Unicron's Four Horsemen
- Unicron's Four Horsemen are a group in service of Unicron from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Once Unicron's Four Horsemen were normal Cybertronians putting forth their worth in civil war. Then the Chaos Bringer came and abducted the three Autobots and single Decepticon when the combined effort of all factions turned out to be an unexpected match for him. Thought killed by their comrades of old, they were in truth turned into henchmen for Unicron at some point in the ten years that followed his defeat.
As Unicron's Four Horsemen, they are dedicated to their servitude of the Chaos Bringer and consider themselves his finest minions. Riding flying, fire-breathing metal-demon-horse-skeleton creatures and constantly proclaiming messages of doom and despair, they will have you know their presence as a sign of the apocalypse.
The Four Horsemen are:
- War (leader)
- Death
- Famine
- Pestilence
Fiction
Dreamwave Armada comics
Those who would become the Four Horsemen charged into battle on Rhinox's command. Unicron, noting the fight was not quite proceeding as he had anticipated, declared that the four of them would provide him with answers. "All that they were and knew" thus became part of the Chaos Bringer's might. The End
Dreamwave Energon comics
Ten years later, Rhinox, Airazor, Terrorsaur and Cheetor had been fully turned into Unicron's new batch of loyal minions, serving directly under Alpha Quintesson. When Alpha Quintesson hired the Terrorcons to aid Unicron's side, War asked him if he trusted the Decepticons and why he bothered to use them at all since the Horsemen could do the job as well, if not better. Alpha Quintesson replied that, unlike them, the Terrorcons were expandable, and that he had another task for them anyway. In reaction to Optimus Prime's efforts to rouse a counterforce to Unicron, the Horsemen were to travel to Cybertron to wreak havoc on their once-comrades. This in order to destroy what they could, but primarily delay the Autobots from leaving for Earth. This Evil Reborn
When the Horsemen arrived on Cybertron, they wasted no time on opening fire on the unsuspecting inhabitants. What Lies Beneath As the Autobots fought back to save their hides, they recognized their former allies & enemy and realized in horror what had happened to them. Worse, the Four Horsemen made quick work of many of the Cybertronians, the outcome of the battle appearing decided from the get-go. While the other three took out whomever came within range, War specifically concentrated most of his battle efforts on Optimus Prime, taunting him through belittling and apocalyptic speeches. He was near to finishing off the Prime when the Omnicons arrived, armed with the element of surprise, new firepower and advice from Over-Run on how to turn the tide of battle. Optimus was told to connect to the Hub, something he learned only then and there to be able to do from anywhere on Cybertron. While the Omnicons bought him time, he did as instructed, unwittingly initiating a system-wide upgrade: Optimus was granted the Spark of Combination as every Transformer still alive on Cybertron was reformatted into their Energon form. Strengthened by the new-found ability to powerlinx between similarly sized individuals, the Autobots were able to defeat the Horsemen. War called retreat, though with the promise that the Autobots' present victory meant nothing. What Lies Beneath, Part Two
Some time thereafter, the Terrorcons' mission on Earth was not proceeding to Alpha Quintessons' wishes. Unicron's Four Horsemen thus forcibly retrieved the Terrorcons from battle through small warpgates to reassess the plans. What Lies Beneath, Part Four
Notes
- The Four Horsemen are composed of four of the five Armada redecos/retools of Beast Wars Transmetal figures that were released towards the end of the Armada line.
- The Four Horsemen originated as a fanon idea by fans Lumpy and Freefall.[1][2]
