At Simmons's command, the staff in the NBE-1 hangar quickly began evacuating.
The workers who had been standing on the steel scaffolding erected around Megatron, using freeze guns to artificially lower his temperature, also scrambled down.
Just as the last worker descended the steel ladder and ran toward the nearby passageway, the towering Iron Giant standing in the middle of the hangar behind him, the ice covering its body rapidly melting, suddenly began to crack apart at an accelerating pace!
The next instant, two orange-red lights like the flames of hell suddenly lit up beneath the ice-covered head!
Megatron, leader of the Decepticons from Cybertron, who had been frozen on Earth for thousands of years, had finally awakened!
As those electronic eyes filled with evil and brutality lit up once more, Megatron's body began struggling violently. The much-melted ice encasing him shattered completely, and massive chunks of ice mixed with melting water fell from the air!
Hearing the commotion behind him, the worker who had fallen behind did not dare look back. Terror brought out every ounce of his strength as he ran for the passageway as if his life depended on it.
Huge blocks of ice crashed to the ground. Though he was fortunate enough not to be struck directly, shards of shattered ice flew everywhere and pelted his back painfully.
Megatron, however, paid no attention to the tiny human desperately fleeing below.
After breaking free of the ice covering his body, Megatron discovered that many chains still bound him. Several tall steel scaffolds also surrounded him, restricting his movements.
Having just awakened from a slumber of thousands of years, Megatron was at his most violent. The restraints only made him more enraged and savage!
Throwing back his head with thunderous roars, Megatron snapped several chains binding him, then