Authors Note: The character of Causeway belongs to deviantart user HellboysLady (formerly LadyElitaOne). I do not own the character of Causeway or any other character in this fanfiction. All other characters aside from Causeway are owned by Hasbro.
On the autobot starship Orion, located in an unknown sector of the galaxy.
An autobot captain clad in red and blue, was focusing his thoughts on something, well rather someone. A fembot who captured his Spark a long time ago. He dreamed of seeing her just to say three words one last time.
But he couldn't focus on that now. He had something to watch.
He turned on a monitor. Its speaker began to narrate.
The Autobot symbol first appeared.
Many millions of years ago, war raged between the forces of the heroic Autobots and the brutal Decepticons for control of the planet Cybertron. The Autobots battled valiantly in the name of honor—their courageous exploits bringing hope and glory to a beleaguered war-torn planet, and inspiring countless generations of robots yet to come on-line.
All of a sudden, A grouchy red and white medi-bot with one servo in the scrapheap entered. "What a load of scrap-metal! Why do you waste your time with those old History vids?
"All the great autobot leaders learned from the past." Optimus Prime said.
"Look around prime! The great wars ended centuries ago." The medi-bot replied.
"But you were there Ratchet. You saw some action. What were the Decepticons really like?" Optimus replied with curiosity.
Ratchet pondered for a moment" Trust me kid, you're better off not knowing. Besides looks like the young bots could use a hand".
"Bumblebee! My wrecking ball is stuck again." A green large autobot exclaimed.
Optimus closed his eyes momentarily and groaned before deciding to walk out.
As both Optimus and Ratchet walked out, Optimus asked Ratchet a question. "Do you ever get the feeling you were programmed for something more than just repairing spacebridges?" Optimus said.
"I've got a diagnostic program that can delete that feeling like a bad line of code." Ratchet offered.
Optimus pushed a button opening a door, from which he and ratchet would transform and roll out from there.
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Meanwhile the large green autobot was still dangling. "I don't like heights, Bumblebee."
"Cool your circuits Bulkhead. I'm working as fast as I can, and you know there's no Bot faster." Bumblebee said. He activated his stinger destroying the small rocks before trying to kick them.
"Oh I think I'm gonna blow a gasket." Bulkhead said, covering his mouth.
"Try to hold it in a little longer" bumblebee said before falling along with Bulkhead. As he crashed into him, along with the rocks
Optimus and ratchet transformed.
"Alright, what seems to be the problem?' Optimus said.
" I think the technical term is, a bunch of big hulking rocks jamming spacebridges." Bumblebee replied.
"You know what I can't figure out, Why would anyone want to transport to this allspark forsaken sector. Bulkhead said.
"That's not the point of Bulkhead. "We have a job to do here, and no problem is insurmountable with the right tools and a little teamwork." Optimus replied before activating his axe and cutting through a boulders.
"Everyone lend a servo!" Optimus commanded
"Bulkhead" Optimus said as Bulkhead began to smash rocks with his fists.
"Now you Bumblebee!" Optimus said as Bumblebee shot boulders with his stingers.
"Come on Ratchet." Optimus said as Ratchet used his magnets to keep the boulders at bay.
"You too Prowl! Hey where is Prowl" Optimus said, when all of a sudden, a shuriken completely destroyed the boulder.
"Just have to know the weak spot." Prowl said.
"Yeah, next time, you might want to give us a little more warning." Optimus said.
"That would just mess up my timing." Prowl replied.
"Young bots, You can't live with them, can't live with them, can't melt them down for spare parts." Ratchet replied clearly exasperated while shaking his head.
"Why is he so grumpy all the time?" Bulkhead asked Bumblebee.
"You'd be grumpy too if you had one servo in the scrapheap." Bumblebee replied before getting whacked in the head by Ratchet's servo.
"I may have one servo in the scrapheap… But I can still hear!" Ratchet angrily said.
"Okay, I know we're stuck out here in the middle of nowhere on a thankless assignment. But remember we're all cogs in a great big Autobot Machine." Optimus told them.
"Not this speech again." Prowl said.
"A machine stronger as a whole, than any one component part. Together we can move mountains." Optimus said, which was a bad pun as the space bridge burst, causing a small avalanche.
"Bad choice of words big bot!" bumblebee said.
Optimus activated his faceplate, leaping into action. He used a grapple in order to save the bumblebee. Then used his rocket propeller axe to save Ratchet from incoming boulders. He then saved prowl by using said propeller. He launched a net shielding bulkhead from rollick stones.
Finally he used his ax's extendable blade as support to leap high into the air and used his grappler to turn off the space bridge before any more damage could be done to his friends.
Who were clearly blown away. "Impressive" Prowl said. "Where'd you learn moves like that?" Bulkhead said. Ratchet was repairing bumblebee's arm.
"I trained at the Autobot Academy." Optimus said with a sad expression on his face.
As he said this, his thoughts harkened back to the red and orange fembot he fell for many stellar cycles ago. It almost made him shed an energon tear. But he composed himself.
"So how'd an academy bot end up on a broken down maintenance crew?' Ratchet said, as he finished repairing Bumblebee.
"Yeah! Shouldn't you be leading the cybertron elite guard or something?" Bumblebee added.
Optimus continued to ponder when he saw a bright blue light emanating from the rubble.
He approached It, his team was also approaching it. Optimus then pulled out his battle axe to see the source of the light.
"Uh I don't think that's such a good idea boss bot." Bulkhead said.
Optimus swung his axe in the air.
"Prime, no!" Ratchet protested.
The blade was brought down, revealing a large orange vessel with handles in the shape of a hexagon. Only it was three-dimensional.
"What is it?" Bulkhead asked.
"I don't know, maybe we should take it back to the ship so the doc-bot can analyze it." Bumblebee said, motioning to take it.
"Leave it! Or better still throw it back through the space-bridge. This thing isn't meant to be found."
"What's gotten you so spooked all of a sudden Ratchet?" optimus asked.
A beeping noise occured. "Teletraan 1 to Optimus prime. Teletraan 1 to Optimus prime"
"Unidentified spacecraft entering the sector. Energy signature consistent with decepticon warship". Teletraan 1 replied.
"Decepticon? That must be a mistake. The Decepticons were destroyed centuries ago." Optimus said.
"Defeated, not destroyed. And we're not waiting around for them to find it." Ratchet transformed.
"What are you bots waiting for?! An invitation? Load it up pronto!" He urged angrily. Bumblebee and prowl loaded it up.
"Wait ratchet, why the sudden urgency, what is this thing?" Optimus replied.
"There's no time, let's move!" Ratchet said.
They got on the ship and unloaded the cargo.
"You're the history buff prime. Ever heard of the allspark?" Ratchet asked.
"Yeah, the most powerful energy source in the universe. It gave the spark of life to all cybertronians" Optimus replied as ratchet transformed.
"Every bot knows that story." Bulkhead replied.
All the bots approached the allspark.
"Here's another one. The only way we were able to win the great wars all those centuries ago was by keeping the allspark out of the Decepticons' hands. So it was sent through a space-bridge. Hidden in some far flung corner of the galaxy where no one would ever find it."
"So your saying we found the allspark, the real allspark?" Bumblebee asked.
"No, I'm saying it found us." Ratchet said
"Warning spacecraft approaching, positive identification as decepticon warship." Teletraan 1 stated.
"It's not the only one that found us." Prowl replied.
"It's following us." Prowl warned as he looked through the ships screen.
"You wanted to see action kid? Be careful what you wish for." Ratchet said.
"Hello, we're a repair crew. Please tell me you're not actually thinking of taking on decepticons!" Bumblebee said.
Optimus looked at the bumblebee. He really wished Causeway was with him. She made him feel better when he had doubts.
"Not without backup" Optimus replied. "Patch me into cybertron command headquarters." he ordered.
"Wow, when you want backup you go straight to the top." Bulkhead replied.
Optimus replied.
A live feed opened up showing a blue autobot with a massive chin. "Optimus prime. You mean they still let you command other Autobots? I'm already in the Elite guard, with a certain red fembot you have feelings for." Sentinel prime sneered. The last part is obviously a lie.
Optimus may be naive, but he knew that Causeway was never too fond of Sentinel due to his glory-hound personality and attitude of a jerk. The only reason she hung out with him was to make Optimus happy.
"Don't start Sentinel. Just put me through to ultra magnus''. Optimus replied.
"Now could a third rate rockbuster, possible merit the Autobot Supreme Commanders Attention?" Sentinel sneered.
Optimus glared. "Display cargo hold visual visual". The screen popped up, showing the cago to sentinel.
Sentinel got serious. "I'll, put you through right away" the screen closed, and seconds later ultra magnus appeared.
"Ultra magnus here Optimus, we're tracking your decepticon signal. Probably just a lost scout ship. Ever since we drove them off cybertron, the cons have been wandering the periphery. They'd never be so foolish as to invade autobot space. Still Im sending out a strike force to intercept if necessary. Meantime you and your bots just sit tight. And prime don't try to be a hero. It's not in your programming." Ultra magnus said as the screen closed.
"Deceptions still hot on our tail and closing in fast." Prowl said.
"So why don't we see 'em?" Bumblebee asked.
"Teletraan-1 set a course for the nearest space bridge." Optimus said.
"But ultra magnus said to sit tight." Bulkhead said.
"With all due respect, ultra magnus isn't carrying the allspark." Optimus replied. "So we'll make a beeline for a space bridge and blast through h whatever debris is in our way." The ship made a turn around until it was blocked from its view by a larger dark purple warship.
"Uh boss bot. I don't think we can blast through that." Bulkhead stated.
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"I've never seen a deception ship up close." Bulkhead said.
"No one has and lived" ratchet replied
"It's a command ship. I recognize the markings from the history vids" Optimus said.
"Megatron," Ratchet said in fear.
"MEGATRON?! As in the cruel and vicious decepticon leader?! Who eats autobot protoforms for breakfast?!." Bumblebee screamed.
Meanwhile aboard the nemesis.
"Megatron is a fool who's been chasing a ghost for centuries. I seriously doubt this allspark is aboard that insignificant vessel" A dark pink mech with wings said.
"TRAITOR! Megatron is wise, Megatron is Bold, Megatron will return the decepticons, to Cybertron! And-" a one eyed bulky bot said before being interrupted.
"Wipe out homeland clean of the stench of autobot tyranny blah, blah, blah. Did you memorize that speech Lugnut? Or is just hardwired into that thick one track processor of yous" a four eyed spider techno organic fembot with a familiar voice said before she got her arm frozen.
"As usual Blackarachnia, your demeanor is unpleasant as that accursed organic mode of yours." a bot with a stahlhelm helmet and a monacle said.
"Blow it out your actuator three face." Blackarachnia said as she broke the ice of her arm while hissing.
The con with the monaco switched faces into a red face with a big chin and red visor. "The name is Blitzwing insect! Remember it! Because its the last thing you'll hear beforeI . Blitzwing switched faces to a black face with the appearance of a jack-o-lantern. " Express my feelings in song! The itsy bitsy spider went up-" Blitzwig kept singing
As the decepticons kept on arguing, a large mech with the decepticon symbol stepped into the control center.
The room felt silent. Chills going up their bodies.
The Mech kept walking, his footsteps causing everyone to stand still. He had a large fusion cannon on his right arm. He eventually made his way to the center.
"Starscream, report."
"Energy reading off the scale my liege. Should I fire on the autobots?" Starscream replied.
"Cripple their ship, but do not destroy it. Yet." the mech replied.
"Yes yes yes! Brilliant strategy, oh wise and great leader."
The worship began firing on thee autobot ship.
"Teletraan 1, evasive maneuvers!" Optimus ordered.
"Activate emergency defense system! Codename:Omega!" Optimus continued.
"I'm sorry this function has been disabled to comply with Cybertron's efforts to conserve energon." Teletraan 1 replied.
"What?!" optimus said in shock.
The ship continued taking hits. "We're all gonna die are we" Bumblebee said.
"Warning asteroid field, initiating alternate route." Teletraan 1 said.
"No, Override!" optimus said.
The ship kept trying to dodge the lasers.
"I've got a match on the energy reading. If its not the allspark, its something just as powerful." Blackarachnia said.
"I volunteer to deploy and breach the Autobot ship!" Starscream said while bowing. Hoping to take it for himself.
"I didn't spend the last four million solar cycles searching the galaxy just so you could get you grease wings on the allspark." Megatron said while grabbing starscream's wing, damaging it and denting it.
"Ow, OW!" Starscream wailed.
"I will harness its energy into the ultimate weapon, and crush the Autobots' forces." Megatorn released starscream and exited the room.
"Well I'll just get these fixed then." Starscream said.
Meanwhile at the ship's exiting door. Starscream approached his master, who was about to leave and attack the ship.
"What do you want now, starscream?" Megatron asked.
Starscream planted a bomb on megatron's back.
"Only to wish you luck my liege." Starscream replied.
"I do not believe in luck." Megatron said before transforming and leaving the ship.
"Neither do I." Starscream replied.
The bomb was still on megatron's back blinking.
Meanwhile on the ship
"Is that megatron?" optimus asked. Seeing a live feed of him from the screen,
"You never said he was so big." Bulkhead replied.
"You never said he could fly!" Bumblebee added.
Megatron passed the ship making it look like he wasn't aiming for them.
The autobots closed their eyes out of fear.
"Huh, guess he wasn't coming for us." Bulkhead said.
All of a sudden the ship started shaking. Revealing megatron using his fusion cannon to blast through and melt the ship's hull and roof.
"Ratchet, seal the hull breach. Prowl hold the ship steady. Bulkhead and bumblebee guard the allspark. Ill hold off megatron!" Optimus ordered. Bulkhead and bumblebee ran to the back.
"But, we're repair bots! We're not programmed for this kind of action!" bumblebee argued.
"Then consider this an upgrade." optimus replied.
He began to control the ship's claws and attempted to stop Megatron from breaking through. Both struggled, with optimus trying to restrain megatron and the latter trying to break free, when all of a sudden the bomb that was on megatron's back detonated. Crippling their ship and destroying Megatron's arm.
"YES!" starscream said thinking he killed megatron.
"Solemn face, Solemn face." Starscream said as he went to rejoin the others.
"Warning, ship hull breach. Sealing hatches alpha, omega, and epsilon." as hoses cooled down the ship.
"Warning planetary impact imminent"
"Go to manual override." Optimus said, as he attempted to steer clear of the asteroid fields and attempted to head through the spacebridge.
The allspark began to glow, "Hey whats that thing doing?" bumblebee asked. All of a sudden the allspark began using its energy to create a portal in the spacebridge for the ship to go through.
The space bridge exploded moments after. As starscream watched it happen. He began to speak.
"This is a dark day in Decepticon history, may the legacy of our fallen leader Megatron live in our memory cores for all eternity. As i appoint myself new leader, i solemnly pledge to- Where's everybody gone."
Three escape pods launched from the ship. Leaving starscream behind.
The intense blast began to engulf the Nemesis .
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" screamed starscream, as he was engulfed by the blast as well.
Meanwhile directly in front of the planet where a familiar fembot crashed. The autobot shipped out of the portal
Optimus groaned as he stood up as smoke continued filling the ship. "Prowl, ratchet everyone alright? Bulkhead, Bumblebee report." All of a sudden a megatron appeared behind him.
Megatron grabbed Optimus and pinned him against the wall. "The allspark, where is it!" megatron demanded
Ratchet and prowl came to Optimus' aid. But ended up getting pinned as well with prowl under megatron's giant foot.
"I grow impatient." Megatron stated.
Optimus shot his grappler at a lever. "Artificial gravity disabled." the bots began to float, giving optimus the time to kick megatron away.
"Good thinking prime! Putting us on equal footing. So to speak." Ratchet stated. He magnetized, to the ceiling, while megatron used what was left of his arm to cling to the ceiling.
"Hey! Who turned off the- ow!" Bumblebee said as he was accidentally knocked away by bulkhead.
"Sorry my bad"
This sent bumblebee flying towards megatorn.
"Know what? You're even uglier from this angle". Bumblebee said.
Megatron growled, and then pulled out his sword attempting to slice at bumblebee.
"Scarier too!" bumblebee said.
Optimus clung to the ceiling with his axe "Everyone in position for a concentrated attack on my signal!" Optimus said. An order clearly ignored by Prowl.
"Prowl! No wait for my signal!" optimus attempted to grab him only for his arm to slip through him.
Megatron attempted to cut through prowl. But his attack went through him, due to him attacking a decoy.
The real prowl appeared behind him using his shuriken blade to cut through what was left of megatron's arm that starscream destroyed.
"AUGHHHH!" Megatron screamed as he floated away.
"Okay the decoy was a nice touch, but once again a little warning would have helped?!" optimus replied.
Bulkhead crashed into optimus.
"Would it kill you bots to say something like heads up or I don't kno watch out?! Or-" Optimus said before ratchet replied saying "Incoming!".
Ratchet used his magnets to attack Megatron with his arm. Sending him crashing into the control panel.
The ship began to speed up and Optimus crashed into the cargo hold. He groaned and struggled to get up before being put back down by Megatron.
"Now bring me the allspark and I may spare your miserable autobot lives." Megatron said.
For a moment Optimus thought he was going to go offline today. But once again his thoughts harkened back to the red and orange fembot he met those many stellar cycles ago.
I won't go offline not until I see her again! Optimus replied with a newfound resolve burning through his optics.
Megatron brought his sword down on optimus, who blocked it with his axe. Megatron kept trying to kill him, before he saw the allspark and its faint glow.
Using the distraction as an opportunity. He used his axe's extendable handle to hit a button, activating a docking tunnel. "Warning docking tunnel deployed. Teletraan 1 stated.
The tunnel sucked them out of the cargo hold. Optimus and megatron screamed. Optimus crashed into him, before using his axe to keep himself from falling out. Megatron attempted ot get back through when Optimus kicked him out.
"AUUUUUUUUAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Megatron screamed agony due to the pain he felt from burning up due to high speed and heat.
Optimus watched, as he breathed intensely.
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Meanwhile
In a place called Paw Paw, a man was working on robotics as he heard a loud crash outside his yard. He ran out and after finding the sight of the crash he found a giant robotic head with sharp red eyes. He gasped not knowing of the other falling shape behind him.
"Warning planetary impact imminent." the ship threatened to crash into a city.
"Everyone into their stasis pods." Optimus said.
Everyone went in while bumblebee asked prime "What about you?"
"Not until I steered us clear of this populated sector!" Optimus replied.
He kept steering the ship until it landed into a nearby body of water by the name of Lake Erie.
The ship crashed into the water, allowing Optimus to enter his stasis pod, his last thoughts focusing on Causeway once again.
Little did he know that he was closer to her than he ever thought.
"Initiating emergency stasis mode" Teletraan 1 stated as the pods began to fill with gray steam.
The ship continued to sink deeper and deeper, its contents remaining in slumber for what seemed like forever.
50 years later…
We zoom in on Detroit, the area where a famous battle in the air took place.
"Back in the early 20th century, Detroit was known as the motor city. The automobile manufacturing capital of the world. Today detroit is once again the world's leading manufacturer not of automobiles but automatons. Robots or as we here at sumdac systems like to call them "our tireless mechanical partners" ever reliable, never complaining, no task to mundane, or unpleasant. Unencumbered by fears and phobias, able to survive and withstand extreme environments far beyond the capacity of us mere humans."
"The Robot Revolution begins here. On a typical sumdac systems assembly line.
Where we make the latest line of my sumdac robots. Any questions?" the same man from 50 years ago asked clearly much older.
A child raised his hand. "Where did you get the idea for your robots mister sumdac?"
Professor sumdac pondered for a moment. "It was something that I just sort of… stumbled upon."
All of a sudden a robotic barking was heard. With a nearby girl yelling.
"Sparkplug! Get back here you mangy little turbot! my key is not a chew toy! Let go now!" A red haired girl said she took a keycard from her robot dog. Although falling on professor Sumdac.
"Sorry dad" the girl replied.
"Forgive me children, this is my daughter sari." Sumdac said. Sari blew on bubblegum but it got on her face as a result.
"Ew" the kids replied
"So what's it like to grow up around these cool robots?" A boy from the crowd asked.
"I don't know. What's it like to go to school with other kids?" Sari replied
"I apologize once again for the interruption, but my daughter must return to her studies now." Sumdac said as a tutor bit led her away
In another section of the lab.
Here we are working on the latest development in nano technology. Self-replicating, sub microscopic, bio diagnostic robots, designed to fight disease, monitor and repair the human body from within.", Isaac said.
The children then go to take a peak from the telescopes, that are able to view the process. "Not quite the cure for cancer, but these micro-bots are a major first step in the fusion of organic and the technological. And quite possibly, the gateway to immortality.", Isaac said.
Meanwhile, down in the lab, the insect that was given a test serum starts to mutate into a large beast. "I-I can't seem to stop the replication! The cells are growing out of control!", one worker said.
Soon, the insect grows to a large size and breaks out of it's containment. The children see whats happening and begin to panic, as the insect begins to destroy everything in its path.
"It's conversing with more micro-bots! They're merging with everything!", another worker said. "N-Nothing to be concerned about, children! These happy little accidents are often what lead to... great discoveries!", Isaac says, trying to calm the children down.
"Uh, Mr. Sumdac? This accident doesn't look too happy.", a little boy said. Suddenly, the insect crashes through the glass and enters to where the children and Isaac are.
Everyone then runs away and Mr. Isaac tries to run too, as the insect creature then shadows over him. Will anyone save him?