Rise | Transformers Prime fanfic

Chapter 128

"My liege."

Unicron turned around and smirked at the sight of Optimus Prime being held down by the powerful cyber wolf. "Ah, Optimus. So nice of you to join us." Unicron said with a gesture of his servo. "Like I had a choice." The Prime said bluntly, making the god growl.

"I see that pesky human's personality rubbed off on you on the time you spent with her."

Optimus didn't respond, which made Unicron grin. "A shame what had happened to her. She would've made a fine soldier on the winning team."

"She would have never joined your cause, just like I shall not."

Unicron chuckled. "I did not request you here to once again ask you to join me. I asked my subjects to fetch you so you could witness the dawn of a new era."

"And that would be—?"

"The rein of Unicron, the all mighty!"

Blackscar snarled at Optimus with approval of his masters words, slightly annoyed Optimus did not react. "And that will start with one thing—" Unicron grabbed the back of Optimus' neck cables as a space bridge opened in front of them.

"—your execution." Unicron snarled into his audio receptor before throwing him through.

~

"Get up, you puny Autobot."

Smokescreen groaned as his optics fluttered open, noticing he was looking at a different sky then what he was used to after battles. "Hey kid." A voice said, making the young Autobot's optics snap quickly to the left.

"Bulkhead." He breathed out in relief as the wrecker held out a servo to help him up. Smokescreen accepted it and clutched it tight out of happiness.

"Where are—?" Smokescreen stopped as he gazed around in disbelief. "Cybertron." He breathed out sadly, looking around at his dead planet.

"It seems this was Unicron's plan all along." Another voice said. Smokescreen looked over,  breathing out slowly of the happiness that overcame him.

"Arcee...Bumblebee...guys...you're alive...oh, Primus, you're alive." Smokescreen said with trembling servos. Arcee smiled lightly with her brother approaching next to her, his wings raised in alertness.

"Don't get all mushy on us, kid." Arcee said playfully and Bumblebee whirred in agreement. Smokescreen stepped forward to try and get to them, but was stopped by an invisible shield that surrounded him and Bulkhead.

He looked at the shield weirdly and touched it, watching it wobble at the touch but remain in tact to keep them at bay.

"One of Unicron's inventions. Something new to cage us in." Ultra Magnus said from his own shield bubble that he was locked in with Breakdown and Knockout. "That's fun." Smokescreen mumbled bitterly as he looked around.

"Why're we here?" He asked just before a space bridge opened, and it was then that he noticed they were sitting on top of a arena looking down at the center.

Optimus was thrown through the space bridge harshly, landing on his back and rolling a few feet before stopping on his chest plates, venting heavily.

Unicron slowly stepped through with Blackscar and Poet following, just as multiple other space bridges opened up around the captured Autobots and Decepticons and at the far end of the arena, all growling and snarling in excitement for a reason unknown to the prisoners.

"What's happening? What're they doing to Optimus?"

"They are doing just what I suspected Unicron has wanted to do since the beginning."

Everybody turned their helms at the last shield that held Ratchet all alone, sitting on the ground and staring off at nothing in particular.

"They're going to execute him in the pits, just as Megatron once wanted to do."

~

Unicron was standing at the highest point above the arena, all the way across from where Optimus was chained to the ground. Blackscar and Poet were both standing next to him, looking up at Unicron.

"My army—"

His minions went silent.

"—we gather here today, to bear witness to the beginning of a new era. The rein of Unicron!"

His men cheered, snarled and howled in excitement. "Once the last extent of Primus is killed, we will strike Primus himself with a sacrifice of Dark Energon." They cheered again. Unicron looked at Poet and Blackscar.

"Are you prepared for this? To show your compete loyalty to me, your one true master?"

Blackscar and Poet bowed their heads confidently, earning a pleased smirk from the god.

"Excellent. You may now begin."

Poet and Blackscar turned to Optimus, slowly walking in front of him. Optimus has a blank expression on his face, as if he already accepted his fate.

Poet slowly pulled out his blaster, raising it slowly to Optimus' spark as Blackscar readied himself to pounce and permanently tear his spark out after Poet's shot.

Unicron laughed evilly as his minions cheered in excitement, nobody noticing the few that cowered back at the sight of the last hope to stop Unicron about to be killed.

"Let this make history! Let us make history! The extinction of the Prime's, once and for—"

Poet whipped around to Blackscar standing behind home, still in a crouched position, catching the cyber wolf by surprise as he jumped up and brought his foot in his snout, knocking his helm back.

Poet spun around, using his elbow to jam into Blackscar's neck before spinning around again and finally landing a blow on his ribs and sending him flying across the pits of Kaon, slamming into the wall of the arena.

And the cheers stopped alongside Unicron's speech, as the prisoners simply gaped in shock at the panting human in the middle of the arena that just bested a highly trained, lethal cyber wolf.

There was a brief moment where everybody was speechless, and nobody made a sound. But that moment only last a minute before anger boiled inside Unicron and he opened his mouth with his servos clenched, shaking with a rage he hadn't felt since the days when he fought with his brothers and father, and this time he wasn't holding back.