Constructor

Constructor owes his freedom, and in fact, existence to the resilience of one human being. This fact makes Constructor defensive of humans when others criticize them as weak, and irrelevant. Chip Chase in his later years believed that there was something more to the Decepticon Devastator than evil components. Omega Supreme once told of a device that Megatron used to alter the original Constructibots from a team of brilliant engineers to a destructive, divided, and bickering group. Chip discovered that Megatron’s device had not destroyed the original Constructibots personalities, but imprisoned them. The device created an evil bent copy of each Constructibot’s personality. However, this copy needed the original personality in stasis to function properly, since Megatron’s device could not separate the original personalities from their sparks.

Optimus Prime was willing to listen to Chip’s plan to thwart one of Megatron’s most menacing warriors. Chip new that the Matrix gave spark energy, and asked Prime if it was capable of also calling sparks from their bodies. Prime was unsure, and at first denied permission for Chip to try it.

Optimus Prime: “To be honest Chip, I am shocked that you would think of such a thing. For a free being, good or evil, to have their sparks willfully ripped from them borders on the worst kind evil.”

Chip: “That’s just it Prime, the Constructibots are not free. Don’t you see? They are in the worst kind of prison. Would you have their torment continue if you knew of a possible way to free them?”

It was only after Devastator destroyed half a city, that Prime listened to Chip, and saw that something did have to be done. Chip along with Wheeljack developed a device that temporarily weakened the hold of the dominant evil Constructicon personalities on their hosts. This confused the Constructicons enough to be captured by the Autobots. Knowing that the imbalance would be temporary, Chip worked quickly. Optimus Prime drew out the Matrix to attempt to pull the sparks from the Constructicon’s bodies (taking their inseparable original personalities with them). Surprisingly, the matrix seemed to “know” what was being asked of it. Slowly, the Constructibot’s sparks emerged. The evil copies stayed in the old Constructicon bodies like plants that had the soil ripped from their roots, dieing, and remembering what was once the glow of life as it ebbed away. The free sparks whirled toward the Matrix, then Chip activated 6 devices of what he called “protoform traps.” Each seized a spark with a barely adequate energy beam. The sparks fought to go toward the comforting light of the Matrix, but then relented wobbling toward the new protoforms.

While this was occurring, Megatron quickly struck to regain his lost super warrior Devastator (unsuspectingly taking the lifeless Constructicon’s bodies). It was later that Megatron discovered the enormity of what had been done. His computers had told him that the evil copies of the Constructicons’ personalities were still present, but nothing else. True to his reputation, Megatron would not be outwitted no matter the cost (to others). He polled the Decepticon ranks, and “persuaded” six of them to donate their sparks as hosts for the deactivated Constructicon personalities to feed upon. Unfortunately, this seems to have worked. Now bereft of the original good, the new Devastator is truly, and fully evil. They maintain the engineering knowledge, and identities of their former hosts, and still bicker, but there is less disagreement when destruction, and killing is at hand.

Constructor is a form that the original Constructibots never possessed. His combined engineering skills have no known match. In the time it takes Devastator to make one decision, Constructor will have an entire building structure planned. Unlike Devastator, Constructor possesses true teamwork. It has been remarked that Constructor is the closest that a combiner team can come to having one mind. His personality is almost seamless when merged. While not liking to participate in war, he (along with the Constructibots) recognizes it to be a necessary evil. He regards Devastator, not as a being, but as a former prision, and if it could be said that Constructor wanted to see something destroyed, it would be his hated prison in Devastator.

Some of the Constructibots have decided to change their names back to what they were originally called before Megatron's corruption. Three of them (Wedge, Heavy Load, and Grimlock) have a separate history together. Shortly after first coming to Cybertron (before the 2nd Great War) they soon found friends in Hook, Scrapper, and Mixmaster. Together over time, they built some of Cybertrons most breathtaking structures before the 2nd Great War. Though it has been a great deal of time, Wedge still asks around about a previous aquaintance named Hightower that had gone missing since before "the corruption."

Constructor Components: Wedge (bulldozer, previously known as Bonecrusher), Heavy Load (dump truck, previously known as Long Haul), Scrapper (front end loader), Mixmaster (Concrete truck), Grimlock (powered shovel, previously known as Scavenger), Hook (Crane truck)