Americon

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"I will bury the Autobots... IN AMERICA!"

Americon's purpose within the Decepticons is to help them better understand American culture and help facilitate information warfare against the USA. Rebuilt and re-educated, Americon is now capable of actually fulfilling that function to at least some degree. However, while he has never shown signs of disloyalty, his odd, American-centric behavior can still be disconcerting to the other Decepticons. Now a triple-changer, Americon has twin blasters in robot mode, a sharp beak and talons in bald eagle mode, and a teeny little zapper in tape mode. Americon is far from the best fighter the Decepticons have, but he has numerous redundant systems which allow him to continue fighting despite enormous damage.

History
According to scuttlebutt, Soundwave created Americon to be a American cultural analyst, loading his memory banks with information and history relating to the country. However, Soundwave supposedly botched this effort after accidentally consuming some contaminated energon, which put him into a semi-delirious, drunken state. By the time he recovered from this delirium, he had somehow completed work on Americon. Few dare ask Soundwave if the story is true, however. That suits Soundwave just fine, since the story is true and he's very embarassed about it.

The resulting Decepticon was less than inspiring. He constantly screwed up missions and once even accidentally helped Kup escape obliteration at Soundwave's hands. His odd personality was also of concern to Soundwave. Eventually, Soundwave had enough and decided to take Americon apart and try to reassemble him into something useful.

Soundwave tried rebuilding Americon to have a different primary mode--an eagle--but found that his modifications had only succeeded in giving him a new, seperate mode in addition to the ones he already had. No matter how many hours Soundwave labored, the communications officer couldn't completely get rid of Americon's robot mode components. He realized would have to scrap the whole body and start over from scratch if he wanted to do that.

Frustrated and baffled by the mechanical mess Americon was becoming, Soundwave stopped modifying him while he was still ahead, and instead subjected Americon to some incredibly intense re-education. This at least appeared to succeed in making Americon more dedicated in achieving his tasks and a little more aware of his surroundings. Whether or not Americon will redeem himself with his new abilities remains to be seen.

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