Hello everyone!

I cannot believe that I've found the motivation to post chapter 20. and hopefully this motivation will continue for the next 8 chapters, then the Epilogue. if it does, please leave a review about your thoughts on our writings. and well... if it doesn't, leave another review telling me to get off my keister and post.

anyway, enjoy the first look of the Decepticon battle lines.

Chapter 20- "Darkness flows" (Megatron's perspective)

"My liege, I appreciate you breaking me out of the fleshlings prison, but without Brawl Bruticus is out of commission, and I fear you are expecting something we can no longer perform." Onslaught said as he followed at my side through the base.

"Fear not, there is a work around."

"And what would that be?" he inquired.

"A replacement."

"You'd replace Brawl?" he asked.

"There is no other way for Bruticus to form other than replacing the missing component."

"I'd like to introduce you to a new recruit. He happened to be in a stasis pod near where we landed."

We entered a chamber aboard the ship and approached the bot.

"This is Bludgeon."

Onslaught reached out his hand in an attempted hand shake, Bludgeon took out his sword at the speed of light with it scratching the neck of Onslaught.

"Touch me and you'll lose the hand."

Suddenly Thundercracker rushed into the room.

"Ah Thundercracker, how is the search coming?" I inquire.

He was about to say something but just stood there and looked down trying to remember it.

"Well?"

"Ummmm, I think it's going… good?" He replied.

"So you're telling me you ran full speed here to tell me something important, and you can't remember it?"

"Ummmmmmmmmmmm…."

I then shot the ground around him twice which made him jump.

"WAIT WAIT WAIT I REMEMBER!"

"I'm waiting!"

"Right right right. Ok, so, uhhhh OK OK I GOT IT NOW."

"Unbelievable." I mutter into my palm. "Go get slipstream."

"Right right right ok." He said quickly and ran off.

"Wait… who am I getting?"

"GOOO!"

Then he raced off.

"At least Starscream could create coherent sentences…" I sighed to Onslaught.

"If we weren't short on troops I'd have already run him through." Bludgeon whispered.

"I might be willing to stop killing troops just to see that." I agreed.

Slipstream then entered the room.

"You called my lord?" she asked.

"Yes, I would like an update on the seekers search."

"Going according to plan my liege, we have narrowed down our search to the crystal city." She explained.

"Excellent, Optimus prime will never see it coming when I unleash my weapon upon their forces." I muse.

"Lord Megatron," Slipstream starts, "what Thundercracker was supposed to tell you was that the construction is almost complete."

I turn from the window toward her, "Show me."

We walk out of Darkmount toward the skyscraper to the left, it is being reconstructed to create a more powerful version of what was once our strongest asset.

Trypticon.

"It is currently 85% complete. All that is left is to construct the servos, peds and weaponry."

"Excellent, is the dark energon ready?"

"Yes my lord."

"Take me to the barracks." I order.

We walk toward the destroyed space bridge where we have set up our barracks.

I walk over to an animalistic Decepticon combiner destroying drones like it was his job, which it is.

"MENASOR!" I call out.

The beast then slowly turned around to face me with Decepticon energon dripping from his jaw. He looked so much like Devastator, the way he walked, his face, even the way he fought.

"How is your training going?" I ask jokingly.

He just roared at me with everything he had.

"Fantastic." I said when he finally finished.

"Get the combaticons, and Bludgeon." I ordered Slipstream.

She made a slight bow and rushed off.

Once they come back a few astro-cycles later I order them to combine.

They just looked at eachother confused.

"Well? Are you going to wait for me to start shooting at you?" I asked impatiently.

"Umm, Megatron, we can't combine." Swindle said.

"Please explain to me why you can't before i put the lazy hulk of metal that you are back in the pod that I found you in!"

"It's not that simple, we don't know Bludgeon, the only way we would be able to combine is to…" Onslaught wandered off.

"Is to what? WHAT? TELL ME!"

"Is to acquire the enigma of combination."

"And where would that be?"

"We… don't know."

"Well figure it out then! We are marching on the Insecticons tomorrow!"

"We won't be able to find it in time, we don't even have a rough idea of where it could be. We would have to search all of Cybertron!"

"DO IT THEN! IF YOU DON'T FIND IT BY TOMORROW THEN I WILL PERSONALLY HAVE YOU ALL SHOT ON SIGHT!"

They all ran off immediately to look for it.

"Shall I dispatch seekers to support them?" Slipstream asked from my side.

"No, I need the Seekers on patrol and for construction of Trypticon, we are stretched thin enough as it is. But do alert the patrols to do periodic scans for the Enigma." I answered.

She stepped away and I saw her activate her comm to repeat the command.

After a moment she stepped back to my side.

"They have been alerted." she stated.

"Activate Trypticon now, the armaments can be equipped after his activation." I ordered.

She once again stepped away to relay the command into her comm before returning to my side.

We watched as the Peds and Servos were attached to the massive Skyscraper turned Titan.

As soon as they clicked into place the pipe leading to the chest glowed a sickly purple throughout the creases.

Once it reached the building the entire form of the titan shuddered. It continued to shudder until it was fully charged. The area was suddenly filled with bright glaring yellow floodlights, the floodlights moved up and the jaw opened beneath them.

"TRYPTICON ONLINE"

I take a moment to gaze upon my new creation.

Suddenly Slipstream was pulled away by Acid Storm, they spoke for a few cycles before Slipstream approached me again.

"My lord, we found him. His pod is being delivered here now."

Then four seekers bring a large pod connected by four wires toward me. They slowly dropped the pod to the ground and disconnected themselves as they flew down.

The pod cracked open and the massive bot walked through.

"Greetings… Sixshot." I muse.

Ok, I am now allowed to leave this as a descrepency... of sorts.

with the introduction of Sixshot we have our first multi changer bot. now here's what I have a problem with. why do we have basic transformers- with only two modes, Triple changers- who have 3 modes, (unofficial quad changers in Astrotrain as a component of Megascream and FoC Brawl as a component of Bruticus (Brawl revealed he has an artillery mode in the game, bringing his total to four if you count tank, artillery, bot, and leg.)) but that leaves quad changers as never officially being a thing, as well as quintuple changers. then theres Sixshot and a whole slew of random sextapluchangers no ones ever heard of and then theres RiD Megatron/gigatron/galvatron/devil gigatron with 11

so it basically goes

1: the odd few like Jetfire's father in TF2 and thats... really all I can think of.

2: majority of transformers people know

3: characters like Blitzwing and astrotrain (and unofficially most combiner components)

4: unofficially as Brawl and Astrotrain.

5: no one.

6: Sixshot and others

7: no one again.

8: none.

9: nadda.

10: zero

11: RiD Megatron/gigatron/galvatron/devil gigatron

12: zip

13: silch

and then theres just amalgamous with infinite. or zero, depends how you see it.

anyway, this is my longest AN at the end of a chapter dedicated to soully one thing.

so... please review.