a long time ago, when cybertron was a commerce hub across the galaxy, there was an age of peace. orion pax, senator of the autobots, tries to have a talk with megatron, senator of the ascenticons, about the tensions between factions around the planet, to no avail. a newly-forged cybertronian named rubble is joined by his mentors bumblebee and windblade to meet another cybertronian named brainstorm, but they found him dead outside his house.