#green matrix

What became of Megaligator after he came into possession of the Creation Matrix? Was it ever retrieved by Megatron and the rest of the Green Order?

Dear Vernal Venturer,

I believe I gave you a very truncated version of events before, that Megalligator reconciled with Megatron to become the joint Green Compassionate Convoys, but I suppose I never told you the full story.

After once again evading the judgmental fist of his brother Convobat, Megalligator continued on his quest to kill all Megatrons. The silent Golden Ager Soundwave had taken him to the Green Planet for a reason, and soon it became clear. They found a great pyramid, its Bulkhead guards having long since abandoned the Green Temple in grief over the loss of their commander, Green Tender Convoy. All save one: a large BotBot (large by BotBot standards, about as tall as Megalligator), who introduced himself as Bulk Gulp.

Bulk Gulp showed deference to Soundwave, but initially was wary of Megalligator, butting heads with him almost immediately—each considered the other’s alt-form useless! What’s more, Bulk Gulp darkly noted, Megalligator reminded him of “the new guy”.

Under duress, Bulk Gulp would lead the two visitors up the pyramid. Translating from Soundwave’s total silence, he explained that the weapon Megalligator needed for his quest was contained in the temple, and they would need to get it from its protector. Heartened by his plans finally moving along, Megalligator’s confidence quickly turned to dismay as he found none other than a Megatron- no, the Megatron, hunched in a corner, contemplating the Green Matrix enshrined at the top of the pyramid. Megatron could only note that he wasn’t able to get the Green Matrix to open before Megalligator lunged at him, raining blows upon his face.

Megalligator shouted what he had always known: that he and his brothers were clones, and while Convobat had been born “good”, the clone “son” of a Convoy, Megalligator had been born “evil”, forged from samples the Straxus twins had stolen from Megatron Omega. Megatron said nothing, realizing that his millennia of ambition had left him alone in an unfriendly past, separate from his dearest friend. Bulk Gulp and Soundwave watched in despair. Soundwave had never been good at communication or interpersonal relationships, and his bringing the two green warriors together had only brought further misery. The Green Order had fled the temple not just in grief, but in disappointment that a former tyrant was to be their new leader.

It was at this moment that Sideways attacked the temple, the space biker having been hired by the Straxuses to track and destroy Megalligator. Sideways handily took on both him and Megatron, cruelly declaring that no matter what anybody said, they’d both always be monsters. Then, a voice called out from the Green Matrix. To be a Green Warrior was to defend nature and nature was not something to be defined by others, but by understanding both our roots and the skies our branches reached for. It was here that Megalligator understood his true power: to super-robot lifeforms, his techokinesis was control over life itself. Using the same connection to his progenitor that connected Convobat to Blue Big Convoy, Megalligator synced his Spark to Megatron’s, suffusing him with life energy and giving him the strength he needed to defeat Sideways with a Mega Fusion Buster drill attack.

From the Creation Matrix came a vision of Green Tender Convoy. He explained that neither Megatron or Megalligator were suited to be his successor. Megatron was a being of half-life, an irradiated Spark piloting the unliving body of an abomination created by his past self. Megalligator was a being of death, an assassin overflowing with energy, whose only goal was the death of his foes to prove his life. But half-life and living for death are both forms of life, and their duality would allow them to surpass Green Tender Convoy as joint commanders: Green Compassionate Convoys. With his blessing, both took hold of the Green Matrix, and lit the beacon at the top of the pyramid.

Soundwave could only smile. His was not a perfect plan, but he would see Primus saved. As he took a triumphant swig from Bulk Gulp, he knew that His will had been passed down.

Dear Convobat Conversational,

Megalligator's journey was a cold one. Soundwave had inherited his holy Father's quiet disposition, and on a number of occasions he failed to communicate the graveness of his mission. Assuming he was being taken to begin his crusade against all Megatrons, Megalligator was shocked to find himself face to face with Burning Red Sentinel Prime and the final Megatron himself. Megalligator found his body reacted to Megatron's presence, releasing the Green Matrix from within his veins.

You see, the Straxuses had gathered quite the collection of artefacts during the Angolmois Battles, including the all-creating Green Matrix. The Matrix' limitless creation powers had been drained by the Straxuses to form a battery for their new rebellious assassin, granting him power over machine life. Red Sentinel insisted Megalligator hand over the Matrix to Megatron, but Megalligator stole it away, enraged that he had been reduced to a pawn in the life of his genetic source. It was only the timely manifestation of Green Tender Convoy that brought an end to the conflict. Tender explained that Megatron had been chosen as his successor, but the weight of his sins as Emperor of Destruction prevented him from taking the Green mantle alone. This was where Megalligator came in. As a Primitive, beloved of Primus, Megalligator was to act as shieldbearer and conscience to Megatron, always pushing him towards defense of nature and the common man. Megalligator buckled under this decree, but came to some acceptance after seeing Megatron risk his life for him when Straxus' servant Sideways attacked. The villainous space biker was driven off, and the pair were jointly dubbed the Green Compassionate Commanders.

Meanwhile, Convobat joined Magna Convoy as they scoured their quiet and chaotic universe for survivors of the Primus Vanguard. They found Jhiaxus in her laboratory, having completed the formula necessary to manifest the Matrix Gauntlet, her lover Yellow Splendid Convoy dubbing her the Yellow Dazzling Commander before passing on to Primal Valhalla. Deadlock found them, having meditated on the hiss of the Black Legendisc and realised his potential as Black Brilliant Commander. This act of sheer personal assertion called forth his opposite to balance the universe, a minor candidate at White Gallant Convoy's Glacier Academy: Drift, the White Bold Commander.

This party made their way to the Purple Planet, having been told that their final test awaited them. There they found Purple Wicked Convoy, quite alone. Without Primus, his Shockwave council had mostly found themselves preoccupied with their own experiments. Wicked played the madman, insisting that he was intent on deciding whether Magna Convoy or Convobat was to become his successor: Purple Heinous Convoy.

This was in truth another of Wicked's ill-timed jokes. Confronted with two bots the spitting image of his dear brother-in-arms, he wished to test who deserved to take the Blue mantle. Magna Convoy won out: Convobat could not help but find himself tempted by a future separate from the shadow of his genetic father. Wicked assured him to take heart: Blue Big Convoy had always asserted that the world was larger than Convoys or Primes, and Convobat had proven himself as beyond the cycle of Primal succession.