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Log Entry 658.
Time: 12th Solar Cycle of the 5th Qaurtex, 97 vorn AG
Location: Underground base in North Uraya, Quarters.
11 vorn since the beginning of the war.
My energy is so depleted I think I could offline right now... but I shall suffer through this.
We have succeeded in taking the small mining town of Malthex. My unit suffered no casualties for a change. The new air unit made up of six Seekers are much loved. They tore up the battle field with ease and ever since that new Air Commander took command of the skies above our helms and I don't think we have ever lost as of yet. Many of us are in his debt. Sometimes, I hope I will see him in the metal on the ground before me. I want to thank him. Thank him for saving our afts on countless occasions. The cheering that erupts when their sleek shadows fall across us is almost deafening. They truly deserve it.
I remember the joy the others and I had felt when the last few Autobots protecting the mines stood up with their weapons offline. I remember the jeering and sniggering. I don't like the fighting and the killing, but the Council have been in power for far too long. It's about time that they see that their ways are wrong and unfair. Our victory was short lived when we learned that there was no energon left in the mines. Not even a single crystal. A few of the workers enlisted into the Decepticon cause. Each one failed to pass the first test. Shockwave's little entry test killed them quickly. One had looked promising but he became cocky and lost his helm to a blade.
The Autobots have splintered. The Council now stands on its own with little to no men for its army. The Autobots led by the new Prime have moved their armies to Stanix and Central City. The Council is surrounded in Iacon. They won't last much longer. Megatron is planing the assault on them as I write this.
I hope that now, with a new Prime and all, maybe the fighting will stop after the Council is abolished. Megatron will go and sign treaties with the new Autobot leader. Surely he would. Prime went against The Council so they must have some common goals...Right?
Megatron. He is a fierce leader but I am not entirely sure about him. He seems like the kinda mech who can rip your helm off and not even remember doing it a second later. I heard that he used to fight in the Underground Pits, mostly in Tarn but sometimes in Kaon and Simfur. He used to fight with Decap and Purple Flood.
I liked Flood. He was a good leader. Pity he was captured. Sometimes I wonder if maybe the war would be already over if he had been still here. He would have definitely made contact with the new Prime to try and sort him out, maybe see if they could form an alliance against the Council. Megatron hasn't as far as I am aware. All I know is this: Megatron has been seizing too much power lately. I am still reeling in the fact that Decap surrendered his position as leader to become second to Megatron.
Gotta go! Slashhook is trying to pull me away for the debriefing on the attack on Iacon.
End of Log Entry 658
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Log Entry 659
Time: 12th Solar Cycle of the 5th Qaurtex, 97 vorn AG
Location: Underground base in North Uraya, Quarters.
I can't believe it! I just can't! I mean...He, Starscream, The new Air Commander attacked Megatron! Shot him in the back! During the meeting! I can't believe it! I can't! I... He... Oh Primus! He attacked Megatron! MEGATRON! Megatron nearly killed him. He ripped into him with his bare servos, tearing energon lines and coolant lines and ANYTHING he could reach within the mech's body. I have never seen anybody do that!
The rest of the men in the room... we were all afraid to go and help Starscream. Nobody could move for fear of Megatron. He was covered in so much energon. I don't think Starscream will make it through the night cycle... I... I trusted him... I trusted him!
But Megatron, he... He... I just can't... he was so... brutal.
I don't think I will ever forget the sound of ripping metal and the agonized screams as his wings...oh Primus it makes a shiver run through my circuits.
I need to calm down! I really need to calm down!
Megatron is just... what if he does that to the rest of us? I mean, Starscream was a strong mech... Am I safe here?
End Of Log Entry 659
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Log Entry 686
Time: 5th Solar Cycle of the 12th Qaurtex, 98 vorn AG
Location: On the battle field that used to be Iacon
Gone. Everything. Gone.
The Council... they are offline, their frames melted. But they left a bomb. A bomb in Iacon... and Uraya... and Polyhex, Kalis, Simfur, Tarn, Kaon, Praxus, Altihex.
Cybertron has been levelled. Only a few parts of the once proud cities remain on the outskirts. Patches of tall structures. But not even they escaped damage. The population has gone from billions to a mere thousand or so within astroseconds.
The Council... they... they have killed Cybertron. There is nothing left to fight for. Nothing...
Mechs are angry. Megatron is angry. They want revenge... they want energon... They want someone to pay...
The Autobots.
Optimus Prime.
I... everything has changed. New laws have been written and Cybertron - what's left of her - will remain divided. Autobot and Decepticon.
There is nothing left.
I hate this feeling of... numbness. I don't feel anything but I know what I should feel.
Angry.
Pain.
Grief.
So why don't I feel anything? I don't want to kill I don't... but... The others... They can... they can because they want revenge...
End Of Entry Log 686
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Log Entry 695
Time: Don't know... 99 vorn AG
Location: In an old abandoned mine somewhere South of Central City.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Life has nothing... Energon is scarce and the army is divided. Megatron has left us behind after the retreat.
I refused to kill anybody.
I still can't remember what it's like to feel... Others have moved on... can they feel? How do they?
End Of Log Entry 695
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Log Entry 696
Time: Still don't know... 99 vorn AG
Location: The outskirts of some city... maybe Iacon, maybe Central City.
I can feel.. feel anger, a thrill...excitement... the fear...I crave it.. I need it! I have to have it more... I have to kill... to fight...I need it! I need to feel again. I have to!
End Of Entry Log 696
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Shockwave stared at the datapad, single optic dulled in brooding. The purple mech had never understood how the Decepticons had become so violent and war hungry. Reading through logs from the infantrymen told him all he needed to know. The one he held in his servo had belonged to a miner named Metalcrunch. Not overly important but had at one time been a good strong mech with many morals. The Council and their actions had turned him into a monster. Shockwave himself had to shoot him as he tried to kill a fellow Decepticon. The cyclops had learned that he hadn't even been provoked.
So many had been consumed by grief when Cybertron was destroyed. So many had though that it had been the end... It would've been had Starscream not found the device in time for them to clear out most of their army.
In the Council's greed to keep Cybertron in clean servos they destroyed her. If they couldn't have her, no one could. The message had been clear and selfish. Megatron had been so angry, so upset.
They had needed someone to blame so the digit was pointed at the Autobots, once supporters of the very same Council. Shockwave had known that Megatron would never side with the Prime. Something prevented him from liking the Prime and from killing the Prime. It was illogical but that was how it was.
Shockwave looked around the room he currently resided in. The walls, blank metal sheets. The floor, clean and polished to a shine. The room itself was empty bar from several machines and the space bridge that the purple Cyclops guarded with his very existence. It was always so quiet...
The mech looked back to the control panel to see all was as it always was. Apprehension was beginning to set into his circuits. Megatron had not made contact in a few Earth days now. He needed some energon on Cybertron and he needed it soon. He had tried to contact the Nemesis only to be answered by static.
Something was wrong. That was what his logical processor told him. Something was terribly wrong.
It was lucky he had found them just the other vorn otherwise he may have had to just sit in the room and wait. Shockwave had thought the mech leading them to be offline. Blown apart and melted by the bomb that tore Iacon apart.
/Shockwave to Decap./