Recaps

Chen Changsheng learned that Quintessa was bringing Cybertron toward Earth, threatening to destroy the planet, and set out to find the Knight Ship. He recruited a retired submarine Transformer to guide them and asked Red Queen to bring Sam into Umbrella Corporation as a liaison to the Autobots.

• Chen Changsheng spent the day with Vivian, then learned Cybertron would reach Earth's orbit and collide with Earth in two days.
• Chen Changsheng explained the danger to Vivian and took her to the Royal Navy Museum to seek help from an old submarine Transformer.
• The submarine Transformer agreed to take Chen Changsheng and the others to the Knight Ship, on the condition that Chen Changsheng protect Vivian.
• Chen Changsheng considered Sam's usefulness as a contact with the Autobots and told Red Queen to invite him to join Umbrella Corporation's Department of Extraterrestrial Affairs.

Chen Changsheng and Vivian reached the Knight Ship to search for Merlin’s Scepter, with Red Queen accompanying them. They found Merlin’s coffin, but the rotten staff inside showed no reaction because Chen Changsheng had not yet transformed his genes.

• Chen Changsheng introduced Vivian to Red Queen, who explained that she was an Earth-created life-form and Chen Changsheng’s family.
• Chen Changsheng and Vivian arrived by submarine at the Knight Ship resting on the seafloor.
• Vivian refused to stay on the submarine, so Chen Changsheng brought her along to search for Merlin’s Scepter.
• Red Queen found the ship’s control room while Chen Changsheng and Vivian followed Vivian’s mysterious feeling through the ship.
• Chen Changsheng opened Merlin’s coffin and took the nearly rotten staff from the mummified corpse, but it did not change.

Chen Changsheng used Merlin's Scepter to awaken the Knight Ship's guardians and defeated two knight Transformers before leaving with Vivian. Near the exit, they encountered Optimus Prime and Megatron fighting eight knight Transformers, and both sides turned their attention to Chen Changsheng and the scepter.

• Chen Changsheng transformed his genes to activate Merlin's Scepter, awakening the knight Transformers guarding Merlin's coffin.
• Chen Changsheng protected Vivian, then quickly destroyed the two knight Transformers that attacked him.
• Chen Changsheng asked Vivian whether she wanted to take Merlin's remains; Vivian declined, and they headed for the exit.
• The Knight Ship suddenly powered on, and Chen Changsheng led Vivian toward the exit as fighting drew near.
• Optimus Prime and Megatron fought eight knight Transformers until Chen Changsheng appeared holding the scepter, causing everyone to stop and watch him.

Chen Changsheng defeated the brainwashed Megatron, Optimus Prime, and the Knight Transformers, then claimed their ship and brought them to Section 7. After reviving Megatron and Optimus Prime with the AllSpark, he stunned Green Knight, who had been plotting revenge.

• Megatron attacked Chen Changsheng for the staff, and Chen transformed into a giant and knocked him unconscious.
• Chen Changsheng defeated Optimus Prime and the Knight Transformers, then had Red Queen contact Section 7 so his subordinates could retrieve the Knight Ship.
• Vivian woke in a luxurious office and began looking for information about Chen Changsheng.
• At Section 7, Chen Changsheng used the AllSpark to revive Megatron and Optimus Prime, who were no longer under Quintessa's control.
• Green Knight resolved to infiltrate Chen Changsheng's side and seek revenge, but seeing the AllSpark left him stunned.

Chen Changsheng revived the Knight Transformers and learned that Quintessa had brainwashed Optimus Prime and Megatron and sent them back for the scepter. As Cybertron reached Earth, its fragments devastated the planet, while Chen Changsheng and his allies prepared for the greater threat ahead.

• Chen Changsheng used the AllSpark to revive the eleven Knight Transformers, then asked Optimus Prime and Megatron why Quintessa had sent them back.
• Optimus Prime explained that Quintessa had interfered with their minds and ordered them to bring the scepter, while Red Knight urged Chen Changsheng to hand it over for safekeeping.
• Megatron told Chen Changsheng that Quintessa controlled Cybertron and had gathered powerful followers, and Chen Changsheng revealed that Cybertron would reach Earth by the next day.
• Chen Changsheng, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Red Knight discussed obtaining Quintessa's method for absorbing Unicron's energy and eliminating her puppets.
• Cybertron reached Earth, knocked the Moon from its orbit, and sent countless fragments raining down on the planet, destroying satellites and devastating cities.
• Chen Changsheng and his allies survived the meteorite bombardment aboard the Knight Ship, while Red Queen, Mechanical Emperor, and Skynet transformed into Transformers after losing access to the internet.

Chen Changsheng fought Quintessa’s forces at Stonehenge, then crossed the Cosmic Bridge to Cybertron to attack their information nexus. He reached Quintessa’s palace and faced her after defeating the Transformers guarding it.

• Quintessa activated the Knight Ship and fired a destructive laser toward Unicron’s spark beneath Stonehenge.
• Quintessa’s forces built a Cosmic Bridge near Stonehenge and attacked Chen Changsheng’s side, which was reinforced by human forces and mercenaries.
• Chen Changsheng crossed the Cosmic Bridge to Cybertron and used Electromagnetic Control to tear through the Transformers there.
• Chen Changsheng traced the Transformers’ communications to their information nexus and entered a Cybertronian palace.
• Chen Changsheng defeated the palace’s guards, preserved the bodies of a five-part combining Transformer as a collectible, and looked up at Quintessa.

Chen Changsheng confronted Quintessa in her throne hall while she drew Unicron's energy to repair Cybertron. After their fight left both damaged, Chen Changsheng tore off one of Quintessa's arms again as she tried to heal.

• Quintessa noticed Chen Changsheng seated on a throne of mechanical wreckage after he killed the Transformers guarding her hall.
• Chen Changsheng told Quintessa he might help her absorb Unicron's energy, but Quintessa grew suspicious and prepared to attack.
• Chen Changsheng used Magnetic Control to tear apart Quintessa's limbs as she struck him with electrical cables, blasting him into the wreckage.
• Chen Changsheng recovered quickly and watched Quintessa absorb energy to repair her damaged body.
• Chen Changsheng realized Quintessa could draw more energy from Unicron while healing and tore off one of her arms again.

Quintessa used a Seed Bomb to turn Chen Changsheng into a metal statue after his relentless attacks kept her from recovering. As she explained the weapon’s origins, she revealed how Mechanical Ascension and her effort to restore her people led her to invent it.

• Quintessa struggled to repair her body while Chen Changsheng repeatedly tore apart her recovering limbs.
• Quintessa spotted a Seed Bomb in her palace and secretly prepared to use it against Chen Changsheng.
• Quintessa threw the Seed Bomb beside Chen Changsheng, and its explosion transformed him into an immobile metal statue.
• Quintessa recalled how she had replaced her body with machinery and led her people through Mechanical Ascension, leaving them unable to reproduce.
• After becoming a Transformer, Quintessa studied the creation of Transformers and developed gestalt Transformers as part of her effort to revive her people.
• Quintessa invented Seed Bombs to produce active metal by transforming living creatures into lifeless metal.

After Quintessa trapped Chen Changsheng in active metal, he discovered that a few cells in his body had mutated into powerful active metal cells. As he searched for a way out, he found they could absorb the metal around him and grow stronger.

• Quintessa watched Chen Changsheng crash through the palace floor and began repairing her body so she could later retrieve her scepter from Earth.
• Chen Changsheng regained awareness inside an iron prison and realized the Seed Bomb had metalized only part of his body.
• Chen Changsheng discovered a small number of active metal cells that he could reshape but could not reproduce with Biomass.
• Chen Changsheng contacted the insect nest on Earth and ordered it to produce a replacement body while he continued seeking escape.
• Chen Changsheng discovered that his active metal cells could absorb the metal of his prison and strengthen themselves.

Chen Changsheng escaped the metal prison on Cybertron and returned through the Cosmic Bridge to Earth, where he turned the battle against Quintessa’s forces. He confronted Quintessa in a direct fight, and the two reached a stalemate that Chen Changsheng believed would gradually favor him.

• Chen Changsheng used defective cells to absorb active metal, broke through his metal prison, and returned to the surface.
• Chen Changsheng found Quintessa gone and rushed through the active Cosmic Bridge to Earth.
• Chen Changsheng entered the battle and used Earth's magnetic field to slaughter enemy forces, driving Quintessa's troops into retreat.
• Quintessa left the wrecked Knight Ship and charged Chen Changsheng with powerful electricity.
• Chen Changsheng and Quintessa clashed and began fighting at close range, eventually reaching a stalemate.

Chen Changsheng and Quintessa traded devastating attacks until both paused, and Chen Changsheng tried to stall while learning why she had come to Earth. He discovered that Red Knight had hidden Quintessa’s scepter near the destroyed Knight Ship, while Quintessa still believed it was inside the ship.

• Quintessa struck Chen Changsheng with a Seed Bomb, but he survived by compressing his body and shielding himself with active metal cells.
• Quintessa hesitated to attack again, and Chen Changsheng also held back while waiting for his supplies to arrive.
• Chen Changsheng asked Quintessa why she had stayed on Earth, and she explained that she was searching for her scepter.
• Quintessa projected an image of the scepter, and Chen Changsheng recognized it as Merlin’s Scepter.
• Chen Changsheng contacted Red Queen and learned that Red Knight had concealed the scepter in a signal-blocking container near the Knight Ship.
• Quintessa had sensed the scepter when she landed and believed it was inside the Knight Ship, so she had rushed toward it.

Chen Changsheng negotiated a delay while Quintessa searched the Knight Ship wreckage for her scepter, but he learned it could kill Transformers as powerful as Primus and Unicron. After his supplies restored his strength, he attacked Quintessa, who ordered a massacre, and the battle resumed as The Fallen cut off the Cosmic Bridge.

• Chen Changsheng agreed to give Quintessa one day to find her scepter while the Transformers halted their fighting.
• The Red Knight warned Chen Changsheng that Quintessa’s scepter was a weapon capable of killing gods, and explained it had been designed to slay Primus and Unicron.
• Chen Changsheng absorbed a massive ball of biomass from his supplies and regained his strength.
• Chen Changsheng charged at Quintessa, who ordered the Transformers to massacre people in cities.
• The Fallen severed the Cosmic Bridge, cutting off Quintessa’s army and reigniting the battle.
• Chen Changsheng and Quintessa clashed, further shattering the wrecked Knight Ship.

Chen Changsheng defeated Quintessa and took her AllSpark, then confronted the devastation caused by the battle and the Seed Bomb attacks. He sent Megatron and Optimus Prime to help humanity while preparing to bargain with The Fallen for the complete Cosmic Bridge technology so Cybertron could be moved away from Earth.

• Chen Changsheng overwhelmed Quintessa, tore off her arm, and removed her AllSpark after she fell from the sky.
• Chen Changsheng surveyed the ruined battlefield and saw that most Transformers were dead or badly injured, though many surviving AllSparks could keep them alive.
• Chen Changsheng decided to seek The Fallen's complete Cosmic Bridge technology in exchange for letting him leave, so he could move Cybertron away from Earth.
• Red Queen reported that fleeing Transformers and Quintessa's Seed Bombs had devastated cities, including New York, while Earth's information systems and global order collapsed.
• Chen Changsheng sent Megatron and Optimus Prime to lead surrendering Transformers in rescuing human cities and kept The Fallen with him.
• Chen Changsheng looked up at Cybertron and praised its grandeur as The Fallen gazed at his homeland.

Chen Changsheng negotiated with The Fallen to move Cybertron out of the Solar System in exchange for the complete Cosmic Bridge technology, while Earth began rebuilding and studying Cybertron’s knowledge. Cybertron departed, and Chen Changsheng turned to researching its technology as the Transformers planned to create a mechanical planet.

• Chen Changsheng agreed to let The Fallen take Cybertron away if he handed over the complete Cosmic Bridge technology, while the Transformers remaining on Earth were held responsible for their actions.
• Chen Changsheng and The Fallen built a Cosmic Bridge and gathered enough transmission pillars to move Cybertron, as artificial Transformers pursued those unwilling to join the virtual world.
• Optimus Prime and The Fallen joined the virtual world, while Chen Changsheng kept Quintessa in her AllSpark state and helped bring humanity together under the Earth Federation.
• Cybertron was transported out of the Solar System after several hours of blue light, leaving Earth devastated.
• Chen Changsheng began studying Cybertron’s technologies, while artificial intelligences planned to build a mechanical planet and activate it with the Cosmic Cube.

Chen Changsheng revived Quintessa and questioned her about abandoning her carbon-based body for a mechanical one. He explained that flesh-and-blood beings could grow powerful through evolution, but Quintessa rejected the idea because it depended on competition and the loss of others.

• Cybertron remained near Earth because it lacked the energy to return to its original location, while Sentinel Prime searched the universe for a new home.
• Optimus Prime pursued rebuilding Cybertron in the virtual world, as captured Transformers helped expand it and artificial Transformers supplied more computing power.
• Chen Changsheng restored Quintessa from her AllSpark state and withheld energy after keeping her conscious.
• Quintessa asked what Chen Changsheng wanted, and he told her Cybertron had left the Solar System and the Transformers on Earth were in his custody.
• Chen Changsheng asked why Quintessa had become mechanical, and she said she had sought a longer life and stronger body.
• Chen Changsheng said carbon-based life-forms could evolve, but Quintessa dismissed evolution as unsuitable because it relied on eliminating others.

Quintessa tried to persuade Chen Changsheng to let her leave so she could reclaim her Spark Coins, but he offered her freedom in exchange for all the knowledge stored in her Spark. She accepted, and they prepared to transmit and preserve it.

• Quintessa realized her Spark Coins were on Planet Cybertron, which the Fallen had taken out of the Solar System, and urgently wanted to return for them.
• Quintessa tested Chen Changsheng's attitude and tried to convince him to release her by claiming they could put their past conflict behind them.
• Chen Changsheng offered to let Quintessa go if she handed over all her knowledge.
• Quintessa agreed and began organizing the knowledge in her Spark for transmission while Chen Changsheng prepared equipment to back it up in the virtual world and his genetic information.

Chen Changsheng and the Mechanical Emperor monitored Quintessa’s knowledge transfer and discovered her theory that Transformers could survive exchanging Sparks. The experiment had been abandoned because Spark transplants triggered rejection and consumed immense life force, leaving Chen Changsheng interested in the idea.

• The Mechanical Emperor recalled abandoning an artificial Transformer body because it was restrictive and too weak to help Chen Changsheng, then focused on building a virtual world.
• Chen Changsheng, the Mechanical Emperor, and Quintessa began transmitting her knowledge through Spark-enhanced supercomputers, and the process lasted an entire day.
• The Mechanical Emperor admired Quintessa’s abilities and privately wished he could obtain her body, while Quintessa hurried to finish the trade and return to Planet Cybertron.
• Chen Changsheng found Quintessa’s theory that Transformers might survive by exchanging Sparks, but her experiments showed that rejection responses and massive life-force consumption made the procedure dangerous.

Chen Changsheng received Quintessa’s knowledge and considered how to apply it to transforming life and developing new technology. With her Cosmic Bridge research added to his own experience with spatial jumps, his spatial research accelerated.

• Chen Changsheng reflected on the challenges of transferring souls and intelligent programs between biological and mechanical bodies, and considered using the AllSpark to create a Transformer.
• Chen Changsheng grew interested in experimenting on the Transformer ancestor Nuwa and compared the opportunity to developing the Insect God and Unicron.
• Chen Changsheng finished receiving Quintessa’s knowledge and released her, warning that she should not try anything while weakened.
• The Mechanical Emperor began analyzing Quintessa’s technological knowledge, while Chen Changsheng looked for discoveries suited to his own needs.
• Chen Changsheng combined Quintessa’s Cosmic Bridge technology with his experience of spatial jumps and other teleportation research, advancing his spatial studies.

Chen Changsheng learned short-range teleportation from Skyfire, replenished his Biomass reserves, and abandoned Umbrella Corporation’s settlement when survivors sought independence. He returned to Section 7 to find Quintessa still there, uncertain what she was planning.

• Skyfire explained Cosmic Bridge, warp, and short-range teleportation, and Chen Changsheng quickly learned to teleport himself.
• Chen Changsheng used Biomass energy to restore his reserves in Earth’s uninhabited regions.
• As survivors pushed to restore old countries and declare independence, Umbrella Corporation withdrew overnight, leaving them without weapons or supplies.
• Chen Changsheng set a development goal with Mechanical Emperor and focused on uncovering Unicron’s conspiracy.
• Chen Changsheng returned to Section 7, greeted Quintessa, and found that she had not left.

Chen Changsheng and Quintessa traveled to Cybertron to recover Quintessa’s hidden hoard of Spark Coins. After securing the treasure, Chen Changsheng considered building a Cosmic Bridge to transport his share back to Earth without attracting The Fallen’s attention.

• Quintessa offered to share her hidden Spark Coins with Chen Changsheng in exchange for his help retrieving them from Cybertron.
• Chen Changsheng and Quintessa agreed that she would guide the expedition and he would take forty percent of the hoard.
• Chen Changsheng used the Cosmic Bridge under his control to travel alone with Quintessa to Cybertron.
• The Fallen briefly acknowledged Quintessa before leaving for Earth to find supplies to rebuild Cybertron.
• Chen Changsheng fought off Transformers who threatened them and led Quintessa to her vault, where they found a huge pile of Spark Coins.
• Chen Changsheng considered constructing a secret Cosmic Bridge on Cybertron to bring the Spark Coins back to Earth.

While Chen Changsheng completed a Cosmic Bridge and reclaimed his share of the Spark Coins, Optimus Prime and Megatron joined The Fallen to repel Lockdown’s attack on Cybertron. After the battle, Chen Changsheng took the drained Spark Coin shells from Quintessa and prepared to return to Earth.

• Chen Changsheng received The Fallen’s distress call as Lockdown and a group of bounty hunters attacked Cybertron.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Optimus Prime and Megatron from the virtual world, and Umbrella Corporation forces reactivated stored Transformers with Spark Coins.
• Optimus Prime, Megatron, and other Transformers emerged from the Cosmic Bridge and helped The Fallen defeat Lockdown’s forces.
• Chen Changsheng completed a small Cosmic Bridge in Quintessa’s treasury and transferred his share of the Spark Coins to Earth.
• Quintessa awoke after absorbing most of her Spark Coins, and Chen Changsheng collected their empty shells before leaving with her for the Cosmic Bridge.

Chen Changsheng reshaped the Transformers Universe around virtual reality and his control of Unicron, then reorganized his other worlds into strategic roles and resource sources. After gathering Spark Coins and upgrading his intelligent programs, he prepared to return to the Marvel Universe to assess The Ancient One.

• Lockdown applied to unlock his ship's restrictions, and Chen Changsheng sent him to reform in the virtual world.
• Quintessa joined Chen Changsheng's virtual reality project, while Optimus Prime and the Autobots proposed hibernating their bodies and living through their consciousnesses in the virtual world.
• Chen Changsheng replaced Unicron's AllSpark with a flesh-and-blood secondary brain under his control and planned to recharge the AllSpark Cube by harvesting stars.
• Chen Changsheng gathered Spark Coins, left the Transformers Universe, and upgraded intelligent programs across his worlds.
• Chen Changsheng designated the 2012 World and I Am Legend World as resource-production universes and prepared to return to the Marvel Universe to observe The Ancient One.
• Chen Changsheng compressed his accumulated biomass energy as he shuttled between universes.

Chen Changsheng entered the Pacific Rim world, eager to study its mechs, neural-link technology, and artificial wormhole while preparing to face its alien invaders. He established an insect-hive base near the portal and sent out a swarm to scout the seabed as he considered using an Insect God to fight the monsters.

• Chen Changsheng discovered that the newly updated world was Pacific Rim and became interested in its battle-tested mechs, Floating Link Technology, and artificial wormhole.
• Chen Changsheng judged that his accumulated Biomass gave him the strength to enter the world despite uncertainty about the alien civilization’s power.
• Chen Changsheng passed through the portal and traveled toward America, where he raised insect hives around the portal.
• Chen Changsheng sent Mimic Insects across the seabed to gather information while acknowledging that they could not easily locate the wormhole.
• Chen Changsheng considered creating an Insect God to fight the monsters and brought Transformers to serve as laborers.

Chen Changsheng established Umbrella Corporation, used its rapid rise to build inland industrial parks, and then watched the first Pacific Rim invader, Axehead, emerge and devastate America. The US Military killed Axehead with a nuclear bomb, but the attack destroyed three cities, killed five million people, and left deadly contamination behind.

• Chen Changsheng launched Umbrella Corporation, which rapidly dominated industries around the world before selling assets and investing in industrial parks, most of them deep inland.
• A rift opened on the Pacific seafloor, and the first invader, later designated Axehead, emerged and headed for the American coast.
• Axehead destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge and wrecked its way through nearby cities, while conventional weapons failed to stop it.
• After seven days of devastation, the US Military killed Axehead with a nuclear bomb in Oakland, at the cost of severe nuclear contamination.
• Axehead's rotting corpse released poisonous gas that killed people within more than a hundred kilometers, while the disaster fueled global mourning and anti-nuclear protests.

After successive kaiju attacks pushed governments toward collapse and escape plans, Chen Changsheng announced Umbrella Corporation’s crude mech project to give humanity a way to fight back. The chapter left the public united against leaders who planned to abandon them, while Chen Changsheng expected other countries to copy his simple remote-controlled design.

• A second kaiju invaded Manila, and a major power anonymously donated two nuclear bombs that destroyed it along with much of the area.
• Kaisip destroyed Cabo San Lucas, and Knifehead attacked Sydney before Australia stopped it with a costly nuclear strike.
• Chen Changsheng recognized the attacks as the beginning of a formal kaiju offensive while governments considered retreating inland, building walls, fleeing into space, or using ships.
• Chen Changsheng announced Umbrella Corporation’s crude mech prototype, and the Red Queen exposed governments’ secret escape plans to the public.
• The public condemned its leaders and united across social classes, while Chen Changsheng expected the mech design to be copied and adapted worldwide.