Sideways

**Sideways** was the Decepticons' second-in-command who transformed into an Audi R8. He led the mission to steal energon from Shanghai but was killed by Subwoofer while doing so.

## Biography

### Early life

Sideways was born on Cybertron at an unknown point.

###  Assaut on the energon plant

At some point during the Cybertronian War, Sideways was taken to an Energon Plant along with Breakdown by Starscream. Their plan was to kill the four Autobots - Arcee, Elita-One, Chromia and J4U - that were in the Autobot Sector just meters away from the base. While Starscream hid behing the elevator, Sideways and Breakdown broke into the plant and went into the infirmary, triggering an alarm. The Autobots quickly arrived to the plant with Arcee, Elita and Chromia going into the elevator while J4U checked the infirmary. Upon coming in, Sideways and Breakdown attacked him but he quickly ran out of the room and locked the two Decepticons in there. The elevator was then destroyed by Starscream who killed the three Autobots that were in it before he fled. The two Decepticons managed to escape from the plant soon after as well.

### Megatron's death

In 2014, the leader of the Decepticons Megatron was killed by Optimus Prime during the Battle of Mission City, making Starscream their new leader with him making Sideways his new second-in-command

### Shanghai and death

In 2016 Sideways went into Shanghai with sevral Protoforms in order to steal some energon. They were howevhere detected by NEST with energon detectors and soon, NEST team A came to the city along with Ironhide, Sideswipe, Skids, Mudflap and the recreated version of J4U, Subwoofer. While the group encountered and killed the Protoforms, Sideways went onto a roof in order to escape with the energon he had, but he was spoted by Ironhide. Subwoofer then began to climb onto the roof,

prompting Sideways to climb down, although he dropped a track of energon on the floor. Do to that, Subwoofer tracked him down and attacked him, saying that he can't let him escape again as he would take the energon to Starscream. Sideways attempted to escape from the Autobot and shot him in order to hold him back, but he caught up to him and knocked him on the floor. Subwoofer then prepared to execute him but Optimus, Ratchet and Jolt interupted him, as they came back from their chase of Starscream who managed to escape. Sideways was then executed by Subwoofer, although not before delivering the Autobots and humans the warning that The Fallen shall rise again.

### Legacy

After his death Optimus aknowledged Sideways' last words and connected them to the legend about the Fallen. He (with the help of his second-in-command Subwoofer) reported about the Decepticons' warning to the head of NEST director Seymour Simmons and told him about the legend. The group then began to speculate that something was coming.

Sideways' corpse was dropped into the Laurentian Abyss next to Megatron. He had a tracker implented on him so the Decepticons could find Megatron's corpse. Starscream and the Constructicons later arrived, took some of his parts and resurected Megatron.

After Megatron's resurrection, Optimus figured out that Sarscream tried to weaken Subwoofer by making him remember the death of Arcee. During his explanation he mentioned that Sideways was sent to Shanghai just to force Sub into remembering the event. This figuration led Subwoofer to leave his position as the Autobot second-in-command. Sideways was later mentioned by Sub when he told Sam Witwicky, Mikaela Banes, Bumblebee, Jolt, Skids and Mudflap about the day when he, Breakdown and Starscream killed Arcee, Elita-One and Chromia.

## Apperances

* Transcrafters: Revenge of the Dragon
	+ ROTD EP 1 (First apperance)
	+ ROTD EP 3 (Corpse)
	+ ROTD EP 4 (Mentioned)
	+ ROTD EP 6 (Appears in flashback)

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