Crossblades (BW)

This article is about the Maximal. For the Autobot, see Crossblades (G1).

Crossblades is a Maximal from the Generation 1 continuity family.

She is proud of her excellent aim.

Crossblades is, in many ways, the exact opposite of her partner Stiletto. She is old; in fact, she was among the very first generation of Maximals. She is loud and informal and, frankly, finds the war pretty pointless and depressing.

She is, however, just as effective in combat as her teammate, and although her personal built-in weapons are a pair of swords, she also carries in her wings the fruits of her one overriding passion: an arsenal of weapons selected and improved from those used—by both sides—in the long Autobot-Decepticon wars.

Fiction

Timelines

Crossblades and Stiletto were mopping up Predacon incursions on Roliak in the J'kozian sector when they were drafted for a mission with Wing Saber. The trio were to infiltrate the world of Nibari, eliminating a Predacon presence that seemed to be commanded by an old nemesis of Wing Saber's, Steelgrave. These Predacons were renegades, operating outside the jurisdiction of the Pax Cybertronia and the Tripredacus Council, looking to rekindle the war with an army of semi-autonomous shock troops.

Posing as barmaids, Crossblades and her comrades corrupted the energon being served, taking Steelgrave and most of his men offline before they tried to enter the base. Their sabotage efforts were interrupted, however, by a local resistance movement breaking into the base to free their enslaved people. Crossblades and the Maximals got involved to save innocent lives, and Crossblades got in a scuffle with the six-armed Thrasher. Several cluster bombs and a shot from her torque rifle took him out of the fight.

The battle took a sudden, deadly turn with the arrival of Steelgrave's secret superior officer... the Mighty Megatron himself. Shocked by the appearance of the legendary Decepticon, Crossblades and her friends took off into the wilderness. After composing themselves, they arranged to challenge Megatron to combat under Cybertronian law. Crossblades's gyroscopic disruptor was key to their battle plan, the Maximals hoping it would keep Megatron off-balance long enough for them to do some real damage. After a few rounds of combat, though, Crossblades began to realize this couldn't be the real Megatron—he was suffering too much damage. By concentrating their power on one spot, the Maximals were able to crack open Megatron's armor and reveal their true nemesis—Flamewar, who had been posing as Megatron using an exo suit. The Razor's Edge

TransTech

In discussing the GoBots at Axiom Nexus with Demolishor, Airazor brought up "Crossblades Primax II V. Destron-5" as applicable precedent in to how to treat the GoBots. Withered Hope