Chela
- Chela is a Titan from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Chela, the "Talon of Onyx Prime" was one of the Titans created by the legendary Knights of Cybertron to act as a living ship. Loyal to Onyx Prime and supremely distrustful of "standard-formers", Chela eventually colonized the untamed world of Eukaris to create a safe haven for beast mode Transformers.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
During the First Cybertronian Civil War ten million years ago, Chela was one of the Titans who served the Thirteen — in his case, Chela swore fealty to Onyx Prime. Chela watched as his brethren exiled Vigilem, Titan of the evil Liege Maximo, from their ranks. Rubicon
At the end of the war, Chela and the other colony Titans departed Cybertron in the hopes of founding new outposts for Cybertronian civilization. First Contact According to the latter-day inhabitants of Eukaris, Onyx and Chela discovered the world that would become Eukaris; Chela settled the planet and used the used the hot spot within his body to spawn a new civilization of beast mode Transformers. Remembering the discrimination of his kind had faced on Cybertron, Onyx's last command to his Titan was to defend Eukaris from intruding "standard-formers" by any means necessary. Chela eventually went dormant beneath Talon Valley, though, legends and stories of his existence persisted in Eukarian culture.
His chance finally came when Windblade and Starscream set foot on the planet. Chela awoke and burst from the ground, ready to destroy the invaders. Windblade managed to avoid his talons and flew inside of him, hoping to reach his brain chamber so that she could use her Cityspeaker talents to calm him down. He retaliated by pinning her down with pieces of his own internal structure and blocking her off. Starscream managed to best the titan by simply shooting his brain module, killing him.
Although Windblade was saddened by Chela's death, Blackarachnia consoled her by telling her that the incident was part of a prophecy she had foreseen, and that Chela's passing was the first step to changing Eukaris for the better. Windblade vol. 2 #6
On returning to Cybertron, Windblade tried to work through her grief with Metroplex. Metroplex assured her that Chela was a stubborn being and would never have allowed himself to be saved by anyone. The Will of the Few
Notes
- "Chela" is Latin for "claw". In modern parlance, it more specifically refers to the pincer of a crab.
