In a Transformer's life there always been fighting. Decepticon versus Autobot but now the tides had definitely changed. It wasn't Decepticon versus Autobot; they were now working together to defeat a greater force, Transformers versus Unicron. A robot, who wanted to control all the cosmos. With him wanting to conquer, there were three separate battles going on. No one was able to help the other.
There was Optimus, Megatron and Alexis facing off with the heart of Unicron. There was also Hotshot, Sideswipe, Demolisher and Cyclonus working their way towards their leaders after they realized that they were probably in a trap. Finally, under the command of Ultra Magnus, a fleet of Autobot and Decepticon ships were trying to fight their way free through a barricade of spawns.
For the time being, Jetfire, with his crew and Shockwave with the rest of the fleet sat on the sidelines. Shockwave was waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike out at the spawns and Jetfire watched on, not sure what to do about Unicron, slowly making it's way to Earth. Knowing that the lasers weren't going to help, all Jetfire could do was follow Unicron at the same pace, who was now one hour away from Earth.
"This is really driving me nuts," Jetfire mumbled. "Here we are chasing after Unicron and we have no way to stop him if and when he reaches Earth."
"Don't give up just yet," Scavenger crossed him arms. "We still have the others to help. And from the looks of things, Ultra Magnus's ship is starting to break the formation of the spawns. Shockwave should soon be able to join us."
"Wait!" Starscream yelled. "A ship has just made its way past."
Powerglide jumped into Sideswipe's seat. "Affirmative. It's one of ours. It has minor damage on the port side. Work detail is on it and will have it fixed by the time it reaches our position."
"That's great to hear," Blaster said. "Who's commanding that ship?"
"What, can't recognize own buddy," a voice was heard through the comlink.
"Omega Supreme!" Jetfire jumped.
"Autobots in danger. Omega Supreme offer help."
Powerglide turned in his seat and cheered. "Time for the tides to change."
"Don't start cheering yet," Scavenger said with a cool head. "Omega Supreme may have just arrived but that doesn't mean that he can stop Unicron."
"Stop Unicron, no. Slow him down, yes."
Everyone watched in awe as the ship that just punched it's way through, transformed into the huge robot they all knew he was. He was not as big as Unicron but he knew his weapons were going to be more effective than anyone else's.
"More help on way," Omega said before charging off towards Unicron.
Behind his faceplate, Jetfire smiled as he leaned back a little. He may not know where Optimus was, but he knew Unicron would get slowed down. How long, no one knew, but it would give Optimus a little more time.
Everyone watched as Omega Supreme began to fire upon the huge robot. His weapons weren't doing much but it did give slight dents in the armor.
"Bring us up to Omega and begin to fire at will, when close enough," Jetfire commanded.
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"What the…" Ultra Magnus mumbled.
"Omega Supreme?" Kup questioned. "I thought he couldn't be found?"
"I thought so too," Ultra Magnus smiled. "He may not be able do some serious harm but it will slow that thing down."
Ultra Magnus, deep down, had a feeling that Omega was there. As there were two identical ships. Back before Optimus left for Earth, before they even knew of Earth, Optimus had commanded for a ship to be built that look identical to Omega to confuse the Decepticons. Omega had always been able thwart the Decepticons but having two ships identical would make them think twice of which one was Omega. Shockwave had the other ship that was full of Autobots.
But before leaving Cybertron, Ultra Magnus couldn't find Omega. He soon realized the big Autobot was on a mission. But how did Omega hear about the attack on Earth? Hopefully when the battle was done, Magnus would be able to ask him.
"I don't get it?" Hot Rod asked. "I thought Omega was already here but with Shockwave."
"Isn't it obvious?" Kup answered. "A regular ship was built to look identical to Omega Supreme to confuse the Decepticons."
"It was actually Omega's idea," Magnus commented. "All ships, Omega Supreme has just arrived on the scene and just broke through the lines. Keep up with the good work. We need as many as possible to break through."
"Hard to port!" someone shouted.
Without asking who said it, Hot Rod, piloting, brought the ship around as commanded. He watched with wide eyes as they just narrowly missed a burst of energy.
"By the calculations," Micro came out calmly. "That energy burst would have rendered us useless, if not worse."
"Probably those spawns have been watching us for awhile, as Unicron was disguised as one of our moons. They will know our weaknesses and strengths," Arcee explained.
"Keep avoiding any blasts. We have to lure as many ships as possible away for other ships to get through. If we are the last, we are the last," Ultra Magnus commanded. "The more ships get through, the better our chances. We may have enough fire power to stop Unicron."
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Shockwave watched in amazement as Omega Supreme broke through the lines and began his approach to Unicron. What surprised him more was he thought he had Omega.
"They are clever," he stated.
"Who's clever?"
Shockwave turned to Skywarp. "The Autobots you fool. They constructed a ship to look exactly like Omega Supreme to use against us."
"Those no good…"
"Calm down brother," Thundercracker came up behind him. "They may have been wanting to use it against us but now they can't. And it might work to our advantage, considering there's an identical one with us."
"Thundercracker is right," Shockwave answered. "And we're soon going to join the battlements. I'm tired of sitting on the sidelines while our great leader is risking his life."
Skywarp turned away and went back to his station. "One of these days, Megatron is going to get what's coming to him and none of us is going to be there to help him."
"What was that?"
Skywarp quickly turned. "Nothing sir."
Thundercracker came up beside his brother and whispered into his audio receptors. "You know one of these days you are going to get in a whole lot of trouble."
"We shouldn't be teamed up with the Autobots," Skywarp snapped in a low voice.
"I agree but there's nothing we can do. You can see that huge thing and if we don't work together, that thing will go after Cybertron."
"Don't you think I don't know that!" A slight blipping sound caught Skywarp's attention. He looked at his readouts. "More of Ultra Magnus's ships have made it through."
"Any of ours?" Shockwave asked.
"Affirmative. Two ours and one of theirs. They broke through the same location as Omega Supreme."
"Good. What's the rest of the ships status?"
"They are still trying to out maneuver the electric current."
"With our men trying their best to get through, they are also tiring the current. Soon the current will have no choice but to reveal themselves as the spawns. And we'll be waiting. Contact our secret weapon. Tell him to slowly approach our position."
Shockwave turned away from the battle for a moment to have a moment to himself. He knew from the very start that not everything was going to go as planned. But he also knew the Autobots had a secret weapon but he didn't think it was Omega Supreme. It didn't matter anyway; soon the Decepticons secret weapon would arrive, which would tip the tables.
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As everyone watched in awe on the viewscreens as Omega Supreme went up to Unicron, Omega was deciding on what course of action to take. He knew he had the element of surprise as Unicron stop his descend towards Earth and turned around to see what was coming his way.
Unicron saw the Autobot was not even half of his size but knew that Omega Supreme had good firepower. He also knew that Omega's power could give slight dents but it wouldn't be enough to slow him down.
Omega stopped when he was close enough to Unicron. "You stronger, but I come to help."
For several minutes, the two giant robots stared at each other, wondering who was going to make the first move.
Suddenly tired of being stared at, Omega began firing everything he had, knowing that he may not survive the battle but he was going to do his best to help Optimus.
Not long after he began to fire, he started to have help of the Autobot and Decepticon lead ships plus the three ships who were able to get through the barrier. Suddenly one-man pods were released from the ships as they began their approach, trying to bare more holes into the armor, to weaken him.
Getting tired of the small shuttles, Unicron swung his wing appendages, trying to destroy some of the ships. Some were able to get out of the way, but others were not so lucky. The small pods were destroyed in seconds.
The smaller pods quickly backed away to regroup. They needed a better plan, as Omega continued to fire. From somewhere out of nowhere, another ship suddenly came up beside him and fired and managed a hit on Unicron in the shoulder, causing him to scream out in pain. Nobody knew yet that Unicron had two conscious minds. One was battling the Transformers, while the other baited Optimus and Megatron.
Jetfire seeing the perfect opportunity opened his communications. He was about to speak when he saw the group of the smaller pods head towards the opening in Unicron's shoulder. The other pods were distractions to keep Unicron busy.
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The Unicron who faced Optimus, Megatron and Alexis continued on his badgering. Berating Optimus and Megatron's leadership skills.
"You know Optimus Prime, if you had known about me, which I'm sure you had some sort of idea that something larger than anything you've ever handled was near your doorstep, why didn't you do anything to stop my power from growing?"
"For peace," Optimus declared.
"For peace," Unicron continued. "Don't make me laugh. You're programmed for war, without that you would not be alive today. I watched on that day when Megatron shot you down when he began his steeling of energon and if it weren't for Alpha Trion, you wouldn't be here today.
"So how is peace defined from War?"
"Why don't you take your words and send it to the sun," Megatron hissed. "I'm getting tired of all this baiting." Megatron suddenly lunged out towards Unicron but was quickly pinned down by live tentacles.
"Megatron," Alexis blurted.
Optimus turned to help Megatron but was suddenly pinned down as well.
"Don't even think about it."
Alexis turned from her worse enemy and trusted friend and glared at Unicron. "You don't know anything about the Transformers if you can't understand how fighting a war and create peace.
"Ok, so perhaps Optimus may have fired the first war shot, does that make him a criminal? He was only protecting his friends who were fighting for their lives on the operating table from damages caused from Megatron."
"How you came mixed up into all this is beyond my comprehension."
"I have my reasons. But here's a question for you. If Megatron never harmed Optimus in the first place or any of the other Autobots, do you think there would be a war right now?"
"That is something I don't need to know."
"That isn't the answer I'm looking for. If Megatron never did what he did, Cybertron would not have lost its beautiful touch. And here's another thing, just because I'm new at being a Transformer that doesn't mean, I don't know anything about Cybertron? Well you're wrong. I know once Cybertron used to be an organic planet and something happened and I know Cybertron had a golden age but it was destroyed because the Decepticons had a thirst for Energon."
"You are smart for a former human."
"And getting back to War and Peace. My planet has been through hundreds of wars and there has always been peace afterwards, mind you, every once in while some jerk will decide to ruin it because he wants something that he doesn't own. The humans are constantly at each other's throats just like the Transformers and they have the same goal as Optimus does. A lot people wish for peace, but the only way for that to happen is by working together."
Unicron swung his arm up. Tentacles suddenly came down, pinning Alexis is place. At first she began to struggle but then suddenly stopped. She bent her head down and slightly smirked. The two faction leaders noticed the smirk before she lifted her head back up and spoke out.
"I will not fight your rain of terror," she said softly. "If I allow myself the chance to feel calm and not hate, then you have no power over me."
Unicron was taken aback by her boost of confidence. "Just seconds ago, you're anger was clearly showing and now it's subsiding as fast as it appeared. How is that?"
"Are you scared that I may be able to break through your defenses? Weaken your strengths?"
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As the badgering continued deep within Unicron, the battle outside continued as well. Slowly but surely some more ships were able to break through but just before Ultra Magnus's ship was able to bust through, the way was blocked off. Ultra Magnus was completely surrounded by the electric current.
Shockwave watched as the first fleet were now being surrounded. He knew it was time to act. "Time for action men."
The Decepticons on the bridge suddenly jumped to their seats and their ship began to move.
Shockwave looked at his monitor and then slammed his fist down on his seat. "Shockwave to the rest of fleet. We are moving out. You're objective, bust up the current from around our ships and make your way to the main battle. Do not stop for anything."
Shockwave looked around the bridge for a moment. "Take us out at full speed."
Skywarp turned and looked to his commander with a questionable stare. "Sir?"
"If we are to stand a chance against that current, we might as well come out guns blaring," Shockwave stated.
Skywarp turned back in his chair and did as ordered.
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Megatron continued to struggle with his constraints but it was useless. The more he struggled, the harder it was to move. He could tell that Optimus faired no better but Alexis, he couldn't see where she was but knew she was off the ground.
"You think this will hold me forever!" Megatron shouted.
Unicron looked at Megatron. "I tire of your irritating whining. Why don't I demonstrate what I mean?"
The tentacles around Megatron suddenly shot upward toward his face, reading itself to consume him.
"No, Unicron!" Optimus shouted. He watched in horror as Megatron suddenly became immobile.
"If you want the same to happen to you," Unicron started. "Then by all means, keep up struggling."
"Optimus!" Alexis--Kiaudica shouted. "Stop struggling. Allow yourself to remain calm and collective. Think of things that you were proud of in the past."
"You think you can stay calm?" Unicron directed his question at Alexis.
Alexis looked at Unicron. She raised her chin, rising to the challenge. "Yes. I've been dead once and isn't exciting. But thanks to wonderful friends, I've been able to live again. Watching in straight horror of my twin brother dieing when he was struck done by a car almost killed me. But I will not allow his memory to be tainted. When I was human, I didn't really have a mean bone in my body."
Unicron was taken back by her words. She was speaking as if she lived two separate lives. But how, unless she was talking about that her human life is dead. While he was pondering her words, the tentacles surrounding her were starting to loosen. She kept her body immobile, making Unicron think that she was still tightly confined.
But quickly as he began pondering he glared at Alexis and then at Optimus.
"You like fighting don't you? Admit it, you like the idea of battling. You were made for war and now you crave it like humans need their planet."
"That isn't true."
Everyone turned, looking at the entrance to the chamber. There standing were the kids and Mini-Cons. The boys were staring at Highwire with surprise, as he was the one who spoke, not beeped his words.
"Optimus has never like fighting. He only fights because he has to. Optimus Prime's dream goal is to become allies and live in peace with the Decepticons."
Unicron snorted. "Oh look, you're fan club have finally arrived. How you got here, I don't know?"
"Rad," Alexis called. "Unicron is fueled by anger."
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Jetfire, who made the kids, in private, keep their communicators on at all times. Heard what Alexis just shouted.
"Anger?" he said.
Hoist turned in his seat. "What was that you just said?"
"The boys have just reached Optimus and Megatron. Alexis just yelled out that Unicron is fueled by anger."
"What?" everyone on the bridge blurted except for Red Alert.
"If Alexis knew about that," Starscream started. "Who else knew?"
Red Alert looked up. "Myself, Optimus, Alexis and Megatron are the only ones who knew. Optimus felt the less people who knew, the better. I'm sure Hotshot, Sideswipe, Demolisher and Cyclonus also knew before they ventured inside Unicron."
"Well if that's the case," Starscream grumbled. "How are we to stop Unicron? We can't just sit here and hope Unicron will stop trying to attack Earth just because we stopped fighting. There's too much negative energy through both factions to stop that."
"I don't know," Jetfire turned back to the viewscreen, watching as laser fire was coming from all directions. "But there has to be way to stop him before he reaches Earth."
"Sir," Powerglide yelled out. "Shockwave's team are heading, full speed towards the electric current."
Jetfire bent his head, looking at his own readouts on his monitor. He watched in amazement as the current were caught off guard as a hundred new ships came out from behind Mars. The current scattered and had to regroup, allowing Ultra Magnus and a few other ships to pass through to the main battle.
"Now we're getting somewhere," Jetfire whispered.
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Unicron looked away in alert just as the other Transformers arrived at the scene. Cyclonus and Demolisher looked at their leader in horror as he was immobile. Hotshot and Sideswipe picked up the boys. When they were whispering shot, Rad told the others not to react. Alexis had a plan in mind. He wasn't sure what that was but when she yelled out, he knew she something in mind and she wouldn't be able to tell everyone what that was.
"How is that possible?" Unicron mumbled. "How can there be another hundred ships? Unless…she lied to me. She knew of the whole fleet but only told me half the truth." He thought out Sideflare but could not sense her anywhere. He concluded that she was destroyed somehow.
Alexis turned back to Unicron as she heard him say the other fleet just made their appearance. "Is something the matter?" she asked the Unicron who was posing as Sideways.
He looked back at her as she had a smug look. He tried sensing out her anger but he couldn't find any. This was not going as he planned. Before he could retort, a rumbling noise was heard. He looked around the room trying to determine where the noise was coming from.
In the last moment he looked us there was suddenly an explosion and Alexis was free. She landed gracefully on the ground beside Optimus. "See, just by my friends showing up has giving me the advantage to break free," she said in her normal voice.
"How is this possible?" Unicron questioned.
Alexis ignored him. She turned to Optimus and placed both hands on the tentacles surrounding him. "Optimus you remember my birthday party. You guys made me so happy that you even made gifts for me. I thought it was really funny seeing Red Alert and some of the others covered in streamers."
Optimus's optics softened. "Yes, that was amusing. It took the boys a good part of the day to convince them to where the decorations."
"It was also fun when we were allowed to stay at the base and we would have a campout in the lounge. And when it became late enough, I would start telling stories."
"Oh yeah, I remember that," Carlos said. "And once Billy scared the living daylights out of you."
"Yeah and it was Starscream who caught you," Billy said.
"That was also the same day when Starscream saw his first basketball game and Hotshot and Hoist, well at the time Smokescreen, had a bet going," Rad offered in.
Hotshot looked over at Alexis as she smiled at him. "Yeah and it was me who won the bet." He looked at Sideswipe. "It was also your first basketball game too."
Sideswipe nodded.
Suddenly the tentacles around Optimus dissipated and he was able to break free. Seeing what Alexis was doing, he walked over to Megatron, as did Alexis. With their hands on Megatron, Alexis was the first to speak.
"Megatron me may not like each other but that doesn't mean you can not be free. Wouldn't you love to stop the fighting? You may want to rule the universe but does that also have to include Earth?"
"Megatron, I'm sure you can hear me," Optimus said. "Before I became who I am, there was a short time where you treated me as a friend. You have also helped immensely on this mission by reminding Alexis what was important."
"Megatron," Rad said out. "What would it be like without having to fight?"
The tentacles around Megatron began to loosen its hold on the Decepticon leader, allowing him to become conscious again. He didn't want to speak as Alexis continued speaking.
"Megatron, put your differences aside for now and for once allow yourself to feel as what it would be like if there were no fighting."
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Shockwave watched in astonishment as the current kept having to regroup, allowing more ships to pass through, including some of his own fleet. Every time, the current regrouped, a small group of ships would charge at it before they could come up with another plan.
"Sir," Thundercracker said. "There's something coming our way. In fact there's two blips."
"Two?" Shockwave turned to his readouts but he didn't have the chance to look long before the two blips flew past his ship firing at the current, causing them to scatter more.
"I don't believe it," Skywarp said. "It's Bruticus and Superion."
"It surprises me as well," Shockwave said. "I only knew of Bruticus coming as our secret weapon. All ships follow are new arrivals."
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The Autobot ship cheered as they saw Superion arrive on the scene with Bruticus. Now they knew why Omega commented saying more help was on the way. They didn't care that they were working together, just that they arrived.
"Now let's get down to business," Jetfire said. He pushed a button turning on all channels. "Jetfire to all ships. Concentrate all your firepower to Unicron."
Before too long the electric current began to appear as Transformers. With the spawns visible, they were easily being destroyed, as they couldn't transform into static. Jetfire looked and saw Unicron's armor was starting to show damage. Whatever was going inside was starting to affect the battle outside.
"Bruticus. Superion. Omega Supreme. Get on the other side of Unicron, placing yourselves between him and Earth."
He watched as the three large Transformers left to around Unicron to protect Earth. He was a little surprised that Bruticus went without questions but for now that couldn't be questioned.
Starscream stared at Unicron with worry. He couldn't help but wonder what Alexis was doing. Whatever was happening to Unicron, he knew Alexis was part of it. With her good heart, he knew that she would be able to help but it still didn't stop him to not worry for her safety.
Suddenly he heard something trying to come through on his private comlink.
"Starscream, I'm ok," she whispered. "If everyone was to think of the happy times they have had, Unicron will become weaker where we can defeat him."
"Jetfire, if Unicron was sense nothing but good energy, then he would become weaker," Starscream said.
"How are we to get the Decepticons to do that?" Jetfire asked.
"Let's just worry about ourselves," Scavenger answered.
"Oh and the boys are safe too."
Starscream sighed in relief.
"What is it?" Scavenger asked him.
"I have to go, Starscream," Alexis said and the comlink was dead.
Starscream looked to him, realizing that he sighed a little too loud. "Alexis can communicate with me privately and she just said that the boys are safe with her."
Jetfire also gave out a sigh in relief. "That's good to hear."
"Hard to port!" Blurr blurted. He quickly veered the ship, knocking everyone down. "Unicron is firing back."
"Here we go again," Jetfire breathed.
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"How dare you?" Unicron hissed.
"In order to create peace," Highwire said. "A war must be won."
The boys, Alexis and the Transformers looked at highwire as music began to be heard from all around the room. But not only was heard within Unicron, but also out in space. Everyone was able to hear the music. The Mini-Cons outside suddenly grouped together and disappeared into Unicron.
From the music being played, the three Mini-Con weapons were able to break free, thus breaking Megatron completely out of his confinements.
"You Mini-Cons will pay for your ignorance."
Everyone turned in time to see the Unicron formed Sideways transformed in the motorcycle and attacked the Mini-Cons. Rad wanted to go to their aid by Hotshot wouldn't let him down. Just before Unicron crushed the Mini-Cons, he was blasted through the midsection.
Rad turned to see Optimus…holding the Requiem Blaster. Before anyone could react to his action, the Requiem Blaster transformed back.
"Unicron has been annihilated and now I will have my vengeance," Megatron growled, pointing his gun towards Optimus.
"Megatron are you crazy," Alexis yelled.
"No. We have dealt with Unicron and now it's time to sever the ties between the two factions."
"If you think that, then you're an idiot," Alexis said. "How do you know Unicron has been completely destroyed? We are, after all, still deep within his body. What if the Unicron we've been talking to was only the host to the real brains behind this gigantic thing?"
"I don't care," he said. "The major part of the threat is over. Unicron has become immobile."
"You're wrong," Rad tried to reason. "If all this time, Unicron has been feeding off your negative energy than that means that he will return. Unicron's body has to be destroyed before anyone will find any peace in all this."
Megatron looked at the young boy for a moment then back at the Autobot leader.
"Megatron," Alexis said. "If it weren't for my kind words just a few moments ago, Unicron would still have the upper hand. I distracted him enough to allow Highwire to do what needed to do."
"And what would that be?" he asked in an irate voice.
"Well the boys wouldn't have came here, risking their lives if there wasn't something that could be done to help the situation."
"Yeah. Sideways said only the Mini-Cons could wake the weapons from their trance. It was them who were the main control of Unicron."
"So what you're saying," Megatron looked at the boys again. "If it weren't for you showing up, Unicron would have permanent control over me?"
"That's exactly what they are saying," Optimus answered.
A sudden shake to Unicron's body forced everyone to fall off balance.
"What's going on?" Megatron growled.
"Unicron's body must be being attacked from the outside," Optimus answered. "We must get out of here before it's too late. Hotshot. Sideswipe. Get the boys out of here."
"Yes, sir." They chimed.
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"What's going on?" Arcee asked.
"It's simple," Ultra Magnus responded. "Whatever Optimus and Megatron have done, they have immobilized Unicron. Even the spawns are noting moving. They are being destroyed."
"Well there is only one thing to do," Hot Rod said. "We must make sure Unicron doesn't regain his consciousness."
"I agree," Kup said. "Let's head out in the pods and put as much dents into that thing as possible."
"Ultra Magnus," Micro announced. "We are being hailed by Jetfire and Shockwave."
Ultra Magnus nodded his head to give the ok to put them through. Quickly, the viewscreen was switched from Unicron to the Vice commander of the Autobots and Commander of the Decepticons.
"We must come up with a plan," Jetfire started. "We can all tell that Unicron has been immobilized."
"I say let's keep firing upon him and destroy that monstrosity," Shockwave said. "By now Megatron will know that we continued to fire."
"Jetfire," Magnus said. "I agree with Shockwave. We need to put an end to this now. You already said Unicron is fueled by anger. We must destroy him before any more harm can be done to make him stronger."
Jetfire turned from the viewscreen for a moment. When he looked back, he began again. "You all know that Sideways is still alive and he was once known as Beachcomber. He gave the kids, who also ventured inside Unicron to give a small amount of help, a device that allowed them to warp inside Unicron. If we were to contact Optimus and the others to reactivate it, they would be sent back in no time."
"Then do it," Shockwave said. "In the meantime, my men will not be backing down." Shockwave's face disappeared from the viewer.
"Jetfire," Magnus continued. "It's your call, but I would suggest to bring back our leader and friends before it's too late."
Jetfire turned away again. "Starscream contact Alexis. Since you are the only one who's been able to keep in contact of our friends. Tell her to get the boys to give the device to Optimus and reactivate it." Jetfire turned back. "Starscream is relaying the message."
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Alexis continued to try and reason with Megatron when her private comlink went off.
"Alexis. The way the boys arrived will be able to return you all safely. Get Rad to give Optimus the device so you can return home."
"Optimus," Alexis said. "Starscream has just informed me that Rad has a device that brought them here."
Optimus turned to Rad as the boy already had the device in his hands. "Sideways had used this to transport from place to place. He gave to us so we could help the Mini-Cons."
Hotshot walked cautiously over to Optimus so Rad could hand him the device but just before Optimus was able to take it out of his hands, the floor began to shack and hole in the ground opened up just over Megatron's feet.
"Megatron!" Alexis yelled, diving for him just as his hands gripped the edge.
Optimus also jumped out to Megatron. Hotshot began to slide towards the opening hole, but he was quickly pulled out of the way, out of harms way. He looked to his side to see Demolisher beside.
"Thanks," he breathed.
"We're even," Demolisher smiled but it quickly faded as he turned to see Alexis and Optimus try to struggle to help the Decepticon leader.
Outside, everyone was also having the same problem. They all retreated away from Unicron as small bits of debris from the destroyed ships began to suck into the holes of Unicron.
Alexis held on for dear life to stop Megatron from falling through. Optimus was trying to reach for the other hand.
"Let me go!" Megatron yelled.
"No! You might have been jerk but you do not deserve to die this way." Alexis stated.
"Out of all the Decepticons I have the most hatred. Let me go and then your miserable excuse for a planet will be saved."
"Take my hand Megatron!" Optimus ordered.
Megatron smiled. "For once Optimus, why don't you win the glory? And as for you Alexis, you will be safe from my wrath. You're mother will be safe after this and you will no longer have to worry about me trying to claim you as a Decepticon."
Optimus gasped in surprise at the Decepticon leader's words. That is what he's been holding on to Alexis with and why he wanted her. He wanted to brainwash her to become a Decepticon.
Alexis gasped at his declaration. All this time, he had wanted her to be part of the Decepticon team. She slightly looked to see Optimus's reaction and the same shocked look.
"Now…let…me…" a sudden weapon came out of his wrist and sliced Alexis's hand. "Go!" The force of the weapon forced her to let him go. He fell down the pit to his very doom.
Optimus quickly grabbed Alexis and jumped out of the way before the current could catch them. "Rad! Get us out of here!"
Rad clasped his hands around the device, thinking of getting everyone back to safety. A bright light surrounded everyone and they disappeared as parts of Unicron began to suck into the hole. They rematerialized on the bridge of the Autobot ship.
Everyone gasped as a light engulfed the center of the room but then stood six Transformers and four humans. Alexis was huddled in amongst Optimus's arms as she was nursing her hand. The boys were still secured in Hotshot and Sideswipe's hands and the two Decepticons looked confused.
"Where's Megatron?" Jetfire asked getting over the shock.
Optimus looked at him then at the monitor as Unicron was being sucked into the hole. When there was nothing left but a big light he spoke. "Megatron sacrificed himself to save all of us. Alexis and I tried to save him, but he harmed Alexis so peace could rain through the cosmos."
Starscream walked over to Alexis. "Alexis?" he asked softly.
She turned to him, with sadness. He opened his arms for her and she glided herself into the opened arms and hugged him fiercely.
"Ultra Magnus to lead Autobot ship."
"Go ahead Ultra Magnus," Optimus said.
"It's good to see you safe, sir."
"So I am."
"Sir, is there any way we could land and discuss things?"
Optimus turned to Jetfire who shrugged. Optimus didn't want to land on Earth, it wasn't good with no one knowing who they were and everything.
"I have an idea," Cyclonus suggested. "Why don't we land on the Moon? That way we can all discuss what to do now."
Optimus turned back to the viewer. "Did you hear that?"
"Loud and clear. I'll let the rest of the fleet to know."
"Let's go men."
Blurr turned in his chair. "New heading, the Moon. Which in my opinion is a good idea."
All ships began to slowly make their way towards the Moon as the sun began to shine down on the Earth, giving the planet the start of a new day. There was going to be a lot of explanations and decisions. What were the Transformers to do now? Optimus hoped that peace would finally fall upon Cybertron but only time will tell.
Sorry for taking so long in getting this chapter. I originally wanted this chapter to be done back in May but then I had to really start fussing over my wedding plans, plus I also ended up getting another job. But now the wedding is now done and over with, YEAH and now I can focus some of my free time to my stories.