This was originally meant to be a one chapter story. But I have changed my mind. In the last chapter Blitzwing offered Galvatron information's about a number of Decepticon personality cores on Cybertron. This is how the situation continued.
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Points of authority
Chapter 2
The air space over the planet Cybertron looked to be normal. Everything seemed quiet today. The Autobot Skyfall was making his patrol over the kalis space-port in jet mode. He was doing this job for a few month now. A task that had already started to become boring.
From the Decepticons or the Quintessons had he not seen much since the invasion three months back. His work consisted practically only of flying over this part of Cybertron at a regular base and drinking energon in his off-time.
He was now making patrol flights over kalis. At first it seemed this day was not different from any other but then he realised his sensors had detected an object that was closing up on Cybertron. It was coming in very fast, obviously some sort of small spacecraft. Suddenly Skyfall recognised it, Cyclonus the Decepticon second in command. He saw a entire salve of missiles, the Decepticon had shot at him in the moment he appeared on his scanners. Skyfall tried to contact the base. But it was to late. The missiles hit him before the call was out. Cyclonus saw how the Autobot exploded in a huge fireball. A few burned remains fell to the ground. He didn´t have the time to warn anybody, good.
Rodimus Prime sat in his office in the Autobot headquarters in Iacon. He was discussing the overall situation of the war with Ultra Magnus and Kup. They were in control of Cybertron now. Many thought with that, the war would already be over. He had also been that naïve once.
As they had retaken the planet 15 months ago it was in a terrible state. Unicron´s attack had devastated the most of the northern hemisphere and killed thousands of inhabitants. Despite that they had managed to rebuilt the planet in only a few months and built a defense system that made it safe from attacks. The Decepticons were scattered and out of energon. They had by all rights won the war. Until three months ago. The Quintessons allied themselves with the Decepticons, temporary. They supplied the Decepticons with new energon and literally helped them back on their feed. Then they started a combined Invasion on Cybertron. The defense system of the planet, that they had built after the battle against Unicron, was completely destroyed during this attack.
The truth was the last months had been a nightmare for the Autobots. Simultany to the attack on Cybertron, the Decepticons attacked earth too. Their new living city, Trypticon destroyed an entire earth town alone when he was activated. Afterwards he completely obliterated the Ark base and was only stopped because his Autobot counterpart Metroplex was activated in time. And that on cost of heavy destruction in another town. Galvatron, Cyclonus and the Sweeps had already destroyed one of the earth defense platforms in orbit a week earlier. Entire towns destroyed on both planets, a major base on earth, a space station and the entire defense of Cybertron lost in only one week, that was the bilanz.
The Autobots knew that the Decepticon leader became mentally instable. But that also means that there was no telling what he would do next. A unpredictable enemy.
In the last month the Decepticons had invaded and occupied the lost Autobot colony Paradron. A planet with unlimited energon resources. With this resources the Decepticons would have been unstoppable. They had no other choice than to destroy the planet.
They, not the Decepticons have blown Paradron up.
They had to destroy the home of this Transformers to save the rest of the Galaxy.
The paradronians were now living on Cybertron. It was the hardest decision he had ever made.
Besides that the Decepticons had made so far two attempts to destroy Cybertron. Galvatron tried to blow the planet up with a giant gun and Cyclonus wanted to let a meteor crash on it. So far had it come. Mass destruction on a global scale, horrible slaughter, that was the new standard of the war. And on top of that they had to fight the Quintessons too.
It was all to much.
Rodimus thought about what he truly had.
He had Cybertron and all resources on it. Great, Rodimus thought.
The point was Cybertron Cybertron had no resources. The energy of the planet had been running out millions of years ago. That was the reason the Transformers came to earth in the first place. The lights on Cybertron started to go out a long time before he was even created. Perceptor had promised a new energy core somewhere in the next months but right now the planet was on emergency energy supply. They needed to deliver energon and raw materials from other planets.
Hell all the Decepticons or Quintessons needed to do was cut off their supply ways and they could dry Cybertron out.
He had Metroplex. The Autobot giant had proofed to be far superior than Trypticon and had one every fight between them with ease.
Oh yes, the only problem was, Trypticon could fly, Metroplex not. The only way he could come from one place to the other was walking.
Metroplex would defeat Trypticon probably in every single fight. Yes, if the Decepticons decided to send him to earth, a few miles from Metroplex position. Should the decide to attack for example on another planet Metroplex was completely useless. Galvatron may have the weaker city-robot, but at least his was mobile.
He had more people. The number of Autobots today was about 20% higher now than the Decepticons after Unicron´s attack. Yes, when it comes to paradron refugees and civilians. Their number of fighters is about even. So were their combiner teams and super robots.
He had more bases on earth and Cybertron, autobot city, Iacon and the EDC. Galvatron had only Trypticon and his base on chaar.
Yes and that means he had to put up his half army permanently to guard his bases while Galvatron had a completely mobile force and could strike everywhere he liked.
Chaar was a burned out wasteland, Cybertron was barely better, but at least that planet wasn´t full of thousands of refugees, didn´t need to be permanently supplied with energon and didn´t have a giant target on it like Cybertron. Galvatron could actually use his energon for his troops. The Decepticons had in the last months shown no signs of a lack of energon. And when they will have enough for a new major attack, they will attack.
The destroyed defense system was the only thing what kept Cybertron actually secure. Since it was gone the Decepticons could actually march in and out of Cybertron like they wanted. Galvatron could show up here with his entire army tomorrow and there wasn´t a damned thing he could do against it.
Ultra Magnus was telling Rodimus about the state of the Autobots from Paradron right now. Many had problems to find a place on Cybertron.
"Optimus Prime would have made it better", he said to Magnus.
"What?"
"Paradron, Optimus would have found a way to save the planet. He would have never given the order to destroy the planet", Rodimus explained to him.
"Yes you are right, Optimus would not have ordered that", Ultra Magnus answered him. "He would have tried to take the planet against a stronger enemy, gotten half of the inhabitants killed in the process and the planet would have been destroyed anyway."
"Optimus could be a great leader but he could also do many completely ridiculous things that nobody else would have gotten away with. Believe me, I have known Optimus for a long time, even before he became Optimus in the first place."
As Ultra Magnus finished his explanation, Springer came in.
"There is something you should see, I think we have a problem", the green tripple changer told them.
"A large number of objects is coming near to kalis space port."
At the same time in kalis a great number of Decepticons was coming down from the Sky, Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, the Terrorcons, the Combaticons several seekers and ground troops and finally Trypticon were attacking. The Decepticons opened fire on everything they could see. Galvatron blasted several shuttles while he was flowing in the air. Trypticon crushed a few buildings of the town with his landing.
In Autobot headquarters Rodimus, Magnus, Kup and Springer were watching the news of the attack.
"So it begins", Rodimus said to everybody present.