Time Frame: The following story takes place in the universe of the 2007 'Transformers' movie, including characters, character descriptions and incidents portrayed in that film. This assumes the second movie (and third) did not occur.
Author's Note: This story was written for the Alternate Universe challenge in 2011 for Tracy Island Writers Forum. Challenge: To take the characters from the 'Thunderbirds' television series and place them into an Alternate Universe. I have reinvented them here as 'Transformers' movie characters. This is not a crossover, it's a 'Transformers' story.
Acknowledgement: Thank you to my incredible beta, Samantha Winchester, for dropping everything to get through this on time to meet the challenge deadline!
Brethren
Prologue
Before the time of The Great War, we lived in peace. For five million years, we fought hard, as one by one the Guardians were destroyed. We lost many to the battle. My brother took his most trusted officers, who had sworn their allegiance to him, into space, searching for the energy our once vibrant home planet Cybertron had lost. We never saw or heard from them again.
For hundreds of years, my own officers and I have fought to escape the underground where we were forced to hide by the Decepticons. We lost two comrades in the process, but were galvanized by the hope that when we emerged, it would be to see Cybertron restored. To see that Optimus Prime had returned with the energy. That he and the Autobots had ended the war at last and that peace reigned again.
But it was not to be…