Skyquake (Prime)
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- Skyquake is a Decepticon from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Skyquake's loyalties are unlikely to be questioned anytime soon. A Decepticon guardian sent to protect Earth's energon stocks, he is completely loyal to Megatron. He will not only obey every order, he will follow them until Megatron says otherwise, regardless of the passage of time. He also possesses a rather short temper and is not beyond backhanding anyone who frustrates him.
Fiction
Prime cartoon
- Voice actor: Richard Green
Millennia ago, during the great war, Megatron tasked Skyquake with assassinating Optimus Prime at the Battle of Technar but Skyquake failed to carry out his mission.
He was later one of a number of Decepticon guardians sent to Earth by Megatron when the planet was seeded with Energon.
In the modern era, he was sought out by Starscream, who needed a strong presence to inspire his troops into believing his reign would be a successful one. However, Skyquake was less amiable to the idea, firmly announcing both his loyalty to Megatron and his lack of faith in Starscream's claims of Megatron's death. Before the pair came to blows, Optimus and Bumblebee appeared on the scene. Skyquake reminded Prime of their encounter during the Battle of Technar, but Optimus still offered both Decepticons a chance at peace. Starscream showed some interest, as long as Optimus bowed to him, causing a frustrated Skyquake to belt him. Optimus again made the peace offering to Skyquake but announced that he would never side with a Prime and attacked him. Bumblebee threw himself into the fray but proved more of a distraction than anything else. He did manage to buy Optimus the time to realise Skyquake still lacked a vehicle mode.
Using the canyon they were battling in to their advantage, the Autobots managed to corner Skyquake and knock him down. Unfortunately, Agent Fowler appeared in a high-tech military jet, which Skyquake immediately scanned.
Skyquake quickly dominated the battle until Bumblebee threw himself on the jet and, as Skyquake tried to shake him off, ripped out his internals. Bumblebee jumped onto Fowler's plane as a heavily-injured Skyquake crashed into the ground. Skyquake tryed to Transform to save himself but crashed. After Skyquake closed his optics for possibly one last time, Prime sadly noted how things might have been different if he joined the Autobot's before burying the Decepticon. Masters & Students
Some time later, Starscream attempted to resurrect Skyquake using the chunk of Dark Energon that he ripped from Megatron's chest. Starscream was attacked by the Autobot's when he attempted this and sttacked them to by time for Skyquake to rise but was forced to leave him. The Dark Energon infusion worked, and Skyquake rose as a zombie, however a GroundBridge incident transported him to a strange alternate dimension along with the Autobots' human friends Miko Nakadai, Jack Darby and Raf Esquivel. Once Skyquake wakened fully he attempted to kill Bulkhead but after discovering that he couldn't harm the Autobots, who were still in the real world, Skyquake began pursuing the three kids. Raf drooped his glasses forcing Miko to get them in which Skyquake almost crushed her twice. They managed to find Starscream's arm, left behind during the battle, and use it to shoot Skyquake. This merely resulted in his arm coming off it chasing them as well as the rest of Skyquake. It followed them back through a rescue portal created by Ratchet. Skyquake's arm made it through and briefly assaulted Starscream before he shook it loose. It ran after him again but Starscream GroundBridged himself away. The rest of Skyquake continued to roam the shadowzone and made a vain attempt to repair himself with Starscream's lost arm. Shadowzone
Notes
- It's a lucky thing Agent Fowler provided a jet with arm and leg kibble underneath for Skyquake to scan!
- While crash-landings have seldom been fatal to Transformers in past series, Prime executive producer Jeff Kline has stated that "When we kill a character, we kill a character."[1] He's not exactly wrong but...
