Prologue-
The explosions we rattling iacon as the deception siege had finally drawn to it's last waves. Sintinal stood over the war room's table and let his head hang. Many generals were giving orders to messengers to send to soldiers just outside the main courtyard. He glanced up at the live feed of the decagon. Megatron's fleet, well what was left of it, had it's grip on the last Autobot stronghold on planet.
"Strax, find any aerialbots you can, you have to take down the bombers."
Ordered Sinintal prime.
"I'll scramble some if any remain. Sorry prime, but there aren't many of us left."
Strax acknowledged the elder prime and left the war room. At that moment, on the security cameras, the decepticons barged through the front doors of the decagon. Many soldiers were firing from the end of the halls. Through all the crossfire, sintinal only saw one fate, analilation. The generals stood around the room, and all they can do is watch.
Sintinal shook his head slowly and kneeled down onto one knee. He turned to the generals, and they looked at him. The guards even strayed away from their posts and moved onto sintinal. It was the end of the war, the end of Cybertron as they knew it. One of the generals, scatter shock, moved in on the old bot.
"Prime, we only have one more option."
Sintinal had shocks run up and down his servos. He knew what that meant, and he prayed to primus it wouldn't come to this. After many generations, countless attempts for peace, not even he thought that a peaceful bot such as himself would have to do such a thing to his own people. But Sintinal began to laugh. Everyone was confused by the old bot.
"You know, everyone still calls me a prime, but I'm not. Optimus now carries the matrix, and I am not noting but an old bot. A civilian who is now tasked to make the hardest choice in the history of our planet. To blow Iacon off the face of cybertron. Now that the enemy is literally right outside, I no longer see a choice."
The room was silent. They can hear the gunshots and explosions sounding much closer than before. He was right, the Autobots did plan to fight to the last bot. Sintinal
Grabbed a microphone and held it to his mouth.
"Optimus, come in. This is Sintinal."
Out on the edge of kaon, a ship bearing the Autobot symbol resides near a fallen decepticon cruiser. The young prime was sitting in the co-pilot seat next to Ironhide. Everyone jumped up, elated to hear a voice other than the ones inside the ship.
"I read you, sintinal."
Sintinal was glad to hear his pupil's voice.
"Did the refugee ships make it off planet?"
"The mission was successful, sir. We arrived at Kaon awaiting further instructions."
sintinal was overjoyed to hear the news. But he nearly began to break down.
"I... I need you to send this message to the refugee ships. Iacon has fallen And cybertron's energon reserves have run dry. The core has shut itself down and the planet is about to go dark."
Optimus and the rest of the bots did not know what to do nor say. They just received word their world is now dead. Bumblebee and hound just looked at each other in disbelief. Ratchet shown no emotion. And both ironhide and prime were furious, but too saddened to show such an expression.
"Optimus, you must go with the refugee ships. You must lead what is left of our people. Find us a new home among the stars."
Said sintinal on the verge of leaking coolant from his optic. The generals gathered around the table and pulled out their keys and unlocked the safe. The contents were a small detonator and one key. Sintinal pulled out the last key and was hesitant. He can only imagine the horrors of the aftermath. Then banging on the war room door snapped sintinal back into it. He inserted the key into the detonator.
"Til all are one..."
Sintinal pressed the button, and everything went radio silent for optimus and his crew.
"sintinal, Sintinal! Respond Sintinal!"
Optimus yelled into the comms. There were no responce after that. Ratchet looked at his arm and recorded the time.
"41:57. Mark the time of Iacon's destruction. We'll need it to place it in the historical archive."
Bumblebee jumped out of his seat.
"Historical archive, are you kidding me Ratch? There is no historical archive. Not anymore, sintinal just blew it up along with everything we called home!"
"Bumblebee,"
Optimus turned to his scout.
"Enough!"
He shouted. The cocpit went silent. The young prime enhailed deeply, trying to keep his emotions in check. Everyone looked to the prime. Their optics pleeding to him,
"Orders, sir. We don't know what to do."
Prime turned back into his seat and gazed out to darkmount, Megatron's fortress. Dead and eerie.
"We.. We need to get to the ships in orbit, and get away from the system."
Optimus started the engines. Ironhide took the controls and they fled upwards to the second moon. It was a short silent trip. Everyone had their minds on Iacon. Both hound and bee looked outside the window and can see the smoke clouds above what use to be the capital city. They were already out of orbit and far away enough to see the damage on the other side of Cybertron. Ratchet, Ironhide, and optimus could see the destruction from the cockpit.
"Primus.."
Was the one word anyone could say. Just a few hours ago, the city was mostly in one piece. Nothing but burnt metal and flames remained. The five stared at the smoke, and only the smoke. Smoke was all they can see. Smoke was the one thing that is left carved in their memory banks now. Something scratched the side of their ship, causing everyone to snap out of it. They look forward to the remanents of the refugee fleet...
"No.. Impossible..."
The only two words that they can get out. They saw ships from both parties floating in space. And most of it was falling back to Cybertron.
"Who did this?"
Ironhide asked. Optimus saw a sole ship floating still intact out of everything else. It headed the deception symbol. It was escaping the wreckage.
"Follow that ship!"
Optimus ordered. Ironhide flew swiftly around the debris left over from the attack. Hound jumped onto the cannon system.
"Guns ready."
Said hound holding the controls.
"Wait for my orders."
Said optimus.
On the nemisis, Megatron sat in delight on his victory in space. Astrotrain at the flight controls, along with starscream co-piloting. He sits in his chair enjoying the sights of destruction he had caused.
"The final victory for our cause. A new era has dawned, my brothers."
Said Megatron.
"Yes my liege. The Autobots were weak, foolish to side against you."
Said starscream, kissing tailpipe.
"Silence starscream, the Autobots were all but weak! Look what they have don't to our precious planet. Now we have to find new resources for our race to exist."
Shouted Megatron, putting starscream in his place.
"Lord Megatron, I have reports that Iacon had been destroyed. A bomb By descriptions on the ground."
Sound wave reported.
"Yes, just as predicted. A foolish attempt to erraticate us. No matter, we still have forces on the ground as well as searching for energon elsewhere."
Megatron said laying farther back into his seat. Starscream kept his distance from his master. He knew what would happen if he stepped too far out of place. He laid optic on Astrotrain, with all his focus on the route ahead. Not the most closest ally to Megatron directly, but loyal none the less.
Shockwave laid his sole optic on the sights of the cannon. Orders were to shoot anything that looks to still be functioning. The silence was somewhat nerve racking. Everyone was on edge after their final assault, paranoid of any surviving Autobots out there. But it was justifiable.
Ironhide had control of the ark's flight. He he'd to keep the ship, and only the ship in mind. Or else his emotions would get the beat of him. Hound kept his finger on the trigger, waiting for anything to go down. Ratchet and bee awaits for the slightest hint of attack from the deception ship. Prime had done the same.
"Lord Megatron, we've picked up life signals on radar. Five to be exact."
Soundwave reported. Megatron simply gave shockwave the signal.
"Eliminate any loose ends, shockwave."
Shells ignite around the ark as Ironhide maneuvered around debris from destroyed ships. Hound aimed his cannon on the deception ship.
"Any orders now, prime?"
Hound asked sarcasticly.
"Hold your fire, hound!"
Optimus placed a comm link to the deception ship.
"This is Autobot shuttle, ark. Hold your fire and identify yourselves."
Megatron grinned to see his for on hologram.
"Ahh, well if it isn't optimus, the last prime."
"Megatron.. Stand down, or be destroyed!"
"Such deadly threats for a peaceful bot. I thank you for the offer, prime. But you Autobots have taken Cybertron from us. And we do not negotiate with terrorists."
Megatron cut the feed.
"Shockwave, blast them out of their ship!"
"Terrorists?"
Ironhide asked himself.
"Wait until I get my cannon on Megatron's big snout, I'll"
Ironhide's words were interrupted by a nearby shell nearly striking the ship. More cannon fire erupted near the ark. Hound began to return fire. Neither ships took much damage out of the chaos.
"We really need to work on your aim, hound."
Mocked Bumblebee.
"Frag you, bee!"
As hound fired at the engines of the deception ship. An explosion erupted violently behind the Nemesis
"Lord Megatron, engine systems are going critical!"
Soundwave shouted as he held onto his chair. The ship rocked like crazy. Starscream forced his way to the doors of the ship.
"Lord Megatron, since our cycloptic friend cannot shoot worth slag, shall I tip the odds into our favor?"
Asked starscream as he held a detonation charge. Megatron nods his head. Starscream quickly opens the ship's door, letting much of the air out of the room. Starscream gets sucked out of the ship. Astrotrain Flips a switch and closes the door. Starscream transforms into his cybertronian fighter and flew around the debris to the ark. He transforms back into his robot form and latched onto the ship, placing the charge onto the engines. Starscream flies back to the nemesis. He enters from the doors and nods to megatron.
"Open the space bridge, Soundwave. Cybertron has no use to us any longer."
"Lord Megatron, what of the soldiers still on planet?"
Astrotrain asked.
"They have served their purpose."
Megatron said menacingly.
"Soundwave, now!"
Soundwave activates the bridge. The portal opens a few miles away from them. Bumblebee spots the bridge opening. He grabs ironhide's sholder and points to it. Ironhide floors the accelerater. Everyone waits in anticipation for intercepting Megatron and his soldiers. Killing them to avenge Cybertron and all of it's inhabitants who had perished in their war.
The nemesis enters the bridge first. Megatron gives the signal to starscream. He detonates the explosives on the ark. The blast shoved the Autobots out of their seats. And the force sends their ship crashing into the Nemesis. Both ships were knocked out of the stream of the space bridge. Both parties were sent off coarse in the same direction. An unknown planet with a small moon in orbit.
Both ships just miss the small moon, but the Ark got slightly caught in it's orbit. Sending them around the moon and on the other side of the planet, towards water. The nemesis speeds directly toward land. Neither party was aware of this at the time. Everyone was knocked into stasis from the crash in the space bridge stream. And neither Autobot nor Deception would imagine what there were to stumble upon next.