Transformers Prime: Nahko

Victory and Lose

Nahko's POV

We haven't heard anything from Optimus or the others since they left. I guess they are to deep under ground and to close to Unicron to get a comm signal. We are watching the news on the main screen, while we wait. "More than sixty volcanoes are erupting worldwide, and downtown Honolulu is under six inches of snow! Scientists continue to devise there is connectings between unprecedented natural disasters with the planetary alignment which" it stops as the signal is cut because of the storm.

"So who wants to play a game?" Nurse Darby asks. None of us say anything. As we are not in a gaming mood.

"That tears it!" Fowler exclaims heading for the elevator.

"Where are you going?" Nurse Darby asks him.

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

"And what exactly is that that you intend to do?" Ratchet asks him.

"Anything!" Fowler exclaims. "Hook up with my boys at the Pentagon, figure out a way to bury that monster for good" he states.

"In the event Optimus can't?" Ratchet asks.

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

"No one here is thrilled about this arrangement, agent Fowler, myself included. But with Optimus and Megatron together again" Ratchet starts to say.

"Wow, wait, again?" Jack asks.

 "Megatron was an Autobot?" Raf asks.

"Optimus was a 'Con?" Miko asks.

"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? And he wasn't always Optimus, either. He was once a clerk, in the Iacon Hall of Records, named Orion Pax" Ratchet explains. I had heard a little about this from Jazz. Though it is nice to hear more of the story.

"What happened next?" I ask him.

"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 thirteen original Primes, Megatronus. Megatronus vowed to challenge Cyberton's leadership and demand that all Cybertronians be treated as equals. This gladiator turned revolutionary rapidly to gather loyal following. Soundwave chief among them" Ratchet explains. I understand wanting everyone to be treated equally, but how did Megatronus become the Megatron we know today?

"Orion began corresponding with Megatronus who came to be something of the 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 colours" Ratchet tells us. "Proclaiming the need to overthrow the old Guard with force and arrogantly demanding to be named the next Prime" he states. I already knew that part of the story thanks to Jazz, I hope he and the others are ok.

"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" Ratchet tells us proudly. "But that honour could
only truly be achieved by earning the legendary Matrix of Leadership" he states.

"What happened to Megatron?" I ask him curious.

"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 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 the surprised and humbled Orion Pax came to be Optimus, the last of the Primes" Ratchet explains.