Return of the Heir Chapter 1
Long Ago, Cybertron was nothing more than a planet inhabited by barbarians. The two tribes warred constantly for fuel, land, and other resources. Centuries passed and the tribes grew into mighty kingdoms. The two kingdoms lay upon the Radon River and grew even more when they discovered how to turn the minerals mined from the depths into currency, armor, weapons, and other useful tools such as building materials.
In the northern hemisphere lay the kingdom of Iacon under the rule of King Powered Convoy and Queen Brightstar. They ruled Iacon with firm authority and fairness, and the citizens loved their leaders with no known bounds. The economy of Iacon focused on building materials, currency formation, and other personal aspects. The northern hemisphere also brought a harsh cold season where nothing would hardly grow and the river would freeze over preventing mining operations. However, come the return of the warm season, the economy would flourish once again.
Iacon was not focused on any war aspects of life as their neighbors to the south were. Kaon was inhabited by warframes. Their king Novatron ruled much like his northern counterparts, but he had still yet to find a queen. Kaon lay just to the north of the Manganese Mountains, which was home of the head to the Radon River. The economy here was focused on armor and weapons manufacturing. They would trade with Iacon for currency, building supplies, and other items for the weapons and armor they made. A few centuries passed before Novatron met his future queen, Amethyst. To him, her name was a perfect fit since her armor was as purple as the gem itself.
Several centuries passed before both kingdoms were blessed with heirs to their respective thrones. Queen Brightstar gave birth to a young prince who had blue and white armor with a few red accents on his hips. They took part of his name after a starry constellation named Ultra Maximus, meaning 'great one', his name became Ultra Magnus.
In Kaon, Amethyst gave birth to a little mech with purple and sliver armor with black accents. Novatron and Amethyst couldn't have been prouder than anything in the world when they gazed upon their son. They named him after the ancient word for bravery, Megazarak.
The two princes grew in the guidance of their creators and were taught in the ways of the gods that watched over them. Occasionally, the two families would meet to discuss trade matters and the two sparklings would always get into mischief and run away laughing with arms full of rust sticks from the dispenser rooms.
They finally grew into their adult years and Ultra Magnus took over his parent's thrones after they died of old age. Megazarak, however, was still under his creators; he didn't mind though, it only meant more learning for him.
Disaster struck a few orbital cycles later when an age-old enemy reared its head, Cybonic Plague. The virus was from when the kingdoms were still just tribal bands of wonders; total combined, the outbreak killed a quarter of the population, including Megazarak's parents. The young warframe took over his sire's throne and began the rebuilding process.
In Iacon, Ultra Magnus didn't want to believe that the virus came from out of know where, but there was nothing that could be done about it. The only thing that worried him how was his city going to rebuild after several buildings were burned to prevent the disease. He issued a proclamation that the lowest caste was to be employed to rebuild the city and in return they would be free of taxes for the next stellar cycle.
Stellar cycles passed and the kingdoms slowly rebuilt to their former glory. In the time that was passed Megazarak grew worried when he saw slaves being used to unload the river transports and he knew that slavery was outlawed, punishable by death in Kaon, but he couldn't interfere since they weren't his citizens.
A few centuries later Ultra Magnus was blessed with a healthy mechling from his queen Iceflare and was named to be the heir to Iacon's throne. He was red and blue with slivery accents. He also had yellow patches on his servos and two stripes on his helm. His sire named him from the mythological name of the thirteenth prime, Optimus.
Megazarak was also experiencing his own sparkling's birth and when his first sound came from his vocalizer, it madey his spark soar. But, sadly the medics soon told him that Ironstar lost to much energon to survive even with treatment. He went over to her berth side and held her servo as she said her final goodbyes to her mate and newborn son.
The king of Kaon stayed in the room for a long time before he came up with a name for his son. He pulled the little mechling up to his face and named him like his creators did, naming after the ancient word for courage, Megatron.
A few orbital cycles later, seeing a slave trader in the square trying to sell his 'merchandise' to his people, the king had had enough. The next solar cycle he rode out for Iacon to meet with the king to ask polity for him not to sell slaves in his city. When he got there, he was lead into the throne room where he met the smiling face of his old friend and ally.
"King Ultra Magnus, I have come to ask you to tell the trader who was trying to sell slaves to my people to back off. I have not confronted him on the issue since he is not my citizen, but I do ask that your merchants respect Kaonite law."
The Iacon king looked at his old friend with slight interest "if you want to stop the merchants from selling their goods, then it is the same as telling us you don't want to trade anymore."
Megazarak by this point was livid, "you expect me to tell your citizens to stop, and risk lose of commerce or even worse possible war is they complain to you, I think not. All I ask is for the selling of slaves to stop within Kaon borders and cities."
"Well I am sorry you feel that way and since you don't want to at least see if your people would rather turn a blind optic to the new wave of this type of commerce then I have no choice, I hereby suspend all trade with your kingdom and we will show you what it means to refuse our goods."
The Kaon king frowned at his old friend now enemy, "If it is war you want, then we will be standing ready to defend our people."
Loud crashing woke Megazarak in the middle of the night along with his son's crying, he ran over to the balcony in his berthroom and saw the army of Iacon marching towards the main gate. The king knew that if they found his son, it would all be over. He ordered for his captain of the guard to follow him to the royal gardens where his queen spent most of her time when she was still alive. The two mechs left through a hidden doorway and down to the banks of the Radon River. Megazarak carefully placed his still infant son into a metal crate and wrapped him in his favorite blanket that his carrier made for him. The small silver, black, and red mechling cried at being out in the cold, but soon quieted his sire started to hum a lullaby.
The king desperately wanted to stay with his son, but his captain told him he was needed on the front lines. The lord of Kaon closed his optics after saving an image of his son in his memory banks, then pushed the crate into the calm moving waters of the Radon; eventually the crate was out of sight and gone was his son.
"Don't forget you are my son, you will grow up in a different world and may not remember who you truly are, but one day I will be gone and will leave you the sole heir to my throne. Your people will mourn your absence, but one day you will return, return to you people, your city, your home. Goodbye my son, Prince Megatron Heir to the Kaon Throne."