User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/TLK plot

Plot
In the year 484, King Arthur and his knights fight a losing battle against the Saxons. Elsewhere, Merlin approaches the Knights of Iacon, a group of Transformers hiding on Earth, to help win the war. Elsewhere, Merlin (in reality merely a drunkard), rides up to a long-crashed alien ship and beseeches the occupants for help. He has kept their secret but now needs their help. The other knights are losing hope, but Arthur believes Merlin will come through. Merlin manages to convince a giant metal red-armored knight at the ship to help, and it presents him with a staff, allowing him to return to the battle with a giant metal dragon. The battle is won in favor of Camelot. In the present day, five years after the Hong Kong Uprising, Optimus finally arrives on Cybertron and meets his alleged creator Quintessa. She, who originally sent Lockdown to bring him to her, blames Optimus for Cybertron's destruction and brainwashes him, renaming him Nemesis Prime. After this, she orders him to travel to Earth to help her get Merlin's staff, which can absorb Earth's energy to restore Cybertron, but planet earth is revealed to be Unicron, the ancient enemy of Cybertron, and whose horns are emerging across the planet.

On Earth, Transformers are remained unwelcome among humanity, with the Transformers Reaction Force set up to track them down, though they've found refuge in some places such as Cuba, where Seymour Simmons is hanging out with some displaced Autobots. Meanwhile, Transformers continue to arrive in waves while NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory detects something large incoming. In the war-torn Chicago, Cade, Bumblebee, young scavenger Izabella and her Transformer companions Sqweeks and Canopy help a group of three young boys evade the TRF drones, but Canopy is killed by a fighter jet when the TRF mistake him as a Decepticon. Cade receives a mechanical talisman from a dying Autobot knight and has a brief standoff with the TRF and their leader, Santos, before being saved by Bumblebee, Lennox, and Hound. Cade drives the kids to the border of the no-go zone and drops them off before returning to the crashed ship. Despite his efforts, the pilot within dies, but not before attempting to present Cade with the Talisman. Cade does not take it. He reports the pilot's death to Bumblebee shortly before Barricade appears and Cade is suddenly surrounded by TRF forces. Cade returns to his junkyard with Izabella and Sqweeks, and also with the talisman. Both Megatron and the U.S. government become aware of the talisman's value and power, reluctantly joining forces to obtain it. The TRF release Mohawk, Dreadbot, Nitro Zeus, and Onslaught to aid in the mission.