Mole Drone
- Vehicon Moles are drone vehicles from the Beast Machines cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Vehicon Moles are heavily armored machines, built for (surprise, surprise) digging. Not much is known about them. They seem unique among Megatron's Vehicon drones in that they show no evidence of transforming into robot modes. This is compounded by the fact that Megatron didn't see fit to create a general for this group of drones despite the fact that the Maximals spent most of their time hiding from him underground.
Fiction
Beast Machines cartoon
- Voice actor: N/A (English), Isshin Chiba (Japanese)
The Maximals first encountered a Vehicon Mole while Optimus attempted his troops on how to transform in their new technorganic bodies. Though the Mole caused Cheetor and Blackarachnia to lose their focus and revert to beast mode, Primal easily dispatched it with a single energy blast. Master of the House
In order to drill down to Cybertron’s organic core to cure Nightscream, afflicted at the time by the power of the Key to Vector Sigma, Optimus, Cheetor and Rattrap set out to commandeer one of Megatron’s Vehicon Moles. The drones attacked the Maximals on sight. Rattrap managed to interface with one of the Moles, and all three Maximals escaped aboard it. Once the Maximals returned to their base camp however, Rattrap lost control of the Mole, and it was up to Optimus to force it into drilling down to the core. The Key
A Vehicon Mole tracked down the Maximals to the Plasma Energy Chamber’s location. It charged the group, only to be obliterated by the Energy Chamber’s power. End of the Line
When a spaceship crashing down signaled the possibility of more Transformers returning to Cybertron, Megatron sent out a couple of Vehicon Moles to slow down the Maximals’ effort of reaching the shipwreck. One of the pair was disabled by Blackarachnia, while Rattrap took control of the second. This Mole was destroyed as well when Rattrap attempted to attack Thrust with it. Home Soil
While the Maximals were busy defending the Grand Mal and the sparks contained within, several Moles were sent down to the technorganic orchard to destroy the plants within. Rattrap, Botanica and Nightscream headed bellow the surface to stop them. Upon the Maximals' arrival, more of the Moles swarmed the underground chambers, using flamethrowers to not only destroy the nearby fossils and plantlife, but all traces of their genetic material. Though several of the Moles were destroyed by the Maximals, the Vehicons eventually overpowered their adversaries. When Legends Fall
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Mogura Robo (モグラロボ, "Mole Robo")
