The Flaming Emissary

Chapter 6

Reiscorn was given a tour around Darkmount and the Nemesis by  Megatron himself, from the energon storage to the throne room. Predaking was extremely close to Reiscorn so he moved so that Starscream strolled in between them, Reiscorn wrapped his tail around one of Starscreams legs. Starscream felt it but left it, starscream realized his nervousness in a new place with unfamiliar faces. They continued their tour making their way to their final destination: The command center. The door slid open to view a large room of computers and drones working with soundwave at the main desk working at two different computers doing four different tasks at the same time, he turned in the presence of Megatron. 

"This is Soundwave, our ship's communication officer. He takes care of our surveillance and security. You will report to him if you need anything of the sort, now let me show you what has happened since your absence. Soundwave." Megatron explained.

The main screen lit up with an image of Cybertron, the darkness that had fallen over it. Resicorn stepped onto the bridge to get a closer look, his optics widened in shock. 'How has cybertron come to this?! Did the great cataclysm do this?!' Reiscorn whined, letting go of Starscreams leg and tucking it between his own. 

"Indeed, if it wasn't for those meddlesome Autobots we could've prevented this from happening. Our only goal was to bring equality among all the cities of cybertron, but there were many who disagreed wanting to keep themselves above the rest of us who were barely hanging to life. Life after the great cataclysm was difficult; the Thirteen Primes parting ways after their clash and some bloodshed caused by Solus' death from megatronus to the great cataclysm which somehow you escaped, then the Quintesson invasion and its resistance, which of course Soundwave was involved, then of course the Golden Age. I was created during the golden age as well as an old friend of mine, this era was a time of peace because of the Caste system that established classes among cybertron. There were the miners, the workers, the soldiers, the clerks, the nobles, and the Senators with the new Prime at the top alongside the Council who was the only beings who treated everyone equally. My friend was a data clerk that worked at the Iacon Hall of Records, his name was Orion Pax and I was at the time a miner to a famous Gladiator of Kaon. I wanted to create change in our society by gathering many who had the same desire, including my friend Orion Pax. I later shortened my name to Megatron, I requested an audience of the High Council, I explained my plan, and doing so I would have to be the next prime to accomplish this. The council denied my demand seeing that my way was with the use of violence, but Orion spoke up from my side and gave his point on this matter. His speech promoted a way to find this equality without violence, Orion's words astonished the council that they instead renamed him as the next Prime...as Optimus Prime. I became enraged and severed all ties with Orion and created an army, with the assistance of Soundwave, we called ourselves Decepticons. For if deception is what we bring, then we are gladly guilty. Optimus as well gathered his forces, called the Autobots, then began The Great War. The war consumed our planet's resources, that we had to flee in search of more but the Autobots fled to this planet called Earth. My main force was sent to this planet while I remained on cybertron in search of a rare item."

Reiscorn listened intently to Megatron's story while the others had left to their duties except for Predaking and Starscream who listened only half of this tale. 

"This war is still raging on but in the end, I feel that we've barely even made a difference in defeating the Autobots. Our attempts have drawn setbacks, we have lost many to our cause, but have gained new ones during this time."

Reiscorn looked down at Megatron, saddened by this discovery. Reiscorn bowed and walked out of the command center into the halls of the nemesis. Predaking followed behind him, a good distance behind reiscorn knowing he was troubled by this new fact. Megatron smiled, "Starscream, it seems that our new ally has taken this to the heart of my tale, you shall remain with him. Reiscorn seems very fond of you, I presume that you will use that if anything comes up." he remarked.

"yes, Lord Megatron." Starscream felt something wrong when he said that, it didn't feel right to him to manipulate a new ally after one had done the same to him. Starscream proceeded with his master's wishes, going after Reiscorn and Predaking.

Reiscorn had so many feelings mixing: he was sad, angry, mourning, and vengeful, but satisfied that he finally knew the truth about what happened to his legion. He headed to the hangar and walked to the edge of the deck and gazed out toward the horizon, he missed the comfort of his Lord. 

'Dragotron, Prima, Onyx, Megatronus, and......are all dead, they are gone. I wasn't there to share our final moments...I wasn't there to stand by my Lord's or my creator's side till the very end. Now they are just bones scattered across the ground of thousands of the others in the legion who I didn't stand beside to only be remembered in old records that describes us as idiotic and savage beast...never knowing our real accomplishments that helped propel the technology of our civilization farther than none can explain to a simple drone.'

Tears streamed down his muzzle and dripped onto the flight deck, he remembered all the memories he had with Dragotron, the Primes, and...his loved one. Reiscorn howled his sorrows to the top of his voice box could go, he cried out in his pain. He missed them so much; his Lord,  no not his lord..his younger brother. Reiscorn missed his younger brother Dragotron, he missed his advice..his presence strengthened him...but most of all..he missed his conjunx. 

'Ashmore, how I miss your elegant frame and her bright blue optics brightening each day. A sparkling was on our minds but since my duties of the Legion became more troubling..we didn't have the time to discuss it. There was so much I wanted to tell her but since the news of something coming to cybertron, everyone was in a panic. Predacons scattering and fleeing, creating stampedes among the ranks..the primes could do nothing about it. I could've been there at her and my brother's side but someone had pushed me into the new prototype of the stasis pods... there could've been a way to save them all if only I...' More tears and howling came from Reiscorn, he paced back and forth across the flight deck thinking and regretting.

Predaking entered the hangar seeing the crying Reiscorn pacing across the platform in mixed emotions, Starscream stood below Predaking taking in the appearance of Reiscorns weakened state. They watched him, he became more furious than sad. He started growling and snarling, hissing at some times as he paced.

'I should've been there, I should've been there for a last stand, I should've spent more time with Ashmore, I wasn't strong enough to break out of the pod to escape the freeze, I wasn't brave enough to control  this panic..."

Fumes of flame started emanating from his mouth, the flames grew in his mouth trailing up his back and flickering to life all the way down to his tail. The flames grew larger and brighter, he roared in his fury. Starscream was trembling in surprise and shock at what was happening to Reiscorn, Predaking never realized one of his own could ever reach this point. Reiscorn disappeared in a strong circle of his flames, Megatron, Soundwave, and Shockwave entered the flight deck witnessing the ring of powerful flames.

"What is going on here?!" commanded Megatron confused about the situation.

"Reiscorn was crying out of the tale you told him, and I presumed he was mourning over his people but then he started pacing back and forth across the deck. He started growling and hissing until flames started building up around his body that formed a firewall closing him off." Starscream explained.

"Now I realize what those pipes on his spines that line down his back, they are like flamethrowers that only activate on emotion or presumably by remote of his processor but since he is in a state of mixed emotions. It acted on his emotions instead for his mind was too clouded at the moment to suppress it." Shockwave analyzed and explained.

The flames unfolded from one another revealing Reiscorns true form; the flames lifted up from the ground and hovered onto the sides of Reiscorns frame, his body heaving hard. His muzzled filled with hazed flame whipping around, his optics were angry and dark.

"This is no ring of fire since Reiscorn has no way of taking flight...his flames act as his wings," Shockwave explained astonished by this discovery.

"So this is the true form of the Flaming Emissary, excellent" megatron mischievously grinned upon this opportunity that will surely gain the upper hand in this war.