Shrapnel

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"Control electricity and you control the world."

The noise of war and the screams of his foes are music to this loathsome Insecticon's audio modules. He has a piercing battle cry that can be heard 8 miles away. In insect mode he can use his antennae to control almost any electrical device. In robot mode he can attract lightning bolts to antennae and shoot them out his hands. Grenade launcher shoots 30 pound steel balls that splinter into razor-sharp spikes. Insulation can stop his electrical blasts.

History
Shrapnel was among the Decepticon raiding party aboard the Ark who awoke in 1984 after millions of years stranded, comatose, on Earth. He and his fellow Insecticons had jettisoned themselves from the Ark as it crashed, landing near Indonesia, where their computer systems gave them insectoid forms as their means of disguise. Though the Insecticons and the Decepticons were often at odds with one another, Sharpnel and his crew nonetheless served Megatron when it suited them. In 2005, Shrapnel suffered heavy damage in the Battle of Autobot City, and his fellow Decepticons, led by Starscream, voted to throw him -- and others -- out of Astrotrain's airlock on the return voyage.

Shrapnel was among the Decepticons who encountered Unicron in deep space. As part of Megatron's bargain with the demonic planet-eater, Shrapnel was rebuilt into ???