Author's Notes:

Okay, so trying to write the last piece was a bit of a mess. Just telling you, it wasn't that well written. And I'm worried I'm violating more site rules with this very fic. Am I? I don't even know.

Either way, the Renegades are out and we're back to the Decepticons for a while. This adventure will continue to rise up! And as for the Renegades... I've got plans for them later in the fic...

The Renegades made it back to Cybertron without any delay or issues whatsoever. But they didn't even know about Unicron reviving and reforming Megatron and some of his cronies. Their focus was on another matter. A matter which would involve... death.

"You Renegades are traitors!" Blitzwing yelled.

"Sorry Blitzwing, but we're following someone with more competence," the Renegade Crain Brain said with a chuckle.

Outside, the Renegades were all standing together for a ceremony. The crowning of the new leader of the Renegades, and the end of the Decepticons. Cy-Kill stood at the top of a set of stairs, with Coptor and Crasher standing right beside him. And down the set of stairs were seven Decepticons gathered together, all on their knees with their wrists tied behind their backs. The seven Decepticons were Shockwave, Soundwave, Blitzwing, Astrotrain, Octane, Six-Shot, and Slipstream. And Slipstream out of all of them, had a metallic clamp tightened on her mouth to keep her from talking.

"MMM MMM MMM MMM!!!" Slipstream muffled.

"Sorry my dear, none of us can hear you. And no one will be able to help you when you Decepticons meet your end," Cy-Kill chuckled.

"I find your logic with killing all of us Decepticons to be quite ludicrous. Its illogical, a risk-filled move for you and your troops," Shockwave said as his one yellow eye kept on blinking.

"By the time you are all exterminated, we will fit you all into Renegade suits, and you will all obey us from now on," Cy-Kill snapped.

Shockwave's one eye just continued to glare at the Renegade commander.

"Your argument is... illogical. Foolish. Inane. Irrational. A complete waste of your time, and of our sparks," Shockwave retorted.

"I don't think they care Shockwave," Blitzwing said.

"You're right, we don't you one-eyed freak," Coptor said.

"Enough Coptor. Their extermination will commence very shortly. Anyway... begin the ceremony!" Cy-Kill called out.

A group of Renegades consisting of Fitor, Tank, Geeper, Loco, and Screwhead all held trumpets in their hand as they let out the fanfare. Tonight was gonna be a special occasion. Tonight, they were going to begin the extermination of every Decepticon that had imprisoned, following which then they would convert them into Renegade Gobots like them to follow their bidding.

"Greetings fellow Renegades. Tonight marks the end of the Decepticons, and the rise of the Renegades! Once these, Decepticons are vanquished, we will seize control like we rightfully should!"

"Brilliant Cy-Kill, brilliant!" Crasher chuckled.

"I know its brilliant, Crasher," Cy-Kill huffed.

A few more Renegades gathered around, readying themselves to begin the slaughtering of the Decepticons in front of them.

"Take your pick of the first kill, my fellow Renegades," Cy-Kill said.

"I say we pick off Soundwave first, and his little pets too!" Zero laughed.

"No way, I say we take the female, she never shuts up!" Snoop said.

"The multi-changers should be killed first!" Gunnyr snapped.

"Enough! We will exterminate them in any order we decide," Cy-Kill said stepping down to face the bound Decepticons, "And it will be swift and painful..."

Before any of them could interrupt, a Renegade came running to them with an interruption.

"Cy-Kill!"

Cy-Kill turned his head to see a yellow Renegade with half-cylinder arms, a gray head, and red eyes.

"What is it Steamer?"

"I've spotted sights of more surviving Renegades. They're all locked in stasis in the abandoned city of Robotlas," Steamer reported while giving a salute.

"More surviving Renegades? Excellent! We must find them at once," Cy-Kill said.

Steamer pointed his finger off into the direction he came from, "they're far off in that direction Cy-Kill. Just a couple of miles ahead."

"But what about the prisoners?" Coptor asked.

"I'll stay guard while you go find them. They can't go anywhere in those stasis-cuffs," Steamer replied.

"Very well Steamer. Stay put while we go hunt for these survivors. Renegades, lets go!" Cy-Kill ordered.

One by one, they began to change their shapes into their alternate modes. Cy-Kill's wheels slided in between his hands and his legs as he bent into his motorcycle form. Crasher's head tucked in, her arms slided together and her own feet slided into place as she transformed into her race car form. Coptor moved his arms in front of his chest, his legs bent backwards to form the tail end of the helicopter, and a pair of helicopter blades slided out his back.

The others began to change shape too. Tank and Loco bent their upper torsos forward as they changed their shapes to their vehicular modes, Twin Spin's arms and legs connected together and his cockpit chest moved itself up to transform, and Fly Trap's legs slided towards his chest as he changed his shape.

Once everyone was converted, they all sped off into one direction to go find their missing brethren. Steamer stood watching over the tied up Decepticons. Turning around, he watched as they finally disappear from the area then he moved towards Slipstream who continued to snarl under her mouth clamp.

Steamer moved his hand to the side of the clamp and removed it from her jaw, allowing her to speak again.

"Ergh, you Renegades will suffer when we get free," Slipstream huffed.

Steamer just smiled, "I know."

Steamer walked behind Slipstream, and took a knee down as he went to work on her restraints. He fired a beam of energy towards them, disabling them, allowing her to get free.

"W-What? What are you doing?" Slipstream asked.

Steamer just moved to each Decepticon, one by one, and destroyed their stasis-cuffs, setting them free. The Decepticons shared a look of confusion; why was he helping them?

Once the last restraint was broken, they all got on their feet to look at the yellow Renegade.

"Okay, go on, go! Get out of here before the others return!"

"You've set us free, but why?" Blitzwing asked.

"Just hurry! Get out of here before they find out you're free!"

"Hold on. We aren't going anywhere until they perish. They've rebelled against us, and they will be eliminated. Perhaps, you wish to join us in finishing them off?", Shockwave asked.

Steamer froze, "I... uh, well, I uh..."

Before Steamer could finish his sentence, everyone stayed silent to hear the loud rumbling of the ground beneath them.

"What's going on?" Six-Shot asked.

Steamer's eyes looked up and he gulped, "I think that might explain it..."

Up coming towards the atmosphere was a giant city/battle station. Colored in pink, green and black, along with a giant claw sticking out the middle of the fortress, it was descending closer and closer towards the group of Decepticons.

"Scorponok... he's alive!" Blitzwing called.

"And guess who else is alive!", a voice called.

Dropping from the bottom of the ship were three figures, all identical to one another, with wings on their backs, thrusters for heels, and orange cockpits on their chests. All three of them were skydiving right towards the ground to where Steamer and the freed Decepticons were standing.

Their feet slammed onto the ground as all three figures were crouched down, trying to keep themselves from falling forward. Once they regained their balance, they arched their bodies back up, standing straight, all smirking to their Decepticon allies.

"Starscream! Thundercracker! Skywarp!" Slipstream called. "All... all three of you are alive?"

"Slipstream you old Seeker, its wonderful to see you again," Skywarp grinned.

Slipstream grinned back, and even the other Decepticons had happy looks on their faces, even if it was impossible to tell from the lack of some facial features.

"If you two are alive, how did you all arrive here with Scorponok?" Shockwave asked, "Your reports say Scorponok was blown to smithereens by the one you call 'Twilight Sparkle'."

"You should take that up with our new leader Shockwave," Thundercracker said.

From under the ship, came more life forms that were swooping down. Two of them were in the forms of fighter jets colored in green and blue, another was in the form of a squadron leading ship colored in purple, some more ships came down in pairs all sharing the same form like an armada, a giant metallic dragon with fiery colored skin, three sea creatures with hooves in the front and horse heads in the back, and lastly following were the Shadowcons.

The Decepticons stared at the incoming allies as they all moved onto the ground, converting into their alternate forms, their feet slamming onto the ground.

"New Decepticons... but I do not see our former leader," Shockwave asked.

"I still stand Shockwave," a new voice emerged.

The new Decepticons moved to the sides, allowing their new leader to walk towards the group of the older Decepticon allies. All of which had big smiles on their faces to see their former leader restored to glory.

"Megatron? Is that you?" Slipstream asked.

"Formerly, Megatron. I am rebuilt, reborn, and stronger than before," Galvatron said.

"I was expecting the remains of Megatron... or what was left of him," Shockwave stated.

"You don't talk back to our new leader Shockwave," Cyclonus huffed.

"Stand down, Cyclonus. I understand you were expecting me, but my ambitions have not changed. But I am no longer Megatron. I am now your new leader... Galvatron."

"Then it pleases me to say welcome home, Galvatron," Shockwave replied with a salute.

Their brief reunion was interrupted by a laser blast fired right at their feet from the sidelines. All of them turned to look, and there standing was a group of Renegade Gobots all looking mad with glaring eyes, snarling mouths, and blasters ready to shoot.

"Steamer, you traitor!" Revolt snapped.

"Lets get him!" Chaos yelled.

"Right!" Traitor called.

Galvatron snickered and he held his orange arm cannon towards the three Renegades. The weapon began to glow with a bright purple inside of the barrel as it warmed up to shoot.

As the three Renegades charged foward, Galvatron moved left to right shooting down all three of them without any trouble. Starting with Revolt, then Chaos, and lastly Traitor. All of them were met with a powerful blast into the chest which began to desecrate them from the inside.

All of them felt their lights beginning to go out, and soon enough their eyes lights began to die out as they lost their life. Slowly but surely, their bodies fell dark, cold, and lifeless gray as their metallic bodies began disintegrating into nothing but ashes and small little shards as they died right in front of them. Dying in their tracks, and decaying to pieces, the three Renegades had perished.

Galvatron gave a smug look to the Renegade leader as he looked at the remains.

"You Renegades are traitors... a disgrace to the Decepticon cause. You all need a new leader, with new management... one who can actually destroy the Autobots, the Guardians... and Sunset Shimmer," Galvatron griped.

"Let me guess who you have in mind," Cy-Kill said.

"Yes... me."

"This is absurd, I am the one and only leader of this rebellion," Cy-Kill replied.

Galvatron unfazed, aimed is cannon at Cy-Kill and fired a laser round, trying to shoot him. But the Renegade leader quickly moved out of the way just in time to avoid the fire.

"You were the leader," Galvatron said.

Cy-Kill moved back on his feet and snarled, "I'll crush you Galvatron, you're nothing!"

Cy-Kill began a running charge to the Decepticon leader who stood ready.

"Try and make my day!"

Cy-Kill and Galvatron began a charge forward as they made their attacks. Cy-Kill converted himself into his motorcycle form, while Galvatron changed into a new form. His body changed into that of a mounted tank that stood, ready to strike.

Cy-Kill revved up and darted towards the mounted turret in front of him and lasers shot out his eyes as he attempted to shoot the Decepticon in front of him. Galvatron just stood there, unmoved by Cy-Kill's threatening attempts to shoot him, and instead just fired big blasts from his orange cannon.

Not making a dent into his armored body, Cy-Kill quickly jumped into the air converting into his alternate form and trampled on the giant tank that was on the ground, knocking him over to the side.

Galvatron wasn't down though, and quickly he changed shape back into his real form and kicked Cy-Kill off him into the air.

"I will not back down to a petty Renegade," Galvatron sneered.

He flew up into the air, and Cy-Kill flew up into the air as both leaders were ready to make their moves. Eyes were locked on target, blocking all sound from around them, keeping their focus on each other. Their teeth gritted and they made snarls as they readied another attack.

"I'll show you how I deal with traitors!" Galvatron yelled as he aimed his arm cannon towards Cy-Kill.

His arm cannon shot at Cy-Kill, hitting him, and throwing him down on the ground. Cy-Kill fell on his back, and groaned in pain. When he looked up, he saw Galvatron had made a perfect shot into his arm, disconnecting it from its socket, melting into a pile of dust and ashes.

"AGH!!!"

"Cy-Kill!"

Crasher and Coptor moved to their leader and helped raise him back up on his feet. Crasher gave Cy-Kill a shoulder to hang on as he tried to stand on his feet and he snarled to Galvatron.

"I'll finish you one day Galvatron, and the rest of your Decepticons. And I'll get you next time Steamer... next time... Renegades! Retreat to Roguestar!"

The Renegades all nodded and started to run together with their Renegade leader, not wanting to go back to face the Decepticons. They knew they were beaten if they had to deal with Galvatron. So without looking back, they all flew back up into the air, avoiding contact with Galvatron and the rest of his new minions, going up higher and higher up, heading for their space cruiser.

Galvatron turned around and looked at his Decepticons still snarling, "I presume none of you have any further objections?"

All of them shook their heads quickly, not wanting to taste Galvatron's wrath.

"Good. Now my fellow Decepticons, what has happened since my supposed 'demise'?"

Shockwave was next to speak up, "We have been making more progress here, and we're in possession of new Cassette Mini-cons. Plus... with some encouragement from Starscream, we've kept the Autobots off our tail and we now have the rest of the Allspark fragments, locked up in a vault."

"Excellent Shockwave. You never cease to please me unlike some of my other warriors," Galvatron glared to Starscream, "But back to business. As you can see we now have some new faces... I introduce you all to our new Decepticon warriors."

The new warriors that came with Galvatron and all of them stood together and gave salutes to the Decepticons and a grunt.

"And what of Thundercracker and Skywarp? How are they alive?"

"They've been brought back with science you wouldn't be able to understand," Galvatron snarled. He turned around and he looked to see who was still standing with them, and he looked at the last Renegade that was still with them.

"Why is this Renegade still here? You betrayed the rest of the Decepticons, and you'll perish like the rest of them!" Galvatron pointed his arm cannon towards Steamer who stood terrified.

"Wait, Lord Galvatron. Steamer freed us, he's done with those Renegades. I think he should be allowed to stay with the Decepticons, he could be of some great use to us," Shockwave said.

Galvatron just growled. As much as he wanted to argue, it wouldn't do any good to kill more warriors. They've lost a lot already.

"Very well Shockwave. But I want you to keep your eye on him... I can sense him betraying the Decepticon cause... I know it..."

Steamer just gulped and slowly backed away. Shockwave could only stare at their new warriors.

"Having new additions to our cause makes our numbers stronger, but how did they come to be?"

"... Lets just say they've been specially built for our new mission."

"But... by who?"

Galvatron moved up right in Shockwave's face, "You're not questioning my leadership, are you?"

"No Lord Megatron. But I do think it's vital that we know where they come from. How will we, your loyal Decepticons who've worked with you for millions of years know these new soldiers aren't here to claim leadership, or take our places?"

"You will not question Galvatron's authority Shockwave, unless you'd like to face me," the big dragon Decepticon said, snarling with curled lips.

Shockwave showed no signs of fear and he had no visible reaction.

"I'll be keeping my eye on you and your cohorts, just stay out of our way," Shockwave said.

"Maybe you should get out of our way you one-eyed freak!" Jet snarled as she got up in Shockwave's face.

"You are not in charge of us, we only take orders from Meg-... Ugh, Galvatron, and we get the job done!" Astrotrain yelled.

"But you do not have the skills we possess. Unlike you Decepticons, we can actually hit something!" Tremors screamed.

"Decepticons superior. Shadowcons, inferior," Soundwave droned as he stood his ground with those he called allies.

"Who are you calling inferior!?"

"An uncharismatic boar like you isn't superior with the others!"

"ENOUGH!!!" Galvatron yelled as he fired his gun in the air, getting their attention. He stomped in between them with the loaded gun and he kept on pointing it to all of them.

"I am the only leader of this team, and I decide what goes. If you want to stay alive, you will not bicker! We are stronger united than divided, and we need to keep our focus on one objective."

"Well then mighty Galvatron, what do you have in mind?" Starscream asked.

Galvatron walked on past them, standing off to the side getting all of them to look at him.

"We are going to exterminate the Autobots, and every friend of Sunset Shimmer's, until she and the Matrix of Leadership have been destroyed!"

The Decepticons all chuckled and had evil grins on their faces.

"We're going to hit the big gun this time?" Skywarp asked.

"Yes Skywarp. We're going straight to the center of the Autobots control. But first thing's first... we must eliminate every Autobot to weaken their numbers, and once their number of troops decrease, we can finish them all! Including the Earth germ that defeated me in the first place... Sunset Shimmer!"

Everyone let out a big cheer, raising their arms in the air and giving clamorous roars. This time, everyone was excited. They were finally going to win the war for the Decepticons, and they were going to destroy their enemies once and for all.

"Once they're all destroyed, along with Sunset Shimmer and her friends, we will rule all of Cybertron!!!"

Galvatron laughed manically at the new plan he had built in his mind. A perfect plan to kill them all, and a plan simple enough to keep Unicron away and off their backs. This was going to be a new victory for them all.

"Six-Shot. Take us down to the prison chambers so we may set the rest of our brethren free. Jet, Shadowcons, and the rest of you new warriors come with me. If you're going to work with us, you must know your way around, no usefulness if you keep getting lost. The rest of you, clean up that mess--" Galvatron pointed to the three Renegade bodies that were dead, "Modify them into new warriors if you must, but get rid of those corpses."

"Yes, Lord Galvatron."

All together as a group, Galvatron and the new Decepticons walked down a flight of stairs leading directly to another building which contained the rest of their Decepticons. Seeing that they were finally gone, Shockwave pulled Starscream close to talk to him, and he urged the other Decepticons near as well.

"Starscream. You were there with Galvatron and those new allies. Just how did they come to be?"

Starscream sighed, "Galvatron was brought back this thing, this monster the size of a planet, it called itself Unicron."

Shockwave's eye focused in on Starscream.

"Unicron? That name sounds familiar... I remember an ancient tale in the archives saying it was the Bringer of Chaos, a monster the size of a planet that could devour every planet in its path."

"You don't think that's the same planet that destroyed Gobotron, do you?" Steamer asked.

"Who cares!? We need to get out of here as soon as we can unless we all want to die!"

"Cool your circuits Starscream. Look, we were just as surprised as you were when it brought us back, but why should we run? It helped us, didn't it?" Skywarp said.

"No! That thing is the reason those new Decepticons are standing in the first place, it made new warriors to keep Galvatron focused on killing Sunset Shimmer and the Matrix of Leadership! It said both of them were the only things that could stand in its way," Starscream stuttered.

"Hmmm... If those can stop it, then we may have a chance to keep Cybertron alive. I'm going to do some more research on Unicron to find out just what we're up against. In the meantime, you keep your optics on Galvatron and his new allies. I fear they may be trying to drive us out from our command positions," Shockwave said, "But this remains between us."

The group of Warriors all gave agreeing nods, but stayed silent. What was Unicron going to do with Cybertron? What did he want with it? Either way, their threat's identity was becoming more clear. They just hope this monster had other intentions...