Author's Note: This is an alternate reality, where the Autobots and Decepticons never left Cybertron and the Autobots won the war. These stories will contain mostly Gen-1 characters, with some Non-G1 and a few of my own creation. Most Gen-1 characters will be updated via Digibashing Unicron trilogy characters. Also, Umbra is one I made-up, he has no connection to the obscure Dreamwave Gen-1 Umbra character.
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Chapter 1
Iacon City, Autobot Army Headquarters, 0800 Hours
Nitro walked down the metallic corridor, arms folded against his chest, a depressed expression on his face. It had been 4 orbital cycles since Optimus Prime had been murdered by the formerly-imprisoned Cryonix.
"It's my fault that he escaped." Nitro muttered. Reaching the end of the hallway, the door automatically opened and he walked into the command center. Up at Teletran II, Optimus Primal viewed various scanner feeds from around Cybertron.
Primal was taller, more muscular, more powerful than Nitro. He was also the new leader of the Autobot Army. Well, it was more of the Cybertron Police Force than an army though. Optimus Primal turned and stared at Nitro for a few moments before turning back to the screens.
"Anything to report?" He asked. Nitro shook his head, even though Optimus couldn't see him,
"No, sir." Nitro never called him Optimus, only commander or sir. The only person fit to have that name was dead.
"Where are the others?" Nitro asked Primal. He hated being alone with Primal, and Nitro was sure the feeling was mutual.
"Ironhide is with Ratchet, getting some tune-ups, and Bumblebee is out scouting like you were. You can join him if you wish." Primal stated, the last sentence was said slower than the rest.
Nitro smiled, and quickly saluted,
"Yes, sir," leaving the room. Primal turned and faced him.
"And be back in a reasonable amount of time, this time!" He yelled after him. Nitro yelled back,
"Sure!" As soon as he had gotten out of the hallway and into a large entrance hall, he transformed into his truck mode, drove out at high speed underneath the Headquarters front arch, and onto the highway. He dodged the other cars, and turned on his army radio frequency.
"Hey, Bumblebee! You on the line?" He said, excited. Bumblebee was the only Autobot of the four others on the team that actually liked him. Then again Bumblebee liked everyone. An energetic voice, came across the frequency,
"Hey, Nitro, good to hear from ya. Did old Primal finally let you come back from your 'scouting mission'?" Nitro laughed, Bee always cheered him up.
"Yep, and he was eager to get rid of me. I think a few of his transistors are loose, if you know what I mean?" "I heard that, Nitro!" Primal's voice blared over the comm. You could hear Bumblebee's laughing for the next several lanes over on the highway.
Kaon, Secret Underground Base, 0900 Hours
Umbra stood silently annoyed, as he listened to Cryonix go on and on about how he killed Optimus Prime.
"He begged for mercy as I slammed my sword into him. He then proceeded to punch me, but I reacted quickly, blasting him with my chest guns, right at his sword blade wound. His death was slow and painful. Sadly the Autobots came before I could get the Matrix out of his chest. But it was only a minor setback. I have forged ahead, and here I am today, your new leader. I have gathered you all together so that we can make coordinated, well planned strikes against the Autobots, like the good old days." Umbra looked at the other Decepticons, then back at his leader.
Noticing the silence, Umbra looked around again, before starting to clap slowly. The other Decepticons murmur slightly before joining in. Cryonix bowed,
"Thank you. Thank you. The pleasure was all mine....now, back to work!!" The Decepticons groaned and shuffled off. Starscream, who had been standing next to Umbra, stepped in front of him, and turned to Cryonix,
"What a wondeful retelling, Cryonix. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I am sure you will make a fine leader." If Umbra could have rolled his eye, he would have. Umbra shrugged,
"It was....interesting, sir. I'm sure the actual battle was a lot drier, but that's just me."Delta Sector, Iacon, 0930 Hours
Bumblebee raced down the road at high speed. Cybertron had been celebrating it’s 1st full year of peace in eons. Celebrations had been going on all over the city, and that’s where Bee was going. If there was going to be an attack by the Decepticons, they would do it then. Bumblebee transformed into robot mode on the outskirts of the largest celebration, Botcon. He stayed out of site, but in a good position to shoot a Decepticon if they tried to shoot the crowd. Suddenly he heard the rev of an engine and saw Nitro burst out of the shadows, and stopped right next to Bee. Bumblebee watched as Nitro changed to robot mode. Happily, Bumblebee said,
“Thank Primus, you got here. I was getting bored already.” Nitro smirked and walked over sitting down.
“I’ve been bored all my life. No action.” Unbeknownst to the two Autobots, who just chattered away about racing mostly, Umbra walked out onto the roof of the largest building near the celebration. He took out a holo transmitter and set it on the ground. A large holo-picture of Cryonix appeared in front of him. Umbra nodded, and asked,
“Lord Cryonix, what is thy bidding?” Cryonix pointed at the celebration.
“Kill some of those fools. Just enough to show that the Decepticons are back and that we mean business. Oh, and make sure that you fight long enough for news crews to get there.” Umbra nodded again,
“Understood.” The holo-transmitter turned off and Umbra picked it up, placing it on his belt. He readied his gun arm, opening the end of it, and gathering energy. He aimed at two older bots, continued charging up, and then he just let go. The blast exploded from his arm, and went right on target hitting the two old bots and sending the falling. Umbra ran and jumped off the building.
Nitro had been asking Bumblebee about a new engine when he hear an explosion and turned to see two old bots dead, and people scrambling in a panic.
“What in Primus’ name happened?!” Nitro shouted. Bumblebee stood and looked up.
“Decepticon!!!!!!!” Nitro looked up as well, and saw a gigantic body flying down. It was huge, and one entire arm had been replaced by a gun. Bumblebee looked closer,
“I’ve never seen him before, either. I need to report this to base.” “Are you crazy? He just killed two random guys, we need to stop him now before he..” The sound of Umbra blasting another bot dead cut him off. Nitro jumped up and out of his hiding placing, pulling out his gun, and starting to fire at Umbra.
“Eat this, Decepticreep!” Sliding on his back, he quickly blasted at Umbra fast and hard. Umbra was obviously surprised, and knocked back by his shots. But not much. Umbra started firing the gun attached to his right arm, hitting Nitro and changing the direction of his sliding, making him crash into a wall.
“Oww.” Umbra stared at the Autobot he just shot, and walked towards him.
“Puny, Autobot, you really think you could beat me? By yourself?!” Umbra asked, both tauntingly and curiously. The Autobot looked up at him.
“An Autobot is never alone….Bumblebee!!!” Bumblebee burst out from a hidden spot at high speed, transforming and jumping high over Umbra’s head firing at him from above. Umbra put his gun arm above his head, and ducked slightly, trying not to get hurt badly. Nitro took that chance to plow forward and smash Umbra backwards, onto the ground. Umbra reacted quickly however, and turned blasting Nitro with his giant gun. The blast hit Nitro dead center in the chest, and sent him flying into the building behind him. Umbra then quickly turned and blasted Bumblebee several times with his other gun, Bee falling over from the force of the shots. Umbra laughs, and walks towards Bee.
Bumblebee lifts his gun, and blasts at Umbra. He looked over at Nitro. He wasn’t responding. Bumblebee started getting up, but Umbra clubs him hard with his giant gun arm thingy. Bumblebee crashed into a building and groaned. Barely able to keep his optical sensors open he watched as Umbra activated his giant gun, and fired. His optical sensors failed, and he fell to the ground. Umbra laughed.
“One freak down, one to go.”Nitro’s eyes widen as he watched Bee get blasted hard. He couldn’t tell if Bumblebee was alive or dead. Getting up slowly, he yelled at Umbra,
“You are soooo going down!” Getting angrier, he also added,
“That was my friend!” Umbra laughed again, this time right at him,
“He was weak. At least you are somewhat of a challenge. Why aren‘t you a Decepticon? You are helpful enough, you know, releasing Cryonix and all….” He taunted Nitro, and it was working. Nitro got angry, and barreled straight at Umbra. Nitro jumped into the air, and brought both of his fists down on Umbra, then, back flipping, off of him, twisting through the air, and landing on the ground with his hands, then using his hands to push into the air, spinning and kicking Umbra multiple times, before landing on the ground in front him. Umbra groaned, and collapsed.
“Good job, punk.” Umbra groaned out.
A female helicopter flew into the celebration-turned-battle scene,
“This is Asmara, member of the Cybertron News Network, also known as CNN. We are tracking a battle taking place in the center of Delta Sector, the largest sector of Iacon. According to unknown sources, the grey and black bot below with the unauthorized weapons, attacked the celebration taking place here. Transform!” She changed into robot mode, and stood in the town square, about 100 meters away from Nitro and Umbra.
Nitro looked at the news fembot land and groaned. He put a cyber chain around Umbra, and hauled him up. Thinking it was safe, Asmara got closer, and moved her camera towards Nitro then towards Umbra. Umbra says, loudly,
“Citizens of Cybertron, I’m not acting alone. The Decepticons have been reborn, we are back, and you are no longer safe. Even now, the other Decepticons are attacking other cities, all over Cybertron.” Asmara’s optical sensors widened, and she looks at Nitro who had the same expression on his face.
“Cybertron is ours!” Umbra laughs, into the camera, as he breaks the cyber chain, turning quickly, punching Nitro off of him, and blasting Asmara with his giant gun, effectively killing Asmara and destroying the camera.
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((Below are the Digibashed photos of Nitro, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Cryonix and Umbra, as well as the photos of Primal and Ironhide for easy refrence and description. You can click on the images to get larger versions.))