Some jewelry name names named Bludgeon then took over the Decepticons and began to plan to betray the Autobots who had since entered into a predictably failing alliance with the Decepticons. As the planet-sized avatar approached them, Crankcase began the process of launching the Lost Light, which was to take off again, escaping the destruction that Primus caused at the last minute. Crankcase recovered an unconscious Krok whose face had been destroyed by Vos; the group agreed to fix Krok, set out to Cybertron, and use Grimlock, who turned out to be almost brain-dead, as a negotiation chip when they got there. Anyway, Optimus Prime gave a really long and self-important speech, took some nick-knack he found lying around and managed to forge the evil planet-bot. A few months later, Crankcase made arrangements under the pseudonym “Grumpybox” to meet personally with “CONS4EVA” and arranged a rendezvous on Earth. Scorponok revealed that he had tapped the power of splendour to create an organic creature he called the “firstborn”, driven by the extracted sparks of deceptics. Crankcase was imprisoned indefinitely in the brig of the ship, Kill All 'Cons, but was finally released; since he was not supposed to go anywhere else, he became a member of her Ragtag crew, who called himself “Scavengers” and became a de facto pilot of the Weak Anthropic Principle. After a brief misunderstanding, “CONS4EVA” revealed his true form as Dire Wraith and told Crankcase that he was on his own spiritual quest and sought his help to conduct a religious ceremony known as “crossover” in the hope of starting a new life. Two-stroke engines two-stroke crankcase compression engine crankcase compression Many two-stroke engines use a crankcase compression design where a partial vacuum pulls the fuel-air mixture into the engine while the piston moves upwards. Of course, as he suspected it would happen, the guy did not take it friendly to be retrieved, and instead beat Crankcase and his compatriots, commanded their ship and had the bright idea of attacking the ark. Looking at the figure in more detail, there are two main parts of the crankcase, a box like structure on the right and a curved structure to the left, as seen from the front of the engine. Arm the lonely during the Great War, he joined the Decepticons; on the planet Frayus he was sent to the conclave of the camp and received his Decepticon regalia during a ceremony chaired by Megatron. Crankcase (with his head un-smoothed by an idiot) was dragged with to Hydrus Four, where Bludgeon had the lame idea to use nucleon to revitalize their old commander. Stormbringer #2 When the reanimated superweapon Thunderwing invaded and began to ravage the planet prematurely, the Decepticons made a symbolic attempt to stop him; Crankcase was quickly trampled by the monster in the following battle. Natural Selection, part three Scorponok assigned Crankcase to guard the Civil Defense Hub next to Roadblock, Runamuck, and the Gene Key-stained Guzzle, but they were surprised by Grimlock's resistance group and Crankcase was shot down by crosshairs, although the Autobot only shot to disable and not kill. After some amazing revelations relevant to other people, Crankcase and the Scavengers joined forces with Nautica's friends Rodimus and the former crew of Lost Light. Some of my best friends are Autobots In the next few years Crankcase joined The Big Conversation, a Decepticon social networking website, and established a relationship with the user “CONS4EVA” — ignorant of Crankcase, “CONS4EVA” was really a Dire Wraith, a pacifist style that didn't fit his ruthless comrades. Crankcase, once a geeky collection of circuits and servos, began his life as a menial caretaker in the Fuel-Spill section of the Ministry of Energy and Nutrition on Cybertron. Another Time & Place Transformers comic magazine Crankcase and the trigger cons were hired by the trigger bots and sparkabots as they attack one of the many cities on earth. Crankcase was under the command of this steam-brained megatron millions of years ago on Cybertron, but they couldn't even beat up a bunch of pipe cleaners pacifists. Rules of retreat Either way Crankcase was traumatized by experience and fought for some.