"School supplies?" Megatron had been muttering this for awhile now, seemingly on the verge of a total meltdown. Meanwhile Brainwave was unhappy about the ultimatum.

"Slow down there tex, if has transphase mode that will be totally pointless. We need to know what he can do before we try to counter anything."

"I don't have that ridiculous ability." Tarantulas interjected. "Collapsing the cavern is pointless anyways. Besides I just want to explain how pointless all your efforts have been. Wouldn't you like to understand just what we've done?"

"Oh gloating, how original."

"Call it gloating if you wish but you will listen."

"Fine, fine. Get it over with."

Chuckling Tarantulas prepared to reveal the true nature of what had been set in motion. Unicron's ultimate gambit. The destruction of all realities everywhere.

"You see Lord Unicron had grown sick of being defeated by Primus so we were tasked to find a way to avoid him. Most plans involved a cloaking measure of some kind but a simple servant came up with a simple idea. Go somewhere Primus isn't. Naturally we all laughed at him for the absurd notion but Unicron was intrigued by the idea and made us experiment with it. Results were... lackluster until the singularity formed. But at that point it seemed Unicron's ultimate victory over Primus was certain so the plot was put on the back burner and the Universe War was waged to press Primus on as many fronts as possible. When the destruction of the singularity became a certainty one last desperate attempt to complete the experiment. And it worked! Unicron's power opened a breach that led outside the multiverse and was drawn to another anomaly. As the two drew closer they started resonating and amplifying each other until they made contact and caused this. As a result Unicron's top servants were all flung back in time. And now we're ensuring the two events meet again and destroy everything!"

Brainwave was left with a blank expression after this story. "You're insane."

"I may be insane but the story is true. You detected the results of their contact didn't you?"

"Yes... Why would you want to duplicate it? It's just going to fling you back in time again."

"You're wrong Transtech. Unicron is our god. We can neutralize the time displacement this time now that we know it will happen. And it's too late to stop it. The contact will happen. Carbombya is our least valuable asset. Simply a staging area to set events in motion again, a target of opportunity. Destroy this entire country, it won't matter! The singularity is already growing and soon the second anomaly will reappear and the end of all things will begin!" Tarantulas' mad cackling filled the cavern again. "Since you've all been good sports and listened to the story I'll be glad to kill you now. Unless you'd like to surrender to the inevitable and assist us."

"As if windbag, show yourself so I can rend you into pieces like Rampage did!"

"As you wish Megatron, but remember you asked for it."

A small silver and black spider lowered itself on energon webbing a few dozen yards in front of the trio. Clearly not a natural creature, it's body looking robotic with eerie green eyes. Only about the size of a human. "Shall we begin, gentlemen?"