Dropkick

Dropkicks are a subspecies of semi-sapient Cybertronians from the planet Cybertron.

Biology
While also being a subgroup of Decepticons, Dropkicks consider themselves a species unto themselves.

Anatomy
Dropkicks share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, except they transform into Cybertronian flatbed trucks.

Powers and abilities
Dropkicks share many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.

Culture and society
Dropkicks are traditionally used as transport drones. However, there is evidence suggesting that they seemingly played a key role in the early days of the Great War, as they were used by the Decepticons during energy raids to transport both warriors and stolen fuel.

Certain Dropkicks are regarded as a body-type of Terrorbot drones created by the Quintessons. These Cybertronians are specifically manufactured as haulers.

Primax 984.17 Alpha
Nine million years ago, a fleet of Dropkick transport drones accompanied Megatron as he approached a dockside warehouse where a young Autobot named Orion Pax under the pretense that he was simply looking for a place to "store his wares". Once he was told that the site only stored energy, Megatron dropped this pretense and orders the Dropkick transport and warrior drones to transform into attack. After personally blasting both Orion and his girlfriend Ariel, he ordered the Dropkick warriors to terminate the warehouse's other workers.

Sometime later, while the Dropkicks engaged Omega Sentinels and the newly-arrived Optimus Prime, the transport drones prepared to remove the stored energy from the warehouse. However, what they did not count on was the presence of some time-traveling Aerialbots determined to stop them at any cost. Their exit blocked by some of warrior-type Dropkicks, these five heroes nonetheless risked their own lives and detonated the stockpiles, thereby destroying the warehouse.

Primax 509.28 Epsilon
A group of Elite Guardsmen were searching for Shadowcaster's base when Onslaught spotted a suspicious truck carrying large crates. One of the crates was knocked off as the truck rounded a corner, and the unlucky Dropkick warrior drone was left to face the Combaticons on his own.

Primax 215.19 Epsilon
The Dropkicks were a body-type of Terrorbots that were used by Dynamic Energon Distilleries to haul cargo and energon to different locations. Gnashteeth and Scorponok re-appropriated the DED fleet to steal the plant's Energon when they broke away to start their criminal enterprise. A covertly purchased warehouse now full of Energon was enough to get the Darksyders started.

Years later, Gnashteeth (now Megatron) used the Dropkick drones in a trap to snare his rival Cryotek. Posed as statues in Megatron's private residence, Cryotek's invading gang had no idea they were surrounded until the Dropkicks activated and tore through the Minions of Unicron.

Alternate history
Several transport-type Dropkick drones deployed to fight back against Gozer but were ultimately destroyed by the interdimensional invader in the guise of a giant Starscream.