TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED

Monochrome Spectrum

Sequel to Grey Matter - Silver Lining. Emma - the All-Spark Carrier - has been sent back to her own dimension, but there are those that will simply not let her go - not that she wants them to! What surprises does Emma's life hold, and how will the Transformers react to it? Also, their reunion will bring about a new quest to revive the All-Spark, and it is the only thing that can defeat the Vampire Lord, Fhantom...

Author's Notes:

Here's the first chapter! Oh, and PLEASE read the side-story, because there will be references to it in this sequel!

CHAPTER ONE

Prologue

The Vampire Lord Fhantom was furious, but he attempted to control his anger, although some might argue that destroying three of ones own underlings was not being in control. Fhantom did not care. Everything he had worked so hard for had gone so wrong. Fhantom paced across the carpet, in the throne room at the top of his castle. A figure stood in the corner of the room, but he did not speak, and was not spoken to.

Fhantom had sought the All-Spark for many stellar-cycles, and had decided to move when it had been reborn into the Princess, Angel. The youngest Teraminian Princess, Angel, had been full of spirit, but she had also been weak, not knowing how to fully use that glorious power which she had been given. Tricking that Cybertronian fool, Megatron, had been so ridiculously easy, and so had abducting unsuspecting Teraminians and Cybertronians, to make into his personal slaves. It should have been easy to steal the power from the Princess, after destroying her homeland and making it into his new kingdom.

But, said Princess had been whisked away by Megatron, after Yoketron had used his powers to seal Fhantom away. That part he hadn't been expecting, and only when Yoketron's life-force had been snuffed out had the Shards of the seal broken, and Fhantom could once again get back to hunting for the Princess. Fhantom's most loyal servant, Hunter, had eventually succeeded in tracking the Princess, and bringing her to Fhantom, but she had then sacrificed herself to keep the All-Spark from his servos. Fhantom, in all his stellar-cycles, had never understood the strange nobility of Teraminians, a pure spark which they shared with their Cybertronian cousins.

Angel, however, had not died completely, but had instead been reborn as a creature called a human, although she was in another dimension. That was no matter. Hunter's other ability was inter-dimensional travel. He had retrieved Angel's reincarnation, Emma, and brought her to the place where the All-Spark was. It had been shattered, but Emma had managed to find all of it, and she had even reclaimed her original form - Angel. Unfortunately, she had also done so in order to sacrifice herself - again - to save that pathetic cyber-ninja. She had died, but the All-Spark had kept her alive, again, in order to send her back to her own dimension.

There was a problem, however and, it was for this reason, that Fhantom was so furious. The All-Spark was powerful, it was true, and had so much to offer those that could use its power properly, but it was not entirely invincible, as had been proven when that Autobot, Optimus Prime, had (accidentally) shattered it, scattering its Fragments across an entire planet. Now, it seemed, the All-Spark had suffered again, except this time, it was not physically broken, more...

Fhantom couldn't quite name it; couldn't quite figure out what had happened, but something had happened. The sooner he got Emma in here, the sooner he could figure it out, and then fix it.

Fhantom would have liked to have gotten this done sooner rather than later, but his powers were, although strong, limited only to this dimension. Hunter was the one capable of traveling across dimensions, but he was currently incapacitated, due to having exhausted much of his energy when he had aided Succubus and then Incubus in the siblings' schemes, which had resulted in nothing but failure to capture the All-Spark and Emma.

Fhantom was impatiently waiting for Hunter's revival of his powers and then...oh yes, then...the fun could really begin...