Transformers Un-Abayed Ongoing not nearly complete long fiction SETTING: G1/Movieverse Summary:
The Fallen betrayed his home world and sided with a mythical enemy that wanted to rule Cybertron. The enemy was held off and forced to retreat leaving all of its followers behind dead or to be hunted down and tried by the victors. The fallen managed to evade his pursuers and was presumed either dead or lost to the stars until he decided to avenge his master(s). He stole a sacred Cybertronian artifact known as the Cube (which was the key to the Allspark a.k.a Vector Sigma) from deep beneath the surface of Cybertron’s capital city of Iacon. His plan was to use the Cube to create an army that would assassinate the leadership group known as the high council and help him take control of Cybertron for his master(s). He only managed to create a handful of soldiers before he was discovered and again hunted down. His forces were defeated after killing every member of the council save one and he was forced to flee his home world or face certain death. He vanished to the far reaches of the galaxy, and with him went the Cube.
Fearing that Cybertron was again vulnerable to an invasion, the last surviving council member enacted the council’s contingency plan know as project PRIME. His plan was create a new leader for his home world that was powerful, charismatic, and endowed with the wisdom and knowledge of the ancients. After careful consideration he thought that creating one frame was not wise, nor was endowing any one individual with the knowledge of the ancients; so he decided to make two frames, one with a design based on the design of the powerful ‘Tron’ units the Fallen had created to destroy the council, yet vastly more powerful, and another which was the first of its kind that he marveled over as it was by far his best creation. He did not give either the wisdom of the ancients, but instead constructed a device he called the Matrix of Leadership to hold this knowledge. Its possessor would be endowed with the wisdom and power of the ancients. He had this artifact hidden and protected by an old mech he trusted known as Jetfire and he then sacrificed his spark to the Allspark in order to bring the two mechs he designed online. He named the first mech Megatron, and the second he named Optimus.
Centuries went by peacefully until an energon famine broke out threatening all Cybertronian life. The two leaders came up with a plan to harvest energy from distant stars of uninhabited solar systems. This worked well until one of the leader’s best friends and loyal followers ordered the destruction of a star in an inhabited solar system. This soldier was brought back to Cybertron and tried and convicted for the crime of genocide. Megatron was incensed and could not understand why Cybertronians (a.k.a. Autobots) would require the life of his friend in order to avenge the death of a solar system full of flesh creatures. Megatron made his mind up that he would not stand such an injustice, so he began to stir up unrest among the citizens. He claimed that they were superior creations, gods even, when compared with flesh creatures and that no Cybertronian life should be sacrificed for such pathetic creatures. Megs was able to rally enough support to mount an attack on the prison facility and free his friend as well as any other prisoner sympathetic to his cause. Optimus opposed Meg’s stance and pled with him declaring that freedom was the right of all sentient beings. Megs, however, could not be reasoned with so he decided to take his followers away from Iacon and start a government of there own in a region known as Polyhex.
Over the years tensions grew between the regions, but as long as there was energon on Cybertron there was peace. When energon began to run short once again, another Star Harvester crew was sent from Iacon in search of energy. The crew sent a message back to Iacon that was intercepted by Megatron’s team. The message stated that the nearest star system was inhabited and therefore no energon could be harvested. This news angered Megatron, so he ordered a task force to attack the Iaconian crew and force them to use of The Harvester. He further stated that if the crew would not comply, that they must be terminated for the good of Cybertron. The orders were followed and the crew was attacked. After refusing to do as Megatron wished, the crew was shot dead by Megatron’s followers which by this time were being called Decepticons. The dying crew managed to get a message of the attack to Iacon and Optimus sent out a squadron to pursue the betrayers. They followed the hijackers of The Harvester back to Polyhex were they were greeted by weapons fire. This was the beginning of the Great War.
With Cybertron dying, Optimus decided to seek out advice, and his search led him to an old Decepticon sympathizer, Jetfire. After speaking with Optimus, Jetfire was reminded of his old friend A3’s last wishes. He then revealed the Matrix of Leadership to Optimus and as he did so the voice of A3 and the ancients filled the room saying, “Arise Optimus Prime.” Jetfire immediately changed his allegiance and Optimus soaked in the wisdom from the Matrix (which he hid within his chest). He learned of The Fallen’s treachery and of the Cube and decided to send scout team of three to search for the relic so they could restore Cybertron and hopefully end the war. The team consisted of Jazz, Prime’s 1st lieutenant, Bumblebee, a skilled fighter, and Jetfire, whom the Decepticons now considered a traitor. Megatron placed a bounty on the head of Jetfire promising to promote the Decepticon that had information that could lead to the capture of Jetfire to Meg’s 2nd in command. A Decepticon known as Starscream hired a famed bounty hunting unit known as The Death Head Duo consisting of the hunters, Death Metal and Death Wreck to pursue Jetfire after acquiring information that Prime had sent the trio on a mission. So Death’s Head followed the Autobot crew to a distant solar system. As they passed through an asteroid belt, Death’s Head launched an attack on the Autobot crew destroying their ship. The three Autobots managed to escape the doomed ship but were separated from one another in the midst of the panic that ensued. Jazz and Bumblebee managed to find each other and realized that their Decepticon attackers were only after Jetfire, but by this time it was too late for both Jetfire as well as the Decepticons that had attacked them had vanished beyond the asteroid belt. The two Autobots, without a ship and low on energon made a refuge on the nearest planet (which was the 4th from the solar system’s sun) and sent word back to Cybertron that they had been attacked and Jetfire had disappeared and with him, the directions to the coordinates they sought.
