Mainspring

Mainspring is a Velocitronian from the novels portion of the Aligned continuity family.

You can't see me!

_{This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.}

Mainspring is a mechanic, content to work behind the scenes and in the pits on his native world of Velocitron, repairing those competing and optimizing them for speed. Nevertheless, he does sometimes tire of his life fixing wheeled vehicles, and yearns for other challenges on other worlds, and likes to measure things, especially time. This may be because he is, in fact, a fifth of an ancient, legendary combiner.

Fiction

Aligned novels

Long ago, Mainspring was a component of the first combiner, Nexus Prime. When Prime realized that The Fallen would try to rebuild the shattered Star Saber, he split himself into five pieces, each one with a fragment of the Star Saber attached. The component that would become Mainspring landed on Velocitron, and his landing site was thought to be haunted. He then took a new robot mode.

In his new mode, Mainspring was the chief of Blurr's pit crew. Soon after the Autobots' arrival on Velocitron, during a celebration after the Speedia, he was hanging around the edge of a crowd of Velocitronians, led by Blurr, talking with Silverbolt. He asked Silverbolt if he was the fastest flier where he came from. Silverbolt replied that he had never seen one faster, but then humbly admitted that he'd never actually been in a race before. Blurr introduced him and commented on his need to measure everything, and Silverbolt joked that the next time he saw Starscream, he would race him.

Sometime after Jazz's latest progress report of the Space Bridge, Mainspring completely surprised Optimus Prime, asking him if he could come with him, claiming that he had never really fit in on Velocitron. Prime asked him if he had asked Override if he could. The answer was no one cared, as it was a free planet, and anyone could leave if and when they want. His only complaint was that before the Autobots had arrived, there had been nowhere else to go. Prime pointed out that there would be nowhere to go if Megatron and the Decepticons hunted them down and killed them. Mainspring was fine with that, because the only thing to do on Velocitron was racing, and he wasn't really interested in that. Jazz interrupted their conversation, asking Mainspring what he was into, if not racing. Mainspring explained that he liked to tinker with machines, and, like Blurr said, he liked to measure things, especially time. Jazz joked that the Ark would have lots of clocks onboard, then went off to repair the Space Bridge some more.Exiles