Forever Alone: Transformers Prime

Chapter XV

Julie sighed before she flew up into the beams and landed. The chain around her neck seemed to continue to glow as the charm laid against her chest. "More than 60 volcanoes are erupting worldwide, and downtown Honolulu is under 6 inches of snow. Scientists continue to devise theories connecting these unprecedented natural disasters with a planetary alignment which..." The news reporter said before the screen disappeared with a glitch and a loud beep.

"So, who wants to play a game?" June asked.

All of the kids turned away, clearly not interested. I sat on a beam near Ratchet who was at the monitors. "That tears it." Agent Fowler cried.

"Where are you going?"

"I can't just sit on my hands while the world spins out of control."

"And what exactly is it that you intend to do?" Ratchet asked.

"Anything, hook up with my boys at the pentagon. Figure out a way to bury that monster for good."

"In the event that Optimus can't?"

"Don't you mean Optimus and Megatron?"

"No one here is thrilled about this arrangement, Agent Fowler. Myself included, but with Optimus and Megatron together again..."

"Whoa, wait uh, again?" Jack asked. Interrupting Ratchet's train of thought.

"Megatron was an autobot?" Raf asked.

"Optimus was a con?" Miko cried.

"No on either count, but there was a time back on cybertron in the twilight hours of the golden age. When Optimus and Megatron were not sworn enemies. Do you recall when I mentioned that Optimus wasn't always a Prime? Well, he wasn't always Optimus either. He was once a clerk in the Iacon hall of records, named Orion Pax, but as he learned more about cybertron's past, he grew increasingly concerned about the present corruption in high places. An inequality among the masses.

"Orion became inspired by the words and ideas of a gladiator. One who had named himself after one of the 13 original Primes. Megatronus. Megatronus vowed to challenge Cybertron's leadership and demand that all cybertronians be treated as equals. This gladiator turned revolutionary, and rapidly gathered a loyal following. Soundwave, chief among them. Orion began corresponding with Megatronus, who came to be something of a mentor to him. As megatronus left the gladiatorial arena for the political, he saw fit to shorten his name. Before long,
Megatron appeared before the high council to propose his vision for a just society and it was here that he began to reveal his true colors. Proclaiming the need to overthrow the old guard with force and arrogantly demanding to be named the next prime, but, Orion did not believe in violence as a means of achieving justice. The sparks and minds of the council were moved by Orion's words. Here for the first time since Cybertron's golden age, stood someone worthy of being a prime, but that honor could only truly be achieved, by earning the legendary matrix of leadership.

"His ambitions thwarted, megatron spitefully severed all ties with Orion and the council and came to wage war on all who opposed him through his growing army of followers which he named decepticons. He vowed to claim the matrix of leadership for himself, wherever it might lie. In time, warfare consumed Cybertron. Poisoning the planet to its core. Orion journeyed there hoping to reverse the ill effects and found himself before the very spark of our life-giver, Primus himself. The ailing Primus sensed the innate nobility within Orion and bestowed the matrix upon him. It was thus, that as surprised and humbled, Orion Pax came to be Optimus, the last of the Primes."

"So Optimus got the matriz from Cybertron's core and now he's going to give it to earth's?" Miko asked.

"What's to stop megatron from just claiming the matrix for himself, this time around?" Jack asked.