Editing Scavengers (G1)

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:''The Scavengers are a ragtag bunch from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:MTMTE7 scavengers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|So an [[Action Master]], a [[Triggercon]], a [[Duocon]], two [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]], and a [[K-Class|K-Con]] walk into a bar...]]
Imagine if you will, the cream of the Decepticon crop. The '''Scavengers''' are not those Decepticons — according to [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]]'s analysis of [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron's]] files, they are in fact the six worst Decepticons in history.

Still, they've survived when countless others have died. That's got to count for something.

The individual members of the team are:
*[[Krok (G1)|Krok]], the leader and obsessive-compulsive 'con searching for his squad.
*[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], who's missing a big chunk of his head.
*[[Flywheels]], who's found Primus and can't tell a lie without transforming.
*[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]], who got his name from an incident involving a "misunderstanding and a dozen dead Decepticons".
*[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]], an ''idiot savant'' with an itchy trigger finger.
*[[Fulcrum]], a convicted coward.

They travel the galaxy in the ''[[Weak Anthropic Principle]]'' and have currently taken the mentally damaged Autobot powerhouse [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] into their care... for totally altruistic and not even remotely self-serving reasons. Really.

{{quote|We have adventures! We do stuff!}}
{{quote|No, Crankcase. Stuff does us.|[[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] and [[Krok (G1)|Krok]]|"[[Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots]]"}}

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
The group that would become the Scavengers initially consisted of Krok, who had been lost his old squad following a run-in with the [[Wrecker]]s some years prior, {{storylink|Animals}} and his friend [[Spinister]], who had joined up after Krok left Cybertron. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

The two of them had been friends with another Decepticon named [[Thundersaur]], and when Thundersaur died, sometime around 2008, the two of them made it their mission to complete his last request: to rescue his old friend [[Misfire (G1)|Flyhigh]] from a [[Weak Anthropic Principle|prison ship]]. Just after the [[Surge (event)|Surge]], the duo, operating as the "Foragers," intercepted the lightly crewed vessel as it approached [[Garrus-9]], locked the ship's pilot [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] in one of its cells, and rescued Flyhigh, who was now calling himself "Misfire" following the incident that got him incarcerated. Soon afterwards, the Foragers discovered [[Flywheels]], who had thrown himself into space to escape the depredations of the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}} Krok, eager to lead a new squad following the loss of his old unit, {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} invited the newcomers to join, though Flywheels was of the opinion that the group would require a snappier name. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}}

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Over the next four years, the Foragers would eventually change their name to the Scavengers, taking on their former prisoner Cranckase as a full-fledged Scavenger and adopting the ''Weak Anthropic Principle'' as their new ship. The ragtag team didn't amount to much, having largely fallen under the Decepticon command's radar, and spent most of their time hopping from one old battlefield to the next, scrounging [[energon]] and spare parts off fallen combatants. When the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] ended in early 2012, the Scavengers glumly assumed that the Autobots had won and chose not to return to Cybertron, instead stopping over on the barren planet [[Clemency]] to loot yet another abandoned battlefield. There, they found [[Fulcrum]], a faulty [[K-Class]] Decepticon who had miraculously survived what should have been his fatal suicide bombing; {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} after Spinister disabled his explosive charge, {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} the group (after deciding that he wasn't a [[zombie]]) opted to make him a member of the team, bringing him up to speed on recent events such as the war's end.

The next morning, the group discovered an abandoned P-6 [[Worldsweeper]] vessel, an archaic warship that had at one point belonged to the mysterious [[Grand Architect]] and his associates. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind}} Unaware of its history or its previous owners, the six Decepticons were disturbed by some of the many unsettling genetic experiments that the Grand Architect's associates had carried out, discovering deformed protoforms, a ceiling covered with [[brain module]]s, and organic flesh that had bled into the ship's fuel supply.

Before they could investigate further, they received a call from the [[Decepticon Justice Division]], warning them that one of their number was on [[The List|their infamous "List"]] and that they were to hand him over for their own good. Confused by [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]]'s mention of ''seven'' individuals, the group found the seventh suspect, a [[Stasis lock|stasis-locked]], brain-damaged [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]], {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} who had been abandoned in a [[Stasis pod|stasis tube]] following his brutal torture at the hands of [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Scorponok]] and [[Flame]], the Grand Architect's affiliates. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind}}

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The group weighed up their options; Krok being of the opinion that it didn't really matter, since any of them might be in the crosshairs of the DJD, so the group decided to make their stand by using some of their salvaged energon, laced with [[circuit speeder]]s, to shock Grimlock back to consciousness so that the Autobot powerhouse could give them an edge. Luring the DJD members into an ambush, the Scavengers waited until the DJD had landed their ship and moved towards Grimlock's stasis pod, at which point Krok sprang the trap and sicced the Dinobot on their attackers. The gambit quicky went south when Grimlock ran out of steam, and after overpowering him the DJD turned their attentions to the rest of the Scavengers — a brief, one-sided fight that saw Flywheels get shoved face-first into [[Tesarus (DJD)|Tesarus]]'s deadly chest cavity. Fulcrum unsuccessfully attempted to use his kamikaze alternate mode to annihilate the Decepticon Justice Division, and when he didn't detonate the DJD assumed that he was dead. Announcing that Grimlock and the other Scavengers were now on the list for abetting him, they left to take care of a [[Overlord (Masterforce)|higher-profile target]] after receiving an [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|anonymous tip]].

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Though Fulcrum revealed the reason why he had been put on The List in the first place, the group was more preoccupied with Grimlock, whose brain-damaged condition was now evident. The group gathered up a damaged Krok so that their leader could be repaired; the Decepticons decided to strike out for Cybertron, and, at Misfire's insistence, brought Grimlock along with them so that they could use him as a bargaining chip against the Autobots. Before leaving Clemency, they scavenged what they could from Flywheels, whose passing was later recorded some eighteen months later by the supernatural [[Censere|the Necrobot]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} 

[[File:Scavengers IRL.jpg|thumb|upright=2|Guys, we're not collector's items; we're a child's playthings. We. Are. TOYS!]]

The Scavengers never made it back to Cybertron: learning that [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] had seized control of the planet in their absence, and knowing that he would be much less pleased to see Grimlock than the hypothetical Autobot regime, the Scavengers abandoned their plan to return home. {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}} Shortly after their adventure on Clemency, the group had to rescue Misfire from a [[Galactic Council]] prison on [[Constancy]], though Krok, Spinister, and Crankcase fell victim to [[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest's]] [[universal killswitch]] partway through. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

News that [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] had defected to the Autobots and publically rejected the Decepticon cause eventually reached them, and the dejected Scavengers aimlessly bummed around the outer rim of the galaxy for months. In between sessions of playing "[[Cybertronian games|Shoot Shoot Bang Bang]]" and vandalizing [[Autopedia]], they had several madcap misadventures: among other things, they dealt with various supernatural phenomena, saved the universe with a game of [[Jenga]], and were even turned into [[toy]]s. {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}} In between all this, Crankcase struck up a romantic relationship with "[[CONS4EVA]]" on the social networking site [[The Big Conversation]], unaware that "CONS4EVA" was, in reality, a [[Dire Wraith]], {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}} while Misfire's continued attempts to try and rehabilitate Grimlock proved fruitless. {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

After some careless navigation steered the ''Weak Anthropic Principle'' into a crash-landing on [[Tebris VII]], the Scavnegers received an offer from  from [[Demus]], an ex-Decepticon tradesman who had set up a lucrative scrap metal dealership on the planet. Believing that he wanted to give them jobs, the Scavengers decided to pay a visit... only to learn that he wasn't interested in their employment. What Demus wanted was Grimlock, and the merchant was willing to pay half a billion [[Shanix]] ''to each of them'' to have him.

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The Scavengers were divided on Demus's offer: Krok, Crankcase, and Spinister were in favor of taking it, while Fulcrum and Misfire refused to sell off the Dinobot for a quick buck. Their deliberations were interrupted by the sudden arrival of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Fortress Maximus]], the new Duly Appointed Enforcer of the [[Tyrest Accord]], who shot Demus dead in front of them and placed them all under arrest. {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

The Scavengers were able to evade Fortress Maximus and took shelter in Demus's warehouse of [[Roboid]] dolls, where Crankcase managed to lure the enforcer away with a mention of Grimlock (who was still aboard their ship). In the following lull, the Scavengers reconciled their differences regarding the brain-damaged Dinobot and rode out on [[Equinoid]]s to rescue him from Maximus.

The group confronted Fortress Maximus aboard the ''Weak Anthropic Principle'', where, working together, they bluffed him into retreating and leaving Grimlock in their care. Before leaving, however, Spinister was able to come up with a way to repair the Roboids, who had been forcibly "[[domestication|domesticated]]" by the unscrupulous Demus. Once their ship was repaired, Krok declared a new plan: rather than always looking out for themselves, the Scavengers would now dedicate themselves to helping out other Decepticons, providing them with the same support and companionship that the Scavengers had always given to each other.

But first, they played one last game of Shoot Shoot Bang Bang. {{storylink|Animals}}

Some time later, the ''Weak Anthropic Principle'' received the transmissions of supposedly soon-to-die crewmembers of the ''[[Lost Light]]''; the Scavengers dismissed the dark news. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} 

During [[Earth]]'s [[Ore-13]] crisis, the group touched down in [[Texas]] so that that Crankcase could meet CONS4EVA in person. Returning to Earth triggered some of Grimlock's memories, and the Dinobot swiftly rampaged out of the ship, forcing Misfire and Spinister to follow him. The other three Decepticons met CONS4EVA, who, after a brief misunderstanding, revealed himself as a Wraith, asking for Crankcase's aid in completing a a [[Temptoria]]n religious ceremony known as the "[[Crossover]]". Eventually managing to rein in Grimlock with the help of [[G.I. Joe]] washout [[MP3]], the Scavengers managed to complete the ceremony and open a portal to a higher plane of existence...a portal too small for anyone to enter. Crankcase offered both the human and the Wraith a spot on the Scavengers; the former accepted while the latter only asked for a lift to the nearest [[starhub]]. Before MP3 could board the ship, however, Fulcrum took off, citing his disgust for humans. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}

The Scavengers made another stopover on the planet [[Frayus]] to root around in the ruins of [[Camp Conclave]] in the hopes of recovering some rare [[ununtrium]],but on emerging they discovered that the planet had become a three-way battleground between the [[Galactic Council]], the [[Black Block Consortia]], and [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]' Decepticons. They attempted to escape, but found that the portal leading to their ship had closed. At that moment, an unknown 'benefector' of the Scavengers opened another portal, beckoning them to come through. They complied... just as [[Nickel]] got thrown in behind them by a stray explosion. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 3): Journey's End|Journey's End}}

{{spoiler|The Ties That Bind|March 7}}
Said benefactor, [[Agonizer|The Curator]], offered them a job to retrieve the [[Magnificence]]. They agreed (with Nickel joining for a part of the profits) and were taken to the planet [[Confluence]], at which point they were set upon by [[Treecon]]s. Grimlock decimated the wooden robots, but he was felled when [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Scorponok]] attacked and relieved him from his consciousness with a claw-wave. The whole group was taken to a Worldsweeper, in which they were put in a cell. There Spinister opened up Grimlock's chest to discover that he was the (ex-) container for the item they were searching for. Unfortunately, Scorponok dropped by and reawakened Grimlock with another claw-wave; Grimlock, enraged to see someone footling around in his chest, tore Spinister's arm off and ripped the Scavengers to shreds. This, however, seemingly had the effect of restoring the Dinobot's mental faculties. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind}}

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