Chapter 4

As the newscast comes to an end, everyone in the room falls silent; all that is heard is the hum of computers in the background and the occasional beeping from the computers.

Gul Du-Kat softly says "Everyone? Gone?" Almost in disbelief, that his entire planet's population was executed so heartlessly.

Rodimus looked over to some of his staff "We need a confirmation on this now, get to the communication center and find out!" The other Maximals salute and run off down the hallways. A few minutes later, Rodimus hears a beep on his communicator; he taps it "Yes?"

"We had the spies along Cardassia report that everything in the newscast is true, there is not one living Cardassian left on the planet, and others not on the planet are being hunted and executed as well. Then we lost the transmission..."

"Wonderful." says Rodimus in a sarcastic as he looks over to Gul Du-Kat who is sitting down at his seat.

"I can't fight with my military destroyed" Du-Kat says dejectedly.

"Nonetheless, we will continue the plans to invade Cybertron!" The Klingon Martok shouts out and the other leaders follow with agreements.

"Then it is time to prepare for war. The Maximal scientists have studied the layouts of your unmanned attack carriers, and are recommending some changes to them. The exact specifications have been transferred to your computers at your seats. I suggest you take these to your engineers and begin to produce these modified carriers. Out of every scenario that has been studied, this is by far the best one." SilverBlade states very coldly and almost in a commanding way.

The other leaders read over the layouts on their computer, and talking with their fellow staff about it. The leaders nod in agreement. They send the plans to their home planets so the engineers could begin to work on them.

Ultra Magnus turns to Rodimus. "What if this doesn't work, Rodimus?"

"It will work, Magnus" Rodimus says with an optimistic tone to his voice. "There may be heavy losses in this alliance, but we will defeat the Predacon Empire."

Ultra Magnus nods and looks over to Du-Kat ""After this war is over and we have defeated them, the Maximals will re-populate Cardassia, as well as every other planet that has lost life."

Du-Kat looks back "I will fight the Predacons until I breathe my last breath"

SilverBlade looks around, then to the middle-aged women from before. The woman then stands in the middle of the room "If there is no further business to conduct, then this meeting is adjourned. Good luck in the fight. We all could use it."

With that, the group of leaders exits the room. The members enter their respective vessels and travel back to their home planets.

On board the Maximal vessel, Rodimus taps a sequence of keys, and Cliffjumper appears on the screen. "Cliffjumper; tell Kup to send out engineers to our allies, all of them. They will assist in constructing their new vessels." "Yes Sir!" Cliffjumper salutes and his image fades off the screen.

Once the Maximal commanders have docked on their space station, SilverBlade immediately exits the transport and heads towards the command room. He looks out the windows to see the smaller transports detaching from the docking rings, carrying the engineers to their fellow allies. He also says a little prayer "Dear Primus, let us succeed, I'll sacrifice myself to let this victory happen."

In the Predacon command center, Firewing is talking with Kai Winn on the view screen, while other Predacon officers are busy at their stations.

"This is your last chance, Kai, denounce your faith in the Prophets and tell the planet of Bajor to do the same. " Firewing says to Kai Winn.

"I will do no such thing!" she responds back. "This planet was founded on the bases of that religion and I will not tell my people to follow the religion of machines!"

"Better start praying to your false gods now, Kai" Firewing says then shuts off the screen. "Dinobot, aim set five sun crusher missiles to Bajor's coordinates" Firewing shouts. "Yes Sir!" Dinobot grins widely as he taps the command into the computer.

The camera shows a large field of large missile turrets. 5 missiles slide up from the ground until the nose is above the ground.

Firewing looks over to Dinobot "When you're ready, Dinobot".

Dinobot grins widely again, and taps in the command to launch them. Firewing looks at the view screen to watch the missiles lunch into the Cybertronian sky. Once the missiles exit Cybertron space, electricity begins to form in a half-dome in front of them. A portal begins to open up in front of the missiles, and the missiles enter it.

"In just a few minutes, Bajor will be nothing but an asteroid belt." Firewing says coldly.

The camera shows part of the planet Bajor from above. Several transwarp portals open above the planet, and each missile heads towards the surface at great speeds.

In the major cities of Bajor, the citizens look up to the sky when they see multiple fireball-like objects. When the missiles hit, massive energy shockwaves are sent out from the point of impact, destroying the buildings, houses and causing the civilians to be thrown to the ground or against the side of buildings. Next, the ground begins to burst from the point of impact and outwards, the debris being thrown into the sky. The whole planet breaks apart in a huge explosion, sending rocks, dirt, and pieces of bodies in every direction.

On the Maximal Space station, the alarm rings very loudly.

SilverBlade runs into the command center "What's the situation, Gold Bug?" Rodimus and Ultra Magnus arrive right behind SilverBlade.

Gold Bug taps some commands into the computer "I don't know sir, a protoss scout ship reported having detected a massive explosion with Bajorian space, and then we lost contact."

SilverBlade looks to the other commanders, then back to Gold Bug. "Keep trying to re-establish communication with them."

The other Maximals in the command center frantically tap at the holo-controls, in an attempt to reconnect with their allies. Suddenly the main view screen flickers to life, showing some Protoss officers. "The radiation from the explosion must have had too much interference for the communication to get through. We did a long-range scan of the explosion. It was the planet Bajor. The planet is gone. "

Rodimus blinks and heads over to Gold Bug "Contact the nearest vessel in the Bajorian sector besides the Protoss and request them to scan for the planet, this has to be confirmed before we take any action."

Gold Bug nods and begins to type in the commands "The closest vessel to the Bajorian sector is one from Naboo."

"Contact them" Commands Rodimus and Gold Bug types in more commands "This is Gold Bug from the Maximal Headquarters, we are requesting that you scan the Bajorian sector for any signs of an explosion. A Protoss vessel detected an explosion and we need confirmation."

"This is the scout vessel 098 of the Naboo Royal space fleet, Please stand by while we scan the area" Replied the Naboo vessel.

"Acknowledged scout vessel 098. Awaiting your reply on the status of the planet Bajor" Gold bug replied into the com system.

After a few minutes of waiting, the view screen flickers on "This is the Naboo vessel 098 from the Royal Space fleet, we have scanned the area of what was the planet Bajor. Here is what we found" The view screen changes to show a rapidly moving asteroid field. "We are afraid that the planet is now gone. Scans show residual signs of a mammoth multiple explosions where the planet once was." "Thank you for your time" replies Rodimus. The screen shuts off and changes to the view of various shuttles docking and undocking. He looks to the crew.

SilverBlade looks over to Rodimus "They must have finished those sun crusher missiles..." "How do you know? It could have been a space anomaly or a small supernova." "Because..." SilverBlade begins. "They are using a design I made before I was reprogrammed. I never finished the design of those missiles. They must have found my research and completed it."

"You mean those blueprints were locked for over 7000 years?" Rodimus questioned the other Maximal commander. "Yes sir. The code was never meant to be cracked…of course they had 7000 years to do so." SilverBlade replied to his superior.

"If they ever find us..." Rodimus began when Ultra Magnus continued it "We would be destroyed. The Maximals will have lost"

Kup then speaks up as he enters. "And with it, all hope"

The Predacon fortress sits on Cybertron's surface. It is the largest, biggest, and most fortified building in the Predacon Empire. The edge of the rooftop is lined with large automatic gun sentries, with a Predacon soldier about ever 30 feet on the roof holding an energy rifle.

There are also a few dozen Predacon soldiers on the ground in a patrolling pattern. Predacon pyramid fighters also fly overhead occasionally on air patrol around the capitol building of Cybertron.

Hundreds Predacon soldiers walk along the inner halls of the fortress conversing with one another. Every 30 feet, and 10 feet high up, victims are chained to the wall with tubes filled with various liquids, running in and out of their bodies. A constant moan of pain fills the hallways from these victims, forced to be decorations for the amusement of the Predacon leader, Megatron.

In Megatron's throne room, a young Bajorian woman, around the age of 23, is performing a strip show, for his enjoyment. A monitor screen fades into view above Megatron's throne, where he is sitting. Firewing is seen on the screen "My lord Megatron, the sun crusher missiles worked. The planet Bajor is destroyed. Only an asteroid field remains."

Megatron cackles at the news from his second in command and looks to the woman, who begins to shed tears "I didn't say to stop, slave, and continue until I am bored with you." With that, the woman continues to dance, although crying and sniffing throughout her dance.