Predatron:Rise from Extinction

History Lessons

The dragon above is Three Blaze's beast form. See why he's called that?

Once Optimus had finished his story, Nagu left them to consult his datapads to see if he could find the device the Prime had described. This left Optimus with Three Blaze and Seirina, as Sinnertwin had been dismissed.

Not wishing to make things awkward, Optimus approached Seirina and asked, "You said that the Predacons leaving the Decepticons was history, but what is the full story? Megatron leaving the Predacons on Earth happened three millennia ago, and yet you have such an advanced culture already?"

The black femme looked at him and replied, "The smartest of the clones that Megatron sent to Earth brought with them designs of Cybertronian cities and technology. From what we know, our ancestors created their own culture from what they remembered of their home on Cybertron. As we have already told you, Predatron was originally populated by the original Predacon clones created by the Decepticons during the Cybertronian War, but what no one knew was that the clones had wanted to create their own city on Earth. Unfortunately, the Autobots there hindered their efforts tremendously. When the leader at the time discovered that there was no one who could command them, they fled the planet because they knew that Megatron would go looking for them. So they traveled."

Optimus hummed, as that made sense, in a way.

"But the AllSpark was sent away before Cybertron went dark, how is it that there are so many Predacons here?"

"Hot spots, of course." Three Blaze stepped forward, smiling gently.

"We have one giant hot spot here at the capital, with several smaller ones dotting around the other islands."

The red mech walked towards a set of doors, and pushed them open to reveal what appeared to be the town square.

"Our cities were built around the hot spots, so as to protect the newsparks from harm." Optimus followed him, and stared in amazement.

The buildings in the square were arranged around a circular patch of metal ground in the very center, but all around that were shops, vendor stalls, and various other places. Outside of the square, there were several tall, curved beams of metal that joined together in the center, high above the bare patch in the center of the square.

And in the circular patch of metal ground, around which many of the bots were talkings, were several glowing sparks buried within it. There were sparks that were blue, red, purple, magenta, and even a few where the colors changed softly.

The Prime had not seen a hot spot in a long time. Even before the War broke out, hot spots were rare and only popped up occasionally.

"Hot spots were rare on Cybertron even before I became a Prime. How do yours remain lit?"

Optimus looked at Seirina, who answered, "The secret of a sustainable hot spot is that when a bot dies, a portion of their Innermost Energon is poured into the hot spot, so that the sentio metallico in the ground can absorb it. The new sparks feed off of the energy it produces until they emerge. Before we die, however, we all have the choice of whether or not we wish to have that process done, for not everyone is comfortable with it."

Optimus was again amazed, for he had never heard of that being done before.

Innermost Energon was the Energon around a Cybertronian's spark, it was light pink in color and, unlike normal Energon, Innermost Energon never got used up, and it remained in the body until death. It was considered sacred to many bots, and some couples he'd known had even kept vials of their partner's Innermost Energon in their subspace in a similar manner to humans wearing wedding rings to show their union.

The Prime watched as several bots gathered around the hot spot, as a few sparks glowed more brightly.

"Ah, it seems that some of the newsparks are ready to join us." Three Blaze said, turning around towards the doors to the throneroom as Seirina followed.

The huge mech turned to the Prime with a smile and said, "You may join us if you wish, Optimus."

He didn't need to think twice and followed the siblings as they made their way down to the town square.

As I said, I wish to add some deeper culture and lore into this fic. Stay safe and be happy!