Transformers Prime: Earth's Protectors

Chapter 22- Rise of Unicorn (Part 4)

3rd POV (Inside the Core of Unicron)

Megatron, Optimus, Arcee, Periwinkle, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee walk through a tunnel. Megatron grunts as he kneeled on the ground, holding his helm. He gets a vision of Unicron destroying Earth.

"Unicron grows ever stronger." Megatron tells them.

He gets up and walks past the others

"How do we know Unicron isn't using Megatron to lead us all into a trap?" Arcee asked in suspicion.

"We do not." Optimus replied.

He follows Megatron. Arcee turns her servos into ion blasters. Periwinkle does the same. Everyone continues to walk through the tunnel. Unknown to them, an Antibody crawled on the ceiling. Back at Base, everyone else listens to the news as the lightning crashes outside.

"More than 60 volcanoes are erupting worldwide! And downtown Honolulu is under six inches of snow! Scientists continue to devise theories connecting these unprecedented natural disasters with a planetary alignment which-" the TV goes off.

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

Miko, Lydia, Jack, and Raf just look at her. Fiona sighed as she pinched her nose bridge.

"What do you think, June?" Fiona deadpanned.

"I'm just trying to lighten up the mood." June claimed.

"That tears it!" Fowler exclaimed.

He starts to walk away.

"Where are you going?" June asked.

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

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

"Anything! Hook up with my boys at the Pentagon, figure out a way to bury that monster for good." Fowler punches his fist into his palm.

"In the event Optimus can't." Rachet points out.

"Don't you mean Optimus and Megatron?" Fowler asked.

"No one here is thrilled about this arrangement, Agent Fowler. Myself included. But with Optimus and Megatron together again-" before Rachet can go on, Jack interrup.

"Whoa wait, again?" Jack says in disbelief.

"Megatron was an Autobot?" Raf asked.

"Optimus was a 'Con?" Miko assumed.

"Were they ex-lovers like Periwinkle and Wheeljack?" Lydia asked.

"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 rather. He was once a clerk, in the Iacon Hall of Records named Orion Pax. But as he learned more about Cybertron's past, he grow increasingly corned 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, Megatronous. Megatronous vowed to challenge Cybertron's leadership and demand all Cybertronians be treated as equals. This Gladiator turned revolutionary rapidly gathered a loyal following, Soundwave chief among them. Orion began corresponding with Megatronous, who came to be something of a mentor to him. As Megatronous 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 demanded 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 by 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 those who opposed him through his army of followers which he named Decepticons. He vowed to claim the Matrix for himself, wherever it might lie. In time, warfare consumed Cybertron. Poisoning the planet to it's 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 a surprised and humbled Orion Pax came to be Optimus; the last of the Primes." Rachet explained.