Subwoofer

**Subwoofer** is the Autobots' former second-in-command who transforms into a van. He is the recreated version of the former J4U, created around 2016.

## Biography

### Recreation

Subwoofer was officialy created after 2014, though J4U was born on Cybertron before the Cube was lost, making his birth date at the time as well. The Autobot is refeared to as Subwoofer as of the time he first identified himself under the name. He got his ordinary apperance when Ratchet found him his signature vehicle mode.

### Working for NEST

Subwoofer joined NEST as an upgraded version of J4U at about the sam time as Sideswipe, Skids, Mudflap and Jolt. He was at some point made the second-in-command of the Autobots.

### Battle of Shanghai

In 2016, NEST detected energon readings in Shanghai. Subwoofer travelled there with Ironhide, Sideswipe, the twins, Robert Epps, Michael and NEST team A. There he was assigned to evacuate the city which he did, allowing the rest of the team to begin their mission. When they were attacked by Decepticon Protoforms and called for help, Subwoofer woulenteared himself to go help them. Ironhide was surprised do to the name change to which he replied that he did so because he was changed completely. Jolt and Optimus Prime both commented that they liked the change. He then went to the group's location and wittnesed Sideswipe kill a Protoform. Upon arriving into the ally, he

killed all of the Protoforms and was alerted by Ironhide that a Decepticon was on the roof. Subwoofer went up on it and gave chase to Sideways. Upon catching him, Optimus, Ratchet and Jolt arrived from chasing Starscream. Subwoofer then killed Sideways for Arcee, with the Decepticons' final words being that The Fallen shall rise again. The group then decided to go back to the base, with Subwoofer wondering what Sam Witwicky and Bumblebee were doing though he dissmised it by saying that they were probably doing nothing interesting. At the base, Optimus told him that director Seymour Simmons will come shortly and that he will need assistance welcoming him. Subwoofer then asked him how Simmons, the guy who froze him in his previous form twice, became a director. Upon getting an answer by Optimus he said that he will join him when he checks on everyone else. First he went to buy sevral items from Ratchet and check what Ironhide was selling with him buying some healing potions and ammunition (although he wished to buy a bass blaster). He also went on to check on Skids, Mudflap and Jolt, with him saying to the former that he agreed with him that the twins were annoying. He then talked to Sideswipe who invited him to target practice with him and Ironhide, with him saying that he will do so when Simmons leaves. Epps then told him that he loved the new look much to his pleassure. When he arrived to William Lennox, he told him that Simmons had just arrived. Subwoofer then jumped on Optimus' platform and stepped back. He jumped into the conversation with Simmons only when saying that NEST believed that the Decepticons were searching for energon and when he told him the warning they received from Sideways.

### Picking up Sam

The conversation between Prime and Simmons was secretly overheard by Soundwave, who escolded Ravage to the base that held the last fragment of the Cube. When that happened, Prime sended Subwoofer to pick up Sam at his college at 2 a.m.. Howevhere, when he arrived there he didn't find Sam neither in his room nor near the college. He then drove around the college and eventualy found the boy standing on a staircase with Alice. Subwoofer was initialy shocked by that as Sam was dating Mikaela Banes and drove behind the

building. He then jumped through a closed window of an empty apartment and then jumped onto an iron bar, just above Sam and Alice. He then tried to make Alice go away, at first by knocking on the wall and then by immitating a boy. Alice walked away, although Subwoofer doubted that it was because of him. Regardles, he jumped on the ground and picked up Sam, much to his surprise. He only told him that Prime wanted to talk to him. In the morning they arrived at the cemetery, much to Sam's confusion. Subwoofer then placed Sam on the ground in front of Optimus and backed off, so the two could talk.

### Captured by Breakdown

After the two finished talking, Subwoofer drove Sam back to his college right in time for his classes. He howevhere encountered sevral Decepticons, and after telling Sam to run, confronted and killed them all. He then climbed his way onto a roof off a larger house but was knocked down by Breakdown and fell unconcious. Breakdown broght him to a Stadium and took his weaponry, energon and potions. When Subwoofer woke up the Decepticon told him that he will soon join Arcee and her sisters. Subwoofer was confused why Breakdown

didn't kill him, so Breakdown explained to him that Subwoofer gets his orders and he gets his. The Autobot then freed himself from the trap and grabbed his energon longsword. He proceeded to kill the Protoforms before killing Breakdown who yelled "May Primus live again". Sub then picked up his gun and items and upon turning around, saw all of the Autobots including Bumblebee. Optimus told him that they came to rescue him to which he replied by saying that they were late. Subwoofer began to speculate that this was a distraction so the Autobots would be on the same place and wondered if Starscream planned the event. Secretly this was a distraction, as Starscream had resurrected Megatron while the Autobots were at the stadium.

### Leaving the team

When the Autobots came back to the base Subwoofer attended the conversation about Megatron's resurrection. He commented that the cameras at the shard base recorded Ravage stealing the last shard of the Cube and speculated that Soundwave sent him to steal it. Optimus agreed with his theory with Simmons being horrified that the Decepticons had acces to all of their documents. Subwoofer wondered why would Starscream wan to revive Megatron to which Optimus said that there must be something bigger going on. The group concluded the meeting when they said that they will wait for the scans to be finished and then go find and kill Megatron. After they stopped talking, Optimus said to him that they will speak in private. They went behind the base where Prime asked him if he was okay as Starscream was trying to psychologicaly warfare against him. Subwoofer was confused over what he ment, so Optimus told him that Starscream tried to weaken him by remembering the time that Arcee died by sending Sideways and Breakdown to him. Sub told him that this was working and loudly stated that J4U was dead when Prime called him by his old name.

Subwoofer than offered himself to leave the team much to Optimus' shock as he belived Subwoofer was the best fighter and best at heart. The Autobot howevhere left his second-in-command position and drove away do to getting a call from Mikaela to go surprise Sam. After picking her up, they drove to Sam's college and upon not finding him, he checked through the window of Sam's room where he saw Sam and Alice. Subwoofer than tried to keep Mikaela from seeing this and told her that they could have a good time together. He picked her up and attempted to drive away but before doing so Sam ran out of the college, as he was chased by Alice who revealed herself to be a Decepticon. Subwoofer picked Sam up and killed Alice before driving into the direction of the NEST base. He asked Sam why was Alice after him to which he replied that he saw a map inside his head. Sub furriously asked him why he didn't tell this to Prime before to which Sam replied that it didn't feel like the right time do to which he said that he will deffinetly take him to Optimus. While driving they saw a helicopter which Sub initialy suspected to be NEST but found out that it was the Decepticon Grindor who was hunting Sam. Grindor captured him into his web and dropped him into a Factory where Megatron and Starscream were located, knocking Subwoofer out upon hitting the ground.

### Duel with Megatron

When Subwoofer awoke, Sam and Mikaela had climbed out of him. Megatron told him that he wants a rematch with their fists do to that he lost in Mission City and if Subwoofer wins, he would hand himself over to NEST without a fight but if he wins, Sub would become his slave and would hand Sam to the Decepticons.

Subwoofer attempted to refuse the offer but Megatron told him that if he does so, he, Starscream and Grindor will kill them all. Do to that, he accepted the challenge and went into a duel with the Decepticon but found out that he was stronger than in Mission City. He attempted to use rockets to blast Megatron but had none of them, though he also aknowledged that he couldn't use them even if he had them. Subwoofer eventualy lost the match and when he awoke, Megatron attempted to rip off his Autobot simbol. He prepared for the strike but just at the moment Optimus blasted his way through the wall and pounded Megatron away, saving Sub.

### Optimus' death

Almost immediately after Optimus' arrival, Megatron was forced to retreat so he drove away through the whole that Prime created. Subwoofer and Oprimus hid behind a pillar in order to avoid getting shot by Grindor and Starscream and whilst doing so, Sub thanked Optimus for coming back. He then picked up Sam and Mikaela and the two went after Megatron, following tier marks on the road. Subwoofer called Ironhide, in order to get NEST to hep them but immediately afte the call started NEST got attacked by Protoforms. Subwoofer and Prime then drove onto a bridge which was destroyed by Megatron causing the two to fall into the forest below with Subwoofer being knocked out by the fall. When he awoke, he and Prime went to investigate what

happened and soon found out that this was a trap as they were attacked by Megatron, Starscream and Grindor. They engaged the three in combat with Subwoofer doubting that they could win because he couldn't even defeat Megatron. Working together, the two were able to kill Grindor. Sub was damaged badly multiple times during the fight and required Optimus to protect him. Optimus told Sub to protect the humans and was killed by Megatron later on. Knowing that he couldn't defeat the two Decepticons on his own, Subwoofer ran off and met with NEST who forced the Decepticons to retreat. He showed Ironhide and Ratchet Optimus' corpse and asked the medic if he could do anything, but Ratchet said that he was to long gone. Ironhide then ordered him to take Sam and Mikaela and run away, which Subwoofer did.

### Hiding

Following Ironhides orders, Subwoofer took Sam and Mikaela to Greenfield where they grouped up with Bumblebee, Skids, Mudflap and Jolt. When they arrived there, Sub contacted Ironhide and asked him for reports on the situation with Ironhide revealing to him that the Decepticons launched a full.scale invasion, that Megatron and the Fallen led their entire army to attack Minecraftia and that NESTs base was compromised. Sub told him that he and his group were hiding in a location which he belived to be safe but never revealed where that was because of safety reasons. Ironhide then asked him what was the plan but Subwoofer told him that he wasn't the Autobots' second-in-command anymore although Ironhide disagreed. Sub attempted to

convince him that he had to lead the Autobots in Primes absence only for Ironhide to say that Prime would want him to lead them. Seeing that he couldn't convince Ironhide on any sort of way, Sub told him to get Ratchet, Sideswipe and the rest of NEST and that they needed to make a counter attack and attack the Decepticons by surprise while he and his group will try to figure out what Sams visions ment. Ironhide told him that this was a good plan and that Prime would be proud to see what he was doing in his absence. He also told Sub that it was nice to have him back on the team before ending the call. Subwoofer then went back to the rest of the group and on the way said that he still couldn't belive that Prime was gone and that Megatron was crazy for bringing all of his forces into battle. Upon his return to the group it started raining which he described as being perfect for their mood. He told the group what he and Ironhide were talking about and that he and his group started to plan a counter attack but until then they are just a bunch of bots sitting by a campfire in the rain. He then asked Sam if he had any visions to which the boy replied that they were saying something about the matrix. Sub said that he doesn't know what this was and got the same response from the other Autobots. Having no plan, he angrily started saying that they were feelling petty about what happened to Prime while the Decepticons were taking over Earth but then calmly said that sometimes he fears that Minecraftis will share the same fate as Cybertron. Sam then asked him why he left the team with Subwoofer saying that he could tell that Starscream tried to weaken him by using his emotions, so he backed away from any position where he had any sort of power until the Decepticon had that power over him. When Sam asked what Starscream did, Sub told everyone a story that went back to Cybertron when he was still J4U who guarded the Autobot Sector with Arcee and her sisters Elita-One and Chromia with the story ending with Starscream, Breakdown and

Sideways tragicaly killing the three sisters and J4U leaving Cybertron. Upon finishing the story, he said that he got distracted by Blackout after this but before he could say anything else he got interupted by Simmons who just arrived. Simmons told the group that he came to apologize because they were right about the Decepticons and that he brought some items with him that the group could buy to restock themselves. Simmons also told them that he found them with his energon detector and that he turned it off immediately after seeing where they were in order not to reveal their location to the Decepticons and that he saw another energon signal not far from there immediately after Optimus' demise. Sub accepted his apology and went to the store where he was able to buy the bass blaster, neutron assault rifle, scattershot and ammunition for all of his guns thanks to all the energon crystals he got. He then tried out the blaster, using it on a street lamp, destroying it and causing Subwoofer to like it even more.

### Meeting Jetfire

After he was done with the blaster, Sub asked Simmons where the readings were located. Simmons took them to the Greenfield Museum of Natural History and gave Subwoofer his energon detector. The group walked into the museum where Sub used the detector to check if Grimlock the T-Rex or Spike the Triceratops had any energon though none of the two had them. He then went to check the next exhibit which were Cairo artifacts only for them to not have any energon either. The group then went to the final exhibit on the floor, a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird which went off for the energon detector. Sub checked the aircraft and found out that it was

out of energon so he placed some of his blaster ammunition which were energon crystals into it. The aircraft then started to transform, revealing itself to be a Cybertronian named Jetfire. Subwoofer said that the name sounded familiar, to which Jetfire replied that it was probably because of his mission. The old Autobot told his story to the group and in mid of his story Sub interrupted him, sying that the Fallen was on Earth. Jetfire told the group that the Fallen used dark energon which he got from his dimension harvester and that with his prime energon that made him almost unstoppable. Hearing this, Sub asked if the Fallen would still be to strong to stop if he would run out of dark energon to which Jetfire answered by saying that he would be without a Prime. He also revealed that the matrix of leadership could revive Optimus with a small chance although it could result into a nuclear explosion. Sub said that this was a risk that they had to take. Upon hearing this, Jetfire opened a wormhole and the entire group went through with them ending up in a dessert. Upon landing there Subwoofer asked Jetfire where they were with him responding that this was Cairo, a city in Egypt. Subwoofer then asked him where the matrix was although the group soon relised that Jetfire forgot about its location. Sub began to rage out due to this but soon said that they will destroy every block if they have to because Prime would do the same for them. He, Jolt, Bumblebee, Sam, Skids, Mikaela and Mudflap then went into the desert and started to dig up the sand.

### Finding the matrix

After a while, the group dug up an entire hill and eventualy went to dig trenches. Subwoofer started to complain because they haven't found the matrix and speculated that fifty-six days have passed since they arrived into Cairo though he quickly said that he was probably over-exaggerating. He then told Bumblebee that they don't know what they were looking for and that the matrix could be in a hill, under the ground or even up in the sky, so he decided to go talk to Jetfire but quickly aknowledged that he couldn't help them although he still went to see him. Upon coming to Jetfire and Simmons, he asked the Aerialbot if he's sure that this was the right place because they haven't found the matrix yet and that they could spend years in the desert while in the meantime The Fallen would take over Earth and enslalve humanity, but remembered that the

Decepticons were looking for the matrix too and that they had a head start on them. Despite that, he was still angered because if the Decepticons would show up there would be only six Autobots to fight against the entire Decepticon army. Sub then noticed a well and wondered if the matrix was hidden under it but much to his dissapointment it turned out to only be a well in the middle of nowhere. Subwoofer told the rest of the group that they should take a bath in the well and started raging that he doesn't know if the well was an indicator or if the pyramids are an indicator, causing him to punch the ground in frustration, only for it to reveal that the ground he pounched wasn't sand - it was a trapdoor disquised as sand. The group climbed down the ladders that were placed on the walls and soon realised that they were in the Tomb of the Primes, with Subwoofer being amazed that they were walking on what used to be the Primes. When they arrived in the middle, Subwoofer opened a dispenser and much to his shock the matrix of leadership was placed in it. He took the matrix out of the dispenser and told his comrades to get out of the tomb but first said that they should call Ironhide and that he and his team could bring Optimus' body to them because they would be at the Star Harvester before The Fallen and they could set a trap. He called Ironhide via hologram and told him that they had the matrix in Cairo before telling him to get to their location with NEST and Primes body, to which Ironhide said that they were on their way. Unknowingly to the two, they were overheard by Soundwave who told their

location to Megatron who ordered Soundwave to alert The Fallen and send all available Decepticon forces to Egypt in order to end the war. After the talk, the group climbed out of the tomb and Sub told everyone that they should go to the pyramids before complementing Jetfire by saying that he made a good job with the coordinates as they were on top of the matrix the whole time. Upon arriving back on the hill, Subwoofer told the Aerialbot that they had the matrix and that he needed to take Simmons to the city in order for them to regroup over there. He then picked up Sam and Mikaela and started driving towards the pyramids with Bumblebee, Jolt, Skids and Mudflap.

### Fighting the Constructicons

While driving, Sub commented that the sand couldn't be good for the tiers. Moments later he stopped as he saw Demolishor at the pyramids much to his shock. The group hid behind a hill and got a little closer only for them to see that all of the Constructicons had arrived to Egypt. Sub told the group to be careful because he had the heights and could see them instantly. He then went on the top of the hill and shot Demolishor sevral times before he and the rest of the group went in to battle the Constructicons. While battling, the group got hit away by Mixmaster with his shields, but they managed to fight their way back into them, with Sub battling Long Haul and Mixmaster. This was also when Sub learned that he had to battle Mixmaster from range. He then shot Hightower sevral times before briefly helping Bumblebee fight Rampage although he got distracted by Long Haul. He then put on his bass blaster and used it to push back and damage the Constructicons but

soon realised that he was running out of energon for it, so he replaced it with his guns. While reloading he got attacked by Hightower but the Decepticon got pounched away by Skids and Jolt, giving Sub time to finish reloading his shotgun. He then shot Long Haul and killed Mixmaster with it, but realised that Mudflap was gone. Seeing that Demolishor wasn't being attacked, the group charged at him but got kicked back by the massive Decepticon. While doing so, they saw that Overload was sniping them from behind a hill, so they attacked him. Using his shotgun, Sub was able to injure Overload enough for him to be killed by Bumblebee, leaving only Hightower and Demolishor as Rampage and Long Haul got killed already. The group attacked the two, with Subwoofer primarly attacking Demolishor while repeating to himself that they could easily win the fight. Pulling out his shotgun, Subwoofer shot Hightower into his face and killed him with his neutron assault rifle. The group then focued all of their fire on Demolishor, with him being killed by one of Jolts shots. Subwoofer started to celebrate, saying that the Constructicons were defeated but stopped when he heard a sound behind him, as the Constructicons' corpses had combined themselves into Devastator.

### Fighting Devastator

Following the formation of Devastator, Subwoofer contacted Ironhide and told him that they had a problem. Ironhide revealed to him that they saw the Combiner on radar and that their scanners detected seven cores on him. He then said that once Devastor's weapons and armor were offline the group could make their way into him and destroy the Constructicon from the inside before he ended the call. Sub led Bee, Jolt and Skids to the Decepticon, only to see that they were surrounded by a group of Protoforms. Having no other choice, the group attacked and killed all of the Protoforms, with Skids getting killed by Devastator while Sub destroyed his leg cores. He then climbed onto a pyramid on which the Decepticon was resting his arm, with him soon being joined by both, Jolt and Bee. Subwoofer unsuccesfuly tried to climb onto Devastator's arm sevral times in order to destroy its core, only for it to blast the Autobot back onto the pyramid. The Autobot then started shooting at the Constructicon's arm, finding out that Ironhide was right about the strenght of his armor.

Immediately after that, he climbed on top of the pyramid and eventualy used his bass blaster to finaly destroy the core. After that, Sub climbed on top of Devastators arm, but got shot off by the core that was in the Combiner's cannon, causing him to grab his gun and shoot at it. He then remembered that he had a grenade launcher and used his normal grenades to destroy the cannon and part of Devastators arm, causing him to create a staircase on the latter. Immediately after getting onto the arm, Sub got shot off of it again and speculating that he got shot by the core on the other arm, the group drove to the other pyramid from which Sub was able to destroy it. Howevhere, while driving back they noticed that the core that was shooting at them before was the same one as the one in Devastator's cannon, and that while the grenades destroyed the cannon, the core survived. Because of this, the group went back to the first pyramid and got into a fire fight with the core, with Subwoofer eventualy destroying it with his bass blaster. He then climbed back onto the bot and ran to his head where he dropped into the Decepticon and killed the bot that was hiding in him. Sub quickly shot a hole into Devastator's mouth, creating a vaccum, but despite it he managed to destroy the core that was in it. After that, the Autobot focused his fire on Devastator's main core with him eventualy destroying it, causing a beeper to trigger. Hearing that and beliving that ths couldn't mean anything good, Subwoofer climbed out of the Constructicon and ran back to the pyramid, jumping back on it shortly before the Decepticon self-destructed.

### Regrouping with NEST and Optimus' resurrection

Following Devastator's demise, Subwoofer was amazed that the Decepticon's destruction destroyed the small town below them and that his head was still floating in the air. As he climbed back to the bottom of the pyramid, he saw that there was still a little bit of Long Haul left and mentioned that he hoped the Decepticons couldn't scavenge anything from the remains. Regardless, Sub said that it was time to move on and contacted Ironhide, telling him that they took care of Devastator while the Autobot told him that they just landed in the city but that they were surrounded with Protoforms and that Bumblebee, Subwoofer and Jolt had to come to them. After the call ended, Sub told Bee and Jolt that they had to go to the city, and also took Sam and Mikaela out of himself in order to check if they were fine. After picking them back up, the group started making their way to the city. Seeing that there was an entire army of Protoforms in front of them, Subwoofer realised that Megatron wanted to end the war in Egypt and worried that the Decepticons could win as there weren't many Autobots left. The group then attacked the Protoforms, killing all of them from the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Cairo cemetery and the river that was located on the edge of the city where NEST landed. Upon arriving there, they jumped into the river and swam to the city where they took on the remaining Protoforms and

Subwoofer even used two of his bouncy grenades on them. Sub soon walked into a partialy destroyed house where a small group of Protoforms was hiding, with him and his two companions killing them all. After that, Sub was refueling himself and got ambushed by a Protoforms only for it to be killed by Bumblebee, causing him to say that they've got each other's backs. They then broke out of the house and Subwoofer used his remaining grenades on a nearby group of Decepticons. As they killed the last of the Protoforms, Sub remembered the deaths of the twins and started to hope that the other group didn't lose any troops. Much to his happines, Subwoofer spotted a NEST trooper in a nearby house, causing the three to run to him. As they approached they saw the rest of troopers and eventualy made their way to Sideswipe and Ironhide. Sub first came to Ironhide and said that it was nice to see him before complimanting his guns. He then said to Sideswipe that it was nice to see him, before he climbed up onto the roof where sevral snipers were located. As he looked around, he saw that Jetfire made it to the city with Simmons and that Ratchet was there to, saying that this was like a family reunion. He, Bee and Jolt then went down into a pit where Optimus' body was lying and once there, Sub pulled out the matrix of leadership and asked Jetfire how could they resurrect Prime. Jetfire told him that he needed to open the matrix and place it into Prime's spark but Ratcher dissmised that, saying that

Optimus took a lot of damage when he was fighting Megatron and that his parts weren't strong enough to maintain his internal functions. Due to that, Jetfire said that they should use his parts, as even if he was old, they still worked and that they were forged by the original Primes, with Ratchet warning him that this would be fatal, athough Jetfire simply said that he was willing to sacrifice himself. Ratchet then said that even if they did that, it would be a day long surgery and that they didn't have that much time, to which Jolt replied that he could electrify the process. The medic told him that this would cost him his life, but Jolt said that this didn't matter as Prime did the same for them and that if this wouldn't happen, his brothers died for nothing,before saying that Prime was their last chance to avenge them. Seeing that both Jetfire and Jolt were determined to sacrifice themselves, Ratchet set up sevral pipes that connected Jetfire with Optimus' body. Jolt then electrocuted the pipes while Subwoofer grabbed the matrix and thanked Jolt before saying goodbye to him. He then placed the matrix into Optimus' body, resurrecting him. Upon his resurrection, Sub asked Prime if he was alive to which he replied that he was. Optimus then asked him if he was Subwoofer to which he replied that he was but to call him J4U.

## Apperances

* Transcrafters: Revenge of the Dragon
	+ ROTD EP 1 (First apperance)
	+ ROTD EP 2
	+ ROTD EP 3
	+ ROTD EP 4
	+ ROTD EP 5
	+ ROTD EP 6
	+ ROTD EP 7
	+ ROTD EP 8

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