Nathan Cole was just an ordinary man—a mechanic with a passion for machines and a mind for invention. But his life changed when an experimental alien artifact he discovered in the wreckage of a meteorite bonded with him. His body disintegrated, and when he awoke, he was no longer human.

Nathan was now a towering mechanical being with the ability to transform into a futuristic jet, a tank, or a sleek motorcycle. His mind remained intact, but his body was something out of a sci-fi nightmare. He had become something alien—a Transformer.