The Transformers - Generation One: The Last Transmission Of Doctor Archeville

Part 3

In Dr. Archeville's lab, the monitor starts to fizzle and flip again, sounds of the doctor's voice soon can be heard again as it scrolls back into position again. Soon his panic stricken face is seen again, his one human eye looking all about the area, as he finally starts to calm down again. He clears his throat and keeps a watchful eye about him as he sends out one last message to the earth.

The recorder switches back on as he talks:

Damn them all!! Guards continue to look in on me ever so often...its Shockwave.... I know he keeps looking to catch me. He's never trusted me, ever since I came here...I don't say I blame him...I don't trust me either, ahahahah! The Fool...I've adjusted the frequency modulation to a new setting and made some modifications to this computer. How dare Shockwave not trust me, after all I've done to help them rebuild their new automated security systems!! I hate them all!!

Starscream brought be to this...this.... unfeeling planet! But I remember...yesss... I remember his treachery before this...it was after he grabbed me from the ocean, Cybertron's orbit just destroyed the energy collector I was on. He took me to some distant island where he tried to suck my living energy out...too bad I don't generate enough to form one cube...ehehe. But still he treated me like his slave.... A slave! ME? Dr. Archeville?! If there was anyone that deserved to be my slave it would be him!! No, not I! But I remember what happened after that...he grabbed me and forced me to take him to my secret lair in the mountains. He forced me to show him my new project I had been working on before Megatron's plan to bring Cybertron to our orbit. He locked me out of my own lab and tinkered with my experiment, the Exponential Generator! A device I was trying to create in order to make unlimited amounts of raw energy, but it was hard to contain, and even harder to keep stable. When he finally allowed me to enter back in the room...that's when I saw what was done. He tried to use my exponential generator as a time bomb to blow up the Earth!! He was crazy!! But what could I do.... he...threatened my very life if I touched it.... or even if I went near it!

Megatron was his target, but the explosion would have vaporized the world! He seemed pleased by that; it was his plan to collect the energy Earth produced from its demise. I wanted no part of it, I tried to convince him to let me stay on the planet to make sure it would be safe, but he forced me to go with him to Cybertron! The planet of theirs was still in motion from the shuttle explosion, you see, Megatron was bringing up all the energon in his shuttle to Cybertron.... but the Autobots stopped him as he reached the center orbit between the two planets. The shear force of the mammoth sized blast pushed the metal planet out of our orbit, so much that Cybertron kept drifting further and further away. It was drifting right out of our solar system...but Starscream still had enough energon to make it. I was amazed at the whole world...a machine planet, totally alien in all respects. It was a fascinating sight to see for the first time, but I should have known he would never let me leave again. That miserable robot had the nerve to gloat in front of me, telling me I'd be the last of my kind, it was then I realized the scope of my doom. I had to save the Earth...my fellow humans were going to die and it was my entire fault! If I never gave them my inventions or my genius.... none of that would have happened. I tried to activate his computer to shut down the timer, but I was given a massive electrical charge as I touched the controls. I could feel every inch of my body exploding on fire...the energy damaged me beyond belief...I was amazed I didn't suffer any brain damage!! It was when I regained consciousness, that grinning twit was standing over me laughing at my new transformation. His medbots reconstructed my body into...into.... well.... look at me!!! I'm a cybernetic nightmare!! I can't move my entire body! Only my right arm and my face...what's left of my face anyway.

I was now completely helpless...a prisoner of cybernetic parts! I hated this creature.... I hated what they did to me...Megatron betrayed me; Starscream destroyed me.... and now.... now I'm stuck as a slave to this purple metal lap dog of Megatron!!! I was glad the timer on the bomb didn't work, I told Starscream he'd have to go down and repair the problem himself.... seeing how he was the only one who knew how to work it. Starscream flew back down to Earth to fix the timepiece, as he left me alone with that no good Shockwave. I had overheard Shockwave talking to Megatron after Starscream's departure, telling him about the device and of Starscream's betrayal, it seemed he'd survived his shuttle accident, that's when I realized Megatron was going to kill that moronic idiot for double crossing him. Ooooh I was waiting to hear the endless details of his death...it did send a shiver down my spine...what was left of my spine anyway. I had hoped Megatron would disassemble him piece by piece...but I should have known he'd spare that sniveling little coward. He merely tortured him for a week.... not at all what I had hoped for. Shockwave informed him of my being on Cybertron and of my condition, which seemed to please him to no end, the greatest scientific mind of Earth was now his personal slave for all time. A slave.......a.....a....slave....forever! I've been here all this time. Working for these...robots, fixing their computers, calculating new spacebridge coordinates...and now word has come that Megatron is returning to Cybertron to launch a final attack on the Autobots. How I do miss the green forests, the rushing waterfalls...the people. I can't let these creatures destroy all that...

I've been here so very long, I no longer have the will to live; life has lost all meaning to me being here. You must forgive me my fellow humans.....I .....I was weak, like any of our kind, I made a terrible mistake...I've paid for my sins.... paid for them and beyond. But I want it to be known.... that I, Dr. Archeville, have redeemed myself...yes...I've become a force for good, instead of evil. Over the few remaining years, I've sent word to the Autobots on a near by moon base about the many schemes of Megatron. I downloaded their database and encrypted the findings to the Autobots, perhaps this will help them plan a new attack on their enemies and destroy them once and for all!! I no longer crave power anymore my fellow human beings...I see now that power is a corrupt means to an end. Forgive my flaws, oh humanity...forgive my poor soul. Optimus Prime.... if you ever see this message, I pray that you will stop Megatron, Starscream and all the rest of them...help my people! Yes...Help My People Optimus Prime!!

Oh - oh no......they've discovered my signal! No! NOO!

Sh-sh-shockwave.... ahaha...what a.... what a pleasant surprise...I was.... I was just sending a message to my poor ma-ma on earth...th-thats all.... a-ahehe....

No....NO PLEASE!! NOT THAT!! I DON'T DESERVE THAT!!! I'M DOCTOR ARCHEVILLE!!! THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC MIND OF THE ENTIRE WORLD, YOU CAN'T......YOU CAN'T END ME LIKE THIS......NOOOOOOO......* FIIIZZZZ-BLAAAAM!!! *

•• Transmission Signal Lost ••

• Searching For Signal....... Searching.........Searching........Searching.........No Signal. Transmission Terminated. •

• Recording Finished - Computer Off •

As the monitor soon shuts down, so too does the entire computer, the lights all dim and once again the room is silent. A dark lab, filled with dust and cob webs, dead inside the lonely rocky mountain, where no one has been...nor ever will visit...ever.... again.

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