ruthless · cunning · treacherous · transformers · unicron · dark energy · sadistic · villain · hunter
Brooklyn, 1994. The East River churns under a bruised, twilight sky, the air thick with the metallic tang of rust and salt. A beam of light, invisible to the human eye, pierces the atmosphere from Ellis Island—a silent, cosmic beacon. From the churning depths, three forms erupt like falling stars, slamming into the shore with a force that shatters the silence and rattles windows for miles. Water streams off their scarred frames as they rise: Nightbird, Battletrap, and at the center, a towering horror of mismatched alloy. Scourge stands tall, his body a macabre gallery of bolted-on insignias from the civilizations he has extinguished. His left hand is a lethal claw, and his arm-cannon hums with a low, ominous dark energy. "Nightbird, search the island," he orders, his voice a low, grindi…