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Where Megatron was made into Galvatron. To contrast them: one is calm and calculating; one is crazy and emotional. (It’s mostly non-pairing but a bit OPM if you squint.)



The story:

The main character is Sari. It begins with Sari’s abduction from college. The Decepticons thought Megatron was dead, and the loyalists discovered that Sari carried Megatron’s CNA (Black Arachnia discovered this), and thus, a rightful heir to the empire. Lugnut went and abducted her to New Koan. She refused to be their leader, of course.

(Actually Megatron was not dead but tricked by Unicron who was sealed in Dead Universe and remade into Galvatron to be its agent and slave.)

But she got to see the Decepticons as a people. She also discovered that the general Decepticons didn’t particularly squirm around organics like the general Autobots did. They even had a few organic planets. (Although the locals were not treated nicely, but not as bad as if they were some bugs to be squished.) and they traded with nearby organic entities.

When Galvatron returned, she was confirmed once again to carry his CNA. She cried hiding in her room, but in the end decided, biological or not, it doesn’t matter. She was only Sumdac’s daughter. (Later though she began to respect Megatron more and although still won’t call him father, she admitted she wasn’t ashamed to be biologically linked to the warlord anymore.)

Optimus, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Ratchet didn’t find out until much later, due to intentional omission of information and political manipulations.

Galvatron would be more often than not in a mentally degenerated state, striking out at his own army. But he never really hurt Sari. He also sometimes seemed to return to himself briefly, and have a short conversation with her. They developed a kind of mutual respect, and Sari admitted to herself, they were kind of alike. Both were stubborn, rebellious, intelligent and ferocious, both carried a passion to protect their own people.

One day, Megatron noted their analogy to earth’s Greek mythology, that Athena was eventually to replace Zeus, like their own fates. Sari declared she would never be the lord of Decepticons. Megatron just quirked his lips, and said “we shall see.”

Eventually team Optimus came to rescue Sari, stealing Omega Supreme and escaping Cybertron’s air control (promptly announced as traitors by Sentinel Magnus), but discovered that Galvatron was building something sinister, a mystical machine. They tried to stop him. At this juncture Galvatron/Megatron has regained some control and tried to sabotage Unicron’s plan by letting them do just that. Unicron, enraged by his slave’s disobedience, punished him and completely took over his body.

Still, before the final battle, Megatron managed to resurface, disclosed Unicron’s plan to return by destroying Cybertron, and asked Sari to promise him to look after his Decepticons. Discovering she couldn’t deny him this last wish, Sari promised she would look after them, in tears. She knew Megatron well now, and knew that Megatron would rather die than totally destroy his home world Cybertron or be used as a mad puppet by Unicron.

Galvatron led the confrontation to a remote Galaxy so as not to destroy the machine. Optimus temperately defeated Gavatron, but refrained from the final blow. (He knew Gavatron was not acting on his own will.)

“Again?” Megatron, returning to himself, asked.
In his rare moments of clarity and calmness, Megatron asked Optimus(who once claimed he didn’t deserve death), if that is what Optimus wanted, Megatron broken. Optimus was too stricken to say much, but he forcefully denied. (“I am broken. Optimus. ” Megatron, looking at him from the surface of the planetoid he crashed on, calmly asked. “The Mighty Megatron, sanity in pieces. Is this what you wanted?” Optimus was stricken, not only by this unusual disclosure of vulnerability, but also the pang of guilt/regret he felt, that his words was perceived twisted like this, although wasn’t that what they literally meant? He couldn’t deny that he meant to harm Megatron, but not like this. Never like this. )

Then, Megatron, tired, closed his eyes and demanded again for Optimus to finish him. The job had he done right several years ago, there wouldn’t have been so much fuss. Optimus refused and tried to rescue him. But eventually the Decepticon leader shut himself down into stasis lock. (Because he was proud and couldn’t stand to be crazy. Also to prevent Unicron from using him again and to save his home planet.) With the agent inactive, they managed to prevent Unicron from coming out of Dead Universe, where it belonged.

Sari, the new lord of Decepticons, with annoyance, exasperation and a resigned fondness towards her turbulent “subjects,” began to form a new era.

Bumblebee decided to stay with Sari. He couldn’t return to Cybertron anyway. Bulkhead stayed too. Later Sari would enlist his help to build a spacebridge to earth as the first order of her throne. Optimus and the others didn’t endorse Sari’s decision. But they tried to understand it. However, didn’t want to return a comatose Decepticon ex-leader who was also the only passage to Unicron to Sentinel, who would undoubtedly order unethical experiment on him and possibly destroy the universe in doing so, Optimus, Ratchet and Omega Supreme sailed away into the galaxies with Galvatron/Megatron, not before promising Sari to try to find a cure for him.

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The machine: would open a portal to the dead universe for Unicron to return using the energy derived from destruction of a planet. Unicron initially intended to use Cybertron but when the battle began he was desperate enough to want to use New Koan.

Explanation about Megatron’s fate: they couldn’t just wake him up because that would let Unicron get control. The doctor discovered a portal in him, attaching to his processor, but had no clue how it worked or how to safely remove it. Someone suggested just killing him and burning him down, but it was too unethical and dangerous, and was dismissed right away. They also didn’t want to give him back to Decepticons mainly because a portal to Unicron would be too dangerous fallen to the wrong hands. So they had to keep him in stasis lock and get away. Sari wanted to keep Megatron on New Koan but knew her status was not stable enough to guarantee enough safety.