Okay, guys. I'm back again and here's the second chapter of "Indomina's ONE Adventures" to crosspost here.
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers Prime and Transformers One. They belong to Hasbro and Paramount Pictures. Go check out Tomb Spyder's "How Very Logical" and "A Shift In Logic" as well on SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity, they're both good read.
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Truth Stings, Doesn't It?
With guidance of the coordinates provided by Orion Pax and the flight of her mighty wings, Indomina managed to swiftly reach to the destination where she can see a tall mountain being covered in organic plants similarly like that of Earth's and it had an extremely creepy looking entrance. The cave's mouth looks eerily like that of Unicron the Chaos Bringer..., she observed before she landed on fours in front of the said entrance and let the four Cogless bots get off from her back.
"A cave with teeth... Nothing scary about that.", B-127 commented upon seeing it.
The Predacon exited her draconic alt-mode and followed the quartet into the cave where Orion Pax and D-16 turned on their miner flashlights to see where they were going. It's a good thing that the cave was enormous, allowing her to move around there. Eventually, Indomina and the Cogless miners stumbled upon a certain scene, shocking the latter group.
The remains of the Thirteen whose dead bodies lie broken and covered in overgrowth, and there was a hole above the cave which allows the sunlight to illuminate it inside.
"I don't believe it...", the yellow mech gasped.
"The Primes...", the red and blue mech said, turning off his flashlight which his best friend followed suit.
Elita-1 agreed, "We're here."
As D-16, B-127 and Elita-1 began to walk past the bodies of the deceased Primes, Indomina asked Orion Pax, following him. "What happened to them?"
"Oh yeah, you're not from Iacon. The Primes fell in battle against the Quintessons, Cybertron's ancient enemy 50 cycles ago, Miss Indomina. It's where the Matrix of Leadership got lost on that day and the flow of Energon across Cybertron dried up along with it. It's the reason Energon mining was necessary for survival. Because of that, we have to find the Matrix and save our world.", the would-be future Autobot leader explained.
Quintessons? Does Creator know about them? Whoever they are, they must have been a dangerous enemy in their own right to kill the Thirteen... Then again, they're not gods, just really powerful bots with advanced technology mistaken for divine power like Creator would say., the Predacon thought after processing Orion's explanation.
As for the Matrix of this world, it functions differently compared to the Matrix wielded by Optimus Prime... It's like a fancy faucet that went missing which the flow got blocked unless it was returned to its rightful place., she mused about the comparison.
"Megatronus Prime...", D-16 muttered upon stumbling upon the remains of his hero he looked up to.
Overhearing the would-be future Decepticon leader with her audio receptors, Indomina narrowed her optics at the familiar looking symbol on the face of the deceased Prime, He awfully looks like Tarn, the leader of the Decepticon Justice Division that Creator had dispatched for being a threat to Cybertron's new status quo. Creator mentioned he was going to turn him into some new bot named Sinanju before I went to sleep and woke up here...
"Zeta Prime...", Orion spoke as he approached the deceased Thirteen's leader and saw something missing from the empty chest chassis, catching the attention of Indomina and his fellow Cogless. "The Matrix! ... It's gone!"
"Let's keep looking.", the pink femme tried to reassure him that the search won't be in vain, which the group split up once more.
Eventually, Orion Pax found Alpha Trion whose body was in a stasis lock and covered in immense amount of rocks and overgrowth, getting everyone's attention towards him. Indomina easily removed the rocks with her strength for the quartet to take a clear look at him. Watching Orion inserting a small Energon cube into Alpha Trion's mouth to bring him back online after B-127 provided him one, she internally realized. Oh right, it's my first time meeting an actual Thirteen member in person.
Alpha Trion's body began to twitch and convulse in response to the said Energon cube empowering his long dormant systems, before his optics glow blue and became online for the first time. Then he began to shout erratically. "Quintesson ambush! Attack! Message before…"
Orion tried to calm down the elderly Prime, "Whoa, whoa, it's okay! It's okay. You're safe now. The war is over."
Indomina quietly observed Alpha Trion noticing Zeta Prime's dead body and lamenting his comrade's death before Orion got his attention. Unsurprisingly, like herself, he too had noticed the lack of T-Cogs from the four bots and questioned about it, and then he was confused why Energon had to be drilled instead of freely flowing throughout the surface of Cybertron.
The future Autobot leader explained, "That's why we came. To fix things. If we find the Matrix of Leadership and get it to Sentinel Prime, he can fix-"
"SENTINEL IS NO PRIME!", Alpha Trion yelled, feeling enraged at the mention of the name.
It confused the four Cogless bots who thought the elderly Prime was broken after he just woke up from his stasis lock, and tried to reassure him that Sentinel Prime had been protecting them from the Quintessons for 50 cycles. But Alpha Trion retorted that they have been living a lie all along and decided to show them the truth by using his unique power to manipulate the sand-like particles on the ground into creating images of past events, complete with sound effects.
Curious and interested, Indomina watched as Alpha Trion began his narration about Cybertron's war with the Quintessons having lasted for thousands of cycles and it was brutal. He revealed to everyone that Sentinel Prime was actually the chief advisor to the Thirteen who claimed to have intercepted an enemy transmission about a secret gathering of the Quintesson commanders, which the Primes saw as an opportunity to end the conflict once and for all.
The Predacon noticed that she still towered over the Thirteen as Alpha Trion's sand-like particles formed images of themselves when they were alive and entered the cave where it would become their grave. With the exception of Megatronus Prime who was way taller than her and she can only reach up to his chin.
He was literally larger than life in a nutshell.
Bet Tarn wishes he was this impressive compared to this guy!, she thought in amusement.
And then, Indomina witnessed the Quintessons' ambush upon the Thirteen from above the cave, which she grimaced at their appearances to be ugly and grotesque. Even uglier than the Insecticons no doubt. She already imagined that she would have easily destroyed the swarms of Quintessons in her draconic alt-mode and escape the ambush alive if she was in their place.
Alpha Trion seemed to agree with Indomina about it as he stated that the Thirteen were close to coming out victorious... until Sentinel Prime betrayed them.
It horrified Orion and his friends watching the massacre of the Thirteen by their ruler who backstabbed Nexus Prime, beheaded Megatronus Prime after the latter got held down by sheer Quintesson numbers, and shot Solus Prime to be impaled by a stalagmite. And then Sentinel gunned down Zeta Prime who was fending off the enemy, sending him crashing down to the ground and wounded him severely.
"Sentinel... Why?...", Zeta muttered in horror after his arm holding the Energon Axe was pinned down by his treacherous aide.
"For all the power of Cybertron!", Sentinel gloated before executing him with his rifle and started extracting the Matrix of Leadership from the dead Prime's body.
"But Sentinel never understood the true power of what he desired. The Matrix of Leadership can only be wielded by one that Primus himself deems worthy.", Alpha Trion finished the tale as Indomina and the quartet saw the Matrix flew off from the traitor's hands before it disintegrated into dust. "And Sentinel most certainly was not."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", Sentinel screamed in disbelief.
Falling down on his knees, Orion Pax said with a shocked look. "Wait! Hold on! You're saying that the Matrix of Leadership just vanished?"
"No! No, no, no! That is impossible! I don't believe it!", D-16 angrily said, refusing to comprehend about the fact that Sentinel Prime he admired turned out to be a backstabbing murderer.
"Why would Sentinel do that?", Elita-1 wondered, being shaken by the terrible revelation.
"To make a bargain.", Alpha Trion answered.
"A bargain with who?", B-127 questioned.
Indomina spoke up out loud for the four to hear, "Isn't it obvious? It's these Quintessons who ambushed the Thirteen after Sentinel set them up to die here. He even outright said that he wants all the power for himself."
"That is correct, young one.", the elderly Prime nodded before having a double take expression. "Forgive my rudeness but who are you? Are you perhaps one of the Transformers with beast modes?"
Concealing the truth of her origins as instructed by her Creator previously, the giant femme proudly introduced herself. "Indeed, I am. My name is Indomina and I'm a Predacon."
"Ah I see, a descendant of Onyx Prime. My brother was known as "The Lord of Beasts" and the progenitor of the Beastformers. I'm glad to know that his legacy still lives on. They were the fiercest warriors of the High Guard I've had the honor of fighting alongside with.*", Alpha Trion said with a relieved smile.
The High Guard huh? Sounds similar with the Cybertronian Elite Guard from the Autobots led by Ultra Magnus*, Optimus Prime's commander and he was Creator's pain in the aft., Indomina internally noted about it.
Suddenly, a great rumbling came out of nowhere and the tremors were felt across the cave, alarming Indomina and the four Cogless bots. "They're here...", Alpha Trion said in a grim tone.
"Who's here?", a wary Orion asked.
The last of the Thirteen responded, "The new rulers of Cybertron..."
Author's Note: Alrighty then, Chapter 2 of "Indomina's ONE Adventures" is finished and I hope you guys like it. Indomina and the four Cogless bots had reached the location of the Thirteen's whereabouts, having already evaded Quintesson patrol thanks to her dragon form's fast speed flight. There, they met Alpha Trion who was revived from his stasis lock. Which the surviving Prime explained the truth of what really happened 50 cycles ago in form of Sentinel's betrayal. And then the Quintessons have arrived on Cybertron for a tribute from their collaborate, Sentinel the False Prime himself.
*I call this a case of Hilarious In Hindsight because one of Transformers One's deleted scenes reveal that Deathsaurus, a Decepticon warlord and archenemy of Star Saber from "Transformers Victory" show, is revealed to be a member of the High Guard. It was expected since most of the High Guard are full of future Decepticons. In the deleted scene, Deathsaurus had helped Orion, Elita-1, B-127 and Starscream of all bots to infiltrate Iacon City so they can save their captured friends from Sentinel Prime, albeit he was in his beast alt-mode at the time and he left as soon as possible after giving them a way inside through tunneling.
*In "Transformers Prime", Ultra Magnus used to be in the Elite Guard.
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