Authors Note: This story is written around a bunch of OC characters belonging to myself of my friend Lady Lucis. This is a crossover fic between the Transformers universe we roleplay and our own little made up world, loosely based off of Sailor Moon. We of course own neither franchise, although we do borrow those characters and mess with them, or we create OCs to abuse. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the fic, as I am very proud of how this turned out.
Rating: The fanfiction is rated for themes in the story. It is also rated for angst, and for what will probably be some pretty good gore in later chapters, and of course for character death. And a hell of a lot of character death, might I add.
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, that belongs to HasTak. I do not own Sailor Moon, that belongs to some very rich men in Japan. And I do not own the song "Valentine's Day", that belongs to Linkin Park.
~-x-~
My insides all turned to ash
So slow
And blew away as I collapsed
So cold
Rekkie wanted to stop it. He wanted to put out that strange purple fire that had wrapped around his sparkmate and was slowly swallowing her frame. Not that it mattered much. He'd already felt his bond with her break when she was killed. She'd been in so much pain... He felt awful for not having been able to stop it. Some of the ashes blew away into the breeze.
He felt empty and cold. Like everything in him was what was burning up and blowing away in the wind. Cobra was trying to put out the fire, and Fang had run after Kite. Suddenly, Cyberwave's body completely disappeared in one huge multi-colored burst of flame. He felt his knees go weak, everything fading to black.
A black wind took them
From sight
And now the darkness over day
That night
Rekkie didn't know why he had the sudden urge to check on the sparklings. He moved to the twins' room, Melody already checked. He opened the door, and saw some strange blackness in the room. It was too dark.
"Get away from them!" He ordered, running into the room, cannon already forming. He hears a deep, rumbling laughter come from the general direction of the blackness. And than it disappeared before he could ever fire a shot. He checked Starfire first, just happening to be close to her berth. She was completely still, her optics grayer than they should be, her bond fading away. Darkfire's bond faded just as quickly. "Primus, no!" Rekkie yelled, trying to cling to both of them over the bond, tears already forming in his optics.
And the clouds above move closer
Looking so dissatisfied
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing.
Rekkie felt so tired. The twins were dead, waiting with all the other bodies in Gizmo's morgue, needing a proper memorial ceremony that they didn't have the supplies for. First Cyberwave, and now two of his sparklings. Rekkie was almost positive he didn't have anymore tears left. But he pushed on, for Mel's sake. And for Gadget. The pair were two little rays of sunshine. The look on Gizmo's face when he pushed into med bay reminded Rekkie of one horrible fact.
Sometimes clouds can block out the sun.
"Gadget went into spark failure right before you came in... We couldn't save him." Gizmo whispered, optics on the floor. He had technically been her grandson.
"Can I see him?" Rekkie replied, his voice higher than normal. He didn't even answer his twin's apology over their bond.
"Of course." Gizmo stepped aside. Rekkie moved to Gadgets still form, picking up the sparkling and cuddling him close, tears coming to his optics.
"Primus, Gadget, not you too." Rekkie whimpered, offlining his optics and letting himself cry.
I used to be my own protection
But not now
'Cause my path has lost direction
Somehow
Rekkie was really only holding on for Melody now. His spark -hurt- with all of the other bonds missing. He hated not having Cyberwave nearby, or the twins randomly hugging him, or cuddling Gadget.
/Rekkie! Get out here now! Mel' wandered into the-/ Rekkie didn't hear the rest of the comm link. He was too busy grabbing for the nearest wall to support himself as pain exploded through his chest. Melody's bond severed when the pain slowly subsided. He bolted outside, heading toward the mine field. Fang and cobra were already there, covered in soot. Fang had one leg dangling oddly, like he'd been caught in a blast. Melody was in cobra's arms, her armor charred, energon leaking all down her armor, a burn mark right through her main line.
"Mel? Mel!" Rekkie ran up to them, taking Melody from Cobra's arms. "Mel, sweetie, please..." Rekkie quietly begged, ignoring Cobra shifting uncomfortably. He didn't even look down at Fang, unaware the dog bot had done his best to save Mel. It hadn't worked, clearly. "MELODY!"
A black wind took you away
From sight
And now the darkness over day
That night
It was dark and cloudy out. It suited Rekkie's mood lately just fine. He never knew what do after he'd return to base. His routine was starting to become exactly the same every day. Fighting between the Autobots had started to dwindle down as peace talks became more successful. It almost annoyed him that the war had to start ending -after- Cyberwave passed.
Requiem rolled into base and shifted back to his Decepticon form tiredly. He opened his bond with his sister only to get smacked with a wave of grief from her. /Rhaps? What happened?/ He asked over the comm.
/Fang was killed while fighting Lunarstorm.../ Rekkie's optics widened.
/Where are you? I'll be right there./ Rekkie moved quickly to his grieving sister's side, understanding what she was going through.
And the clouds above move closer
Looking so dissatisfied
And the ground below grew colder
As they put you down inside
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing
Rekkie didn't know why he went into the morgue. The air was stale and frigid. The colors were bleak and gray, aside from the frames of the too-well repaired mechs and femmes. The older frames were up in front, the fresher bodies further back. With the exception of the sparklings, who Gizmo had neatly lined together. Darkstar and Starfire were servo-in-servo, although Rekkie didn't remember them being that way the last time he came down here. Tears welled up in his optics once again, almost against his will. He paused again near Fang, looking at Gizmo's work. She'd done a good job repairing him, the scar on his chestplates barely noticable.
"Thanks for taking care of Rhaps." Rekkie spoke quietly, as if afraid of disturbing one of the mechs or femmes in here. Still, he owed the mech gratitude. It was Fang's fault Rhaps was still alive. Steam came out with his words. It was much colder down there than last time. Rekkie shook his head to get rid of the thought of 'maybe I should get the sparklings a blanket'. It wasn't like they -really- needed it down here. Rekkie started back out, stopping next to the sparklings again to gently rune a hand across Gadget's helm, as if brushing hair back. He just stared at them for a moment, fighting back tears. He stayed in there until he couldn't take it anymore, finally moving out of the morgue and shutting the door behind him, hastily wiping tears from his faceplates as the warmth from the rest of the base wrapped around him. He leaned against the wall and offlined his optics, trying to imagine the warmth as his sparkmate and sparklings hugging him.
So now you're gone
And I was wrong
I never knew what it was like
To be alone on a Valentine's day
Rekkie sifted through the room slowly, planning on moving Cyberwave's things to storage just so they wouldn't be around to remind him every day that she was gone. It wasn't like he needed to reminders anyway. He checked under the berth, almost surprised to see a box under there. He'd never noticed it before. He pulled it out and picked it up, setting it on the berth and opening it. It was pretty much empty, save for a familiar stuffed tiger and a data pad Cyberwave had always hidden from him when he tried to peak over her shoulder.
Rekkie pulled out the tiger, remembering the night he got it for her. The ride from the pit, Winning her the stuffed toy, asking her to have a human marriage ceremony. He smiled softly, hugging the stuffed animal tightly like he'd caught Cyberwave doing on more than one occasion. When he let it go, he turned to the data pad and turned it on. Surprisingly, the thing kicked to life instantly.
The first few 'pages' were lists of songs. After that was a long list of the reasons why Cyberwave loved him. And following that were letters. Some days she was angry when she wrote, other days she wrote when she was lonely. It almost broke his spark when she realized she'd written a letter every day that he was dead. Tears came back to his optics once more as he read through everything, especially the last sentance she wrote in the pad. 'P.S. Don't forget, -I LOVE YOU-, My handsome prince~ ;3'. He wondered if she'd ever actually planned on showing him the data pad. Maybe she would have...
~-x-~
Rekkie didn't know why he woke up with so much pain in his chest. All he knew was that he couldn't move for a minute. When he could, he crawled out of his berth, realizing just what the pain was. Rhapsody was gone. He shoved his way into the medical bay. Cobra was on a berth, completely short an optic and filled with bullet holes. Gizzy came forward, splattered in energon, a rough patch over her main energon line. She too was covered in bullet holes.
"Rekkie." Gizmo looked surprised to see him there, as if she'd forgotten about his twin bond with Rhapsody. Sadness once again consumed her features though as she added, "I'm sorry."
"What happened?" Rekkie spoke quietly. He didn't want to see Rhapsody. He didn't know if he could handle it.
"I'm not sure." Gizmo said. "One second everything was fine, the next bullets were flying and I was trying not to bleed out." Her hand went up to her main energon line nervously, like she was afraid it might burst open again. "I... I need to go wash up." Gizmo excused herself, leaving the med bay.
"Rekkie," Cobra's tone was sheepish, and he had a 'I know this really isn't the best time' look on his face, "I... I'm sorry. For everything." Cobra said, meeting Rekkie's optics. His face was devoid of his usual 'i'm holier than thou' smirk. "And I really should have said that when Wave was still around..."
"Yeah." Was all Rekkie replied with. He was too upset to be surprised by Cobra actually apologizing for his actions. Fang would probably be making some joke about the world coming to an end. Cyberwave would probably just have a victorious smirk. Instead, he moved over to his sister, looking over her frame and willing himself not to cry. Weather Cobra had apologized or not, he didn't want to give Cobra the satisfaction of seeing him cry. Against his will, the tears leaked down his face.
~-x-~
Rekkie had considered all of his options a bunch of times. And finally, he decided dying was better that living like a drone. So he stayed alone in his and Cyberwave's bedroom. The tiger was staring at him intently. He was holding a knife, her knife. He wasn't even sure where he'd found it. His chest plates slid open as willingly as they would have for his sparkmate, his sparkchamber opening as well. He pointed the knife at his spark, about to stab himself when...
'REKKIE, DON'T!' Cyberwave's voice screeched in his head. A greenish glow appeared, taking no definite shape, although it seemed to grab his hands and try to pull the knife away. He let it go, barely registering when it clattered to the floor, wanting to hold onto the green light and keep her there.
"Don't go." Rekkie's voice sounded pathetic and sparkling-ish in his own audios. He didn't really care, just as long as she -stayed-.
'I can't stay long, Rekkie. I'm sorry. I love you.' Cyberwave's voice whispered, sounding sparkbroken herself. He could almost feel that the green light didn't -want- to go. 'But I don't want you coming until your time comes on it's own. I promise I'll come and get you when you're ready, but that -isn't- now.' Cyberwave was using the tone she used to lecture the sparklings when they scared the slag out of her. Rekkie could feel the ghost of a kiss on his helm.
"I love you." Rekkie whispered out loud, his spark breaking all the more at the green light fading.
'I love you more, my Prince.' Cyberwave's voice answered quietly. And than, the light was gone. Rekkie sighed, letting himself cry as he closed his chest plates once more. He laid down on the berth, hugging the tiger again. After a while, he found the knife again.
~-x-~
Rekkie awoke to the sound of gunfire and explosions. There was a lot of yelling and barking orders. It sounded like he'd landed in the middle of a war zone. He onlined his optics, expecting to see Gizmo and maybe Cyberwave hovering over him. Instead he was locking optics with an unfamiliar femme with a symbol he'd never seen before on her chest.
"Kid! Damn it, are your audios blown?" The femme demanded, glaring at him, tone indicating she'd been trying to get through to him somehow.
"Wha-? No." He answered, sitting up. "What in the pit is going on here?"
"Fraggit. A newbie too. Why do I always get stuck with them?" The femme muttured, brushing something off of her brown armor.
"Quit bitching Duststorm. You could actually be out there doing some fighting, It's not like you really tried to learn anything from Gizmo anyway." A blue femme appeared. She looked a lot like Ditto and Copy, but she too had the strange symbol, only hers was on her shoulder. "Kid, come with me. Don't worry about getting sent to the pit, we kinda need all the fighters we can get." The femme added, offering her hand to help Rekkie get up as the brown femme zoomed off. Rekkie got up on his own.
"Doesn't look like a medic needs to see you, but you should probably get checked out anyway." Aquarius commented, turning her back to him and motioning for him to follow. Rekkie followed her.
"What the heck is going on?" He asked the blue femme.
"A pair of idiots started a fight with Primus and it's blown up into an all out war, that's what happened." Aquarius lead Rekkie into a line. "Wait here. If whoever looks you over is irritable, forgive them. It isn't exactly quiet in here." So, Rekkie was left in the line, and guided to a berth by another stranger. He listened to the conversations going on around him.
"Oh, quit whining!" He heard someone snap.
"Starshine, could you hurry it up?" A different, gentle voice asked.
"CYBERWAVE!"
"What could you POSSIBLY want NOW?"
"You're the one who's supposed to be marking down everyone who's here!"
"I'm helping Rhaps you dumb aft! -You're- supposed to be doing paperwork!"
Rekkie couldn't see his sparkmate, although he could see fang approaching, mumbling something Rekkie couldn't quite catch. Fang didn't even look up as he came over, apparently focused on slowly typing something in.
"Name?" Fang asked.
"You should know that by now, Mutt." Rekkie answered, watching as Fang's head snapped up with an audible crack.
"Oww." Fang whined, a slightly pained look coming to his face before he glared at Rekkie. "Wave is going to -beat- you, I hope you know this." Fang added. He started trying to type with his nose again. "Your sister will be over here in a second. Dunno when Wave'll have time to flatten your aft." Fang rolled his optics, well aware that Cyberwave would never. He moved along, leaving Rekkie alone again. A while later, his sister came up to him.
"Hi Rek." She gave him a quick hug. "Sorry, I don't have a lot of time. Is it weird that the dead can get hurt?" Rhapsody added, running a quick scan over him. "I'm sure you want to see the sparklings. I'll have Aquarius take you to where they are. Be careful, okay?" And Rhaps was gone as well before Rekkie could really get in a word, making him scowl. He could see there were a bunch of mechs and femmes in the room who needed help, but still... The blue femme from before appeared, and lead him from the building. On the way out, he saw Cyberwave. But she appeared to be splattered in energon and was assisting the irritable brown femme from earlier with something. He followed Aquarius outside and to a much smaller building. Inside, there were a few mechs and femmes watching the sparklings. He looked around, trying to find his sparklings.
"Daddy!" Four excited voices sounded. He looked toward the sound , leaning down to hug them all as they ran over.
"Hey." He greeted. They all looked so good in comparison to when he'd been them last. They were all talking at once, each one trying to get his attention. He couldn't help but laugh and smile, and slowly try to get each of them to take turns talking so he could actually -understand- what was coming from their vocalizers.
~-x-~
Cyberwave did not come until late. When she did come, she was clean, although tired looking. Starshine was with her, as well as Aquarius, Duststorm, and an unfamiliar red femme.
"The sparklings are asleep, Cyberwave." Aquarius' voice whispered.
"I know. I should go check on them, Gadge is having nightmares again. I hate that this still happens." Cyberwave whispered in reply, still not noticing her sparkmate in the darkness of the room. She moved away from the group of femmes. Everyone but Starshine left. Starshine grabbed her daughter's shoulder and stopped Cyberwave.
"What happened today when you went to check on Rekkie?" Starshine's voice was quiet, although she to had clearly missed Requiem.
"He... He was trying to kill himself. I stopped him, I asked him not to try again... I'm afraid he wont listen." Cyberwave whispered back. Rekkie could hear the tears in her voice. "I... I need to go check on Gadget." The green femme added, pulling away from Starshine and nearly running down the hall to the sparkling's room. Starshine turned in the opposite direction, letting her daughter go. Rekkie followed Cyberwave carefully. She'd left the sparklings' door open behind her, which made it easy for Rekkie to peak in and watch her kiss each of the sparklings' helms. Soon she left, rubbing tears from her optics. Rekkie moved forward quietly and wrap his arms around his femme. He was surprised when he had to dodge getting a knife to the face.
"I swear Techno, the next time I'm going right for-" Cyberwave's optics widened as she whirled around. The knife disappeared, and the tears came back to her optics. "Frag it all! Why are you here? Why didn't you listen to me?" She growled at him, clearly wanting to scream but unable to for fear of waking the sparklings. Rekkie hugged her, pulling her close. He felt her cuddle against him, and felt her tears against his chest plates.
"I didn't want to live without you and the sparklings anymore. There was no reason for me to be down there." Rekkie whispered in reply, resting his helm on hers.
"What about your father? What about your job?" Cyberwave asked feebly.
"No where near as important as you and the sparklings." Rekkie answered. Cyberwave sighed, not replying.
"I missed you." She finally spoke up, hugging him back tightly and making no motion to un-bury her face from his armor.
"I missed you too, Wave." Rekkie answered, glad to finally have her back in his arms.
~-x-~
Rekkie almost screamed when a fiery snake wrapped around Cyberwave, and she disappeared in a burst of purple flame again. He ran to the spot where she had been, but not even a scorch mark remained of his sparkmate. He looked around, seeing Kite smiling and disappearing as well. There was nothing he could do aside from keep fighting and hope that his sparkmate would somehow come back.
~-x-~
Rekkie was the only one around to tuck in the sparklings that night. He had no idea where Cyberwave was, and he was worried sick. He didn't know if a dead femme could be killed again, and he really didn't want to have to find out through his sparkmate.
"Daddy, where's mommy? She usually at least comes in once before recharge time." Darkstar asked, looking at his father worriedly.
"She's very busy helping auntie Rhapsody." Rekkie lied. It was starting to become a habit, and he hated it.
"Will she come tommorow?" Starfire asked from where she was cuddled near her twin.
"I don't know. She promised she'll try. And you know she loves you." Rekkie answered, moving to give each of them a kiss on the helm.
"Daddy... When can we go home?" Gadget asked as Rekkie came over to him.
"Hopefully soon." Rekkie replied, kissing Gadget and moving slowly toward the door. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight daddy!" Four voices chorused back as he gently shut the door behind him. He moved toward the main room.
"Cyberwave, where the hell have you been all day?" Starshine demanded.
"Trying not to get killed a second time by Kikite and her psycho grandparents!" Cyberwave answered.
"How'd you get out?" Aquarius' voice asked.
"Can I explain later? We need to evacuate the sparklings, I'm pretty sure Kite saw me come back here and it's only a matter of time before she gets beaten back into submission." Cyberwave's voice was quiet and scared.
"Primus, Cyberwave!" The three femmes groaned.
"This was are one safe house, where are we supposed to move them?" Duststorm snarled, "Way to frag that up!"
"Shut your face Duststorm!" Cyberwave snapped, turning on the brown femme in an instant. Starshine moved between the two before anything could start.
"Stop it, you two. Can we please focus on the task at hand?" Starshine asked, Cyberwave and Duststorm both reluctantly nodded. Rekkie was barely holding in the urge to walk over and hug Cyberwave as tightly as he could without holding her. "I'll go get Rekkie to he- Oh. Hello Requiem." Starshine was surprised to see him when she turned around. Suddenly all the attention was focused on him. Cyberwave's look was at least apologetic.
"I'm going to guess he heard all of that." Aquarius piped up. Rekkie nodded in confirmation.
"That makes our job easier." Daybreak commented, "Go get your sparklings than, I have an idea of where to take them."
"Thanks Daybreak." Cyberwave answered, moving over to Rekkie, slipping her hand into his as they moved down the hall. "I'm sorry Rekkie." She added once they were out of earshot of the others. Once Rekkie was sure they wouldn't be seen, he gently pinned her against the wall and kissed her angrily. She Kissed him back, one hand gently cupping his face.
"You scared me." Rekkie whispered once the kiss broke, "I thought I lost you again."
"I know, I'm sorry." Cyberwave replied, "We have to get the sparklings though. I'm not letting miss new light incarnate get them again." She added, not pushing him away but glancing at the sparkling's door.
"Lucis is light incarnate, isn't she?" Rekkie felt worry creeping into his spark. He hadn't seen Lucis for a while, even before his death. "And what do you mean, 'again'?"
"No, Lucis isn't." Wave sighed, "Balance and Existance killed her when she refused to kill her boyfriend." Her voice was quiet. Rekkie was horrified. "Kikite's light incarnate now, and she obeys their every will. And by again, I mean she had one of her soldiers send that darkness after the twins. And I think she had something to do with Mel's death." Cyberwave answered, staring into his optics. Rekkie finally let her go, following her almost numbly.
"You really think...?"
"Yes, I do." Cyberwave whispered, pushing open the sparklings' room, "If we're careful, we can do this without waking them up." Her voice was still quiet, although Rekkie knew something was wrong when she froze up. "Oh, Primus no!" She moved into the room stiffly. "No, no, no!" She whimpered. Rekkie followed her to see wheat the problem was. The sparklings were gone.
"How? She shouldn't have had enough time!" Rekkie asked, horrified. Cyberwave was shaking.
"I don't know..." Cyberwave whimpered in reply. Rekkie moved over to her and hugged her tightly, not knowing what else to do. He could still feel her shaking. He could guess why.
"We'll get them back. Kite isn't stupid enough to hurt them" Rekkie promised her.
"It's not Kite I'm worried about. It's her grandparents."