pharma

brief information about pharma

Pharma is the medical director of Delphi, an Autobot infirmary located on the planet Messatine. Despite being a haughty control freak, he is recognized as an excellent doctor. He hates the Decepticons with a passion, but seems willing to take self-preservation a bit further than any good Autobot would do.

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In the early days of the war, Pharma and Ratchet were friends and colleagues at the Deltaran Medical Center. She also worked at the New Institute, where she treated Tumbler after the mnemosurgeon was injured when Overlord attacked the facility. Pharma and Ratchet accompanied the team that arrested Roadbuster for his brutal murders of their cadets, though they were only able to save the life of one victim: Hubcap. In the early 2000s, Prowl's orders caused Ratchet and Pharma to go their separate ways, with the former being ordered to go to Earth and the latter being asked to go "to Delphi of all places". Pharma intended to say no until he heard that Ratchet was going to be deployed and tried to ask his friend for advice, only to see that instead of saying goodbye, he snuck away while his back was turned. With Delphi serving as an obvious target, given its location within the territory of the Decepticon Justice Division, Pharma was forced to make a deal with the division, providing its tarn-obsessed leader with transformation gears in exchange for the facility's security. The deal worked for a time, as Pharma extracted gears from patients who could not be saved, and business continued as usual at Delphi: though for Pharma, "as usual" included such incredible feats as performing a four-way fuel pump transplant while being one of the donors. The night after the surge, Pharma found First Aid reading Wreckers: Declassified instead of working, and ordered him to check out Roulette.

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Over time, Tarn's demand for transformation gears began to increase, and Pharma found himself first sacrificing struggling patients and then outright murdering others to meet his quota. Knowing that he could not simply run away without facing repercussions from either the DJD or the Autobot High Command, Pharma saw the closure of Delphi as his only way out of the deal, and so developed a transformation-triggered plague that he could anonymously unleash to bring Delphi to its knees. Pharma hired the Genericons Sonic and Boom to infiltrate Delphi and spread the plague; when they arrived, claiming to be seeking asylum, Pharma deliberately misidentified them as Monoformers in order to lower his fellow Autobots' vigilance against them and ensure there would be no trouble by placing them in a cell together. Once ensconced in the same cell, the pair detonated a "sound bomb" laced with Pharma's virus, infecting all who heard it; Pharma had intended to protect himself by entering a CR chamber, but seeing that they were all occupied, he was forced to take refuge in Delphi's quarantine chamber, which automatically closed, locking him in. Thinking he could escape once everyone was dead, Pharma soon had other problems to deal with: Ratchet, Drift, and Pipes arrived to investigate Delphi five days later, having received a message from First Aid, and freed Pharma from the room.

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In order to avoid being discovered, Pharma quickly freed (Genericons) Sonic and Boom and ordered them to kill everyone, only for the two Decepticons to be destroyed by an angry Fortress Maximus. Pharma attempted to blame Ambulon, but Ratchet and First Aid quickly discovered the truth. His corruption detected, Pharma triggered a life support machine and escaped through a secret tunnel into a CR chamber in the resulting chaos, but Ratchet pursued Pharma and was able to infect him with the virus, prompting him to produce the vaccine he had developed. The two combatants' battle took them to the roof of the building, where Pharma ended up falling off the edge, clinging to his life, unable to use his jet mode to fly to safety without activating the virus within him. Pharma attempted to shoot Ratchet in the back, but was thwarted when Drift suddenly appeared and cut off Pharma's hands, sending him to his presumed doom. The Autobots did not seek out Pharma's body, though Ratchet soon found a use for the traitor doctor's two remaining fragments: to replace his own worn-out hands. Pharma, meanwhile, survived his fall. He was found by Chief Justice Tyrest, who used him to test the universal kill switch developed to eliminate all Cybertronians who were cold-forged. As Pharma was famously forged, Tyrest was able to prove that the switch would not work on the likes of him. Arming the Loner In return, Pharma gained a new pair of hands with capabilities far beyond those he had lost, and the use of Luna 1's medical bay.

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Following the arrival of the Lost Light, Pharma sarcastically (and figuratively) offered Ratchet a hand after the Decepticons blew up the medic from his MARB. The Fecund Moon Having knocked Ratchet unconscious, he informed Lockdown that he was returning to base to open his "present". There, he revived the Autobot medic, showing off his new hands that could turn into anything, and taunted him by repeatedly asking him to guess what was in a large box. When Ratchet refused to play the game, Pharma gleefully revealed that the box contained Ratchet's body, and that he had reduced his former friend to little more than his head and sparkplug casing. Pharma tortured what was left of Ratchet for a while, though Ratchet refused to scream and give Pharma any satisfaction. Ratchet asked Pharma if the act was revenge, and Pharma replied that while he had initially wanted revenge, Ratchet's theft of his hands at Delphi had taken it to a whole other level. Pharma had not attempted to retrieve the hands, despite the infirmary being an embarrassment of reclaimed technological wealth. He feared that Ratchet had booby-trapped them to explode. Sensing a weakness, Ratchet challenged Pharma to a duel, to see who of the two was the better medic, with the winner getting to keep the hands outright.

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Unable to resist a decisive contest, Pharma reinstalled Ratchet into his body, starting a race to see who could be the fastest at stitching together the robots that had been cut in half. But instead of a "useless Decepticon", Pharma had Ambulon and First Aid taken from Lost Light. Ratchet pleaded to stop the race, but Pharma was committed to the game. Ratchet quickly told the two medibots to reroute their nerve circuits away from their waists to minimize their pain, however, Pharma outwitted Ratchet and cut Ambulon in half, lengthwise, with a chainsaw. Leaving Ratchet to fruitlessly attempt to revive Ambulon, an impossible task, Pharma rushed to the control room to salivate over the universal kill switch. When Rodimus and the crew later stormed the control room, Pharma shot Brainstorm before he received a request from above to stop firing, due to the large pistol Rodimus had aimed at the Chief Justice's chin. Pharma was unaffected by the high-frequency signal that Tyrest subsequently used to incapacitate everyone else. Once Tailgate disabled the signal, Skids took over Pharma. When given the chance, Pharma used his new hands to break free from his restraints and run towards Tyrest's portal to Cyberutopia, only to find that he couldn't get through the guilt-sensing force field. Pharma offered to surrender himself to First Aid, but enraged by Pharma's presumption, the Autobot instead blew Pharma's head off.