Unicron Returns

A giant monster of evil returns to destroy with the help of the holder of the Black Matrix.

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Synopsis

Shortstop(Anthony) proceeds to finish a training program Boaty wrote for him. After finishing his program Anthony heads off to pick up his human friend Matt to enjoy some time together.

In another part of the galaxy between two colliding cosmic cracks, the giant head of [Unicron] enters the Zapbot Universe. As this happens another robot of ancient origins Secretish enters the universe as well. Seeing Unicron's head he uses his power to take over a nearby cybernetic planet and provide him with a new body.

In the distance of this planet the Super Changers note the situation and scurry back to Gearatron to warn of the attack.

Meanwhile Anthony who has become disinterested with the responsibilities of his life, decides to use a new machine he developed to change his appearance and revert him back to a simple human. Wanting the simple life he then leaves the Zapbots to live a life on Earth with his friend Matt.

During his departure, [Unicron] attacks Gearatron and with the help of Secretish overpowers the Zapbots forcing them to surrender. News of this reaches Earth and Anthony (who was just beat up by a senior in gym class) suddenly realizes the error of his ways.

Lazer-Ray and Support with the help of Click grab the Matrix and head to Earth to return it to Anthony in hopes of defeating Unicron and Secretish. They find him in his friend Matt's backyard. The Matrix restores Anthony to his former self and then with the help of his Shortstop and Fortress Misslemax bodies, he stops Secretish from executing Botimus Prime and Boaty on Gearatron.

[Unicron] attempts to attack again, but Fortress Misslemax combines with Gearatron to transform it into robot mode. After a lengthly battle [Unicron] is destroyed and his head flung into the nearby sun for destruction. Secretish disappears from the battle scene.

With everything somewhat returned to normal Anthony drops a new flag off at Council member Earnon's office indicating he will never leave the Zapbots again.

Featured characters

Zapbots	Nonocons	Humans	Enemies	Planets
Alert Boaty Botimus Prime Click Earnon Flier Fortress Misslemax Lazer-Ray Slide Shortstop Superrobot Support Overload	Secretish	Matt Anthony's Parents Beth Dad Lisa Mom Matt's Parents President of the United States Random Bullies Random Coaches Random Schoolkids	Unicron	Earth Gearatron Tockmak 3

Quotes

"I’ve been away. But I won’t let you down again, I promise!"

— Anthony telling Earnon he won't let him down again.

Notes

Versions

• First Version: 1987?
• Second Version: 1995?
• Third Version: 2021

Production notes

• Believe this is the first appearance of the holoroom, which is of course similar to a holodeck.
• This is the first appearance of Alert, Overload, Lazer-Ray, Support and Earnon.
• Third pass to provide extra details and upgrades happened in 2021.

Real-life references

• In real life Matt and myself did have a campout in his backyard similar to the events of this story (minus robots showing up.)

Other trivia

• Earnon was inspired by Zeemon from the Gobots and the President from Star Trek IV.