Chapter 22: The New Cybertronian Council

Iacon City, Cybertron- Primeverse

Galvatron walked behind the two Council Guards with Nightshade beside him. The Paraxians kept their doorwings at rigid angles as they lead the former leader of the Decepticons and Nightshade to the meeting room where they were to be with the other members of the new Cybertronian Council. The New Cybertronian Council no longer just held the elite members of Autobot society but it also had members of the Decepticons. They were not making the same mistake again which had caused the war to happen in the first place with the help from Unicron. Behind them was two Seekers, former Decepticons who had once been members of the Rainmakers and also Shockwave's personal guard during the early stages of the War. It was doing his Spark well to see that his planet was healing old wounds that he had caused in all the years that he had been leading the war against Optimus Prime. He knew that the battle against Unicron and his Terracons had also helped to bring enemies together as they fought for the very thing that they had just gotten back.

He had fought alongside Optimus as he fought against the very being who had caused him and others so much pain and suffering. He remembered the battle well. Half of his battle against Unicron had been on trying to get Nightshade back. He remembered the dread growing when he found out that Nightshade was Shadowstalker. Shadowstalker was everything that Megatron was not. She had no care what so ever about her allies and enemies, much like Megatron but unlike Megatron she was purely insane. When Nightshade had returned that was what they needed to turn the tide of the battle. She had managed to take the Terracons that Shadowstalker had brought and turned them against the Terracons that Unicron had summoned.

He took a quick glance at Nightshade. The Dragonoid was walking silence, no doubt still annoyed at what Optimus had done. He had not dared to ask her what was going through her mind, it was really not his place to question what she was thinking. Nightshade had her own views of life and death to the Cybertronians. Her emerald optics were locked on the back of the Paraxian who was walking in front of her. She was no longer speaking about the issue about Optimus keeping Spike alive as a Sparkling. Right now she had moved her attention as to why his Optimus had summoned them. All that they knew was that Optimus wanted to speak to them about the future of Cybertron after the attack lead by Unicron with aid from Megatronus and Shadowstalker. Galvatron had told Optimus Prime what had happened with Shadowstalker and Nightshade. The Prime had understood everything and had said that he would not ask Nightshade to be imprisoned for Shadowstalker's crimes. He had also only told Ratchet who had been shocked to find out who Shadowstalker was and who Nightshade was. They were completely different Femmes. Optimus and Ratchet had told everyone that Nightshade had appeared suddenly and destroyed Shadowstalker who had gotten to close to the Core of Cybertron. That was enough for many Autobots and Decepticons who had seen her fighting for Cybertron.

He looked back up at the two Paraxians in front of them. They walked stiffly much like Prowl. No doubt they had once been a part of the same Enforcer Unit as the strict Autobot SIC. He allowed his sensors to scan behind him and at the two Rainmakers behind him. They had been his strongest supporters during the war, but they had been under Starscream's command. All Seekers during the War either followed Starscream's orders or Dreadwing and his Twin Spark, Skyquake. The Rainmakers had worked closely with Shockwave during the War, but they really wanted to slaughter Femmes and Sparklings for the fun of it. They were kept to guarding Shockwave or Megatron whenever they were needed. He had thought they had meet their end during the battle against Unicron and his Terracons.

The two Paraxians came to a sudden stop that Galvatron and Nightshade nearly collided with them. They both turned around allowing Galvatron to get a look at their faces. One of the Paraxians was missing an optic and his faceplates had been scorched so badly that medics were not able to repair it. Galvatron didn't know if the damage was done when he was an Enforcer or when he had joined the war effect. His plating colour was that of standard Enforcers, black and white but with a hint of green flung in to his door panels that were positioned high and proud. The other Paraxian had no major damages done to its features and like his companion he was painted black and white. On his doorwings instead of green was red. Also in the centre of his doorwings was the Autobot symbol.

"Once the meeting is over we shall show you to the dorms that you will be staying at!" the Paraxian with the missing optic and green highlighted doorwings said. He was keeping his back to the door of the meeting room. His remaining optic was only focused on Galvatron. He didn't even look at Nightshade who was only a few feet away from him. His companion was no doubt watching her along with the two Seekers behind them.

"Thank you for showing us the way!" Galvatron said as he bowed his helm. He was a visitor to Iacon. He had only come to Iacon a few times and that had been on the build up for the war. The times that he had been to Iacon was when he was going to meet up with Orion Pax with Soundwave but that had always been at the Iacon Archives where Orion was still working with Alpha Trion. Then he had gone to Iacon Council Chambers where he had found out that he could not be a Prime but Orion Pax was going to be the next Prime. That was when Unicron's full influence had came into his Spark and he had begun the war.

The Mech only grunted in response as he stepped to the side. The door then slid open allowing Galvatron and Nightshade entrance to the meeting room. His massive strides ate up the ground as he walked into the meeting room. He could hear Nightshade's claws clicking against the floor as she followed him into the room. The room that he was in the room he stopped. The meeting room was much larger than what he thought it was going to be. It could be better called a chamber for the size that it was. At the centre of the large chamber was a large round table. Sitting at the table was all the leadership members of both the Autobots and the Decepticons that were still alive after the whole war for Cybertron and then the battle against Unicron.

Galvatron walked towards the table as all the other Mechs and Femmes who were sitting at the table watched him and Nightshade in silence. The Autobots watched him with narrow optics while both the Autobots and Decepticons kept their optics on Nightshade. He took the seat beside Optimus Prime as Nightshade took the seat beside Predaking. The Predacon leader tried to start talking to Nightshade and the Dragonoid was happy to answer any of his questions just before the meeting was to start.

"You finally decided to show up!" Optimus smirked as Galvatron settled down beside him. His blue optics never left the silver and black Mech.

"Forgive us for being late! But there was an issue back in Nightshade's dimension that we needed to see to quickly!" Galvatron replied back to Optimus. His optics jumped to Ironhide as the weapon specialist grunted something that he could not hear. He decided not to chase the matter any further. He didn't want to start a fight with Optimus's old friend. He took another quick glance towards Nightshade to see that she and Prowl had started to talk with Predaking. The Predacon and the SIC of the Autobots never spoke but the idea of a different kind of Transformer from another dimension was enough to cause the two Mechs to speak to each other and Nightshade.

"We are only glad that you are able to attend! There is a few matters that we must discuss and that is why Autobots and Decepticons have been gathered for this meeting!" Optimus spoke as he looked at all the gathered Mechs and Femmes. He looked towards Predaking and then Nightshade before his optics focused back on Galvatron.

Optimus stood up from the chair that he was sitting on to allow his optics to take in every Mech and Femme who were in the room that was being used for the meeting. His blue optics took in his oldest allies and his newest allies who had once been his enemies. The war had taken so much from him and it had given him so much. He took a quick glance at Elita One to see that the pink Femme was watching Nightshade like she was a Terracon and was about to eat their CPUs. He trusted Nightshade enough to view her as an ally after the battle against Unicron. She had suddenly appeared to help the fight against Unicron and his Terracon army.

"Many refuges have already returned to Cybertron from between life returned to the Core of our planet right up to just now! The Femmes under the command of Elita One have been able to get everyone into shelters so we can return them to the city states!" he said giving his Sparkmate a quick nod of his helm before looking at all the others in the meeting room. "Ratchet and medics such as Knockout and First Aid have been seeing to the repairs for Cybertronians who had been damaged in the fight against Unicron and those who had returned to Cybertron after so many years of being away from home!" he said looking to the red and white CMO of the Autobots who had returned from Earth for the meeting. The three children who had helped them on Earth had been welcomed to Cybertron and were staying with their guardians.

All the gathered Mechs and Femmes remained silent as Optimus Prime spoke about what was happening to Cybertron and its people. He was after all the Prime. He had been chosen by Primus himself to be the leader of all of Cybertron. "Scrapper how is the repairs doing for the City States?" Optimus asked the leader of the Constructions who was sitting quietly as far away from Predaking and Shockwave as possible.

The green and purple Mech stood up to allow everyone at the meeting to see him as he gave the Prime his report. "We are almost completed in repairs for Praxus and Iacon. In the next couple of days we will be moving to Kaon!" Scrapper replied. He sat back down on his chair and allowed the meeting to carry on.

"Thank you Scrapper! It wont be long until we have our world back and running! Once that is done we shall begin trading with old and new allies of Cybertron! I was thinking that Earth shall be one of our new trading partner!" Optimus spoke up again. He had stood up again after Scrapper had spoken his part about the rebuilding of Cybertron. Sure the restoration of the Core had brought about many repairs to the war-torn planet but there was still a lot of damage that was needed to be repaired.

Ratchet then snorted air through his vents which caused Ultra Magnus to look at the old medic. The two of them had been through a lot during the war and had gotten use to each other. But the sudden snort had caught Ultra Magnus without warning. He knew that the medic loved Earth that he had said that he would stay behind, but that was so he could keep an optic on the three young humans who had allied themselves with the Autobots.

"Ratchet what is the matter with Earth?" Ultra Magnus asked the old gruff medic.

"MECH that's what's the matter! Those barbarians would butcher any Mech or Femme who step foot on Earth with no reason!" Ratchet snapped back to the large blue and red Mech.

Nightshade twitched her wing slightly as she studied the old Medic. Her emerald optics moved from the gruff Medic back to Optimus Prime. "What is MECH?" Nightshade asked the Prime. It had been the first time that she had spoken in the meeting. All the other Cybertronians in the meeting room looked at her as if she had grown another head. "Come on explain it to the Dragonoid who is from another dimension and only knows Mech as a frame type!" she said as her horned head looked back towards Galvatron. "What? Did I say something wrong? Or am I becoming a Hydranoid?" she asked the large silver and black Mech sitting beside her.

"MECH is a human group that looks to creating new technology to bring about a new world order. They had found out about our existence and had started to do experiments on Breakdown and Starscream! Arcee had nearly been on their lab table if she had not been alone!" Optimus replied to Nightshade. He flinched when two emerald optics fixed on him. The last time that he had seen her she had red optics. He had to wonder if that was because of the possession of Unicron that made her Shadowstalker. He knew everything about what happened before and during the battle for Cybertron against Unicron. Both Galvatron and Nightshade had given him a debrief after the fight before they had disappeared to return to Nightshade's dimension.

Nightshade sat back in her chair. It was a strange thing to see as something in similar shape and built to Predaking sit on a chair with their wings pinned back against their back and the back of the chair. Her tail was wrapped around the chairs legs. "They sound like HYDRA from my dimension!" Nightshade said more to herself than the gathered Cybertronians in the meeting. "Carry on!" she said to Optimus Prime but her optics were focused on the old Medic who was sitting across from her.

Optimus bowed his helm towards Nightshade. They needed to carry on the meeting and get everything resolved quickly. "MECH is no longer a problem Ratchet. Agent Fowler has reported that all members of MECH have been located and taken into authority! How they were located Agent Fowler can not understand it but he is only glad that they are now behind bars where they should be!" Optimus explained to everyone that was assembled in the meeting. He could see all of them relaxing. MECH was one enemy that united both Autobot and Decepticon together out of fear of what they were willing to do.

"That's good! Those beasts deserve to be behind bars!" Ratchet snapped back sitting back in his chair.

"Moving on! We have received word from the colonies across the universe! The Decepticons that Megatron had sent to them have stepped down after hearing what has happened. Many were not happy about it but they changed their mind when we sent out the Predacons and Dinobots! But there is one world that is not being changed. Predaking and Grimlock have had no such luck in getting the Decepticon off of his self made throne!" Optimus said as he looked towards Galvatron. His optics also moved towards Nightshade beside him. He watched in silence as both Nightshade and Galvatron moved forward to hear what he was about to say. "We were hoping that the pair of you would be able to help with that matter with the aid of Predacons and Dinobots!" he finished explaining.

Galvatron nodded his helm. He would do anything to redeem the destruction that he had caused Cybertron and many other planets. He had nearly destroyed Earth on so many times. "What planet?" he asked. Dread was growing in his spark at the thought of his higher ups causing so much damage to another world that their people had fled to in order to get away from the war only for the war to come to them.

"Can I just point out something that you might have forgotten about Galvatron!" Nightshade suddenly spoke up. Every member of the meeting looked at her again as she spoke to the former leader of Decepticons. She growled to herself when Galvatron looked at her with an arched optic ridge as he questioned what she was meaning. "The Mummy that was dug up in Egypt was one of Seth supporters. We could use the intelligence that the Mummy has to tell us more about Seth from his strengths right to how to defeat him!" Nightshade continued.

Another hiss escaped from her jaws as she saw that she was not getting anywhere with Galvatron. That was when he spoke up. "Hasn't the Moonray gathered a lot of intell about Seth?" he asked. That was when Nightshade lunged. Her claws elongated and glowed dark blue as they sliced through the plating of check. Galvatron's clawed servo was brought up to feel the damage that had been done by Nightshade. "What was that for?" he demanded Nightshade.

The Autobots in the room reached for the weapons and Nightshade started to charge up another attack. Black sparks began to dance around the Dragonoid as she prepared to fight Galvatron. Old habits were hard to die for the Mechs and Femmes who had been fighting Megatron and his Decepticons.

"Let me explain! Seth has been a problem since the Second World War and his threat is getting worse! The Shadow Network had reported that Seth was once again working with HYDRA but why they are not able to determine! And plus there was that small partnership that he had with Unicron for a sort time before we were able to lock him up!" Nightshade explained. She already knew that this was an argument that she was not going to win. Galvatron had made it clear on so many occasions that he was going to do everything that he could do to redeem himself after everything that he had done. She had told him that she would stick at his side and that was a promise she could not break.

"What did happen to Unicron?" Red Alert asked looking at Nightshade. The security chief knew that she was the best one to ask about the fate of the Chaos Bringer. His optics jumped from Nightshade and Galvatron. His sensory horns were sparking as he began to panic that Unicron was about to make his big return.

Nightshade tapped her claw onto the table. Her emerald optics were locked onto the red security chief of the Autobots. The Mech was just like the Red Alert from her dimension that she kept forgotten that she was not back in the Cybertron that she basically grew up in. "Right now Unicron is locked away in the underground base of UNIT deep under the Tower of London in a prison that was specially designed for him thanks to both Preceptor and Shockwave! At this very moment he is locked in a Time Lock in that prison he was placed in with guards that never age nor can die! My personal favourite ghosts, The Shadow Men!" she replied to Red Alert. She kept tapping her claw onto the table and even her tail was tapping against the leg of the chair that she was sitting on with it tapping Galvatron's pede. The tapping had been something that she had learned about Red Alert from her dimension; it kept him focused and stopped him from ranting about another topic. She hoped that it was the same for this version of the paranoid security chief.

"So there is no chance that he can escape?" Red Alert asked slightly calming down when he thought that Unicron might return with revenge on his processor.

Nightshade stopped tapping her claw on the table, but she kept tapping her foot against Galvatron's pede and the chairs leg. She leaned in over the table using her wings and her front legs to support herself as she got closer to Red Alert. "There is no chance! Myself and UNIT have dealt with Gods over the many years that we know how to handle a God. Like I said Unicron is in the prison that Preceptor and Shockwave had designed and to top it off he is in a Time Lock meaning that he is frozen in time surrounded by what humans call poltergeists that have a tendency to prank before they kill!" she explained as she pulled away from Red Alert.

Red Alert and Nightshade stared at each other for a few more seconds before they both broke it off at the same time. Nightshade looked back over at Optimus to see that the Prime had a faint smile on his faceplates. "I hope that you are feeling better that he is locked away and wont be a bother to Cybertron?" she asked with a faint hint of a smile in her face.

"I am!" Optimus replied to Nightshade as he stood back up. All Mechs and Femmes looked back up at the Prime rather than the Dragonoid who relaxed in her seat beside Galvatron and Predaking. "With the threat of Unicron under control with Nightshade's forces we can return back to the issue with getting our world back together after many years of warfare! Right now our main problem is the colony planets that are being ruled by Decepticons that Megatron had banished sometime during the War!" he said looking towards Galvatron again.

Galvatron opened his mouth to say something only to stop when Nightshade's claw had once again started to tap on the table again. His helm snapped around to face Nightshade. His red optics focused on the Dragonoid who was glaring at him with her emerald optics. "Come on Nightshade! The Mummy isn't going anywhere until we get back! Plus you said that you would support me as I redeemed myself for what I had done to both Cybertron and Earth. Even Primus had told you to do so when you first searched my Spark!" he said as he noticed that Nightshade was losing the argument within her processor.

Nightshade's claw stopped tapping and she glared at him. "You know I hate you sometimes, Galv'! Really I hate you as if you are a Werewolf on wolfbane! But you are right!" she said sitting back on her chair. She knew that dimensions had a different time rate from each other. So she could be in Galvatron's dimension for a month and return to her dimension to find that she was away from her dimension for only an hour to a day. Then there was the Moonray. She had using the Moonray to jump about in time but it might be needed if the Avengers had a chance against Seth and his growing powers. If the Mummy was buried for having ties with Seth might now about a way to defeat him.

Galvatron looked back at Optimus. "Now what planet is it that the Predacons and Dinobots are having problems with?" he asked which earned a growl from Grimlock. The Dinobot commander stopped his growl when Predaking growled at him. The two Mechs were the same size but when the Predacon was standing next to an unknown threat he didn't want to risk being defeated by a Femme. Grimlock sat back quietly in his chair across from the Predacon leader and glared at him.

"Animatron!"