1 Prologue: The Escape

'We were once a peaceful race, of intelligent, robotic beings living in harmony. But like all races, some wished for peace; others for conquest and control. And so came the war: between the Autobots who fought for freedom for all, and the Decepticons who wished only for tyranny. For eons, this war has raged, tearing our world apart, but the Decepticons would not be satisfied with just the rule of our world. They turned their sights towards a planet called Earth, and proceeded to enslave its human race, while we were kept busy on Cybertron, unaware of their cruelty(The scene shows a landscape on Earth, dark and smoking as a line of human slaves were put to work making various objects from heated metal while being watched by Decepticon overseers, who occasionally cracked an Energon whip overhead to further motivate the slaves). But even though their tyranny was absolute, there would always be some who would recognize this evil and turn from their ways.'

Just then, an alarm sounded in the slave yards as a massive Decepticon ship flew overhead, heading for the atmosphere. As the ship tried to escape, it was watched from the top of the Decepticon command tower by a purple Transformer with one yellow eye known as Shockwave, who was named the commander of Earth. As he realized the ship's intentions, he turned to a small group of Decepticons behind him.

"Seekers! My experiments are escaping! Follow them and destroy that ship. They must NOT leave this planet!!"

At his command the Seekers jumped off the tower, transformed into Cybertronian jets, and took off after the ship. Their approach did not go unnoticed.

"Uhhh, guys? They spotted us!" said one of the Transformers from inside the ship.

"I can see that. X-plode! Demotak! Get to the turrets and keep them occupied!" said another.

"You got it boss!" said a third. Within a few moments, the turrets of the escaping ship turned around and flared to life, firing back at the attacking Seekers, who in turn were firing their own volleys.

"Physicon," said the second, "How much longer to the portal?"

"Not much farther," said a fourth, "We only need to finish getting through this atmosphere!"

"Route whatever Energon we have that's not powering the guns to the engines!"

As the ship shot out of the atmosphere, it headed for a portal gateway that was floating just above Earth. The Decepticons used this portal to travel between Earth and Cybertron.

"Almost there!" said the second.

"INCOMING!!!" cried the third as a missile from the Seekers struck the back of the ship. However, for the Seekers, it was too late; the ship was already caught in the portal's gravitational pull.

"HOLD ON!!!" cried the second Transformer as the ship hurtled through the portal and out of range of the Seekers.

Meanwhile, Shockwave watched from a screen in his lab. As he saw the ship go through the portal, he sighed in frustration, things had gone completely out of hand and now it might cost him this planet and its work force. Remaining unnaturally calm, he opened a communication link on one of his monitors.

"Inform Megatron," he said, "Cybertron is about to get new visitors."