Ricky Vasquez
- Ricky Vasquez is a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> in the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_%28franchise%29" title="Generation 1 (franchise)">Generation 1</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.
[[Image:|right|180px|thumb|Trust me, I know what I'm doing.]] Ricky Vasquez is the assistant chief engineer of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hoover_Dam" title="Hoover Dam">Hoover Dam</a>. He is married to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Carmen_Vasquez" title="Carmen Vasquez">Carmen</a> and they have a child called <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Maria_Vasquez" title="Maria Vasquez">Maria</a>.
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[[Image:|left|180px|thumb|Bow down before the one you serve/You're gonna get what you deserve!]]
At 8am on July 4th 1986, as Ricky Vasquez was preparing to leave for
work at the Hoover dam hydroelectric plant, he was injected with a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cerebro-shell" title="Cerebro-shell">cerebro-shell</a> by the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticon</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bombshell" title="Bombshell">Bombshell</a> in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Insecticon_%28G1%29" title="Insecticon (G1)">insect mode</a>.
Brushing it off as an ordinary insect bite, he promised his daughter
Maria that he would be back home in time to take her to see the
celebratory fireworks that evening, said goodbye to his wife and drove
away. Shortly afterwards the cerebro-shell took control of Ricky's mind
and Bombshell directed him to pull his car over to where <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28G1%29" title="Megatron (G1)">Megatron</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shrapnel_%28G1%29" title="Shrapnel (G1)">Shrapnel</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kickback_%28G1%29" title="Kickback (G1)">Kickback</a> were waiting to hitch a ride. Upon his arrival at the plant Ricky walked past the security guard while carrying gun-mode Megatron in his hand
and made his way to the control room where Kickback removed the door
from its hinges. Speaking like Shatner, Vasquez ordered the terrified
workers to turn off the dam and once this was achieved the Decepticons
dropped any pretence of deception, speaking to each other in front of
the humans while Ricky remained silent. However, the shell's control
over Ricky was not complete; he heard and understood Megatron's
prediction that Earth would be turned into a wasteland.
Outside, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridge</a> had materialised, bringing with it from <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Conehead" title="Conehead">Coneheads</a> and a gigantic drill to leech the dam's power. The <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aerialbot_%28G1%29" title="Aerialbot (G1)">Aerialbots</a> arrived and joined in battle with the Decepticons, ultimately routing Megatron's forces, and combined into <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Superion_%28G1%29" title="Superion (G1)">Superion</a>
to destroy the drill. Taking direct control of Ricky's mind, Megatron
forced him onto the dam itself and ordered him to destroy the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Combiner" title="Combiner">gestalt robot</a>. Finding that he couldn't prevent Superion from attacking humans, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Silverbolt_%28G1%29" title="Silverbolt (G1)">Silverbolt</a>
disengaged the Aerialbots and ordered them to retreat. Megatron once
again ordered Vasquez to fire upon Silverbolt, but the human's growing
resistance to the cerebro-shell, coupled with Maria's intervention,
allowed him to break Megatron's control and fire upon the drill
instead. His plan in ruins, Megatron retreated with the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Insecticon_%28G1%29" title="Insecticon (G1)">Insecticons</a>
leaving Ricky to apologise to Carmen and Maria that he wouldn't be able
to take them to see the fireworks that night as he was going to have to
answer a lot of questions at the police station. Maria replied that
didn't mind, as she'd seen plenty of fireworks already. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aerialbots_over_America%21" title="Aerialbots over America!">Aerialbots over America!</a></span>
