Rube

Rube is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.

Rube is a Renegade. He converts to a black Mercedes 300SL With Crossword, Zig Zag, Pocket, Jig Saw, and Tic Tac, he can form the mighty Puzzler.

Fiction

Timelines

In Gargent 984.08 Alpha, Rube was but a mindless drone, built from a modified Earth car to enable the Renegades to engage with the Guardian combiner Courageous. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/15

During the Diaspora, the Puzzler team escaped to Level 16 with the Fossil Lords. Cultural Appropriation

Renegade Rhetoric

During his exile in Axiom Nexus, Cy-Kill came across the abandoned base of Alpha Trion where his acolyte Topspin had replaced the sparks of several key TransTechs with their lowtech counterparts. The original sparks were kept in cold storage at the base, and found by Cy-Kill and his Renegades. Along with technology stolen from Shockwave, Cy-Kill brought the sparks back to his home reality. Renegade Rhetoric, 2015/10/21 Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist, 2015/12/05

Cy-Kill discovered the means of using these "positronic energy matrices", as he called them, to bring life to his old Puzzler drones by encasing them in a laser containment field and animated by Space Lightning drawn down by the Rogue Star and its Stellar Fulminator Rod. What's more, each new Renegade had access to Mighty Skills as a result of their unique origins. Rube, who came from the spark of Scavenger, demonstrated Super Sense, detecting even the slightest tremor in his area.

The Renegades schemed to ambush and destroy the Power Warrior Courageous with their new combiner advantage. Monsterous was openly deployed to rampage through Philadelphia, with the hope of drawing out the Guardians and then having Puzzler attack from the opposite side, flanking Courageous when it arrived. Unfortunately, the Guardians realized Cy-Kill's plan after he liberated the wreckage of Puzzler from Gobotron. They kept Rube from reaching Courageous, leaving Cy-Kill with only Monsterous and a one-legged Puzzler. The Renegades retreated in embarrassment. Six Heads are Better than One

Rube had the toughest time out of all of Puzzler's components fitting in with the Renegades. On a scouting mission outside UNECOM, he was repeatedly mocked by Crain Brain for his foolishness. When he saw Doctor Blanco (a fledgling alchemist and the target of their surveillance) being mocked by reporters, Rube saw a kindred spirit and broke from the mission to confront Blanco. He offered an alliance with the scientist to show the world that laughed at them what they could really do. Blanco agreed, and departed with Rube.

They traveled to Texas A&M to acquire an Optical Wavelength Field Inverter which Blanco needed to complete his matter transmutation ring. The Guardians confronted them, but Blanco and Rube managed to escape. They were tracked down again by the Guardians and Cy-Kill's Renegades. The fighting escalated beyond Cy-Kill's interest in sustaining it, so he grabbed Rube and the Renegades retreated. One Born Every Minute

The Renegades planned to interrupt the tri-planet alliance treaty on Quartex. Using the power of Puzzler, Monsterous, and the newly activated Nemesis, the Renegades overpowered the Guardians' two combiners, Courageous and Fossilsaurus. Combiner Wars Part 1 Once they regrouped, however, the Guardians and their allies came up with a plan to defeat Cy-Kill's combiner advantage. Combiner Wars Part 2

Ask Vector Prime

To be part of his Thirteen Great Demon Generals, Bio Ranger Iga collected Puzzler's components from Gargent 1184.10 Gamma and permanently fused them into Puzzler. While the individual components didn't take kindly to the process, Puzzler swore loyalty to Iga for his continued and unbroken existence. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/15

Echoes and Fragments

As Sideways and Gong played havoc with the walls of reality, the Renegades launched an all-out assault on Autobot City on Earth. Later, after the combined Renegade and Decepticon forces fled Earth onboard Astrotrain, Zero disposed of Megatron and declared himself the new leader. The Puzzler troopers objected, and attempted to claim command with their Mighty Robot gestalt. Zero was nevertheless successful in the end, and the Puzzlers blew trumpets at his coronation later that night. Echoes and Fragments

Go-Bots comic

Rube was among Cy-Kill's Renegade Go-Bots that caused chaos in a human city. Go-Bots #2

Notes

• The Puzzler team's names all seem to be based on types of puzzles, but some are more obvious than others. "Rube" might refer to the Rubik's Cube, which had come out six years earlier. Or, more of a stretch for the puzzle theme but more of a direct match for the name, it could also be based on the idea of a Rube Goldberg machine.

External links

• Rube at TFU.info