QuickFire
Quickfire
Quickfire is a Mini-Con partnered with the Autobot RipTide.
He appears exclusively in the short story Lonesome Diesel in the Transformers Legends anthology
QuickFire is a Mini-Con healer, specializing in electro-magnetic stimulus. QuickFire has spent too much time fighting. Though he believes in the cause, eh aches inside at the oil he's spilled and the lives he's helped take. He's tremendously devoted to his Autobot partner. QuickFire can transform into a diesel engine block that combines with RipTide in all modes. In robot mode, he is the size of an average human.
QuickFire has a poor grasp of human idiom.
Fiction
Transformers Legends Anthology
Lonesome Diesel
When RipTide was injured in battle, QuickFire transported them to Earth, a world he knew many Mini-cons had fled to. Encountering the thought-transmissions of a distressed human telepath, QuickFire notices his painstakingly cared-for 1957 Fork Pickup, Nelly Belle, and falls instantly in love. Reconfiguring RipTide into a Mack Truck based on Jake's memories, QuickFire approaches the human Jake Williams, offering to travel across the country with him, hauling cargo.
QuickFire constructs a special place for Jake's pickup, whom he re-christens with the Galactic name Starheart, cherishing her at every opportunity with a… a… look, he has sex with the truck, alright?
QuickFire's repairs to RipTide proceed slowly, at one point requiring QuickFire to shut down and do nothing else for a week in near-hibernation.
QuickFire finds a kindred spirit in Jake, the long hours driving cross-country affords QuickFire the time for self-examination to realize he has become a pacifist, no longer willing to take another life, no matter the cause.
Forced by circumstances to intervene in a battle between the Autobots and the Dececepticons that threatens America's west coast, RipTide finally awakens, battling Megatron. QuickFire is saved from capture by an unlikely source— Jake.
QuickFire and RipTide return to their journeys with Jake.
Trivia/Oddities
- Unlike virtually every other Transformer medic, QuickFire has no trouble treating human patients. This appears to be because he uses a form of electromagnetic therapy, not direct surgery.
