Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)

This article is about the Ark drone. For the episode, see Teletraan-X (episode). For a list of other meanings, see Teletraan (disambiguation).

Teletraan-X is a fussy drone from the Cyberverse continuity family.

"My name is Leonard Church, and you will fear my LASER FACE!"

Teletraan-X is essentially a sentient back-up hard drive for Teletraan-1. While it wants to be helpful, its programming forbids it from helping anyone who is not a crew member aboard the Ark, a fact that it continually reminds everybody of.

It's quite hilarious, really.

Fiction

Cyberverse cartoon

Voice actor: Mike Rose (English), Yōji Ueda (Japanese), Luca Bottale (Italian)

Teletraan-X was created as a backup hard drive for Teletraan-1 should the main computer go off-line for any reason. When the Ark tracked the AllSpark to Earth, the ship suffered a malfunction as Teletraan-1 entered the organic world's atmosphere. Unable to course correct, Teletraan-1 brought Teletraan-X online and ejected it from the ship. King of the Dinosaurs

Teletraan-X spent the next 66 million years searching for any sign of the Ark or the crew, Matrix of Leadership King of the Dinosaurs Awaken Sleeping Giants until he was found by Slipstream's squad who used him as the bait in a trap for Bumblebee, the only one on Earth whom the drone would respond to. When the Seekers began their torture of Windblade and Bumblebee however, the drone's programming compelled it to defend the Autobots, using its forcefield to knock down the Decepticons. Joining the duo in their escape attempt, Bumblebee and Teletraan-X were forced to leave Windblade behind. Teletraan-X

Ever chipper, Teletraan-X spent the next four and a half hours recounting human history before Bumblebee outright asked him where the Ark was. Information that Teletraan... didn't know. Noticing that Bumblebee carried a cortical psychic patch with him, the drone offered to help the scout make sense of his jumbled memories. Within the scout's brain, Teletraan-X drew his attention to his memories of Optimus Prime, showing that even the greatest of heroes could come from humble origins and weren't infallible. Inspired, Bumblebee set out to rescue Windblade with Teletraan in tow. Matrix of Leadership By the time the two arrived back at the missile complex, Windblade had already freed herself (mostly) and the trio made good on their escape. As they fled, Windblade revealed her data mining had allowed her to learn of another Autobot on Earth, buried somewhere on the planet. Siloed

The Autobot turned out to be Grimlock. After Teletraan-X explained how he and Grimlock had been spared the Ark's crash, the drone guided Bumblebee and Windblade into using a nearby city's power grid to revive their comrade only for the Dinobot's beast mode instincts to take over and guide him away from the city. Following Grimlock, the three found he had created a base for himself, the sight of it jogging his memories and allowing him to return to robot mode. King of the Dinosaurs

Using the equipment of Grimlock's base, Teletraan-X was able to pick up two Decepticon warships which Shockwave intended to use to eradicate all life on Earth. Figuring out that they needed only to stop one ship, Teletraan-X flew the group to the North Pole via a stolen human cargo plane and served as their getaway pilot once the Decepticon scheme had been thwarted. The Extinction Event

Back at Grimlock's base, the Dinobot revealed a map of Pangaea which Teletraan-X used to pinpoint the Ark's location. As they neared Mount St. Hilary however, the Seekers attacked crashing their plane. In the ensuing battle, Teletraan-X found himself seized by Grimlock as a lobbing ball to use against Thundercracker. As he picked himself up, Teletraan-X overheard Starscream telling Slipstream that the Decepticon fleet was nearing Earth. Soon breaching the volcano, the Autobot quartet found the Ark. Awaken Sleeping Giants

Entering with Bumblebee, Teletraan-X found the hibernation bay and plugged himself into a data terminal where he tearfully discovered Teletraan-1 had gone offline, far beyond the ability to recover. Realizing his role as Teletraan-1's sucessor, Teletraan-X begun uploading himself into the mainframe, but was shot down by Shadow Striker, destroying his body. The upload however had been a success and, after some initial difficulties in manipulating a mainframe so vast, Teletraan-X was able to assume full control of the Ark, raising its shields in time to protect the craft from an eruption triggered by Shockwave's magnetic disruptor and then turning its armaments on the Decepticons. With the Decepticons gone, Teletraan-X repositioned the ship slightly and awoke the rest of the crew. There was no chance for a respite however as his sensors then picked up Starscream's fleet bearing down on the Ark. Eruption

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Foreign names

• Japanese: Teletraan-X (テレトランX Teretoran X)