Well of Transformation

Installing a jacuzzi in this cave was the best idea ever!

The Well of Transformation is a well of special water on Tlalakan that dissolves the body of anyone who enters it, leaving only the spirit, which then forms a new body of whatever sort their heart desires. The Tlalakans use it to change into merpeople so that they can secretly use the waterways for their rebellion against Deceptitran. Any drone that enters the pool, being a soulless machine, is immediately dissolved to nothing as if by acid. But Transformers, having spirits themselves, experience the same effect as Tlalakans. The well is connected to the aforementioned waterways, but its effects don't spread through them. Nevertheless, water removed from the well remains transformative (by which means it has also been shown to work on Beastformers).

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Well, maybe he can hang out with Fluttershy?

Arriving in response to a distress call, the Autobots Bumblebee, Perceptor, Cosmos, and Seaspray quickly got involved with the local revolution, with Seaspray just as quickly falling head over heels for Alana, one of the human leaders of the rebellion. Thanks to the miraculous Well, both Seaspray and Alana were able to experience life in the other's shoes, with him temporarily becoming a human with robot feet and her changing into a robot edition of her human self capable of transforming into a gondola, before realizing their love endured no matter their form.

The Decepticon Rumble, however, was much less pleased with the Well after Alana tricked him into becoming a tree. Sea Change

Legends comic

The Well of Transformation dried up during a great drought on Tlalakan, though Seaspray and Alana saved some of its water and kept it in Seaspray's water gun. When they used it to turn Alana into a Transformer again, Tigerburn stole the gun and dumped the rest of the water on himself in hopes of powering up, but the water rejected the cold-hearted Laser Beast and instead responded to the heart of Lione, whose body he was sharing. Lione then used its transformative powers to split himself and Tigerburn back into separate beings. LG64 Seaspray & Lione After restoring the Well using the Beastformers' Water Gem of Motion, Seaspray and Alana borrowed some more water that they used to separate Shuffler and Toraizer from Skullgrotes and Scopecougar. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 1

Notes

• Guess we can say for sure that Tlalakans, Transformers, and Beastformers all have souls. Other races, the jury's still out.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Henshin no Izumi (変身の泉, "Spring of Transformation")