Post by BEE on Dec 22, 2011 17:58:43 GMT -5
EARTH, 2012.
After discovering the existence of the alien robots, the media was focused on the new residents of our planet. There was a debate about whether or not it was safe to allow them to live among us, and after Chicago the media seemed to firmly plant themselves on the opposing side. The US government did their best to smooth things over, concentrating on the fact that the Autobots - the good guys - were now working to rebuild Chicago to its former glory before the Decepticons attempted to take it over. They assured the public that the Decepticons were gone, which was more or less true. The vast majority of Decepticon forces retreated to space, leaving only a few stragglers. N.E.S.T worked to take out the remaining Decepticons with the Autobots; that was conveniently left out of the papers.
While the Autobots worked on reconstruction of the city, the bodies of the fallen Decepticons were taken to a government facility for study. The nation's top scientists were brought in to study the dead aliens. One such man was from Mission City, Nevada - Samuel Witwicky's hometown. Dr. Alan Smith had been taking a look at the infrastructure of the Decepticon named Barricade when the impossible happened. Security cameras inside the facility showed Barricade killing poor Dr. Smith and then escaping the premises. Ratchet, who pronounced each Decepticon body collected as being deceased, stood by his proclamation that Barricade had truly been out of commission at the time his body was collected. Already dealing with tension and mistrust from the chaos the Decepticons caused, Optimus Prime and Ratchet went to the location Barricade had been kept. Ratchet's sensors picked up traces of energon; something that should have been impossible. After a while, the Medical Officer had come up with a theory. Barricade really had been dead, and would have remained so if Dr. Smith hadn't been the one to study him. The scientist had unknowingly been hosting energon, and when he came into contact with Barricade, the energon did its work to heal him. Turns out, the scientist had been in Mission City during the attacks there in 2007, when the Allspark had been destroyed. Ratchet theorized that perhaps the Allspark's power had not been destroyed - just the cube that contained it. Instead it traveled to new, able hosts: humans.
Based on this new theory, it was reasonable to assume that Dr. Smith was not the only one who contained the Allspark's power. But finding these people - if they even existed - was not the only problem the Autobots and N.E.S.T had to worry about. Barricade had disappeared, and he was sure to contact the rest of the Decepticons. He had just as much information on the events of his "resurrection" as the Autobots did, if not more. Having the Allspark, or several mini versions of one, would give the Decepticons a leverage that the Autobots certainly couldn't allow them to have. Not to mention, the "power hosts" were a danger to themselves and others if they were to remain unsupervised and unprotected.[/ul]
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