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Chapter 8 – Clashing Titans

Far below Omega Supreme on the devastated planet, Soundwave,

within the main control room of Scorponok, quickly became aware that
something was going on above them. He punched some keys into the
control panel in front of him and activated several orbital satellites.
What appeared across the monitor in front of him, immediately made him
turn to Galvatron who was quietly sitting upon his throne at the other
end of the room. “Mighty Galvatron, the Autobots are here!”
Galvatron arose from his seat. “Autobots!” he screamed into the
air. The other Decepticons in the room actually looked frightened by
the response. No one knew how their unpredictable leader would react,
but suddenly Galvatron began to laugh. “Ha, it’s about time. I was
wondering when Optimus Prime was finally going to get the nerve to come
here. Finally, a chance to get my hands dirty. Soundwave, order the
Decepticons back here now and tell them to prepare for combat. It’s
time to fight!”
Cyclonus and Scourge descended from the sky, transformed to robot
form and landed within Scorponok’s docking bay. As they moved to the
main corridor they were confronted by Galvatron, Soundwave, Dirge and
Ramjet who were already moving to exit the base. “My lord, what is
happening?” asked Cyclonus.
Galvatron continued forward and pushed the two out of his way.
“The Autobots are here Cyclonus. I would advise you to get ready for
battle.” Cyclonus and Scourge looked to one other in amazement for
this was not in their plans. They had not drained a sufficient amount
of energon to guarantee victory, but they had no choice now. The
Autobots were here.
Galvatron looked up into the clearing sky but could not yet see
Omega Supreme. The impatient Decepticon Commander raised his laser
cannon into the air and shot. “Come on Autobots, let’s do this!” He
did not have to wait much longer. Soon appearing through the clouds
was the giant Autobot rocket. The Decepticons immediately opened fire,
but he was still out of range, and landed far enough away to ensure all
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of the warriors within him departed safely. Galvatron and the

Decepticons took to the air to meet their recently arrived rivals.
Optimus Prime led the Autobots off of Omega Supreme who then
immediately transformed from rocket to his massive robot form.
Scourge’s Sweeps quickly went for the Autobot giant while Galvatron was
confronted by the Protectobots and Soundwave targeted Optimus Prime.
Beachcomber, Springer and Arcee looked around at the conquered
world in disgust. Arcee was shaking her head. “I never imagined it
was this bad…”
Springer put his arm around her as Beachcomber took several steps
forward. “I didn’t think even Galvatron was capable of this.”
Springer looked to him. “The only thing we can do now is help
the survivors and hopefully somehow rebuild this place. Come on, the
others need us…”
Springer jumped into the air, transformed into his helicopter
mode and headed into battle. He was soon followed by Arcee and then
Beachcomber who had a new determination to make the Decepticons pay for
what they had done here.
Not far away, Soundwave clenched his fists as Optimus Prime
marched towards him. The Decepticon Communication’s Specialist
attempted to catch Optimus with a hard punch, but the Autobot Commander
was ready and ducked. He then caught Soundwave with two hard punches
of his own. Soundwave was sent crashing hard to the ground, but the
Autobot Commander did not even turn around to assess the damage he had
caused before moving onto Dirge and Ramjet.
Omega Supreme pushed the Sweeps with whom he was battling aside
and moved towards the massive city mode Decepticon known as Scorponok.
The mighty Autobot patiently waited for Scorponok’s binary bonded
Nebulon component to respond to his obvious challenge.
That component was a man known as Lord Zurack. It was years
before that Zurack had ruled his homeworld of Nebulous with an iron
fist. His dictatorship government known as the Hive controlled the
population through fear and terror, but various uprisings, prominently
organized by a Nebulon known as Galen threatened his seat of power. It
was then that the Transformers came.
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The Nebulon rebels were soon backed by the Autobots and the Hive
made a fragile pact with the Decepticons. Both alliances took
advantage of a new technology where the two would essentially become
one. The three main braches of this new development were known as
Headmasters, Targetmasters and Powermasters. The Nebulon component
would either become the head, weapon or engine of their partner and in
essence opponents would now be faced with two minds, two beings, rather
than just the one.
Lord Zurack had taken this process to an entirely new level with
the creation of Scorponok. He took Cybertronian technology and meshed
it with that of the Hive and literally transformed their underground
home-base into the massive form of Scorponok, the second largest
Decepticon next to Decepticon Headquarters Trypticon. He then binary
bonded to the new Transformer and became its mind and its head.
Zurack looked up high to Omega Supreme, and knew the Autobot
giant would wait for him to transform so the two titans could
respectfully engage in battle. Zurack waited no longer, and with a
mental command issued the order for Scorponok to transform to robot
form.
The familiar sound of transformation was echoed through the
Symconian air, but had the amplification of a hundred times when
compared to a regular Transformer. The Decepticon behemoth rose high
into the afternoon sky and the sun glared bright off of his green and
purple exterior. Scorponok stretched his massive lobster like hands
and got the lubricants flowing once again after having been in city
mode for far too long.
Zurack jumped high into the air, aided by boosters to his side,
and connected with Scorponok’s neck to become the robot’s head.
Scorponok’s eyes lit red and he was now primed for combat. Even with
Omega Supreme’s upgrades, Scorponok was still several hundred feet
taller, but that did not deter the Autobot giant in the least. Omega
Supreme charged into Scorponok with his shoulder and connected hard
with the immense Decepticon sending him falling to one knee. Scorponok
quickly arose to his feet undamaged. He turned to Omega and was
bombarded with a blast from the Autobot’s powerful cannon arm.
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Although the blast made the Decepticon giant take several steps
back there was no sufficient damage. Omega Supreme contemplated what
to do next as Scorponok slowly moved towards him.
The Decepticon monster spoke. “You are obsolete Omega. Even
with this updated form of yours, you’re still old and pass your time.”
Scorponok raised his clenched claw high into the air and swung it
hard at the large Autobot connecting with his chest. The impact left a
gapping hole deep within Omega Supreme’s armor, but the Autobot refused
to fall. Scorponok smiled, but it was Zurack himself, in his own
voice, who now spoke.
“It’s useless Omega… When I came into contact with the
Decepticons several years ago the first thing I did was download their
entire database. I might even know more about the Transformers than
you. When I came upon the details concerning the great Omega Supreme I
followed the information with a close eye, and used this data as the
basis for Scorponok’s construction. That’s right Omega, you were my
model!”
Scorponok opened his massive claws and lunged forward at Omega
Supreme. Omega tried to avoid Scorponok but it was too late he was
within the Decepticon’s grasp. Scorponok grabbed the large Autobot by
his two arms and lifted him high into the air with apparent ease. He
then threw Omega Supreme some three hundred feet crashing to the
ravaged Symconian surface and created a mild quake that rumbled the
immediate area. Omega Supreme was hurting and he did not immediately
arise.
Again, Zurack spoke. “I took everything you are and updated the
five million year old technology with the many Transformer and Nebulon
advancements to create the ultimate fighting machine.” Scorponok
stepped forward and moved to the fallen Autobot warrior.
Omega Supreme finally attempted to stand, but he quickly fell
back to one knee. He was now severely damaged with fluids oozing down
his metal plating and exposed circuitry along his torso area. He
looked up to the approaching Decepticon and the Autobot of very few
words opened his mouth.
“Power great, but experience lacking…”
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Scorponok stopped dead his tracks and tried to understand what

the Autobot was speaking of. Zurack thought that perhaps Omega
Supreme’s head module was damaged. Suddenly, Omega drew his claw arm
and dug it deep into the area of Scorponok’s cargo bay exposing the
harvested energon within.
Scorponok’s expression quickly changed to one of desperation.
Omega Supreme aimed his cannon arm and targeted the open area. High
above on Scorponok’s neck, Zurack knew it was time to leave. He
transformed from the head to his robot form, activated his boosters,
jumped to the ground and ran. Omega Supreme then let loose his
firepower. The highly explosive energon exploded and the blast ripped
through every wall and support within Scorponok’s interior, until
tearing open through his exterior. The giant fell to his knees, now
headless, as Omega Supreme backed off.
The resulting destruction was intense and sent Omega Supreme back
several steps. Dark black smoke grew a mile high into the air and
encompassed the entire area. For several minutes no one could see a
thing, but Omega Supreme raised his arm mounted cannon into the air,
activated an air vacuum system and blew the smoke off. He spotted
Zurack trying to escape off in the distance and took several steps to
reach him. Zurack noticed him and looked up. There was no escape now.
Omega Supreme contemplated letting the Nebulon live, but after
looking around and seeing the devastation around him, he knew he could
not allow this to happen again. He raised his gigantic foot and
stepped on Zurack. That threat was gone forever.