Spacehikers

The Spacehikers are a group of human children from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

From left to right: Jed Lindley, Daisy, Robin Lindley, Samuel "Sammy" Wainwright, Allan Silver.

The Spacehikers are a group of four children and a teddy bear who got swept up in the business of the Transformers. The Spacehikers include:

• Jed Lindley — A joker.
• Robin Lindley — Jed's little sister.
• Samuel "Sammy" Wainwright — Skilled faker.
• Allan Silver — Tends to worry.
• Daisy — Robin's teddy bear.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Jed, Sammy, and Allan went to an empty train yard to play Space Wars. Jed had to take his sister along to babysit. While playing, the sight of a police car driving by briefly forced them into hiding. Later, Jed spotted a motorcycle with no rider. The other kids thought he was playing another joke, so they followed him to prove he was right.

The kids were spotted by a mode locked Blaster who knew they were in danger from an impending Transformer battle. When the kids got close enough, Blaster chose to speak to them to warn them to leave the area. This only caused confusion amongst the children. As they were arguing, a thrown boxcar landed uncomfortably close to them which, of course, led them to go investigate. What they found was a heated battle between Defensor and Bruticus. Blaster spoke again, promising to protect them if they would remove the mode lock device. Against the advice of the other kids, Allan removed it and Blaster transformed. The children were scared of Blaster until he protected them from a falling electrical tower.

Bruticus then knocked Defensor out leaving only Blaster to face him. Blaster tried to talk his way out of a fight, pointing out that he was the Protectobots' prisoner and that he no longer sided with the Autobots. Bruticus ordered Blaster to kill one of the kids. Blaster fired his electro-scrambler at Sammy. The gun wasn't charged but a quick-thinking Sammy played along, faking getting shot and dying. The other kids acted like he was dead as well, which fooled Bruticus, distracting him long enough for Blaster to fry him with an electrical tower. To thank the kids for their help, Blaster took them for a ride into space in a mode locked Blast Off. Blaster rode in tape-player mode and controlled Blast-Off by radio signals. Child's Play

Once in space, the children began playing around, but when Sammy went near a hatch, Blaster warned them not to touch it, since it might suck them into space. The fun and games soon ended when they were attacked by a newly repaired Ark. Blaster engaged in evasive maneuvers, but knew it was only a matter of time before the Ark caught them so Blaster decided to surrender. Sammy decided to save Blaster from being captured so he opened the aforementioned air lock hatch and threw Blaster into space. Blast-Off and the Spacehikers were captured by Grimlock in the Ark. Wheeljack fitted them (including Daisy) with environmental suits with a two-hour air supply.

Grimlock sentenced them to death for collaborating with the traitor Blaster. Privately he told Snarl that he didn't intend to carry out the sentence, only to use them to lure Blaster into a trap. Grimlock forced the children to walk the plank into space with all of the other Autobots looking on but doing nothing to stop him. Only Wheeljack took action, contacting his buddy Sky Lynx and asking him to rescue them. Sky Lynx scooped them up in his jaws just before Blaster arrived, who caught a ride on a communications satellite. The Dinobots chased Sky Lynx into an asteroid belt then surrounded him, content to wait out Sky Lynx until the kids' two-hour air supply ran out. Blaster realized what Grimlock was up to and surrendered himself to save the children. Spacehikers!

After that confrontation was resolved, Sky Lynx and the children had some free time on their hands. They saw an advertisement for the Cosmic Carnival but didn't have the price of admission. Sky Lynx agreed to sign a contract allowing him to work as a performer to pay. The children were also held locked up in the side show. Sky Lynx underestimated the time it would take to work off the price of admission and wondered if they would ever be allowed to leave. Unfortunately, the children's cell was rigged to explode if someone tried to break in.

The Steelhaven was travelling back from Nebulos when they also saw the advertisement, this time featuring Sky Lynx. Optimus Prime and Goldbug went to investigate why an Autobot was in the show. There they discovered the human children. They eventually convinced the sideshow boss, Berko, to free the children in exchange for a ride back to Earth. The Cosmic Carnival

Sky Lynx returned the children to California but he didn't stick around due to a hostile crowd gathering. Monstercon from Mars!

Notes

• Jed named their group "Spacehikers" in the issue "Spacehikers!".