Rubble
- Rubble is a Transformer from the 2019 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Rubble is a newly-born Cybertronian, mentored by Bumblebee and also acquainted with Windblade. Though enthusiastic to experience his world, he is ill-equipped to encounter a historic era of sociopolitical upheaval.
Fiction
2019 IDW continuity
Like all of his kind, Rubble emerged from the great Pyramid. With Sentinel Prime off-planet, Rubble was instead welcomed to the world by Senator Orion Pax and assigned to Bumblebee's watch. Rubble only retained vague snippets of his birth, however, something he later attributed to having too much sensory input too soon. The World In Your Eyes Part Four
Under Bumblebee's guidance, Rubble learnt about their race and culture before he was taken beyond Iacon on his forty-first cycle of existence, The World In Your Eyes Part Two through the wilderness to an energon processing facility overseen by Brainstorm. The trip was heavily delayed by the wide-opticed Rubble taking in all the sights, everything from scaling gigantic corpses to meeting Voin scavengers, his meeting with the aliens coinciding with the arrival of Windblade, whom Rubble was very eager to meet. As night fell, the trio arrived at the processing plant only to witness signs of a break-in. Though Rubble was ordered to stay put, he wandered off when he heard a sparking wire, which led him to Brainstorm's corpse. The World In Your Eyes Part One
Security Operations soon arrived to scope out the scene with Chromia asking Rubble to not consider the murder to be indicative of Cybertronian society, before Bumblebee took his protege to see Wheeljack at the Tether. When they arrived, the overenthusiastic engineer explained the glory of the "Winged Moon", a moon that had been rebuilt into a massive energon harvester, (and a skitter) before he offered Rubble a day job which the newborn eagerly accepted. When evening fell, Rubble went off to Bumblebee so they could watch the Winged Moon harvest its bounty. Before the harvest started, the two shared a conversation about factionalism and energon crystals before the moon sprung to life, which Rubble declared was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen. The World In Your Eyes Part Two
As the moon worked, Bumblebee tried to teach Rubble about alternate modes, even pointing out the distant form of Leviathan, before Windblade arrived, telling Bumblebee that he was to report to the Senate building. As Windblade took Rubble home, the young 'bot confessed his worries that he was disappointing Bumblebee only for the flier to clarify that, due to the Nominus Edict restricting forgings, being a mentor was a great responsibility and if anything, it was Bumblebee who worried he was disappointing Rubble. When the two returned to the newborn's apartment however, the found Chromia and Geomotus waiting for them. As Chromia left with Windblade, she linked Rubble's communicator to hers and Prowl's, secretly installing a tracker in the link. Unaware of this, Rubble went stargazing and thought he saw a Titan. The World In Your Eyes Part Three
Soon enough, Rubble found himself back at the Pyramid to witness the birth of a new Cybertronian. As he and Bumblebee debated the philosophy of the Reversionists, Bumblebee butted into a brawl between an Autobot and a Riser forcing Prowl to intervene. As Prowl vented his frustrations to Bumblebee, Rubble piped up and offered to help identify the Voin he'd seen only to be shot down on the basis that the aliens were hard to distinguish. Having a funeral to attend, Bumblebee then returned Rubble to his quarters for the evening. The World In Your Eyes Part Four
