Born into the mines of Kaon, Megatron was forced into hard labor by the dictators of Cybertron. Megatron saw the injustice inflicted by those who looked down on him, and took inspiration from one of the original 13, and decided to rise up by killing the labor enforcers. Instead of being executed, Megatron was thrown into the gladiator pits, where he addressed the crowds and began to raise his following.