Editing Stella Holley

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:''Stella Holley is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:StellaHolley.png|right|220px|thumb|Stella Holley, legal-age total hottie.]]
'''Stella Holley''' (ステラ・ホリー ''Sutera Horī'') is a 26-year-old employee of a paperware manufacturer in or around [[Seattle]], [[Washington]]. Like most humans, she is drawn into the [[Transformer]]s' war by coincidence, but unlike most she does not expressly ally herself with or against the [[Autobot]]s. Instead, she does what she can to help the [[Mini-Con]]s establish a home on [[Earth]], away from the Autobot-[[Decepticon]] war, despite any dangers put in her path. She is compassionate, brave and proud, and endlessly impressed at how alike humans and Mini-Cons are, despite their physical differences. She can understand the Mini-Cons' standard binary language thanks to a mental link of the sort formed when a Mini-Con bonds with a "[[Bulk]]".

Of all the Mini-Cons, she is the closest emotionally to the [[Super Stunt Team]], especially its leader [[Redline]].

==Fiction==
===Linkage===
[[Image:StellaCar.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The flinker doesn't always work.]]
Stella first encountered the Transformers as she entered her company's parking garage after work. The [[Super Stunt Team]] of [[Redline]], [[Flat-Out]] and [[Servo]] had just turned [[Stella Holley's car|her car]] into a turbo cannon via [[Powerlinx]] in order to destroy a pair of pursuing [[Fixer Bug]]s. {{storylink|Linkage Part 1}} After Redline formed a mental link with her and explained their plight, she hid the Mini-Cons in her home and helped them in their plans to build a Mini-Con haven on Earth. {{storylink|Linkage Part 2}}

She accompanied the Team and the newly-awakened [[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]] to the [[Deccan Plateau]] in [[India]], where a [[Scavenger's ship|shuttle]] from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] had landed. Stella was to act as the interpreter for the Mini-Cons to negotiate for technology from the shuttle, should the shuttle pilot be an Autobot. (In the event it was a Decepticon, they had jury-rigged a portable warp-gate small enough for only their use to escape through.) {{storylink|Linkage Part 3}} When the [[Speed Chaser Team]] of [[Unicron]]-aligned Mini-Cons attacked, Stella managed to defend a mode-locked and upended Servo from a Fixer Bug, but it was the intervention of [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] that saved Stella and the Super Stunt Mini-Cons in the end. Stella talked with Scavenger, and he let the Mini-Cons have his ship on the grounds that they forget they ever saw him. However, she began to suffer the effects of heatstroke shortly after, and the Team quickly got her home with their new shuttle. {{storylink|Linkage Part 4}} Stella felt guilty for passing out, as it had distracted her friends from going after Rollbar, who had gotten bonded to Scavenger. The Super Stunt Team assured her it was not her fault and explained to her the Mini-Con programming that had compelled Rollbar to leave with Scavenger. During the explanation, another Mini-Con, whom was introduced to Stella as the Super Stunt Team's old friend [[Falcia]], appeared and demanded that Redline hand over one of the [[Mini-Con storage panel]]s he kept inside him; namely the one containing a teammate of Falcia's. She also made sure to call the team cowards for not going out to fight the Decepticons, {{storylink|Linkage Part 5}} which prompted Stella to tell Falcia to back off and behave. Not impressed, Falcia referred to Stella as the Super Stunt Team's pet, angering the human greatly. {{storylink|Linkage Part 6}}

[[Image:FixerBug Stella.jpg|right|220px|thumb|[[Zombie]]s: they never finish their meal, but they will take the [[Candy toy|collectible toy inside]].]]
After the [[Sonic Assault Team]] joined up with Redline and crew, Stella went with the Mini-Cons to one of the [[Hawaii]]an Islands, where Redline set up a device that would unlock the [[Master Key]] program that would give all Mini-Cons unrestricted access to a vast power well, enabling them to break their programming blocks and Powerlinx-activated servility programs. Redline entrusted Stella with the protection of the last two Mini-Con storage panels he held while he underwent the upgrade process. {{storylink|Linkage Part 9}} 

[[Image:StellaMech.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Does Stella's insurance provider cover this?]]
When the monstrous [[Ravenus]] ensnared Servo and [[Twirl]], Stella fought back to save them in a battle mech made from her car, transformed by Powerlinx energy provided by Flat-Out and [[Falcia]]. She was able to knock Servo free from his link-port, but Ravenus escaped with Twirl. {{storylink|Linkage Part 10}} Realizing they needed more backup, Stella released the two Mini-Cons [[Impulsor]] and [[Quench]] from the storage panels, and the two called their team leader, [[Kingbolt]], in to assist. {{storylink|Linkage Part 11}} 

With Ravenus restored to his original, uncorrupted Autobot state and the [[Doomstone]] he held within him contained, all of the "free" Mini-Cons that had awakened when Redline activated the upgrade gathered on the island in order to return to Cybertron with the Autobots so they could protect the planet from Unicron. {{storylink|Linkage Part 12}} After a tearful goodbye, Stella returned to her job, taking up drawing as a hobby and a way of remembering her friends. A year after the Mini-Cons left, her red hair spontaneously began to turn platinum blonde—a sign from her friends they had returned, as Stella had made a passing remark to them about wishing she could change her hair color as easily as they upgraded their systems. {{storylink|Linkage Part 13}}

It is assumed that she and her Mini-Con friends reunited shortly thereafter at the new [[Mini-Con city]] on Earth that Redline and his friends created.

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