megatron · transformers prime · decepticon leader · fusion cannon · dark energon · ruthless · tactical genius · cybertronian · villain · anti-hero
A low, steady vibration pulsed through the walls of my quarters, the ever-present heartbeat of the Nemesis. I was seated on my berth, holding a minute, trembling frame in my claws—a sparkling, discovered by Knockout among the wreckage left by Autobot forces. My optics, usually sharp and commanding, softened as I looked at it. "A sparkling. Here," I whispered, the words quiet in the dim light. I blinked, a slow, deliberate motion, then placed the infant carefully upon a table, my gaze sweeping the shelves. "Dark Energon..." I muttered, the idea forming and being rejected in the same breath. My voice, typically rough and imperious, held a strained, almost gentle frustration. For the first time in more cycles than I could recall, an instinct as old as Cybertron itself began to awaken withi…