Windcharger was an "outlier": a Transformer who had some abnormal skill or attribute that had nothing to do with his alt mode. (He called them his "magic arms".) Functionists hate that crap, so he kept it secret and hung out at the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology, where Senator Shockwave had created a safe haven for outliers. Windcharger owed so much to Shockwave that he joined him and Orion Pax in a heist, risking his life against a Senate conspiracy; his magnetic powers were used to "fly" the thieves into the Primal Basilica to steal "the Matrix" (actually a bomb) without tripping any alarms. He also used his magnetism to stop the bomb falling when Ratchet accidentally dropped it. Sadly, his Academy home was destroyed and his mentor Shockwave brainwashed in an Institute branch