G1 Dimension: Renegade Forces
Stalking unseen, Galvatron-Ice flew slightly above and behind the two Seekers. His wings trembled in anticipation of the punishment that he would be inflicting on Thrust and Dirge. For even though he was dead, he considered them traitors for having followed the usurper whore's leadership!
Arming two of the infrared lock missiles within his port belly bay, Galvatron snickered as he released them.
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"Hey Dirge, you gonna join me on those new missile test runs?" Thrust asked.
Dirge snickered, "It's about time we blew something – AKKKK!"
The unwary Seekers never spotted the missiles until it was too late. Agony shot through them as their thrusters were blown apart. Transforming, the two began to plummet helplessly to the Earth.
Thin gray fingers wrapped around one arm of each, and as they looked up in shock and confusion at their gray/black Commander – the cool plasma of warp phase engulfed them.
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Coming out of warp phase, the two damaged Seekers found themselves thrown on the rocky ground. The Alliance Commander glaring down at them, so completely out of character that at first neither Thrust or Dirge could even talk , they were in such shock!
"So you traitors have been living well I see," Galvatron-Ice growled.
Dirge's optics got huge and he found himself trembling in fear, for that voice wasn't Ice's it sounded like – Galvatron! "Uh, Galvatron?.." he stammered.
"But.. But.. You're dead!" Thrust whispered hoarsely, the terror obvious.
Galvatron-Ice strolled up to them, and laughed as he kicked each one in the face. "Death has no meaning for Galvatron! But it does for you!"
As Galvatron-Ice pointed his laser gun at his face, Thrust whimpered and cowered, begging for mercy, promising to do anything Galvatron asked. The possessed Seeker cocked her head and kicked Thrust across the rocks.
Turning towards Dirge, Galvatron-Ice stomped down hard on a wing. The Seeker screamed in agony as the gray/black Seeker engaged that thruster and seared right through his sensitive wing.
"Swear your loyalties to me – and I might let you live!" Galvatron-Ice snarled.
Falling on their faces, both damaged Seekers swore their loyalties.
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For weeks, Galvatron-Ice and his renegade Decepticons continued to kidnap and convert the Alliance Decepticons back into his ranks. As the ranks swelled, Galvatron-Ice's reputation spread. Soon the Alliance Commanders: Ultra Magnus and Cyclonus – heard the rumors of Ice's possession and Galvatron's return – and desperately began a hunt.
But nothing could be found, and the decimation of the Decepticons from Cyclonus's ranks continued.
Eventually, the Constructicons were captured and converted back to Galvatron's ranks.
"I want you to build me a new chassis. One that no Mech can defeat!" Galvatron-Ice ordered.
Hook nodded, knowing full well if he didn't please Galvatron-Ice, there was a good chance he'd be offlined. "What type of alt mode do you wish my lord?"
"Hmmm, that's a good question," Galvatron-Ice rubbed his chin in contemplation. Those strange amber orbs began to gleam as the idea formed solidly in his meta. "I want to be a Triple Changer. Yes, a Triple Changer! Both tank and combat fighter. Make my cannon even more powerful than before!"
Hook's optics narrowed in thought. Triple Changers were among the hardest of all Transformers to build! It would take time to make sure it was just perfect. And how to make the alt mode cannon as powerful as Galvatron once was?
Galvatron-Ice gave him the answer to his silent question. Slicing open the front of one of her thrusters, he pulled out a strange, glowing crystal. Tossing it to Hook, the possessed Seeker's amber optics narrowed. "These are the most powerful energy sources in the Galaxy! Even Primus covets them! Use this one and make me the all-powerful!"
A. Dimension: Confrontation
With full weapon bays, Raptor stayed fully cloaked as she searched for Sideways. And as she searched, she saw police raiding and dragging her subjects away.
Stopping in each case she observed, she landed and decloaked. Shocking the police at her presence, and then she gave them royal orders that all arrests would stop immediately. Relief shown in the optics of her innocent subjects, their opinion of their conqueror changed as they realized that these were not her actions. The fear began to lessen amongst the Mechs, as the rumors of her actions ran like wild fire across the planet.
"Let them go, Captain;" she ordered. As she leveled her strong gaze at the nervous police squadron.
He shifted, fear in his optics. "If we don't take them to him, Sideways will take us instead."
She glared at him, "then simply quit. Run and hide. Do not enforce this evil. If you do not, you face me – now!"
Several of the police Mechs took her advice, and turned and ran - Quitting; as they felt that the Seeker had just ordered them to. The Captain backed up, not sure of which conqueror to fear the most – the femme or the male.
Not waiting for him to decide, the Star Saber appeared in the femme's hand. Calmly, she walked up to the two dozen chained prisoners and began to cut their bonds. A cheer went up through the freed prisoners, and several made like they were going to go after the Captain. "Do not touch your fellow Mechs. They are not the one to blame." Raptor's voice rang out, stopping the freed prisoners in their tracks.
"You shouldn't have done that, my 'Love'." Sideways's voice rang out, filled with threat.
All of the primitive Mechs ran for their lives, as the most feared conqueror squared off against the Seeker. Hiding behind buildings, they peered around. Now having realized through her actions; which of the dangerous pair - needed to win - for their planet's sake.
Raptor turned and regarded her former Lover with true disgust. "You shouldn't have made me believe you were something – which you weren't."
"You are foolish to believe that you can stand up to me. Join me, and we shall rule with the most powerful force in the universe."
Raptor laughed, "If ruling means the constant slaughter of my subjects, then tell your master he can kiss my aft."
"You will pay for your insolence, foolish Seeker"
Raptor spun in a blur at the Virus, Sideways seeming to disappear in a strange cloud of charged particles. Cussing, she yelled her frustration into the sky.
Slowly, timid Mechs approached the femme. Pointing up to one of the Moons, they informed her of where the prisoners were taken. Thanking them, the Seeker transformed and headed towards Sideways' Master.
Unicron
Landing on the surface, Raptor kept her cloaking engaged. Soon, she found the entrance that they used to shuttle prisoners down. Sliding in, she made her way towards her goal.
Suddenly, Sideways was on her! Finding her even with her cloaking engaged. Shutting it off, she blocked his laser fire – returning it with her own. He spun around her, his movement so fast that her sensors could barely track him. She dropped and rolled, getting distance between herself and her opponent. Swiftly jumping back to her thrusters, she met his next attack with the Star Saber.
He circled her; "you are nothing without the Star Saber. Even with it, you are nothing but an empty shell, a waste of a good air frame."
Cocking her head, she looked at him with amusement; "Coming from a worthless Virus like yourself – at least I have a good air frame."
Suddenly, he was behind her. Kicking her soundly, he caused her to fly through the air. Raptor merely grunted as she crashed right through several sections of organometallic bulkheads. Finally stopping, the Seeker staggered to her thrusters, shaking her head and regaining her bearings.
As energon from torn peripherals coated her intakes, she glared at the Virus. "Your puny kicks are nothing compared to the hits I took as lover to Galvatron. You'd better do more than that!" Coming at him with the Star Saber ready, she spun as he dissolved again.
Leaping into the air, she flipped and came down behind the reappearing Virus. With a swiftly executed roundhouse, she sent him flying through the opposite wall.
As he stopped, he jumped lightly back to his feet and hit her with several rounds of laser fire. She blocked much of it with the Star Saber, but several rounds tore through her sensitive wings. Staggering in agony, she barely maintained her defensive stance.
He came at her again, and again she kept him at bay. Flipping around her, he managed to hit her with another well-aimed blast. Flying through the air, Raptor crashed heavily through another wall. Struggling back to her thrusters, she ignored the pain from her torn fuselage, her circuits now bare and unprotected along her entire aft side. Opening her side bays, she sent a volley of missiles flying at her ex-lover.
He laughed as he dissolved. The missiles blew through the organo-metallic bulkheads that they hit. The concussion from the blast, blew Raptor backwards again. As her exposed circuits smashed against the exposed rock behind her, she swooned with the sheer agony. Shaking her head, she rose to a knee, trying to keep the Star Saber up defensively against the re-appearing form of Sideways.
Suddenly, his master surrounded her with tendrils, locking her arms against her sides. The Star Saber falling to the ground. Sideways walked around her, glaring at her in arrogance; "admit that you live for war. Nothing in you truly wants peace."
She spat at him, her crimson optics glaring in rage.
He snickered; "Yes, feel the rage Raptor. It feeds my master, gives him strength." He ran his hand over her helm, kissing her, making her rage at his betrayal grow. "You are all he needs now; your life force will give him the final boost. I hope you enjoy the pain of your death."
Then the Virus was gone, leaving Raptor to face her death alone. She could feel the entity beginning to drain her. But her thoughts drifted back, to what the Angel of Death had told her – she was trapped, she was eternal, she could not die. Then she thought about what Sideways had said – rage feeds his Master.
A glimmer of hope came over her. For there was something that Sideways and his evil master did not know; a trait that Cybertronians never had – but the uniqueness of her human-spark - did. Yes! A possibility that she could destroy this entity – and create meaning for her miserable life – delving deep into her human soul she called.
Though he had forsaken her on the day that Starscream had ripped her soul from her human body – she had never truly forsaken her belief in him. For it was He that kept the souls of her beloved human family; safe and happy in their deaths. So though He had turned away from the abomination that was her – she still loved him with her very soul. So she called her God, she called Jesus – she prayed for them to take her sin, take her pain, and make her shattered soul whole again. In that moment she became reborn, her only emotion being one of religious rapture.
As the rapture flowed through her, the strange gems within her port knee began to pulsate with the stored power of the Northern Lights. Tendrils of energy coursed along her air frame, turning her into a thing of plasma energy. Reaching her power cores, the gem's power combined with the released energy of them. The Seeker of plasma energy expanded and grew; unstoppable with the sheer volume of energy which it now controlled.
The evil entity tightened its grip on her, trying to stemmy the unexpected power which the Seeker had become. It fought against the positive energy flow. But it was used to fighting against one type of energy at a time; this thing of plasma was a combination of both Earth and Cybertronian power sources. Flowing over the entity - this alien combination of energy and pure religious rapture; against which the entity truly had no defense.
The entity pulled back, trying to let loose of the toxic combination. But the Seeker was too integrated within it. And as she became a thing of pure plasma energy, coursing through it – destroying everything in her wake - as she flowed through its systems.
The moon's surface cracked and boiled, as an eerie green light flowed through it. Devastating the entity within; slowly, the surface settled back into its cold lifelessness. As Raptor exhausted almost all of her cores, going unconscious as she lay trapped within the entity.
Something moved weakly, a horned helm poked through the devastation. Hands encircled the three helpless minicons lying at the unconscious Seeker's side. Sideways struggled to his knees, looking at Raptor's deactivated optics, touching her cockpit he could sense the strange pulsating spark within. Laughing weakly, he stood in front of her, the minicons staring up at him in fear.
"You have won the battle, but are far from winning the war." He glanced down at the minicons, bringing them to his face and studying them; "and what a gift you have given me Raptor! For with my Master and your life force – we shall hatch a multitude of these small soldiers. With them, we shall one day rule!"
The minicons chattered in terror, as the Virus took them away.
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Note: The original writers of Armada were never clear about how the 'cataclysm' on ancient Cybertron occurred and caused Unicron to go into hibernation.. So I've taken the liberty of putting forth my own theory..
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