebee showed up just in time to help Windblade out. Windblade told him about the autobot signal and together they left. {{storylink|Siloed}}

Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X made their way to the autobot signal's location where they dug up an immobile autobot in a dinosaur alt-mode. Windblade recognized this bot as the king of the dinosaurs that Maccadam told them to find. After Teletraan-X explained that this was [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]], Windblade asked what was wrong with him. It turned out he was almost out of energon and it would take a lot of energy to revive him, and Windblade suggested using the city's power. This worked, but Grimlock was confused when he woke up and didn't recognize Windblade and Bumblebee as his friends. When Grimlock ran off to find his friends, Windblade and Bumblebee followed. When he found his home and entered it, they followed him inside what looked to be a recreation of the Ark. Finally he transformed and recognized Windblade and Bumblebee, welcoming them to his headquarters. {{storylink|King of the Dinosaurs}}

Grimlock showed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Teletraan-X around his recreation of the Ark. When Teletraan-X discovered the decepticons' plan to destroy all organic life on Earth, Windblade insisted on staying together and being strategic. The team decided to go to the North Pole together to disable the decepticon ship there. When they got there Windblade flew past the decepticons, drawing away Slipstream and Nova Storm. The seekers eventually defeated Windblade, but then the decepticon ship exploded (destroyed by Grimlock) and Windblade flew away with the other autobots. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

Although they saved the Earth this time, Windblade believed they needed to find the Ark with the rest of the autobots. When Grimlock and Teletraan-X combined what they knew, they discovered the current location of the Ark - inside a volcano - and started traveling there immediately. On the way there they were attacked by a group of seekers and Windblade tried to fight them. She didn't manage to stop them from shooting down the cargo plane the other autobots were flying in, but as a group they managed to defeat the seekers. With the cargo ship destroyed, they traveled the rest of the way on foot. The fastest route to the Ark was through lava tunnels. When they fell into a room where a large part of the floor was made of magma, Windblade easily flew her way across and waited for the others to follow. She was surprised and relieved when Grimlock fell into the magma but emerged unscathed. Past the magma, they finally reached the Ark. {{storylink|Awaken Sleeping Giants}}

The joy didn't last long, as it turned out the decepticons followed them. A fight quickly broke out. Windblade was nearly pushed back into a lavastream by Slipstream, but Bumblebee was able to help. Windblade told him to get into the Ark and wake up Optimus. Windblade herself continued to fight the decepticons, including [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] and Slipstream. Magma started to pour in through the walls around her as she fought. When Bumblebee said Teletraan-X was gone, she told him to get out of the Ark. Surrounded by seekers it looked like she was about to lose the fight when the turrets of the Ark, controlled by Teletraan-X, started shooting the seekers. With more magma flowing into the room she ran into the Ark for safety. The Ark protected the autobots from the eruption of the volcano. The rest of the autobots were reawakened and Grimlock, Windblade, and Bumblebee were finally reunited with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. Just in time for a decepticon fleet to show up, headed for the Ark. {{storylink|Eruption}}

The war between the autobots and the decepticons continued in large scale on Earth and the moon. The Cybertronians eventually became known to humankind, but not before Windblade tried to blend in by transforming into her jet mode on a public road. She later fought with Megatron, a battle that involved Megatron being caught on camera tripping over a powerline. During a battle on the moon to stop another Earth-destroying machine from Shockwave, Windblade woke up Bumblebee and pushed him out of Megatron's path. She then warned Optimus that Megatron was on his way. When Bumblebee brought up the humans, Windblade said they may have been happier when they didn't know about the Cybertronians. Windblade took to the skies to fight there but was shot down by [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]]. She was only down temporarily, however, eventually gaining the upper hand until Starscream called in several of his seekers to help. She worked together with Grimlock and Bumblebee to take out the seekers and Starscream. The autobots, including Windblade, soon gathered outside a forcefield that protected Shockwave's machine. They waited for [[Wheeljack (Cyberverse)|Wheeljack]] to take the forcefield down and then attacked, successfully destroying the machine while the decepticons fled into an underground facility. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}}

Windblade was with the group of autobots that pursued the decepticons deeper into the moon. They were trying to reach the control room for a set of engines that was pushing the moon to collide with the Earth. Together they fought their way towards the control room with Windblade taking down several decepticons on the way. Right as they reached the room though, it self-destructed and left them unable to stop the engines from there. {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

When Grimlock drank some of Wheeljack's [[Hyper Fuel]] and raced through the Ark's hallways, he was hit by the [[Mega Magnetizer]] in an attempt to stop him. As both Grimlock and the ship are metal, they hoped he would get stuck. This did not work, and Optimus sent a message to everyone to stay away from Grimlock to avoid getting stuck magnetized to him. Windblade instead attempted to use the wind from her fans to stop Grimlock herself. This did not work and she got stuck attached to Grimlock, together with [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]]. Windblade told Grimlock to go outside to avoid everything metal inside the Ark. At the exit of the Ark, Bumblebee and Wheeljack were ready to help. Bumblebee accidentally created a black hole that started pulling in Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Windblade. While Hot Rod came loose from Grimlock during this, Windblade did not. Optimus showed up with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, the [[force shield blaster]], and shot twice: once around the black hole, and once around Grimlock and Windblade. This left Windblade to simply wait, as the hyper fuel would wear off in a day, after which Wheeljack finally disabled the force shield to free them both. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

Windblade helped search the network of [[GroundBridge|GroundBridges]] in search of the [[AllSpark]]. She cheered when Optimus announced that Wheeljack had found the location of the allspark. When Windblade and Bumblebee tried to follow Optimus into the groundbridge that led to it, neither of them were able to go through. They waited for his eventual return, without the allspark but with [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], guardian of the allspark. {{storylink|Trials}}

Cheetor explained more about himself and the allspark. This prompted Optimus to note that [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] had the allspark, and Windblade added that he had [[Vector Sigma]] too. Windblade participated in the attack on the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|Nemesis]] to find the allspark. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

After the discovery that neither side had the allspark a ceasefire and a meeting was set up between the autobots and decepticons, which Windblade was part of. Before the meeting started, she asserted that they couldn't trust the decepticons. During the negotiations Windblade grew frustrated by [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]] playing loud music and asked him to turn it down. Instead he started playing the music even louder. Then when a fight nearly broke out between Shockwave and Grimlock, the four bots were sent out of the negotiation room. Negotiations kept going until night fell and [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] found Windblade. Although Windblade was initially wary of Slipstream and ready for a fight, she lowered her weapon when Slipstream insisted that she just needed someone to listen to her. Windblade listened as Slipstream explained where Starscream was and what his plans were. Windblade took this seriously and started walking to the negotiation room to tell Optimus and Megatron about this. When Slipstream thanked her, she briefly looked back - just in time to see [[Bludgeon (Cyberverse)|Bludgeon]] stab Slipstream through the back. Windblade immediately initiated a fight with Bludgeon. She was about to lose when Bumblebee, Hot Rod, and Cheetor came to help her. This drew the attention of the surrounding autobots and decepticons and the fighting quickly got out of hand. Megatron and the decepticons left without Windblade getting a chance to tell them about Slipstream's warning. Afterwards, Cheetor informed Windblade, Bumblebee, and Hot Rod that Slipstream was with the allspark now. {{storylink|Parley}}

Following the information given by Slipstream, Windblade investigated the abandoned missile silo together with Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod. Unfortunately Cheetor quickly informed them that the allspark wasn't there, and neither was anyone else. They returned to the ark to report this. Back on the ark they received a distress call from the decepticons. Although Windblade expressed no concern over this, when Optimus stated that they would help the decepticons she joined the mission. While exploring the nemesis they found a decepticon unconscious on the ground and Windblade scanned him, determining that he was almost entirely drained of energon. As they kept finding decepticons frozen in place, Windblade scanned more of them and reached the same conclusion every time. Eventually they ran into a group of [[Scraplet|Scraplets]] and were forced to split up. Windblade was able to stay with Optimus and helped him when he was overwhelmed by scraplets. When the scraplets started backing away, the two autobots first noticed Megatron on the ground in front of them and then Starscream turned around to reveal himself. Starscream claimed that [[Alpha Trion (Cyberverse)|Alpha Trion]] - in actuality a scraplet - wanted the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back. Windblade responded that this would never happen and rushed to attack Starscream, although she was quickly overwhelmed and drained by the scraplets. This left Windblade to watch helplessly as the scraplets attacked Optimus. When Cheetor fought Starscream after this he was able to briefly reach the allspark, and the allspark's power restored the drained bots - including Windblade - and Megatron let the autobots leave without a fight. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission to report that there was no sign of Starscream, the seekers, or the allspark. After this she headed right back out to keep searching. {{storylink|Spotted}}

Windblade watched Bludgeon in secret as he trained by fighting a group of scraplets. After he killed them all however, she revealed herself and attacked Bludgeon. During the fight she taunted him for stabbing Slipstream in the back. During the fight she also spoke highly of Slipstream and expressed her anger at Bludgeon for killing her, stating it as the reason she was fighting Bludgeon now. However, this did not go well for her. Bludgeon disarmed her and was ready to strike, but Wheeljack showed up just in time to save her. {{storylink|Secret Science}}

When [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] attacked the ark, Windblade rushed out to confront him along with a few other autobots. She listened when [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] told his tale. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

Windblade was part of the autobot mission to take the allspark back from Starscream. They quickly ran into the decepticons but before a fight could break out Starscream and his scraplets showed up. Windblade and Jetfire tried to approach him through the air but were immobilized through the power of the allspark - which Starscream was now fused with. He forced the autobots and decepticons to kneel and then started draining their sparks. Optimus was able to separate Starscream from the allspark by using the power of the matrix of leadership, but this left both Starscream and Optimus himself unconscious. Chaos quickly broke out. Windblade quickly assessed the situation, told Bumblebee and Grimlock to guard Optimus, and told Cheetor to come with her to claim the allspark. Windblade nearly reached the allspark but was interrupted by [[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]. Once Cheetor exclaimed that he had the allspark Windblade quickly used her fans to get away from Shadow Striker and ordered the autobots to roll out. She landed next to Bumblebee to help him drag Optimus to safety, but Grimlock quickly arrived to carry him instead. Once everyone was safe, the autobots went home. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

Windblade was one of the pilots for the five remotely controlled spaceships that were used to trick the decepticons. She declared that only the ship that carried the allspark needed to reach the spacebridge, and that the decepticons would have to destroy them all. In reality, the allspark was on none of the ships and the ships were controlled remotely. She managed to make two decepticon ships fly into eachother during this. Windblade's ship was the last to be shot down, less than a second after Jettfire's. By then they had successfully drawn the nemesis away from the [[Space bridge]], leaving a clear path for the ark to reach it and travel to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unfortunately the decepticons noticed the ark and Sky-Byte crashed through the windows, attacking Windblade and the rest of the autobots on the bridge. Then the nemesis attacked and the situation looked dire until Cheetor was able to use the allspark. The autobots then watched as the spacebridge was seemingly blown up and they were left with no other option than to go back to Cybertron without it. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Windblade attended the party to celebrate the autobot victory. She accepted Wheeljack's allspark connected badge. She also agreed to dance with Bumblebee despite her insistence that she didn't dance. When Starscream tampered with the devices to make everyone aggressive this affected Windblade too. She even fought Bumblebee and later tried to attack Optimus and Cheetor, before she was redirected towards Drift. After the devices were disabled, she rejoined the party with everyone else. {{storylink|Party Down}}

While travelling to Cybertron, the ark ended up near [[Croaton's planet|a planet]] on which the titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] laid dormant in city mode. They got close enough that the titan was able to connect with Windblade, taking control of her and making her act strange. Her cityspeaker markings glowed the entire time. She took the allspark and started making her way out of the ark. When she ran into Bumblebee and Cheetor she ignored both of them, even blowing them away with her fans when they questioned her about the allspark. She managed to leave the ark with the allspark and flew to the nearby planet, more specifically to Croaton. Optimus, Bumblebee, Cheetor, and Hot Rod came after her to bring her and the allspark back. When they found her, she was digging through a small pile of rubble. Hot Rod tried to approach her but she only responded with anger and threw him away. Immediately afterwards she transformed and flew away. She landed next to a door blocked by some sort of rock and started hacking away at it with her blade. She succeeded, revealing the door itself which she was able to open. She walked inside and turned back, watching silently as the doors closed on Hot Rod when he tried to reach her. Behind the door was an elevator which she went down. She made her way through the titan, stopping again when Bumblebee triggered a trap behind her. Again she watched silently as the doors closed between her and the autobots, though this time Cheetor made it through. She fought Cheetor and defeated him, she was ready to strike with her blade when the rest of the bots were able to enter and tried to talk her down. In response to Optimus she spoke for the first time, though she spoke with Croaton's voice, and told him to stay back. She then threw her blade into the ground and used the allspark. Cheetor asked what she had done and a giant face appeared - the face of Croaton, the titan they were all inside of. When Windblade speaks again, she speaks with her own voice and her cityspeaker markings are no longer glowing. She hands the allspark back to Cheetor and introduces Croaton, informing the others that he will speak through her. Her eyes turn red and her cityspeaker markings start glowing again as she floats upwards. Through her Croaton explains how he came to the planet and how he lost his citizens, getting damaged in the process. When he sensed the allspark he called out to Windblade and asked for her help. After explaining this he transformed into his robot form and stated his intent to find his citizens. He then held the autobots out on his hand and thanked Windblade. She wished him good luck and said it was time to leave. Croaton offered the autobots their shuttle and they parted ways. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

Windblade stayed on the bridge of the ark during a particularly boring part of the journey back to Cybertron. When the ark was hit by an electromagnetic storm this left her in standby mode with all other bots on the ship. She was eventually unfrozen along with everyone else. {{storylink|Perfect Storm}}

In an attempt to return to Cybertron faster to respond to an urgent message from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], Optimus decided to take the crew through a spacebridge that Wheeljack was able to repair. This brought them to [[Unspace]]. Here the autobots found a duplicate ark which soon disintegrated due to the effects of unspace. Another duplicate ark approached, this time with a duplicate crew including a duplicate Windblade. All of the bots said the same things at the same times with the same movements - with a small exception as one Windblade blinked, startling the other. The two Windblades explained why they went to a spacebridge to one another which revealed one difference: in one universe the message was sent by [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] instead of Chromia. A third ark showed up. Unfortunately they didn't escape unspace fast enough and one ark and its crew was lost. Fortunately many more arks showed up and together they were all able to escape unspace. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

Windblade returned from a scouting mission together with Jetfire and reported that there was no decepticon activity that was visible from the air. Later she watched Chromia's message again with Optimus and said that she tried to reach Chromia but wasn't able to. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}}

While the ark was destroyed, all of the autobots had evacuated the ark before that. After this the autobots approached the [[Threshold of the Well] where the decepticons had gathered. In the ensuing battle Windblade worked with Jetfire to deal with the seekers. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

When Optimus reached the entrance to the well his path was blocked by a group of scraplets and he informed Windblade that they would need to find another way. Windblade found a place to land away from the fighting for a bit and contacted Teletraan-X to ask whether it knew of any other way down. Unfortunately Teletraan-X informed her that the well was designed as the ''only'' way down. However, it had detected two autobot signals and Windblade immediately tried to reach out with her psychic cityspeaker abilities. She was able to telepathically contact Chromia who knew another route to reach the well of allsparks. She returned to fighting the seekers in the air until Teletraan-X informed her that it had found Vector Sigma. She told Wheeljack to meet her there and asked him how to destroy Vector Sigma. Before Wheeljack arrived Bludgeon showed up and attempted to attack Windblade from behind. Teletraan-X placed itself between Bludgeon and Windblade to protect her and got damaged. Windblade then fought Bludgeon. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Windblade and Bludgeon continued to fight when Wheeljack entered the room. With Windblade keeping Bludgeon busy Wheeljack was able to work on destroying Vector Sigma. He eventually sprayed Vector Sigma with unspace. Only a few moments later Windblade broke Bludgeon's sword and kicked him towards Vector Sigma and into unspace - presumably leading to his death. She told him that this was for [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], finally avenging her. Windblade then reported the successful destruction of Vector Sigma to Optimus. Soon after she saw the effects of the allspark being returned to the well. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

{{Charfictionstub|{{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}} {{storylink|Wiped Out}} {{storylink|The Loop}} {{storylink|The Sleeper}} {{storylink|The Trial}} {{storylink|The Scientist}} {{storylink|The Alliance}} {{storylink|The Judge (episode)|The Judge}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe II}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe III}} {{storylink|The End Of The Universe IV}} {{storylink|Enemy Line}} {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}} {{storylink|Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos}} {{storylink|Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus}} {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} {{storylink|Silent Strike}} {{storylink|The Other One}} {{storylink|The Immobilizers}} {{storylink|The Perfect Decepticon}}}}

====Alternate universes====
There were several universes in which Windblade was part of the crew of the ark when it got stuck in unspace. At least one Windblade did not make it out of unspace in time, but many others did.
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|The Other One}}}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Battlegrounds''===
{{voiceactor|[[Jessica DiGiovanni]] (English)|[[Simona Pahl]] (German), [[Valentina Favazza]] (Italian), [[Susana Leis]] (Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Transformers: Battlegrounds}}}}

==Toys==
===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Cyberverse-Scout-Class-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px|How the hell are the jets from Macross okay with this, I can't see diddly!]]
*'''Windblade''' (Scout Class, 2018, 2021)
**''Action Attack'': "Turbine Thrash"
:Scout Class Windblade is a Legends-sized mold that transforms (if by transform, we mean bending her frontwards with her legs twisting 180 degrees) from a robot into a <s>Gerwalk mode</s> "transformational mode" jet. She also features a "Turbine Thrash" Action Attack gimmick, which pops out light blue effects when activated. Unfortunately, due to size limitations, Windblade does not feature any 5mm-compatible hands.

:Windblade was released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the ''Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures'' [[subline imprint]] packaging refresh.

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[[File:Cyberverse-Warrior-Windblade.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Windblade''' (Warrior Class, 2018, 2021)
**''TakaraTomy name'': '''Wing Slicer Windblade'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': July ??? [[2019]]
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TCV-03'''
**''Action Attack'': "Cyclone Strike"

:Released as part of the second wave of Cyberverse Warrior Class lineup, Windblade is a Deluxe-sized figure that converts from robot to jet and back. Her "Cyclone Strike" Action Attack gimmick is activated by sliding the nosecone assembly on her back up and down, which, if done quickly enough, causes the front half of her wings to swing upwards. This triggers a mechanism that spins the front halves of the turbines on the wings.

:Care must be taken to position her arms properly, however, or they might impede movement of the turbines. Unlike most Warrior Class toys, and despite the depiction in her stock photo, Windblade's head cannot swivel to any great degree without trimming her collar, which allows it to freely pivot on a loose mushroom joint.

:Windblade sports 5mm compatible hands and a 3mm hole behind her waist, though as a panel from jet mode blocks it in robot mode (without rotating it), it mainly serves to mount the jet mode.

:Windblade is the first and only Warrior Class figure released for TakaraTomy's Japanese markets.

:Like the Scout Class figure, Warrior Class Windblade was also released twice: First in 2018 in the original ''Cyberverse'' packaging design, and then again in 2021 in the line's final ''Dinobots Unite'' subline imprint packaging refresh.

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==Merchandise==
===''Nezha: Transformers''===
[[File:Nezha-toy WindbladeBrickset.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Wind Blade''' {{sic}} (Building brick set, 2019)
**''Set number'': '''QL1677'''
**''Pieces'': '''427'''
:Released by [[Xiaomi]] as part of the Chinese-centric ''[[Nezha: Transformers (toyline)|Nezha: Transformers]]'' toyline, this Windblade is a Lego-style building kit that can be assembled into either an approximately 10-inch tall poseable robot mode or a jet mode. Similar to how most ''[[Kre-O]]'' figures work, Windblade must be disassembled and reassembled in order to change from one mode to the next.
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==Notes==
[[File:Quidd-evergreen-Windblade-robot-mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|]]
*As with some of the ''Cyberverse'' cast, Windblade's design draws on the [[evergreen]] design (at right) also used for her [[Windblade (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]. However, the design has a ''lot'' of changes to the point where it is not immediately obvious that it is based on the evergreen design more than one of the other, similar Windblade designs. Among the changes include a color-blocked paint job, larger optics, and retractable wings.
*Sophia Isabella's portrayal of Windblade is an imitation of [[Kristy Wu]]'s performance as [[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Windblade''' (ウインドブレード ''Uindoburēdo'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Fēngrèn''' (China, 风刃, "Windblade")

==See also==
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*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], the fan-built Autobot [[cityspeaker]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], the Autobot on a mission from [[Primus|God]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Caminus]]
[[Category:Cityspeakers]]
[[Category:Cyberverse Autobots]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Nezha Autobots]]

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot: added information for Ghost Town

Windblade (Cyberverse)

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Starsbot:

File:Cyberverse Windblade Siloed glowing.jpg

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Starsbot: {{Cyberversecap| Windblade responds poorly when the Seekers try to rip out her memories. Her cityspeaker markings glow.|Siloed|8}}

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[[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] responds poorly when the [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] try to rip out her memories. Her cityspeaker markings glow.|Siloed|8}}

Windblade (Cyberverse)

2022-08-31T15:12:26Z

Starsbot: added information for episodes I Am The Allspark, Escape From Earth, Party Down

Windblade (Cyberverse)

2022-08-31T14:10:12Z

Starsbot: added information for episodes Dark Birth, Parley, Starscream's Children, Spotted, Secret Science, Infinite Vendetta

Slipstream (Animated)

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Starsbot: changed the way female seeker concepts are referred to from self-inserts (linking to mary sue on wikipedia) to original characters (no links), to be objective and neutral

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{{disambig3|Slipstream}}
:''Slipstream is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]]''.

[[Image:AnimatedSlipstreamModel.jpg|thumb|250px|You say "bitch" like it's a ''bad'' thing!]]
'''Slipstream''' (aka '''Slipstrike'''), the '''Female Starscream''', is the [[Starscream clone (Animated)|Starscream clone]] that raises the most questions. She possesses considerable strategic thinking, a biting sense of humor, and a short temper. Like all of the clones, she represents an aspect of the [[Starscream (Animated)|original Starscream's]] personality... though which aspect that is, he's better off not asking (or so she says).

Practically everything she ever says to the original Starscream is an insult of some form. Really makes you wonder about Starscream, doesn't it?

{{quote|''Any'' leader has to be an improvement over you!|Slipstream offers an opinion on her template|"[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]"}}

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==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Tara Strong]] (English), [[Atsuko Tanaka]] (Japanese)|[[Silvia Mißbach]] (German), [[Daniele Demma]] (Italian), [[Samira Fernandes]] (Portuguese), [[Jessica Toledo]] (Latin-American Spanish, seasons 1 and 2), [[Nancy Cortés]] (Latin-American Spanish, season 3), [[Antía Jiménez Álvarez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Minna Tasanto]] (Finnish), [[Anne Plumet]] (French)}}

[[Image:TFA ABTC1 Screamer Clones Argue.jpg|thumb|left|"You're not those boring masculinists, are you?"]]

When his clones were brought online, Starscream was confronted with various personality issues. The female clone revealed that each one represented an aspect of his personality: [[Thundercracker (Animated)|megalomania]], [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardice]], [[Sunstorm (Animated)|bootlicking]], and [[Ramjet (Animated)|deception]]. When Starscream asked where she came from, Slipstream informed him that he was better off not knowing. Once they were ready to depart, Thundercracker pushed Starscream aside, and the original realized that he really ''was'' a pain in the gearshaft. Slipstream bitingly noted that he'd finally "arrived at the party", then childishly claimed that she wasn't starting anything. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

[[File:Slipstream Thats It.jpg|thumb|right|"So, we finally meet."]]

Slipstream proved to be a capable fighter, managing to get a pair of stasis cuffs on the massive [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]. After the original Starscream was decapitated by [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] piloting a [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] unit, Slipstream promptly declared that she was better off being led by [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. When [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] joined the battle, she and the other Decepticons were blasted away. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

Slipstream apparently decided to lay low on Earth after the space bridge battle, managing to evade capture unlike her fellow clones (and several non-clone Decepticons). However, when she spotted a [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|red figure flying through the sky]], she mistook it for Starscream and chased after it in a rage. She shot at him, causing him to fall in a river. Seeing it wasn't Starscream, she promptly fled the scene. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}
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====''Legends'' comic====
In one of the [[Legends World]]'s [[Tigatron]]'s dreams, Slipstream led a group of the evil female Transformers in an attempt to kidnap him, fighting the heroic female Transformers guarding him in the process. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11|Bonus Edition Vol. 11}} Later, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] saw Slipstream, [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Blackarachnia]], and [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird Shadow]] in a vision of things to come. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 14|Bonus Edition Vol. 14}}

[[File:Transformers Legends LG16 Slipstream upgrade.jpg|thumb|left]]
In her home universe, Slipstream became a fugitive on Cybertron following the defeat of the Decepticons. Learning of the Legends World from [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]], she had the slippery salesman remodel her body to include interdimensional gyro-rotors that let her flee to this peaceful universe where she hoped to wreak havoc as she pleased. Unfortunately for her, since Alpha Trion had foreseen her arrival, she was immediately defeated by a group of Autobots and [[Maximal]]s determined to protect the Legends World from intruders like her. While wandering the street wondering what went wrong, the damaged Slipstream was found by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and offered a position at his side. She accepted, only to find that "at his side" meant "doing office work at [[Tera-Kura Co.]]". {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 16|Bonus Edition Vol. 16}}

[[File:TFLegendVol17DecepticonHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
When [[Halloween]] came around, Megatron hatched a plan to gather energy by having his employees go trick-or-treating for it. Slipstream dressed up as a devil and went knocking on Tigatron's door alongside Blackarachnia and Nightbird Shadow, which attracted Autobot attention, though Blackarachnia was able to deal with them. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 17|Bonus Edition Vol. 17}}

At some point during the work day, male employees at Tera-Kura drooled over Slipstream and Blackarachnia, but their attentions quickly switched to Nightbird when she took off her mask. {{Storylink|LG-15 Nightbird Shadow Sequel}}

While recapping the story of her arrival in the Legends World to [[Rattrap (BW)#Transformers Legends comic|Rattrap]], Slipstream added that she'd also made her face look younger during her remodeling. As she was talking about her creation as a clone and how she'd lost track of the original Starscream, Rattrap pointed her in the direction of a [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] he knew of. Angry over having been left to fend for herself, Slipstream began choking Starscream, brushing aside his claims that he was a ''different'' Starscream by arguing that he'd probably remodeled his body too. {{storylink|LG-16 Slipstream Sequel}} Slipstream later swooned over the foreign [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] with the other female Tera-Kura employees, {{storylink|LG19 Sprung Prologue}} driving Tigatron to envy. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}}

Slipstream and the other ladies were off visiting a hot spring with Megatron when [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] took over Tera-Kura Co., meaning no battle-capable employees were around to stop him. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} She was later targeted by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], a dimensional investigator out to send all the Legends World's interdimensional visitors back to their homeworlds, and her pleas that she'd be arrested if she went home fell on deaf ears. She was saved by Megatron, and in the end Skids gave up and allowed them to stay. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20}} After her company partnered with the Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]], forming the Decepticon Tera-Kura Co., she was included on a chart detailing the employees as one of the "three office ladies". {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 22|Bonus Edition Vol. 22}} When Megatron went on a rampage as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], Slipstream pointed out that he was being a hypocrite, having previously said he wanted to conquer the Legends world peacefully. Galvatron didn't take kindly to being told what to do, and responded by blasting her and the other two. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 23|Bonus Edition Vol. 23}} Slipstream was present for [[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]]'s failed attempt at usurping Megatron. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 26|Bonus Edition Vol. 26}}

[[File:Transformers Legends Animated cameos.jpg|thumb|left|350px]]
Slipstream was hypnotized into being all over [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] during his brief hypnotism-powered reign over the world, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 34|Bonus Edition Vol. 34}} and was present in the office when [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] confronted Megatron {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 40|Bonus Edition Vol. 40}} as well as when the Decepticons were forced to sit tight during a [[Dimensional Patrol]] invasion. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge 2)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} When the Headmaster faction betrayed Tera-Kura and came to steal [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[transformation cog]] from them, Slipstream was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]]'s earthquake powers. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} She remained loyal to Megatron even after he quit his job to be mayor, and helped him reclaim Tera-Kura'office from the [[Concurrence]] by taking out their [[Viper]]s. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63|Bonus Edition Vol. 63}} Slipstream participated in the battle with [[Majin Zarak]], a battle that ended with destruction and evacuation of the Legends World. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}} She returned to her own universe, where she joined forces with Swindle and Starscream and infiltrated an Autobot prison. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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===''The Cool'' comic===
[[Image:SlipstreamTheCoolMegatron01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"I do ''not'' think you're dreamy! That's an entirely different [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|purple female Decepticon]]."]]

As the Autobots and Decepticons fought over the [[space bridge#Animated cartoon|Space Bridge]], [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] chose that moment as the most opportune time to unleash his [[Starscream clone (Animated)|Clone Army]] on both factions. Slipstream was among them and seemed to fare best, as the other clones were being easily swatted by the joint efforts of [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. Slipstream managed to get a clear shot at Megatron and, after screaming an insult at him, sent a powerful energy blast headed his way. Megatron saw the attack coming, however, and quickly used Optimus as a living shield. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 7}}

Defeated, Slipstream was forced to follow Megatron's orders and attack the oncoming [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]. She and the other clones were greatly outmatched and taken out by a single blast from Omega's arm cannon. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 8}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
Slipstrike attended [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s unveiling of a statue built in his image. {{storylink|Enter the New Emperor of Destruction!? Stop Galvatron's Rampage!}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
When asked on [[Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|his ANN Q&A column]] which aspect of Starscream's personality Slipstream represented, [[Vector Prime]] gave an answer that was cut out by the [[Axiom Nexus Auto-Censors]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/31}} Seriously, don't be an idiot who wastes your time asking.
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==Toys==
===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy SlipstrikeKreon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Yep lego minifigures again.]]
*'''Slipstrike''' (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2014)
**''Collection'': '''4'''
**''Bag number'': '''*****43'''
**''Accessories'': Stand-brick, 2 clip-on rifles

: Part of the fourth assortment of [[blindpacking|blind-bagged]] [[Kreon]] [[Micro-Changer]]s, "Slipstrike" is a Kreon figurine that can be rebuilt into a jet. Initially, this Collection was basically only available at Walgreens drug stores.

: Her [[stock photography]] shows her vehicle mode with the wings swept-forward, which matches the original ''Animated'' Slipstream. However, the [[instructions]] tell you to attach them so they swing back (as shown above).

: Eventually, they saw release at other "dollar" stores and continued release through Walgreens up through 2016. Unfortunately, these later releases lack the individual-Kreon-identifying number stamps, which thanks to the gigantic thick [[instructions|instruction sheet]] this wave came with, makes finding the ones you want by the "bag feel" method much trickier. These releases all have the 2014 slight [[retool]]ing to their arms, making the cuffs less rounded and better-suited to being used as studs. Some figures did get minor deco changes; this release of Slipstrike has much brighter lavender accent paint on her torso than the original.

: She uses the [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]] helmet.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/Kre-OSlipstrike/slipstrike.htm More information on Slipstrike at TFU.info]''

===''Legends''===
[[File:Legendstoy-Slipstream.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Slipstream''' (Deluxe Class, [[2015]]-[[October 24|10-24]])
**''ID number:'' '''LG16'''
**''Accessories'': 2 guns

:''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' Slipstream is a [[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' [[Windblade (G1)#Generations|Windblade]] with a new head, chest, and [[Null-ray|forearms]] based on her cartoon design. She transforms into a jet with tilting, spinning VTOL fans and fold in front landing gear. She features new arm-mounted weapon instead of Windblade's sword and scabbard. She was packaged with [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 16|volume 16]] of the [[Transformers Legends (comic)|''Legends'' manga]].

:This toy was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the [[Slipstream (G1)|Generation 1 version of Slipstream]] in ''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]''. This mold was also redecoed into [[BotCon 2016]] souvenir [[Airazor (BW)#Combiner Wars|Airazor]], and served as the basis of the non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of [[Stiletto (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Stiletto]].
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==Notes==
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*Where Slipstream got her colors from was debated within the fandom, with the most frequent guess being ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#Generation 2|Ramjet]]. However, when contacted about it, [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] revealed that her color scheme was actually "loosely inspired" by the [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]. Unexpected! Still, half of Overlord ''was'' technically [[Mega|female]].

*As her colors weren't closely based on any of the pre-existing [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s, fans didn't have much of a clue what to call her, and created a lot of different nicknames. No official name had been created for her, either (she was just referred to as "Female Starscream" in the show's credits), a situation that writers [[Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster]] sought to rectify for her entry in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac]]''. Forster and Sorenson proposed "Slipstream" to [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] and [[Marty Isenberg]], who both liked it, and the name was subsequently included in the first draft of the ''Almanac''.<ref>[http://boltax.blogspot.com/2009/05/dont-cross-slipstream.html Disciples of Boltax: Don't cross the Slipstream.]</ref> Hasbro raised no objection to the idea, and publicly announced the name for the first time during the Hasbro panel at [[BotCon 2009]].

*While the Transformers [[fandom]] has long mused upon the possibility of female "Seekers" (and produced countless original characters that are variants on the theme), Slipstream is the first ''canonical'' female character to share a body template with Starscream. This is either great or horrible, depending on your perspective. ([[Hasbro]] concept art of what appeared to be a female Seeker design did appear on the [[BotCon 2005]]-exclusive cover of [[Infiltration issue 0|Infiltration #0]], but the idea doesn't seem to have been developed further than that at the time.)

*Slipstream's existence is, of course, a gag about the famously effeminate Starscream having a "feminine side," but the show holds back from making this joke outright; when Starscream asks Slipstream what side of him she represents, she responds only by saying "Don't ask," and a few pieces of media (like the ''AllSpark Almanac'') would play up the gag by also never actually giving an answer. ''Transformers'' fandom, being the cluster of [[Darksyde (BW)|imagination-killing literalists]] that they are, summarily failed to ''get'' this, and have spent years trying to "solve" the "mystery" of what she represents, going so far as to repeatedly ask Derrick J. Wyatt over and over on his social media. Early on he tried to light-heartedly brush it off by saying "I try not to think about that one!"<ref>[http://community.livejournal.com/tf_animated/271043.html Derrick J. Wyatt Q&A... answers!]</ref> but the questions were so persistent that an exhausted Wyatt took to automatically agreeing with whatever theory was put to him, no matter how absurd.<ref>[http://archive.is/Tc5Hy Does Slipstream represent the sorrow Starscream feels when reflecting on the plight of the Native Americans as both their land and buffalo were violently taken from them during westward expansion?]</ref>

*To make sure Slipstream was sufficiently Starscream-y during recording, Tara Strong would have [[Tom Kenny]] read her lines first, allowing his delivery and intonation to inform her own.

*In the Italian dubbing of ''Transformers Animated'', the voice of Slipstream was provided by Daniele Demma, the same male voice actor that does Starscream and the other clones. This resulted in a more exaggerated representation of the character.

*Slipstream was originally intended to appear in "[[Endgame, Part II]]", in which she would revive Starscream after the Autobots left Earth, but the scene was cut for time.<ref>''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II]]''</ref>

*TFCC magazine, which went into greater details of the planned fourth season, indicated Slipstream would have led her own team of Decepticons on earth and allied with the Autobots in the final battle with Megatron.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Slipstream''' (スリップストリーム ''Surippusutorīmu'')

==See also==
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*[[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]], the Decepticon Seeker from the [[Aligned continuity family]].
*[[Slipstream (G1)|Slipstream]], the Decepticon from [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]].
*[[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], the Decepticon from ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''.}}

==References==
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[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legends Decepticons]]
[[Category:Starscream clones]]

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