Fulcrum

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Fulcrum
Biographical Information
Homeworld Cybertron [1]
Creation date Before 2nd Cycle 1874 [2]
Physical Description
Species Cybertronian [1]
Gender Male [1]
Eye color Yellow [1]
Armor color Tan, grey, orange [1]
Status
Occupation Project Manager (Formerly) [3]
Scavenger [1]
Citizenship Cybertronian [1]
Marital Status Single [1]
Known relatives None [1]
Political Information
Affiliation Decepticon [1]

History

Second Cybertronian Civil War

During the Second Cybertronian Civil War, one of the last hot spots on Cybertron generated a spark. The Cybertronian that the spark grew into became known as Fulcrum.

Fulcrum soon joined the ranks of the Decepticon Empire, believing in the righteousness of the group's earlier destruction of the Cybertronian Senate and their wish to cleanse the galaxy of organic life. After undertaking the Rite of the Deceptibrand, he was assigned to Deathsaurus' cyberforming unit, converting a planet's organic matter into metallic material. Eventually, Fulcrum found himself placed in charge of a cyberforming effort on B'lahr 39 as a project manager. However, the Autobots launched an attack on the project, which led Fulcrum to run away in fear.

A few weeks later, Deathsaurus captured him and had him sent to a Deception penal colony Styx, which was on a moon orbiting Charon. While there, he was sentenced to death by traitor's wheel, but on his day of execution, an order came down from Decepticon High Command that all prisoners were to be rebuilt as a member of the K-Class, or reformatted with a bomb as his alternate mode. In 2nd Cycle 1874, Fulcrum's K-Squad was deployed to the Battle of Clemency ten thousand feet above the planet aboard a drop ship. After his squadmate Torque attempted to make small talk with him, the squad was dropped, with their target being Ultra Magnus, the Duobots, the Jumpstarters, and the Powerdashers. The strike was successful in killing Magnus; however, Fulcrum was paralyzed by fear, causing him to crash to the ground and be knocked into stasis lock, instead of automatically transforming.

The Scavengers

Guilty as Charged

Due to the sheer amount of corpses on the planet, Fulcrum was left in stasis lock on Clemency for centuries. In 2012 AD, a group of Decepticons calling themselves the Scavengers, consisting of Crankcase, Flywheels, Krok, Misfire, and Spinister, arrived on the planet to loot the multiple corpses in hopes of energon and spare parts. When they found Fulcrum, Spinister removed his explosive charge and Misfire began to siphon out his energon. This act, however, caused Fulcrum to come back online and after convincing the team of him not being a zombie, they took him back to their campsite after Misfire introduced everybody. While he was there, Fulcrum was surprised by the knowledge that the war was over. Soon, Misfire, while chasing after what he thought was the Necrobot, discovered a crashed D-Class Worldsweeper in the P-6 Model variety. The Scavengers went aboard, discovering a ceiling covered in brain modules, a room filled with capsules that held malformed Cybertronian, a wooden robot, and room covered with bleeding skin. Fulcrum was enthusiastic about this discovery, noting for the first time they were free of responsibility, able to discover the ship's mystery.

This optimism was killed when Krok received a message on his communicube from Tarn, a member of the Decepticon Justice Division, announcing that one of the seven lifeforms on the planet was on The List, and they had fifteen minutes to work out their loyalties. Thinking Tarn had miscounted, the Scavengers soon discovered the seventh lifeform, a stasis pod holding the Dinobot leader Grimlock. After deliberating among themselves, the Scavengers decided they would fight. The team took Grimlock's pod out of the ship and dragged it in the open, lacing it with circuit speeders found in a dead Monstercon. Krok hooked it up to a remote detonator which he would press, releasing the Dinobot and allowing the Scavengers to escape. Tarn called again to confirm that their true target was Fulcrum, but before he could explain, the Peaceful Tyranny, the D.J.D.'s ship, landed on the planet. Krok released Grimlock to fend off the D.J.D. but Helex discovered their betrayal. The Division began to fight both Grimlock and the Scavengers, with Tesarus murdering Flywheels, Vos shoving his face onto Krok's, and Misfire being attacked by The Pet. After Crankcase and his newly discovered Cybernought were taken down by Kaon, Fulcrum climbed to the top of the Worldsweeper, announcing to the D.J.D. that he was sickened by their actions and the Scavengers, who fought on his behalf, restored his faith in Decepticons. With that, he jumped off the ship and transformed, with no knowledge of his bomb's deactivation, creating only a minuscule crater on impact. Thankfully for him, the D.J.D. found Overlord's signature and left, but not before announcing the rest of the Scavengers were now on The List.

After reawakening, Fulcrum told the Scavengers the full story about his desertion, but they were too busy talking about Grimlock's condition: the Dinobot appeared to be severely mentally damaged. The team decided on a plan: repair Krok, head back to Cybertron on the Weak Anthropic Principle, and use Grimlock as a bargaining chip to whichever side won the war, but not before scavenging the remains of Flywheels.

Mission to Constancy

By the next year, 2013 AD, Misfire had been captured by the Galactic Council and placed on death row. Fulcrum was sent to Galactic Council Outpost 113 on Constancy to retrieve him, while the rest of the Scavengers waited aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle was the getaway vehicle. However, Misfire wanted to stop for snacks, which led to the Council's soldiers almost catching up to them. The duo was chased to the top of a crane where the W.A.P was supposed to pick them up, but its crewmen were under the effect of the universal killswitch at the time, leading them to be knocked offline.

Continuing Adventures

After escaping the planet, Fulcrum and rest of the Scavengers engaged in numerous adventures for the next two years. These included being cursed with the ability to speak in song on a mushroom-covered planet, summoning alien beings by incorrectly conjugating verbs, Shockwave's cannon coming out of datapads, dealing with glitched holomatter avatars on Magisteria VI, playing Jenga with a jellyfish for the fate of the universe, being caught in a perspective trap, being turned into toys, and vandalizing Autopedia.

A New Mission

In 2015 AD, the Scavengers played a round of Shoot Shoot Bang Bang, but Crankcase decided that he wanted to play, leading to a pilotless Weak Anthropic Principle to crash into the side of a mountain on Tebris VII. The ship survived with minimal damage, as Crankcase and Fulcrum amused themselves by watching "The Self-Hating Decepticon"'s comedy routine on television. When Krok came to, he became enraged by the comedian, whose real name was Skullcruncher, as he was tired of just barely making it by. Fulcrum attempted to calm him down, but Krok continued ranting until Grimlock burst through a wall with Misfire hanging on. Crankcase put him down, but Misfire was tired of the Scavengers' treatment of the Dinobot. Instead he lashed out at Krok over his communicator. Fulcrum again attempted to calm him down, but before hostilities could escalate further, a Monoformer named Demus came on the communicator with a business deal which he would close at his shop hundred miles away. Once they arrived, Demus instructed them to insert inhibitor chips, as Demus had such an aversion to transformation it sickened him.

Demus led them to his office where he offered them a deal: five-hundred million shanix each in exchange for Grimlock. While Fulcrum and Misfire objected, the other three Scavengers agreed and were about to tell Demus when he was hurled through a window and killed by Fortress Maximus, who had arrived to kill him due to a grievous breach of the Tyrest Accord. After the Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord announced they were all under arrest, Crankcase shot him, and the Scavengers fled into Demus' warehouse filled with his Roboids. Fulcrum was horrified by Maximus' revelation that the Roboids were lobotomized Cybertronians sold off as torture dolls. Krok confirmed this by clicking his communicator, which in reality was his squadmate Radar's finger which could detect Decepticons. After the Monoformer revealed his plan with Demus' money was to build a mental health center, Fulcrum called him a hypocrite for his continual verbal abuse against Grimlock. With Fortress Maximus on his way to re-arrest and possibly kill Grimlock, the Scavengers were forced to use some Equinoid Roboids to travel to their starship.

Upon arrival, Fortress Maximus told them once again they were all under arrest until Krok lied that Fulcrum had rigged a bomb in Demus' office which would kill the Roboids, a lie that was helped by Misfire's vandalization of Fulcrum's Autopedia to include history of him being focused on heavy ordnance. After being convinced by the facade, Maximus left with Equinoids in tow, allowing the Decepticons to escape the planet and begin their new goal of helping others.

In 2016 AD, the Scavengers received a transmission from the exiled crewmembers of the Lost Light discussing their last wishes before the Decepticon Justice Division killed them, something even they found morbid.

Heading to Earth

The Scavengers soon traveled to Earth, so that Crankcase could meet his date "CONS4EVA", much to Fulcrum's chagrin as he was disgusted by humans. Fulcrum made the Triggercon a platter of energon goodies and gave him some rejected fashion advance. When "CONS4EVA" arrived, Crankcase, Fulcrum, and Krok were surprised to discover Crankcase's date was Thunderwing. Fulcrum threw the goodies at the massive Decepticon's face as a distraction and the Scavengers retreated to their ship to discover that "Thunderwing" was, in actuality, a Dire Wraith. The Wraith only wanted to meet the Decepticon to finish a Temptorian ritual known as the Crossover which would require at least three species to create a portal to another dimension. When a human was found, and the portal was found to be of no use, the Scavengers took the Wraith aboard their ship and took off, with Fulcrum being glad to be rid of humans. They then dropped "CONS4EVA" off on the nearest starhub and continued on their way.

Traveling to Frayus

In 2017 AD, the Scavengers traveled to Camp Conclave on Frayus in search of a fabled ununtrium supply. After they could not find the element, the group left the camp, but they were met with the site of a massive battle between the Galactic Council, the Black Block Consortia, and Deathsaurus' Decepticon army. The Scavengers ran to their retrieval point, but the Weak Anthropic Principle's teleport system was damaged, leaving them stranded on the world. However, a mysterious portal opened and a figure within beckoned them to come through, which they complied with.

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