We did Optimus and Megatron, so just for the hell of it (and really who's reading blogs on XMas Eve Eve?) let's do a movie for my favorite Transformer: Jetfire! I was just going to do just one but then I thought to make it a whole trilogy! Because I can.
Long ago on Cybertron, Jetfire is a scientist who believes that the way to improve things for everyone is through better technology. One day, along with his assistant Starscream, he's testing out a new dimensional gateway thing that could let Cybertronians go just about anywhere in seconds. But during the test, some evil bots show up to steal its secrets. Jetfire manages to blow it up, but winds up being sucked through the gate way and winds up crashing on a distant planet called Earth. He's stranded in ice and goes offline for many, many years.
In present day, global warming helps to thaw Jetfire's location out enough that some scientists in the South Pole can find him. An engineer in the group tinkers around with Jetfire and finally gets him working. Jetfire talks to the human and learns where he is and when he is.
After a few days he takes a test flight--and runs into Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp. Jetfire really has no idea about the whole war thing, so he goes back to wherever the Decepticons are hiding out. He joins with the Decepticons, who task him with rebuilding his dimensional gateway to make it easier for them to get reinforcements from Cybertron.
But soon Jetfire starts getting skeptical about Starscream in seeing how he treats humans and stuff. Then some Autobots show up and while Jetfire helps to pacify them, Starscream is going to kill them. Jetfire defends them and Starscream threatens to kill him. It comes out that of course Starscream betrayed him all those years ago, arranging for the attack so he could steal the secrets. Jetfire got in his way then, but he won't this time!
They fight and dogfight and eventually Jetfire blows up the gateway, though again he's sucked through it.
Where will he land this time? Find out Monday...
(Fun Fact: This was pretty much the plot of "Fire in the Sky," the G1 episode first introducing Skyfire, the cartoon version of Jetfire, pictured above.)
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