Poisonous Weed

The adult world was just this dirty.

When he had first crossed into the [Transformers Multiverse], Onslaught had indeed provided Sun Cheng with a measure of protection, sparing him from Starscream's clutches to some extent.

For the following two years, he had even flaunted Onslaught's name as he swindled and bluffed his way around.

Yet Onslaught had made him, and Onslaught could also break him.

Though Sun Cheng's considerable force had been built from scratch by himself, using the resources of two worlds along with all manner of schemes and profiteering, and had been established in less than three years—

There was one point he could not deny: the foundation upon which his current power had grown was those twenty-odd Decepticon Engineers he had traded Jazz's memory chip to Onslaught for.

"...You'd better know what's good for you and stay out of my sight. Otherwise, don't blame me!"

At that thought, killing intent began to boil within Sun Cheng.

The foundation of his power had been built upon that batch of Decepticons he had acquired from Onslaught. Although every resource used to develop and expand his forces over the past few years had been painstakingly obtained by Sun Cheng himself, Back then, in order to suppress rebellion and also to use Onslaught's name as a banner, he had pushed Onslaught to the forefront and allowed him to serve for a long time as the base's nominal supreme leader.

Although Onslaught had never appeared over the past few years, Sun Cheng's past propaganda had left him with considerable prestige within their ranks.

After dealing with the Decepticons extensively over the past few years, Sun Cheng had long since stopped naively believing that he could be friends with them.

Either submit to power, or be enslaved by it.

That was the Decepticons: