Later, a weakness of the ad hoc nature of the Headmaster partnership became apparent. The Headmasters largely stayed in the background during most of the Autobots' subsequent adventures, though Fortress Maximus remained a major player in the events leading up to the Underbase catastrophe. Rejuvenated by their leader's attack, the Autobots soon drove off the Decepticon Headmasters. With Galen killed while separated from Fortress Maximus, Spike demonstrated that it was possible for an organic to control/communicate with the larger robot's form with only the control helmet, as he took control of Fortress Maximus with nothing more than Galen's control helmet. Doing so, however, exposed Fortress Maximus's partner Galen to attack, and he died saving the Earthling, Spike.
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During the battle, Fortress Maximus and Scorponok both used their smaller Headmaster components to travel through an increasingly tight series of tunnels.
The two squads of Headmasters soon faced off again on Earth, in a battle inside the cave that had previously held the Ark. Brothers in Armor!!Įn route to Earth, Fortress Maximus was rebuilt into a larger form, with two Headmaster components: a small robot that transformed into his head, and his partner Galen, who now became the small robot's head. Fortress Maximus and his band soon left Nebulos for Earth, with the Decepticons in pursuit.
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Realizing that his mind was being re-written by Scorponok, Zarak used the last shreds of his sanity to free the Autobot Headmasters. Love and Steel! The Autobot-allied Nebulans were taken captive and strung up in a suspended animation prison, while Scorponok's Headmasters rampaged across Nebulos, leaving Nebulan ruins and Autobot corpses in their wake. Luring Fortress Maximus's team into an ambush, Scorponok and his fellow Headmasters Mindwipe, Skullcruncher, Weirdwolf, Apeface and Snapdragon soon defeated their foes, blasting them unconscious, which caused their heads to disconnect and return to humanoid form. The Decepticons reluctantly accepted the possible benefits of this cooperation with organics, and six of them underwent the Headmaster process, with Scorponok bonding to the Nebulan Lord Zarak. Now under Nebulan control, the Headmaster Autobots easily repulsed the Decepticon attack, despite being outnumbered two to one. Five volunteer Nebulans underwent radical reconstructive surgery to allow them to bond with the five Autobots, including Fortress Maximus, Brainstorm, Hardhead, Chromedome and Highbrow. The technology was implemented under dire circumstances, as the Nebulan capital city of Koraja was under siege by Scorponok's Decepticons, who sought the surrender of five Autobots held in Nebulan custody. The resulting Titan is known as a double-Headmaster. Sometimes a duo of Headmaster partners can jointly pilot a larger city-sized body. In conversation, the term "Headmaster" can apply to both the small partner (the head) and the significant other (the body). Most can continue to function as vehicles without their partners, but can do little in robot mode besides stand around. The Headmaster process leaves its subject Transformers with one glaring disadvantage: when separated from their partners, they have no head. Agility, reaction speed, and targeting accuracy are often enhanced by the process. When it occurs between two sentient beings, the benefits of the Headmaster procedure are many: The partner gains control of a larger, more powerful body, and the Transformer gains an extra perspective on the battlefield, the psychic binary bonding involved allowing him to draw on both his own ideas, tactics, and instincts as well as those of his partner as quickly as if they were coming from his own head (since they are). Headmaster bonding typically occurs between two sentient beings, but there have been cases in which the head or the body (such as the Transtectors or the Sunstreaker clones created by the Machination) is a non-sentient construct controlled entirely by the other partner. Headmasters are a type of symbiotic variation on the Transformer lifeform in which a smaller being, frequently but not exclusively organic, transforms into the head of a larger robot.
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