Slipstream had gathered a team of people for the creation of new Chaos Emeralds. They were given a lab aboard the Ark. Her team consisted of Shockwave, Ratchet, Maria, Knock-out, and Swoop. Ratchet poured a portion of liquid into another beaker. “Fetch me the Quantum Cyber-measure,” he directed Knock-out.
“Do I look hired help to you, Autobot?!” snapped Knock-out.
“Knock-out,” interjected Shockwave, “attend to the needs of our partners.”
“As you command,” sighed the Decepticon medic. He slunk off as Slipstream set an Energon crystal down.
“So, we know the basic crystalline structure of the Chaos Emeralds,” observed Swoop, “was produced by an atypical molecular displacement reaction?”
“Extensive empirical evidence,” replied Slipstream “indicates that the fundamental chaotic natures of the Emeralds were produced when Primacron was trying to make a super-fuel.”
“Double-blind analysis?” asked Shockwave.
“More like the extensive notes Primacron took. He documented everything about his life, even when he went to the bathroom. He also went to describe that attempts to make the Emeralds again only resulted in the new set rapidly breaking down on the molecular level once the Super Form’s time limit was exhausted.”
“So, he couldn’t successfully replicate the Chaos Emeralds, only a quick fix.”
“A quick fix may be all that we need,” remarked Maria.
“If it is, it will be quite the act of providence,” mused Shockwave. “There is much to do and little time. Shall we begin?” The team nodded and began their work. The Energon crystal was subjected to radiation, then Ratchet carefully poured the contents of the beaker onto the crystal. It then separated into seven crystals. Maria then glanced around her workstation.
“Knock-out, the isoprobe!” she called. “I can’t find it!”
“Third lever on the right of the console on your left,” grumbled Knock-out. Maria saw it, then grinned.
“Thank you, Doctor Knock-out.” Knock-out’s optics flickered as he processed Maria’s thanks. He then grinned.
“You’re welcome!” Maria pulled the lever down and the isoprobe extended, producing a resonance with the crystal formations. Shockwave looked over the results.
“It’s not enough,” she reported. “The resonance isn’t reaching the required activation frequency.” Ratchet then got an idea.
“I wonder if Basso Profundo’s vaunted ‘secret’ can help.”
“I only have part of the secret,” Basso Profundo sang over the comms. “The remaining Secret Keepers are Allegra and Zebop Skandana.”
“We need your harmony to stabilize new Chaos Emeralds,” explained Shockwave.
“New? Then the rumors ARE true!”
“We have data concerning how they were first made, something Starscream overlooked. They’ll only be a temporary solution, but we have need of them. It should be enough to defeat Tornedron.” Basso Profundo considered his next move.
“…Very well. Zebop, Allegra, and I will beam to your vessel.”
“I’ll inform the transporter room.”
“There is no need. We shall use our own method.” The call ended. Shockwave’s optic flickered.
“Their own method?”
As the science team kept their current work in a state of stasis, they heard a three-part harmony growing. As the harmony crescendoed, three people shimmered into view. It was Basso Profundo, a woman in a one-piece bodysuit and cape, and a man looking like he came from medieval nobility. “You believe our harmony,” sang the man, Zebop Skandana, “can help your experiment?”
“Idiocy if I ever heard it,” sang the woman, Allegra.
“I know it sounds preposterous,” replied Shockwave, “but the new Emeralds need a better resonance than the isoprobe can deliver.” Allegra rolled her eyes.
“Fine, we’ll help.” Shockwave pointed to the chamber where the seven Energon crystals were. Maria turned off the isoprobe and pointed to a microphone. Basso Profundo sang and held a bass note. Zebop then sang and held a tenor note. Allegra was the last, singing and holding a soprano note. The harmony then unified, and it reached the microphone. As the harmony progressed, the crystals grew brighter and brighter until…they flashed a white light. It abruptly ended the harmony as the three Eurythmans yelped at the light. The light died and everyone soon regained their vision. Allegra gasped as she and the others saw the results of the experiment. Sitting in the chamber, now having been cleared of the initial radiation and deemed safe, were seven jewels, colored and shaped like the Chaos Emeralds. These new Emeralds were the size of a Transformer’s fist! Shockwave took a reading on the new Emeralds, then grimaced.
“They ARE going to break down once we use the Super form,” she reported. “Thirty Mobian minutes at maximum.”
“If I had the time,” grumbled Maria, “I would have created a recall system that gets everyone back to their ships once the Super form wears off.” Knock-out then thought about something.
“What if we spread the power out through the ships?” he asked. Shockwave was then hit with inspiration.
“There IS a way to transmit that kind of power into the ships!” she called. “I’ve designed a program that was meant to do that!”
“Give me the parameters of the program!” urged Maria. “I can alter it to activate a recall effect for all troops through their respective means of matter-transmission!” Shockwave searched her computer for the files related to the program, then sent them to Maria’s tablet. Maria then connected her tablet to the computer and got to work. Shockwave then called Optimus and the Nemesis.
“Prime, my Lord, we have our new Chaos Emeralds,” she reported. “My teammates are geniuses, thank you for sending them. Slipstream must also be thanked for acquiring the necessary data. They ARE temporary, though. Maria is currently working on a safety program for the transporters of every ship that will recall any soldiers left in space once the Super form wears off and the Emeralds break down.”
“Acknowledged,” replied Optimus.
“Understood,” supplied Thundercracker. Shockwave’s optic then flickered.
“Thundercracker?” she asked.
“Megatron, Vector Sigma, and Gaia are on Voksphere, trying to awaken Lux and Umbra,” explained Optimus.
“Behind enemy lines?! It’s too dangerous!”
“I tried to tell him that, but no dice. They’re maintaining radio-silence and WHOA!”
“Optimus?!” yelped Ratchet.
“Guys, I think Megatron was successful! Two new energy beings just popped up from Voksphere and are facing Primus and Unicron!”
“…He did it!” realized Knock-out. “That spawn of a glitch! Megatron actually did it!”