The Rough Draft...
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:53 am
Foreword
Once Upon A Time, I was a very creative sort. To say I lived in my own head, my imagination, was an understatement. I always had a pencil and paper in my hand. Forever writing, drawing, creating etc
Years go by and Adulthood starts to dull that creativity. I imagine to retain the level of imagination I had before, I should have gone into a more aligned field of study and/or work. However that was not to be.
It has not completely left me. I have four completed works and concepts for another two. These works as I call them, are complete runthroughs of four separate series, from beginning to finale. Two are of my own creations, one is based upon the X-Men and back on topic, one is Transformers.
Entitled Rebellion.
I draw and write. My writing is more in scripted form to aid my drawings.
For Transformers, I largely wanted to employ my own cast. The Main reason for this is I have often been very frustrated drawing TF's if my picture doesn't resemble an established design. So I generated a sizable amount of concept art, more so than I ever have before.
For Rebellion, I took pieces that I enjoy from Beast Wars and G1, while not being 100% faithful to previous works. Consider it an Elseworlds/What if? inspired series than a straight up fanfic. EG for certain characters, their personality is based more upon extracts from their bios and visual cues from the toys, than works of other writers. But I digress...
Transformers: Rebellion
Chapter One - The Doom That Came To Cybertron
Part One: Prologue
Peace. That's what they call it. The Great Wars, days gone by. The Autobots and Decepticons, relics of the past. The Beast Wars too, came to an end. Yet can a race so intrinsically tied to conflict, ever attain peace without it?
Ravage: "Now let us talk.."
Overbite: "Please do, take your time. Geez, Bad Kitty.. Grape Face flashes one vid of your old boss and you're practically lapping at his feet."
And with that, Megatron's cell was closed once more. Both he and Ravage looking on in abject shock and horror as a lone and hidden Maximal spy imprisons them both, without firing a shot.
The Beast Wars ended soon after. Using Ravage's confiscated ship, Optimus Primal rounded up the surviving Predacon forces, the stasis pods and any useful supplies from both the Axalon and Predacon base. With victory and escape granted to them by the hubris of a Former Decepticon, prisoners are secured and new allies awakened. They returned to Cybertron. Home at last.
Blackarachnia and Silverbolt could not be found however. Their last known co-ordinates pointing to a recently erupting volcano. They were presumed lost, listed MIA.
Four Deca-cycles pass...
Cybertron
SCCRRREEEEE!! SCCRRREEEEE!!
Warning! Warning! Unstable Space Bridge activity detected!
Maximal Security Team Leader: "Move it Grunts! The Space Bridge has been under strict lock and key since the Great Upgrade. The fact someone got through the defenses is troubling enough, but to have the knowledge to even use the old relic is very scary"
Maximal Grunts: "Yes Sir! Wreck - N - Rule!!"
Meanwhile, fifty levels below, Maximum Security Block LV-117.
Megatron: "Hmm. Yesss, Sounds like trouble above. Even down in this "inescapable" pit. Removed as I am from local time and space by a Transwarp field, that alarm is akin to sweet music. Scurry along little Maximals, your "peace" may prove shorter lived than you hoped."
Snapdragon: "Buried but not forgotten, M-Boss"
Shock once more returned to Megatron's face as the colossal Transmetal form of his former Enforcer emerges from the opposing corridor, as if from the shadows themselves. At the same moment the spacial boom of a localised transwarp shunt reveals the jet form of Waspinator. With it, Megatron's surprise gives way to a malicious grin.
Waspinator: "Frreee Bozzz Bot, we're told hehehe"
Megatron: "So I owe this escape attempt to some mysterious benefactor? Ohh but were my release assured. Nooo. For as tempted as I might be to carve my vengeance from the lowly Maximals who threw me here. Other than the Tripredacus Council seeking my head, I have no means of escape from this fortified prison, let alone Cybertron above. Hmmm"
Megatron then closes his eyes, turning his back on his one time troops to dismiss them. Defeated.
Snapdragon: "Already squared your circles, M-Boss"
Megatron opens his eyes to view the giant shining jaws of Snapdragon's Komodo Dragon mode tearing through his restraints like paper. His cell bars disabled and restraints now in pieces, Megatron is free once more.
Megatron: "YESSSS! Now quickly you dolts, Where is my exit!?"
Transforming to Jet Mode once more, Waspinator re-opens his Transwarp shunt.
Waspinator: "Special surprise for Maximalzz! Space Bridge re-activated, powered by Transwarp Cell hehehe"
Snapdragon "Unstable. Soon Boom, M-Boss"
Megatron: "A mismatched Maximal Transwarp Cell attached and amplified by an active Cybertronian Space Bridge. The power unleashed could tear a hole in Cybertron itself! I almost shed a tear at the loss of Maximal life from such an explosion. Luckily such moments pass quickly. Once I reach the Space Bridge where am I headed?"
Waspinator: "Freedom, and Alliezz, Megatron!"
Megatron: "Indeed. My restoration is assured! I will return to Earth with an army and complete my namesake's instructions before word even reaches Primal. This time the Beast Wars will be mine! MEGATRON TERRORISE!!! HA Hahahahaha"
Transforming to conserve energy, Megatron enters the shunt without a moments pause or reflection on why his rescuers do not follow. A lapse in judgment, most grave for the brilliant and calculating Predacon General.
Snapdragon: "Goodbye, M-Boss. Terrorcon soon pleased!"
Waspinator: "Megatron not even notice our new colourzz. New Shunt will take uzz outside Space Bridge Control. Make Sure Former Bozz bot reaches final destination "unharmed" hehehehe"
Snapdragon: "Kill many Maxi's before Boom!"
So the two depart. No record would show what happened in LV-117. the area would soon be vaporised along with 1/12th of Cybertron from a Hyper-Spacial explosion visible from Moon Base 2. If Megatron had only paused a moment, not overcome with his own desire to exact his revenge, he might have taken time to assess his former troops. If only to look upon and see them sport no faction symbol he would recognise. Nor use any activation code at all. Hubris.. Ever the flaw of the Megatron!
Once Upon A Time, I was a very creative sort. To say I lived in my own head, my imagination, was an understatement. I always had a pencil and paper in my hand. Forever writing, drawing, creating etc
Years go by and Adulthood starts to dull that creativity. I imagine to retain the level of imagination I had before, I should have gone into a more aligned field of study and/or work. However that was not to be.
It has not completely left me. I have four completed works and concepts for another two. These works as I call them, are complete runthroughs of four separate series, from beginning to finale. Two are of my own creations, one is based upon the X-Men and back on topic, one is Transformers.
Entitled Rebellion.
I draw and write. My writing is more in scripted form to aid my drawings.
For Transformers, I largely wanted to employ my own cast. The Main reason for this is I have often been very frustrated drawing TF's if my picture doesn't resemble an established design. So I generated a sizable amount of concept art, more so than I ever have before.
For Rebellion, I took pieces that I enjoy from Beast Wars and G1, while not being 100% faithful to previous works. Consider it an Elseworlds/What if? inspired series than a straight up fanfic. EG for certain characters, their personality is based more upon extracts from their bios and visual cues from the toys, than works of other writers. But I digress...
Transformers: Rebellion
Chapter One - The Doom That Came To Cybertron
Part One: Prologue
Peace. That's what they call it. The Great Wars, days gone by. The Autobots and Decepticons, relics of the past. The Beast Wars too, came to an end. Yet can a race so intrinsically tied to conflict, ever attain peace without it?
Ravage: "Now let us talk.."
Overbite: "Please do, take your time. Geez, Bad Kitty.. Grape Face flashes one vid of your old boss and you're practically lapping at his feet."
And with that, Megatron's cell was closed once more. Both he and Ravage looking on in abject shock and horror as a lone and hidden Maximal spy imprisons them both, without firing a shot.
The Beast Wars ended soon after. Using Ravage's confiscated ship, Optimus Primal rounded up the surviving Predacon forces, the stasis pods and any useful supplies from both the Axalon and Predacon base. With victory and escape granted to them by the hubris of a Former Decepticon, prisoners are secured and new allies awakened. They returned to Cybertron. Home at last.
Blackarachnia and Silverbolt could not be found however. Their last known co-ordinates pointing to a recently erupting volcano. They were presumed lost, listed MIA.
Four Deca-cycles pass...
Cybertron
SCCRRREEEEE!! SCCRRREEEEE!!
Warning! Warning! Unstable Space Bridge activity detected!
Maximal Security Team Leader: "Move it Grunts! The Space Bridge has been under strict lock and key since the Great Upgrade. The fact someone got through the defenses is troubling enough, but to have the knowledge to even use the old relic is very scary"
Maximal Grunts: "Yes Sir! Wreck - N - Rule!!"
Meanwhile, fifty levels below, Maximum Security Block LV-117.
Megatron: "Hmm. Yesss, Sounds like trouble above. Even down in this "inescapable" pit. Removed as I am from local time and space by a Transwarp field, that alarm is akin to sweet music. Scurry along little Maximals, your "peace" may prove shorter lived than you hoped."
Snapdragon: "Buried but not forgotten, M-Boss"
Shock once more returned to Megatron's face as the colossal Transmetal form of his former Enforcer emerges from the opposing corridor, as if from the shadows themselves. At the same moment the spacial boom of a localised transwarp shunt reveals the jet form of Waspinator. With it, Megatron's surprise gives way to a malicious grin.
Waspinator: "Frreee Bozzz Bot, we're told hehehe"
Megatron: "So I owe this escape attempt to some mysterious benefactor? Ohh but were my release assured. Nooo. For as tempted as I might be to carve my vengeance from the lowly Maximals who threw me here. Other than the Tripredacus Council seeking my head, I have no means of escape from this fortified prison, let alone Cybertron above. Hmmm"
Megatron then closes his eyes, turning his back on his one time troops to dismiss them. Defeated.
Snapdragon: "Already squared your circles, M-Boss"
Megatron opens his eyes to view the giant shining jaws of Snapdragon's Komodo Dragon mode tearing through his restraints like paper. His cell bars disabled and restraints now in pieces, Megatron is free once more.
Megatron: "YESSSS! Now quickly you dolts, Where is my exit!?"
Transforming to Jet Mode once more, Waspinator re-opens his Transwarp shunt.
Waspinator: "Special surprise for Maximalzz! Space Bridge re-activated, powered by Transwarp Cell hehehe"
Snapdragon "Unstable. Soon Boom, M-Boss"
Megatron: "A mismatched Maximal Transwarp Cell attached and amplified by an active Cybertronian Space Bridge. The power unleashed could tear a hole in Cybertron itself! I almost shed a tear at the loss of Maximal life from such an explosion. Luckily such moments pass quickly. Once I reach the Space Bridge where am I headed?"
Waspinator: "Freedom, and Alliezz, Megatron!"
Megatron: "Indeed. My restoration is assured! I will return to Earth with an army and complete my namesake's instructions before word even reaches Primal. This time the Beast Wars will be mine! MEGATRON TERRORISE!!! HA Hahahahaha"
Transforming to conserve energy, Megatron enters the shunt without a moments pause or reflection on why his rescuers do not follow. A lapse in judgment, most grave for the brilliant and calculating Predacon General.
Snapdragon: "Goodbye, M-Boss. Terrorcon soon pleased!"
Waspinator: "Megatron not even notice our new colourzz. New Shunt will take uzz outside Space Bridge Control. Make Sure Former Bozz bot reaches final destination "unharmed" hehehehe"
Snapdragon: "Kill many Maxi's before Boom!"
So the two depart. No record would show what happened in LV-117. the area would soon be vaporised along with 1/12th of Cybertron from a Hyper-Spacial explosion visible from Moon Base 2. If Megatron had only paused a moment, not overcome with his own desire to exact his revenge, he might have taken time to assess his former troops. If only to look upon and see them sport no faction symbol he would recognise. Nor use any activation code at all. Hubris.. Ever the flaw of the Megatron!
End of Part One