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{{Template:Disambig2|the prominent UT character|the RID Spychanger|Hot Shot (RID)}}
<DIV id=title-factionicons style="DISPLAY: none; FLOAT: right">
<DIV style="POSITION: relative"><A title=Autobot
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot"><IMG height=30 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/30px-Symbol_autobot_reg.png" width=30
border=0></A></DIV>
<DIV style="POSITION: relative"><A title=Velocitron
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Velocitron"><IMG height=24 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/30px-Cyber_Key_symbol_Velocitron.png" width=30
border=0></A></DIV>
<DIV style="POSITION: relative"><A title="Cybertron Defense Team"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_Defense_Team"><IMG height=44 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/55px-Cybertron_Defence.png" width=55
border=0></A></DIV></DIV>
<DIV
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #aaa thin solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; BORDER-TOP: #aaa thin solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0.5em; BACKGROUND: #f7f8ff; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px 1em 0px 2em; BORDER-LEFT: #aaa thin solid; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; BORDER-BOTTOM: #aaa thin solid"><I>The
name or term <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot
refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see <A
title="Hot Shot (disambiguation)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_(disambiguation)"><B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot  
(disambiguation)</A>.</I></DIV>


:''Hot Shot is an [[Autobot]] character from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''
:<I><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot is an  
<A title=Autobot href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot">Autobot</A> character  
from the <A title="Unicron Trilogy"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy">Unicron Trilogy</A> <A
title="Continuity family"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family">continuity family</A>.</I>


[[Image:Hotshotut.gif|thumb|300px|I'm Optimus Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head, huh?]]
<DIV class="thumb tright">
<DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 352px"><A class=image
title="I'm Optimus Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head, huh?"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotut.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage
height=395
alt="I'm Optimus Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head, huh?"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/350px-Hotshotut.jpg" width=350 border=0></A>
<DIV class=thumbcaption>
<DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotut.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>I'm Optimus  
Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head,  
huh?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
'''<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot''' Shot</B> is the
quintessential young hero. He's been around long enough to earn a name for
himself and a place in <A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)">Optimus Prime</A>'s
entourage, but he's still too young to know when he's in over his head. In other
words, he's blunt, overconfident, naïve, and more than just a little annoying,
yet brave, honorable, loyal to his friends, and willing to risk his life to stop
the <A title=Decepticon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon">Decepticons</A>
and help the Autobots. With time and experience, Prime believes, he could make
an excellent leader, and Prime has appointed him to his command structure
accordingly. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's
got the goods, but he just needs to pay attention for more than five seconds.
Until that day, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B>
Shot's likely response to most anything is, "Yeah yeah, like, whatever."


'''Hot Shot''' is the quintessential young hero. He's been around long enough to earn a name for himself and a place in [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]'s entourage, but he's still too young to know when he's in over his head. In other words, he's blunt, overconfident, and naïve, yet brave, honorable, loyal to his friends, and willing to risk his life to stop the [[Decepticon]]s and help the Autobots. With time and experience, Prime believes, he could make an excellent leader, and Prime has appointed him to his command structure accordingly. Hot Shot's got the goods, but he just needs to pay attention for more than five seconds. Until that day, Hot Shot's likely response to most anything is, "Yeah yeah, like, whatever."
<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's <A
title=Mini-Con href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con">Mini-Con</A> partner is <A
title="Jolt (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)">Jolt</A>,  
though he has been known to moonlight with <A title="Mirage (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mirage_(Armada)">Mirage</A>. <B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot also proclaims a
love for a strange substance called <A title=JaAm
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/JaAm">JaAm</A>, but none of his Autobot peers can
figure out what it is.  


Hot Shot's [[Mini-Con]] partner is [[Jolt (Armada)|'''Jolt''']], though he has been known to moonlight with [[Mirage (Armada)|'''Mirage''']].


:''Japanese name:'' <B><B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> <B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff">Rod</B></B> (<I>Micron
Densetsu</I>), '''Exillion''' (''Galaxy Force''), '''Exigeyser'''
(Vanguard Team)
:''Hungarian name:'' '''Tűzgolyó''' ("Fireball", ''Energon'' and
''Cybertron''), '''Nagyágyú''' ("The Ultimate Battle")
:''Polish name:'' '''Piorunus''' (''Armada'')
<TABLE class=toc id=toc summary=Contents>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD>
<DIV id=toctitle>
<H2>Contents</H2></DIV>


:''Japanese ''Micron Legend'' name'': '''Hot Rod'''<br>
&lt;LI class=toclevel-1&gt;&lt;A
:''Japanese ''Galaxy Force'' name'': '''Exillion/Exigeyser'''
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Fiction"&gt;&lt;SPAN
:''Hungarian'' Energon ''and'' Cybertron ''name'': '''Tűzgolyó''' ("Fireball") <ref>On the ''Ultimate Battle DVD'' special he's called '''Nagyágyú''' which ''is'' the correct translation of Hot Shot, only it was the name originally given to Hot ''Rod''.</ref>
class=tocnumber&gt;1&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Fiction&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;


&lt;LI class=toclevel-2&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Toy_pack-in_mini-comics"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.1&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Toy pack-in
mini-comics&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-2&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Dreamwave_comics_continuity"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.2&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Dreamwave comics
continuity&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;


==Fiction==
&lt;LI class=toclevel-3&gt;&lt;A
===Dreamwave comics continuity===
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Armada"&gt;&lt;SPAN
====''Armada''====
class=tocnumber&gt;1.2.1&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Armada&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
One million years ago, Hot Shot was a member of the Autobots, the guardians of [[Cyber City]].  Soon news of a warlike faction called [[Decepticon]]s, led by the power-hungry [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], reached Cyber City via a dying [[Mini-Con]] Hot Shot found. The Mini-Con handed him a video disc and with his dying breath, demanded Hot Shot take it to Optimus Prime.  Optimus Prime played the disc, a distress signal from [[Leader-1]], head of [[Mini-Con Sector|Mini-Con village D10]], who begged the Autobots for help.
&lt;LI class=toclevel-3&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Energon"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.2.2&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Energon&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;


[[Image:Hotshotraizeyes.jpg|left|thumb|Hot Shot watches in horror as [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] buys the last can of [[jaAm]].]]
&lt;LI class=toclevel-2&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Cartoon_continuity"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.3&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Cartoon
continuity&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;


The Decepticons themselves soon arrived in Cyber City, armed with Mini-Cons they had captured and reconfigured to bestow incredible power when [[Powerlinx]]ed. Outclassed and near total defeat, Optimus Prime called his troops into retreat, and after the majority of Mini-Cons escaped [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to parts unknown, the Autobots lost much of the planet to the Mini-Con-powered Decepticons.
&lt;LI class=toclevel-3&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Armada_2"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.3.1&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Armada&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-3&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Energon_2"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.3.2&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Energon&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-3&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Cybertron"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.3.3&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN
class=toctext&gt;Cybertron&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-2&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Melbourne_House_Transformers_video_game_continuity"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;1.4&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Melbourne House
Transformers video game continuity&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-1&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Toys"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;2&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Toys&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-1&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Merchandise"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;3&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Merchandise&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-1&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Notes"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;4&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;Notes&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;LI class=toclevel-1&gt;&lt;A
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#External_links"&gt;&lt;SPAN
class=tocnumber&gt;5&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=toctext&gt;External links&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;
&lt;A name=Fiction&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Fiction"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Fiction&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;A name=Toy_pack-in_mini-comics&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Toy pack-in mini-comics"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Toy pack-in mini-comics&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="How dumb can he be? He's fluent in three languages!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmadaminicomic.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=116
alt="How dumb can he be? He's fluent in three languages!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Hotshotarmadaminicomic.jpg" width=200
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmadaminicomic.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;How
dumb can he be? He's fluent in three languages!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)"&gt;Optimus Prime&lt;/A&gt; chose &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot to stop a
Decepticon plot to drain power from the city, but &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot balked when Prime
picked &lt;A title="Jolt (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)"&gt;Jolt&lt;/A&gt; to be his partner. After
speeding off to complete the mission alone, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot found himself
overwhelmed by &lt;A title="Cyclonus (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_(Armada)"&gt;Cyclonus&lt;/A&gt; and his partner &lt;A
title="Crumplezone (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crumplezone_(Armada)"&gt;Crumplezone&lt;/A&gt;. Thankfully,
Jolt arrived and gave &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot a hand, and Cyclonus and Crumplezone were defeated. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot had learned a
valuable lesson about teamwork.  


In the present day, both the Autobots and Decepticons received a signal of the Mini-Cons' activation on the planet [[Earth]].  Hot Shot and his colleagues [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]], [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]], and [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] were led by Optimus Prime to the planet, where they met the Decepticons in battle. But this time, with the help of the estranged Mini-Cons, the Autobots regained the edge they lost against the Decepticons one million years prior. An uneasy alliance was formed, and Hot Shot was partnered with the Mini-Con [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]]. {{storylink|Armada_%28Dreamwave_comic%29#Volume_1:_First_Contact|First Contact}}
Much later, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot,
&lt;A title="Red Alert (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)"&gt;Red Alert&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
title="Smokescreen (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)"&gt;Smokescreen&lt;/A&gt; were present
for &lt;A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)"&gt;Optimus Prime&lt;/A&gt;'s defeat
of &lt;A title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Galvatron&lt;/A&gt;. They didn't,  
however, see his smile upon his capture. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Armada (mini-comic)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(mini-comic)"&gt;Armada (mini-comic)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


After this initial battle on Earth, Megatron is quick to capture the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team]] and forge them into the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber sword]].  Optimus Prime led Hot Shot and Red Alert against the Decepticons again, despite being at a strategic disadvantage while the Mini-Cons were missing, a point Hot Shot belabored.  Thankfully, the Autobot-allied Mini-Cons arrived just in time to Powerlinx with Hot Shot and the other Autobots, fend off Megatron, and rescue the Air Defense Mini-Cons from the Decepticon leader's clutches.


[[Image:Hotshotguido.jpg|thumb|200px|"Well, let's go!"]]
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="He's so polite."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:HotShotEnergonminicomic.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=147 alt="He's so polite."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-HotShotEnergonminicomic.jpg" width=200
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:HotShotEnergonminicomic.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;He's  
so polite.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
After &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and &lt;A
title="Strongarm (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strongarm_(Energon)"&gt;Strongarm&lt;/A&gt; found a pool of
&lt;A title="Energon (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(Energon)"&gt;Energon&lt;/A&gt;, they were attacked
by &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Battle Ravage"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Battle_Ravage"&gt;Battle Ravages&lt;/A&gt;. When the
situation was bleakened further by the arrival of &lt;A title="Scorponok (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_(Energon)"&gt;Scorponok&lt;/A&gt;, Strongarm
fashioned an &lt;A title="Energon weapon"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_weapon"&gt;Energon weapon&lt;/A&gt; for &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, and the &lt;A
title="Terrorcon (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorcon_(Energon)"&gt;Terrorcons&lt;/A&gt; were driven
away. With the Energon secured, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Strongarm were
relieved that they had faced a formidable foe and come out on top.


Soon, a Mini-Con beacon tower was erected in [[Tranquility, Kansas]], drawing all Earth-bound Mini-Cons to it.  Hot Shot and the rest of the Autobots again met the Decepticons in battle at the location when the tower's effect was discovered. However, they were too busy fighting to notice the beacon tower blasting off toward the Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]].  Hot Shot and Red Alert secreted Optimus Prime into the Decepticon base for the use of their space bridge, so that the Autobot leader could ask for reinforcements from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Armada_%28Dreamwave_comic%29#Volume_2:_Fortress|Fortress}}
Some time after, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot was seen alongside &lt;A title="Skyblast (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skyblast_(Energon)"&gt;Skyblast&lt;/A&gt; and Optimus Prime  
battling Scorponok and his Terrorcons.  


After the Mini-Cons were evacuated from the moon, five did not return home safely and sent a distress signal from northern Alaska.  When the [[Adventure Mini-Con Team]] failed to retrieve them, Hot Shot and the other Autobots arrived in full force, though they were kept in check by Cyclonus, who was suffering from a Mini-Con overdose. Though they were successful, Optimus Prime disappeared before their eyes, and when Hot Shot returned to Autobase, he found [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|an Optimus Prime]], dying, sent from another timeline to warn of [[Unicron]]'s coming. Learning of the "real" Optimus Prime's disappearance, Megatron and his Decepticons stormed Autobase, nearly killing Smokescreen and heavily injuring Hot Shot, Red Alert, and Scavenger.
Optimus Prime and &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot (powerlinked with Inferno) found themselves alone and outmatched in a
battle with Megatron, &lt;A title="Shockblast (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shockblast_(Energon)"&gt;Shockblast&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Snow Cat" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snow_Cat"&gt;Snow
Cat&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="Demolishor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)"&gt;Demolishor&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Tidal Wave"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tidal_Wave"&gt;Mirage&lt;/A&gt;. As the Decepticons closed
in on Optimus, he warned Powerlinx &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot to stay away, for
he was too damaged. But at the last minute, &lt;A class=mw-redirect
title="Wing Saber (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wing_Saber_(Energon)"&gt;Wing Saber&lt;/A&gt; arrived,
combined with Prime, and drove the Decepticons away! &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Energon (mini-comic)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(mini-comic)"&gt;Energon
(mini-comic)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;BR clear=all&gt;
&lt;A
name=Dreamwave_comics_continuity&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A
title="Edit section: Dreamwave comics continuity"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Dreamwave comics continuity&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;A
name=Armada&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H4&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Armada"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;''Armada''&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H4&gt;
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 182px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Hot Shot watches in horror as Demolishor buys the last can of jaAm."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotraizeyes.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=137
alt="Hot Shot watches in horror as Demolishor buys the last can of jaAm."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/180px-Hotshotraizeyes.jpg" width=180
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotraizeyes.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot watches in horror
as &lt;A title="Demolishor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)"&gt;Demolishor&lt;/A&gt; buys the last
can of &lt;A title=JaAm
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/JaAm"&gt;jaAm&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
One million years ago, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was a member of the
Autobots, the guardians of &lt;A title="Cyber City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_City"&gt;Cyber City&lt;/A&gt;. Soon, news of a warlike
faction called &lt;A title=Decepticon
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon"&gt;Decepticons&lt;/A&gt;, led by the
power-hungry &lt;A title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/A&gt;, reached Cyber City
via a dying &lt;A title=Mini-Con
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con"&gt;Mini-Con&lt;/A&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot found. The Mini-Con
handed him a video disc, and with his dying breath, demanded &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot take it to Optimus
Prime. Optimus Prime played the disc, a distress signal from &lt;A
title="Leader-1 (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Leader-1_(Armada)"&gt;Leader-1&lt;/A&gt;, head of &lt;A
title="Mini-Con Sector" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con_Sector"&gt;Mini-Con
village D10&lt;/A&gt;, who begged the Autobots for help.  


Optimus Prime was returned to them and insisted on teaming up with the Decepticons to battle the arriving Unicron.  Hot Shot excused himself from this alliance, as Smokescreen's critical condition due to the Decepticons' recent attack still weighed heavily in his mind.  So when Megatron stole away during the battle with Unicron to strike a deal with the Dark God, Hot Shot, Scavenger, and Red Alert ambushed him, leaving him to die as Unicron was seemingly destroyed by the [[Mini-Con Matrix]]. {{storylink|Armada_%28Dreamwave_comic%29#Volume_3:_Worlds_Collide|Worlds Collide}}
The Decepticons themselves soon arrived in Cyber City, armed with
Mini-Cons they had captured and reconfigured to bestow incredible power when &lt;A
title=Powerlinx href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Powerlinx"&gt;Powerlinxed&lt;/A&gt;.
Outclassed and near total defeat, Optimus Prime called his troops into retreat,
and after the majority of Mini-Cons escaped &lt;A title="Cybertron (planet)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_(planet)"&gt;Cybertron&lt;/A&gt; to parts unknown,  
the Autobots lost much of the planet to the Mini-Con-powered Decepticons.  


====''Energon''====
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
[[Image:Hotshotironhidedw.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Sorry, Hot Shot, you've been replaced.]]
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Hot Shot, stop stealing Jolt's gun!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotfreecomicbookday.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=199 alt="Hot Shot, stop stealing Jolt's gun!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotfreecomicbookday.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotfreecomicbookday.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, stop stealing
Jolt's gun!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
In the present day, both the Autobots and Decepticons received a signal of
the Mini-Cons' activation on the planet &lt;A title=Earth
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth"&gt;Earth&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and his colleagues
&lt;A title="Scavenger (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scavenger_(Armada)"&gt;Scavenger&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)"&gt;Red
Alert&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A title="Smokescreen (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)"&gt;Smokescreen&lt;/A&gt; were led by
Optimus Prime to the planet, where they met the Decepticons in battle. But this
time, with the help of the estranged Mini-Cons, the Autobots regained the edge
they'd lost against the Decepticons one million years prior. An uneasy alliance
was formed, and &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
was partnered with the Mini-Con &lt;A title="Jolt (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)"&gt;Jolt&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Armada (Dreamwave comic)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(Dreamwave_comic)#Volume_1:_First_Contact"&gt;First
Contact&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Ten years later, at the beginning of the Energon Era, Hot Shot accompanied Optimus Prime, who was skeptical and restless about the new peacetime, on his visit with the High Council in Cyber City. Prime's demands for vigilance were denied, so Hot Shot later followed him to a special [[uplink platform]] that [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] had directed them to. This trip was a first outing for the rookie Autobot [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]], who fawned over Hot Shot.  Hot Shot met this with difficulty.  Learning of the continued existence of [[Unicron]], Prime once again returned to the High Council, again accompanied by Hot Shot. But this time, Cyber City was attacked by [[Cheetor (Armada)|Cheetor]], [[Rhinox (Armada)|Rhinox]], [[Airazor (Armada)|Airazor]], and [[Terrorsaur (Armada)|Terrorsaur]], who were presumed dead during the [[Unicron Battles]], but in fact were transformed into Unicron's [[Beasts of the Apocalypse]]. The Horsemen were deterred when Hot Shot and the other Autobots were granted the [[Spark of Combination]].
When their human friends &lt;A title="Rad White"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rad_White"&gt;Rad&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="Carlos Lopez"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez"&gt;Carlos&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A title=Alexis
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexis"&gt;Alexis&lt;/A&gt; befriended a Mini-Con named &lt;A
title="Swindle (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Swindle_(Armada)"&gt;Swindle&lt;/A&gt;, they soon attracted
the attention of the Decepticons, and &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff"&gt;Rod&lt;/B&gt; and the other Autobots
weren't far behind. With the arrival of Megatron, however, the Autobots were
quickly defeated and restrained, and the children were shocked to learn that
Swindle had been working with the Decepticons all this time! Swindle found
himself conflicted, as he genuinely liked the human children, and so he
eventually had a small change of heart. Grabbing &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's gun, he was able
to disable the Autobots' restraints, and the Decepticons retreated... though
with Swindle. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Armada Free Comic Book Day"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_Free_Comic_Book_Day"&gt;Armada Free Comic Book
Day&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot followed Prime to Earth after a distress signal was received. [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] and his [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] were after a young boy who could detect [[Energon]] named [[Kicker]]. The Terrorcons outclassed them, however, and left only when their Energon-mining gear was destroyed, but not without taking Kicker. After the Autobots reunited with [[Rad]] and [[Alexis]], Hot Shot and the [[Omnicon]] [[Strongarm (Energon)|Strongarm]] were able to pursue the Terrorcons and deliver a special suit to Kicker that his father, [[Doctor Jones|Dr. Jones]], had made for him. With Kicker's help, the Terrorcons were defeated and returned to Unicron.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
{{-}}
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
----
title="Wait, Jolt attaches where?"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotdwissue6.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=132 alt="Wait, Jolt attaches where?"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotdwissue6.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotdwissue6.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Wait, Jolt
attaches ''where?''&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
After their initial battles on Earth, Megatron was quick to capture the &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Air Defense Mini-Con Team"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Air_Defense_Mini-Con_Team"&gt;Air Defense Mini-Con
Team&lt;/A&gt; and forge them into the &lt;A title="Star Saber (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Saber_(Armada)"&gt;Star Saber&lt;/A&gt;. Optimus Prime
led &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Red
Alert against the Decepticons again, despite being at a strategic disadvantage
while the Mini-Cons were missing, a point &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot belabored.
Thankfully, the Autobot-allied Mini-Cons arrived just in time to Powerlinx with
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other
Autobots, fend off Megatron, and rescue the Air Defense Mini-Cons from the
Decepticon leader's clutches.


===Cartoon continuity===
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
====''Armada''====
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 177px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
:''Voice actor:'' [[Brent Miller]] (US), [[Kōsuke Okano]] (Japan), [[Alexandre Moreno]] (Brazil), [[Martin Halm]] (Germany)
title="&quot;Well, let's go!&quot;"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotguido.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=261 alt="&quot;Well, let's go!&quot;"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/175px-Hotshotguido.jpg" width=175 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotguido.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;"Well,
let's go!"&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Soon, a Mini-Con beacon tower was erected in &lt;A class=new
title="Tranquility, Kansas"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Tranquility%2C_Kansas&amp;action=edit"&gt;Tranquility,
Kansas&lt;/A&gt;, drawing all Earth-bound Mini-Cons to it. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the rest of the
Autobots again met the Decepticons in battle at the location when the tower's
effect was discovered. However, they were too busy fighting to notice the beacon
tower blasting off toward the Earth's &lt;A title="Moon (moon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)"&gt;moon&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Red Alert
secreted Optimus Prime into the Decepticon base for the use of their space
bridge, so that the Autobot leader could ask for reinforcements from &lt;A
title="Cybertron (planet)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_(planet)"&gt;Cybertron&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Armada (Dreamwave comic)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(Dreamwave_comic)#Volume_2:_Fortress"&gt;Fortress&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


[[Image:Hotshotarmada.jpg|right|200px|thumb|He grins because he's too stupid to be sad.]]


An indeterminate number of years ago on Cybertron, Hot Shot and the Autobot [[Wheeljack_(Armada)|Wheeljack]] were amidst a fiery battlefield blaze. Wheeljack was incapacitated, so Hot Shot left him, promising to get help. However, his [[Arrogant Autobot officer|commander]] would not let him return to help his friend. Instead, Wheeljack was rescued by [[Megatron_(Armada)|Megatron]] and swore vengeance against Hot Shot and the Autobots.
After the Mini-Cons were evacuated from the Moon, five did not return home
safely and sent a distress signal from northern Alaska. When the &lt;A
title="Adventure Mini-Con Team"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Adventure_Mini-Con_Team"&gt;Adventure Mini-Con
Team&lt;/A&gt; failed to retrieve them, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other
Autobots arrived in full force, though they were kept in check by Cyclonus, who
was suffering from a Mini-Con overdose. Though they were successful, Optimus
Prime disappeared before their eyes, and when &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot returned to
Autobase, he found &lt;A title="Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Worlds_Collide)"&gt;another Optimus
Prime&lt;/A&gt;, dying, sent from a different timeline to warn of &lt;A title=Unicron
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron"&gt;Unicron&lt;/A&gt;'s coming. Learning of the
"real" Optimus Prime's disappearance, Megatron and his Decepticons stormed
Autobase, nearly killing Smokescreen and heavily injuring &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, Red Alert, and  
Scavenger.  


When [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] received the [[Mini-Con]] distress signal, Hot Shot was one of two soldiers he brought with him to Earth to investigate.  He soon scanned the form of an Earth sports car and partnered with the Mini-Con [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]]. {{storylink|Base}}
Optimus Prime was returned to them and insisted on teaming up with the
Decepticons to battle the arriving Unicron. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot excused himself
from this alliance, as Smokescreen's critical condition due to the Decepticons'
recent attack still weighed heavily in his mind. So when Megatron stole away
during the battle with Unicron to strike a deal with the Dark God, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, Scavenger, and Red
Alert ambushed him, leaving him to die as Unicron was seemingly destroyed by the  
&lt;A title="Mini-Con Matrix"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con_Matrix"&gt;Mini-Con Matrix&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Armada (Dreamwave comic)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(Dreamwave_comic)#Volume_3:_Worlds_Collide"&gt;Worlds
Collide&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


When all three Mini-Cons that combine to form the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] sword were collected, Optimus assigned them to Hot Shot. The Autobot was young, inexperienced, and hotheaded, so the great advantage the Star Saber granted him went straight to his ego. With the sword, he was nearly unbeatable on the battlefield until a Decepticon named [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] taught him the hard way that power without skill was useless against an experienced opponent. Hot Shot's naïvety was his downfall. The double-agent [[Sideways]] tricked Hot Shot out of the sword, and Hot Shot was beaten nearly to death by his frustrated opponents. {{storylink|Overmatch}}
&lt;BR clear=all&gt;
&lt;A name=Energon&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H4&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Energon"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;''Energon''&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H4&gt;
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Sorry, Hot Shot, you've been replaced."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotironhidedw.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=190 alt="Sorry, Hot Shot, you've been replaced."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotironhidedw.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotironhidedw.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Sorry, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, you've been
replaced.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Ten years later, at the beginning of the Energon Era, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot accompanied Optimus
Prime, who was skeptical and restless about the new peacetime, on his visit with
the High Council in Cyber City. Prime's demands for vigilance were denied, so &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot later followed him
to a special &lt;A class=new title="Uplink platform"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Uplink_platform&amp;action=edit"&gt;uplink
platform&lt;/A&gt; that &lt;A title="Over-Run (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Over-Run_(Armada)"&gt;Over-Run&lt;/A&gt; had directed them
to. This trip was a first outing for the rookie Autobot &lt;A
title="Ironhide (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_(Energon)"&gt;Ironhide&lt;/A&gt;, who fawned over
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot met this with
difficulty. Learning of the continued existence of &lt;A title=Unicron
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron"&gt;Unicron&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="This Evil Reborn" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/This_Evil_Reborn"&gt;This
Evil Reborn&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Prime once again returned to the High Council, again
accompanied by &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot.  
But this time, Cyber City was attacked by &lt;A title="Cheetor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cheetor_(Armada)"&gt;Cheetor&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
title="Rhinox (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rhinox_(Armada)"&gt;Rhinox&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
title="Airazor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Airazor_(Armada)"&gt;Airazor&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A
title="Terrorsaur (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorsaur_(Armada)"&gt;Terrorsaur&lt;/A&gt;, who were
presumed dead during the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Unicron Battles"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Battles"&gt;Unicron Battles&lt;/A&gt;, but in fact
were transformed into Unicron's &lt;A class=new title="Beasts of the Apocalypse"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Beasts_of_the_Apocalypse&amp;action=edit"&gt;Beasts
of the Apocalypse&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="What Lies Beneath" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath"&gt;What
Lies Beneath&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; The Beasts of the Apocalypse overwhelmed &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other
Autobots, and they were saved from destruction only by the timely arrival of the  
&lt;A title=Omnicon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omnicon"&gt;Omnicons&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, Optimus Prime, and  
the others were granted the &lt;A title="Spark of Combination"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark_of_Combination"&gt;Spark of Combination&lt;/A&gt; by
&lt;A class=mw-redirect title=Sig-Omega
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sig-Omega"&gt;Sig-Omega&lt;/A&gt;, and thanks partly to the
combined &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=Powerlink
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Powerlink"&gt;powerlinked&lt;/A&gt; form of &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and &lt;A
title="Inferno (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Inferno_(Energon)"&gt;Inferno&lt;/A&gt;, the Beasts were
deterred. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="What Lies Beneath, Part 2"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath,_Part_2"&gt;What Lies Beneath, Part
2&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


[[Image:Hotshotstarsaber.jpg|250px|left|thumb|He loves his Star Saber sword. It's so bad.]]
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, along with
Inferno, Ironhide, and &lt;A title="Jetfire (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)"&gt;Jetfire&lt;/A&gt;, followed Prime to
Earth after the Autobots received a distress signal. They regrettably arrived
four hours later than the signal was sent, and &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot boggled at how much
damage could have been done in that time. Indeed, &lt;A title="Scorponok (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_(Energon)"&gt;Scorponok&lt;/A&gt; and his &lt;A
title="Terrorcon (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorcon_(Energon)"&gt;Terrorcons&lt;/A&gt; had caused
massive devastation while chasing after a young boy named &lt;A title=Kicker
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kicker"&gt;Kicker&lt;/A&gt; who could detect &lt;A
title="Energon (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(Energon)"&gt;Energon&lt;/A&gt;. The Terrorcons
outclassed the Autobots upon arrival, however, and left only when their
Energon-mining gear was destroyed...but not without taking Kicker. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="What Lies Beneath, Part 3"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath,_Part_3"&gt;What Lies Beneath, Part
3&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; After the Autobots reunited with &lt;A title="Carlos Lopez"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez"&gt;Carlos&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="Rad White"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rad_White"&gt;Rad&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A title=Alexis
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexis"&gt;Alexis&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the Omnicon &lt;A
title="Strongarm (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strongarm_(Energon)"&gt;Strongarm&lt;/A&gt; were able to
pursue the Terrorcons and deliver a special suit to Kicker that his father, &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Doctor Jones"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Doctor_Jones"&gt;Dr. Jones&lt;/A&gt;, had made for him. With
Kicker's help, the Terrorcons were defeated and returned to Unicron. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="What Lies Beneath, Part 4"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath,_Part_4"&gt;What Lies Beneath, Part
4&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Wheeljack returned to Hot Shot's life, seeking revenge.  The new Autobot recruit [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] was caught up in Wheeljack's vendetta, so Hot Shot protected Side Swipe as best he could, hoping not to repeat his past mistakes. Wheeljack was deterred, but promised he'd be around later to revisit his ill will. {{storylink|Past, Part 1}}
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, along with
[[Image:Hotshot superboyprime.jpg|thumb|"If I can't have Optimus back, I'll ruin the end of [[Wikipedia:Batman: Hush|Batman: Hush]] for everyone!"]]
Optimus Prime and Inferno, attended a public meeting with the &lt;A class=new  
When Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to save Earth, Hot Shot was put in command. Hot Shot declined to take the Matrix of Leadership, which marked the beginning of a very unassertive and indecisive administration.  It was also short, as Optimus Prime returned to life after not too long. {{storylink|Remorse}}
title="United Nations"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=United_Nations&amp;action=edit"&gt;United
Nations&lt;/A&gt; in &lt;A title="New York City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/New_York_City"&gt;New York City&lt;/A&gt; after the  
ratification of the &lt;A class=new title="Cybercord Treaty"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Cybercord_Treaty&amp;action=edit"&gt;Cybercord
Treaty&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Multiplicity
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Multiplicity"&gt;Multiplicity&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


The Decepticons managed to take over Cybertron. [[Unicron]], the Chaos Bringer, was looming over their planet, but [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] (previously Megatron) would not listen to Optimus Prime's pleas to unite their two factions against him. Hot Shot decided to take matters into his own hands and fought his way through the Decepticon base and countless Decepticon warriors to reach Galvatron and reason with him. If it were not for Wheeljack's intervention, he might not have survived. Under the Autobot/Decepticon alliance, Wheeljack's hatred of Hot Shot seemed to soften, and the two learned to trust each other again. {{storylink|Dash (Armada episode)}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Wait, Hot Shot has wisdom?"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotomni-potent.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=122 alt="Wait, Hot Shot has wisdom?"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotomni-potent.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotomni-potent.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Wait, &lt;I&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot&lt;/I&gt; has
wisdom?&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
After the Terrorcons attacked an &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Energon tower"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_tower"&gt;Energon tower&lt;/A&gt; in &lt;A
title=Chicago href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Chicago"&gt;Chicago&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was put in charge
of the unruly Omnicons and sent to &lt;A class=new title="Base Site One"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Base_Site_One&amp;action=edit"&gt;Base
Site One&lt;/A&gt; in &lt;A class=new title="Yukon Territory"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Yukon_Territory&amp;action=edit"&gt;Yukon
Territory&lt;/A&gt;. Immediately upon arrival, Strongarm crashed into the base site's
intrathermal uplink assembly and subsurface transference grid, frustrating
Ironhide. This was the final straw for &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot. After telling them
to get lost, he was darkly amused that this was the first order he'd given that
they actually followed to the letter. An hour later, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot had a change of
heart, and he and Kicker left to track them down. Their search abruptly ended
when &lt;A class=mw-redirect title="Snow Cat"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snow_Cat"&gt;Snow Cat&lt;/A&gt; was dropped in their laps,  
defeated during the Omnicons' solo adventure. Eight days later, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot had returned to  
Optimus, who tasked him with protecting the Autobots' growing Energon-gathering
installations on Earth. However, Prime soon disappeared into a portal, his
whereabouts completely unknown. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Omni-Potent
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omni-Potent"&gt;Omni-Potent&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


After the destruction of Unicron and the defeat of Galvatron, Optimus Prime felt he had failed as Autobot Leader, and with the end of the conflict between the two factions, he exiled himself to parts unknown. Hot Shot and [[Jetfire_(Armada)|Jetfire]] were left in charge of the Transformers. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}
When Terrorcons orchestrated an attack on four major Earth cities, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot (leading a team
consisting of &lt;A title="Thrust (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_(Armada)"&gt;Thrust&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
title="Rodimus (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_(Energon)"&gt;Rodimus&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A
title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)"&gt;Red
Alert&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A title="Beachcomber (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beachcomber_(Energon)"&gt;Beachcomber&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A
title="Smokescreen (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)"&gt;Hoist&lt;/A&gt;) was sent to repel
&lt;A title="Divebomb (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Divebomb_(Energon)"&gt;Divebomb&lt;/A&gt; drones in &lt;A
title=Toronto href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Toronto"&gt;Toronto&lt;/A&gt;. Badly
outnumbered and confined, Rodimus suggested the group split up. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot agreed, sending him
and Red Alert elsewhere. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot contacted Jetfire
in &lt;A title="Los Angeles" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Los_Angeles"&gt;Los
Angeles&lt;/A&gt;, telling him it was only a matter of time before they were
overwhelmed and the battle was lost, but he interrupted his transmission to  
witness a spectacle above. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Multiplicity, Pt. 3"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Multiplicity,_Pt._3"&gt;Multiplicity, Pt. 3&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;A title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/A&gt; had arrived in a
new body, and he was dramatically tearing through the Divebomb drones. After
Megatron cleared away enough of the Terrorcons in Toronto to give &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's team a fighting
chance, he moved on to the concurrent battle in &lt;A title=Tokyo
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tokyo"&gt;Tokyo&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Multiplicity, Pt. 4"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Multiplicity,_Pt._4"&gt;Multiplicity, Pt. 4&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


====Energon====
&lt;A name=Cartoon_continuity&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
:''Voice Actor(s):'' [[Brent Miller]] (US), [[Kōsuke Toriumi]] (Japan)<br>
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Cartoon continuity"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Cartoon continuity&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;A name=Armada_2&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H4&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Armada"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;''Armada''&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H4&gt;


[[Image:Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg|right|thumb|Hot Shot always forgets he's not supposed to shoot at the humans.]]
:''Voice actor:'' &lt;A title="Brent Miller"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brent_Miller"&gt;Brent Miller&lt;/A&gt; (English), &lt;A
class=new title="Kōsuke Okano"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=K%C5%8Dsuke_Okano&amp;action=edit"&gt;Kōsuke
Okano&lt;/A&gt; (Japanese), &lt;A title="Alexandre Moreno"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexandre_Moreno"&gt;Alexandre Moreno&lt;/A&gt;
(Portuguese), &lt;A class=new title="Martin Halm"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Martin_Halm&amp;action=edit"&gt;Martin
Halm&lt;/A&gt; (German), &lt;A class=new title="Ola Norman"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Ola_Norman&amp;action=edit"&gt;Ola
Norman&lt;/A&gt; (Swedish)
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="I'll be back to save you, Wheeljack, right after 4:20."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_1_Hot_Shot_flashback.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=149
alt="I'll be back to save you, Wheeljack, right after 4:20."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Past_Part_1_Hot_Shot_flashback.jpg"
width=200 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_1_Hot_Shot_flashback.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;I'll be back to save you, Wheeljack, right after
4:20.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
An indeterminate number of years ago on Cybertron, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was appointed the
supervisor of a young Autobot named &lt;A title="Wheeljack (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheeljack_(Armada)"&gt;Wheeljack&lt;/A&gt;. Wheeljack
strongly looked up to &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot as a potential mentor and as a friend, but after a blazing battle,
Wheeljack was incapacitated under some debris. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot left him behind as
the flames closed in, promising to get help. However, when &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot reached the other
Autobots, his &lt;A title="Arrogant Autobot officer"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Arrogant_Autobot_officer"&gt;commander&lt;/A&gt; would not  
let him endanger his own life by returning to help his friend. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot ignored this order,
running back into the battle to find Wheeljack, but he was overwhelmed by the
heat and passed out. Instead, Wheeljack was rescued by &lt;A
title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/A&gt;. Thinking he had
been abandoned by &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot, Wheeljack swore vengeance against him and the Autobots. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Past, Part 1" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_1"&gt;Past, Part
1&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Past, Part 2" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_2"&gt;Past, Part
2&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


10 years after the events of [[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]], Hot Shot was stationed on Earth as the commander of [[Ocean City]] while Optimus Prime trained new soldiers on Cybertron. He faced administrative challenges such as [[Demolishor|surly former adversaries]] and [[Kicker|teenaged angst]]. Hot Shot proved himself up to the task of being 'city commander,' handling the daily challenges thrown at him with a steady a equilibrium that is the envy of lesser 'bots.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Wave 1 all accounted for, sir!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Metamorphosis_Hot_Shot_Red_Alert_arrive.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=149 alt="Wave 1 all accounted for, sir!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Metamorphosis_Hot_Shot_Red_Alert_arrive.jpg"
width=200 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Metamorphosis_Hot_Shot_Red_Alert_arrive.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Wave 1 all accounted for, sir!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
When &lt;A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)"&gt;Optimus Prime&lt;/A&gt; received
a distress signal from the long-lost &lt;A title=Mini-Con
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con"&gt;Mini-Cons&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was one of two
soldiers he brought with him to Earth to investigate. When they arrived, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was quick to block
&lt;A title="Starscream (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(Armada)"&gt;Starscream&lt;/A&gt; from attacking
some human children who had stumbled upon the &lt;A class=mw-redirect
title="Street Action Mini-Con Team"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Street_Action_Mini-Con_Team"&gt;Street Action Mini-Con
Team&lt;/A&gt;, and before long, the Decepticons warped away. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot suggested that the
Decepticons' base must be within sight if they were able to use short-warp
teleportation; &lt;A title="Red Alert (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)"&gt;Red Alert&lt;/A&gt; correctly assumed
this base was on Earth's &lt;A title="Moon (moon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)"&gt;moon&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other two
Autobots returned when the humans and the Mini-Cons once again found themselves
under attack from the Decepticons. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Metamorphosis
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Metamorphosis"&gt;Metamorphosis&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Red Alert used
their bodies to shield the human kids from the Decepticons' firepower. During
the battle, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and
Red Alert recovered two &lt;A title="Mini-Con storage panel"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con_storage_panel"&gt;Mini-Con storage
panels&lt;/A&gt;, and &lt;A title="Jolt (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)"&gt;Jolt&lt;/A&gt; was one of two Mini-Cons
who materialized when the panels were activated. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot partnered with this
Mini-Con, and together with Red Alert and Mini-Con &lt;A title="Longarm (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Longarm_(Armada)"&gt;Longarm&lt;/A&gt;, their combined
firepower was able to drive the Decepticons away. The Autobots then returned to
their Earth base with the human children and the Mini-Cons, and the nature of
their war over the Mini-Cons was explained. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other
Autobots also learned the Earth custom of fist-bumping to signify friendship.
&lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Base href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Base"&gt;Base&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


As commander of Ocean City, Hot Shot has been the frequent butt of [[Kicker]]'s practical jokes, and likes to advise him "Don't be an idiot!", but long experience has taught him to trust warning from the human's uncanny precognition. When the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]]s attacked Earth, Optimus Prime gave him a [[Combination Spark]] and he combined with Inferno.{{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron  City}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="This is exactly why his shoulders hurt."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Soldier_Hot_Shot_axelzooka.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=247 alt="This is exactly why his shoulders hurt."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Soldier_Hot_Shot_axelzooka.jpg" width=200
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Soldier_Hot_Shot_axelzooka.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;This is exactly why his shoulders hurt.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Immediately thereafter, the Autobots' computer systems warned them of a
detected Mini-Con, and so &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others made
plans to travel to &lt;A class=new title="Big Canyon"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Big_Canyon&amp;action=edit"&gt;Big
Canyon&lt;/A&gt; to find it. In their rush, &lt;A title="Rad White"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rad_White"&gt;Rad White&lt;/A&gt; was left behind, but &lt;A
title=Alexis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexis"&gt;Alexis&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot returned soon
enough to pick him up. Alexis apologized, for &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's sleek power
excited her so much that she'd forgotten about Rad. As they left for the Big
Canyon once again, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot's driving was extremely rough, yet despite the children's complaints, he
increased his speed—so much so that upon arrival, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot nearly drove into
the canyon itself. After &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot followed &lt;A
title="Laserbeak (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Laserbeak_(Armada)"&gt;Laserbeak&lt;/A&gt; into the canyon,
&lt;A title="Cyclonus (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_(Armada)"&gt;Cyclonus&lt;/A&gt; warped into the
area and attacked him. Ultimately, the Autobots won, and everyone returned to
base after having retrieved the Mini-Con &lt;A title="Sparkplug (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sparkplug_(Armada)"&gt;Sparkplug&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Comrade href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Comrade"&gt;Comrade&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Later Hot Shot headed up a strikeforce to [[Desert City]] to fortify it against possible Terrocon assault.  While there he flirted with jailbait super-scientist [[Misha Miramond]] and fills her ear with what a dork her not-my-boyfriend (Kicker) is back at Ocean City. When Terrorcons invades the city, Hot Shot and his troops perform a holding action at the entrance to the Energon Mine, but their position is overrun, and Hot Shot is the only survivor.  Though battered, Hot Shot commends [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]]'s decision to leave him behind and rescue the humans, resulting the the other Autobot begin awarded his own Combination Spark.{{Storylink|Scorpinok}}
The hotheaded &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot  
often found himself at odds with Red Alert, including one incident when he was
playing tag with the three children instead of doing work. He resented being
chastised by the Autobot medic, who didn't even have a personality, as far as he
was concerned. Soon after this, the Autobots, Mini-Cons, and the human children
ventured to &lt;A title=Antarctica
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Antarctica"&gt;Antarctica&lt;/A&gt; to uncover another
Mini-Con, and &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
was paired with &lt;A title="Carlos Lopez"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez"&gt;Carlos Lopez&lt;/A&gt;. When the two came
across the Decepticons, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot continued to battle
them despite having Carlos inside him. Finally, he ejected Carlos over a gorge,  
leaving Jolt to catch him. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot soon found himself
outnumbered, and it took Red Alert's skills to rescue him from the grip of the  
Decepticons. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
learned some respect for Red Alert that day, even if he claimed to save &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot not out of
friendship, but merely because it was his job. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Soldier href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Soldier"&gt;Soldier&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


As part of [[Prime Squad]], Hot Shot prepared to travel to Mars before the mission was canceled, and took part in the defense of [[Plains City]], again tasked with securing the Energon supply. He if the first to feel the wrath of [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]]'s [[Megatron Sword]], and later battles [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] while attempting to shore up [[Demolishor]]'s flagging confidence in the Autobot cause.{{Storylink|Megatron's Sword}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="He grins because he's too stupid to be sad."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmada.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=133 alt="He grins because he's too stupid to be sad."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Hotshotarmada.jpg" width=200 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;


[[Hot Shot]] leads a recon team searching for a [[Energon Point]] in the mountains, the future location of [[Blizzard City]]. He orders Ironhide and Demolishor to team up for their mutual benefit. While trying to rescue Kicker, Hot Shot is buried in an avalanche by by Cyclonus.  He evacuates his team before the can be crushed by the emergency deployment of a new [[Cybertron City]] via [[space bridge]]. {{storylink|The New Cybertron City}}
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmada.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;He grins
because he's too stupid to be sad.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot also
accompanied the others on a Mini-Con rescue mission in a jungle, where they
learned to respect the Earth's environment. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Jungle href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jungle"&gt;Jungle&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Later, as
the children wondered why the Mini-Con panel they'd uncovered in Antarctica
hadn't opened yet, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot asked them to pass him a spanner too heavy for them to lift because he
thought it would be funny. A bored Carlos and Rad then ran off with some
Mini-Cons to a local carnival, where they got into trouble. Alexis, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, and &lt;A
title="Sureshock (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sureshock_(Armada)"&gt;Sureshock&lt;/A&gt; followed
Laserbeak to the carnival, and after some mischief, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was able to avert
disaster. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Carnival href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carnival"&gt;Carnival&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; When
the Autobots followed the Decepticons into the desert in pursuit of more
Mini-Cons, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was
frustrated with his tires' incompatibility with the terrain. Unfortunately, he
was unable to prevent &lt;A title="Demolishor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)"&gt;Demolishor&lt;/A&gt; from acquiring
the Mini-Con &lt;A title="Bonecrusher (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bonecrusher_(Armada)"&gt;Bonecrusher&lt;/A&gt; from within
an ancient desert temple. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Palace href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Palace"&gt;Palace&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


[[Image:E07 hotshotarm.gif|thumb|Ironhide kept it as a souvenir for his Hot Shot shrine.]]
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
Hot Shot and his crew were still at Plains City when the newly-resurrected [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] attacked. He is defeated in battle by Megatron and 'dis-armed' ad an object lesson to Optimus. {{storylink|Megatron Resurrected}}  Optimus retreats to Ocean City with the injured Hot Shot and leaves the Plains City Energon supply to the Decepticons. Hot Shot's injury awakens a protective streak in Optimus Prime, who briefly forbids Kicker from accompanying the Autobots on missions. At Ocean City Hot Shot undergoes medical treatment, submerged in liquefied Energon while his damaged exostructure re-grows. When the base is breached Hot Shot breaks out of his medical unit to defend Inferno from Terrorcons and, armed with a clone of the [[Megatron's Energon Sword|Megatron Sword]], he helps kick the visiting Decepticons back out. {{storylink|Megatron Raid}}
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Hey, they're right!  Hot Shot's car mode DOES look like a Playskool toy!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Underground_merchandising.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=152
alt="Hey, they're right!  Hot Shot's car mode DOES look like a Playskool toy!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Underground_merchandising.jpg" width=200
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Underground_merchandising.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Hey,
&lt;A title="Ruined FOREVER" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruined_FOREVER"&gt;they're
right&lt;/A&gt;! &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's car
mode DOES look like a &lt;A title=Playskool
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Playskool"&gt;Playskool&lt;/A&gt; toy!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
When the Decepticons held the children hostage in a ghost town, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other
Autobots grappled with them, reluctant to hand over their Mini-Cons to get the  
children returned unharmed. Eventually, after some close calls, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was able to kick
Rad out of Megatron's hand, the tide was turned, and things were restored to the
status quo. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Confrontation (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Confrontation_(episode)"&gt;Confrontation&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
While working in the underground ruins of half of the crashed Mini-Con ship, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was called by
Optimus to join them in another Mini-Con search. The Mini-Con was deep within
the subway system of a local city, and the Autobots' presence in vehicle mode
caused some stir. Here they met up with another Autobot, &lt;A
title="Smokescreen (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)"&gt;Smokescreen&lt;/A&gt;, though they
lost the Mini-Con to the Decepticons. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Underground
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Underground"&gt;Underground&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Smokescreen
joined &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the
others when they journeyed underwater to the lost city of &lt;A title=Atlantis
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Atlantis"&gt;Atlantis&lt;/A&gt;, where, despite their
efforts, they lost yet another Mini-Con to the Decepticons. Worse still, this
one could combine with two others to form the mighty &lt;A
title="Star Saber (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Saber_(Armada)"&gt;Star Saber sword&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Ruin href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruin"&gt;Ruin&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; As compensation,  
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the Autobots
found another of the three Star Saber Mini-Cons within a volcano. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Prehistory href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prehistory"&gt;Prehistory&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot organized a covert surveillance of Optimus Prime while he was targeted by a [[Starscream (Armada)|Mysterious Mercenary]].  Unfortunately, his large shoulder armor made it impossible to hide behind objects and Optimus discovered him.  When Optimus fought Starscream on the [[moon (moon)|moon]], Hot Shot placed Inferno in temporary command of Ocean City so he could bring supply of Energon Stars to [[Lunar City]].{{storylink|Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary}}


When the Autobots encountered the [[Mobile Fortress]] near [[Asteroid City]], Hot Shot panicked, momentarily believing it was Unicron himself, and [[Brainstorm (G1)#Marvel Comics continuity|fired blindly and ineffectually into it]] using a hand weapon.{{storylink|Battle of the Asteroid Belt}}
Megatron and his Decepticons soon attacked the Autobot base, hoping to steal
the two Mini-Cons they need to complete the Star Saber sword. While Optimus
Prime hid the Mini-Con panels, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot confronted Megatron
directly. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was
defeated by Megatron's prehensile antlers, which tossed him to the ground like a
doll. During another skirmish with Megatron, the Mini-Con panels activated, and
Megatron was able to grasp the powerful Star Saber sword! His victory was
short-lived, as Optimus was able to knock it out of his hands and into &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's. With the Star
Saber sword, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was  
able to ward off the Decepticons and force them to retreat. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Swoop (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Swoop_(episode)"&gt;Swoop&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot wanders over when he hears Ironhide telling Kicker to 'lose the attitude', but is unable to wholly endorse Ironhide's statement that Kicker should automatically look up to [[Dr. Brian Jones|his father]]. Instead he gently suggests tht Kicker might want to seek a ''different'' hero to look up to, and tells Ironhide that he's looked up to [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]] since he was a young Autobot.{{storylink|The Legend of Rodimus}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="He loves his Star Saber sword. It's so bad."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotstarsaber.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=204 alt="He loves his Star Saber sword. It's so bad."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Hotshotstarsaber.jpg" width=200
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotstarsaber.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;He loves
his Star Saber sword. It's so bad.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Optimus assigned the three Star Saber Mini-Cons to &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot. The Autobot was
young, inexperienced, and hotheaded, so the great advantage the Star Saber
granted him went straight to his ego. With the sword, he was nearly unbeatable
on the battlefield, which enraged the Decepticons. Then an enigmatic Decepticon
named &lt;A title="Scavenger (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scavenger_(Armada)"&gt;Scavenger&lt;/A&gt; appeared at a  
battle, mocking &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot's skill. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
was angered when Scavenger told him that he was nothing without the sword, so he  
rushed the Decepticon, but was knocked aside. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot learned the hard
way that power without skill is useless against an experienced opponent. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Overmatch href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Overmatch"&gt;Overmatch&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
Scavenger confronted &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot again on an unfinished stretch of a highway overpass, while a mysterious
motorcycle observed. After exchanging a few blows, Scavenger left &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot again, promising to
prove his incompetence another day. The motorcycle introduced himself as the
Autobot &lt;A title=Sideways href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sideways"&gt;Sideways&lt;/A&gt;,
and Red Alert and &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot wondered if they could truly trust this stranger. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Gale href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gale"&gt;Gale&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot later supervised the project to construct the second [[Energon Tower]] at [[Jungle City]]. Ironhide was placed in co-command when the larger Autobot contingent arrived for the final stage and when the city was attacked and put to siege they split duties, with Hot Shot taking Aerial defense.  As the siege wore on, Hot Shot had to be the one to confront  Optimus Prime and force him to admit that this battle was unwinable.  They destroyed Jungle City rather than letting it fall to the Decepticons.{{storylink|Crisis in Jungle City}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="And later, he gets curb-stomped."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Overmatch_Scavenger-HotShotbeatdown.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=227 alt="And later, he gets curb-stomped."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Overmatch_Scavenger-HotShotbeatdown.jpg"
width=300 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Overmatch_Scavenger-HotShotbeatdown.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;And later, he gets &lt;A
title="Image:Credulous Hot Shot beatdown.jpg"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Credulous_Hot_Shot_beatdown.jpg"&gt;curb-stomped&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
During another battle with the Decepticons for a Mini-Con, Sideways and &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot were accidentally
warped away with Megatron to their base on Earth's Moon. With Sideways's
guidance, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was  
able to fight his way through an army of holographic Autobots, only to have
Megatron capture Sideways and demand the Star Saber sword in return. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot reluctantly
relinquished it, but once Megatron released Sideways, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot called for its
Mini-Con components to return to him. At this moment, Sideways betrayed &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, knocking the Star
Saber sword away from him and towards Starscream. Helpless without his powerful
weapon, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was  
brutally beaten by the humiliated Decepticons and dropped back at the Autobots'
base. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Credulous href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Credulous"&gt;Credulous&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot accompanied the rescue mission to [[Lunar City]].{{storylink|Kicker Beware!}}  When Earth was threatened by artificial cometary impacts, He was part of the orbital team sent to intercept them as they approached Earth's atmosphere.  Forced to wait as other teams tried to slow the comets, Hot Shot occupied himself by aggravating [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]], who eventually just told him to be quiet.  He, Jetfire and Optimus Prime supercharged themselves with Energon to push against the comets, delaying their approach long enough for the [[Energon Grid]] to come online.{{storylink|Energon Grid}}


It wasn't until the arrival of Hot Shot's former commander and idol, [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]], that he would question his own allegiances. Not moved by Rodimus' plea to help him to resurrect [[Unicron]], Hot Shot threatened to open fire, only to be struck down by Rodimus. After Rodimus saved Hot Shot's life, he regretted his quick judgment. The relationship between Hot Shot and Rodimus was eventually restored and they become Powerlink partners.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 152px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Like all future Autobot leaders, Hot Shot is amused easily."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Conspiracy_faces.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=208 alt="Like all future Autobot leaders, Hot Shot is amused easily."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/150px-Conspiracy_faces.jpg" width=150
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Conspiracy_faces.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Like all
future Autobot leaders, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot is amused
easily.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was
understandably in a dour mood following this fall from grace, so the kids made
faces at him to cheer him up. Because this was &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, it worked. During
the next battle, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot  
targeted the traitor, Sideways, and was once again bested by Scavenger. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was surprised to
discover later that Scavenger was actually an Autobot working undercover as a
Decepticon. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Conspiracy href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Conspiracy"&gt;Conspiracy&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
With Scavenger now with the Autobots again, he began personally training &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Trust (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Trust_(Armada)"&gt;Trust&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others were
later caught by local television news journalists while they were rescuing some
young children who were lost near a dam, but footage of them was destroyed.
&lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Vacation href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vacation"&gt;Vacation&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; When a
new recruit, &lt;A title="Blurr (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blurr_(Armada)"&gt;Blurr&lt;/A&gt;, joined the team, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot at first had
trouble getting along with him. However, after working together to retrieve a
Mini-Con, they were able to make peace. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Reinforcement
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Reinforcement"&gt;Reinforcement&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot continued to serve under Optimus Prime, surviving many battles on Cybertron and other worlds. Along with several other Autobots, Hot Shot was injured when the reborn Unicron destroyed a fledgling planet in the reformed Q-system. Hot Shot was reformatted into a slick silver body along with his Autobot comrades. He eventually merged his [[spark]] with that of [[Optimus Supreme]] and his partners in the final battle with [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]].
With both the &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=Skyboom
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skyboom"&gt;Skyboom&lt;/A&gt; shield and the Star Saber
sword in his possession, Megatron issued a challenge to Optimus Prime and the
other Autobots. When the two factions met on a stretch of rocky desert, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was disappointed to
discover that none of his firepower could penetrate Megatron's shield. His
weapons useless against the Decepticon leader, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot joined Blurr in
running interference during the battle between Megatron and Optimus. The tide
was turned when the Skyboom shield fell into Autobot hands. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Decisive Battle" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decisive_Battle"&gt;Decisive
Battle&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; For a while, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the other
Autobots wouldn't allow their human friends to enter the base. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Vow href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vow"&gt;Vow&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; While &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others were
away, the kids traveled into a digital realm and met with an &lt;A title=Unicron
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron"&gt;evil force&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Chase (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Chase_(episode)"&gt;Chase&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Optimus Prime led
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others
into battle in a gully, but it was actually a trap conceived by the Decepticons'
new tactician, &lt;A title="Thrust (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_(Armada)"&gt;Thrust&lt;/A&gt;. To the Decepticons'
surprise, the Autobots had an incoming addition of their own, and Prime's
second-in-command, &lt;A title="Jetfire (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)"&gt;Jetfire&lt;/A&gt;, arrived and saved
the Autobots. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Tactician href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tactician"&gt;Tactician&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
However, Optimus Prime was badly damaged in the fight, so Jetfire took over as
leader. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot didn't
like this, as he thought Jetfire was nothing more than a braggart. Jetfire led
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the Autobots
to another battle for a Mini-Con on a distant island, and Optimus Prime arrived,
repaired, just in time to combine with Jetfire and save the day. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Linkup href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Linkup"&gt;Linkup&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


====Cybertron====
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
:''Voice Actor(s):'' [[Kirby Morrow]] (US), [[Daisuke Hirakawa]] (Japan)<br>
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
:''Special attacks:'' Accel Wing, Double X Shot, Battle Dagger
title="Yes, punch my tiny shield!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Desperate_Tidal_Wave_blocked.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=188 alt="Yes, punch my tiny shield!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Desperate_Tidal_Wave_blocked.jpg"
width=250 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Desperate_Tidal_Wave_blocked.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Yes, punch my tiny shield!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
After &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the
other Autobots sparred with one another at their base, their morale boosted by
Jetfire's arrival, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot wondered openly about the nature of Sideways, and whether he was really in
either faction at all. They left for yet another battle, but this time, the
Decepticons had a secret weapon: The gigantic warrior known as &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Tidal Wave"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tidal_Wave"&gt;Tidal Wave&lt;/A&gt; had arrived. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Detection href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Detection"&gt;Detection&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; The
Autobots barely held up against Tidal Wave. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Awakening href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Awakening"&gt;Awakening&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot attempted to block
Tidal Wave's mighty blows with the Skyboom shield, and with help, the Autobots
were finally able to topple the titan. The battle ended with the awakening of
the three Mini-Cons which formed the &lt;A title="Requiem Blaster"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Requiem_Blaster"&gt;Requiem Blaster&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Desperate href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Desperate"&gt;Desperate&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


[[Image:Hotshotcybertron.jpg|thumb|left|250px|He knows kung-fu.]]


When [[Unicron]]'s destruction resulted in a black hole that threatened the Transformers' home planet of Cybertron, Optimus Prime ordered the planet to retreat into hiding on Earth. Hot Shot took the form of a blue Earth sports car.
When the kids ran off with the Mini-Cons, fearful that they would be used as
objects by either faction, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others had
to hunt them down. To reassure the kids, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot decided that the
Autobots would only work with the Mini-Cons as a team! &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Runaway href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Runaway"&gt;Runaway&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


This form came in handy when Optimus reassigned Hot Shot and [[Red_Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] to search for [[Velocitron]]'s [[Cyber Planet Key]]. He quickly developed a competitive bond with [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]], the leader of Velocitron. Against Red Alert's warnings, Hot Shot joined the Great Race. Hot Shot pushed himself beyond his means, almost to the point of destruction, but no matter how he tried, he could never defeat Override. The constant racing took a noticeable toll on his body. Was he really doing this to win the Key or just to prove to himself he was still the fastest in the galaxy?
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="&quot;I won't fight you, I won't!  Well, maybe just a little.&quot;"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_2_Wheeljack_Hot_Shot_fight.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=109
alt="&quot;I won't fight you, I won't!  Well, maybe just a little.&quot;"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Past_Part_2_Wheeljack_Hot_Shot_fight.jpg"
width=300 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_2_Wheeljack_Hot_Shot_fight.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;"I won't fight you, I won't! Well, maybe just a
little."&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Wheeljack returned to &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's life, seeking
revenge for abandoning him on the battlefield all those years ago.  
Unfortunately, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
was training a new Autobot recruit, &lt;A title="Side Swipe (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Side_Swipe_(Armada)"&gt;Side Swipe&lt;/A&gt;, when Wheeljack
returned, and the young Autobot found himself caught up in Wheeljack's vendetta
as well. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Past, Part 1" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_1"&gt;Past, Part
1&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; When Wheeljack explained to &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot that it was
Megatron who'd rescued him and saved his life, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot couldn't believe
it. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot refused to
fight his former friend, yet Wheeljack shot him, leaving him on the road. Side
Swipe dragged &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's
body back to base, where he was placed in intensive care, but &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's memories still
haunted him. Events seemed to repeat themselves when Wheeljack confronted &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot once again within
an abandoned human facility. When Side Swipe showed up to help &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, the area was
caught in flames, and &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot was forced once again to save the young Autobot under his care. Wheeljack
had chained up Side Swipe within the facility, and he told his captive not to  
expect rescue from &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot. Regardless, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot threw himself through the fire and saved Side Swipe, despite the latter's
pleas to keep away lest the place blow up with both of them inside. Wheeljack
was deterred, but promised he'd be around later to revisit his ill will. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Past, Part 2" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_2"&gt;Past, Part
2&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Hot Shot was in big trouble when Optimus arrived on Velocitron and found out what he was up to. But Optimus Prime changed his mind when he realized that winning the race was the only way to win the Key. With the Autobots' full support and [[Coby]]'s help, Hot Shot won the Great Race and the Cyber Planet Key.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Gunbarrel wants to know why mommy and daddy are fighting!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rescue_Megatron_vs_Hot_Shot.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=188
alt="Gunbarrel wants to know why mommy and daddy are fighting!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Rescue_Megatron_vs_Hot_Shot.jpg" width=250
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rescue_Megatron_vs_Hot_Shot.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;A title=Gunbarrel
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gunbarrel"&gt;Gunbarrel&lt;/A&gt; wants to know why mommy
and daddy are fighting!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
When the Autobots were informed by a mysterious source to meet the
Decepticons in battle within a forest, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot wondered why they
didn't bring the Requiem Blaster with them. He was told to shut up, and soon the
Decepticons arrived to fight them, as promised. Megatron noticed the absence of
the Requiem Blaster and realized it was back at the Autobots' base, where
Smokescreen was guarding it, alone. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the Autobots
returned to their base too late to assist Smokescreen, who nearly died valiantly
trying to protect the Mini-Cons. Despite his sacrifice, Megatron took the  
Requiem Blaster and retreated. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Sacrifice href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sacrifice"&gt;Sacrifice&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was among the  
Autobots who watched Red Alert begin to repair Smokescreen. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot then took Side
Swipe with him to investigate the appearance of Starscream on Earth, who had
left the Decepticons with the Star Saber sword after an argument with Megatron.  
After a fight with Tidal Wave, Starscream returned with the Autobots to their
base, despite &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's
objections. He didn't trust Starscream and believed this was a trick, citing the
treachery of Sideways. And worse, Starscream was partly to blame for
Smokescreen's condition! Outside, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot picked a fight with
Starscream as their Mini-Cons watched. Their battle, which lasted until dusk,
was interrupted by a strange Transformer, whom &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot yelled at for
interrupting the avenging of his friend. The fight was stopped when &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot realized this
Transformer was Smokescreen, rebuilt in a new body. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Regeneration
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Regeneration"&gt;Regeneration&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Later, Hot Shot, Red Alert and [[Scattorshot]] faced [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] alone when the Decepticon leader returned to Earth thristing for revenge against the treacherous Starscream. Humiliating the Decepticon in combat, Megatron, enraged, used his new Omega Lock-powered Death Machine Gun on the three Autobots, crippling them beyond repair. {{Storylink|Revelations}}
Using coordinates given by Starscream, the Autobots were able to warp
themselves directly into the Decepticons' base. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot confronted
Wheeljack again, telling the "creep" to get out of his way. With Starscream's
help, the Autobots were able to locate where the Decepticons were keeping their
captured Mini-Cons, and &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot fought Megatron,
giving the Mini-Cons a chance to escape. Starscream interfered, saving &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's life, and after
the two teamed up against the Decepticon leader, they returned to the Autobot
base with the rescued Mini-Cons. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Rescue href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rescue"&gt;Rescue&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot stayed home while
Jetfire and Starscream journeyed to &lt;A class=new title="Mars (planet)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Mars_%28planet%29&amp;action=edit"&gt;Mars&lt;/A&gt;
to retrieve another Mini-Con. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Mars (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mars_(episode)"&gt;Mars&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was frustrated with
Starscream's apathy, and his original suspicions were confirmed when Starscream
had a change of heart in the midst of a battle, bringing the Skyboom shield and
the Star Saber sword to Megatron, giving him control of all three weapons. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Crack href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crack"&gt;Crack&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


[[Image:CDHotShot_fists.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Now we know why his shoulders hurt]]
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Awww, hell naw."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Crisis_Hot_Shot_Matrix.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=224 alt="Awww, hell naw."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Crisis_Hot_Shot_Matrix.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Crisis_Hot_Shot_Matrix.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Awww, ''hell'' naw.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
When Megatron harnessed the power of the three weapons to power the &lt;A
title="Hydra Cannon" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hydra_Cannon"&gt;Hydra
Cannon&lt;/A&gt;, a starship powerful enough to destroy Earth in one blast, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others
worked to build a starship of their own. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Threaten href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Threaten"&gt;Threaten&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot blamed everything
on Starscream's betrayal and angrily accused Optimus Prime for letting
Starscream join their team and beginning this series of events. This had some
effect on the Autobot leader, as Optimus Prime later offered the &lt;A
title="Matrix of Leadership"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_of_Leadership"&gt;Matrix of the Commander&lt;/A&gt;
to &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot refused, saying he
couldn't take such an important thing from Optimus. Optimus Prime put the Matrix
back in his chest, warped into space, and blocked the Hydra Cannon's
Earth-shattering shot with his own body. The Autobot leader disintegrated before
their eyes. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Crisis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crisis"&gt;Crisis&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Fortunately, the powers of Primus acting through the [[Omega Lock]] bathed the trio in the creator's holy light, repairing and reformatting the young Autobot into '''Cybertron Defense Hot Shot.''' Along with his newly reformatted friends, the [[Cybertron Defense Team]] arrived on the battlefield and easily defeated the Decepticons Scourge and Megatron. {{Storylink|Critical}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Scavenger, you're fired."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Remorse_democracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=161 alt="Scavenger, you're fired."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Remorse_democracy.jpg" width=250
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Remorse_democracy.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Scavenger,
you're fired.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
The death of Optimus hit &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot hard. After
starting fights with everyone, he left the Autobots and ran out on his own, only
to face Scavenger. Scavenger assaulted &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, revealing that the  
former Decepticon had left their team for the Autobots because of him. As the  
two beat on each other, Side Swipe arrived with a small group of Mini-Cons, and
they all pleaded for &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot to stop fighting with everyone. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot realized he was
being selfish, that he needed his teammates just as much as they needed him, and  
he promised to stop treating his friends as if they were enemies. The rest of
the Autobots arrived, and they were pleased with &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's discovery.
Jetfire nominated &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot to lead the Autobots because it was what Optimus would have wanted.  
Scavenger went to hit &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot one more time, but &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot didn't move.
Proving he was without fear, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot became leader of
the Autobots. As a stipulation, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot stated that he
would only be leader until they return to Cybertron, and that they should put
the Matrix of the Commander someplace safe, as he didn't feel he should carry
it. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Remorse href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Remorse"&gt;Remorse&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


As Optimus Prime and the other Autobots dealt with Starscream and Megatron's forces, the Cybertron Defense Team was sent on an advance mission to Planet Cybertron. Hot Shot and his fellow team members had to blast their way through a debris field littering the Space Bridge path to Cybertron, during the course of which Hot Shot's vision was obscured by a thick oily substance excreted out of an asteroid as it exploded.
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot oversaw the
completion of their starship, the &lt;A title="Axalon (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Axalon_(Armada)"&gt;''Axalon''&lt;/A&gt;, and asked the
Mini-Cons if they wanted to come or not. They unanimously decided to accompany
the Autobots to Cybertron. He initially forbid the kids from coming, but the
Mini-Cons convinced him to change his mind. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Depart href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Depart"&gt;Depart&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; As the
''Axalon'' left Earth, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot said some final
words in memory of Optimus Prime. Their starship caught up with the
Decepticons', and soon there was a huge battle between the two factions. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot battled Megatron in
space, but it was a one-sided battle. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot placed himself
between Megatron's Requiem Blaster and the ''Axalon'', hoping to spare his  
friends, but then a miracle occurred. The Mini-Con Sparkplug was able to  
resurrect Optimus Prime from within the Matrix, and the formerly-deceased
Autobot Leader reappeared in a blinding flash of green light. Optimus turned the  
tide, &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Miracle href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Miracle"&gt;Miracle&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; and he
reintroduced himself to a very grateful &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the rest of the
crew. But before anything else can happen, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Red Alert are
pulled through a strange hole to an alien landscape. Here they meet a &lt;A
title="Nemesis Prime (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nemesis_Prime_(Armada)"&gt;strange dark version of
Optimus Prime&lt;/A&gt; who battles them. It's discovered that Megatron, Starscream,
and Demolishor are on this strange planet, too, and despite their combined
numbers, the Prime doppleganger overwhelms them. Arriving Mini-Cons bathe the
planet in a strange light, and when the larger Transformers wake up, they're
completely repaired, yet in strange new colors. Ultimately, their battle causes
the planet itself to disintegrate, and both factions are forced to retreat.
&lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Puppet href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Puppet"&gt;Puppet&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


When the unit finally arrived on Cybertron, they were shocked to discover the planet overrun with the parasitic [[Scrapmetal drone]]s, and quickly had to fight their way through legions of the robotic pests. {{Storylink|United}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Twenty episodes ago, he cooed like a baby if you made faces at him."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Dash_Hot_Shot_crouch.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=168
alt="Twenty episodes ago, he cooed like a baby if you made faces at him."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Dash_Hot_Shot_crouch.jpg" width=250
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Dash_Hot_Shot_crouch.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Twenty episodes ago, he cooed like a baby if you made faces
at him.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
By the time the Autobots had repaired the ''Axalon'' and arrived over
Cybertron, the Decepticons had managed to take over the planet. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Blurr fought
through Decepticons on the planet's surface, while a strange phenomenon appears
in the sky. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Uprising href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Uprising"&gt;Uprising&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;A
title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron"&gt;Unicron&lt;/A&gt;, the Chaos
Bringer, was looming over their planet, but &lt;A title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Galvatron&lt;/A&gt; (previously
Megatron) would not listen to Optimus Prime's pleas to unite their two factions
against him. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
decided to take matters into his own hands and fought his way through the
Decepticon base and countless Decepticon warriors to reach Galvatron and reason
with him. If not for Wheeljack's intervention, he might not have survived.
Wheeljack's hatred for &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot seemed to have
soften, and &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's
former friend joined him in pleading to Galvatron to stop the war so that the
two factions could unite against Unicron. Galvatron was unconvinced, but Thrust,
a secret pawn of Unicron, panicked and ran away with the Requiem Blaster and the
Skyboom shield. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
and Wheeljack took after him. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Dash (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dash_(episode)"&gt;Dash&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


Much later on [[Gigantion]] the Cybertron Defense Team was caught in [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]]'s smokescreen, but they managed to figure out the mysterious agent's mind games and defeat him.  
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot continued to
hunt Thrust down, while the true nature of the Mini-Cons was revealed; they were
created by Unicron long ago. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Drift (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Drift_(episode)"&gt;Drift&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Wheeljack aided
Starscream against Sideways within the surprisingly organic-looking caverns of
Cybertron. But when Unicron formed out of Cybertron's moon, the battle
dissipated as each side readied for the final battle. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Portent href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Portent"&gt;Portent&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Despite
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's intentions to
convince Galvatron himself, the Decepticon leader did not change his mind until
Starscream sacrificed himself to Unicron. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Cramp href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cramp"&gt;Cramp&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; After a formal
alliance between Autobots and Decepticons was formed, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was part of a
unified team sent to Unicron's surface. However, once the team arrived, the
Decepticons abandoned &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot and the other Autobots. Later, Demolishor made up for this by begrudgingly
catching Side Swipe before could fall to his doom. In return, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot had found
Demolishor's Mini-Con partner, &lt;A title="Blackout (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackout_(Armada)"&gt;Blackout&lt;/A&gt;. They agreed to
work together from then on. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Alliance href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alliance"&gt;Alliance&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
Optimus Prime and Megatron traveled together to the core of Unicron, leaving
both armies under the command of &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Union href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Union"&gt;Union&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; No matter how
much damage &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's
teams inflicted on Unicron, Unicron could repair himself. Their massive opponent
was fed by the negative energies of the battle. Ordering a cease fire, Unicron
stood motionless, seemingly defeated. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Origin href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Origin"&gt;Origin&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


After Override resigned from leadership of Velocitron in order to travel to a new world, Hot Shot won the race to determine who would be her successor, despite his bulky new body.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="When we come back, we'll be terrible cel-shaded CGI!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Mortal_Combat_Hot_Shot_Jetfire.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=90
alt="When we come back, we'll be terrible cel-shaded CGI!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Mortal_Combat_Hot_Shot_Jetfire.jpg"
width=250 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Mortal_Combat_Hot_Shot_Jetfire.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;When we come back, we'll be terrible cel-shaded
CGI!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot told both
armies to begin rebuilding Cybertron while he went to Unicron to find Optimus,
but Jetfire demanded he go instead. Inside, after a fight between Optimus Prime
and Megatron, Megatron sacrificed himself to Unicron so that their negative
energies would not revive him. But Optimus Prime felt he had failed as Autobot
Leader, and with the end of the conflict between the two factions, he exiled
himself to parts unknown. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and &lt;A
title="Jetfire (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)"&gt;Jetfire&lt;/A&gt; were left in charge
of the Transformers. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Mortal Combat" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mortal_Combat"&gt;Mortal
Combat&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;BR clear=all&gt;&lt;BR clear=all&gt;
&lt;A name=Energon_2&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H4&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Energon"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;''Energon''&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H4&gt;


{{-}}
:''Voice actor:'' &lt;A title="Brent Miller"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brent_Miller"&gt;Brent Miller&lt;/A&gt; (English), &lt;A
class=new title="Kōsuke Toriumi"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=K%C5%8Dsuke_Toriumi&amp;action=edit"&gt;Kōsuke
Toriumi&lt;/A&gt; (Japanese)
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Hot Shot always forgets he's not supposed to shoot at the humans."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=212
alt="Hot Shot always forgets he's not supposed to shoot at the humans."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot always forgets he's
not supposed to shoot at the humans.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
10 years &lt;SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-0&gt;&lt;A title=""
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#cite_note-0"&gt;[1]&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SUP&gt; after the
events of &lt;A title="Armada (cartoon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(cartoon)"&gt;Armada&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was stationed on
Earth as the commander of &lt;A title="Ocean City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ocean_City"&gt;Cybertron City&lt;/A&gt; while Optimus Prime
trained new soldiers on Cybertron. He faced administrative challenges such as &lt;A
title="Demolishor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)"&gt;surly former adversaries&lt;/A&gt;
and teenaged angst from the resident teenaged angster, &lt;A class=mw-redirect
title="Kicker Jones" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kicker_Jones"&gt;Kicker
Jones&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot had
proved himself up to the task of being "city commander," and was seen with
fanboy-like adoration by younger Autobots such as &lt;A title="Ironhide (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_(Energon)"&gt;Ironhide&lt;/A&gt;. Ironhide in
particular wished he could advance further in rank just so he could combine with
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot.


==Toys==
Kicker seemed to have a certain clairvoyance when it came to trouble (and &lt;A
===Armada===
title="Energon (Energon)"
{{anchor|ArDx1}}
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(Energon)"&gt;Energon&lt;/A&gt;!), though &lt;B
[[Image:Hotshotarmadatoy.jpg|thumb|225px|My LifE iS pAiN.]]
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot would often dismiss
*'''Hot Shot''' (Super-Con, 2002/2003)
Kicker's warnings. But one day, like most days, Kicker was right. Mysterious
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MC-03'''
bestial Transformers, the &lt;A title="Terrorcon (Energon)"
**''Accessories'': Missile, engine-block
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorcon_(Energon)"&gt;Terrorcons&lt;/A&gt;, suddenly
attacked Cybertron City, forcing &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, Kicker, Ironhide,
and the others to go on the defensive. When Optimus Prime arrived, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Inferno were
granted the &lt;A title="Spark of Combination"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark_of_Combination"&gt;Spark of Combination&lt;/A&gt;,
which allowed the two to combine into a single super robot. With everyone
working together, the last of that batch of Terrorcons were defeated. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Cybertron City (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_City_(episode)"&gt;Cybertron City&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: ''Armada'' Hot Shot transforms into a modified yellow Audi TT.  He is packaged with [[Mini-Con]] [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]], who, when attached to the [[powerlinx]] port on Hot Shot's rear, deploys his rear axle over the back of his head and (in the same motion) fires a missile from his hubcap.  Jolt's gun can either attach to Hot Shot's robot mode chest or unveil "driving claws" from Hot Shot's front bumper by attaching to Hot Shot's car mode hood as his engine.  Hot Shot's visor can also flip over his face.


: "Hot Rod," [[Takara]]'s ''Micron Legend'' version of Hot Shot, was released in altered colors, with a more saturated yellow and some dark gray paint in places instead of navy blue. Additionally, more of the belt straps on his chest were painted silver, his pelvis was painted a darker red, and there was clearer paint on his Autobot symbol. A [[retool]] (or vice versa) of [[Hasbro]]'s Hot Shot, his right arm houses a light-up LED (for accommodating the translucent Star Saber sword) that glows when his side-view mirror is pressed, a feature that was dropped from the American version due to price-point concerns.
When &lt;A class=new title="Mars City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Mars_City&amp;action=edit"&gt;Cyber
City&lt;/A&gt; on Mars was destroyed by more Terrorcons, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was among those
assembled to hear the news. The Terrorcons' next target was Earth's &lt;A
title="Moon (moon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)"&gt;moon&lt;/A&gt;, so after
Cybertron City was raised, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and the others,  
including the &lt;A title=Omnicon
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omnicon"&gt;Omnicons&lt;/A&gt;, used the &lt;A
title="Space bridge" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge"&gt;space bridge&lt;/A&gt;
to warp there. But despite their efforts, the Terrorcons were able to flee with  
much stolen Energon. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Energon Stars" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Stars"&gt;Energon
Stars&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Later, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot headed up a  
strikeforce to &lt;A class=new title="Desert City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Desert_City&amp;action=edit"&gt;Desert
City&lt;/A&gt; to fortify it against possible Terrorcon assault. While there he
flirted with jailbait super-scientist &lt;A title="Misha Miramond"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Misha_Miramond"&gt;Misha Miramond&lt;/A&gt; and filled her
ear with what a dork her not-my-boyfriend (Kicker) was back at Cybertron City.  
When Terrorcons invaded the city, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and his troops
performed a holding action at the entrance to the Energon Mine, but their
position was overrun, and &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was the only
survivor. Though battered, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot commended &lt;A  
title="Ironhide (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_(Energon)"&gt;Ironhide&lt;/A&gt;'s decision to
leave him behind and rescue the humans, resulting in the other Autobot being
awarded his own Combination Spark. Finally, Ironhide could combine with &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, just as he'd
always wanted! &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Scorpinok href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorpinok"&gt;Scorpinok&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: This mold was [[redeco]]ed and [[retool]]ed for the [[#ArDxPx|"Powerlinx" Hot Shot]] version of the character. That retool was scheduled to be [[redeco]]ed for ''[[Universe (franchise)|Universe]]'' "[[Battle in a Box]]" [[Smokescreen (BIAB)|Smokescreen]], but that set was canceled.


{{anchor|ArDxADT}}
As part of &lt;A class=new title="Prime Squad"
*'''Hot Rod w/ Jolt and Air Defense Microns''' (2002)
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Prime_Squad&amp;action=edit"&gt;Prime
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MS-01'''
Squad&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
**''Accessories'': Missile, engine-block
prepared to travel to Mars before the mission was canceled, and took part in the
defense of &lt;A title="Plains City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Plains_City"&gt;Plains City&lt;/A&gt;, again tasked with
securing the Energon supply. He was the first to feel the wrath of &lt;A
title="Scorponok (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_(Energon)"&gt;Scorponok&lt;/A&gt;'s &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Megatron Sword"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Sword"&gt;Megatron Sword&lt;/A&gt;, and later
battled &lt;A title="Cyclonus (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_(Armada)"&gt;Cyclonus&lt;/A&gt; while attempting to
shore up &lt;A title="Demolishor (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)"&gt;Demolishor&lt;/A&gt;'s flagging
confidence in the Autobot cause. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Megatron's Sword"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron's_Sword"&gt;Megatron's Sword&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Hot Shot" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot"&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot&lt;/A&gt; also led a
recon team searching for a &lt;A class=new title="Energon Point"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Energon_Point&amp;action=edit"&gt;Energon
Point&lt;/A&gt; in the mountains, the future location of &lt;A class=new
title="Blizzard City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Blizzard_City&amp;action=edit"&gt;Blizzard
City&lt;/A&gt;. He ordered Ironhide and Demolishor to team up for their mutual
benefit. While trying to rescue Kicker, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was buried in an
avalanche by Cyclonus. He evacuated his team before they could be crushed by the
emergency deployment of a new &lt;A title="Cybertron City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_City"&gt;Cybertron City&lt;/A&gt; via &lt;A
title="Space bridge" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge"&gt;space
bridge&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="The New Cybertron City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_New_Cybertron_City"&gt;The New Cybertron
City&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: Takara's Hot Rod was also released in a box set with the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team]]. Each item in the set is identical to their individual versions.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 182px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Ironhide kept it as a souvenir for his Hot Shot shrine."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:E07_hotshotarm.gif"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=121 alt="Ironhide kept it as a souvenir for his Hot Shot shrine."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/E07_hotshotarm.gif" width=180 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:E07_hotshotarm.gif"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Ironhide
kept it as a souvenir for his &lt;A title=User:ItsWalky
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/User:ItsWalky"&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
shrine&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and his crew
were still at Plains City when the newly-resurrected &lt;A
title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/A&gt; attacked. He was  
defeated in battle by Megatron and 'dis-armed' as an object lesson to Optimus.
&lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Megatron Resurrected"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Resurrected"&gt;Megatron
Resurrected&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; Optimus retreated to Ocean City with the injured &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and left the Plains
City Energon supply to the Decepticons. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's injury awakened a
protective streak in Optimus Prime, who briefly forbade Kicker from accompanying
the Autobots on missions. At Ocean City &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot underwent medical
treatment, submerged in liquefied Energon while his damaged exostructure
re-grew. When the base was breached, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot broke out of his
medical unit to defend Inferno from Terrorcons and, armed with a clone of the &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title="Megatron's Energon Sword"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron's_Energon_Sword"&gt;Megatron Sword&lt;/A&gt;, he
helped kick the visiting Decepticons back out. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Megatron Raid" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Raid"&gt;Megatron
Raid&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


* '''Hot Shot''' (Happy Meal, 2002)
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Why even take multiple screen caps?  He always looks the same."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Energon_Tower_groupshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=137
alt="Why even take multiple screen caps?  He always looks the same."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Energon_Tower_groupshot.jpg" width=300
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Energon_Tower_groupshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Why
even take multiple screen caps? He always looks the same.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot organized a
covert surveillance of Optimus Prime while he was targeted by a &lt;A
title="Starscream (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(Armada)"&gt;Mysterious Mercenary&lt;/A&gt;.
Unfortunately, his large shoulder armor made it impossible to hide behind
objects and Optimus discovered him. When Optimus fought Starscream on the &lt;A
title="Moon (moon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)"&gt;moon&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot placed Inferno in
temporary command of Ocean City so he could bring a supply of Energon Stars to
&lt;A title="Lunar City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lunar_City"&gt;Lunar City&lt;/A&gt;.
&lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_the_Mysterious_Mercenary"&gt;Starscream the
Mysterious Mercenary&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; When the Autobots encountered the &lt;A
title="Mobile Fortress" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mobile_Fortress"&gt;Mobile
Fortress&lt;/A&gt; near &lt;A class=new title="Asteroid City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Asteroid_City&amp;action=edit"&gt;Asteroid
City&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot  
panicked, momentarily believing it was Unicron himself, and &lt;A class=mw-redirect
title="Brainstorm (G1)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brainstorm_(G1)#Marvel_Comics_continuity"&gt;fired
blindly and ineffectually into it&lt;/A&gt; using a hand weapon. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Battle of the Asteroid Belt"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Battle_of_the_Asteroid_Belt"&gt;Battle of the Asteroid
Belt&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; During the construction of an &lt;A title="Energon Tower"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Tower"&gt;Energon Tower&lt;/A&gt; that would help
protect their cities from attack, the Terrorcons chose the moment to strike.
After Inferno combined with &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot to form Powerlinx
Inferno, the tower was finally activated and the Terrorcons fled. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Energon Tower (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Tower_(episode)"&gt;Energon Tower&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


{{anchor|ArDxPx}}
*'''Powerlinx Hot Shot''' (Super-Con, 2003)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MC-13'''
**''Accessories'': Missile, engine-block
[[Image:Hotshotpowerlinx.jpg|left|thumb|i eAt yOuR bAbIEs!!]]


: A red, yellow, and black [[redeco]] and [[retool]] of the first Hot Shot, Powerlinx Hot Shot has a new head that has a more "serious" look, though his visor, sculpted directly into the new head, is no longer articulated. Intended to be an [[homage]] to ''[[Generation 1]]'' [[Hot Rod]], he has a yellow spoiler and flames on his hood. Due to a factory error, his forehead is painted gray instead of left red. The Japanese version, "Hot Rod Super Mode," fixed this forehead mistake, painted the shoulder symbol more clearly, and retained the LED light-up arm the first Japanese version featured.
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot wandered over
when he heard Ironhide telling Kicker to 'lose the attitude', but was unable to
wholly endorse Ironhide's statement that Kicker should automatically look up to
&lt;A title="Dr. Brian Jones" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dr._Brian_Jones"&gt;his  
father&lt;/A&gt;. Instead he gently suggested that Kicker might want to seek a
''different'' hero to look up to, and told Ironhide that he'd looked up to &lt;A
title="Rodimus (Energon)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_(Energon)"&gt;Rodimus&lt;/A&gt; since he was a young
Autobot. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="The Legend of Rodimus"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Legend_of_Rodimus"&gt;The Legend of
Rodimus&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot later supervised the project to construct the second &lt;A
title="Energon Tower" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Tower"&gt;Energon
Tower&lt;/A&gt; at &lt;A class=new title="Jungle City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Jungle_City&amp;action=edit"&gt;Jungle
City&lt;/A&gt;. Ironhide was placed in co-command when the larger Autobot contingent
arrived for the final stage, and when the city was attacked and put to siege
they split duties, with &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot taking Aerial
defense. As the siege wore on, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot had to be the one
to confront Optimus Prime and force him to admit that this battle was
unwinnable. They destroyed Jungle City rather than letting it fall to the  
Decepticons. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Crisis in Jungle City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crisis_in_Jungle_City"&gt;Crisis in Jungle
City&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: Later in the line, a running change granted Powerlinx Hot Shot with a cleaner faction symbol. Even later in the run Hot Shot got his painted forehead, but that particular version is extremely rare.
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot accompanied
the rescue mission to &lt;A title="Lunar City"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lunar_City"&gt;Lunar City&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Kicker Beware!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kicker_Beware!"&gt;Kicker
Beware!&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; When Earth was threatened by artificial cometary impacts, he
was part of the orbital team sent to intercept them as they approached Earth's
atmosphere. Forced to wait as other teams tried to slow the comets, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot occupied himself by
aggravating &lt;A title="Jetfire (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)"&gt;Jetfire&lt;/A&gt;, who eventually just
told him to be quiet. He, Jetfire and Optimus Prime supercharged themselves with  
Energon to push against the comets, delaying their approach long enough for the
&lt;A title="Energon Grid" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Grid"&gt;Energon
Grid&lt;/A&gt; to come online. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Energon Grid" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Grid"&gt;Energon
Grid&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: In November of 2003, US Toys "R" Us stores had special bonus pack Max-Con (Deluxe) toys, which came with a single bonus Mini-Con attached to the card over their sticker, for ''less'' than the price of a normal Max-Con during Toys "R" Us' post-Thanksgiving-day sale. Like Powerlinx [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]], Powerlinx Hot Shot could come with one of the [[Adventure Mini-Con Team]] members: [[Dune Runner]], [[Iceberg]] or [[Ransack (Armada)|Ransack]].
On Earth, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was
shocked when &lt;A title="Rodimus (Energon)"  
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_(Energon)"&gt;Rodimus&lt;/A&gt;, a transformer he
idolized in his youth, broke in on a communication with &lt;A title="Carlos Lopez"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez"&gt;Carlos&lt;/A&gt; and demanded a secret
meeting. He traveled to &lt;A title=Mars
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mars"&gt;Mars&lt;/A&gt;, where he discovered Scorponok had
reactivated the destroyed Energon mines. Rodimus appeared to head off a fight
between the two of them. He attempted to recruit &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot as a double agent
for the secret agenda that he, Scorponok and &lt;A class=mw-redirect
title="Alpha Q" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alpha_Q"&gt;Alpha Q&lt;/A&gt; shared— the
revival of Unicron! &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt;
Shot refused to betray Optimus Prime, and pulled a gun on Rodimus... but he was
unable to fire on his one-time idol. Rodimus had no such compunctions, and he
shot &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, but Kicker
and Ironhide intervened to save him. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Rodimus: Friend or Foe?"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus:_Friend_or_Foe?"&gt;Rodimus: Friend or
Foe?&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: This mold was scheduled to be [[redeco]]ed for ''[[Universe (franchise)|Universe]]'' "[[Battle in a Box]]" [[Smokescreen (BIAB)|Smokescreen]], but that set was canceled.
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot attended the
launch of the &lt;I&gt;&lt;A title="Miranda II"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Miranda_II"&gt;Miranda II&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt; Autobot-human
spacecraft. He joined the crew and was part of a space battle in the &lt;A
class=new title="Asteroid Belt"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Asteroid_Belt&amp;action=edit"&gt;Asteroid
Belt&lt;/A&gt; to defend the &lt;A title="Energon Ring"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Ring"&gt;Energon Ring&lt;/A&gt; before their journey
could begin. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Go for Unicron!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Go_for_Unicron!"&gt;Go for
Unicron!&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


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After Rodimus saved &lt;B
*'''Hot Shot''' (Built to Rule, 2003)
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's life, he
[[Image:BTRhotshot.jpg|thumb|Build jaAm? WHY?]]
regretted his quick judgment. The relationship between &lt;B
: A lego-style toy, he must be assembled in each form then disassembled and rebuilt to convert from robot to car and back again.  
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and Rodimus was
{{charstubtoys}}
eventually restored and they become Powerlink partners.  


===Energon===
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot continued to
{{anchor|EnDx1}}
serve under Optimus Prime, surviving many battles on Cybertron and other worlds.
*'''Hot Shot''' (Deluxe, 2004)
Along with several other Autobots, &lt;B
**''Japanese ID number'': '''SC-02'''
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was injured when
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, "radar" panel attachment
the reborn Unicron destroyed a fledgling planet in the reformed Q-system. &lt;B
[[Image:Hotshotenergontoy.jpg|thumb|left|Hot Shot, part deux]]
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was reformatted
into a slick silver body along with his Autobot comrades.


: In ''Energon'', Hot Shot was updated as a modified yellow Aston-Martin Vanquish. He can carry a transparent red spring-loaded missile-launching weapon in either mode, and features a small Autobot [[spark crystal]] on his chest on which [[Energon chip]]s can be mounted.  Like nearly all other Autobots in the ''Energon'' line, he can [[powerlinx]] with like-designed toys to form the top or bottom of a super robot. 
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot warned Sally
not to go spy on the Decepticons, but she got away from him by wiggling
disturbingly through a human-size passageway. He was suitably impressed when she
captured the control room the Decepticons had been using all by herself. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Galvatron Terror"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Galvatron_Terror"&gt;Galvatron Terror&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt; He
eventually merged his &lt;A title=Spark
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark"&gt;spark&lt;/A&gt; with that of &lt;A
title="Optimus Supreme" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Supreme"&gt;Optimus
Supreme&lt;/A&gt; and his partners in the final battle with &lt;A
title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Galvatron&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;SPAN
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="The Sun" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Sun"&gt;The Sun&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;A
name=Cybertron&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H4&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Cybertron"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;''Cybertron''&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H4&gt;


: Takara released Hot Shot in similar colors, changing the slate blue plastic to a dark, nearly-black blue, dropping the black paint on his car roof, and adding metallic blue paint to his chest. His head is also a nearly-identical-but-different sculpt, most noticeably around the mouth, chin, and eyes.  The reason for this is unknown.
:''Voice actor:'' &lt;A title="Kirby Morrow"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kirby_Morrow"&gt;Kirby Morrow&lt;/A&gt; (English), &lt;A
class=new title="Daisuke Hirakawa"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Daisuke_Hirakawa&amp;action=edit"&gt;Daisuke
Hirakawa&lt;/A&gt; (Japanese)
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href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rad-sm.gif"&gt;&lt;IMG height=85
alt="No, really.  HE WANTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/Rad-sm.gif" width=93
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 900; FONT-SIZE: 125%"&gt;I want to tell you about the
Transformers!&lt;/SPAN&gt;
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: This mold was later redecoed to make the [[#EnDxEn|"Energon" powered-up version of the character]]. It was also [[retool]]ed to make the ''[[Timelines]]'' incarnation of [[Nightbeat (G1)#Timelines|Nightbeat]].
&lt;I&gt;This character article is a &lt;A
title="Category:Character stubs missing fiction"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Character_stubs_missing_fiction"&gt;stub&lt;/A&gt;
and is missing information on their '''fictional appearances'''. You can
help '''Transformers Wiki''' by &lt;A class="external text"
title=http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit"
rel=nofollow&gt;expanding it&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/I&gt;
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&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="He knows kung-fu."
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotcybertron.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=186 alt="He knows kung-fu."
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Hotshotcybertron.jpg" width=250
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
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&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotcybertron.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;He knows
kung-fu.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
When &lt;A title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron"&gt;Unicron&lt;/A&gt;'s
destruction resulted in a black hole that threatened the Transformers' home
planet of Cybertron, Optimus Prime ordered the planet to retreat into hiding on
Earth. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot took the
form of a blue Earth sports car. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
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title="The Fallen" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Fallen"&gt;Fallen&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


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* '''Hot Shot & Inferno''' (Multi-pack, 2003)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''SS-01'''
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, "radar" panel attachment


: In Japan, Takara released Hot Shot both individually and in a box set with [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]]. Both toys are identical to their individual releases.
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href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Help:Contents"&gt;quality standards&lt;/A&gt; of
'''Transformers Wiki'''.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SMALL&gt;Please discuss this issue on the &lt;A
title="Talk:Hot Shot (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Hot_Shot_(Armada)"&gt;talk page&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A
class="external text"
title=http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit
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&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;SMALL&gt;Needs storylinks, and really, he appeared in more
[[Image:Hotshotenergonenergontoy.jpg|thumb|He has a heart that burns for justice... and [[jaAm]].]]
episodes than just this.&lt;/SMALL&gt; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/CENTER&gt;
*'''Energon Hot Shot''' (Deluxe, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''SC-23'''
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, "radar" panel attachment


: ''Energon'' Energon Hot Shot gave the car mode a silver-painted finish and the robot parts a dark blue, yellow, and red color scheme reminiscent of ''Armada'' Hot Shot's colors.  Energon Hot Shot uses the Hasbro version of Hot Shot's head (see above).


: When he was released in Japan as "Hot Shot Fire," his car mode was changed to an unpainted silver, and additionally the yellow plastic was changed to a sherbet orange, the dark blue plastic to black, and the transparent orange plastic to a transparent crimson red.   He also came packaged with the [[Energon_weapon#Energy_Cutter_.28Signal_Flare.29|Energy Cutter]], a transparent watermelon-red redeco of [[Signal Flare]]'s [[energon weapon]], plus a matching [[energon chip]]. Hot Shot Fire uses the Takara version of Hot Shot's head.
This form came in handy when Optimus reassigned &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and &lt;A
title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)"&gt;Red
Alert&lt;/A&gt; to search for &lt;A title=Velocitron
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Velocitron"&gt;Velocitron&lt;/A&gt;'s &lt;A
title="Cyber Planet Key" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_Planet_Key"&gt;Cyber
Planet Key&lt;/A&gt;. He quickly developed a competitive bond with &lt;A
title="Override (Cybertron)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Override_(Cybertron)"&gt;Override&lt;/A&gt;, the leader of  
Velocitron. Against Red Alert's warnings, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot joined the Great
Race. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot pushed
himself beyond his means, almost to the point of destruction, but no matter how
he tried, he could never defeat Override. The constant racing took a noticeable
toll on his body. Was he really doing this to win the Key or just to prove to
himself he was still the fastest in the galaxy?


: This mold was [[retool]]ed to make the ''[[Timelines]]'' incarnation of [[Nightbeat (G1)#Timelines|Nightbeat]].
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot was in big
trouble when Optimus arrived on Velocitron and found out what he was up to. But
Optimus Prime changed his mind when he realized that winning the race was the
only way to win the Key. With the Autobots' full support and &lt;A
class=mw-redirect title=Coby href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Coby"&gt;Coby&lt;/A&gt;'s help,
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot won the Great
Race and the Cyber Planet Key.  


{{-}}
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
===Cybertron===
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
{{anchor|CyDx1}}
title="JaAm executive."
*'''Hot Shot''' (Deluxe Class, 2005)
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Retreat-HotShotholomatteravatar.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
**''Japanese ID number'': ''GC-02'''
class=thumbimage height=155 alt="JaAm executive."
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, Speed Planet Cyber Key
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Retreat-HotShotholomatteravatar.jpg"
[[Image:Hotshotcybertrontoy.jpg|left|thumb|Hot Shot's Blue Period.]]
width=200 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Retreat-HotShotholomatteravatar.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;JaAm executive.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Later, &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, Red
Alert and &lt;A title=Scattorshot
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scattorshot"&gt;Scattorshot&lt;/A&gt; faced &lt;A
title="Megatron (Armada)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)"&gt;Megatron&lt;/A&gt; alone when the
Decepticon leader returned to Earth thirsting for revenge against the
treacherous Starscream. Humiliating the Decepticon in combat, they enraged
Megatron, who used his new Omega Lock-powered Death Machine Gun on the three
Autobots, crippling them beyond repair. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
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title="Revelation (episode)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Revelation_(episode)"&gt;Revelation&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: A [[homage]] to [[Generation 1]] [[Hot Rod]] in design but not in color scheme, ''Cybertron'' Hot Shot transforms into a modified blue [[Wikipedia:Chrysler ME Four-Twelve|Chrysler ME Four-Twelve concept car]]. He comes with a [[Velocitron|Speed Planet]] [[Cyber Key]] that deploys transparent yellow wings from his spoiler when the key is inserted into the rear of the car. The toy also comes with a spring-loaded missile-launching gun that can be carried in robot mode or pegged into the roof of the car mode.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Now we know why his shoulders hurt"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:CDHotShot_fists.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG class=thumbimage
height=188 alt="Now we know why his shoulders hurt"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-CDHotShot_fists.jpg" width=250
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:CDHotShot_fists.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11 alt=""
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;Now we know
why his shoulders hurt&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Fortunately, the powers of Primus acting through the &lt;A title="Omega Lock"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Lock"&gt;Omega Lock&lt;/A&gt; bathed the trio in the
creator's holy light, repairing and reformatting the young Autobot into
'''Cybertron Defense &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot'''
Shot.&lt;/B&gt; Along with his newly reformatted friends, the &lt;A
title="Cybertron Defense Team"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_Defense_Team"&gt;Cybertron Defense Team&lt;/A&gt;
arrived on the battlefield and easily defeated the Decepticons Scourge and
Megatron. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Critical href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Critical"&gt;Critical&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: The Japanese release, "Exillion," is completely identical other than a slight molding difference; two screws on either side of the spoiler are visible in the American release and all subsequent uses of the mold, but the original Japanese use of the mold had these screws buried.  Though the Japanese release was treated as a separate character from Hot Shot, the toy was designed to be the character from ''Armada'' and ''Energon'', as evident by his head design and [[control art]] labeling him as such.
&lt;DIV
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 2px; BORDER-TOP: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 2px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; MARGIN: 0px auto 0.2em; BORDER-LEFT: #eeeeee 2px solid; WIDTH: 90%; PADDING-TOP: 2px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #eeeeee 2px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;'''Note:'''
&lt;I&gt;The "power of Primus/Omega Lock" explanation was added for the  
English-language dub of the show. In the original Japanese &lt;/I&gt;Galaxy Force&lt;I&gt;
version, the upgrade was simply a result of &lt;A title="Burning Justice"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Burning_Justice"&gt;Burning Justice&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
As Optimus Prime and the other Autobots dealt with Starscream and Megatron's
forces, the Cybertron Defense Team was sent on an advance mission to Planet
Cybertron. &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot and
his fellow team members had to blast their way through a debris field littering
the Space Bridge path to Cybertron, during the course of which &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's vision was
obscured by a thick oily substance excreted out of an asteroid as it exploded.  


: This mold was used to make [[#CyDVD|Red Exillion (see below)]], [[Excellion]], "[[Shattered Glass]]" [[Goldbug (Timelines)|Goldbug]] and [[Transformers (2007)|Movie]] [[Breakaway (Movie)|Breakaway]].


{{anchor|CyLoC1}}
When the unit finally arrived on Cybertron, they were shocked to discover the
*'''Hot Shot''' (Legends of Cybertron, 2005/2006)
planet overrun with the &lt;A title="Scrapmetal (type)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scrapmetal_(type)"&gt;Scrapmetal&lt;/A&gt;, and quickly had
to fight their way through legions of the robotic pests. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=United href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/United"&gt;United&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: A smaller, simplified version of ''Cybertron'' Hot Shot was released as part of the first wave of ''[[Legends of Cybertron]]'' toys.
Much later on &lt;A title=Gigantion
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gigantion"&gt;Gigantion&lt;/A&gt; the Cybertron Defense Team
was caught in &lt;A title="Soundwave (Cybertron)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Soundwave_(Cybertron)"&gt;Soundwave&lt;/A&gt;'s smokescreen,
but they managed to figure out the mysterious agent's mind games and defeat him.  


: This mold was used to make a [[#CyLoC2|second Legends of Cybertron Hot Shot (see below)]], ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Bumblebee (G1)#ClLoC|Bumblebee]], and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Red Alert (G1)#LoC|Red Alert]].


{{anchor|CyCDF}}
After Galvatron was finally defeated, Override resigned from leadership of
[[Image:Hotshotcybertrondefensetoy.jpg|right|thumb|He's full of tiny missiles. Bubbles, not so much.]]
Velocitron in order to travel to a new world, &lt;B
*'''Cybertron Defense Hot Shot''' (Deluxe Class, 2005)
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot won the race to
**''Japanese ID number'': '''GC-19'''
determine who would be her successor, despite his bulky new body. &lt;SPAN
**''Accessories'': Sword, Cybertron Autobot Cyber Key, Scrapmetal standee (Takara release only)
class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title=Beginning href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beginning"&gt;Beginning&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: Cybertron Defense Hot Shot transforms into a modified [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1117_Armored_Security_Vehicle M1117 Guardian Armored Security Vehicle], in the same blue, navy, and red color scheme as the previous ''Cybertron'' Hot Shot. A [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] Cyber Key is included and when the key is inserted into the back of the turret, the two gun barrels open up into dual (non-firing) missile launchers. Compartments on his shoulders and his thighs can also open up to reveal additional missile launchers. Cybertron Defense Hot Shot also comes with a dagger that stows between his legs in vehicle mode, and when in robot mode, the dagger can be hand-held, peg into the front of his fist, or be put away in a sheath on his leg.
&lt;A name=Melbourne_House_Transformers_video_game_continuity&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A
title="Edit section: Melbourne House Transformers video game continuity"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Melbourne House ''Transformers'' video game
continuity&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;DIV class="thumb tleft"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="Hot Shot has particular skills?"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:BalanceOfPower-Autobots.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=200 alt="Hot Shot has particular skills?"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-BalanceOfPower-Autobots.jpg" width=200
border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:BalanceOfPower-Autobots.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG height=11
alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot has particular
skills?&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
Shortly after &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
was brought online, he and Red Alert were sent deep into Decepticon territory to
uncover a &lt;A class=mw-redirect title=Data-con
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Data-con"&gt;ancient relic&lt;/A&gt; that would tell them
how to find the long-lost race of &lt;A title=Mini-Con
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con"&gt;Mini-Cons&lt;/A&gt;. The two were discovered by
passing &lt;A title=Dropship href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dropship"&gt;Dropships&lt;/A&gt;
and the &lt;A title="Spider Tank" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spider_Tank"&gt;Spider
Tanks&lt;/A&gt; they carried, and so they quickly dodged for cover. But there was
nowhere to run; the Decepticons had created a massive army of &lt;A
title=Decepticlone href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticlone"&gt;Decepticlones&lt;/A&gt;.
After sending out an auto-distress signal, Optimus Prime arrived to bolster
their firepower. This caught the attention of Megatron, and the two leaders
grappled while &lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot
and Red Alert continued to evade the Decepticlones. Meanwhile, Starscream had
managed to find the relic, and a portal was opened in front of them. &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, Red Alert, and  
Optimus Prime followed the Decepticons through the portal to &lt;A title=Earth
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth"&gt;Earth&lt;/A&gt;. The search for the Mini-Cons
began! &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="The Balance of Power"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Balance_of_Power"&gt;The Balance of
Power&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


: "Exigeyser," Cybertron Defense Hot Shot's Japanese counterpart, is completely identical, but also came with a cardboard standup depicting three [[Scrapmetal drone]]s. The American version of Cybertron Defense Hot Shot was at some point intended to have a slightly altered deco, which is shown on the back of the packaging, but this altered deco for some reason never superseded the Japanese deco for American release.
&lt;DIV class="thumb tright"&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"&gt;&lt;A class=image
title="He's the best there is!"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:PS2game-HotShotDecepticlones.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
class=thumbimage height=144 alt="He's the best there is!"
src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-PS2game-HotShotDecepticlones.jpg"
width=200 border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;DIV class=thumbcaption&gt;
&lt;DIV class=magnify&gt;&lt;A class=internal title=Enlarge
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:PS2game-HotShotDecepticlones.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG
height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png"
width=15&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;He's the best there is!&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot found himself
in the sweeping jungles that surrounded abanconed Aztec ruins. After failing to  
find Mini-Cons under a rock, he managed to pair up with the Mini-Con Jolt, and
when he reached the top of the ruins, he faced Cyclonus. The following battles
took him many places, such as a frozen wasteland, the interior of a battleship
(which eventually revealed itself as the gigantic Tidal Wave), and ultimately &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot battled Unicron
himself.  


: This mold was also used to make ''[[Timelines]]'' [[Springer#BC07|Springer]] and ''[[Universe (2008)|Universe]]'' [[Roadbuster]].
&lt;B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, having
collected all the Mini-Cons on Earth, was able to wield the legendary &lt;A
title="Matrix Cannon" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_Cannon"&gt;Matrix
Cannon&lt;/A&gt;, which he used to fire a deadly shot into the core of the Planet
Eater. &lt;SPAN class=tt1_nowrap
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"&gt;&lt;A
title="Transformers (Melbourne House)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_(Melbourne_House)"&gt;Transformers&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;


{{anchor|CyDVD}}
*'''Red Exillion''' (DVD exclusive, 2005)
**''Accessories'': Launcher, missile, Speed Planet Cyber Key
[[Image:Redexillion.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Someone had to sell porn to afford this.]]


:Red Exillion is a redeco of the ''Cybertron'' Hot Shot toy in red, dark red, and orange, with transparent blue. Limited to 500, it came with the first ''Galaxy Force'' DVD and an empty box set to prepare against the next few ''Galaxy Force'' DVD releases.  This redeco took advantage of the toy's homage to ''Generation 1'' Hot Rod, completing the homage with appropriate colors, though the toy is still treated as Hot Shot in Hot Rod colors and not as a Hot Rod toy.
&lt;DIV
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 2px; BORDER-TOP: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 2px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; MARGIN: 0px auto 0.2em; BORDER-LEFT: #eeeeee 2px solid; WIDTH: 90%; PADDING-TOP: 2px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #eeeeee 2px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;'''Note:'''  
&lt;I&gt;The events of the game listed above are exactly the same for when players
choose to take Red Alert or Optimus Prime into battle instead of &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot... except for the  
rock thing. That's all &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot, baby.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;BR clear=all&gt;
&lt;A name=Toys&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Toys"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Toys&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;


:Before the toy saw official release, several advance test shots entered the market, though in a [http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act368/ slightly altered color treatment] than the final.  Originally, the dark red was a brighter red.
:&lt;I&gt;Main Article: &lt;A title="Hot Shot (Armada) toys"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_(Armada)_toys"&gt;&lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot (Armada)
toys&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/I&gt; &lt;A name=Merchandise&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Merchandise"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Merchandise&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;


:This toy was the indirect inspiration for ''Cybertron'' [[Excellion]].  (The direct inspiration, of course, being the original Hot Rod.) It was also used to make "[[Shattered Glass]]" [[Goldbug (Timelines)|Goldbug]].
:&lt;I&gt;Main article: &lt;A title="Hot Shot (Armada) toys"  
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href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_(Armada)_toys#Merchandise"&gt;Merchandise&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;
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&lt;A name=Notes&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
*'''Hot Shot''' (Legends of Cybertron, 2006)
&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: Notes"
[[Image:LOCExcellion.jpg|right|thumb|WhErE JAam!1?/]]
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;Notes&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;


: A redeco of [[Legends of Cybertron]] Hot Shot uses Excellion's approximate coloration and paint scheme; however, the toy is not actually labelled "Excellion", merely "Hot Shot". The reason for this is unclear.
*According to the &lt;A title="Transformers (Melbourne House)"
href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_(Melbourne_House)"&gt;''Armada''
Playstation 2 game&lt;/A&gt; instruction booklet, &lt;B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot's ''Armada''
body has the following statistics:


: This mold was later repainted into ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]] Legends'' [[Bumblebee (G1)#ClLoC|Bumblebee]], and ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Red Alert (G1)#LoC|Red Alert]].
:
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===Attacktix===
*Mass: 3,109 lbs
[[Image:Attacktix_CybHotShot.jpg|right|thumb|yAy, jaAm shOoToR!!1]]
*Robot height: 16' 5"
*Robot top speed: 50 mph
*Vehicle height: 5' 11"
*Vehicle top speed: 186 mph
*Vehicle power: 400 hp @ 8000 rpm &lt;A
name=External_links&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
&lt;H2&gt;&lt;SPAN class=editsection&gt;[&lt;A title="Edit section: External links"
href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14"&gt;edit&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=mw-headline&gt;External links&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;


*'''Hot Shot''' (Booster, 2006)
*&lt;A class="external text"  
**''Attacktix ID number'': '''TF09'''
title=http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HotShot/hotshot.htm
 
href="http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HotShot/hotshot.htm" rel=nofollow&gt;&lt;B
: Part of the first assortment of ''[[Attacktix]]'' Booster Packs, Hot Shot is a "Super Rare" 40-point Warrior-class piece with a spring-loaded "shield-missile" attack. His Special Power "Rally" allows you to return one of your previously-defeated [[Autobot]] pieces back into play. The figure commonly has a black base, but like all Boosters, a rarer chrome-silver-base version was randomly packed into boxes as well.
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66"&gt;Hot&lt;/B&gt; Shot at TFU.info&lt;/A&gt;
 
: This mold was also used to make ''Attacktix'' Excellion, who was also a wave-1 Booster piece.
 
===Universe (2008)===
*'''Hot Shot''' (Deluxe, 2009)
:''Accessories: Mini-Con Jolt, 2 spring-launched missiles''
: An update of his ''Armada'' form, Hot Shot transforms from a sleek hotrod sports car into a fully poseable robot with arm-mounted missile launchers. Jolt will be able to attach via a Mini-Con peg, but will not activate any features.
 
{{comingsoontoy}}
 
==Merchandise==
{{anchor|SCF}}
*'''Hot Rod''' (Super Collection Figure, 2002)
[[Image:Hotshotscf.jpg|left|thumb|[[JaAm]] in stereo.]]
 
: A PVC figure of Hot Shot was available in Act 9 of [[Takara]]'s [[Super Collection Figure]] series in both full color and solid-pewter finish.  All SCF figures were [[blindpacked]] and came with a little stand.
 
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{{anchor|MSCF}}
*'''Hot Rod''' (Mega Super Collection Figure, 2002)
[[Image:MegaSCFHotRod.jpg|right|thumb|wh3rE jAm cOpToR?]]
 
: Mega SCF Hot Rod is a larger, articulated non-transforming PVC action figure of Hot Shot, based upon his cartoon model. He came with his engine gun and a small, non-transformable PVC figurine of his [[Mini-Con]] partner, [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]].
 
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{{anchor|BubbleTwist}}
*'''Hot Shot''' (Bubble Twist, 2003)
[[Image:Hotshotbubbletwist.jpg|left|thumb|Taste the [[JaAm]] rainbow.]]
 
:In 2003, Toys "R" Us carried a line of candy toys called [[Bubble Twist]], which dispensed gum from its capsule-shaped container when twisted.  Also contained in the capsule was an unpainted rubber figurine of a ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' or ''Transformers [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' character, including Hot Shot.  Blindpacked, each figure came in several different possible colors.
 
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{{anchor|BigTF}}
*'''Hot Rod''' (Big Transformers)
 
{{anchor|DieCast}}
*Die-cast car Hot Shot
 
{{anchor|Puzzle}}
*Hot Shot puzzle
 
{{anchor|Backpack}}
*Hot Shot backpack
 
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==Trivia==
[[Image:Hotshotprotocolor.jpg|right|thumb|150px|WhY mY SHoUldErS HuRt?]]
 
*[[#ArDx1|''Armada'' Hot Shot's toy]] had to be completely re-engineered close to release.  Due to a structural flaw (and gravity), Hot Shot's arms were not able to attach securely to his shoulders.  Furthermore, designer [[Aaron Archer]] felt the early design's wide, football player-like physique was inappropriate to the character archetype.  Changes were made last-minute to the design to rework the transformation of the arms, necessitating the dropping of some articulation and the addition of [[kibble]] elsewhere to compensate.
 
[[Image:ArcherSays.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Lay off the [[JaAm]], pal.]]
 
*''Armada'' Hot Shot's infamous "[[JaAm]]" grin was actually a misinterpretation of Aaron Archer's original concept art which depicted Hot Shot clenching his teeth together in an open-lipped, determined expression.  The head of the original tooling had a maniacal, perhaps unhinged-looking smile in response to this concept art, so the grin was scaled back on the final toy.  The grin was removed completely and replaced with a neutral, stern expression when the head was resculpted for [[#ArDxPx|Powerlinx Hot Shot]].
 
* The rear axle (the "Axelzooka") on the original Hot Shot figure has sculpted shock absorbers in an interesting display of attention to detail.  However, they are sculpted 90 degrees in the wrong direction, which would make them useless in reality.
 
* According to the [[Transformers (Melbourne House)|''Armada'' Playstation 2 game]] instruction booklet, Hot Shot's ''Armada'' body has the following statistics:
:*Mass: 3,109 lbs
:*Robot height: 16' 5"
:*Robot top speed: 50 mph
:*Vehicle height: 5' 11"
:*Vehicle top speed: 186 mph
:*Vehicle power: 400 hp @ 8000 rpm
 
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==References and footnotes==
<references/>
 
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Autobot/HotShot/hotshot.htm Hot Shot at TFU.info]
 
 
 
[[Category: Attacktix]]
[[Category: Armada characters]]
[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Autobot leaders]]
[[Category: Built to Rule]]
[[Category: Cybertron characters]]
[[Category: Energon characters]]
[[Category: Fast food exclusives]]
[[Category: Legends of Cybertron]]
[[Category: Letters page answerers]]
[[Category: Universe (2008)]]
[[Category: Velocitron]]

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<DIV id=title-factionicons style="DISPLAY: none; FLOAT: right"> <DIV style="POSITION: relative"><A title=Autobot href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot"><IMG height=30 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/30px-Symbol_autobot_reg.png" width=30 border=0></A></DIV> <DIV style="POSITION: relative"><A title=Velocitron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Velocitron"><IMG height=24 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/30px-Cyber_Key_symbol_Velocitron.png" width=30 border=0></A></DIV> <DIV style="POSITION: relative"><A title="Cybertron Defense Team" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_Defense_Team"><IMG height=44 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/55px-Cybertron_Defence.png" width=55 border=0></A></DIV></DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #aaa thin solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; BORDER-TOP: #aaa thin solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0.5em; BACKGROUND: #f7f8ff; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px 1em 0px 2em; BORDER-LEFT: #aaa thin solid; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; BORDER-BOTTOM: #aaa thin solid"><I>The name or term <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see <A title="Hot Shot (disambiguation)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_(disambiguation)"><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot (disambiguation)</A>.</I></DIV>

<I><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot is an

<A title=Autobot href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot">Autobot</A> character from the <A title="Unicron Trilogy" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Trilogy">Unicron Trilogy</A> <A title="Continuity family" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family">continuity family</A>.</I>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 352px"><A class=image title="I'm Optimus Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head, huh?" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotut.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=395 alt="I'm Optimus Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head, huh?" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/350px-Hotshotut.jpg" width=350 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotut.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>I'm Optimus Prime's choice for successor. Scary what goes through the big guy's head, huh?</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot Shot</B> is the quintessential young hero. He's been around long enough to earn a name for himself and a place in <A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)">Optimus Prime</A>'s entourage, but he's still too young to know when he's in over his head. In other words, he's blunt, overconfident, naïve, and more than just a little annoying, yet brave, honorable, loyal to his friends, and willing to risk his life to stop the <A title=Decepticon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon">Decepticons</A> and help the Autobots. With time and experience, Prime believes, he could make an excellent leader, and Prime has appointed him to his command structure accordingly. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's got the goods, but he just needs to pay attention for more than five seconds. Until that day, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's likely response to most anything is, "Yeah yeah, like, whatever."

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's <A title=Mini-Con href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con">Mini-Con</A> partner is <A title="Jolt (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)">Jolt</A>, though he has been known to moonlight with <A title="Mirage (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mirage_(Armada)">Mirage</A>. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot also proclaims a love for a strange substance called <A title=JaAm href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/JaAm">JaAm</A>, but none of his Autobot peers can figure out what it is.


Japanese name: <B><B

style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff">Rod</B></B> (<I>Micron Densetsu</I>), Exillion (Galaxy Force), Exigeyser (Vanguard Team)

Hungarian name: Tűzgolyó ("Fireball", Energon and

Cybertron), Nagyágyú ("The Ultimate Battle")

Polish name: Piorunus (Armada)

<TABLE class=toc id=toc summary=Contents> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <DIV id=toctitle> <H2>Contents</H2></DIV>

<LI class=toclevel-1><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Fiction"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Fiction</SPAN></A>

<LI class=toclevel-2><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Toy_pack-in_mini-comics"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.1</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Toy pack-in mini-comics</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-2><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Dreamwave_comics_continuity"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.2</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Dreamwave comics continuity</SPAN></A>

<LI class=toclevel-3><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Armada"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.2.1</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Armada</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-3><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Energon"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.2.2</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Energon</SPAN></A>

<LI class=toclevel-2><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Cartoon_continuity"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.3</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Cartoon continuity</SPAN></A>

<LI class=toclevel-3><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Armada_2"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.3.1</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Armada</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-3><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Energon_2"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.3.2</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Energon</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-3><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Cybertron"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.3.3</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Cybertron</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-2><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Melbourne_House_Transformers_video_game_continuity"><SPAN class=tocnumber>1.4</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Melbourne House Transformers video game continuity</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-1><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Toys"><SPAN class=tocnumber>2</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Toys</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-1><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Merchandise"><SPAN class=tocnumber>3</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Merchandise</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-1><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#Notes"><SPAN class=tocnumber>4</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>Notes</SPAN></A> <LI class=toclevel-1><A href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#External_links"><SPAN class=tocnumber>5</SPAN> <SPAN class=toctext>External links</SPAN></A> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <A name=Fiction></A> <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Fiction" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=1">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Fiction</SPAN></H2><A name=Toy_pack-in_mini-comics></A> <H3><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Toy pack-in mini-comics" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=2">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Toy pack-in mini-comics</SPAN></H3> <DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="How dumb can he be? He's fluent in three languages!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmadaminicomic.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=116 alt="How dumb can he be? He's fluent in three languages!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Hotshotarmadaminicomic.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmadaminicomic.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>How dumb can he be? He's fluent in three languages!</DIV></DIV></DIV> <A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)">Optimus Prime</A> chose <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot to stop a Decepticon plot to drain power from the city, but <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot balked when Prime picked <A title="Jolt (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)">Jolt</A> to be his partner. After speeding off to complete the mission alone, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot found himself overwhelmed by <A title="Cyclonus (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_(Armada)">Cyclonus</A> and his partner <A title="Crumplezone (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crumplezone_(Armada)">Crumplezone</A>. Thankfully, Jolt arrived and gave <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot a hand, and Cyclonus and Crumplezone were defeated. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot had learned a valuable lesson about teamwork.

Much later, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, <A title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)">Red Alert</A>, <A title="Smokescreen (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)">Smokescreen</A> were present for <A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)">Optimus Prime</A>'s defeat of <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Galvatron</A>. They didn't, however, see his smile upon his capture. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Armada (mini-comic)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(mini-comic)">Armada (mini-comic)</A></SPAN>


<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="He's so polite." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:HotShotEnergonminicomic.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=147 alt="He's so polite." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-HotShotEnergonminicomic.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:HotShotEnergonminicomic.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>He's so polite.</DIV></DIV></DIV> After <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and <A title="Strongarm (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strongarm_(Energon)">Strongarm</A> found a pool of <A title="Energon (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(Energon)">Energon</A>, they were attacked by <A class=mw-redirect title="Battle Ravage" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Battle_Ravage">Battle Ravages</A>. When the situation was bleakened further by the arrival of <A title="Scorponok (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_(Energon)">Scorponok</A>, Strongarm fashioned an <A title="Energon weapon" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_weapon">Energon weapon</A> for <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, and the <A title="Terrorcon (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorcon_(Energon)">Terrorcons</A> were driven away. With the Energon secured, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Strongarm were relieved that they had faced a formidable foe and come out on top.

Some time after, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was seen alongside <A title="Skyblast (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skyblast_(Energon)">Skyblast</A> and Optimus Prime battling Scorponok and his Terrorcons.

Optimus Prime and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot (powerlinked with Inferno) found themselves alone and outmatched in a battle with Megatron, <A title="Shockblast (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shockblast_(Energon)">Shockblast</A>, <A class=mw-redirect title="Snow Cat" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snow_Cat">Snow Cat</A>, <A title="Demolishor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)">Demolishor</A> and <A class=mw-redirect title="Tidal Wave" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tidal_Wave">Mirage</A>. As the Decepticons closed in on Optimus, he warned Powerlinx <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot to stay away, for he was too damaged. But at the last minute, <A class=mw-redirect title="Wing Saber (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wing_Saber_(Energon)">Wing Saber</A> arrived, combined with Prime, and drove the Decepticons away! <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Energon (mini-comic)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(mini-comic)">Energon (mini-comic)</A></SPAN> <BR clear=all> <A name=Dreamwave_comics_continuity></A> <H3><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Dreamwave comics continuity" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=3">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Dreamwave comics continuity</SPAN></H3><A name=Armada></A> <H4><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Armada" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=4">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Armada</SPAN></H4> <DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 182px"><A class=image title="Hot Shot watches in horror as Demolishor buys the last can of jaAm." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotraizeyes.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=137 alt="Hot Shot watches in horror as Demolishor buys the last can of jaAm." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/180px-Hotshotraizeyes.jpg" width=180 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotraizeyes.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot watches in horror as <A title="Demolishor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)">Demolishor</A> buys the last can of <A title=JaAm href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/JaAm">jaAm</A>.</DIV></DIV></DIV> One million years ago, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was a member of the Autobots, the guardians of <A title="Cyber City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_City">Cyber City</A>. Soon, news of a warlike faction called <A title=Decepticon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon">Decepticons</A>, led by the power-hungry <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Megatron</A>, reached Cyber City via a dying <A title=Mini-Con href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con">Mini-Con</A> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot found. The Mini-Con handed him a video disc, and with his dying breath, demanded <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot take it to Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime played the disc, a distress signal from <A title="Leader-1 (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Leader-1_(Armada)">Leader-1</A>, head of <A title="Mini-Con Sector" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con_Sector">Mini-Con village D10</A>, who begged the Autobots for help.

The Decepticons themselves soon arrived in Cyber City, armed with Mini-Cons they had captured and reconfigured to bestow incredible power when <A title=Powerlinx href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Powerlinx">Powerlinxed</A>. Outclassed and near total defeat, Optimus Prime called his troops into retreat, and after the majority of Mini-Cons escaped <A title="Cybertron (planet)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_(planet)">Cybertron</A> to parts unknown, the Autobots lost much of the planet to the Mini-Con-powered Decepticons.

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Hot Shot, stop stealing Jolt's gun!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotfreecomicbookday.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=199 alt="Hot Shot, stop stealing Jolt's gun!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotfreecomicbookday.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotfreecomicbookday.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, stop stealing Jolt's gun!</DIV></DIV></DIV> In the present day, both the Autobots and Decepticons received a signal of the Mini-Cons' activation on the planet <A title=Earth href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth">Earth</A>. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and his colleagues <A title="Scavenger (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scavenger_(Armada)">Scavenger</A>, <A title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)">Red Alert</A>, and <A title="Smokescreen (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)">Smokescreen</A> were led by Optimus Prime to the planet, where they met the Decepticons in battle. But this time, with the help of the estranged Mini-Cons, the Autobots regained the edge they'd lost against the Decepticons one million years prior. An uneasy alliance was formed, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was partnered with the Mini-Con <A title="Jolt (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)">Jolt</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Armada (Dreamwave comic)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(Dreamwave_comic)#Volume_1:_First_Contact">First Contact</A></SPAN>

When their human friends <A title="Rad White" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rad_White">Rad</A>, <A title="Carlos Lopez" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez">Carlos</A>, and <A title=Alexis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexis">Alexis</A> befriended a Mini-Con named <A title="Swindle (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Swindle_(Armada)">Swindle</A>, they soon attracted the attention of the Decepticons, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff">Rod</B> and the other Autobots weren't far behind. With the arrival of Megatron, however, the Autobots were quickly defeated and restrained, and the children were shocked to learn that Swindle had been working with the Decepticons all this time! Swindle found himself conflicted, as he genuinely liked the human children, and so he eventually had a small change of heart. Grabbing <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's gun, he was able to disable the Autobots' restraints, and the Decepticons retreated... though with Swindle. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Armada Free Comic Book Day" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_Free_Comic_Book_Day">Armada Free Comic Book Day</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Wait, Jolt attaches where?" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotdwissue6.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=132 alt="Wait, Jolt attaches where?" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotdwissue6.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotdwissue6.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Wait, Jolt attaches where?</DIV></DIV></DIV> After their initial battles on Earth, Megatron was quick to capture the <A class=mw-redirect title="Air Defense Mini-Con Team" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Air_Defense_Mini-Con_Team">Air Defense Mini-Con Team</A> and forge them into the <A title="Star Saber (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Saber_(Armada)">Star Saber</A>. Optimus Prime led <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Red Alert against the Decepticons again, despite being at a strategic disadvantage while the Mini-Cons were missing, a point <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot belabored. Thankfully, the Autobot-allied Mini-Cons arrived just in time to Powerlinx with <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots, fend off Megatron, and rescue the Air Defense Mini-Cons from the Decepticon leader's clutches.

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 177px"><A class=image title=""Well, let's go!"" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotguido.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=261 alt=""Well, let's go!"" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/175px-Hotshotguido.jpg" width=175 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotguido.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>"Well, let's go!"</DIV></DIV></DIV> Soon, a Mini-Con beacon tower was erected in <A class=new title="Tranquility, Kansas" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Tranquility%2C_Kansas&action=edit">Tranquility, Kansas</A>, drawing all Earth-bound Mini-Cons to it. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the rest of the Autobots again met the Decepticons in battle at the location when the tower's effect was discovered. However, they were too busy fighting to notice the beacon tower blasting off toward the Earth's <A title="Moon (moon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)">moon</A>. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Red Alert secreted Optimus Prime into the Decepticon base for the use of their space bridge, so that the Autobot leader could ask for reinforcements from <A title="Cybertron (planet)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_(planet)">Cybertron</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Armada (Dreamwave comic)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(Dreamwave_comic)#Volume_2:_Fortress">Fortress</A></SPAN>


After the Mini-Cons were evacuated from the Moon, five did not return home safely and sent a distress signal from northern Alaska. When the <A title="Adventure Mini-Con Team" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Adventure_Mini-Con_Team">Adventure Mini-Con Team</A> failed to retrieve them, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots arrived in full force, though they were kept in check by Cyclonus, who was suffering from a Mini-Con overdose. Though they were successful, Optimus Prime disappeared before their eyes, and when <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot returned to Autobase, he found <A title="Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Worlds_Collide)">another Optimus Prime</A>, dying, sent from a different timeline to warn of <A title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron">Unicron</A>'s coming. Learning of the "real" Optimus Prime's disappearance, Megatron and his Decepticons stormed Autobase, nearly killing Smokescreen and heavily injuring <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Red Alert, and Scavenger.

Optimus Prime was returned to them and insisted on teaming up with the Decepticons to battle the arriving Unicron. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot excused himself from this alliance, as Smokescreen's critical condition due to the Decepticons' recent attack still weighed heavily in his mind. So when Megatron stole away during the battle with Unicron to strike a deal with the Dark God, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Scavenger, and Red Alert ambushed him, leaving him to die as Unicron was seemingly destroyed by the <A title="Mini-Con Matrix" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con_Matrix">Mini-Con Matrix</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Armada (Dreamwave comic)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(Dreamwave_comic)#Volume_3:_Worlds_Collide">Worlds Collide</A></SPAN>

<BR clear=all> <A name=Energon></A> <H4><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Energon" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=5">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Energon</SPAN></H4> <DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Sorry, Hot Shot, you've been replaced." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotironhidedw.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=190 alt="Sorry, Hot Shot, you've been replaced." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotironhidedw.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotironhidedw.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Sorry, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, you've been replaced.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Ten years later, at the beginning of the Energon Era, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot accompanied Optimus Prime, who was skeptical and restless about the new peacetime, on his visit with the High Council in Cyber City. Prime's demands for vigilance were denied, so <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot later followed him to a special <A class=new title="Uplink platform" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Uplink_platform&action=edit">uplink platform</A> that <A title="Over-Run (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Over-Run_(Armada)">Over-Run</A> had directed them to. This trip was a first outing for the rookie Autobot <A title="Ironhide (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_(Energon)">Ironhide</A>, who fawned over <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot met this with difficulty. Learning of the continued existence of <A title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron">Unicron</A>, <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="This Evil Reborn" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/This_Evil_Reborn">This Evil Reborn</A></SPAN> Prime once again returned to the High Council, again accompanied by <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. But this time, Cyber City was attacked by <A title="Cheetor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cheetor_(Armada)">Cheetor</A>, <A title="Rhinox (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rhinox_(Armada)">Rhinox</A>, <A title="Airazor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Airazor_(Armada)">Airazor</A>, and <A title="Terrorsaur (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorsaur_(Armada)">Terrorsaur</A>, who were presumed dead during the <A class=mw-redirect title="Unicron Battles" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron_Battles">Unicron Battles</A>, but in fact were transformed into Unicron's <A class=new title="Beasts of the Apocalypse" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Beasts_of_the_Apocalypse&action=edit">Beasts of the Apocalypse</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="What Lies Beneath" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath">What Lies Beneath</A></SPAN> The Beasts of the Apocalypse overwhelmed <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots, and they were saved from destruction only by the timely arrival of the <A title=Omnicon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omnicon">Omnicons</A>. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Optimus Prime, and the others were granted the <A title="Spark of Combination" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark_of_Combination">Spark of Combination</A> by <A class=mw-redirect title=Sig-Omega href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sig-Omega">Sig-Omega</A>, and thanks partly to the combined <A class=mw-redirect title=Powerlink href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Powerlink">powerlinked</A> form of <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and <A title="Inferno (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Inferno_(Energon)">Inferno</A>, the Beasts were deterred. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A class=mw-redirect title="What Lies Beneath, Part 2" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath,_Part_2">What Lies Beneath, Part 2</A></SPAN>

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, along with Inferno, Ironhide, and <A title="Jetfire (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)">Jetfire</A>, followed Prime to Earth after the Autobots received a distress signal. They regrettably arrived four hours later than the signal was sent, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot boggled at how much damage could have been done in that time. Indeed, <A title="Scorponok (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_(Energon)">Scorponok</A> and his <A title="Terrorcon (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorcon_(Energon)">Terrorcons</A> had caused massive devastation while chasing after a young boy named <A title=Kicker href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kicker">Kicker</A> who could detect <A title="Energon (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(Energon)">Energon</A>. The Terrorcons outclassed the Autobots upon arrival, however, and left only when their Energon-mining gear was destroyed...but not without taking Kicker. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A class=mw-redirect title="What Lies Beneath, Part 3" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath,_Part_3">What Lies Beneath, Part 3</A></SPAN> After the Autobots reunited with <A title="Carlos Lopez" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez">Carlos</A>, <A title="Rad White" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rad_White">Rad</A>, and <A title=Alexis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexis">Alexis</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the Omnicon <A title="Strongarm (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strongarm_(Energon)">Strongarm</A> were able to pursue the Terrorcons and deliver a special suit to Kicker that his father, <A class=mw-redirect title="Doctor Jones" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Doctor_Jones">Dr. Jones</A>, had made for him. With Kicker's help, the Terrorcons were defeated and returned to Unicron. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A class=mw-redirect title="What Lies Beneath, Part 4" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath,_Part_4">What Lies Beneath, Part 4</A></SPAN>

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, along with Optimus Prime and Inferno, attended a public meeting with the <A class=new title="United Nations" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=United_Nations&action=edit">United Nations</A> in <A title="New York City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/New_York_City">New York City</A> after the ratification of the <A class=new title="Cybercord Treaty" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Cybercord_Treaty&action=edit">Cybercord Treaty</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Multiplicity href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Multiplicity">Multiplicity</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Wait, Hot Shot has wisdom?" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotomni-potent.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=122 alt="Wait, Hot Shot has wisdom?" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotomni-potent.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotomni-potent.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Wait, <I><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot</I> has wisdom?</DIV></DIV></DIV> After the Terrorcons attacked an <A class=mw-redirect title="Energon tower" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_tower">Energon tower</A> in <A title=Chicago href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Chicago">Chicago</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was put in charge of the unruly Omnicons and sent to <A class=new title="Base Site One" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Base_Site_One&action=edit">Base Site One</A> in <A class=new title="Yukon Territory" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Yukon_Territory&action=edit">Yukon Territory</A>. Immediately upon arrival, Strongarm crashed into the base site's intrathermal uplink assembly and subsurface transference grid, frustrating Ironhide. This was the final straw for <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. After telling them to get lost, he was darkly amused that this was the first order he'd given that they actually followed to the letter. An hour later, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot had a change of heart, and he and Kicker left to track them down. Their search abruptly ended when <A class=mw-redirect title="Snow Cat" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Snow_Cat">Snow Cat</A> was dropped in their laps, defeated during the Omnicons' solo adventure. Eight days later, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot had returned to Optimus, who tasked him with protecting the Autobots' growing Energon-gathering installations on Earth. However, Prime soon disappeared into a portal, his whereabouts completely unknown. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Omni-Potent href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omni-Potent">Omni-Potent</A></SPAN>

When Terrorcons orchestrated an attack on four major Earth cities, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot (leading a team consisting of <A title="Thrust (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_(Armada)">Thrust</A>, <A title="Rodimus (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_(Energon)">Rodimus</A>, <A title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)">Red Alert</A>, <A title="Beachcomber (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beachcomber_(Energon)">Beachcomber</A>, and <A title="Smokescreen (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)">Hoist</A>) was sent to repel <A title="Divebomb (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Divebomb_(Energon)">Divebomb</A> drones in <A title=Toronto href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Toronto">Toronto</A>. Badly outnumbered and confined, Rodimus suggested the group split up. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot agreed, sending him and Red Alert elsewhere. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot contacted Jetfire in <A title="Los Angeles" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Los_Angeles">Los Angeles</A>, telling him it was only a matter of time before they were overwhelmed and the battle was lost, but he interrupted his transmission to witness a spectacle above. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Multiplicity, Pt. 3" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Multiplicity,_Pt._3">Multiplicity, Pt. 3</A></SPAN> <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Megatron</A> had arrived in a new body, and he was dramatically tearing through the Divebomb drones. After Megatron cleared away enough of the Terrorcons in Toronto to give <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's team a fighting chance, he moved on to the concurrent battle in <A title=Tokyo href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tokyo">Tokyo</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Multiplicity, Pt. 4" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Multiplicity,_Pt._4">Multiplicity, Pt. 4</A></SPAN>

<A name=Cartoon_continuity></A> <H3><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Cartoon continuity" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=6">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Cartoon continuity</SPAN></H3><A name=Armada_2></A> <H4><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Armada" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=7">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Armada</SPAN></H4>

Voice actor: <A title="Brent Miller"

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brent_Miller">Brent Miller</A> (English), <A class=new title="Kōsuke Okano" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=K%C5%8Dsuke_Okano&action=edit">Kōsuke Okano</A> (Japanese), <A title="Alexandre Moreno" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexandre_Moreno">Alexandre Moreno</A> (Portuguese), <A class=new title="Martin Halm" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Martin_Halm&action=edit">Martin Halm</A> (German), <A class=new title="Ola Norman" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Ola_Norman&action=edit">Ola Norman</A> (Swedish) <DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="I'll be back to save you, Wheeljack, right after 4:20." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_1_Hot_Shot_flashback.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=149 alt="I'll be back to save you, Wheeljack, right after 4:20." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Past_Part_1_Hot_Shot_flashback.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_1_Hot_Shot_flashback.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>I'll be back to save you, Wheeljack, right after 4:20.</DIV></DIV></DIV> An indeterminate number of years ago on Cybertron, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was appointed the supervisor of a young Autobot named <A title="Wheeljack (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheeljack_(Armada)">Wheeljack</A>. Wheeljack strongly looked up to <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot as a potential mentor and as a friend, but after a blazing battle, Wheeljack was incapacitated under some debris. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot left him behind as the flames closed in, promising to get help. However, when <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot reached the other Autobots, his <A title="Arrogant Autobot officer" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Arrogant_Autobot_officer">commander</A> would not let him endanger his own life by returning to help his friend. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot ignored this order, running back into the battle to find Wheeljack, but he was overwhelmed by the heat and passed out. Instead, Wheeljack was rescued by <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Megatron</A>. Thinking he had been abandoned by <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Wheeljack swore vengeance against him and the Autobots. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Past, Part 1" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_1">Past, Part 1</A></SPAN> <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Past, Part 2" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_2">Past, Part 2</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="Wave 1 all accounted for, sir!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Metamorphosis_Hot_Shot_Red_Alert_arrive.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=149 alt="Wave 1 all accounted for, sir!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Metamorphosis_Hot_Shot_Red_Alert_arrive.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Metamorphosis_Hot_Shot_Red_Alert_arrive.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Wave 1 all accounted for, sir!</DIV></DIV></DIV> When <A title="Optimus Prime (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Armada)">Optimus Prime</A> received a distress signal from the long-lost <A title=Mini-Con href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con">Mini-Cons</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was one of two soldiers he brought with him to Earth to investigate. When they arrived, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was quick to block <A title="Starscream (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(Armada)">Starscream</A> from attacking some human children who had stumbled upon the <A class=mw-redirect title="Street Action Mini-Con Team" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Street_Action_Mini-Con_Team">Street Action Mini-Con Team</A>, and before long, the Decepticons warped away. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot suggested that the Decepticons' base must be within sight if they were able to use short-warp teleportation; <A title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)">Red Alert</A> correctly assumed this base was on Earth's <A title="Moon (moon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)">moon</A>. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other two Autobots returned when the humans and the Mini-Cons once again found themselves under attack from the Decepticons. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Metamorphosis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Metamorphosis">Metamorphosis</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Red Alert used their bodies to shield the human kids from the Decepticons' firepower. During the battle, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Red Alert recovered two <A title="Mini-Con storage panel" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con_storage_panel">Mini-Con storage panels</A>, and <A title="Jolt (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jolt_(Armada)">Jolt</A> was one of two Mini-Cons who materialized when the panels were activated. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot partnered with this Mini-Con, and together with Red Alert and Mini-Con <A title="Longarm (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Longarm_(Armada)">Longarm</A>, their combined firepower was able to drive the Decepticons away. The Autobots then returned to their Earth base with the human children and the Mini-Cons, and the nature of their war over the Mini-Cons was explained. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots also learned the Earth custom of fist-bumping to signify friendship. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Base href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Base">Base</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="This is exactly why his shoulders hurt." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Soldier_Hot_Shot_axelzooka.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=247 alt="This is exactly why his shoulders hurt." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Soldier_Hot_Shot_axelzooka.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Soldier_Hot_Shot_axelzooka.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>This is exactly why his shoulders hurt.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Immediately thereafter, the Autobots' computer systems warned them of a detected Mini-Con, and so <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others made plans to travel to <A class=new title="Big Canyon" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Big_Canyon&action=edit">Big Canyon</A> to find it. In their rush, <A title="Rad White" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rad_White">Rad White</A> was left behind, but <A title=Alexis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alexis">Alexis</A> and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot returned soon enough to pick him up. Alexis apologized, for <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's sleek power excited her so much that she'd forgotten about Rad. As they left for the Big Canyon once again, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's driving was extremely rough, yet despite the children's complaints, he increased his speed—so much so that upon arrival, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot nearly drove into the canyon itself. After <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot followed <A title="Laserbeak (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Laserbeak_(Armada)">Laserbeak</A> into the canyon, <A title="Cyclonus (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_(Armada)">Cyclonus</A> warped into the area and attacked him. Ultimately, the Autobots won, and everyone returned to base after having retrieved the Mini-Con <A title="Sparkplug (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sparkplug_(Armada)">Sparkplug</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Comrade href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Comrade">Comrade</A></SPAN>

The hotheaded <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot often found himself at odds with Red Alert, including one incident when he was playing tag with the three children instead of doing work. He resented being chastised by the Autobot medic, who didn't even have a personality, as far as he was concerned. Soon after this, the Autobots, Mini-Cons, and the human children ventured to <A title=Antarctica href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Antarctica">Antarctica</A> to uncover another Mini-Con, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was paired with <A title="Carlos Lopez" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez">Carlos Lopez</A>. When the two came across the Decepticons, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot continued to battle them despite having Carlos inside him. Finally, he ejected Carlos over a gorge, leaving Jolt to catch him. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot soon found himself outnumbered, and it took Red Alert's skills to rescue him from the grip of the Decepticons. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot learned some respect for Red Alert that day, even if he claimed to save <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot not out of friendship, but merely because it was his job. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Soldier href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Soldier">Soldier</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="He grins because he's too stupid to be sad." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmada.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=133 alt="He grins because he's too stupid to be sad." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Hotshotarmada.jpg" width=200 border=0></A>

<DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotarmada.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>He grins because he's too stupid to be sad.</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot also accompanied the others on a Mini-Con rescue mission in a jungle, where they learned to respect the Earth's environment. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Jungle href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jungle">Jungle</A></SPAN> Later, as the children wondered why the Mini-Con panel they'd uncovered in Antarctica hadn't opened yet, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot asked them to pass him a spanner too heavy for them to lift because he thought it would be funny. A bored Carlos and Rad then ran off with some Mini-Cons to a local carnival, where they got into trouble. Alexis, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, and <A title="Sureshock (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sureshock_(Armada)">Sureshock</A> followed Laserbeak to the carnival, and after some mischief, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was able to avert disaster. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Carnival href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carnival">Carnival</A></SPAN> When the Autobots followed the Decepticons into the desert in pursuit of more Mini-Cons, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was frustrated with his tires' incompatibility with the terrain. Unfortunately, he was unable to prevent <A title="Demolishor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)">Demolishor</A> from acquiring the Mini-Con <A title="Bonecrusher (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bonecrusher_(Armada)">Bonecrusher</A> from within an ancient desert temple. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Palace href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Palace">Palace</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="Hey, they're right! Hot Shot's car mode DOES look like a Playskool toy!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Underground_merchandising.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=152 alt="Hey, they're right! Hot Shot's car mode DOES look like a Playskool toy!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Underground_merchandising.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Underground_merchandising.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Hey, <A title="Ruined FOREVER" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruined_FOREVER">they're right</A>! <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's car mode DOES look like a <A title=Playskool href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Playskool">Playskool</A> toy!</DIV></DIV></DIV> When the Decepticons held the children hostage in a ghost town, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots grappled with them, reluctant to hand over their Mini-Cons to get the children returned unharmed. Eventually, after some close calls, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was able to kick Rad out of Megatron's hand, the tide was turned, and things were restored to the status quo. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Confrontation (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Confrontation_(episode)">Confrontation</A></SPAN> While working in the underground ruins of half of the crashed Mini-Con ship, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was called by Optimus to join them in another Mini-Con search. The Mini-Con was deep within the subway system of a local city, and the Autobots' presence in vehicle mode caused some stir. Here they met up with another Autobot, <A title="Smokescreen (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_(Armada)">Smokescreen</A>, though they lost the Mini-Con to the Decepticons. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Underground href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Underground">Underground</A></SPAN> Smokescreen joined <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others when they journeyed underwater to the lost city of <A title=Atlantis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Atlantis">Atlantis</A>, where, despite their efforts, they lost yet another Mini-Con to the Decepticons. Worse still, this one could combine with two others to form the mighty <A title="Star Saber (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Saber_(Armada)">Star Saber sword</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Ruin href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruin">Ruin</A></SPAN> As compensation, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the Autobots found another of the three Star Saber Mini-Cons within a volcano. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Prehistory href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prehistory">Prehistory</A></SPAN>


Megatron and his Decepticons soon attacked the Autobot base, hoping to steal the two Mini-Cons they need to complete the Star Saber sword. While Optimus Prime hid the Mini-Con panels, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot confronted Megatron directly. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was defeated by Megatron's prehensile antlers, which tossed him to the ground like a doll. During another skirmish with Megatron, the Mini-Con panels activated, and Megatron was able to grasp the powerful Star Saber sword! His victory was short-lived, as Optimus was able to knock it out of his hands and into <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's. With the Star Saber sword, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was able to ward off the Decepticons and force them to retreat. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Swoop (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Swoop_(episode)">Swoop</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="He loves his Star Saber sword. It's so bad." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotstarsaber.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=204 alt="He loves his Star Saber sword. It's so bad." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Hotshotstarsaber.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotstarsaber.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>He loves his Star Saber sword. It's so bad.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Optimus assigned the three Star Saber Mini-Cons to <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. The Autobot was young, inexperienced, and hotheaded, so the great advantage the Star Saber granted him went straight to his ego. With the sword, he was nearly unbeatable on the battlefield, which enraged the Decepticons. Then an enigmatic Decepticon named <A title="Scavenger (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scavenger_(Armada)">Scavenger</A> appeared at a battle, mocking <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's skill. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was angered when Scavenger told him that he was nothing without the sword, so he rushed the Decepticon, but was knocked aside. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot learned the hard way that power without skill is useless against an experienced opponent. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Overmatch href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Overmatch">Overmatch</A></SPAN> Scavenger confronted <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot again on an unfinished stretch of a highway overpass, while a mysterious motorcycle observed. After exchanging a few blows, Scavenger left <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot again, promising to prove his incompetence another day. The motorcycle introduced himself as the Autobot <A title=Sideways href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sideways">Sideways</A>, and Red Alert and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot wondered if they could truly trust this stranger. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Gale href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gale">Gale</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="And later, he gets curb-stomped." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Overmatch_Scavenger-HotShotbeatdown.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=227 alt="And later, he gets curb-stomped." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Overmatch_Scavenger-HotShotbeatdown.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Overmatch_Scavenger-HotShotbeatdown.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>And later, he gets <A title="Image:Credulous Hot Shot beatdown.jpg" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Credulous_Hot_Shot_beatdown.jpg">curb-stomped</A>.</DIV></DIV></DIV> During another battle with the Decepticons for a Mini-Con, Sideways and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot were accidentally warped away with Megatron to their base on Earth's Moon. With Sideways's guidance, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was able to fight his way through an army of holographic Autobots, only to have Megatron capture Sideways and demand the Star Saber sword in return. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot reluctantly relinquished it, but once Megatron released Sideways, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot called for its Mini-Con components to return to him. At this moment, Sideways betrayed <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, knocking the Star Saber sword away from him and towards Starscream. Helpless without his powerful weapon, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was brutally beaten by the humiliated Decepticons and dropped back at the Autobots' base. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Credulous href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Credulous">Credulous</A></SPAN>


<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 152px"><A class=image title="Like all future Autobot leaders, Hot Shot is amused easily." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Conspiracy_faces.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=208 alt="Like all future Autobot leaders, Hot Shot is amused easily." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/150px-Conspiracy_faces.jpg" width=150 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Conspiracy_faces.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Like all future Autobot leaders, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot is amused easily.</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was understandably in a dour mood following this fall from grace, so the kids made faces at him to cheer him up. Because this was <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, it worked. During the next battle, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot targeted the traitor, Sideways, and was once again bested by Scavenger. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was surprised to discover later that Scavenger was actually an Autobot working undercover as a Decepticon. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Conspiracy href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Conspiracy">Conspiracy</A></SPAN> With Scavenger now with the Autobots again, he began personally training <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Trust (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Trust_(Armada)">Trust</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others were later caught by local television news journalists while they were rescuing some young children who were lost near a dam, but footage of them was destroyed. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Vacation href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vacation">Vacation</A></SPAN> When a new recruit, <A title="Blurr (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blurr_(Armada)">Blurr</A>, joined the team, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot at first had trouble getting along with him. However, after working together to retrieve a Mini-Con, they were able to make peace. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Reinforcement href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Reinforcement">Reinforcement</A></SPAN>

With both the <A class=mw-redirect title=Skyboom href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skyboom">Skyboom</A> shield and the Star Saber sword in his possession, Megatron issued a challenge to Optimus Prime and the other Autobots. When the two factions met on a stretch of rocky desert, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was disappointed to discover that none of his firepower could penetrate Megatron's shield. His weapons useless against the Decepticon leader, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot joined Blurr in running interference during the battle between Megatron and Optimus. The tide was turned when the Skyboom shield fell into Autobot hands. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Decisive Battle" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decisive_Battle">Decisive Battle</A></SPAN> For a while, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots wouldn't allow their human friends to enter the base. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Vow href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vow">Vow</A></SPAN> While <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others were away, the kids traveled into a digital realm and met with an <A title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron">evil force</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Chase (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Chase_(episode)">Chase</A></SPAN> Optimus Prime led <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others into battle in a gully, but it was actually a trap conceived by the Decepticons' new tactician, <A title="Thrust (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thrust_(Armada)">Thrust</A>. To the Decepticons' surprise, the Autobots had an incoming addition of their own, and Prime's second-in-command, <A title="Jetfire (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)">Jetfire</A>, arrived and saved the Autobots. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Tactician href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tactician">Tactician</A></SPAN> However, Optimus Prime was badly damaged in the fight, so Jetfire took over as leader. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot didn't like this, as he thought Jetfire was nothing more than a braggart. Jetfire led <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the Autobots to another battle for a Mini-Con on a distant island, and Optimus Prime arrived, repaired, just in time to combine with Jetfire and save the day. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Linkup href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Linkup">Linkup</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="Yes, punch my tiny shield!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Desperate_Tidal_Wave_blocked.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=188 alt="Yes, punch my tiny shield!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Desperate_Tidal_Wave_blocked.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Desperate_Tidal_Wave_blocked.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Yes, punch my tiny shield!</DIV></DIV></DIV> After <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots sparred with one another at their base, their morale boosted by Jetfire's arrival, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot wondered openly about the nature of Sideways, and whether he was really in either faction at all. They left for yet another battle, but this time, the Decepticons had a secret weapon: The gigantic warrior known as <A class=mw-redirect title="Tidal Wave" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tidal_Wave">Tidal Wave</A> had arrived. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Detection href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Detection">Detection</A></SPAN> The Autobots barely held up against Tidal Wave. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Awakening href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Awakening">Awakening</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot attempted to block Tidal Wave's mighty blows with the Skyboom shield, and with help, the Autobots were finally able to topple the titan. The battle ended with the awakening of the three Mini-Cons which formed the <A title="Requiem Blaster" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Requiem_Blaster">Requiem Blaster</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Desperate href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Desperate">Desperate</A></SPAN>


When the kids ran off with the Mini-Cons, fearful that they would be used as objects by either faction, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others had to hunt them down. To reassure the kids, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot decided that the Autobots would only work with the Mini-Cons as a team! <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Runaway href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Runaway">Runaway</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title=""I won't fight you, I won't! Well, maybe just a little."" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_2_Wheeljack_Hot_Shot_fight.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=109 alt=""I won't fight you, I won't! Well, maybe just a little."" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Past_Part_2_Wheeljack_Hot_Shot_fight.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Past_Part_2_Wheeljack_Hot_Shot_fight.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>"I won't fight you, I won't! Well, maybe just a little."</DIV></DIV></DIV> Wheeljack returned to <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's life, seeking revenge for abandoning him on the battlefield all those years ago. Unfortunately, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was training a new Autobot recruit, <A title="Side Swipe (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Side_Swipe_(Armada)">Side Swipe</A>, when Wheeljack returned, and the young Autobot found himself caught up in Wheeljack's vendetta as well. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Past, Part 1" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_1">Past, Part 1</A></SPAN> When Wheeljack explained to <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot that it was Megatron who'd rescued him and saved his life, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot couldn't believe it. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot refused to fight his former friend, yet Wheeljack shot him, leaving him on the road. Side Swipe dragged <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's body back to base, where he was placed in intensive care, but <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's memories still haunted him. Events seemed to repeat themselves when Wheeljack confronted <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot once again within an abandoned human facility. When Side Swipe showed up to help <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, the area was caught in flames, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was forced once again to save the young Autobot under his care. Wheeljack had chained up Side Swipe within the facility, and he told his captive not to expect rescue from <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. Regardless, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot threw himself through the fire and saved Side Swipe, despite the latter's pleas to keep away lest the place blow up with both of them inside. Wheeljack was deterred, but promised he'd be around later to revisit his ill will. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Past, Part 2" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Past,_Part_2">Past, Part 2</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="Gunbarrel wants to know why mommy and daddy are fighting!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rescue_Megatron_vs_Hot_Shot.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=188 alt="Gunbarrel wants to know why mommy and daddy are fighting!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Rescue_Megatron_vs_Hot_Shot.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rescue_Megatron_vs_Hot_Shot.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV><A title=Gunbarrel href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gunbarrel">Gunbarrel</A> wants to know why mommy and daddy are fighting!</DIV></DIV></DIV> When the Autobots were informed by a mysterious source to meet the Decepticons in battle within a forest, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot wondered why they didn't bring the Requiem Blaster with them. He was told to shut up, and soon the Decepticons arrived to fight them, as promised. Megatron noticed the absence of the Requiem Blaster and realized it was back at the Autobots' base, where Smokescreen was guarding it, alone. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the Autobots returned to their base too late to assist Smokescreen, who nearly died valiantly trying to protect the Mini-Cons. Despite his sacrifice, Megatron took the Requiem Blaster and retreated. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Sacrifice href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sacrifice">Sacrifice</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was among the Autobots who watched Red Alert begin to repair Smokescreen. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot then took Side Swipe with him to investigate the appearance of Starscream on Earth, who had left the Decepticons with the Star Saber sword after an argument with Megatron. After a fight with Tidal Wave, Starscream returned with the Autobots to their base, despite <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's objections. He didn't trust Starscream and believed this was a trick, citing the treachery of Sideways. And worse, Starscream was partly to blame for Smokescreen's condition! Outside, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot picked a fight with Starscream as their Mini-Cons watched. Their battle, which lasted until dusk, was interrupted by a strange Transformer, whom <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot yelled at for interrupting the avenging of his friend. The fight was stopped when <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot realized this Transformer was Smokescreen, rebuilt in a new body. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Regeneration href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Regeneration">Regeneration</A></SPAN>

Using coordinates given by Starscream, the Autobots were able to warp themselves directly into the Decepticons' base. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot confronted Wheeljack again, telling the "creep" to get out of his way. With Starscream's help, the Autobots were able to locate where the Decepticons were keeping their captured Mini-Cons, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot fought Megatron, giving the Mini-Cons a chance to escape. Starscream interfered, saving <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's life, and after the two teamed up against the Decepticon leader, they returned to the Autobot base with the rescued Mini-Cons. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Rescue href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rescue">Rescue</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot stayed home while Jetfire and Starscream journeyed to <A class=new title="Mars (planet)" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Mars_%28planet%29&action=edit">Mars</A> to retrieve another Mini-Con. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Mars (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mars_(episode)">Mars</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was frustrated with Starscream's apathy, and his original suspicions were confirmed when Starscream had a change of heart in the midst of a battle, bringing the Skyboom shield and the Star Saber sword to Megatron, giving him control of all three weapons. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Crack href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crack">Crack</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Awww, hell naw." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Crisis_Hot_Shot_Matrix.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=224 alt="Awww, hell naw." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Crisis_Hot_Shot_Matrix.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Crisis_Hot_Shot_Matrix.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Awww, hell naw.</DIV></DIV></DIV> When Megatron harnessed the power of the three weapons to power the <A title="Hydra Cannon" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hydra_Cannon">Hydra Cannon</A>, a starship powerful enough to destroy Earth in one blast, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others worked to build a starship of their own. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Threaten href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Threaten">Threaten</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot blamed everything on Starscream's betrayal and angrily accused Optimus Prime for letting Starscream join their team and beginning this series of events. This had some effect on the Autobot leader, as Optimus Prime later offered the <A title="Matrix of Leadership" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_of_Leadership">Matrix of the Commander</A> to <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot refused, saying he couldn't take such an important thing from Optimus. Optimus Prime put the Matrix back in his chest, warped into space, and blocked the Hydra Cannon's Earth-shattering shot with his own body. The Autobot leader disintegrated before their eyes. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Crisis href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crisis">Crisis</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="Scavenger, you're fired." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Remorse_democracy.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=161 alt="Scavenger, you're fired." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Remorse_democracy.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Remorse_democracy.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Scavenger, you're fired.</DIV></DIV></DIV> The death of Optimus hit <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot hard. After starting fights with everyone, he left the Autobots and ran out on his own, only to face Scavenger. Scavenger assaulted <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, revealing that the former Decepticon had left their team for the Autobots because of him. As the two beat on each other, Side Swipe arrived with a small group of Mini-Cons, and they all pleaded for <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot to stop fighting with everyone. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot realized he was being selfish, that he needed his teammates just as much as they needed him, and he promised to stop treating his friends as if they were enemies. The rest of the Autobots arrived, and they were pleased with <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's discovery. Jetfire nominated <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot to lead the Autobots because it was what Optimus would have wanted. Scavenger went to hit <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot one more time, but <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot didn't move. Proving he was without fear, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot became leader of the Autobots. As a stipulation, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot stated that he would only be leader until they return to Cybertron, and that they should put the Matrix of the Commander someplace safe, as he didn't feel he should carry it. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Remorse href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Remorse">Remorse</A></SPAN>

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot oversaw the completion of their starship, the <A title="Axalon (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Axalon_(Armada)">Axalon</A>, and asked the Mini-Cons if they wanted to come or not. They unanimously decided to accompany the Autobots to Cybertron. He initially forbid the kids from coming, but the Mini-Cons convinced him to change his mind. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Depart href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Depart">Depart</A></SPAN> As the Axalon left Earth, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot said some final words in memory of Optimus Prime. Their starship caught up with the Decepticons', and soon there was a huge battle between the two factions. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot battled Megatron in space, but it was a one-sided battle. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot placed himself between Megatron's Requiem Blaster and the Axalon, hoping to spare his friends, but then a miracle occurred. The Mini-Con Sparkplug was able to resurrect Optimus Prime from within the Matrix, and the formerly-deceased Autobot Leader reappeared in a blinding flash of green light. Optimus turned the tide, <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Miracle href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Miracle">Miracle</A></SPAN> and he reintroduced himself to a very grateful <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the rest of the crew. But before anything else can happen, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Red Alert are pulled through a strange hole to an alien landscape. Here they meet a <A title="Nemesis Prime (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nemesis_Prime_(Armada)">strange dark version of Optimus Prime</A> who battles them. It's discovered that Megatron, Starscream, and Demolishor are on this strange planet, too, and despite their combined numbers, the Prime doppleganger overwhelms them. Arriving Mini-Cons bathe the planet in a strange light, and when the larger Transformers wake up, they're completely repaired, yet in strange new colors. Ultimately, their battle causes the planet itself to disintegrate, and both factions are forced to retreat. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Puppet href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Puppet">Puppet</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="Twenty episodes ago, he cooed like a baby if you made faces at him." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Dash_Hot_Shot_crouch.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=168 alt="Twenty episodes ago, he cooed like a baby if you made faces at him." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Dash_Hot_Shot_crouch.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Dash_Hot_Shot_crouch.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Twenty episodes ago, he cooed like a baby if you made faces at him.</DIV></DIV></DIV> By the time the Autobots had repaired the Axalon and arrived over Cybertron, the Decepticons had managed to take over the planet. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Blurr fought through Decepticons on the planet's surface, while a strange phenomenon appears in the sky. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Uprising href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Uprising">Uprising</A></SPAN> <A title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron">Unicron</A>, the Chaos Bringer, was looming over their planet, but <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Galvatron</A> (previously Megatron) would not listen to Optimus Prime's pleas to unite their two factions against him. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot decided to take matters into his own hands and fought his way through the Decepticon base and countless Decepticon warriors to reach Galvatron and reason with him. If not for Wheeljack's intervention, he might not have survived. Wheeljack's hatred for <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot seemed to have soften, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's former friend joined him in pleading to Galvatron to stop the war so that the two factions could unite against Unicron. Galvatron was unconvinced, but Thrust, a secret pawn of Unicron, panicked and ran away with the Requiem Blaster and the Skyboom shield. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Wheeljack took after him. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Dash (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dash_(episode)">Dash</A></SPAN>

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot continued to hunt Thrust down, while the true nature of the Mini-Cons was revealed; they were created by Unicron long ago. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Drift (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Drift_(episode)">Drift</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Wheeljack aided Starscream against Sideways within the surprisingly organic-looking caverns of Cybertron. But when Unicron formed out of Cybertron's moon, the battle dissipated as each side readied for the final battle. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Portent href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Portent">Portent</A></SPAN> Despite <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's intentions to convince Galvatron himself, the Decepticon leader did not change his mind until Starscream sacrificed himself to Unicron. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Cramp href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cramp">Cramp</A></SPAN> After a formal alliance between Autobots and Decepticons was formed, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was part of a unified team sent to Unicron's surface. However, once the team arrived, the Decepticons abandoned <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the other Autobots. Later, Demolishor made up for this by begrudgingly catching Side Swipe before could fall to his doom. In return, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot had found Demolishor's Mini-Con partner, <A title="Blackout (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackout_(Armada)">Blackout</A>. They agreed to work together from then on. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Alliance href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alliance">Alliance</A></SPAN> Optimus Prime and Megatron traveled together to the core of Unicron, leaving both armies under the command of <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Union href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Union">Union</A></SPAN> No matter how much damage <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's teams inflicted on Unicron, Unicron could repair himself. Their massive opponent was fed by the negative energies of the battle. Ordering a cease fire, Unicron stood motionless, seemingly defeated. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Origin href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Origin">Origin</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="When we come back, we'll be terrible cel-shaded CGI!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Mortal_Combat_Hot_Shot_Jetfire.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=90 alt="When we come back, we'll be terrible cel-shaded CGI!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Mortal_Combat_Hot_Shot_Jetfire.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Mortal_Combat_Hot_Shot_Jetfire.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>When we come back, we'll be terrible cel-shaded CGI!</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot told both armies to begin rebuilding Cybertron while he went to Unicron to find Optimus, but Jetfire demanded he go instead. Inside, after a fight between Optimus Prime and Megatron, Megatron sacrificed himself to Unicron so that their negative energies would not revive him. But Optimus Prime felt he had failed as Autobot Leader, and with the end of the conflict between the two factions, he exiled himself to parts unknown. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and <A title="Jetfire (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)">Jetfire</A> were left in charge of the Transformers. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Mortal Combat" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mortal_Combat">Mortal Combat</A></SPAN> <BR clear=all><BR clear=all> <A name=Energon_2></A> <H4><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Energon" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=8">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Energon</SPAN></H4>

Voice actor: <A title="Brent Miller"

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brent_Miller">Brent Miller</A> (English), <A class=new title="Kōsuke Toriumi" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=K%C5%8Dsuke_Toriumi&action=edit">Kōsuke Toriumi</A> (Japanese) <DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Hot Shot always forgets he's not supposed to shoot at the humans." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=212 alt="Hot Shot always forgets he's not supposed to shoot at the humans." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotenergoncartoon.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot always forgets he's not supposed to shoot at the humans.</DIV></DIV></DIV> 10 years <SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-0><A title="" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> after the events of <A title="Armada (cartoon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Armada_(cartoon)">Armada</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was stationed on Earth as the commander of <A title="Ocean City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ocean_City">Cybertron City</A> while Optimus Prime trained new soldiers on Cybertron. He faced administrative challenges such as <A title="Demolishor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)">surly former adversaries</A> and teenaged angst from the resident teenaged angster, <A class=mw-redirect title="Kicker Jones" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kicker_Jones">Kicker Jones</A>. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot had proved himself up to the task of being "city commander," and was seen with fanboy-like adoration by younger Autobots such as <A title="Ironhide (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_(Energon)">Ironhide</A>. Ironhide in particular wished he could advance further in rank just so he could combine with <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot.

Kicker seemed to have a certain clairvoyance when it came to trouble (and <A title="Energon (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_(Energon)">Energon</A>!), though <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot would often dismiss Kicker's warnings. But one day, like most days, Kicker was right. Mysterious bestial Transformers, the <A title="Terrorcon (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Terrorcon_(Energon)">Terrorcons</A>, suddenly attacked Cybertron City, forcing <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Kicker, Ironhide, and the others to go on the defensive. When Optimus Prime arrived, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Inferno were granted the <A title="Spark of Combination" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark_of_Combination">Spark of Combination</A>, which allowed the two to combine into a single super robot. With everyone working together, the last of that batch of Terrorcons were defeated. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Cybertron City (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_City_(episode)">Cybertron City</A></SPAN>


When <A class=new title="Mars City" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Mars_City&action=edit">Cyber City</A> on Mars was destroyed by more Terrorcons, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was among those assembled to hear the news. The Terrorcons' next target was Earth's <A title="Moon (moon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)">moon</A>, so after Cybertron City was raised, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and the others, including the <A title=Omnicon href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omnicon">Omnicons</A>, used the <A title="Space bridge" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge">space bridge</A> to warp there. But despite their efforts, the Terrorcons were able to flee with much stolen Energon. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Energon Stars" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Stars">Energon Stars</A></SPAN> Later, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot headed up a strikeforce to <A class=new title="Desert City" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Desert_City&action=edit">Desert City</A> to fortify it against possible Terrorcon assault. While there he flirted with jailbait super-scientist <A title="Misha Miramond" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Misha_Miramond">Misha Miramond</A> and filled her ear with what a dork her not-my-boyfriend (Kicker) was back at Cybertron City. When Terrorcons invaded the city, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and his troops performed a holding action at the entrance to the Energon Mine, but their position was overrun, and <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was the only survivor. Though battered, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot commended <A title="Ironhide (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_(Energon)">Ironhide</A>'s decision to leave him behind and rescue the humans, resulting in the other Autobot being awarded his own Combination Spark. Finally, Ironhide could combine with <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, just as he'd always wanted! <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Scorpinok href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorpinok">Scorpinok</A></SPAN>


As part of <A class=new title="Prime Squad" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Prime_Squad&action=edit">Prime Squad</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot prepared to travel to Mars before the mission was canceled, and took part in the defense of <A title="Plains City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Plains_City">Plains City</A>, again tasked with securing the Energon supply. He was the first to feel the wrath of <A title="Scorponok (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scorponok_(Energon)">Scorponok</A>'s <A class=mw-redirect title="Megatron Sword" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Sword">Megatron Sword</A>, and later battled <A title="Cyclonus (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_(Armada)">Cyclonus</A> while attempting to shore up <A title="Demolishor (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Demolishor_(Armada)">Demolishor</A>'s flagging confidence in the Autobot cause. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Megatron's Sword" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron's_Sword">Megatron's Sword</A></SPAN> <A class=mw-redirect title="Hot Shot" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot"><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot</A> also led a recon team searching for a <A class=new title="Energon Point" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Energon_Point&action=edit">Energon Point</A> in the mountains, the future location of <A class=new title="Blizzard City" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Blizzard_City&action=edit">Blizzard City</A>. He ordered Ironhide and Demolishor to team up for their mutual benefit. While trying to rescue Kicker, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was buried in an avalanche by Cyclonus. He evacuated his team before they could be crushed by the emergency deployment of a new <A title="Cybertron City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_City">Cybertron City</A> via <A title="Space bridge" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge">space bridge</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="The New Cybertron City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_New_Cybertron_City">The New Cybertron City</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 182px"><A class=image title="Ironhide kept it as a souvenir for his Hot Shot shrine." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:E07_hotshotarm.gif"><IMG class=thumbimage height=121 alt="Ironhide kept it as a souvenir for his Hot Shot shrine." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/E07_hotshotarm.gif" width=180 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:E07_hotshotarm.gif"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Ironhide kept it as a souvenir for his <A title=User:ItsWalky href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/User:ItsWalky"><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot shrine</A>.</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and his crew were still at Plains City when the newly-resurrected <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Megatron</A> attacked. He was defeated in battle by Megatron and 'dis-armed' as an object lesson to Optimus. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Megatron Resurrected" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Resurrected">Megatron Resurrected</A></SPAN> Optimus retreated to Ocean City with the injured <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and left the Plains City Energon supply to the Decepticons. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's injury awakened a protective streak in Optimus Prime, who briefly forbade Kicker from accompanying the Autobots on missions. At Ocean City <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot underwent medical treatment, submerged in liquefied Energon while his damaged exostructure re-grew. When the base was breached, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot broke out of his medical unit to defend Inferno from Terrorcons and, armed with a clone of the <A class=mw-redirect title="Megatron's Energon Sword" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron's_Energon_Sword">Megatron Sword</A>, he helped kick the visiting Decepticons back out. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Megatron Raid" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Raid">Megatron Raid</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 302px"><A class=image title="Why even take multiple screen caps? He always looks the same." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Energon_Tower_groupshot.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=137 alt="Why even take multiple screen caps? He always looks the same." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/300px-Energon_Tower_groupshot.jpg" width=300 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Energon_Tower_groupshot.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Why even take multiple screen caps? He always looks the same.</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot organized a covert surveillance of Optimus Prime while he was targeted by a <A title="Starscream (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_(Armada)">Mysterious Mercenary</A>. Unfortunately, his large shoulder armor made it impossible to hide behind objects and Optimus discovered him. When Optimus fought Starscream on the <A title="Moon (moon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Moon_(moon)">moon</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot placed Inferno in temporary command of Ocean City so he could bring a supply of Energon Stars to <A title="Lunar City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lunar_City">Lunar City</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_the_Mysterious_Mercenary">Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary</A></SPAN> When the Autobots encountered the <A title="Mobile Fortress" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mobile_Fortress">Mobile Fortress</A> near <A class=new title="Asteroid City" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Asteroid_City&action=edit">Asteroid City</A>, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot panicked, momentarily believing it was Unicron himself, and <A class=mw-redirect title="Brainstorm (G1)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brainstorm_(G1)#Marvel_Comics_continuity">fired blindly and ineffectually into it</A> using a hand weapon. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Battle of the Asteroid Belt" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Battle_of_the_Asteroid_Belt">Battle of the Asteroid Belt</A></SPAN> During the construction of an <A title="Energon Tower" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Tower">Energon Tower</A> that would help protect their cities from attack, the Terrorcons chose the moment to strike. After Inferno combined with <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot to form Powerlinx Inferno, the tower was finally activated and the Terrorcons fled. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Energon Tower (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Tower_(episode)">Energon Tower</A></SPAN>


<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot wandered over when he heard Ironhide telling Kicker to 'lose the attitude', but was unable to wholly endorse Ironhide's statement that Kicker should automatically look up to <A title="Dr. Brian Jones" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dr._Brian_Jones">his father</A>. Instead he gently suggested that Kicker might want to seek a different hero to look up to, and told Ironhide that he'd looked up to <A title="Rodimus (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_(Energon)">Rodimus</A> since he was a young Autobot. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="The Legend of Rodimus" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Legend_of_Rodimus">The Legend of Rodimus</A></SPAN> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot later supervised the project to construct the second <A title="Energon Tower" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Tower">Energon Tower</A> at <A class=new title="Jungle City" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Jungle_City&action=edit">Jungle City</A>. Ironhide was placed in co-command when the larger Autobot contingent arrived for the final stage, and when the city was attacked and put to siege they split duties, with <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot taking Aerial defense. As the siege wore on, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot had to be the one to confront Optimus Prime and force him to admit that this battle was unwinnable. They destroyed Jungle City rather than letting it fall to the Decepticons. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Crisis in Jungle City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crisis_in_Jungle_City">Crisis in Jungle City</A></SPAN>

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot accompanied the rescue mission to <A title="Lunar City" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lunar_City">Lunar City</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Kicker Beware!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kicker_Beware!">Kicker Beware!</A></SPAN> When Earth was threatened by artificial cometary impacts, he was part of the orbital team sent to intercept them as they approached Earth's atmosphere. Forced to wait as other teams tried to slow the comets, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot occupied himself by aggravating <A title="Jetfire (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(Armada)">Jetfire</A>, who eventually just told him to be quiet. He, Jetfire and Optimus Prime supercharged themselves with Energon to push against the comets, delaying their approach long enough for the <A title="Energon Grid" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Grid">Energon Grid</A> to come online. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Energon Grid" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Grid">Energon Grid</A></SPAN>

On Earth, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was shocked when <A title="Rodimus (Energon)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus_(Energon)">Rodimus</A>, a transformer he idolized in his youth, broke in on a communication with <A title="Carlos Lopez" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carlos_Lopez">Carlos</A> and demanded a secret meeting. He traveled to <A title=Mars href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mars">Mars</A>, where he discovered Scorponok had reactivated the destroyed Energon mines. Rodimus appeared to head off a fight between the two of them. He attempted to recruit <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot as a double agent for the secret agenda that he, Scorponok and <A class=mw-redirect title="Alpha Q" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alpha_Q">Alpha Q</A> shared— the revival of Unicron! <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot refused to betray Optimus Prime, and pulled a gun on Rodimus... but he was unable to fire on his one-time idol. Rodimus had no such compunctions, and he shot <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, but Kicker and Ironhide intervened to save him. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Rodimus: Friend or Foe?" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rodimus:_Friend_or_Foe?">Rodimus: Friend or Foe?</A></SPAN>

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot attended the launch of the <I><A title="Miranda II" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Miranda_II">Miranda II</A></I> Autobot-human spacecraft. He joined the crew and was part of a space battle in the <A class=new title="Asteroid Belt" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Asteroid_Belt&action=edit">Asteroid Belt</A> to defend the <A title="Energon Ring" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Ring">Energon Ring</A> before their journey could begin. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Go for Unicron!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Go_for_Unicron!">Go for Unicron!</A></SPAN>

After Rodimus saved <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's life, he regretted his quick judgment. The relationship between <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Rodimus was eventually restored and they become Powerlink partners.

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot continued to serve under Optimus Prime, surviving many battles on Cybertron and other worlds. Along with several other Autobots, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was injured when the reborn Unicron destroyed a fledgling planet in the reformed Q-system. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was reformatted into a slick silver body along with his Autobot comrades.

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot warned Sally not to go spy on the Decepticons, but she got away from him by wiggling disturbingly through a human-size passageway. He was suitably impressed when she captured the control room the Decepticons had been using all by herself. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Galvatron Terror" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Galvatron_Terror">Galvatron Terror</A></SPAN> He eventually merged his <A title=Spark href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark">spark</A> with that of <A title="Optimus Supreme" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Supreme">Optimus Supreme</A> and his partners in the final battle with <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Galvatron</A>. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="The Sun" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Sun">The Sun</A></SPAN> <A name=Cybertron></A> <H4><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Cybertron" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=9">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Cybertron</SPAN></H4>

Voice actor: <A title="Kirby Morrow"

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kirby_Morrow">Kirby Morrow</A> (English), <A class=new title="Daisuke Hirakawa" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Daisuke_Hirakawa&action=edit">Daisuke Hirakawa</A> (Japanese) <CENTER> <TABLE style="WIDTH: 80%" cellSpacing=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 1em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> <DIV class=tti_messageboxdiv style="BORDER-RIGHT: #9f9fff 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; BORDER-TOP: #9f9fff 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0.5em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: auto; BORDER-LEFT: #9f9fff 1px solid; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; BORDER-BOTTOM: #9f9fff 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefff; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <DIV class=floatleft><SPAN><A class=image title="No, really. HE WANTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Rad-sm.gif"><IMG height=85 alt="No, really. HE WANTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/Rad-sm.gif" width=93 border=0></A></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 900; FONT-SIZE: 125%">I want to tell you about the Transformers!</SPAN> <HR>

<I>This character article is a <A title="Category:Character stubs missing fiction" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Character_stubs_missing_fiction">stub</A> and is missing information on their fictional appearances. You can help Transformers Wiki by <A class="external text" title=http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit" rel=nofollow>expanding it</A>.</I> </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> <DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="He knows kung-fu." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotcybertron.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=186 alt="He knows kung-fu." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-Hotshotcybertron.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hotshotcybertron.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>He knows kung-fu.</DIV></DIV></DIV> When <A title=Unicron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron">Unicron</A>'s destruction resulted in a black hole that threatened the Transformers' home planet of Cybertron, Optimus Prime ordered the planet to retreat into hiding on Earth. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot took the form of a blue Earth sports car. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="The Fallen" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Fallen">Fallen</A></SPAN>


<CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 1em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> <DIV class=tti_messageboxdiv style="BORDER-RIGHT: #9f9fff 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.5em; BORDER-TOP: #9f9fff 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0.5em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: auto; BORDER-LEFT: #9f9fff 1px solid; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; BORDER-BOTTOM: #9f9fff 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefff; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <DIV class=floatleft><SPAN><A class=image title='"Sloppiness is bad, cleanliness is good!"' href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Junkion_jimmy.gif"><IMG height=100 alt='"Sloppiness is bad, cleanliness is good!"' src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/Junkion_jimmy.gif" width=61 border=0></A></SPAN></DIV> This article may require cleanup to meet the <A title=Help:Contents href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Help:Contents">quality standards</A> of Transformers Wiki.<BR><SMALL>Please discuss this issue on the <A title="Talk:Hot Shot (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Hot_Shot_(Armada)">talk page</A> or <A class="external text" title=http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit" rel=nofollow>append this tag</A> with a more specific message.<BR>This article has been tagged since March 2009.</SMALL>

</DIV><SMALL>Needs storylinks, and really, he appeared in more episodes than just this.</SMALL> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER>


This form came in handy when Optimus reassigned <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and <A title="Red Alert (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_(Armada)">Red Alert</A> to search for <A title=Velocitron href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Velocitron">Velocitron</A>'s <A title="Cyber Planet Key" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_Planet_Key">Cyber Planet Key</A>. He quickly developed a competitive bond with <A title="Override (Cybertron)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Override_(Cybertron)">Override</A>, the leader of Velocitron. Against Red Alert's warnings, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot joined the Great Race. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot pushed himself beyond his means, almost to the point of destruction, but no matter how he tried, he could never defeat Override. The constant racing took a noticeable toll on his body. Was he really doing this to win the Key or just to prove to himself he was still the fastest in the galaxy?

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was in big trouble when Optimus arrived on Velocitron and found out what he was up to. But Optimus Prime changed his mind when he realized that winning the race was the only way to win the Key. With the Autobots' full support and <A class=mw-redirect title=Coby href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Coby">Coby</A>'s help, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot won the Great Race and the Cyber Planet Key.

<DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="JaAm executive." href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Retreat-HotShotholomatteravatar.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=155 alt="JaAm executive." src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-Retreat-HotShotholomatteravatar.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Retreat-HotShotholomatteravatar.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>JaAm executive.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Later, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Red Alert and <A title=Scattorshot href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scattorshot">Scattorshot</A> faced <A title="Megatron (Armada)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(Armada)">Megatron</A> alone when the Decepticon leader returned to Earth thirsting for revenge against the treacherous Starscream. Humiliating the Decepticon in combat, they enraged Megatron, who used his new Omega Lock-powered Death Machine Gun on the three Autobots, crippling them beyond repair. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Revelation (episode)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Revelation_(episode)">Revelation</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 252px"><A class=image title="Now we know why his shoulders hurt" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:CDHotShot_fists.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=188 alt="Now we know why his shoulders hurt" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/250px-CDHotShot_fists.jpg" width=250 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:CDHotShot_fists.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>Now we know why his shoulders hurt</DIV></DIV></DIV> Fortunately, the powers of Primus acting through the <A title="Omega Lock" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Lock">Omega Lock</A> bathed the trio in the creator's holy light, repairing and reformatting the young Autobot into Cybertron Defense <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot Shot.</B> Along with his newly reformatted friends, the <A title="Cybertron Defense Team" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_Defense_Team">Cybertron Defense Team</A> arrived on the battlefield and easily defeated the Decepticons Scourge and Megatron. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Critical href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Critical">Critical</A></SPAN>

<DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 2px; BORDER-TOP: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 2px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; MARGIN: 0px auto 0.2em; BORDER-LEFT: #eeeeee 2px solid; WIDTH: 90%; PADDING-TOP: 2px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #eeeeee 2px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Note: <I>The "power of Primus/Omega Lock" explanation was added for the English-language dub of the show. In the original Japanese </I>Galaxy Force<I> version, the upgrade was simply a result of <A title="Burning Justice" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Burning_Justice">Burning Justice</A>.</I></DIV> As Optimus Prime and the other Autobots dealt with Starscream and Megatron's forces, the Cybertron Defense Team was sent on an advance mission to Planet Cybertron. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and his fellow team members had to blast their way through a debris field littering the Space Bridge path to Cybertron, during the course of which <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's vision was obscured by a thick oily substance excreted out of an asteroid as it exploded.


When the unit finally arrived on Cybertron, they were shocked to discover the planet overrun with the <A title="Scrapmetal (type)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scrapmetal_(type)">Scrapmetal</A>, and quickly had to fight their way through legions of the robotic pests. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=United href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/United">United</A></SPAN>

Much later on <A title=Gigantion href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Gigantion">Gigantion</A> the Cybertron Defense Team was caught in <A title="Soundwave (Cybertron)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Soundwave_(Cybertron)">Soundwave</A>'s smokescreen, but they managed to figure out the mysterious agent's mind games and defeat him.


After Galvatron was finally defeated, Override resigned from leadership of Velocitron in order to travel to a new world, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot won the race to determine who would be her successor, despite his bulky new body. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title=Beginning href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beginning">Beginning</A></SPAN>

<A name=Melbourne_House_Transformers_video_game_continuity></A> <H3><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Melbourne House Transformers video game continuity" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=10">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Melbourne House Transformers video game continuity</SPAN></H3> <DIV class="thumb tleft"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="Hot Shot has particular skills?" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:BalanceOfPower-Autobots.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=200 alt="Hot Shot has particular skills?" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-BalanceOfPower-Autobots.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:BalanceOfPower-Autobots.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot has particular skills?</DIV></DIV></DIV> Shortly after <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot was brought online, he and Red Alert were sent deep into Decepticon territory to uncover a <A class=mw-redirect title=Data-con href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Data-con">ancient relic</A> that would tell them how to find the long-lost race of <A title=Mini-Con href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mini-Con">Mini-Cons</A>. The two were discovered by passing <A title=Dropship href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dropship">Dropships</A> and the <A title="Spider Tank" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spider_Tank">Spider Tanks</A> they carried, and so they quickly dodged for cover. But there was nowhere to run; the Decepticons had created a massive army of <A title=Decepticlone href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticlone">Decepticlones</A>. After sending out an auto-distress signal, Optimus Prime arrived to bolster their firepower. This caught the attention of Megatron, and the two leaders grappled while <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot and Red Alert continued to evade the Decepticlones. Meanwhile, Starscream had managed to find the relic, and a portal was opened in front of them. <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, Red Alert, and Optimus Prime followed the Decepticons through the portal to <A title=Earth href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth">Earth</A>. The search for the Mini-Cons began! <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="The Balance of Power" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Balance_of_Power">The Balance of Power</A></SPAN>

<DIV class="thumb tright"> <DIV class=thumbinner style="WIDTH: 202px"><A class=image title="He's the best there is!" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:PS2game-HotShotDecepticlones.jpg"><IMG class=thumbimage height=144 alt="He's the best there is!" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/200px-PS2game-HotShotDecepticlones.jpg" width=200 border=0></A> <DIV class=thumbcaption> <DIV class=magnify><A class=internal title=Enlarge href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:PS2game-HotShotDecepticlones.jpg"><IMG height=11 alt="" src="Hot_Shot_(Armada)_fichiers/magnify-clip.png" width=15></A></DIV>He's the best there is!</DIV></DIV></DIV> <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot found himself in the sweeping jungles that surrounded abanconed Aztec ruins. After failing to find Mini-Cons under a rock, he managed to pair up with the Mini-Con Jolt, and when he reached the top of the ruins, he faced Cyclonus. The following battles took him many places, such as a frozen wasteland, the interior of a battleship (which eventually revealed itself as the gigantic Tidal Wave), and ultimately <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot battled Unicron himself.

<B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, having collected all the Mini-Cons on Earth, was able to wield the legendary <A title="Matrix Cannon" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Matrix_Cannon">Matrix Cannon</A>, which he used to fire a deadly shot into the core of the Planet Eater. <SPAN class=tt1_nowrap style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec"><A title="Transformers (Melbourne House)" href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_(Melbourne_House)">Transformers</A></SPAN>


<DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 2px; BORDER-TOP: #eeeeee 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 2px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; MARGIN: 0px auto 0.2em; BORDER-LEFT: #eeeeee 2px solid; WIDTH: 90%; PADDING-TOP: 2px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #eeeeee 2px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Note: <I>The events of the game listed above are exactly the same for when players choose to take Red Alert or Optimus Prime into battle instead of <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot... except for the rock thing. That's all <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot, baby.</I></DIV> <BR clear=all> <A name=Toys></A> <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Toys" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=11">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Toys</SPAN></H2>

<I>Main Article: <A title="Hot Shot (Armada) toys"

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Shot_(Armada)_toys"><B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot (Armada) toys</A>.</I> <A name=Merchandise></A> <H2><SPAN class=editsection>[<A title="Edit section: Merchandise" href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Hot_Shot_%28Armada%29&action=edit&section=12">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Merchandise</SPAN></H2>

<I>Main article: <A title="Hot Shot (Armada) toys"

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  • According to the <A title="Transformers (Melbourne House)"

href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_(Melbourne_House)">Armada Playstation 2 game</A> instruction booklet, <B style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66">Hot</B> Shot's Armada body has the following statistics:

  • Mass: 3,109 lbs
  • Robot height: 16' 5"
  • Robot top speed: 50 mph
  • Vehicle height: 5' 11"
  • Vehicle top speed: 186 mph
  • Vehicle power: 400 hp @ 8000 rpm <A

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