Ironhide

**Ironhide** is the Autobots' weapon specialist and Optimus' old and aggresive friend as well as the Autobots' second-in-command. He is also a NEST commander who transforms into a modified 2006 GMC TopKick C4500 medium-duty truck.

## Biography

### Early life

Ironhide was born before the Cube was lost. He left his homeworld, when Optimus Prime commanded the Autobots to leave Cybertron.

### Landing on Minecraftia

In 2014 Ironhide was apart of Optimus' team that travelled to Minecraftia in order to retrive the Cube. They landed in an unknown city right after two other Autobots, J4U and Bumblebee, defeated Decepticon Barricade. Optimus then sended a message to the two Autobots to come to them.

### Retrieving the glasses

J4U and Bumblebee later arrived to the group along with Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes. Ironhide gave J4U some new weapons as his old ones were taken away by Sector 7. J4U also gave him and the rest of the team some energon. Ironhide later stood alongside the rest of the Autobots when Optimus revealed their story to Sam and

Mikaela. When Optimus was finished with his story, the group left to Sam's house to retrive Archibald Witwicky's glasses but they were attacked by Sector 7 under the lead of Seymour Simmons. Ironhide got into a brief fight with Ratchet during the battle and retreated once J4U grabbed the glasses. Sam and Mikaela howevhere were captured during their mission, so Optimus, bumblebee and J4U left to save them. Ironhide in the meantime stayed back to cover them along with ratchet and Jazz. While Optimus and Bumblebee came back, J4U did not as he was captured by Sector 7.

### At the Hoover Dam

After the battle, Ironhide travelled to the Hoover Dam along with the rest of the Autobots. There Optimus explained to them that he was able to get the glasses after J4U was captured and also said that they will save him, once they find the Cube.

### Going into Mission City

Ironhide and the rest of the Autobots later regrouped with Sam, Mikaela, J4U and Simmons. J4U who also recovered the Cube, told them that they needed to get away from the dam and so the group went into Mission City. There, Ironhide stayed on the city's edge, while J4U went in to make sure it's safe. After killing a Decepticon named Bonecrusher, J4U reported that the millitary can come to the city.

### Battling Blackout and Starscream

When the millitary arrived, Ironhide and the Autobots grouped with them. William Lennox and Robert Epps later tried to contact the rest of the army via sevral short-wave radios and soon an airplane flew above them. Ironhide howevhere identifid the plane as Starscream and the Decepticon bombed the group, albeit with no casualties. Ironhide then went with Ratchet and J4U to take on Starscream. When they arrive to him they saw that Blackout was there to. The three then attacked Starscream and punched him from his rooftop over to Blackout. Howevhere, while jumping over to the roof, all three Autobots failed. Ironhide stayed on the ground

for some time later on and went into the building on which Starscream and Blackout were standing. When J4U ran in with Starscream, he and Ratchet started firing at the Decepticon. Later on he made his way up to Blackout via a ladder but went back down. He then went into a shotdown with both of the Decepticons and after Ratchet was injured and J4U's cyberblade was destroyed he followed the tactical retreat. Once they came back, they punched Starscream into the water and injured him greately. They then attacked Blackout but only J4U actualy fought him, as he was on the roof, and eventualy killed him.

### Brawl's arrival

Later on Ironhide stayed with the group while Brawl attacked. He also stood with them when Megatron crashed into Optimus.

### Battling Megatron

Later on, Ironhide along with Ratchet and Bumblebee went on to help Optimus defeat Megatron. On their way they encountered J4U who went to help Optimus to but went on a different path. Ironhide gave him some

better weaponry and armor, before the group went on. They soon came into a building that was filled with Protoforms, but they killed all of them. In the parkside outside the house Optimus and Megatron were battling and the Autobots went in to help Prime. They soon cornered Megatron but the Decepticon activated his jets and flew away until he regenerated himself. When he landed the group attacked them again but Bumblebee was injured and Megatron flew away to regenerate again. When he landed Ironhide charged at him but he was injured by the Decepticon and was later healed by Ratchet. In his absence, Optimus killed Megatron and ended the Battle of Mission City.

### NEST origins

After the battle, humans and Autobots made an alliance called NEST which Ironhide joined. He and the other three Autobots were joined on Minecraftia by Sideswipe, Jolt, Skids and Mudflap, while J4U got recreated into Subwoofer.

### Going into Shanghai

In 2016, NEST detected energon readings in Shanghai. Ironhide travelled there with Sideswipe, Subwoofer, the twins, Epps, Michael and NEST team A. There Subwoofer evacuated the city while Ironhide and the others stayed with the humans. He later followed Michael who had the energon detector to a small ally. Michael ordered the Autobots to stay behind in case if there was no Decepticons, although Ironhide warned him that he sensed energon. Michael and sevral soldiers were then killed in the ally by sevral Protoforms. Upon this, he contacted the rest of the team and said that Protoforms were there and that they had humans down. Lennox replied to him that NEST team B was about ten blocks south in pursuit of Starscream. Subwoofer voluntered himself to go help them. Ironhide was surprised to hear that he changed his name, with Subwoofer explaining to him that he changed it because he was fully changed. When the Autobot killed the Protoforms in the ally,

Ironhide contacted him and said that a Decepticon was on a nearby roof trying to escape with the energon. Subwoofer soon caught him and found out that it was the Decepticons' second-in-command Sideways. The Decepticon also left them a warning, saying that The Fallen shall rise again. Ironhide then returned to the base in Waschington D.C. where he started selling weapons and ammo in exchange for energon. Subwoofer considered buying sevral weapons and ammunition from him but decided to get some stuff from Ratchet instead. Ironhide and Sideswipe also made a deal that they'll go target practicing into a desert.

### "Saving" Subwoofer

After Ravage stole the last fragment of the cube, Optimus told Subwoofer to bring Sam to him in order to talk

with the boy. After doing so, Subwoofer drove Sam back to his college where he was attacked by sevral Protoforms and Breakdown who knocked him unconcious. A distress signal was sent to NEST upon that, so Skids and the rest of the Autobots went to rescue Subwoofer. By the time they arrive to the stadium where he was kept howevhere, the Autobot already killed is opponents as Breakdown didn't kill him. Do to that the Autobots began to suspect that the Decepticons wanted them distracted. This was true, as Starscream resurrected Megatron in the meantime.

### Finding Megatron

After Megatron was resurrected, Ironhide and the rest of the Autobots returned to their base. There they along with Simmons, Morshower and Lennox disccused the event, with Ironhide commenting that whatever was going on they will blast it and that he and Sideswipe had their weapons charged. The group eventualy decided that they will wait until Ratchet's and Jolt's scans were finished and then go hunt down and kill Megatron. Ironhide took over the position of the Autobot second-in-command shortly after, when Subwoofer quit the position.

### Optimus' death

Following Subwoofers departure from NEST, he went to pick up Mikaela in order to surprise Sam at his college. When they got him they were howevhere captured by Grindor who took them to Megatron and Starscream as they were hunting down Sam. Optimus who tracked them down managed to save the three and forced Megatron to retreat into a forest. While the group gave Megatron pursuit, Sub called Ironhide via

hologram and told him to come help them. Ironhide said that they will come but at that moment the base got attacked by Decepticon Protoforms, forcing Ironhide to end the call. Although NEST was able to take care of the Protoforms, they came to the forest to late, as Optimus was killed by Megatron in battle. When they arrived, Ironhide was shocked to see Prime dead and when Ratchet said that Optimus is fully gone, he ordered Subwoofer to get Sam and Mikaela and run. With Prime dead the Decepticons launched a full-scale invasion and Ironhide became the Autobots' new leader.

### Leading NEST

Following Ironhides orders, Subwoofer hid in Greenfield with Sam, Mikaela, Bumblebee, Skids, Mudflap and Jolt. There he contacted Ironhide via hologram and told him that they were in a safe place but he did not reveal where that was due to safety reasons. Ironhide told Sub that the Decepticons launched an invasion, that the Fallen and Megatron commanded the entire Decepticon army to attack Minecraftia and that NESTs base was compromised. He then asked Sub what was the plan but the Autobot told him that he was no the Autobots' second-in-command anymore but that he will protect Sam and Mikaela. Ironhide told him that

Optimus would want him to lead the Autobots but this fell on deaf ears as Sub said that Ironhide is their leader now. Ironhide dissagreed with what Sub said and told him that with Prime gone he has to lead the group. Seeing that Ironhide won't give up, Sub told him to get Ratchet, Sideswipe and the rest on NEST and plan a counter attack because they had to catch the Decepticons off guard. Ironhide agrred to that and said that he will gather the troops while Subwoofer commented that he and his group will try to uncover what Sams visions ment. Ironhide then said that this sounded like a plan and that Prime would have been proud to see what he was doing. He then told Sub that it was nice to have him back on the team before ending the call. Subwoofer later went on to tell the rest of the group what he and Ironhide were talking about.

### Beggining of the Battle of Egypt

Following Ironhides talk with his comrade, Sub went back to his group and they were eventualy found by Simmons who brought them to the Greenfield Museum of Natural History where they found an elderly Aerialbot Jetfire. Jetfire told them that Optimus could be revived by the matrix of leadership, an object created by Primus which was made for powering up Star Harvesters which were used by the original Primes in order to blow up suns and collect their energon, with them learning that The Fallen and his Decepticons were looking for the matrix too. The Aerialbot teleported the group to Cairo where both the Star Harvester and the

matrix were located. The group eventualy found the matrix and Sub contacted Ironhide, telling him that they had the matrix. Subwoofer then sent him their coordinates and told him to get all of NEST and bring Prime's body to them, with him saying that they were on their way. The groups coordinates were secretly also received by Soundwave who alerted Meagtron and The Fallen about this before telling all Decepticon forces to go to Egypt in order to end the war. Following the Decepticons' orders, the Constructicons travelled to Cairo, only to be killed by the group, although their corpses formed Devastator while a large group of Protoforms arrived.

### Optimus' resurrection

After Devastator was formed, Subwoofer contacted Ironhide and told him that they had a problem, with Ironhide telling him that they saw the Constructicon on radar and that their scanners saw seven cores on him. He continued that they needed to disable the cores and if they did so, they could bypass his armor. Ironhide concluded that once his armor and weapons were offline they could destroy the Decepticon from the inside, and ended the conversation. The group followed Ironhide's orders and managed to destroy Devastator, with Subwoofer contacting Ironhide as soon as the Constructicon perished. The Autobot told them that they just landed in the city, but that they were surrounded with Protoforms and that Sub and his group had to come to them before ending the call. Bumblebee, Subwoofer and Jolt managed to fight their way into the city, with them killing all of the Protoforms present on the scene. Ironhide then got greeted by Subwoofer who said that it was nice to see him and that he liked his new guns. Using the matrix of leadership, and with the sacrifices of Jetfire and Jolt, the group was able to resurrect Optimus soon after.

## Apperances

* Transcrafters
	+ EP 4 (First apperance)
	+ EP 5
	+ EP 6
	+ EP 7
	+ EP 8
	+ EP 9
	+ EP 10

* Transcrafters: Revenge of the Dragon
	+ ROTD EP 1
	+ ROTD EP 3
	+ ROTD EP 4
	+ ROTD EP 5
	+ ROTD EP 6 (Appears in hologram)
	+ ROTD EP 7 (Appears in hologram)
	+ ROTD EP 8

 **Transcrafters**
 **Revenge of the Dragon**