Maximal Hound
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- "Hound" is a Maximal from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
A Maximal would unwillingly become "Hound" after crashing on prehistoric Earth.
Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
Ten million years ago, the Maximal who would become "Hound" was one of the many Maximals who followed "Onyx Prime", unaware or uncaring that this member of the Thirteen Primes was in fact a time-travelling Shockwave. Following the end of the First Cybertronian Civil War, Onyx and his Maximals departed Cybertron for good, and set a course for the dead world of Antilla. In time, Onyx would uncover the artifact he dubbed the "Talisman", part of an ancient doomsday weapon responsible for the planet's destruction.
Twenty thousand years ago, the future "Hound" was part of an expedition under the command of Domitius Major, as part of his larger goals, Onyx decided to have the Talisman relocated to Earth, and enlisted the crew of the starship Axalon to do so. Our Finest "Hound" and his shipmates were evidently not aware of the full scope of "Onyx's" plans, nor the paradoxical nature of their impending voyage; they reached Ice Age Earth solely by accident, having been drawn off-course to refuel their ship after a ten-thousand year voyage. While preparing to land, however, their ship was intercepted by the younger Shockwave, who had come to investigate his Regenesis project. Shockwave confused the crew aboard with a bounced broadcast of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee before easily shooting them down and causing their ship to crash in prehistoric Brasnya. In the crash, the Talisman aboard the Axalon scrambled the memories of the crew.
Centurion's subsequent amnesia inspired Shockwave to use the crew of the Axalon in a cruel experiment, altering their appearances and memories to convince them that they were the Autobots and Decepticons of Cybertron. Brainwashed into believing he was "Hound", he took part in the simulated "Ice Age Wars" on Earth as part of Shockwave's wargames. Eventually, the climate worsened and the energon stores ran out, and when Shockwave departed, the ersatz Autobots and Decepticons went into hibernation. Strange Visitors
After thousands of years of hibernation, "Hound" was one of the "Autobots" who awoke in 1887 when an Elder God threatened humanity. Adopting a caboose alternate mode, he formed a train with "Ratchet" and "Trailblazer" to carry Nikola Tesla and Tobias Muldoon to the still-dormant body of "Optimus Prime"—in reality, Domitius Major. Infestation 2: The Transformers #1 The Autobots sacrificed their electrical energy to a balloon to recharge their leader; when "Optimus Prime" awoke, he gave the trio energy from his energon reserves. The group arrived in Port Cenotaph to fight the Elder God possessed "Ironhide", and proved triumphant. Infestation 2: The Transformers #2
Sometime by the 1980s, "Hound" would eventually die. Through unknown events, his shattered head wound up alongside "Ironhide" in the Tomb of Amtoltec where the Talisman was stored. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb
