Nitro (IDW)
- The Visitor is a Transformer from an unspecified portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Visitor is a Transformer, and aptly enough also a visitor to the planet of Donnokt, located somewhere at the end of time and space. Little is known about the poor guy, apart from the fact that he's looking for his kin and a new home. From a distance he also sports a rather familiar silhouette.
Fiction
Last Bot Standing
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for Last Bot Standing #1 follow. |
In the far-distant future, long after the end of the Great War (G1) between the Autobots and Decepticons, a single-bot space pod comes crashing down in an empty stretch of desert of the planet Donnokt. After a moment, the Visitor comes climbing out before slowly making his way towards the nearest settlement. During this trek, he springs a leak, and a strange green liquid begins seeping from him.
The Visitor reaches the outskirts of the town of Fembrance just as the town doctor, along with one of the local transporters, Shib Walkis, arrive with a cart-full of wounded miners that had been hurt in a recent mining accident. As the townsfolk celebrate the successful endeavor, one of them shouts in fear, pointing at the approaching Cybertronian in the close distance.
As the Visitor steps foot into town, he takes in his surroundings, scanning the strange people and vehicles before him. Then suddenly, the cart that mere moments earlier had carried the miners, creaks and bolts forward all by itself as the draft animals flee. It stops just before the Visitor and changes form to reveal an old, weathered Transformer: Rodimus!
Chocked, the Visitor can't believe his eyes but Rodimus seems far less enthused by this new arrival, and coldly tells him to die before he begins pummeling him with heavy blows. As a panic-indused response, the Visitor shoves Rodimus away, sending him crashing through the sign that makes up the town entrance, inadvertently knocking the aged Autobot out for a moment. Remorseful, the Visitor begs forgiveness, pleading with Rodimus to wake up, asks him his name, and thanks him for finding a new home for "their kind". As Rodimus regains his senses, he simply utters that this planet isn't for them, before attacking the Visitor once more, severely beating him all while the Visitor pleads that he's hungry and weak. He begs for his life, but Rodimus turns a deaf ear, and tears the poor, weak Transformer's head from his body.
While all this transpires, the citizens of Fembrance have gotten their guns, ready to administer some country justice, and as the sheriff orders the town militia to open fire on Rodimus, the gunmen are stopped by Shib. Rodimus, with only the vaguest of memories of her from his time masquerading as her wagon, merely warns her and the other citizens of Fembrance not to pick a fight lest they end up as the Visitor. He then wraps the remains of the wagon around him as a cloak, and warns the people of Fembrance not to follow him as he tosses the severed head of his victim over his shoulder and leaves... Last Bot Standing #1
Notes
- In the notes to the character sheet found at the end of Last Bot Standing #1, writer Nick Roche made it clear that the Visitor "[had] to have a Rodimus' silhuette".
