The RPG Archive

[Moonbug]

Here's a little place for GM's to do a summery of their RPGs - so people can read over them.

They can be as detailed or brief as you like.

Transformers: Full Circle - March 2003.

Basis: Full Circle saw the players as decendents of a group of Transformers who left Cybertron after the downsizing (just prior to Beast Wars). Many thousands of years had past and none of the New Cybertronians (as they were called) knew anything of Cybertron, only a few notes and sketches from the "Acient Texts".

The Council sent a group of New Cybertronians out into space, in an effort to track down Cybertron and find the Primorial Being, whom they believed could unify their race, after an evil tyrant had immurged, known as Triaxus.

The group of Pilgrims travelled through space, visiting various world, until their ship was damaged by an asteroid belt. They landed the ship on the nearest planet, and where about to set off to see if the locals could help them when they noticed a stow-a-way (an ex-con known as Aries).

The group then made their way through a forest to an old town, the inhabitents of this world hated technology, and were holding a strange Cybernetically Inhanced creature on trial. After talking to the natives, Patriot (one of the New Cybertronians) agreed to take a test of purity - which involved him being dunked under-water. HE survived and the creature was let free.

The main speaker of the town still dispised the New Cybertronians, and in an attempt to attack Patriot killed an innocent boy. He was then exhiled from the town.

On their way back to the ship the group spoke to the creature who they had freed. His name was Max-B, he was a Technotrons, a freedom fighter who's world had been taken over by an evil entity known as The Oracle. It had altered his world from a technological paradise to that of an organic one. The Technotrons were trying to bring back technology to their world.

The New Cybertronians explained how they could Cyberform worlds, and eventually agreed to help them - much to Patriots dislike.

The group split up and Max-B introduced them to Hellscream - his leader (a sneaky, manipulative creature). On the way back to the ship the group were attacked by the locals again. They over powered them and left.

The Technotrons told the New Cybertronians of 3 places they could go to fix the Cyberforming Cannon - which had been damaged earlier...

Continued.

[Moonbug]

The first place was a world known as Titantron, a gas mining space-station over a gas-giant.

When they arrived the group split up again. Hellscream, Lost-1 and Eclipse would get the part, the others were to look around.

It was here that Patriot first met Blaster, a go-bot. The Go-Bot asked a few strange questions then left. A little while later he was seen talking to some large robots, the Robotix. These large creatures then attacked the New Cybertronians and a large fight insued.

Whilst this went on, Eclipse met with a trader known as Swindle. After barting for the machinery they needed, Swingle marked Eclipse with a tag (pricing him up, and marking him as his property). This was unknown to Eclipse, who then heard of the disturbance which the others were caught in.

After the group re-united and defeated the Robotix, they were all arrested by a group of Security Guards, known as the Vice Series (decendents from Vice-2 from Heroes).

After some time in Jail Swindle arrived and manager to get Eclipse released, as he was his property. The robot then implanted a nano-bomb in the back of Eclipse's head, and handed him over to Hellscream - warning him about the "deal" they had made. The other New Cybertronians were they taken away in a police shuttle.

Eclipse re-joined Raptron, their commander, and Spectrum, who had not been arrested, and freed their team-mates.

The group then headed to Microx (a world populated by the Micromen, who were in a war with the evil Acroyer).

Continued

[Moonbug]

On Microx the group battled against the Kenetic powers of the Acroyer. The Hurricane was killed, but the group eventually manged to get the part they needed and left.

They then had a quick stop off on a diner, known as Maccy c's. It was run by the MacCanibals - a race of metal eating red blobs. It was here they found a new friend, in the drunkered singer Angloconvoy - and was also where Slipstream had her leg ripped off. Patriot, who had been the backbone of the group was having issues and Eclipse had lost hope.

The group then travelled to Gobatron, home of the Go-Bots. After multiple battles the group found their way to a shipping port. Eclipse and Alphasu had been captured and Lost-1 had disappeared - again.

The group found Lost-1 at the docks (after some very bad GM'ing by me) and fought their way onto a war ship (Man-O-War). MEanwhile Eclipse had been torchered, and was then freed by Hellscream. Alphasu managed to fre herself from being experimented on, met up with Eclipse and Hellscream and fought their way off the boat - to only meet up with the rest of the group. They grabed the item they were after and left, not before noticing several huge warehouses full of weapons, and finding invasion plans for the Gobots attack on Cybertron.

From here they travelled to the Technotron's homeworld, and stopped off in a bar. Eclipse removed his nano-bomb and Patriot stressed that he would NOT help until he met the Oracle. The group were then attacked, Max-B and Spectrum were killed and Ares was possessed by the Oracle, who tried to make him turn organic. Finally the New Cybertronians agreed to help the Technotrons and headed off to a tunnel which went to the core of the planet.

Raptron flew their ship into the planet, with Slipstream on it ready to cyberform the core. A few of the New Cybertronians got out half way, as they had discovered a robot frozen in amber. Patriot, who was on the surface, had his fears realised .. they were on Cybertron.

He dived into the tunnel trying to stop Raptron. Throwing his mighty shield at the cyberforming cannon, he sliced it in two. However Raptron could not control the ship, and flew it into the Core - which was also the Oracle.

Slipstream had been thrown from the ship, she was then picked up by Patriot who race out of the tunnel, before the core ignited.

As he approached the group of New Cybertronians who were half way a ship uncloaked and entered the tunnel. The group got on and it flew off.... al lbut Patriot and Slipstream that was.

Forced to climb out, Patriot struggle with the injured Slipstream as the Oracle ignited and a wave of energy raced after him. As Patriot reached the top of the tunned he threw Slipstream up, towards the outstretched arms of Eclipse. By doing this he lost his grip of the wall and fell into the energywave.

Eclipse tried to hall Slipstream up, but lost his grip. As the fembot started to fall she was snagged by Ares, wh lifted her to saftey. Alphasu then closed the blastdoors to the tunnel, and the energyblast was stopped.

The attack non the Oracle had started uprising all over the planet, and a new civil war had started. As the group morned the loss of Patriot and Raptron, the pilot of the shuttle then immurged, it was Swindle. He winked at Eclipse. As the reality dawned on them the robot who they had dug out of the cave walked up to them. It was Meagtron.... he thanked them for saving him, and welcomed them to the ranks of the Decepticons - who were now known as Technotrons

That's how it ended ......

[Minion]

Beast-Evolution

The Maximals were briefed to go infiltrate a known mutant base camp and briong in or kill the mutants there. These orders were direct form the council itself.

Upon arriving the Maximals found the base a lot securer than an abandoned factory should be, almost militarl class equipment was found.

After engaging a mutant and killing it, and another that Salvo managed to contatc and preserve it's dying spark within himself the Maximals found a underground cavern deep below the factory complex.

They had a brief encounter with the mutants remaining who after a tense exchange revealed themselves and their plan.
They were dying, the forced mutancy not being natural evoltuion at all, the reasons and who did this to them are still unclear. They are searching for a cure and at the same time continuing their mission form before all this happened to find the matrix that they believe the oracle/vector sigma has reproduced full of knowledge and wisdom.
They want to fulfil a prohpecy from the covenant of primus about a new leader arising form the Prime lineage from the ashes of many.


The Maximals have joined them on their mission, journeying out into the mercurius sea in a sub with them. The only thing they are missing is their commanding officer who got seperated form them at the factory. They are acting not from his orders now and are in fact disobeying direct council instructions.

The sub was attacked by some strange small sea craft. The aquatic member sof the team engaged them head on and sadly lost Jelos in the battle.

Salvo took the oppurtunity to place Sarge's spark in a blank protoform, it scanned the area for matches but malfunctioned using parts of Salvo's beast mod eand anearby seacreature to create Torca.

This was a mixed blessing as they recruited the MCF agents Lion7 and Genma to their team who were in search of Jelo's' sword for as of yet undisclosed reasons.

Armodillo took the sub away from the battle abandoning the rest of the team.

The sea team was captured and taken to the great undersea city of Octavia where the Emporer offered them a place at his court. Gansher and Lion7 answered this by inadvertantly killing hundreds of innocent poepl within the city in a supposed rescue atempt.
The Maixmals have now fought free and are seeking to escape before the Emporer catches up with them.

Meanwhile the rest of the team on the sub were after much bickering and indecisiveness were attacked by a huge techno whale. it wrecked their sub but thye manged to subdue it and boarded to find it was a huge undersea vessel called Orkanok.
They have discovered what they were looking for in the covenant of primus in the cave of the beast. Although this supposed Beast had yet to actually be seen, if indeed it exists at all.

Having escped the city of Octavia the Maixmals were follwed by the seemingly invincible Warsub, in a plan divised by L7 they conattced the Maximals and went to their location as they confronted the Beast from the covenant.

The war sub couldnt follow down the cave but 6 attack subs did and pursued the Maximals.

Now The scout sub is damaged and all the Maximals despite being re-united have to deal with the Beast and six attack subs wanting their heads on poles.

AS the Maximals battled Octopunch Saberclaw fell, giving his life so they might have a chance. Appluading their warriors spirit Octopunch told them that the council itself had all the answers regarding the neo matrix.

He also told them of the redundant pretender techonology had made him a walking tomb within his shell. And that there were more like him across the planet.

The Maximals made their way back to the capitol where they are about to infiltrate the chambers and get some answers.

Having almost attacked the coucnillors the Maximals discovered that the neo matrix lay in the old city of Kalis, now known as Darkside. Meanwhile more trouble brewed between Gnash and Lupina over his mutant stand point.
Blowhole sneaked off to see his benefactors the tri-predacus council and they instructed him on what to do, much against the Maximal's way of thinking

They journeyed there and afte rgetting seperated were beset by various zombified TFs. Turtoil and Dreadfin actually engaging Skullcruncher whilst Lupina and Gnasher faced off amidst a horde of the undead.

Blowhole took ther advantage to make himself scarce and to spring at the right time.

The Maximals found their way to a large keep in the city and onfronted the monsterous Bomb-Burst, now more vampire than anything esle. The behemoth attacked them and the Maximals now find themselves fighting for their lives let alone the neomatrix. Armordilo and Matthiatron already falling beneath the blood sucker's feet.


The Maximals have staved off attack after attack from the monster. Salvo and Hamtrap nearly dying in the process. Torca, L7 and Salvo bravely try and buy some more time as Genma sleeps in the corner.
Now there seems to be a chance as Mousetrap and Hamtrap struggle to open the NeoMatrix in hopes of vanquishing the monster.
But Blowhole has re-appeared after a absence, knife in hand, what will be the former generals decision?

Meanwhile, Dreadfin, Turoil and Gnasher face off against a ancient and evil bat creature outside the keep.

Blowhole plunged the knife into the open matrix but it's virulent evil was not enough to stop the emergence of a new Prime. Rodentmus Prime was born and with the light of the matrix he destroyed the evil Bomb-burst.

With the combined efforts of the Maximals Mindwipe fell too soon after.
Just as everyone thought it was over Blowhole struck, using his very spark energy to try and kill Prime, Salvo took the blast sacrificing himself to save the newly born leader. Enraged Torca went to kill Blowhole but Prime stopped him reminding him of their vows as Maximals.
He led the survivors back to the Capitol as a shadowy figure looked on from a portal in the keep, a being that pledged vengeance on all Cybertronians that have ever existed...

[Divebomb]

Decaying Orbit - June 2003

Swinger has orders to lead a crack assault team into a Decepticon facility in order to eliminate the Insecticons.

The unit are based on a ship, the Phoenix, which is orbiting the planet. The unit take a dropship down to the surface, during which they get attacked by Decepticons. Once the aerial battle is over, the dropship lands, and the unit, now travelling in an APC, head to a crash site, where one of the Seeker's remains are visible. During this, the team is attacked by Insecticlones, who are dispatched in style by the unit.

The unit get to the facility, and split up into 3 teams. One team go onto the roof and try to get in that way, while the others blow a hole in the wall of the facility and enter it, then go in opposite directions.

Team NightRaven find a scientist, who when threatened, tells them about the organic matter bonding that is being researched. NightRaven finds a whole level dedicated to this process, and also with tubes of hundreds of enhanced Insecticlones.

III's team head downwards, and find an energon mine that the Decepticons are using. The fight with 3 Cassetticons and 2 Seekers, and III, Knockout and Grizzly all get hit by an organic laser used by one of the Seekers, Icon.

Reload's team find an area of the facility that is rigged with countermeasures - laser beams coming out of the walls ready to slice and dice any Transformer, the team dodges enough beams to enter the level below, where the explosive 'expert' FireBat detonates a huge bomb in the energon mine, and all the Autobots and their attackers are buried in rubble. The explosion starts a chain reaction in the volcanic core.

NightRaven's team have come up against Decepticon resistance, one of the Seekers in the earlier aerial encounter, Highlight, and a second one, Showstopper. Both appear to have the enhanced weaponry, and Jumpstart is hit by a modified energy web. After defeating the 2 Seekers, the trio descend to the lower level to see if they can get any help for Jumpstart. They manage to rig up a scanner that removes the web but leaves Jumpstarts armour looking old and brittle.

The 3 teams finally converge on the 1st floor, and get into a fight with some sec-bots in what appears to be a holding cell area. After dealing with the sec-bots and opening the holding cell doors, they find 2 new Autobots who were being held captive. After working out how to free them, the unit is attacked by Decepticons, 2 of which (Highlight and Showstopper) seemed to almost be zombies. The unit battled them, and managed to gain the upper hand with the help of the 2 new Autobots. Swinger got hit by Showstopper’s organic laser, and III and Barrage got hit by the energy web.

Knockout, Spectron and Spyhunter were sent to the floor above to get the scanning device Jumpstart and the others had made, and were attacked by a feral, animalistic version of Fuse, the Seeker who had last been in the mine. The trio managed to escape with the scanner to the lower floor, where the others had made a shocking discovery. The Insecticons were also being held prisoner. After much debate, the Autobots let out Shrapnel and Bombshell, who claimed they were captured by the facility’s head Decepticon, Contempt, and experimented on, losing all their powers. Kickback is missing. The Autobots agree that stopping these experiments is the crucial thing and head off to fight Contempt.

In the area known as the Waiting Room, the unit is attacked by Fuse-Thing, who attacks them from the floor above. After finally putting the creature down, the others hear more movement up ahead. It is 2 Decepticons, unenhanced, carrying Kickback back to the cells.

The unit capture these Decepticons, and Swinger kills them, stating that they could not be taken with the unit. Swinger seems to be getting more and more angry.

The unit heads to Contempt’s surgery, with the Insecticons leading the way. They come up against a door that won’t open, and Swinger is so irrational that he starts a fight between his troops and the Insecticons, and nearly loses control of the unit in the process.

As NightRaven nears the door, it opens, the ex-Decepticon obviously giving off a valid power signature. They enter the surgery, spotting 2 of the Cassetticons on treatment tables, these pitiful Decepticons cannot be saved.

Contempt reveals himself as Stratosfears ‘brother’, who hates Swinger for his role in the disappearance of Stratosfear at the Battle of Cyberplex millions of years ago.

Contempt reveals that he has been fueling Swingers rage, as the organic weapons have given 4 of the unit a rage virus which Contempt can tap into. The Autobots open up on Contempt, who sent down hundreds of the enhanced Insecticlones down a chute. The unfortunate FireBat had been caught in the chute at the time, and was crushed.

The battle raged on, with the Infected causing problems for the Autobots as well as the clones. III kills a fellow team member, Barrage, while in the grip of the rage virus, and Moonbug sacrifices himself to try to blow up Contempt, but the attempt is only partially successful. As the casualties mount, NightRaven reveals himself to be Fracture, a Decepticon Squad Leader at the battle of Cyberplex, in an effort to rid Swinger of the rage instilled in him. It works, and Swinger breaks free of Contempt, only for Contempt to fire at NightRaven. Swinger jumps in front of NightRaven, taking the full brunt of the attack. The tide is turned when NightRaven rigs an explosive which nearly destroys Contempt, then Jumpstart finishes off modifying an organic weapon and fires at Contempt, blowing him up.

The clone’s power generator is identified and taken out in a laser shot by III, who hates guns. However III has snapped his neck and goes into stasis lock. The generator stops the clones pouring into the surgery, and the real Insecticons reveal that they had their powers all along when they help destroy the clones.

The clones are vanquished, and Contempt has fallen, but the facility has taken a beating, and the Autobots, after seeing the Insecticons leave, make it to the roof and get picked up by Backslash in the dropship. III comes out of stasis lock, but Swinger’s condition is unknown. The Phoenix tries to break orbit, but the terrifying visage of Unicron fills their viewscreen.

[FOAMY & DHX]

cradle of darkness

set almost directly after the end of transformers generation 2

the premise
the transformed swarm resurected all the g1 transformers who died within twenty years of the swarms transformation this influx of millions of transformers caused the autobots and decepticons to mount search parties to retrieved their revived bretherin from all over the galaxy

in cradel of darkness: decepticons

an assembled team of decepticons featuring quartz,squirtometer,wristblade, kunocon, dirtbag, roadblock, and knife edge were assembled with a simple mission retrieve these missing decepticons, if the refused to rejoin the decepticons...kill them.

the team left on board the decepticon transport epion5 to pick up their comanding officer the tracked him to a planet where he was dealing with a group of decepticons who had refused to join. squirtlemeter diserted the cons and the team leader turned out to be someone with a bone to pick with quartz, the time traveling mutantbeast transformer X a.k.a rampage a survivor of the beast wars and the matrix quest.

the crew traveled to a pleasure planet where they ran into several decepticons.. participated in the liberation of imprisoned decepticons ...some were old friends the others old rivals and then... stratosfear turned up. quartz and wristblade tried to sell out X and a battle between the mighty stratosfear and x insured with x the current victor of the skirmish x killed wristblade as an object lesson to quartz and the decepticons left to continue on their quest only to be confronted by troops of leige maximo

[Minion]

Hunt 1 - Played August 2002 till November 2002

It was the year 2002
Jazz headed up a Autobot force compromised of Wraith, Ratchet, Thunderkick, Impactor and Fencebreaker transporting a mysterious cargo from Earth to Cybertron. On rouite they were attacked by a Decepticon war vessel under the command of Starscream, followj ng a space battle and a boarding by drone forces they staved off the attack but at the cost of their ship. In an emergancy landing they set down on the nearest planet, a backwater scum hole to say the least.

After landing several Autobots headed into the nearby space port to find replacement parts for their ship. They encountered Sixshot who decimated a large part of the town centre before making his escape.
Following a meeting with a strange Autobot in a local tavern called Siphon who claimed to be investigating rumours of a beast they returned to their crashed vessel in the mountain range to await delivery of parts.

Meanwhile Starscream and two unfamiliar seekers called Rainstorm and Skyblaze attacked the Autobots gaurding the shuttle, they left with two hostages and damaged Jazz severely.

After the other Autobots returned to find ratchet gone with Jazz to seek medical aid the Predacons attacked from nowhere. Were it not for the stranger Siphon the battle would have been almost hopeless but wioth his aid they succesfully stopped their aggressors leaving only Divebomb and Razorclaw to limp away.

Meanwhile aboard the Decepticon cruiser that had landed nearby Impactor and Fencebreaker tried to escape, unwittingly releasing a cyber beast that appeared to be Autobot in origin on the way. After a struggle they fled through the cargo hold that was filled with weapon storage and strange canisters filled with ooze. The other Autobots came to their aid, stopping the were creature and blowing the vessel up with Skyblaze aboard.

Siphon managed to locate the Deceptiocns to a reaseach medical facility on the outskirts of the city. he found signs of genentric tampering with unfortunate Autobot POWs. It could only mean one thing. he raced back to the Autobots but not before ending the suffering of the guinea pig Autobots.

Under orders from Ultra Magnus Hoist and L7 located the Autobots crashed shuttle and seized control of the chaotic situation revealing that the cargo was indeed the CPU for the propsed Moonbase 1 project.

Ratchet returned with Jazz who was now in a stable condition and could be placed in stasis. The Autobots knew they had to find what the Deceptcions were up to as there was more to this than simply stealing cargo. Wraith took command and left Impactor and Ratchet to supervise the shuttle as they went to investigate rumours of a medical centre on the outskirts of the city.

They broke into the facility and started systimatically going through the rooms. Then the Decepticons arrived, all Combaticons, Blitzwing and Megatron himself. They Autobots were hard pushed, fighting for their very sparks whilst trying to stop whatever the Decepticons were trying to do.
Siphon even tried to fight Megatron himself but was beaten down not once but twice by the awesome Decepticon leader.
Wraith emerged with three Autobot POWs from a building and execute them before Siphon and Megatron before framing the Autobot in front of his comrades.
During the battles the cannisted located in a lab were ruptured and a green gas engulfed the area. The Decepticons retreated to their ship, the Autobots sealed themselves in a building until it dispearsed.
SIphon tracked Wraith down and a mighty battle ensued, the Decepticon spy against the framed Autobot. Siphon emerged the victor, decapitating Wraith and leaving him, and any possible proof he was innocent behind.
Then the timely arrival of the Protectorbots, Brawn and Outback turned the tide, driving the Decepticons back and forcing them to flee the planet.

It was then that Rainstorm unleashed his secret plan. Gloating he informed the Autobots that whilst he was under orders to create a chemical weapon that would turn Autobots into mindless beasts, yet had created one that would not distinguish between any Cybertronian. He intended to release it upon Cybertron to wipe the transfromer race out.
The Autobots raced to stop him leaving only to encounter his trump card, the newly reborn Skyblze. The seeker had been engulfed in the virus and raw exploiding energon and had been transforme dinto a half dead/half alive moster. Coldly Skyblze annhiliated Outback with a gesture then unleashed his power on the Autobots. Siphon tried to stop him but failed, his very armour almost melting off. Others tried but they too failed, it was L7 who deduced the location of Rainstorm's failsafe anti viurs and lured Skyblaze into a trap in a storage building. he ingnited the virus yet just a she wa sabout to flee Skyblze too was going to leave, Siphon raced in and held the creature down so he could finally be ended.
The entire complex erupted into a ball of fire as the virus collided with the anit virus engulfing all that stood including Siphon and Skyblaze.

It was hours before the heat died down and the Autobots could return, they found little more than a crater. Digging revealed the remians of Siphon's body and Outbacks charred remains. They put both in stasis and after retreaving the cargo headed back to Cybertron.
The last thing the shuttle saw was a energy wave streaking towards it before they were consumed by it and then were gone...

[Devastator]

Past Battles: Jan-Feb 2004

A massive attack on Autobot city and strange scanner readings prompt Optimus Prime to send three Autobot commando teams to investigate a small moon emitting strange readings.

Setting off during the huge decepticon attack, delta teams' shuttle is destroyed, partly due to Valeratron, an Alpha team member, disobeying orders. Beta teams' shuttle is lost in the vastness of space.

After a lengthy space journey, Alpha team, led by Rook and Orbit, arrive at the strange moon. They are created by a Decepticon called Showstopper, who has been built containing strange time-manipulating crystals found on the moon. showstopper freezes Omega Supreme so that he fades in and out of time/existance, and then returns to the decepticon facility, leaving the autobots to fight decepticon drones.

It is here the decepticons meet Janus, a mercenary who was almost killed by the decepticons, who made a galaxy wide announcment for mercenaries, but this turned out to be a trick, they just wanted energon for new decepticons. Janus has a score to settle.

Overcoming the drones, the autobots attack the facility and disable the huge guarding cannon. However, when the cannon is destroyed, hellraisor, Bravestar and Troy are sucked into the deep depths of the planet.

Here they find a decepticon mine for the strange crystals, and hellraisor is dragged away by the constructicons for experimentation, whilst Troy and Bravestar follow.

Meanwhile Rook and the others enter the main facility, where they come head to head with two more Decepticon commando team members, the twins Roadster and Speedfreak. The team splits up to fight the twins, one of which goes to the control room, the other to the droid factory. It is during this fight that Extreme perishes, savagly mauled by Speedfreak.

Troy and Bravestar locate the exit from the mines, after shutting down a mysterious generator, that actually is recharging Showstopper. However, the constructicons leave first, placing 3 special drones to guard the entrance. In combat with these drones, Troy sacrifices himself to save Bravestar, who meets up with the other autobots when they are fighting Roadster and Speedfreak in the huge generator room.

Roadster and Speedfreak then combine to form Speedster, a getalt with the alt mode of a monster truck. After wearing him down, the gestalt is finally defeated (but not before he has killed the three cyberbots) when Yokomotzo, the leader of Beta team, races in and chops off his arm. It turns out that Beta team have arrrived and secured the rest of the facility.

In their dying breaths, Roadster and Speedfreak reveal to Rook that he was experimented on in the facility where he was captured. He has the essence of Megatron installed within him, in a portable sphere that also contains his spark. He cannont die, and simply moves to another body when his current one is destroyed. More distressing, however, is the revelation that this is a special device designed by Megatron to be activated by his death- the sphere gradually changes the host, so they will eventually become the new megatron.

Taunting Rook to give in to his anger, thus proving he is becoming more like a decepticon, Orbit, Rooks old friend, stops him killing the twins by diving infront of him when he is firing at them. This is fatal for Orbit, but it has saved his friend from damnation, who calmly orders the twins, now distraught, to be executed.

Carrying on, the autobot team come to the constructicons workshop, where the mercenary Janus sees the bodies of his associates. Hellraisor is also on the table, dead. Suddenly the autobots face Devastator, who grabs Roadie and crushes him. However, cyclonus enters and disables devastator, and then informs the autobots of Galvatrons plan. He will send his special forces team back intime to eliminate Optimus Prime, thus allowing the decepticons to win in the present.

It seems cyclonus does not want to risk being turned into what he was before he was changed by unicron- he likes being second in command of the decepticons. Having aided the autobots, he leaves.

The autobots carry on to the main chamber, where they find Showstopper transformed into a time machine, and NightDemon, the leader of the decepticon commando unit. Then there is PowerHouse, the bruiser of the team.

The decepticons time jump into the future, followed by all the autobots save Yokomotzo, who stays back to guard.

The first jump appears to be to the journey to the earth, and the two teams arrive in the decepticon shuttle, whilst the decepticons are boarding the autobot shuttle. NightDemon attempts to go and help the decepticons, but is stopped when the autobots destroy the boarrding tube, which causes the ships to seperate and carsh into earth.

The two teams then jump to the first attack on autobot city. They split up to follow Powerhouse, who heads to the transforming cog, and NightDemon, who heads to the shuttle pad to wait for Optimus Prime to arrive in the shuttle.

Burnhard and Vanquish fight and defeat Powerhouse, but not before he has destroyed the transforming cog and brouht down Autobot citys' defences. Meaanwhile Valeratron, Bravestar and Rook fight NightDemon, who proves to be a tough battle becuase of an enpowered gauntlet he is wearing.

Knocking off the gauntlet, the trio manage to severly damage NightDemon, but he also damages them, and kills valeratron. Then Optimus Prime arrives, and NightDemon, heavily damaged, heads to attack Prime as he is talking to Megatron, but is instead destroyed.

The team time jump back to the present, using a device Orbit had built before he had died. However, they forgot to remove NightDemons gauntlet, and this is found and picked up bu Starscream. This event changes the whole of history. Rooks team arrive in the present, but are met by a desolate wasteland, and not the facility they were expecting. Time has changed.......for the worse.

[Divebomb]

Decaying Orbit II: Dead End

March/April 2004

After Unicron had consumed the planet Carastine II (scene of the original Decaying Orbit) and the crew of the Phoenix, he reformats several of the beings he has eaten and turns them into his Heralds of Destruction.

Led by the enigmatic techno-organic female, Sorrow, the Heralds (consisting of Klubb Knut, Strife, Kain, Wolfwood, Cutting Edge, Reload, Jumpstart, Cerberus and Traction) are given a quest – to find the semi-mythical Dark Matrix for their new Master.

After torturing a previously captured prisoner for co-ordinates to the K’Tor star system (the last known location of the Dark Matrix), the Heralds head to the system in the newly re-christened Dark Phoenix and choose to search the industrial planet Ve’er. Fast-talking from Reload (rather than more brazen approaches suggested by Cutting Edge) gain them entry to land at Ve’er starport where they begin finding any information they can on the whereabouts of the Dark Matrix. Subtlety gets them further than aggression but still there is a tremendous bar fight and the Heralds have to face off against the combiner Lawgiver’s team of law enforcement mechs. After a fierce battle they head to the abandoned mines of Ve’er, which was the best lead they had from the information gathering.

Back on the Autobot’s base of operations on Earth, the Ark, Optimus Prime sends out a deep space recon team to find the crew of the Phoenix.

The Heralds enter the mines, which soon delve lower into the planet. Wolfwood slaughters a tentacled creature, which had captured several of the Heralds. In doing so, he collapses the mine, and the Heralds have to find a high shelf of rock to avoid being swept away. The shelf leads them to a different part of the underground, and there they find the Tomb of Haroka.

Haroka was known as a One Man Army who lived and fought many hundreds of years ago. The Dark Matrix was said to have powered his Dark Cannon. After solving some fiendish riddles, the Heralds unlock the sarcophagus and find the Dark Matrix round the neck of the long-dead warrior. Reload attempts to take the Dark Matrix, causing the mummy-like Haroka to snap back into savage life and attack the Heralds.

The Deep Space recon team, lead by Vapour Trail, find NightRaven’s energon-depleted form drifting in space, and learn all that has happened.

In the Tomb, the Heralds take a beating until Reload manages to use the power contained in his Unicron-gifted cloak to give Haroka what he wants most – to live again, not as a mummified corpse, but as a proper Transformer. Reload trades this gift of life for the Dark Matrix, but when the Heralds decide to leave, they are shocked that Sorrow and Haroka not only know and loved each other from a long time ago but that Sorrow – then known as Sorona - will not go with them back to Unicron.

The Heralds see this as a betrayal and open fire on her, but she phases and the blasts rock the tomb and the mineshaft. After pleading with Haroka not to attack them, the Dark Warrior fires his cannon and cuts a way out of the mineshaft. The Heralds make their way back to the surface but collapse the mine again before Haroka and Sorrow can get out. The Heralds themselves are starting to lose their reformatting. Their past lives before being captured by Unicron is coming to the surface of their processors.

On the surface of Ve’er, a giant shadow looms over them. Unicron is here in planetary mode, and he wants the Dark Matrix. The Heralds get back on board the Dark Phoenix and bicker over what to do. Some want to still serve Unicron, some want to take the Dark Matrix for themselves. The ones who were originally Autobots know neither of these two options will do. As an inter-Herald fight erupts on board, Strife, the technomancer who can control machinery and is still loyal to Unicron, forces the ship into a steep downwards descent as he fights Megadeath, the former Kain. Wolfwood sees the Kain reformatting break down and fires his cross-gun missile at the “devil”, blowing Megadeath through a hole in the ship as it plummets to the planet’s surface.

Unicron, seeing the ship in trouble, transforms into his robot mode and moves towards the stricken ship just as Vapour Trail arrives. Megadeath broadcasts a message to the Autobot ship warning them of the Dark Matrix, which Unicron hears. The giant Chaos God brings his massive foot down on Megadeath’s position. Megadeath, who is badly injured from the missile and the fall, cannot move before he is crushed.

One by one the Heralds leave the doomed ship. Wolfwood throws Cutting Edge out of the hole in the ship, before following him down and transforming into winged wolf mode, carrying the slaver to safety, albeit in a crash landing. Klubb Knut, entranced by the form of Unicron, jumps out too, in bear mode. Traction holds onto his back. These two also land painfully but successfully.

NightRaven, responding to Megadeath’s broadcast, flies into the burning ship and rescues Reload. Jumpstart flies with him. Cerberus, now in possession of the Dark Matrix and driven insane by his multiple personalities, jumps out of the ship, still hundreds of meters from the ground.

The huge hand of Unicron saves Cerberus, who decides to bargain before releasing the Dark Matrix to Unicron. The 3 personalities of Cerberus are split into 3 individuals once more. The kindly Hepheastus does not want to see Unicron get the Dark Matrix, so he attacks Hades but Thanatosos steps in.

As the conflict continues, Cutting Edge and Wolfwood decide they stand a better chance with Haroka and Sorrow, so they try digging them out of the rubble of the mines.


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NightRaven and Jumpstart regroup with Vapour Trail and Stark, and form an assault squad, which fires everything they have at Unicron’s hand. Unicron is not really damaged but the weapons fire causes the 3 newly separated Heralds to plunge to the ground once more. Even as Hades falls, he will not relinquish the Dark Matrix, and NightRaven has to fight an aerial bot-to-bot battle to snatch the Dark Matrix away from the crazed Herald.

Sadly Stark takes the brunt of Unicron’s retaliation, as she is smashed to pieces by his massive sweeping hand.

On the ground, Wolfwood and Cutting Edge manage to dig out Sorrow and Haroka. Wolfwood’s return to his own personality has seen the former preacher plagued with guilt, and he confronts the giant Unicron on his own, firing his cross-gun missile seconds before being vapourised by Unicron’s eye beams. The missile hits Unicron’s ankle, blowing a hole – and a way in – into Unicron.

Traction (who’s Autobot personality has returned) and Klubb Knut (who is still loyal to Unicron) fight to a mutually assured death, Traction using a rocket launcher from Reload but falling to the bear Transformer’s fury.

NightRaven is convinced to hand the Dark Matrix to the reactivated Haroka and Sorrow. A plan is hatched; Sorrow will phase into Unicron’s core CPU and activate the Dark Matrix, killing Unicron.

With Cutting Edge, Sorrow and Reload on his back, the mammoth form of Haroka charges towards Unicron. Trauma adds air support, knowing there is no-one left on the ground that he can aid. Unicron tries to stop them, destroying Trauma before clipping the back off Haroka. In a mess of oil and charred flesh, Haroka transforms and utters his last dying words to Sorona, who is dragged by Cutting Edge towards the hole in Unicron. Along with Reload, they join Jumpstart, Vapour Trail and NightRaven as the last hope to stop Unicron’s conquest of the entire galaxy.

Once inside Unicron the team separates into 2; Jumpstart and Reload look for the other Autobots from the Phoenix, while Cutting Edge, NightRaven, Vapour Trail and Sorrow begin their trek to Unicron’s CPU.

After taking on some low-level security bots, Jumpstart and Reload find the holding cells. Jumpstart disengages the security overrides, but not before one of the Phoenix crew, Spyhunter, is eliminated. They find several of their missing crew members; Knockout, Spectron and III.

Cutting Edge, NightRaven, Vapour Trail and Sorrow find themselves at a smelting pool, designed to eliminate lifeforms in molten lava. They spy 2 of the Phoenix’s crew, DirTrack and Grizzley, who are soon to be melted into slag, but managed to deactivate a forcefield that surrounds the smelting pool controls and rescue them. NightRaven’s possession of the Dark Matrix is making him edgy and angry, and he won’t wait while Grizzley is tried to be revived. Cutting Edge follows, not wanting to let the Autobot out of his sight for a second. The Phoenix crew team find Reload’s quarters, but the black Autobot doesn’t let anyone else know he had been turned into a Herald. Reload plants explosives on this level as a failsafe measure.

They then find their way to the smelting pool level, where they revive Grizzley using whiskeygon, then head in the direction of Cutting Edge and NightRaven, who have come to blows.

The team find fresh resolve to finish the mission, and head to the server room, where Unicron springs his trump card… the Herald known as Apocalypse, created by Unicron from the Sparks of Swinger, the Autobot Commander, and Contempt, the crazed Decepticon tyrannical genius.

The Autobots (and Cutting Edge) engage the blue Herald and take a battering, whilst Reload and Sorrow try and get into the CPU. The Autobots, struggling desperately, finally begin to work as a team, and start inflicting damage on Apocalypse, but their progress comes at a high price. Jumpstart is skewered in an ill-advised close-quarters foray and III, who bravely picked up the giant’s spiked mace of doom and used it against him, falls when Apocalypse transforms into his wrecking machine mode and smashes the mace into him.

Sorrow phases herself, Reload and the Dark Matrix into the CPU room. Unicron tries one last time to sway the 2 over to his side once more, but fails. Sorrow transfers her powers to Reload, who is the only one who is pure of spark enough to use the Dark Matrix inside Unicron. Sorrow manages to phase back out of the CPU room as explosions rock it.

Cutting Edge manages to sneak away from the fight and look for a ship to escape from Unicron as NightRaven provokes Apocalypse enough that the Herald transforms back to robot mode and fights him one-on-one as the other Autobots try to escape the shaking body of Unicron.

NightRaven and Apocalypse have a furious fight within the flaming remains of the server room. Cutting Edge finds the Hangar Bay and pilots a one-man spacecraft out of Unicron and survives. The Autobots, along with Sorrow, find Apocalypse’s flagship still intact and escape on that.

The explosives Reload planted detonate, blowing up several entire levels of Unicron and sending NightRaven and Apocalypse shooting into space, where Nightraven manages to get a decisive move on Apocalypse, sending him hurtling away from Unicron and drifting helplessly in the vacuum of space.

Unicron has been defeated… for now.