Chapter 3: The Journey to Cybertron

Somewhere in space, on the trip to Cybertron, Perceptor is piloting the ship while the others rest. He picks up a transmission from a small autobot ship. The transmission says "This is Riot, Wingblast and Sidepunch! We're under attack from the Autobot Hunters, aka the Huntercons! We're under heavy fire and one of them, Metalclaw is on top of our ship! Requesting immediate assistance from anyone who hears this!" Perceptor sees this message was sent hours ago and immediately wakes up everyone. Once everyone is awake, he tells them they have to help. An hour later, they see the ship and its crew in ruins. Rewind secretly starts recording while Ironhide says "Ah scrap. The Huntercons took all their useful stuff!" Hound looks at him, mad that he is only focusing on energon and spare parts instead of the ravaged bodies of their fallen comrades. Perceptor scans the area and sees an energon signature trail. Roller suggests they follow it and so they do. A couple hours later the trail stops, but suddenly they hear a beam coming and it hits them. They see now, a battle has begun with the Huntercons.
Note: The members of the Huntercons are:
Razerage
Metalclaw
Doublestomp
Slapstick

Chromedome says "Ironhide! Roller! Whirl! Hound! I'm going to use our ESROJ on you and get you inside their ship so you can pound em' from the inside! Rewind! Jazz! Assist Perceptor in keeping this ship in space! I will pilot!" Chromedome transports the four into the Huntercon's ship and they start fighting. Roller and Whirl fight Doublestomp and Slapstick, throwing punches at each other left and right. Ironhide is fighting Razerage with his blaster and is spraying Razerage with bullets but it's not even hurting him. Hound while fighting Metalclaw has been blinded on one optic. Back with Whirl and Roller, Roller is struggling to fight against his equal, Doublestomp and Whirl Bruce Lee kicks Slapstick, pushing him at a fuel tank, burning him and Whirl puts a final bullet in his head. Roller lands a punch on Doublestomp which goes through Doublestomp's spark. Hound uses his shoulder cannon and shoots a paralyzation bullet, causing Metalclaw not to move and Hound beats him up, killing him. Ironhide is dodging the attacks from Razerage but Ironhide's foot gets sliced off by Razerage's sword. Ironhide is cornered, but suddenly another ESROJ comes from behind Razerage, and its Kup who shoots Razerage's head from the back, and the day is saved. A few hours later, everyone is patched up and they take the Huntercons' energon and leave the system.

Note: ESROJ stands for Extremely Short Range Orbital Jump

Somewhere in the Drexuz system, the crew is looking for energon to continue their journey to Cybertron. They spot a planet named Norvalis with energon readings and Ironhide tells Chromedome, Whirl and Perceptor to head down. They head down using an ESROJ and arrive on the surface of the planet. Whirl realizes it looks like a mine, but Perceptor says there are no logs on the Galactic Council's records, but Perceptor realizes that it is a mine. Chromedome says "Huh, must've been top secret if it's not in the GC's public operation records." The three of them go down the mine and see there are bits and pieces of energon that they each pick up. Whirl looks inside a small hole in the mine, and sees huge new energon crystals to mine and breaks an even bigger wall to get to the stash of energon. Perceptor scans it, and calls Ironhide saying "Ironhide, we have some good news and bad news." Ironhide says "Start with the good then the bad'' and Perceptor says "Well the good news is we found lots of energon crystals. The bad part is, due to its capacity and size we will have to mine it and refine it down here. The other bad news is that this is the explosive kind of energon which, if we can refine properly, could be a really good preservative fuel source." Ironhide says to grab all the energon they can refine in the ship and they will ESROJ them back to the ship. Perceptor argues with Ironhide, saying "But Ironhide, there is a spaceport 3 systems away. We could hire some miners there." But Ironhide doesn't want to and a few hours later they leave with some energon.

Now, they are almost to Cybertron. They are currently on a straight path to there, when Kup sees something. He squints, and asks Perceptor to use the ship's camera system and zoom in on the thing he sees. Perceptor does it, and sees, it's a Titan. He uses the Autobot System Records to identify who it is, and says it is the Titan, Omnicrotus. Kup tells Perceptor to go closer to the Titan. A few minutes later, they are near the titan. It is currently just floating in space, with all its power turned off. They go inside the titan to check it out, cutting open the eye, going inside, and re-attaching the eye. They fly up the brain of the titan, arriving there they go out of the ship. Ironhide asks Chromedome if he can use his mnemosurgery experience to check Omnicrotus' memories. "I can access a few memories, but that's all I can do because I'm not a city speaker," Chromedome says. Ironhide tells him to do it and Chromedome begins the process. Three minutes later, Chromedome is finished and says "From the few bits of info I got from Omnicrotus' memories is him fighting in the Great Cybertronian Expansion and him shutting down due to a bunch of Decepticon Warworlds coming at him. He shut himself down to hide his energon signature and not get killed." Hound asks if there is any way to awaken Omnicrotus and suddenly a voice appears, saying "You can't.".

Everyone is now on alert and grabs their guns. Four bots come out of the shadows, one speaks, saying "Hey, my name's Highdrate. This is Autotune, Powerhigh and Crocko. We're the citizens of Omnicrotus." Kup says "You four? You're the only citizens of a titan?" Highdrate says they were stranded here and basically count as the titan's citizens. Whirl asks "Are you an autobot or one of those dumb cons?" and Powerhigh responds this time, saying "We're autobots from the Hegma Corps" Kup asks "Hegma Corps? Didn't they die on Z'Killas fighting the Raze Corps to help the other Battalions rescue the Z'Killians?". "We lost communication with the Autobots and we actually defeated the Raze Corps. Some of the survivors of our Hegma Corps decided to come back to Cybertron, others like us just became galactic adventurers." Crocko says. Ironhide says that Autobot High Command never took in Hegma Corps survivors. Autotune responds, saying "They probably died traveling in the Arneus system fighting organics.". Highdrate says "Alright, alright enough talkin'! We're gonna take you to our squad commander." Kup says he thought Highdrate was the squad commander but Highdrate merely laughs and says "You really thought I would be the commander? Ha! Anyway, let's go now.". They arrive a few minutes later in a small building. They see a tall and bulky figure come out of the door.

The bulky figure comes out of the door, and it's General Starstriker. Kup's cy-gar comes out of his mouth over shock. "Star-Star-Starstriker!?" Kup says, in a shocked voice. Roller asks Whirl "You know this guy?" and Whirl says no. Starstriker says "Private Kup" and nods. Ironhide says "Did he just call him private?" and Kup tells him that Starstriker was his squad's Staff Sergeant before he rose up the ranks. Rewind says "So, if you're 8 million years old, he is?" "8.6 Million years old." Kup says. Starstriker speaks and says "You youngsters probably are younger than 7.9 Million years old if you haven't heard of me. Anyway, I'm General Starstriker of Hegma Corps. I was the real General and General Sidelock was my right-hand man, who served as my stand-in.". Ironhide says, "I don't get it. Prime never mentioned anything about a "Starstriker" and I have Level 9/10 clearance." Starstriker says that him being the true general of the Hegma Corps was for Level 10/10 clearance so that the Decepticons wouldn't know what to prepare for." Hound asks "what would be the difference in their preparations?" and Starstriker laughs, saying "You really haven't heard of me huh? I was the 4th Strongest POP (Point one Percenter) back then. I was one of the four phase sixers. The other three, who I admit were stronger than me, joined the Decepticons. And, I wield one of the 5 Great Swords, Stormcrusher." They continue a chat then Starstriker asks "Anyway, how did you guys get here?" and Ironhide responds for them, saying "We were actually traveling to Cybertron. The war is a victory for the Autobots. We found Omnicrotus, which led us to you." Starstriker is in shock, and says "We-We…Won?" and Ironhide says "Yep!" and Starstriker offers to awaken Omnicrotus so they can get to Cybertron.

Ironhide asks how Starstriker would do it. Starstriker says "During the time of the 13 Primes, Solus Prime forged the 5 Great Swords. They designed it as a second way to awaken and or communicate with a titan, until the rise of Cityspeakers. There is a key hole for every Great Sword. It recognizes its exact shape, material and energy signature. As you know, I am the wielder of Stormcrusher. They eventually decide to do it and head to Cybertron. An hour later, they arrive at the spark chamber of Omnicrotus. Starstriker enters Stormcrusher into Omnicrotus' keyhole. Omnicrotus awakens and says "Who dares awaken the Grand Titan, Omnicrotus." and Starstriker says "It is I, Starstriker.". "Ah, Starstriker I see. What have you awakened me for?" Omnicrotus says. Starstriker explains the circumstances and Omnicrotus agrees. Omnicrotus transforms into city/spaceship mode. They drift off into space, all with a smile, knowing they could now, finally return to their home. Three days later, they are finally within sight of Cybertron. They come home to an automated transmission from Ultra Magnus, saying "Welcome home Autobots. Head to the Spaceport in New Iacon."