Transformers Generation 1: The Heroics of Crowwing Prime.

Chapter 8: Countdown to Extinction.

(Author's notes: In this chapter, Crowwing Prime will be providing a cryptic version of his foreknowledge to save the Earth from the bomb.

Enjoy chapter 8.)

By bringing Cybertron into the orbit of Earth and harvesting the energies unleashed, Megatron leaves the world in tatters but with enough minor damages that can easily be repaired. But Optimus Prime and the Autobots fight back and they destroy Megatron's starship, releasing enough required energy to knock Cybertron out of Earth's orbit and back to its own space sector. Now, at the present time, the Autobots begin the repairs of the shattered planet's roads, train rails, bridges, cities and farmlands.

(Third person POV...)

As the Dinobots do some repairs work, Wheeljack states, "More! Okay, straighten it up! Nuh! There. That should do it!"

Meanwhile, Optimus Prime and Crowwing Prime are holding up a section of a bridge while Ratchet does some repair work.

Ironhide comes up to a pair of potholes and pours instant cement into the holes to seal them.

Meanwhile, at a dam, Gears and Brawn are working on repairing the structure.

Noticing Gears' negative look on his faceplate, Huffer calls out, "Yo, Gears! Come on, get with the program! Put that slab in the right way, or we're gonna be here until the Big Dipper gets rusty!"

Meanwhile, in Decepticon Headquarters, Rumble asks, "Can't you do anything right, Icewarp?"

Icewarp warns, "Watch it, you metallic excuse of a mini-meatball, or I'll step on you!"

Rumble asks again while pulling out one of his guns, "You and what army, you maxi-turkey?"

Icewarp slaps Rumble hard enough to send him flying into a control panel, but not hard enough to actually cause severe damage.

Topcracker comes up, picks up Rumble and says, "All right, both of you, shape up and put your rivalry aside! There's still tons of damage to repair!"

Soundwave comes up with two sparking wires and remarks, "Look who's talking, Topcracker."

Topcracker then orders, "Rumble, please start emptying the water pumps!"

Suddenly, Frenzy emerges from a circular hole in the ground and bemoans, "Hey, I didn't volunteer for this geeky assignment! It's not my strong suit! I want Icewarp's job!"

Icewarp rushes to Frenzy and says before attempting to stomp on him, "Butt out, Frenzy! Geek work is made for geeks... like you!"

Frenzy grabs Icewarp's pede at the last second and tosses him aside.

Rumble escapes Topcracker's grip and pounces on Icewarp's face before proceeding to pummel him.

Icewarp shouts, "Get off of me, you small walking junkheap!"

Topcracker removes Frenzy and the entrance doors open to reveal Megatron!

The Decepticon leader calls out, "Silence!"

Topcracker, Frenzy, Icewarp, Rumble and Soundwave exclaim in unison, "Megatron!" "Megatron!" "Megatron!" "Megatron!" "Megatron!"

Rumble then points out, "But Lord Megatron, we all thought you were, you know, kzzt!"

Megatron slightly kneels threateningly in front of Rumble before replying, "Well, think again! I only lost a ship, not the war! And my damages were all too easy to repair. Now, I have some unfinished business with the good Dr. Arkeville."

Topcracker explains, "He's gone off the grid! And so has Sun End!"

Megatron replies, "I don't like that. There's no telling what they're up to!"

Suddenly, Laserbeak flies into the room, transforms to cassette tape mode, and flies into Soundwave's waiting chestplate.

Soundwave advises, "Laserbeak brings news. Playing back."

Sun End's voice is heard saying, "Now that Megatron has been destroyed when his starship blew up to pieces, I am the new leader of the Decepticons. Do you understand, Doctor?"

Dr. Arkeville replies, "Yes, Sun End. I dutifully understand."

Sun End replies back, "Good. Now, take me to your secret laboratory. I have ideas in mind for use of your other inventions."

Laserbeak finishes playing the recording and Megatron declares, "We must stop those traitors at once! Decepticons, to the air!"

Megatron, Icewarp, Topcracker, Banzaisnapper, Fiststrong, Sparkface, Soundwave, Rumble, Frenzy, thirty red Seekers, thirty blue Seekers, thirty yellow Seekers, thirty green Seekers, thirty purple Seekers, thirty orange Seekers, thirty black Seekers, thirty white Seekers, thirty silver Seekers, thirty gold Seekers, thirty platinum Seekers, thirty bronze Seekers, thirty brown Seekers, thirty gray Seekers, thirty grey Seekers, thirty pink Seekers, thirty cyan Seekers, thirty magenta Seekers, and thirty multi-colored Seekers take flight on the path to find Dr. Arkeville's laboratory.

Meanwhile, in Autobot Headquarters, Wheeljack is finishing some final tuning on Teletraan 1 and he advises, "These final adjustments should be able to put Teletraan 1 back in working order, Primes."

Teletraan 1 turns on and shows footage of the Decepticons flying towards Dr. Arkeville's laboratory.

Cliffjumper remarks, "Wow, good going, Wheeljack. Everything's coming in clear."

Optimus Prime replies, "Too clear, Cliffjumper. Megatron is still alive, just like Crowwing Prime said. We can't let him and the other Decepticons across the world regroup. Autobots, roll out!"

The Autobots transform to vehicle mode, and they drive and fly off in pursuit of the Decepticons.

Meanwhile, Sun End is flying to Dr. Arkeville's laboratory when he suddenly points in a specific direction and exclaims, "There! Head into that clearing, my laboratory is close by!"

Sun End lands, Dr. Arkeville gets out, and Sun End transforms to robot mode.

The treacherous pair approaches the entrance to Dr. Arkeville's lab.

Dr. Arkeville explains, "My lab is an impermeable fortress until I can activate the front portal with a simple voice command."

Sun End replies, "Then activate your mouth!"

Dr. Arkeville says to the lab door, "I, Dr. Arkeville, genius of science, say open sesame!"

A rock slides to the side, just enough for someone like Dr. Arkeville to pass through.

Sun End remarks sarcastically, "How original."

Sun End grabs the rock door and tosses it away, the impact against a stronger rock breaking the door to pieces.

Sun End grabs Dr. Arkeville and explains in a threatening tone, "That is a small example of what occurs anyone tries my patience. Including you!"

Inside Dr. Arkeville's laboratory, they come across another of Dr. Arkeville's inventions.

Sun End remarks, "Aha! Just like you told me. An exponential generator. The ultimate power source to ever be invented by a human scientist of your intelligence level."

As Sun End places his hands on the generator, Dr. Arkeville cautions, "Careful, Sun End! If you disturb the generator's rhythmic pulses, the Earth and every living thing on it will cease to exist!"

Sun End replies, "I do not care for this minor planet. And Megatron only cares about the Earth being intact just so he can deplete its energy for the Decepticons to use to revive Cybertron's core."

Meanwhile, Rumble spots the Autobots below and the Aerialbots following close behind.

Rumble calls out, "Megatron! Grounder Autobots below and Aerialbots following us at six o'clock!"

Megatron orders, "Icewarp, Topcracker, stop them!"

Topcracker replies, "Right, Megatron!"

Icewarp calls out, "Attack!"

The two Decepticon Seekers fly towards the Grounder Autobots and they fire missiles at them.

Meanwhile, in Dr. Arkeville's laboratory, the scientist says, "This is my laboratory, Sun End. You must work under my supervision."

Sun End replies, "Patience, doctor. I'm almost finished."

Sun End finishes working on a bomb timer before he says, "All right, doctor. Come and see my genius of work. (Dr. Arkeville comes in) I've improved your exponential generator by interfacing it with a timing device. When I flip this switch, it will begin building its total power to infinite capacity!"

Sun End has already flipped the switch at the end of the explanation.

Dr. Arkeville gasps in horror, "Infinite capacity?! But it will explode and destroy the entire planet Earth!"

Sun End replies, "Very good, Dr. Arkeville. You understand perfectly for a human of your intellect level. In precisely seven hours, fifty-eight minutes and twenty seconds of your time, this planet will erupt in a cosmic shower of free energy!"

Dr. Arkeville exclaims, "NOOO! I will not allow it!"

Sun End gets in Dr. Arkeville's face threateningly and snarls, "You have no say in this matter, puny flesh creature! When Earth explodes, I will be on Cybertron, collecting the resulting energy from the explosion! It will give me the limitless power I need to take control of the entire Decepticon army, to revive Cybertron's core, and dominate the rest of the known universe!"

Dr. Arkeville thinks fast as he says, "Uh, I will stay here to make sure nothing goes wrong."

But Sun End doesn't fall for it as he raises his foot and replies, "Do you take me for a gullible idiot? If you stayed, you would deactivate the bomb after I left. No, I have much different plans for you!"

Later, Sun End says while in jet mode, "Quickly, doctor. There's no time to waste. We must be safely back on Cybertron before the Earth explodes."

Sun End blasts off for Cybertron while the bomb in Dr. Arkeville's laboratory continues ticking down.

As Sun End flies in space towards the path to Cybertron, Dr. Arkeville pleads, "Sun End, I implore you! The total annihilation of my home planet is unthinkable!"

Sun End replies, "Compassion coming from you, Dr. Arkeville? Spare me your concern. Once we're on Cybertron, nothing will interfere with my plans. Before the day is up, I shall be Lord Sun End, tyrant of the firmament!"

Meanwhile, with the battle, one missile buries Bumblebee under a landslide.

Optimus calls out, "Autobots, halt! Brawn, dig Bumblebee out."

Brawn transforms to robot mode and digs Bumblebee out of the landslide.

Optimus continues, "The rest of you, transform and take cover!"

The Autobots transform to robot mode, including the Aerialbots.

Wheeljack protests, "I don't wanna take cover! I wanna fight in the clear!"

Ironhide adds, "Yeah! Let's trample those flying garbage cans!"

Wheeljack fires a shoulder-mounted rocket at Icewarp, and he goes down.

Megatron calls out, "Decepticons, land and attack!"

Everyone starts shooting at their opponents.

Megatron tries to sneak attack Optimus Prime, but Optimus throws his nemesis to the side.

Optimus tries to jump onto Megatron, only to get kicked away.

Megatron tries to tackle Optimus, but he gets grabbed and thrown into a lake.

Megatron gets up and calls out, "Decepticons, fall back! These Autobots are too hero-programmed to know when to give up!"

Optimus says to his troops, "Good work, Autobots, but we don't want to lose track of them! Transform and roll out!"

The Autobots transform to vehicle mode and they drive and fly after Megatron's troops.

Meanwhile, in Decepticon Headquarters on Cybertron, Sun End emerges from the Space Bridge chamber and says, "Greetings, Shockwave. I have come on a most urgent mission."

Shockwave replies, "Before you continue, this Earth life form may not enter here. Megatron has so ordered."

Sun End replies back while brandishing a Decepticon metal badge, "Megatron is dead. Now I lead the Decepticons."

Shockwave asks, "What?!"

Sun End explains, "When his starship was blown up, Megatron entered oblivion!"

Shockwave protests, "But Megatron is invulnerable!"

Sun End croons, "Then why not try to contact him, Shockwave?"

Shockwave replies, "I cannot get through. Interference in the field has made contact with Megatron on Earth impossible, but I assure you, I will keep trying."

After the whole debacle of Sun End asserting no contact with Earth, Sun End finishes some fine tuning on the energy collectors.

Sun End cackles as he remarks, "You should feel honored, doctor. You will be the only member of your species to survive the destruction of your planet." Sun End double checks the energy collectors and says, "Excellent. All is ready."

Sun End walks away, but Dr. Arkeville runs up to the console and desperately punches its array of buttons and controls.

Dr. Arkeville exclaims, "I may not be able to save the Earth, but I can stop you from collecting the energy of its destruction!"

Suddenly, Arkeville gets electrocuted and he is knocked out.

Sun End remarks, "Hahahahahaha! You little fool! Only a Decepticon can touch the controls when the sentry monitor is turned on. (He turns to a pair of Reflectors) Take him to the repair bay. The doctor must not have another chance to interfere again!"

Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Decepticons are flying over the valley of no return.

Icewarp points out, "Lord Megatron, we're moving off our flight path!"

Megatron replies, "Dazzling deduction, Icewarp. We're headed for the scenic area known as the Valley of No Return."

Rumble quizzes, "Why are we goin' sightseeing?"

Megatron replies, "We're not sightseeing! But the Autobots are gonna see something they won't ever forget!"

The Decepticons fly above the Autobots in robot mode in different ways as an impromptu aerial stunt show.

Optimus asks, "Why the aerial stunt show?"

Crowwing Prime calls out, "Heads up! We're being led into a quicksand trap!"

Optimus calls out, "Autobots, retreat!"

The Autobots turn in the other direction.

Megatron growls, "D'aah! Crowwing Prime is much smarter than I thought!"

Megatron then says, "Decepticons, move out! We've wasted enough time on these Autobots, even if they didn't become sunken treasures."

The Decepticons continue on their flight to Dr. Arkeville's laboratory.

Optimus then asks, "Crowwing, what are the Decepticons planning?"

Crowwing answers, "They're heading to Doctor Arkeville's secret lab. But what they don't know is Dr. Arkeville is on Cybertron, being turned into a cyborg freak by Sun End because he tried to interfere in Sun End's plan to use Arkeville's exponential generator as a bomb to blow up the entire Earth and use energy collectors to collect the energy of Earth's destruction. And that generator is so hot it can melt our hands if we touch it. But thankfully, I can handle extreme heat without difficulty due to being invulnerable. But we gotta hurry; we have less than five hours before the bomb explodes."

Optimus calls out, "You heard him! Autobots, roll out!"

The Autobots drive and fly to Dr. Arkeville's laboratory.

Meanwhile, as the Decepticons arrive at Dr. Arkeville's laboratory, Megatron remarks, "If the information we recovered is true, this exponential generator is the source of ultimate power we need."

Unbeknownst to Megatron and the other Decepticons, the timer continues ticking down, counting five hours, fifteen minutes and ten seconds.

Megatron spends the next fifteen minutes familiarizing himself with the controls of Dr. Arkeville's lab and finding out how to safely remove the generator without getting his hands melted.

Megatron says in awe, "Your destiny is to serve me, my potent energy beauty."

Rumble runs in and exclaims, "Megatron! The Autobots have arrived!"

Megatron replies, "Impossible! I thought they had retreated!"

Icewarp replies, "Don't worry, my liege. We'll make sure they regret not retreating when they had the chance!"

Megatron walks out of the lab, looks around and then he gets punched by Optimus who says, "Hello again, Megatron!"

Megatron grunts in pain when he lands on a rock ledge.

Megatron proceeds to grab a large boulder.

Megatron remarks, "Here, have a ton of fun!"

Megatron throws the boulder at Optimus, but he misses, only managing to hit Rumble when he was trying to catch the Prime off-guard.

Rumble exclaims as he gets hit by the shattering boulder, "Unnnaahh!"

Optimus remarks, "Hahahahahahaha! Your aim's improving, Megatron!"

Megatron and Rumble try to shoot Optimus, but he ducks into Dr. Arkeville's laboratory.

Meanwhile, back on Cybertron, Sun End says to Dr. Arkeville before bringing a mirror to show him his new look, "Forgive the crude work of my medicroids, Dr. Arkeville. You're not exactly what your kind calls a Picasso, but you are functional."

Dr. Arkeville sees his reflection and exclaims in disgust, "You turned me into a mechanical freak!"

Sun End replies, "You were heavily damaged by the sentry monitor, doctor. Be grateful you even still exist at all."

Dr. Arkeville points out, "But I can't move!"

Sun End replies again, "You deserve a rest, Dr. Arkeville. You must be exhausted... from interfering with my affairs!"

Unbeknownst to Sun End, Shockwave left the room to secretly try one more time to contact Megatron.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Optimus and Crowwing look at the exponential generator.

Suddenly, Megatron calls out while aiming his Fusion Cannon at the twosome, "Get away from that, Optimus Prime and Crowwing Prime! It belongs to me!"

Crowwing replies defiantly, "Then you're not stupid enough to fire at us while we're standing in front of the exponential generator, are you, Megatron?"

Rumble pleads, "Let me blast them. I'll –"

Megatron interrupts him before saying, "Quiet! I always blast what I aim for, Primes. Stand clear."

Optimus replies defiantly as well, "Gladly. I hate standing at ground zero when an explosion is imminent. Or haven't you already noticed that your possession is in an unstable condition?"

Megatron calls out to his Decepticons before saying, "Leave! I only want what's mine."

Suddenly, Shockwave contacts Megatron and exclaims, "Lord Megatron, come in! Lord Megatron, this is Shockwave! Acknowledge! If you are functional, Lord Megatron!"

Megatron replies, "Of course I'm functional, Shockwave! Call back later, I'm busy."

Shockwave points out, "Lord Megatron, you must find Dr. Arkeville's laboratory and disconnect the detonator on his exponential generator! It will explode any astro-second!"

Optimus remarks, "A timing mechanism."

Megatron finds the timer device and disconnects it minutes before detonation.

Shockwave calls out, "Megatron! Lord Megatron, are you still there?"

Megatron replies, "Calm down, Shockwave, everything is under control. Where is Sun End?"

Shockwave answers, "On Cybertron. He planned to destroy the Earth and collect the energy of the explosion!"

Megatron sneers while crushing the timer, "When I get my hands on that traitor, his cathalytic data assembly is mine!"

On Cybertron, Sun End exclaims before ordering, "The time's up! Why has there been no explosion? There must be a malfunction in the timer! That must be it. You will go back to Earth to check it, Dr. Arkeville!"

The now half-man, half-machine mad scientist replies, "And how do you propose I get there?"

Sun End activates the electronic chair Dr. Arkeville is strapped to.

Dr. Arkeville remarks, "D'oh! On my roller skates?! You're forgetting, Sun End, you're the only one who happens to know how the bomb timer works! You are the one who must return to Earth!"

Sun End starts the flight back to Earth at Mach 2.8 in the hopes that he's right.

Meanwhile, Megatron has just spent fifteen minutes de-wiring and depowering the exponential generator when Optimus calls out, "Careful, Megatron. That device is still dangerous."

Megatron replies as he picks up the generator, "Prime, I... I've been lost in my work."

Optimus points out, "Lost is an appropriate word. Your plaything has melted your housing."

Megatron notices part of his chestplate has melted, but he brushes it off while saying, "It's of no concern. I'll reduce temperature soon enough. Now get out of my way!"

Optimus replies, "Anything you say, Megatron."

Megatron then notices his hands are slowly melting!

Megatron loses his grip, but Crowwing grabs the generator and says, "This thing is in a critical stage! It's going to explode at any second!"

Megatron replies, "Not here if I can help it!"

Megatron and the two Primes rush outside.

Crowwing points out, "No time to argue. I'll hold this while Megatron transforms."

Megatron transforms to gun mode.

Crowwing catches Megatron.

Megatron orders, "Now load me."

Crowwing loads the generator, aims Megatron at the sky, and presses the trigger, firing a shot with the generator past the Earth's atmosphere.

As Sun End passes the generator, he asks, "What was—"

The generator safely explodes behind Sun End, and he gets buffeted towards the surface of the Earth, crashing near Dr. Arkeville's laboratory.

Sun End transforms to robot mode just as Megatron arrives.

Megatron remarks, "Welcome home, noble voyager."

Sun End stutters, "Megatron! I thought you were – I mean, everybody was sure you – I – uh –"

Megatron grabs Sun End by his neck armor, pulls him to his pedes, and drags him off to Decepticon Headquarters.

Meanwhile, Bumblebee asks, "Heh heh! Hey, Primes, what do you think Megatron's gonna do to Sun End?"

Optimus and Crowwing reply one after the other, "Nothing gentle, I would say." "Then again, gentleness isn't Megatron's definition of punishment."

The Autobots laugh in unison.

Jazz remarks, "I think we've seen the last o' old Sun-creep, all right. That is, if that's the first thing that's gone right all day."

The End.

(Author's notes: In the next chapter, Crowwing will also put his foreknowledge to use against the three primary Insecticons.

Also, sorry I haven't been able to update this story. But I'm gonna try my best to update this story and my other ones as best as I can.

Also, I have only one question. Who wants to see an army of Stunticons go up against an army of Aerialbots in The Key to Vector Sigma Part 2? I know I do!

See you all in chapter 9: A Plague of Insecticons.)