Megatron (Beast Wars)



Megatron (sometimes referred to as Megatron II, although this is not particularly accurate) is a fictional character from the Beast Wars animated series and toyline, part of the Transformers multiverse.Contents1 The Golden Disc2 Beast Wars2.1 Season one2.2 Season two2.3 Season three3 Beast Machines3.1 Season one3.2 Season two The Golden DiscThree centuries after the end of the Great War, when Maximal and Predacon had risen to replace Autobot and Decepticon, one Predacon in particular was discontented with the Maximals' control of Cybertron, following the Autobot victory in the war. Studying the ancient Cybertronian text called the Covenant of Primus, the Predacon took the name "Megatron" from a great destroyer of the same name that the book foretold. Searching for Energon to power his takeover bid, he stole the legendary artifact known as the Golden Disk, but discovered amongst its data more than the mere location of an Energon source - encoded onto the disk was a message from the original Megatron, which contained the co-ordinates of the prehistoric planet Earth, which would allow a use to travel back in time and alter history... Beast WarsSeason one   MegatronEnlargeMegatronUpon arrival on prehistoric Earth with his small number of troops, and pursued by a small contingent of Maximals (with only Megatron aware of where and when they truly were), both sides adopted beast mode transformation, which would shield them from the high levels of Energon radiation that blanketed the planet. Megatron adopted the fearsome form of a tyrannosaurus rex, and immediately began his schemes for the future. The discovery of vast reserves of Energon on the planet left Megatron unwilling to actually follow through with the plan laid out by the original Megatron, which was to locate the Ark and kill Optimus Prime as he lay in stasis, thereby altering history and preventing the Autobots from winning the war. Megatron did locate the craft, but decided to blast the tunnel he had dug closed, and began his own plans to amass power through the collection of Energon. Some time into the "Beast Wars," as Maximal leader Optimus Primal termed the conflict, a third factor came into play - a race of mysterious aliens known as The Vok, who were, in actuality, responsible for seeding the planet with the excesses of Energon. After some encounters with remnants of their technology left on the planet, and the discovery of a second Golden Disk of alien origin, which foretold their coming to Earth, Megatron entered into an alliance with the Maximals in hopes to stopping the Vok's plan to sterilise the Earth with a massive heat beam. Optimus Primal was to pilot a stasis pod, loaded with explosives and transwarp cells from Megatron's craft, into the Vok weapon, destroying it, but Megatron pulled a double-cross, sealing Primal in the pod. Season two Transmetal MegatronEnlargeTransmetal MegatronThe subsequent explosion destroyed Primal, and bathed the planet in a Quantum Surge that mutated the superstructures of several of the Transformers, Megatron included. Now in a new, more powerful "Transmetal" form (and with Primal's spark soon restored in a new body), Megatron once again attempted control of an alien structure through the alien disk, and almost succeeded before the Maximals destroyed it. This failure forced Megatron's hand, and he attempted more dangerous means of victory - though still unwilling to fully implemented his namesake's plan, he attempted to alter history in another way, by preventing the evolution of human life, thereby stopping the race from aiding the Autobots in the Great War. The plan was foiled, however, and the Golden Disk destroyed by Dinobot, leaving Megatron with no remaining options. However, before he could take any further steps, the transwarp wavefront from the explosion that had destroyed the Vok weapon reached Cybertron, alerting the Predacon rulers, the Tripredacus Council, to the location of Megatron. Recognising him as a rogue who posed a threat to their own schemes, they dispatched Ravage through time to dispatch all those involved in the Beast Wars. Masquerading as a Maximal ally, Ravage successfully captured Megatron, but when he bore witness to the recording made by the original Megatron, his old commander, on a shattered fragment of the Golden Disk, he promptly switched sides and aided in an attack on the Maximals that ended with his death. Megatron, meanwhile, played his hand, and returned to the Ark, unleashed a full-force point-blank blast upon the slumbering body of Optimus Prime. Season three Transmetal 2 Megatron (dragon mode)EnlargeTransmetal 2 Megatron (dragon mode)With this fatal injury, time began to destabilise, until Optimus Primal took Prime's spark into his body to protect it while repairs were made. Time had been saved this time, but Megatron was now more determined than ever to claim victory. Acquiring the Maximal defense system, Sentinel, Megatron then began experiments into further Transmetal enhancements, using a blank protoform, half of Rampage's spark and Dinobot's DNA to yield a monstrous Transmetal 2 Dinobot clone. His experiments also resulted in the transformation of Cheetor and Blackarachnia into new, Transmetal 2 forms, and Megatron himself then made an attempt to acquire a new, more powerful body, not in this fashion, but in imitation of Optimus Primal - by stealing into the Ark and merging his spark with that of the original Megatron, transforming himself into a mighty Transmetal dragon. In this new form, Megatron then began his most daring scheme yet - seizing the power of the crashed Decepticon space cruiser, the Nemesis, he attempted to unleash its power on the Ark, engaging Optimus Primal in a final battle as his own troops fell all around him. Before the final blow could be struck, Rhinox crashed an Autobot shuttle into the Nemesis, crippling the ship, which crashed, halting Megatron's plan, and finally allowing the Maximals to capture him. Chaining him to the hull of their craft, they blasted off from Earth and entered transwarp space, heading back to Cybertron. Beast MachinesSeason one Beast Machines MegatronEnlargeBeast Machines MegatronPart-way into the journey, Megatron was able to break free of his bonds and exited the timestream early, returning to Cybertron a considerable time before the Maximals' intended arrival point. Entering seclusion, Megatron proceeded to develop a virus that would paralyse transformation, and a small army of lifeless mechanical drones dubbed Vehicons. With the population of Cybertron rendering helpless by the virus, the drones slowly captured them and extracted their sparks, their bodies then used as raw material to create more drones... and so the process went until all the Transformers had been wiped off the face of Cybertron, leaving only the Vehicons, and Megatron himself, as the singular guiding intelligence at the heart of a single, elegant machine. Megatron developed a fervent hatred of organics, and slowly attempted to purge all organic traces of his own beast mode from his system, failing to fully accomplish the task but unwilling to simply move his spark to another body. When the Maximals then emerged from the timestream at their intended point in time, they found the planet under Megatron's control, and were immediately devolved to their original beast modes by the virus. The Vehicons captured Rhinox and Silverbolt, while Primal, Cheetor, Blackarachnia and Rattrap were able to escape, and were reformatted by the legendary Oracle computer (in actuality, a shell program surrounding Vector Sigma). With his technological purity shattered by the arrival of the techno-prganic Maximals and the revelation that Cybertron had formerly been organic and still possessed an organic core, Megatron bestowed three of his drones with the reprogrammed sparks of Rhinox, Silverbolt and Waspinator in order to allow them to better combat the Maximals. However, this led to Rhinox's spark being brought back to the surface by Primal, but, corrupted by Megatron's programming, Rhinox now agreed with Megatron's vision, and set about concocting his own schemes. Duping Megatron and Optimus Primal into using the power of the key to Vector Sigma and the Plasma Energy Chamber, respectively, Rhinox hoped they would destroy each other, leaving him to rule, but when his deception was exposed and the opposing energies released, it only resulted in his destruction. Additionally, when these two energies met in Megatron's citadel, Megatron took a chance and once again attempted to separate his organic and technological sides - only to wind up trapped in the organic half. Season two Megatron's "fortress" formEnlargeMegatron's "fortress" formWandering Cybertron in a purely organic body that transformed from wolf to dragon, Megatron feigned innocence and was taken in by the unwitting Maximals, and then exploited them to enable him to return to his citadel, where he transferred his spark into a new, purely technological body - a massive fortress in the shape of his own head, which transformed into a space cruiser. Floating above the planet's surface, Megatron began anew his scheme for control by acquiring a portion of the Oracle's data from Primal and absorbing the captive sparks into his own, in an attempt to create one, unique intelligence. However, a sonic scream of rage from the Maximal, Nightscream, depolarised Megatron's spark, leaving it wildly flitting around Cybertron, seeking out a new body. Leaping from shell to shell, it found itself unable to remain in a body for long, until Rattrap realised the truth of the matter and repolarised it, trapping it in the frail body of a diagnostic drone. "Optimal Megatron"Enlarge"Optimal Megatron"His options expended, Megatron submitted to the procedure that would transfer his spark into a new body - and, his sense of irony intact, the body he chose was a replica of Primal's "Optimal" form, which he used to defeat his enemy, and begin the absorption of Cybertron's sparks, growing to a colossal height. Opening a tunnel to the planet's centre, Megatron threatened to activate the key to Vector Sigma at its' core, transforming the whole world into a perfect technosphere, but Primal fought back, and the two combatants were sent tumbling down the shaft. There, together, these two seeds of the future were buried in the past, and in death, Primal used the Oracle to reformat the entire world into a techno-organic paradise.