Fossil chamber
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Miles below the surface of Cybertron, deep within the planet's innermost caves and catacombs, lies the fossil chamber. The last remnant of Cybertron's original, organic, ecosystem, the cave contains the fossilized remains of animals that once roamed the surface of ancient Cybertron, long before the rise of the Transformers that would ultimately drive them extinct.
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While fleeing Megatron's conquest of Cybertron, the young Maximal Nightscream fled underground. Disoriented, he fell into a pit Forbidden Fruit and ended up in the fossil chamber. His internal DNA scanners found DNA within a nearby skeleton, and reformatted Nightscream into a prehistoric bat-like creature. Survivor He had no memory of the event, and later had no idea how he had become a bat. Forbidden Fruit
Some time later, Nightscream and Optimus Primal chanced upon the cave again while fleeing from Vehicons. Nightscream realized that the cave was full of fossils, and Optimus correctly intuited that Cybertron must have once possessed an organic ecosystem. Survivor The Maximals set up a new base of operations within the chamber. While trying to irrigate some seeds they had found, they managed to tap into Cybertron's organic core, causing trees to emerge from the organic goop. When Tankor attacked, he temporarily turned the plants into technomatter with the Key to Vector Sigma, but the process was ultimately undone when the Maximals hijacked a Mole Drone and used it to drill down to the organic core to produce more goo to heal the chamber's orchard. The Key Afterward, the orchard was tended to by an automaton that supplied the trees with organic goop while the Maximals held a funeral in the chamber for Rhinox, whose spark inhabited Tankor's body, and whom was presumed to have perished when Tankor faked his death in his previous attack on the orchard. The Catalyst
After Tankor's previous attack and "demise" within the chamber were relayed to Megatron by his Diagnostic Drone--whom Tankor was secretly controlling--the Drone informed Megatron of the potency of the Key to Vector Sigma's power over organic matter, and used a short sample video of the key being used on the fossil chamber's orchard to illustrate the key's potential. Later, after discovering the existence of a catalyst program, Rattrap uploaded it into the orchard's automaton, spurring the entire orchard to grow wildly out of control throughout the chamber. The Maximals fought off the vines until Rattrap neutralized the chemical reaction. Once they had chopped up and cleared away the excess overgrown trees, Cheetor hatched a plan to use the catalyst to weaponize a giant vine and rescue the then-in-peril Blackarachnia. However, this plan nearly jeopardized the safety of the fossil chamber, its orchard, and Cybertron's organic core when the giant vine was zapped into technomatter by the Key program. Thankfully, Optimus Primal had returned to the chamber ahead of the others and was able to sever the vine's connection to the chamber's floor just in time. The Catalyst
Optimus was meditating in the chamber when he received a false vision from the Oracle that had been crafted by Tankor. Shortly thereafter, Cheetor and Rattrap returned from a mission to inform the others of Megatron's plans regarding the Key to Vector Sigma, with Rattrap showing a hologram of the key's power being used on the fossil chamber's orchard. Determined to stop Megatron once and for all, Optimus led the others from the fossil chamber to the Plasma Energy Chamber, whose power he later ended up using against Megatron. End of the Line However, after Optimus realized the error of his judgement, and that his true mission was to create a technorganic balance on Cybertron, a new technorganic orchard was established in the Oracle's chamber, to which the Maximals relocated to use as a new base. Fallout
Although the fossil chamber had been abandoned, it was not forgotten. When Megatron launched his final assault on the Maximals, he sent a swarm of Mole Drones to destroy the technorganic orchard in the Oracle's chamber. During this attack, a few Moles broke from the group to also attack the fossil chamber. Nightscream did his best to defend the cave, but ultimately fell when his spark was extracted, leaving the chamber and all of its fossils defenseless. Its fate was never disclosed after the planet underwent its technorganic reformatting. Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall
Notes
- The fossil chamber was only named as such once, by Nightscream, in "Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall".
- For some reason, there are Earthen dinosaur fossils on Cybertron. Draw your own conclusions.
