"Megatronus, you need to get up, you are going to Cybertron in a breem." Ratchet's voice startled me out of my recharge. How long have I been in recharge?
"Okay." I said sleepily. "How long was I out?"
"2 orbital cycles." My optics enlarged at that one, 2 orbital cycles. He left after that, and I was left to try to get myself up. When I finally did, I had to stretch my stiff gears out because I could barely move. After that, I then proceeded to drink the 2 energon cubes Ratchet got for me. I was the last one in the Silo because everyone, including Orion was there watching me enter the room.
"When are we leaving?" I asked them.
"Now." Arcee said. She proceeded to transform into her vehicle form, and Jack got on.
"Megatronus, let me introduce you to the team, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and sometimes Wheeljack is here when he wants to be." Ratchet said to me, a slight twinge in his voice when he mentioned Wheeljack, wonder what he did to get Ratchet's circuits in a wad. I nodded to all of them, acknowledging them. "Now, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and I will be guarding the space bridge, while agent fowler the humans, and Orion wait here and operate the Ground bridge. You and Arcee will go through the space bridge and retrieve the knowledge of the Primes, and then we all will return here to return Orion back to his former state, Optimus."
"Okay, I'm ready." I said, and then they all transformed and left, and I proceeded to transform into my jet mode, and flew off after them. I arrived on what could only be the Decepticon ship, and they all were already attacking them all. I saw one over by the corner computer console, trying to contact his superiors. I rushed over to him, extracted my blade, and gutted him through his back, his energon gushing everywhere, splattering me. I turned to go help the others, but they were already done scraping the others. Arcee, Jack and I proceeded to enter the Ground bridge, and I braced myself for what I was about to see.
"No…. this couldn't have happened, I, this?" I asked when I saw the destruction that she said I caused, but how, WHY, would I ever do this to my planet?
"Yes," She said sharply to me, "you're quest for power brought this, and I assume you don't remember any of this do you?"
"No, I'm afraid I don't, the last thing I remember, was dubbing myself Megatronus, but I don't remember anything after that, just when I am suddenly back here woken up." I answered.
"You weren't woken up, you have been awake all these vorns, except your eyes were red, and some reason they have turned back to blue." She sharply told me.
"They have always been blue to my knowledge, unless when I guess my consciousness was in that coma or something, my eyes turned red." I answered her.
"What do you mean you don't remember anything, you have went vorns obliterating everything in your path, murdered a slew of Autobot's, and you tell me that anywhere in your glitching processer, you can't pull back any of the scrap you have done!" She yelled at me.
"Arcee, calm down." The human Jack told her.
"Shut up Jack, this is between me and Megatron,-"
"-trous." I corrected.
"Shut your fragging mouth! Jack just lead the way, and don't ask questions! And who the frag do you think you are, I know your fragging name, but your still the glitched up Megatron-"
"-TRONUS." I corrected her yet again.
"ARHG!" I reacted fast when she attacked me, dodging her blade hacks with precise, I stepped to the side when she lunged, and proceeded to punch her in the back, which sent her flying. I then crouched waiting for the next attack to come, she formed her blades into guns. I dodged her bullets, and shot back some of my own. I hit her square in the chest, and then ran over to where she was on the ground with minimal damage, because I powered down my bullets so it wouldn't hurt her so badly. She changed to her blades, and tried to make a move, but I pinned her down. "Ratchet!?" I called over the comm-link that Ratchet gave me.
"What is it Megatronus?" Ratchet answered.
"Arcee just attacked me, I've got her pinned right now, and if I let her go, she is probably going to try to extinguish my spark." I told him rapidly, Arcee's cold eyes staring straight through to my very being.
"WHAT, did you do to her!?" Ratchet yelled at me.
"Nothing, we were just talking, and when she said my name wrong I added the "trous" part to it, and the next thing I know is that I am fighting her, got her pinned, and the human is safe, just, staring at us." I answered him, looking at the human who was obviously worried about Arcee.
"Arcee, why did you attack Megatronus?" Ratchet asked her, and I could tell he was getting mad, just by the tone of his voice, although he didn't sound angry.
"What if this is all a trick, and Megatron is pretending to be Megatronus, and just using Jack to get into Vector Sigma?" Arcee told/asked him sharply.
"Pah, if this was the real Megatron, he would have extinguished Orion's spark by now, and he wouldn't have spared you, or anyone else." Ratchet told her. "Now, Arcee, I will pull you back from the mission and send Bumblebee instead, unless you really don't want to be with Jack, and you want him to be ALONE with Megatronus, with ONLY Bumblebee to protect him?"
I could tell he hit the right spot, because she withdrew her blades and responded to Ratchet, "Fine, but if he tries anything I will extinguish him."
"He won't Arcee, now get on with the mission, I still feel like the sooner we get out of here the better."
"Soundwave report." Airachnid said to Soundwave.
He replayed the massage, "Okay, we know Ratchet, and if what you say is true, then we will follow."
"That is Megatron, loyal with the Autobot's, are you absolutely sure Soundwave?" She asked him. He stayed silent. "If Megatron is with the Autobot's, then we stand no chance here, but why would he?" Airachnid said. She didn't know what to think at that moment, but if Megatron was with the Autobot's, we would have to leave, granting her with supreme command over the Decepticon's since Megatron said she was in charge. "Soundwave, cue the audio visuals." Soundwave did so. "Decepticons, Megatron has sided with the Autobot's." She stopped there when the whole ship went into chaos, hearing about their leader being on the enemies side.
She then continued, "When I know that this must be some sort of trickery, Soundwave does not lie, and I suggest an immediate retreat from here, because Megatron and Optimus fighting on the same side has us left for spare parts. And since I am the one he left in charge, I am the leader of the Decepticon's now!" She told everyone.
"Commander—uh Lord Airachnid, if we didn't have any success in defeating the Autobot's with Megatron on our side, what hope would we have of Megatron with Optimus Prime, and you in command?" The Vehicon Steve said.
"I trained under Starscream, who trained under Megatron, and I have trained under Megatron too, so it's only right for me to take the position. Soundwave, set coordinates for Regulan 4." She commanded of him. Soundwave turned, and he wasn't about to leave this planet, not while his Lord and master Megatron is out there. "Step down Soundwave." Airachnid threatened, but Soundwave stood his ground against her, and then she lunged. Soundwave blocked her attacks with ease, then he latched a servo onto her, and sent her flying across the bridge. He launched Laserbeak out, and when she looked up at him, she noticed he wasn't there. Laserbeak shot her, and then Soundwave stomped on her face. "STAND DOWN!" She yelled at him.
"Soundwave superior, Airachnid inferior." Soundwave said to her, and then he picked her up, and he plunged his servo into her spark, and grabbed it out of its chassis. He then proceeded to crush it in his hands, and threw her down the scrap compactor.
"Watch out for the quiet ones." Knockout said.
Soundwave relayed a message from the departed Starscream, "If Megatron is up there, I shall bring him back." The message got out to them, and then he relayed a message to Knockout, combining a few of Megatron's words to make a sentence, "Knockout, you're in charge until," He then used Starscream's voice, "Megatron's," He relayed Megatron's voice, "return, and don't fail me." He then walked back to his computer, and resumed what he was doing.
"Okay, you heard what he said, I'm in charge, so…. Get back to work?" Knockout guessed. Soundwave was going to keep close tabs on him, anything he would do to overstep his boundaries would be stopped by Soundwave himself, Megatron would come back to us, he just knew it.
Soundwave then received a Transmission from someone he wasn't expecting, Shockwave. "Soundwave, Megatron and a blue femme are walking towards Vector Sigma, engage?" He asked him. Shockwave already knew about Megatron's resent processor malfunction, and was prepared.
Soundwave responded in his own voice, "Engage."
/
She glared at me the whole way. The whole WAY to Vector Sigma she glared, and didn't utter a sound, just followed Jack, and stared daggers through me. I tried to ignore her, but when someone just glares at you constantly, you just keep thinking that they may attack you at any second, and I had good reason to be on guard, already got attacked once. Yeah we were walking alright, but something didn't seem right, like something was just going to pop out at any second, but it wasn't Arcee, but something else. I tried to brush it aside, but it kept growing, like I somehow knew that we were not going to have a walk in the park.
"Arcee, I think we're being watched." I warned her.
"Have you even taken a look at this place, who in the world would be here?" She asked me.
"I don't know," I said to her, and then something jumped in front of us, about ten feet away, "Maybe that guy?" I said sarcastically.
"This is no time for jokes Megatron, THAT is Shockwave, but wait a minute, how in the world did you escape the explosion?" She asked him.
"You underestimate me, I designed the thing, you wouldn't think I would make precautions?"
"Arcee, I don't think now would be a good time for chatting, seeing as he is obviously a threat." I said to her, and she was about to make a retort, but Shockwave decided that that was enough talk, because he shot, and thank Primus that Arcee is quick, or she would've been scrapped. I powered up my gun to its full power/normal status, but I couldn't hit him because he dodged mine, but Arcee's just bounced off of him. The crazy femme proceeds to tell him, "You know, Cliffjumper wanted a rematch with you, but he won't be getting it because he died, but I guess I will have to have the rematch instead." Shockwave took his attention off of me, but then I realized what she was doing, since her bullets couldn't scratch Shockwave, mine would because I am more powerful, and it worked too. I shot him in the side of his head, but I missed what I was aiming for, his eye.
"You will pay for that Megatron." He said to me, and then he proceeded to focus all his attention on me. He stopped shooting, and instead started to charge with his, gun? I extracted my blade, and sliced his gun, but it didn't even scratch it, his gun was like a sword, and that would explain the length of it, or it was just a powerful gun with protective plating. Either way, I was getting my aft whooped, and Arcee couldn't do anything to stop it, but the she started using her processor, and charged with her blades. She jumped, and was about to cut him in half, but he just knocked me back with a powerful blow, and knocked her away with an equally powerful thrust, she couldn't touch Shockwave. He resumed his assault on me, and it was all I could do to try to not let him find an opening so he could scrap me, but it was a matter of time before he fainted, and I followed, and then he struck me so hard in the head that my Optics offlined for an Astrosecond, and when they came back on, Shockwave was standing over me with his gun ready to fire.
"Say goodbye Megatron." He told me, but then he looked up at something, and suddenly he was sent flying, and someone else was standing in his place, but he didn't greet me. The mysterious attacker flew off after Shockwave, punching dents in him as he went, and then he shot him with the gun mounted on his right arm, and that sent Shockwave rolling a couple of feet.
"Interloper!" Shockwave yelled at him, but then he looked like he received a transmission from something, and then he transformed into a tank, and ran. Of all the things he could do, it was run, but I wasn't complaining.
The mech turned towards me, he was totally blue, but his peds were red, a laser cannon on his head, and a plasma cannon on his arm, and his face was hard as he looked at me. "Megatron, prepare to die." Everyone wants me dead for some reason, everywhere I turn, someone comes really close to killing me, and then I luck out. Arcee came back online then, and thank Primus she spoke up.
"Hey, don't worry, he's with us, some sort of thing with the matrix, uh, just ask Optimus when we get back." She rattled it off so quickly, I almost didn't catch it.
He did lower his gun, but pointed it at her, "This better not be a trick."
"I'm Arcee." With those words he lowered his gun.
"Arcee, one of the sisters, very stealthy, and almost never gets caught." He said to her.
"Who are you?" She demanded of him.
"Devcon."
"The famous bounty hunter."
"Seems you've heard of me."
"Heard of you, you've scrapped a lot of Decepticons back in the world, how could I forget that?"
"Your famous too, heck I've heard you've only got caught once, and that was by Starscream, but what are you doing on Cybertron?" He asked gruffly.
"Trying to restore Optimus Prime's memory, basically, he used the Matrix of Leadership to scrap Unicron, lost his memory, gave Jack here a key, and now we are on a treasure hunt to find Vector Sigma and restore his memory." She answered him all at once.
"Hey guys, I don't think we will need to look much farther than right here." Jack said, and Vector Sigma came up out of the ground, it looked magnificent.
"Well I guess that works." I said. We walked down the tunnel, and Devcon asked questions, and Arcee answered them because most I couldn't quite answer all the ones about anything really. We reached the middle of Vector Sigma, and right there in front of us, was it, was what we were looking for. "By the allspark." I said.
"I'm going to assume that this specimen knows what it's doing?" Devcon asked Arcee.
"Yes." She said. Jack walked up to it, and put the key in the hole, and it downloaded. We waited for a breem, and it finally downloaded, and we walked out of Vector Sigma, and Arcee then called Ratchet for the space bridge. It appeared in front of us, and we all walked through.
"HELP!" Ratchet yelled at us. Currently, Bulkhead was battling a big blue Decepticon, Bumblebee a red 'con, and Ratchet was getting tussled around by a huge purple 'con. The 'con tossed Ratchet away, and headed straight for me. I extracted my blade, and Devcon charged with me. We both managed to keep him at bay, somehow working in sync with each other, I hacked away at him, but he kept blocking my blows with his one arm, and blocked Devcon's with the other. Both me and Devcon struck at the same time, and we were holding it, but then I something grabbed me from behind, and threw me about 5 feet, and Devcon landed about 10 feet away from me. I got up, and battled him again, and Arcee joined up. Devcon finally got up and started attacking with us, and now we had him. He could barely hold off our attacks, and finally I hit him in the back with my fist, Arcee kicked him in the face, and Devcon punched him in the stomach, sending him flying.
"COME ON!" Ratchet said to us. Bumblebee, hit his red 'con away, transformed, and rolled into the ground bridge. Arcee transformed and jack hopped on, and she rolled into it, and then Devcon transformed into a space cruiser, and I into my jet mode, and we all escaped from the ship.
"Where's Bulkhead?" Ratchet asked after everyone had entered the Silo.
""I don't know."" Bumblebee said.
"Frag it all, he's probably back at the ship, slagging 'cons probably already scrapped him." Devcon said.
"Orion, open back up the coordinates to the ship, Jack, get Orion back his memory, prepare to roll ou- and fly out." Ratchet said. Orion locked onto the coordinates of the ship, and we shot through the ground bridge. When we got there the purple 'con was standing over Bulkhead, and plunged his hand right into his spark, pulled it out and crushed it before his optics.
"NO!" Ratchet said. The purple one looked at us, but the red one spoke.
"Soundwave, should we retreat, or scrap them?"
"Knockout, you're the leader of the Decepticons now, you call the shots." The blue one said.
"Breakdown, I don't think I want to have full control, after how he scrapped Airachnid earlier, I don't want to be next."
"AIRACHNID'S DEAD!" Arcee screamed. She lunged towards Soundwave, intent on killing him, was she like her friend or something?
"ARCEE!" A huge booming voice I'd never heard before boomed. I looked back, and Orion didn't seem like Orion anymore, he seemed taller, more regal, and had much more command in his voice. Arcee couldn't do much, but Soundwave chucked her at Orion, and he literally caught her, and sat her down.
"Since I call the shots, RETREAT!" Knockout shouted. All 3 of them turned and ran, and some Vehicons charged at us, but we just walked right back in the open ground bridge, Orion and Ratchet lugging him through, and I decided to help, and we dropped him into the open floor, everyone congregating around him, including myself.
"There's nothing I can do Optimus, Soundwave ripped his spark out, I'm sorry."
"I know there is nothing you can do old friend, I just wish I was quicker."
"It's not your fault Optimus, we went through, and witnessed his Spark ripped out right before our very eyes." Ratchet said to Orion, or Optimus.
"Let's give him a proper buri-"
"BULKHEAD!" The human femme Miko screamed, and my audio receptors blanked out for a second. She ran over, dodging the hands that were trying to grab her, but Optimus help his hand up, and the grabbing ceased. She cried on him for what seemed to be 10 minutes or so before she stood up, no tears in her eyes, but a fierce determination, "Who did this?"
"Soundwave." I said immediately. Everyone in the Silo turned towards me, all 'bots gave me the "Are you glitched in the fragging processor?" look, and I knew I did something wrong. She left then, and sat in the corner.
We all walked up, and then I asked Arcee, "Who's in the other rock mound?"
She seemed like she was on the brink of tears all the sudden whe she barely managed to choke out, "Cliffjumper." We gave Bulkhead a proper burial, and then Optimus spoke.
"While we have lost yet another comrade today, we result in gaining a new one, and while I know he may not be a Bulkhead, but I guarantee he will be a great friend."
"Uh Prime, I don't think I'm in to the whole friendship speech here." Devcon said.
"Your opinion is noted." Optimus said, and then continued, "Let us rejoice in the new comrade we have gained, Devcon, but let us also remember the 2 that have given their lives to protecting this world." He seemed like he was finished, and we all went back into the Silo. Bulkhead was the 2nd one to accept me into the Autobot's, because Ratchet was first, but besides that, he did, just accepted me like that, boom, and then in one fell swoop, he was scrapped by that 'con Soundwave.
"Ratchet, may I ask what Megatron is doing here?" He took a guard stance against me when I turned to face him.
"Get the fragging name straight people, s; do I need to spell it out to you all?" I said exasperated, they would never learn would they?
"Mega- Ratchet, what the scrap is going on?" Optimus asked.
Arcee was the one to sigh though, "Obviously the Matrix of Leadership hit Megatron, purified his spark, and now he remembers only what he was before he was Megatron, hence, his name now is Megatronus. Then we went on the 'cons ship to use their space bridge to transport Jack, Megatronus, and me to Cybertron. We went there, and we came across Devcon here, and Shockwave. We got our afts kicked until Devcon showed up and got Shockwave to leave. Then Soundwave came with Knockout, who is now the leader of the 'cons, and Breakdown, and started beating up on us, Ratchet tried to hold him off, but Soundwave merely tossed him around, and then we came back. Megatronus, Devcon, and I started to battle Soundwave, and Ratchet went and called you, which at the present moment you were Orion, and you opened the ground bridge, and obviously Bulkhead couldn't get away from the 'cons, so we had to go back. We arrived at the scene where Bulkhead got his spark ripped out, and then you remember the rest." Arcee said so fast the whole thing was in one sentence.
"Okay." That was all, all Optimus said was 'Okay'? Well, I guess that's all he needs, and I thought he was going to talk to me, but he just walked past. I decided to play the humans "video game" as they called it, and I sucked at it. My car would not even go straight, I was always hitting things, and Raft always killed me in it. I left Bumblebee and the humans, but Ratchet told me to go away and that he was working, and then Arcee just shunned me.
I then turned to the last 'bot on the base, Devcon. Now, to say he was a bottle of sunshine, I would be lying, but at least he would talk to me. "Hey." I said to him.
"Megatron- Megatronus." Devcon corrected himself, "Now what would have you over here?"
"Nobody will talk to me."
"You get used to that after a while," He said as he tinkered on his plasma gun, "you learn to live with it, especially if you're a bounty hunter, nobody got love for us, except maybe Prime over there, but even he keeps his distance. So, did you come here to do small talk, or you want something?"
"What could I want from you?" I asked him.
"Hah!" He laughed at me, "I can fix weapons, upgrade them, I can pretty much do anything with them, except create them, that's Ironhide's job."
"Well could you do something with my gun?" I asked him.
"I'll see what I can do, but 'con technology may be different from us 'bots."
"I'm confident." I said, but I really wasn't, but I still dislodged my gun and gave it to him. "That also has my sword in it too, so if you want to do anything with that you can." I walked away, and just watched Bumblebee and the humans play their game.