Chip

This article is about the drone from Prime. For the human from The Transformers, see Chip Chase.

Chip is a drone from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family

Chip is a small flying drone, constructed from part of Laserbeak's transponder and spare parts from the machine shop in the Autobots' base. It's flown by remote control.

Fiction

Prime cartoon

Smokescreen managed to hit Laserbeak, shooting off the business end of the drone's transponder. Minus One After Soundwave kidnapped Ratchet, Raf was able to determine that the transponder was trying to "call home", and the plan was hatched to construct a drone to try and lead the Autobots to the Decepticon warship. Raf and Wheeljack soon had the drone put together, and Raf dubbed it "Chip". On its maiden flight, it almost took Agent Fowler's head off before flying around the hanger, though Raf claimed he was still fine-tuning the remote control. Persuasion

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The Autobots launched Chip with Optimus Prime tailing it from a distance. They hoped Optimus would get close enough to the ship before the Decepticons detected the probe, however once the Decepticons detected Laserbeak's transponder, Starscream was dispatched with his Seekers to intercept. While the Seekers attacked Optimus, Starscream destroyed Chip. Synthesis

Notes

• Chip is possibly a reference to Chip Chase from the original Transformers series, who was a character much like its creator, Raf.