Forced into a tactical corner, Megatron met Blackarachnia at the Ark and forced her to grant him entry into the ship where he fired on Optimus Prime, unleashing a timestorm centered on the volcano.
The Agenda (Part 2)Ī year later, as part of a contingency plan, Megatron baited Blackarachnia with information on the volcano, resulting in her and Silverbolt digging into Megatron's old tunnel and the Ark. Though Megatron fully intended to complete his ancestor's instructions and slay the stasis locked Optimus Prime, he found himself unable to go through with the act, sealing up the cavern once again. When his Predacon namesake arrived on prehistoric Earth, he discovered the mountain and blasted his way in. The volcano's location was burned into the Golden Disk by Megatron. Terror of Mount Sheelah Beast Wars cartoon Bumblebee to the Rescue Despite the Ark having been stuck into the side of it, the Autobots had no idea what a volcano looked like. Hilary was part of the Arvins mountains range. The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation! The Battle for Planet Earth While excavating the ruins, they uncovered a stasis pod which emitted a strange radiation that brought forth a combiner team from an alternate dimension. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!! The Autobots set up a headquarters at the base of the volcano. Hilary, including a piece of metal with a Predacon faction symbol on it (though none of the Micromasters knew the symbol's significance). Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2 MicromasterĪfter a battle with the Decepticons, the Autobot Micromasters discovered ruins of Cybertronian origin at Mount St.
Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5 Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers mangaĪutobot Headquarters was located in Arizona.
A short time after the defeat of Unicron, the volcano was smashed into a pile of loose shale by Trypticon. This location served as the Autobots' headquarters until the construction of Autobot City. The Ultimate Doom, Part 2 At some point the Autobots installed an elevator up the interior of the volcano's main vent. The activity in the volcano ceased when Ironhide bravely drove in and blasted rock debris from the crater rim, plugging the shaft. Dinobots However, the volcano didn't erupt again until Megatron brought Cybertron into Earth's orbit, causing geological chaos. Tremors led the Autobots to uncover a cavern within the volcano containing fossilized dinosaur bones, leading to the creation of the Dinobots. There it rested until a volcanic eruption four million years later reactivated it and its inhabitants. The Ark crashed to Earth, smashing into a volcano. These were later used by the Autobot Goldbug to send a distress call Toy Soldiers! that was eventually received by the Autobot Headmasters on Nebulos. Child's Play The hole left behind still contained a variety of discarded machinery and communications systems. Under the leadership of Grimlock, the Autobots completed repairs on the Ark, Used Autobots and successfully relaunched it into space. These were hidden inside the rock face, emerging through sliding panels as they were needed. At one point, Wheeljack installed a number of automated gun emplacements around the volcano. Hilary would serve as the headquarters of the Autobots for the next few years. The explosion reactivated the systems aboard the Ark, which promptly set about restoring the Autobots and Decepticons on board. It lay undisturbed until the volcano erupted again in 1984. Roughly four million years ago, the Transformers space cruiser, the Ark, crashed into the side of the dormant volcano in Oregon not far from Portland.