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Chapter One: Definition
(This story is based loosely on the Transformers movie by Bay & Spielberg. Some characters as of this posting haven’t been shown yet so I’m going to make their characteristics up. Also, there are plenty of backstories and characterizations that weren’t addressed in the movie so I’m making that up too. No, I haven’t read the prequel stuff and I don’t intend to.)
Having drifted to a small planet far from Cybertron, a cube-shaped planet filled with inorganic beings (they weren’t “robots” in the sense that they were not man-made; their forms and disguises were later interpreted by humans as robot-like, but the idea they were created by organic beings at all would be the highest insult) who could rearrange their forms in cringe-inducing ways, one particular entity from this planet found “himself” (it is debatable whether or not these beings have what organics would consider “sexes”) lodged deep within the terra firma of the planet Earth (although this planet was not called this at the time he landed).
He had been sent from Cybertron to look for the Allspark, the heart and soul of their world. The Allspark drove the life processes of that world by radiating energy that tended to create inorganic life. It was this Creator aspect of the Allspark that lead this inorganic being to a logical conclusion: searching only the planets with confirmed lifeforms, no matter what their form, would be the most efficient plan of action. Searching everywhere would be a waste of energy and resources. The universe was a very large place, after all.
However, he had an advantage the others of his kind did not have: he could hear it. It was like a smell for him – and he traced it to Earth. Even the leaders of Cyberton, Megatron and Optimus Prime, could not hear it. The symbols they had carved on their faces with energy arcs from the Allspark allowed them certain privileges, but only because he had been the arbiter. It was HIS skill with communicating with the Allspark that allowed him to create limited bonds between the leaders and the Allspark. The bonds were only detectable within a couple million miles, though, unless he could find it and send word to his leaders and narrow the search.
However, just as he had left the galaxy, he got word that Optimus Prime had abandoned Cybertron with his paltry troop of idealist “Autobots” to search for the Allspark.
That knowledge irritated him, if he could be irritated. The Autobots sudden departure confirmed what he had suspected: Optimus had exiled the Allspark or at least had it done. Quite possibly Bumblebee was the one responsible, since, like himself, Bumblebee had also been a “priest” of the Allspark for quite some time before the Autobots turned against the Decepticons. He had been one of the very few capable of communicating with the Allspark, in a way envied by Megatron in particular, just as Megatron envied his own skills.
That was why Megatron kept him alive, of that he was certain. It was the most logical reason. Without a priest of the Allspark, a “Transformer” could not access anything but the most limited capabilities of the Allspark. Optimus Prime retained a priest, and Megatron did the same.
But the shock of the harsh landing on this world damaged some components of his transmitters, as well as fusing his outer casing he had used to travel through the cold vacuum of space. No matter, he thought to himself. His form would cool sufficiently in time. He could detect dying lifeforms around him on the surface, large and small creatures, from the sounds they made. The blast had incinerated most of them, and the ones left would not last the day. His radar systems still seemed to work, detecting massive clouds of dirt and ash filling the skies northward. He also sensed increased geological activity. Apparently, his entrance had disrupted solid plates of land floating above a molten interior.
As he lay there, he noted to himself just how short the days seemed to be on this planet. Even though thick layers of debris littered the skies, he could still detect the general day/year pattern of the planet. It seemed so short, in comparison to Cybertron. What would constitute several years or so (it was difficult to get a precise reckoning) on this world roughly equalled an hour on Cybertron. Peculiar. As he began to cool, he found that he could move small sections of his rather large body, breaking the seamless ovoid form he had used for space travel. Although he himself could not yet move from his embedded location, he could send out a remote.
Several sections of his interior could be reformatted to produce “offspring” or remotes: smaller surveillance devices that would achieve semi-autonomy yet still remain connected to him. Although he could reacquire these remotes, it was not necessary. After all, he had left a few on Cybertron so data could be transmitted more easily, for the “parent” and the “offspring” do not require conventional transmission between themselves….
Fortunately, his aerial remote was able to locate an adequately-sized aerial organic organism (even though it was dead) after it reached the surface. By scanning it, the remote was able to reconfigure, “transform” itself into a shiny metal being with triangular wings and a light frame into which its new narrow head with pointed “beak” could fold into if need be. Since there did not appear to be any inorganic beings on this world, a very thin layer of display material like liquid crystal displays, activated by energy and protected by a clear layer from the elements, changed its coloration to a mottled brown with green tips on the wings and beak.
The progenitor of this remote, Soundwave, sent its scout, named Laserbeak, northward to confirm the presence of the Allspark…
Millions of years later, after humans had explored and colonized all but the smallest sections of the globe’s surface, geologists noted a huge crater at the Yucatan Peninsula. Given the size and the chemical composition of the site, plus the layers of sediment it affected, it was touted to be the place where a large asteroid, flying in from deep space, had crash-landed and killed the dinosaurs and permitted new forms of life to proliferate.
In fact, it seemed to define a new era in Earth’s history…
(This story is based loosely on the Transformers movie by Bay & Spielberg. Some characters as of this posting haven’t been shown yet so I’m going to make their characteristics up. Also, there are plenty of backstories and characterizations that weren’t addressed in the movie so I’m making that up too. No, I haven’t read the prequel stuff and I don’t intend to.)
Having drifted to a small planet far from Cybertron, a cube-shaped planet filled with inorganic beings (they weren’t “robots” in the sense that they were not man-made; their forms and disguises were later interpreted by humans as robot-like, but the idea they were created by organic beings at all would be the highest insult) who could rearrange their forms in cringe-inducing ways, one particular entity from this planet found “himself” (it is debatable whether or not these beings have what organics would consider “sexes”) lodged deep within the terra firma of the planet Earth (although this planet was not called this at the time he landed).
He had been sent from Cybertron to look for the Allspark, the heart and soul of their world. The Allspark drove the life processes of that world by radiating energy that tended to create inorganic life. It was this Creator aspect of the Allspark that lead this inorganic being to a logical conclusion: searching only the planets with confirmed lifeforms, no matter what their form, would be the most efficient plan of action. Searching everywhere would be a waste of energy and resources. The universe was a very large place, after all.
However, he had an advantage the others of his kind did not have: he could hear it. It was like a smell for him – and he traced it to Earth. Even the leaders of Cyberton, Megatron and Optimus Prime, could not hear it. The symbols they had carved on their faces with energy arcs from the Allspark allowed them certain privileges, but only because he had been the arbiter. It was HIS skill with communicating with the Allspark that allowed him to create limited bonds between the leaders and the Allspark. The bonds were only detectable within a couple million miles, though, unless he could find it and send word to his leaders and narrow the search.
However, just as he had left the galaxy, he got word that Optimus Prime had abandoned Cybertron with his paltry troop of idealist “Autobots” to search for the Allspark.
That knowledge irritated him, if he could be irritated. The Autobots sudden departure confirmed what he had suspected: Optimus had exiled the Allspark or at least had it done. Quite possibly Bumblebee was the one responsible, since, like himself, Bumblebee had also been a “priest” of the Allspark for quite some time before the Autobots turned against the Decepticons. He had been one of the very few capable of communicating with the Allspark, in a way envied by Megatron in particular, just as Megatron envied his own skills.
That was why Megatron kept him alive, of that he was certain. It was the most logical reason. Without a priest of the Allspark, a “Transformer” could not access anything but the most limited capabilities of the Allspark. Optimus Prime retained a priest, and Megatron did the same.
But the shock of the harsh landing on this world damaged some components of his transmitters, as well as fusing his outer casing he had used to travel through the cold vacuum of space. No matter, he thought to himself. His form would cool sufficiently in time. He could detect dying lifeforms around him on the surface, large and small creatures, from the sounds they made. The blast had incinerated most of them, and the ones left would not last the day. His radar systems still seemed to work, detecting massive clouds of dirt and ash filling the skies northward. He also sensed increased geological activity. Apparently, his entrance had disrupted solid plates of land floating above a molten interior.
As he lay there, he noted to himself just how short the days seemed to be on this planet. Even though thick layers of debris littered the skies, he could still detect the general day/year pattern of the planet. It seemed so short, in comparison to Cybertron. What would constitute several years or so (it was difficult to get a precise reckoning) on this world roughly equalled an hour on Cybertron. Peculiar. As he began to cool, he found that he could move small sections of his rather large body, breaking the seamless ovoid form he had used for space travel. Although he himself could not yet move from his embedded location, he could send out a remote.
Several sections of his interior could be reformatted to produce “offspring” or remotes: smaller surveillance devices that would achieve semi-autonomy yet still remain connected to him. Although he could reacquire these remotes, it was not necessary. After all, he had left a few on Cybertron so data could be transmitted more easily, for the “parent” and the “offspring” do not require conventional transmission between themselves….
Fortunately, his aerial remote was able to locate an adequately-sized aerial organic organism (even though it was dead) after it reached the surface. By scanning it, the remote was able to reconfigure, “transform” itself into a shiny metal being with triangular wings and a light frame into which its new narrow head with pointed “beak” could fold into if need be. Since there did not appear to be any inorganic beings on this world, a very thin layer of display material like liquid crystal displays, activated by energy and protected by a clear layer from the elements, changed its coloration to a mottled brown with green tips on the wings and beak.
The progenitor of this remote, Soundwave, sent its scout, named Laserbeak, northward to confirm the presence of the Allspark…
Millions of years later, after humans had explored and colonized all but the smallest sections of the globe’s surface, geologists noted a huge crater at the Yucatan Peninsula. Given the size and the chemical composition of the site, plus the layers of sediment it affected, it was touted to be the place where a large asteroid, flying in from deep space, had crash-landed and killed the dinosaurs and permitted new forms of life to proliferate.
In fact, it seemed to define a new era in Earth’s history…