HISTORY
(WARNING: MUCH SCROLLING LIES AHEAD)

Grimlock, the last Transformer, manages to burst into Primacron's lab just as Tormetron rebels and tries to eat Primacron. Grimlock has Primacron reverse the energy creature's reason for existing (instead of absorbing energy, Tormetron will give it back) and reanimates the other Transformers. Primacron fervently agrees to stop making agents. Grimlock trashes Primacron's lab anyway, just to have fun. The Quintissons reanimate Optimus Prime to a kind of zombie status, in another plot to take Cybertron back. Rodimus discovers Optimus onboard the crypt and is betrayed into giving up the Matrix. Optimus' true personality resurfaces at the last minute, and Optimus gives Hot Rod the Matrix back. Optimus's starship supposable is destroyed by a trap set for the other Autobots. In reality, Optimus' body is recovered by a team of Human scientists researching a new kind of heat-resistant metal. The star where the trap for the Autobots was located goes supernova, proving the heat-resistant metal ship but coating the ship in strange spores. Back on Earth, the spores are discovered to cause an infectious madness in all sentient life. One of the Human scientists, Dr. Jessica Morgan, is injured by the Decepticons when they steal the metal, causing her father to hate all Transformers. He leads the Autobots to his lab and infects them with the madness disease, which spreads to the star ports and then the Galaxy. Rodimus and Sky-Lynx take Optimus' body and kidnap a Quintisson to revive Optimus Prime. Rodimus is infected, and Optimus, coated in the heat-resistant metal, fights him for the Matrix. Searching through the Matrix ghosts, Optimus discovers an old legend from the original Autobot program about the madness spores. "Such madness is fought with wisdom." the AI tells Optimus. Optimus opens the Matrix and releases the Matrix-energy, which speeds at faster-than-light speeds all across the Galaxy, healing the madness with a bit of Matrix wisdom to each infected person. With the Matrix emptied but still usable, Optimus leads the Autobots back to Cybertron. Bumblebee is reformed into Gold Bug. More Autobots and Decepticons return to their leaders from across the Galaxy. Vector Sigma lets Galvatron learn of the Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber. Galvatron, thinking it a new energy source, attacks Autobot City on Earth to get the key. He then travels to Cybertron, and inserts the Key. Autobots follow him to Cybertron and are present when the Key actives the Chamber. The strange energy short-circuits several Transformers and a starship, sending its crew flying out of control. Only Spike and Daniel, organic creatures, are unaffected by the energy. Optimus Primus uses the Matrix of Leadership to communicate with Vector Sigma, and discovers that Alpha Trion is now part of Vector Sigma. Sigma has allowed Galvatron to discover the Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber for a reason. Sigma apparently has clairvoyant powers, as it knows Humans will be instrumental in re-powering Cybertron to a new Golden Age. The Plasma Energy Chamber affects all energy-using beings. The ship lands on a planet called Nebulous. Its humanoid inhabitants are divided into two castes. Some are people that learned techno kinesis, controlling machinery with the mind alone. A few of them are cyborgs, their brains housed in barely adequate robot bodies. Everyone else on Nebulon is subject to the "Hive", as the techno kinetics call themselves. Arrival of the Autobots and Decepticons changes the balance of power on Nebulons. Daniel is attacked and in critical condition, forcing Spike to use the Autobots to create the Headmasters, Transformers with humanoid secondary operators. Several Nebulons become the Headmasters, and then the Targetmasters, binary partners. The Decepticons, with the help of the Hive Masters, copy Spike's efforts. Battles for the Key follows. Optimus arrives, but is doubtful about the new unions. The Hivemasters transform their city into a fortress capable of super-luminal flight, and take Daniel, Arcee, and other Autobots hostage. They then leave for Cybertron to give Galvatron the Key. Spike discovers the Hivemaster's old city, the one that they lived in before they developed their techno kinetic powers, and reforms the city into a Headmaster fortress. He then takes off for Cybertron. On the planet of the Transformers, Galvatron is in a rage that his warriors have bonded themselves with organic operators, but must accept them and their firepower. He orders the Decepticons to build massive super-luminal engines to power Cybertron to Earth orbit, where he can again test the Plasma Energy Chamber. The Hivemasters fight the remaining Autobots until Spike and Fortress Maximus arrives. Galvatron tries to get Scoponok to leave Cybertron; he has placed the Key in the Chamber with a countdown timer. Spike, in total control of Fortress Maximus, takes matters into his own hands and rescues his son and the Autobots from inside Scoponok. The Chamber activates, sending plasma energy throughout the System and making Sol start to supernova. Spike has the Nebulons jettison their Headmaster suits and change the super-luminal drives to energy sinks, with a conduit to Vector Sigma. Vector Sigma drains off Sol's extra energy while Spike turns off the Chamber. Sigma uses the energy to re-power Cybertron into a new Golden Age. Galvatron and the Hivemasters are flung off of Cybertron and into interstellar space. End of the Fourth Cybertronian War.

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