Cyber-tick

A cyber-tick is a very small Cybertronian lifeform. They're not well-liked and might be related to astro ticks and/or mech-ticks.

Fiction

Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics

Incinerator expected to be shook off Cybertron like a bad case of cyber-ticks. Return to Cybertron: Part 3

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

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Among the prisoners on the Alchemor was a cyber-tick named Minitron who was able to control other bots by biting them. He did so with Grimlock, using the large Dinobot to steal Underbite's stasis pod for Steeljaw. True Colors