Pax Gaia: Chapter II

Chapter II
Minicons and the Great War

Pax Gaia knew that the Autobots and Decepticons were on Earth, they chose to stay out of it. Minicons had lived in a small location of Cybertron and stayed away from their larger cousins, like fairies from humans. When the war began, Megatron discovered this small race and enslaved them. In the beginning, Minicons were used for labor, some for battle assistances (i.e. Barricade's deceased and decapitated companion, Frenzy). Later Megatron discovered Minicons contained special abilities and wanted to use it against the Autobots.

Megatron's mad scientist of a soldier, Shockwave, operated on select Minicons to try and replicate their cells and inject them into Decepticons. Starscream also took part, experimenting with one Minicon in particular: Pax Gaia's soon-to-be nurse, Anonymous. Her ability was the power of regeneration. Starscream succeeded in cell replication and immediately infused her cells into, not his body, but, his spark. He claimed to be immortal and challenged all who tried to kill him.

Word spreads quickly in the Decepticon ranks. Megatron had heard of Starscream's boast and decided to test it. He caught him in the hallway, took out his fusion cannon, and shot Starscream straight towards his spark chamber. The Seeker was knocked down, but it was mostly from being attacked so suddenly. Before he could even support himself on his elbows, Megatron pinned him down, feet on Starscream's arms, and fired again. He saw the spark flicker, dim, and then shrink. At this point Megatron believed he saw it go out. His radar could not register Starscream as living, but also did not consider him dead. For an hour he stood there, looking at the air commander. He watched the spark grow from a size of a speck of dust to an inch in diameter. Then Megatron's scanner picked up a signal. It said that it was coming from Starscream, but it was not registered as the Seeker. It was under Anonymous. At the time, Megatron did not know it was the name of a Minicon, he thought it was an unidentified signal. Once he checked the list of names of Minicons to make sure they were all present in the station. Then he saw the name Anonymous. He checked the file and it said she was branded as Starscream's Minicon. Her power was yet to be discovered by the database.

He knew then that Starscream had succeeded in replicating Minicon cells. Whatever power was in Anonymous' cells could give immortality. The thought of becoming a true god excited Megatron. He went to Starscream's lab and searched for another serum of Anonymous' copied DNA. He found it and injected it into his body. Fortunately he did not know about Starscream injecting it into his spark, so Megatron could only recover faster, he was still able to die.

Once Megatron had forced information out of Starscream on making the serums and a select few soldiers were tested upon. The Minicons witnessed what Decepticons could do in battle with their powers and decided to attempt an escape. The first three times they failed. The first was an attack on their cages. They realized the cages were made of an electric force, so the second time a Minicon emitted a sonic frequency. The cages opened, but the Minicons only made it to the door of the prison. The third time they did the same thing, made it as far as the hallway, then the security lasers started firing at them.

For the final time, the Minicons opened the cages and crawled through the vents. They went across one at a time and very slowly. It took six hours for them to find their way through the system. Once they were outside they went to a spaceship port and stole one of the aircrafts. Sirens blared once they lifted fifty feet up. Decepticons scrambled beneath them. Some of them were shooting up at the ship, and were still shooting when it was out of range.

Once the ship was out of Cybertron air space, they cheered and celebrated. After a while, one had brought up the issue that they hardly had any food and they did not know where they were going to go. So they hopped from planet to planet, gathering resources and looking for a permanent place to call home. In the middle of the Sol system, the ship's engine failed. It spent fifty years floating, almost as if it was decid-ing which planet it should fall towards. As luck had it, it fell towards Earth and they ended up in the Middle Ages.

They had scattered from each other, learning different cultures and different languages. This was when Minicons allowed themselves to be seen, by only a few people. Some Minicons had presented themselves in front of groups of people before, and then realized that Earth was not ready for them. They decided to seclude themselves from society until the day they created holoforms.