“Where are you taking me?! ANSWER ME, DECEPTICREEP!” A tall blue Autobot was placed in stasis cuffs, being manhandled by a large tan Decepticon. His name was formerly Sentinel Prime, but after his attempted murder of the new Magnus, Optimus, he had been stripped of his rank and placed in Cybertron’s highest security stockade.
“Ah, shut yer processor, you stupid little Autobot. I hate being forced to carry you.” The tan Decepticon, named Bonecrusher, clamped a muffler on Sentinel’s faceplate, and threw him in the hold of their ship.
“Hey, Thunderblast, get us out out of this Scraplet-infested Slaarghole already!”
“Oh, do be shutting up, Bonecrusher. I am to be the working on it.” The Decepticon turned on the controls to the Darksyde, and he wrapped his servos around the steering wheel.
“Ready to be starting the Transwarp back to Kaon III, in the 5… 4… 3… 2… 1!” The ship transwarped back to the Decepticon colony of Kaon III, where Emperor of Destruction Scourge awaited.
“Ahhh, Team Thrull has arrived with that fool Sentinel Proditus. Barricade, you may question him. I shall have a talk with Sideways.”
“Yo, Bossbot, we got that Sentinel guy!” Sideways, a small purple and gold Decepticon who rolled around on a single wheel, rolled up to his master.
“I already know. Sideways, come with me, we have things to talk about.”
“Woah, this must be important.”
“Very. Now, when we return to my quarters, I shall reveal to you what I have revealed to the other seven members of my inner circle…” Scourge led Sideways to his throne room, to have a chat with him.
“Sideways, do you know why The Fallen founded the Decepticon faction?” Scourge asked, reattaching himself to the life support system that had allowed him to outlive nearly every other Transformer.
“To conquer the galaxy?” Sideways shrugged. Due to being new to life, he didn’t know.
“NO!” Scourge bellowed, causing Sideways to jump.
“The Decepticon faction was founded for a much more altruistic purpose. Billions of stellar cycles ago, long before Megatron was protoformed, there was no such thing as Decepticons; all Cybertronians were Autobots. We lived on Cybertron, and on colonies such as Nebulos, Velocitron, Junk, Gigantion, Beest. We coexisted with the organic species of these planets in peace… Or so we thought.”
“Whaddaya mean, bossbot? I thought Autobots protected those puny organics!”
“No. Not back when I was young. I was a young Prime at the time, named Nova. I was young, idealistic, happy. I lived on the colony of Nebulos. I had a friend. His name was Hai-Kyuu. He was much smaller than me, yet we were close friends. Until… That day.”
“One day, he told me he saw the Elite Guard exterminate an entire village of Nebulans. He saw women, children, the elderly, all killed in front of his eyes. I was not willing to believe him at first, thinking he had merely had a waking nightmare, but I was wrong. I was ordered to contain a threat on the planet Nebulos. Thinking it would be another space pirate attack, I was wrong. I was ordered to destroy Hai-Kyuu’s home village. And I found him, my closest friend, in a hut, crying by the corpse of his dead mother. I couldn’t bring myself to kill him. So a fellow Autobot did. That was when I turned. I killed one of my fellow Autobots. Then I killed the rest of the platoon, until only I was left. I was captured by the Elite Guard, and stripped of my rank. I became Nova Proditus. Then, he found me.”
“Luminus Magnus, one of the thirteen Magnus’ who lead the Autobots came to me in my cell. He said that he had opposed this organic genocide, that he wishes to start a new faction… But he needed an apprentice. He promised me freedom in return for my services. I agreed. It was then he broke me out, and we transwarped to the deserted moon of Cybertron. He trained in secret, and he called himself The Fallen, while I was redubbed Scourge after my training was finished. We gathered others who were angry at the genocide being perpetrated by our former leaders. Our army grew, and I was his general. It was then we started the war.”
“At first, we Decepticons were winning. We were saving the various organics, and the Autobots were being vanquished. However, our goals changed, as the old guard, save me and the Fallen, died. Other Decepticons joined merely because they were malcontents, who wanted to rebel against society for selfish reasons. I took apprentices under my wing. One was Bludgeon, and the other, Megatron.”
“Bludgeon was a loyal, obedient pupil, who accepted the original ways of the Deceptions. Megatron, however, was rebellious, independent… And too proud to accept the reason the Decepticon army was formed. Eventually, he would be chosen as leader by the Fallen, who had given up the original quest to stop the genocide, as it had been stopped because the Autobots were now focused on the war. Now, he merely wanted to exterminate the Autobots. He knew I still wanted to keep to our original purpose, while he, the founder of our faction, had left it behind. So he chose other generals, more ruthless and hateful than myself to lead our faction. I still trained Decepticon warriors that I saw promise in, but most of them did not wish to follow the original purpose, why we started this war. So, Sideways, I ask of you… Will you do what you must to defeat the Autobots, and prevent the genocide of Nebulos from occurring again?”


(All of what Scourge said was a lie. Well, except for Luminus Magnus becoming the Fallen and leading the Decepticons, but, he started them for a completely different reason: To exterminate organics. This is the stuff Scourge tells all of those who train under them, and if they do choose to protect organics... He kills them.)