Time case - Revision history

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	[[File:Brainstorm atomizer timecase the road not taken.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2]]		[[File:Brainstorm atomizer timecase the road not taken.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2]]
	After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}		After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light''{{'}}s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

	Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

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	The time-travel misadventure fundamentally altered the nature of this particular [[Primax 1005.19 Gamma\|universe]], changing it from a single deterministic reality stream into a universe with multiple offshoot realities, including [[Functionist Universe\|Primax 1114.26 Gamma]] {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 27/5/2015}} and [[Primax 208.15 Gamma]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 22/8/2015}}		The time-travel misadventure fundamentally altered the nature of this particular [[Primax 1005.19 Gamma\|universe]], changing it from a single deterministic reality stream into a universe with multiple offshoot realities, including [[Functionist Universe\|Primax 1114.26 Gamma]] {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 27/5/2015}} and [[Primax 208.15 Gamma]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 22/8/2015}}

			==Notes==
			*The naming "time case" was first given in [[Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|''More than Meets the Eye'' #37]].

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	Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}		Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

			[[File:LL 25 Brainstorm Life Support.jpg\|225px\|left\|thumb]]

	Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Mortilus\|Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had previously been recorded as unknown. The use of only one case to time travel was less stable, however, and left his rescuees suffering from "timesickness" that took some time to recover from. On awakening after Censere's death, [[Roller (IDW)\|Roller]] returned the case to the Autobots, allowing Rodimus to use it as a teleportation device to save Megatron from an antimatter explosion. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}		Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Mortilus\|Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had previously been recorded as unknown. The use of only one case to time travel was less stable, however, and left his rescuees suffering from "timesickness" that took some time to recover from. On awakening after Censere's death, [[Roller (IDW)\|Roller]] returned the case to the Autobots, allowing Rodimus to use it as a teleportation device to save Megatron from an antimatter explosion. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}

			Many years after the ''Lost Light''ers' climactic battle with the ascended [[Functionist Council\|Functionists]], the briefcase would be converted into a portable life-support unit for Brainstorm following his laboratory accident. {{storylink\|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

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	~~:''The time case is a device from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''~~
	[[File:MTMTE3 briefcase.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.8]]		[[File:MTMTE3 briefcase.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.8]]
	The '''time case''' is a [[time travel]] device created by [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Brainstorm]]. There's [[Attention deflector\|nothing particularly conspicuous]] about the small, sturdy, golden briefcase that its inventor owns, beyond the fact that whenever anyone else sees it on his person outside of his lab, it's always safely handcuffed to his wrist. Brainstorm takes delight in teasing anyone who asks about its contents with a mixture of bizarre facts that make it impossible to tell if ''anything'' he's ever said about it is true.		The '''time case''' is a [[time travel]] device created by [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Brainstorm]]. There's [[Attention deflector\|nothing particularly conspicuous]] about the small, sturdy, golden briefcase that its inventor owns, beyond the fact that whenever anyone else sees it on his person outside of his lab, it's always safely handcuffed to his wrist. Brainstorm takes delight in teasing anyone who asks about its contents with a mixture of bizarre facts that make it impossible to tell if ''anything'' he's ever said about it is true.
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	The time-travel misadventure fundamentally altered the nature of this particular [[Primax 1005.19 Gamma\|universe]], changing it from a single deterministic reality stream into a universe with multiple offshoot realities, including [[Functionist Universe\|Primax 1114.26 Gamma]] {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 27/5/2015}} and [[Primax 208.15 Gamma]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 22/8/2015}}		The time-travel misadventure fundamentally altered the nature of this particular [[Primax 1005.19 Gamma\|universe]], changing it from a single deterministic reality stream into a universe with multiple offshoot realities, including [[Functionist Universe\|Primax 1114.26 Gamma]] {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 27/5/2015}} and [[Primax 208.15 Gamma]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 22/8/2015}}

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	After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, ~~the~~ found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate ~~save~~ the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and ~~causing~~ causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}		After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

	Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}
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	History was safe, but the team's time case was out of power. Rodimus and Cyclonus then traveled to a secret facility in [[Unitrex]] for the first interstellar starships. At Perceptor's instruction via [[time phone]], they turned an experimental generator into a quantum generator in order to recharge the time case (not realizing that the facility was in fact the under-construction ''Lost Light'' and that they completed its quantum engines), and the ''Lost Light''ers returned to the present. The next day, Perceptor explained to Rung that the alternate timeline only came about because he tampered with the time machine's paradox locks and further theorized that it may exist as [[Functionist Universe\|its own parallel universe]]. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		History was safe, but the team's time case was out of power. Rodimus and Cyclonus then traveled to a secret facility in [[Unitrex]] for the first interstellar starships. At Perceptor's instruction via [[time phone]], they turned an experimental generator into a quantum generator in order to recharge the time case (not realizing that the facility was in fact the under-construction ''Lost Light'' and that they completed its quantum engines), and the ''Lost Light''ers returned to the present. The next day, Perceptor explained to Rung that the alternate timeline only came about because he tampered with the time machine's paradox locks and further theorized that it may exist as [[Functionist Universe\|its own parallel universe]]. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

	Later, after Brainstorm's disciplinary hearing, all the time cases were ~~later~~ burned by Rodimus and Perceptor... save one, which was secretly recovered by Ravage for Megatron. {{storylink\|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}		Later, after Brainstorm's disciplinary hearing, all the time cases were burned by Rodimus and Perceptor... save one, which was secretly recovered by Ravage for Megatron. {{storylink\|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

	Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}		Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

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	Later, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Chromedome]] claimed he'd heard that Brainstorm opened the briefcase on [[Hydrus Four\|Hydrus 4]] and "the sun went out", to which Brainstorm replied that was a filthy stinking lie: It was actually [[Hydrus 5]]. {{storylink\|Rules of Disengagement (issue)\|Rules of Disengagement}} Stories like that made the briefcase something of a legend on the ship; when a disbelieving [[Swerve (G1)\|Swerve]] saw that Brainstorm had brought the case to a funeral for the ship's fallen crew, he decided that someday, somehow he would open it to see what would happen. {{storylink\|The Gloaming}}		Later, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Chromedome]] claimed he'd heard that Brainstorm opened the briefcase on [[Hydrus Four\|Hydrus 4]] and "the sun went out", to which Brainstorm replied that was a filthy stinking lie: It was actually [[Hydrus 5]]. {{storylink\|Rules of Disengagement (issue)\|Rules of Disengagement}} Stories like that made the briefcase something of a legend on the ship; when a disbelieving [[Swerve (G1)\|Swerve]] saw that Brainstorm had brought the case to a funeral for the ship's fallen crew, he decided that someday, somehow he would open it to see what would happen. {{storylink\|The Gloaming}}

	On [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]], when a bemused Rodimus asked if Brainstorm was going to put a "[[Point One Percenter]]" [[spark]] in the briefcase, Brainstorm remarked that he hadn't considered it, but that the prospect blew his mind. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon\|The Fecund Moon}} A short time later, during a battle with [[~~Tyrest (G1)~~\|Tyrest]] and [[Pharma (G1)\|Pharma]], a stray laser blast from Pharma severed the handcuff holding the case to Brainstorm's wrist. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely\|Arm the Lonely}} Swerve took this chance to sneak open the briefcase, but found it seemingly empty and gave it no further thought. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Brainstorm was subsequently among those sent into convulsions by Tyrest's killswitch; after recovering, he reclaimed his case, but became suspicious that someone had opened it while he had been unconscious. He requested that Swerve keep an ear out for any chatter regarding this, with the grim warning that opening the case when he was not around was ''not'' a wise thing to do. {{storylink\|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}		On [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]], when a bemused Rodimus asked if Brainstorm was going to put a "[[Point One Percenter]]" [[spark]] in the briefcase, Brainstorm remarked that he hadn't considered it, but that the prospect blew his mind. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon\|The Fecund Moon}} A short time later, during a battle with [[Solomus\|Tyrest]] and [[Pharma (G1)\|Pharma]], a stray laser blast from Pharma severed the handcuff holding the case to Brainstorm's wrist. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely\|Arm the Lonely}} Swerve took this chance to sneak open the briefcase, but found it seemingly empty and gave it no further thought. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Brainstorm was subsequently among those sent into convulsions by Tyrest's killswitch; after recovering, he reclaimed his case, but became suspicious that someone had opened it while he had been unconscious. He requested that Swerve keep an ear out for any chatter regarding this, with the grim warning that opening the case when he was not around was ''not'' a wise thing to do. {{storylink\|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

	When a few crew members discovered the remains of a quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'', Nautica and Nightbeat found the time case abandoned in a lift in the lower levels of the ship. Over Nautica's protests, Nightbeat opened the case, only to find it empty. Despite the pair's baffled conjecture as to where the contents might have gone, neither noticed local space/time warping around them as the case lay opened. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse}}		When a few crew members discovered the remains of a quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'', Nautica and Nightbeat found the time case abandoned in a lift in the lower levels of the ship. Over Nautica's protests, Nightbeat opened the case, only to find it empty. Despite the pair's baffled conjecture as to where the contents might have gone, neither noticed local space/time warping around them as the case lay opened. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse}}

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	Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}		Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

	Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had previously been recorded as unknown. The use of only one case to time travel was less stable, however, and left his rescuees suffering from "timesickness" that took some time to recover from. On awakening after Censere's death, [[Roller (IDW)\|Roller]] returned the case to the Autobots, allowing Rodimus to use it as a teleportation device to save Megatron from an antimatter explosion. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}		Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Mortilus\|Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had previously been recorded as unknown. The use of only one case to time travel was less stable, however, and left his rescuees suffering from "timesickness" that took some time to recover from. On awakening after Censere's death, [[Roller (IDW)\|Roller]] returned the case to the Autobots, allowing Rodimus to use it as a teleportation device to save Megatron from an antimatter explosion. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}

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	Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}		Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

	Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had ~~previosly~~ been recorded as unknown. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}		Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had previously been recorded as unknown. The use of only one case to time travel was less stable, however, and left his rescuees suffering from "timesickness" that took some time to recover from. On awakening after Censere's death, [[Roller (IDW)\|Roller]] returned the case to the Autobots, allowing Rodimus to use it as a teleportation device to save Megatron from an antimatter explosion. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}

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	Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}		Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

			Megatron ultimately dismissed the idea of changing his fate through time travel and buried the final time case on the [[Necroworld]]. There it was discovered by [[Censere]], who used it to travel through time and retrieve "disappeared" Cybertronians, those whose fates had previosly been recorded as unknown. {{storylink\|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle\|Do Not Go Gentle}}

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	After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}		After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light''{{'}}s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

	Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

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	[[File:Brainstorm atomizer timecase the road not taken.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2]]		[[File:Brainstorm atomizer timecase the road not taken.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2]]
	After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, ~~the~~ found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate ~~save~~ the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and ~~causing~~ causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}		After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

	Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}
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	History was safe, but the team's time case was out of power. Rodimus and Cyclonus then traveled to a secret facility in [[Unitrex]] for the first interstellar starships. At Perceptor's instruction via [[time phone]], they turned an experimental generator into a quantum generator in order to recharge the time case (not realizing that the facility was in fact the under-construction ''Lost Light'' and that they completed its quantum engines), and the ''Lost Light''ers returned to the present. The next day, Perceptor explained to Rung that the alternate timeline only came about because he tampered with the time machine's paradox locks and further theorized that it may exist as [[Functionist Universe\|its own parallel universe]]. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		History was safe, but the team's time case was out of power. Rodimus and Cyclonus then traveled to a secret facility in [[Unitrex]] for the first interstellar starships. At Perceptor's instruction via [[time phone]], they turned an experimental generator into a quantum generator in order to recharge the time case (not realizing that the facility was in fact the under-construction ''Lost Light'' and that they completed its quantum engines), and the ''Lost Light''ers returned to the present. The next day, Perceptor explained to Rung that the alternate timeline only came about because he tampered with the time machine's paradox locks and further theorized that it may exist as [[Functionist Universe\|its own parallel universe]]. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

	Later, after Brainstorm's disciplinary hearing, all the time cases were ~~later~~ burned by Rodimus and Perceptor... save one, which was secretly recovered by Ravage for Megatron. {{storylink\|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}		Later, after Brainstorm's disciplinary hearing, all the time cases were burned by Rodimus and Perceptor... save one, which was secretly recovered by Ravage for Megatron. {{storylink\|Our Steps Will Always Rhyme}}

	Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}		Swerve's exposure to the time case had the side effect of creating a time loop in his [[holomatter]] systems, granting him the power to recycle his own energy flow and create otherwise impossibly large holomatter constructs, such as [[Swearth\|a replica]] of [[Earth]]. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}}

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	Later, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Chromedome]] claimed he'd heard that Brainstorm opened the briefcase on [[Hydrus Four\|Hydrus 4]] and "the sun went out", to which Brainstorm replied that was a filthy stinking lie: It was actually [[Hydrus 5]]. {{storylink\|Rules of Disengagement (issue)\|Rules of Disengagement}} Stories like that made the briefcase something of a legend on the ship; when a disbelieving [[Swerve (G1)\|Swerve]] saw that Brainstorm had brought the case to a funeral for the ship's fallen crew, he decided that someday, somehow he would open it to see what would happen. {{storylink\|The Gloaming}}		Later, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Chromedome]] claimed he'd heard that Brainstorm opened the briefcase on [[Hydrus Four\|Hydrus 4]] and "the sun went out", to which Brainstorm replied that was a filthy stinking lie: It was actually [[Hydrus 5]]. {{storylink\|Rules of Disengagement (issue)\|Rules of Disengagement}} Stories like that made the briefcase something of a legend on the ship; when a disbelieving [[Swerve (G1)\|Swerve]] saw that Brainstorm had brought the case to a funeral for the ship's fallen crew, he decided that someday, somehow he would open it to see what would happen. {{storylink\|The Gloaming}}

	On [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]], when a bemused Rodimus asked if Brainstorm was going to put a "[[Point One Percenter]]" [[spark]] in the briefcase, Brainstorm remarked that he hadn't considered it, but that the prospect blew his mind. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon\|The Fecund Moon}} A short time later, during a battle with [[~~Tyrest (G1)~~\|Tyrest]] and [[Pharma (G1)\|Pharma]], a stray laser blast from Pharma severed the handcuff holding the case to Brainstorm's wrist. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely\|Arm the Lonely}} Swerve took this chance to sneak open the briefcase, but found it seemingly empty and gave it no further thought. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Brainstorm was subsequently among those sent into convulsions by Tyrest's killswitch; after recovering, he reclaimed his case, but became suspicious that someone had opened it while he had been unconscious. He requested that Swerve keep an ear out for any chatter regarding this, with the grim warning that opening the case when he was not around was ''not'' a wise thing to do. {{storylink\|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}		On [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]], when a bemused Rodimus asked if Brainstorm was going to put a "[[Point One Percenter]]" [[spark]] in the briefcase, Brainstorm remarked that he hadn't considered it, but that the prospect blew his mind. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon\|The Fecund Moon}} A short time later, during a battle with [[Solomus\|Tyrest]] and [[Pharma (G1)\|Pharma]], a stray laser blast from Pharma severed the handcuff holding the case to Brainstorm's wrist. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely\|Arm the Lonely}} Swerve took this chance to sneak open the briefcase, but found it seemingly empty and gave it no further thought. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Brainstorm was subsequently among those sent into convulsions by Tyrest's killswitch; after recovering, he reclaimed his case, but became suspicious that someone had opened it while he had been unconscious. He requested that Swerve keep an ear out for any chatter regarding this, with the grim warning that opening the case when he was not around was ''not'' a wise thing to do. {{storylink\|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

	When a few crew members discovered the remains of a quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'', Nautica and Nightbeat found the time case abandoned in a lift in the lower levels of the ship. Over Nautica's protests, Nightbeat opened the case, only to find it empty. Despite the pair's baffled conjecture as to where the contents might have gone, neither noticed local space/time warping around them as the case lay opened. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse}}		When a few crew members discovered the remains of a quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'', Nautica and Nightbeat found the time case abandoned in a lift in the lower levels of the ship. Over Nautica's protests, Nightbeat opened the case, only to find it empty. Despite the pair's baffled conjecture as to where the contents might have gone, neither noticed local space/time warping around them as the case lay opened. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse}}

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	:''The time case is a device from the [[IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''		:''The time case is a device from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
	[[File:MTMTE3 briefcase.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.8]]		[[File:MTMTE3 briefcase.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.8]]
	The '''time case''' is a [[time travel]] device created by [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Brainstorm]]. There's [[Attention deflector\|nothing particularly conspicuous]] about the small, sturdy, golden briefcase that its inventor owns, beyond the fact that whenever anyone else sees it on his person outside of his lab, it's always safely handcuffed to his wrist. Brainstorm takes delight in teasing anyone who asks about its contents with a mixture of bizarre facts that make it impossible to tell if ''anything'' he's ever said about it is true.		The '''time case''' is a [[time travel]] device created by [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Brainstorm]]. There's [[Attention deflector\|nothing particularly conspicuous]] about the small, sturdy, golden briefcase that its inventor owns, beyond the fact that whenever anyone else sees it on his person outside of his lab, it's always safely handcuffed to his wrist. Brainstorm takes delight in teasing anyone who asks about its contents with a mixture of bizarre facts that make it impossible to tell if ''anything'' he's ever said about it is true.

	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity===		===2005 IDW continuity===
	Brainstorm took his time case to [[Room 113]] to plead another case for his [[Unmentionable]]s before the [[Ethics Committee]]. When he passed Ironfist and Skyfall on the way, they asked about the case, and Brainstorm gleefully laid out the details of the "Malevolent Counterintuitive Pathogen" it contained which would be released if the case was ever opened. Skyfall dragged Ironfist off to the [[Exit Rooms]] before he could find out whether Brainstorm was joking. {{storylink\|Bullets}}		Brainstorm took his time case to [[Room 113]] to plead another case for his [[Unmentionable]]s before the [[Ethics Committee]]. When he passed Ironfist and Skyfall on the way, they asked about the case, and Brainstorm gleefully laid out the details of the "Malevolent Counterintuitive Pathogen" it contained which would be released if the case was ever opened. Skyfall dragged Ironfist off to the [[Exit Rooms]] before he could find out whether Brainstorm was joking. {{storylink\|Bullets}}

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	[[File:Brainstorm brings briefcase to funeral.jpg\|left\|thumb]]		[[File:Brainstorm brings briefcase to funeral.jpg\|left\|thumb]]
	Later, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Chromedome]] claimed he'd heard that Brainstorm opened the briefcase on [[Hydrus Four\|Hydrus 4]] and "the sun went out", to which Brainstorm replied that was a filthy stinking lie: It was actually [[Hydrus 5]]. {{storylink\|Rules of Disengagement (issue)\|Rules of Disengagement}} Stories like that made the briefcase something of a legend on the ship; when a disbelieving [[Swerve (G1)\|Swerve]] saw that Brainstorm had brought the case to a funeral for the ship's fallen crew, he decided that someday, somehow he would open it to see what would happen. {{storylink\|The Gloaming}}		Later, [[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Chromedome]] claimed he'd heard that Brainstorm opened the briefcase on [[Hydrus Four\|Hydrus 4]] and "the sun went out", to which Brainstorm replied that was a filthy stinking lie: It was actually [[Hydrus 5]]. {{storylink\|Rules of Disengagement (issue)\|Rules of Disengagement}} Stories like that made the briefcase something of a legend on the ship; when a disbelieving [[Swerve (G1)\|Swerve]] saw that Brainstorm had brought the case to a funeral for the ship's fallen crew, he decided that someday, somehow he would open it to see what would happen. {{storylink\|The Gloaming}}

	On [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]], when a bemused Rodimus asked if Brainstorm was going to put a "[[Point One Percenter]]" [[spark]] in the briefcase, Brainstorm remarked that he hadn't considered it, but that the prospect blew his mind. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon\|The Fecund Moon}} A short time later, during a battle with [[Solomus\|Tyrest]] and [[Pharma (G1)\|Pharma]], a stray laser blast from Pharma severed the handcuff holding the case to Brainstorm's wrist. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely\|Arm the Lonely}} Swerve took this chance to sneak open the briefcase, but found it seemingly empty and gave it no further thought. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Brainstorm was subsequently among those sent into convulsions by Tyrest's killswitch; after recovering, he reclaimed his case, but became suspicious that someone had opened it while he had been unconscious. He requested that Swerve keep an ear out for any chatter regarding this, with the grim warning that opening the case when he was not around was ''not'' a wise thing to do. {{storylink\|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}		On [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]], when a bemused Rodimus asked if Brainstorm was going to put a "[[Point One Percenter]]" [[spark]] in the briefcase, Brainstorm remarked that he hadn't considered it, but that the prospect blew his mind. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon\|The Fecund Moon}} A short time later, during a battle with [[Solomus\|Tyrest]] and [[Pharma (G1)\|Pharma]], a stray laser blast from Pharma severed the handcuff holding the case to Brainstorm's wrist. {{storylink\|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely\|Arm the Lonely}} Swerve took this chance to sneak open the briefcase, but found it seemingly empty and gave it no further thought. {{storylink\|The One Where They Go to Earth}} Brainstorm was subsequently among those sent into convulsions by Tyrest's killswitch; after recovering, he reclaimed his case, but became suspicious that someone had opened it while he had been unconscious. He requested that Swerve keep an ear out for any chatter regarding this, with the grim warning that opening the case when he was not around was ''not'' a wise thing to do. {{storylink\|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}
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	[[File:Brainstorm atomizer timecase the road not taken.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2]]		[[File:Brainstorm atomizer timecase the road not taken.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2]]
	After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}		After the "real" ''Lost Light'' was reinstated, they found time case was the only thing that refused to dissipate besides the ship's sole survivor, [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]]. Upon Brainstorm's outing as a Decepticon plant, he calmly walked into [[Swerve's]] and opened his time case, activating an electro-sensitive poison in Swerve's [[Engex]] supply and causing everyone on board—save teetotalers [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]]—to collapse. {{storylink\|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken\|The Road Not Taken}} After Brainstorm's incapacitation of the latter and subsequent escape, an examination of his lab by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] yielded several startling revelations about his briefcase—or rather, ''briefcases''. His perennial arm-candy turned out to be but the control case for an entire system of interconnected cases tapped into the ''Lost Light'''s [[quantum generator]], which altogether functioned as a grandfather paradox-exempt time machine, allowing him to travel in time and space and rewrite history. [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] theorized that the scientist planned to kill a young [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] so that the Decepticons would win the war, {{storylink\|The Custom-Made Now - An Elegant Chaos Prologue\|The Custom-Made Now}} though the veracity of his theory was called into question when Brainstorm instead used the time case to travel to the mining outpost on antebellum [[Messatine]], where the young Megatron was stationed. {{storylink\|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

	Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Rodimus led a team in pursuit, utilizing the recovered quantum-duplicate time case. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} Realizing that Brainstorm intended to kill Megatron, not Orion Pax, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} the team traveled to the time of Megatron's construction, successfully apprehending Brainstorm and ensuring Megatron's existence. Brainstorm proceeded to explain that he had invented the time machine in order to save his unrequited lover [[Quark]] from dying in Decepticon captivity though he later revised this goal to talking Megatron out of starting the war. After he was repeatedly thwarted (it turned out that the ''Lost Light''ers' journey through time was part of history and ''was always meant to happen''), Brainstorm defaulted to killing Megatron before he could be born. However, Brainstorm could not bring himself to pull the trigger on an under-construction Megatron's spark. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}