Transformers The New Dark Age
Dai Atlas streamed through hours of data comprised into minutes.
He stood on an altar shape that was in the wastelands of Luna one, a portion of the moon that hadn't been reconstructed into bombs and weapons factories.
His hands sat on top of two blue glowing orbs.
Nightbeat and Star Saber stood behind him.
Nightbeat had her arms crossed and she was leaning on a broken pillar.
Star Saber was looking at a holographic image on his wrist and was swiping at it every so often.
Dai Atlas looked up to see Cybertron rising in the horizon, and the star of the solar system Hadeen (literally) rising on the opposite side.
"Sunder's peak is nearby, massacre number-sT37 happened there, but there should be another mapping post beneath the surface there as well." Said Star Saber.
"Good." Said Dai Atlas pulling his hands back calmly.
"Any useful information?" Asked Nightbeat.
"Only that the entire planet of Velocitron has been sold into the hands of the Galactic Council." Said Dai Atlas.
Nightbeat grimaced at what he said.
"What happened to the inhabitants residing on the planet?" Asked Star Saber.
"It doesn't say." Said Dai Atlas stepping off the altar looking map post.
It powered down and the blue orbs magnetically connected to slots on the ground.
"Road burn is still in captivity isn't he?" Asked Nightbeat.
"The Humans still presumably have him in custody as a..." Dai Atlas trailed off.
"We know." Said Star Saber.
"That's all it said about him on this mapper?" Asked Nightbeat.
"Unfortunately yes." Said Dai Atlas.
"Each one we find has even less info than the one before! We're running out of energon... It-it can't get any worse, can it?" Asked Nightbeat.
"It can. But it also could get better. Fate is something no one understands, whether it exists or not, something controls our past present and future. We just stay strong and prevail over the Decepticon forces." Said Dai Atlas.
"Dear Primus!" Said Star Saber throwing his arms in the air after seeing something on his hologram that was projected from his wrist. "D-Go, and Red Hot were just captured by the Galactic Council! Sonic Bomber just messaged me this, and it's closer to home this time."
"The Council is getting reckless. I thought they would know by now that the Decepticons are no match for them!" Said Dai Atlas putting two fingers on his forehead.
"We don't want a war starting with a species other than our own." He said.
"Maybe there's hope... If we can make contact with the other Autobots down on Cybertron." Said Nightbeat.
"NO." Said Dai Atlas. "Thunderclash puts everyone in danger. Involving ourselves with him will end us all."
"Even his own personal guard left him for us!" He said.
"And Blacker. What was his reasons?" Asked Nightbeat hesitantly asking.
"He just wanted offworld." Said Star Saber.
Nightbeat nodded a little disappointed.
"We just can't have any contact with Thunderclash, no matter how much we need the Elite Guard." Said Dai Atlas.
Cybertron - New Iacon City -
Deathsaurus walked down a hallway with Deathcobra and Jallguar trailing him with their blasters armed.
Up ahead was a glass door with a shadowy figure standing on the other side.
Deathsaurus showed no emotion on his face but one of pointlessness.
The glass door slid open with Soundwave and a striped Decepticon standing in the frame.
Deathsaurus's eyes trailed downward where he saw the striped Decepticon was handcuffed.
He rolled his optics to face Soundwaves.
"What is it you need? A weapon? A servant? Your own fortune? Or a companion?" Asked Deathsaurus.
"I am only here to question your motives and deliver a prisoner and two extra test subjects." Said Soundwave.
Deathsaurus raised his metal eyebrow.
"Are they worth being tested on?" Asked Deathsaurus.
"One is a great Autobot leader, and the other is a field warrior." Said Soundwave.
"Okay, hand them over... And what is your question? Because... At the moment I'm at a loss of motives." Said Deathsaurus.
Soundwave stepped forward-"The unusual weather, is it your doing?" Asked Soundwave.
Deathsaurus just stood there staring at Soundwave.
"I sit admiring the downpour of condensation. But I only admire natural rain." Said Deathsaurus."it is not I who causes this, go seek another."
Soundwave looked down at his chest where energon bled.
"Perhaps it would be wise to receive special care by one of your doctors." Said Soundwave putting his hand to his chestplate.
"Very well, we in this city always display hospitality to Decepticons in need." Said Deathsaurus.
Deathsaurus signaled Deathcobra and Jallguar to retrieve the striped Decepticon.
They took his arms and tugged him away toward the deluxe prison cells.
Autobot base in Kaon-
Highbrow sat staring at a monitor.
His spark was pulsing.
His face showed nothing but worry.
All the life signs on all the teams went out.
His joints were frozen.
He reached for a button to contact the next in line to lead the Elite Guard.
Thunderclash was dead.
Scissortail, Backstreet, and Vroom entered the dark room with Highbrow, Fixit, and fizzle.
"This is... This is something Thunderclash planned in case he and his teams died." Said Highbrow.
"Code black." Said Backstreet.
"It's time to choose a new leader." Said Highbrow trembling a little.
"Let's be wise here." Said Fixit.
They all decided.
It was a hard decision.
But a smart decision.
A split command, a council of sorts.
Between all of the Autobots in the dark room.
Their first act as leaders is to move the position of the base to become more hidden.
It's their only choice.
New Iacon City-
Thunderclash opened his optics.
"Where am I?" He asked.
His arms were chained to the wall behind him.
Energon stained the walls. Dried though.
It was dark except the light shining from his eyes.
He looked around.
Next to him, Broadside sat in stasis also chained to the wall.
Thunderclash groaned as he tried moving.
Then he noticed a piece of metal patched across a wound he didn't know he had.
'Wait. Before, before I went offline, I remember being outdone by Soundwave... And killed!?'
"Unknown energy signature emitting from kill wound." Said Thunderclash's built in computer.
The pain of being stabbed through the spark was coming back.
Thunderclash gritted his teeth.
'this is impossible!'
Suddenly light filled the room.
If Thunderclash could he'd block the blinding light from hitting his optics, but he was chained down.
Instead he closed them.
"Are you online yet?" Asked a girls voice.
Thunderclash opened his optics to see a light blue/ almost green Decepticon standing in front of him with a tray full of energon cubes.
"De-Decepticon? Why are you-?" Thunderclash asked.
"I'm only meant to make sure your online and get you this." She said.
She reached over and unlocked his restraints.
Suddenly when she unchained him he grabbed her throat!
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Where are we?" Asked Thunderclash.
"N-new Iacon, that's all I know, I don't know anything else!" She said.
"That's quite enough." Said a deeper voice from the shadows.
"Leozack?" Asked the girl.
A shadow cast down onto Thunderclash from behind.
Suddenly Thunderclash was forced down onto the ground with a swift kick!
"Get your hands off my sister!" Said Leozack.
Thunderclash struggled to get up.
"You may not know what happened to you. But I suggest you look in a mirror." Said Leozack.
"Lyzack, go get the guest a mirror." He said.
Lyzack rushed out of the room to get one.
"What's happening?" Asked Thunderclash.
"Things you don't understand yet, but you will soon. I'm gonna be soft on you, you'll know why soon, it's stupid pops rules... But who cares." Said Leozack.
Lyzack ran in with a glowing mirror.
Broadside groaned himself online.
He wasn't fully there yet though.
He stared into the darkness.
Thunderclash yanked the mirror out of Lyzacks hands.
She backed up quickly.
Leozack grinned.
On Thunderclash's chest was a Decepticon symbol.
He looked over and saw one on Broadsides shoulder.
"You should've died from what I heard." Said Leozack.
"Let's go prepare for the gathering, sis." Said Leozack.
Lyzack cheerfully followed him out of the room.
Soundwave sat at one end of a golden table.
Deathsaurus sat at the other end twiddling longingly with a golden plate.
"Y'know, to give full treatment to my people, I experimented with energon. I created different types of it. I literally refined it so much I could mold it into whatever shape or form I wanted it be in. I even gave different flavors and colors to it." Said Deathsaurus.
"At one point I thought that we were all trapped in this city, so I had miner Vehicons dig down to create an underworld. But then the catacombs they had created were flooded with radioactive and unstable energon from the depths of the core. I had my best scientist try and figure out what was going on with it, and why it was coming from the core... Turns out Cybertron is dying."
Soundwaves optics widened.
"Do you not care what happens to Cybertron?!" Asked Soundwave.
"At this point I no longer care. So no." Said Deathsaurus.
Soundwave pushed back in the chair he was sitting in and stood up.
He smacked his hands on the table.
"You-" Suddenly a group of Decepticons entered the room.
"Soundwave, meet my family." Said Deathsaurus.
All the Decepticons waved and took their own seats.
Deathsaurus pointed to a light blue Decepticon-"Leozack."
Then he pointed at a green Decepticon with rotor blades on his back and a helicopter cockpit on his chest-"Deathcobra."
Then at a dark blue Decepticon with a cape covering everything but his head-"Felbat."
Then at a red Decepticon with chrome wings-"Guihawk."
Then at a black and red Decepticon with wheels on his legs and shoulder cannons on both shoulders-"Jallguar."
Then at a light blue and greenish female Decepticon with wings on her back-"Lyzack."
Then at a tan Decepticon with tank treads on his legs and horns on his head-"Killbison."
Then at a dark aqua blue Decepticon who had a drill hanging on his back and tank treads on his legs-"Drillhorn."
Then finally at a dark green female Decepticon with no transformation features-"Esmeral, my wife." Said Deathsaurus.
"You take part in a lot of human culture. Eating energon that has a form other than a cube, marriage, family?! You disgrace Cybertron!" Said Soundwave. "You won't even save it!"
Soundwave walked out of the room.
"What was that about?" Asked Leozack.
"Don't concern yourself with Soundwaves motives." Said Deathsaurus.
"He's visiting us! We need to show hospitality no matter what!" Said Lyzack.
"Yes, we do not want a war starting between our two governments do we?" Asked Felbat just sitting still in his chair, and forever enclosed in his cloak.
Deathsaurus put his hand to his chin.
"If you really want him back, I guess we could talk about what he wants to talk about and agree with him, but it doesn't mean we'll do what he says." He said.
Felbat smiled an eerie smile, and Leozack held up his communicator that's on his arm.
"We agree to talk about and acknowledge everything you want to talk about." Said Leozack into his communicator.
Soundwave came back in.
"I am not one to act like a sparkling, but your decision to leave the dying of Cybertron alone disturbs me." He said sitting back down.
"I did not mean to make you feel like a sparkling, Soundwave. If you want to talk about the restoration of Cybertron however, I recommend speaking to Thunderwing in Cyberplex on Luna one." Said Deathsaurus.
Soundwave stared at each Decepticon in the room.
"Then let's talk about what happened five hours ago." Said Soundwave.
"What happened?" Asked Deathsaurus.
"An Autobot attack on my supply transport barge." Said Soundwave.
Underground five hundred miles away-
Metalhawk opened his eyes to darkness.
'I-I thought I died, I thought everyone died.' He thought.
He raised his body and tried adjusting to the darkness.
"Is this the Afterspark?" He asked aloud.
"Funny, I thought the same thing." Said a voice.
Metalhawk turned on one of his visor lights and pointed it to where he heard the voice.
It was Over-Run.
He had a sharp end of a rock sticking through his chest.
"But then my pain receptors kicked in after the shock." He said.
Metalhawk ran towards him.
Energon was spilled all over the ground as Over-Run stood mounted on top of the the sharp rock, which was two feet off the ground.
"Over-Run, are you okay?" Asked Metalhawk.
"Yes in fact it feels like I can just slide off this rock and kill Gigatron right now. No I'm not okay!" Yelled Over-Run.
"I feel big regret but I don't know what it's for or against!"
"Calm down!" Said Metalhawk.
Metalhawk tapped a button on his arm and his Pretender suit split in half like a foot step splashing in water.
The Pretender suit fell over as he stepped out.
He opened a compartment on his nonPretender arm and pulled out a saw.
"Wh-what's that for?" Over-Run asked nervously.
His faceplate retracted on his face.
"I don't need any of my limbs cut off do I?" He asked nervously again but with his voice amplified a little.
Metalhawk raised his saw in the air.
Over-Run clutched his eyes closed.
Metalhawk sawed off the end of the spike.
"Wha-oh..." Said Over-Run.
He fell down but still with the spike in his chest, he just wasn't hanging on the rock anymore.
"Don't feel stupid, for all we know we could have fallen hundreds of miles down, an impact like that will do something to you." Said Metalhawk.
"But then why don't you feel the same?" Asked Over-Run.
"Who landed on a spike and nearly bled out?" Asked Metalhawk.
Metalhawk bent over and shoved the spike out of Over-Run's chest, sharp end first.
A gaping hole was left, but it was nowhere near his spark.
"That needs to be patched up." Said Metalhawk.
He looked around a bit more to see if he could see any more of his comrades... Or the Decepticons that also fell down here.
In the distance he could hear the sound of water pouring down like a waterfall in a cave.
But it wasn't water, it was acid tough enough to melt through Cybertronian armor. Regular armor that is.
"Over here!" Yelled another Autobot.
Metalhawk heard and ran over.
He saw Big Bang, Firestar, and Drift standing in a circle near a cave wall. And another Autobot but... "Machtackle?!" Metalhawk shouted sounding suprised.
Machtackle stood in the middle of the circle.
"How are you alive... And why are you two combined?" Asked Metalhawk.
"It's a short story. The impact crushed our legs, so to walk we combined." Said Machtackle holding his hand out in an explanatory way.
Metalhawk sighed.
"Where's Over-Run?" Asked Big Bang.
"Not far behind us." Said Metalhawk.
"Is he okay?" Asked Firestar.
"He's in no condition to move, he needs a major patch up, possibly one involving a C.R. chamber." Said Metalhawk.
"Well then how are we going to escape this dark landscape?" Asked Drift.
"We could carry him." Big Bang suggested.
"It's an idea." Said Metalhawk. "Do we still have that tarp that we used to protect ourselves from the acid?"
"No. It was ripped to shreds in a very shreddy looking area." Said Big Bang.
"Then pulling Over-Run with the tarp is out of the question." Said Metalhawk.
Firestar put her head in her hands.
"I really need to get back to base, there's someone I need to take care of there." She said.
"Flare-Up?" Asked Metalhawk.
"She's my sister. I've cared for her since she was built, I've trained her how to fight, but she still has much to learn. If the Insecticons go there... And we're too late.." She trailed off.
"It's okay, we'll get out of here." Said Metalhawk.
"If only there was an ancient civilization that has lived down here for millions of years that would see our peril, take us in, and help us get out of these caves and canyons." Said Drift twirling his sword with his fingers.
Everyone looked at him.
He is definitely the odd one out.
But then all the stares became intense.
Drift kept twirling his sword.
Suddenly a creature dove down from above him and tackled him!
It's body was covered in sheets of metal, and beneath those were bundles of circuitry.
It was clearly Cybertronian.
It's eyes glowed green.
"It's a cyberfox!" Yelled Machtackle.
He charged at it with his fist!
But before he could touch it it was sliced in half by Drift!
Green energon splattered everywhere and all over Drift.
"Gck!" Drift said spitting out some of the energon that had fallen in his mouth.
Suddenly five more beasts sprung from the shadows!
"Take defensive positions!" Shouted Metalhawk.
Everyone stood up and took a stance.
'Wait a second. Over-Run!'
New Iacon City-
"HOW DARE YOU MENTION THE AUTOBOTS!!!" Yelled Deathsaurus standing up above everyone in the room.
Soundwave backed away and pushed his chair over.
He was silent.
"PEACE HAS ALWAYS STOOD HERE IN NEW IACON, EVEN MENTIONING THE AUTOBOTS COULD END IT ALL!!" Yelled Deathsaurus.
Soundwave aimed his shoulder gun at him, then suddenly when he did that everyone pushed aside their chairs and aimed their guns at him.
Two Decepticons guarding the doors aimed their guns too.
"If you take action to that name as I do names from several generations ago I understand." Said Soundwave.
Deathsaurus looked around at his family and the guards.
His face indicated that he's calmed down.
"Do not mention anything about Autobots to my people. You understand?" Asked Deathsaurus.
Soundwave nodded, probably understanding more than Deathsaurus thought he did.
"But if I may ask, your military force... Do they know?" Asked Soundwave.
"If you're about to ask what I think your going to ask, then yes they do know, of course they know, if an attack were to ever happen, we'd have to be prepared. But I'm afraid I can't supply Dinokind or Monstructor to you." Said Deathsaurus.
Soundwave looked at Deathsaurus intently then looked down at his former wound.
"Then I will go see Thunderwing on Luna One." Said Soundwave.
Deathsaurus's face became grim but at the same time sort of relaxed.
"Well then... Enjoy your stay in New Iacon."
Kaon-
A red and blue motorcycle and a blue jet flew across a flat environment.
Behind the red and blue one was being dragged a trailer.
A trailer big enough to hold extraction tanks.
They fell to a stop suddenly.
The two vehicles transformed into Override and Dogfight.
One of Overrides motorcycle wheels shifted into his backpack while Dogfights wings spread like a cape on his back.
Their Autobot symbols shone brightly in the dark.
In the distance lightning flashed in the sky.
The trailer split in half revealing three other Autobots and two extraction tanks.
"Landshark, Windsail come over here and help scan for the Sparks." Said Override holding his hand to his mouth to broadcast his voice.
"Pipe down Override." Said Landshark who was colored in a dark brown and grey with thin towering cannons rising from his shoulders.
"This area could have Decepticon scouts luring around, this is the area where Brainstorms lab was destroyed."
"Well th-this place kinda f-freaks me out." Said the third Autobot from the trailer-Ironfist.
"Sure does, Brainstorm came back missing both his hands." Said Windsail. "Least what I've heard is all."
Ironfist shuddered, but then he opened up a laptop, disguised by a briefcase.
The holographic keyboard lit up and the keys floated up toward Ironfist's fingers.
He started doing calculations on the computer and scanning the area.
A small satellite rose up from the trailer.
"This'll let us know if any baddies are coming our way on the radar." Said Ironfist.
Dogfight and Windsail knodded back at him and started sweeping the ground with scanners.
Silence for the next twenty minutes...
"I can't believe Thunderclash is dead." Said Dogfight.
"Sudden wasn't it... But I guess it was expected." Said Override.
"I say it was all a stupid idea!" Said Windsail in a very angry voice.
"Sounds like you've been keepin' anger in about that little event... Anyone you cared about on that trip?" Asked Landshark.
"It's none of your concern!" Said Windsail.
"Hey ay!" Said Landshark. "Fer one, keep your voice down, second, don't talk to me like that again."
"All of you, quiet down." Said Ironfist. "The radars picking something up."
Everyone froze.
Several flashes of lightning lit up the sky.
"I-it could a turbofox.." Said Dogfight.
"Then it's one big turbofox." Said Ironfist, he twisted the computer their way. "But I know they don't travel in packs this big."
About sixty red blips blinked on the monitor forming a circle around them.
Alone a turbofox could bring a bot to the ground in a single pounce and rip out your insides in a single swipe of the paw.
But these weren't turbofoxes.
Suddenly something emerged from the shadows and stabbed a sword through Windsails chest! Everyone reacted and pulled their guns out of their holsters then aimed it that way!
Windsail fell forward and onto the ground in front of them.
A yellow and blue Decepticon stood on top of him ripping his sword from his spark.
"No no no no no no!" Dogfight muttered.
"This can't be true!" Said Landshark who was nearest to Windsail.
"Oh but it is Autobot. Since your border base went down we've been entering by the hundreds." Said the Decepticon.
"But how did you slip by our scanners?!" Ironfist stammered.
"Easy, we just use the corpses of your comrades from the base to build shields for your scanners." Said the Decepticon.
Five other Decepticons emerged from the shadows.
They had the looks of Terrorcons. They must be.
It's Blot, Rippersnapper, Sinnertwin, Cutthroat, and Hungur!
They could easily combine to form Abominus!
They surrounded them.
But their had to be more than just them.
"Commander Weirdwolf, may we?" Asked Blot who was a dark purple, mixed with a slightly lighter shade of purple bot.
"Well, we didn't come over here just to talk." Said Weirdwolf grinning.
All the other Terrorcons grinned too, even while some of them having mouthplates it was still noticeable.
The Autobots shook in fear.
"Wait a sec, we're the Elite Guard, men! We show em' we ain't gonna back down!" Shouted Override.
The Terrorcons lunged for him first, but then they were tackled on the way by Dogfight, Ironfist, and Landshark!
Landshark punched Rippersnapper's face shattering his optic visor to shards!
Rippersnapper pulled back a sec but then attacked Landshark back transforming into the one thing that Landshark can't transform into: irony - Rippersnapper landed on top of Landshark in his shark mode and started biting into him!
Dogfight was immediately surrounded by Cutthroat and Blot and swiftly beaten down to the ground.
Ironfist turned from seeing his friend die and saw the Terrorcon leader standing in front of him-Hungur.
Hungur held up a sword and a shield and charged toward him!
Ironfist froze in fear, his joints stiffened.
Hungur's sword was nearly toward his spark.
Suddenly Override jumped in the way, shoving the sword away and shouting-"RUN!"
Ironfist backed away a little.
Hungur's sword cut the side of Override's chest and shoulder before he was able to get completely out of the way! Phe turned to face Hungur.
He held up his gun and started firing at Hungur.
Hungur blocked his shots with his shield!
Suddenly Hungur lifted his shield up and jumped at Override!
Override stumbled backward and onto the ground.
Hungur's shield stabbed into the ground!
"No!" Yelled Ironfist.
Suddenly the ground was ripped apart and was filled with fire!
Metal panels from the surface and shards of the two Cybertonians caught in the explosion flew in all directions with streams of smoke following them!
A red and blue panel sheet with an Autobot symbol on it fell beside Ironfist.
"The Sparks.." Ironfist whispered.
Rippersnapper looked up from chewing into Landshark and saw a half exoskeleton half armored Cybertronian lying in front of him. Energon bled from his single optic and the other half of his mouth.
He was completely on fire, but his colors still shone, grey and purple, the Terrorcon leader Hungur.
Rippersnapper transformed quickly and picked up his mortally damaged leader.
"This place is filled with land mines!" Said Blot picking up Dogfights right arm with energon dripping from his teeth.
"We gotta get outta here!" He said.
Weirdwolf looked skeptical, but then he called off the attack-"everyone retreat!" He shouted. "And take the trailer with us!"
Suddenly a bright colored helicopter and a light blue jet flew over and launched cables down to connect to the trailer.
The Terrorcons and Weirdwolf climbed onto the trailer and hooked the cables into good magnetic holsters.
Rippersnapper pulled Hungur into a safe spot on the trailer as Weirdwolf held his hand up to signal one of the airborne Decepticons to carry them away.
Ironfist crawled over to one of his friends that hadn't been completely mauled: Landshark.
Landshark lay against a rock holding a bite mark on his chest.
He looked up to see Ironfist stumbling over.
"This was supposed to be an extraction mission." He said.
"I know." Said Ironfist.
"This was never supposed to happen." Said Landshark.
"I know." Said Ironfist.
"They could've lived, Ironfist." Said Landshark.
Ironfist looked back to see Override missing all his limbs, Dogfight had a hole in his chest and one of his arms and legs were missing, likely taken for souvenirs. Ironfist looked at the piece of Override he'd recovered. Override was slowly burning to a crisp.
Then he looked at the sword wound on Windsails chest, he was more motionless than the rest.
"I know." He said.
New Iacon-
Thunderclash paced around the prison cell.
Unfortunately he couldn't free Broadside from his bonds, but at least Broadside was awake now.
There was no way to shatter the bonds either, and the doors looked like they wouldn't budge even if a meteor flying at mach ten.
Broadside just stared emotionlessly at the small square window that was at the very top of the cell door.
The only objects in this cell was a plate where energon cubes would go, and a plain silver box.
Thunderclash had lifted it up to examine it, and it was almost weightless.
It had several layers of designs on it.
It was imprinted with pictures of a star on it with rays beaming from it.
It didn't make sense though.
"So we're at a Decepticon prison in Iacon, where you say they say the live in peace?" Asked Broadside.
"Yep." Said Thunderclash.
"And we're Decepticons now." Said Broadside.
"Yep." Said Thunderclash.
"Why though, why did they slap those stupid symbols on us? This goes beyond hating Autobots, it's wanting a friend but 'oh hey they're an Autobot, so let's make them a Decepticon so I can actually stand them!' What's with that?!" Asked Broadside.
"We'll find out as soon as I get us out of here." Said Thunderclash.
"What's that box? The silver one?" Asked Broadside.
"I don't know, but I think it's worthless." Said Thunderclash.
"Can I see it?" Asked Broadside.
"Sure." Said Thunderclash.
He bent over, picked it up, then tossed into Broadsides held out hands.
He started examining it himself.
Thunderclash watched him with the hope he'd see something he didn't.
"Neat designs." Said Broadside.
"You seem bright and happy Broadside. You even sound younger." Said Thunderclash.
"You should hear yourself, I thought you were the one sounding like you just got a new replacement everything." Said Broadside.
"Really?" Asked Thunderclash.
Broadside nodded.
"Soundwave was talking about a new world for Cybertron, where it'd only be fifth generation Decepticons. Maybe this is his way of sparing us?" Said Thunderclash.
"Mayb-" Broadside suddenly stopped talking. He looked down and saw his hands were trapped within the sides of the box.
"Uh... Help." He said.
"What the?" Asked Thunderclash.
He leaned down to touch it but his hand merged with it too!
"Uh... HELP!!" He shouted... Wait he's in a Decepticon prison, that is beyond sad. That can never be mentioned to anyone.
Suddenly the box melted down as if it was liquid metal and in their hands, together they held the Matrix of Leadership!
"What the heck!?" Shouted Thunderclash.
Broadside looked mesmerized.
The Matrix wasn't glowing blue though... It was glowing purple..?
It's stored In a weightless box?
He tried letting go, but he couldn't, it was stuck to his hand!
"Can you let go? Is your hand stuck?" Asked Thunderclash.
"Nu-nope. It is stuck." Said Broadside.
Suddenly Thunderclash's body started transforming and so was Broadsides!
Purple spikes extended from their arms shoulders and legs!
Their paint schemes turned grey, black, and purple! Their eyes turned purple too!
Then finally so did their minds.
Then they combined...
"So Soundwaves decided to leave and visit Thunderwing?" Jallguar asked Doryu.
"Me's thinks sounds can't be wave or Thunders be's a wing... But... Why sounds wave leave to see a thunders wings?" Asked Doryu.
"Why did I even ask you a question like that?" Asked Jallguar face palming himself.
Leozack walked by him and patted him on the back mid-facepalm.
Jallguar looked up to see Leozack hand signaling him to follow him.
Doryu fell to the ground on his butt and started punching the ground... Typical Dinobot.
The Breastforce members were gathering in a warehouse deep within the city.
The Breastforce is a name they sort of decided on to keep secret from Deathsaurus, their dad.
They had to go through ten lanes of traffic to get to the special alleyway.
A Vehicon stood guard at the entrance of the warehouse.
Leozack dragged Jallguar in through the door as Jallguar stared at it.
"Man, I swear that class is everywhere." He said to himself.
Inside was a group made up of- Killbison, Drillhorn, Deathcobra, Guihawk, Felbat, and Lyzack.
The name Breastforce was first came up because they had all received gifts from Deathsaurus himself... They were all cassette beasts.
But instead of transforming into weapons or power boost, they transformed into chest armor and weapons.
Weapons ranging from swords and shields to missile launchers and flame throwers.
"So why're we here?" Asked Felbat.
"To talk about that 'thing' that happened two hours ago, and Soundwave, and especially the Autobots he talked about raiding his base." Said Leozack.
Everyone stared at him waiting for everything to begin.
"We're waiting for-" the entrance door opened and in came SOUNDWAVE!?
"Ah here we are." Said Leozack.
Everyone gasped.
"I thought you left!?" Said Drillhorn speaking up for everyone unable too.
"Your brother offered assistance to me since I am in need of help. He said a small portion of you will be able to escort me to Luna One and back down to the Sky Barge to help fend off the Autobots." Said Soundwave.
Everyone looked at Leozack now.
They held in their anger of him getting them a job they weren't expecting.
But it was a job they were needing.
Felbat crossed his arms-"kay, so why're we meeting here and not the hangar ports?"
"Because we need to know who's going and who's staying." Said Leozack.
Everyone looked at each other.
They chatted, played Rock Paper Scissors ( An Earth game of decision ), and they argued.
They looked at each other again then at Leozack and Soundwave.
"Your definitely going aren't you?" Asked Lyzack to Leozack.
"Yes, of course." He said.
"Then I'd like to go." Said Drillhorn.
"Me too." Said Felbat.
"And me." Said Guihawk.
"And so'll I." Said Jallguar.
"A-and I'd like to go too." Said Lyzack.
Leozack waited for more but that was it.
He looked toward Lyzack.
"You can't go. You'd be out of your environment." Said Leozack. "And at least three of you have too stay. You Killbison, and Deathcobra."
She looked down at her feet.
"Ok." She said meekly.
"Then we know who's going and who's staying." Said Leozack. "Wasn't that pleasant?"
Some of them were still mad, but some nodded.
"That wasn't pleasant, but it will do." Said Soundwave.
Everyone was herding out of the warehouse.
Lyzack looked back at it for an instant then continued following her family.
They were all halfway down the street when they heard a loud explosion!
"What was that?!" Asked Deathcobra looking around.
The traffic froze.
Decepticons everywhere looked up.
A cloud of smoke rose from the detention center.
It was up in flames!
Screams were heard.
Something emerged from the smoke and flames of the detention center.
Nothing but a shadow, until it revealed itself to be a purple and black robot with a Decepticon symbol on its chest!
Purple flames emanated from it.
It pulled a sword from its back and held it in a stance.
But it was a savage beast nevertheless.
It stood on a balcony that extended from the detention center that hadn't caught on fire.
It looked down at the city.
It saw cars crashing into each other then transforming into their robot modes.
They all looked up to see it standing there with the burning detention center behind it.
It was almost unrecognizable, but Leozack saw the legs were made up of jet wings and car wheels, the head had two visors, one below the other. And it had a head crest that had a hint of blue mixed in with the black.
The wheels were spiked, the chest had a jet cockpit in he center of it, and it had black metal panels lined up on its chest that had bolts lined up on the side, but were colored silver, a chrome color.
It had wings extending on its back, but also a sword holster.
This was an unknown Decepticon.
No known Decepticon in the city looks like that, and seeing as it just broke out of the detention center, Leozack could guess it was somehow something to do with those two Autobots. Somehow.
Inside the cockpit on the chest something glowed prominently.
It glowed purple.
It was the Dark Matrix.
There was no denying it.
Suddenly the cockpit Windows on the chest sealed over with a metal cover.
The Decepticon looked around the city.
Then it jumped down, transforming into what looked like a heavy cargo / assault shuttle.
Suddenly the Dinoforce started turning corners around the street.
As far as they were concerned, they were the police that kept order.
They included: Doryu, Goryu, Kakuryu, Gairyu, Yokuryu, and Rairyu. They could combine into Dinoking.
But the problem with them is that they're... They're plain stupid. Compared to a rock, the rock could beat them in an understanding game.
They charged it's way as it was transforming into its robot mode.
It stood in midair and stared their way.
It aimed it's sword at them as they started combining to form Dinoking.
A ferocious black lightning blasted from the sword!
As they combined together forming the legs and chest, the Lightning crashed into the ground in front of them causing a ginormous explosion!
Shrapnel lifted off the ground then turning into molten shrapnel, then desintagrating!
The blast vaporized everything in the way.
But Dinoking rose from the smoke and flames.
He wielded a sword and stood in a stance aiming the sword back at the rogue Decepticon.
They stared at each other.
The Dinoforce might be more stupid than any rock in the universe, but they knew how to fight, especially in combined mode.
They charged at each other.
Is a sudden clash the nearby buildings were brought down, it wasn't just a fight.
It was a war.
A war between two titans of extreme power.
Luna One-
Dai Atlas stood at the rim of a data post looking at Cybertron, which was now above his group.
"This data says that there's a storm brewing from the core of Cybertron. And that the fields of Sparks have stopped receiving energy." He said.
"What kind of storm?" Asked Nightbeat.
Dai Atlas looked toward a big feature on the surface of Cybertron.
It was a big hole that supposedly led to the core of the planet.
Big storm clouds were coming out of the hole.
"The storms are being produced from the dying core of Cybertron." Said Dai Atlas.
Star Saber and Nightbeat gasped.
"C-Cybertron's dying?" Asked Star Saber.
"That's more of a reason to go down to the surface!" Said Nightbeat.
"Imagine..." She trailed off into her thoughts.
"I know. This is more certainly the Dark Ages again." Said Dai Atlas.
"The new Dark Ages."
Kaon-
Ironfist and Landshark pulled themselves into their base, which was in the process of being relocated.
Other Autobots looked at them as they went past.
They walked toward the main meeting room, which had Scissortail, Backstreet, Vroom, Highbrow, Fixit, and fizzle in it.
They'd gathered to talk about where they'd relocate the base to.
Landshark and Ironfist stumbled in while Vroom was in mid speech.
He stopped talking and looked their way.
He saw cuts and holes all over them.
"What happened?! You were supposed to come back to base two hours ago!" Said Highbrow.
"We were ambushed by Decepticons, everyone was killed, and the Sparks were discovered. That whole area is now under Decepticon control." Said Landshark.
Everyone was silent.
"But-but our sensors, they should've detected them." Said Fizzle.
"The Decepticons found a way around that by using the Autobot bodies left there to build cloaks." Said Ironfist.
"FRAG IT! Dogfight... Override? Them too?" Asked Backstreet.
"Yes, I'm afraid so." Said Landshark gazing down at the ground in front of them.
"If the Decepticons have figured out how to cloak themselves, we should expect a suprise attack at any moment." Said Scissortail.
"We have to rescue the Sparks closest to us and evacuate much quicker." He said.
"You two are dismissed, go get yourselves repaired by Velocity and Ambulon, then gather your things, we've got to talk about this news." Said Highbrow.
They left and got repaired.
However, they were still traumatized.
Ironfist left the medibay and went to his quarters.
Landshark stared at him as he left his sight.
The look on Ironfist's face suggested something, but Landshark knew it meant there was something going on.
Ironfist folded a blueprint poster and stacked it with several others, then put that stack into a crate.
He gathered his science supplies and also put it in the crate.
He cleared everything that he owned and put it in the crate.
He walked over to a pillar and pressed a button on it.
The floor of his quarters split and sunk in revealing stairs.
He hauled the crate down the stairs and into a dark room.
Landshark peeked through the door to his quarters as the crate disappeared below the level ground.
"Hm?"
He followed him down the shaft without his realization.
Lights came on as he went down.
When the light filled the entire room, he saw Ironfist tending to a starship!
"WHAT?!" Landshark shouted out loud.
Ironfist literally twisted around in shock.
"You're not supposed to see this!" Said Ironfist.
"What're you doing building a starship!?" Asked Landshark.
"It's-its... For a science experiment!" Said Ironfist. "Yeah!"
"It's clearly not that. Your building it to get off world!" Said Landshark.
Ironfist went quiet.
Then he picked up remote of some sort.
"Have you seen Cybertron lately?" He asked. "Have you Landshark. It's falling apart. Not just outside, but inside too."
"What're you talking about?" Asked Landshark.
"My visual scanners have been going through the roof. Any 'smart' scientist could see that Cybertron is dying." Said Ironfist.
Landshark didn't respond. He just put his hand up for him to keep going.
"That means it's actually going to die." Said Ironfist.
"What does that actually mean?" Asked Landshark. "Cybertron doesn't have any organic life or a breathable atmosphere, for crying out loud. It's like it's already dead."
"No! You don't understand! Sparks will stop generating, energon flows will stop, Vector Sigma will go offline, and worst of all... Cybertron will literally crumble until there's nothing left!" Said Ironfist.
Landshark's visor glowed as if he just realized what he meant.
"S-so... How can we fix it?" Asked Landshark.
Ironfist just stared at him.
"Well.. The Allspark is said to help.. But-"
"Where is it?!" Asked Landshark.
"I was gonna say it's just a myth, so if we're to start looking for it, it may not even be there-"
"Where is it?!" Asked Landshark.
"It may not even be there though-"
"Where?!" Landshark demanded.
"The Chorus nebula in the Terran system!" Ironfist spit out holding his hands in the air like he was caught stealing.
"Earth?" Asked Landshark.
"Yes. Well, around the area. Humans don't even know there's a nebula there so-"
"Well, they've enlisted the help of Nebulos and the Black Block Consortia. So I'm betting that they've got the tech to have seen it already. No they've had the tech." Said Landshark.
"Yeah. And it's likely that the Humans, Nebulons, and the Black Box Consortia aren't gonna be too nice about us snooping in their territory." Said Ironfist. "That's partly the reason why I think it's a bad idea to go."
"You think it's a bad idea to try and find the Allspark, the object that could revive Cybertron... Our home?" Asked Landshark.
Ironfist sighed. Then whispered something to himself.
"If we're going to do this we'll need a team."
END OF BOOK TWO...