Confrontation with Shockwave didn't pass without consequences, Optimus's spark began to decay, and the Matrix of Leadership decided that his successor will be... Megatron, who wants to finally end the war.
The Lost Light crew is on their way to find...
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The Lost Light reached the Imano orbit in thirty-four minutes. Unlike the first, more or less 'calm' planet they visited earlier, this one already looked unfriendly even from space. No atmosphere suitable for organics, natural sources of water are also absent. Instead, there are numerous rivers of lava and sharp rocks. The temperature is quite high even for Cybertronians.
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There is mining here, so appropriate bases and small spaceports present, but the potential landing point is far from them, the area is completely uninhabited and seismically dangerous. As far as Megatron knew, technologies that are used these days are quite different from those when he was a miner: now mining at particularly risky depths is carried out by machines, and 'alive' operators control them from a more or less safe distance. Yeah, the silver mech thought to himself then, in the past they were throwing us into the very pit as expendable material, sometimes without providing basic means of protection...
What we are looking for is here, the inner voice suggested. Megatron was familiar with this feeling from the last time: the awareness of a fact that is not confirmed by anyone or anything yet... which couldn't even be called a fact until a certain moment.
"Don't resist. Perhaps you are the only mech here who can truly lead us to our desired goal. Whatever that means."
Whatever that means... Megatron was carefully observing the orange thickened in some places winding lines on the planet's surface, which were lava rivers. There are more of them in the southern hemisphere... But we will land in the northern... There's a path under the highest volcano on this planet... The silver mech shuddered and shook his helm.
"What are the landing coordinates?" he asked the operators just in case.
"58.728673 north latitude and 64.947981 east longitude," Cyclonus responded, "the more or less closest to the supposed search zone landing spot." The purple mech brought up a map of the area on the large screens, where the desired point was marked with a green cross. "Only the site isn't very big, no more than two hundred meters." An uneven area was outlined in red around the green pointer on the screen. "The Lost Light definitely won't be able to land there. Suitable for the ship landing areas are even further away. "
"Then what..." Rodimus, who had hesitated for a moment, suddenly remembered what they had used to get to the ship directly from Cybertron, and asked the silver mech: "The shuttles?"
"Looks like it," he nodded sullenly, "to the surface by shuttle, and then on pede to Arog Janengo."
"Fire Mountain?" the Ultra Magnus's voice suddenly rang out from behind, recognizing the name said in Ancient Cybertronian. Megatron, remaining in the captain's chair, turned to him over his right shoulder and casually remarked:
