Entry for cataradical‘s Ambulon fanbook, featuring the leg painting in his Autobot colors for the first time.
Flow is awesome and set it up so donations/purchases of the book go to charity, so if you have a little spare cash you want to give, keep a look out for the release in the next couple of weeks. 🙂
He was originally a Decepticon, but it became apparent pretty early on in his life that he didn’t really “fit” with the Decepticons- he didn’t like violence, spoke quietly, showed lots of compassion and kindness towards his patients… For the most part, the other ‘Cons didn’t mind his more pacifistic tendencies. Any medic that won’t harvest your organs while you’re recharging is a good medic in most Decepticon’s books.
Ambulon, on the other hand, eventually has enough of the excessive violence and killing that comes with being a Decepticon, and leaves to join the autobots. And he lived happily ever afte- ahahaha no I’m just kidding this is where it goes to hell.
So it turns out that due to his “criminal record” (ie. Being born a Decepticon), Ambulon isn’t allowed to practise medicine on Cybertron or any other planet in the autobot commonwealth. So, when he’s offered the chance to volunteer for some “medical experiments”, he quickly agrees, figuring that if he can’t heal people directly, he can at least help further the study of medicine.
Oh, Ambulon. You really should have looked more into what you signed up for.
It turns out that the “Medical experiment” is in fact the early stages of the “Protectobot” combiner project. Ambulon isn’t there to be part of the combiner, however- he’s there to be a guinea pig. He spends the next few years being poked and prodded at, undergoing several surgeries, and overall just being treated poorly by the staff due to his Decepticon roots.
When it’s all said and done, Ambulon is left with a host of mental and physical scars. He’s stuck with a useless alt. mode, and somehow the reformatting process left him unable to scan a new one. He eventually joins up with the lost light crew during their jailbreak from Cybertron.
Seriously, though, Ambulon could definitely use some more appreciation.
He’s a medic and an ex-Decepticon who joined the Autobots ten years ago. He can be a bit uptight at times, sure…
…but he’s a good doctor.
But his Decepticon past still haunts him. He was forced into becoming a test subject as part of a prototype combiner team, which left him stuck with a useless alt mode.
(Not that he lets that slow him down.)
And when he’s trying to convince Ratchet not to change form?
That’s his first reaction. Because that’s how the Decepticon hierarchy works.
I wonder how many times he’s had to do that before.
Even his paintjob betrays him.
And there’s no way he could have possibly known that the war was about to end, but there are probably some Autobots who still see him as just a ‘con who jumped ship when he saw which way the wind was blowing, and other such painfully mixed metaphors.
And even Drift still catches hell for his Decepticon past – you can’t tell me that Ambulon doesn’t.
Especially working with Pharma.
That probably didn’t make life very pleasant for Ambulon at all.
Like when Pharma’s trying to pin the blame for events at Delphi on someone? He picks Ambulon.
And oh, yeah. Where does he work? On Delphi. Delphi. Home of the D.J.D.
Y’know, the group of insane, psychopathic murders who’ve tasked themselves with hunting down traitors to Megatron’s cause and bringing them to “justice” in the most agonizing ways possible.
That D.J.D.
But Ambulon, haunted by his past, surrounded by those who have no reason to like him, on a planet that’s basically out to kill him, does his job, and he does it well.
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