The Protobots Chapter One:
Origin and Mission
When the universe began, four forces were born to stabilize the development of life: Electromagnetism, Gravity and the Strong and Weak Nuclear forces. But, some of the life forms that developed wanted to control the forces, in order to create their ideal universe, which usually meant harming others in the process.
In order to stop this madness, an organic civilization that grew up on the planet Trodo, the Trodons, banded together as a planet and built four mechanical beings that were able to control the forces of the universe, to an extent.
The beings they built were given free thought, speech, emotion, the ability to scan other machinery and transform into it, for disguise. They were also programmed to protect all life, and to be obedient to the Trodon leader, which wasn't hard to do considering he was a nice guy. He even built them each a spaceship.
The first being they built was made to control gravity, and thus, named Gravitrex. The second being they built was made to control electromagnetism, thus named Electromagnex. Finally, they built Strong and Weak Nuclex, to control the nuclear forces.
Weak Nuclex didn't like his name having weak in it, because he was the second strongest of them all, so, the Trodons made Strong and Weak Nuclex able to combine into one being, called Nuclex, which they stayed as most of the time.
The Trodons named them the Protobots; being their first robotic creations, and branded them with a green symbol, the Trodon leader's personal logo. They roamed the universe in search of crises, and they never failed in stopping the mad beings that wanted to control the forces, but, there was never any rest for them, because the universe kept growing and more power hungry life forms kept popping up. Because of this, The Trodons enabled Electromagnex to split into two separate beings known as Electrex and Magnex, controlling electricity and magnetism, respectively.
Word of an evil race known as the Zorticons got out to the Trodons, while the Protobots were away, but it would take twenty years for the Zorticons to reach the Trodon home world. For their defense, they built another robot the size of a small planet, which took eighteen of the twenty years they had.
They enabled the robot to transform into a planet in order to disguise itself. In its planet form, it looked like a large moon of Trodo. They named the robot Primus, and named its planet form Cybertron.
When the Zorticons arrived at Trodo, they got a surprise as Primus was activated, and they were driven away to the nearest star system. The Zorticons decided they needed a giant robot to combat with Primus, so they stealthily landed on Cybertron, and downloaded Primus' schematics.
They then built their own robot, also able to transform into a planet, which they named Unicron. The Zorticons then re-confronted the Trodons with Unicron, and a large battle ensued.
The Protobots returned a few months after the battle had started, which was then becoming a war. Both sides had taken heavy casualties, and lost many ships, but Primus was in the worst condition. He couldn't be repaired very quickly because of the war, and took more damage than could be repaired.
Unicron was the cause for most of Primus' injuries, but was running low on energy himself. He was growing tired of the battle as well. He warped to the other side of Trodo, transformed into his planet form, and devoured Trodo, and the unfortunate Trodons who happened to be on it at the time.
The Zorticon leader became angry with Unicron, as he had not authorized this, because the Zorticons planned to use Trodo as their new home world. He yelled at Unicron through radio contact, and explained that he had ordered Unicron not to devour Trodo.
But Unicron was growing tired of the Zorticons as well. He transformed back into his robot mode, warped next to the Zorticon leader's ship, and destroyed it with his arm cannon.
Unicron then turned his cannon on Primus, and was about to fire, when he was frozen in place by Electromagnex. The Protobots then merged with Primus, becoming more powerful arm cannons, and Primus fired with the forces of the universe on Unicron. But, only grazed his arms; on purpose.
Primus felt that Unicron was like his brother; being created from the same parts and blueprints, and did not wish to destroy him. Instead, he used the Protobots power to send Unicron into a type of irreversible sleep mode, and sent him away into a lifeless part of the universe.
Primus then unmerged with the Protobots, and transformed into his planet mode, Cybertron. He allowed the Trodons to use his planet form as a new home, and to use parts of his spark to build new robots, which they called Transformers, because they were given the ability to scan other machinery and transform into it, like the Protobots. The remaining Zorticons wanted to live there as well, and made a truce between the remaining Trodons. Primus then entered a deep sleep, similar to what he gave Unicron, only this was to heal his wounds and his spark.
The Protobots continued to discover new threats to the balance of the universe, and continued to stop them. This is what I know. The events I told you happened nine billion years in the past. The ongoing threats to the balance and life of the universe eventually led me to a planet known locally as Earth. The present year, according to the humans, the dominant species on the planet, was 2009.
I am Magnex. I came to Earth because its magnetic field was weakening. I had to go to the core of the planet, and plant a small portion of my spark to get it back to its usual strength. I had just come out to the surface of the planet when I received a hyperspace transmission:
"Hey Magnex," the voice said, once Magnex pressed the side of his head, where his comlink was. The voice was calm, cool, and collected.
"Hey Electrex," Magnex replied, "Is something wrong, do you need my help?" he asked worriedly.
"No, everything's fine, I'm finished with my mission; actually, these threats to life have died down a little. Heh. Irony. Anyway, I was thinking that since you need to remove that piece of your spark once that planet's magnetic field is strong enough in about a hundred of that planet's revolutions, you should stay there, and let us take care of anymore disturbances."
Magnex looked at his small ship, "Well, I certainly can't go anywhere because my ship's warp drive is broken, so you're going to have to."
"I guess we are," Electrex added a slight chuckle to the end of that sentence, "Besides, I think the reason threats to the balance of the universe have gone down is because word is finally getting out about us."
Magnex considered this. It made sense, the Protobots have been stopping power-hungry maniacs and saving entire civilizations for nine billion years; word about them would've spread eventually.
"Also, you could take time to get to know the species on that planet, give a good first impression for all the Protobots," Electrex added, "From what my research tells me, the species are really primitive there, more than half of them aren't even aware that there are life forms other than them in this universe."
"I'll do that," Magnex looked at his surroundings. It was rather rural, not a lot of plant life (Magnex was cross-referencing every detail with a map of Earth to find out where he was exactly), a couple mountains in the distance, a train track with an abandoned train car on it, and, of course, the giant hole he made going down into the Earth's core. Oh. He'd forgotten about that.
The black-armored Protobot lifted his hand, palm facing the hole, and used his magnetic powers to move any magnetic metals, like iron and nickel, surrounding the inside of the hole, to fill it up and make it look like it was never there. Once he finished that, he went back to his data, and determined that he was on a small landmass near the Eurasian continent, in the country of Scotland.
He then heard a noise coming from a ways down the tracks, and realized it was coming from a vehicle. He checked his data and found out it was called a train. It was a black old-fashioned train, four cars long, and was about to run into the abandoned train car, but it jumped off of the tracks to its right, and jump back on once it passed the empty car. He also noticed the train had a strange energy signature.
"Uh, Electrex, when was the last time our research for this planet was updated?" Magnex inquired. He wanted to make sure his research was correct.
"Hmm, since Earth and Cybertron have almost the same cycles, I'd say roughly thirty solar cycles." Electrex answered.
"A lot can happen in that amount of time," Magnex replied, "Oh, and about half of them not even being aware of alien life, I just detected a Cybertronian energy signature."
"Cybertronian!" Electrex exclaimed, "When did the Trodons let the Transformers leave Cybertron?"
"It's been 20 million years since we last had contact with them, times can change." Magnex answered, "I'm going to look into this. Magnex out." and with that, he pressed his comlink, ending the transmission, and used his magnetic abilities to lift himself up and fly toward the black train at high speeds.
