Air Team
| This article is about the Energon combiner team. For the Generation 1/Generation 2 combiner team, see Aerialbot (G1). |
- The Air Team is an Autobot subgroup from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
The Autobot Air Team is a squad of high-flying jets, fueled by "super energon", who combine to form the legendary super robot Superion Maximus.
Its members include
- Storm Jet (leader)
- Sky Shadow
- Terradive
- Treadshot
- Windrazor
Fiction
Animated continuity
Energon
After the first defeat of Unicron, Omega Supreme and the four guardian combiners fell into a deep stasis, ending the first age of Cybertron. The four combiners were chosen to guard an ancient fuel at the core of Cybertron known as Super Energon. As stated by Megatron, they seem to have actually fought to a standstill and slipped into stasis. Ambition
Possibly acting as a living seal to lock the Super Energon away, the death of Superion's brother caused them to return to life, as well as the emergence of the Super Energon, which filled the pool below. Escaping Galvatron, who had reformatted himself and convinced the other combiners to aid him, Superion Maximus would join the Autobots on Cybertron, fighting to take back control of the planet from Galvatron and his minions. Galvatron
Superion Maximus met his apparent demise after a final encounter with Bruticus Maximus and Constructicon Maximus. During that battle, he destroyed Constructicon Maximus, pinning him to a wall by ejecting his four limbs and physically attacking his spark. Angered, Bruticus Maximus attacked him and began to crush him in his hands. Just as it seemed hopeless, a ghost-like entity appeared and shot off Bruticus' arm, freeing Superion. It was image of his older brother.
Superion Maximus, now reduced to just the central combiner robot, powerlinked with Constructicon Maximus' limbs and attacked the confused Bruticus, piercing his spark, and causing a massive explosion which destroyed the remaining Decepticon. Spark
Superion was last seen laying against the wall where Constructicon Maximus was killed earlier, still powerlinked to his limbs. His eyes showed a flicker of light as the Energon Sun exploded nearby, bathing the universe in light. The Sun
Toys
Energon
- Storm Jet (Deluxe, 2004)
- Team ID number: A5
- Storm Jet transforms into a Cybertronic jet based vaugley upon an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. He also forms the torso to the Superion Maximus combiner robot, capable of using any "Powerlinx Combiner" limb-robot combination thanks to the universal connector points used for the Air Team, Destruction Team and Construction Team toys.
- Early releases of the Hasbro Storm Jet lacked the blue "Powerlinx" cog tampograph, which was added midway through the run.
- Sky Shadow (Basic, 2004)
- Team ID number: A2
- Sky Shadow shares a mold with his teammate Terradive, transforming into a red and black A-10 "Thunderbolt" plane. He can also form a leg or arm to any Energon-series "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Superion Maximus. He comes with a shield/double-blaster that can become a footplate or "hand" for his combined mode, plus a blue "super energon" Autobot-style energon chip.
- Terradive (Basic, 2004)
- Team ID number: A2
- Terradive shares a mold with his teammate Sky Shadow, transforming into a blue and white A-10 "Thunderbolt" plane. He can also form a leg or arm to any Energon-series "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot, though his nominal placement is as the left arm to Superion Maximus. He comes with a shield/double-blaster that can become a footplate or "hand" for his combined mode, plus a blue "super energon" Autobot-style energon chip.
- Treadshot (Basic, 2004)
- Team ID number: A1
- Treadshot shares a mold with his teammate Windrazor, transforming into a black and light blue fighter jet based upon an F-22 Raptor. He can also form a leg or arm to any Energon-series "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot, though his nominal placement is as the right arm to Superion Maximus. He comes with two double-barreled guns and a connector piece, which can form hand-held weapons as well as become a footplate or "hand" for his combined mode, plus a blue "super energon" Autobot-style energon chip.
- Windrazor (Basic, 2004)
- Team ID number: A4
- Windrazor shares a mold with his teammate Treadshot, transforming into a red and grey fighter jet based on the F-22 Raptor. He can also form a leg or arm to any Energon-series "Powerlinx Combiner" super robot, though his nominal placement is as the left leg to Superion Maximus. He comes with two double-barreled guns and a connector piece, which can form hand-held weapons as well as become a footplate or "hand" for his combined mode, plus a blue "super energon" Autobot-style energon chip.
- Superion Maximus (2004, 2005)
- Japanese ID Number: SC-26
- For their Hasbro-market releases, the five members of the Team were only released as individuals. In Japan, the five components were only made available as a single gift set. Similarly to Generation 1's Scramble City combiner teams, the Air Team (as well as the Destruction Team and Construction Team) features universal connection points for the limbs, allowing many different combinations and even swapping of limbs from different teams.
