Apelinq

Transformers character
name =Apelinq


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affiliation =Maximal
subgroup =Transmetal
Convention Exclusives
rank =9.5
function =Squadron Commander
partner =
motto ="Download this!"
alternatemodes =Transmetal Gorilla
series =Beast Machines
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Apelinq is a character from the Transformers toy series and comic books.

Beast Machines

Apelinq is a Maximal scientist and member of the Wreckers. He is a brilliant inventor, and created the miraculous Transfer Interlink, which allows him to download digital designs into reality. Apelinq is also the close associate of Rodimus Prime and Primal Prime.

Apelinq was on Cybertron when Megatron took over. Cut off from his comrades, Apelinq spent a long time thinking about Megatron's conquest. During this time, he witnessed the return of Optimus Primal and the crew of the Axalon, but did not realize it as they were in an Autobot shuttle. He later managed to locate the missing Rodimus, who was unaffected by Megatron's virus. Scanning Rodimus' Spark, Apelinq developed an antidote, which he used to inoculate the arriving crew led by Primal Prime. However, before he could complete the inoculations, he was knocked into the timestream.

Arriving in the midst of the Beast Wars, Apelinq watched from the sidelines as Optimus Primal and Megatron did battle. He later watched Point Omega, the battle that had been foretold for millennia, against the evil Shokaract. When the Covenant of Primus proved unable to defeat him, Apelinq charged into battle. As transwarp portals opened to take everyone present back to their proper time and place, Apelinq grabbed the immobile Windrazor before returning to Cybertron.

3H Enterprises

In his absence, Primal Prime had taken command of the Wreckers, and Apelinq met up with Optimus Primal once again. He then joined the Wreckers in departing Cybertron on the Oracle's orders.

According to , Apelinq later merges with Primal Prime to form Sentinel Maximus. in an attempt to stop Cryotek. This resulted in the creation of a Mini-Con known, depending on which version of Sentinel Maximus is talked about, as either Hyperlinq or Ape-Linq. In either form, Ape-Linq is a retool of the Mini-Con Rollout, partner to Overload, and is capable of taking Sentinel Maximus' operating system into himself or acting in a symbiotic relationship with the larger Sentinel Maximus.

Sentinel Maximus would subsequently be pulled from the Generation One reality into the Cybertron-reality by Vector Prime in an effort to prevent Nemesis Prime and Ramjet from destroying Primus.

The transmetal Optimus Primal toy would later be recolored into the Botcon exclusive Apelinq.

Fun Publications

Issue 16 of the Transformers Collectors Club magazine featured Primal Prime Apelinq and Cryotek on the cover.

Toys

*Beast Machines Apelinq:He is a BotCon exclusive repaint of transmetal Optimus Primal.