From Here to Alternity
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| "From Here to Alternity" | |||||||||||||
| Published in | January 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Hirofumi Ichikawa | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Convoy Vibrant Red, Convoy Ultimate Silver | ||||||||||||
Optimus Prime is inducted into the Alternity to face a dire threat.
Synopsis
In universal stream of Primax 109.0 Beta, the Autobot forces are investigating a mystery: the appearance of large marks akin to the claws of a gargantuan beast on the most remote planets of Earth's solar system. Following the marks, the Autobots are eventually led to Earth itself—more specifically, Vancouver, Canada. Led by Optimus Prime, the Autobots arrive on the scene.
In the skies above, a circle of light forms. Becoming clearer, it resolves into a shape like a race track, with a silver sports car traveling along it. Optimus Prime seems to recognize it and commands the Autobots to stand down.
Prime reveals that the visitor is another iteration of himself, an Optimus Prime from an alternate universe. He says that he had encountered the being before and had promised it that at the appointed time, he would aid it against the threat of the great beast Hytherion.
The visitor opens a portal through which a strange apparatus emerges and latches onto Optimus Prime. In short order, Prime is reformatted into a new body strongly resembling the visitor's. His perceptions expanded, Prime looks to the skies, where the horrid form of Hytherion is now visible to him!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Others |
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Notes
- Although this story takes place in a separate timeline (or universal stream, to use the in-story parlance), much of the backstory for the Alternity franchise originates with the later stages of the Binaltech storyline. The existence of the Alternity was first revealed in the 2007 story chapter "Binal Time"; the substance of their being, Alternium, was introduced in 2008's "Unfinished Business," parts three and four, which also introduced the racetrack-like teleportation system seen in this story, the Timaeus drive. Only with the release of "From Here to Alternity" did we truly learn what the Alternity was. Subsequent Alternity chapters would later draw further connections between the world seen in this storyline and the Binaltech universe.
- The other-dimensional Optimus Prime who appears in this story is the Optimus Prime from the Binaltech universe, which is to say, a divergent version of the incarnation of the character from the Generation 1 cartoon.
- "From Here to Alternity" is the first piece of fiction outside of the stories associated with the Transformers Collectors' Club to use the universal stream classification system created by Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop for the stories they have produced for the club.
