And we're back into the long chapters folks, this little part of the story are going to take place about seven years after the events of the last Chapter. So we'll be getting our main Autobot/Decepticon cast onto Earth soon ;)
Anyway Sit back and enjoy!
Oh right the Disclaimer: If you still haven't figured it out I do not own Transformers and Angel belongs to TFG1001 J
Seven years later
Shockwave stared from his tower into the rebuilt Fortress/city of Kaon, ever since the Autobots had bombed the city Megatron had commissioned that Kaon not only be rebuilt, but rebuilt as a fortress.
The City was now a mass of tall towers ending in angles, and fortifications were placed everywhere, to the north Shockwave spotted a wall being built up from the ground with his own Constructicons being used to build it. Shockwave hated the sight of it all; Megatron was turning Kaon into his personal playground instead of attacking the Autobots.
"Even more proof that Megatrons leadership is illogical." He muttered to himself as he walked back into the tower, now refurbished and repaired, Shockwave had made many personal modifications to it and had finally made sure that he had a decent Security System in place so no one could just walk inside without him knowing.
Despite this, Megatron had ordered him to be watched even more than ever. He was beginning to have his doubts about Shockwave's loyalty, while Shockwave was now fully convinced that Megatron as a leader had long ago failed the Decepticons.
As Shockwave walked over to his computer terminal he made a quick scan of the target planet which had been seeded with Energon; in the polar regions the Energon was spreading slowly, and some if it had stopped growing outright, however in certain parts the Energon was expanding rapidly. One landmass in particular that was connected to two other landmasses had energon spreading in the west and near the planet's liquid bodies to the south the Energon was expanding.
But the scans showed something disturbing, the energon in many areas that had grown were slowing up. Like the planet was building immunity.
"This is unexpected; the planet seems to be trying to fight back," He murmured. He tapped a few keys. ", at this rate, the energon will stop expanding within the five-seven stellar cycles, possibly sooner."
Shockwave stepped back and then did a scan as to how much energon was on earth. There was enough to keep the areas of Decepticon controlled Cybertron running for two vorns, for all of Cybertron, half a vorn.
As his optic scanned the screen he knew that he would have to find a new target planet. But if Megatron deemed this a failure he would not allow it, and Shockwave knew that he would.
So his mind Shockwave hatched a plan, and if all went accordingly he would get all the energon he needed, and Megatron would no longer be a factor.
The Throne Room of Megatron.
Megatron sat at his throne atop a tall staircase, since Kaon's rebuilding he had overseen construction of his own personal headquarters, which included a large throne room for him to give speeches.
Like the rest of Kaon it was heavily fortified but he also had a small private guard team on Standby. They watched and waited for any possible attempts to kill their leader and were willing to lay down their lives if need be, Vehicons were some of the most easily programmable drones
Megatron sat on his throne, twin Fusion cannons sat behind him like trophies as he stared at the doors, next to him sat a tall blue torch that appeared to be offline. The Guards had reported that Shockwave was entering the building and as such a small cluster of them were standing at the steps leading to Megatrons throne, armed and ready, aiming their weapons at the doors.
Megatron smirked as Shockwave entered, two Vehicons walking along side him. Megatron could tell even through Shockwave's nonexistent face that he hated this.
Megatrons wasting time sitting around when he could be wiping out the Autobots with a single move! Shockwave thought as he approached the throne and kneeled. "All Hail Lord Megatron" Shockwave said with a hint of venom in his voice.
Megatron sneered. "What is it that you want Shockwave, you had better be bringing me good news on your little seeding project" Megatron snarled.
"Unfortunately Lord Megatron, I cannot say that the news is good, nor bad, the Energon has expanded enough to keep our Decepticon controlled sectors running for two vorns, all of Cybertron for half a vorn."
Megatron leaned back and chuckled. "That is some good news to hear Shockwave, how long until we can power all of Cybertron for a full vorn?"
"I do not know; there is a problem, the target planet seems to be, against all logic, trying to fight off the Energon's growth."
"And here I thought that you didn't believe in the "mythical tales of Primus" Megatron mocked and gave a cold glare toward Shockwave. "I highly doubt an organic world would have a living core like Cybertron."
"I am not saying that it does Lord Megatron but the Energon growth is rapidly decreasing, within the next five to seven stellar cycles it should halt." Shockwave heard Megatron give a small growl.
"You told me that the Energon would convert the entire planet!" Megatron shouted and stood up. "You told me that we would have more than enough Energon to conquer Cybertron and then some!"
"I did not expect the planet's climate to change so drastically in such short amounts of time." Shockwave explained and pulled up a holo rez of the planet. He then pushed back the current state of the planet's climate so it was the way it was when they first launched the rockets.
Megatron peered at it as he saw the changes occur and he spoke. "Is this in direct response to the energon insertion?" He asked glaring toward the scientist.
"Unknown at this time Lord Megatron, but my suggestion would be to harvest the Energon as soon as possible, already an Autobot monitors the planet, should they come to the same conclusion as us then we could be looking at another war, on another planet that could destroy all of the energon."
Megatron frowned and leaned back seemingly in thought before he looked back up toward Shockwave. "I want that Energon mined Shockwave, and I want it now."
"Agreed Lord Megatron, which is why I came here, I desire to take-"
"Your request is denied Shockwave, I will recover the Energon personally, I don't want any sort of mishaps occurring, nor do I wish to see anyone else come back with MY glory." Megatron groused.
If Shockwave could have smirked he would have. As always, Megatron's ego is his downfall.
"Is there any way I may render assistance Lord Megatron?" Shockwave asked. "My Constructicons have taken to the shipyards to refurbish some warships that were damaged."
"No Shockwave, your assistance will not be required, I do desire a small group of your Constructicons fore mining purposes, but only one group." Megatron said, leaning back in his throne.
"Yes Lord Megatron." Shockwave said and turned out of the throne room and walked out the doors. Megatron frowned as he watched him go, before turning to the lamp that was next to him.
"Soundwave, I want Shockwave closely monitored, head to his tower and watch him for me. Let me know his every movement in there" He said as the lamp began to shift, turning sliver and it appeared to melt and then it moldered itself into Soundwave's familiar body frame before finally taking on the Decepticons appearance.
Soundwave turned emotionlessly toward Megatron and nodded. "It will be done Lord Megatron."
Shockwave's engine raced as he flew into the main shipyard of Kaon, at one time it had been an opened air place but now it was enclosed after the Autobots had staged a bombing run on it ten years beforehand.
Within the shipyard were dozens of Decepticon warships that were either being built, or being worked on. The Warships were primarily used as troop transport, as well as mobile command centers, and sometimes just to instill fear into Cybertrons populace.
The Biggest of these Warships was the Nemesis Class, which as Shockwave walked through the shipyard he saw that most of the class was in the hanger, the Harbinger was a personal favorite of Shockwave, but he wasn't here to see it, he was here to see its sister ship and class name sake the Nemesis.
The Nemesis itself was the warship that Megatron favored and had given a lot of additions including some fusion cannons of its own; it was often nicknamed "ego ship" by Starscream, a sentiment Shockwave had to agree with.
As Shockwave walked up to the ships he saw several Constructicons working on the ships outer hull plates and if he could have, he would have scowled. His Constructicons, he felt, should we doing more than just touching up Megatrons personal warship. He walked up the access ramp and walked into the ships airlock, and then sealed it behind him
Shockwave began to make his way toward the ships engine room, his optic kept behind him and his audios turned up to ensure that no one was able to sneak up behind him. He had kept a good track on the Constructicons work orders, there were no orders to work on the ships insides, so he should have been in the all clear.
He soon made his way to the large engine room of the Nemesis and walked over to one of the massive engines and then opened up his substance storage. He then reached into the engine and found a place, and then strapped a small device into it.
For ten minutes Shockwave did this throughout the engine room and then he tapped a panel on his arm and a screen popped up. Shockwave tapped a few keys and then there was a beeping noise and then satisfied he closed up the little compartment and walked out of the ship.
When it was later checked, thanks to the detection deflectors, no one knew what Shockwave had just done
Not long after Shockwave had left the hanger the Constructicons were all given new orders, the Nemesis must be prepared for launch within the next three solar cycles.
The Constructicons in the hanger began to drop whatever it was they were doing and began to make their way toward the Nemesis, all except three of them, a Mixmaster, a Long Hal and a Scrapper unit had stayed behind inside a small beat up cruiser vessel.
As the other Constructicons made their way across the hanger the Scrapper drone slid the door shut. "Alright, the coast is clear." The Scrapper drone said.
"I still can't believe we got assigned to spy work, I'm a warrior not a slagging spy!" The "Long Haul" drone complained. The "Mixmaster" drone laughed
"You're just upset because they finally got you to take a shower Landfill!"
"Keep it down Quickmix I need to radio prowl." The "Scrapper drone" who was actually Scoop in disguise activated his com.
"Scoop to Prowl, come in Prowl, we've got a problem." Scoop said into his com.
Iacon, Autobot City
Prowl sat at his table in his dojo as he listened to Scoops Transmission for the third time that day, he had sent angel to send for Ultra Magnus, Prime, and Elita and now ahd them standing around his desk as he replayed it, Angel stood to the side as well.
"The Nemesis is being prepped to launch soon, Megatron's going to be planning something big here soon. We will keep you posted as the matters go on."
Prowl leaned back in his chair and turned his head toward the assembled Autobots. They all had looks of either horror or deep thought on their faceplates.
"Do you think Megatron has some sort of endgame planned?' Angel asked and all optics turned to face her.
"It's not unlikely but according to readings he barely has enough energon to keep Kaon running." Prowl said as he pulled up a few scans. "He does have a lot stored up for use in spaceships, but not enough to power an entire invasion fleet.."
"And it's just the nemesis itself, no other ships." Ultra Magnus pointed out as he traced the screen with his finger. "So we know that whatever this mission is it's a personal one for Megatron."
"We need to see what he's carrying before we make any assumptions." Optimus said, resting a hand on his chin and everyone turned to him. "We don't need to go on a wild goose chase across the Universe only to discover that Megatrons gone on vacation."
"Maybe we could arrest him." Angel piped up and Prowl chuckled before turning toward Optimus. "I will have to agree with you on that subject; still I suggest that we prepare ourselves for the worst."
'If there's one thing I know about the Decepticons," Elita spoke up. ", it's that their unpredictable in almost everything they do."
Optimus gave a nod. "We'll need to prepare a ship, energon and a crew in order to hunt the Decepticons."
"Maybe we could place a call in Kups group and have them bust the cons up." Angel said with a smirk.
"Out of the question!" Optimus, Magnus and Prowl said in unison, causing Angel to jump a little. "I-I'm sorry it was just an idea." She muttered.
Elita placed a hand n Angel's shoulder. "Unfortunately tensions are a bit high between High Command and the so called "Wreckers" to consider them an option."
"Tensions nothing their committing acts of murder." Optimus said with a small growl to his voice. "Even if I forgave them I doubt they would help us after Magnus tried to arrest them."
Magnus sneered and Angel sighed and whispered to Elita. "I really wish we had the real Magnus and that that tin can with his face." Elita gave a curt nod in response.
"We will have to pull a ship large enough to fit a small army to even account for half the possible crew of the Nemesis." Prowl stated. "; and unfortunately we don't have the energon to power an Ark class!"
"How much spare energon do we have?" Optimus asked and Prowl turned to give him a pointed look. "Most of our spare energon is used to keep Iacon running; I'll have to check with the rest of our outposts to find out more."
"How many bots live in the ruins of Iacon?" Optimus asked, praying silently that there were not that many, and it seemed that Primus was listening.
"Fifteen." Prowl said simply and then the room went silent.
"You're not actually thinking of cutting off Energon to those homes are you?" Angel asked aloud. Optimus let out a sigh.
"It's not something that I want to do, but if it has to be done it has; we cannot allow the Decepticons to gain a foothold on another world."
Prowl looked down knowing that Optimus was right but then he paused and then began to type into his computer once again. "It appears that if we can get a smaller ship that say, can hold thirty Autobots, with our current in case of emergency sources we could possibly reach the planet that Shockwave seeded.."
Prowl then found every single optic in the room focused onto him.
"So what your saying is we take a ship to that planet, mine the energon and then come back and then use the energon to go and stop Megatron?" Magnus asked. "Honestly that seems convoluted as well as a waste of time."
"What other choice do we have?" Prowl asked turning to face them all. "For all we know the planet could very well be ready for mining, and we'd be doping that planet a favor by ridding it of the influence of the Decepticons."
Optimus rested a hand onto his chin. "I don't know Prowl, it seems a bit risky, we'll try to see what exactly Megatron has planned first and then we shall go from there."
"If Megatrons goal is to head to the planet that was seeded and mine it getting there first does give an advantage." Angel said. Prowl gave a nod in agreement.
"We will wait and see, we're not just going to jump in assuming that we have the element of surprise, we don't even know their plan yet." Optimus said.
"That didn't stop us from performing the raid on Kaon seven years ago." Prowl muttered under his breath and Optimus short him a cold glare which Prowl ignored.
"That is my word, and that's an order Prowl." Optimus stated before turning and walking out of the room with Magnus and Elita.
"He does have a point though, if we can get to that planet ridding it of Energon might be a good thing." Elita said and Optimus vented again.
"I know it is, but despite everything Prowl seems hung up on defending that planet, because of his code of the Cyber ninja, he feels that he failed that planet."
"Seems a bit hypocritical that he'll blindly follow everything Master Yoketron says and yet finds what Alpha Trion taught you to be space trash." She said.
Optimus shook his head as they walked out of the Dojo, passing a group of Prowl's students and Optimus watched them walk past. "there is another reason, prowl had a star pupil of his own, that one day Alpha Trion came and told her that she could be bound for great things and took her under his wing."
"So it's a jealousy thing, over a student?" Elita asked.
"No, but all that did was add fuel to the fire." Optimus said with a sigh. From what Alpha Trion had told him, he and Yoketron had never gotten along and sometimes that reflected in their teachings. Since Yoketron's death Alpha Trion tired to bury the hatchet with Prowl but Prowl refused , and with what happened with the student and Alpha Trions sudden disappearance he knew that things wouldn't get better.
As Optimus stared out across the ruins of Iacon, in his spark he prayed that Alpha Trion, Sixgun, Scamper and Windblade were alright.
Aright, hopefully next chapter we'll finally get our cast on the road to Earth! And a little more back-story is given as to Prowl's attitude towards Optimus….no points to guessing what Alpha Trion wants Windblade to do ;)
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