#transforrmers

A rough, but general outline of the fan comic’s continuity I’ve done off and on about Cyberverse, done for fun and more in line with personal preferences, but taking some ideas I liked from the show loosely mixed with G1, IDW and Prime aspects I also liked.

Backstory: 

Years ago prior to the Great War vs the Autobots and the Decepticons, an unusual event devastated the galaxy: The Shattering. 

This peculiar phenomenon caused severe resource depletion, forcing desperate races to plunder surviving planets for basic needs. This saw several species reach near extinction in the conflict, that several species were secretly relocated over the years by the current galactic ruling body, the Black Block Consortia, to special out of the way planets, the primary one being Earth because of its isolation and low priority to the galactic community.

This event also had a serious effect on Cybertron doing the reign of Nominus Prime. In an effort to conserve resources, the Nominus Edict was put into effect which severely limited space travel, forgings and various other functions like the Oil House, Lob Ball and Cube on Cybertron. Effort was put into making fuel efficient Synthetic Energon as a substitute, depending on who you asked however, it tasted awful. The energy crisis and the Nominus Edict are among the reasons Megatron and the Decepticons began the Great War in the first place. 

In his younger years, Orion Pax was one of the top Basketrek players on Cybertron, alongside his Cyclone Mini-Con Leon. A humiliating defeat just near The Shattering saw him retire from the sport, and after a few years as a courier, he would take on various office jobs in data processing. 

During the reign of Nominus Prime, Functionism defined society. Young Clobber wanted to be a bartender and drink mixer, but was denied by Functionaries because her vehicle mode wasn’t appropriate for it. She was attracted to the Decepticons’ call for rising up and defying the old system, and joined up but over time found what the group became wasn’t what she wanted. 

What caused The Shattering has never been discovered to the surviving community, not even Cybertron’s greatest minds Shockwave, Wheeljack and Perceptor were able to decipher it. Unbeknownst at the time, The Shattering began by a tear in space/time caused by a hastily opened Warp Gate from another dimension. Through this gate came Primacron, an alien war criminal fleeing his trial by the Quintessons in the neighboring universe. The unstable Warp Gate merged with a small spattering of Unspace that had leaked out and evolved into the ravenous energy being Tornedron, the entity responsible for The Shattering. 

Tornedron fell into a hibernation state after absorbing mass quantities of energy throughout the galaxy, while Primacron would later hide away on Earth with his Primitive Transformer bodyguards Thunderhowl and Hammerbyte.

Backstory: Space Battles

Early on in the Great War, with resources dwindling, Optimus and Megatron sent small squads out into space to recover new sources of energy. The Autobots sent troops to negotiate with allies in the eroding Autobot Commonwealth such as Nebulos, Antilla, Arduria (which was already hurting from The Shattering), Junkion and Furnacia. The Decepticons primarily raised other planets and took what they needed. 

Autobots Repugnus and Grotusk were stationed at Furnacia and assumed Firebug Beast Modes to better negotiate with the Furnacian Firebugs for fuel, and became fast friends with the locals. A group of Decepticons followed suit, consisting of Sparkstalker and Bugly, and helped Shockwave take over the geothermal generators that powered Furnacia, the GeoNeedle, and stole the Energon produced from it, rendering Furnacia into an arctic planet. 

Cybertron Net Celebrity and conspiracy theorist Meteorfire, who had been producing his Alien Hunt videos, joins the Autobots, but is primarily in it so he has an excuse to travel and produce his show during wartime. While having Autobot sensibilities and a desire to protect, his show comes first leading him to come into conflict with High Command. His show has inadvertainly led to further chaos of other worlds because he ALSO broadcasts on the Decepticon social media, The Big Conversation.

A Decepticon scheme saw the destruction of several inhabited planets in the Autobot Commonwealth trigged by a bomb. Sky-Byte would earn his title of Harbinger of Destruction from this event, but it’s actually a fluke. Airachnid actually commissioned the bomb and was set to destroy the system, but the flighty Sky-Byte fought against it, wanting to instead use it as a bargaining chip against the Autobots and risk minimal casualties. Airachnid ultimately got her way when a team of Autobots barnstormed the base, knocking Sky-Byte into the bomb’s controls, prematurely setting it off. Only Sky-Byte and Airachnid survived, with Airachnid happily encouraging the lie so she has her own bargaining over the titanium tuna. Sky-Byte reluctantly complies here on out. 

WildWheel becomes disillusioned by the Great War, having been with both the Autobots and Decepticons off and on. He gels more with Autobot principals, but supported the original Decepticon doctrine before they became full on terrorists. He believes both Optimus and Megatron are piston heads more interested in their feud than their own principals, and became a work for hire at the Black Block Consortia feeling he could do better there as one of their peacekeepers. A short time later, he was partnered with the frail go-getter Scrounge, an Autobot who joined the Consortia as part of an effort to bolster Autobot working relationships with other races in the galaxy. The two quickly began having their own feud with Meteorfire, having to always clean up his messes from his videos.

The starship Lost Light, captained by adventurous glory hounds Hot Shot and Sentinel Major, was shot down and destroyed in a Decepticon dog fight during TransWarp. Whirl was part of the crew and presumed dead by Autobot and Decepticons alike, but it was actually an exaggerated lie by Whirl himself, who had survived and laid in wait to lull the Decepticons into a false sense of security so he could strike without warning. He had become an adept sniper, silently taking out Decepticon warlords of interest and really anyone who rubbed him the wrong way in-between his surprise return on Earth years later. 

Backstory: The Threefold Spark

The starship Proudstar, captained by respected Autobot figures Exharchon, Nova Major, and Neutral Temagax were the most successful crew in gathering energy and allies for the Autobots. Overtime, they began spreading their efforts into creating colony worlds for refugees, organic and mechanical alike, and had good ties with the Black Block Consortia. Unfortunately, this changed when the Proudstar ran afoul of the Quintessons during a trip in Unspace, still hunting Primacron. They infected Exharchon with a Virus, which allowed him to assimilate other Transformers into a hive mind. The idea was to infect mechanical life throughout the galaxy so that no matter what, Primacron wouldn’t be able to hide any longer and be apprehended. 

Exharchon took back to Cybertron, intending to use the Allspark to amplify his influence and take control of all Autobots, Decepticons, Mini-Cons and Mechanimals on the planet and from there spread to colony worlds and beyond. Thus began the campaign of The Threefold Spark. 

Between the campaign of the Great War and the Threefold Spark, Bumblebee and Shadow Striker were among the last generation Transformers forged on Cybertron. Their rivalry began when Bumblebee accidentally interfered in a rare game of Cube being played, and caused Shadow Striker’s team to loose. She had money riding on it too, making it worse. 

The Threefold Spark campaign was brief, with Optimus seeing the Allspark jettisoned off Cybertron before Exharchon could fully take control. Exharchon’s original body forces were destroyed, save Nova and Termagax and a Cyber-Tick that possessed a data slug mode, who fled in the Proudstar. They attempted to follow the Allspark for the next few years, seeing it as paramount to their plans. 

Fuel reserves had completely flatlined with the ejection of the Allspark, with Optimus and Megatron leading their own expeditions aboard the Ark and Nemesis to acquire the Allspark and revive Cybertron. Megatron initially saw it as a political bargain for the benefit of the Decepticons’ conquest, but overtime it warped into copying Exharchon’s plans, but using the Allspark to forcibly reprogram all Transformers into Decepticons and thereby winning the war. Shockwave was put in charge of this campaign.

Shockwave would experiment with several Decepticons in attempts to bolster efficiency, his prototypes were Shadow Striker, repaired from near death using following a botched operation where she was defeated by Bumblebee, and the fusion of two conflicting Decepticon jets into Doubleheader. 

Backstory: Prehistoric Earth

The Ark found the Allspark signature first, and set course for Earth, the relic’s resting place. Sabotage by Decepticon spy Deadlock, AKA Drift, saw the Ark malfunction and cause a hull breach, sending several stasis pods to the planet’s surface. The Ark, Bumblebee, Cosmos, and Jazz’s stasis pods crash-landed in what would later become Southside, USA. 

Grimlock and Swoop’s stasis pods would activate during the era of the dinosaurs, and the two would usher in a surprisingly advanced dinosaur society on the planet. This would come to a close when The Proudstar resurfaced, and in a brief moment of sanity, saw Termagax send the ship crash landing on the planet to prevent Exharchon’s Virus from spreading any further. This had the unintended side effect of the near extinction of the dinosaurs, with survivors retreating underground, maintaining their society in secret. Grimlock and Swoop were sent into stasis lock and fossilized for millennia. 

The Allspark reactivated and produced two agents, Cheetor and BlackArachnia, a natural yin and yang, to explore the planet on its behalf. These two and the Allspark would influence the evolution of mankind, with a massive temple enshrining the relic. Early humanity would come into conflict with the Inhumanoids, a primordial force that began to react to the Cybertronian’s interferences with the planet. This conflict saw victory in the humans’ favor, with the beasts sealed away by Cheetor and the Allspark in a temple buried deep within the planet. Cheetor and BlackArachnia kept a watch on the flourishing humanity clear into the present era. 

Backstory: Modern Day Earth

Future teenage (and preteen) human allies Thompson, Grahm, Meister and Maddie are born in early 2001, mid 2001, late 2001 and 2009 respectively in the city of Southside, USA. 

Windblade comes to Earth, following cryptic advice from the mysterious Oil House bartender Macaddam, reunites with Bumblebee in Southside, and the two slowly but surely reactivate the marooned Ark crew. A unit of Decepticons led by Shockwave, also come to Earth, taking residence on the moon after following a weak transmission from Drift millions of years after the Ark crash-landed. 

The Earth Decepticon crew consists of Shockwave, FistFight, Shadow Striker, Sky-Byte, Doubleheader, Clobber, Lockdown, Toxitron, Acid Storm and a few generic cars and jets. Airachnid, Flamewar, Blackout, Alpha Strike and Slipstream would join later on when Shockwave requested “competent” reinforcements. Drift would continue to secretly report to Shockwave upon reactivation regarding specific Autobot intel while on Earth.

The Earth Autobot crew consists of Bumblebee, Windblade, Whirl, Scrounge, WildWheel, Jazz, and Repugnus with Rack’n’Ruin, Grimlock, Optimus, Prowl, Wheeljack, and Teletraan X as supporting characters. 

The Autobot and Decepticon war would remain secret for several years, both maintaining disguises while on Earth, but eventually humanity would rediscover the Transformers’ influence on Earth. 

The first to become aware of the Autobots was the ambitious twenty something reporter Rebecca “Becky” Porter, who caught a brief glimpse of Doubleheader and some generic Decepticons raiding a factory for parts, and being fended off by Bumblebee, Drift and some generic Autobots. Finding this as the biggest news to ever hit humanity, she began investigating any unusual activity going on around Southside to discover the truth on what she just saw. She had a more direct encounter with Drift, who protected her against some Decepitcon generics unhappy about being filmed. She would become particularly “interested” in Drift from there. Sometime later, she meets and befriends fellow reporters, Transformers Squawktalk and Beastbox, who have been recording and reporting the war for millennia. They form a weird trio of unsolicited news reporters reporting on the Great War from then on out.

About a year later, teenage sweethearts and adventurers Grahm and Thompson are cryptid hunting in the local park and mistake a passing Beast Mode Sky-Byte smuggling Forestonite as a cryptid and follow him to investigate. They quickly get caught in a speed chase between Prowl, Wheeljack, Bumblebee and Shadow Striker. Bumblebee and Wheeljack save the boys from falling off a cliff ruptured by Prowl trying to disable Shadow Striker with his siren attack. To Prowl’s annoyance, Bumblebee, Grahm and Thompson bond immediately, and to his greater annoyance, Bumblebee took them to Autobase to see Ratchet in case they were injured in the attack. The boys quickly became adopted into the Autobots proper against Prowl’s wishes. The Allspark Avatars Cheetor and BlackArachnia would become fully aware of the Bot/Con War from this chance meeting as well, with BlackArachnia becoming interested in the Decepticons. The two would begin spying on the two factions…

Maddie, Grahm’s little sister, had her own encounter with the Autobots a few months later when a Decepticon attack rocked the city investigating an Allspark signature detected in main street. Clobber looked under the school bus Maddie was in, but accidentally pushed it off the bridge where Rack’n’Ruin and Windblade managed to save them, kickstarting another bonding with the Autobots. 

One day, a friend of Grahm’s, Meister, discovered Jazz’s stasis pod nearby his family’s car dealership, and she reactivated upon hearing the music playing from his headphones, bursting out of the pod, dancing to the beat. The two bonded with their passion of music almost immediately, though with Jazz having damaged memory circuits from the crash, she preferred being with Meister more than being with the Autobots for the time being, but vowed to help out as needed.

Prowl wasn’t thrilled with the increasing amount of humans joining up, finding it a distraction to their overall goals, but Optimus felt it was for the best to acclimate having new friends to show them the ropes of the planet. 

Various misadventures with the kids and the Autobots occurred from here, from thwarting Decepticon shenanigans (mostly Shadow Striker and Lockdown being a pain), exploring the town and surrounding area, investigating Allspark flares, and struggling with the mad scientist cyborg Dr. Archevil and his grandson Henry Masterson who had begun collecting Transformer tech for their own plans. Among these plans involved selling parts to the highest bidder to the various supervillains of the world like Iron Claw, Lord, King Nergil, Miles Mayhem and Jonathan Rook. 

Optimus and Grahm pose as a trucker for an operation in Northside, USA, Grahm having a trucker’s license due to helping out with his uncle Witwicky’s auto repair business. Optimus and Grahm bond over a love of basketball, reawakening Optimus’ own love of the similar Baskettrek he used to play on Cybertron. The two put basketball skills to use against opposing Decepticons with the help of Optimus’ old Mini-Con Leon. 

Part One: Boss Fight

Shockwave’s first major act against the planet was enlisting Toxitron and the Rainmakers in creating a toxic storm that would liquify Southside and the Ark. The Ark was a test run, successfully severely damaging the ship to prevent lift off and toxifying the surrounding Earth. Although the town suffers some damage, the Autobots and their human allies push back and weather the storm, Cheetor helping from afar using the power of the Allspark. The Rainmakers are destroyed in the conflict, with Toxitron damaged by Bumblebee and Grimlock, but finished off by mysterious tendrils that erupted from the Earth. Cheetor and BlackArachnia are perplexed, as the Allspark didn’t do that. Deep within the Earth, the Inhumanoids have begun to stir, Tendril having reacted to the poisoning of the planet in particular. 

Part Two

As the Ark is too damaged from the acid storm, the Autobots are stranded but take it in stride. As repairs are attempted, they help rebuild Southside and Optimus engages with world leaders about potential collaboration in protecting the Earth from future attacks. Against Prowl’s wishes to uphold the Tyrest Accord, Prime agrees to the collaboration leading to the formation of the organization M.A.S.K. with government liaison Scott Trakker and his AI T-Bob. Grahm and Thompson’s childhood Matt Trakker was recruited by Scott to pilot the first of the new transforming vehicles, Thunderhawk. 

During a routine skirmish with Sky-Byte and Bumblebee (Bee was dropping off his human friends to school until Sky-Byte came picking a fight), Cheetor and BlackArachnia wanted to test the Autobots and Decepticons further, and allowed the Allspark to grant the two special Spark Armor from nearby Earth vehicles to see what happened. While Armor Sky-Byte had a brief advantage, he was ultimate felled by Armor Bumblebee. The two Avatars continue to test the two factions by integrating more armor into the mix.

BlackArachnia begins siding more and more with the Decepticons. After countless and overly ridiculous defeats, Clobber and Lockdown are desperate for an edge and are approached by BlackArachnia who grants them their own Spark Armor Modes. This gives them a much needed edge, but the two become overconfident, thinking they could take on Optimus Prime. This ends poorly, as Cheetor wises up to what’s happening and gifts Optimus special jet armor, which easily trounces the hapless duo. 

Bee, Grahm, Maddie, Windblade, Meister, Jazz and Thompson continue more adventures together. One day, with Drift and Grimlock, the kids accidentally discover the descendants of Grimlock’s ancient dinosaur society, thriving underground thanks to subterranean Energon deposits and lessons passed down by generations. The dinosaurs have since evolved into beings similar to the Battle Beasts, with armor based on Grimlock’s body. Drift secretly reports this discovery to the Decepticons to steal their Energon and technology for future schemes. While Shadow Striker and Sky-Byte make off with some tech and Energon, the dinosaur city was saved, but the Autobots start to suspect something is wrong within. 

Meteorfire arrives on Earth, following on rumors and conspiracies he had heard about alien refugees since The Shattering, and comes to pull back the curtain with Space Knight technology. He visits Grahm and Thompson’s high school as the setting of his latest video, but is interrupted by WildWheel and Scrounge who attempted to intervene but to no avail, the secret was out thanks to Meteorfire’s stubbornness, alerting Decepticons to targets long thought extinct. Meteorfire stays on Earth, finding it a treasure trove of material for his show, but halfheartedly states he’ll uphold Autobot peacekeeping while he’s around. WildWheel and Scrounge also remain on Earth, striking up a friendship with Bumblebee and the boys, but avoiding Optimus unless he has to deal with him. 

Airachnid’s unit comes to Earth to replace the loss of the Rainmakers at Shockwave’s request, Sky-Byte is less than pleased Airachnid is back because of their history, and naturally the two are paired together for missions going forward. 

Shockwave begins new experiments to raze the Earth for the Allspark, and turns his attentions to modify some Insecticon specimens Airachnid had brought along as requested. 

The drink craving Repugnus comes to Earth, having heard about the planet from broadcasts on the Cybertron Net from Meteorfire, hoping the planet’s problem with global warming might make a suitable replacement planet for the Firebugs of the dying Furnacia. He was disappointed to learn global warming was being fixed by Wheeljack, Perceptor and humanity’s top minds, and blew his top in frustration, accidentally setting the park on fire until Maddie was able to direct his frustration Sky-Byte and Airachnind who were checking in on the commotion as Armor Bumblebee put out the fires.  

For some time, Clobber has been having second thoughts about the whole Decepticon thing, and during some shore leave, she strikes up a conversation about her true goals in bartending, and how being a Decepticon is job she’s not in love with anymore with Thompson, with Thompson realizing maybe not all Decepticons are completely evil. She also protects the boy and other humans from a rampaging, drunk Grimlock who misunderstood the situation, with Clobber being able to put her drink mix skills to use to save the day.

V.E.N.O.M. rises one day with the backing of criminal president Shawn Berger and his longtime friend and criminal partner Miles Mayhem, claiming they are a more militarized anti-Decepticon

Unit similar to M.A.S.K., but in actuality they want to remove all Transformers from the equation, seeing them as rivals to world conquest. Shockwave is outraged his technology has been appropriated into primitive tinker toys and orders a military strike against the the two, but the Autobot/M.A.S.K. collaboration proves beneficial, with them being able to strike back against the onslaught. Cheetor and the Allspark intervenes and turns Thunderhawk into a new armor mode for Bumblebee in the fight.

Shockwave begins to reconsider the potential of humanity, and offers a team up with V.E.N.O.M. to deal with mutual enemies and relic hunting. Shadow Striker, Clobber and Alpha Strike join, becoming the Venomcons. Clobber takes a particular delight in treasure hunting with her human partner, while Shadow Striker and Vanessa Warfield bond over how their bosses are idiots. 

Dr. Archevil begins unleashing his own experiments against the world that spurned him, with inventions like the Giant Gryphon and what he saw as his crown jewel, the Cosmic Patrol jet which was intended to be Henry’s V.E.N.O.M. vehicle. On top of transforming into a police car for added irony and disguise, unlike the other vehicles, it can become a robot with Henry forming the head of it.

During an Archevil skirmish, Grahm follows rumors about a mysterious thunderbird flying in the deserts of Westside, the neighboring town over. This turns out to be Swoop, who had been reawakened by construction work, and became feral due to her Beast Mode instincts. The Autobots manage to subdue her and get her higher reasoning protocols back online. 

Mid Boss Fight: Insecticons

Shockwave’s experiments with the Insecticons have yielded results, after some isolated testing in a few farms, the Insecticons successfully devour all organic matter. He then enacts a plan for an Insecticon Plague to hit the planet. Autobots and M.A.S.K. manage to repel most of the buggers, especially with the added edge of Spark Armor. Shockwave reveals a trump card, the largest trio of Insecticons can combine into a larger praying mantis Insecticon that knocks out the majority of the Autobots. Jet Armor Optimus manages to defeat it after a long struggle, squashing Shockwave’s ambitions. 

The strain of being a Decepticon finally gets to Clobber, and during a routine battle against the Autobots, Grahm and Thompson are almost killed by Lockdown, with Clobber turning on her friend with a mighty Punch of Kill Everything. Lockdown dies from his injuries, and while Clobber is saddened she doesn’t regret finally doing what she felt she should’ve done in the first place. She becomes an Autobot, dedicated to protecting life and becomes one of Thompson’s partners. 

Shockwave has continued his plans in reverse engineering a Virus similar to the Exharchon Virus as his next goal. 

During a cryptid hunt, the boys, WildWheel, Grimlock and Arcee uncover the remains of the Proudstar, but find Meteorfire inside looking for confirmation on old conspiracy theories relating to the ship. The crew has long since died, and reluctantly Optimus agrees to see what can be salvaged from the ship. Drift reports this to the Decepticons, and a brief battle occurs over the contents of the ship. The Autobots recover the mode locked data slug Cyber-Tic that, unbeknownst to the others contains Exharchon’s consciousness. Rack’n’Ruin mishandles the device when storing it at AutoBase, causing Exharchon to awaken and Transform, embedding himself into Rack’n’Ruin and taking over. Realizing he needs a third, Exharchon takes a random generic driving by to complete the trinity. Exharchon attempts to complete what he started back on Cybertron, but runs into opposition from Maddie, Bumblebee, Repugnus and Meteorfire who suspected something was amiss. Exharchon manages to take over Autobot fliers Windblade, Swoop and Whirl in an attempt to shoot down Meteorfire, but the twitchy Shadow Striker, sensing something Bee-related, shoots down the fliers with Doubleheader and Miles Mayhem’s Switchblade. 

This encounter with the Decepticons proves to be Exharchon’s undoing. He attempts to bond with Doubleheader, seeing more value in the Decepticons’ military might, but the conflicting personalities, coupled with Shadow’s strong will and Switchblade’s not being a living being overrides and overwhelm’s Exharchon, killing him. His Cyber-Tick form falling to the ground below and into the waiting hands of BlackArachnia who has made her choice.

Part Two Boss Fight: The Transmitter

BlackArachnia defects to the Decepticons, taking the power of the Allspark with her to Shockwave and Exharchon’s deactivated body, the Data Slug mode still containing the data of the Exharchon Virus Shockwave needs to reverse engineer it into a new Virus. He sends some troops to the Arctic to distract the Autobots while he and BlackArachnia put their plans into motion, to finally bring all to one: the Decepticon definition of Till All Are One. Gifted with satellite armor, Armor Shockwave and Blackarachnia reprogram the Exharchon Virus and use the AllSpark and Armor to broadcast a signal to Earth. This signal causes most of the Autobots to exhibit evil impulses and begin mindlessly tearing apart Southside. The only ones unaffected are Bumblebee, Cosmos, Cheetor who fully reveals himself to the cast, Jazz (former three because of Allspark affinity and a damaged Autobot processor), Clobber and Drift (the later two because of them already being Decepticons).

Earlier, Bumblebee, Jazz, Grahm, Thompson, Maddie and Meister were visiting Grahm’s favorite spot, Saucer Rock, a UFO shaped formation in the land said to have been formed by a fallen meteor in ancient times. This proved to be partially true, as the Autobots recognized the faint energy signature of their missing friend Cosmos!

Bee, Jazz, Cheetor, Clobber, Drift and the kids use Cosmos’ spaceship mode to fly to the Moon where the viral broadcast originated, going into a final showdown against Shockwave and BlackArachnia. Jazz and Meister’s music provide the right frequency to “recharge good” into the malfunctioning Autobots below, negating the lingering effects of the Virus after the Autobots dislodge the Allspark from Shockwave’s equipment. 

To prevent Shockwave from doing more damage, and to repent for his past misdeeds, Drift impales both himself and Shockwave, self destructing. The Lunar Base of the Decepticons is in shambles, leaving the leaderless Decepticons to mop up while the Autobots leave to check in on Earth. 

The energy surge emitted from the Allspark during the fight stirs Tornedron, who had been slumbering since his role in The Shattering. 

Part Three

The Allspark is in Autobot custody, though they prefer not to use its power for now, not wanting to abuse its power like Shockwave did. 

Autobot relations with humanity has soured somewhat due to Shockwave’s final attack, with Bumblebee, Grahm and Thompson hoping relations can be fixed, but Optimus feeling its time to possibly leave Earth, but with the Ark permanently grounded from Toxitron’s attack, they need to look for other options. Warp gate technology is considered, but Wheeljack doesn’t have the proper tech to build one, and WildWheel is prohibited from allowing the Autobots to use his personal Warp Gate due to Black Block Consortia rules. Optimus puts a pin in the idea for now, as he fears the Decepticons might high jack it to bring Megatron to Earth, making the situation worse. 

Prowl takes matters into his own hands, and attempts to use WildWheel’s personal Warp Gate, but in his haste, opens a gate into unspace, with the kids and Team Bee and Meteorfire sucked into the gate, where they have a brief skirmish with the Quintessons within who were patrolling various portals looking for Primacron. The Quintessons recognize the dimensional energy signature as where they last lost Primacron, and attempt to take control of the wayward kids and Autobots to act as their agents for this universe after the failed attempts with Exarchon. The gang fights back with WildWheel managing to reel the kids and Bee Team back in, but Prowl is captured by the Quintessons… but its fleeting as Prowl erodes and dies, having spent too much time in Unspace without the proper shielding the Quints have. WildWheel has no choice and smashes his own Warp Device to prevent the Quints from finding their way back for the time being. 

The Decepticons are in disarray with the loss of Shockwave, and without the proper equipment to contact High Command, they’re marooned on Earth. With little else to go on, Alpha Strike and Miles Mayhem take command of the Earth bound Decepticons. On a patrol for artifacts and artifacts of interest in the waters by Southside, Sky-Byte comes across Hammerbyte and a couple other Sharkticons on their own patrol for Primacron. Meanwhile, the Autobots encounter Thunderhowl, while following up on a strange sighting Grahm, Thompson and Bumblebee encounter while Cryptid Hunting. Thunderhowl and Hammerbyte are stead fast in the protection of their “Prime” Primacron, and chase off the Autobots and Decepticons for fear of them discovering their master. Ironically, Thunderhowl accidentally namedropped Primacron, setting the gears in motion for a future encounter. 

Boss Fight: Inhumanoids

Meteorfire’s ultimate blunder occurs when cruising for juicy ancient alien facts and secrets on Earth, he comes across the ancient tomb of the Inhumanoids, thinking it to be an ancient alien temple of some kind. Undoing the seal of the Allspark in his messing around, he unleashes the Inhumanoids’ wrath on the planet. It begins to sink in to Meteorfire that what he’s doing has repercussions, and he helps WildWheel, Scrounge, the Autobots, M.A.S.K. and the Dinosaur Tribe push back the threat of the ancient primordials into retreating, but they vow to return.

The energy radiated by the attack from the elemental Inhumanoids causes Tornedron to fully awaken, and he begins making a bee line to Earth, curious about this growing source of Energy. 

Starved for Energon with their rations depleting, the Decepticons and Venomcons begin raids for energy, with Iron Klaw’s facilities in Carbomya, King Nergil’s geothermal generators and Rook’s Flexarium plants. Countered by the Autobots and the irritated villains each time and only gaining scraps, they start to follow up on Meteorfire’s reports of the legendary “Energon Masters”, an ancient race who have mastered creating and refining true Energon. Luckily they were among the aliens hiding on Earth post Shattering. BlackArachnia and Airachnid manage to net some of the aliens after trial and error and force them to develop Energon for them. Meteorfire, WildWheel and Scrounge team up to liberate the aliens, being gifted the “Energon Armor” to fight back. The aliens are liberated, with BlackArachnia having managed to copy the means to create Decepticon Energon Armor for future use. 

Primacron detects Tornedron coming to the Sol System, and decides its best to get out of dodge, but his Warp Gate needs repairs. He sends Thunderhowl and Hammerbyte to steal necessary parts from Southside to repair it. Primacron finds he still needs a sufficient amount of energy to power the Gate, and the Allspark in the Autobots’ possession has just what he needs. After a long skirmish, they succeed in getting the parts and Allspark, and present them to Primacron. 

Boss Fight: Primacron and Tornedron

Team Bee (Bee, Windblade, Cheetor, Grimlock, Whirl, Clobber, Jazz, Meister, Repugnus, Grahm, Thompson, Maddie, WildWheel and Scrounge aboard Meteorfire) manages to track down Thunderhowl and Hammerbyte’s home base, and confront the mysterious alien Primacron. It’s revealed he’s traveled through countless universes, amassing a collection of exotic advanced technology he’s appropriated and modified for his own schemes, one of which included creating Primative mechanical life and seeding some universes with them, something that his rivals, the Quintessons were threatened by. He was captured by some of the Quintessons’ personal Transformers and put on trial aboard the Quintesson flagship, but using a makeshift whistle, he managed to reprogram his capturers, Thunderhowl and Hammerbyte, who helped him escape into the current universe. Using the same whistle, Primacron gains control of Grimlock, Cheetor and Repugnus to add to his fight while he works. Later, Meister and Jazz manage to use their harmonics to break Primacron’s control of the Primitive Transformers just in time as everyone turns their focus on the new threat quickly emerging.

While his loyal bodyguards fought the Autobots, Primacron rigged up the Allspark to use as a battery for his Warp Gate, but the immense energy output finally attracted Tornedron to Earth, who immediately began draining Energy where he could. In particular, he takes out the Inhumanoids first, their ancient elemental power serving as a proper appetizer for his hunger. Horrifying everyone, Primacron revealed the energy beast was the cause of The Shattering that plagued everyone in the first place.

The Energon Armor serves as a brief protection against Tornedron, but energy weapons and physical attacks have no effect on the beast. Primacron attempts to escape through the Warp Gate in the chaos, but is blocked by the emerging Quintesson who had intercepted him this time. Thompson hits on the idea to kill two birds with one stone by having him, Grimlock, Repugnus and Clobber trick the beast into thinking the Quintessons have the richest energy of everyone in the room worth his while. This works, as Tornedron’s gluttony overrides any common sense, and he chases after the Quintessons, attracted by the immense energy from their Unspace Shielding as Grahm knocks Primacron out of the way. The Quintessons and Tornedron dissolve in Unspace after the beast devours their shields. 

Primacron, humbled by the Autobots ultimately helping him, decides to help them out getting back to Cybertron to do what he can. Unbeknownst to the others, the Quintessons still have an agent in the waiting, who seeks to finish the job, now with the intent of fully prosecuting the Autobots who helped Primacron. 

Finale: Guiltar (Optimus ExPrime) and the Ultimate Autobots

With reservations, Optimus Prime decides its time to return to Cybertron with the Allspark in hand, in collaboration with Primacron, but knows they still have the threat of Megatron to deal with. During the Earth War, Megatron had been on Cybertron orchestrating the fall of the remaining Autobot resistance and completing plans to turn Cybertron into a dreadnaught to spread his influence across the galaxy. Grahm, Maddie, Thompson, Meister, Rebecca, the Dinosaur Tribe and M.A.S.K. all wish to help assist Optimus and take down Megatron, insisting they’re all in this together thus far, and Megatron will be everyone’s problem if left unchecked. Optimus has reservations, but accepts, recognizing them all as valued honorary Autobots. 

The remaining Decepticons and V.E.N.O.M. catch wind of the plan via BlackArachnia and Shadow Striker’s scouting and spying, with Miles having delusions of grander to expand his influence to the rest of the galaxy and find alien artifacts beyond Earth. The Decepticons mostly just want to leave Earth behind and go back home after so much humiliation. The Venomcons crash the completion of the gate and the farewell ceremony for the Autobots, intending to hijack the gate and leave the Autobots stranded by destroying the Gate with Blackout’s EMP powers. This mostly goes without a hitch, with the remaining Generics, Slipstream, Airachnid and Alpha Strike going through, but before Blackout can initiate his plan, the deceased parts of the former fly back in from beyond the gate. Blackout himself is killed by a mysterious giant Autobot wearing a Quintesson badge. Several more of the giant Autobots emerge followed by their leader, a darker version of Optimus Prime also wearing a Quintesson badge. He is Guiltar, the ExPrime, and the Quintessons’ top enforcer of their peculiar justice. He decrees all those in this universe, starting with Earth (which has the most representation of species) shall perish in helping the criminal Primacron and defeating his masters. 

A final fight begins, with Meteorfire, FistFight, Rack’n’Ruin, Swoop, Scrounge, Whirl, Doubleheader, several Autobot and Decepticon generics perishing in the fight. WildWheel and Cheetor are impressed by all races coming together to fight and protect the planet, including the Decepticons even if it’s mostly out of self preservation. Shadow Striker and Warfield even protect Bee and the kids and destroys an Ultimate Autobot, citing it was only so SHE had the opportunity to defeat Bee, but Bee and the others laugh it off. 

Tiring of the stalemate, Guiltar ExPrime attempts to abuse the power of the AllSpark to obliterate everything where it stands, figuring it will obey him because of his Prime-hood. It rejects him, reacting instead to the wills of Optimus’ Autobots, the Dinosaur Tribe, humanity, Shadow Striker, Sky-Byte, BlackArachnia and Flamewar. Using her Energon Armor, Clobber unleashes a mighty P.O.K.E. to severely damage Guiltar and have him relinquish the Allspark. Cheetor and BlackArachnia then use the Allspark to unleash its full power, by converting the remains of the Ark into Ultimate Spark Armor for Optimus. In this enhanced state, Optimus easily overwhelms ExPrime and his Ultimate Autobots, sending the fatally wounded but still stubborn ExPrime into the void of Unspace to rot. The Ark Armor fades away, the Ark having accomplished its final voyage. After helping rebuild the damage, the Autobots, their honorary Earth allies, a repentant Ultimate Autobot called Omega Supreme, and the remaining Decepticons go through the Warp Gate to Cybertron thanks to Primacron, Hammerbyte and Thunderhowl. 

Epilogue: Megatron

Flanked by Turmoil, Shatter and Dropkick at a Decepticon base on Cybertron, Maccadam is being interrogated by Megatron, Soundwave and Starscream. Megatron wants Maccadam’s future sight abilities to win the war for Decepticons. Instead, Maccadam offers his usual cryptic words, hinting at a rare chance at Megatron loosing. Indeed, a Warp Gate opens outside to the warring factions outside’s surprise, and Omega Supreme, Windblade, Thunderhawk, and Cosmos fly out, opening fire at the Decepticons. Optimus and the others drive up in Vehicle Mode, Transform and take the fight to Megatron. Holding hands, Grahm and Thompson M.A.S.K. up aboard Bumblebee as together they fight against Shadow Striker. Megatron and Optimus close the series clashing with their Energon Mace and Energon Armor Axe…!

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Verity Carlo as a headmaster because screw Furman.