Scrapmetal



No one's quite sure where the Scrapmetal originally come from, or why they look like Transformers. What is known is that they're a dangerous scourge that swarm from planet to planet, devouring everything in their path, and now thousands of them have infested the abandoned Cybertron!

Individual Scrapmetal have only a base animal-level intelligence, and by Cybertron standards are small and weak, easily crushed. However, Scrapmetal are almost never witnessed as individuals, only in large swarms that can overwhelm robots far larger than they through sheer strength of numbers, no matter how many of their own dead they skitter over. They appear to follow the orders of a single (barely) sentient Scrapmetal, physically identical to his kin, but just bright enough to make the swarm really dangerous by giving them direction.

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he Transformers know about Scrapmetal as a planet-hopping scourge, and Hot Shot is creeped out by the way they resemble small Transformers.

The Scrapmetal were first sighted when the Cybertron Defense Team headed to Cybertron across the space bridge. Watching from the Autobots' base on Earth, Lori was creeped out by them, as they reminded her of spiders. Red Alert recognized them as Scrapmetal.

Despite unleashing their full (impressive) arsenals, the Defense Team were quickly overwhelmed by the creatures Starscream, prompting Optimus Prime to send Evac, Leobreaker and Override (who was carrying the Omega Lock) across the Space Bridge to assist them. Megatron and a horde of his underlings followed in pursuit, hoping to acquire the Lock and its three Cyber Planet Keys. United The Defense Team, meanwhile, drove off the first wave by themselves anyway. Red Alert believed they may have come from other planets the black hole had destroyed. Cybertron

The Scrapmetal regrouped and returned, badly injuring Crumplezone. Balance One of them subsequently attacked Megatron after his rebirth as a ghostly entity, only to have its shots-and itself-devoured by the shadowy mist surrounding his body. Darkness The Autobots would have to spend a while clearing the pests off God.

A red Scrapmetal husk was later rebuilt into a non-sentient drone that was piloted by Coby Hansen and used both in battle and in infiltration of enemy ships.