The Energon Pub

The Brightsoul Matrix was brought to light and the echoes of its reawakening is rippling throughout the Sonic Wastes. The joint pack of Predacons, Archistrategos and Zadakiel, and Maximals, Airstorm Alpha and Ghostbusters, raced the artifact out of its tomb to witness its power unleashed as automated defenses came to life after millennia of rest. There, on the surface though, were waiting Exitium’s Bitchkrieg and Redlock. They have stalked the traitorous Predacons and were waiting in the Tomb’s Courtyard to claim the Brightsoul for their faction. With a shattering blow from Bitchkrieg’s cannon the conflict over the Matrix damaged the artifact, splintering a shard off its blue core.

Now the joint pack is again split by faction – Maximals with the shard heading due North to their secondary command post, traitorous Predacons with the Brightsoul North-West to their next target – having left the stalking members of Exitium to contend with the awakened defenses. The cunning Bitchkrieg though has recovered the datapad given to the Maximals on the Tomb’s roof and is radioing the truth of the Citizen’s of Chayot’s betrayal and their next target to Predacon command.

The revelation to all forces of the true cause of the renewed war has all functional warriors preparing to unearth history. The final target of the Citizen’s of Chayot is Armageddon’s Hollow, the fabled location where the Prime of Prime’s plunged Megratron and himself into Cybertron’s core, which the planet-wide reset that halted the Ancestor’s Great War. Archistrategos hopes to use the Brightsoul’s power with the lost Matrix of Leadership there to reawaken their ancestor’s shells and use the Autobot forces to restore Cybertron.

However, at the damaging of the Brightsoul, its raw force pulsed through the Wastes. Its unhindered energon pulsed through the desolation illuminating building, streets, and fallen warriors. Both faction’s paused as Cybertron, for a brief moment, eerily reflected its former glory as Beast and Ancestral shells were illuminated among all the rubble and ruin. But as the lights in the buildings faded, blue and red optics began again to shine all throughout the Wastes. The fallen shells of the ancestors, the Autobots and Decepticons, began rising under the artifacts power and found themselves driven by corrupted instinct to hunt their descendants.

Now, all Cybertronian factions are waging the unending war at once – Beasts to control their world and seek vengeance for betrayal, Ancestors as mindless drones driven on instinct to wage war again. The uncovering of the fallen Ancestral leaders and the Leadership Matrix will determine Cybertron’s fate. The hunt for the Brightsoul has ended, but the War in the Wastes wages on!

Wingspan wrote:Electron, you will be accepted.

But this is most disappointing - are these the only challengers? Is there no more boldness now that the conflict is out in the open? Or are you offended that you're dreams are over and you awaken as mere drones?

This is not satisfying. We will extend signups for 24 hours. AUTOBOTS! This is your final chance to show some support for your bolder brothers.

Absolute Zero wrote:Maybe they fear the Maximals that much.

Wingspan wrote: (As a serious compliment, Feral Rain is a much stronger team now - we get 2-3 more like that and we'll be evenly matched)