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                             The Transformers

                                Part II:
                     The Return of the Decepticons

                          By Jason Doolittle
                       jrdoolit@vax1.acs.jmu.edu



                             Chapter 9


	Optimus Prime had a problem. Even though Cybertron had been at peace
for millions of years, he had a strange feeling that something was going to
happen that would destroy all that the Autobots had built since the Second
Great War. He wasn't sure what, but the Matrix was giving him bad vibrations.
He had allowed Alpha Omega to start a project designing a new Transfromer,
which was an advancement on Optimus Prime's design. These were meant to be
warriors and nothing else. Optimus was so afraid of what he was sensing that he
wanted to have protection, whatever might go wrong. He thought the safest thing
to do was to build up some kind of reserve army in case of trouble. For some
reason this did not ease his mind.
	The new Transformer was beyond anything else built before. It was the
same size as Optimus Prime, but was inherently more versatile, more powerful,
and more durable. He could fight alone in robot mode, or be used by someone
else in rifle mode. It seemed to be the ultimate insurance to Prime's fears.
Still, Prime was unsure of the project, and told Alpha Omega not to give the
robot life once it had been finished. The robot was put in a sealed room deep
under the capital city, and the project remained top secret.
	Meanwhile the remaining losers of the Second Great War still were in
hiding. General One did have scouts on the surface who brought him news  of
what was going on. one of these scouts was actually an Autobot technician named
Hook. Hook was one of Alpha Omega's team members on the project. He was a
Decepticon at heart, but his work as a surgeon and engineeer was more important
to him, so he became an Autobot and hid his true loyalties. Hook reported to
General One about the project. General One realized immediately that this robot
could be the start of the rebirth of the Decepticon Empire. After much
preparation, Hook was able to locate and open the secret lab where the robot
was placed. General One and some other Decepticons arrived and started the
work. General One's plan was to bring this robot to life, and then destroy
Optimus Prime and take over Cybertron.
	The problem was that the birth of a Cybertronian mind was a random
event. The old computer programs could give any variety of personality to the
robot. Hook knew this, and had secretly been working to control the computer
program to give it a certain kind of personality - a personality directed on
destroying the Autobots and ruling Cybertron. General one of course wanted to
rule Cybertron, but Hook did not appreciate General One's leadership
capabilities. Hook made sure that this new Transfromer would have dreams of
conquest as well. Hook constructed the brain, which was by far the most
advanced ever made. It had more processors, and could think faster than even
most computers on Cybertron. Hook was indeed a genius at neural and
micro-processing technologies. Everything was ready for the birth of this new
Decepticon.
	Hook put the brain in, and plugged it in. He then turned on the
personality computer, and enetered the sub-program he created to bring the kind
of personality he wanted. He then turned it on. The room lit up in a flash of
bright light as the power of Cybertron fed into the robot's body, and
simultaneously he was given life. Something then went wrong. The robot's body
had a huge capacity for recieving energy, more energy than the program
initially gave to it. The robot's power core started sucking more energy through
the computer network, overloading the system and the program. In turn raw
energy was being absorbed directly into the co-processors of the brain until
the computer overloaded and shut down. This Transformer now had more energy in 
it than any other on Cybertron. Hook checked the computer, but the lines had 
been burned, and the computer was destroyed. The robot rose and stood up.
	Hook looked up at the looming figure.
	"Can you hear me? What is your name?"
	The robot just looked around, still smoldering from the energy
transfer.
	Hook asked again, "Do you have a name?"
	The robot answered in a menacing voice, "I am Megatron."
	"What is your function?"
	"To destroy the Autobots, and rule Cybertron."




                         Chapter 10


	Realizing that his plan had worked, General One attempted to take
over the conversation. "I am General One, Leader of the Decepticons, you will
obey me and me only, and we will crush the Autobots."
	Megatron just stared at General One.
	"Well?" General One was getting annoyed, "Don't just stand there like a
twit. Kneel before your new master and pledge your allegence!"
	" I am not yours nor anyone's subordinate. You are weak. You are not
even fit to be a Decepticon! Only the strong will be allowed that name. You and
all that stand in my way will be crushed."
	General One was dumbfounded. "Hook, what went wrong? Why is he acting
this way? What did you do?!"
	Hook acted equally perplexed. "I - I don't know what happened, he
sucked all the energy out of the systems. He should have overloaded." Secretly
Hook was happy with what had happened. Megatron was more powerful than any
Transformer he had ever seen.
	"You listen here Megatron." General One yelled with growing annoyance,
"You will obey me. I am the Leader of the Dedcepticons!"
	"You are leader of nothing!" Megatron replied, "I obey no one."
	With that General One went ballistic. "If you won't obey me you will
be destroyed! Fire!"
	The five Decepticons futilly tried to bring down Megatron with their
weapons. With one blast from his shouder mounted blaster Megatron disentegrated
three of the Decepticons, and hurled General One and Hook into the far wall.
Megatron then blew his way out of the underground lab and flew off.
	Meanwhile, several levels above the secret lab the Autobot headquarters
computer was sreaming warnings. The operator informed Optimus Prime that the
lab had been breached, and the computers on all lower levels were
non-functional. Also, there was a thirty percent power drain on all systems.
Prime immediatetly knew what had happened. He put together a security squad and
went down to the lab. The lab was completely destroyed, with a hole in the
ceiling leding up to the surface. A security officer found one Transformer,
later identifyed as Hook. He was dead. No others were found.
	As Prime was heading back up to Headquarters, warnings sounded as the
main control room had been breached. Optimus Prime raced up there to discover a
huge silver Transformer standing amongst the smoldering ruins of dozens of
Autobots. He was draining the last bits of information from the Headquarters
Computer. Optimus shot the perpetrator squarly in the chest, and the blast
hurled him to the floor, releasing his connection to the computer. The silver
Transforemer immediatly jumped up and fired a salvo of blasts, hitting Optimus 
and knocking him unconscious. Only the Matrix saved his life. Just then the
Headquarters automatic security system activated, and fired rounds of energy
blasts at Megatron. Weakened considerablly, but not damaged, he escaped the
Headquarters to fight again another day.
	When Prime awakened Alpha Omega was at his side. "Can you hear me,
Prime?" Alpha Omega asked.
	"Yes. I fear we are in great danger. How did your project get loose?"
	"I am not sure, but I believe Hook must have had something to do with
it. He knew quite a bit about the project and of neurology. It is likely that
he built a brain for then thing and revived him, but he is apparently much more
powerful than he had been designed for. The power drain we experienced was a
result of his body absorbing energy through the computer."
	"But that kind of power would destroy any Transformer."
	Alpha Omega agreed,"That is true, but apparently this robot has the
capacity to absorb vast amounts of energy, and then use that energy as a
weapon. It is definitley something I did not design, but must have been
inherent in the design structure."
	"Not only is he against us, but he knows everything about Cybertron.
Who could have altered his personality programming?"
	"Hook was a genius. He could have discovered a way to alter the
personality program to conform to what he wanted." Alpha Omega explained, "Not
only is this robot evil, but he is vastly intelligent, and more powerful than
anything we have seen before."
	Optimus Prime realized that all his fears were coming true. If this
Transformer was not stopped it would spell the doom of the Autobots and of
Cybertron.




                             Chapter 11


	Needless tp say Optimus Prime had a big problem. Not only had the most
powerful Transformer gotten loose, but he was evil and bent on the Autobot's
destruction. Optimus immediately started preparing for war.
	Unknown to Prime was that Megatron had started a project of his own.
Using the knowledge form the Autobot Headquarters Computer, he designed and
constructed his own Transformer factory, and started construction of his first
ally. He was going to build an army himself form the ground up.
	The Autobots attempted futile searches to find Megatron, but could not.
For 300 years Megatron stayed hidden while working on his project. He was able
to automate the design and construction, but did not have the programming
facilities. His first ally was a huge, blue Transformer, designed to be his
technical wizard and communications officer. Hook gave Megatron the knowledge
he had of personality programming, so Megatron used this to make sure this new
Transformer was allied to him. Megatron built three more decepticons, which all
looked the same in shape. All were flying vehicles: one black, one blue, and
one grey. The only way to give these Transformers life was to take them to
Autobot Headquarters.
	Meanwhile Prime had beefed up defenses around headquarters. He also
started building new Autobots based on Technologies that Alpha Omega had
developed. The first of these was named Ironhide, then came Wheeljack, Hound,
Jazz, and Kup. Outside of this buildup life on Cybertron remained the same.
Cybertronians were still thriving in the Golden Age of Cybertron. Prime was
careful to release information about the Megatron Incident, for fear of panic.
Only the Autobot High Command knew that a war was a distinct possibility.
	One night Megatron blasted his way into Autobot HQ. Using his four new
robots by remote control, he was able to easily penetrate the HQ defenses.
Quickly he went down to the lab and hooked up each Decepticon to the
personality computer. Within minutes the program was finished, and four new
Decepticons were born: Soundwave, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Starscream. As
they were leaving the HQ, Optimus Prime and his new Autobots blocked the
Decepticons' escape.
	"You will not escape from here again." Prime said, knowing somehow that
was not going to happen.
	"Optimus Prime, we meet again. This time I have an army, stonger than
anything you've yet encountered." 
	With that Megatron fired at Optimus, and a huge firefight began. The
Decepticons, with their ability to fly, totally out-maneuvered the Autobots,
and gained the upper hand. Megatron realized this was not the confrontation he
was looking for, and quickly left the HQ, leaving behind three injured
Autobots.
	Megatron not only started his army in the Autobot lab, but studied and
memorized the schematics for the computer, so he and Soundwave could construct
their own which would make each new Decepticon loyal to Megatron.
    	The Decepticons quickly built up an army superior in design to anything
the Autobots had. With it they could with a few, destroy as much as hundreds,
or thousands could in the last Great War. The Decepticons laid waste to
entire cities, using their superior air power and technology that Megatron
stole from the Autobot computer and put to perfect use. Anyone who did not
declare loyalty to the Decepticon Empire was destroyed on the spot. The
Decepticons took no prisoners. Soon they controlled nearly 1/3 of the surface
of Cybertron.
	The Autobots also started a rapid builup, intent on stopping the
Decepticons. Alpha Omega finished one last project: The construction of a
super-computer that could handle all of the Autobot's functions, including
defense, tactics, strategy, and all information form Cybertronian data banks.
The name for this computer is Teletran One. It was the one advantage the
Autobots had, because it could keep track of all entities on Cybertron with the
use of satellites. The Autobots could often arrive at a place before the
Decpticons got there, and they were able to save much of Cybertron because of
Teletran One.
	



                           Chapter 12




	This war was not like the last war. Because of the new designs of
Transformers, weapons systems did not easily destroy the enemy. Transformers
could survive most battles, and go in for repairs. Before, thousands of
Transformers would clash, and thousands would die, in every battle. There now
was not as much need for factories, as there was for maintenance and repair
crews, because most warriors came out of battle damaged, but not destroyed.
Also, there was not as many involved in the war, because there was not a need
for numbers. All those who were not of the "new generation" did not last long
in the war, and very few survived. (To this day only 2 are known to exist.) All
Cybertronian civilians were either destroyed or conscripted.
	The new Transformers and new weapons systems required vast amounts of
energy, that the leaders of both sides knew was not available on Cybertron. The
energy on Cybertron was finite. It could not easily be replenished, as there
was no naturally occuring energy producers, such as plate tectonics and
weather. Limited energy was taken from the sun, but it was too far from
Cybertron to do much good. After several thousand years of standstill war,
Cybertron was quickly dying. Nearly all available energy was going into the
computers and recharge units. There was a severe energy rationing on both
sides. Both sides practically stopped building new transformers, unless it was
absolutly necessary. Energy was quickly becoming the key prize to this war.
	The Decepticons had the edge when it came to fighting war. They had no
morals to speak of, and did not hesitate to destroy anything that got in their
way. Thus they had more available sources of energy, because they weren't bound
by any moral code. They stole it from prisoners, civilians, factories, wherever
there was an energy source. Decepticon engineers started a project building a
spacecraft, which had never been done before. Cybertronians were very familiar
with their galaxy, but had little reason to travel beyond their planet,
realizing that they were most likely the only beings not of the flesh. They did
not have a high regard for "flesh creatures", and chose not to interact with
any. 
	But the energy crises brought on a need for new sources, thus a huge
spacecraft was built, which would bring over a thousand Decepticons to a world
known as Aquia. It was the closest inhabited world to their own, and the
easiest to reach and keep in contact with. The beings there were humanoid, but
very small, even in Human terms, the average height being 3 feet. Aquia was an
ocean world, with four fiths of its surface covered with water. The Decepticons
took half of their army there, and quickly took over the planet. The Aquian's
weapons were no match for the Decpeticons. They killed most of the Aquians
outright, and the ones who survived were made slaves. The Autobots at first
tried to take advantage of the exodus, but the remaining Decepticons held them
in check. Then the Autobots built their own ship and sent it to Aquia. The
mission was unsuccessful, and the Autobots had to retreat. Because of the
Decepticons new source of energy, they could defeat the Autobots at any turn.
Resources allowed the Decepticons to take over Cybertron. Within 500,000 years
of the beginning of the war, Megatron declared himself leader of Cybertron. 
	After this the Autobots, still numbering over a thousand, became
rebels, and used guerilla tactics to seize energy transfers, capture
Decepticons, and disrupt the transport between Aquia and Cybertron. The
Autobots still had a fortress, and controlled about one fifth of Cybertron.
After 2 million years the energy on Aquia ran out, and it became ineffecient to
transport the dwindling energy supplies that far. Aquia was left by the
Decepticons, and there was no higher forms of life left on the planet.
	With no energy once again to sustain themselves, the Decpeticons
started to lose ground in the long war. They had to find another source of
energy, but there were no suitable planets in the area. The Autobots also were
interested in finding energy abroad, but did not want to go to a planet that had
life on it, because it would destroy that life. They wnated to get the maximum
benefit of energy, without having to worry about the destruction of the planet.
After studying the star maps, they found a suitable planet in the Kryos system.
It was the second planet in the solar system, and had rich stores of heat
energy from greenhouse effect, and was close enough for efficient transport.
The Autobots were ready to turn the tide.


Stay tuned for The Transformers Part III: The Exodus

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