Chapter 12
Universe 1
Even a being like the ancient cybertronian known as The Fallen could barely believe what was happening.
Just at the time they wanted to start the process that would open the gate to the other dimension, two transwarp-ships had appeared in the star system.
As soon as they had materialized themselves both vessels instantly opened fire on the kilometer-wide space-station that had been constructed to open the hyper-space gate to the other dimension.
A number of fliers was leaving the attacking ships. He recognized Cyclonus, Scourge, the Aerialbots and a few others with them.
The Autobots and the Decepticons had teamed up against him once again, of course.
He had spend over a year preparing alone for this project. How in the world had they found out about it?
This wasn´t their reality, the cybertronians of this universe were practically extinct. So what were they doing here?
The tremors of the impacts and explosions were shaking the station around him.
Most of his troops were outside to defend the station and were engaging the Autobot and Decepticon fleet. From the distance he saw one of his allies in jet-mode getting destroyed by Cyclonus long range missiles, not that he actually cared about the loss. The Brotherhood of Chaos and it´s members had never been much more than a mean to an end.
But he could see that it was already in vain.
Their enemies was causing heavy damage and in a short time it would be enough to make the process to open the gate impossible.
It was too late, only by a few minutes but already too late. Had this strike-force appeared only a short time later they would have succeeded.
He realized that the station was receiving a call. Where these blasted Transformers actually contacting him only to gloat?
On a screen next to him appeared Optimus Prime, Galvatron, Rodimus and Ultra Magnus, standing beside each other.
"You", he said angrily.
"Yes exactly, us", Optimus Prime replied.
"How have you found out what we were planning?" he asked.
"You are not the only one who is watching the time-lines", Ultra Magnus told him. "We did have an eye on this reality for a long time, since the time-rift that the native Galvatron had caused", he said
"I guess that was the way it came to your attention too right? In that way we found out that you were planning some time ago", Rodimus Prime mentioned. "It seems you had just bad luck."
The Fallen was now ready to scream in anger.
"I see the Autobots and the Decepticons are working together once again", he said looking at Galvatron.
"Optimus and Rodimus had invited us along", the Decepticon leader replied, "and while we usually don´t cooperate often, as we heard you are involved it was reason enough to make an exception."
Outside in space the defending forces of the Brotherhood of Chaos were getting more and more decimated. The transwarp-ship of the Autobots had blown up one of their other jets and the Sweeps killed one of their men who was fighting in robot-mode.
Now the attackers had started to concentrate their fire completely on the space-station.
This battle was already over, it was only that the last shot had not been fired yet.
"You think you have won?" The Fallen asked them angrily. "You have not. You may have stopped us this time, but we will start anew somewhere else. Maybe it will take thousands of years but we will."
All around him the station was starting to fall apart.
"Indeed." The all were hearing a telepathic call reaching out to them, even the ones who were outside fighting in space. Some of them recognized the mental voice as the one of the creature Cabal, the same being that was waiting now in the universe on the other side of the gate.
"You have won for now Transformers, but we will return." Then it was gone.
They saw how the space-station exploded under their combined fire.
In the last moment The Fallen used his ability to jump into other realities to escape the destruction.
The allied Autobots and Decepticons on board their ships hadn´t detected this, but they had already been assuming that he would survive.
"So that was it, we have stopped them", Ultra Magnus said.
"Yes", Rodimus repeated, "for now."
