Autobot Academy: Broken Fractures

**Autobot Academy: Broken Fractures** is a text story written by Dropkick. It details the events of the Siege of Acadeimos in the Dark Future timeline from the perspective of various characters not focused on in the comic.

## Noteworthy Events

### Major Events

* Scorch, Brawn, and Wheel Blaze attempt to fight off the Decepticons to protect the students, but only Scorch survives.
* Longshot and Saber fight Decepticons, only to go up against the TEKU, with Tekno killing Longshot.
* Ramjet attempts to get the other students to safety, only to be confronted by Offroad.
* Rook fights against Exhaust and Eradicons, eventually sacrificing himself to save the students.
* Ironfist, Misfire, Gridlock, Hightail, Tailgate, and Roadblock students fight against Seekers.
* Novashock and Sea Shock take out the twins for their Ore of Elements fragments, only for Roadblock to take it from them and escape aboard a hijacked dropship with Misfire and a critically injured Ironfist.
* On Pova, Devcon is betrayed by eight of his fellow Maverick Hunters, and later learns of Longshot's death.
* Hundreds of years later, Sureshot is tracked down by Great Convoy and his Silencerz and forced to become Cardinal Convoy.

### Character Debuts

* Spacewarp
* Airslinger
* Sprayshot
* Grid
* Masker
* Plowshare
* Half-Track
* Powerloader
* Snipeshot
* Filibuster

## Characters

* Brawn
* Wheel Blaze
* Scorch
* Longshot
* Saber
* Ramjet
* Rook
* Ironfist
* Misfire
* Hightail
* Gridlock
* Tailgate
* Roadblock
* Devcon
* Grid
* Masker
* Plowshare *(Corpse)*
* Half-Track *(Corpse)*
* Powerloader *(Corpse)*
* Snipeshot *(Corpse)*
* Filibuster *(Corpse)*
* Sureshot/Cardinal Convoy

### Villains

* Spacewarp
* Base-Line *(Unnamed)*
* TEKU members
* Tekno
* Offroad
* Eradicons
* Exhaust
* Ricochet
* Rend
* Airslinger
* Scandarus
* Sandstream
* Novashock
* Sea Shock
* Sprayshot
* Noumander
* Eagleer
* Octopulld
* Chameleao
* Armadrillo
* Kuwanger
* Mandriller
* Penguigo
* Great Convoy

### Mentioned Characters

* Primus
* Quickstitch *(Indirectly)*
* Megatron
* Hosehead
* Shockwave
* Star Convoy

## Special Techniques

* Rook
	+ Volt Cage Overload
* Misfire
	+ Lazor Distortion Blast
* Roadblock
	+ Tectonic Rush

## Trivia

* The original draft of Broken Fractures was written by GogoDG and Artork312. The rewrites removed scenes that were either no longer compatible with canon or to leave room for events previously alluded to.
* Brawn dies from a shot to the shoulder, just like he did in *The Transformers: The Movie*.
* The behemoth Scorch sees isn't named, but it can be identified as Menasor by Wheel Blaze being subjected to his View of the End talent.
* Which members of TEKU attacked Saber and Longshot with Tekno and Base-Line aren't called out. However, assuming they made the smokescreen themselves, Dust-Trail is probably among them.
* Tekno kills Longshot the same way he did Carbide back in **Scorch**.
* Offroad's "unfinished business" with Ramjet is their rivalry seen back in the Roleplay.
* During their confrontation, Offroad and Ramjet quote the "Oh, you're approaching me" exchange from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders*.
* While what Offroad thinks would bring him satisfaction remains unsaid, based on his insistence that it's gone and won't come back, he's probably talking about his dead mother, Quickstitch.
* Gridlock and Hightail getting the Ore of Elements ripped out of them and Roadblock acquiring the bodies was revealed back in **Flames of Future Past**. While back there it was said that Shockwave himself was responsible for the twins condition, this information was given by Lightbright, who wasn't present for the event, meaning she could have gotten bad information and that this isn't an error.
* Additionally, Novashock and Sea Shock being the ones to go after the twins is likely due to them being the only two of Shockwave's creations not accounted for during the Siege.
* Sandstream's corrosive sand is said to come from Arkus, a planet introduced in the Botcon *Transformers: The Wreckers* comics.
* Misfire uses his Lazor Distortion Blast Special Technique, his go to Special Technique back in the Roleplay.
* Tailgate is insistent on finding Hosehead, to the point she gives up a chance to get to safety. **Flames of Future Past** shows she does manage to find him... only to see him die, leading her down the path to becoming "Reaper Ice".
* The betrayal of the Maverick Hunters was mentioned back in **Flames of Future Past: Maverick Hunters**. Here, we learn why they betrayed their own team, which turns out to have been a result of them being paid off by someone else.
* Among the events Devcon learns of is the death of Star Convoy, seen in **Siege of Acadeimos**.
* The method Great Convoy uses to upgrade Sureshot is the same one used on CG-11272017 during **Into the Dark**. However, see error below.
* The virus that Sureshot's mind is altered with is evidently the same one used on the Silencerz mentioned in **Flames of Future Past: Maverick Hunters**.
	+ On that note, Great Convoy tells Kuwanger and Chameleao that he "had to resort to other methods with the other 6". As Kuwanger was revealed to have joined Great Convoy willingly and didn't need to have his mind altered with the virus, this implies that the same applies to Chameleao, which would patch up the plot hole in **Maverick Hunters** where he acted as a spy despite working with Lio Convoy, who would know that he was mind controlled into serving Great Convoy.

### Errors

* Misfire's special technique is spelled "Laz**e**r Distortion Blast".
* Sandstream is referred to with male pronouns, when the character is female.
* The traitor Maverick Hunters are said to use fire and wind blasts to take out Grid, Masker, and Devcon. However, while these abilities match up with Noumander and Eagleer, respectively, they're the abilities they got from their Talent Chips, which they don't have at this point.
* Great Convoy is said to upgrade Sureshot's body along with implanting the virus in his mind. However, Cardinal Convoy's current form was the result of the Energon Matrix, and as **Festival of the Stars** shows, he looks exactly like his younger self without it.