They were a dream...
On a world in the depths of space...
Circling a long dead sun they awoke...
A war that had been dormant for eons began anew...
Two forces, one good, one evil...
The Autobots and the Decepticons...
They are...

You know how it ends...

“I fear the wounds are fatal,” the Autobot Perceptor said as he transformed back to his robot mode.

“Prime,” breathed their human friend Daniel Whitwicky, “You can’t die.”

“Do not grieve,” the great Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, told them weakly from his deathbed, “Soon I will be one with the Matrix.”

The young Autobot warrior Hot Rod stepped forward, “Prime...”

“Uh, uhhh... Ultra Magnus,” Prime turned his head to the Autobot, “It is to you, old friend, that I shall pass the Matrix of Leadership, as it was passed to me.”

Ultra Magnus shook his head, “But Prime, I am but a soldier, I am not worthy.”

Prime was ready for this, “Nor was I, but one day an Autobot will rise from our ranks and use the power of the Matrix to light our darkest hour.”

As Prime reached out to hand the Autobot’s most prized possession to his friend, his strength began to fail him and it slipped from his grasp...

The assembled Autobots moved forward as one to catch the glittering object. Hot Rod’s hands reach it first and a flash of light emanates from the Matrix.

As Magnus takes the Matrix from him, Prime’s Lifeforce monitor begins to flat line...

With his last breath Prime gasps, “Till All Are One...”

Now! Learn how it all began!