

He also gave him a new name: Optimus Prime. He rebuilt Orion into the first of a new breed that would be capable of standing against Megatron. They took Orion to the young Alpha Trion, who was devising ways to fight the Decepticons. The Aerialbots arrived at the scene just as Megatron was leaving. During the assault, Orion, his girlfriend Ariel, and his friend Dion were severely injured. After Orion gave him a brief tour, Megatron ordered his disguised troops to attack the facility and take the energon. He was understandably awestruck when the leader of those robots, Megatron, arrived at his workplace under the guise of friendship. As they got to know each other, Orion soon told them about his admiration of a "new kind" of Transformer that had the ability to fly in robot mode. In the past, the Aerialbots met a young Transformer named Orion Pax, who was working at an energy shipment facility. The Aerialbots had been sent only nine million years into the past, during the Golden Age of Cybertron before the Great Wars had broken out. However, the other Autobots arrived and destroyed the machine before it could finish its work. Outside of the timestream, they would be trapped in eternal nothingness. As Silverbolt arrived, trying to convince his teammates that they were in a trap, Megatron activated the Kronosphere, intending to send them back to before the beginning of time. Starscream, feigning friendship, led the naive team into the Kronosphere, a time machine that had been generating the unusual energy readings. All the other Aerialbots except Silverbolt did the same, and Silverbolt followed at a distance. Curious, Slingshot surrendered and began to ask the Decepticons questions, like why Prime thought they were evil. The Aerialbots, enamored with Cybertron, were on a patrol when they were attacked by three Decepticon jets. A team of Autobots and the Aerialbots left to investigate. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2Ī few weeks later, strange energy readings were detected on Cybertron. Silverbolt, braving his phobia, chased him down and destroyed it. Megatron retreated, but he still had the Key. The two teams formed their gestalt modes, and, as the battle entered the outskirts of a city, Omega Supreme arrived and turned the tide. The Autobots tried to stop him, but the Stunticons were unstoppable.that is, until the Aerialbots arrived. Hoping to create a new Cybertron, he began sweeping through forests near the Seattle-Tacoma area, turning everything from trees to mountains into metal. Meanwhile, Megatron had discovered that the Key could "de-energize" Earthen matter, turning it to metal. After a while, Silverbolt finally convinced them that they owed the Autobots their lives, and they decided to stay with the Autobot army. Silverbolt, who didn't agree, merely promised Prime he would bring them back, then left with them. They couldn't understand why the Autobots wasted their time protecting the foolish and inferior humans, and they eventually left the Autobots. The other Aerialbots, especially Slingshot, saw themselves as better than anyone else. However, he found his position a hard one to fill. Prime helped him deal with the phobia by naming him Aerialbot Leader, thus giving him duties that would keep his mind off of his fear. During the fight, he had discovered his fear of heights, which he guessed came from the fact that he was built from a low-altitude cargo shuttle. Thinking that the Stunticons had retreated, the Aerialbots' egos soared all, that is, except Silverbolt's. Once on Earth, the Aerialbots fought a brief battle with the Stunticons that ended when Megatron sent a message to his car warriors to return to base. Prime asked Vector Sigma to "Let them think for themselves, to grow in knowledge and wisdom, and let them always value freedom and life wherever they find it." After the Aerialbots were programmed, Alpha Trion's voice came from the megacomputer his mind had merged with Vector Sigma. Against Optimus Prime's protests, he merged with Vector Sigma, activating it, and his lifeless body fell to the ground. Alpha Trion then revealed that, as one of the first Transformers created, he had the ability to interface his power supply with the megacomputer.

However, without the Key, they couldn't activate Vector Sigma. A group of Autobots had been following Megatron, and, to counter the Stunticons, they rebuilt some old, abandoned shuttles into the Aerialbots. Megatron stole the Key and succeeded in giving life to the new team. Vector Sigma could only be activated with a Circuit Key, which was in the hands of the ancient Autobot Alpha Trion. However, in order to give these Stunticons life, Megatron had to take them to Vector Sigma, a megacomputer deep within Cybertron. In order to fight the Autobots more effectively on the ground, the Decepticons built a combiner team that could convert into cars.
