Transformers:  Next Wave
			chapter 7
		        Cry Robot
		By:  Fragraham Lincon
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	"Light.....Dark.....Good.....Evil...Which will I become?
Are we truly free to live our lives, or are we but pawns in the 
never ending game of the gods.  If all beings truly desire peace then
why are we destined to fight.  Or is it different?  Do all beings desire
only conflict.  In this case.  Do we deserve freedom?  If I must
act as a slave one last time in order to truly understand what
freedom is........if I must snuff out one last innocent life....
......then so it shall be." 

	Galvatron stood in the dark Alley.  The artifact in his
chest was resonating.  It's other half was drawing near.  He felt
a sort of sempathy with it.  It desired to be whole again and 
that which stood in its way would be obliterated.  Closer and closer
the halves drew.  

	On the rain soaked streets of cybertron the autobots sped.
"Neo Convoy where exactly are you taking us?"  Longline asked.
"Yeah I was wondering that myself."  Said Lastride in agreance.
"I don't know yet I just have a feeling."  Neo Convoy replied.

	Lastried halted in front of Neo Convoy and transformed
into robot mode.  Neo Convoy transformed in response.  "Lastride
move out of my way."  he demanded.  "Not untill you tell us what's going on."
Lastride objected.  Neo convoy looked down to his chest.  He opened a
compartment and withdrew an artifact much like the one Galvatron
carried.  "The matrix of life.  It is drawing me somewhere. 
It hasn't resonated like this since the matrix of destruction dissapeared.
I as the decendant  of Prime have a duty to follow its will."

	Lastride looked to Neo Convoy in shock.  "Y....y...you
betrayed Feral and put the whole of cybertron at risk of anihalation 
all over that stupid old piece of rusted metal? You....you...
YOU AREN'T FIT TO LEAD, NEO CONVOY!"  Yelled Last ride as he punched
Neo Convoy squarely in the face knocking him back a few paces.

	Neo Convoy stood in shock for a moment then responded
to Lastride's agression.  "NEO KNUCKLE!"  He called as he signalled
with his hands sending from his trailer a very large fist which
sent Lastride hurtling back.  Last ride stood back up pulled
out his dual ended scythe and began to charge.  "STOP" 
Cried Longline throwing himself between the two dualing autobots.
"Please brother stop this!"  He demanded.  "Lil bro get out of my way
or you'll get hurt."  Longline demanded.  "No, if you want to continue
this fight you'll have to go through me."  Lastride charged again
and swung his scythe halting an inch from Longline's head.
"You...didn't flinch."  Longline said in disbelief. "Not this time.
I knew you couldn't do it.  You never admit it but you always went out
of your way to protect me.  Taking on my missions for me, and before that
bullying the other recruits into going easy on me.  But now it's time for
me to protect you brother.  I have to protect you from your own mistakes."

	Last ride stepped back.  He collapsed his scythe and stowed it.
"I...didn't want my scythe to get rusty in this rain."  Last ride said
as he transformed and sped back toward the citidel.  Neo Convoy
looked down at Longline.  "And now we've lost another one."  He said
"No you've lost two.  I'm going back to Feral.  I may have stopped my
brother's attack but that doesn't mean I don't think you're in the wrong.
We owe it to the future to change as much as possible.  This is not history
but the present day we are in.  We should write the world anew.  Life is
not a single path but many wich twist and intertwine.  I'm sorry...."

	Longline transformed and sped off following Lastride.
Neo Convoy began to walk away when he heard another voice.
"And then there was one........"  Vehitron stepped from the shadows
with Blastcharge and skybolt behind him.  "Do not worry about your friends.
You will all be together when the great unification is complete.  
But untill then why don't I introduce you to your ancestors."
Said vehitron.  He pointed toward Neo Convy and following his
directions skybolt and blastcharge advanced.

	Skybolt quickly merged with four drones becoming super skybolt
and proceeded to grapple with Neo Convoy.  Skybolt shoved Neo Convoy
into the side of a building and laid punch after punch into him.
Neo Convoy began to punch back.  With enough effort he pushed Skybolt
back but only to find a missile in his chest from Blastcharge.
Smoke poured from the gaping wound it made.  Neo Convoy tried to turn
his attention to Blastcharge but then found himself grappled once more 
from behind by Skybolt and then another missile in his chest compliments
of Blastcharge.  Vehitron aproached the weakened Neo convoy.

	"Struggling I see.  But what good will it do you?
All things end in death.  But you shall become part of something
much greater."  Vehitron opened a compartment in his chest exposing
his spark.  From his spark shot an energy stream which reached into the hole
in Neo Convoy's chest.  Neo Convoy could already feel his conciousness slipping
away.  With one last effort he kicked Vehitron in the face then Threw
Skybolt off of him.  "NO!  I WILL NOT FAIL THE FUTURE!  TRANSFORM SUPER
NEO CONVOY!!!"  

	Neo Convoy's nearby trailer broke apart and surrounded him with
an aura of energy.  Pieces of the trailer transformed and merged all
over Neo Convoy's body.  When it cleared there stood an even stronger
incarnation of Neo Convoy.  He could feel his energon reserves being taxed
by this powerful body but it was a necessary sacrifice.  

	He drew two enormous guns from his back and fired them at
Skybolt blowing the Vehicon combination apart.  Blastcharge emptied
his compliment of missiles at Neo Convoy.  Neo Convoy ignored the damage
that was amassing and merged his two guns.  "SUPER NEO CANNON!"
he cried out firing an enormous energy beam at Blastcharge.

	The beam ripped apart and incinerated any rubble standing in the way
and dug a deep ditch below it in the ground.  Blastcharge didn't even
have a chance to dodge before he was engulfed.  His body was ravaged by
the beam.  pieces tore away and reduced to cindar.  When the beam cleared
Blastcharge fell on his back.  He was charred black.  He looked to
Vehitron.  "But master....was primus not on our side....."  is all he said
as his eyes went black and his spark faded away.

	Neo Convoy fell to his knees and seperated from his armor.
His energon reserves were almost completely depleated.  Vehitron
turned away from Neo convoy.  He picked up The remains of Blastcharge.
"Noble soldier.  You died for what you believed in.  Skybolt.  Back
to base....even Vehicons must mourn their dead."  Said vehitron as he
departed with his forces following slowly behind.

	Neo Convoy tried to pull himself to his feet but had
too little strength remaining.  He laid in the streets powerles and
dying but somehow he felt a strange sense of hope.  The rain
doused the fires set by the battle.  A flower bloomed from one
of the nearby technorganic buildings.  A reminder of life even
as his slipped away.  

	Then above the patter of the rain Neo Convoy could hear a new
sound.  Footsteps.  Soon there stood above Neo Convoy the massive
purple figure of Galvatron.  "Understand that I take no pleasure in this."
He said as he drew a sword from his back.  "Cut clean...and may 
Primus have mearcy on both of us."  

	Galvatron Hesitated for a moment.  The rain water poured into his
eyes and streamed from his face looking something akin to tears.
He placed his sword over Neo Convoy's chest and thrust down.
He held his sword tightly for a moment and watched as Neo Convoy's
eyes darkened.  He could sense his spark burning out.
For a few moments all was silence other than the constantly pouring rain.
Galvatron didn't move even after Neo Convoy was gone from this world.

	Moments later a shadow emerged.  From it arose Geckobot 
along with Feral.  "Neo Convoy......"  Feral Muttered as he limped to
the fallen autobot's side.  Feral didn't speak.  He already knew what
to expect when he arived but still the sight of a fallen comrad was a hard one.
He looked up and let the rain wash the tears from his eyes.
He then saw someone walking away.  Galvatron turned back to look at Feral.
Hanging from a chain about his neck Galvatron wore the assembled artifact.
Both his Matrix of destruction and Matrix of life together in the form of 
the empty shell of the matrix of leadership.
"....out out brief candle.  Life's but a walking shadow.  a poor player
who struts and frets his hour up on the stage.....and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury....signifying nothing."
Galvatron said then turned to walk away.  

	"WAIT!"  Feral called to Galvatron.  "We all do what we must
do.  I have made a deal with the devil.  And now I must carry it through."
Galvatron said as he walked a few more paces before lifting into the clouds.

	Feral remained by Neo Convoy's side.  The rain continued to pour.
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