Knowing that only Alpha Trion could save her, Prime searched for the ancient Autobot, who knew that only Optimus's power supply could properly interface with Elita's. In the Earth year 1985, Elita One was captured by the Decepticons to lure Optimus Prime into a trap, but expended all her energy using her stasis powers to save Prime from death by acid. Over the course of the next four million years, after Optimus Prime, Megatron and their troops were lost on Earth, Alpha Trion acted as a guide to Elita One's guerilla team of female Autobots. He also rebuilt Pax's girlfriend, Ariel, into Elita One. He had been working on a way to rebuild Autobots into configurations truly designed for battle, and was convinced to first employ it on Pax, who was rebuilt into Optimus Prime, to whom Alpha Trion gave the Matrix. When Megatron attacked an energy warehouse, fatally injuring several young Autobots, including one named Orion Pax, the time-displaced Aerialbots searched for help - and they found Alpha Trion. The Decepticons killed the current Autobot leader, and Alpha Trion gained possession of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, hiding it away until the next leader emerged. The consumer goods robots renamed themselves the Autobots, but their product line brothers, the military hardware robots, redubbed themselves Decepticons, and, lusting for power, began a civil war. Eventually, the Quintessons were forced off the planet, and an age of peace began. A-3 returned in time to activate the Coda Remote device hidden within his Autobot symbol, deactivating the Quintessons' Dark Guardians and turning the tide of the war. At first, A-3 thought the future Transformers were still Quintesson slaves until the Autobots saved his life. Due to an attempt by a Quintesson in the year 2006 to alter history, A-3 was temporarily transported to the future, while a group of Autobots travelled back to his time and helped in the pre-arranged attack on the Quintesson city. He is " a first generation product of Vector Sigma." Once known as A-3, he spearheaded the rebellion against the Quintessons, turning their 'slave brand' into a symbol of freedom.
Īlpha Trion is a self-sacrificing character in the Transformers story. He is the appointed guardian of Cybertron. The modern-day Alpha Trion is voiced by John Stephenson. The young Alpha Trion, as he appears in War Dawn, is voiced by Corey Burton.
John Stephenson, Corey Burton (in "War Dawn"), Tony Pope (in "Forever is a Long Time Coming")Ī-3's voice, as heard in Forever is a Long Time Coming, is supplied by Tony Pope.