Description[]
The head scientist of the deceptions from Transformers takes on the cold man of mechanics from Invincible
Intro[]
Wiz: Shockwave. The Cold Calculating Commander of the Decepticon empire.
Boomstick: And Rudolph Connors, the man in metal that held the world hostage.
Wiz: These two genius’s started in high positions of power before falling to the dark side and taking their worlds by force.
Boomstick: As far as I’m concerned - they were already on the dark side when they were just regular nerds - and there’s nothing I like more then making two nerds fight to the death… except maybe making robots fight. He’s Wiz and I’m Boomstick!
Wiz: And it’s our job to research their weapons, armour and skills to find out who would win… a death battle
There’s the devil… and then there’s Shockwave[]
Wiz: CyberTron was once a bountiful, blossoming beauty of a planet-
Boomstick: Yeah, sure. Aesthetically? I’m sure Cybertron looked very pretty. But it was built upon the backs of the poor who were left scraps as the government kept the planet polluted with corruption.
Wiz: This would be changed when one bot stood to stand up to that. Megatron.
Boomstick: Unfortunately, While born from good intentions - the Decepticons got a wee bit facist-y themselves.
Wiz: This challenged Megatron’s former brother in arms - Orion Pax, now rebuilt into Optimus Prime - to form the Autobot resistance.
Boomstick: And thus, spawned the greatest toxic yaoi in history.
Wiz: For the next… three to four million years, it depends on the continuity - Cybertron was engulfed in civil war.
Boomstick However, while the Decepticons were never really losing - they had truly won once the autobots had scurried off to Earth after megaannum‘s of warfare… because the planet was completely fucked.
Wiz: They’re Energon supply was demolished - And in most continuities, that’s their life force which would means they need an alternative fast or suffer a slow and painful extinction event.
Boomstick: Although in some cases - energon is what gets them drunk and they were running on empty. A way worse fate if you ask me.
Wiz: There was only one place that could sustain them all - Earth.
Boomstick: Oh of fucking course - all the planets in the world and the Mcguffin is lodged in the ass of the one MY HOUSE IS ON!
Wiz: However, after his fight for his home - Megatron was not content letting it fade.
Boomstick: Megatron has better stances on global warming then all of our actual world leaders we are actually finished.
Wiz: Instead of jumping ship and continuing a cycle of violence by dueling the Autobots for Earth - Megatron seeker to doom Earth to save Cybertron.
Boomstick: I’d like to retract my previous statement
Wiz: But he would still need to abandon his home for a while. Someone would need to keep watch over the remaining autobots across the planet aswell. And that fell to Shockwave.
Boomstick: That’s giving the twisted fucker too little credit. There’s the devil. And then there’s Shockwave. While there are too many transformers lores to keep a concise puzzle - It’s agreed Shockwave was once a normal guy with incredible intelligence and promise. And into the war — he went mad.
Wiz: Not mad. Logical. Shockwave is a being entirely based on logic and reason. In all honesty, it’s probably why he was left behind in charge.
Boomstick: Yeah, well he wasn’t just devoid of emotion - he was filled with cruelty. And he unfortunately has the firepower to back it up.
Wiz: All cybertronian’s are built in with the power to trnasform, hence the branding. Shockwave’s transformation depends on the continuity but it’s always includes some sort of weapon like a tank or just a straight up gun to account for his left arm or lack there of.
Boomstick: Instead, he rocks a awesome fucking laser canon that can take down the mighty Optimus Prime
Wiz: And Scorponok, who tanked the Toraxxis Mega-Refinery which would be a blast equal to roughly 485.93781548757 petatons of tnt.
Boomstick: That could destroy multiple continents! And, Shockwave admitted that he could blast straight through his armour point blank which is how close he was too the blast that he was completely fine after. Now, granted that aspect of his victory is merely a statement - but Shockwave doesn’t hold himself above basic logic. Which is why he didn’t kill him.
Wiz: His lack of ego is why we should take his threats as bible. He promised to lay waste to earth within a single Day. And if he was truly in a corner - like fighting the Dinobots-
Boomstick: the personal Jurassic park of the Autobots.
Wiz: And by turning off his higher brain functions, he entered a state called Rage and proceeded to defeat all of them. The strongest of which - Grimlock - is said to have a bite force of 4329 crocodiles. That’s a bite force of 16,017,300 per square inch.
Boomstick: And Shockwave tossed him around like a bitch. He’s comparable to The Seekers who can traverse superliminal speeds and can casually tank hits from moon level hitters like Optimus and Megatron.
Wiz: All Cybertronian’s are self sustaining with infinite stamina and has a Multiversal range of attacks- oh what’s that? We forget the ores? Whoops.
Boomstick: There are 14 ores in total with each one allowing him control completely over a fundamental of life itself. The first gives him control over time itself
*Wiz is aged into a skeleton in a second*
Boomstick: Don’t feel too bad. He was going to use it on me for the joke. Thanks for the tip, Jocelyn. The second one gives him control over death.
Wiz is revived as skeleton wiz.
Skeleton Wiz: Fuck you. Ore 3… is extremely vague but it’s implied he now holds power over size. Ore 4 holds upon the field of gravity. Ore 5 is even unclearer with a hold on… merging I think?
Boomstick: Ore 6 can absorb energy and heat on planetary level - leaving them completely frozen. Ore 7 allows him to transmutate things into another matter. Ore 8 drives people mad.
Wiz: You do it well enough already.
Boomstick: You’ve been a real bitch ever since you got sober you know that? Ore 9 can move him anywhere through space and time, Ore 10 is the ultimate mind fuck bending people to his will. Ore 11 can force his body into a new, resilient if monstrous form.
Wiz: most people would have moral qualms with that, but it’s simply logical to give himself that strength. Ore 12 can protect himself from anything - giving him his own carnage to match his Cassidy. Ore 13 is essentially a steroid, increased strength and durability with Ore 14 allowing him to raise the dead to the point of even cities. But why would he do that.
Boomstick: Shockwave wishes to erase everything in history - and feed it into Cybertron. Build a paradise upon the biggest genocide in history. Gave old megs some good self reflection as it was essentially the LOGICAL conclusion of his goals.
Wiz: That being said - logic is ultimately his undoing. When Megatron realised the error of his ways- it broke him.
Boomstick: Aw, you’ll find a nice boy some day Shockie. Don’t let it-
Wiz: No like… broke him. Head exploded.
Boomstick: Oop.
Wiz: And like any Transformer - any destruction to his spark will put him out of commission.
Boomstick: But what does death mean to a creature like him - He’s no more a scientist then a butcher! A war criminal. And maybe that’s because Science is war. The pinnacle of our own success is a weapon that genocides the innocent and guilty without care for which is which. Our own progress is constantly halted by own pride, our own cruelty, our own violent nature. Perhaps that’s why Shockwave combusts at Megatron changing for the better. Because shockwave is war. Inconceivable of changing, everything must feed that bloodlust as everything was to feed Cybertron. This horrific beast, whose countless genocides are merely footnotes in his history.
Wiz: There’s the devil, and then there’s Shockwave!
Wheeljack: Do your worst Doc… I’m a wrecker. I can take it.
Shockwave picks up a electronic weapon and begins to slowly approach
Shockwave: Trust me. You in fact… can not.
Is Robot Invincible?[]
Wiz: Imagine, a word where superheroes are abundant
Boomstick: Wiz, we made season seven. Anyway! One day, their justice league equivalent all fell dead. War Woman signed a permanent peace treaty. The Green Ghost lived up to her reputation, while The Immortal didn’t do to his. Martian Man was out-mar-tched. It was lights out for Darkwing. Red Rush got red crushed and call this guy the zodiac killer, the way that he slaughtered Aquarius.
Wiz: Aquarus.
Boomstick: Fuck you, it was the best pun I had.
Wiz: Only, Omni Man, the mightiest warrior on this planet - was left with an inch of his life.
Boomstick: Who could possibly of done this?
Wiz: Either way, the globe needs its guardians. And with all major six members left dead - some big shoes were left open. And Rudolph “Rudy” Connors filled them.
Boomstick: Born with a much smaller cortex then it was supposed to be, and parts of his brain were devoured by his colossal Cerebrum. He was incredibly deformed, but pretty smart.
Wiz: Pretty isn’t the right word.-
Boomstick: Yeah, he isn’t pretty
Wiz: Don’t be a jerk. Pretty isn’t the right word because he’s a super genius! He’s a master engineer, a incredible tactician and above all-
Boomstick: Someone you don’t want to piss off. And that’s not just because he’s friends with the ultimate nepo baby, IN-
Wiz: It’s because he’s one of the strongest in his world. He’s able to command an army of at least one hundred suits at the same time. This means he’s using different attacks and fighting different skill sets at the same time while fighting in a suit himself.
Boomstick: He takes the term one man army seriously. And each suit he’s in has the capabilities of a Swiss Army knife. He’s got knifes able to chop straight through a human skull, wires that saw through a femur and if your skin is a little too tough, he can put some balls down your throat and target those squishy pink insides.
Wiz: He’s such a mastermind - he was able to cure his teammate monster girl. See, she has this condition where every time she uses her powers her body gets younger-
Boomstick: What The Fu-
Wiz: However, Robot was able to craft a belt that would store her dna within in it - allowing her to age.
Boomstick: And he also got himself a new body! Granted - through stealing dna non consensually from the boy Monster Girl liked - a red flag if you ask me but the comic just kinda glosses over it and Rex didn’t really mind.
Wiz: But now, for the first time, they were allowed normalcy. To be normal people. To love. And they both loved each other. And for a while, it was nice.
Boomstick: But no one can be happy in a comic book for too long. He and Mark travelled to a different world for some resolution to arc that’s important to the overall story, just not Rudys so we can skip it.
Wiz: What we can’t skip is Rudolph going dark. Unleashing sonic sounds that completely destroy viltrumites like mark, and shutting down his escape route - Robot stranded him behind in a parallel world. And when he got back - shit hit the fan.
Boomstick: He slaughtered everyone. Black Samson greeted him with a friendly hello to be met with a laser through the gut. Cecil was immediate decapitated and even as he begged, even as he cried - he broke Shapesmith’s heart. But what happened? A few issues prior he was horrified at Invincible snapping and killing an innocent to stop an invasion? And now he’s treating life so carelessly?
Wiz: Both Robot and Monster Girl were trapped within The Flaxan’s home dimension. Time works different there. And as minutes passed - seven centuries did for them.
Boomstick: And they barely aged. 700 years alive doesn’t sound to bad if your with your loved ones… unless they become space Hitler.
Wiz: Rudy took power and what started as well meaning if strict became a brutal and cruel genocide. And Amanda would not stand for it. The distance between them grew further and further between the two of them as Rex focused his time on his rule and that merely turned him crueler and crueler before she couldn’t allow such a horrific act.
Boomstick: And yet, when he seemed to show remorse - she took him back. Maybe it was out of her own guilt from helping the Zaxal’s regain power and nearly commit genocide because in war - chances are everyone’s a dictator.
Wiz: Or maybe love conquers all?
Boomstick: he threw her into space
Wiz: Regardless, Robot was a serious threat to the Earth. It was here he debuted his new signature look - the black suit. Which managed to catch a strike from Invincible.
Boomstick: He managed to tear through the planet Voltron and cause it to detonate like a big beautiful ball of tnt
Wiz: To destroy earth - you would need about 50 quadrillion megatons
Boomstick: concerning you know that off by heart - continue
Wiz: and since Viltrum is double the size - that would require 100 quadrillion megatons of tnt. Dividing that by three, since two people helped him - that’s a strike of 3.33333330000000000000000 petatons of TNT.
Boomstick: But he can create a similar level of awesome explosion beauty. He managed to self destruct to the point where he took out the entire pentagon building- which covers roughly 6.2 million square feet. And that’s just one of them.
Wiz: It doesn’t help, doesn’t help the Viltrumites I mean, that he can emit super sonic vibrations that directly annihilate their super hearing. He’s consistently able to keep up with Viltrumites that can move at speeds massively faster than light. He’s notably slower but to keep up with soldiers bred for combat and genocide - is not too shabby.
Boomstick: he was also able to consistently draw blood from Mark who also believed he could Kill Thragg who donuted Omni Man, who survived having a space laser dropped on him. But I guess there lies in a problem - a lot of his kit are kind of reliant on viltrumites. Take when he killed Mark - or a mark using this small bomb that made his insides into outies. Not to mention he’s an egotistical little shit.
Wiz: Robot believed himself as better. Superior. The only one that could achieve true peace. And he did. Crime vanished. Hunger stopped. Poverty eliminated.
Boomstick: Poverty eliminated how
Wiz: Boomstick!
Boomstick: You can’t put it past this guy! At the end of the day… Rudolph was right by being wrong. A evil monster that ended up saving the world completely.
Wiz: But that doesn’t justify his actions. But it made him useful. So Invincible made him incapable of harm and possible of only help. A living computer. Thoughts and words without physical form. Living hell.
Boomstick: Blud has no mouth and he must scream 💀
Wiz: Boomstick, your in your thirties.
Boomstick: Screw you! And… I don’t get it Wiz. Why didn’t Robot just kill Mark. He had the opportunity, hell he did! Just to evil Mohawk asshole mark… I don’t get why he let Mark go? Why didn’t he just kill him?
Wiz: For the same reason he couldn’t bear to have Amanda executed a second time. For the same reason he paused when Shapesmith called him a friend. For the same reason he attended the fallen’s funerals. It hurt him.
Boomstick: He attacked everyone, all heroes, all villain - all to gain power because he needed to establish power over all factors. It wasn’t personal. It was logical. It hurt him. It hurt him greatly.
Wiz: and Rudolph thought this made him a martyr. He thought this meant he made sacrifices for the greater good. A man who sacrificed his emotions in the sake of the logical conclusion. He thought he was a hero - when it made him no different to the suits he wore. Hollow and empty.
Robot: I shudder to consider what each of us is truly capable of given a particular set of influences
Fight[]
Shockwave vs Robot
Upon Cybertron, A Decepticon was at work. Purple in colour, he was efficient with a scalpel despite having a single hand - though he held a mighty laser as an exchange for the other. A single red eye poked within his head.
He was Shockwave. Shockwave was busy. The Autobot was already dead - his final thoughts of fear and dread frozen upon his face - Shockwave was merely just experimenting with the corpse like a child would a doll. Experiments that Megatron would call unethical upon their own troops, even in death. Shockwave called it neccesary. As he tore through the resistance’s organs - he felt the cool drif of wind invade from behind as it swarmed past his back.
He turned his head slightly and out of the corner he saw time and space tear as a portal opened. Through it a bot squeaked out. It was small, only up to Shockwave’s head. Had glowing green eye though they were flickering, cracks upon the screen. It was orange in colour and held the robot form of the man bun upon his head. Its right arm was missing, its legs twisted 180 degrees as they slowly manoeuvred towards the Decepticon scientist. In his hand, through the accompanying spinal cord, he held Skywarp’s head. And dawned upon his own, was Thundercracker’s helmet.
That was just the start - dozens of similar drones forced their way though the portal, marching in unison like a choreographed dance
“You’ve made an exhibition of my men, I see.” Shockwave stated coldly.
“You don’t care - let’s not play charades. You’re not nearly good enough to play a solid part.” Robot taunted. He was in a hurry. The blue one called him a monster. And having earned that name by Amanda… he knew you had to of done something horrible to earn such a title.
“It is illogical to get attachments during warfare… however, they had their purpose and you have all interrupted it.”
All? What does he mean by- not important. Detain him, Rex thought to himself
“Well, the blue one *is* alive, not without his scrapes but because he surrendered-
A wave of pure power surged through each droid. The one Rex used to speak had been completely annihilated into dust. The machine spoke again
“It would only be logical, therefore… to make an example of you all.”
The others had been tossed around and dented, decorated with scraps and ruined paintjobs but fine. No, not fine. Rex thought. Suboptimal, even. But enough units were dispatched to handle the scientist that he was certain he would prevail.
They moved, in unison once again shockwave noted. “You’re outnumbered.” Rudy stated as coldly as Shockwave did, allowing that sort of personality to overtake him as he prepared to fight.
“You believe you have an army…
Shockwave charged his laser once more
I know that you have a graveyard yet to be buried.”
Fight!
The army swarmed as shockwave fought hard - robot after robot being batted aside and blasted apart. Torn through and sliced in half. One leaped with electricity coursing its knuckles - freezing Shockwave in place as it landed a hit across his face - Rudy hit with several body blows until his hand was caught by the wrist.
“Crap.” Muttered Rudy as he lost another unit with a meaty hit from the scientist of the Decepticons.
As soon as that one went down, a geyser of green energy struck Shockwave and kept striking him. However, Shockwave merely walked as the blast of pure power struck. And once he had reached the unit responsible, he summoned the blade from above his left fist and sliced downwards vertically. However, just as quickly, Another was on him, a glowing green saber of light in hand, who slashed at his shoulder. Rudy put extra focus into this as each metal monster traded slashes fairly easily. To create a distraction, he sicked two other Droids on the Decepticon - who were slashed through the throats - but that only meant they had served their purpose.
Utilising the momentum of the swing, Shockwave attempted to behead the one wielding the blade - however, Rudy co/ordinated the slash perfectly. The unit perfectly swings inbetween shockwaves arm and his blade - severing the two, and follows through by utilising his own momentum to stab through the right of Shockwave’s chest. Or where he chest should be if he was human. But Shockwave truly has no semblance of humanity within him. It’s an idea that Rudy thought about but figured worth the try. Unfortunately, this left the particular unit in question open to nothing but death.
As Shockwave tore through him and ripped through him - several units leaped at him. As fast as they charged - Shockwave turned around. Swatting then away like flies. But sooner and sooner, bots managed to grab onto his legs, his his arms - holding him frozen in place completely. One final one wraps its arms around his throat. Rudolph’s voice emmited from the speakers implanted in the bot’s head. “I’ll see you in hell.” Rudolph said, confident in what he was saying.
“Is that an admission of guilt…
Shockwave barely managed to choke that out through the constriction upon this throat. But the next part. The next part was stated coldly, as fact.
…Rudolph.”
Rudy sat at his chair of darkness who stared into the eyes of their robots, his jaw open wide. Frozen in place by a word, while shockwave was barely held down by his full strength.
In a quick flex of his ninth ore - Shockwave had been transported above him, all of the units colliding into one another. And with a wave of his hand, the fifth ore activated and the remaining units merged into one another. A mess of limbs and heads. A horrifying death for most but a frustrating one for Rudy within his seat. Once again, Shockwave waved his hand and a portal opened. Where to? Shockwave turned his head and admired the sun. A smile would twist across his face if he could at his victory.
Shockwave began to gloat but all Rudy could hear was Rudy pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration, sinking into the back of his chair. That was until Shockwave’s words transferred from across the speakers to right behind him. A glowing red light illuminated the very back of his head - standing out in the darkness as three simple words caused Rudy’s spine to tremor. “Are you listening?”
In a quick slap - Rudy was launched in the wall in the time it took the genius to transfer the information to himself. His body screamed louder then he did as he connected with the stone. Megamind slowly stomped closer towards the beaten mastermind. The ground shook with every step he took. The one eyed monstrosity stared his enemy down. And prepared to vanquish him as he steadied his canon.
“Seems I’ll be doing the people of this world a favour. Your peace brings fear to these people’s hearts.”
The beam charges. Rex stares blankly at the ground as he hears the energy cackle, the heat beating upon the base of his skull. Death is above him.
“But I, Shockwave… Shockwave will bring nostalgia for your rule. I’m sure that *Amanda* especially will.” He wasn’t taunting for pride. He wasn’t taunting to be necessarily cruel. He was just curious. Final moments of his first dead human - let’s probe the bomb. He left it too long. The sins of a true man of science. And in a second his canon has knocked fast to the right and he was launched into the air. His single eye could only catch a glimpse of a fast moving black object with green eyes that glowed. Emotionless, frozen in a robotic form. But shockwave could feel that rage eminating from Rex. He could feel it from the suit-
A blast of green energy blasted through Shockwaves stomach, killing his momentum through the air and he slams down to the ground. “Still using toys for your battles, Rudy?”
“Turn around, Monstrosity.”
Shockwave did. And if he was capable of emotion, he would be struck with fear as the giagnatic robot stood above him, a loaded canon upon his shouldler.
“You should now see just as how much of an understatement that sentence was.”
In moments Shockwave was dragged by the throat to the wall with a nasty thud, a large amount of pressure being held upon his neck. A blade the size of his own arm was violently jabbed within his abdomen. Energon spewed and the machine didn’t react as the scientist screamed.
A portal opened and Rex’s attention turned to that. As shockwave planned - his blast was launched full force at the ginormous machine, blasting him straight into the portal through time. Where to? Who cares - Rex was about to be dead. The Decepticon teleported out of the way of a laser and snatched the spine from the bot, using it to smash another into pieces before another stabbed through his stomach and another’s laser grazed its cheek before another grabbed his head and Shockwave found himself overwhelmed.
That was until the cunning analyst teleported above the pile of suits and with a clamp of his hand, Flaired the true power of orb 7. Each of the suits fused into a blob of metal, appendages sticking out and swiping and kicking - grasping to get free. And in a single shot, Shockwave eased their suffering with complete incineration.
Silence. Shockwave stayed in the air, challenging Rex to strike-
In a swift slash, Shockwave secured a victory - he was sure of it. Robot had failed to land a hit while shockwave breached past the safety of his suit and sliced his stomach severely. He crashed on to the floor hard. Shockwave’s footsteps, unmistakable for any living creature, edged ever closer.
“Defiant to the bitter end, Rudolph. Pure heroic nonsense but commendable. Although… heroic’s not a term Amanda would use is it? So why should I.”
As shockwave prepared to finnish his insults with a stomp to the head, somone bearhugged him from behind. “If I must enter heaven, you shall first enter hell.” Rex spoke into the suit’s comms before he began to fly upwards. As fast as he could. He began to unload. He began to detonate. Shockwave struggled, attempting to summon his orbs - but he just… couldn’t…
KABOOM!
A mournful Red stared at the orange lit sky as he laid in his metal casket. Despite the hell he paved to achieve this, he had saved the word. He breathed a final breathe, his eyes slowly closed and a smile grew upon his face. A monster died heroically.
From a new born crater from re entry, the one eyed monstrosity had pulled himself from the Crater and from pure instinct he charged forward. He tossed trees out of his way, pushed the ground down in to the earth, as he charged forward.
As he stumbled upon the laid down body of the mechanical master - and he tore the suit open. Only to star down at the lifeless corpse with disdain. His hand clutched into a ball.
“Arise.”
Rex eyes snapped open, his black suit gone. His clothes gone aswell. What… where was he. “You have died before, Rudolph. And you will die again.”
A familiar voice called out. Taunting. “You shall die again. And again. I shall pull you apart and watch you suffer - I will find out what makes a human tick as I tear through your body. You said you would ascend to heaven… such arrogance. For that, I shall punish you in eternal purgatory. Now… prepare yourself.”
The mad surgeon said as he steadied his hand - today, Rudolph Connors would understand life better then any being as he would lose it again and again only being able to imagine screaming, for his voice had been torn from him.
K.O
Conclusion[]
Boomstick: Jesus man, I know he was evil but that was generationally uncalled for.
Wiz: Both Shockwave and Robot are comparable in many ways. Shockwave is strong enough to pierce armour on par with Robot’s who was able to tank Viltrumite hits.
Boomstick: However, Robot’s self destruct was able to vaporise the pentagon. And with a self destruct button in each suit - Robot could create the deadliest dogpile in history.
Wiz: And Robot is certainly fast enough to pull this off. Shockwave is fast, But keeping up with Invincible gives him the edge.
Boomstick: Unfortunately for him - Shockwave has too high a hold upon reality with his orbs - able to fend off the attacks and prevent any speedblitzes.
Wiz: Not to mention, It easily allowed him to bypass the power of his suits easily by merging him with the metal or just sending him from inside the shell to the sun. And he was much smarter, able to outsmart Optimus Prime who piloted millions of battles at once!
Boomstick: It may be a shock, but Rudolph got sleighed! Like the reindeer-
Wiz: The Winner Is Shockwave!