

Siloedīringing Shadow Striker with him, Shockwave arrived in Earth's orbit with two magnetic disruptors, which he intended to use to cleanse Earth of organic life, thus making their search for the AllSpark a much simpler one. When Starscream and Shockwave later spoke to Slipstream, the former swore to demote her while the latter ordered her to repair Earth's space bridge so he could take command of Earth-bound operations. Shockwave then attempted to use Windblade's safety, who was busy fighting off Seekers in the real world, as leverage for the Ark's location, but Bumblebee merely disconnected. Though the ruse had some initial success it ultimately failed owing to Bumblebee's unshakable faith in Optimus Prime. When it was learnt that the Autobots Bumblebee and Windblade were using a cortical psychic patch, Shockwave hacked in and forced Windblade out of the session, assuming her likeness and guiding Bumblebee to fabricated memory designed to convince him that both he and Optimus Prime were Decepticon double agents. When the AllSpark had been tracked to Earth, Slipstream was dispatched to find it and the missing Ark. Some 66 million years later, Shockwave remained on Cybertron even as the Decepticon fleet searched for the AllSpark. Megatron Is My Hero Learning of Megatron's master plan, the Autobots sent the AllSpark off Cybertron via a space bridge. Shockwave's drones then detected Bumblebee spying on them prompting the cyclopean scientist to dispatch Starscream to deal with the scout. As the war wound down, the Decepticons had captured Vector Sigma which Shockwave was tasked with using to reprogram the AllSpark so it would birth a new generation of Decepticons.
