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CHAOS


Characters

Autobot
Optimus Prime - Truck
Rodimus - Sports Car
Ironhide - Cybertronian Van
Drift - Race Car
Sunstreaker - Sports Car
Cliffjumper - Sports Car
Wheelie - Cybertronian Car
Trailbreaker - Camper Van
Arcee - Cybertronian Car
Hardhead - Personnel Carrier
Silverbolt - Jet
Ratchet - Ambulance
Sideswipe - Sports Car
Jetfire - Jet
Silverstreak - Sports Car
Powerglide - A-10 Jet
Slingshot - Fighter Jet
Fireflight - Fighter Jet
Sandstorm - Helicopter
Cosmos - Orbiter
Tracks - Flying Sports Car
Windcharger - Sports Car
Brawn - SUV
Gears - Pick Up Truck
Huffer - Truck Cab
Wheeljack - Race Car
Hoist - Tow Truck
Beachcomber - Buggy
Blurr - Race Car
Hound - Military Jeep
Mirage - F1 Race Car
Broadside
Red Alert - Emergency Sports Car
Omega Supreme - Rocket (Rocket half only)
Cloudburst - Cybertronian Jet Likely killed by Sweeps
Grotusque - Saber-Toothed Beast Likely killed by Sweeps
Downshift - Cybertronian Car Killed by Cyclonus
Nosecone - Cybertronian Drill Tank Killed by Sweeps
Afterburner - Cybertronian Speedbike Killed in Kimia Explosion
Lightspeed - Cybertronian Car Killed in Kimia Explosion
Chromedome
Brainstorm
Swerve
Pointblank
Crosshairs
Sureshot
Rung
Mainframe
Rad
Slamdance
Rewind
Jackpot
Kimia Staff Mostly killed by Cyclonus and Sweeps
Other Autobot Troops
Chief Justice Tyrest (Mentioned)
Alpha Trion (Mentioned)
Ironfist (Statue only) Dead

Decepticon
Megatron - Stealth Bomber Seemingly Killed in battle with D-Void
Starscream - Jet
Skywarp - Jet
Shockwave - Ray Gun
Soundwave - Cassette Player
Ravage - Cassette
Hook - Crane
Mixmaster - Mixing Truck
Bonecrusher - Bulldozer
Long Haul - Dump Truck
Scavenger - Excavator
Scrapper - Front End Loader Dead
Devastator - Constructicon Gestalt
Blitzwing - Tank/Jet
Astrotrain - Space Shuttle/Train
Kickback - Locust
Bombshell - Boll Weevil
Shrapnel - Scarab Beetle
Megatron Gun Drones - Guns
The Swarm (Mentioned)
Thunderwing (Mentioned)
Bludgeon (Mentioned)
Galvatron's Faction
Galvatron - Laser Cannon Destroyed by Dead Universe
Jhiaxus - Jet Killed by Optimus and Rodimus
Cyclonus - Space Jet
Scourge - Space Shuttle Seemingly Killed in Kimia Explosion
Sweeps - Space Shuttles Killed in Various ways

Other
Bob
Garnak
The D-Void Destroyed
Vector Sigma Revived by Matrix
Primus (Mentioned)
Burasian Species
Chomskian Species

Storyline

The staff on Kimia are going about their usual business when suddenly Cyclonus leads an attack on the station and slaughters the staff with minimal resistance (as they are mostly engineers and scientists there) and they start to redirect it towards Cybertron, which is under Galvatron's control.

Inside Omega Supreme's rocket section Megatron and Optimus talk, with the former seemingly worried about what's happening to Cybertron, but Optimus wont tell him anything. The Autobots are having problems contacting Chief Justice Tyrest regarding Megatron's trial. Whilst they're waiting Ironhide is telling the rest of the team assembled about how he met Alpha Trion, Sunstreaker joins in, but Cliffjumper very noticeably ignores him (still angry about his betrayal) and he just stays in a dark corner with his pet, Bob.

Rodimus notices some lights on Cybertron and works out that it's a message form Galvatron using his troops to send out a message in binary, telling them to send a landing party to talk with him (and also to show off how many troops he has too).

Optimus leads the first team down and meets with Galvatron and his Sweeps, where he invites Optimus to help him against the true enemy, D-Void, Optimus and his troops decline once again, and Galvatron starts a fight with them. The Autobots get the upper hand in the fight, but Cyclonus appears and rescues his commander and takes him away from the fight.

Cyclonus tells Galvatron that Kimia is in orbit, and he has it transform to it's cannon form and they begin targeting for something on the surface. More Autobots start arriving on the planet to help out with the upcoming fight when suddenly they're swathed in a red light from the Kimia station's cannon.

The Autobots prepare to be fired upon by the station, but it passes them by, leaving the Autobots to wonder what it's true target it. Silverbolt leads all the aerial based Autobots into orbit to take on the station before it can find it's real target. Optimus gives the other Autobots their orders to set up a field base in the city and for Wheelie and Cliffjumper to spy on Galvatron's troops to see what they're doing. Rodimus offers to go into orbit with Omega and Trailbreaker so they can help coordinate Silverbolt's attacks, Optimus agrees.

In orbit the Autobots are going full out against the station, whilst Wheelie and Cliffjumper find the enemy and open fire (despite their spying orders). Optimus and the others head out to join them in the fight.

Inside Kimia Lightspeed and Afterburner have survived and are hiding out in the station's power coupling's room, and can see the fight going on outside. They watch as the cannon blasts at Cybertron and makes a massive hole in it. They station prepares to fire again, so the two Technobots detonate some weapons they have with them near the couplings, causing the station to explode, causing Omega to get injured and forces him to land on the planet for repairs.

On the planet Galvatron and Jhaixus rush towards the impact crater, in case the first blast was enough. Rodimus lands and learns from the others that Optimus and Ironhide rushed after Galvatron and Jhiaxus, prompting Rodimus and Drift to follow them as well.

Inside Omega Supreme Megatron asks what's happening again, but Omega wont tell him, prompting Megatron to activate the Megatron Guns that the Autobots were transporting off the planet, and they free him.

Nearby Cliffjumper and Wheelie are pinned down by the Sweeps on the planet, but are rescued when Megatron suddenly appears in a powerful armour in front of them and joins the battle.

An escape pod from Kimia is drifting through space after just running out of fuel with a few staff members crammed inside, but they're rescued when Arcee contacts them from her ship. On Cybertron Wheelie and Cliffjumper run towards Sideswipe from the fight and Megatron's intervention. Megatron take son the Sweeps all by himself, whilst the Autobots watch on, when suddenly the Decepticons who were stationed on Earth appear through a Space Bridge of some sort and start attacking the Autobots and an all out fight begins.

The Constructicons join the fight, and even combine with Scrapper's corpse to become Devastator, albeit with a dead leg thanks to Scarpper. Sunstreaker learns of this and decides to take matters into his own hands, and asks Garnak to help him.

Optimus, Rodimus, Drift and Ironhide arrive at the impact crater and start to go down into it to see what Galvatron is up to. The other Autobots battle the newly arrived Decepticons, and Sunstreaker approaches Devastator in his old wheelchair, filled with explosives, he confronts him and then dives out the way just as he tries to step on him, and sets off the bombs, crippling Devastator again, but just as Devastator goes to punch him he begins to act strange and starts speaking in binary.

Optimus and the others reach Galvatron in one of the lower levels of Cybertron and prepare to attack him. On the surface the Decepticons and Sweeps have stopped fighting and all merge into a giant physical form of D-Void, which starts attacking everyone and everything on the planet.

Inside the planet again, Galvatron uses the Heart of Darkness to take control of Drift and makes him attack the other Autobots, distracting them from Galvatron, who runs off to his target. Drift manages to get back some control and tries to kill himself with his sword, and collapses to the ground.

Optimus receives a call from Cliffjumper about Megatron escaping, but Megatron takes the communicator and tells Prime that he'll deal with the problems on the surface if Optimus can deal with Galvatron below, they both agree and go off on their own plans, with Megatron preparing to take on D-Void alone.

On her ship, Arcee explains (for the 6th time) about what D-Void wants to do, about him manipulating Galvatron since the start,a nd how he wants him to plunge the Heart of Darkness into Vector Sigma to turn Cybertron into a giant gateway to the Dead Universe, thus killing everything. The Autobots then prepare to take him on.

On Cybertron's surface the Autobots are basically sitting around doing nothing whilst Megatron is fighting D-Void alone (Wheelie seems to be trying to help by going his music thing again though). Megatron manages to do some damage, but D-Void keeps healing himself. Down below Ironhide is worried about Drift's condition, so Optimus tells him to take him onto the surface to get to Ratchet, whilst Optimus and Rodimus go on to stop Galvatron and his plans. On the surface Megatron has been badly beaten but uses all his remaining power to blast D-Void and seemingly does a great amount of damage to him 

In the Vector Sigma chamber Galvatron feels the D-Void's pain, and asks Jhiaxus why he felt it, when suddenly Optimus and Rodimus rush in and blasts the two of them, and kills Jhiaxus. Galvatron then reveals that he's already plunged the Heart of Darkness into Vector Sigma.

Above Arcee's ship is directing itself on a collision course for the crater, and the Kimia survivors dive out of the shuttle to (relative) safety. Galvatron is gloating down below, until Arcee's shuttle crashes right on top of him. Hardhead and Arcee hope they've killed him, but he climbs out of the wreckage, the two newly arrived Autobots attack Galvatron, even whilst the Dead Universe starts coming through Vector Sigma.

The planet starts getting drawn into the new portal and the Sweeps all start disintegrating. Rodimus tells Optimus that their only chance to stop this is to release the Matrix inside Vector Sigma, Optimus is reluctant to let go of the last part of Cybertron's past (since Vector Sigma and Cybertron are now dying). Galvatron attacks them from behind, having defeated Hardhead and Arcee, but is stopped by Cyclonus, who is outraged that Galvatron has been using him to do such terrible things to his beloved homeworld. Galvatron manages to knock Cyclonus away easily and begins to finish everyone else, but he starts to disintegrate himself. Optimus finally accepts what he has to do, and plunges the Matrix into Vector Sigma, enveloping everything in a bright white light.

As the light fades away Optimus finds himself on a barren Cybertron's surface with the Matrix broken in two in front of him....

Notes

• Worryingly, a few characters who are shown to be in bad situations here have yet to be seen since this story was completed, including Wheelie, Cliffjumper and Hardhead. Though since they aren't shown being killed outright, I won't put them as dead in the character lists.
• Bob and Garnak have also been absent since this story as well
• It can be assumed that any Autobots seen on Kimia who weren't on Chromedome and Brainstorm's escape pod were killed
• Kimia is shown to explode here, it's revealed in The Death of Optimus Prime that it crashed, at least in part, on Cybertron to act as the Autobot's main HQ
• Kimia erected a statue of Ironfist after his death
• Kimia can turn itself into a large cannon - suitable for a weapons development facility
• At least one image of Silverbolt in this story seems to be painfully toy accurate, including the button on his back to activate his sounds and lights
• It seems like Galvatron has reformatted his million-fold army into Sweeps, like he did with the dead Expansion members in AHM's Coda.
• Hardhead somehow left Galvatron's faction and rejoined Arcee
• Megatron's extra armour looks somewhat like Thunderwing's - Maybe he ripped it off? Also, where did it come from? The Megatron guns?
• Talking about Thunderwing, Megatron asks whether he's attacking Cybertron, implying that he's still active somewhere and wasn't just destroyed after Revelation
• The Megatron Guns are revealed to be able to transform and act as tools to free Megatron here
• Brainstorm is shown holding his briefcase that he retains in MTMTE here
• Quite a few of the Kimia survivors are actually characters in MTMTE, I'm sure it's no coincidence that James Roberts co-wrote this storyline as well
• Devastator can still be formed despite Scrapper being dead, however his leg is unable to move due to this
• The Decepticons were transported to Cybertron by Megatron's armour, most likely connected to Shockwave's Space Bridge experiments from before as well and using the armour as a relay of some sort.
• All the Sweeps and Decepticons (bar Megatron, and including former Decepticon Drift) are compelled by the Heart of Darkness into merging into the D-Void's physical form or attacking others
• It's shown here that Galvatron has been manipulated since his rebirth by D-Void and the Heart of Darkness, as they are one and the same and is in fact the great evil that he's been trying to stop all along.
• Megatron is actually able to injure the D-Void's physical form!!!
• It's unclear what happens to Megatron after this story, he's not present in RID, and he's last seen blasting at D-Void from what appears to be his chest (ie his spark) so maybe he was destroyed in the process?
• Jhiaxus is killed very unceremoniously by Optimus and Rodimus
• It can be assumed that Scourge was killed when Kimia exploded, otherwise his absence in the story is kind of odd
• Before his death Cyclonus is freed from Galvatron's control and attacks his former leader for making him attack his beloved Cybertron. This mind control happened in the AHM Code
• Galvatron and most of the Sweeps were eaten by the Dead Universe in the end of this story, explaining their absence later 
• This story shows that Tracks has his flying car mode from the original toy and earlier fiction.

PAX CYBERTRONIA

Characters

Autobot
Alpha Trion - Speeder
Ironhide - Cybertronian Van
New Autobots
Optimus Prime - Cybertronian Truck, Truck (Mentioned, Flashbacks, Statue)
Rodimus - Sports Car (Statue)
Bumblebee - Muscle Car (Statue)
Cosmos - Orbiter (Statue)
Wreckers (Mentioned)
Wheelie (Mentioned)
Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex (Flashback)
Swoop - Pteranodon (Flashback)
Sludge - Apatosaurus (Flashback)
Snarl - Stegosaurus (Flashback)
Slag - Triceratops (Flashback)
Sentinel Prime - Cybertronian Truck (Flashback) Killed by Megatron

Decepticon
Megatron - Cybertronian Tank, Gun, Stealth Bomber (Flashback, Mentioned)
Soundwave - Acoustic Tank, Cassette Player (Flashback)
Rumble - Cassette (Flashback)
Frenzy - Cassette (Flashback)
Ravage - Cassette (Flashback)
Laserbeak - Cassette (Flashback)
Starscream - Tetrajet, F-15 Jet (Flashback)
Skywarp - Tetrajet, F-15 Jet (Flashback)
Thundercracker - F-15 Jet (Flashback)
Shockwave - Ray Gun (Flashback)
Thunderwing - Cybertronian Space Jet (Flashback)
Devastator - Constructicon Gestalt (Flashback)
Kickback - Locust (Flashback)
Bombshell - Boll Weevil (Flashback)
Shrapnel - Scarab Beetle (Flashback)
Insecticon Swarm (Flashback)

Other
The Great Destroyer (Mentioned)
D-Void (Flashback)
Chorus or Anduria (Mentioned)

Storyline

Some time in the future, Alpha Trion is on Gorlam Prime telling some stories to three young Autobots and starts off a bunch of full page flashbacks. An aged Ironhide turns up and warns the kids to not believe everything Alpha tells them as he wasn't even present during the events. The two older robots greet each other as friends. 

That night at a Remembrance ceremony Ironhide is invited to speak, as he's the last of the warriors who took part in the wars to still remain in the area where he reminisces to the crowd about the greatest battles of the past, and he comes to the conclusion that he's not needed anymore and leaves.

Outside, Alpha catches up with his old friend and they talk, they both still believe that Megatron and Optimus are out there somewhere and will return one day, and this peaceful world will be drawn into the war too. Ironhide gets annoyed, until one of the younger Autobots comes out and asks Ironhide to tell him a story again, and asks whether he'll protect them if Megatron does indeed return one day.

Notes

• A large chunk of this story is made of re-drawn clips of previous scenes from IDW's series so far, including Megatron killing Sentinel Prime, Optimus and Megatron fighting in Brasnya, Shockwave fighting the Dinobots on Prehistoric Earth, Optimus and Megatron fighting Thunderwing in the Thunderhead Pass, the Decepticons rampaging through New York during the Purge, Ironhide fighting the Swarm and Megatron facing down the D-Void.
• Of those events, this Ironhide would have only experienced Megatron killing Sentinel Prime and the last two as he was killed and reset to a previous point in his life during the start of the Ongoing.
• This story sets up a few plot points waiting to happen, such as the Transformers being on Gorlam Prime instead of Cybertron (though it's possible that Cybertron still exists and Gorlam Prime is just a colony world)
• Wheelie is said to be the first to see the Great Destroyer. It's previously been established that he's encountered Quintessons off-page, but the Great Destroyer sounds more like Unicron that the squids
• The young Autobots find it odd that Ironhide only has one alternate mode, implying that they are all at least Triple Changers
• The Young Autobots all use the G2 Autobot insignia's, but are not in neon or unusual colours (phew)
• Statues of Cosmos, Rodimus, Bumblebee and Optimus appear in the city - this implies they are all being memorialized...Rodimus, Bumblebee and Optimus are obvious as they are leaders, but why Cosmos?
• Also, these statues use their current robot modes from the Ongoing, rather than those seen for them in RID and MTMTE so far (this is likely due to when they were drawn, but could also mean they revert to these bodies again later)
• Same with Ironhide as well, he's in an aged version of his body that Alpha Trion built him, rather than his new body in RID
• Alpha Trion is younger looking than Ironhide here because he keeps updating himself periodically
• The Gorlam Prime Autobots are larger than the old residents of the planet, but still shorter than Alpha Trion and Ironhide. Also due to the Autobots being perfectly capable of walking happily on the planet it's clear that they replaced all the old buildings on the planet with larger ones.
• Megatron is shown in three bodies in this story in flashbacks