Jimmy Pink

## Biography

### Early life

Jimmy Pink owned a garage named Auto Solutions in Riverside, California. He was a net-hiker, and was often there to emotionally support fellow net-hiker Verity Carlo. Although the pair had never met in real life, Jimmy had been there for Verity on a number of occasions.

In 2005, Jimmy received a message from Verity. She was in the area and needed to lay low, and was with a vehicle that required repairs. When she arrived, she was not alone. The vehicle was an ambulance complete with paramedic, and a young man named Hunter O'Nion. Jimmy got to work on the ambulance, and soon found that it was unlike anything he had seen before. Verity and Hunter got into an argument over an SM-40 Notebook; Verity revealed that Hunter believed in transforming alien mechanoids while Hunter confronted the paramedic over pictures on the SM-40 that confirmed his theory. Verity stormed out, only to come back in terrified soon after. As she tried to explain, two giant robots broke down the front wall of Jimmy's garage, demanding the data storage device. The paramedic directed all three of the Humans to get inside the ambulance.

The paramedic managed to temporarily incapacitate the two robots, revealing himself to be one himself by transforming in front of Jimmy, Verity, and Hunter. While the Decepticons reeled from the paramedic's attack, he transformed back into an ambulance and fled the scene after urging the three Humans to get inside his cab. Fleeing down Interstate 15, the ambulance began to explain how he and the Humans had crossed paths since he was trying to save a Human targeted for termination.

The ambulance was caught up to by the F-22 Raptor, as well as the two cars. The resulting chase down the Interstate resulted in multiple civilian cars being crashed into or destroyed. The ambulance managed to get some breathing room from the chase by forcing the two enemy cars off the road, long enough for Verity to demand to be let out to calm down. Jimmy followed her, managing to calm her down by talking to her until they noticed the F-22 on an attack run. Racing back to the vehicle, the ambulance evaded the attack but was chased by the fighter aircraft. The ambulance eventually met up with three other vehicles, who used concealed weapons to drive off the F-22 before transforming into robots themselves and placing the ambulance—whom they called Ratchet—under arrest.

Jimmy, Verity, and Hunter were taken by the Autobots aboard their spacecraft, *Ark-19* and placed in a secure cell. While the Autobots discussed their situation, Verity threatened to wipe the data on the notebook. When her complaining did not have the desire result, Jimmy and Hunter asked her to stop. Ratchet, acting on orders from his commanding officer, Prowl, talked to the Humans and revealed information to them about the Autobots and Decepticons that convinced Verity to hand over the SM-40 Notebook and download the data.

The data pointed to an abandoned Decepticon Command Bunker in Nebraska which Ratchet felt needed to be investigated, but did not want to take the Humans into danger again despite their enthusiasm to help out. Bumblebee was eavesdropping on the conversation and convinced Ratchet that investigating was the right call. Together, the two Autobots prepared to leave for Nebraska. Jimmy and Hunter decided to ride in Ratchet, while Verity chose Bumblebee.

Arriving at the site of the abandoned command bunker in northwest Nebraska, Jimmy, Verity, and Hunter secured a rope to a tree and rappelled down into the facility. They were warned by Ratchet and Bumblebee that the Decepticons commonly booby-trapped their abandoned installatons, although they hoped that the Humans small size would not trigger any of them. Each was equipped with flares, scanners, and comm patches and split up to cover more ground. When the Decepticons Skywarp and Blitzwing arrived and bombed the base, the Humans were ordered to get back to the surface. While Jimmy and Hunter listened to the Autobots and headed back for the entry point, Verity wanted to check out on more thing.

Jimmy returned to the entry point and climbed back to the surface. When Hunter arrived and was concerned that Verity was not there yet, he wanted to go back and search for her. Jimmy convinced him to climb up because if they needed to get out in a hurry, having two of them climbing the rope would potentially mean they wouldn't make it at all. After Verity climbed out, almost caught in a landslide of debris as the ground collapsed in on the base from the Decepticon's attack, the three climbed into the back of Ratchet and were swiftly driven from the area.

As Ratchet drove the Humans back to *Ark-19* via the I-80 in Iowa, they questioned why they were not heading for Oregon with Bumblebee. Ratchet told them that Prowl wanted them out of harm's way, and Ratchet agreed with that assessment, telling them that had done amazingly well in the face of a drastic situation.

## Appearances

* *The Transformers: Infiltration #1* (First appearance)
* *The Transformers: Infiltration #2*
* *The Transformers: Infiltration #3*
* *The Transformers: Infiltration #4*
* *The Transformers: Infiltration #5*
* *The Transformers: Infiltration #6*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 *The Transformers: Infiltration #1*
2. ↑ In *The Transformers: Infiltration #1*, Jimmy Pink says he is seventeen years old. The events of *The Transformers: Infiltration* were dated to 2005 by the timeline included in *Revolutionaries #1*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The Transformers: Infiltration #2*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *The Transformers: Infiltration #3*
5. ↑ *The Transformers: Infiltration #4*
6. ↑ *The Transformers: Infiltration #5*
7. ↑ *The Transformers: Infiltration #6*