Strika

Strika is a proud Decepticon general who led the HYDRA division on Cybertron until it was decimated in a surprise attack by the combined forces of Saskana and Mazkertis. As one of the few survivors of the battle, Strika vowed to avenge her fallen soldiers and teamed up with the Red Lantern Perseus to track Mazkertis back to Saskana, where she became one of many to combat the wizard in the momentous Battle of Saskana.

After the battle, Captain Eurobeat showed Strika that HYDRA's leader, Figlio di Armechio, was responsible for releasing Mazkertis into the universe and was thus indirectly responsible for the deaths that Mazkertis had caused. Strika renounced HYDRA, but reaffirmed her pledge to her fallen friends by vowing to kill Mazkertis. To this end, Strika joined Captain Eurobeat and his crew aboard the Night of Fire in their crusade against the mad wizard.

Strika's alternate mode is a six-wheeled, heavily armored battle tank equipped with two cannons and laser shooters.

As a Herald of Unicron
In 150,080 CMT, Strika was one of seven Heralds of Unicron (the others being Blackarachnia, Galvatron, Obsidian, Razorclaw, Sideways, and Xaaron) who were summoned by the Fallen to kill Zev Raregroove and his allies, who were attempting to prevent Unicron from consuming BZPower. Strika and her allies disappeared into the seventh dimension and began to travel to their enemies' location, but their approach was halted by Tokimi, who used her powers of entropic balance to cause the Heralds' bodies to deteriorate. Though it was stated that this action killed all of these Heralds, Strika was still alive two years later - a discrepancy that has yet to be accounted for.

As a HYDRA Commander
In 150,082 CMT, Strika was one of numerous Cybertronians on Cybertron who had been swayed by Figlio di Armechio to join HYDRA. Turel selected her as a suitable candidate to lead HYDRA's Cybertron division and brought her to Figlio, whom Strika said she was honored to meet. Figlio voiced his approval of Turel's selection and officially appointed Strika as the leader of HYDRA's Cybertron division.

Ambush on Cybertron
In 150,084 CMT, a fleet of Dominion warships that had been commandeered by the Saskanan military emerged from a portal above the HYDRA camp. The Decepticons did not attack because they had been told that the Dominion were their allies, and thus were taken by surprise when the "Dominion" ships opened fire on them, bombing their munitions stores and administrative buildings. To make matters worse for the Decepticons, the Red Lantern Perseus arrived in the midst of the conflict and attacked both HYDRA and Saskanan forces alike. Strika drove up to Perseus in her tank mode and fired at him repeatedly, but he blocked the shots with his Kanohi Hau and slashed at Strika with a sword-shaped construct. She then transformed back into her robot mode and kicked at him. While Perseus dodged the kick and blasted Strika in the face with a laser, Mazkertis emerged from a portal and began to absorb the sparks of several Decepticons, establishing himself as another enemy of HYDRA on the battlefield. The laser fired by Perseus stumbled Strika, but she returned fire with her shoulder cannons. Concentrated laser fire from Strika's shoulder cannons broke through the forcefield created by Perseus's Hau, further enraging the Red Lantern.

Perseus reacted by firing blasts of concussive energy at Strika and flew over to Mazkertis's location to similarly attack the wizard. However, Strika shrugged off the blast and regained Perseus's attention by continuing to fire lasers at him, making sure to keep out of his melee range while doing so. This tactic worked until Perseus formed a cannon construct that blasted Strika in the side, sending her flying across the battlefield. Moments after Strika had recovered and climbed to her feet, Perseus tackled her into a wrecked building, saving her from a spell Mazkertis had conjured that sucked out the sparks of several Decepticons nearby. Strika wondered aloud what Mazkertis was, to which Perseus replied that he had no idea.

As Mazkertis escaped aboard one of the Saskanan battleships, Strika and Perseus decided to put their allegiances aside in order to investigate who Mazkertis was and what had motivated him to kill the Decepticons. Because Perseus's Red Lantern Ring could only transport himself through space, Strika and Perseus found themselves in need of a spaceship, but the solution appeared when Strika emerged from the building and noticed the corpse of Astrotrain, a Decepticon under her command whose alternate mode had been a spaceship. Strika explained to Perseus that they could transform Astrotrain's corpse into a spaceship if they powered up his transformation cog one last time, which she was sure was "what he would have wanted". Perseus helped Strika to excavate Astrotrain, who Strika then transformed into a spaceship that was large enough to comfortably fit them both. Strika and Perseus boarded Astrotrain and, once Strika had familiarized herself with the controls, she flew the ship into hyperspace, tracking the Saskanan fleet that had attacked Cybertron via a subspace trail.

The Battle of Saskana
Strika and Perseus followed the subspace trail all the way to Saskanan space, which was where the trail abruptly ended. In an attempt to pinpoint Mazkertis in the area, Strika checked the radiation readings that her sensors had recorded during Mazkertis's attack and used Astrotrain's sensors to scan for the same type of radiation, but the scan returned no results. Instead, Perseus told Strika to scan for CNA because Mazkertis had killed some of his Decepticon victims up close, meaning that he would have gotten some CNA on himself in doing so. Strika followed Perseus's advice and found that Astrotrain's scanners detected one CNA signature moving through the skies of Saskana. Strika immediately flew Astrotrain into the atmosphere and set a collision course with what she correctly assumed to be Mazkertis.

The Saskanan gunship that Mazkertis was travelling on swerved out of Astrotrain's path just in time. Strika spun Astrotrain around and fired a missile at the gunship, but Mazkertis gripped the missile with magic that caused it to crash harmlessly into the ocean. Despite Perseus's wishes to board the gunship and fight Mazkertis to the death, Strika asserted that to do so would be suicide and kept Astrotrain at a distance from the gunship, pelting the enemy vessel with laser fire instead. The Saskanan troopers manned the turrets and returned fire, but Strika manoeuvred Astrotrain around most of the blasts and destroyed the turrets with well-aimed laser shots. Suddenly, Mazkertis leaped from the gunship and onto Astrotrain's cockpit, forcing Strika to do a barrel roll to shake him off. Mazkertis lost his grip on Astrotrain, but used a spell to propel himself above the surface of the water and fired off a volley of destructive magic blasts at the ship, blowing off one of its wings and disabling its thrusters. While Astrotrain veered out of control and plummeted towards the sea, Perseus used his Lantern Ring to create a forcefield construct around Strika and himself to shield them both from the impact. Astrotrain hit the surface of the water, throwing Strika and Perseus against the forcefield construct, and began to sink with them both still inside.

Before Strika and Perseus could drown in the wreckage, Mazkertis rewound time in the area, repairing Astrotrain and lifting it above the surface of the water in the same falling position that it had been in a few moments before. Mazkertis then pulled Strika and Perseus out of the falling ship, telling them that he had "no quarrel" with them, but Strika made it clear that she had plenty of quarrel with Mazkertis because he had murdered most of her friends. Meanwhile, Blackout informed Baron von Budberg of Mazkertis's true nature, prompting the baron to order the pilot of his gunship to fire on Mazkertis. Mazkertis dodged the cannon blasts and hurled Strika and Perseus at Budberg's gunship, but Perseus used his Red Lantern Ring to stabilize himself and create a protective forcefield around Strika. As Strika bounced harmlessly off the gunship in her forcefield, Budberg leaned out and extended a hand to Strika and Perseus, inviting them aboard. Perseus used his Red Lantern Ring to drop Strika inside Budberg's gunship, but forwent climbing aboard himself in favor of continuing to battle Mazkertis. Budberg's gunship then retreated from the battle and touched down on a platform connected to a city-spire, delivering Strika and Budberg to safety while the Battle of Saskana continued to rage between Mazkertis and the various factions that had gathered against him and each other.

The Mazkertis Paradox
At the conclusion of the Battle of Saskana, Budberg provided Strika, Captain Eurobeat, the Full Frontal Fighting Force, and Niflheim with hotel rooms free of charge in return for their efforts against Mazkertis. Strika accepted Budberg's offer and stayed in the hotel overnight, but left her quarters early the following morning and emerged from the hotel onto a balcony, where she met Captain Eurobeat and struck up a conversation with him. It was then that Eurobeat dropped the bombshell that the leader of HYDRA, Figlio di Armechio himself, was responsible for releasing Mazkertis into the universe and was thus indirectly responsible for the deaths of Strika's friends. Though Strika was reluctant to believe Captain Eurobeat at first, he produced video footage of Mazkertis's release that convinced her of the truth. Shocked and enraged, Strika renounced HYDRA and its ideals, but vowed to continue to pursue justice for her fallen friends regardless. Captain Eurobeat reassured her that she was but one of many heroes opposed to Mazkertis, and that the pride she had in her friends would be useful in the war to come.

Three days later (Day 4 of The Mazkertis Paradox arc), Strika and Niflheim decided to team up with Captain Eurobeat to stop Mazkertis. The trio left Saskana aboard Captain Eurobeat's ship, the Night of Fire, and embarked on a search for the wizard.

Plea to the Reverie
Almost two months later (Day 56), Strika and Captain Eurobeat decided to recruit from the highest authority in the galaxy in their war against Mazkertis: the Galactic Government. Captain Eurobeat used a Void Manipulator-like device to open a portal to the orbital conference chamber where the 3784th Assembly of the Reverie was being held; specifically on the podium of Commander-in-Chief Akoran Zicks. Once Captain Eurobeat had flashily introduced Strika, Niflheim, Leviathan, and himself to the Reverie, Levi informed the gathered delegation of the threat that Mazkertis posed to the universe's timeline and asked for their help in stopping him. Unfortunately, the Reverie dismissed the notion of a wizard who could rewrite the history of an entire universe as nothing more than the ravings of mad doomsayers, and Levi's request was overshadowed entirely when Zicks ended the conference with the announcement that he intended to dissolve the Galactic Government altogether. Strika angrily asked Captain Eurobeat to take them somewhere else because their mission to recruit the Reverie had been futile, but before Captain Eurobeat could do, President Donald Trump of Earth called out to them with the "opportunity of a lifetime". Trump approached the allies and revealed that he knew that they had been telling the truth about Mazkertis because he had previously met Mazkertis himself.

Trump offered to lend Strika, Captain Eurobeat, Nif, and Levi the full support of Earth on the condition that they break into Supermax 282 and release three specific prisoners: Agent 47, the Joker, and Seeldier. Trump handed them the mugshots and identification numbers of these prisoners, who he promised would be of great use in the war against Mazkertis, adding that one could even locate anyone in the universe simply by thinking about them. Captain Eurobeat was reluctant to accept the mission because the men that Trump wanted him to free were "notorious criminals without any sense of justice", but Strika convinced him that it was worth his consideration because Trump was more powerful and influential than Project D, who had been ineffectual in their mission thus far. Strika also pointed out the hypocrisy of Captain Eurobeat despising amoral individuals when he recruited Nemesis, the self-proclaimed "lord of darkness and hate", into the Full Frontal Fighting Force. Captain Eurobeat admitted that Strika was right and opened a portal to Supermax 282 that he, Strika, Nif, and Levi then stepped through.

Raid on Supermax 282
Strika, Captain Eurobeat, Nif, and Levi emerged on Supermax 282 in the warden's office in front of the warden himself, Lemongrab, who immediately hammered a panic button on his desk and screamed for help. Strika muffled the warden's screams by grabbing his head, thereby pressing his face against the palm of her hand, and used her mass to block the entrance to the office, preventing the security forces that Lemongrab had alerted from entering the room. Once Lemongrab had calmed down, Strika released him so that Captain Eurobeat could brief the warden on their mission and explain how important it was that Agent 47, the Joker, and Seeldier were freed, but Lemongrab remained defiantly opposed to their presence in the prison and continued to scream. Frustrated, Strika punched Lemongrab in an attempt to at least knock him unconscious, but the force of the punch combined with Lemongrab's fragile structure meant that his head ended up splattered over the wall behind him. Strika had no regrets about killing Lemongrab because he had been an exceptionally irritating obstruction to their mission.

Because countless waves of prison guards stood between the allies and Cell Block D (the location of the three prisoners that they needed to rescue), Strika transformed into her alternate mode, a six-wheeled armored tank that transported Captain Eurobeat, Nif, and Levi through the prison. In tank mode, Strika spent the next ten minutes driving around the prison in search of Cell Block D with her allies as passengers, ploughing through walls and flattening countless guards in the process. Moments after she arrived in Cell Block D, she was forced to suddenly transform back into robot mode and eject her passengers when she noticed an EMP grenade land in front of her. Though the electrical explosion temporarily immobilized her, she recovered in time to fire a missile at a boxguard, destroying the last remaining threat in the area.

Strika volunteered to free Agent 47 from his cell, but she found that its bars were made of adamantium, a metal that was too hard for her to bend or break with brute force. Having been alerted to Strika's presence, 47 himself stepped forward and demanded to know who she was and who she worked for. When Strika revealed that President Trump had sent her to break him out, 47 agreed to assist her and informed her that the only way to open his cell was to destroy a power box at the other end of the block. However, 47 clarified that this would cause the locking mechanisms of every cell door in the block to fail, freeing all the prisoners at once. Strika warned Captain Eurobeat, Nif, and Levi to prepare for the release of the prisoners and and destroyed the power box with a missile, causing hundreds to be released from their cells who immediately rushed for the exits. Strika and 47 proceeded to wade through the crowds to Seeldier's cell in the hopes that he had not evaded them - she found that Captain Eurobeat, Levi, and Nif had secured Seeldier, but the Joker had blended into the crowd and escaped.