Team Rodimus (G1)

This article is about the Autobot subgroup from the 2005 IDW comic continuity. For the Autobot subgroup from the Energon cartoon, see Team Rodimus (Energon).

Team Rodimus is a group from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

These are their stories.

Team Rodimus is the inner circle of friends of, you guessed it, Rodimus that he'll summon when he's in a major jam aboard the Lost Light. Perhaps the most emblematic of the crew's diverse collection of lonely misfits and weirdos, this small band of heroes started off as a one-time investigation crew, but ultimately, the members would come to see just how strong their bonds of family had become.

Thanks for traveling with me.Rodimus thanks his crew, "At Close of Day"

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Team Rodimus was first convened when a headless corpse of Rodimus was discovered in an adrift coffin. Rodimus had summoned Nightbeat the investigator, Nautica the savant, Skids the theoretician, Chromedome the mnemosurgeon, and Brainstorm the genius (citation needed). The investigation was cut short, as the Lost Light began disappearing thanks to some temporal shenanigans. Words Hang in the Air

The group's next incarnation featured an expanded roster, including the addition of Megatron, Ultra Magnus, Rewind, Cyclonus, Tailgate, Swerve, Whirl, Ten, Ravage, Rung, and Velocity. The group was unofficially convened because Getaway and Atomizer had arranged for this certain band of crew members to be evicted from the Lost Light onto Necroworld, staging a mutiny against Rodimus and Megatron. When the Decepticon Justice Division and Deathsaurus's army of Decepticons arrived to kill them all, How Bright Their Frail Deeds the gang of outcasts weighed their options. Though Brainstorm tried to convince the crew to flee through the Necrobot's teleport booth, Megatron convinced everyone to stay to protect a newly discovered batch of organics. Team Rodimus got some reinforcements when Ratchet and Drift returned, The Sun in Flight and everyone prepared to face the Decepticons as sunset neared.

When Megatron proved unwilling to join the battle and their defenses unable to protect them indefinitely, Rodimus rallied the team to make their last stand. After Skids volunteered to undergo trauma to give everyone a critical power boost, Rage, Rage Rodimus brought every member of the team in for a group hug to make it work, and thanked them for going on their adventures with him. Team Rodimus charged the waiting Decepticons, At Close of Day proving to be a formidable match for the army outside. However, when Skids died, so too did their power boost. The crew was surrounded and seemingly doomed until Megatron personally entered the fray. The gang retreated into the fortress while Megatron held off the Decepticons, and watched as he was overwhelmed by Tarn and Overlord, Rage, Rage and as the Decepticon army retreated when Rewind and Swerve fired a psychic attack at Deathsaurus. As the group watched Megatron wipe out the DJD, they found that the organics they thought they were protecting were actually long-lost Cybertronians like Roller and Terminus. Megatron was retrieved by Rodimus, and after a big reunion, the gang reflected on their discoveries and their next move. Do Not Go Gentle