Elita One

Elita One is a devoted Autobot and a powerful warrior, fearless in the face of the enemy, but compassionate to those who need her help.

When the rest of the Autobots abandoned Cybertron to search for the life-sustaining Energon needed to revitalize their home, Elita One became a renowned resistance leader, a female counterpart to Optimus Prime. She leads the Female Autobots in a desperate gamble to keep Cybertron out of the hands of the Decepticons. This often brings them into conflict with Shockwave, the Commander of the Decepticon forces left behind on the planet. She is the wielder of a great special power: the ability to stop time through the creation of a field with a fifty foot radius around her. Sadly, this ability drains all of her life force and is thus almost assuredly fatal, leaving her to only use it in the most dire of situations.

The Past
In the warning days of the Golden Age of Cybertron, a simple dockworker named Ariel was one of many Cybertronians assigned to work at an Energon Storage Facility. During her time there, she had a relationship with another 'Bot named Orion Pax and shared a good friend with him in their colleague Dion. Among the many developments brought fourth during their lifetime was the invention of flight, which fascinated Orion and Dion to no end. However, as mere dockworkers, they didn't have much expectation of seeing the results in action themselves anytime soon.

A short time later, Ariel met one of the Cybertronians with the ability to fly, Megatron, whom Orion had gone to greet outside the storage facility. Chaos followed soon after, when Megatron suddenly ordered for his transport drones to attack and aimed the first shot at Orion. In the midst of the assault, Ariel ignored Dion's plea to not interfere and tried to stop Megatron from further harming Orion, only to be gunned down herself by the Decepticon. Fortunately for them, their remains were later delivered to Alpha Trion; who first rebuilt Orion Pax into the first of Cybertron's new defenders: Optimus Prime. At Optimus' request, Alpha Trion agreed to try reconstructing Ariel. While Prime went to confront Megatron, Alpha Trion successfully rebuilt Ariel and dubbed her "Elita One."

Elita One fought against the Decepticons bravely for the next few million years up until the day when the Autobots prepared to leave Cybertron aboard the Ark. Wishing to join Optimus, Elita attempted to board the starship and was confronted on the matter by Prime himself. Their argument came to an abrupt end when the Decepticons bombarded the area surrounding the Ark, killing many Autobots and apparently Elita One along with them.

Transformers Robot Defenders
Unknown to both the Autobots and Decepticons, Elita One had managed to survive the blast and assumed command over a group of Female Autobots left behind to defend Cybertron from the Decepticon forces commanded by Shockwave. Among this resistance was the Autobot warrior Arcee.