Dreadwing (TFP) (ENG)

Dreadwing hates the Autobots, especially the “destroyers”. However, he possesses a rare set of positive qualities for a Decepticon - he is not only strong and determined, but also intelligent, able to maintain a balance between obedience and initiative, straightforward, not lacking in nobility, and works easily in a team. At the same time, he is very stubborn: the desire to avenge his brother at any cost is his main motivation and is often stronger than military discipline and sense of duty. Dreadwing's emotions can cause him to lose control of himself.

The height is about 10 meters or so. Hull color: the main color is blue, with rare inclusions of yellow, there are scarlet light indicators. The color of the optics is classically red. His face is stern, with hard features and a heavy split chin. His head is somewhat remotely reminiscent of a dragon's head: the helmet has an abundance of pointed segments that resemble horns. The scarlet optics are wide-set. The face plate is yellow.

Dreadwing is large, powerfully built. A little heavy for its height. The shoulders are broad, with heavy predatory shoulder pads covering the outside of the shoulder all the way to the elbow joint. The armguards consist of three segments, partially covering the hands of the manipulators. The pelvic section is narrow. The legs are strong, with a stable “three-fingered” foot. An alternate mode tailplane height rudder protrudes upward and slightly to the sides at the shins. A pair of vertical stabilizers are located on the back and look like a pair of small wings. The wings themselves are lower down, with their ends looking downward.

F-35 “Lightning II” fighter-bomber; this aircraft is characterized by a shortened takeoff and vertical landing, low visibility for various tracking systems, so it can also be used for reconnaissance flights.

Dreadwing has a plasma cannon, a sword, and an impressive stockpile of explosive devices of varying power.

Dreadwing is an expert bomber of the highest class; during the battle he is able to place a mine right on the enemy's hull, so that the latter won't even notice it. In addition, he has his own spaceship called the “Sky Claw”.

Dreadwing sensed his brothers emergence from stasis on Earth, and his subsequent demise, from across the galaxy, and set out to seek confirmation.

While heading for Earth, he stopped to kill Autobot Wrecker Seaspray and Wheeljack. Though he succeeded in killing Seaspray, Wheeljack was able to escape and pursed him across one hundred light years of space before he was shot down on Earth. After they crashed, the two engaged in a fire fight, but Dreadwing was soon out numbered by four Autobots and Agent Fowler. Outnumbered, Dreadwing scanned Fowler's jet and took off. Using his cell phone, he contacted the Nemesis and met Megatron, who confirmed the death of his twin brother, Skyquake, and vowed to destroy all Autobots as an act of revenge.

Despite Megatron insisting he not engage the Autobots outside of orders, Dreadwing planed to kill Optimus Prime by strapping a bomb to Bulkhead. He proposed a challenge to Wheeljack which he accepted. Dreadwing was able to overpower him and Bulkhead and took the big Wrecker as bait for a trap. When Wheeljack, along with Optimus Prime who had accompanied Wheeljack, found Bulkhead, Dreadwing had attached a bomb to him as part of a trap to kill both of them. Wheeljack attempted to disable the bomb strapped to Bulk but realized that only Dreadwing knew how. Megatron then contacted him and told him to stop but when Dreadwing insisted he could win, Megatron relented (secretly doubting his survival). Optimus Prime tried to make Dreadwing see reason but Dreadwing engaged the three bots. The three bots defeated Dreadwing and pinned him under machinery, forcing him to either deactivate the bomb or die along with them. Soundly beaten, Dreadwing returned to Megatron, who was pleased his underling learned a harsh lesson, and vowed to only obey his Master, no longer seeking revenge for his brother.

Airachnid's betrayal prompted Megatron to have her rubbed out before she could make a move against him. He assigned Dreadwing and Breakdown to finish her off in his stead, considering Dreadwing as her replacement. While there however Airachnid taunted Breakdown into attacking her, Dreadwing fought her and managed to shoot off one of her spider legs but was caught in a web. Breakdown then ran after her, leaving Dreadwing but was killed by the spider bot, who falls into the hands of M.E.C.H. While Megatron was yelling at Dreadwing they were contacted by Airachnid and Megatron left to deal with her himself, ordering Dreadwing to not follow. As Megatron was pinned down by the Autobots, Dreadwing arrived with back-up, promising not to harm anyone if Megatron was returned. Optimus agreed, but Megatron fired on the Autobots anyway. Megatron escaped during the confusion along with Dreadwing and was impressed by his disobeying a direct order; "You'll make a good First Lieutenant".

A bit later, the Nemesis had crashed due to recent events and sustained heavy damage. Dreadwing informed Megatron of the full extent of the damage. Not wanting the ship to be destroyed, Megatron infused his recently acquired Dark Energon to re-power the ship to which Dreadwing witnessed.

He also witnessed the ship's new stasis beam cannon disable all the Autobots. However, when Megatron wanted to reclaim his Spark Extractor from the Autobots, the ship being to change course. Eventually the ship talked and warned all Decepticons to not to interfere with his gathering of the remaining Iacon artifacts.

Dreadwing assessed that the ship was heading there to get the artifact to claim it for himself. Dreadwing attempted to stop the ship with a squad of troops but was put in stasis. He started to recover after Jack disabled the ship's Dark Energon influence.

After being freed from stasis, Megatron sent Dreadwing to the arctic to claim one of the four relics whose locations had been decoded by the ship. In the Arctic, Dreadwing and his Vehicon entourage found Starscream, who had used a GroundBridge to get there. He then arrested the traitor, to be taken back to the Nemesis. However, after discovering the relic had been taken by humans, Optimus Prime drove out and battled the Vehicons and Dreadwing, ending the fight by burying the Decepticon under an avalanche he created. Optimus and Starscream then left to find the relic.

After recovering, Dreadwing discovered tracks left by Starscream and Optimus, and flew off in pursuit. Upon arriving at the now-evacuated human camp, he and Optimus did battle. While they were distracted, Starscream was able to free and activate the relic: the Apex Armor. Since Starscream now out-powered the two of them, Dreadwing and Optimus were forced into a temporary alliance in order to defeat him. They managed to do so when Dreadwing surrounded him with several of his bombs and set them off, causing Starscream to plunge down the hole created by the explosion and into the ocean. Having failed to recover the relic and vowing to kill Optimus the next time they met, Dreadwing then flew off.

Dreadwing is later sent out to retrieve the second of the four Omega Keys, which is located in a forest. When Bulkhead and Smokescreen arrive, he has set several of his bombs up on the various trees. They are able to escape these, however, and Smokescreen heads for the relic while Bulkhead faces Dreadwing. The pair's battle ends when Dreadwing is blown up by one of his own bombs. When he finally arrives at the location of the relic, it has already been take.

While Megatron was searching for Starscream's motives for wanting to rejoin the Decepticons, Dreadwing interrupted Knock Out as he was about to disconnect the cable. However, he was in the room when Starscream revealed the true fate of his twin, which angered him. As a result, he decided to betray the Decepticons by both stealing the Forge of Solus Prime, giving it to the Autobots and by attempting to kill Starscream. Megatron interfered by demanding that he stop, but when Dreadwing refused, he was shot fatally through the Spark chamber with his own gun, picked up by Megatron.

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Skaikwake is an elite Decepticon fighter, Dreadwing's twin brother, who guarded the Energon reserves on Earth for many years.

During the Cybertron War, Megatron hid vast stores of Energon on Earth and left several of his warriors, including Skykwake, to guard them. The Decepticon remained in stasis for years, guarding the reserves in a mountain gorge, until Starscream, who had assumed lord status after Megatron's supposed death, decided to awaken him to set a positive example for his soldiers by his obedience. Starscream had hoped to easily subdue the legendary fighter and, thanks to his power and strength, strengthen his own authority. But to the amazement and displeasure of the new leader, Skywalk flatly refused to bow to him, saying that he recognized only one leader - Megatron.

Bumblebee and Optimus Prime soon arrived on the scene, and made a truce proposal to Starscream. The arrogant Seeker said he was only willing to consider it if Optimus bowed his head to him, for which he immediately paid the price: Skykwake, thoroughly annoyed by his arrogance, struck the Decepticon, after which the latter, frightened, transformed and flew out of the ravine, deciding to watch from a distance. Optimus then approached Skykwake and urged him to leave his faction and help him end the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, but he replied that he would never side with Prime and attacked his nemesis. At first, Skykwake had no combat mode and could only fight using a machine gun and his own fists, but then he scanned Agent Fowler's plane as it approached the scene, which took the battle to a new level. It was only through the combined efforts of Prime and Bumblebee, who managed to climb onto Skykwake's hull, wound him in mid-air and cause him to collapse to the ground, that the fearsome Decepticon was defeated and his Spark extinguished. Skyquake's body was buried in the same ravine.

After Megatron's return, Starscream, who had been badly hurt by his lord for trying to usurp power, decided to take revenge by creating his own army of Transformers-zombies, and Skywake was the first candidate for resurrection. Although Starscream managed to revive him with a shard of dark energon, he was unable to get him to obey him this time (or rather, he was unable to, as he was wounded in a skirmish with the Autobots who arrived at the ravine where Skykwake was buried and had to rush back to the Nemesis for repairs before he was revived).

The explosion of the Earth Bridge threw the awakened Skykwake into a parallel reality called the “Shadow Zone”; the same explosion also sent the Autobot allied children Jack, Miko, and Rafe into the same place at the same time. Possessed, like all Terrorkons, by an irresistible urge to kill, Skywalk persistently chased the children, even though they posed no threat to him. While running away from him, the kids came across Starscream's severed arm, which still had a loaded flare gun on it. Jack used it to shoot the arm off, but that didn't stop Skywalker; worse, the severed limb itself (and even more quickly than its former owner) began to chase the children. Fortunately for Jack and his friends, the Autobots found a way to get them out of the shadow zone, and Skyquake stayed there forever.

Dreadwing and Breakdown seemed to get along well. When Dreadwing was tasked to kill Airachnid he brought Breakdown along. Breakdown had no complaints during their assigned task as they both tried to cover up around Airachnid. However, Airachnid knew as she goaded Breakdown into losing his temper to attack her, despite Dreadwing's efforts in calming Breakdown down. When Airachnid turned the tables and killed Breakdown, Dreadwing was silent when he went back to the warship where Megatron was trying to explain that their inability to locate Breakdown's signal was unclear and was angry at Dreadwing for not recovering any remains of Breakdown although it was Silas' M.E.C.H. who stole his remains.

Airachnid seemed to get along with Dreadwing until Dreadwing was tasked by Megatron to terminate her with Breakdown as his backup. Airachnid considered herself and Dreadwing to be Megatron's proficient warriors, which enraged Breakdown when she revealed that she was referring to herself and Dreadwing rather than Breakdown. This soon led to an angry Breakdown to chase Airachnid, that resulted in his own demise and Dreadwing being webbed to a tree by Airachnid.

Knock Out and Dreadwing are usually seen to hang out. In Patch, Dreadwing came to "assist" Knock Out, which he prevented Knock Out from separating Megatron from his mind and body through the cortical physic patch. After they both witnessed an flashback that Starscream had revived Skyquake as an undead Terrorcon zombie, Dreadwing remained paused and Knock Out called it "awkward". Knock Out seemed concerned when Dreadwing vanished from the room.

Dreadwing was a high ranking Decepticon Seeker who was very loyal to Megatron. He was made Megatron's second in command when he disobeyed Megatron's orders in following him to a cave where Megatron fought Airachnid's insecticon. In Dreadwing's last moments where he chose avenging his brother by trying to kill Starscream, Megatron was forced to kill Dreadwing. Though Megatron was killed by Bumblebee, he avenged everyone who was killed by Megatron including Dreadwing.

At first, it seemed like Dreadwing saw Starscream as a traitor and deserter. Dreadwing opted to take Starscream back to Megatron as his prisoner during Dreadwing's hunt for the Apex Armor. When Starscream acquired the Apex Armor, he took on Dreadwing and mocked him by stating he will reunite him with his fallen twin. When Dreadwing learned from the Cortical Psychic Patch that Starscream desecrated his brother, Dreadwing vowed revenge and was close to killing Starscream.

Dreadwing wasn't very fond of Optimus, learning that it was him and an Autobot scout who killed his brother, he swore vengeance upon them. It would also seem that Dreadwing and Optimus worked well in their alliance in taking down Starscream who was in the Apex Armor. After learning from the Cortical Psychic Patch that Starscream dishonored his brother Skyquake's death by turning him into a Terrorcon, he had given the Autobots the Forge of Solus Prime in hopes it would avenge him. He seems to respect Optimus greatly as an adversary and Optimus, likewise, felt the same way. Optimus even offered Dreadwing chances to join the Autobots.

Dreadwing captured Bulkhead in Loose Cannons. Dreadwing used Bulkhead as bait to lure Wheeljack and Optimus Prime. Bulkhead was strapped to a crate on a docks where Dreadwing also strapped one of his bombs on Bulkhead. Eventually, Dreadwing had to disarm the bomb on Bulkhead when Optimus trapped Dreadwing with a claw machine on the docks. In Hard Knocks, Bulkhead faced against Dreadwing again and mentioned how Dreadwing doesn't have the "ball bearings" to fight in person. Dreadwing accepted Bulkhead's offer to fight and they fought for a short time. However, when Dreadwing was ready to arm his bomb that he placed on Bulkhead during their fight, Bulkhead had placed the bomb on Dreadwing's back. Dreadwing took it off and threw it into the air. In Regeneration, Bulkhead went with Optimus, Arcee, Smokescreen and Bumblebee to see Dreadwing. Dreadwing gave them the Forge of Solus Prime but Bulkhead thought it could be rigged to blow up. Dreadwing told them about the Omega Keys and how he doesn't want to be in the Decepticons anymore. Optimus tried to recruit Dreadwing, but Dreadwing didn't take his offer. Bulkhead may have forgiven Dreadwing as he flew off.

Wheeljack faced against Dreadwing in Loose Cannons. Wheeljack told the Autobots that he fought Dreadwing in an outer space and that Dreadwing killed Seaspray with one of his bombs. Later, Wheeljack faced against Dreadwing again in a little canyon where Bulkhead waited to ambush Dreadwing. This turned out to be a trap where Dreadwing had placed a bomb below Bulkhead's hiding place above the canyon. The bomb exploded and left Wheeljack in a pile of rocks while Dreadwing captured Bulkhead. Optimus Prime helped Wheeljack out of the rocks and they went to find Bulkhead. Eventually they found Bulkhead who was strapped to a crate on a docks with Dreadwing's bomb placed on his chest. In the end, Dreadwing was trapped by Optimus and was forced to disarm the bomb. Before escaping, Dreadwing detonated the other bombs he had placed on the docks and they exploded some crates. Despite not knowing that Dreadwing gave the Forge to the Autobots, Wheeljack may have forgiven Dreadwing.