The Nemesis, Shattered Glass Universe
Predaking looked across the bridge at the bridge crew as they scrambled over each other trying to find the Commander and the rest of the team.
"Blackout, status report." Predaking called out to the helicopter Decepticon.
"Sir, we have no trace on Commander Megatron or any other members of the team. It's almost as if they vanished of the face of the earth."
Upon hearing this news Predaking put his servo on his faceplate while stifling a cry of rage.
"I'll check in with the ground teams." Replied Predaking as he opened communications starting with the team in Washington D.C.
"Ransack, Crumplezone, has Commander Megatron reappeared yet?"
"That would be a big no King." Responded the two-wheeler as he and Crumplezone sat on the washington mall in robot form.
"It's Predaking Ransack, and where's Crumplezone?"
"CZ is…" Ransack began before looking at the laughing light green Decepticon as a group of children were crawling all over his frame.
"He's entertaining human sparklings." Replied Ransack.
"Keep your watch, com the Nemesis the moment they show up."
"Got it King." Replied Ransack as the connection was severed.
"Scrapper." Called out Predaking as he commed the Constructicon leader.
"Yeah boss?" Called out Scrapper in New York City. The Constructicons have been stationed in the city for the past year helping in the reconstruction.
"Has Commander Megatron and the rest of the team reappeared in your location?" Predaking had to speak up as it was hard to hear Scrapper with the sound of construction equipment roaring around him.
"Sorry boss but The Commander hasn't popped up here… Hey Longhaul! Those Girders are angled wrong! We don't want the new Empire State building to be the new Leaning Tower of Pisa! Fix that angle or you'll be working with Bonecrusher on Central Park!
"Sorry Chief!" Predaking heard Longhaul call out.
"Again The Commander hasn't shown up, we'll give you a holler if he does."
"Alright, thank you Scrapper." Predaking replied before killing the line and calling the Bounty Hunter.
"Lockdown."
"No, you two aren't joining." Lockdown growled to Runamuck and Runabout.
"We'll be careful."
"Yeah Lockdown, we'll play fair."
"You aren't wasting time in a street race, we have a job to do, let's get to work." Replied Lockdown.
"You found nothing I take it?" Asked Predaking.
"Not a thing." Replied Lockdown before Predaking ended the call.
Hope was starting to look less and less and Predaking smiled as he realized that he had lost all hope, just like he had when the Commander found him.
Unknown Location, Cybertron, Shattered Glass Universe, Many years ago
He was a prisoner, all he knew was the voice of the creator and the chamber.
"Is it done yet Perceptor?" Asked the Dark One to the creator.
"Not yet my Lord, he still needs a little more time." responded the creator before he grabbed the stick and poked him releasing massive pain as light danced over his body. He hated the stick, he hated the Dark One. But he hated the creator most of all. He knew that when the creator would release him from the chamber he would be forced to commit monstrous acts for the Dark One.
Suddenly a loud noise tore through the room and was amplified in the chamber.
"OPTIMUS!" A voice rang out in the room as a silver giant entered followed by a purple cyclopes.
"Perceptor, your insane mad science ends today." Called out the cyclopes.
"I thought you only spoke in logic Shockwave!" Perceptor responded shaking the stick towards the giant and Shockwave.
"Megatron." Optimus sneered. "I would like to congratulate you and Shockwave." Optimus told the two as he moved over to the chamber controls with the two Decepticons pointing their weapons at him. "You see, Perceptor has been waiting to test out his newest experiment but we are missing one thing." Megatron and Shockwave looked around and saw they were in a pit. Optimus and Perceptor were on a gangway. And the tube containing the Predacon was coming down to them.
"Lord Optimus I don't have his processor implants installed yet!" Yelled out Perceptor as the chamber door opened and the Predacon walked out. He knew he was big, but he didn't know he was massive. He felt a strange tingle in his chassis and a heat start to build, he turned towards the creator to question what it was.. And released a ball of fire from his mouth that slammed into the gangway and caused it to collapse and send the creator and the stick down to the pit with him.
"Lord Optimus! HELP!" Cried out the creator as the Predacon moved towards him. Lord Optimus hovered in midair before smirking at Perceptor and flying away through a hole in the wall. Perceptor looked at the Predacon and pointed the prod towards it.
"Please.." Perceptor began as the Predacon opened his maw and grabbed the prod before calling upon the strength in his cables and snapping the prod in half. He spit the two halves of the prod in front of Perceptor, the Autobot looked up at his creation with fear in his eyes and noticed the glow on the Predacons chassis that was moving towards his maw.
"No, please, I created you!" Perceptor yelled out as the Predacon unleashed a white hot inferno from his maw that superheated Perceptor causing him to scream in pain as his optics exploded, his circuitry burned, and his armor softened until a puddle remained. The Predacon then turned towards the two newcomers. The silver giant stood tall and if he had any fear then he didn't show it. The purple cyclopes started walking towards him, the glow in the structure on his left arm was gone. The silver giant was behind him, the glow in his right arm was gone.
"Greetings Predacon, I am Shockwave." The cyclopes was slow with his movements and the Predacon could feel that the intentions of this one was nobel.
"And I am Commander Megatron, are you alright?" The giant asked with a look on his faceplate that the Predacon had never seen before, yet he knew what it was. Compassion, and seeing the giant like this the Predacon felt another strange sensation. It was as if his whole body was shifting and warping.
The cyclopes and giant took a step back as they watched in shock as the Predacon became taller and took the form of an orange mech.
"Who. Are. You?" The Predacon asked the two.
"I…" Began the silver giant before looking at the cyclopes in confusion and then back at the Predacon "I am Commander Megatron, this is my chief scientist Shockwave."
"Scientist.. Bad.. Creator scientist. Creator bring pain from stick. Dark one wanted Creator to make me harm others. Creator wanted me to harm you."
"I am not like Perceptor. His method was questionable even before the war." Shockwave walked up to the Predacon. "Based on that logic, I wouldn't harm you."
The lab rumbled as permacrete fell down from the ceiling and crashed to the floor.
"Commander, we must escape before the lab collapses." Shockwave stated.
"Agreed." Megatron fired his cannon at a wall causing a hole to appear. "GO GO GO!" Shockwave dove through the hole and transformed to his tank mode.
"Commander I will clear a path." Shockwave rolled off with shots from his cannon heard every few seconds.
"We must leave." Megatron grabbed the servo of the Predacon and pulled but the Predacon wouldn't budge.
"What am I?" Asked the Predacon. Megatron paused and looked into his optics seeing they were full of fear.
"Whatever you want to be." This seemed to satisfy the Predacon as he followed Megatron through the holes made by Shockwave and to the exit of the lab. Outside the lab finally caved in on itself causing dust and metal shards to fly around. The Predacon was gently pulled along by Megatron until he planted his feet.
"Who am I?" The Predacon asked. Megatron looked at the Predacon and realized Perceptor never gave him a name.
"I don't know your name... I'm sorry." Replied Megatron to a crestfallen Predacon.
"Can you name me?" Asked the Predacon. A small crowd had formed around them. Looking at the Predacon, Megatron noticed the crown shaped helm and thought to himself.
"You are a warrior and a noble one, you fight with honor and purpose. I name you Predaking."
Nemesis Bridge, Flashback end
"Predaking!" Yelled Barricade causing the Predacon to awaken from his memory.
"Did someone find them?"
"No, much worse." Barricade replied before pointing to the ID code on the comm window.
Predaking sighed as he hoped he wouldn't have to speak to him for a few more days before answering it.
"Predaking, where in Washington's cherry tree is Megatron?"
"A pleasure as always Agent Fowler." Predaking replied to the US Ranger on screen, in his personal opinion Fowler always spent too much time at the gym and this would get him worked up and easily agitated.
"I'm serious Predaking, he never showed up for the debriefing in D.C. and now I can't get ahold of him or any other of team Tron."
Before Predaking could respond a new call icon popped up and Predaking slapped his helm as he saw the code.
"I'm gonna have to put you on hold." Before Fowler could protest Predaking hit the second call icon. This only brought up the second caller and minimized a furious Fowler.
"Predaking, The UN wants to speak to Commander Megatron."
"Director Bishop." Predaking observed the former US General. "The Commander is unable to answer right now."
"Why can't we tell them Megatron and the others are missing?" Asked Barricade.
"WHAT!" Fowler and Bishop yelled out.
"Excellent work Barricade I was just getting to that."
"What do you mean he's missing!" Yelled Fowler.
Predaking proceeded to tell the two what happened several days ago and how their teammates disappeared, by the end both men were shocked.
"Don't panic, we still have one last search team to report in." Predaking told the two officials "But for now I beg of you to keep quiet about this." Predaking shut down their channels and hit the call sign of the last team. "Motormaster report." Predaking told the leader of the Stunticons.
Ruins of Jasper, Shattered Glass Universe
"Predaking your timing couldn't have been better." Replied Motormaster, our Combiner link to Breakdown says he's in this area and Thundercracker and Skywarp say they feel Starscream.
"He's This way I tell you!" Yelled out Skywarp as he transformed and flew off, followed by Thundercracker and the Stunticons.
"Skywarp, slow down!" Yelled Thundercracker after the errant seeker as his younger brother finally slowed down upon arriving at an old military installation.
The teams transformed and Skywarp ran to one of the aircraft hangars.
"He's in here! HE'S IN HERE!" Yelled Skywarp.
"I sense Breakdown in their to!" Dead End cried out as the Stunticons followed him in. Thundercracker entered last and noticed the state of the hangar.
"Skywarp this place hasn't been used in years. There's no one in here."
"Starscream is standing right here." Skywarp pointed to the ground.
"It's weird."
"What is it Wildrider?" Asked Dragstrip.
"Breakdown is standing right here." Wildrider stood on the concrete where nhe could sense Breakdown.
"I have an idea." Skywarp called out. "If I focus on Starscream's signature and transwarp to his location I should be able to find him."
"Skywarp I wouldn't..." Thundercracker never finished as Electricity built up around Skywarp as he activated his transwarp matrix.
"And heeeeerrrreeee weeee goooooo." said Skywarp as he vanished in a burst of light, leaving Hangar E filled with confused Stunticons and Thundercracker and a burn mark on the ground where Skywarp once stood.
I would like to thank Commander 3428961 for the inspiration for this chapter and for ideas in several other chapters. Please review and I am enjoying these ideas. Tell me who or what you want to see in future chapters and please review below.