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Not long after Megatron's upgrade into his dragon form, it was soon discovered that the [[Dark Essence]] of Unicron had been displaced from his destruction in [[2005]] and laid to rest in a cavern on prehistoric Earth. However, Megatron's previous attempt to kill Optimus Prime had torn back open a time rift above the Dark Essence that threatened to pull it back into the timestream. This created a time paradox that was the very thing that threatened to erase Shokaract's reality. To ensure his own existence, Shokaract took action and eventually came to prehistoric Earth himself. {{storylink|Paradox}} But, the rift hanging over the Dark Essence had become so unstable that it created a second timestorm, heralding the onset of Point Omega. | Not long after Megatron's upgrade into his dragon form, it was soon discovered that the [[Dark Essence]] of Unicron had been displaced from his destruction in [[2005]] and laid to rest in a cavern on prehistoric Earth. However, Megatron's previous attempt to kill Optimus Prime had torn back open a time rift above the Dark Essence that threatened to pull it back into the timestream. This created a time paradox that was the very thing that threatened to erase Shokaract's reality. To ensure his own existence, Shokaract took action and eventually came to prehistoric Earth himself. {{storylink|Paradox}} But, the rift hanging over the Dark Essence had become so unstable that it created a second timestorm, heralding the onset of Point Omega. | ||
As the battle raged on, the timestorm brought in more Beast Warriors from other realities to do battle with Shokaract. Megatron, meanwhile ventured into the epicenter of the timestorm, where he found the Dark Essence and used its vulnerability to bargain with Shokaract. The future tyrant was no fool, however, and used the future Dark Essence within himself to anchor the past Dark Essence to its resting place, so that his younger self | As the battle raged on, the timestorm brought in more Beast Warriors from other realities to do battle with Shokaract. Megatron, meanwhile ventured into the epicenter of the timestorm, where he found the Dark Essence and used its vulnerability to bargain with Shokaract. The future tyrant was no fool, however, and used the future Dark Essence within himself to anchor the past Dark Essence to its resting place, so that his younger self would come to find it in the future and become Shokaract. However, Shokaract was ultimately felled by the Covenant entering his [[Matrix of Conquest]] to sever the connection between the two Dark Essences, allowing the Dark Essence of the past to be pulled into the time rift and removed from history, bringing the timestorm, and Point Omega itself, to to its final decisive end. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}} | ||
In the aftermath, Shokaract was destroyed and his alternate timeline was erased from existence. {{storylink|Departure}} | In the aftermath, Shokaract was destroyed and his alternate timeline was erased from existence. {{storylink|Departure}} | ||
Revision as of 02:37, 30 June 2021
A timestorm is one of the side effects of disrupting the flow of time itself, caused by someone altering the timestream though time travel. Although what a timestorm does by itself is never fully explored, it can't be anything pleasant.
Visually, a timestorm appears as bright, blue and white light patterns moving erratically in the air, accompanied by lightning, to those within it. When viewed from outside, it begins as a cyclone-like shape, widest from its point of origin and stretching upwards. When it has reached a substantial size, a large energy "whirlpool" erupts from the point of origin, spreading quickly throughout the cosmos. Those who are directly affected negatively by the changes in time within a timestorm experience agonizing pain and are prone to phase in and out of existence, as well as having their appearance change wildly, possibly as a result of different outcomes in the timeline shifting.
Fiction
Beast Wars cartoon
When Megatron attempted to terminate the stasis-locked Optimus Prime in a gambit to change history in favor of the Decepticons and their descendants, the Predacons, a timestorm was formed. With Prime's severely damaged head as its origin point, the storm spread exponentially, spreading all the way to Jupiter and beyond. The Agenda (Part III) However, Megatron's plans were thwarted by the combined efforts of the Maximals and Blackarachnia, and when Optimus Prime was put on auxiliary life support, the timestorm stabilized. Although no longer a roaring vortex of doom, reality was nonetheless in flux, and the Maximals faded in and out of existence while the course of the future was still uncertain. Once Optimus Prime was fully repaired and returned to stasis lock, the timestorm finally dissipated. Optimal Situation However, the Vok took notice of the storm's occurrence and prepared to eliminate Megatron's interference in the past once and for all. Other Victories
3H comics
The effects of Megatron's timestorm were felt across the ages, alerting the mighty Chronarchitect to an impending doom that he relayed to Primus's original creations, the Covenant. The Covenant sought to search the timeline for a temporal event of such magnitude, unaware of its origins, but suspicious of its possible ties to a forthcoming fated battle called Point Omega. Covenant The timestorm's effects were also felt in the far future of an alternate timeline, wherein a Predacon warlord named Shokaract sensed that a great unraveling had begun, one that threatened his very existence. Herald Schism
Not long after Megatron's upgrade into his dragon form, it was soon discovered that the Dark Essence of Unicron had been displaced from his destruction in 2005 and laid to rest in a cavern on prehistoric Earth. However, Megatron's previous attempt to kill Optimus Prime had torn back open a time rift above the Dark Essence that threatened to pull it back into the timestream. This created a time paradox that was the very thing that threatened to erase Shokaract's reality. To ensure his own existence, Shokaract took action and eventually came to prehistoric Earth himself. Paradox But, the rift hanging over the Dark Essence had become so unstable that it created a second timestorm, heralding the onset of Point Omega.
As the battle raged on, the timestorm brought in more Beast Warriors from other realities to do battle with Shokaract. Megatron, meanwhile ventured into the epicenter of the timestorm, where he found the Dark Essence and used its vulnerability to bargain with Shokaract. The future tyrant was no fool, however, and used the future Dark Essence within himself to anchor the past Dark Essence to its resting place, so that his younger self would come to find it in the future and become Shokaract. However, Shokaract was ultimately felled by the Covenant entering his Matrix of Conquest to sever the connection between the two Dark Essences, allowing the Dark Essence of the past to be pulled into the time rift and removed from history, bringing the timestorm, and Point Omega itself, to to its final decisive end. Terminus
In the aftermath, Shokaract was destroyed and his alternate timeline was erased from existence. Departure
Ask Vector Prime
The Minion of Unicron general Razorclaw originated in a splinter timeline of Primax 496.22 Alpha where Predacon leader Megatron absorbed his namesake's spark into his own, causing a timestorm that ultimately erased the past, present, and future of that reality. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/07
Vector Prime referred to the time rift of Primax 984.20 Gamma as a timestorm. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/01