More Than Meets the Mind's Eye..?
You all know the story...the great
Cybertronian Civil War, the Autobots versus the Decepticons, the crash on
Earth, the awakening and assumption of the familiar disguises...then the
coming of Unicron, the fall of Optmus Prime and Megatron and the rise of
Rodimus Prime and Galvatron, ther reclaiming of Cybertron, the Quintessons,
the Maximals and Predacons...all standard stuff, right?
So, what if it happened differently..?
Years ago, when I was but a wee little nipper, I was HUGE into the Transformers.
I devoured anything and everything that I could get my hands on...which,
unfortunately, wasn't all that much. As the second youngest in a family of
seven children, my parents couldn't afford to buy me legitimate, official
Transformers toys, so I had to make due with Swap-Meet rip-offs and cheaper
brands like Converters and (*SHUDDER!*) Go-Bots. I didn't care, though...I
made up my OWN stories, with my OWN Autobots and Decepticons. Characters
changed alligences, new recruits would join the ranks as others occassionally
"died" (read: "broke"), and, frankly, I had a blast. Later, I even thought
of a way to link MY world with the "mainstream" world through the use of
my favorite Decepticon, Starscream.
Then, as often happens, I grew up and out of my toys and my stories were
forgotten...until one feverish night my senior year of High School when the
strangest thing happened: these stories and characters who I'd not thought
of in years returned to me...AND WROTE THEIR ENDING. Suddenly, I knew
how it would all turn out; who lived, who died, who betrayed all they stood
for, and who were reborn to continue the saga into the next generation. This
final chapter burned itself so vividly into my brain that, now, years after
even that dream, I can still relate the events in it word-for-word verbatim.
It was almost depressing, tho'...I had this epic saga, full of characters
that had taken on a life of their own, but it was all based on a concept
that was never mine to begin with.
Then I got onto the Internet, and discovered others with their own stories,
their own sagas, their own takes on the now-iconic "More Than Meets The Eye"
worlds of the Transformers, and it all came back to me again.
So...here it is, the saga of my world, which could ultimately be
seen as the tale of Ironcar, destined to be the last, and perhaps
greatest, leader of the Autobots.