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Colonel Mike Franklin is an officer in an unnamed branch of the United States military. He has cool shades.
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Years ago, young "Mikey" Franklin went on a fishing trip to the Green River Rapids with his father. The boy was accidentally pulled in, with the current moving too fast for his father to retrieve him. Ultimately, however, the Transformer known as Evac came to his rescue. This instilled a desire to understand the creature that had saved his life, and Franklin began a lifelong pursuit of this knowledge. He immersed himself in studies of sightings of strange vehicles and beings, and later joined the United States military to have access to classified information. Revelation Eventually, he worked his way up to a position where he could launch his own investigation; though the president thought this was a waste of money, she still provided the necessary funding. Family
Sightings of the Earth-dwelling Transformers turned his attention to the town of Rockville, Colorado. Hidden He began to closely watch Coby Hansen, his brother, Bud, and their friend, Lori. Collapse In addition, he made contact with Dr. Lucy Suzuki, who had discovered artifacts that ultimately turned out to be remnants of an earth-dwelling Transformer civilization. Race He then tracked down the Hansen boys and spied on them as they were discussing a race their Autobot allies had participated in. Detour
Suspecting Dr. Suzuki knew something about the Transformers, he secretly followed her to the Arctic, where he witnessed Crosswise being released from the ice. Trust When Starscream attacked, he organised a blockade to prevent civilian humans from being caught in the crossfire, and once again met up with Dr. Suzuki. Trap
Soon afterwards, during the appearance of Starscream's army of Ancient Decepticons, he took the people living in Rockville into government custody, and tried to learn the location of the Autobots' base from the children, only for them to be saved by the Recon Mini-Con Team. Franklin also observed a battle between the Autobots and Starscream's Decepticons, and noticed that there was a significant tactical difference between the two groups. Invasion
Franklin would soon after reveal himself to the Autobots Retreat, where he explained his story and was finally able to properly thank Evac. Revelation He presented himself as a friend, and used his contacts to mobilize part of the military in an attempt to help the three Transformers who would become the Cybertron Defense Team after they sustained near fatal damage from Megatron. During this time, when a blast of the Omega Frequency arrived from the Omega Lock and reformatted the three, Franklin arranged for the base's receiver arrays to trace the signal, allowing the Autobots to find Starscream's secret base. Critical Franklin became an indispensable ally, and Earth's main representative to the Transformers.
When the Autobots and the kids returned to Cybertron, Franklin led a force to Starscream's island base, but found it deserted and devoid of anything useful. Darkness
After the kids returned to Earth, the president called him up to admit she had been wrong about his secret Autobot research. Around the same time, Lori contacted him via Dr. Suzuki in the hope he would persuade her and Coby's parents to let her go to Gigantion. To Lori's dismay, they both argued that this simply wouldn't be safe; however, they were quickly overridden by Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine, who all appeared and argued in the kids' favor. The pair then watched the Autobots and kids riding off on the space bridge, Franklin mulling on youthful enthusiasm and determination. Family
During the Autobots' absence, he and Dr. Suzuki could only watch as the Unicron Singularity continued to slowly manifest above Earth. City The two later observed Primus's efforts to contain the black hole from the Autobots' base. Challenge He also attempted to contact the Autobots, but was unable to do so as they were in another universe at the time. However, just as he was giving up, a space bridge opened between Gigantion and Earth, allowing him to get in an encouraging message. Showdown
After the Autobots returned to their own universe, Col. Franklin and Dr. Suzuki contacted them to tell them about catastrophic events on Earth due to Galvatron's influence on the Unicron Singularity. Franklin then co-ordinated the civilian Autobots' rescue operations for a while, but soon decided that what they were doing was ineffectual, and told them all to get to Cybertron and stop the problem at the source. Homecoming In the meantime, he and Dr. Suzuki evacuated the people of Earth to areas where they would presumably last a little longer in the event of planetary explosion; after that, they could just wait and watch. End
In the aftermath of the conflict, Franklin was appointed Earth's representative at the first interplanetary peace conference. He proposed sealing the Cyber Planet Keys away; however, Optimus Prime suggested that instead of hiding them, they instead take them to the far corners of the universe and expand the space bridge network their ancestors had started.
Franklin also struck up a relationship with Lucy Suzuki, which culminated in her proposing marriage to him—after mistakenly believing he was proposing to her first. Years later, the two married and had a child together, and were in attendance at Coby and Lori's wedding. Beginning
