2016 Protoforms

In **2016**, a number of **Decepticon protoforms** helped Sideways steal some energon from Shanghai, although before they were able to do so, all of them got killed by the Autobots and NEST. A number of smaller protoforms were also present onboard the Nemesis and many helped Breakdown distract the Autobots while Starscream and the Constructicons resurrected Megatron. The rest of them later invaded Minecraftia during the Decepticon Invasion and ultimately parcticipated in the Battle of Egypt, where they fought alongside their fellow Decepticons in order to gain the Matrix of Leadership and activate the Star Harvester.

## Biography

### Battle of Shanghai

A number of Protoforms helped Sideways steal some energon from Shanghai. Their presence in the city was detected by NEST, an Autobot-Human alliance, through their energon detectors. When NEST arrived, one of their generals, Michael, used one of the detectors to track the energon readings into an allyway. Due to the allyway's small size the humans decided to enter it alone in case if it was a false alarm, but the Protoforms then revealed themselves and killed Michael along with several other soldiers. They began to push NEST back as they were trying to escape with the energon and began to suppress them with heavy fire. Some of them came out of the ally but were quickly killed by Sideswipe, Skids and Mudflap. The remaining ones were killed by Subwoofer, with Sideways perishing soon after.

### The Distraction

Several Protoforms, much smaller than the ones that were battling on Minecraftia, were present during Soundwave's and Starscream's conservation onboard the Nemesis. Some of the adult Protoforms also heped Breakdowndistract the Autobots from interfering with the Resurrection of Megatron, but all were killed.

### Resurrection of Megatron

When Megatron arrived onboard the Nemesis, the same Protoforms that were encountered by Soundwave and Starscream, were present at his and Starscream's conversation.

### Attacking the NEST base

While Megatron, Starscream and Grindor were battling Optimus Prime and Subwoofer in a forest, a number of Protoforms attacked the NEST base in order to prevent the rest of the team from interfering. Though all of them were eventualy killed, they succesfuly completed their mission, as Optimus was killed by Megatron. Soon after, the Decepticons launched a full-scale invasion on Minecraftia. However, after some time, the Autobots managed to find the matrix of leadership, which was an object that the Decepticons were looking for too as they needed it to power up the Star Harvester, a structure with the power to blow up Minecraftia's sun and supply the Cybertronians with a large amount of energon.. Upon finding it, the Autobots contacted their acting leader Ironhide and told him their coordinates, as well as to bring Optimus' body to them as the matrix had the power to resurrect him. The conversation was overheard by Soundwave who told all Decepticon forces, including the Protoforms, to go to Egypt in order to finish the war by eliminating their opponents.

### Battle of Egypt

Following Soundwave's orders, the vast majority of the Protoforms travelled to Egypt. with the first group of them arriving when the last of the Constructicons, Demolishor, perished and when the Constructicons' corpses combined into Devastator. The Protoforms engaged in a fight with the Autobots, with Devastator helping them by shooting their opponents with his cannons. The Autobots however managed to eliminate the entire group of Vehicons, and eventually took down the Combiner as well. A giant army of Protoforms then arrived to Egypt and engaged in a massive battle with the small NEST group, with all of the Vehicons ultimately being killed. Additional soldiers were led into battle by Megatron and Starscream, only for them to live the same fate as their predecessors.

## Apperances

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

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

## Sources

1. ↑ All Cybertronians were born on Cybertron
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 According to Nick Hiratsuka, each season of Transcrafters takes place in the year of the first episode's release. The first episode of season 2 was released in 2014
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 ROTD EP 1
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 ROTD EP 3
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 ROTD EP 5
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 ROTD EP 7
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 ROTD EP 8
8. ↑ They followed his orders after he took back his place as the leader of the Decepticons in ROTD EP 3
9. ↑ Starsream was temporarily the leader of the Decepticons between 2014 and 2016, and the Protoforms followed his command during that time
10. ↑ The Protoforms were no longer under Starscream's command following the Resurrection of Megatron
11. ↑ ROTD EP 4
12. ↑ ROTD EP 9