Chapter 1-The Legend begins
Long ago in Cybertron's golden age there was no Autobot-Deception divide, Deception were inexistent and total unknowns. Autobots were not considered warriors but as defenders of the peace, Cybertron's police force, they defended innocent civilians from crime. Recently unknown terrorist attacks were on the increase and the Autobots were forces to act. Sentinel Prime led the Autobots, the last known descendant of the original thirteen transformers, under his leadership the Autobots thrived. Sentinel Prime was responsible for the capture the greatest known terrorist group known as 'X,' almost all of Cybertron believed Sentinel Prime to be the 'last prime' who in ancient legend would rescue the people of Cybertron from its greatest evil.
One who believed differently was the young Autobot cadet Orion Pax; although a loyal supporter of Sentinel Prime he believed, Cybertron's greatest evil could not have faced such an evil because it would have to be so unimaginable to be recorded in legend. Cybertron's king Alpha Trion had observed that terrorist attacks were increasing, in some cases the attacks had increased to uncontrollable that Autobot officers were overwhelmed and usually killed. At the orders of Alpha Trion, Sentinel Prime had organised all new Autobot officers into teams under highly experienced Autobot Captains. Orion (whose vehicle form was a cybertronian blue and red supercar) had been placed in a team along with four others.
Skyfire was the team's aerial officer; his vehicle form was a red and white cybertronian Jet harrier. He was also one of the team's tallest members and he prided himself on his height.
Ironhide was the team's weapons specialist. He enjoyed a good fight and was constantly looking for things to shoot. He was also very proud of his guns and took constant care of them.
Ratchet the team's medical officer was a good friend of Ironhide and they shared a similar vehicle form, Ironhide's form being a red cybertronian attack van and Ratchet's form being an red and white cybertronian ambulance. Unlike Ironhide, Ratchet was much more concerned with safety first and would not rush into a fight all guns blazing.
The final member of the team was a former gladiator called Megatronus; he had named himself after one of the thirteen original Primes. After the law banning of fighting for entertainment. He had chosen a cybertronian hover tank for his vehicle form that had been of great use in his work as a gladiator.
The team had been placed under the command of Captain who transformed into a blue, white and red car carrier truck known as Ultra Magnus.
Soon after the team's formation, small groups of friends began to form Ratchet and Ironhide already knew each other well, Ultra Magnus and Skyfire became friends because of their similar heights and Orion and Megatronus because of their similar beliefs. In particular their beliefs about the legend of the last prime. They both believed that Sentinel Prime was not the last Prime to live and that the 'great evil' was yet to be faced by Cybertron.
On their first day of work as fully-fledged Autobot officers the team were stood talking when Ultra Magnus rolled into the building, he turned in, detached from his trailer, drove in front of the team and in a firm voice "Ultra Magnus transform!" he converted in robot mode. The team instantly ran in front of their captain to stand in a precise straight-line.
Ultra Magnus turned to his team; all were waiting to hear their first orders out in the field. "We have our first mission…" Ultra Magnus paused, all had noticed that their captain's com-link was flashing. The teams hearts began to race they all knew by now that Autobot Command had received a distress call and presumably, they had chosen Ultra Magnus' team for the job. Although the team were thrilled to have been chosen they were all puzzled why an inexperienced team was selected for what was such an important job. Ultra Magnus pressed the com-link button on the right of his chest, "Ultra Magnus here," he said.
"Ultra Magnus, this is Autobot command we have orders for you and your team," came the reply.
"Roger Autobot Command, what are your orders?" Ultra Magnus asked.
"Magnus, Cybertron Parliament is under attack from heavily armed terrorists, the buildings defences have been destroyed and they need assistance."
"Roger Command, we'll depart immediately, Ultra Magnus out!"
The entire team had been listening intently, "We're ready Sir," said Ironhide.
Ultra Magnus smiled, transformed and connected with his trailer. In a clear commanding tone, he gave his order, "Autobots Transform and hit the road!"
Ultra Magnus drove out of the hanger door; the rest of the team also transformed and followed their captain into the great city of Iacon and onto the internationally known road known as the Iacon Speedway. Before the team embarked onto the Speedway Ultra Magnus stopped and transformed, the rest of team stopped and waited. Ultra Magnus looked up towards his aerial officer, "Skyfire!" he called, "go on ahead of us you need to rescue someone, someone very important."
"Who is it Sir?" Skyfire asked.
"Alpha Trion" Ultra Magnus replied.
No one said anything; Skyfire flew up towards the rooftops towards the parliament.
The team stopped in visual range approximately five miles from the location. They looked up at the building and their hearts sank, the building was in ruins, the walls and turret defences had been destroyed. Aerial transformers were appearing and disappearing from sight, they seemed to be keeping guard. The team activated their binocular vision; the fighting had stopped now because the terrorists had raised their flag on top of the building. The Symbol on the flag appeared to be a purple face of what seemed to resemble one of the original thirteen primes. Ratchet looked at the ground, bodies of Autobot troops lay all around the parliament building, Ultra Magnus had contacted the reinforcements they were supposed to meet and found them all to be hiding in the shadow of buildings surrounding Cybertron Parliament. They returned their vision to normal they turned around, their appeared to them no way to complete their mission Ultra Magnus sat down by the side of a building and held his head in his hands to think. Ratchet looked around him, he had only noticed Ironhide, Ultra Magnus and he was present.
"Where's Orion?" Ratchet asked, "Where's Megatronus?"
Megatronus and Orion had disappeared from the group on a turning on the Iacon speedway after Skyfire had left. They had fallen back from the group as they approached a two way turning, one turning going left towards the parliament building and the other road was under construction it raised above the buildings that would eventually lead to the far side of the city.
"Orion, follow me." Megatronus whispered,
"Where?" Orion asked but it was two late, the hover tank had fired his afterburners and was now travelling at great speeds towards the ramp. Orion without a chance to say anything just saw his friend fly off the ramp, transform and fall out of sight. Orion felt suddenly tense, he wondered how Megatronus could have so much guts. Orion muscled up his strength and transformed. He began to drive, faster and faster until his own afterburners activated and he went flying over the top of the ramp. "Transform!" Orion screamed and just like Megatronus he dived down towards the rooftops. After about five seconds Orion had reached terminal velocity and he was approaching the rooftops incredibly fast, in distance he could just about make out his friend on the rooftop he would appear to land on. He heard a loud cry towards him but the wind in his face was muffling the words to much to be able to hear. As Megatronus came nearer the words of the cry Megatronus kept repeating became clearer and clearer, "Deploy ….."
"Deploy your….."
"PARACHUTE!" Orion chute came billowing out breaking Orion's speed instantly; he glided gently towards the rooftop of which him and his companion now stood. "Wow!" Orion smiled, "That was fun."
"Come on Orion, let's hurry, they will already have the building."
They began to jump from rooftop to rooftop deep into the city towards the Cybertron Parliament building.