Welcome!
One and all to the first chapter of Rebooting Cybertron.
This story will incorporate events and characters from Fall of Cybertron, War for Cybertron and Bayverse (up to Age of Extinction, The last knight will not be included.)
This story is Co-Written by Isaacplayz. Currently he does not have a fanfiction account. but if he does ever create one he has permission to post this story as well.
because I will be Co-Authoring this story we will have to collaborate more which means updates will be slow.
stay tuned however because it'll be well worth it in the end (if you are an insecticon fan like myself that is)
Anyway enjoy!
Chapter 1- "Searching for answers."
(Sharpshot's Perspective)(1)
There was a hiss of air then the sound of parts moving. The wall in front of me moved forward and I crashed to the ground. I propped myself up on my arms and opened my bleary optics. They spluttered to life for a nano-second but then turned off to recalibrate. I clicked my teeth several times in frustration. That sounded muffled too, so I decided to recalibrate my Audio receptors as well.
Once both had finished a couple cycles later I got up off the floor and looked around the room.
Behind me there were 3 stasis pods, one of which was open. On the opposite side of the room was a hallway leading to a balcony on the outside. In the corner of the room beside the doorway was a large computer console. I stumbled my way over to the console and began to read the holographic prompts on how to open the other two pods. As I was reading, the pods opened by themselves at the exact same time.
Kickback and Hardshell promptly toppled to the floor with a loud crash.
The impact with their bodies on the floor must have awakened their processors because they both began to groan and try to open their optics like I had. Only to realize that they would have to recalibrate them.
"Who's there there there!" Kickback screeched.
"It's me Kickback, Sharpshot." I answered
Both of them calmed down immensely.
"Why are you already awake?" Harshell asked after a moment.
"I'm not sure… I only woke up a couple cycles before you did." I explained
"So what happened…?" Kickback asked
"I'm not sure but…" I started
Then I began to look around the room; the walls were very rusted.
"...We've been in stasis for a very long time." I concluded.
Once all our systems were rebooted we walked towards the doorway.
I tried to activate my Techvolt in case someone was hiding outside the door but nothing happened.
Instead I got a notification saying "EDK Techvolt not registered." it flashed red across my vision.(2)
I turned back to my siblings who seemed to be having the same problem judging from their grunts of surprise and irritation.
We decided there was a better chance if we left the room in a line; me in the front, Kickback after, then Hardshell.
We all still had our abilities; like I had my lightning, Kickback had his agility and Hardshell still had mountains of armour and enough strength to match.
I skulked into the hallway and looked both ways.
I disengaged my sparking claws when I saw nothing.
Kickback and Hardshell stepped forward when they saw me release the tension in my shoulders. We went straight and stood on the balcony.
The three of us gasped in unison.
Laid out in front of us was a near flat land of orange hardened clay. We looked around the barren landscape and you could barely make out the tops of some of the buildings that made up Cybertron. It was like the planet had suddenly been covered in many layers of sand.
Our jaws dropped.
"What happened?" Hardshell asked
"Something big…" Kickback answered without his usual playful repetition.
"How long have we been in stasis for?" Hardshell mused out loud.
"From the look of these ruins this sandstorm happened many vorns ago." I admit.
"I can't remember anything before I woke up." Kickback explains.
I try to remember anything before being put in stasis, anything at all, but nothing.
Our minds have been wiped clean. And now our planet is in ruins.
The three of us Transformed into our alt-modes and we crawled down the side of the building. As we were climbing down Kickback noticed something.
"I recognize the design of this building ing ing…" he stated
We stopped where we were and looked at the portion of the building we could see, we were about halfway down the visible portion of the building. When I looked close enough I started getting visions of the war, that shooting the buildings in the background, but one in particular stood out. I then realised the building was the Spire of Darkmount!
This was Darkmount pass!
The building was significantly smaller due to the clay desert burying half of its mass but it was still dwarfing to us.
We continued to climb down constantly searching for friends or foes; even from our vantage point Cybertron was barren of all life aside from us.
We made it to the desert plain below us and found that it was solid. The three of us scuttled along the barren desert ground for a long time, I assumed that if the amount of the planet we had seen was covered in this clay then probably the entire planet was more of the same.
We decided to go to the source of the matter, literally.
We found the Well of Allsparks on our Navigational systems and began to make the trek to meet our creator…
We passed the remains of Crystal city; the only proof it even existed is that the sand is slightly more sparkly in the area then anywhere else. All the crystal and glass have been shattered and mixed in with the sand. We quickly searched the area for any refugees, finding none we continued on in our trek.
Soon we found ourselves in another indistinguishable desert. Our only landmark was the only visible tower of Iacon in the distance to our right.
But our Navigational system told us it was another 10 kliks until we arrived at the Well. So we passed Iacon and kept going.
We eventually found ourselves in an open desert plain with nothing in sight… apparently we were directly above the Well…
So since we had burrowing alt-forms we began to dig down towards the core of cybertron.
Of course it took several days with hundreds of trips back and forth to remove the debris but after three Deca-cycles we finally burst into a large chamber with a large shiny grey sphere in the middle suspended above the ground by cables.
The lights in its creases were flickering; barely surviving.
We exited our tunnel and crept closer hoping to find some form of black box or a recording of what had occurred on this planet.
What we did not expect to find or hear for that matter was a voice.
"Who dares approach the resting place of Primus?" a large, wise and commanding voice demanded.
"We are the insecticons secticons secticons…" Kickback answered
"Kickback, Hardshell and Sharpshot." I explained
I then realized we were conversing with a disembodied voice.
"...who are you?" I inquired.
Suddenly a hologram appeared in front of us. It was an old bot, ancient even. He was colored a pale purple with red and white. His forehead had a dual pointed crest on it and he had wise knowing optics.
"I am Alpha Trion… Or what's left of him." he answered with a chuckle as he gestured at his own holographic form.
"Alpha Trion? As in one of the thirteen?" Hardshell asked
"The one and only." The Prime answered
The three of us dropped to our knees almost instantly.
"There is no need for that, I am simply a humble bard." he said lightheartedly
We slowly stood up awkwardly.
"If you are here, where are the others?" I asked
He seemed about to answer then stopped.
"What do you remember?" he asked curiously
I looked at Hardshell and Kickback and they just shrugged at me.
"We remember working for Shockwave, we remember each other, and vaguely some battle tactics." I explained
The prime looked shocked.
"Well… Guess i'll have three new students…"(3)
(1) As will be explained in the next footnote: FoC will be the most important Canon in this story. as such Shrapnel/Skrapnel and Bombshell do not exist instead they are replaced with Sharpshot and Hardshell respectively.
(2) Because the story will be revolving around the insecticons and the events on Cybertron at the end of FoC, Foc will be precedent in the story, therefore FoC characters, events and Weapons will be mainly used.
(3) next chapter will tie in the Bayverse aspect of this story. As much as I hate it Rise of the Darkspark technically connects the two universes...
In this story instead of my weird random question that is in some of my more recent stories I will insert a random bit of information that either me or Isaacplayz found that breaks the link that Foc and Bayverse have. Anyway me and Isaacplayz will see if we can come up with a way to fix these discrepancies. so here is the first:
In FoC, Grimlock bites off Shockwaves Left arm. come Bayverse, Shockwave has his left arm and his right arm is replaced with the giant cannon.