Shadowzone (dimension)

The Shadowzone is a location from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

The Shadowzone is an alternate dimension outside the main reality. Its existence means that anyone trapped within it is unable to interact with the mainstream universe as they are out of phase and seemingly encased in a limited amount of space.

Fiction

Prime cartoon

During a battle against Starscream, the activation of two simultaneous GroundBridges led to the portals feeding off each other at the same moment. Thus, Miko Nakadai, Jack Darby, Raf Esquivel, the Terrorcon Skyquake, and Starscream's severed arm got caught in the resulting explosion which catapulted all of them into a Shadowzone. Whilst Optimus Prime and the Autobots searched for their human friends, Jack managed to alert them of being trapped in an alternate dimension by sending a text to Miko's phone, which was left at the Autobot base. This allowed Ratchet to open a portal with the GroundBridge to allow the three humans to escape the Shadowzone, along with Skyquake's hand which had been chasing them. This left the trapped and undead Skyquake the remaining occupant of the Shadowzone. Shadowzone

Starscream later mentioned that Skyquake was likely still trapped in the Shadowzone while under a cortical psychic patch interrogation session, much to Dreadwing's shock. Patch

As Jack and Miko boarded the Nemesis during the final showdown between the Autobots and the Decepticons, Soundwave created a Groundbridge in front of him to use agains them. Raf then opened a GroundBridge right behind him. As Soundwave stood between the two bridges, they collapsed upon each other, trapping him in the Shadowzone. Deadlock