Megatron smiled as he felt the process begin to take effect he was changing becoming organic free suddenly the room was rocked by an explosion and Megatron looked up to see a huge robot, strangely familiar then it hit him "tankor?" He gasped "yes Megatron like the new look?" "But how what's going- " "the beast machine wars are over Megatron and you lose!" Tankor opened fire Megatron screamed. The fort began to shake, Skyescream materialised "we better book! The place is going down! Cyclona and optima retrieved the sparks already, lets head to iacon."

Optimus primal examined the wreckage of Megatron's fort suddenly a hideous creature smashed out of the ground it lunged at primal he fell back and struggled with it "nightscream! The gunk hit him with it!" Nightscream nodded the creature screamed and started to change it went red then white then red again it collapsed to the ground then it spoke "I am transformed it roared" transforming into a blue wolf headed robot primal gasped "who are you?" "I-I'm noble" said the new transformer "I don't remember much before the crash but I remember Megatron he wanted to know why I survived I remember the torture" noble started to shudder primal placed an arm on his shoulder "it's okay your free now" he looked around "it seems some one removed Megatron from his seat of office cheetor's scans confirmed it but the same some one took all the sparks, we must get them back as well as find what happened to Blackaracnia. will you join us?" Noble nodded "yes I think I shall I have no where else and I want to know what happened to those sparks" primal nodded and walked off to talk to rattrap but if he had turned round he would have noticed the sinister smile that crept across nobles face "for now, yessss" muttered noble in a distinctly different voice and tone..

Iacon "Hey watch where you put that," snapped thrust to a drone thrust marvelled at his enhanced body. He turned to mirage a recently re-animated spark "so my new friend what do you think of those new transformers?" "Hey like I just re-awoke my opinion means squat" "to true," laughed thrust. Jetstorm arrived and hovered beside them "well I see your group is delightedly behind schedule the new boss wont be pleased" thrust looked at Jetstorm "can it prettyboy! We're only one click of schedule now leave us to do our work!"

Primal stood face to face with the decepticon renegades, Skywarp, Cyclonus, Cryotek, scarem, scourge, insecticon & transquito "so there's some heavy construction going on in iacon" said Cryotek "and my spy rav, obtained these pictures" primal "gasped by the maker what is that?" Rattrap looked at it "it's a gate, a huge gate." "That's what I thought," said Cryotek "iacon has become the most fortified place on the planet and im interested in finding out what else they're hiding." "Would you say they're hiding the sparks in iacon, Cryotek?" said noble Cryotek looked at the new maximal addition he seemed strangely familiar, but as soon as the thought popped into his head it faded away "I would surmise so" he replied "well then said" cheetor "lets pay them a visit ."

The Hades dimension Skyquake struggled towards the sanctuary on top of the mountain he had fought long and hard for months and now he had made it he smashed through the door and fell to the ground suddenly a figure rose from the shadows "I had resigned myself to never having decent company, but I can see the dark goods are smiling for they have given me you Skyquake," Skyquake gasped he knew that voice "no!" He gasped "I saw you die and I saw the ship fall into the black hole" "the reports of my death Skyquake, have been greatly exaggerated ."

Iacon Cheetor motioned to B'boom and ramulus who pried the seal away from the wall "okay lets do this" he motioned for the maximals to follow they transformed and rushed in. "Okay lets see nightscream, noble, battle unicorn follow me," said primal, "cheetor you rattrap and the others attempt to find the main databanks and download it. "Cheetor nodded and with the others raced off primal hopped they would be okay.

Cheetor looked at the tall building before them. "You sure that Megatron's central computer is in there?" "It was removed from Megatron's fort completely according to the data we got from Cryotek and all data flows are coming and going through here" replied rattrap "okay ramulus we need an entrance" ramulus nodded "ramulus maximise" he barked transforming his large claw digging into the wall "this will only take a few moments ."

Primal walked towards the high concentration of spark energy. "Its too quiet" muttered noble. Battle unicorn nodded "primal I don't like this---" suddenly a blast ripped out of the shadows blowing battle unicorns head clean off his shoulders nightscream gasped suddenly a second shot burst out of the shadows and noble was blown clean of his feet and was thrown over the edge of the ravine deep into the lower levels of cybertron nightscream jumped towards the shadows only to be hit by a missile barrage his body collapsed to the floor a charred husk primal turned to see his attacker "Cyclonus?" He gasped

Jetstorm was directing his drones to wield a power conduit in place when he suddenly got a beep on his com channel "what is it ebony" he said, "intruders at the central processor" came the reply "do you wish to alert tankor and the others?" "Ill pass the word round" "okay ill deal with it personally" Jetstorm nodded

"Whoa." Gasped B'boom "tell me that isn't who I think it is?" "Okay it isn't who you think it is" muttered ramulus "guys this is not the time." Cheetor looked at the huge being before them hooked up to all the machines around it before them was the legendary autobot computron the fusion of five technobots the smartest transformer ever built "we got to get him free!" "I can't let you do that" came a voice it was a seductive feminine voice, dripping with unseen malice and venom. Cheetor could suddenly hear scurrying he looked around and then gasped "the walls! They're on the walls!" Rattrap looked up at the moving wave of black and gasped "were-" "don't say that," snapped ramulus. "I really don't need to hear that right now!" Rattrap nodded "it's the truth through" B'boom nodded "yeah we know we know."

Primal couldn't believe it as he stared at the charred husk of nightscream "why Cyclonus? Why betray us? This was one big trap wasn't it?" "Hell yes primal" laughed Cryotek walking up besides Cyclonus "you see we know exactly what's going on and have thrown our lot in with the new arrivals, the decepticons they wanted to eliminate your forces and gain total control over cybertron and we provided the opportunity. Now then, say goodbye primal." Primal was hit by multiple shots he fell to his knee "I wont go down like this" he roared in pain suddenly there was a blur and primal felt himself swept off his feet "windrazor!" he gasped "am I so glad to see you where's noble?" "He's okay I caught him before he hit the bottom of the ravine" replied the fuzor whose form was a dead ringer for silverbolts old form

As the wave of black moved down the walls cheetor finally got a good look at them "Blackaracnia?" He said in surprise the wave of black was hundreds of robotic spiders similar in design to there missing comrade B'boom totally lost it and unleashed his missile load "what have you done with Blackaracnia?" he roared "I am here" came the voice they had heard before, as a huge spider slammed to the ground "Blackaracnia?" Said ramulus in shock the spider transformed into a half humanoid figure almost all traces of her techno-organics was gone her face replaced by a helmet like visage with 8 glowing eyes she hovered off the ground, her spider legs having reconfigured into cannons and blades "no ramulus, I prefer the name ebony!" The drones attacked.

It had been three lunar cycles since that terrible night, nightscream, battle unicorn, B'boom and cheetor were dead or captured ramulus was in a coma and rattrap wasn't much better. Primal watched from his hideout as the huge gate spluttered to life and a ship flew out followed by smaller ships a small platform detached from the large ship and descended to the ground primal gasped in horror at the clearly recognisable figure a being supposedly long dead the one being who drove fear into many a maximal, and there ancestors, the autobots main processors. The original decepticon warlord. Megatron.

Thrust stood in awe of the mighty warrior before him "it is an honour to final meet you mighty Megatron" he stammered. Megatron smiled "at ease thrust you and your troops have done well in getting this planet back up to speed. I was especially impressed with your solution to our power problems by channelling the raw solar energy from a nearby star straight into the deactivated plasma energy chamber revitalised cybertron, bringing its energy reserves back to that of its infancy and to think you originated from the bumbling fool known as waspinator." he turn to Jetstorm "the planetary defence network you and Skyescream whipped up is impressive I also heard you regained a lost love. I expect you an ebony to continue to serve me faithfully." he turned to tankor "I have been most impressed with the way you've got iacon up and running tankor and I've heard great things from my emissaries tankor bowed I live to serve lord." Megatron grinned and started to laugh "this is going exactly to plan and the best thing? Optimus prime and his peace loving fools aren't here to interfere!"