Chapter 655: On the Moon (Part 1)

Moon, Decepticon Base.

Starscream stood inside the Incubation Room, looking at the Newborn Decepticon embryos hanging on the wall, as if pondering something.

A series of footsteps sounded in the corridor outside the Incubation Room, approaching from afar, and only stopped not far behind Starscream.

However, without turning his head back, he spoke as if he already knew who had come: "Barricade, has Soundwave found The Fallen yet?"

Yes, the one who had just arrived at the Incubation Room was indeed a ferocious Decepticon with a black and white chassis; it was none other than the high-ranking Decepticon Warrior who should have died in battle in Egypt more than half a month ago—Barricade.

Barricade could be considered a die-hard confidant of Starscream, even though he had never revealed his stance and seemed equally loyal to Megatron.

Of course, this did not affect the special relationship between him and Starscream, because as treacherous as Starscream was, his governing philosophy also required the approval and support of others, and Barricade was one of his supporters.

This special relationship allowed Barricade to walk very closely with Starscream in the past.

He even left a backup of his Memory Data with Starscream; as long as Starscream did not die, even if he died on the battlefield, he could be resurrected again. This was also the reason why Barricade had always performed without fear of death during his Tasks.

Hearing Starscream's question, Barricade's cold voice rang out in the Incubation Room, "Soundwave is still searching, but there have been no results so far. We need to prepare for the worst!"

"The Fallen couldn't have disappeared for so long on his own, and without even a single message sent back. It looks like he has probably already been killed by Optimus Prime... The Matrix of Leadership, it truly lives up to its reputation as a legendary holy object..."

In his words, he made no secret of his covetousness and desire for the 【Matrix of Leadership】, but at the thought of the Imaginary Space protecting the 【Matrix of Leadership】, the scarlet light in Starscream's eyes became even more piercing.

The six legendary ancestors had hidden the 【Matrix of Leadership】 very secretly, which was also the reason why The Fallen had never been able to find it.

As cunning as Frenzy was, what did it matter that he had found clues from massive amounts of information and tracked them all the way there? He still ended up with nothing, just like him.

At the thought of this, the jealousy in Starscream's heart toward Optimus Prime began to rise in a straight line.

"Autobots, what a race that has gained the favor of the ancestors! Hmph!"

Regarding the high probability that The Fallen was already dead, Starscream and the others all had some guesses, and they did not show any fear or unease about it.

Come to think of it, the reason why Starscream had awakened The Fallen in the first place was also because he had fallen into Megatron's trap.

More than a hundred years ago, the Decepticon Legion finally won the second civil war against the Autobots, driving them off the planet Cybertron.

Not long after occupying that planet on the verge of death, they hadn't even had time to clear out the remaining Autobot Guerrillas on the planet Cybertron.

Megatron, as the commander of the Decepticon Legion, delegated the command of the legion to his most loyal subordinate and ally—Shockwave, and he took a team of personal guards and drove the spaceship—the Nemesis, suddenly leaving the planet Cybertron.

After Starscream learned of this, he quickly sensed that something was strange.

He had fought with Megatron for millions of years and naturally knew the attraction that ruling the entire planet Cybertron held for Megatron.

Although the resources of the planet Cybertron after the end of the second civil war were completely exhausted and on the verge of death.

At first, Starscream only thought that Megatron had taken a team out to search for colonial planets from the era of the Council of Ancients, wanting to plunder resources from those colonial planets to fill the consumption of the Decepticon Legion.

But he quickly realized, because the Decepticon Legion was indeed doing this in an orderly manner, but the person in charge was the new military commander of the Decepticon Legion—Shockwave.

After sensing that something was wrong, Starscream decisively took his confidants and a group of others, drove another spaceship, and tracked Megatron all the way to the Solar System, several light-years away from the planet Cybertron.

Just as they approached the Solar System, Starscream and the others accidentally captured a distress signal from Megatron's spaceship—the Nemesis.

When Starscream and the others followed the distress signal all the way to the location of the Nemesis, they discovered that the Nemesis had actually crashed on a satellite of a life-bearing planet, and the entire ship was severely damaged.

On that planet called the Moon, Starscream and the others only found some corpses of Megatron's personal guards, but did not find any trace of Megatron.

His subordinates also launched some probes toward Earth, but accidentally discovered that although the human civilization on Earth was greedy and warlike, their bodies were very fragile, and their level of civilization was not high, so it was far from possible to threaten the Nemesis and Megatron.

With this curiosity, Starscream spent decades searching everywhere on the Moon and Earth.

As a result, he really did discover quite a few suspicious points.

Long ago, there had been visits from Pathfinder from the planet Cybertron on Earth, and more than one; they left behind a large amount of Elder Script on Earth recording that they and their companions had visited this planet.

Tracking a strange signal, Starscream also found Megatron, who had been frozen in the Arctic.

Although he had always had a heart of rebellion, at that time, after discovering that Megatron was frozen, Starscream did indeed want to destroy him at the first opportunity.

However, he made a mistake at that time that all living beings often make—curiosity.

The Nemesis was definitely the top-tier interstellar warship possessed by the Decepticon Legion; even in the era of the Council of Ancients at the peak of Cybertronian civilization, no warship possessed such powerful destructive power.

But it was such a terrifying warship that had actually been severely damaged and crashed on the Moon.

Even Starscream could not help but feel curious about what exactly had severely damaged the Nemesis.

And the reason he was able to find Megatron, who was frozen on Earth, was also because there was a transmitter at the place where Megatron was frozen, constantly sending signals to the outside world.

What made him extremely concerned was that the signal was not a distress signal, but a directional coordinate pointing to a target location.

Starscream followed the signal all the way, and as a result, he discovered the ancestor who was hidden in an inconspicuous crater on the Moon and had fallen into a deep sleep—The Fallen.

Recalling in his mind the experience of being used by Megatron, not only helping him awaken The Fallen but also being ordered around by The Fallen for more than a year, Starscream felt his teeth itch with hatred.

He now realized that Megatron's death after that human boy stuffed the AllSpark into his Spark was probably also within Megatron's plan.

"Damn Megatron, he calculated the Autobots and all of us into it... How could such a tyrant allow anyone to ride on his head, even his teacher..."

But as soon as he thought about how Megatron had calculated everyone, even going so far as to fake his own death just to kill his teacher—The Fallen, even someone as cold as Starscream could not help but feel a chill in his heart.

Suppressing the unease in his heart, he asked Barricade: "How much longer until Shockwave arrives?"

"According to the time here on Earth, it will take about twenty-seven months! But the second batch of the advance team will arrive in at most half a year!"

Unlike the Decepticons who had arrived from other places before, Shockwave was leading an army on the march, so his speed was naturally slower than that of scattered Decepticons traveling.

Moreover, they also brought a large amount of heavy weapons, supplies, and so on, so the marching speed was even slower.

Starscream calculated for a moment in his heart and soon had a plan.

"Tell Soundwave to investigate the current location of Frenzy!"

Barricade was stunned, "You intend to make a move on Frenzy?"

"No, quite the opposite. I want to strike another deal with him!"