Anode

Anode is a mercenary and archeologist with the talent Alchemical Blacksmithing

## Official Bio

*An adrenaline junkie "archeologist" and mercenary, Anode has proven herself a formidable foe to heroes that happen to get in the way of her paycheck. Capable of turning any matter she can touch into a weapon or tool, she has no hangups using them against Autobot or Decepticon if it means finishing a job. This indifferent nature has led to her and her Conjunx Lug earning the scorn of various organizations, but the hefty price on their heads seemingly has no effect on Anode's lifestyle and attitude.*

## History

Anode worked as a mercenary in the Khoros Bounty Hunter Guild and was partnered up with Lug in taking jobs that had them retrieve artifacts on archeological expeditions. Though Anode was in love with Lug, she was worried her partner would leave her for dead if it got her extra money, so she bought a pair of goggles to give as an engagement present in the event Lug ever tried to betray her to try and stop her from going through with it. Anode eventually gave her the goggles on a day when Lug was acting suspicious, but it turned out to be due to her having bought her some satchels, and the pair then got married. However, the pair would make a lot of enemies in their quest for payment, angering a Gigantion mobster, twelve random people at bars that then knocked her out, and the Quintesson Belokus after she backed out of a deal with him, but Anode was unconcerned by this. At some point the pair were hired by Quintessa Prime.

In Explorers of the Lost Dark Anode and Lug were sent to find an item for Quintessa before Belokus could get it, and tracked him to Velocitron. However, as she flew across the planet, Anode quickly realized how hot it was, and asked Lug what her plan to deal with their lack of coolant upgrades was. Liking the suggestion to stock up on supplies and information at the nearby city Altos, Anode turned the plan into an excuse to go to a bar, and told Lug that she loved when she did that and that she could hear her blushing as they continued their flight. After getting kicked out of the local Archaeological Guild for asking too many questions, Anode overheard Muzzle and Moonracer talking about some mysterious ruins and suggested to Lug that they strike up a conversation with the pair and take them to a bar to loosen them up with drinks. Despite claiming that she'd only lost a fight with a random person at a bar without getting any information once, Anode decided to go with a stealthy approach instead, telling Lug that she'd be wrong about her not being able to pull it off. Following the pair, Anode saw them join up with Bomb-Burst and Riptide and noted that Moonracer being able to teleport would complicate things, before pulling out a spatial background energy tracker to locate the group and told Lug to be quite about her being the one responsible for them having the tracker as they flew off. Asking Lug if they'd found the right ruins, Anode landed once she got a confirmation and told Lug to stay behind her in case of traps, but when Lug pointed out she was already her backpack, Anode tried explaining it was a joke before giving up and heading into the ruins. Finding Belokus inside, Anode yelled at him to get his attention and insisted that whatever he was after belonged in a museum and insisted she was being genuine, though she did tell Lug that she planned to charge the museum a significant amount of hazard pay. Anode then prepared to fight off Belokus' Sharkticons and asked Lug for a pulse grenade, only to learn that Lug's talent had been blocked, leading them to be brought to his other prisoners as Anode yelled that Belokus would regret it. Dumped into a chamber, Anode yelled that she'd just buffed her finish before noticing the students and introduced herself and Lug before explaining she was there to bring an artifact to it's rightful owner, informing Bomb-Burst that Belokus didn't own anything in the ruins and refused to let Riptide know who hired her due to client confidentiality. Noting the problems with Lug's powers, Anode learned from Bomb-Burst that spatial locks in the ruins were the cause and that they were keeping Moonracer trapped in a Sharkticon's mouth, leading Anode to come with the plan to get through all the traps for Belokus until they broke the lock, then free Moonracer and deal with their captor. Asking what they'd found in the room, Anode learned from Muzzle that they needed to pull five levers at once and tried asking a Sharkticon to help them, only to find that they wouldn't listen and Bomb needed to use his pretender shell instead. Telling Riptide not to pull her lever again when nothing happened, Anode watched as they were given access to the next room and demanded the next puzzle due to finding the first too easy.

Remarking the Quintessons were full of themselves upon seeing a massive statue of one, Anode told Bomb that the artifacts inside were hoarded by Quintessons other than Belokus before telling the group to search for clues, eventually discovering the arms of the statue could move and guessing that it needed to be in a certain pose. But when Bomb accidentally broke the statue, Anode questioned how they'd get to the vault until a door opened, making her annoyed that the puzzle could only be solved through breaking it. She then asked Muzzle what had happened to Bomb, and saw through her claim that it wasn't important, guessing that Muzzle was worried her friends were keeping things from her. After telling the Sharkticons to go away, Anode explained how she and Lug got married to show to Muzzle that just because a secret was being kept, it didn't mean it was due to it being malicious, and that she should become comfortable enough with her friend to tell her about her concerns, before heading into the next room to try and win her bet with Lug about how long the job would take. Asking if there were any more traps, Anode then attempted to slice open the vault door, only to get annoyed when Bomb smashed it open before declaring they'd hit the motherload when she looked at the contents of the vault, but quickly corrected herself when a Sharkticon growled. When Riptide found the spatial lock and suggested they break, Anode suggested waiting so they could prepare themselves for when Belokus came to dispose of them, and once everyone got into position, had Riptide smash the lock. When Belokus ordered his Sharkticons to kill the group as expected, Anode used her talent to create a staff and started bashing one of the sharks with it, then used it to keep it's mouth open while she challenged Lug to toss a pulse grenade inside it, but remarked that she never agreed to a specific amount of money after Lug did it and demanded ten Shanix. Looking on in confusion as the Sharkticons stopped attacking them and turned on Belokus for tossing one of them away, Anode and Lug then went through the pile of artifacts, awing as Moonracer agreed to teach Muzzle some boxing and remarking to Lug that the pair reminded her of them before sharing a kiss with her. She then tossed some items from the pile to the students as a reward for helping them, giving an extra item to Muzzle and telling her to make it count before she and Lug teleported away with the rest of the pile. Greeted by Quintessa, Anode explained to her how Belokus had made her and the students do all the work for him, but was confused when Quintessa revealed the temple had been designed so Quintessons could get past all the traps as a joke and questioned what her plan was if one journeyed into the temple by themself, finding it surprising that her client was relying on the Quintessons' unwillingness to destroy a statue of their own kind. Before she and Lug could leave, however, Quintessa asked them why the item she was looking for was missing, and Anode assured her that she'd only given the students items that didn't look like keys, only to become frightened when Quintessa told her she hadn't made the device look like a conventional key and was then lifted into the air by her client's powers while she berated the pair for giving away her personal possessions just to be nice, only being allowed to keep working for Quintessa so she and Lug could go out and get the key back from the students before the Quintessons found the other four that went with it.

### Dark Future

Anode's life would take a turn for the worse in a different timeline.

## Powers and Abilities

* Weapon formation
1/1Anode has the talent Alchemical Blacksmithing, allowing her to take any piece of matter and reshape it however she likes, including into tools and weapons, and can also change the specific material into another one. However, she is limited by the equivalent exchange principal.

In addition, Anode has the ability to transform, taking on the form of a Cybertronian Plane.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Khoros Bounty Hunter Guild
	+ Lug - Wife
* Autobot Academy
	+ Muzzle - Ally
	+ Bomb-Burst - Ally
	+ Riptide - Ally
	+ Moonracer - Ally
* Quintessa Prime - Client

### Enemies

* Quintessons
	+ Belokus
	+ Sharkticons

## Appearances

### Comic Issues

#### Season 3

* **Explorers of the Lost Dark** *(First Appearance)*

## Gallery

Anode in her vehicle modeAnode carrying Lug in backpack modeAnode's alt mode with Lug attachedAnode's spatial background energy tracker from Explorers of the Lost DarkAnode's Human Holomatter avatar
## Trivia

* Anode is based on the IDW 2005 character of the same name.
	+ Anode takes inspiration from Lara Croft from the *Tomb Raider* video games.

## References

1. ↑ https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/663325771233935360/imagine-a-character-based-off-of-indiana-jones