Companion
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- The Companions are a subgroup from the2019 IDW portionof theGeneration 1 continuity family.
Possessing a deep sense of loyalty toPyra Magna,her faithful and battle-testedCompanionsalways stand ready to come to theGreat General's aid whenever she asks. Having served under her during theWar of the Threefold Spark,many of them objected to Pyra's subsequent imprisonment after the conflict had ended. As a form of protest, some Companions have even taken on Pyra Magna's distinct color scheme.
Known Companions:
Fiction
2019 IDW continuity
Pyra Magna was imprisoned after the War of the Threefold Spark had ended for ignoring the amnesty granted toTurmoil,hunting him down and accidentally destroying his ship along with everyone aboard it.We Are Not Meant To Be DarknessIn response, some members of her faithful crew took on her color scheme to remind others of what they saw as Pyra's unjust sentence. After the rise of theDecepticons,Optimus Primeordered Pyra Magna released from her imprisonment in theWhite Tower,intending to enlist her against this new menace. Once awakened from stasis and outside for the first time inkilocycles,Pyra called out to Jumpstream, who immediatelyteleportedto her general's side. Pyra ordered Jumpstream to locate and gather as many of the Companions as she could, and the teleporter eagerly set to the task.Awakenings
When Optimus Prime andMegatronagreed to parlay via holographic conference, Pyra Magna was selected as Prime's in-person representative, withStrikaserving as Megatron's. Pyra had her Companions hiding nearby under ashimmer fieldin case of treachery and sure enough,Cyclonusarrived with the intent to assassinate her. The Companions sprung into action against the Decepticons that Strika had deployed to back Cyclonus up, easily trouncing them and forcing a retreat. Pyra willingly offered her neck to Cyclonus after realizing he had due cause to want her dead, but he faltered and Pyra ordered the Companions to leave him alone. When asked, Pyra Magna told her followers that they would be fully putting their support behind Optimus Prime against Megatron for the time being.We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness
Optimus next had Pyra and her Companions aid in evacuating the besieged city ofProtihex,save Jumpstream, who volunteered for an experiment proposed byPerceptorto boost her teleportation abilities.Test Flight IWhenTermagaxwas located out by theSea of Rust,the Companions were deployed alongsideNovastar's strike team aboardSky Lynxto secure the area and exterminate theInsecticon cloneswarm attackingTermagax's home.After Optimus Prime arrived, he and Pyra Magna went to chat with Termagax, and Pyra had Sunstreaker carry out her plan to defend the position. When theDecepticon Guardarrived in force to seize theEnigma of Combinationfrom Termagax and attacked, theRainmakerswere taken out by the snipers Sunstreaker had strategically stationed above, with Windcharger disabling the nigh-invulnerableNova Storm.The Decepticons surged forward and the Companions retaliated with the other Autobots.Sea of Rust IIThe battle ended after the Enigma was apparently lost to the Sea of Rust.Enigmatic
The Companions stood at the ready to fight when the Decepticons attackedCrystal City.A Dust of CrystalsThe Companions aided Optimus Prime in forcing a ceasefire with the Decepticons and after Pyra Magna received an SOS from a team sent to theSonic Canyonsto investigate the return ofExarchon,accompanied her there.The Landscape of Fear
They passed over the Sea of Rust on the way to the Canyons, and Pyra Magna told Jumpstream to stay behind to prevent a potential future where she died fighting Exarchon. Jumpstream acquiesced, while the Companions arrived to find a team of Decepticons led bySixshotfighting Exarchon and his forces.War's End Part TwoThe Companions joined forces with the Decepticons to face their mutual enemy, but Jumpstream soon teleported in to warn thatDevastatorwas approaching. The allied forces pulled back and Pyra Magna and Sixshot deliberated over a strategy to combat Exarchon's loyalists. While tensions rode high between the Companions and the Decepticons, they ultimately agreed to work together.War's End Part ThreeAfter a new plan was hatched to seal Exarchon's spark within a booby-trapped cage that contained aTitanspark,a combined assault on Exarchon's bunker was launched. The Companions and Decepticons succeeded in trapping Exarchon, and after his remaining loyalists were taken prisoner, Pyra Magna finally destroyed the Threefold Spark's captured essence once and for all. The Decepticons soon left, leaving the Companions to sweep Exarchon's base for their remaining allies.War's End Part Four
The Companions were retrieved by Sky Lynx and brought to a standoff between Optimus Prime and Megatron. Pyra Magna had Jumpstream remove theimploderthatSkywarphad been using to hold the Autobots hostage by teleporting it intounspace.The Companions fought in the battle atDarkmount,ultimately leaving Cybertron behind aboard theArk.Jumpstream managed to catch up with her comrades and teleport aboard just as the Autobots arrived at their new home, theWinged Moon.Fate of Cybertron
