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StORy SO fAR:Optimus Prime leads the Autobots to Cybertron,  prepared to fight Galvatron's army. Galvatron issues an ultimatum: joinus in stopping the imminent threat to Cybertron or die.  After a brief fight, Galvatron flees and orders that the Kimia spacestation (captured by the enemy forces and converted into its space cannon alt-mode) fire on Cybertron. Rodimus,Silverbolt and others try and stop the cannon before it fires, but their struggle is in vain: Kimia blasts an enormous holeinto Cybertron's surface. Prime rushes to the crater, suspecting he's finally figured out Galvatron's plan for the planet.meanwhile, megatron uses his former components to escape imprisonment, and emerges from Omega Supreme in amodified armor, ready to face Galvatron's army...

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