The Decepticons headed deeper into Cybertron. They teaveled for weeks. They travelled far deeper than anyone had gone in centuries. Without light and food, their organic parts began to wither, an they were getting weaker. Still they travelled deeper. no-one questioned Grimlock's plan. Get to the core, destroy anything mushy. They knew it was ludicrous, but none of them could do any better with what they had, and they knew it was pointless to reason with Grimlock.

Snarl saw now in his former-dinobot leader the same eagerness and battle unger he once had, although now, in these dark tunnels, as the warriors continued, the vigor began to fade, and even Grimlock's optimism began to fade. Everyone in the group was starting to believe that there was no way for them to win. They all saw the new forms each of them had, they also remembered what they had lost. Proud warriors of Cybertron, now vermin.

After four weeks, they began to give up. They couldn't find any way to go down further. they had wandered the same level for six days, and there was nothing they could do. They sat around and thought. The Sweep, who for all purposes, had officcially adopted the name of his old master, began to wonder what other form his bug body may have. So after a full day, he was able to do what no other was able to do.

He Transformed. He drew two long sword blades from his bug wings.

And that was the beginning. The warriors saw this, and wondered what abilities they might have in other modes. Skywarp discovered his energy cannon. Grimlock still had an electro sword. Skydive had a myriad of blades.

Soundwave had no robot mode. All his modes were animals. He saw it as divine retrubution for the way he treated the cassette robots. Now Laserbeak and Buzzsaw had robot modes, but his was stolen.

Then they discovered other modes. some of them could become things other than animals, and other than their robot selves. Ironhide, Prowl, and Silverbolt could combine. They could become the largest organic they had ever seen. And they had strength. They had power.

They marvelled at their new powers, when they heard a noise. They found a hole leading downward. Light emitted from the hole. A brilliant blinding light. They looked down the hole, and saw the core. The heart of Cybertron. In fornt of the core stood Scavenger. He brandished something none of the warriors had seen before. He brandished two large drills. His alternate form had gotten them here.

Then they noticed something else. The White core had red liquid swirling inside it.

Blood.

The core thrummed violently. As Scavenger approached, it rose in pitch, and a tentacle of energy reached out and grabbed Scavenger. Scavenger dissappeared in a red cloud. And then the tentacle put him back. But now he had another mode. He was again a steamshovel. He was again the proportions he was as a Decepticon. He walked towards his fellow warriors and said, "We have to do something. The organic core is somewhere else, but it has affected this core. We have to find the Nexus. Primus wants to help, he said he would do what he can, but I don't know what he meant."

"Maybe he will turn us all back, get rid of the animals." suggested Scourge.

"I don't think it could do all that and still fight the organics. It is using most of it's energy to hold the organic matter back."

Well then, survival of the fittest" shouted Snarl, who was already jumping into the core, two steps behind Mirage.

Mirage flew out, again a sleek indy car. Then Snarl flew out. A stainless steel lion. He sulked back to the others, dejected. "That was stupid. The core doesn't have the energy to destroy the organic material it's being fed. It couldn't fix me, but still tried."

A boom sounded from the core, as the red pools started to group. Then they formed into something no-one would have expected. They became Warriors. The three warriors were shot out of the core at speeds fast enough to put craters into the deckplates. The core, now all white, had shrunken. A violent tremor cascaded throughout Cybertron.

The three entities approached the Decepticon troops, large and ominus. The largest had two sords, and a gun on his wrist. The second had a blades on the ends of his arms. And the last had a dogg-head, with a saw-blade through it instead of an arm. Grimlock immeadiately ran up to them, sword raised, and yelled, "No more organic!!" With a reaction quicker then their receptors could follow, the bladed warrior was a ball, and he flew into grimlock, driving him down into the ground. The warrior unfolded and held Grimlock. Grimlock was completely immobilized.

Then the warrior with the dog-head spoke. "If you're quite finished, maybe we can proceed. Maybe we should start with introductions. I am Jawbreaker. This big silent one is Cybershark. And I think you've met Retrax."

The three new warriors explained what had happened to Cybertron over the past few centuries. The told the story of how Scorponok had destroyed two-thirds of Cybertron. The war had moved exclusively to earth. Rodimus had abandoned the other warriors to return to the remains of Cybertron. While Fortress Maximus lead the Autobots to defend earth, Rodimus did what he could to repair Cybertron. He gathered together every possible asteroid and planetoid in all near system, and used them to replace the lost mass. Cybertron was rebuilt. And then the Headmasters returned. The organic Nebulans unexpectedly reacted with an alien organic substance, which had lain dormant inside an asteroid until it contacted flesh. Once the virus had contacted the Nebulans, their Binary bonding became even more permanent. The Nebulans and their Cybertronian bodies fused into one entity. Neither organic or metallic. the organic material spread to other robots. The new warriors thought themselves superior technology, despite their smaller stature, and the small memory gaps caused by the radiation from Cybertron. In a matter of six months, all of them were organic, and soon the cause was collectively erased from their minds. They enjoyed their new bodies, and assumed they aquired them for a good reason. Then the organic material spread to computer systems, and corrupted most data. The core withdrew in order to save itself. It had suceeded in stopping the spread of the virus, Until some Cybertronians fed and nurtured the virus, and then opened the Plasma Energy chamber.