OKAY, QUICK WARNING. THIS IS BASICALLY JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE AVATAR AND THE FIRELORD AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST LEVEL OF WAR FOR CYBERTRON. IF YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, IT'S OKAY IF YOU SKIP THROUGH THIS, HOWEVER THERE IS SOMETHING AT THE END THAT IS A KEY PART OF THE STORY, SO PLEASE READ THAT AT LEAST. OH, AND AS USUAL, TRANSFORMERS IS OWNED BY HASBRO AND AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER IS OWNED BY NICKELODEON
Transformers: Avatar Chronicles
Chapter 11: The Avatar, the Firelord, and the War for Cybertron
The Gaang had recently stopped at an island to rest. At night, inside the mind of a sleeping Aang, Alpha Trion emerged from the darkness.
"Aang, there is something you must know of our past before attempting to end this war," he said. "Meet me at the former home island of Avatar Roku on the day of Earth's summer solstice."
Back at the Fire Nation, Zuko was asleep on his side when he heard footsteps. He immediately awoken and leaped out of his bed, rushing to the hallway to investigate. He was just in time to see a mysterious cloaked figure walking down the hallway, but was too late to see who it was. He starts running down the hallway, but then sees a scroll on the floor. Curious, he slowly picked up the scroll and begun to read it.
"You need to know the story of your great-grandfather's demise," he read aloud. "It will reveal your own destiny."
*QUE TRANSFORMERS PRIME OPENING THEME*
Meanwhile, a large cloud was moving very quickly across the sky. A closer look revealed that Aang was on Appa's neck, bending the elements of air and water to create a cloud to hide their movements. Sokka, Katara and Toph were each on Appa's saddle while Breakaway followed them to keep a close optic on them. Soon, they closed in on a seemingly uninhabited island with two volcanoes.
"There it is," Aang said. "Roku's home."
Soon they landed on the island, with Breakaway turning into his robot mode.
"But there's nothing here," Breakaway said, confused, as he looked around, seeing nothing that inhabited the island, not even plant life. Then, Toph jumped from Appa's saddle, and senses something horrifying underneath the ground.
"Yes there is," she said somberly "An entire village. Hundreds of houses. All completely buried in ash."
While that was going on, back at the Fire Nation, Zuko stood before a giant portrait of his great grand-father, Fire Lord. Sozin.
"It's never too early for a sitting with the court painter Zuko," Azula remarked as she walked past him, again with Ravage beside her. "Make sure he gets your good side."
"Wait," Zuko suddenly said before his sister left the room. "I need to ask you something. What do you remember about our great-grandfather's history?" Azula's reply was to sigh before walking back to her brother.
"Ah, Zuko, it's so strange how your mind works," she said before also looking up at the portrait of her great-grandfather. "Fire Lord Sozin began the war of course. He spent his early years secretly preparing for it, but he was as patient as he was clever. he famously waited for the comet, later renames Sozin's Comet, and used its power to launch a full scale invasion of the world. In the end, he died a very old and successful man."
"But how did he die?" Zuko asked, slightly confused.
"Didn't you pay any attention in school Zuko?" Azula responded before beginning to walk away with Ravage. "He died peacefully, in his sleep. He was ancient."
Back at Roku's island, Aang sat on the tip of a hardened wave of lava, meditating, before his arrow on his head glows, and inside his mind, he saw Alpha Trion walking to him.
"Are you ready to begin young Avatar?" he asked. Aang simply nodded in response before a bright light engulfed them, and Aang and Alpha Trion both stood in a futuristic, alien city.
"Where are we Alpha Trion?" Aang asked.
"This is our home, Cybertron, before the war," Alpha Trion responded, which caused Aang's eyes to widden in shock.
"THIS is Cybertron!?" he exclaimed excitedly. "This is so cool!"
"Yes, as Optimus said, Cybertron was once a powerful and peaceful empire, until the day a gladiator by the name of Megatronus, who now you may know as Megatron, formed a group of Cybertronians known as the Decepticons and waged civil war on our planet," Alpha Trion responded with his head down. "I am sorry you have to see this." Suddenly, the once peaceful and thriving city changed to a city that was ravaged by war. The bodies of hundreds, if not thousands of Transformers were everywhere, buildings were destroyed, and fires engulfed the city. Aang looked upon the destruction in pure shock, previously not knowing of just how destructive this war was.
"For millions of years, the Autobots and Decepticons waged thousands of battles to try tip the balance in one side's favor so this carnage could finally end, but one in particular stood out above the rest." Alpha Trion explained before another bright light transported them to an alien ship, traveling to a station that orbited Cybertron and being heavily fired upon.
"This is a Decepticon warship called the Harbinger, currently leading an assuly on an orbital research facility," Alpha Trion explained before Aang heard something that almost made his heart stop.
"Hold your course!" Megatron ordered. "Starscream wouldn't fight with such desperation if the legends weren't true!" Upon seeing the Decepticon leader, Aang prepped himself to attack, but Alpha Trion stopped him.
"No need young Avatar, he cannot see or hear us," he explained. Aang simply stood down and nodded once in understanding.
"Lord Megatron, you're certain it's here?" a Decepticon scout by the name of 'Barricade' asked.
"I am certain Barricade, and when I find it, the balance of this war with the Autobots will finally tip in my favor," Megatron answered before the Harbinger was hit by an enemy missile.
"Lord Megatron, stabalizers are failing!" the Combaticon known as 'Brawl' reported.
"Maintain your heading Brawl!" Megatron ordered. "Do not falter!"
"Secondary engines are offline!" Barricade reported. "Shields at 15%!"
"Reroute all power to forward guns and thrusters!" Megatron ordered. "Full speed ahead!" His last statement caused Aang's eyes to widen as well as a Vehicon to nearly gawk in disbelief.
"But sir, that's suicide!" the Vehicon said, only for him to get blasted to pieces by Megatron's fussion cannon.
"Any further objections?" Megatron asked before turning to his two pilots. "Ram this warship straight into the heart of that station!" Suddenly, Aang fely himself flying backwards to the back wall as the Harbinger's engines blasted the ship forward, heading towards the space station. Aang was scarred out of his mind before yet another bright light transported him and Alpha Trion inside the station. Aang fell to the ground, unharmed, and sighing in relief. He then got up to see Megatron, Barricade and Brawl looking up at a holographic projection of Starscream.
"I am Starscream, and I have protected MY station for over a thousand years!" the hologram said before Megatron stepped forward, unphased at Starscream's attempts to intimidate him.
"I am Megatron, leader of the Decepticons," he announced. "This space station is Decepticon property." Aang was slightly confused at all this, knowing Starscream was a Decepticon.
"Alpha Trion, why are Starscream and Megatron speaking like they've never met before?" Aang asked.
"Because they haven't," Alpha Trion answered. "Starscream wasn't always a Decepticon. During the waning days of the war, he was a sky commander, and the protector of this very space station that Megatron had invaded."
"Surrender, immediately!" Megatron ordered Starscream.
"Whoever you are, you've traveled a long way just to meet your doom," Starscream responded, unintimidated, as the hologram disappeared and turrets were deployed from the ceiling. Nothing they couldn't handle however, as the Decepticons trashed them with ease and moved forward, as did Aang and Aplha Trion.
While that was going on, Zuko layed on his bed, rolling over from side to side, puzzled beyond belief as he looks at the scroll, then grabs it and reads it again.
"What does it mean?" he asked, frustrated, before tossing the scroll beside, landing beside his lantern. Then, Zuko looked in shock at what the light from the lantern revealed. A secret message on the scroll. He immediately then grabbed it and read it.
"The Fire Sages keep the secret history in the Dragon Bone Catacombs," he read aloud.
Later that night, in an ominous temple, Zuko waited paitently behind a pillar when he spotted a fire sage walking through the courtyard, wondering what he was doing there. The sage walked to the middle of the courtyard, where a large medallion in the shape of a flower layed on the ground. The sage then stopped ontop of it, crouched low, and delivered a fire blast straight into the center of the design. Suddenly, it begun to open, revealing a hidden passage underground. The sage then walked down the steps, unaware of Zuko waiting for him to disappear. Then, Zuko went to the secret passage and used the same technique the sage used to open it.
Zuko traveled down the passage, walking through an ancient hallway, til he came across an ornate door with a metal sculpture of Sozin on it. Zuko then placed his hand on the Fire Nation emblem on the chest of the sculpture and delivered a powerful fire blast, causing the fire to fill the door, and the door to open. Once it was open, Zuko entered the room, pulling his cloak from his head and raised his lantern to look around the dark chamber filled with artifacts and vessels. He then walked to a large dragon statue, and under the head, Zuko found what he was looking for.
"The final testament of Fire Lord Sozin," he read aloud. He then grabbed the testament and opened it, pulling out a scroll. The final words written by Sozin himself.
"As I feel my own life dimming, I can't help but think of a time when everything was so much brighter," the scroll read.
In the Fire Nation courtyard, two young firebenders were sparring. One was wearing the headpiece that enforced him as the prince of the Fire Nation. His name: Sozin. The other had long hair and was wearing a red sleeveless outfit. His name: Roku. The two of them kept sparring, showing an impressive display of firebending, when Sozin noticed that Roku's feet were close to a tree root. Sozin simply smiled as he steps up to attack, driving Roku to fall back and trip on the tree root. Sozin quickly grabbed his friend's shirt to keep him from falling, raising his hand as if he were going to firebend, but instead lets his friend fall to the ground.
"Looks like I win again Roku," Sozin said with a smile while helpping Roku to his feet.
"Are you kidding?" Roku responded. "The tree root did all the work." He then got back on his feet and patted Sozin on the shoulder to praise his clever manuver.
"Nice one Sozin," he complimented.
As they left the courtyard, a beautiful young Fire Nation woman walked past them. Roku just stared at her and blushed, which was noticed by Sozin.
"Say something to her," he tells Roku while nudging to him. Roku responded by walking up to the young woman, raising his hand to greet her.
"Uh...ahhh..." he said, trying to say something, but was far too embarrassed to, and instead put his hands on his head and fell back onto the ground. Sozin walked up to him and sprinkled blades of grass onto Roku's face.
A while afterward, a celebration was going on as a large crowd of Fire Nation citizens looked up and saw Sozin and Roku standing on the top of a large staircase. The occasion: it was their birthdays. As the two walked down the stairs, Roku noticed a young woman watching him, blushing, with her friend leaning over her shoulder, giggling. Roku blushed slightly at the woman's interest when he suddenly begins to fall down the stairs, distracted by the young woman. Sozin reacted quickly by grabbing Roku's hand. Roku then composed himself and blushes again, this time due to embarrassment. Sozin reacted by laughing at his love smitten friend before suddenly a group of fire sages entered the courtyard, walking toward Sozin and Roku. Concerned, Sozin hurried down the stairs to them.
"Did something happen to my father?" he asked.
"No Prince Sozin," one of the fire sages answered. "We are not here for you. We are here to announce the identity of the next Avatar." Their answer left Roku and Sozin in shock as the sages bowed to respect the new Avatar, then finally announced who it was.
"It is our honor to serve you, Avatar Roku," the sage said. Roku just stood there, still at the top of the stairs, his jaw dropping in disbelief before the entire crowd quickly kneeled before him.
Back with Aang and Alpha Trion, Megatron, Brawl and Barricade were on a lift, heading to another level of the research station, when outside, a Cybertronian jet came in and transformed into an Autobot known as 'Jetfire.'
"The name is Jetfire," he said to Megatron. "I'm not here to fight."
"That makes one of us," Megatron coldly responded. "Speek your peace, quickly."
"I've seen the horrors of what Dark Energon can do Megatron," Jetfire began. "It is not to be triled with. It's power is too unstable. To use it would mean disaster!"
"You cannot frighten me Jetfire," Megatron replied. "I will use Dark Energon as I please."
"You are a short sight you fool!" Jetfire responded. "You'll kill us all!" With that, Jetfire turned into his jet mode and flew away.
"You say that as if it were a bad thing," Megatron remarked, before Aang asked the obvious question to Alpha Trion.
"What's Dark Energon?" he asked.
"It is a horror that unfortunately must be seen to be believed," Alpha Trion answered before another bright light engulfed them.
Back in the real world, Sokka, Katara, Toph and Breakaway looked at Aang, slightly disturbed. He was still meditating, but now he was crouched down in a peculiar way.
"Do they have bathrooms in the spirit world?" Katara asked, slightly disgusted. Sokka responded by raising his index finger before responding.
"As a matter of fact...they do not," he said.
"What's a bathroom?" Breakaway asked.
Thankfully it wasn't what they thought it was as back in his mind, Aang was crouched down on the top of a pillar with Alpha Trion standing beside him. They observed Megatron and his two allies blowing enemy Cybertronians to bits before observing the schematics of the space station.
"Soundwave, we've located the holo-map," Megatron reported via his comlink. "I'm sending the data to you now." Suddenly, two holograms of Starscream projected to the left and right of the holo-map.
"Megatron!" he exclaimed in shock. "You may have gotten this far, but you'll never get your hands on the Dark Energon."
"Starscream," Megatron began. "This acromony is needless. I know who you once were, sky commander, and that you were betrayed. With Dark Energon I shall return Cybertron to its former glory, and YOU, to yours, if you agree to serve me."
"You're a fool!" Starscream responded, clearly not interested in Megatron's offer. "No one can control Dark Energon!" With that, the holograms shut off.
Meanwhile, Zuko continued to read up on Sozin's final document.
"Soon the day came when my friend Roku had to leave the Fire Nation and face his destiny as the Avatar," the scroll read. "He needed to travel the world so he could master the other elements."
Inside Roku's room, the new Avatar just stared at the floor until Sozin appeared in the doorway.
"Hey, why aren't you packed yet all-powerful Avatar?" he remarked. It was then that he noticed something was wrong when Roku didn't even move. Sozin then looked down, sympathetic, before perking right back up.
"Come on, show me how it's done," he said with a smile. "Using all four kinds of bending."
"I started packing, but the fire sages told me I won't need any worldly possessions anymore," Roku finally said, depressed, which caused Sozin's smile to fade as he sat down next to his friend.
"Oh..." he replied, slightly saddened.
"It happened so fast," Roku said. "Everything's going to be different now." Sozin then thought of something as he reached up to his head dress and removed it from his top knot, holding it out towards Roku.
"Here," he said. "I hope you're at least allowed to have this."
"But this is a royal artifact," Roku responded. "It's suppose to be worn by the crown prince."
"I want you to have it," Sozin said. Finally, Roku accepted the gift and smiled slightly as he placed it on his own top knot before the two of them stood up and bowed towards one another.
"Twelve long years passed before I saw my friend again," the scroll continued. "When Roku returned, he was a fully realized Avatar, and I had changed too."
It had been twelve years. During that time Sozin had been crowned as the next Fire Lord. One day, Roku entered the throne room to see his friend sitting on the throne.
"Sozin, or should I say, Fire Lord," Roku said cheerfully.
"Customarily, mu subjects bow before greeting me..." Sozin responded, rather seriously, before getting up and walking to Roku. "...but you're the exception." With that, the two friends exchanged in a hug.
A few months had passed and Roku was getting married to that same woman from the courtyard: Ta Min, and Sozin was his best man.
"On wedding days, we look to the future with optimism and joy," the scroll continued. "I had my own vision of a brighter future."
While Roku and Ta Min were thanking guests, Sozin came up to the couple.
"Excuse me, may I borrow him for a moment?" Sozin asked Ta Min.
"It's not very traditional, but, okay," Ta Min replied.
The duo then walked onto a balcony to speak in privacy.
"What's on your mind?" Roku asked his friend.
"I've been thinking hard about the state of the world lately," Sozin answered, rather seriously, before Roku placed a hand on Sozin's shoulder.
"Sozin, it is my wedding!" Roku replied cheerfully. "Have a cookie, dance with someone, lighten up!"
"I know, I know, but just hear me out," Sozin said, smiling slightly. "Right from the start, I was destined to be Fire Lord, and although we didn't always know it, you were destined to be the Avatar. It's an amazing stroke of fate we know each oher so well, isn't it? Together, we could do...ANYTHING."
"Yeah, we could," Roku replied, now in a more serious manner.
"Our nation is enjoying an unprecedented time of peace and wealth," Sozin continued. "Our people are happy, and we're so fortunate in so many ways."
"Where are you going with this?" Roku asked in a concerned manner.
"I've been thinking, we should share this prosperity with the rest of the world," Sozin answered. "In our hands is the most successful empire in history. It's time we expanded it."
"No!" Roku immediately answered, shocked at what his best friend is suggesting. "The four nations are meant to be just that: four."
"Roku, you haven't even stopped to consider the possibilities," Sozin responded.
"There are NO possibilities," Roku replied. "This is the last I want to hear about this." With that, Roku walked away from the balcony with an angry expression on his face while Sozin glared onto the horizon.
Many years had past, and Roku had learned that Sozin had betrayed him by moving along with his plan. He discovered this while ridding on his pet dragon: Fang, and saw an Earth Kingdom fortress with the Fire Nation insignia strewn over the Earth Kingdom symbol.
Shocked, Roku flew back to the Fire Nation and busted through the doors to Sozin's throne room.
"I've seen the colonies Sozin!" he shouted as he walked to Sozin. "How dare you occupy Earth Kingdom territory!?"
"How dare you, a citizen of the Fire Nation, address your Fire Lord this way?" Sozin coldly asked. "Your loyalty is to our nation first. Anything less makes you a traitor."
"Don't do this Sozin!" Roku pleaded. "Don't challenge me. It will only end badly...It's over." As he turned to leave, Sozin, filled with rage, jumped from his throne and delivered a powerful stream of fire, but once they died down, Roku was nowhere to be seen. Sozin looked around to try and find him, but was too late as Roku emerged from the earth behind Sozin and delivered a powerful air blast to him, causing him to fly back to the wall before Roku earthbended a pillar to lift Sozin upward and pin him to the ceiling by his robes. Then Roku brought his hands together and entered the Avatar State as a powerful blast destroyed the palace before Roku airbended an air spout and levitated to Sozin.
"I'm sparing you Sozin," he said. "I'm letting you go in the name of our past friendship, but I warn you, even a single step out of line will result in your PERMANENT end." Sozin reacted by glaring daggers at Sozin before he hanged his head in defeat.
Meanwhile, Aang and Alpha Trion were on another lift that Megatron, Brawl and Barricade had activated.
"I tire of these futile attempts to resist me," Megatron said. "Dark Energon will be mine."
"What makes you think you can control the Dark Energon when no one else has been able to?" Barricade bluntly asked.
"Only the strong are worthy of such a weapon Barricade," Megatron replied. "I am the strongest, and DO NOT question me again!" Suddenly the door opened and what was behind it caused Aang, Barricade and Brawl to gawk in disbelief. An entire section of the section was ravaged, damaged beyond any repair.
"Fascinating," Megatron said. "According to this, a quantity of Dark Energon became unstable, and the resulting explosion destroyed this part of the station."
"Dark Energon did all of this!?" both Aang and Brawl exclaimed.
"Those fools had no idea how to control it," Megatron replied. "I'll not make the same mistake." With that, the three Cons moved forward, though not before Megatron executed a wounded soldier. With another bright light, Aang and Alpha Trion were transported to a hallway where Megatron and his men observed the device that contained the Dark Energon, when Starscream,in the flesh, flew in and transformed into his robot mode, not believing that Megatron had survived this long.
"Impossible!" he exclaimed. "No one has ever survived to reach this place!"
"You shall soon learn Starscream," Megatron responded. "I decide what is possible and what isn't."
"Guards, hold him off while I destroy the last of the Dark Energon remnants," Starscream ordered as dozens of guards ran to Megatron's current position and he flew to a console, activating the self destruct sequence.
It had been twenty-five years since Roku and Sozin fought. The two didn't see or speak to each other during that time. Roku spent most of his time on his home in the dual volcano island with Ta Min, but one day, a loud noise woke the two of them. Roku looked outside and saw that one of the volcanoes had started to erupt, shooting fireballs all over the small town on the island. Roku and his wife quickly fled away from their house, only to find that the air was filled with toxic smoke and ash.
"Let's go!" Roku said as he grabbed his wife's hand and created a pathway.
"Roku's island was a hundred miles away, but I could still feel it rumbling and see the black plume of smoke," Sozin's scroll continued. "I had never seen anything like this catastrophe."
Most of the townspeople had fled on boats, including a worried Ta Min, but Roku stayed behind to save the town and try and buy them more time, including stopping a landslide from destroying the town, and creating a channel in the bottom of the summit to divert the lava away from the town and into the ocean. Unfortunately, Avatar or not, he couldn't do it alone. The volcano suddenly expeled another giant wave of lava and Roku leaped towards it, sending a powerful air blast to cool and harden the lava, but then a blast of poisonous gas spouted to his right. He reacted by airbending it away before going back to the lava. Then Fang came in flying, narrowly escaping a lightning strike, roaring in fear.
"It's alright Fang!" Roku shouted. "Get out of here! I'm fine!" He then entered the Avatar State and, with a powerful blast, earthbended a tremor through the volcano, breaking the back side of the crater, lessening the lava flow, but then the second volcano erupted and Roku, no longer in the Avatar State, hopelessly dropped his head. Then, Sozin, riding a blue dragon, appears.
"Need a hand old friend?" Sozin asked.
"Sozin!?" Roku exclaimed in a surprised manner.
"There's not a moment to waste," Sozin said before Roku jumped onto Sozin's dragon and rode to the second volcano. Roku started by bending the fire fountain down into the crater while Sozin cooled the lava by absorbing the heat, passing it through his hand, and redirected it out of his hand. Suddenly, lightning struck above Sozin and as the earth became unstable, he started to fall back, but Roku quickly earthbended an earth shelf to catch him in time. Suddenly, the earth started to shake violently and the two took this as their que to run.
"Don't breath the toxic gas!" Roku warned, but suddenly, a jet of toxic gas shot up directly next to Sozin and Roku airbended it away to protect his friend. However, gas suddenly erupted directly into Roku's face, causing him to be disoriented.
"It's too much..." he weakly said as he found his sight becoming blurry. Overwhelmed by the toxins, he then fell to his knees and held his hand up to Sozin, pleading him to help him.
"Please..." was all he could say, but what Sozin said to him was the last thing he wanted to hear.
"Without you, all my plans are suddenly possible," he said. "I have a vision for the future Roku." With that, he got on his dragon and flew away, leaving Roku to die as a land slide started to come down to him, but now he was far too weak to do anything about it. Then, Fang flew down and lied next to his master as the rock slide came down and killed them both.
"With Roku gone, and the great comet returning, the timing was perfect to change the world," the scroll continued. "I knew the next Avatar would be born an Air Nomad. So I wiped out the Air Temples, but somehow, the new Avatar eluded me. I wasted the remainder of my life searching in vain. I know he's hiding out there somewhere. The Fire Nation's greatest threat...the last airbender." And that was it.
"That can't be it!" Zuko exclaimed as he finished reading, frantically searching for more information. "Where's the rest of it!?"
Meanwhile, in Aang's head, the young Avatar and Alpha Trion watched as Megatron wasted the last of Starscream's guards.
"Quick, blast the containment field!" Megatron ordered his men before he, Brawl and Barricade all fired at the object that contained the Dark Energon they searched for, before it opened and revealed a dark purple energon crystal, surging with power. Megatron then slowly walked towards it as Starscream flew down to the ground, not believing what Megatron is doing.
"You arrogant fool!" he exclaimed. "No one has ever survived direct contact!" Then Megatron was pulled into the crystal, but much to Starscream's surprise, he wasn't torn to pieces. No, instead the Dark Energon surged through his body, giving him almost limitless power.
"WHAT!?" Starscream exclaimed. "This isn't possible! No...no one can control Dark Energon! It dominates and destroys everything it touches!" Megatron's reaction was to laugh evilly at Starscream's remarks while he jumped back to the ground and Starscream ran away. (big shock)
"I...am the domminator. I...am the destroyer! I...AM...MEGATROOOOOOON!" the tyrant declared as the Dark Energon surged through his body while Aang looked at the sight in shock and slight fear. "Decepticons, receive your birthright!" With that, he blasted Brawl and Barricade with Dark Energon, allowing it to surge through their bodies as well.
"I can feel the power!" Brawl exclaimed.
"It's amazing!" Barricade added.
"Now...I shall deal with Starscream," Megatron declared as he went up to a force field and with one touch caused it to disappear as well as blast two guards back to the wall. The guards tried fending them off, but they were blasted to pieces in just one shot by even the Cons' weakest weapons. It was a massacre. Then Megatron walked up to a door and simply touched it to have it blasted down. Inside the room, Starscream was speaking with Jetfire with Thundercracker and Skywarp on his side when they saw Megatron enter the room.
"Dark Energon is mine to command," he declared as he and his men walked to the group. "Through my will alone shall Cybertron be restored!"
"It's too unstable Megatron," Jetfire warned. "Using that power, you're endangering our entire world!" But then Starscream came forward and said something that put Jetfire in a state of shock.
"Teach me Megatron," he requested. "Teach me to wield Dark Energon the way you do, and I will serve you."
"And what could you possibly offer me that I cannot simply take?" Megatron asked.
"The supply of Dark Energon aboard this station is nearly exhausted," Starscream answered. "I know how to manufacture more. There was once an energon bridge that fed this station directly. I know how to re connect it."
"Traitor!" Jetfire shouted. "Zeta Prime will hear about this!" With that, he transformed and flew off to report this to the original leader of the Autobots, Zeta Prime, and with that, one last flash of light transported Aang and Alpha Trion away from the carnage.
Back at the Fire Nation, Zuko walked back to the Captial City prison and to his uncle's cell, frustrated beyond belief.
"You sent this, didn't you!?" Zuko shouted at his uncle. "I found the secret history. Which, by the way should be renamed 'the history most people already know.' The note said that I needed to know about my great-grandfather's death, but he was still alive in the end.
"No...he wasn't..." Iroh responded as he looked up to Zuko.
"What are you talking about?" Zuko asked.
"You have more than one great-grandfather, Prince Zuko," Iroh answered. "Sozin was your father's grandfather. Your mother's grandfather was Avatar Roku." That bombshell put Zuko in a state of shock.
"Why are you telling me this?" he asked.
"Because understanding the struggle between your two great-grandfathers, can help you better understand the battle within yourself," Iroh explained. Evil and good are always at war inside you, Zuko. It is your nature, your legacy. But there is a bright side. What happened generations ago can be resolved now... by you. Because of your legacy, you alone can cleanse the sins of our family and the fire nation. Born in you, along with all this strife, is the power to restore BALANCE to the world." Then Iroh removed a brick from the wall and pulled something out. He then unwrapped the bundle and handed what was inside to Zuko. What was inside was Roku's head dress. "This is a royal artifact. It's supposed to be worn by the crown prince." Zuko reached out and took the head dress from Iroh's hands, looking at it while Iroh just stood there quietly, looking at his nephew."
"As you can see, Dark Energon can become a very lethal weapon if controlled by the Decepticons," Alpha Trion explained. "After that battle, the Decepticons killed Zeta Prime and heavily damaged the Autobot guardian, Omega Supreme." Images of Zeta's death and Omega Supreme being crippled were shown to Aang as proof.
"I understand, but why did you show me this Alpha Trion?" Aang asked.
"You are aware of Sozin's Comet, correct?" Alpha Trion asked the young Avatar.
"Yeah," Aang answered, wondering what this was leading to.
"The comet itself...is nothing more that a large chunk of Dark Energon," Alpha Trion explained, which caused Aang's eyes to widen in pure shock and disbelief.
"If what you say is true Alpha, then-" Aang started.
"Then not only will the firebenders be affected, but so will the Decepticons," Aplha Trion finished. "And with their combined strength, they will have the power to shatter the balance of this world. That is why you MUST stop them at the Day of Black Sun Aang, you MUST light this world's darkest hour." With that final statement, Alpha Trion disappeared.
"Don't worry Alpha Trion...I won't fail," Aang responded in a determined manner.
*QUE AVATAR ENDING THEME*