Megatron/TransTech

## Megatron

"*Sounds more like self-interest than "greater good".*"
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"*Only because you imagine that there is a difference.*"
―Path Finder and Megatron discuss ethics
High Commander **Megatron**, head of the TransTech military, often clashes with the High Senate's leader, Optimus Prime. Unlike his counterpart, Megatron is about pragmatism, pure and simple. In political action, ends justify the means. The security of Cybertron and its inhabitants is that end, and any act, no matter how atrocious, is acceptable to him. And if you have to do things underground, away from the prying eyes of the more skittish, then so be it.

Despite their increasingly strained relationship, Optimus and Megatron have a long history together, first starting when both were young and neither were experienced or powerful. Megatron was inspired by Optimus' speeches about hope and unity, and together they forged an upward path through their respective hierarchies. However, now that Optimus is the Matrix-bearing Prime, ruler of the High Senate, Megatron's black ops controversies are harder to ignore. Megatron secretly acknowledges that there will one day be a final confrontation between them, and has prepared accordingly.

For Optimus Prime, it would be a rough battle. Though Optimus does have weaponry of his own, Megatron's armaments have no equal. His primary weapon contains a gravimetric field generator powered by a microscopic black hole, all held within a quantum zero-point energy cage. When it is fired at a target, it pulls the weight of multiple dimensions upon it, causing an implosion. It has only been fired at full power once. Within his databanks are contained the recorded fighting styles and histories of multiple dimensions, and this is information he puts to deadly use in hand-to-hand combat. His armies follow his every word without question.

## Biography

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Megatron was once a gladiatorial pit referee, where he learned much about combat. He and Optimus joined forces to put an end to Axiom Nexus’s "Liego Maximo incident," and the pair defeated the Maximo's underling, Jhiaxus. In the incident's aftermath, Megatron saved the war criminal Shockwave from the smelting pits by convincing Sentinel Prime that the scientist's brilliant mind could be put to better use under his supervision.

Megatron and the High Senate granted an audience to two "outworlders" who requested a conversation with Optimus Prime. Though the two outworlders, Path Finder and Bug Bite, were victims of a multiversal cataclysm on an exploratory mission and had arrived wrongly in Axiom Nexus, Megatron viewed them with cold contempt and suspicion. He called for Rhinox to explain their situation and put their distress in the proper context. Though Prime had compassion for the stranded mechanoids, his legal hand were tied, and, as Megatron would remind him, rightfully so. Their plight was nothing compared to the potential dangers they offered.

Meanwhile, other mechanoids of interest had landed in Axiom Nexus. Shockwave, having kidnapped Breakaway, presented his victim to Megatron in his lab. Megatron asked that he please keep him intact. Senator Ratbat soon made an appearance of his own, and he worried about the legality. Shockwave and Megatron implored Ratbat to seek permission to attempt more invasive procedures, for killing Breakaway could lead to significant breakthroughs in learning.

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However, the experiment was interrupted. A group of rebels led by that crackpot Alpha Trion fought through security and made their way through to Shockwave's lab. Megatron ordered Shockwave to halt his progress and assist him in battle. Megatron programmed his onboard computer systems to construct an arm-mounted cannon, and he quickly engaged the rebels. But Alpha Trion, surprisingly, was a more formidable foe than he had suspected.

Shockwave, who was being dismantled by Immorticon, pled for Megatron's assistance, and Megatron responded with a truly impressive display of firepower. Immorticon, despite his name and reputation, was reduced to a smoldering husk. But when Megatron turned back to again face Alpha Trion in battle, he was disappointed to learn that the old one had fled, along with his hanger-ons.

Some time later, Megatron was in the control room of Axiom Nexus when Rhinox detected "multiple phenomenon across corresponding clusters," even in universal streams long thought destroyed. To that effect, Megatron insulted Rhinox's abilities. Quickly, Rhinox traced the activity back to Primax 207.0 Epsilon in general and its Overlord in specific. Rhinox, Prowl, and Megatron then observed an invasion from a specific negative polarity universe, at which point Optimus Prime entered the room with the Convoy, gravely remarking that the balance of the multiverse was no longer certain.

In response to the creation of the Convoy, Megatron attempted to forge his own "Megatronus Squad". However, the High Senate shot down this idea, with Speaker of the Senate Ratbat giving the reminder that Megatrons throughout the multiverse had a penchant for tyranny and genocide. Ratbat also shut down Megatron’s request for funding of a "Mega Megatron" upgrade. It didn’t help that Megatron had included a decal that read "DESTROY!" in his new body's pitch...

As Axiom Nexus lost contact with much of the multiverse, Megatron called for a state of war to be declared, only to be turned down by the High Senate. He angrily argued about it in front of reporters and expressed anger that he'd lost good men when Tyran 509.28 Kappa had gone dark.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Quote`
2. ↑ History and abilities are from Megatron's profile in Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 24