(INSERT NAME) is the new Matrix Holder: What happens Next?

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  1. Mr. Chaos

    Mr. Chaos New Holder of the Matrix of Leakership

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    Inspired by this thread

    The set up is simple: Optimus dies and passes on the Matrix of Leadership to someone else. Either willingly OR unwillingly. Doesn't have to be the movie either! Could be he never wakes up in Episode 1 so someone else claims the Matrix. Also, it can be an Autobot and Decepticon... and they can go good or bad with it. Pick a bot and tell their story. What happens next?

    I'll start: in a battle in Season 1 Optimus is cornered by Starscream and killed, the scheming Decepticon ripping the Matrix from his body. At first he considers going back to Megatron but as he thinks about it he decides that he needs to understand the Matrix first and as such goes off in seclusion. Studying the matrix he causes his consciousness to enter and find the wisdom of the Primes stored within. There, faced with eons worth of heroic Cybertronian leaders, he is shown all the events of his life and how, had he simply been a better bot, he could have had so much more. Friendship, respect, joy, contentment. How he could have stopped the war and brought about a golden age, how he could have saved lives. All of that lost.

    Humbled and nearly broken from seeing all his faults laid to bare, he asks for guidance.

    The Autobots and the Decepticons continue to battle each other for another year or so after Optimus' passing and Starscream's disappearance, neither side able to defeat the other. But then one day a new Cybertronian appears. Solaris Prime (alt mode the Solaris ship from the cartoon) appears and beats the Decepticons back before telling the Autobots he has come to help them win the war. Thus would we see Starscream, now Solaris, begin a dangerous journey to redeem himself while hiding his past from his new allies.
     
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    Erector establishes between factions
     
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    I'ma go for Matrix Doomsday.
    Sunbow Megatron: Kills Prime And Uses It To Destroy The Earth,Extract Energon,Rule Universe, Fuel Nemesis Yadaydaya.
    Marvel Megatron: Mass Genocide.
    Movie Galvatron: Kill Autobots,Take Over Galaxy,Kill Unicron.
    Cartoon Galvatron:Mass Genocide.
    Overlord: Rule The Universe
    Deathasaurus:Rule The Universe.
     
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    TF rocks Try and stop me! Studio Trigger for Transformers!

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    Could I use this idea for a fanfic? :3
     
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    Scenario #1: Optimus Prime dies from the injuries he sustained in "Divide and Conquer." Jazz, as the next-highest-ranking Autobot present, agrees to take the Matrix. He feels a flash of insight when he first touches it, but nothing further. When Ultra Magnus arrives on Earth a few years later, Jazz convinces him to take the Matrix. In 2005, Ultra Magnus coordinates the Autobots' efforts on Moonbase One and flies to Earth to save Autobot City. He falls in battle with Megatron and the Matrix is passed to Springer. Galvatron destroys Springer on Junkion and takes the Matrix to Unicron. Inside Unicron, Daniel Witwicky rescues his father, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Jazz from being digested, and in their quest to escape, they are confronted by Galvatron. Jazz fights him and instinctively grabs the Matrix, and is transformed into Harmonius Prime, realizing that the Matrix had selected him twenty years earlier as the next Chosen One. His new alt mode is... I dunno, a Cayenne, I guess.

    Scenario #2: Optimus Prime is killed saving Grimlock from an exploding meteorite in "War of the Dinobots." Grimlock claims the Matrix and feels a flash of insight when he first touches it, but nothing further. While he is initially moved by Prime's sacrifice, he soon decrees that the Dinobots will not live in a closet at Autobot Headquarters and abandons the Autobots for Dinobot Island when it's discovered. The Autobots muddle along with a largely absentee leader (Grimlock does deign to save them from cybertonium depletion, but ignores them for the most part). He triumphantly returns in 2005 to fight Megatron in the Battle for Autobot City and sustains non-fatal injuries. Soon reborn as Galvatron, the Decepticon leader returns to Earth and kills the other Dinobots as they sacrifice themselves to give Grimlock time to escape to Cybertron. There, Grimlock savagely flies his ship through Unicron's eye and opens the Matrix, transforming into Tyrannus Prime as he does so. The Matrix now granting him increased intelligence and wisdom, Tyrannus Prime becomes a worthy Autobot leader.

    Scenario #3: Optimus Prime dies when the Constructicons dismember him in "City of Steel." They discover the Matrix and claim it, forming Devastator and destroying Megatron to take over the Decepticons. They commence building impressive bases and installations, culminating in their appropriation of the Solar Power Tower from Hoist and Grapple (and killing the two Autobots in the process) and their creation of the Decepticon City Trypticon in 1986. Starscream goes to Cybertron and returns with the Combaticons, who defeat Devastator and hand the Matrix over to Starscream in exchange for energy absorbers. Starscream rules over a largely cyberformed Earth but remains unaware of Autobot plans to retake Cybertron. When they launch their assault in 2005, Starscream goes to Cybertron at Shockwave's insistence only to be swallowed by Unicron when he also arrives. Numerous Autobots are also eaten, including resistance leader Elita-One, who battles Starscream within Unicron and wrests the Matrix away from him, being transformed into Aurora Prime as she opens it.

    That's all I got, I'm worn out.
     
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    Dead End: Claims the Matrix from Prime's corpse before Megatron yanks it from his grasp. The war then ends because Megatron attempts to create a new Decepticon army, not realising that the Matrix had actually already imprinted from Dead End and all his new soldiers can't be bothered to fight because there's no point in anything

    Beachcomber: Creates an army of environmentalist hippies who attempt to quell the violence using practices similar to those suggested for the First Earth Battalion - Wikipedia. Oddly, this approach fails

    Wheeljack: The Matrix inspires him to build "The Ultimate Doodad Macguffin". Unfortunately, he uses the Matrix as his starting point and as ever, it fails spectacularly. The Matrix is reduced to little more than a blinking disco ball, forever to be left at the back of the cupboard behind the (unintended) doomsday devices

    Whirl: The war ends as the Autobots and Decepticons join forces to kill Whirl after simultaneously realising the potential implications of him building an army and imbuing them with even just a fraction of his... colourful... psyche
     
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  7. Mr. Chaos

    Mr. Chaos New Holder of the Matrix of Leakership

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    Go right ahead!!
     
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    Marvel comics Ratchet gets the Matrix from Marvel Prime because he's about a billion times worthier. He becomes Medicus Prime and proceeds to kick ass even more than before, if such a thing is possible for him. ;) 
     
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    Beast Wars Silverbolt inherits the Matrix and becomes Prime Noble. He and his queen, Black Arachnia lead Cybertron forward into a new age of peace and happiness.

    Prowl should succeed Optimus Prime. Checkpoint could be used as his Prime self.

    350px-Checkpoint-boxart.jpg

    Thunderwing loyalists Ruckus, Windsweeper, Needlenose and Spinister discover the Matrix after the Unicron War and restore Thunderwing with it.

    or

    Marvel's time lost Galvatron befriends Hot Rod and intrigues him with tales of his future timeline where Hot Rod becomes Rodimus Prime. He encourages him to find the Matrix but manipulates him Palpatine style so he becomes Titanium series Menasor...

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    Thanks! But one question. What does the Solaris look like? I need to know for my fanfic. :3
     
  11. Mr. Chaos

    Mr. Chaos New Holder of the Matrix of Leakership

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    I'd say a blend of Sentinel Prime's G1 IDW form and the Armada Starscream body.
     
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    Thanks again! :3
     
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    The matrix was passed to wheelie who became wheelie prime, the entire worlds population of transformers fans revolted. They marched on mass to sunbow and proceeded to sack and pilage, the writing staff was executed by being thrown into a pit with the entire worlds supply of wheelie and wheelie primes action figures dumped onto them until crushed under the weight of tons of unwanted plastic.

    No one ever spoke of it again. It was passed by law as an offense that results in your execution.......i gotta go they're coming...
     
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    The Matrix is claimed by Jhiaxus who uses its power to activate every world within the The Hub Network, billions of new Cybertronians are brought online in service to the Liege Centuro.

    This new armada slays all in their path. Jhiaxus offers the broken Autobots and Decepticons a place in his army, when his offer is refused he proceeds to destroy them and Cybertron itself. This act begins to break his universe and the temporal walls begin to wean.

    Unicron is destroyed as each soldier of the Cybertronian Empire carries the light of the Matrix within them.

    With no foes left, Jhiaxus uses the Matrix one final time to shatter the barriers of his universe and carry The Hub, himself and all of his soldiers into the neighboring universe, the cycle of conquest is restarted again and again and again.
     
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    I want to see idw megatron become a prime or even shockwave ,well I have no ideas for megatron but , I do for shockwave ,once he gets the matrix he destroy all the autobots and then kill every other living being to save cybertron( I know this sounds dumb I’m really bad at storytelling)
     
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    Considering what Shockwave got up to in IDW1, it isn't a stretch that he'd decide to kill everyone to "save" Cybertron. That was basically his plan, in fact.
     
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    Whomever gets the Matrix, it doesn't matter. Soccer moms would still write in the hate mail and The Return Of Optimus Prime would still happen.
     
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    In the 'never wakes up from the Arc' scenario, Iron Hide takes the Matrix and proves unequal to the challenge. The autobots get wiped out with just a few survivors badly outnumbered trying to resist the decepticons.
     
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    Cheerful.
     
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    B-Prime/Rodimus Prime; Scenario One (Movieverse):
    AOE and TLK never happen. Movieverse Optimus Prime duels Megatron at the end of DOTM; however, Sentinel distracts him, and he is mortally wounded. He manages to kill Megatron, whose body is put into a secret military installation in Nevada with the bodies of Shockwave and Starscream. Unicron awakens early, and converts their dead corpses into Galvatron, Scourge, and Cyclonus, respectively. Meanwhile, Optimus dies, and Bumblebee takes the Matrix, becoming B-Prime. However, before he can do anything, Galvatron and his brigade attack, mercilessly slaying him, Hound, Drift, and a few other movieverse Autobots. Hearing of this, Hot Rod is sent from Britain to America, and battles Galvatron while Unicron begins to rise from the Earth. He takes the Matrix, and becomes Rodimus Prime, mercilessly slaying Galvatron and annihilating Unicron. However, this ruptures the Earth's crust (because Unicron was inside of it), and everyone dies as Earth crumbles into dust. Lockdown comes from space, finds Rodimus' corpse, and takes the Matrix, but isn't able to use it.

    Galvatronus Prime/Magnus Prime; Scenario Two (G1):
    All of The Transformers: The Movie happens as normal, except Galvatron kills Hot Rod before the latter can take the Matrix. He takes the Matrix, and is summoned into its depths, meeting the past Primes and confronting Optimus. He comes back with newfound wisdom, as Galvatronus Prime, and opens the Matrix, dooming Unicron. However, he dies in the attempt. The Matrix is pulled into Cybertron's orbit, and goes around the planet for forty years, until it is found by Ultra Magnus on a routine flight. He takes it, and is worthy, becoming Magnus Prime, leading the Autobots for a millenia.

    Proto-Prime; Scenario Three (G1):
    During battle in a cargo shuttle, Optimus Prime sustains injuries to his chest, and the Matrix comes into contact with a Decepticon-based protoform, which becomes the insanely powerful Proto-Prime. Proto-Prime absorbs the power of the Cybertronians around him, instantly killing them, and growing more and more powerful. Eventually, Autobots and Decepticons alike join together, beginning a massive assault on Proto-Prime. However, Proto-Prime comes out unscathed, and mercilessly slays all of them. His power becomes infinite, and he exterminates the likes of the Fallen, and the remaining of the Thirteen Primes. This all comes to a head when Unicron, along with Megatron, who he has upgraded into Galvatron, attacks the insanely powerful protoform. Galvatron manages to get his hands on the Matrix, and, in desperation, destroys it. This kills Unicron, and causes the protoform to disintegrate into nothingness. Galvatron, the last Cybertronian in his universe, goes insane, and travels back in time to plague his past self.
     
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