Optimus and Megatron woke up in a black void. They looked around, missing each other at first and thinking their optics were offline, then they spotted each other. \u201cWhere are we?\u201d asked Megatron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI wish I knew,\u201d replied Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou are in a simulation of the void before stars,\u201d explained a voice. The two bots turned to see a humanoid creature in black and white robes approach them. The face was that of a monkey\u2019s, the hands had four digits instead of five, and it looked male. He wore a gold multi-faceted sphere on a chain around his neck. The creature grinned as Optimus and Megatron\u2019s optics widened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVector Sigma?\u201d asked Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am,\u201d replied the creature. \u201cThis is what I once was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou were a monkey?\u201d scoffed Megatron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVok, actually.\u201d Megatron took a while to realize what Vector Sigma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Vok?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHold on, THE Vok?\u201d asked Optimus. \u201cI thought they were an energy-based race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thought they were a myth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are no myth,\u201d replied Vector Sigma. \u201cWe once had no physical form you could comprehend, so, for the sake of your understanding, I will mark them with the images of your data-trax on us.\u201d It was then that they all heard what sounded like someone weeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho\u2019s that?!\u201d asked Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe had no name until we gave her one,\u201d replied Vector Sigma. \u201cShe is the void around us. We gave her the name\u2026Umbra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026You called her Shadow?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what she was. This is where our tale of long ago begins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always been a sucker for long-ago tales!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThen permit me to tell it. Before the universe began, Umbra constantly wept her shadowy tears. She was alone, with no one to talk to. Because of that, she went mad with grief and loneliness. As she wept, nothing was created.\u201d Just then, a second weeper was heard. A light then floated through the void. \u201cIt was then that a new being arrived on its lonely journey. Like Umbra, this being wept at being the only one of her kind. We gave her the name of Lux.\u201d The collective weeping was then replaced with sniffling as Lux stopped. \u201cThe two then found each other and began to ask one another questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho are you?\u201d asked one woman\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have no name,\u201d replied another. \u201cYou?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI also have no name,\u201d answered the first. \u201cWhat are you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI believe I am\u2026Light. You?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think I am\u2026Darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy are you sad?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs am I.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou have no one like you? I am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAre you just as cursed?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am. No one is Darkness like me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Perhaps, we alone don\u2019t need others like us to no longer feel lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou wish to be with me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou seem to understand my pain. Would you let me be with you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026I see no reason to refuse.\u201d Just then, an explosion occurred between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat,\u201d Vector Sigma chuckled to the startled bots, \u201cwas the result of beings of Light and Darkness touching each other. Look now at the results.\u201d The void was soon filled with stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo beautiful!\u201d breathed Umbra. There was now a distinct ball of shadow roughly the same size as the ball of light Lux was. \u201cWe made this!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLight and Dark work best together!\u201d The two beings then laughed in joy and danced near each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOkay, so their contact was the catalyst for the Big Bang that birthed the universe,\u201d remarked Megatron. \u201cWhat does that have to do with anything?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe story is not over yet, Young Megatron,\u201d replied Vector Sigma. As Lux and Umbra danced, their energies created new shapes, floating skulls with glowing eyes. \u201cThat is what we once were before we became solid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026Rather creepy,\u201d muttered Optimus. The Early Vok then came to Lux and Umbra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou have birthed us directly,\u201d spoke one of the Early Vok. \u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026We\u2026have no name,\u201d replied Lux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were so overjoyed in making this universe,\u201d continued Umbra, \u201cthat we never named ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWould you like us to name you?\u201d asked another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes, please!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLady of Light, you shall be Lux.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am Lux, then!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLady of Darkness, you shall be Umbra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am Umbra!\u201d Lux, Umbra, and the Early Vok then journeyed through the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs we wandered the universe,\u201d explained Vector Sigma, \u201cwe soon found life that existed in various states! They were all single-formed, unlike us, so our Mothers decided to help us all understand life\u2026by creating a home, Voksphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A cube with purple energy thrashing inside it drifted throughout the cosmos. It then got caught in a planet\u2019s gravity. The planet was metal with a massive pit at the equator and a curved claw at each side along the equator. Sensor spikes then made up the rest of the equator and a ring surrounded the planet, connected at the northern and southern poles and at the equator. The cube then fell into the planet\u2019s atmosphere and crashed at the northern pole. The cube split open, and the energy then flowed all over the planet. It then faded, then lights switched on all over the planet as a light slowly came out of the pit. It then moved and turned its sights towards a misshapen world. It looked almost like a skull with its jaw open and surrounded by rings sprouting out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was Quintessa, home-world of the Quintessons. In the Citadel of Judgement, a Quintesson Judge was brought before a tribunal of his fellows. He stood on a platform over a pit of liquid swarming with Sharkticons. \u201cJudge Deliberata,\u201d boomed a two-faced Bailiff, \u201cyou are accused of theft of various artefacts. How do you plead?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNecessarily guilty,\u201d replied Deliberata as he spoke through his face of Wisdom\/Bitterness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cExplain why you committed your crime,\u201d ordered one of the Tribunal Members through her face of Judgement\/Doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy dear Tribunal members,\u201d began Deliberata, \u201cthe artefacts in question were holy relics that needed to be observed by the public. Rogue Sharkticons had stolen them previously, so I needed to sell them back to the church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHave you any proof?\u201d asked another member of the Tribunal with the same face as his colleague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere should be camera footage of me fighting off the Rogue Sharkticons, then drawing up a seller\u2019s tablet on the artefacts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe footage has been found,\u201d reported the Bailiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPlay it,\u201d ordered the last Tribunal Member through his face of Wisdom\/Bitterness. The footage played on a screen and was exactly as Deliberata described. The female Quintesson then turned to her face of Laughter\/War and spoke to her fellow Tribunal Members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is clear that Deliberata has a family to feed,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThen why not simply wait for the reward to come to him?!\u201d demanded her colleague through his face of Wrath. The last one held up his hands for quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHas the Imperial Magistrate reached a verdict?\u201d asked the Bailiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have,\u201d replied the last member through his face of Laughter\/War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGuilty or innocent?\u201d The Imperial Magistrate\u2019s turned to his face of Wisdom\/Bitterness as he declared his verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGuilty, but necessary as Deliberata proclaims. The reward would have come too late. Deliberata, you are to continue your sale of the artefacts to the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYour judgement is wisdom incarnate, my Magis-!\u201d Deliberata\u2019s praise was cut off as the entire planet shook. The unfortunate quakes made Deliberata fall into the Sharkticon pit, giving them a much-needed meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat is happening?!\u201d demanded the female Tribunal member through her face of Wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMagistrates! Up in the sky! Look! It\u2019s Unicron!\u201d wailed the Bailiff as he pointed to the sky. There, coming closer to Quintessa, was the strange planet the cube had reactivated. This was Unicron in his original alt-mode!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTHE SHIPS!\u201d called the Imperial Magistrate through his face of Death. \u201cGET TO THE SHIPS! IT\u2019S OUR ONLY CHANCE! EVACUATE QUINTESSA!\u201d Unicron then fired a beam of light onto Quintessa\u2019s surface, forcing everyone, man, woman, and child, to their knees before they could get to the ships. His maw opened, and his horns dug into the misshapen planet. He then activated a tractor beam that brought everything and everyone into his maw. Soon, Quintessa broke apart and the remaining fragments entered Unicron. Quintessa and its main populace were now gone. Unicron then turned around, following the feeling of the Matrix, and recognizing the coordinates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo, it has returned to Primus,\u201d rumbled Unicron to himself. \u201cOptimus. For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet, Cybertron. But now, you shall witness\u2026ITS DISMEMBERMENT!\u201d Unicron then set a course for Cybertron and entered transwarp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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