Editing Hunter O'Nion

:''Hunter is a [[human]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Hunter ONion.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Yeah, and the first part is "Hoon-Tear". Alright.]]

If you crossed ''Scooby-Doo''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Shaggy with ''The X-Files''' Fox Mulder, '''Hunter O'Nion''' is who you'd get. With scruffy ginger hair, a green "Alien Death Ray" T-shirt and a VW Kombi van, you'd be forgiven for writing him off as some hippie slacker, but Hunter O'Nion (that's Oh-Nigh-On, not ''un-yun;'' he's a little sensitive about his last name) is really a modern-day questing knight. He runs the [[Mechatopia.com]] website, a repository for information about the presence of gigantic extraterrestrial mechanoids on Earth, and is willing to personally scour the back-roads of continental North America for further evidence.

If there's one problem with Hunter, it's that he's not the most sensitive of people; also, in his drive to uncover the truth, he can get very blunt and direct when someone who may know more than they let on gets evasive—even if that someone has good reason to dissemble.

A chance encounter with [[Verity Carlo]] in Arizona, though, gives him more than he could have wished for: Not only does he achieve personal contact with an actual alien robot in disguise, he's dropped right into the middle of a covert war. The question is, now that Hunter's found his proof, what will he do with it?

==Fiction==
===IDW comics continuity===
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Hunter's family was shattered when he was eight — his father died and his mother descended into alcoholism as a result. His sister left when she was old enough, while he stayed until his mother's death. The only thing that kept him going was "a dream of something else, something bigger".  {{storylink|Hail and Farewell}}

{{note|That information comes from a story of dubious canonicity; see [[#Hail and Farewell|Hail and Farewell]] below.}}

After picking up Verity Carlo in the North American desert, he was surprisingly thrust into the war between the [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 0}}  After being rescued from a Decepticon assault by [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], he offered assistance to the Autobots in an... "unofficial" capacity, spying on an abandoned Decepticon base before it was destroyed by [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], under orders from [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 5}} Hunter saved Verity's life with the help of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and at great physical risk.  {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6}}

After this mission, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] ordered that Hunter and the other humans be sent home.  However, as the Autobots escorted them away from the Autobot base, a [[Machination]] assault team attacked. It appears that Hunter and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] were killed by the Machination {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}}, but upon examination of Sunstreaker's husk, Ratchet discovered that it was a fake. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2}}Meanwhile, Hunter was being operated on by the Machination, his body becoming the host for mysterious implants. [[Dante]] presented Hunter to a pleased, mysterious, and damaged Transformer (later revealed to be [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]) who ordered mass-production to begin. Dante, gesturing to a wall of headless Sunstreaker bodies, implied that Hunter may still play a role in the Machination's "new world order."   {{storylink|Escalation issue 6}}

[[Image:Devastation5 THOK%21.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"I SAID, ''OH-NY-ON, OKAY?''"]]
The Machination subjected Hunter to an extensive regimen of brainwashing, after which Dante was informed that the boy was a blank slate, an organic machine that they could do with as they wished. Quality control for this process was apparently lacking, as Hunter was able to retain his own thoughts through a mantra of useless science fiction trivia. Skulking unseen through the Machination facility, Hunter was surprised to discover the severed but still functioning head of Sunstreaker, begging him for death!  {{storylink|Devastation issue 2}} In order to fight back against the Machination, Hunter submitted himself to the process of becoming a Headmaster, which Sunstreaker warned would hurt. A lot. (It did)  {{storylink|Devastation issue 4}}

{{bigquote|We're-I'm... SUNSTREAKER! And I'm out!|Hunter gets to grip with his new abilities|[[Devastation issue 6]]}}

[[Image:HunterSkorponok.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Followed by tea time, nap time, play time, and bed time.]]
Hunter emerged a Headmaster, finding his physical abilities greatly enhanced, and immediately headed for one of the Machination's Sunstreaker bodies.  {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation issue 5}} Just as a freshly restored Scorponok, head of the Machination, broke through a wall to kill him, Hunter was able to transform to Sunstreaker's head.  The clone body attached the new head, transformed to vehicle mode, blasted a hole in the wall, and escaped.  {{storylink|Devastation issue 6}}

Hunter, now carrying all of Sunstreaker's mind, began running raids on Machination facilities in an attempt to track down Sunstreaker's real head. Unlike Scorponok, the pair still existed as distinct individuals, and were both set on breaking up their partnership once they found a way to set everything right. At one facility in Massachusetts, Hunter found data relating to "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]," and, hoping it would be a lead, they headed for Dallas.  {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 1}} Hunter later wondered if they shouldn't head for [[Fallon]] instead, given that's where the Dyno/Dinobots actually were, but Sunstreaker argues that by retrieving his head, they'll be able to disable all the Headmasters at once.  {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2}} When they arrived in Dallas, seeing that the facility was far bigger than anything they had come across before, Hunter realised they needed a plan and forced Sunstreaker to sit it out while they watched and waited, citing that he was the more level-headed of the pair and that it was nice to just be Hunter O'Nion every now and then. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 3}} When the time came, he reconnected with Sunstreaker and barged into Machination Central to find his head (stopping to talk with a damaged Hot Rod and slagging a couple of [[Sunstreaker clones|his clones]]). Hunter disconnected after Scorponok found them and blasted a hole in Sunstreaker's chest. Reluctantly and remorsefully, Hunter severed the connection to Sunstreaker's original head, deactivating him. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4}}  Hunter, however, stayed conscious and survived the rest of the battle.  He accompanied Sunstreaker aboard the ''[[Ark-32]]'', where the comatose Autobot was put into a [[CR chamber]] for heavy repairs.  Sunstreaker's original head was reattached, and his battered body was rebuilt into a [[Sunstreaker (G1)#Universe (2008)|slightly different form]].  Ratchet claimed that "though physically separated, Sunstreaker's spark sustained him."  Ratchet was able to minimize the mental link between Sunstreaker and Hunter, but he was afraid to try removing Hunter's implants, and the human was left feeling like half of himself was missing.  However, he still enjoyed a happy reunion with Verity and Jimmy. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5}}

[[Image:Hanging_Hunter.jpg|left|150px|thumb|You ain't [[GEEWUN]] enough for [[Shane McCarthy]]]]

Eventually Ratchet did successfully sever their link, but the Headmaster experience had left deep wounds on Sunstreaker's psyche.  He turned his back on Hunter and never wanted to speak of the incident again. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}}  In fact, Sunstreaker eventually helped Starscream in a plot that, while intended to result in Megatron's death, had the side-effect of banishing the Autobots from Earth.  Sunstreaker had hoped that all the humans would die under Decepticon rule, but Hunter's actual fate was arguably worse:  He was victim to [[Bombshell]]'s experiments, half-dissected in a lab.  Numerous cables streamed in and out of his torso; even his right eye socket had a tube coming out of it.  His expression was of slack-jawed horror, and he looked very much like Sunstreaker did under the Machination's experiments. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8}}  Somehow Bombshell was able to use Hunter's hybrid body to create a "hub" that helped the Decepticons find the Autobots and deactivate their defenses. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10}}

====Hail and Farewell====
In what may be a [[splinter timeline]], two years after either becoming a Headmaster or meeting the Autobots (Hunter's wording is unclear), Hunter and Sunstreaker went back to the human's house.  As Hunter gathered a few effects, he reminisced on how much had changed and how much had happened.  He had been to other planets, even another dimension.  He'd fought Scorponok, allied with the Dinobots, and faced a planetary Decepticon invasion.  And now he wasn't just Hunter; he had become one with Sunstreaker in both mind and body.  As he converted back to Sunstreaker's head, he mused that it was true what they said about never being able to go home again.  {{storylink|Hail and Farewell}}


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