Lord Ashen sat in his study toying with the leg of his glasses. He rubbed his eyes, he knew he had been staring at the diagrams for to long. Especially as they were beginning to make sense. The seemingly random nature of these machines had puzzled him for a long time and the information he had to go on was limited. From the outset it was always going to be an uphill battle. The machines were secretive after all they hid within the everyday and mundane to avoid detection.

Even the governments files had been limited in their usefulness. He had had to resort to less co-operative agencies to obtain the information he needed. The Viper had been far more talkative about the machines once the right financial incentive was given. He had even provided some of the machines weapons although he was at least open in the fact that they did not work but it did still help Lord Ashens study of them.

Then there was the Centurian project, another interesting study. While Lord Ashen had not been able to find any evidence of its actual existence. Plenty of rumours existed. It did however take him to an area that was alive with tales of the machines.

However all of this paled in comparison to his find. At that thought he smiled. Placing the glasses back on he again looked at the diagram. Standing up he walked to his bookcase and withdrew the books in sequence revealing a secret door. Passing through the door he walked past various clippings from newspaper stories and sitings of the machines. Eventually he entered a mammoth room various scientists were studying an ice block containing the deactivated body of Galvatron.

A lot of useful information had been found out from their study of the machine. He had been able to replicate a lot of its technology however he was not going to stop there. Only so much can be learnt from the deactivated remains of the machine. First however he needed to know he could control it. Using what he had learnt he was going to capture a live specimen of one of the subtypes known as a headmaster, or powermaster. Once he knew it would be unable to function without him only then would he activate it.

Soon the machines which had brought their war to his world would be made to suffer. They would be reduced to just what they were machines and made to repair the damage they had done. No one would stand against him, no one.....

(Will you stand against Lord Ashens crazed attempt to turn the transformers into machines using technology stolen from Galvatron!! Just join in with a brief background of your character and start the story. I have set it in the G1 universe but it will branch into the other transformer universes.)