Fixer Bug
- Fixer Bugs are a type of drone-unit from the Armada portion of the Unicron Trilogy.
Fixer Bugs are hovering drone machines created by minions of Unicron. They are specially designed to hunt down "renegade" Mini-Cons (those who developed souls and free will), and forcibly Powerlinx to them. For this purpose, they are equipped with a pair of blaster weapons to incapacitate their targets. A less aggressive variant of the Fixer Bug is the Seeker Bug.
Once Powerlinxed, the Fixer Bug rewrites the Mini-Con's core program, down to its spark frame, completely erasing the Mini-Con's soul (cutting it off from the Linkage in the process), and returning it to an energy state stored in a special Mini-Con storage panel. Once reactivated and released from this panel, the "new" Mini-Con is a slave to Unicron's will, and almost invariably, its personality has become that of a cruel and aggressive hunter-warrior.
Fiction
Micron Legend: Linkage Mini-Comic
Fixer Bugs were first encountered by Redline, Flat-Out, and Servo shortly after their arrival on Earth. Although they were unsure of the origin of the machines, they could tell that the fixers meant nothing but trouble, and as such, they commandeered the car of Stella Holley in order to use it as an emergency weapon against the bugs. Considering her confusion over the matter, it would have been nice if they had asked first. Linkage Part 1
Top Gear employed a pair of Fixer Bugs in his capture of the Mini-Con who would come to be known as Tailslide. Linkage Part 2 During the Speed Chaser Team's assault on Stella, the Super Stunt Team, and Rollbar, there were several Fixer Bugs present to help capture the errant Mini-Cons, as well as to divide their attention by assaulting Stella. Linkage Part 4 Subsequently, the Stunt Team examined the wreckage of one of the Bugs to understand their ultimate purpose and their function, which made it clear that their attackers were in the direct service of Unicron. Linkage Part 5