Unicron nodded as he finished reprogramming the drones. Perfect. Twenty were lined up, ready to go. "Primus-"

"Gaia and Nature are ready. Release them." Primus sighed. It had taken a lot of convincing, but here he was, standing on Unicrons surface, just waiting for the planet to swallow him up whole.

The planet smirked as he released half of the drones, sending them off towards the waiting Gaia. Primus followed after them, waiting until they were posed on Earths atmosphere, before shouting, "And NOW!"

Unircons mind presence twitched, the drones dove for the surfaces of both planets at the same time, before landing. Most of them didn't even have a chance to blink. Unicron shot one, swallowed another, melted a third, reprogrammed his own reprogramming to destroy a fourth-

Primus clicked off his internal time as the last exploded in a particularly spectacular explosion of light. "14 Astroseconds."

"Good." Unicron hummed to himself as his borrowed body abruptly dropped. Primus waited, wondering if Unicron had finished his other body so soon.

A dark shape pulled up beside him. "Come, Primus. Time to go down to see if Gaia and Nature have done their job."

As they folded up into their alternate forms of a sphere to travel to earth, Primus could spot the vague, wing-like protrusions on Unicrons back. "You have wings?"

"Solar panels, whenever I can't get to planets." Unicron shrugged. "It also gives me an extensive self-repair system whenever a planet fight backs."

"Fight backs?" Primus had the deadly sense of unreality.

"You weren't the only sentient planet."

That was a scary through, that he had left other planets to Unicrons mercy. "What do you mean 'sentient planets'?"

"While Gaia and her sister are one of the first organic planets I've run across, there were others."

"When?" Primus squeaked, surely he would've run across the planets first.

"Before this universe was created." Unicron said softly. Was it just Primus imagination, or was there a faint note of regret? Unicron sighed. "Sentient planets are the tastiest. But they also are the hardest to eat because they struggle so much."

"Why-" The mechs vocalizer squeaked to a halt. Primus forced himself to go on. This was a chance he'd never get again. "Why do you want to destroy the universe?"

"For peace. You try listening to a million 'non-sentient' planets chatter on endlessly about the things on top of them. Inane. Absolutely inane."

"Are you saying-"

Unicrons grin flashed in the growing darkness. "Yes, all planets are sentient Primus. All of them. They simply need time to wake up."

Primus felt sick to his stomach. Why hadn't his own computers caught it? Why had he been so blind? Unicron seemed to notice the inner turmoil, for he said softly, "The universe created you to defend itself, not the separate planets."

If Primus could, he would've glowered at the planet. "I was created by the universe to protect all of it. Something I obviously can't do."

"Doing better then the previous universe that I did destroy." Unicron shrugged. "Can't save everyone."

Primus considered banging his head against a wall. He shouldn't be having this conversation with his greatest enemy. And why was Unicron consoling him about not being able to defeat the fellow planet? It didn't make sense-

Unicron smirked, and Primus optics narrowed. Brothers. A small part of his CPU tutted, without really realizing it.

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Nature smirked in triumph as she stared at the destroyed bodies. Several had been torn apart by different animals, some had been buried beneath a fast growing tree, and others had simply been overheated by the amount of dust plugged within.

Gaia said demurely, "Fourteen astroseconds."

"Astroseconds?"

"Primus was very kind in showing me how long of a time frame Unicron was actually talking about. You're one astrosecond beneath the time."

Nature frowned. "Only one? Crud, Unicron will of probably beaten me."

"Calm down Nature-" Gaia breath froze as the returning signal of two mechs. "Oh, they're coming on down!"

Nature scowled as her senses swept upwards, up to where two dark spheres streaked towards the ground.

Unicron landed flashily in a spray of dirt, while Gaia watched on impassively. Primus alighted much more gently, barely denting the gravel. Nature crossed her arms, as she waited for him to transform.

A few moment later, she got her wish. If she had thought Primus was powerful looking for an giant robot, Unicron went beyond all expectations.

Soft orange and yellow paint splashed against his chest except for the intermediately covered purple splotches. The legs were smooth, grey in color. But it was the wing-like protrusions that caught her optics. They rose above his head sharply, before three batlike appendages came downwards. Horns crowned the top of his head, underscored by the double chin. "Well?" Unicron smirked.

"You- Since when did giant robots have wings?"

Unicron glanced back at the wings, optics darkening slightly in thought. Nature blinked as she realized his optics were a brilliant blue/green color. Primus cleared his vocalizer, and Nature turned as his own yellow optics reflected his discomfort.

Gaia stepped up to him, one hand coming to rest on a shoulder pad. "Primus, why don't you have wings like he does?"

"Because he's not one of the First Sentient Planets." Unicron snapped, and Primus glowered.

"Why don't you just rub my nose in all I don't know?"

"Whatever gives you the idea that I'm doing such a thing?" Unicron purred, leaning close. Primus didn't bother to reply as he coolly took a step back.

Natures one track mind impatiently dismissed the twos' talking. "Unicron, how fast did you destroy everything?"

"Me? Fourteen astroseconds."

The scream of pure rage echoed among the hills for a long, long time.

A/N: Sorry it took me so long, but like always, R&R!