Beast Wars Prime

Family Secrets Finally Revealed

Hello everyone, I hope you're ready for a big chapter of fights, surprises and feels. Quick note, I did have to change a word in the last chapter. I meant to write hours instead of days when the Vehicons were getting their memories wiped. Fair warning, there is some sensitive material in this chapter regarding Mikos' childhood and I apologize for it. Enjoy!

On the distant planet of Cybertron, deep within its' new hiding place, the ancient supercomputer Vector Sigma reactivated. It had been watching events unfold through the various means at its' disposal, primarily through the eyes of its' host and influencing events where it could. Taking a moment to fully analyze all the events that had happened thus far, it concluded only one thing.

"It is time." The computer spoke. The orb of its' body began to glow and spin before releasing an encoded transmission in the form of a pulse that would reach its' recipients across the galaxies.

Its' work done; Vector Sigma went back into standby mode. All it could do now was wait.

(Near Vector Sigma, a Scraplet hive suddenly became a little more active.)

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In the Autobot City med bay, Velocity was preparing for a rather delicate procedure.

"Alright Lightbright." The Camien doctor began, turning to the systems analyst on the operating table. "Now I know that Brainstorm was able to perfect the channeler key and siphoned some energy from the Enigma of Combination into it. But are you sure you want to do this?"

"That's the third time you asked me that Velocity. Yes!" Lightbright replied exasperatedly.

"Okay, okay." The medic replied. "I just wanted to remind you that once you activate this process, it'll be irreversible."

"I know." Lightbright replied seriously. The tone belying her usual personality. "But I'm willing to make that sacrifice for Sparkstalker, and there's no guarantee that Magnaboss will be on hand to help him when he shows up again." She explained. There was a beat of silence before Velocity nodded.

"I understand." She confirmed. Turning back to the nearby instrument panel, she reached for a switch.

"Commencing stasis lock, now." Velocity announced as she flipped the switch, knocking Lightbright unconscious. Giving one last look to her notes on spark symbiosis, she began the open spark surgery.

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In the Maximal den, Raf was surrounded by the other Maximals as well as their Autobot partners and his brother Enrique. The poor Maximal had been borderline catatonic since his delve into Tankors' brain the day before. Finally, the young medic was ready to talk.

His revelation came as a complete shock.

"You mean the Vehicon generals are...us?" Miko asked incredulously.

"From a different timeline." Raf confirmed with a whisper. This got the attention of Heinrad and Rattrap. Giving each other a small nod, they exited the den as the discussion continued.

"Different? How?" Goldbug asked.

"They never got out of Darkmount." Raf continued. "In our timeline, when we were made into technorganic Maximals, we escaped while combined and met Wheeljack during our escape."

"I remember that." Wheeljack replied. "I just snapped my guards' neck and slipped my cuffs. I ran into you three after your escape."

"In their timeline, the group of Vehicons we fought afterwards managed to sneak up on us and shoot you through the chest from behind." Raf explained.