Dark energon

Dark Energon is a form of energon.

I'm like a chocoholic, but for Dark Energon.

Dark Energon is a powerful, corrupted version of energon which can be used as a violent weapon and explosive. Much as the religious claim energon is the emanation of Primus, from which all Transformer life and power is formed, Dark Energon is similarly the emanation of Unicron, released after his destruction at the hands of the Transformers. Even the smallest particle of Dark Energon can corrupt any amount of regular energon.

Effects

The violet-glowing Dark Energon supercharges any Transformer who ingests it, making them harder, faster, better, stronger, more powerful... and more aggressive. It turns pain into pleasure, rendering any blows inflicted on a user futile and heals their wounds as well. However, it also acts as a powerful narcotic, filling the user with thrilling, dark sensations and causing addiction. Dark Energon withdrawal turns the user into a raving brute desperate to do anything for more. If the craving is not satisfied, the user devolves to a beast-like state and eventually dies.

Those who imbibe Dark Energon have been seen to project it from their bodies for various destructive purposes, such as attacking enemies, overloading computers, and bringing machines under their control. When a user is killed, the energy acts like a sentient thing (a worrying aspect for a force originating from Unicron) and flies from their corpse to empower any other user nearby.

Pieces of Cybertron infected by Dark Energon tend to turn purple and explode upward into twisted, sharp spikes and growths of metal. Some Dark Energon wielders have even shown the ability to detonate a cluster of these spikes in order to produce a group of mechanical spider-like creatures, which swarm anything nearby.

A Cybertronian corpse injected with Dark Energon will reanimate itself as a feral zombie, intent on destroying all in its path. They are mostly mindless berserkers, but can be commanded by a living Cybertronian who has also been corrupted by the evil energy.

• It has been shown that if part of a reanimated Cybertronian corpse is cut off from the main body, it loses its function to animate.

Backblast, with the help of Scales, Dust Devil (in the role of patient), Imager, Bulwark, and several others, developed a working, if extremely risky, 'cure' for Dark Energon poisoning, a catalyst that causes the Dark Energon to drop out of solution into a fine-grained, sticky, corrosive particulate that can't convert normal energon. The catalyst itself is difficult to manufacture, expensive, and in its own right toxic enough that it's the sole active ingredient of his most dangerous shell. When used to treat Dark Energon, it, like chemotherapy in humans, is killing the patient slowly. The advantage is, it is killing them them slower than the dark energon is, and the damage can be (slightly) mitigated by performing multiple full-volume energon flushes while the treatment is ongoing and the particulate is filtered out.

History

TFUMUX

After the destruction of Unicron, the Evil Junkions began to gather his energy in the disco Star, concentrating it into dark energon. The Fallen invaded the Disco Star, killed Big-Time, and stole some of the dark energon. Sci-Nide retained a portion of it for his research, and Megatron has somehow also gotten a sample of it.

Notes

• Dark Energon shares several aspects of its nature with Angolmois; both are powerful, corrupting energies described as the life force of Unicron and buried in Earth. At BotCon 2011, the Prime staff stated the similarity was a coincidence. On the MUX, however, Dark energon is the physical form of Angolmois energy.

Foreign names

• Mandarin: Hēi-àn Néng-liàng (黑暗能量, "Dark Energy")
• Polish: Mroczny Energon
• Spanish: Energon Oscuro