Canyons of Green Crystals Prologue
Suggested Theme:
Main Theme- Green Bird from Cowboy Bebop
"Bumblebee, DON'T!" Sari pleads to her friend. She wants Bumblebee away from her. She wants to be away from the city. She wants to be away from a world that could explode from her touch. Everything she touches is destroyed and can never be created again. Yet, she has a grievous slip in her memory, or is it processor since she is half robot? She forgets that Bumblebee is her friend. He would do anything to reassure her, to help her. Even if it means disobeying Prime for the billionth, fucking time.
"…" Bumblebee does not believe in Primus. Or in Unicron. His Creator didn't want him to grow up to be zealous nut about all-powerful beings that may not exist. Yet, at this very instant, he feels like his spark is being ripped apart by those omnipotent beings. He knows in another flinch that he will be obliterated by his own friend. And what's worse, he does not even have the time to tell Sari that this wasn't her fault. Because, in his way of thinking, it is not her fault. She is just a kid who underestimated her key. And she was underestimated by her own team.
"Oh please, God or AllSpark, don't let him die. Just let him breathe again!" Sari wished inwardly, while watching her best friend being charge up like he was going to explode. She makes another mistake, but she cannot be faulted for her error because of her emotional distress. Robots cannot breathe. The AllSpark knows that, but her wish shall be granted.
Bumblebee's final thoughts do not revolve around Sari. He is not thinking about her horrified, self-loathing expression. He is not thinking about his teammates, watching with dread as Bumblebee is meticulously vaporized. He is not thinking of his Creator who told him to never leave Klo. Instead, he is thinking of his home, his childhood home and the source of his ambition. He knows that he is being selfish, but he feels like he's been selfless enough. After all, he is sacrificing his spark.
His processor is drifting at speeds faster than lightning to his home. His home which sat at the crossroads of the geographical features that defined his planet. To the north lay deserts with sand so golden that it made his Creator look gray. To the south lay the lakes of sulfur that used to be home to the pacifistic Klovians. North and south didn't matter to Bumblebee, but east and west did. East and west were surrounded by canyons of green, jutting crystals. Some canyons were deep enough to fit millions of Omega Supremes. He used to love touching the crystals, feeling the sharpness and ancientness emitted from those natural wonders.
"I just want to go home. I just want to see my canyons of crystals again!" Bumblebee's last thoughts are his wish. A wish that the AllSpark may or may not grant.
Bumblebee explodes with enough energy to knock back his fellow teammates. He is gone.
Skywarp is a clone. He is just a clone of the cowardly part of Starscream. He knows this quite well. Starscream and the other clones never fail to remind him of this, even if it's in a form of a backhanded compliment. He is not strong. He is not smart. He is not a person. He is just a cowardly clone. Yet, is it truly cowardly for this clone to want to live so desperately? Knowing full well that he'll just be abused verbally by Thundercracker? He doesn't want to die like the last time. He doesn't want to be blown up again. But fate repeats itself. And Blurr just had to make the suggestion that spelled out Skywarp's demise.
Thundercracker is firing rapidly with absolutely no concern for Skywarp's safety. Or heeding Blurr's warning of not using too much energy. Skywarp is in pain, but he cannot whimper. He cannot make a sound because his processors feel like they are being melted. The AllSpark shard is thrumming in his mind like a spark would. Skywarp doesn't have a spark because he doesn't have any Creators. He's just a clone of a mech that had Creators, but those Creators would never be his. He almost wishes that he could have a spark because maybe he wouldn't be just a coward. Yet, the heat and energy would have melted his weak spark by now.
"Stop-stop-stop-stop-too-much-power!" Blurr is screeching out, but he is lucky that his body is insulated enough to take the punishing heat. Yet, the intelligence officer pities Skywarp. The timid Seeker is taking all the abuse from the arrogant Seeker. He wishes he could save Skywarp, but he has to get back to Cybertron. Even if it costs the life of a pitiful mech.
"I wish I was a person and far away from here!" The AllSpark fragment pulses for it is the miracle of life. It can grant wishes like it did for Sari. His fragment tells him this, but Skywarp has doubts because the organic is a person. Even Starscream says that the little organic is more of a person than the coward will ever be. The scorching heat reaches its peak. The explosion occurs, which frees Thundercracker and Blurr.
Skywarp is melting, but the AllSpark fragment grants him his wish. Skywarp's last thoughts are from his last half-life. He thinks of Earth and of a warehouse where he was ransomed. There was a Ninja-bot and a bounty hunter arguing. His purpose was to be a bomb to wipe out Megatron and everyone else within the bomb's radius. It wasn't a pleasant place, but better than the mines. The mines that are so dark and filled with mechs that inflict so much pain.
"I don't want to be just a coward." Skywarp thinks before vanishing like Bumblebee. The AllSpark can create and destroy. Yet, those affected have to do everything else.
Author's Comments- "Canyons of Green Crystals" is meant to be a replacement for "Poisoned Memory" because I cannot remember where I was going with the story.