As Megatron slept, having fallen asleep on his throne, he dreamt he was falling. Deep, deep into the black endless void. Flashes of scenes of carnage from the war haunted him. Voices all around yelling that it was his fault their race would become extinct. Underneath it was a dull humming. Words he couldn't make out over the accusations.
He face-planted on the metal ground and stood up suddenly freezing as he spotted thirteen primes.
"Unicron is gone. What else is there for us to fight over? We have Cybertron and Primus to protect, Megatronus. We will not leave to conquer other worlds." Prima, the leader of the thirteen primes stated.
Megatron looked at the thirteen before him, not sure what was going on but he felt this was something to do in the past long before his time.
"There are many resources. Riches! Lesser species to rule! Things we can take for ourselves!" Megatronus stated
"Enough! We were just rid of those infernal predacons in the cataclysm. Cybertron is ours we need nothing else." Prima brushed him off.
Megatron watched the scene play out before him some of this was starting to scare him.
Prima turned his back to Megatronus and began to walk away.
Megatronus snarled and attacked Prima. "Coward! Don't turn your back on me! I should be the one to lead!"
Megatronus was intercepted by Solus Prime.
"You are the coward! Traitorous wretch!" She yelled back at him.
Megatronus disarmed her and ran her through with his claws, drawing her close in. "May your child and all your descendants suffer horrible deaths."
"I will... return... to end you." She rasped.
Megatronus chuckled darkly and threw her body to the ground. "I highly doubt that." He spat on her as her optics flickered out.
Megatron's optics widened to see this he knew that Megatronus killed Solus but this was never told in anything about this.
The remaining eleven primes began to fight Megatronus and the newly fallen prime threw them back using telekinesis. Megatronus was laughing like a madman as he slew another prime that heavily resembled Optimus.
Megatron froze for a moment thinking about what he was seeing and he didn't like the sound of that laugh it scared him more as he seemed to try piecing things together.
"Vector Prime! Do it Now!!" Prima shouted as he was locked with Megatronus in a wrestling match.
The Prime of time nodded and opened a portal. Prima threw Megatronus through but he clung to the edges as he was being sucked inside. He grabbed the pede of another prime, dragging the prime with him. "I will not go alone! You can't get rid of me that easily!"
Quintus Prime grabbed his fellow brother, trying to hold on to him, but failed to hold on as the unnamed prime slipped from his grasp falling into the void with Megatronus. As the portal sealed the two Primes were seen battling each other.
Everything faded away to darkness again as the whispering became a deafening roar. Megatron turned around and the prime dragged in with the fallen was right behind him. Megatron lurched away as the prime reached for him.
"Brother"
Megatron jolted awake with a sharp gasp as he looked around frantically, back in his throne room.
"Have a comfortable recharge, Megatron?" Aurora asked, sounding sarcastic.
Megatron groaned rubbing his face. The whispering would not stop.
"I need to go for a walk..." he said hoarsely. He stood up and was visibly shaken as he went to leave
"Alright." Aurora replied
Dancer watched him leave and raised an eyebrow at Aurora.
"What?" Aurora asked
Dancer looked down at her data pad "He's clearly disoriented. Aren't you gonna watch after your uncle? In that state he won't be able to see an assasination attempt coming." She said bluntly.
Aurora thought for a moment before she sighed. "Your right I will make sure nothing happens to him." She replied
"Take your sister with you. She can't mope in the ops center forever." Dancer stated
Aurora nodded before leaving the room she opened a com-link to Lyra.
::Yes?::
"Lyra I need you to come with me... Something is going on with Megatron we need to make sure he doesn't get into trouble." Aurora said
She received a groan from her.
::Really? What is he up to now?:: Lyra asked
"No idea that is why we need to keep an optic on him." Aurora replied
::Fine...:: Lyra replied
"Don't be such a baby. Megatron isn't going to say anything. He's really out of it. Fell asleep on his throne doing work but woke up disoriented and decided to go for a walk alone. If dad finds him..."
Silence was between them for a moment. ::That doesn't sound like Megatron... but yes if dad finds him that will not be good.:: Lyra replied
"Come to my location in the throne room. We'll bridge to his last confirmed location."
::Will be right there.::
The two femmes quickly found the former Warlord and shadowed him through a thick forest.
Megatron was being called. Everything was a haze he couldn't clear his head. The voices were beconing him to follow quickly.
D-16 D-16 the voices said over and over.
"He's really moving." Aurora said lowly
"No kidding..." Lyra looked at Megatron for a moment before something was starting to come to her. "Wait a second..."
Megatron had stopped in front of a deep naturally occurring cavern. He looked at it and ducked inside continuing to walk although hindered by the height of the cave roof.
The two femmes continued to follow him. Something about this was really strange but it gave Lyra something that she felt was familiar. Is what I feel is going to happen actually going to? With Megatron? She asked herself
The top of the cave started to get bigger and the narrow passage got wider until it opened up into a large cavern. In the center of the room was something glowing a pure beautiful blue.
Megatron had stopped in his tracks as a single voice hammered in his head.
D-16
step forward, and claim your destiny.
Lyra and Aurora moves closer stopping a few feet away from Megatron, the coloured femme looked around taking the detail of the cavern they were in before noticing something in the distance she looked at her sister and pointed at it and one Lyra saw what her sister was showing her eyes widened. It can't be...
Megatron walked forward and picked up what had been cast down into the dirt and dusted it off.
"The matrix of leadership." He said astounded.
Lyra was in so much shock to discover the Matrix in a place like this, it should have been within the chest of Optimus Prime, she moved towards Megatron.
The name of Megatronus Prime is a cursed one, D-16, you will be gifted a new name. Multiple voices said together.
Megatron opened his chest plates, and Aurora went on high alert as this is where Megatron would be at his weakest.
The former warlord placed the matrix within his chest and he closed his chest up once again. His energon immediately started to boil as he collapsed to his knees and screamed in pain as he quickly yanked the shard of dark energon from his spark. His red biolights turned bright white before fading to blue and they stayed blue. The purple on his frame turned red and the silver lightened to the point it was before he became a warlord.
Rise Darius Prime
The voice echoed within the cavern. Even Aurora and Lyra could hear it.
The two Femmes were stunned to hear the voice, but Lyra was more stunned that the Matrix was here in the first place? Who put it here?
Megatron stood up, breathing heavily as he stared at the shard of dark Energon in his hand. He made a disgusted face before throwing it hard and it shattered into flecks on the far cavern wall.
Lyra stopped in her steps watching this she looked back to Megatron, Aurora came close as well curiously took over her. "Megatron?" She asked
He looked down at Aurora, surprised, his now blue optics shone brightly in the dark. "Aurora... Lyra..." he noticed the other femme behind her sister. "You followed me?"
"Yes..." Lyra replied
"We wanted to make sure you were safe..." Aurora said
Lyra moved closer to Megatron.
"I am sorry Lyra..."
Lyra looked up at him. She was still shocked by all of this. It took her a moment to calm down. "You have nothing to be sorry for..." she replied
"Yes I do." He replied. "I was wrong to put you on the spot as I did, when I demanded to know why you refused to speak of your role as a Prime."
Lyra looked into his optics and she could see the change within him. "I did it because I was afraid..." she replied. "Afraid of what would happen if you knew then..."
"I have no right.... But I would ask you to reveal yourself now. And help me lead the people. And help me undo what your father would attempt to achieve."
Lyra took a deep breath before looked up at him and said. "My name... My Prime name is Lyrica Prime." she replied
Megatron smiled softly. "It is fitting. Your mother would be so proud."
Lyra smiled a little at him.
"I believe she would." Aurora smiled
"Let's return to New Iacon. We need to inform Water Dancer of the new development."
"Indeed we do." Lyra replied
They walked out of the cave and got a bridge back to the city.