Chapter One: PRIME

At the beginning, there were the Thirteen. They stood as great sentinels between the light and the darkness beyond. They would stand together and, in the end, they would fall together through the betrayal of one of their own. Over time, others would come. Those whom would also be called the same as the Thirteen; those that would be called Prime. They were never made, but always born and some facts just always held true.

A Prime was always born.

The Matrix of Leadership would only react to a Prime.

A Prime would always recognize another Prime; even one yet unascended.

A Prime will always appear when those around them have the most need.

What caused the change from who the Prime was to what they would yet become always differed. The Prime would often come from a variety of backgrounds and lifestyles, and always during times of some strife. The faction never mattered, it was something held inside them until the time was right and only Primus knew just which sparks he had made for this purpose.

And yet, as time passed, less and less that would hold the title Prime appeared. Those sparks sometimes were snuffed out before they could become who they were meant to be. Some fought and died doing what they were meant to. And finally, many vorn into the future, one would rise as he was most needed. Orion Pax, kind-sparked and fiercely loyal, wasn't one that any around him would have called a leader. Yet, when the time came, out of his selflessness and sacrifice would rise Optimus Prime.

It was believed he would be the very last Prime to ever rise as Cybertronians ceased to be born. Their final hope lay in the Allspark, but the onslaught of a great war saw the relic sent from Cybertron. For many, this was a turning point, and the darkness began to close in on a dying planet and those that inhabited it. And yet, it wasn't to be the end while a beacon of hope remained. Time and circumstance would bring the last Prime to a small planet called Earth, hoping to locate the Allspark before their enemies did.

What the last Prime found on Earth, however, was more than he could have ever imagined. First the loss of one of his own, a scout known as B-127, who arrived before him chasing the Cube. Of course that would lead to him discovering the scout as he travelled through an area known as California after said scout had an adventure of his own. That wouldn't be the only time the denizens of the planet would help them, but it was the first time the Prime would realize that they were capable of so much more than he'd realized.

Time would pass, and other humans would come into their lives; these different from the girl his scout, now calling himself Bumblebee, had met so long ago. These children were brave in their own ways, and the Prime would find something special about the boy that held the key to helping their planet. Sam Witwicky was something else; though it would be a long while before the Prime was to discover just what. In the end, the Allspark was destroyed as it was shoved into Megatron's chest; an attempt by Sam to do something more than sacrifice the last Prime.

It would seem there was nothing left for them to do, but yet hope remained. The planet called Earth had become a refuge for their kind, and thus the last Prime would reach out to his people scattered amongst the stars. It wouldn't be easy, certainly, but it was something to keep them all going. This was not the end of the journey, as it never is, but that is another story.

This was a story told through time from the moment the first creations of Primus came to walk on the planet known as Cybertron to a little green and blue planet known as Earth brought about by one much different. Cybertron and Earth, both so different but in many ways the same and connected rather either realized it or not. It was a story that would lead a lost soul on a journey of discovery, and lead to a great shift that none before could ever have foreseen.

For this is the beginning, the story as it was meant to be told. This is where the lost soul that no one wanted learns just what it means to be Prime.