Chapter 1: The Creator
-Creation theme: The Return by ponyphonic-
-Planet Cybertron-
Ten thousand years had passed on the planet Cybertron since the war that ravaged its surface had rendered it uninhabitable, ten thousand years after the god at the core of the planet, Primus, had fallen, and ten thousand years after said god had given its greatest boon to a mighty warrior to become its last prime.
Now, Primus was in his final moments, but refused to go out without one last creation being made. Calling upon the last of its remaining, and finite godly power, Primus summoned a protoform frame to himself and then began to bring golden and silver armor pieces to it and began creating a new form of Cybertronian life.
The new life form was tall enough as a prime with black and silver arms with large blades folded on it. It had gold and silver leg and foot armor, gold 'mask'-like shoulder guards, a golden chestplate, and lastly a disc-like head with diamond shaped eyes and a regal and angular face. Once it was finished, the god then gave his new creation life, the creation's spark then came to life in an explosion of green light, which caused its green eyes to glow as its spark was ignited.
"Awaken, my creation, and go forth into the cosmos." The dying god of Cybertron said.
"As you wish." The new Cybertronian nodded.
"From this moment forward, you shall be known as Creator, the first Bioformer and my hand in recreating our world. You will have an innate desire to create and rebuild and your power will be like that of the primes." The god informed him further. "I leave the fate of my children in your capable hands. Now go, and find allies to help you in your task, for my time grows short."
"Farewell… Father." Creator said somewhat sadly before he transformed into a jet form and flew into space.
(Five years later)
Creator's systems had since gone offline to conserve energon after five years of flying through space, and as he continued to drift for even longer, he was soon pulled in by a nearby planet's gravitational pull.
This planet was in a galaxy locally known as the Milky Way, and was the third furthest away from the yellow star that was its sun. It had a viable atmosphere and was covered in vast oceans and seven continents. This planet… was Earth.
(On Earth's surface, Jasper, Nevada)
Two adults sighed in content as they watched the stars away from all the city lights. These two were the newlywed couple of Prof. Mathias Darwin and his wife Serena. The two were enjoying watching a meteor shower which was happening right above them while sitting in a pair of foldable chairs, until Serena noticed that one of the meteors suddenly veered off course.
"Hey, what's up with that one?" She asked, pointing at it. Mathias followed her gaze and his eyes widened when he saw that it was flying towards them!
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" He yelled as he jumped up and dragged his wife out of the meteor's trajectory. Just in the nick of time, since its crash plowed right through where they were sitting just moments prior. The two breathed heavily as the fact that they could've died set in. "That was too close." He breathed.
"It really was." She nodded. Before anything else could be said, they heard the sound of what seemed to be machinery coming from the crater.
"What in the world…?" The professor muttered in confusion as he went to investigate, his wife following suit. When the couple reached the edge of the crater, their eyes widened in complete shock when they found not a chunk of rock, but a giant alien machine. "What is that thing?!" He gasped, speechless at the sight before him.
A few seconds later, the machine's eyes suddenly flashed green and it sat up, shaking its head, which looked like a human's but had a golden disc on it similar in shape to a Chinese bamboo hat with two green spikes at the very edges. It looked down at them in what seemed to be intrigue before it suddenly started speaking, however they were unable to understand its speech.
"Um… What?" Serena wondered as she tilted her head in confusion.
The machine seemed to realize that they could not understand it, but put one of its giant hands on its head before it glowed green and gold before shrinking down to their size, and then its eyes glowed green as it then scanned both of them with some sort of holographic scanner in its optics. Before any of them could react, however, it suddenly started to transform until it was now in the form of a small human infant, with blonde hair that looked almost as if it was made of gold and glowing green eyes.
"... D… Did the alien machine just transform into a baby?" Serena asked dumbly.
"So it would seem." Her husband nodded before walking over to the baby and picked him up. "What I do know is: He's our son now." He added.
The baby looked up at him as the woman walked up to them and took him into her arm. Reaching his little hands out towards her, he grabbed some of her hair and nuzzled with it. Serena giggled a bit at the baby's actions and found it immensely adorable, which was saying a lot since he used to be (and likely still is) an alien machine.
"What should we call him?" She asked.
"Hmmm, let's name him after your dad. Let's call him Tiberius." Mathias suggested.
"Wonderful, and let's name him after your father too." The woman nodded.
"Tiberius Maximus Darwin, has a nice flow to it, doesn't it?" He chuckled, patting his new son's head.
Life was going to be interesting for the two new parents.
(Sixteen years later)
At a drive in known as KO Burgers in the same town of Jasper, a boy with black hair and a fair complexion was currently doing drive through duty.
"Welcome to KO Burgers, where every burger is a knockout. May take your order?" He asked upon noticing that someone was at the menu.
"Yeah, can I get a couple combos with a side of medium fries?" A voice asked.
"Sure. Anything else." He asked as he started putting the order together.
"Yeah, some advice. How can I get an amazing job like yours?" The customer asked mockingly, getting a bout of laughter from his pals.
"So that's two "we're not as funny as we think we are" combos with a side of bite me!" The boy shot back rather saltily.
"... Wait what?" The customer responded dumbly.
"Pay at the next window, sir." The boy replied angrily. He then heard someone calling from elsewhere in the joint and as he turned back to address them, the customer drove up to the window, grabbed the order, and drove off without paying as he and his friends laughed.
"Hey, get back here!... I have to pay for that." The boy hissed angrily. After that long day of work, the boy walked outside of the joint and was about to head home.
"Bad day today, Jack?" A voice asked. The now named Jack turned and saw his friend standing there.
"Oh, hey Tiberius. Yeah, long day. Some idiot thought he was funny and ordered from here just so he could grab it and leave without paying." Jack replied in irritation.
Tiberius nodded in understanding. He was a sixteen year old about Jack's height with golden hair which he had styled in a 50s greaser style. His green eyes were framed by a pair of dark green rectangular shaped glasses, and his attire consisted of a grey long sleeved shirt with a green atomic model symbol on it, a pair of black cargo pants, and a pair of white sneakers. Lastly he had on a necklace with a golden charm of some sort of face.
"A bunch of morons, then. Truly." He noted, Jack nodding in understanding.
"Yeah, that about sums it up." He replied before his phone rang. He pulled it out and checked the caller ID. "Hang on, it's my mom. Gotta take this." He told his friend.
As Jack continued talking to his mom, Tiberius noted that a blue motorcycle suddenly parked in the parking lot, and instead of getting off, the person riding it disappeared in a holographic flicker. This made his eyes widen in shock.
"Merlin's beard…!" He gasped at the sight. Right around this time, Jack finished talking to his mom and then followed Tiberius's gaze and saw the bike.
"Whoa…" Jack gasped in surprise. "Aw man, I think I'm in love." He sighed at how good looking the bike was.
"Um, Jack? You might wanna be careful." The golden haired boy urged his friend warily, realizing that he hadn't seen what he had seen.
However the boy was blissfully unaware as he walked around and examined the bike, but as he did, Tiberius saw that one of their classmates was headed their way.
"Better ditch the bike quick, Jack, Sierra's coming this way." He told his friend. Sierra was a very attractive redhead with freckles on her face, green eyes and an attractive figure that came from her being the Cheer captain, which was accented by her perky B nearly C-cup chest.
Jack quickly jumped back and as he did, he accidentally bumped into the red haired cheerleader.
"Whoa! Sorry about that." He apologized as they both managed to not fall over. The awkwardness of which made the blonde watching them groan.
"No, it's okay." Sierra told him, before putting her hands behind her back in a cutesy manner. "So, is that your motorcycle?" She asked him.
"No, it was just there, and I couldn't help but admire the way it looks." Jack replied. Sierra looked the motorcycle over and nodded in agreement.
"That is true. It does look good." She agreed.
"If you two are done flirting, you might want to consider moving, because you've got two muscle cars that are coming right towards you. And judging by their pace of acceleration I'd say they're moving at least seventy miles per hour!" Tiberius called to them, getting confused looks from the two. "In layman's terms, it means: GET THE HELL OUT OF THE STREET!"
The two teens immediately go out of the way just in time for the cars to zoom by, but they suddenly screeched to a halt before turning to face them, and even turned on their headlights to emphasise that trouble was afoot.
Jack was about to move closer to Tiberius with Sierra, but had forgotten that his hand was still on the handlebars of the motorcycle after he moved it out of the way of one of the cars. Which meant that when the bike suddenly started driving off on its own, it took Jack and Sierra with it.
"Oh jeez! Sierra, hang on!" Jack exclaimed as he pulled her onto the seat behind him.
Back with Tiberius, the cars were about to pursue the three, but the blonde quickly got out a grappling hook gun which he used for climbing and slipping on his heavy duty street skater roller blades before firing the grappling hook into the trunk of one of the cars, which towed him along with it.
"Newton's Third Law! Never fails!" He hooted as the cars chased after Jack, Sierra and the motorcycle down the freeway. But as the cars started closing in, a bumblebee yellow Chevy Camero came out of nowhere and started blocking them, and nearly caused the one Tiberius was attached to to almost swerve off the road. "Okay, this may not have been the brightest idea I've had!" He exclaimed nervously.
When they came around under a bridge, the car that he was currently street waterskiing from swerved and he was unfortunately slung away into a nearby wall next to a boy with brown hair which was styled up, wearing a pair of glasses and was playing with a remote control car.
"Newton's first Law: an object in motion stays in motion…" the blonde groaned as he fell face first on the concrete next to the younger boy. "Unless met by an equal opposite force… Boy isn't that true."
"You okay? That looked like it really hurt." The boy asked in concern as he put his remote control down to check on him.
"I'll be alright… Oh hey Raph, didn't realize it was you I bumped into." Tiberius said as he slowly got up and recognized his fellow science loving friend.
Raphiael Eskivel was a twelve year old mechanical genius who was Tiberius's equivalent to an intellectual equal/little buddy. The two had a very supportive younger-older sibling dynamic between them.
"So, what's going on?" Raph asked.
"Haven't the foggiest idea." The green eyed teen said, shaking his head. "Though if I had to hazard a guess…" He added as Jack and Sierra came skidding in on the blue bike and the camaro from earlier did a Tokyo drift stop in between them and the two black cars that were chasing them. "I'd say those vehicles are behind it all." He finished.
The two cars raced down the hill and when they were in the air, they did something that shocked them: They turned into robots! Both of them were sporting black and purple colors, and had a rather evil aesthetic going for them as their right arms turned into guns.
Though what really shocked them was when Jack and Sierra got off the bike, it transformed into a robot as well, though this one was blue and quite obviously was a female if the plating that resembled a sports bra and skirt was anything to go by. Then the camaro also turned into a robot, though this time it seemed to be male in appearance.
Tiberius couldn't help but stare in awe at them, particularly the female of the four. The boy was practically hardwired to recognize a fine specimen of any species he encountered, and this two wheeled robot certainly fit the bill.
"Amazing…" He said in admiration, watching the female robot gracefully beat the shit out of the two opposing robots… Only for the sound of yellow one squashing Raph's toy car by accident to snap him out of it. "Now might be the best time to leave." He urged his friends.
"Don't have to tell me twice." Sierra nodded as the group of four headed for a drainage pipe big enough for them to walk in.
But just as they were, one of the black robots chased after them, and unfortunately was able to grab Tiberius and drag him out of the pipe before bringing him towards its face.
"Let GO of me, you worthless piece of scrap!" The boy yelled as he struggled, but the robot pointed its cannon arm at him and when he flinched in reflex, his eyes glowed and he saw flashes of a giant gold and silver robot with green eyes as he himself started to glow in a golden light.
"What the-? What's going on?!" The female robot exclaimed in surprise as the glow increased. The boy slowly increased in size before the bot had to drop him and then he dwarfed his aggressor in height, and then started to transform right behind their very eyes.
His limbs became individual pieces before they all morphed and then combined with the loud clangs and then the light died down to reveal his true form, and it was the Creator, the heir apparent to Primus himself in all his mechanical glory, and he was ready to kick some tailpipe.
Eyes flashed green as the newly transformed Tiberius got into a battle stance on instinct… Before realizing what just happened to him, to the most comedic effect possible.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME?!" He yelled in shock. The yellow and blue bots behind him face-palmed, though the shaking of their shoulders indicated that they were trying to contain their laughter.
Tiberius then turned back to his attackers and again on instinct, transformed his hands into pincer-like blades. "Alright you sorry scrap heaps! You wanna fight, fine! Come on then! You wanna get nuts?! Let's get nuts!" He yelled while jabbing his bladed arms at them.
The two assailants took the challenge and charged at him. Tiberius swung his left blade and managed to cut off the left arm of one before a swing from his right blade stabbed the other in the head, killing it right there. And as the second staggered back, Tiberius, again on impulse, retracted his blades and his chest opened, causing a long cannon to come out of it.
"That Con is not gonna be online after this." The blue bot whispered with wide optics upon seeing the cannon.
Her male companion let out several beeps in response as the newly transformed human smirked. "In the word's of my favorite robot, the T-800: Hasta la vista, baby." He smirked as the golden chest cannon booted up in flashes of green energy before it blasted and blew a gaping hole in the black robot's chest.
"... Wow." Was all the blue femme could say as she watched the now scrapped enemy of her's fall to the ground in a heap.
Tiberius watched as the cannon slowly retreated back into his chest, causing him to blink in near shock. "Okay, now how am I supposed to transform back?" He wondered aloud as he looked himself over. "Better question, how did I transform into this in the first place?" He added.
"You mean you don't know?" The blue motorcycle bot asked as she walked up to him along with her yellow male friend.
"No. I just turned into this without thinking." The teen scientist replied as he turned to her. "Who are you two, by the way?" He added.
"I'm Arcie, this is Bumblebee." The two wheeler told him while jabbing a thumb at the aptly named yellow and black bot. This happened just as a large truck came driving towards them and transformed into a massive and rotund looking green robot.
"Alright, who's ready to rumble?" He asked as he stomped the ground, fists ready… Only to realize he was a little late to the party. "Uhh… Where're the Cons?" He asked, scratching his head in confusion.
"And the lughead over there, is Bulkhead." Arcie added, jabbing her thumb at the bumbling hunk of metal.
"I can see that." Tiberius deadpanned, immediately noticing how this one in particular was more at home in fighting.
"I heard that!" Bulkhead called as he walked up to the trio. "Who's the walking glow lamp?" He asked.
"This 'walking glow lamp' did that." The Bioformer retorted as he pointed at the scrapped drone he'd blasted. "And my name is Tiberius Darwin." He added.
"Whoa." The green transformer whistled. "Okay, definitely not a glow lamp." He nodded.
[So, you were saying something about not being able to transform, Tiberius?] Bumblebee asked in his coded voice, which the Bioformer was able to understand perfectly.
"Yes… And how did I manage to understand your coded voice?" He replied before confusion set in.
"Cybertronian code, since you're apparently part Cybertronian as well, you can understand easily." Arcie explained.
[As for how you can transform back, try concentrating on your human form and think of changing, your T-Cog should do the rest of the work from there.] Bumblebee added.
"Okay… I haven't the foggiest idea what a T-Cog is, but I guess I'll have to try…" The Bioformer nodded as he closed his eyes and then started to concentrate on transforming and focusing on his human form. After a moment, he began to glow again and began shrinking and changing back to his human self. When he was done, he was back to his human self… And thankfully still had his clothes.
"... Optimus is gonna flip his lid when he hears this." Bulkhead said as he looked down at the boy.
"No argument on that." Arcie nodded. Bumblebee wordlessly nodded in agreement.
Tiberius chuckled as he scratched the back of his neck nervously. "Well not that this has been fun but, I gotta juice, ta ta!" He said before high tailing it to the pipe and crawling through faster than the three bots could react.
"Scrap!" Arcie yelled as she ran over and looked through the pipe. "Aaand, he's gone." She deadpanned as she deflated.
"Okay, now Optimus is definitely gonna flip his lid." Bulkhead said, causing his two companions to face palm. Meanwhile with Tiberius, the blonde was breathing heavily as he slid down a wall in a fetal position before he looked at his hands in near catatonic shock.
"Just what…. What the hell am I?!" He asked himself as said limbs kept shaking like mad.
(Elsewhere)
-Autobot base, hours later-
"Arcie, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, report. What happened out there?" A large red and blue transformer said as the three walked into the base via some sort of portal.
"I was out on patrol when some Decepticon drones decided to try and take me out. I decided to try and hide in the parking lot of some human fast food joint, but that failed and some humans saw everything." Arcie began. "I radioed Bumblebee and Bulkhead for back up. Me and the humans got cornered under a freeway bridge and as the humans were trying to escape, one of them got caught… And that's when it got strange." She said, getting a confused look from her superior.
"Strange how, exactly?" He inquired.
[One of them transformed into a-get this-full sized Cybertronian! Weapon systems and all! And he even had a spark too! He fought like a maniac and turned both cons into scrap, I tell ya Optimus, it was awesome!] Bumblebee explained gleefully while jumping up and down in excitement.
"Impossible. No human can do that." An elderly voice commented gruffly from the ground bridge controls. Everyone turned to see a robot who's form was similar to an ambulance.
"It's true Ratchet, I saw it with my own optics. And the kid's got a real mouth on him, too." Bulkhead told him, crossing his large arms.
"If what you say is true, then do what you can to bring him here along with the others who saw you. Their safety is of utmost importance if the Decepticons choose to target them." Optimus ordered seriously, getting nods in return.
"Optimus, you can't be serious." Ratchet said in an apprehensive tone. "If what they say is true then bringing that thing here is the last thing we need to do. By the Allspark, we don't even know if it would be trustworthy!" He added.
"If he is the first of his kind, then he will need guidance that he will inevitably require. If he were to learn the full extent of what he is on his own, then disaster is sure to follow as a result." Optimus replied, causing Ratchet to look down in thought.
"Yeah, I mean the poor kid didn't even know how to transform back until we helped him." Arcie explained. "And from the way he talked, he seemed really scared and upset." She added. This in turn made Optimus nod.
"Then it is imperative that we find them all as soon as we can, and quickly, before any irreparable mental and emotional damage can be caused." The leader nodded, realizing the grave nature of the situation.
"Alright, let's find him and bring him here so we can give him the help he needs." Ratchet conceded.
"We'll handle the other kids." Arcie told the Prime.
"And I will approach the boy." Optimus nodded.
[His name is Tiberius, by the way, just thought you oughta know.] Bumblebee told the red and blue Autobot.
"Thank you, Bumblebee." Optimus nodded.
(The next day)
Tiberius was still uneasy as he walked home from school the next day with Jack, Sierra and Raph accompanying for emotional and moral support. They may not have seen what went down the previous day, but that didn't stop them from trying to comfort their distraught friend.
"Thanks for being there for me guys." He told them.
"Don't worry, Tibs. We're here for you." Sierra said in a comforting tone, trying to cheer him up as the two other boys nodded in agreement.
The boy sighed shakily as they rounded the corner after leaving the school yard and were soon met with three very familiar vehicles, which were joined by a blue eighteen wheeler with red flames on the front.
"Oh man, not now…" Jack groaned in dismay.
Arcie was the first to approach them. "Kids, listen, I know this is gonna be hard for you to hear but, we need you to come with us." She told them.
"... Can we actually trust you enough to not hurt us?" Sierra asked warily.
Arcie transformed and crouched down to the girls level with a non threatening look in her optics, before crossing a slender finger across her chest. "Cross my spark and hope to scrap, kid, you can trust us. We're the good guys." She told the redhead. The humans and mentally distraught hybrid relaxed before they approached them.
The group was about to leave without being seen until… "Whoa!" A female voice said as everyone turned around and saw that an exchange student from Japan, Miko Nakadai, was recording the whole thing on her flip phone from atop the hood of a sadan. "Cool!" She smiled giddily. Tiberius marched up to her and snatched her phone from her and deleted what she had been recording. "Hey! Not cool!" She whined.
"Scrap." Arcie hissed at their ill timed misfortune. This led to Miko being taken with them to the Autobot base. Jack and Sierra were riding Arcie, Raph was with Bumblebee, Miko was with Bulkhead rocking out to heavy metal, and Tiberius was with Optimus.
Once they arrived, they all exited their respective rides and Ratchet came to meet them as the bots transformed into their usual forms, and noted the addition of one human.
"I thought you said there were only four?" Ratchet asked.
"Haven't you heard? Humans multiply." Arcie smirked.
"Ha ha ha." Jack laughed sarcastically.
[It was a last moment happening, Ratchet. We didn't plan on it either.] Bumblebee sighed.
"Can we get an explanation for what's going on here, please?" The green eyed blonde asked with a tired sigh.
Optimus nodded. "Of course. First off, I am Optimus Prime, the leader of the group you see before you." The bot told him.
"Okay well if you're all robots, who made you?" Raph asked.
"Hmph. Please." The medic of the group scoffed.
"We are Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron. Also known as Autobots." Optimus explained.
"Okay, but why are you here then?" Jack asked.
"Because our homeworld is uninhabitable due to centuries of civil war. We are here to protect your world from the Decepticons." The red and blue leader replied.
"The scary car guys from last night." Arcie chimed in.
"Okay, but what does that have to do with us?" Sierra questioned.
"We fear that, due to your recent contact with us, there may be a very real threat to your lives from them." Optimus told them before looking at Tiberius. "This is especially true for you in particular, Tiberius." He added.
"Wait, why him?" Miko asked in confusion, not knowing what had transpired the day before.
"Because he's the first human and Cybertronian hybrid in existence." Ratchet said as he started scanning the boy. "Now that I'm getting a good look at him, he's definitely a hybrid of some sort. His skeletal and nervous systems as well as his cerebrum are coated in the same alloy as us and his heart and blood stream is producing and circulating a perfect mixture of blood and energon at the same time!" He added as he looked over the data after quickly taking a tiny blood sample from the boy and analyzing it.
"D… Did my parents know about this…?" The shell shocked boy whispered to himself.
"We realize that this must be a truly monumental shock to you, but rest assured that I will personally help you in this challenging time, young man, you have my word as a Prime on that." Optimus told him as he knelt down to his level and held out his hand to the boy. Tiberius looked at the hand for a moment before he took it.
"Thank you. I really need all the help I can get for this." He told him.
"Hey, what does Tiberius look like as one of you guys, anyway?" Raph asked, causing everyone to blink.
"Let's just say that he has a lot of gold on his chassis." Bulkhead chuckled, which made everyone else start to laugh as well.
(Elsewhere)
-Decepticon Warship, The Nemesis-
"These readings are coming from deep space, I'd hate to waste the energon…" Starscream said as he looked over Soundwave's shoulder. "Unless you're absolutely certain?" He asked.
Soundwave just wordlessly nodded in response.
"Very well, then. Set a course and activate the space bridge!" The seeker ordered.
Away at said Space bridge, it activated and a large silver ship that had a cannon on top of it flew out of the portal from deep space and transformed into a massive Decepticon with menacing red eyes and a cannon on his arm.
This… Was Megatron.
"DECEPTICONS!... I have returned!" The leader of the Cybertronian scourge announced in a booming voice.
Things were about to get interesting.
Dragon Emperor0: Well! I must admit I am proud of how this turned out! Big shout out to the one and only DrScorpionX on YouTube who's self made Bioformer series was the inspiration behind this story. And his self Moc Scorpion who was my inspiration for Tiberius. You are the GOAT my friend, Godspeed!
ThermalsniperN7: Yeah. DrScorpionX is a total MASTER in his field! His mocs are LEGENDARY! They are so good, they deserve to be an official product!
Dragon Emperor0: IKR?! Be sure to check him out. And additionally I'm curious guys, who do you think Tiberius should be paired up with? Cuz so far the options are: Sierra, Miko, Arcie and Airachnid. So be sure to let us know.
ThermalsniperN7: This is one story I'm gonna feel at home writing. See you guys next time!