Hello Vector prime,
I was wondering, what happened to Rodimus and Kup in the aligned universe after the ark?
Dear Kup Kommandant,
Some time after their adventure on Aquatron and their encounter with the Mutacons, the Nemesis finally caught up to the Ark. A fierce battle took place as the Decepticons attempted to board the starship for the second time; this time, however, the Autobot starship was running low on fuel and barely able to keep its own crew operational. The Autobots fought as fiercely as they could to keep their ship out of Decepticon hands… but Megatron was able to capture and destroy the vessel.
Optimus Prime and his innermost command circle—Bulkhead, Ratchet, Bumblebee—made it to the Ark’s long-range shuttle and escaped the exploding ship with only seconds to spare. Other Autobots weren’t so fortunate—some made it to the ship’s bay of escape pods, others were forced to flee on the backs of those lucky Autobots with flight-capable alternate modes. Still others deliberately sacrificed themselves so that Optimus Prime could get to safety—Scattorshot, Hubcap, Slingshot, and Evac all bravely laid down their lives for the cause, and their actions would weigh upon Optimus Prime’s spark quite heavily. Optimus made contact with the President of the United States and fought the Decepticons that had pursued them there aboard the Nemesis; although he had hoped to assemble a subspace radio beacon that could summon survivors to their fallback point, the paucity of Cybertronian technology they faced meant that Ratchet could only assemble a basic GroundBridge using parts from their shuttle’s transwarp cell—ensuring that they could never leave Earth.
Kup and Rodimus made it off the Ark via an escape pod, and drifted aimlessly in interstellar space for some time before finally crashing on the distant world of Rigel—the Ancients visited this world during the Golden Age of Cybertron, and the planet was littered with old starships buried in its sand dunes and vanished seabeds. They were pursued by a splinter force of Decepticons wielding experimental Enemy-class bodies, but proved able to outfox their pursuers—soon enough, they were able to cobble together a crude sublight vessel and struck out for Cybertron. They arrived only a few days after “Team Prime” had revitalised the planet; Rodimus was quite annoyed that Prime had never tried to send out a search party to gather the survivors of the Ark disaster, and eventually struck out again on his own.
Kup, on the other hand, settled into a new role as a mentor to young Cybertronians; though his war stories are long, over-embellished, and not always correct, they are nevertheless a favorite of the younger Sparks, who eagerly gather to hear him tell one of his anecdotes. He took a particular liking to one youngster named Sideswipe, who reminded him of another turbo-revvin' young punk he had adventured with.
