Hundreds of years ago, the Autobot Kup has given up the fight. Suffering from an acute case of "combat fatigue", he can no longer fight the same way he once could in his youth. As a "retirement", Kup took to wandering the stars, alone in a spaceship, waiting for permanent deactivation to eventually take him. Cured of his combat fatigue, Kup returned to Cybertron and the war with his new friends, eager to teach Hot Rod a thing or two about how a real warrior fights.