Episode 10

TFWire presents War Stories, a fan fiction podcast.

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition

of TFWire's War Stories, episode 10. I'm your

host Steve slash Megatron. Today I'm reading

a story by Opticron Primal. The story is called

Transformers Primal Instincts. Chapter 1, Arrival.

You're faulty, Optimus Prime. The Decepticon

leader Megatron punched the Autobot commander

hard enough to send him flying across the battlefield.

Optimus was dealt blow after blow as he crashed

through trees, boulders, and finally coming to

a stop on the side of a mountain. It didn't take

long for Megatron to arrive. How pathetic. The

once glorious and powerful Optimus Prime, reduced

to a weak pile of moving scrap metal. Prime weakly

rose off the ground and stood his ground as best

he could. He held his blaster limply in his hand.

If you didn't steal our supply of energon, you

wouldn't be boasting right now. Megatron. Prime

tried to defend himself, but was still too weak

to truly do so. Megatron finally had Prime right

where he wanted him. He raised his fusion cannon

to Prime's head and sneered. Finally, after centuries

of constant war, the true victor has won. This

is finally it. The death of Optimus Prime. Is

that it? The cannon hummed with energy as the

open end glowed green and blue. Prime lowered

his head, prepared for the worst. See good. Not

so fast, Megatron. The Decepticon leader looked

up in confusion to see a figure falling towards

him. As the figure came closer, Megatron got

a closer look at what it was. It resembled an

earth animal, a gorilla. What trickery is this?

No trick, but a treat, Megatron. The gorilla

landed in front of Optimus Prime and stood his

ground prepared for battle. Prime noticed a faction

symbol on him. It was red like an Autobot's,

but the symbol itself was very different. Who

are you? A friend. That's all you need to know

for now. I'll explain everything later. As soon

as those words left his lips. The gorilla lunged

towards Megatron at a quick pace. Tell your partner

that Earth's solitarium is off -limits. Optimus

Primal, maximize! As soon as those words left

the gorilla's lips, it started transforming,

just as Prime and Megatron do. It shifted and

turned until nothing was left, except its robot

mode. As quick as a whip, the bot punched Megatron

hard in the chest, forcing him to the ground.

The mysterious bot then jumped back in front

of Prime just as quick as it left his side. Prime

stared at the bot in amazement. It was covered

in metal plating and techno -organic fur. What

surprised Prime the most was that the bot's head

was very similar to his own. The only difference

was that the faceplate was gone. The bot turned

to Prime with a smirk. By the way, The name is

Optimus Primal, leader of the Maximals. Optimus

Primal? Megatron stood back up, astonished. His

sensors couldn't comprehend what they were witnessing.

Primal! Maximals! Who the slug are you? None

of your business, Megatron. All you need to know

is that as long as I stay in this dimension,

Earth's supply of Solitarium is under my protection.

Go tell that to your partner. Solitarium! Partner,

I do not know what the slag you're talking about,

but rest assured, I intend to find out. With

that, Megatron opened a warp gate and entered

through it, en route for his destination, Cybertron.

Wait, I'm not done with you! Primal leapt for

the warp gate. But it disappeared right before

he could enter. Primal landed on a nearby tree.

Well, that's just Prime. Primal leapt down to

the ground and rushed to Prime's side. The Autobot

leader was down on one knee, still weak due to

lack of energon. Hmm, looks like I got here just

in time. Come on, Optimus. I'll help you back

to your HQ. Once there, I'll explain everything

you need to know. Meanwhile... On the Transformers'

home planet Cybertron, two of Megatron's generals,

Starscream and Soundwave, were awaiting his return.

It wasn't long until the warp gate appeared and

Megatron landed onto the steel -plated ground.

Soundwave was the first to approach. Welcome

back, Lord Megatron. Your repair chamber has

been ready for your return. Starscream stood

back, his arms folded. A cocky smirk on his face.

He could tell Megatron failed. Surprising. The

mighty Decepticon leader cannot defeat his archenemy,

even when he's as weak as slack. So much for

a reliable commander. Starscream, do you care

to repeat what you just said to me? I said! Before

Starscream could repeat himself, a flash of light

appeared over the three Decepticons. All three

stood their ground prepared to attack. Megatron

was tense. What the slug? The light landed on

the ground in front of them and disappeared,

leaving a dinosaur in its place. It was light

purple, techno -organic T -Rex, and had a strange

insect -like symbol on its thigh. Greetings,

Decepticons. Megatron wasted no time pointing

his fusion cannon at the creature's head. Who

are you? Identify yourself now! The T -Rex just

sneered and came closer to Megatron. Oh, my dear

bot, I am you. Megatron, terrorize! Chapter 3

Energy Flashback You're not going anywhere, Megatron.

Optimus Primal stood a few feet away from the

renegade Predacon. He was accompanied by his

troops of Maximals, Rattrap, Cheetor, Rhinox,

and Dinobot. Megatron was not alone as well.

He was with his Predacon soldiers, Tarantulas,

Scorponok, Pterosaur, and Waspinator. Both factions

were prepared for battle. spare me your heroic

banter primal you and i both know that fighting

now would drain what little energy we have left

primal knew he was right their supply of energon

was dwindling and both sides though raring to

fight were weaker than usual the maximals on

the other hand didn't care if they were low on

energy rattrap and treater were the force to

speak For boot and a cone, forget all this talking

scrap. Let's kick some tailpipe. Yeah, come on,

Big Bot. We can take these good -for -nothing

renegades. No problem. Rhinox and Primal had

to remind them on the situation at hand. Not

so fast. You two, even if we do defeat them,

the next time they will come, we'll be way too

weak to defend ourselves. Rhinox is right. Even

we accomplish our goal of defeating them, we

may automatically go into stasis lock due to

lack of energon. Now stand down! Rattrap and

Treador knew they were right, and had no choice

but to stand down. Yes, you made a good move,

Primal. Withdrawing your hyperactive little soldiers.

Normally, this would be a perfect time to attack.

But unfortunately, my protocons and I are in

the same predicament as you. Look around you.

Megatron started pointing to all the areas where

Energon was previously found before the start

of the Beast Wars. This land was full of Energon

when we arrived, so much so that even staying

in our robot forms for too long resulted in a

power overload, an immediate stasis lock. Now,

after the Beast Wars have started, This area

is now almost completely depleted of it. We need

energy to sustain life. Yes, I agree with you,

Megatron. But with this area's energy on down

to almost nothing, there's no reason to continue

the beast wars. We could work together as one

to find another way to survive. Megatron sneered

at his enemy's proposal. Ha! Work with a maximal?

Not likely. I have my own plan. I have found

a new energy source, located on an Earth from

another dimension called Solitarium. With this,

I can continue my quest to destroy your forces,

and finally take Cybertron for the protocons.

But how will you ever get to that dimension?

Your ship's dimensional warp drive was wrecked

when we crashed here on Earth. On the contrary,

Primal. We have been working on a way to make

the warp drive portable. By integrating it with

our internal systems. We now have the ability

to warp to any dimension we see fit. And my next

stop is Earth. With that, Megatron began disappearing

into a void of light. I'm not letting you destroy

another dimension. Maximals, stop him! Primal

and his soldiers... dashed towards Megatron,

but were soon blocked by Waspinator. I don't

think so, Maximani. Terracons, terrorize! It

wasn't long until all the Terracons transformed

and went on the offensive, blocking the way to

Megatron. Ha ha ha. Once again, Primal. You fail.

And Megatron vanished into the void. Primal was

too late to stop him. Megatron! No! And that's

the end of the story. And if you'd like to hear

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