Transformers Next Wave chapter 3 advent of a god On a planet called earth. Far in the north. Deep under a layer of ice. A warrior sleeps. The ice begins to crack sending jets of water and ice crystals high into the air. soon the view becomes obstructed by clouds of snow and ice. A large purple robot crawls from the cloude and struggles to its feet. "Wh....who dares to awaken Galvatron. WHO DARES TEAR ME FROM MY SLEEP!" he screams as he holds his head in pain. "No the pain... it's coming back. Not again. Not after this long." Then he hears a voice in his mind. "GALVATRON...... ...I have awakened you." "How dare you. I had peace at last and you would take it from me." "I have a propositon for you" "Who are you. SHOW YOURSELF!" Galvatron raises his arm and fires at random. "You won't make any progress like that." "DIE DIE DIE WHATEVER YOU ARE!" "You are truly insane aren't you. and I know why" "What? how dare you make such a claim!" "Ah, but it's true. The pain receptors your onetime master implanted in you....after his destruction. They remained constantly active didn't they." "How...How can you know that." "Because I am alpha and omega. The beginning and the end. Dare you not to defy me or I shall stike down upon thee with terrible vengance and furious anger. And you will know that my name is OMNICRON!" "HAH! Do you think you can intimidate me. I know that name. It's quintissan. Pathetic creature. I could tear you apart with my bare hands." "Do not pretend to understand matters which are beyond thy knowlege. I shall offer ye this. I can take away thy pain. I can cure thee of that which Unicron implanted in you." "Is...that possible?" "Yes and all thou must do is one simple task. Go to cybertron. and find the one who is standing in my way. The one so arrogant as to track me. His name is Neo convoy. Find him and rip him assunder. Succeed and thou shalt be cured. Fail and thou art cursed to an eternity of pain." "I accept your proposal. But on one condition though." "Thou art arrogant Galvatron. But go ahead. I have all the time in the world." "I want to be free of Unicron's design. I need a more powerful body. One of my own design. I have such a design stored in my memory. Access it. Give me the body I we have no deal." "FOOL HOW DARE THEE DEFY ME!" "I am the most powerful decepticon that ever lived. I defy anyone I choose. Refuse my bargain and I'll throw myself back into the ice. I can sleep again. And you can face this enemy of yours alone." "Very well. I shall grant you this new shape. Prepare to be.... ...reformatted." Galvatron smiled as a purple column of light engulfed his figure and he dissapeared. On planet cybertron. Optimus Feral after meeting back up with flytrap and purplebolt sits around the underground with the three massive autobots. "Okay I want to know EVERYTHING. Who the slag are all of you. First you the fembot. What's your name?" Purplebolt nodded and responded "My name is Purplebolt. My parents said they knew you from the beast wars and that you were the great hero after the holocost. They sent me to train with you." Feral looks confused for a moment. "Flytrap what is she talking about." "She means Black Arachnia and Silverbolt. She's their kid." Feral squints and looks at purplebolt a little closer. He sniffs a couple times. "No way. l....l...Little Purplebolt... ..It is you. I can't believe it. Where are your parents." "Excuse me but I'm not little anymore. And I have no idea where they are. they could be clear on the other side of cybertron by now." "Sigh okay then who are you three energon guzzlers?" says Feral looking at the tree autobots. First the solid black autobot speaks. "I am Lastride." Then the black and white autobot speaks. "I am longline" Then the neon blue autobot speaks. "I am Neo Convoy. You sent me here" "Yeah you told me that before. Now would you care to tell me what the slag you mean by that?" Replies Feral. "It's a long story. I am born of an offshoot line from Optimus Prime. However my line is obscure in its history. I know that I am not related to Optimus Primal directly though. In my time I was one of the first scientists along with my companions Longline and Lastride to test the early transwarp technology. The first Maximals were emerging at this time and autobots were becoming outdated. The test was not successful. We emerged in a time twenty stellar cycles from now. You and a few other maximals were struggling to survive. Cybertron was a wasteland. It came so quickly no one knew what had happened. The planet its self was torn apart. Slowly being consumed by an unknown power. Vehicon extermination squads persued the last survivors. Somehow you survived. So you sent us back to this time. Only a short time before the catyclism. In three days a massive object will hit cybertron and that will be the beginning of the end." "So you are saying you came here to change history?" "Not exactly. We came to keep history on track. You see when history changes as the result of an outside traveler it triggers a timestorm. While the storm eventually fades it leaves a scar on timespace that will show up in a reading." "Wait I've never heard of that." "Of course you haven't. The technology to scan timespace dynamics hasn't been invented yet. But the fact remains that we are not changing history. We are trying to keep it from changing any further. Some great power shifting in time is coming to cybertron. It's timespan readings...that is the reading of the amount of time it has traversed. they're infinite, which is obviously impossible unless it's existed since before the beginning of time. This power in this time reads to have not only come from the future but the past present and all times in between. We can't get a fix on it. But we do believe it is what is going to be responsible for the fall of cybertron." Flytrap looks at Feral "You know I'm finding this a little hard to swollow." Feral seems to agree "Okay so why did you pick this time to try and stop the caticlysm?" "Simple. This is the only point where the force actually reads a single time coordinant. You could say that this is the time it materializes. We came back to destroy this being. And since we are interfering with time we must also protect you. As your demise would cause a paradox and we would never have been sent here." "Alright I think I understand what you're saying. In fact this object hitting cybertron. It sounds like something I've heard before. Nightscream tells me that some object is headed for cybertron right now. Something BIG!" "That may very well be what we are looking for but......who is this Nightscream. He was not with you in the future. And all of the survivors stayed with you....oh I see." Feral looks down. "Nightscream.... .....my friend. Okay Neo Convoy. I see what you mean. We have to find out what this thing is and stop it from causing the caticlysm. But tell me, it your future. Who else....who else survives?" "I can't tell you. It's not information critical to the mission. Anything else is too much knowlege of the future." Longline interupts. "Yes and remember. The change is already beginning to take place. The future we know is no longer the future that will be." Lastride looks to Feral "No one knows when their time comes. Just live every day like it's your last. You can't controll the future, it just happens." On a Predacon satelite collony. "HEY QUIT PUSHING!" Nightscream complains as he is led at gunpoint down a long hallway. "Shut up Maximal. Bad enough you won't let us be free on Cybertron now you gotta push us here." "But I just wanted to talk to Galvastorm." "That's even worse. You have any idea what criminals like him make the rest of us look like?" "But Optimus Feral said...." "SHUT THE SLAG UP" Yells the soldier leading Nightscream as he hits him in the head with the butt of his gun." A loud thump is heard by both. A big robot had descended from the cieling. His eyes were hidden behind a visor. Parts of his body were covered in purple scales indicating that he had picked up some sort of beast mode. He walks up to the guard and plants his hand on his shoulder. He then looks over to Nightscream. "Optimus Feral you say?" Says the mysterious purple robot as he lifts up the soldier. "So how is he" he continues calmly as he, with one hand, flings the soldier through a wall. "Uhm.... He's uhm....hey who the slag are you anyway?" "Yeesh talk about rude I was just trying to be friendly." The purple robot is walking away and gestures for nightscream to follow him. They walk into an elevator and go to a lower level of the colony. They set and go down another lengthy hallway. This one is more decayed. Obvoiusly one of the abandoned layers. Fungus grows on the rusted out walls. The purple robot finally approuches a large door. He presses the button on the panel just to the doors side. He waits for a moment. The door does nothing. "LOUSY STIKING PIECE OF SLAG!" He yells kicking the door in. "Sorry you had to see that." He says as they enter through what's left of the doorway. The purple robot stops to put the door back in place as best he can then walks into the room. This room is relatively big. It has a decayed red carpet leading up a set of stairs to a makeshift throne. laying on the back of the throne is a cape attached to a set of shoulder armor. The Purple robot dawns the cape and sits down. "Sorry that took so long. But I don't use my name in public places. The walls have auditory sensors you know. Anyway my name is Galvastorm....." "HOLY SLAG!" Yells nightscream duckhing behind a pillar. Galvastorm looks confused. "Honestly why does absolutely EVERYONE have to respond like that. I'm not that bad of a bot you know." Nightscream walks out from behind the pillar. "Now how is my brother doing anyway?" "Brother? I don't know your brother." "What? Son of a slagger he never tells anyone he sends about that. How is SWORN BROTHER Optimus Feral doing these days?" Nightscream tries to avoid looking shocked "He's uhm... .. fine I guess. well really he's worried." "When is he ever not." "Well this is important. He wanted me to send a warning." Nightscream takes out a disk. All you need to know is on here." Galvatron stands up and walks down the stairs. He walks over to a computer terminal on on wall. He brushes some junk out of the way and inserts the disk. He looks it over. "uh huh. yup. yup. yup. uh huh.......Well it looks like I'm slagged." Nightscream still trying to get used to the eccentricities of Galvastorm speaks up. "There's one more thing. Feral said that if you were planning on attacking cybertron anytime soon you should back off." "well duh. I think survival comes before conquest any day." Galvastorm bussies himself contacting his allies across the collonies as Nightscream reflects on what just happened. "you know for a predacon crimminal he's not such a bad bot." thinks Nightscream to himself. Soldier enters the room. "Lord Galvastorm we have news from cybertron that...." Galvastorm interupts "I TOLD YOU NEVER TO INTERUPT ME WHEN I HAVE GUESTS!!!!" Galvastorm screams as he turns his left arm toward the soldier and fires a few rounds at him. The soldier scurries out the door as Nightscream takes an almost relieved look to his face having seen Galvastorm show his more violent side. It just seemed more natural. Galvastorm looked to nightscream "Well what are you waiting for?" "Huh?" "Let's get going." "Go? Go where?" "To cybertron." "But....what are you going to do about the collonies." "The collonies themselves. There's no saving them. But as for the predacons.....I'm forging a path....we're going home." Back on cybertron. The moon is high and the city lights filtered through the smog filled atmosphere glow red on the horizon. Purplebolt stands on top of a tall building admiring the view. It seems almost humid here. Technorganic fireflies float around making the city seem like a giant christmass tree. Flytrap walks out behind her. "There you are. Optimus was wondering where you were. It's dangerous above ground. You know vehicons are in the area now." "Feral seems kind of cool as a leader. I think I'll learn a lot from him. How has it been for you." "Whew don't get me started. He works me to death. alwasy flytrap do this, move out, go underground, hack that. I never get any good sleep." "Heh. Sounds like fun. I finally getting to do something." "Fun? You crazy. You'll be shot at on a daily basis." "Sounds exciting." "By Primus you sound exactly like Optimus. Always have to be moving. Some times I think his beast mode should be a hummingbird. I always heard cats were lazy." "Look who's talking" "HEY! I'm not lazy. I'm just efficient. Now let's get below. What were you doing up here in the first place." "The view. It's pretty. I never got to see this before. I haven't been aboveground since my parents went on the run. I don't think these things even existed back then." Says Purplebolt gesturing to a firefly. "Well they are relatively new. Some times new animals just kind of pop up since the organic core started flourishing. Now come on inside." Down below. Feral is talking with Neo convoy. "So can you tell me something about technorganics? How is it possible that you have children? Is it anything like how organic creatures reproduce?" Lastride is polishing his scythe. "You know in my day if you wanted a kid you had to build it. It didn't just squirt out from between your legs." Longline looks over at Lastride a bit shocked at his comment. "Well I think it's wonderful. Organic life really is a beutiful thing. They say Optimus Prime himself envied humans." "Hey hold on a minute." Says Feral "It's not exatly like that. We still have to...sort of build our children but it is closer to organic reproduction than before. in fact very close. Reproducing for a single transformer would kill it. You see a new spark is born when a small fragment of the spark core breaks away. it's then imbedded in the spark of another transformer and it feeds of that spark and it takes on traits of it as well. It grows and matures into an independant spark untill it can exist withing a body by its self. the procedure is a major dedication as it takes much energy both to heal the donor's core and to provide the energy from the host to allow the spark to mature. I guess it could be done with any two transformers really. But since the days of the quintissans we've been programmed with male and female personallity types so that's usually the pairing. Bodies are simply generated by the two parents having their DNA scanned simultainously kind of like the fuzor mistake of the beast wars but more exact as a science now. The result is very unique beast modes of animals that may have never existed before. The new DNA is sythisized and given to nanomachines which begin constructhing themselves into a new body. The child spark is traditionally added to the body while it's still developing so that fitting with a childish personallity they are given smaller bodies. I mean it's just not smart to give a kid a body loaded like say mine is. So usually they're personallities grow up at the same time as their boddies. Purplebolt is a result of that technology. She doesn't look or act like she's been around for more than mabey fifteen to seventeen stellar cycles. Eighteen at the most. I wonder why Black Arachnia and Silverbolt waited so long. Then agian Flytrap is only about ten stellar cycles older. Mabey they just didn't want Rattrap and Botanica to show them up. yeah that absolutely reeks of Blackarachnia's mindset. (Sigh) Purplebolt. ....She looks so much like her mother." The three autobots are staring at Feral. "What?"