It had been six months since Cybertron and Earth had been connected. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime had returned to Cybertron to rebuild their homeworld. However, Optimus knew the conflict had just begun. Unicron was still in the Earth's core and Megatron was still out there.
Megatron prowled through the sparse South Dakota wilderness. His arm still ached from where Optimus had cut it off in the battle for Cybertron. He had since replaced it with a crude replacement he salvaged from the corpse of an Autobot from their abandoned scrapyard.
Quintessa had made no effort to contact him. He assumed that she was slain by Optimus. Megatron knew he needed an army to conquer Cybertron. Unfortunately, all of his Decepticons had perished in the war.
Megatron walked over to a rock formation. Frustrated at his situation, Megatron blasted the rock with his arm-blaster, a weak echo of his former fusion cannon.
Suddenly, he heard a voice. "Don't do that," it snarled.
"Who dares to challenge Megatron?" roared Megatron, flipping up his battle mask and reaching for his sword.
Suddenly, the rocks began to form into the shape of a figure. The figure was ten times his height, and had massive horns. Megatron recognized it immediately: Unicron. Since Unicron was the Earth's core, he could command everything on its surface.
"Unicron," said Megatron.
"Yes," said Unicron. Unicron shot a beam of purple energy out of his eyes, knocking Megatron down. The red mark on Megatron's helmet, given to him by Quintessa, instantly disappeared.
Megatron got up. "What did you do to me?" he demanded.
"I freed you," said Unicron. "Quintessa put you under her control...her spell. Took you from me. You have always been mine!"
"I belong to no one!"
"Your master, The Fallen, was my prophet. Unbeknownst to you, he intended to reroute the sun's energy through the Star Harvester to reawaken me."
"No," said Megatron. "That's impossible!"
"He was though," said Unicron. "But he failed...for now."
Unicron opened up his hand, revealing a collection of dark purple shards. "This is my life-blood, Dark Energon. It can raise the dead. Go and resurrect a legion of dead Decepticons. Use them to eradicate the Autobots. Then, there will be no one to stop me from fully awakening. I will zap the life from Cybertron and re-create it in my image. And then, I will let you rule it."
Megatron took the shards. "I accept your terms."
"Good," said Unicron, with a smile.
Megatron transformed into his jet mode, flying off to raise his army to destroy the Autobots once and for all.
To be continued
