Chapter 7
Nine million years ago
With Optimus assistance Alpha Trion had been working on his new prototype warrior for a few hours.
The body was lying on a table in the largest room of the former temple, connected to Alpha Trion´s machines.
The new Autobot was now nearly ready.
Galvatron and his two followers were still waiting, until Scourge approached his leader.
"I have located a automatic spy drone sir. It looks as if someone is watching us," he informed his comrades.
"Who ever they are, if they decide to come here, we will deal with them." Galvatron decided.
Optimus and Alpha Trion were still not sure if they could trust this Decepticons. Or why exactly they wanted them to built a new Autobot with Dion´s mind.
But Optimus knew for sure that, if it can give Dion a new life, this would be worth it. And it wasn´t as if they really had a choice.
The newly finished prototype Autobot called Ultra Magnus was now ready to be activated. Alpha Trion was currently making the final work to reactivate his CPU and wake him up.
Optimus was standing beside him. He was anxious to see if his friend would really be back.
The three Decepticons were still silently watching them from the other side of the room.
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In some distance from them seven other Autobots made themselves ready for a fight.
Their group leader instructed them.
"Remember rescuing the prisoners is one of our priorities. We have to be careful, but we also have to take the enemy out. This three are simply too dangerous to be allowed to run around", Def-Charger told his men.
"The last time we lost badly to them," Prowl - the youngest member of the team - reminded them.
He was promising to become a good tactician even if he was still inexperienced.
"That they are that powerful is a reason more we had to take them out," Def-Charger stated. "They are a threat to all our comrades. We are the best the Autobots have, we can not leave this fight to anyone else," he declared.
"We are prepared for them now. The last time we were out of energy and they caught us off-guard. We outnumber them seven to three and we will attack from two sides. I am sure we can take them this time."
The group leader was by far not so sure as he sounded. He had seen what this three could do. Wherever they came from, they were a even greater threat than Megatron.
They had to deal with them now.
"Remember what we said. Take them out on sight, fast and quickly," he told them.
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In the ruins of the chaos temple it was all going according to plan.
The new Autobot would soon be awakened. Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge knew this had to be done. It felt still strange to them. They were helping in the creation of one of their strongest enemies.
But the thoughts of all three Decepticons mirrored each other. Ultra Magnus existence was necessary to preserve the world they came from.
They would make sure he is created now, so that they can kill him in the future.
Right now however they had a different problem.
"I have detected several persons approaching, Autobot signals," Scourge informed the others.
"He is ready," Alpha Trion announced. "He will activate any moment now."
The new created Ultra Magnus was starting to show signs of live.
Optimus felt nervous like he hasn´t in a long time. Since Elita One had been created in the same way.
The eyes of the robot came to life and started to glow. He started to move, he was waking up.
At the same time, unnoticed by the Autobots, the Decepticons got ready to fight.
Dion - no Ultra Magnus - was standing up. He looked around to see where he was.
Two Autobots were standing next to him, he realized somewhat calmed down. The last thing he remembered was being shot by Decepticons.
The surrounding however were quite strange, he noticed. Where in the world was he?
Then he saw the small group of Decepticons on the other side of the room.
He suddely shot upwards, panicking. Understandably, given what happened.
"It is alright", one of the Autobots - a very large red and blue one with a battle mask - told him.
"This Decepticons are on our side, at least for now. They have brought you to us to be rebuild," the robot said.
He looked down at his body and saw that he was now a warrior-model.
Very similar to this robot, a large and heavily armed warrior.
"Who are you and what is this place?" he asked.
The large, red Autobot answered him.
"My name is now Optimus Prime. Before that I was your friend Orion Pax. I was recreated like you."
To that name Ultra Magnus reacted.
"Orion - is that really you?"
"Yes. This is Alpha Trion, one of the Autobot eldest. He had rebuilt me, Ariel... and now you," his friend explained to him.
"Ariel? She is alright?" Magnus asked.
"She is. Her name is Alita One now."
The newly created Bot run a test to his systems and checked his computers. He saw that he was now programmed for combat and that much basic information was stored in his databanks.
"Ultra Magnus?" He said the name that was now written in his systems.
"Yes my friend - that is from now on your name", Optimus told him.
"What about them? Why do you think you can trust these three?" Ultra Magnus asked, referring to the Decepticons present."You remember what happened the last time?"
"We can not." This time it was the other Autobot who answered him.
"Like Optimus said, I am Alpha Trion. I have redesigned you into a new, high developed warrior.
I have to apologize that I had no chance to ask for your consent. But we Autobots have not exactly much of a choice in our actions right now... and you were reduced to a personality component."
"You had no choice if the situation is as bad as I think it must be. And I would had probably have to become a warrior anyway."
"This three had brought you here. You were held in a mind prison until a short time ago. But they are following their own agenda.," Alpha Trion explained the situation to him. "They are not on our side and they don´t pretend to be either."
"It is good to have you back my friend," Optimus said.
"Yes - it is the same for me," Magnus told his old friend.
"I think despite everything, I own you three my thanks," he said in the three Decepticons.
"You shouldn´t thank us Autobot. We only did what served our own interests. If we meet again someday, it is good possible that we will have to kill you," their leader, whose name they still didn´t knew said.
That answer somehow left a uneasy feeling in him.
"Sir - we should go now." Cyclonus urged his leader. "Unless we want to risk causing even more complications."
None of the three Autobots present had any idea what he meant with that. The couldn´t know that they were time-travellers, trying to avoid disturbing the past.
"I look out to see you in the future Autobot," Cyclonus said, his eyes pointed at Ultra Magnus.
"It is already too late," the third Decepticon informed his comrades.
Ultra Magnus felt quite uneasy. He had only been a warrior model for a few seconds and had already gotten barely veiled challenges from two, according to his sensors, incredible strong
In that moment a group of Autobot fighters stormed into the ruins and opened fire.
Two other Autobots Fist and Ironhide had taken cover behind the temple walls. They were aiming their guns on the Decepticons and shooting at them from there.
To their horror however their combined fire seemed to have absolutely no effect on their opponents. Many of their shots were hitting, but they didn´t even leave a mark.
Galvatron realized what had happened. The Elite Squad had followed them, the entire way from Kalis border.
To save the personality core? Or simply to take them out as a threat?
Now they thought that Optimus and the others were their captives and they tried to rescue them. And that only caused another needless confrontation here in the past.
He was angered by this. It would have been better if they had already been far away when this Autobots arrived. They would have teamed up with Optimus group, like they should have.
Many of them would later become members of Prime´s core army. But he let himself be carried away with making sure Magnus revival went according to plan and staid here too long.
After a few moments a thought came to him.
Galvatron had to smile. He had just remembered something, something from history.
He approached the leader of the Autobot group.
"You should ask yourself if it was wise to confront us like that, after what we have done with your group the last time," he said to him.
Def-Charger couldn´t believe what he was seeing. All their firepower had done nothing to this three.
Now the robot stood directly before him.
"I can not let you go," Def Charger shouted at him. "You are too dangerous."
He shot Galvatron a again and continued to fire at short distance.
But the Decepticon was just standing there and smiled.
"Dangerous I am you say? You are right," he said.
"Your bravery honors you Autobot. You know you have no chance, but are still fighting. Out of respect I tell you now that I will spare the others here," Galvatron said to him quietly.
As Def-Charger heard this, he was quite confused by it.
"I am doing all this only to make sure everything is as it is supposed to be," Galvatron told him cryptically.
"And I just remembered one thing."
The future Decepticon lifted his gun, smiling and aimed directly at the Autobot´s face. His expression now showed a grim satisfaction.
"Def-Charger is dead," he said and fired.
The head of the robot simply exploded, while Galvatron just stood there and thought.
The Autobot group leader Def-Charger had been killed in this year, in their history - at this very day.
According to the files he had been killed in a fight with a group of rouge Decepticons. So everything matched with what they knew from their history. Everything was like it was supposed to.
At least he got to destroy one Autobot, Galvatron thought with grim satisfaction.
The six other Autobot warriors - just like Optimus and Magnus - were all starring horrified at the headless corpse of the group-leader that was now falling to the ground.
The Autobot Elite Warriors knew they had to make a decisions.
"We are retreating," Kup announced.
The entire team transformed and moved away as quickly as they could. With a heavy heart they left behind the three Decepticons... and the three Autobots who they thought to be their prisoners.
"We will leave now," Galvatron stated. "Don´t think you have any chance to stop us."
"Why have you done this?" Optimus asked him the Decepticon a startled voice. "If you are that powerful you could have easily got out of here without killing him. Or you could have killed all of us from the start."
Galvatron looked at the Autobot who had once and would again been his worst enemy.
"Always remember young Autobot. I may have helped you today because of my own reasons, but I am still your enemy. And I never claimed anything else.
I will from now on stay out of your war and follow my own plans," he said to Optimus.
"Who are you?" he asked.
Magnus had walked up him and was now standing next to Optimus.
"Maybe you will figure it out some day," Galvatron answered him. He looked the young Autobot in the eyes.
"There are things out there you know nothing about, threats you can not even imagine. I am just one of them. You should never forget this."
Optimus nodded with his head at Galvatron´s statement.
"I won´t."
After hearing this the three Decepticons looked at each other and walked out.
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As Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge had reached the end of the underground constructions they started to fly.
They were not fully aware how great the impact of the incident they had just caused truly was. The only thing they cared about was that history as they knew it was back on track.
They landed then on a building in a short distance.
"Everything is as it is meant to be," Cyclonus stated. "Shall we go back now?"
Galvatron gave him a short look. Then he took out the time-travel controller... and activated it again.
One moment later they were gone.
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The beginning of the great cybertronian war happened in three phases.
First was Megatron´s uprising. But that was mostly a one-sided attack on the Autobot regime, without much success in fighting back from the Autobot side.
The second, so it is told, was the creation of Optimus Prime. He was the first actually successful leader of the Autobots in this war. But in the beginning he was only leading a single sector group and couldn´t challenge Megatron on a great scale.
The third phase was the point as Optimus Prime took over as Supreme Leader of all Autobot forces. From then on the Autobots started to fight back coordinated.
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Iacon - two years later
In the borderlands of the Iacon sector was one of the many bases of the Autobots. It was subterranean like nearly all of them.
Here was the home of Optimus and his followers. A fast growing group of robots who were organizing themselves to fight against the Decepticons.
This group by now also included the former Elite Squad. They had been quite surprised as they saw the supposed Decepticon prisoners, who they had thought long dead, again and found out one of them was in fact the famous Optimus Prime, who had confronted Megatron.
"Optimus it is good to see you are back," Ratchet - the chief-medic (and so far their only one) greeted him.
"Yes - it is good to be back," the Prime told him.
"Optimus - there is something you should know about. A few hours ago we have found someone. An Autobot who said he came from Kalis. He said he can tell us why Megatron is forcing everybody out of this sector."
Optimus listened with interest. He was searching for the answer to this question for weeks now.
"Bring me to him," he told the medic.
Ratchet led him through several corridors and rooms in the underground base.
Finally he brought him to a tall Autobot. This robot wasn´t in his own and Magnus size but larger than anyone else. His armor had a black, gold and red coloring.
"Are you Optimus Prime?" the Autobot asked.
"I am. What do you have to tell me?"
"My name is Cronus. I have just come from the sector Kalis. I had to fear for my life because I had found out what Megatron is planning," he explained to them.
"You are save here. I promise you that. Tell me what you know," Optimus assured him.
"It may sound unbelievable to you," the Autobot said.
"Tell me. I will listen."
"Good," Cronus continued. "Deep under the surface of the sector Kalis, Megatron had built something, a set of engines, jet turbines, giant machines.
It sounds unbelievable, I know - but this engines are capable to move the entire planet. He plans nothing else than to transform this entire world into a giant space ship.
That way he plans to conquer other worlds and the Decepticons would be invincible. In a few days, Megatron will activate the machines and then the entire sector Kalis will be blown from the surface of this planet."
Optimus was speechless for a few moments after he had heard this.
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The sector Kalis
In the middle of the Kalis sector was now standing a large tower. It was, beside other things, the current headquarter of the Decepticons in this sector.
Three Decepticons were currently standing just outside of this building - Megatron, Soundwave and Starscream.
"Soundwave," Megatron asked, "is everything according to the spezifications?"
"Yes Megatron. The work is nearly complete and the engine ready for activation," the communication specialist informed him.
"Thank you - very good my friend," he told Soundwave.
"Starscream," he addressed the seeker, "you have asked yourself what exactly we are doing here right?"
"Yes mighty Megatron," he replied quietly.
"Good - I have called you here to tell you what exactly our plans for this sector are and to demonstrate my project to you," the Decepticon leader informed him.
"What you see here," he pointed to the tower, "is the control system for a machinery like the galaxy had not seen it before. Under this sector is a set of hyperspace turbines, large enough to move this entire planet through space.
Do you understand? Cybertron itself will fly to every point in the universe we want. We won´t need to send expeditions out, like the one you have lost your partner in my young friend, to reach other worlds," he said to Starscream.
The seeker showed a undefinied feeling on his face at the mention of this, but only for a second. Then he was curious and passive again.
Megatron continued to speak.
"The entire universe will be ours for the taking."