- “I will never side with a Prime!”
- — Skyquake, refusing Optimus Prime's offer of peace.
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 towards the disloyal, and is not beyond backhanding even a superior officer who gets in the way of Megatron's will. Otherwise, he's actually a polite guy when it comes down to it, even to his targets and foes. He's succinct, and will not mince his words. It's nothing personal, it's just orders from his master.
His split-Spark twin brother is the similarly honor-bound Dreadwing. The two are able to sense each other, even across the galaxy.[1]
Biography[]
Transformers: Prime[]
Millennia ago, during the great war, Megatron tasked Skyquake with assassinating Optimus Prime at the Battle of Technahar 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.
Masters & Students[]
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 aside and attack Prime. Bumblebee threw himself into the fray but proved more of a distraction than anything else. He did manage to buy Optimus the time to realize Skyquake still lacked a vehicle mode.!
Using the canyon they were battling in to their advantage, the Autobots managed to corner Skyquake. 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. After Skyquake closed his optics for possibly one last time, Prime sadly noted how things might have been different, before burying the Decepticon. Dreadwing sensed his brother's emergence from stasis and later death.
Shadowzone[]
Some time later, Starscream attempted to resurrect Skyquake using the chunk of Dark Energon that he ripped from Megatron's chest. It worked, and Skyquake rose as a zombie, however a Ground Bridge incident transported him to a strange alternate dimension along with the Autobots' human friends Miko Nakadai, Jack Darby and Raf Esquivel. After discovering that he couldn't harm the Autobots, who were still in the real world, Skyquake began pursuing the three kids. They managed to find Starscream's arm, left behind during the battle, and used it to shoot Skyquake. This merely resulted in his arm coming off and chasing them. It followed them back through a rescue portal created by Ratchet and briefly assaulted Starscream before he shook it loose. It ran after him again but Starscream Ground Bridged himself away. The rest of Skyquake continued to roam the shadowzone and made a vain attempt to repair himself with Starscream's lost arm.
Rock Bottom[]
Megatron wasn't happy about Starscream using the Dark Energon shard that was previously merged with his Spark to bring Skyquake back, among other things.
Loose Cannons[]
Dreadwing was drawn to Earth after feeling his twin's death, where Megatron and Soundwave confirmed his loss. Dreadwing swore the Autobots would pay for offlining his brother, though his attempts to gain revenge were unsuccessful.
Triangulation[]
Starscream encountered Dreadwing at the Antarctic, but at first mistook him for Skyquake before being corrected. When Starscream obtained the Apex Armor, he prepared to reunite Dreadwing with his twin before Dreadwing blew a hole in the ice, into which Starscream fell. Optimus Prime expressed his remorse for his part in Skyquake's death and extended the same offer of a place in the Autobot ranks to Dreadwing.
Alpha/Omega[]
Megatron used the oath Dreadwing swore on Skyquake's demise to get him to open the coffin of a Prime, rather than simply opening it himself.
Patch[]
While Megatron was using a cortical psychic patch to interrogate Starscream, Dreadwing finally learned his brother's ultimate fate, roaming the shadow dimension as a zombie, and was more than a little upset that Megatron would withhold that information from him to shield Starscream.
Regeneration[]
As a result, Dreadwing turned the Forge of Solus Prime over to the Autobots before attempting to avenge his brother by killing Starscream. However, it was Dreadwing who met his end when Megatron intervened in Starscream's favor.[1]
Personality[]
Skyquake is a brutal and merciless soldier, yet completely loyal to Megatron. His loyalty is so great that he could not conceive that his master could have perished while Skyquake had just awakened. He remained devoted, however, to Megatron's order to eliminate Optimus Prime as he had already been ordered years before. When Optimus offered to bury the hatchet, Skyquake immediately refused, refusing to be an ally of a Prime. Likewise, he considers it his duty to eliminate the Autobots, no matter how insignificant. According to Megatron, Skyquake, like his twin brother Dreadwing, has a sense of honor.
Skyquake also has a short temper and violent personality, quickly becoming exasperated by Starscream's arrogance and self-importance to the point of lashing out at him with a punch. In combat, Skyquake is mostly abrupt and destructive, with no real ability to strategize.
As a Terrorcon, Skyquake no longer has any personality, only the behavior of a mindless creature destroying everything living in its path.[2]
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